1 00:00:03,840 --> 00:00:08,119 This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark 2 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:12,680 Waffer, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland, County 3 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:16,400 of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he 4 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:18,760 continues teaching through God's Word. 5 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:41,480 We need to rejoice when the current events discourage us. 6 00:00:42,160 --> 00:00:45,880 We need to be rejoicing people when things don't seem to be 7 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:49,280 going the way we would hope. When you have loved ones and 8 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:52,120 family that turn from the Lord, when you have people that just 9 00:00:52,120 --> 00:00:54,760 blow you off, when you have people you work with that think 10 00:00:54,760 --> 00:00:58,600 you're nuts, when you have immediate family members perhaps 11 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:01,840 that just don't seem to care about their souls, it's 12 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:04,480 heartbreaking. It's discouraging, but we're 13 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:06,880 victorious people. We have won. 14 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:09,960 Christ is conquered. When you give your life to 15 00:01:09,960 --> 00:01:12,920 Jesus, you want to share the love and freedom you feel with 16 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:17,720 those whom you care about most. It can be extremely difficult to 17 00:01:17,720 --> 00:01:21,000 find the strength in sharing the good news with those who refuse 18 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:23,680 to believe it. The best thing that we can do is 19 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:28,040 to focus on loving through patience, prayer, and respect, 20 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:32,040 trusting that God will move. Today, Pastor Clark teaches us 21 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:34,960 to rejoice even when things don't seem to be going the way 22 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:38,880 we want. Jesus is coming back soon, and 23 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:43,160 he's already won. Now here's Pastor Clark in 24 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:47,040 Revelation Chapter 19 with today's edition of Living Waters 25 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:49,640 of Grace. In the second coming, the Bible 26 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:54,480 says every eye shall see him in the rapture of the tribulation 27 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:58,800 begins right after we are taken out, and the millennial Kingdom 28 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:05,120 begins at the second coming. There's enough information in 29 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:09,560 the scriptures to make it clear that the raptures are quite 30 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:12,960 different event than the second coming of Jesus Christ. 31 00:02:13,280 --> 00:02:15,680 And the reason I bring this up, there's a lot of confusion 32 00:02:15,680 --> 00:02:18,920 regarding these things in the body of Christ today. 33 00:02:18,920 --> 00:02:21,840 You have people who are pre Trib, mid trip, post Trib, all 34 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:25,160 millennial, post millennial, all these different end time views, 35 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:30,000 eschatological end time views. We Calvary Chapel are historic 36 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:33,880 pre mill, pre Trib in the sense of our eschatology. 37 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:36,440 And we're not alone. Good Bible teachers that you 38 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:40,480 listen to in the radio like John MacArthur or Charles Swindoll, 39 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:42,840 Charles Stanley, a lot of you guys listen. 40 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:45,000 I know to some of these people there, they take the same 41 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,200 position we do. So we're in good company with 42 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:51,320 credible Bible scholars. However, I said this isn't 43 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:54,240 anything to divide on with people who have different 44 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:57,000 positions. The good news is whenever the 45 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:59,800 Lord comes back to all realize we're right and they were wrong 46 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:01,880 but if they're in Christ, we're all going to love each other 47 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:03,120 anyway and it's not going to matter. 48 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:08,200 But it is important in regard to how we're preparing for the 49 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:11,040 Lord's return and how we live in light of that return. 50 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:14,440 So let's look at the section that we're going to spend some 51 00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:19,360 time on Revelation chapter 19. As we see in verse 11, the 52 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:23,800 heaven is open and behold a White Horse, a physical animal, 53 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:25,560 a horse. We're all going to be riding 54 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:28,240 horses when we come back with the Lord at the second coming. 55 00:03:28,520 --> 00:03:31,000 Now I don't like riding horses. I'm afraid of getting on them 56 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:33,400 because they can go out of control, you know, and unless 57 00:03:33,400 --> 00:03:36,200 you're really trained to tell it what to do, it just has a mind 58 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:38,040 of its own. But the good news is when we 59 00:03:38,040 --> 00:03:39,640 come back with the Lord, don't worry about that. 60 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:41,760 We're going to get on the horse. The horse is going to know 61 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:44,360 exactly where it's going, what it's supposed to do. 62 00:03:44,480 --> 00:03:45,720 We're just going to have to hold on. 63 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:46,880 That's all we're going to have to do. 64 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:50,120 But Christ is going to come back on this beautiful White Horse 65 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:51,600 and we're all going to ride with him. 66 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:55,720 And it says he who sat on him was called faithful and true 67 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:59,600 capital F, capital T in your Bibles and righteousness. 68 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:03,000 He judges and makes war. Now, this is a time that I think 69 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:04,960 everyone of us should be looking forward to. 70 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:08,640 I was thinking about the world the way it is today and the 71 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:12,560 complete ignorance that it has toward the things of God, this 72 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:16,240 independence of a Creator. Sometimes you wish you had this 73 00:04:16,240 --> 00:04:18,640 power in you, and we do. We have the Holy Spirit's power 74 00:04:18,640 --> 00:04:21,240 in us, but we don't have the power to bring forth judgment, 75 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:23,600 do we? Only Christ has that power and 76 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:26,320 authority. Sometimes you just long for 77 00:04:26,400 --> 00:04:29,920 certain people you know that will realize that God is the 78 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:30,760 Lord. Amen. 79 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:35,520 People that scoff and ridicule and laugh at you and reject you 80 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:39,160 and think you're nuts. You just can't wait for the day 81 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:42,640 that they realize how real God is and how holy he is and how 82 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:46,840 just and how glorious he is. But this is a day that we have 83 00:04:46,840 --> 00:04:50,400 to wait for when Christ comes and the liberal thought the day 84 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:52,800 is I'm not a Sinner. Why would he be talking about 85 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:55,520 sin? I'm a good person and how 86 00:04:55,720 --> 00:05:00,360 there's no such place as hell. I would not even acknowledge 87 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:02,480 that a place like that exists, some might say. 88 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:06,200 Someone told me recently that a relative went to a neighbor and 89 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:09,080 was telling the neighbor boy about the importance of knowing 90 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:11,480 Jesus Christ and accepting Him as your Savior. 91 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:14,120 Because if you don't have him as your Savior and you're Lord, 92 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:17,320 you'll suffer the consequences one day of eternal hell. 93 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:22,800 And the mother came over very angry and very disturbed that 94 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:26,360 this young man had told her son about hell. 95 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:29,120 And she said, we don't believe in such a place. 96 00:05:29,280 --> 00:05:32,200 That's morbid. We would never accept anything 97 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:34,800 like that. Well, her authority certainly 98 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:38,000 isn't the word of God, is it? And sometimes it's difficult for 99 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:42,240 us because if we are Christians, we have to proclaim everything 100 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:46,040 that this Bible teaches, even when it makes people disturbed 101 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:48,120 and when it makes them uncomfortable. 102 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:51,560 And that's the difference between churches in these last 103 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:55,200 days that are proclaiming the truth and churches that are 104 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:57,880 proclaiming the lie. But there is this liberal 105 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:00,280 thought today. There's no place in this world 106 00:06:00,280 --> 00:06:04,920 today for any idea of judgment. There's no consequences for sin. 107 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:09,240 We make up God in our own image and and how we want to think 108 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:10,480 about him. That's what's called 109 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:13,880 universalism. This pretense and delusion today 110 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:17,560 that people have will one day be very, very costly. 111 00:06:17,560 --> 00:06:21,000 If you look at Matthew Chapter 7 for a moment, the slip in your 112 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:25,800 Bible over to the left Matthew Chapter 7, it says in verse 21 113 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:30,960 of Matthew 7, not everyone who says to me Lord, Lord shall 114 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,600 enter into the Kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will 115 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:36,080 of my Father in heaven. You want to underline it in your 116 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:37,880 Bible. It isn't enough this to say you 117 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:42,840 believe in Christ, but you need to be doing his will like Jesus 118 00:06:42,840 --> 00:06:45,560 when he was on earth. He's perfect God, perfect man. 119 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:49,720 He says my will is to do the will of the Father and if we're 120 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:53,000 his offspring, then we should have the same desire in our 121 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,160 hearts to do the will of the Father. 122 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:57,680 He said, many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we 123 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:01,640 not prophesied in your name, cast out demons in your name and 124 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:05,120 done many wonders in your name? And then I will declare to them, 125 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:08,480 I never knew you. Depart from me, you who practice 126 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:10,880 lawlessness. And won't that be a shock to 127 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:13,440 your whole life, thinking you're on the right track and you're 128 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:16,160 doing the right things? But meanwhile your heart is just 129 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:20,360 not pure because you haven't allowed Christ to save you. 130 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:22,560 And so you're trying to be a religious person. 131 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:25,680 I think of all the institutions on the face of the earth today, 132 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:27,480 many churches are very religious. 133 00:07:27,760 --> 00:07:30,680 They have statues, they have crosses, they have icons, They 134 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:33,680 have all kind of spiritual atmosphere. 135 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:37,760 And yet Jesus would say many times he could say to us today, 136 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:40,480 just because we have a dove that represents the Holy Spirit of 137 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:42,800 the cross here. He could say these, these people 138 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:47,320 worship me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. 139 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:50,520 And so the consequences of believing a lie. 140 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:53,360 That's why the apostle Paul every time we take the Lord's 141 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:57,560 Supper, he says to examine yourself, whether you're in the 142 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:00,520 faith every time that supper goes around. 143 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:03,600 Would the God, if any of us here are posers and we're not 144 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:06,640 Christians that we would take that we would examine ourselves 145 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:10,520 and we'd hear the Spirit of God say you're still lost, you're 146 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:14,320 phony, you need to get saved. And if you hear that, be 147 00:08:14,320 --> 00:08:18,120 thankful that he's shown you that you are in delusion. 148 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:21,760 But if we can take that supper and we allow the Spirit to 149 00:08:21,760 --> 00:08:25,680 examine us and we have that assurance, blessed assurance, 150 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:28,880 Jesus is mine. Oh what a foretaste of glory 151 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:33,919 define ere salvation purchased of blood born of his Spirit 152 00:08:34,159 --> 00:08:37,640 washed in his blood. We can know that for sure, can't 153 00:08:37,640 --> 00:08:39,880 we? We have that assurance in us or 154 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:45,400 our heart does not condemn us. God, the Lord Jesus Christ comes 155 00:08:45,680 --> 00:08:49,440 with crowns of triumph and glory and deity as we see here in this 156 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:52,040 section of Revelation. He's all knowing. 157 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:56,040 He has flaming eyes. His eyes and verse 12 are like a 158 00:08:56,040 --> 00:09:01,280 flame of fire, a holy judgement. Christ, as He looks upon you and 159 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:03,880 me. His Word, the Word of God, is 160 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:06,200 the instrument of His righteous judgement. 161 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:09,840 Look at Hebrews chapter 4. Just move over to the left there 162 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:14,840 a little bit a few books. Hebrews chapter 4 verse 11 163 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:18,280 through 13. It says. 164 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:23,280 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest lest anyone fall 165 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:26,480 according to the same example of disobedience. 166 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:30,400 For the word of God and the Bible declares Christ as the 167 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:32,400 Word. In the beginning was the Word 168 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:35,440 and the word was with God and the Word was God. 169 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:38,960 John chapter one verse one. Not like the Jehovah witnesses 170 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:42,320 would say in the beginning was the Word and the word was with 171 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:47,280 God and the Word was a God. No, Jesus Christ is God, not a 172 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:50,560 created being. He's the second person of the 173 00:09:50,560 --> 00:09:54,520 Trinity, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, self 174 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:58,320 existent, always existing of 1 essence with the Father. 175 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:02,280 It says the word of God is living and powerful and sharper 176 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:06,040 than any 2 edged sword, piercing even the division of soul and 177 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:09,080 spirit and of joints and marrow. And as a discerner of the 178 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:10,360 thoughts and intents of the heart. 179 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:12,840 You know, when we sit here and we examine ourselves in the 180 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:16,080 Lord's Supper, I can just picture like the sword picking 181 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:17,960 away at my heart, pulling stuff back. 182 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:20,920 Clark, I want you to see this. I want you to acknowledge this. 183 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:23,680 I want you to recognize this. I want you to let this go. 184 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:29,400 Let me purify you, let me carterize these places of 185 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:34,480 bankruptcy in your heart, and let my spirit make your heart 186 00:10:34,480 --> 00:10:36,720 dislike mine. He's a discerner. 187 00:10:36,720 --> 00:10:39,240 He knows every thought and intent of our heart. 188 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:42,480 He knows every motive. And verse 13, it says there's no 189 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:45,920 creature hidden from his sight. God sees the whole earth. 190 00:10:45,920 --> 00:10:49,760 He sees the whole world. He sees every human being, all 191 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:53,000 things are naked and open to the eyes of him with whom we must 192 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,200 give an account. There's nothing I can hide. 193 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:58,520 I can hide things from you. You can hide things from me, but 194 00:10:58,520 --> 00:11:01,480 we can't hide anything from the Lord God. 195 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,320 In verse 13, it says he was clothed with a robe dipped in 196 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:08,880 blood and his name is called the Word of God. 197 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:14,600 The judgment that confronts God's enemies in Isaiah chapter 198 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:16,480 63. If you flip over there in the 199 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:21,000 Old Testament, Isaiah chapter 63, this talks about this 200 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:25,960 Armageddon, this final battle, one day that will come upon this 201 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:30,680 earth and his second coming, the consequences of those who are 202 00:11:30,680 --> 00:11:34,680 going to fight against the Lord. Who is this? 203 00:11:34,680 --> 00:11:38,960 Who comes from Edom with dyed garments from Borzraw, This one 204 00:11:38,960 --> 00:11:43,000 who is glorious in his apparel, traveling in the greatness of 205 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:44,880 his strength. And this is what we see depicted 206 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:48,280 in Revelation 19. I who speak in righteousness, 207 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:51,520 mighty to save. Why is your apparel read in your 208 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:53,240 garments? Like one who treads in the 209 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:55,960 winepress? Again, the same verbiage that's 210 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:59,320 used in Revelation. I've trodden the winepress alone 211 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:02,040 and from the people. No one was with me, for I've 212 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:05,360 trodden them in my anger, and I trampled them in my fury. 213 00:12:05,560 --> 00:12:07,720 Their blood is sprinkled upon my garments. 214 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:12,080 So what we see represented by Christ is this battle that will 215 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:15,920 ensue when He comes back. For the day of vengeance is in 216 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:18,840 my heart, and the year of my redeem has come. 217 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:21,880 I look, but there was no one to help, and I wondered that there 218 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:24,440 was no one to uphold. Therefore my arm brought 219 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:27,360 salvation for me and my own fury. 220 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:30,160 It sustained me. I've trodden down the people in 221 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:33,560 my anger, made them drunk in my fury, and brought down their 222 00:12:33,560 --> 00:12:39,120 strength to the earth. His name is called the Word of 223 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:43,200 God. Jesus is a visible word of the 224 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:45,160 unseen God. I love it. 225 00:12:45,160 --> 00:12:48,920 It says in Hebrews regarding Christ himself and Hebrews 226 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:52,920 chapter one verse 3. Hebrews chapter one verse 3. 227 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:56,960 It says about Christ, who being the brightness of his glory in 228 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:01,200 the express image of His person, on upholding all things by the 229 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:04,160 word of his power. When he sat down by himself, He 230 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:06,080 purged or cleanse us from our sins. 231 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:10,320 He sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high, sat down on 232 00:13:10,320 --> 00:13:14,840 the right hand of the Father. He's the express image of his 233 00:13:14,840 --> 00:13:18,240 Father. And so as we look at this 234 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:23,080 section of revelation, we understand that we're going to 235 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:24,920 be with the Lord when he comes back. 236 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:28,480 And as I described the difference between the rapture 237 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:31,840 of the church and the second coming Christ, when he comes 238 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:35,400 back and the second coming, his role will be absolute and 239 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:38,720 authoritative. It'll be seen as an iron roll, 240 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:43,360 invincible in this world. When he's rolling and reigning 241 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:46,480 on this earth, there will be no more corrupt governments. 242 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:50,600 There will be no immorality rolling and raging on the 243 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:53,480 televisions and on the Internet, in the airwaves. 244 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:58,400 It'll be a time of purity and righteousness, and nothing will 245 00:13:58,400 --> 00:14:03,120 be dealt with like it has been in that time compared to the way 246 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:06,480 it is right now. Sometimes we wonder, why do the 247 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:09,280 wicked rage, as the psalmist said, and the people imagine a 248 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:12,440 vain thing? Why is it that people refuse to 249 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:15,840 see their need of a Savior? Why is it that they refuse to 250 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:18,120 repent? Christ has given Himself 251 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:22,120 everything on behalf of the human race upon the lost, upon 252 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:25,200 the Sinner, and the world keeps pushing their hands away from 253 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:27,280 Him. During this time in the 254 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:30,640 millennial Kingdom, when Christ rules with an iron hand for 1000 255 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:33,680 years, there'll still be people born on the face of the earth. 256 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:37,120 During that thousand years, there'll be sinners that will be 257 00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:40,480 born that will one day once again rise up at the end of that 258 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:43,880 thousand years in anarchy, at the final battle of Gog and 259 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:46,120 Magog. And that's right prior to the 260 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:49,360 destruction of the earth, when the Bible says there will be a 261 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:52,880 new heaven and a new earth that will be created. 262 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:58,520 So his role will be unlike anything that we're experiencing 263 00:14:58,520 --> 00:15:00,240 today. Now, we have to keep in mind 264 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:03,640 though, that God's hand is still on the universe. 265 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:06,600 It never was off of it. Sometimes we wonder, though, 266 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:08,560 don't we, God, how could you let this happen? 267 00:15:08,560 --> 00:15:11,200 Why did this go on? There's a purpose and a reason 268 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:13,840 for everything that happens in human history. 269 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:17,040 God's never sleeping. He's never ignoring the 270 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:19,280 heartache and the pain of his people. 271 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:23,040 Israel had to cry out for many hundreds of years before God 272 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:27,440 sent a deliverer, didn't they? Before God sent Moses to pull 273 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:31,240 them out of the bondage and horror of living under Pharaoh's 274 00:15:31,240 --> 00:15:33,680 regime? I think about the Jews and the 275 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:36,960 Holocaust and those who cried out for help and for mercy. 276 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:42,440 God was not silent in that time, for He had many Christians 277 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:46,960 helping the Jews find a place of safety and to get out of the 278 00:15:46,960 --> 00:15:49,360 country. So they weren't killed in the 279 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:53,000 ovens, but many were. But God was there, as He will be 280 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,360 even during the tribulation when people were going through 281 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:58,680 tremendous horror and heartache and heartbreak. 282 00:15:59,040 --> 00:16:03,600 And yet he'll have still on the earth a remnant, 144,000 people 283 00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:07,040 who will be going around sharing the good news of Jesus Christ, 284 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:10,640 saying it isn't too late. Repent for the Kingdom of heaven 285 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:13,360 is at hand. And Revelation chapter 14, if 286 00:16:13,360 --> 00:16:15,920 you move there for a moment, it describes in detail. 287 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:19,560 And we went through this months ago regardless, starting this 288 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:22,120 final reaping of the earth's harvest. 289 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:25,160 Verse 14, it says, I looked, and behold a white cloud. 290 00:16:25,160 --> 00:16:28,600 And on the cloud sat one like the Son of Man, having on his 291 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:31,960 head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle. 292 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:35,400 Another Angel came out of the temple crying with a loud voice 293 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:38,680 to him who sat on the cloud. Thrust in your sickle and reap, 294 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:41,800 for the time has come for you to reap, for the harvest of the 295 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:44,480 earth is ripe. So he who sat on the cloud 296 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:47,480 thrust in his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped. 297 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:50,760 Then another Angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, 298 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:54,000 he also having a sharp sickle. And another Angel came out from 299 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:55,840 the altar who had power over fire. 300 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:58,840 He cried with a loud cry to him who had the sharp sickle, 301 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:02,360 saying, Thrust in your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters 302 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:05,400 of the vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe. 303 00:17:05,599 --> 00:17:08,160 So the angels thrust in the sickle into the earth, and 304 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:10,839 gathered the vine of the earth, and threw it into the great 305 00:17:10,839 --> 00:17:14,839 winepress of the wrath of God. And the winepress was trampled 306 00:17:14,839 --> 00:17:18,720 outside the city and blood came out of the winepress up to the 307 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:25,920 horse's bridal for 1600 furlong. So we see how this picture of 308 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:29,680 the blood of the people who are being destroyed at this time, it 309 00:17:29,680 --> 00:17:33,320 says in verse 13, he's clothed with a robe dipped in blood and 310 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:35,200 his name is called the word of God. 311 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:40,360 Joel chapter 313 says put in the sickle for the harvest is ripe, 312 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:43,440 come go down for his winepress is full. 313 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:46,400 The vats overflow for their wickedness is great. 314 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:49,680 I'll tell you when the Lord comes back at the second coming 315 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:52,760 with us, the evil on the face of the earth, the hatred, the 316 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:58,040 anarchy will be at an all time high and it's going to be a very 317 00:17:58,120 --> 00:18:02,680 dramatic scene when these armies on this earth will come against 318 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:06,720 the armies of God. Every eye, the Bible says we'll 319 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:09,800 see him when he returns. When the rapture comes, the 320 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:11,200 people are going to be surprised. 321 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:13,360 They're going to wonder where did everybody go? 322 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:17,120 You guys probably saw some of these movies, the Left Behind 323 00:18:17,120 --> 00:18:18,600 series. I think they they were done 324 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:21,320 rather well in the sense of least giving you a picture of 325 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:22,680 what these things are going to be like. 326 00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:25,600 You know, someone's driving in a car and all of a sudden they're 327 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:28,600 not there anymore. You know, people are in a movie 328 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:30,440 theater and half the theaters wiped out. 329 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:31,680 I don't know about the movies a day. 330 00:18:31,680 --> 00:18:34,040 If you're in a movie theater, probably most of the people be 331 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:37,080 left behind, you know, But that's pretty bad out there in 332 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:39,160 the theaters. You got people in airplanes 333 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:43,120 flying and maybe the pilots a Christian, he's gone. 334 00:18:43,560 --> 00:18:45,760 It's going to be staggering. And the world's not going to 335 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:47,680 know what to do with that. They're going to probably say 336 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:49,720 some alien invasion. They're going to come up with 337 00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:52,680 some kind of ridiculous story how to deal with this in the 338 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:54,720 news. But when Christ comes back the 339 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:59,400 second time in verse 7 of chapter 1, it says, behold, He's 340 00:18:59,400 --> 00:19:04,560 coming with cloud, and every eye will see Him, even they who 341 00:19:04,560 --> 00:19:08,160 pierced him, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn because 342 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:09,600 of him. Even so, Amen. 343 00:19:09,840 --> 00:19:12,720 I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end says the 344 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:17,560 Lord who is and who was and who is to come the Almighty. 345 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:20,640 What a glorious day that will be. 346 00:19:21,800 --> 00:19:26,280 Technology is here today. You can see events occurring 347 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:30,480 live around the world on your Internet, right? 348 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:33,720 Your computer. Many of you guys have cell phone 349 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:35,520 capability with all kind of apps. 350 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:37,680 I was thinking there should be an app for the Rapture and the 351 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:40,800 second coming. We should market that stand, you 352 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:43,880 know. But seriously, everybody's going 353 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:46,840 to have the potential and capability of seeing all these 354 00:19:46,880 --> 00:19:49,360 things live as they come to pass. 355 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:53,120 Will see him on the White Horse. They'll see him on the White 356 00:19:53,120 --> 00:19:57,760 Horse with His righteous armies following behind all of us 357 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:01,480 throughout human history who are His elect. 358 00:20:02,120 --> 00:20:06,720 Will be following the King of kings and Lord of Lords on the 359 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:09,520 horses. And the wicked on the earth at 360 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:16,600 that time will look up in shock and horror to see millions upon 361 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:22,120 millions of Christ's Kingdom. Converging on them from the sky, 362 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:25,840 all riding on white horses. What a scene that's going to be 363 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:32,400 verse 16 of chapter 19. And he has on his robe and on 364 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:39,120 his thigh a name written King of kings and Lord of Lords, all who 365 00:20:39,120 --> 00:20:41,680 have denied the deity of Jesus Christ. 366 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:45,040 And those who are currently denying, unless they repent, 367 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:47,800 will see the error of their heresies. 368 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:53,440 The Mormons, the race of Islam, the Jehovah Witnesses, they 369 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:58,040 don't know who Jesus Christ is. They proclaim that they know 370 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:00,040 him. Their literature looks like they 371 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:02,920 know him. But they miss the most critical, 372 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:07,440 important point. He is the King of kings and Lord 373 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:11,840 of Lords. He comes in glory as God to this 374 00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:16,920 earth. We need to rejoice when the 375 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:21,520 current events discourage us. We need to be rejoicing people 376 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:24,600 when things don't seem to be going the way we would hope. 377 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:28,160 When you have loved ones and family that turn from the Lord, 378 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:30,760 when you have people that this blow you off, when you have 379 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:34,000 people you work with that think you're nuts, when you have 380 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:37,040 immediate family members, perhaps that this don't seem to 381 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:39,960 care about their souls, It's heartbreaking. 382 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:43,080 It's discouraging. But we're victorious people. 383 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:47,600 We have one, Christ is conquered and we need to continually be 384 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:51,120 reminded and we need to look at this section of Scripture and 385 00:21:51,120 --> 00:21:56,760 see the fulfillment of Christ's second coming again in power and 386 00:21:56,760 --> 00:22:02,120 glory to rule the earth as King of kings and Lord of Lords. 387 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:05,720 You think I'm nuts? How many people think I'm nuts 388 00:22:05,720 --> 00:22:09,320 in here today? This, this is wild, man. 389 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:12,640 This is like, this stuff is not of this world, this is 390 00:22:12,640 --> 00:22:15,760 futuristic, but it's all true. It's all going to come to pass 391 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:19,240 just like it was from the prophets declaring the birth of 392 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:21,360 Christ when he came the first time, right? 393 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:25,400 Born in the Manger. Every detail of every prophecy 394 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:30,280 was fulfilled 100% to the way that God said it would come to 395 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:32,840 pass. And the same thing's going to 396 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:37,560 happen when the rapture occurs, the fulfillment of prophecy, and 397 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:41,360 the same thing's going to occur when Christ comes back with us 398 00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:44,080 at his second coming. Nothing's going to stop it. 399 00:22:44,360 --> 00:22:47,360 People can try to refute it today on The History Channel and 400 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:51,080 say we're a bunch of nuts, we've drank the kool-aid or whatever. 401 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:52,680 You know they're going to say this stuff. 402 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:55,880 Don't worry about it. Just be strong in your faith, 403 00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:01,160 keep studying, know what you believe, why you believe it, and 404 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:05,280 be able to share it in a rational and attractive and 405 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:09,200 convincing way so that it'll make people think and it'll make 406 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:10,880 people inquire. And I'll tell you, there's a lot 407 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:12,880 of interest in the end of the world right now, isn't there? 408 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:15,040 The Bible says no one knows a time or hour. 409 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:19,120 You can't put any dates on it. Anytime someone sets a date, get 410 00:23:19,120 --> 00:23:22,000 away from their literature and their teachings, their heretics, 411 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:25,240 you know, So we got like a lot of opportunity to talk to people 412 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:28,040 because people are interested. So we're living in fantastic 413 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:30,320 times, exciting times, glorious times. 414 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:33,640 So let's all just keep heading in the right direction together 415 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:36,920 as brothers and sisters in Christ and keep loving people 416 00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:40,320 and keep sharing your faith and ask God for patience because 417 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:42,360 he's been patient with you and me, right? 418 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:46,320 Still patient with us. So the love of God, that's what 419 00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:51,040 people need to hear about. We are digging into the Book of 420 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:53,480 Revelation here on Living Waters of Grace. 421 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:57,440 Pastor Clark is tackling this challenging book as we try to 422 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:00,760 discern the messages that are within its pages. 423 00:24:01,120 --> 00:24:05,360 There's so much imagery and at times you're not always sure 424 00:24:05,360 --> 00:24:07,520 what's literal and what's metaphorical. 425 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:12,080 At one point there's a reference to an adulterous woman riding on 426 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:14,360 a beast. And as someone else mentioned, 427 00:24:14,360 --> 00:24:17,840 at one point it almost sounds like a rodeo from hell. 428 00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:23,120 And in actuality it kind of is. You learn about the downfall and 429 00:24:23,120 --> 00:24:27,120 demise of a sinful and rebellious world, falling down 430 00:24:27,120 --> 00:24:32,600 in worship to someone who is the anti hero, the enemy, Satan 431 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:37,920 working his insidious ways into the minds of fallen people. 432 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:43,600 It's sad and it's heartbreaking, but it's a classic story of good 433 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:46,920 versus evil. Thankfully, we know how this 434 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:52,640 story ends. Jesus wins, Jesus reigns, and 435 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,680 evil is conquered once and for all. 436 00:24:56,160 --> 00:25:00,480 We pray and trust you've received Jesus as your Savior. 437 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:04,480 But if you haven't, don't wait until the events in Revelation 438 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:06,920 become what's happening on the streets. 439 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:10,520 None of us wants you to be there at that time. 440 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:15,440 Instead, we'd love for you to be with us in heaven as we 441 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:20,960 celebrate the marriage supper with Jesus as his bridegroom. 442 00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,480 To get a better understanding of where we are in the Book of 443 00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:28,840 Revelation, to listen to any messages before or after this 444 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,840 one, you can find them at our website, 445 00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:37,000 calvarychapelonline.com. That's it for today's edition, 446 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,840 but we hope you'll want to hear Pastor Clark teach more from the 447 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:44,480 Book of Revelation. It can be exciting to think 448 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:48,160 about the future for believers, but it can feel a bit harrowing 449 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:51,720 for those who don't believe. Come hear more next time on 450 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:53,440 Living Waters of Grace.