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Revelation chapter 19 tells us something that’s wonderful, wonderful, wonderful going to happen. In Revelation 19 and verse 11 says, And I saw heaven opened, Behold a white horse, And he that sudden hymn was called faithful in true, And in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire. Known as head were many crowns, And he had a name written that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vestredipton blood, And his name is called the Word of God.

And his armies which were in heaven followed him horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron. And he treadeth the wine-press of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vester and on his thigh a name-written king of kings and Lord of lords. The book of Revelation is the last book in the Bible.

And it ends by stating that you are not to add to the Word of God, nor take away from the Word of God. It also makes the statement in the first chapter, and by reading it, you would be blessed. So there’s some extra blessings to those people who read the book, believe the book, and practice the book. But because it deals with so many things that are future, many times we don’t think it has anything to do with the time in which we live.

But But understanding the future events is to help us to be found faithful now. Booker Revelation deals with Jesus Christ being the judge of the earth. He is the judge that makes war. It talks about the lion making war. It talks about the wrath of a lamb making war. And so the Bible tells us that God has committed to the Son, the judgment of all mankind. The purpose of revelation to instruct and to encourage believers in Christ through a presentation of Jesus in his role as the judge.

John 522 talks about, for the Father, Judgeeth, no man, but has committed all judgment onto the Son, the right that He has to be our judge. The characteristics of the judge is found in Revelation chapter 1. There are things that John, who was about 90 years of age, who had been exiled on the Alapatmas, and what he saw. He said, I was in the Spirit of the Lord’s day and I heard behind me a great voice as of a trumpet saying, I am the alpha and the omega, the first and the last.

It means there’s nobody before him and he is the end. When he talks about he is the beginning and the ending of our faith because when we trust Christ as our Savior our faith just began. But also we are to end our lives with our faith in the Lord. He says, what thou see it right in a book and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia. The church age is the period of time in which we live.

So the book of Revelation is written to you and I to understand things that we’re supposed to know because it’ll make a difference in our life, the purpose of our life and the purpose of our church if we understand it. But I fear that today many people do not get a grasp of these great truths that are found and God’s Word. He said unto Ephesus, unto Smarna, and Pergai, and Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea, every one of these churches, the seven churches that he mentions were seven churches that existed at this time in Asia Minor.

And there were candlesticks. The candlesticks were the lampstands. That we’ll talk about just a moment. He said, I turn to hear the voice that spoke with me. All this is in Revelation chapter 1, considering the characteristics of the judge. What is this judge like? He said, I turn to see the voice that’s spake with me and being turned. I saw seven golden candlesticks. Those are lampstands. And in the midst of the seven candlesticks, one like unto the son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot and gird about the patch with a golden girdle.

His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were as a flame of fire, and his feet likened to fine brass as if they burned in a furnace, and his voice is the sound of many waters, and he had in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth when a sharp two-edged sword, and his countenance was as the sun, shine it in his strength. I’ll have a brief review on the first part of that personal scripture that we just read, where he says, and I turn to see the voice of him that spoke with me and being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks, and in the midst of the seven candlesticks, one like unto the son of man.

With people, we feel like you don’t have a right to be my judge. And you may feel like I don’t have the right to be your judge. Well what man has the right to judge another because we have all sinned. We’re all sinners. Jesus Christ was born as the son of a man, as the son of man. He lived upon this earth, he never committed a sin, and therefore he earned the right to judge the rest of us because he was born as the Son of Man.

Now, there’s another title that’s given to him called the Son of God, but right now we’re talking about him as the Son of Man. And then it says they’re in the book of John in chapter 5 and verse 22 and 27. That is the Father and Judge of no man, but I’ve committed all judgment unto the Son. He has given him authority to execute judgment also because he is the Son of Man. The activity of the judge in the midst of the churches.

In other words, what is the role that God has through Jesus Christ right now, even though he’s seated in the heavenlies over the church right now during this period of time? Don’t think for a moment that he doesn’t know what’s going on. Here we’re talking about how that God is able to see and know everything that happens in every church that’s called His church, that He knows to be a church. Not all churches are churches. go by the name of churches, but they’re not churches.

There’s only certain churches that God recognizes His church. He says, in chapter 2 and chapter 3, there are seven churches that are mentioned. This is the next thing that you find in the book of Revelation. And he says, unto the angel of the church of Bethathost right, these things said, he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks. Therefore, remember from whence thou art fallen and repent and do the first works.

The thing that he had against this church was that they had left their first love. So he knew, now we’re not talking about how to get to heaven, we’re talking to Christians, those who believe on the Lord, in the individual churches. And though all these churches existed at that time, they also represent the way churches are today. There are different levels in which churches go through the various stages of the same seven churches that are mentioned in chapter two and chapter three.

But he says, you’ve done everything right. But the only thing that you lost was that you lost your first love. You don’t love me the way you used to. But you still do the works. You just don’t have love. He says, repent or I’m going to remove the candle signal. In other words, I’m going to remove you as a lighthouse. Every church is to be a lamp, a lighthouse to the people on a hill. So therefore, this church and every church that name the name of Christ that is of Christ, God says that He’s watching and He can close the doors.

And the last thing we ever want is for the Lord to write over this church Ichabod, which means the glory of the Lord is departed, which can happen. It’ll happen when the people in the church lose their love for the Lord. When you lost your love, the word doesn’t matter. God wants the love of every one of us. So he goes through every one of these seven churches. And here we talk about in John, 1 John, it talks about for whatsoever is born of God, overcome the world.

And this is the victory that has overcome the world. Our faith, who is he who overcomes the world but he who believe that Jesus is the Son of God. This is when you trust Christ as your Savior. This is a one time deal. This happens to one time that you do it. Single instance of faith. But the great thing of understanding the book of Revelation is that it talks about they who overcome. So we’re talking to the Christians in the church, but we’re talking about individuals in the church who will serve the Lord all the days of their life.

When he talks about the church at Smyrna, he talks about even unto death, it means serve the Lord until the end. What’s going to make us serve the Lord until the end? In other words, it’s one thing to start off certain the Lord like a ball of fire and you can climb like a rising star and then you fizzle out. God doesn’t want his children fizzling out. He wants us to serve the Lord all the days of our life.

Wouldn’t it be a shame to serve the Lord for most of your life and then toward the end of it right before he comes back or right before you die, you mess up? Don’t let this happen to you. Guard against this because there’s something that will happen to those who are serving the Lord when the Lord returned or those who serve the Lord even unto death and the Lord talks about he shall eat of the tree of life. I don’t know what it is.

I don’t even care. But whatever it is, it must be something because it separates you from those who can. When he talks about there, you have also the power, the power that will rule over the nations. I don’t understand all that, but I know it’s in the book and I know what it says. And so he says, power over the nations and I’ll confess his name. He says, I’ll give you a new name that nobody else knows, even talks about himself in chapter 19 of Revelation about he has a name that nobody else knew what it was.

Now of course one day we will, but there’s a lot of things that we don’t know but God just kind of dangles them out there and says look it’s going to be worth it. Believe me, trust me. It’s one thing that trust Christ is Savior that gets you into heaven. What you have for eternity depends on what you and I do with the knowledge that God has given to us. Therefore we need to know and this is keeping his works until the end.

That means serve the Lord all the days of your life and many people will. A lot of people will not. The Bible says in Revelation 4 and chapter 5, John says that he was caught up into heaven and he saw the throne, he saw the the rainbow and he saw the four and twenty elders around the throne and he saw the four living beasts. There is the lion and the lion represents the book of Matthew and the the beast the the ox represents the book of Mark and the man represents a man which is the book of Luke and the Eagle represents Jesus Christ and so you have the four gospels the four pictures of Jesus Christ that forms one portrait that when we get to heaven we’re going to see this thing now a man literally left this world John and went to heaven and

literally saw heaven and saw these things in heaven. And God used him to write these things and tell us about it because it is a true place. These things are real. One day we’re going to be there and we’re going to see all of this. Now the next thing that happens is there is the in chapter 5 a seven sealed book, a book that nobody had the right to open. Jesus Christ has the right to open this book. Jesus Christ is pictured as the lion of the tribe of Judah.

He’s also pictured as the lamb that took away the sin of the world. And so you have two things. When Christ came the first time, he came as a lamb, they thought he would come as a lion, but he did. He came as a lamb, but the next time he’s coming back as a lion, and he’s going to rule and reign upon the and the Bible says he’ll rule with a rod of iron. This is the identification of the judge of all mankind.

This is who he is. Chapter five verses six through seven. It says, and be held and low in the mist of the throne and the forebeest and in the mist of the elders, stood a lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God’s end, forth in the all the earth. And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that set upon the throne. This is Jesus Christ, who is the only one who has the right to open the seven seal book.

And this seven seal book talks about him. He is the lamb that had the seven horns. Right now, there may be a few questions and doubts about understanding all these things, but just to know this, it is real. It is coming. What he said is true. And you ought to be thankful that you know Christ as your savior. The next thing that talks about is the activity of the judge among all mankind, and this is talking about the seven-year tribulation period that lies ahead of us.

Well, the Bible describes that in the last days, their perilous time shall come and people will die of pestilence. That’s incurable diseases. Do we have any incurable diseases in our world today? Yes. It’s coming. So, it’s going to take place upon the earth. Talk about the sun will turn black like ash and that the moon will turn into blood. Now whether or not that’s because of things that are upon the earth, it gives it that appearance, whatever. I don’t care how God does it.

Only that God says it and God’s going to pour out his wrath upon the sun, upon the moon, upon the earth and the land, the water, the sea, the trees, the green grass and every living thing is going to feel the wrath of the land. it is coming. Then you have in chapter 6, you’re talking about the four horses of the Apoket, talking about these things that are going to take place. These are the judgments that is going to take place in the opening of the seals at the beginning of the sixth chapter.

The only one who had a right to open the seventh seal book was Jesus Christ. And now he’s opening these seals and you have in Revelation chapter 6 verse 1 and 2, and I saw when the lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, come and see it. He says, and I saw him, behold, why horse? And he that said on him had a bow, and a crown was given unto him, and he went forth conquering and to conquer.

This is the rising conquest by the anti-Christ of rebellious mankind. Now those people who reject Jesus Christ as their Savior. When the rapture takes place, all of us are gone. Only those who have not trusted Christ as their Savior are still left here upon this earth. And the anti-Christ is going to rise to power on the backs of unbelievers. And they’re going to fall in love with this guy because he’s going to convince them that he is the good knight in shining armor and the world is going to go after this individual.

He says, and when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second be say come and see and they went out another horse that was read and power was given to him that set their on to take peace from the earth and that they should kill one another and there was given unto him a great sword. This is because after the man comes into power and starts his rise they become the war of bloodshed and all of this is going to take place and then it says in the book of Matthew in chapter 24 Jesus Christ made this statement.

He says and he shall hear of wars and rumors of wars, see that you be not troubled for all these things must come to pass. But the end is not yet, for nations shall rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be famines and pestilence and earthquakes, and diverse places, all these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.

The nation, those that are going to be hated, is the nation of Israel. Right now, it’s almost to the point where all of the nations of the earth do hate Israel. There’s only a few nations that are standing behind Israel and that’s Britain and America and the rest of the world could care less what happens to Israel. And that’s the truth. And they just happen to be the strongest nation that right now can deter the evil from destroying them.

The black horse of famine because after war there is generally famine because there’s nothing to eat, the prices are high and people don’t have money and people will die. The Bible says one third of the world’s population is going to be destroyed. And then DePaul talks about the pale horse of death, which is because of the pestilence. It’s going to destroy the people. And you’re talking about some very ugly things coming down the road. Now this is what’s going to happen during the tribulation period, opening of these first four seals.

Then you have in chapter 16 of the book of Revelation that talks about the bowls of judgment. There’s seven different bowls of judgment that God is going to take these bowls. He says, therefore, and He’s going to pour them out upon the earth. This is God, the judge of the earth. And this is what He’s going to do. Hail stones and 120 pounds are going to be coming down from the sky up on the earth. Can you imagine what little beady hail stones do?

Think of a hail stone that weighs 100 pounds coming down from the In the Bible talks about the great earthquake and great judgment, the earth rocking upon its axis and all the judgment is going to take place. And it talks about also the beast is going to have all kinds of demonic forces and the pestilence and the rivers are going to be dried up, the river Euphrates to make way for the kings of the east and they’re coming. And there’s people over in the east right now that want to come across and it’s go straight on across and you’ve got China.

I don’t know how all of the pieces together. I don’t even care how all of the pieces together because I won’t be here with this all piece together. All I got to know is what the book of revelation says to believe it and what does it do for me? What do I want this knowledge? How is Is this supposed to benefit me? How is it supposed to change me? Well, it will and it does. And the Bible says those who have the mark of the beast are going to be hit with boils and sores all over their body.

These eases that come to fond them and they will hate the Lord even more. This is chapter 16 of the book of Revelation. And the Bible talks about everything that in the oceans are going to die. The fish are all going to die in the rivers and in the stream. They’re all going to die. We are living at a very dangerous time in our world because we’re at the place where the world can be destroyed by mankind. And God said that he does not intervene.

Man will destroy man from the face of the earth in Matthew chapter 24. And the Bible says, and when they try to drink water, the water is bitter. The water turns to blood. It talks about the moon turning to blood, or is it because it looks red and blood? I don’t care how all of it happens. I don’t give it as real or if it’s not real. I just tell you what the book said. And I believe the Bible from cover to cover and even believe the cover because well, it’s got my name on it.

The judgment also, the Bible says that the sun will become so hot, so hot that men’s bodies will be scorched and they’ll be burned. I don’t know if they’ll die because the Bible says they’ll seek death and can’t find it. They hide in the rocks and the caves and so forth and then they’ll try to get away from the wrath of the Lamb and cannot do so. That time has come. Thus demonic power is going to have all of his forces here.

You talk about all the evil that can be in the world. It’s going to be here. It’s going to be manifesting. And the only thing that keeps him from doing it now is because of the Holy Spirit that is in the believers, in the world, and once the Christians are taken out of the world, this free range. Satan can do whatever he wants to do with all those unbelievers because they refuse to believe on him. And the world is going to have the worst ruler that it’s ever had.

But that’s just the beginning. Because Jesus Christ comes back in power and great glory at the end of the book of Revelation. We’re talking about in chapter 19. And when And he comes back, see that’s some bad news, but there’s good news coming. At the end of my radio broadcast, I always refer to keep looking up. He’s coming, keep looking up. He’s coming. You should live every day believing. He’s coming today. He could come today. He could come this moment.

He could come next hour. But live like that. It’ll keep you pure in your life. It’ll help you in your thoughts. It helps you in your actions. It helps you in your worth when you believe and really believe. Jesus Christ is coming back. The return of Christ coming. Then when Christ comes back in chapter 19, He takes the beast and the false prophet and their cast into the lake of fire. And then the Bible says that at the beginning of the thousand year reign, that He takes the the devil and an angel in chapter 20 and binds him and cast him to the bottomless pit.

And so for one thousand years Satan is bound and we’re ruling and reigning with Christ upon the earth of a thousand years. Then after that he has come out and there is a judgment. The next thing that’s going to happen is for the great white throne judgment. The great white throne judgment shows us the activity of the judge about the lost of all the ages. And remember that they are coming. And I saw a great white throne in him that set on it from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away and there was found no place for them.

those who have not trusted Christ of Savior. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God, and the books were open. And another book was open, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them, and they were judged every man according to their works.

And death Yet in hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. God wants you and I to know this, even though this is future. This is way on out there. But the reason this is important for us to know now is because all those people that we see and that we work with and that we talk to and that are our families.

If they have not trusted Christ as their Savior, they are going to spend an eternity in the lake of fire. Like it or not. Don’t want to hear about it or it doesn’t matter. This is truth. This is where it’s going to be. This is the end result. Many people don’t like to live their lives thinking of the consequences of their decision, looking down the road. What about at the end time? But I believe that it’s wise for us to do so.

Now at the Great White Throne Judgment, millions and billions and billions of people. I believe will stand. And even Christians are going to be there. We’re not going to be judged, but we’re going to be witnesses. Because we’ve already had our judgment. Christ was our judgment on the cross. And we’ve already been to the judgment, see the Christ and receive the rewards that we’re supposed to have. But here is talking about God’s judgment upon them and he’s going to open up the books.

The books are open. That’s all the different books. And I believe it talks about in 139th Psalm. He says that all of your members are recorded in the book. There is a book on you. There’s a DNA. code. Mankind, scientists didn’t write no DNA code. God did that. Every one of us are originals. There’s no other copies from us. And then the Bible says, another book was open, which is the Book of Life. The Book of Life is the Lamb’s Book of Life.

See, there’s the books in which we are recorded when we’re born into the world. That’s the Book of the Living. We can die. In the Book of Life, you cannot die. And that’s why the Lord says rejoice that your names are written in the Lamb’s book of life, because once your names are written in the Lamb’s book of life, they can never be blotted out. Your name can be blotted out of the book of the living. That’s when you die.

And the Lord says, in spite of everything that’s done at the judgment, it simply just came down to the conclusion. If your name is not recorded in the Lamb’s book of life, whosoever was not recorded in the Lamb’s book of life was cast into the lake of fire. And then we have the characteristics and the aftermath of what the judge is going to do in the future. The judge becomes the ruler of the New Heavens and a New Earth, Revelation chapter 1 and chapter 22.

He says, and I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away and there was no more seed. and says, and I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. It’s 1500 miles high, 1500 miles wide and 1500 miles long. One holy city. We are going to live in the holy city and is a good possibility to ill hover above the earth.

He said, and I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold the tabernacle of God is with men. and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them and be their God. And then the Bible says, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away, Revelation 21.

And the streets are made out of pure gold, and it is so pure that you can see through it. It’s like a sea of glass, but it’s pure gold. And what we’ll walk on in heaven, people kill for one another down here. Wouldn’t it be a shame for you to spend your life for the Almighty Dollar and work yourself to death for nothing but money and you’re going to take and walk on gold when you get to heaven. There’s more things more important than money down here.

Just what do we do with the time that God’s given to us? How holy of a life do you want to live? How God’ll do you and I want to be. And behold, He says, I make all things new. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area.

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