Jesus is coming. . .soon! Are you ready?

1. Jesus is coming. . .soon! Are you ready?

2. Throne Room Vision Sanctuary type meets antitype All the types of the Old Testament are fulfilled in the antitypes of the New Testament And are fulfilled in Christ’s work as the Son of Man and as our High Priest in the heavenly sanctuary

3. Throne Room Vision “The four and twenty elders fall down before Him that sat on the throne, and worship Him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, Thou art worthy”

4. Throne Room Vision “Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.”

5. Throne Room Vision

6. Throne Room Vision Sealed book John sees concerns the redemption of mankind. During the Old Testament times, property or persons could be alienated by reason of severe debt owed to another. The record of the debt was kept in a duplicate format, one sealed the other open to witnesses.

7. Throne Room Vision There are three essential features constituting the Jubilee • Personal liberty • Restitution of property • Faith in God’s power to provide food during the fallow years, or learning to live by faith and not by their works — a Sabbath of rest

8. Throne Room Vision There are three essential features constituting the Jubilee • Personal liberty • Restitution of property • Faith in God’s power to provide food during the fallow years, or learning to live by faith and not by their works

9. Kinsman Redeemer • The kinsman must be a "near" relative; the closest living relative to the person needing redemption • The near kinsman could redeem a poor relative from slavery by paying the required debt, if he had sufficient financial resources

10. Kinsman Redeemer • If a person was murdered, it was the responsibility of the near kinsman to avenge the death of the individual by watching for and bringing the murderer to justice • Property that had been sold could be redeemed by the near kinsman if he paid what the relative owed against it

11. Kinsman Redeemer 1. The kinsman must be a "near" relative; the closest living relative to the person needing redemption 2. The near kinsman had to have sufficient resources to pay the debt 3. And he had to be able to bring the murderer to justice

12. Kinsman Redeemer 1. The kinsman must be a "near" relative; the closest living relative to the person needing redemption • Christ MUST assume the nature of man that needed redeeming so that He could become our “closest relative” • Heb. 2:14-18; Rom. 8:3; Phil. 2:5-8

13. Kinsman Redeemer 2. The kinsman must have sufficient resources with which to pay the debt which was owed • Christ alone has sufficient assets to meet the just demands of the broken Law; His righteousness is complete, lacking nothing • Rom. 5:17, 18; 1 Tim. 2:6; 1 John 2:2

14. Kinsman Redeemer “. . . with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, who by Him do believe in God, that raised Him up from the dead, and gave Him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.” 1 Peter 1:19-21

15. “For Thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by Thy blood . . .” “. . . Worthy is the Lamb that was slain” “Worthy” means “full of value” and in this context it means MORAL worth

16. Kinsman Redeemer 2. The kinsman must have sufficient resources with which to pay the debt which was owed • Christ has paid the debt that was owed and has set the captives free from slavery to sin and Satan

17. Kinsman Redeemer “Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but [now] ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.” Rom. 6:16, 17

18. Kinsman Redeemer “Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, but yield yourselves unto God as those who are alive from the dead” Rom. 6:11, 12

19. Kinsman Redeemer “Put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof.” Rom. 13:14 “Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.” Gal. 6:11

20. Kinsman Redeemer 3. He had to be able to bring the murderer to justice Satan is a defeated foe, he has NO POWER over us except what we willingly give to him; he is living on borrowed time and he knows it; that’s why he is a “roaring lion seeking whom he may devour”

21. Throne Room Vision

22. Who is worthy to open the Book?

23. Basic Principle of Bible Interpretation

24. Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream “. . . Thou art this head of gold. And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron . . .” Daniel 2:38-40

25. Babylon Medo-Persia 605-538B.C. 538-331B.C. Four Beasts of Daniel chapter 7 Greece 331-168B.C. Pagan Rome 168 B.C. to A.D. 538

26. History Confirms the Bible

27. Greece Media-Persia Gabriel said: “The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia. And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.”

28. Pagan Rome with 10 horns Non-descript beast from the sea Papal Rome came up among the 10 horns

29. Seven Seals Vision “. . . a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. And He came and took the book out of the right hand of Him that sat upon the throne.”Rev. 5:6, 7

30. Seven Seals Vision “. . . And no man in heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. And I wept much . . .”Rev. 5:3, 4

31. “The Lamb of God”

32. Paul’s Journeys

33. Christ Opens the Seals Rider on the white horse going forth to conquerRev. 6:1 - 2

34. Christ Opens the Seals Paul said that the Gospel had been “preached to EVERY creature which is under heaven” Colossians 1:23

35. Christ Opens the Seals Paul said that the Gospel had been “preached to EVERY creature which is under heaven” Colossians 1:23

36. “Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed” Dan. 8:14

37. Type meets antitype in the history of the work of Christ

38. The Four Horseman

39. White Horse = Ephesus church period

40. Red Horse = Smyrna church period

41. Black Horse = Pergamos church period

42. “As the stream of Christianity flowed farther from its foundation, it became more and more corrupt, and as the centuries advanced, superstition advanced with it . . . till at length, the Book of God was being laid aside for legendary tales, and the ‘traditions of men,’ all these corruptions were collected into a regular system of superstition and oppression.” J. C. Woodhouse, The Apocalypse, p. 146 (1805)

43. Pergamos church period “ . . .the land tax, the capitation, and heavy contributions of corn, wine, oil, and wheat, exacted from the provinces for use of the court, the army and the capital. . . . The great body of Caracalla’s subjects were oppressed by the aggravated taxes, and every part of the Empire crushed under the weight of his iron scepter.”

44. Pergamos church period Oppressive laws demanded that the land be heavily taxed based on its productivity. This led landowners to deliberately reduce the grain production to avoid the high taxation. The practice of destroying crops to avoid taxes became so widespread that the government issued an edict forbidding the destruction of olive trees and grapevines.

45. Thyatira church period “ . . . a pale horse, and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with beasts of the earth.” Rev. 6:8

46. Thyatira church period The original word translated “pale” means a sickly yellowish color like that seen in plants that don’t receive enough light to maintain photosynthesis so they stay bright and green.

47. Thyatira church period H.G. Wells described the papacy as an attempt at world dominion through religion. During this period of world history, the “two witnesses” had to do their work clothed in sackcloth because the Bible was no longer accepted as the sole rule of faith and doctrine, having been supplanted by man-made church traditions.

48. Futurism and the Four Horsemen

49. Futurism and Four Horsemen Walvoord said: “The rider on the white horse is none other than the ‘prince that shall come’ of Daniel 9:26, who is to head up the revived Roman Empire and ultimately become the world ruler . . . He is Satan’s masterpiece and the counterfeit of all that Christ is or claims to be . . . The same individual described as the beast out of the sea in Revelation 13.” (John Walvoord, The Revelation of Jesus Christ, 1966)

50. Futurism and Four Horsemen Walvoord said: “The rider on the white horse is none other than the ‘prince that shall come’ of Daniel 9:26, who is to head up the revived Roman Empire and ultimately become the world ruler . . . He is Satan’s masterpiece and the counterfeit of all that Christ is or claims to be . . . The same individual described as the beast out of the sea in Revelation 13.” (John Walvoord, The Revelation of Jesus Christ, 1966)