Revelation chapter 5 The Lion and the Lamb, the greatest
worship service ever recorded. In chapter 4, John is taken
caught up to heaven, a type of the rapture of the church which
is due to happen at any moment. As John opens his eyes in
heaven, there before him is the throne of God, and he describes
it so you and I can have a pretty good understanding what
the throne of God will look like because we're going to be there
soon. John details all its glory, its
majesty, its power. He speaks of the the jewellery
that there that's there and from the throne, coming from the
throne, it says in chapter 4 comes Thunder and lightning and
a rainbow is wrapped around the throne.
And so we begin the third section, the final section of
the Book of Revelation this morning.
Revelation chapter one verse 19 tells us the divisions of the
book. Write the things which you've
seen. John chapter Sorry, Revelation
chapter 1, John saw Jesus in his glorified image, eyes of fire,
feet of brass hair, white clothes with girded with a
golden breastplate. Then in chapters 2 and, and, and
the things which are chapters 2 to 3, the church age.
You and I are living in the church age.
It hasn't finished yet started on the day of Pentecost.
It's continuing on today. You and I live in chapters 2 and
3. And now from chapter 4 on, the
things which shall take place after this, the things that
shall take place after the church period, church is
raptured and the tribulation begins after Christ's ascension
into heaven. Remember, in the book of Acts,
the disciples are standing there and Jesus ascends into heaven
before their eyes. Angels are saying, well, what
are you looking at? He's coming back the same Jesus
that you see. He's coming back again.
Don't get about your job. We read in Hebrews that when
Jesus ascended into heaven that then he sat down at the right
hand, the privileged position of the Father.
Hebrews 1012 But this man that says Jesus, God became man, God
Incarnate, born of a virgin in Bethlehem.
But this man after he had offered one sacrifice, Jesus was
only going to die on the cross once.
That's it. Once and for all his sacrifice
is done. It's finished.
He said it's finished. Then he sat down and the priests
in the Old Testament when they were serving in the Tabernacle,
they there was no chairs in the Tabernacle.
It's not like here we have chairs and you sit down in the
Tabernacle, there's no chairs. They went went about their
business. Jesus sat down our high priest.
Why? It was finished, It's done,
completed. Sin had been paid for, but God
so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that
whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting
life. But now we begin chapter 5, we
see Jesus standing. It's going to tell us that.
It's telling us something significant is about to begin,
about to happen, to unfold. As John begins to describe what
he is witnessing, he notices before God's throne the 24
elders. We saw them in chapter 4
representing the 12 tribes of Israel and the 12 apostles as
well that representing the church.
They seated around the throne, you see something happening.
There are four powerful angels that stand around the throne of
God who cry out. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God
Almighty who is and was and is to come.
And that's what they do over and over and over and over.
Cherubim and something, something stirring.
And in the hand of he who is seated on the throne, God the
Father. John sees a scroll, a big
parchment scroll wound up, and it's sealed.
This is a significant document. It's written front and back.
It's fastened or sealed with 7 seals, 7 round wax markings and
after each section it's sealed, then another section it's
sealed. So you have to read break the
section first, seal, pull it out, you're reading from right
to left, pull it out and then when you finish that first
section then there's another seal break to break to to read
the next section. What's the scroll?
What is this? Is it the title deed of the
earth forfeited by Adam when he disobeyed God with Eve and
obeyed Satan, ate of the fruit, touched the tree that he
shouldn't, then forfeited dominion?
God had given Adam and Eve dominion over the world and all
the animals and all the plants and everything.
Genesis 127 You have dominion. I give it to you, You're in
charge. But Adam disobeyed God and
obeyed Satan. Is it the scroll?
Is this the scroll? Is it redemption?
Is it the redemption? Is it the record of the plan of
God? It's going to see Adam and Eve
sinned and then God will have a seed of a woman.
And is it is it that laid out the death on the cross, the born
of a virgin and all that sort of stuff laying in the tomb for
three days and rising on the from the dead?
Is it a record? Is it a, is it a is it detailing
all the events? Now they're going to happen.
The seven seals, 7 trumpets, bowls, etcetera.
They're going to be unveiled now as we see the judgement of God
coming upon planet earth. The fact that the scroll is
written back in front tells us that it's detail is complete.
There's nothing more to be added to it in the time of John's
writing. Remember he's on the island of
Patmos. He's been exiled, he's a lonely
old man. He's in his 90s now.
Eventually he'll be released, he'll go back.
And because he from the time of the cross, he looked after Mary,
Jesus mother and they lived in Ephesus.
There John would die of old age along with Mary.
The time of John's writing, he is some 90 years old.
As I said, land title deeds. When you went to buy a block of
land, the title deeds and wills in those days was sealed and
written on scrolls with wax, sealed just like this.
Let's look at verse 1 and I. This is John saw in the right
hand. The right hand always speaks of
power, authority of him, Capital H.
It's God the Father who said on the throne, a scroll written
inside and on the back sealed with 7 seals, there's two.
Then I saw a strong Angel. Now you're right.
This Angel has this, this, this is, this is, you know, we see so
many drawings of angels and they're kind of like sweet,
aren't they angels? Our images and things and
imagination of what really is is so different.
What the Bible tells this is a strong Angel.
This is a powerful Angel. We saw, I saw a strong Angel
proclaiming any speaks with a loud voice.
Now everything in the Middle East is loud.
We saw a bar mitzvah happening as they March up and they go up
to the Western Wall when a young Israeli boy is becoming a man of
a bar mitzvah. And man, it was loud.
And everywhere we ate, we were down in the Dead Sea eating in
the in the restaurant at night down in the Dead Sea and the
Jews were getting together and man, they are loud.
They celebrate, they sing when families get together.
There was a wedding celebration going on.
Man, if you think my music's too loud, sorry, God's going to give
you a set of arrows, but they're going to be adjusted because in
heaven there's going to be a lot of loud stuff.
I saw a strong Angel proclaiming with a loud voice, and this is
what he said. Who is worthy to open the scroll
and to loose its seals? Who is worthy to open the scroll
to loose its seals? A strong Angel.
The word strong in the Greek there is actually mighty,
powerful. Verse 3.
And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was
able to open the scroll or to look at it.
So no one in all the universe was able to look at it, touch
it, or to open it. So there's a silence after this
proclamation. Who's worthy?
Silence. No response.
No, Archangel is not Michael or none of those coming forward.
No, Gabriel's not coming. I'll do this.
No, there's no response. No cherubim, no seraphim marches
forward, No Abraham, Moses or any of those come forward.
Yeah, I'll do it. If the mighty Angel had called
out who's willing, There would have been movement.
I'll have a crack. I'll have a go.
But he cried out who was worthy. The word worthy is the Greek
word axios. It means befitting who is
powerful, who is worthy, who is befitting, who has the the, the
qualifications. It's able.
So John, as he sees no one come forward, begins to weep
profusely. It's not like a few tears
running down his eyes. He begins to convulse.
This is overwhelming grief, John, because John knows exactly
what this scroll is, what it represents, what it means, and
he knows what needs to happen. This, by the way, is the only
place we read of there being tears in heaven at this moment,
verse 4. So I wept much because no one
was found worthy to open and read the scroll or to look at
it. But one of the elders said to
me, do not weep. Behold or look up the lion
capital L of the tribe of Judah. We're defining who this is the
root of David, both Joseph and Mary, even though Joseph wasn't
the father, he just looked after and the fatherly role, but both
Joseph and Mary came from the lineage of David.
That's why they had to go to Bethlehem during the time of
census House of David, the root of David.
So we we're defining who this is.
This is Jesus because Jesus is going to the promise to the
Messiah is he's he's through David.
The throne of David has prevailed to open the scroll and
to loose it's 7 seals. He's able to break the seals.
John's weeping is incontrollable.
Fascinating. What were his tears?
Why such grief? They represented the tears of
Adam and Eve as they saw the lifeless body of their son Abel
dead killed boy's brother. And Adam and Eve knew the weight
of sin and hadn't just made them naked and ashamed.
Death had come, they were dying. And now they see as a result of
their disobedience, death, their son Abel laying dead sin, the
wages of sin is death. It just ultimately kills the
tears of Israel. Over the years, 400 years as
their slaves, 7274 people go into Egypt, become two, two and
a half million, 3 million people, possibly over 400 years.
But during those 400 years, they are wailing and crying at the
God, and God hears them. They're the tears of some of you
and I who stood by the grave of a loved one.
There's nothing more sure that proves the book of Genesis and
the fall of man than a funeral. It's the reality.
It's Genesis. In reality, it's 3D.
When you stand and there's death, death has occurred.
That person is dead. Where are they now?
Death only came. Death wasn't part of God's plan.
When God made everything, it was beautiful.
He thought it was good. Death wasn't part of our
planning. It wasn't what God had for us.
But we disobeyed. We opened the door and let sin
come in, which brought death such as the curse of sin that
has been laid upon God's beautiful creation.
God said over and over and over six times it's good what I've
read that's good. Then he said it's very good.
No wonder John web so why he knew the scroll its title deed.
It's the title deed for the earth that Adam and Eve had
lost. If no one claims it, Satan, who
rules the world, who is the Prince and power of the air, the
Little G God. Jesus called him Little G God,
God of the air. He has ruled dominion over it at
the moment. This is why when Jesus was
driven by the Holy Spirit into the wilderness of 40 days and 40
nights, when Satan offered him, I, you can, I'll give you the
world, you can rule the world, I'll give it to you.
He owned it and legally forwarded and got the the flow
on from the fall of Adam and Eve, who'd forfeited it.
He's like, I'll give you the world.
Jesus just bowed out and worship me.
Worship me. John's wondering if Satan would
forever have his hands on what Adam lost.
No, Jesus is about to make all things right again.
He's standing up. He will end death.
We see that later in Revelation 21.
No more death, no more tears, no more pain, sorrow, the elder
says. John, don't weep.
Behold the lion of the tribe of Judah.
One title, the root of David second title had prevailed to
open the scroll to loose 7 seals.
He can open the skull scroll, he can break the seals.
He is worthy. I looked and behold, in the
midst of of the throne and of the four living creatures said
John looks where he's been pointed, asked to look.
And in the midst of the elders third title stood a lamb capital
L Lion root of David Lamb defining who this is.
There's only one who fits all those.
It's Jesus, as though it had been slain.
Then it says having 7 horns and seven eyes.
And you kind of go, oh, what is this gross thing?
We'll explain because it says then, which are the seven
spirits of God. So it's it's it's not actual
horns or eyes. Horns speak of strength, and the
eyes will explain. Sent out into all the earth.
Then he came, the lion, the seed of David, the lamb that had been
slain. He takes the scroll from the
right hand of him who said on the throne he was able.
So I'll take that. Now, in the Old Testament,
there's a redemption clause and the buying and selling of land.
Israel was and still very much is an agrarian, very much an
agrarian society. If a farmer had to sell or
forfeit his land due to tough times, difficult running out of
money, there was a clause always in the selling of of the land
that he could in time be able to redeem, buy back, which was his
to maintain and ensure that that land stays in his family.
He could or a member of his family if he, if he passed away,
could become what's known as a kinsman Redeemer.
We see it in the book of Ruth. But to qualify to be able to
uphold that clause, there were three criteria that legally had
to be fulfilled. 1 you had to be the original owner or related to
the original original owner. This is why Jesus became a man.
Firstly, to be able to die. That God could die on the cross.
But also so that He represents us, the human race.
He could come forward and actually be part of a kinsman
Redeemer. He put on a human body.
It's called the Incarnation. 2. He had to be able to meet the
debt required. What's the debt that's required?
The wages of sin is death. So he had to be able to die.
But to be able to die, he can't. A criminal can't pay the debt of
another criminal. He's already in gaol.
He's got his own debts to worry about.
So he had to be innocent. He had to.
And to be innocent, he had to be what?
Born of a virgin, the seed of a woman.
Genesis chapter 3 couldn't just be Joseph's son.
He had to be born of the seed of a woman.
He is innocent. Blood never sinned, tempted, but
never sinned sinless. And three, he had to be willing
to make the redemption purpose. He had to go.
Yeah, I'll do that. He prayed in the garden if
there'd be any other way but Lord, not my will, but thine,
I'll go to the cross. In the book of Isaiah chapter
53, it says Jesus would be the Messiah, would be LED away as a
lamb. Interesting.
What to the slaughter when the soldiers came and there were
thousands of soldiers, not just a couple of 100 that came to to
arrest Jesus that time there was a massive number, at least 6-7
hundred. Let me put put it back and write
4 figures. They came to arrest Jesus and
you go OK guys we're on air, we're into it.
Peter tried that, didn't he? He said, take me, I'm the one
you want, Leave these. And he was led away as a lamb to
the slaughter. John turns his gaze to see
Jesus, expecting to see the lion of the tribe of Judah.
Jesus is from Judah, which indeed he is.
But instead John sees a lamb standing.
Jesus was seated, now he's standing.
Something's happening. In the book of Genesis chapter
49, verse 9 and 10, it says the sceptre shall not depart from
Judah. That is the ruling, nor nor a
lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh comes.
And to him shall the obedience of the people gather.
So the image, the symbol of a lamb is one of strength and
power is so counter to our world's imagery, isn't it?
I mean, no football team, NFL, rugby team, you know, that's the
mascot, that's a lamb. He's there.
That's our, that's our mascot, little lamb.
We're a very powerful, strong team.
And so it's opposite to the world's thinking, but Jesus is
both the lion and the lamb. 30 times in the Book of Revelation
he has this title spoken of him in Jesus deity.
In being God. He is the lion of the tribe of
Judah. He is the king.
The lion is what the king of peace.
Jesus is the King of kings, all powerful in his rule.
In Jesus humanity, he is seen as the Lamb, absolute humility to
his Father's will. He said of himself that he had
come to serve and not be served. That's interesting.
You want to throw that out there, by the way, so often
people come to churches and think, you know, I want to run
the place, you know, I want to be the head.
This will do that. And then they get this like
power, power thing happens to them.
Start telling people what to do and everything.
Jesus came to serve. Remember he washed the disciples
feet. He came to serve and not be
served. In Philippians chapter 2 verse 7
it details the ministry of Jesus.
This is what you and I should aim for.
He made himself of no reputation.
He made himself no didn't take oh, yeah, I'm the one.
I run the show. I'm the most support person
here. I'm the best singer.
I'm the best Sunday school teacher and I'm the greatest
preacher. I'm this and that made himself
with no reputation, taking the form of a bond servant.
The word bond servant is the lowest form.
That's Jesus, the lowest form, coming in the likeness of men.
That's the incarnation being found in appearance as a man.
He humbled himself and became obedient.
How far? How far was He obedient?
To the point of death, even the death of the cross.
He was a willing sacrifice. He was the willing Lamb.
As they let him away, He just let them lead him away.
He let them smack him, beat him, spit on him, tear his beard,
tear his hair. Then he let them whip him with
the catanine towels with stones, broken glass and bones.
And if he had it added one word said Oh no, I know I'm innocent,
then it would have been less and less.
He opened not what his mouth is a lamb, but Jesus is both that
Christ's first coming. He came as a lamb.
But when Christ returns Revelation 19, his second
coming, he's coming as a lion. No mucking around this time.
John notices that Jesus, just as he had seen him after his
crucifixion, that's what catches his gaze and resurrection,
actually, the holes in his hands, holes in his feet.
Lamb has had been slain. John can clearly see the wounds
of the cross still on Jesus in heaven.
Now the lamb, by the way, in the Greek language, it's pet lamb.
It's the pet lamb. It's like having, you know, some
of you have had pet lambs. I've brought them home and
dished them out and give them to relatives who've thanked me.
Later pet lamb jumped these wounds back in John chapter 20.
You remember Thomas is devastated when Jesus died.
The twin one of the 12 was not with them when Jesus appeared to
them. Verse 25.
The other disciples therefore said to him, hey Thomas, we've
seen the Lord. He said look, don't come at me
with this. He's upset, he's heartbroken,
unless I see in his hands the print of the nails and put my
finger in the print of the nails and put my hand in his side with
a spear, when I'll not believe, I don't believe that.
Don't give that to me. Then it says after 8 days, eight
days later, his disciples were again inside.
Thomas this time is with them. Jesus came, the door was shut.
Jesus appears, stood in the midst and said peace to you,
Shalom. And then he would go straight to
Thomas. He said, Thomas, put your
fingers here. The hall would have been here.
Thomas, put your finger in there.
Thomas pulling his garment up, showing the big word where the
spear went into his heart. Thomas, put your hand in here.
Do not be unbelieving, but believing.
Thomas, a Jew said this. My Lord and my God either.
Jesus is God and Thomas is saying the right thing, or
Thomas is being blasphemous, saying that to a man.
Jesus is the Son of God. So the only man made things that
you and I will see. They'll remind us for all
eternity is every time we'll see Jesus, we'll see the holes, the
holes always for eternity in heaven.
Verse 6, in the midst of the throne of the four living
creatures, in the midst of the elders, stood a lamb as though
it had been slain, having 7 horns and seven eyes, which are
the seven spirits of God sent out to all the earth. 7 horns
are always indicative. A horn is always indicative of
power. Jesus is the omnipotent. 1 He
had seven. He has complete power. 7 is the
number of completion. He has absolute complete power.
Seven eyes. Jesus is the all knowing 1.
He is omniscient, the devil isn't and he is also
omnipresent. He is ever present everywhere.
Jesus says I'll never leave you nor forsake you.
Then he came and took the scroll out of the right hand of him who
said on the throne the scroll is the title deed of the earth
forfeited by Adam. It is the record of man's
redemption. It is the detailed record of all
the events. Because as Jesus begins to break
the seals, we see the first seal will do that Wednesday night,
the four horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Then we see Him break the second seal, the second seal, and so on
and so on. And lastly, it tells of all the
judgements about to come upon the earth.
As each seal is soon to be broken and the scroll being
opened. We see God's divine judgement on
the world about to take place. This world that that you and I
live in and know of this beautiful beach and place that
we live. Guess what?
The judgement of God is about to fall this planet.
Jesus said things are going to happen in this world.
They have never ever happened before.
They're going to terrify people. Now.
When he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and
the 24 elders fell down before the lamb, each having a harp.
So they've got a harp or a liar playing and a golden.
They've got a harp and a lice. And so they've got one hand,
they've got 1/2 and the other, they've got a golden balls full
of incense. What are they?
Look, which are the prayers of the Saints?
Our prayers. We're in this as Jesus takes the
scroll, the four living creatures, the 24 elders falling
down on their faces in reverent, overwhelming worship before the
Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, and they burst into praise.
Each one has a harp, A lyre being played.
Music fills the heaven in the hands of the elders who
represent the church. They have the balls filled with
our prayers are your prayers. Are you a praying person?
If you're not well, you've got nothing to do with this.
But if you're a praying person, then this these balls are filled
with your prayers. When we gather on a Wednesday,
we refill. We load up the balls each
Wednesday when we gather of these prayers, these balls,
which are going to be in Revelation chapter 5 and they
what do your prayers do? They rise up like incense.
You know what they that is you, you know, you get that.
Oh, that's lovely incense. Remember when the alabaster
Brock box, the flask was broken and the scent when you pray, God
goes, oh, that's good, that's good.
As you pray, that's good. These are the prayers of every
praying St who had all the living days prayed and
proclaimed and we used to do it every Friday at promise school,
our Father, we used to do the Lord's pray our Father who is in
heaven hallowed be your name. What does it say after that your
Kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven and
fills that ball. Verse 9 it says and they sang a
new song. When Jesus took the scroll, the
weeping ended and the worship started.
Donald Grey Barnhouse said on this passage there are four
things at the moment that are out of place as we look at the
last days. He says, 1 the church, it should
be in heaven where it belongs. That's where it is in chapter 5.
Israel now should be occupying all the land God promised
Abraham, but it isn't three. Satan, who's ruling the world at
the moment should be cast into the lake of fire.
That's where he belongs. That's where he's going to end
up. And Jesus, Jerusalem, Jesus
should be seated on his throne in Jerusalem reigning.
He's going to do that in the thousand year reign at the end
of the seven year tribulation. So the golden balls that contain
the prayers of the Saints reveal in our text that God one
remembers our prayers. Do you know that God remembers
you when you pray? I don't remember when you
prayed. Psalm 56, eight talks about our
tears. You number my wanderings.
You put my tears into your bottle.
Are they not in your book? Now in Israel you can see these
little tear bottles and they would, they would weep, they
would capture the tears and cork them.
They would wear them around their necks.
In Revelation 5, we're told our prayers are kept, we're kept in
heaven in a bowl. I think that's quite amazing.
Nothing is wasted by God. Now around our house we have
some things that people think, why you got that there?
What's that strange looking thing?
There are things that our children have made when they're
young and now that our grandchildren are doing the same
and we have things and you know what?
They're the treasures of our house.
I look at them, I go, I know who made that.
Sometimes even the kids kind of go, oh, it's a bit rough,
especially as they grow older, but not to us.
Well, God treats your prayers. Every time you've prayed, it's
something precious and he keeps it and he remembers it.
Why? Because he loves you dearly.
He loves you dearly. Verse 9 and they sang a new song
saying you are worthy, befitting worth to take the scroll and to
open its seals for you are slain and have redeemed us to God.
How by your blood out of every tribe.
Notice this tongue, people and nation and have made us kings.
We will rule in the millennial period and priests, we will
serve God during the millennial period and for eternity, and we
will reign upon the earth. You and I raptured.
Now the Saints in heaven are singing a new song because this
is you guys. This Is Us.
We're talking about us. This is our future.
It's quite, quite amazing. We're singing a new song to the
Lamb with the lyrics of the song we will sing.
We proclaim and declare the worthiness of God.
This is what worship is all about.
The word worship is the word proscunio.
It means to kiss, to kiss toward, to kiss the hand of.
It's to give proclamation and praise to he who is worthy.
It's the worthiness of God that is worship.
He says for you were slain. This is what we sing in the
literal Greek for you were slain.
It is, we would say in the English, you were butchered.
That's what the word says. The other word that it means is
you were slaughtered. That's part of the song that
we'll sing. Jesus was not just killed, He
was sacrificed on the cross. This was the price of your and
my redemption. Grace is free, but it's not
cheap. How do you treat the great gift
of salvation that God has made available to you?
And notice this and have redeemed us to God by your
blood. Notice this wording out of every
tribe, tongue, people and nation.
Who's this? Who's this group?
It can only be one group. This is why the church fits
description. Only the church can fit this
description because this is a powerful additional evidence
telling us the church will be in heaven because we're from every
tribe, every tongue, and every nation.
It's not saying Israel. Then I looked verse 11.
I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, the living
creatures, and the elders. A number of them was 10,000 *
10,000 and thousands of thousands, thousands.
The word used to describe the number of angels is the word
myriad. You've heard that myriad.
Myriad is the highest numerical word in the Greek language.
There's so many angels, I can't number them.
Now the Bible talks about numbering this, the sand on the
sea, the grains of sand and the stars, but you can't number the
many Here verse 12 saying with a loud voice, worthy is the Lamb
who was slain to receive power, riches and wisdom, strength and
honour, glory and blessing. The Saints notice this were the
ones singing, while the angels were the ones saying why mention
this angels not singing? But what about Christmas Eve
isn't you know, when the angels appeared and they go, oh,
singing to the to the shepherds in the fields of Bethlehem?
Luke 213 says suddenly there was with the angels a multitude of
the heavenly post host praising God and saying, saying here in
chapter 5 of Revelation we sing you and I sing the song of
redemption, which the angels do not and cannot because they're
not redeemed. The angels join with us to
praise God, to rejoice in Him, but they Can't Sing about
redemption. They speak words of praise.
The angels are not the recipients of salvation.
It's for the redemption of fallen mankind, but not for
fallen angels and every creature which is in heaven and on the
earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea and all
that are in them. I heard saying blessing and
honour and glory and power be to Him who sits on the throne to
the Lamb forever and ever. Then the four living creatures
said Amen, the cherubim to go, Amen.
That's it, Absolutely. The 24 elders, what do they do?
They fall down again, worship Him who lives forever and ever.
The cherubim say Amen. The 24 elders fall down and
worship. Amen means so be it.
That's the truth. The Saints are singing and the
angels are agreeing. But as we turn our gaze back to
earth as all this is happening, you know what's happening back
on earth. Because remember, our vantage
point during the Tribulation period is in heaven.
We look back to earth, the things that are happening on
earth. You know what's happening on
earth. Jesus said these things will be
happening at this time. But as the days of Noah, so also
will be the coming of the Son of Man be.
For as in the days before the flood, they were eating,
drinking, marrying, giving in marriage until the day that Noah
entered the ark and did not know until the flood came and took
them all away. So also will be the coming of
the Son of Man Be. In other words, the church is
raptured, we're in heaven, we're glorifying God, praising God.
The elders are falling down. Cherubim going.
Amen. You know what's going on?
Coffee. Yeah.
Lovely wedding. Yeah.
That's good. The other footy.
Yeah. What's that?
That's the reality.
Do you know what's coming? As sure as death and taxes,
these events in Revelation Chapter 5 are going to occur.
As sure as death and taxes, as sure as the sun coming up
tomorrow, these events are going to occur.
A farmer, godly man, had a visitor visit with him from the
city, stayed over with him as they were eating supper that
night for tea. The farmer said oh let's pray.
The visitor quietly laughs, praying this is that's how I
tainted old fashioned man. Anyone with an education knows
that you don't pray anymore, especially in public.
That's just foolish. Well, the farmer replied, Yes, I
know that it is old fashioned. Old fashioned to some, and there
are some even on my farm who don't do this, don't agree.
They refuse to do it. Many don't worship or pray for
that matter. Really, said the visitor.
Well, at least some are enlightened here on the farm.
I'd like to meet him. Just who are the wise ones?
There's a farmer reached over to grab the salt.
He says Oh my pigs, put the soul on his meal.
These events we've studied are going to happen as sure as death
and taxes. Know them, study them, look
forward to them or fear them. Are you ready for heaven?
Details exactly. This is all about us.
Have you received Christ as your Saviour today?
God speaks to you through his word.
This book, the Book of Revelation, is why I came to
Christ, because I knew in my heart this world Jesus is coming
back. I didn't know how and what and
where, but I knew that part. Where do you sit?
Will you be on earth, running, swimming, surfing, golfing,
going about your business as normal, and you will not know
that the Lord has come?