Six of Seven Seals — Part 2: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:00 Chicago, by the way, and Washington, D.C., are the murder capitals of the United States of America. In Washington, D.C., you’re not allowed to have a gun, and in Chicago there’s strict gun controls, and guess what? They have the highest murder rate in America, and they just don’t get it. You see, it’s not the gun that kills people, it’s the one pulling the trigger. Are you there? So if you change the heart of a person, you have control. Amen. Anyway, just thought I’d throw that out. Okay, the third horse is a black horse, and its rider has a pair of scales. Wow. And there’s a voice saying, “A measure of wheat for a denarius, and three measures of barley for a denarius, but don’t hurt the oil and wine.”

▶ 1:08 Now, what do you think they say this horse is? Come on, you know, you’ve read the books, don’t play dumb with me, you’re just afraid I’m going to expose you. What do they say this horse is? Famine. Yes, that’s exactly what they say it is. And boy, it sure sounds like that when they told us it’s famine. Oh yeah, a pair of scales, you know, a measure of wheat for a denarius and three measures of barley, and don’t touch the wine and oil. Okay, but when you go into the Bible and God says don’t touch things, don’t touch My people, it means you don’t bother them. Isn’t that right? So taking the Bible’s expression, don’t touch the wine and oil, the wine and oil is what? Not bothered. We got plenty of wine and oil. That doesn’t sound like a famine, does it?

▶ 2:10 Second problem they got is Jesus feeding the 5,000, which is actually about 15,000 when you count the women and the children. Okay, you ready for this? Mark 6:37, the apostle says, “Shall we go and buy 200 denarii of bread and give them to eat?” Oh, now we got a monetary amount. Jesus said feed these people, there’s 5,000 men plus women and children. Women always outnumber men in this generation anyway. I mean, look around you. When it comes to God, the women are there, their men are off golfing and watching football and doing their thing, except these men.

▶ 3:06 Hallelujah. And of course you at least got the same number of children, so there’s about 15,000 people there. Okay, we know then by this story that one measure feeds one person, ain’t that right? Are you following me? Is this simple arithmetic over your head, college kids? We got in the story of the loaves and the fishes that one measure feeds what? One person. One measure of wheat feeds one person, and we can get three measures of barley, so if we buy barley instead of wheat, we can eat three times.

▶ 3:58 Right, now let’s find out what it cost for one measure of wheat, then we’ll know we got a famine or not. Hallelujah. Okay, we take the 15,000 people for 200 denarii, and we come up with 0.013 denarii per person. It doesn’t even take one denarius to get one measure of wheat. You can buy a hundred measures of wheat for one denarius, you can feed yourself for almost a hundred days with one denarius. Folks, that’s not famine. Are you out there? You see, and where do we go to find out things? The book.

▶ 5:00 And so you can feed yourself for 300 days, a whole year almost, if you buy the barley. So we don’t have a famine here. They want it to look bad because people like bad news. You know, we say anything good’s happening at the end time, big deal, we don’t like that, we want trouble. Man, trouble gets our attention. Are you out there? I told you this is a college course, you’re going to have to hear this several times, and that math was really deep, you know, that math was simple percentages and decimals, you know, but that’s real deep stuff. Hallelujah.

▶ 5:54 Church, Revelation 7:3 says, “Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees.” Revelation 9:4 says, don’t hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing nor any tree. And so the wine and the oil, the oil is used for cooking and a lot of other things, and they can sell it and make money, that’s a good investment. The fig tree, the oil was a great investment to have in your yard. Amen. And so things aren’t famine here, things are looking pretty good. Didn’t Jesus say, “As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the coming of the Son of Man”? Isn’t that right? They were buying, they were selling, duh, they were marrying, giving in marriage, duh, they ate, they drank, duh. Isn’t that what we do in normal life? Duh, life is normal. Are you with me so far? Up with the Bible and down with The Late Great Planet Earth.

▶ 7:13 And people say this to me, “Well, you just think you’re right.” I’m not thinking anything, I’m just telling you what the Bible says. “How do you know that you’re right and they’re not right?” I’m just telling you what the Bible says. God forbid that I say I’m right. You think you know everything, that’s just justification for your laziness and not getting into the book and finding truth. You’re attacking me because I did get into the book and I did study for hours and I did find things out by God revealing them to me, and then you just want to attack because you’re too lazy to read the Bible. You read Hal Lindsay and the guy up here in Riverside, he’s got one, what’s his name, Calvary Chapel guy, [unclear], you know, and you think, “Oh man, they know.” Well, who says they know? They’re making their millions, they ride fancy cars, live in fancy homes, and you drive a Volkswagen because you buy their books. Or a used car, or whatever. Hallelujah.

▶ 8:38 Okay, now here we come to the fourth rider. All right, he’s on a pale horse, and the rider is Death. It explains exactly what this rider is. The rider is Death, Hades, the abiding place of the dead, follows right behind. He’s given authority and power over one-fourth of the earth to kill with the sword, with famine, with plagues, and with wild beasts. Acts of God, these are acts of God. The sword is war, but these other things are acts of God, and it explains very clearly that this guy is out through war and famine and other things.

▶ 9:23 What they’re trying to say, the other things, say that this one says it, so we know what this guy’s producing: famine and acts of God, volcanoes and deaths by all this. But he’s only got authority over what? Twenty-five percent of the earth. This devil isn’t the big bad guy you claim he is, and he has no authority if God doesn’t what? Give it to him. And we know that this Death is Satan. Jesus destroyed him in Hebrews 2:14, “him who had the power of death, that is, the devil.” Satan, we know in Revelation that his name is Apollyon,

▶ 10:09 Destroyer, or in the Greek, the Destroyer. And so the angel over there in Israel that came through at the Passover and was killing the firstborn was called the destroyer, so we know that was Satan coming, and he had permission to kill the firstborn. He can’t do beans without God giving him permission, and see, God can’t do bad things, so He has what? Satan doing it. Satan’s ready and willing any time God will let him, but he only has power over one-fourth, so he only has power over one-fourth of your life. Don’t give him that much credit, any more credit than it’s due him. Could that be an amen? Who has the real power? Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. Now, Revelation 12:9 says that great dragon was cast out, we know the dragon, that old serpent in the garden, called the Devil and Satan, which deceives the whole world. We know who he is. “They had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit.”

▶ 11:21 Revelation 9:11 called Abaddon, the destroying angel, but in the Greek, Apollyon, the Destroyer. Hebrews 2:12, as I said before, Jesus destroyed him who had the power of death, that is the devil. So we know the rider on this horse is who? Satan himself. And we know that he came to kill, steal, and destroy. Isn’t that what he does? Isn’t that what Jesus said, he comes to steal, kill, and destroy? When you follow Satan, he’s just out to destroy you, he’s out to take what you got, and he’s out to kill you in the eternal lake of fire. That’s his goal. And people, this has been going on since the beginning of the world. And remember the rich man in the parable of the prodigal, of the parable of the rich man and Lazarus, was in hell, the abiding place of the dead. You see, so this is Satan getting people to follow him and die eternally.

▶ 12:30 Are you out there? Now, that means that a lot of people are going to go to heaven. Oh, well, that means that the blood of Christ has that much power. Hallelujah. A great harvest, including you. Now, the Bible says all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Satan is getting one-fourth of them, but how many sinners is there in the world? One hundred percent. Is this arithmetic too tough on you?

▶ 13:26 You see, we have given Satan much more credit than he deserves, and we’ve diminished the power of Christ’s death on the cross way below what it really can do. And you measure that by a few Scriptures and your life, you see flaws in yourself and you go, “Oh man, there’s no hope.” Yes, there is hope, because right here we see you have a 75 percent chance of making it in spite of your flaws. Hallelujah. Now that’s good news. That is really good news. Amen. Hallelujah. Now, there’s none righteous, no, not one. We’re working on righteousness, but we still have some flaws, and I think we’d all raise your hand if I said raise your hand, think we may be a little good, but we still got some things in us. Woo.

▶ 14:31 Now comes the fifth seal. Now we see white-robed souls, martyred for the Word and the testimony. Okay, and here I got it in a little picture here, the only picture I could find. These guys, you know, they’re clothed in white, and they’re martyred. That martyr means they were killed because they followed Jesus and served Jesus and served His Word. That’s a martyr. They died because they would not renounce Jesus Christ and they would not renounce the Bible. In America we don’t verbally renounce Jesus Christ. The Bible says by our works we renounce Him. You see, when we say that homosexuality is an acceptable lifestyle, we have renounced the Bible, because the Bible says it’s not. When we say that [unclear] and sexual immorality are okay, and that’s the way it is in this generation, we just renounce the Bible, because the Bible says no sex should be saved for marriage, and married one person and stay married for life, ain’t that right?

▶ 15:48 When we say that it’s okay for Christians to divorce, we just renounce the Bible. Now, you may not have power over it, the other person may want to divorce you, now it’s not a thing you can do, but when we say it’s okay to do it, we just renounce it, and that’s what Christians are doing. So see, we deny Him and renounce Him by our what? Actions. But these are martyred because they would not budge, like John the Baptist. He told Herod, “You can’t have your brother’s wife. What you did is unscriptural. You divorced your wife and you went and took your brother’s wife and had an affair and married her.” John the Baptist said that is wrong, and they cut off his head for it. You stand up for truth and you’re going to get abuse. Wow, that was good. Let’s say it: stand up for truth, you’ll get abused. You don’t stand up for truth, nobody’s going to care. Hallelujah.

▶ 16:54 Now, he also says that you’re to rest here till the martyred number is complete. Wow. Not only were there martyrs when John saw, but he says there’s going to be more martyrs. So see, this is not a one-action thing. This is saying things are going to happen in the future, it didn’t just happen at that time. There are martyrs, and there’s going to be what? More martyrs. There was famines and plagues and wars and so forth, and there will be what? Famines, plagues, and wars. Are you with me? Amen. People turn on one another, they’re in the future, they’re turning on one another now, and they have what?

▶ 17:45 Turned on one another in days past and slaughtered and killed and hurt one another. He’s declaring a statement. Can you see that? It’s very clear it isn’t the end yet, and this proves it’s not the end. There’s more martyrs to come, we don’t know how many, He didn’t give us the number. He has a number, and when that number is reached, guess what? Jesus is coming. That’s one of the reasons why He can’t come today, and He didn’t come yesterday, because the martyrs haven’t reached the number. There is no any-minute return of Christ, there is a special time, an appointed time. Things will happen and things fulfilled, and then He will what? Come. And one of them is the martyrs.

▶ 18:46 Okay, we see nothing happening or going to happen that has not already happened and is happening. Correct? Correct. Yes. Okay, now let’s continue. The sixth seal. Woo. How many of you know when we have an eclipse of the sun, certain places in the earth, the moon turns to blood because of the red coloration of the eclipse? You’re looking at me like you didn’t know that. I have pictures. These are actual pictures. This is an actual picture of the moon during an eclipse of the sun where it is red. Well, we learned something today. Very interesting. Hallelujah. And here I thought you read the almanac and all these good books, but now you’re telling me you’ve been watching TV.

▶ 19:51 Isn’t that beautiful? The moon turned to blood, folks, I give you. And the stars falling from heaven, how many, you know, we have meteorites falling out of the sky and they light up the sky, and there’s periods where a bunch of them have done it. Okay, now getting back to the sixth seal, there was a great earthquake, the sun was black, it went out, the moon like blood, and we just give you an illustration of that. But here this moon, sun is gone, and the moon is like blood, it’s red, the stars dropped, the sky rolled up like a scroll. Now, how many even know the sky has the sun in it, the moon in it, am I right? The stars.

▶ 20:59 And it’s what? Rolled up like a scroll. It’s gone. First it’s black and red, then it’s gone, and stars drop, then it’s gone. Are you there? This is what John said. It’s gone, it’s rolled up, a scroll, you roll it up. Done. Isaiah said the same thing: the heavens will roll like a scroll, talking about the end times, the stars will fall. It’s all through the Bible, this is nothing new.