Beasts, Saints, and Harvests Part 3: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:00 Now let’s get to the people of God. I like this part of Revelation here: 144,000 with the Lamb on Zion, Revelation 14. Zion is what? Yeah, Hebrews 12 and other places, Zion is the church. So here is 144,000 with the Lamb. There are two tribes missing, one tribe is mentioned twice in the listing. All right, and you know God don’t make those kind of mistakes. So obviously he’s not interested in 12 tribes, is he? And he’s really not interested in 144,000. I have no idea what 144,000 is, except, you know, 12 times 12 is 144 and 120,000, you know. And they have their Father’s name written in their forehead.

▶ 0:55 Okay, well, this is a no-brainer. We know Zion is the church, we know the Lamb, Jesus, is why we are saved, isn’t that right? Jesus dying on the cross, we know that. And all of us, what, have to believe in the Lamb, ain’t that right? Now, if we can get the name of God on our forehead, we got it. Revelation 3:12, remember this teaching, very first, second one, first, first or second one: “He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God.” Now, who’s the temple of God? The people, the believers. “And he shall go out no more. I will write on him the name of my God.” Wow. This 144,000 had what written on them? The name of God. I have written on me, if I’m an overcomer. And how do we overcome? By our faith in Jesus Christ. “He that overcometh the world.”

▶ 2:01 Are we overcomers of the world? Are we destined to do that? Do we give up because we haven’t quite made it yet? No, man, we’re on the assembly line, just hang tight, the thing’s coming. Hallelujah. “And the name of the city of my God.” What’s the city of God? The church, the New Jerusalem, “which comes down out of heaven from my God, and I will write on him” what? “My new name.” Are you there, church? Now, if we’re pursuing God to be overcomers and conquerors in this life, we have the name of God written on us. Hallelujah. We are Zion, we are the church.

▶ 2:53 Hallelujah. Now, he says they had a new song. Well, what does the Psalm say? “He hath put a new song in my heart, a song of praise unto my God, and many shall see and turn and put their trust in the Lord.” It says over and over, sing unto the Lord a new song. In Ephesians it says speak and sing to yourself as “psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs.” New songs, we are the ones that have the new song. Are you getting this? Say, “Oh me,” or “Amen.” You see, there isn’t some 144 Jews over there in Palestine that God is going to raise up to be virgins. They don’t even believe in Christ. And that’s what these theory people, they try to make their theories come to pass. God is interested in the whole world, he’s not willing that any should perish, isn’t that right?

▶ 3:56 Now, let’s continue. “Redeemed from the earth.” I don’t even have to show scripture, that we all know we’ve been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, right? Every one of us. Okay, so see, it’s still us. The first thing we got to do is get redeemed, repent, and get saved. Ah, here we are. They’re virgins. They’re virgins, and it plainly says they’re virgin, never knew a woman, that’s what it says. Okay. And they follow the Lamb. Okay, hallelujah. Well, that leaves out Peter, John, King David, Job, Noah, and the God that wrote the book in the very beginning of the book said it is good for a man to leave his mother and father and cleave to his wife. There’s nothing wrong with getting married and having sex in marriage. God can’t contradict his word, so it can’t be this virgin thing. Are you out there?

▶ 5:15 I mean, how many of you are going to be willing to become an overcomer by not having sexual relationships while here on earth? No hands are jumping up. You know, you wanted to get married, you wanted to have kids, am I right? Who put that in you? Your Creator. And then he’s going to punish you because you’re not a virgin? It doesn’t make sense. But this does, are you ready? “I’ve espoused you to one husband, to present you as a chaste virgin.” To who? Who’s he talking to? The Corinthian believers. I’m preaching to you and I’m praying with you and, and, and we’re working together that you become this pure, chaste virgin that Jesus is looking for. He’s not talking about fleshly virginity there. He’s talking about the absence of sin, the absence of walking in darkness and disobeying God. You young’uns getting this? Hallelujah.

▶ 6:35 “You should be married.” Romans 7:14: “You should be married to another, even to him,” should be capitalized, that’s Jesus, “who is raised from the dead.” We should be married to who? Jesus, who is raised from the dead, and he marries what? Virgins. How do we become virgins when we were sinners? His blood. His blood cleanses from what? All sin. I become a virgin, I become a spiritual virgin, and I maintain that through the principle of repentance. If I mess up, I repent and I am restored back to what? Being a spiritual virgin. Now, this makes sense. Isaiah 54:5: “Your Maker, your Husband, the Lord of hosts is his name, your Redeemer.” See, the Redeemer and the Husband, it’s all one package. Hallelujah.

▶ 7:35 Revelation 19:7: “The marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife,” his what? “Wife has made herself ready.” That’s us. We’re ready, Lord. We’re mature. Men marry mature women, and women marry mature men. We don’t marry kids. Sex with kids and all that’s out in the Bible, that’s ridiculous. “Sex by eight or you’re too late” is just ridiculous. Are you with me? And adulthood is 20 years old. You young ones, look at me, the Bible says adulthood is 20 years old. How old? 20. You hang tight to your 20 and you’ll live a life that’s right. Hang tight and live right. Don’t you get to be 14, you got breasts sticking out, and you know, you got pubic hair and so forth, and you think, “Man, I’m more grown.” No, you’re not. Wait till you’re 20. Hang in there. Yes, that’s a good place for a hallelujah.

▶ 8:39 He said, “Well, he gave me this equipment, surely I got to use it.” Don’t you dare. He gave you hands, but don’t drive a car at nine. Right? Amen. Hallelujah. Yeah. Yeah. Just because you got the equipment doesn’t mean you’re capable of using it yet, and using it rightly. Hallelujah. Now, he says these are the first fruits, no deceit or faults in them. These are the first fruits. 1 Corinthians 15:20: “Christ has risen from the dead and become the first fruits of them that slept.” James 1:18: “Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creation.” So who are the first fruits? We are, the church. These people are missing the whole focus of Revelation, that is, the church is an overcomer in this world, in spite of the beast, in spite of Satan, and everything that comes against us, we are overcomers.

▶ 9:55 And that’s why we’re here today. Our forefathers overcame, not all of them. They handed this stuff down to us. Ephesians 5:27: “Present the church to himself, the bride, a glorious church with no spot, no wrinkle, no blemish, but holy.” What’s he going to present to himself? This first fruit people that are without blemish, no faults. Why are we have no faults, even though we have faults? The blood. And we’re on the assembly line, we’re following Christ, and the blood covers us, the blood keeps cleansing us, the blood keeps keeping us a virgin, a spiritual virgin for Christ, faultless before Christ, as long as we admit our sin and we keep going to him. We’re on the assembly line, he keeps changing us. And if you don’t change, you’re going to burn.

▶ 11:03 The people want to laugh at the Bible and all that, they’re going to burn. Matthew 16:18: “The gates of hell shall not prevail against” what? The church. See, we’re supposed to be overcoming the gates of hell. And these people that say that, “Oh, hell isn’t like that, it isn’t a place of the fire, and it isn’t a place, it’s just a place where you go and you’re in the grave,” they’re lying to you. It says the church does not prevail against hell. What good does it do to prevail against someone that’s dead and has no life after that? There’s a power in darkness, there’s a power in hell, there’s a power in that judgment, and the church, what? Prevails against it. We overcome it. Okay, the saints are likened to servants in Revelation, the brethren, the remnant, and the bride. The servant does things out of duty.

▶ 12:06 They don’t feel like it, they don’t want to, they just do it because it’s their duty, and all of us are to be servants. Then there’s the brethren. The brethren are a little different. They overcome Satan “by the blood of the Lamb, and they loved not their life unto death, and the word of their testimony.” The brethren are [unclear], they overcome Satan, they don’t let sin and Satan rule and control their life. Are you there? The remnant are they that, what? Keep the commandments of God and follow Christ. That’s us. We’re supposed to keep the commandments of God and follow Christ, isn’t that right? We’re supposed to go from believer to servant to discipleship to being brethren to being the remnant. That he makes war with the remnant, you know why? Because they keep the command. He’s not interested in people that just believe and don’t follow Christ. Satan makes war with those that believe, even do something about it. So if you don’t have problems in your life, it’s a good chance you’re not much, a, you’re not, you haven’t gone past the servanthood.

▶ 13:08 In fact, if you don’t do things just because it’s your duty, you’re probably just a weak wimp believer. You haven’t gotten out of the baby crib yet. Could that be an amen? And then the bride. Oh, the bride prepared for her husband. Okay, last but not least, the harvest. The gospel is preached. See, the saints are still here, right? We just found out the saints are still here, and the gospel is being preached by who? The saints, the people of God. God’s wrath and God’s judgment and the harvest. Here we go. The gospel is preached. It says there to all nations, saying, “Fear God, praise and worship God, the judgment is come.” Okay, and nothing has happened like this in history like our generation, where there’s an emphasis on praising and worshiping Jesus Christ. The Baptists are doing it now. Catholics have a separate group in the back room that are doing it. They’re praising and worshiping God. Why? God said this would happen before he would come.

▶ 14:32 Hallelujah. And you don’t have to, you can sit there like a dodo bird and go, “Well, you know, I was raised this way, and I’m shy, and I was, you know, born a Baptist, I’ll die a Baptist,” or whatever. I just told you the Baptists are being converted to the Bible. They’re praising and worshiping and singing choruses, and the judgment has come. All right, and what do we preach? We preach to fear God, turn from your sins, praise and worship him, follow him, pray and seek him, for there’s a judgment coming where you’re going to be accountable for what you say and do. Now, here’s God’s wrath, judgment: Babylon has fallen. We’ll be getting into that very clearly. I’m going to show you clearly who Babylon is from the Bible without leaving the book of Revelation. That sound fair? So see, this is like the old series, you know, they, they ended it with a what’s going to happen next. Everybody’s got Babylon this and Babylon that. The Bible plainly tells us who Babylon is, Revelation does: the beast worshipers, and those that have the Mark.

▶ 15:38 I mean, you got to remember, we just left two prophets that were calling down fire from heaven and tormenting mankind. We got these supernatural people doing super... we got two supernatural powers working against each other here. Are you, are you there? Do you remember the two witnesses, the two prophets, that tormented people on earth for three and a half years, bringing fire? They would kill them with fire from their mouth. We’ve never seen that, and I highly doubt that’s really what he’s talking about. Are you there? So the beast worshipers, they that worship the beast, they are being challenged by the word of God from the saints of God who won’t worship the beast. At the same time they’re getting a challenge, and not only are they challenging, when this supernatural beast comes up, these two prophets who have supernatural powers are counteracting the supernatural power of the second beast, if you can read it right. And it’s a display of full supernatural power against a display of limited supernatural power. Hallelujah.

▶ 17:09 And they’re going to enter into eternal torment, not just tormented now while they’re here on earth, they’re going to go into the torment, the hell fire and brimstone and all that. And then he comes up and says, “This is the patience of the saints.” They that lead into captivity shall, what, go into captivity. They that kill with the sword shall be killed with the sword. And so the saints are just patiently waiting for God to remove these people, this beast, and put them into captivity, and these that want to use force to get their way, they go, they’re just waiting for God to turn the table on them. Are you there? Now, which group you want to be? You want to be the one that takes the 666 and you can buy and sell and go on through life, and then when you’re confronted with Jesus Christ, you’re in trouble? Or you want to be one that says, “I’m following Christ, I’m following what’s right, and yes, it may look bleak for us now, and we may not have full victory and full control over everything in this earth, but it’s coming”?

▶ 18:15 And everyone with the mark’s in serious trouble. Ain’t that what it says? Man, don’t get me no more, I don’t even want to get close to the kingdom of Satan. Then there’s two harvests. He says the harvest is ripe. The angel says, “Put in your sickle and reap the harvest, for the harvest is ripe.” It’s ready. Isn’t that what Jesus said? “Look upon the fields, for they are white, ripe for the harvest.” And here comes the harvest of the earth. That’s us, folks. That’s us, those of us who are, and the dead in Christ will rise. That’s us. We’re going to be harvested. And oops, and then there is a second harvest. Ain’t that cute? And then there is the wrath of God’s wine press, where the blood went up to the horses’ bridles. I mean, here we got the wrath, judgment, it’s eternal, they’re going to be tormented, and it’s at the same time, the day of wrath, the second coming, the day of judgment, all one package.

▶ 19:40 And I don’t know about you, but I’m glad this kind of message scared the hell out of me. It scared me to come to Jesus, and I found out Jesus was real. And these people that want to diminish the Bible by saying, “You’re just putting fear in people.” We are to be afraid of God. We are to respect him, and we are to be scared of him. It says, “Fear the one who is able to cast your soul into hell.” Don’t fear the one that can just hurt you physically. They can take away your job, they can take away your income and ability to buy and sell. Fear him who has the power to cast you into hell. And we’re supposed to tremble. Didn’t Herod tremble when Paul preached to him of righteousness and the judgment to come? He trembled, but he would not change his life. And the church needs this message to cause God to move people to tremble and be afraid of God.

▶ 20:48 On that day, one day you got to stand before, young people, you got to stand before God. Old people, nobody can stand there with you. Not your husband, not your wife, not your, your parents. You are there on your own merit. You’re going to be weighed in the balance, and it’s not your opinions, it’s going to count. It’s what you did with the word of God and how you lived your life, and did you admit you were wrong when you made mistakes. It’s a serious thing, and this judgment is eternal. Judgment down here is temporary to get your attention, but this judgment is eternal. Young people, there is a lake of fire. There is a new earth and a new heaven where the righteous live in, and a lake of fire where the unrighteous live in for eternity. And it says they are tormented forever before the throne and before the Lamb. They see Jesus up there, they see God up there, and yet they’re down there tormented in the flame of the lake of fire, and they can look up and see us blessed and rewarded, and that’s double torment.

▶ 22:05 Now, I told you who the two beasts were from the book of Revelation. We know that the Bible says that people who follow Satan are the children of Satan, and the people that follow God are the children of God. And so the beast can simply be people who carry out Satan’s actions and will and purposes in this life, and the people of God are those that do the opposite. And though we may make mistakes, we have a God that forgives and keeps us going, whereas the people of wickedness just keep, what, getting more wicked. Isn’t that what it says in the parable? “Let both grow together until the harvest.” So see, wickedness is going to grow, and so is righteousness. Isn’t that good news? God promised we would grow in righteousness, and he says the wicked are going to grow in wickedness, so don’t get rattled by it. We are destined to be overcomers if we pursue God.

▶ 23:21 Amen. How many will raise your hand, “Jesus, I’m on your side”? Yes. You got to pu... see, if you don’t publicly acknowledge him, he won’t acknowledge you. Ain’t that right? And these simple, humble acts is what God has chosen to bring us to himself and touch us with his supernatural power. It’s in that act of humiliation, humbling yourself to worship and pray, humbling yourself to come to church, humbling yourself to raise your hands and sing unto him, humbling yourself to say “I’m a Jesus boy” to your fellow workers. That’s what God uses, that humiliating act, to strengthen you and develop you and mature you. Hallelujah. So in the book of Revelation, who is the powerful one, the beast or the church? The church.

▶ 24:24 Hallelujah. Now, does God have power to back up what he said? Does he? Yes. That’s what Paul wrote to the Galatians. Faith in God is faith that says God has the power to perform what he promised. God, and that’s the patience of the saints. We know he has the power to do that. We know he has the power to keep me. We know he has the power to mature me. We know he has the power to overcome the principalities and powers of this life. We know that, and so we patiently wait for him to do it.