The Beginning and the End (Walk Thru the Bible Week 53)

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Well congratulations.

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You did it.

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We did it together.

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We are finishing our walk through the Bible.

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I don't know about you.

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I have learned so much.

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I have been so blessed through this time in the Bible.

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I will admit that the fact that I had to turn around and talk to you about each week's

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reading made me really understand each week's reading more than I would have at any other

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read through the Bible.

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But I have been so blessed by it.

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So this week we reached the end of the book of Revelation.

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And now that we have read the end, we can actually understand the beginning better.

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The story that we read in Genesis, it all began there.

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So this week I want to wrap up our reading of Revelation and then I want to talk about

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what we have learned on this journey.

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So welcome.

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This is week 53, the final week of our year long walk through the Bible.

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This week we are reading just one day's reading in the daily Bible that of December 31st.

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So, you know, last week we were deep into the symbolism that we found in the book of Revelation.

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My goodness, angels and trumpets and vials and plagues and oh my goodness, thousand

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years, rains and so.

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But we talked about how that the Passover pattern, the freedom of the Israelites from

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bondage in Egypt, really gave us a framework to understand the pattern and what was happening

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here in Revelation as it prophesies and looks forward to the return of Jesus and really

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the end, the wrap up of what this is all about.

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So the people of God are in struggle in Egypt under Pharaoh who is here, our antichrist.

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And then God raised up two prophets, Moses and Aaron, to go speak to Pharaoh.

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And here we see how that God raised up two prophets.

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And during the plagues, God made a distinction between the Israelites and the Egyptians and

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those that needed to suffer from the plagues and the others.

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And he taught the Israelites how to have a sacrificial lamb and to put the blood on

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the doorpost to protect them during that final and last deadly plague.

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And this week, you would have read in the last week in Revelation 12 where it says that

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they, the believers triumphed over evil by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their

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testimony.

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They did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death that blood of the lamb.

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And then in Passover after the Israelites are let out of Egypt, Pharaoh decides to come

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after him again.

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And this time he goes all the way to the edge of the sea where he then enters and it's

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the end of Pharaoh.

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He and his army are completely destroyed.

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You'll see that this week in Revelation after a thousand years of sweet rain on earth and

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sweet time that the devil rise up one last time and it's his end.

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At that point it is all over for him.

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And just as God told Moses to go and part the Red Sea and the Israelites crossed over

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into a covenant with God and to go into the promised land and to enter fully the promises

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that God had made for them.

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So we see God saving us and this new heaven and new earth and a new Jerusalem.

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And that's the promised land that we have to look forward to and that we know will be

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our rest when it all comes to an end.

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So that's the symbolism that we see in the book of Revelation.

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I want to point out just one chapter for you.

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Something a chapter I quote a lot because to me the symbolism in this chapter really

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describes here the spiritual warfare that is against the church and against the people

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of Israel.

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So I read about it in Revelation 12.

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I'm going to read through quickly.

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It says, A great sign appeared in heaven.

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A woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars

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on her head, which depicting the twelve tribes.

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She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth.

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Then another sign appeared in heaven.

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An enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on its head and

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its tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth.

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The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth so that it might devour

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her child the moment he was born.

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She gave birth to a son, a male child who will, quote, rule all the nations with an

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iron scepter.

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And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne.

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The woman slid into the wilderness to a place prepared for her by God where she might be

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taken care of for 1,260 days.

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Then war broke out in heaven.

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And then the accuser of the brethren is cast to earth.

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I'm going to skip to verse 13.

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When the dragon saw that he had been hurled to the earth, he pursued the woman who had

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given birth to the male child.

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But the earth helped the woman by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that the

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dragon had spewed out of his mouth.

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Then the dragon was enraged at the woman and went off to wage war against the rest of her

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offspring, those who keep God's commands and hold fast their testimony about Jesus.

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This is such a powerful vision here of Israel as a woman with the twelve stars around her

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head.

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She is in a birthing role.

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She is to give birth to this male child who is going to rule the world.

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As soon as the male child is born, then he is whisked into heaven and she is whisked into

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the wilderness for safety.

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And then there is this great war that takes place.

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And the enemy, the accuser of the brethren is cast down to earth.

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And now he goes after her again, but it says the earth helped the woman by opening up its

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mouth and swallowing the river that the dragon spewed.

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And the dragon was so enraged at the woman that then he went after her other offspring,

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those that have the testimony about Jesus.

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Do you see here, it is a very spiritual war that is against Israel as the people that

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God called to have this birthing role.

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They birthed the redemptive products for us, foremost, one of which was and foremost was

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the birth of the Messiah.

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And it says here that after he was born, he was whisked to heaven and she was taken into

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a place in the wilderness.

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And you know, it shows here how that this dragon is so enraged and he goes after her

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again, but the earth is protecting her.

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And in a way, the exile of the Jewish people, the dispersion throughout all the world was

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a protection of them.

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The devil could not come wipe out the Jewish people because they were no longer in one

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place.

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They were not concentrated in one place.

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They were spread out all over the world.

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And when the devil realized he couldn't get them, then he went after the church.

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And the church is very persecuted.

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Right now, today, we have more martyrs than we've ever had before.

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But this shows the same accuser of the brethren that is after the church of Jesus Christ is

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the accuser of the brethren that went after the people of Israel and would seek to destroy

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them because of this special role that they have, just like the church of Jesus Christ,

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has a special role also.

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The two roles are slightly different.

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And this is a description of the spiritual battle against them.

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Now this week, our reading took us just the last four chapters of the book of Revelation,

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starting with chapter 19.

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We read about the defeat of the Antichrist and his forces and the spiritual war that

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is depicted as a real battle on the earth, but it's also a spiritual battle at the same

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time.

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So you and I, we're used to seeing physical battles, but we don't see the spiritual battles.

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And here, it's going to be combined.

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It is very much a spiritual battle, but it will also be fought with real forces.

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And the message of the Bible from Genesis all the way through to the end here is that

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while we are playing out this story on earth, there is very much a spiritual reality.

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And the book of Daniel, the book of Ezekiel, the book here of Revelation sort of gives

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us a glimpse into that spiritual world.

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And it's possible down here on earth to kind of go through life and not even realize how

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much we are affected by that spiritual reality.

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And then in Revelation 20, we have Satan is bound for a thousand years.

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And there's this thousand year period of like the kingdom of God on earth.

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It's the Messianic era.

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This is when the throne of David is in place.

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The promises to Israel are being fulfilled.

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And then at the end of it, the devil is let free and he comes after it all again.

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But it's his end.

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It's his demise.

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And finally, in Revelation 21, we read about this new heaven and new earth and about the

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new Jerusalem and about paradise restored.

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I just want to make a point here that when you're reading about this new Jerusalem, it

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has 12 gates and they're named after the 12 tribes of Israel.

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And then the foundation of the city is after the 12 apostles.

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And the point I want to make here is that the apostles, which come out of the 12 tribes

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of Israel, the new Jerusalem is all described in very Jewish terms.

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Do you see?

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Israel isn't just of the Old Testament.

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Israel and the Jewish people, it's all about eternity.

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And in eternity, we're going to be worshiping the God of Israel, the God of Abraham, Isaac,

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and Jacob, the God of the 12 tribes of Israel.

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And every day, we're going to be reminded of the Hebraic foundations of the very faith

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and the very God that we are a part of.

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And then we see that mankind is restored to paradise.

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This paradise is actually a better one than the one that man lost, that we read about

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in the book of Genesis.

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But the curses ended, the throne of God and the lamb are in the midst of the city.

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I want to read to you Revelation 22 verses 4 to 5.

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They will see his face and his name will be on their foreheads.

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There will be no more night.

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They will not need the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God will

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give them light and they will reign forever and ever.

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So it all comes to an end in this glorious promised land, this new Jerusalem, this paradise

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restored where God is dwelling in the midst of his people and wiping away every tear.

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This is the sustaining hope that we have as we go through trials and we go through hard

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times here on earth, that this is the destiny of God's holy people.

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And then it ends with this final quote of Jesus in verse 16.

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I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches.

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I am the root and the offspring of David and the bright morning star.

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Verse 20, he who testifies to these things says, Yes, I am coming soon.

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Amen.

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Come.

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Lord Jesus, the grace of the Lord Jesus, be with God's people.

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Amen.

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Here, Jesus also is describing himself in very Jewish terms.

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He is the root and the offspring of David, not just while he was a man walking on earth,

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but while he is now Messiah, while he is the Savior walking in resurrected body in heaven,

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he is the root and the offspring of David.

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He sits on the throne of David.

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And so this is the glorious end of Revelation.

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And now before we end our year together, I just want to make a few comments about what

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we've learned along the way and what we've seen.

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So now that we've read the end of the book where the offspring and the son of David is

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ruling and reigning over his people and with his people in this new paradise.

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Now let's go back and remind ourselves what we read in Genesis.

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Where God created the heaven and the earth, and then he created man to live on earth.

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And in Genesis 2.15, it says that God took the human, which in Hebrew is Ha Adam.

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So we say his name was Adam, but actually Adam means the human.

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So God takes Adam, the human, and puts him in the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep

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it.

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In Hebrew that is called Laavdav Uleshamra.

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Laavdav Uleshamra.

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It means to work, to keep, or to serve, and to watch over it.

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And so you could say that the first human being was put in the garden to work the soil

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and care for the produce.

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But you know that kind of sounds like he's the hired help, right?

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When really he was put in the garden to rule over the creation.

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And so there's much more to this than just working the soil or caring for the produce.

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And this phrase, Laavdav Uleshamra, appears one other time in the Bible.

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And this is when it's describing the Levitical priesthood and its role in the temple.

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And this we find in Numbers 3, 8, the same language.

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Whoa, so what does this mean?

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This means that Adam was set in the garden of Eden in a priestly service to serve and

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to maintain the worship of God and to live in fellowship with God in a priestly role,

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as an authority role.

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He was to help the garden to flourish, but in a worshipful and obedient service unto

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the Lord.

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This is what it's all about.

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And this makes the garden of Eden, in a way, the first temple or tabernacle on earth.

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And in fact, later, the tabernacle that was built was built on this model.

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And then the temple was built on the model of the tabernacle, was built on this model.

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And we read about it here in Revelation, the heavenly model that it's all based on.

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So from the beginning of time, God created man in order to serve him and worship him

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and to co-rule with him over the creation.

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I've also made the point that God's intent from the beginning was to have fellowship

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with man, that God is a family man.

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From the beginning, his plan was to create and to have fellowship with a family.

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And he started it with Adam and Eve.

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And when they fell and they disobeyed and they kind of were kicked out of the garden,

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then God started with another man, the man named Abraham.

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And he says, if you'll follow me, I'm going to give you a nation and a land.

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And through you, I'm going to bless all the families of the earth.

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And so he created another family.

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And after he freed them from bondage in Egypt, he brought them into the wilderness and he

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proposed marriage to them.

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Will you become my people?

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Will you be my bride as it is?

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And I will be your God.

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And they said, yes, we will.

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And so then they fell into sin and then God sends Jesus to die on our behalf.

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And it starts another phase of the building of the family for fellowship with God.

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From Genesis to Revelation, when we see this whole multitude worshiping before the Lord,

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it says they came from every tribe and every tongue.

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What a family.

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It was without number.

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And they're worshiping the Lord.

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This is what his goal was always from the very beginning, was to have this family from

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all the nations, all ethnicities, all tribes, all languages, worshiping him.

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And our story of the Bible is the story of how that he has created this family.

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I also want to mention that this laavda or la shamra shows that in the Garden of Eden

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and throughout all of God's creation, there should be no division between work and worship.

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Now, in the Hebrew mindset, there is no division.

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All of life is to be done in worship of God.

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A very religious Jew has a blessing for everything they do all day long, every day, all day to

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give honor to God.

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They see there's no division between me eating, I'm going to bless God, between me going

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to work, to me, you know, any, anything I do during the day.

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It's all in honor to God.

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And that's the way we need to see.

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I'm sorry, but much of our Christianity today has more of a Greek and Roman mindset where

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we compartmentalize, we cut off the sacred from the secular.

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There is no such thing.

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Our whole lives should be in honor of God, should be in service of God, and should be

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about what He has created us to be and to do.

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All of life is worship and all of life is therefore sacred.

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So when you see this thread all the way from Genesis 1-1 to the end of Revelation, don't

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you agree with me?

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The Bible is the most exciting book on the planet.

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I don't know how else to describe it.

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When you read, it's divided up into 66 different books, written by about 40 different writers

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over a period of almost 1500 years.

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And yet this book is telling this story, the same story about the same God and as He reveals

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bits and pieces to different generations throughout this book, we get a little bit of a better

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glimpse.

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But from the beginning, the end was there.

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And from the end, the beginning is there.

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It is such an amazing and exciting book.

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I hope you share my excitement about it.

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You know, I've also, during our time together, I've tried to bring out different archaeological

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finds there in Israel that corroborate the Bible because I know our Bible is beat up

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on all the time.

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Non-believers love to knock the Bible and they'll say all kinds of things that just

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aren't true.

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But it's what they've been told and it's their way of debunking the Christian faith,

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the Jewish faith and our Bible.

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And so I hope that you have come out of our year together where you understand what you

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feel what I feel.

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And it is that encouragement of your faith that this book is true.

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God's Word is true.

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It is so true.

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It is so accurate.

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It is being proven true every day, every week, every month with new finds archaeologically.

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And our God is so faithful to fulfill His Word.

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Not only is it true, it will be fulfilled down to the smallest detail.

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Now when you and I read an apocalyptic book like Revelation and all the symbolism and

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all the prophecy, I promise you, we do not know exactly what's going to happen and exactly

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when it's going to happen and exactly how it's going to happen.

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That's the nature of prophecy.

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But the prophecy does give us a roadmap.

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And if you look at how that some of the Old Testament prophecies were fulfilled and interpreted

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by the early church, you'll see the people at the time of the prophecy had no idea how

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it was going to be fulfilled.

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And we can look and blame them that they didn't understand, but honestly, who could have?

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And it's the same now.

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So don't feel bad that you don't have it all worked out and you have your time chart

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and everything.

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We're going to know the point is God's given us a roadmap and that we can with confidence

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face tomorrow because we know that He has tomorrow in His hand.

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And He is provided for our covering, for our protection.

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He is provided for us as we walk in fellowship with Him.

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So this should not be the end of your study, by the way.

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Just because we've just finished one year walking through the Bible, it should not be

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the end of your study.

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And so I want to point to you a few resources that we've linked to in today's show notes

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that I really recommend to you to get.

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Before I've mentioned some of them before, but get them now while you still remember

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about them.

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You've got the links.

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Get them.

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You're going to want them in your library.

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You're going to want to share them, maybe with your children, maybe with your grandchildren,

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maybe with somebody at church that has doubts.

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Get these resources.

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First, the book about Passover, the key that unlocks the book of Revelation written by

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Dr. Dan Jester.

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Get that book.

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Secondly, we have been offering a series of DVDs, there's three of them, by our good

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friends at the Christian Broadcasting Network, CBN.

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They are called Written in Stone and they show you the different archaeological finds

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that are proving the Bible.

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Get all three of them.

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They're very, very cheap.

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One is on the House of David about the Kingdom of David and how that's being proven.

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The second one is about the secrets of the temple, both the first temple and the second

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temple there in Jerusalem, the Temple Mount today.

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The third one is about Jesus of Nazareth.

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Get those.

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You want them in your library.

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And then last, there is a book that I have mentioned before, but now that we are finishing

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Revelation and we're finishing our Bible, I want to remind you, I highly recommend you

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get a book.

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We sell it in our online store by Samuel Whitfield.

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It's called It Must Be Finished, Making Sense of the Return of Jesus.

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This book is phenomenal because what it does is it ties together for you the Abrahamic

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covenant, the Mosaic covenant, the New Covenant, the Davidic covenant, and the Return of Jesus.

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The book is easy to read.

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It's written in a beautiful format where it's just so easy for you to read and understand

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what really is kind of a complex progression here of the covenant.

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Why did Jesus come the first time?

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And why does he have to come back the second time?

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Why didn't he just do it all, right?

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This book is going to help you to understand that and the return of Jesus.

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