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Adam Mesa is Lead Pastor of Patria Church and speaks to a congregation of 12,000 about how the gospel of Jesus Christ brings purpose to every life. Patria
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Understanding Revelation 0:00 Let's get started today as we finalize our series called You Asked For It. And these last 2 weekends, we've been talking about the Book of Revelation, not the Book of Revelations. It's only 1 revelation.0:12 And so find yourself always saying revelation, you can say the revelation of John. You won't say the revelations of John. You that can help you in that framework because0:24 it's John's revelation that And so if you wanna just prepare your heart for a moment, Revelation chapter 5 is where you can go and hold your0:37 Don't be too worried. You, don't have to have caught last week in order to understand this week. But if you'd like to because I would say, as I shared last chapters 1 to 3 in the Book of Revelation0:49 are most applicable to you personally. Ought to apply immediately today. That is Jesus's encouragement for the 7 churches of age, which represent1:01 all churches of all age, that we would encounter certain things. So encourage you to ask the holy spirit. Where might you be in your faith? Have you gone cold in your faith? Have you gone tired1:13 in your faith? Have you gone lukewarm in your faith? Have you gone to false teachings in your faith? Gone to false teachings in your faith? Have you merged a previous religion or faith into your current faith? Whatever1:23 that, we've been couraged. You reflect on that and say, God, how and line myself up with who you are. Survey1:35 chapter 4 to 22. It's a big endeavor. 1 day, hopefully, we'll do a series where we could break this down fully in a way that, you can know every ounce of it. It would take at minimum1:47 8 weeks to be able to do that, to be honest. Probably 12 weeks, if we were honest. So I had 2 just today or yesterday as I passed my sermon off to the team.1:59 It turned out my sermon had 40 slides. And as I recorded yesterday, we got through 4 slides. Okay? So just an idea of how much it takes to share the book of Revelation, but I'll promise2:11 you this, I do believe that just at the end of today's message, if you've never touched Revelation before, you will have, or if you've read it and you didn't understand it, you will clearly be able to read it in such a2:22 way that you do understand it better, better. You may not understand everything that it's saying, but you will definitely get a hold of what the book of revelation is. This is probably the most2:34 notable book in human history. So in humanity, a lot of movies are made based off of the idea. Whether it's Christian or not, there's always a theory of the end of the world2:46 that comes from an idea of a desire for them to share about the book of revelation. And so that's it's most widely known. If you were to ask someone who wasn't a Christian, They may2:58 say, not know it, but just know the name of it. They would probably say Revelation or the way the way the world ends. They would say. And, there was a group that surveyed a group of Christians and asked what book do you3:09 wish your pastors talked about. It was pastors talked about? It was unanimous that they all wished the Book of Revelation was talked about. Then they took a large amount of3:21 pastures and they asked a pastor. What book do you least want to preach in the bible? They all said the book of revelation. So you could tell there's a desire from people who don't know3:33 the book of revelation, but to pastors who've read it they say, I'd love to teach it to my people, and they want to, but sometimes they,3:45 they fear that they may not do it justice. That's why a lot of times they may not touch it. But there's great stuff online, but we'll touch it today to conclude. And it's important as we go to Revelations chapter 5 in a3:57 second. The book of Revelation is written with symbolisms and quotes from predominantly 3 books of the bible. Ezekiel, and the book of4:09 Dain. So if you read the book of Daniel, and you read the book of Ezekiel, you don't have to read all of the Psalms, because all of the Psalms aren't referenced. But if you just looked online and saw4:34 You're supposed to have known the book of Daniel. You're supposed to have known the book of Ezekiel. And you're supposed to have known those Psalms that are written in the That's okay. We'll do a survey with that really4:43 briefly today. But I just want you to know that because sometimes people go, I read it and I just didn't understand it. And I say, have you ever read Daniel before? No. I've never read Daniel before. Do you understand4:53 that Daniel was given visions and dreams and there were animals that represented government and world leader and stuff? Each animal represented different Oh, no. I never knew that. Well, that's what revelation is5:05 symbolically showing, because John was a Jew. He knew the old testament. That's why the spirit of God was showing him those things. And so same thing with Ezekiel. There's, there are in times imagery5:17 in that as well. We'll try to get some out of their verses today. But we may not, because I've already recorded5:29 this yesterday, and I know that we pretty much got here.5:43 Lot of This is now called the throne room of God. John is in God's throne room. He he is standing before God in his throne by his spirit. And he says5:55 this, and between the throne and the 4 living creatures and among the elders, I saw the a lamb standing as though it had been slain with 7 horns and 76:06 eyes, which are the 7 spirits of God sent out into all the earth. And he went out and took the scroll from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne.6:23 Heart, a golden bowl full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. You to take the scroll and to open its seals.6:35 For you were slain, and by your blood, you were ransomed people for God from every tribe, and every language and every people and every nation, and you have made them a kingdom and a6:47 priest to our God, and they shall reign on the earth. Then I looked and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders voice of many angels numbering myriads and myriads6:59 and thousands and thousands saying with a loud voice, worthy is the lamb who was slain to receive power, wealth, and wisdom and my honor and glory7:20 honor, and glory, and my, forever, and ever. And the 4 living creatures said, Amen. And the elders fell down. And7:32 You may be And There's a There's a There's a There's a There's a There's a There's a There's a There's a There's a There's a There's a There's a There's a There's a There's a letter written to the 7 churches of7:44 Asia Minor, which are in modern day Turkey. There were more churches in that day. There were even more churches in Turkey of the time. Was those 7 churches is because those 7 churches were going through7:55 very specific, yet different. And there were 7, because in a few moments, we'll see 7 represents God's 7 represents God's completed work. And so, 7 represents God's completed work. And so, 7 represents God's completed8:06 work. And so, 7 represents God's completed work. And so, 7 represents God's completed work. So every church of every age may wrestle with 1 of these 7 things. And so, the chapters 1 to 3 just are words to those 78:16 churches. That's almost like a regular letter that you've seen in the Bible, like Philippians and Ephesians and First Corinthians. But once you get to chapters 4 and 5, now immediately you're taken from the letter to8:28 those in the throne room of God. And in the throne room of God, we're seeing that there's a scroll with 7 seals on it.8:40 The reason why there's 7 seals on it, because in Jesus's day, in John's day, when someone would die and they would have a will and testament, it would be sealed with 78:52 seals, representing the refinement process that went into building that will. And so you would break the 7 seals, and that's the only way it could be broken to read someone's will. That represented9:04 this person thoroughly went through their will and testament. So therefore, the 7 seals represented the statements in this are finished and complete. No addendums in this. If they9:15 had 1 seal, a person may want to revisit, oh, I want to kick that kid out the wheel. I want to take money from this person. I don't want to leave the house to this person. 7 seals said I was done. So9:27 7 seals, these seals of God's will that is being held, they're saying, who can open God's will and start the progression of Jesus's return? And no 1 is there.9:39 And so John starts freaking out, and he's saying, how can God's will be established? How can Jesus return if there's no human worthy to open God's will? And then now comes9:51 a lamb that was slain, which represents Jesus. So he has a vision now of a lamb who is cut up, who has bled, who has died, and then it represents Jesus. Jesus steps forward10:03 now in a few moments, and then that's why he says, I can open God's will. And then now that's why heaven falls down and worships him. They say, worthy is the lamb. Lamb. Jesus, there10:15 is nobody like you who can actually start this progression of redeeming human history. Worthy are you, Jesus. So they start worshipping. Because heaven is a celebration that God's will and testament has been fulfilled.10:26 It's that God's will and testament has been fulfilled. It's a celebration to say the work of Calvary, the work of resurrection, it is finished and it's redeemed. So10:38 that 1 day when God establishes eternity here on earth, you can know without a shout of a doubt, if you are part of the ransomed blood of Jesus, you are in the family.10:52 You're in the family. And that's what we get to celebrate. That's why heaven is celebrating. Are we doing that around the clock 24 hours a day? No. This is a vision. We'll see11:04 later on. Part of God's vision is that we all actually live, read, read If you look at last week, we talked about the comparisons between Genesis and Revelation. So it's God's desire that that we live and11:15 do life. So in our future heavenly bod or earthly bodies here on Earth, in Jesus's kingdom, we will still do things with each other. There are angels and there are people who are11:27 petitioned in the throne room, who are worshiping God 24 hours a day. We will be worshiping him, but you will also be worshiping him through living a life. And that11:39 you see later on in Revelation 19 and 20. And so that's part of Jesus's millennial reign. And so here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna survey 3 things for you really briefly. Number 1, you cannot understand the book of11:51 Revelation if you don't understand numbers in the Bible. Okay? So Revelation, you're gonna read if you read it, there is number after 24 elders, 7 this, 412:03 this, 6 6 6 this. If if we don't know what If if we don't know what those numbers mean, then you're just you're gonna think that it's it's literal. So there's 7 churches. You're like, oh, okay. So God only wants12:15 to share this with 7 churches. No. 7 represents God's completed work. So God wants to share this with all churches. Once you understand God's numbers, we're not going to look at all numerology. We're just going to look12:25 at the numbers in revelation really fast. If you write these down, the next time you read revelation, you'll know what Anytime a number like this is mentioned, you'll go, oh, it represent God is saying this.12:39 Communicating. Oh, that's very clear. It starts to become much more clear in that way. Okay? So here's the first number. You have in the Bible or in Revelation, you're gonna see the number 2 many times. Okay?12:51 Here's what the number 2 symbolizes. It symbolizes God's completeness, and is often connected to a valid testimony. So in the Jewish faith, in the Hebrew faith, in a court of13:02 law, something is not valid until there's 2 or 3 more witnesses. You cannot have a 1 eyewitness account. And so in here, you're gonna see 2 witnesses13:14 are said in Revelation. All it's saying, it may it probably is 2 literal witnesses, but it's also communicating their statements are valid because there's 2 of them, not 1 of13:26 them. So 2 represents an eyewitness account that's validated. So whenever you see in Revelation 2 something mentioned, all it's saying is the statements that are13:38 progressing are valid and true eyewitness accounts. In other words, you think of, Moses was given 2 tablets. 10 words, the decalogue, the 10 we call them13:50 10 commandments, but in Hebrew they call it the decalogue. 10 words, but written on what? 2 tablets. Means it's a perfect witness of law. That's what 2 comes from. Okay? Then the next thing you have is14:02 you have 4. 4 signifies full and total coverage. So when you see 4, 4 this, 4 people of this, 4 and these are all14:14 God's numbers. Okay? They're satanic numbers too, 2, 4, 7, 12, and 10 are mentioned, those are righteous14:25 numbers. They just each communicate something differently. So 4 is represented its full and total most the time over God's creation. So what do I mean by that? The14:37 4 corners of the earth. It's God's creation. Right? We have every country has North, South, East, and West. That's God's full and total coverage. So14:49 when you see 4, all it's sharing is God's creation is covered. The star of David for the Jewish people and the put in the people of Israel. Do you know what the star of David is? It's a compass.15:01 That's all it is. God is in control. North, South, East, or West. You may say, well, what are all the little points? North, East, Southwest, Southeast, Northeast. That's all it is. So next time15:13 you see a Star of David, it's a compass. That's all it is. That's all it means. Okay? It's that God is covering. It's full coverage. So you have 4. Okay? Jesus says that the15:25 gospel is supposed to be spread amongst what? Judea, Jerusalem, Samaria, and what? All the corners of the earth. 4. Total coverage. Read Revelation, you see 4 of15:37 anything. All it is total coverage. That's it. And that's a part of creation. Then you have the number 7. This is the most famous number that we know of. The number 7 can not takes full completeness and15:48 totality. Not amongst creation, amongst God's will. Okay? So if you see 7, what did God do? How many days did it take for God to create the earth?16:00 7 days. That's his full will. That's his full desire for humanity. That is where we get the number 7 from. And so you're going to see 7 churches of Asia16:12 Minor. In In 1 point, you're going to see 7 elders. And so and stuff like that. Or you're going to have some type of multiplier of that number in some type of way. Sometimes it's a multiplier. If you see any16:24 of these numbers multiplied times, well, basically all it's saying is that that the number is that number specifically is innumerable. It it16:35 it means it's a it's an eternal number. That's what they're trying to communicate, But the number may be times by something because it that that number represents that specific thing. So we'll see that in a second. The16:47 number 10. This number, and its multipliers, so many times you'll see 10 times by something, emphasizes indefiniteness, magnitude, and completeness in the view of16:59 time and humanity. Of time and humanity. So it's a human number that is given to humanity in time, and a lot of17:11 times it's in opposition to satanic influence or sin. Right? So how many words I just shared with you guys. How many words was Moses given on the tablets?17:23 10. Who's in opposition of God's laws? Satan. And so 10 normally means there is satanic opposition against it, but GodThe End Times and Tribulation 17:35 still wins. Get this. I'll trip some of you guys out right right now. In the old testament, how much are you encouraged to give in the temple? 10 percent. A tithe.17:48 Why does 10 matter? Well, because Satan is opposed to you giving to God. That there is literally a spirit called mammon that is financial18:00 addiction, money addiction. Either never having enough or having too much that you don't want to share. That that desire of of that that that mindset that says, I'll never be taken18:12 care of. This money's mine. No 1 can have it. Whatever it is. That is satan saying, oh yeah. You're playing in my court. So it's 10 percent because when you give it, it breaks that spirit.18:25 So it's not just about tithing, and someone can say, oh, well tithing is in the ultimate testament. What's in the new testament? Well, if you read the book of acts, they said, give it all to the church, you know? So I18:36 know you don't want to do that. So pick your poison, 10 percent or all of it. Okay? You could be you could be an early church Christian and live in a shoe box and give it all away, or you could give 10 percent. Either18:47 way, it's not God's desire that he has your money, it's God's desire that he break the bondage. In the same way, it's not that God wants you to force you to live out the 10 commandments, it's that when you live out the18:58 law, now we live out the law through following Jesus, but Jesus fulfilled the law, what do you do? You break the bondage of sin. Jesus is the only 1 who permanently broke that bondage, so only by him can19:10 we truly find freedom. So that's where you'll see 10 is super relevant. Lastly, in 10, every year when it's Passover season in the Jewish religion, they were to pick the Passover lamb, the lamb who would19:22 die for the sins of Israel on the tenth day of the month. And so it always represents God's written law, his written desire for humanity that breaks the bondage of19:34 Satan. So 10 matters in the Bible. And so you'll see 10 in Revelation. And then here's the last 1 is 12. Many of us will also know 12. 7 and 12 are pretty, regularly19:46 understood, numbers in the Bible. And this represents fullness and completeness within the church and humanity. Okay? So there were how many tribes in the Old Testament? How19:57 many tribes of Israel? 12. How many disciples did Jesus have? 12. So there you go. So you'll also see a multiplier of that. So you'll see and if you read Revelation, another20:09 famous number is a hundred and 44000. You'll see that when Jesus returns, during the tribulation period, he'll have a hundred and 44000 witnesses with him or soldiers with him. There's 220:21 takes you could take on that. Could be a hundred and 44000 Israelites, people Jews who during the tribulation period have given their life to Christ, or it could represent 12 times 1220:33 times a thousand is a hundred and 44000. So basically, if you take 12 times 12 times a thousand, that's an What God would do instead of saying infinite, he'll give you a number and he'll times it by something. And20:45 that's supposed to That's like when Jesus was asked how many times should I forgive somebody? What does he tell him? He said 7 times 7 times. That's what that20:56 communication is. So the idea of 144000 is also all of Jesus's disciples in human history are with him in heaven. All those that would say yes to Jesus. So so that's what that21:08 number also represents at the same time. And so if you understand those numbers, I also tend to, take more of a literal approach. I think that 1 day there will be really a hundred and 44000 people with him while we will21:20 still be in the sky watching these things, but also, you could also take the approach that it would be all of us there with him. It doesn't hurt the story to not know the answer. That's the beauty21:31 about Revelation. Just because you're not always clear on 1 particular verse, doesn't mean that the end of the story doesn't matter. We know the end of the story. We know how this ends, and that's what I'm going to21:43 share with you. This is what matters. How the story ends. What happens in between, whether the vaccine is getting the mark of the beast or whether, or whether a politician in Russia right now is the anti crime.21:55 It does not change the end of the story. Doesn't change the end of the story. So it really doesn't matter at the end of the day, but it's great to try to understand. It is important to try to understand, but to not22:07 be clear, there's nothing wrong with that. And the spirit of God may give you more clarity, and that's the beautiful thing about continually re that's why the beginning verse says, read this out loud as the spirit of God22:18 will give you understanding. So you can get more clear. That's why I'm saying, I I believe it's a hundred 44000, but I have friends that are pastors with doctorates who believe otherwise. So I'm not I'm not so prideful22:28 enough to say that I have it right over the guy who spent his whole life reading Revelation. I just feel that's what I'm convinced by, you know, as my own So let's look at this. I want you to survey really briefly, this22:39 over view a lot. So I'll show you 2 slides now at this point. This is kind of22:51 where we'll land our time together. This is chapters pretty after 4 and 5. So basically, chapters 6 to 22 is what you right here. I had23:03 hoped if we have more time. That's why, Lord willing, we'll bring something back in the future. I basically gave you guys a breakdown because there are chapters that are clustered. The Bible wasn't written with chapters.23:13 Later on when they canonized the Bible or completed it, they added chapters and verses for you to understand. But when the letter was written, it was written just like a regular letter. So, paragraphs go together.23:25 And so, chapters 4 and 5 go together. Chapters 6 to 7, they go together. So what you see here, and this will make it very clear for us. It's you and I.24:06 According to first Thessalonians, this is where we get the idea of rapture. Rapture is not a biblical term. It's a Latin term that represents to get caught up, which that is in Thessalonians. But but Latin was the24:17 predominant language for over a thousand years in the church, through the Roman Catholic church and many others. So rapture began a popular terminology out of the Latin term to catch up. And so what or to24:29 be caught up. And so what this is now is we await according to second Thessalonians 2 7, it gives the impression that 1 day as there will be a tribulation period,24:41 Jesus even says to the 7 churches, repent of the things that you are not following me. Should you want to avoid the tribulation period?24:54 Those first letters is you're not saved. So what he's saying is, is he's saying there will come a tribulation period. And if you want to avoid that period, you must25:06 live and quit being lukewarm, quit being unloving, quit being asleep. So he gives these terminologies to say, wake up. Be like the Church of Philadelphia, you know, who loves, who practices faith,25:17 who seeks me, finds me. And so here's25:33 of our day. Okay? That that's why that's why if you're searching for in time stuff, you know, Jesus says you won't know the day, time, or hour that he returns. And so in25:45 actuality, you'd be remiss to change you'd be remiss to chase who the Antichrist is because the reality is you'd be in heaven by then. You may have an inkling, but to25:57 actually get the answer, which is normally what we Christians are looking for, black and white, I wanna know who where is he born right now? Is he is he in the Middle East? Is he in China? Is he in Russia? You would If26:07 you if you're saying you're going to find out, what you're saying is you're going to be left behind. Right. And and I'll tell you this, you don't want to be that person. I think I know who it is. If you know who it is,26:18 then we've all been left behind. The 3 Christians in the world have been caught up in, you know, because I I you had no idea. And so at that point when we're raptured, it starts 7 years of a26:30 tribulation period. Some theologians believe because numerology represents 7, represents God's completion of his work, of his will. They say it could, you know,26:42 7 years could equal 100 years of a tribulation or 200. I I believe still literal approach, I believe it's gonna be 7 years. I believe that when Jesus catches his church in heaven, that that starts God's,26:54 clock on on these end times. And so I believe it's 7 years of literal, and this comes from the book of Daniel where we get a lot of clarity from. It's in Revelation, but the clarity of the27:05 symbolisms are in the book of Daniel. Okay? And so it's split into 2. You'll notice here that in Revelation, we're given 7 years, which represents God's27:17 allotment or allowing the tribulation to go. 7 represents God's involved. Haves represent what? Satan's involved. Okay? And so I I didn't give you guys that slide, but27:29 the the bad numbers, they're really easy. There's, 2 main versions of bad numbers, satanic numbers. It's quarters, halves, or unfinished numbers. So if a fit if a number is unfinished, if it says a year27:41 and 6 months, that's a satanic number. That's a satanic destination. God's always complete with the number. And so if you're giving an if you're given a number in Revelation that ends in quarters, halves, or27:53 it's an unfinished number, then that means Satan's involved. Or you have 6 6 6, which is the mark of the beast, which is the which is the antithetical number to the number 7. God's completed28:05 will, Satan's will is 6 6 6. His allotment, his allowed number. And so you'll see the mark of the beast equals that number. Originally, if you write in Hebrew, Hebrew28:17 names and numbers represent 6 6 6 2. So If you write the the the the ruler of their day was a ruler named Nero, who was a horrible28:28 figure, horrible figure if you research him. He hated Christians. He was also strange guy in general. He used to love he used to love to swim in pools and have have little28:40 he would teach babies how to swim. He would swim in pools and have them nip at his naked body. And so he he he was he was an28:52 embodiment of Satan's work in government. That's what he was. And so if you write, Caesar Nero in Hebrew and count the numbers, it's 6 6 6.29:04 Ruler. That's where we get the idea that there's going to be a physical ruler during the tribulation period because 6 6 6 represented a governmental leader. That's how we would know that. And so basically, you have 3 and29:15 a half years. For the first 3 and a half years, see immense persecution on Christians, and pretty much everyone else is in peace. Christians are not. So anyone who realized the rapture happened, and29:27 they're like, man, I need to get my life together. They're they're doing it at the cost of their life. Because it basically, Christians become the ones to blame for everything in that day. They're all of our problems.29:38 They're all all their morals, all their ethics, all their this. Predominant leader of that time and and the predominant instigator of29:50 the religion and towards Christianity. And so, some have said that might be Islam or something else, but the understanding is that is could be the case. But the reality is everyone this this person brings peace to30:02 Israel. Israel's on the brink of war. Israel does exist in this day. So the reason why, you're like, why do people why why did Paul believe he was in the end times, but then how come we also believe we're in30:14 the end times? Well, in Paul's day, when he wrote 2 thirds of the new testament, Israel existed. Rome kicked out because the the Israelis, they they had a30:25 protest, a mass protest against Rome in 70 AD. In 70 AD, the Romans kicked the Jews out of Israel. And you wanna know how long the Jews were wandering30:38 without a home being Israel? Till 19 48. So from 70 AD to 19 48, Israel did not exist. Okay? So whether30:50 you like how Israel is handling things today, that that doesn't mean that government can't make mistakes, that doesn't mean that you can't be critical to the national government itself, but the reality is you can't get31:01 it not to exist. It's it's in revelation. It's in God's plan, and it's there. So either you could take the responsibility of saying, I'm gonna be empathetic towards this nation that God still has a plan for, or or31:13 you just say, I don't want anything to do with God's plan. It's kind of 1 or the other in that statement. Once again, it's not that you can't say, I don't like how they handle this. You could say that. That's fine. We do31:22 that in our nation all the time. I don't like when government leaders in America do things sometimes. So probably majority of the time. So that's okay to say that, but still love America or still love something else. You31:32 can still do that. Right? And so that's in this story. Okay? Leader brings peace to Israel. And then in 3 and a half years, which is31:44 a satanic number of uncomplateness, that ruler switches the script.31:59 Prophet that shows up. And that profit uses signs, wonders, and miracles to validate the antichrist. Now here's the thing you have to remember in this modern age, the signs,32:11 miracle, wonders could be a miraculous concept, or it could be some type of miracle medical concept that humanity can't define. Today,32:23 we have a lot of magic that's occurring that may not be majestical in nature, but it's the magic of technology. It's the magic of assimilating something, some type of principle. So that prophet32:35 could somehow be an intellectual genius that solves a problem and forces everyone through that technology to adhere to the antichrist, in which everyone will. Anyone that32:47 rejects it, it says that they will be rejected and put to death. And so during this time, there's a great persecution now, not just for Christians, a persecution on the world. And32:58 during this time, there are also, in the earlier time, there are famines and wars, and all these incredible things happening that your eye has never seen. Okay? And so33:10 mind you, this is this is usually where Christians get caught up the most, most thing that actually has nothing to do with you. Because at this time, you're with33:22 Jesus. So most most of us were like always trying to figure out this part. Here's the part you want to care about the most. This part right here. Okay? 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