Three Revelations Part 2: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:02 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the” what? Churches. He repeats this seven times. Now what’s the message he’s trying to get across if he repeats it seven times? That we need an ear to hear. In your prayer, besides wisdom and knowledge, do you ever ask for a hearing ear? These are priority prayers. See, I need a hearing ear. Why? ’Cause God’s talking to His church. He’s always talking to His church. But we don’t come to hear Him talk, because we haven’t been taught to come to hear Him

▶ 0:56 talk. We’ve been taught to come and let the guru, the mighty man of God, bless us with a great inspirational message and maybe touch us and pray for us, and if we give him an offering, great things will happen. That about sum it up? Don’t forget that offering. It’s like you got to buy your way into the blessing. Hallelujah. And we fall for it. I go into homes and I see Channel 40 Bibles and so-and-so’s book, a coach of life book. Where in the Bible does He say, “I placed into the body coaches of life”? It’s not there. It’s just absolutely not there. And anyone being my coach other than Jesus, I’m going to fall way short. Could that be an amen?

▶ 1:50 Now this came directly from an angel, and Jesus Christ, God, Jesus are the same. He, Jesus, “sent and signified it by His angel unto His servant John.” Okay, going to the last book of the Bible again, of Revelations: “I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify unto you these things in the churches.” Now here’s Jesus talking directly to John and telling John, “I have sent My angel to testify unto you these things,” unto who? The churches. So is this message for all of us? Yes. Is Jesus directly involved in Revelations also?

▶ 2:56 Absolutely. Now we got to be careful of these imitators of angels. Remember, Galatians 1:8 says, “If we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than which we have preached, let him be accursed.” Did you hear that? If we, apostles, or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel than that which we have preached, that was preached unto you, let him be accursed. So if I see an angel and he gives me different doctrines, should I follow that person that had that angelic visitation? Should I get all hyped up because someone saw an angel? No. Okay, what’s the point I’m getting at? I’m getting at

▶ 3:56 this: Joseph Smith and Muhammad imitated the experience of John, saying an angel gave him these words to write down so people would follow them. But there’s a conflict. This angel Gabriel that came to Muhammad, Muhammad said an angel Gabriel came to him. In the Bible that angel Gabriel told Mary that she was going to have a son, God’s Son, and He was going to be called the Son of God. Are you with me? Have I got your attention here? Okay, this angel Gabriel, the supposed to be the same angel, comes to Muhammad and tells him God has no Son in the

▶ 4:49 Quran, in the book of [unclear] 16 and 26: God has no Son, and God cannot incarnate. How many you know that’s opposing messages? How many you know this angel that Muhammad saw is not the angel Gabriel, because angels cannot have what? Different, conflicting messages. Are you there? People, that’s a big conflict. They also this angel told him that God didn’t die on the cross, Jesus didn’t die on the cross. The Bible tells us He did die on the cross. That’s a conflict. And George, former President George Bush, is wrong, Oprah is wrong, and all these other people promoting a universal God where all these religions lead to the same God are lying to us.

▶ 5:55 And we have the proof, because the angel gave Muhammad a different message than he had been given all ever since creation. Gabriel showed up all through the Bible and he always had a consistent message, but not with Muhammad. What does that tell us? Muhammad is a false prophet and Islam is a false religion. In that Lakeland, Florida revival where they’re supposed to be seeing angels and having angels there, and they’re doing things contrary to the Bible, it’s wrong, and it finally got exposed and it finally got nailed out. It’s gone now. And thousands of Christians were going there and thinking this thing was some great revival, and it was nothing but a big show. Are you there?

▶ 6:53 See, angels don’t have conflicting messages. Jesus doesn’t have a conflicting message. It’s the same message all the time. Amen. Joseph Smith, an angel was supposed to talk to him. The angel told him that black people couldn’t get into the church, they were cursed. That’s a conflicting message, because, you know, the Bible tells us that out of every kind and tribe, tongue and nation, “I am bringing out that people for Myself.” Isn’t that right? And so the angel was wrong, and so Joseph Smith wasn’t seeing an angel of God, he was having a nightmare. Are you there?

▶ 7:48 So they changed the rule later. Well, angels don’t need to change their messages. They got the right message to begin with. Amen. Men have to change. And everybody wants to embrace Mormon, everybody wants to think everybody’s okay. They’re not okay. If the source is wrong, they are wrong. Amen. This angel Gabriel is going to give to John a revelation that’s going to be backed up by the other scriptures, and if it isn’t, then John is seeing the wrong angel. Could that be an amen? Angels cannot have conflicting messages. The Holy Ghost doesn’t come with conflicting messages. They come with the same message. Raise your hand if you understand what I’m saying. All right, good. This is important, very important. We’ve been dubbed into looking at Revelations wrong.

▶ 8:51 That’s one of the reasons God had me not preach on Revelations for years, until I could get it through my cranial vacuum, some real truths in the book of Revelations, because I was tainted by what I heard myself. And when you hear something, then when you read the book of Revelations, you read it into it. But if you just take this book and read it like it’s written, then you get real revelation. I mean, you can raise your hand, I can identify with that. Hallelujah. Revelations 1:3, “Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written in it, for the time is” what? Near. My God, there it is again. Is 2,000 years

▶ 9:51 near? It’s near because in God’s timetable a year is a day, a day is a thousand years, and a thousand years is a day. It can be near like that. It’s for all generations. He says here that I will be blessed if I read this book and if I obey this book. And people say, “Bless me, Lord.” People are always wanting God to bless them, but do they want to do what’s required to get the blessing? No. They won’t read the book. And of course they don’t obey the book, and then they want to just say a magical prayer, have Joyce Meyer say a prayer over them, or some guru, and everything’s going to be okay. God doesn’t break His principles for Joyce Meyer, Robert Schuller, or anybody. Can you say amen to that?

▶ 10:51 See, I have the right to go to Jesus myself and get these things for myself, but I have to do it His way. So if I read the Bible and I obey the Bible, I am going to be what? I’m going to be what? Blessed. And then He tells me to keep those things that are written in it. Now if this was just about the Second Coming and the Antichrist and the beast, what things in there am I supposed to keep? It’s because the book is about Jesus, it’s about the church, it’s about the judgment to come, and He’s going to tell me how to live and how to believe and how to think so I can keep these things and inherit eternal life. Amen. This book has principles and doctrines in it that I need to learn and need to

▶ 11:45 keep. But when you’re told to go looking for the mark of the beast, you don’t see these things you’re supposed to keep, you’re looking for the big bad beast. Hallelujah. Revelations 22:7 again, going to the end of the book: “Behold, I come quickly.” So it’s obvious it’s not the Second Coming, because we’re 2,000 years down the road and He hasn’t come that quick yet. But does He want to come to us? Does He want to bless us? Does He want to dwell in us, as we’ve heard already? Amen. “Behold, I’ll come,” you respond, “I’ll

▶ 12:39 come.” “Blessed is he that keeps the sayings of the prophecy of this book.” There it is again. And we back it up by going to the other scriptures, and the other scriptures tell us to read, you know, and obey the word of God. So He is speaking the same thing that we’ve already been told in the other gospels and the other books of the Bible. Amen. Now think about this: do you read the Bible consistently so He can bless you? Do you study it? Do you go to Bible studies? Do you take one or two things at a time to conquer them and obey them and grow in them so that He can bless you and increase you? ’Cause that’s where the blessings come from. I wish I could just pray for you, prophesy over you, and just put it into your— I wish that could be. Man, I was at a church once where they sprayed people with the hose, ’cause they had two or three hundred out there, and rather than just sprinkle water over them, they just took a hose and sprayed them, and all their sins were forgiven. I go, “Yeah, sure. Yeah, tap water is going to forgive sins.” That’s a real joke. It’s the blood of Christ that forgives sins, and you got to come to Him personally and get it. Ain’t no

▶ 14:10 [unclear]. Hallelujah. But see, we believe these lies, we do these crazy things. Now doctrines are important. Doctrines are very important. And they are throwing so many things out on us in the name of being Bible doctrines, and they’re not Bible doctrines. 1 Timothy 1:9 tells us “the law was not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless, the insubordinate, the rebellious, the ungodly, for sinners, for the unholy, the profane, for murderers of fathers and mothers, for manslayers, killers, for fornicators, sodomites,

▶ 14:51 homosexuals, kidnappers, slavery, liars, perjurers, they false witnesses, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine.” So sound doctrine is what? The law. But what do we teach as doctrine? “We’re not under law, we are under grace.” That’s a big doctrine out there that’s not in the Bible. The law he’s talking about is the ceremonial laws. We don’t sacrifice animals anymore. We don’t have to wear just wool all the time or linen all the time, and we can plant mixed seeds now. We couldn’t do all that, because the ceremonial law that pointed to truth, they had to keep, but now we’re not under the ceremonial laws. We’re under the fulfilled laws of Jesus Christ, who came and fulfilled all these. He became the Lamb that was slain for the sins of the world, so we don’t need to kill animals anymore. We’re not under that law, but I am under righteous laws. Could that be an

▶ 15:49 amen? And that’s a big doctrine: “I’m not under law, I’m under grace. I’m not under legalism.” In other words, I can sin and I’m okay? No. Sound doctrine is righteous doctrine. Can you say amen? That’s doctrines that the Bible says is doctrines. Let’s look at another one: “leaving the principles,” the main beliefs, “of the doctrines of Christ, let us go on into perfection,” and maturity, “not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, faith toward God, doctrines of baptisms,” baptism in water, baptism in Holy Ghost, baptism into the body of Christ, “laying on of hands, resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.” These are what? Foundational, basic, kindergarten

▶ 16:44 doctrines. He tells us what the doctrines are, and it’s faith toward God. And what kind of faith did we learn we’re to have? That God has the power to perform what He promised. You see, a lot of people have faith in their faith. I was just talking to someone this week whose finances were a mess, and I gave him some principles to get all that, and they told me, “Well, I’m a man of faith.” You know this? I said, “Your faith hasn’t worked for 20 years. Don’t you think you need to use some financial principles?” See how faith can’t be in our faith? His faith was in his faith. His faith was in the fact that he’s believing, and he didn’t have to learn how to balance his checkbook and do things right and all the rest. He just expected his faith to work. And our faith, our faith is not faith, our faith in His power to perform what He says is

▶ 17:52 faith. Do you get that? Now I just preached this last week and you forgot it already. And these are foundation, folks. People that say “my faith,” that’s foundation. That’s baby stuff. Give me some meat, man. Give me some righteous doctrine. Now what’s the mature, the perfection doctrine, the growing up doctrine? “Add to your faith virtue,” or goodness, “to goodness knowledge, to knowledge self-control.” Woo, self-control. See, this is mature doctrine. “And to self-control perseverance,” or patience, determination. I am determined to reach the goal. Are you determined? Can we add that to our faith? Is this higher than faith? Yes, because we’re building on faith. And what affects people, these doctrines or your faith doctrines?

▶ 18:59 See, these doctrines affect the way you treat people and yourself. Faith doctrine doesn’t do anything except it should bring you to these doctrines: “to godliness brotherly kindness,” loving your neighbors as yourself, and to brotherly kindness, love, love God with all your heart, your soul, and your strength. Now to sum it up, now see, that’s doctrines. But we come up with other doctrines. We come up with a doctrine of baptizing for the dead. It’s mentioned one time in the Bible, one time. Is nowhere in the Bible that it says baptized for the dead. How many know, how of two or three witnesses let everything be established? Yes. [unclear] Paul used an illustration of baptizing for the dead for some reason that I haven’t figured out yet, no one else has, and then some people want to baptize for the dead and give people the illusion that if you baptize for somebody already dead, they can make it into heaven. That goes against scripture. “It is appointed for man once to die, and after that,” the what? Judgment. They’ve already been judged.

▶ 19:59 Man, all my baptized and all my candlelight ain’t going to help them a bit. See, you can’t have conflicting messages. Amen. These Pentecostals that say the tongues is the initial sign of the baptism of the Holy Ghost, not in the Bible. You can’t find it anywhere, and I’ve challenged them with it. And I speak in tongues and I got filled with the Holy Ghost, I came out of Pentecost, you know, I got saved in a Pentecostal church and all that, and the baptism of the Holy Ghost is real, but the Bible says, “Do all speak with tongues?” What do we do with that? Does it say that? Yeah, “Do all speak with tongues?” Then we put a guilt trip on people that don’t speak in tongues, but they can still speak the mighty works of God like they did on the day of Pentecost. They can speak in English, they can speak in their language, and it comes from the source within. That’s still the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Prophecy is one of the things that happens, speaking by the inspiration of God. You see, and we accept it as doctrine and it’s not Bible

▶ 21:17 doctrine. Are you there? See, eternal security of the believer, or once saved always saved, not in the Bible. Absolutely not in there. And we accept them as doctrines and are not. I just gave you Bible doctrines. How many you know that’s enough doctrine right there to work on for the rest of your life? You don’t need any other doctrine. You get to working on the sound doctrine, you get to working on that law, that righteous, that sound doctrine, you get to working on the basic doctrines which you build the rest on, and you get to working on the mature doctrine, you got enough to last you a lifetime. I guarantee, I’m still working on it. Now let’s summarize what we learned in the first few verses of Revelation. It is the revelation of who? Jesus Christ, not the beast.

▶ 22:18 Hallelujah, not Satan, it’s Jesus we’re looking for here. The revelation of the judgment to come. We need to fear that. We need to have the fear of God in us. We got to stand before Him. It’s going to happen, folks. I don’t care if you’re a Catholic or Protestant or a Muslim, it’s going to happen. You’re going to give an account to God, not to your rabbi, not to the leader of the Muslim church or the Mormon church. You’re going to give an account to Jesus Christ. And the church. Oh church, I wish you could see what God intends for you, and I hope you can see it before this is over. We are a powerful, powerful thing in the earth, and we’re living way below our potential. Let me raise your hand and say, “I, that’s me.”

▶ 23:24 Yeah, you are so powerful that the Bible says, if we lost the battle and we were all wounded, every one of us, that we would rise up and we would destroy the enemy, because God’s with us. Isn’t that powerful? So those of you who feel wounded and hurt and cast down, rise up. Us cripples are better than they are. Amen. That’s just a sample of things to come. And can God lie? No, God cannot lie. All right, things shortly to come to pass. How fast are these things wanting to be done? Quickly. The point is, this is God wanting to do these things quickly in your life, or is it going to take a lifetime and

▶ 24:18 beyond? He wants to do it what? Quickly. Very important, these things that He wants us to learn and obey, we can quickly get them. He emphasized that it was written for all of God’s servants, not the pastors, not the ministers, not the popes and not the priests, it’s for all of us. The churches need an ear to hear, and that’s what we’re going to sing, “Open my eyes, Lord, open my ears, Lord.” We’re going to pray that prayer. It’s a prayer song, the hippies wrote it somewhere back there, it’s a great song. Angels speak the same thing. And when churches are contradicting the word of God, it’s the church’s problem, it’s not God. And when the Muslims and the Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Mormons and all these people who are supposed to have some kind of spectacular revelation from an angel and insight, and it’s conflicting, they are just wrong. And that’s when He says in Revelations, “Come out from among

▶ 25:24 them.” Get into the real doctrine, get into the real thing. Can I hear an amen? “Blessed are those who read and keep the words of this book.” If you’re willing to commit to reading the Bible and keeping the Bible, if you’re willing to commit to saying, “God, open my eyes and my ears. I want to be what You said I could be, and I want to inherit these things You said I can inherit,” if you’re willing to do that, will you can stand with me.