Matthew Blewett – Class 1: A Meditation Approach

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You are listening to a Bible,
talk recorded at the 2018

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Western christadelphians Bible
school, at Minooka, this is the

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first class in a series given by
brother, Matthew blew it on the

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subject.
Meditations in Revelation.

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This class is titled a
meditation approach.

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Thank you.
Good morning everyone.

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Nice to be with you here from
South Africa.

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I bring the love of all of your
brothers and sisters from there.

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Some of you have been so you
know who they are, others will

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be coming.
I’m sure very soon.

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It’s great to be with you.
And as you can see up on the

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board there on the screen, we’re
going to be hopefully see we’re

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going to be enjoying some
meditations from Revelation.

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And if you had sort of known me,
at least five or six years ago,

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you would have known that
probably Revelation was the Lost

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book on my list to look at.
It was a book like I’m sure many

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of you that I got to read once
or twice a year in my readings

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and enjoyed certain parts of it
but pretty much got pretty

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confused.
By the time I got to chapter 7

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and dragons and beasts were
flying all over the place and

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horses were coming in and the
chronology didn’t make sense.

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So if you did to me a few years
back that that I would be doing

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this, I want to see him
possible.

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There is a reason for that and
it’s quite surreal actually that

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I’m here telling you about this
reason and that is that my good

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uncle.
Look at her and I believe he was

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mentioned.
Actually, the previous talk

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about half was saying so you’re
getting quite a lot of Kudos I

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just before you may not have
realized.

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But so as I was saying, my uncle
Harold’s been also a large

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influence of my life spiritually
on the weightier matters of Law,

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primarily things like Faith,
Justice Mercy, that we were

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talking about in the previous
session and he was, he comes out

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to South Africa for some time
and he was sharing his wisdom

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and he was about to leave.
And I thought, well, you know,

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and I hate to say this to you
and Harold I wasn’t sure without

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him again, you know, but look,
he still fitting and healthy so

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this is good.
So I said to, you know, let me

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try and get one last piece of
jewelry of wisdom from him.

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So I said to him, look, you
know, in all the things That

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you’ve been thinking about, have
you got something else that you

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can share with me so that I can
capture?

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So I had my pen ready in my book
for this final piece of wisdom.

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Now if you know, Harold lost it
at all.

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I mean he does always talk about
Revelation.

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So you know, I might have
expected something like this but

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it was like one of those
situations when you don’t get

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the answer you expected because
there’s answer was, yes, I have

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one last piece of wisdom and
that is get into revelation.

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I was like, I don’t even need to
write that down and you know,

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this book of dragons and beasts
and fire and mass killings

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really just wasn’t something
that I felt that excited about

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but, you know, you know, he said
group, that’s what you need to

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do.
So it really hurt me.

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You know, I didn’t know what to
do with this and I kind of

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thought, you know, what I’ll do
is I’ll just put it at the

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bottom of my list.
I have the blessing of

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sometimes, being able to do
Bible talks at back home and and

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some Bible school.
So I’ve got a list of things.

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Things that I want to do.
So, if I put it at the bottom,

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it’ll be like number 42, and
I’ll probably be six foot under

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before I have to get to it.
But, you know, just keep going

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on my mind.
This, that I should look at the

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Book of Revelation in more
detail.

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And as I’ve said before, you
know, I just thought about this

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book that, that seems so
complicated, this chronology.

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This.
A lot of blood coming up to two

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nostrils and things that didn’t
really appeal to me.

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But he said one thing that
caught My tension, and it goes

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so beautifully with what we were
talking about in the first

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session with Bill when the
second session and that is he

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said, because it’s a love letter
from Jesus.

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And I think that is what I
didn’t think about.

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For me.
That’s not how I view the Book

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of Revelation as a love letter
from Jesus.

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And I think that was the kind of
breakthrough moment for what I

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want to share with you.
The approach that I’ve taken to

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Revelation and that’s all I
really want to achieve together

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with you, is I know that they’ll
be some, you’re like my own

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Uncle who are really very
excited about Revelation and for

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you guys I really trying to make
you even more excited and maybe

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give you some different
perspectives.

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For those of you who are in my
camp, they’re typically have

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read it but like not too excited
to sort of get too deeply into

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it.
I really want to present an

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approach that has worked for me
and that’s all I can do.

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It’s really has made an impact
on me.

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Made me talk more about it and
get excited about it and that’s

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what we’re going to do.
And in this first issue, I’m

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sorry if it’s a bit more boring,
I’m going to run through what

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that approach is, what I’ve
learned how I’ve gone about.

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Doing it.
And then the rest of the, of the

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time we’re going to spend
together, we actually going to

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practice that approach and I’m
going to share some of the

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meditations and the spiritual
lessons and insights that I’ve

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learned from this love letter
and hopefully through that share

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the approach with you in more
detail.

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And also maybe share some of the
lessons that come from this

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amazing book.
That is no longer my 50th on the

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list under Hosea, which is also
no longer 29th, because I’m now

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seeing that it’s a lovely it as
well.

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So there’s lovely, it is all
over.

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The place if you don’t get any
from your wives anymore or your

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husband’s.
So so, Why should we get into

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the Book of Revelation?
And, you know, when you step

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back and you get over any
issues, you may have with

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controversy, I see you had some
quotes.

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It’s interesting.
I hope this isn’t about every

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book, but I’ve got some quotes
about the Book of Revelation, as

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well as being the hardest and
most difficult book, but I think

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Asia could trumpet.
But, you know, you know, there’s

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a lot of information and we’ll
talk a bit more about it about

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why it’s such a difficult book.
Why are they so much

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controversy?
Not just within our community

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but throughout Christian.
Commentators, how are you meant

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to to deal with this book but
even if that’s the case, if you

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zoom out and get out of that
potential – and just think about

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why, why should we listen to
Uncle Harold?

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Why should we want to get in to
the Book of Revelation?

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And yes, some points that I
think you may or may not have

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known.
I’m sure you probably did.

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The first is, it’s actually
true.

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It’s a book, it’s a letter from
Jesus.

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I love letter from Jesus.
Now, we know that because The

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opening verse says this the
Revelation from Jesus Christ,

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which God gave to him to show
his servants which must soon

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take place that that phrase
which is translated their.

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I think this is the NIV from
Jesus Christ is the genitive

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version of Jesus Christ.
So it means belonging to Jesus

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Christ.
I think the KJV says of Jesus

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Christ and both are true.
You can translate it either way.

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So if this is true and I firmly
believe it is here we have the

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only Look in the whole Bible,
that’s actually given to us by

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Jesus Christ.
Now obviously, we know that

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there’s large parts of the
gospels, where we get Jesus

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speaking in the first person and
incredible Insight that we learn

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from him.
But here we have what seems to

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be a book a letter that’s
written to us bar Jesus.

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And I think if we view it like
that we would say well why would

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he want to share us with us a
final letter if it isn’t because

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he’s got some amazing Operation,
some warnings, some

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encouragement that he wants to
give to all of us as we live our

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journey towards the kingdom.
I think it’s later on

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revelation, 22.
It confirms this, I Jesus have

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sent mine Angel to give you this
message for the church’s.

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I am both the source of David
and the heir to his throne.

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So clearly a message from Jesus
for you.

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Now, we rather romantically
referred to as a love letter

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because we all love to receive
love L.

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My darling wife gives me one at
least every day, I have a D for

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me on my pillow.
And We are stochastic from South

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Africa.
So most of the things I’m saying

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he’d a big big dose of sarcasm,
Revelation 1, verse 5 says, this

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is a part of the introduction.
Still.

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So we’ve jumped from verse 1 and
from Jesus Christ, who is the

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faithful witness the firstborn
from the dead and the ruler of

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the kings of the earth to him
who loves us and has freed us

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from our sins by his blood.
Well I mean, if I’d wanted an

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intro about the love of God and
what he’s prepared to do, but

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here is the love of God.
Demonstrated in Jesus and he

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sending us this book.
He sending us data because he

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loves us.
So I think the description of

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Revelation which you may not
have heard before as a love

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letter from, Jesus is quite
appropriate and with that

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description in your mind, I
think you start saying, hang on

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a moment.
How would I read a love letter?

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How would I, how would I want to
get more out of a love letter?

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Especially from the most
important man who ever lived,

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the Lord Jesus Christ.
So that is Is I guess one of the

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biggest reasons why we should
pay some attention to this book?

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Some more reasons.
Well we know it is the last book

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of the Bible.
It is the the 66 book of the

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revealed word of God.
The greatest communication ever

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given to humans the Bible.
I think we would all agree.

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We heard a Bible School. 22 to
study it and understand it.

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Here is the final book and it
kind of presents itself.

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Not just that it’s the final
book in the Canon of scripture.

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That at some stage, the early
church fathers, It together, but

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it has a sense in which it, it
wants that position.

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There’s a lot of beginning and
end statements in the Book of

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Revelation where it says, you
know, and often their statements

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being made by God, or the Lord
Jesus Christ, I am the Alpha and

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the Omega, the beginning, and
the end the first and the last.

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So there’s the sense that this
book is saying, this is the

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Capstone.
This is the end of the

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revelation of God and, and so
much.

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As we will see that, that is
because it’s the end is putting

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on the beginning, will see that
when we pull a string.

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In Revelation, we can see it
moving in Genesis and all the

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way in between is just so much
excitement for us to go and

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discover so.
So if it’s true that it’s the

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Capstone of the revelation of
God throughout the whole Bible

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that he’s given to us, what?
It’s kind of like going to the

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theater or going to a movie and
you watch it and you’re really

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into the whole movie and it’s
the last scene and then forget

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it, it’s walk out.
You don’t do that.

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You wait to see the last scene
because often it To bring

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everything together.
It’s going to bring the ideas or

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it’s like reading a novel.
Great novel.

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Get to the Final Chapter just
too much effort.

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Close the book?
Leave it.

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You wouldn’t do that.
And and and that’s a challenge

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for all of us.
This book deserves for us to

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say, if it’s the final Capstone,
let’s have a look at what it

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could be trying to say to each
and every one of us.

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And being well, taught in the
word of God here.

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I’m sure you know this.
I mean, we talk, I like to use

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that beautiful idea of that the
Bible is full of

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cross-references, but the word
cross-references of sounds of a

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technical Echo.
So we we read our Bible and

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we’re so excited because as we
reading we’re saying, I’ve heard

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that before, I’ve seen that
symbol before, I’ve seen that

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image before, and all of the
Bible does this, but there’s

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arguably no book that draws upon
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the book of And it’s quite
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You see, I spent a long time
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Doesn’t look too clear there,
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Yeah, I’m hoping is going to
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Let’s just see.
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Let me do that.
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Hey, that’s impressive.
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So I could magnify things on my
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So, what we have here, this
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books of the Bible are, you can
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showing how they all every time.
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book to another book.
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creating like the kind of pectin
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Now, what you can do is you can
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is the book of Hope that you
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you see what’s coming out of
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It’s going loony.
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Incredible links to the rest of
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So so it’s such an exciting book
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and having heard about the, the,
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and the metaphors and similes,
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Revelation you heard of this
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that also used to work there but
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because here’s this verse which
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hears the words of this prophecy
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There is to the whole bubble and
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seems as if there’s a special
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attached to reading this book.
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here.
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book, I think there’s a clue to
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phrase, keeping the book, not
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seeing the book of something
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secret code and then you can
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make your sure you the goodie,
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if you begin to read this book
and understand and try to

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understand it, they’re going to
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result and I want to try and
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approach that I want to share
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together and then, finally, I
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There is the knowledge that even
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complicated and some not so
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of Revelation.
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inspirational passages.
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put one of them up there at the
end of his talk that God will

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wipe away every tear from our
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here I am I stand at the door
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voice And opens the door.
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and they with me, beautiful,
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I saw a new Heaven and a new
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the first Earth had passed away.
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he will wipe away every tear.
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alpha and then we can, we could
go on, you know I’ve done before

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I used to love asking people
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people about their favorite
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You know how many people choose
that verse wipe away every tear

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from their eyes.
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and a lot of the versus people
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from The Book of Revelation, but
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not a book, I’ve really got into
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chapters.
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20 and then it gets exciting
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between let’s leave for some PhD
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So again, if I can help to to
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really privileged.
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why I think we should give it
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are going to do this week.
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difficult.
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had to squish to talks into one
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very easy for me because he
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So I’m going to do this very
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has as you know, a language that
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those are graphic.
Aegis pictures, symbols similes

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metaphors and it’s very
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when you you hear expositions
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In what I will.
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I’ve got accused of doing this

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last week in a very tick box
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mark of the beast is and that is
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the woman means and you just
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Off the meaning of all the
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symbols.
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When I began to read the book of
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myself, you know this book.
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we’ll talk about that in a
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book of poetry.
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when I learn poetry, I love
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The one thing you never do to a
part is say, I read your poem

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with all this beautiful metaphor
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out.
I can tell you exactly what your

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poem is trying to say.
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write something with meaning as
it can have different

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perspectives.
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different times, can pick it up
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And here’s the Book of
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of style with this poet, Stop
kind of like we would pick up

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Proverbs or Psalms.
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try and go through, you know,
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out every element of what the
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We would allow him to speak to
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metaphors.
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little clue in in a, in a way.
Not the only way that we can

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then go about reading the book
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Well, most likely reading a poem
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And I want to show how I’ve
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And of course, this idea of
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And again, look at those ears is
being used in a way as a living

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Parable.
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something Jesus did it says he
answered and said to them

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because it has been given to you
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kingdom of God.
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given.
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while and I think we begin to
understand what is River.

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Shouldn’t really trying to
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it’s about the mysteries of, as
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Heaven.
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like to use throughout the
series and that’s spiritual

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truths.
They are spiritual principles

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that are not that they don’t
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world.
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share those those as it were
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There any Mysteries?
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perspective, they don’t
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but from God’s perspective,
their life And he’s trying to

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share them with us and because
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doesn’t just use poetry and
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it’s because these are
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These are Concepts that are
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different perspectives.
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as, as the handiwork of God,
it’s like his sculpture that

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he’s made and he presents it to
us in symbols because these

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spiritual truths need to be
looked at from different

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perspectives as we go through
life and we’ll see some examples

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of this.
I mean, you don’t go to the

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Louvre and see one of the
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Michelangelo has done.
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the front so it’s awesome.
And not think to look at it from

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the side ogre around and look at
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there’s so much depth and it’s
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And here we have the Lord Jesus
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his spiritual truths with us,
and he chooses to use a

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parabolic symbol based theme,
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him to reveal the incredible
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that we can learn from The Book
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It’s also difficult to read not
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this poetry that they can
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chronology is and we have to
accept this very difficult, you

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will see some people and and I’m
not trying to actually even give

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you an interpretation of you
can’t to get one you’ll be

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highly disappointed but you’ll
see that often when when you

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need to try and interpret the
whole book, people will try and

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draw up some sort of chronology
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do, but it’s very difficult to
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Why?
Because as you can see from this

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diagram over here, Keep getting
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So, although it seems to be this
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the point of the time, in which
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What happens is we would
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the way to chapter 22 and
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chronologies they but we start
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we’re already at the end, the
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there and everybody’s happy and
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there again in chapter 5 and
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back to the end.
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It can also be quite difficult
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So the style that is used is
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style.
So I promise you not too much

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Greek here, but apocalyptic we
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Now, unfortunately, that word
has become to mean something

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totally different in our
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So for example, you’ve had some
wild fires and in other world is

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it?
I do a little California to get

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that every year but anyway you
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California.
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devastation of an incredible
fire, that often say it looks

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like the apocalypse.
It’s apocalyptic scenes in

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California, but that’s just
because they Associated the

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apocalypse with lots of fire and
burning.

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in sending you, this lovely does
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He’s not trying to hold back
things from you, so that you’ve

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got to go and work out, some
magical coat and then crack it.

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And then work out, how you’re
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Through cracking, the code, he’s
actually giving you these

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symbols giving you this
beautiful thing to uncover to

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reveal, all right?
And, and, and the clue to how

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you reveal it is to take these
symbols and to take these

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metaphors and unlock them.
The spirit and we’re told, this

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is a beautiful passage in 1st
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These things is poor.
We also speak not in Words which

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man’s Wisdom teaches but which
the Holy Spirit teaches

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comparing spiritual things with
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So there’s a There is almost the
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Jesus is saying, I’m going to
give you spiritual things, the

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the spiritual truths in my final
letter and to help you to

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understand them, you need to
take other spiritual things, to

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understand these spiritual
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And, of course, that means when
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of Revelation, or when we read
about a name and the Book of

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Revelation to amplifier, what
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that theme that metaphor.
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other parts of the other.
The Bible, the other.

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Parts of the spirit to unlock
what we’re eating.

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And that’s really in essence,
what we should be doing, dating

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00:22:47,100 –> 00:22:50,900
as we sometimes say, the Bible
interpret itself, the spirit,

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00:22:51,100 –> 00:22:53,200
allowing the spirit to interpret
itself.

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And Jesus says, if you do that,
Again, talking about his

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Parables blessed are those who
see and your ears that hear for

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00:23:00,200 –> 00:23:03,100
assuredly, I say to you that
many prophets and righteous men,

436
00:23:03,400 –> 00:23:07,300
desire to see what you see and
did not see it and to hear what

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00:23:07,300 –> 00:23:09,500
you hear and did not hear it.
What a privilege.

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00:23:09,600 –> 00:23:12,400
Maybe this is why it says, we
can be very blessed if we read

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00:23:12,400 –> 00:23:15,600
the book of Revelation because
there are things that Jesus is

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revealing in their principles.
Then it seems that Jesus is

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suggesting that that the men of
old, some of the Patriarchs

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00:23:22,200 –> 00:23:25,300
would have done anything to
understand would have really

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00:23:25,300 –> 00:23:29,600
wanted to see themselves and we
have the opportunity to read

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about them and try to understand
them and most important put them

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into practice in our lives.
So here’s a question in

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Revelation, chapter 10 verse 1.
It says that these are the words

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00:23:41,800 –> 00:23:44,900
of the prophecy of the things
which must shortly, come to

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00:23:44,900 –> 00:23:46,700
pass.
So some say, well, Matthew

449
00:23:46,700 –> 00:23:49,000
talking about the Book of
Revelation as if there’s any

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00:23:49,000 –> 00:23:52,100
spiritual principles and truths,
and we’ll talk a bit more about

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00:23:52,100 –> 00:23:55,400
exactly what I mean by that.
But, isn’t it really just a book

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00:23:55,400 –> 00:23:57,700
of prediction?
I mean, that’s what it is.

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It’s a prophecy.
So, I want to stop for a moment

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and just think about that for a
moment.

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So the text you probably would
have to be really Superior in

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00:24:05,200 –> 00:24:08,400
your Optics to It says, at the
top there Greek I said you

457
00:24:08,400 –> 00:24:09,800
weren’t getting too much Greek.
I was lying.

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Obviously, the Greek word for
Prophecy in the New Testament is

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profe me PR.
Oh, you know what, Pro is and

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femi and the only reason that’s
important is because the way in

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00:24:21,000 –> 00:24:24,500
which prophecy is used in the
New Testament, and to a certain

462
00:24:24,500 –> 00:24:27,400
extent in the Old Testament is a
bit different to the way we

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think of Prophecy.
So we think a prophecy

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00:24:29,200 –> 00:24:33,600
prediction, some prediction is
being made, but in fact, the

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00:24:33,600 –> 00:24:40,300
word means literally Row fourth
to go forth, Fair me to speak to

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00:24:40,300 –> 00:24:42,500
speak forth.
So when people have the gift of

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00:24:42,500 –> 00:24:44,700
Prophecy, for example, we didn’t
necessarily mean that they would

468
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stand up and say, you know,
John’s going to win the gulf.

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00:24:49,000 –> 00:24:54,700
And, you know, we’re going to
have fish and chips tonight to

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eat.
I want to suggest anything for

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the kitchen, but it wasn’t that
kind of prediction.

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00:25:00,700 –> 00:25:03,700
It was really that they could
just speak God’s words so they

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were prophets a gift of Prophecy
meant that they would stand.

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00:25:06,000 –> 00:25:09,400
What they said was God’s words
and it was coming from the Lord

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00:25:09,400 –> 00:25:14,100
speaking forth.
The idea was this that the words

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00:25:14,100 –> 00:25:18,900
that they spoke often might have
some predictive part of them,

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00:25:19,200 –> 00:25:22,800
but in the essence, they were a
principal, they represented a

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00:25:22,800 –> 00:25:26,100
principal coming from God,
something that that you could

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grab onto and make yourself.
And this is a very important

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principle.
I want to try and illustrate it

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00:25:30,400 –> 00:25:33,700
through just one prophecy.
You probably know well and

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that’s a prophecy that was given
in the hosiery.

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00:25:35,900 –> 00:25:39,800
In verse 1.
When Israel was a child, I loved

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him and out of Egypt, I called
my son, so he said, well there’s

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a prophecy so what what what
happens in this easy prophecy?

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00:25:46,300 –> 00:25:49,200
Well, first of all, we notice
that their prophecy actually

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00:25:49,200 –> 00:25:51,500
gets fulfilled, a number of
times.

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00:25:51,600 –> 00:25:54,400
So the predictive element isn’t
just once it happens a few

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00:25:54,400 –> 00:25:57,600
times.
So for example, when Israel was

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a child, I loved him and out of
Egypt.

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I called my son.
What?

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00:26:00,200 –> 00:26:04,600
At least the first performance
of that would have been Before

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00:26:04,600 –> 00:26:08,000
history, Exodus, absolutely.
He took the people, the children

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of Israel from the bondage of
Egypt and took them out to the

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00:26:11,300 –> 00:26:13,900
promised land.
And then the next fulfillment,

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00:26:13,900 –> 00:26:15,800
there were many others, but the
next big one that this has been

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00:26:15,800 –> 00:26:19,000
quoted as a fulfillment of later
on, is Jesus.

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Jesus taken into in the gospel
of Matthew taken into Egypt

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00:26:22,400 –> 00:26:26,300
because Herod was doing nasty
things, and then comes back.

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All right, but hang on a moment,
it’s going to happen again.

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00:26:31,600 –> 00:26:33,700
We all going to hopefully be
caught out of the way.

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00:26:33,900 –> 00:26:36,400
Old and brought to, to the
kingdom.

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00:26:36,600 –> 00:26:39,700
And hopefully that’s going to be
in the promised land.

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00:26:40,500 –> 00:26:42,500
But actually, what is happening
here?

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00:26:43,100 –> 00:26:46,100
This prophecy is actually first
a principal.

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So when we look at that
prophecy, it’s teaching a

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00:26:49,600 –> 00:26:51,100
principle.
What is the principal?

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00:26:51,800 –> 00:26:56,200
The principal is all of us are
in bondage in Egypt.

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We’re all slaves to Egypt and we
have to be called out to be a

510
00:27:00,700 –> 00:27:02,600
Son.
Of God means that we are called

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00:27:02,600 –> 00:27:06,500
out from the Age of Egypt and
become Sons and Daughters of

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God, that’s a principle.
And no wonder, it’s been

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00:27:09,400 –> 00:27:11,800
fulfilled because God’s
principles because they are

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00:27:11,800 –> 00:27:15,500
true, will be fulfilled in the
big examples we’ve given and

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00:27:15,500 –> 00:27:19,900
every time we see someone get
baptized or commit to God, we

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00:27:19,900 –> 00:27:21,500
see that prophecy being
fulfilled.

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00:27:22,400 –> 00:27:26,200
So I hope you can see that that
if you take a meditational

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00:27:26,200 –> 00:27:28,300
approach, as I’m going to
describe in a few moments, The

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00:27:28,300 –> 00:27:32,900
Book of Revelation and you look
for the principles that is not

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00:27:32,900 –> 00:27:36,300
to say that the predictions may
or may not be happening all over

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00:27:36,300 –> 00:27:39,700
the place.
The principles are also if not

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00:27:39,700 –> 00:27:44,000
as important, maybe even more
important because they describe

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00:27:44,000 –> 00:27:47,900
the spiritual truth, that Jesus
are sharing and there are things

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00:27:47,900 –> 00:27:52,100
that we can make use of today
and we can keep them so that we

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00:27:52,100 –> 00:27:54,300
can be a part of the wonderful
Kingdom.

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00:27:54,300 –> 00:27:57,800
He has planned for all of us
though, much, this is Vines

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00:27:57,800 –> 00:28:00,400
expository dictionary, though.
Much of the Old Testament

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00:28:00,400 –> 00:28:04,000
prophecy was purely predictive
prophecy is not necessarily nor

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00:28:04,000 –> 00:28:08,100
even primarily for telling it is
the Declaration of that, which

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00:28:08,100 –> 00:28:11,300
cannot be known by natural means
beautifully.

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Put it is the fourth telling of
the will of God, whether with

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00:28:15,500 –> 00:28:18,300
reference to the past, the
present, or the future.

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00:28:18,600 –> 00:28:22,500
So I think that encapsulates,
this idea that Kant naturally be

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00:28:22,500 –> 00:28:24,700
known.
It’s the mind of the spirit,

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00:28:25,000 –> 00:28:29,000
capturing a principle that we
can make good use of in our

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00:28:29,000 –> 00:28:34,400
everyday living.
So Let us move on swiftly.

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00:28:35,100 –> 00:28:38,700
There are a number of
interpretation methods of the

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00:28:38,700 –> 00:28:42,300
Book of Revelation and you
hopefully or may not you’ll be

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00:28:42,300 –> 00:28:44,400
familiar with at least one or
two of these methods.

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00:28:44,500 –> 00:28:46,100
I’m going to go through this
very quickly.

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00:28:46,400 –> 00:28:50,900
So these are the four major
categories by which people

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00:28:51,000 –> 00:28:52,600
interpret the Book of
Revelation.

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00:28:52,800 –> 00:28:56,600
So the first one was quite
popular actually by some of the

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00:28:56,600 –> 00:28:59,800
writings of the the, the early,
Christian father’s, if you want

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00:28:59,800 –> 00:29:02,300
to term the net and it’s known
as the preachers.

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00:29:03,000 –> 00:29:05,400
Interpretation.
And that is looking at the book

547
00:29:05,400 –> 00:29:09,300
primarily from a predictive
perspective and seeing most of

548
00:29:09,300 –> 00:29:14,600
the prophecies as predictive
prophecies for food in the 40

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years after the writing of the
book.

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00:29:16,500 –> 00:29:19,100
So up to 80 70 and a bit off 287
T.

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00:29:19,300 –> 00:29:22,300
So that is the preachers View
and with a little bit right at

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00:29:22,300 –> 00:29:25,900
the end potentially in terms of
the Fulfillment of Revelation,

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00:29:25,900 –> 00:29:30,100
21 and 22, then there is the
historic category and the

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00:29:30,100 –> 00:29:34,300
historic category which includes
I guess the, the most

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00:29:34,300 –> 00:29:38,200
traditional christadelphians top
interpretation, which is the

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00:29:38,200 –> 00:29:41,600
idea of continuous historic fits
into that category which says

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00:29:41,600 –> 00:29:44,900
that the Book of Revelation is
primarily a predictive book and

558
00:29:44,900 –> 00:29:47,500
most of those symbols are
prophecies that have been

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00:29:47,500 –> 00:29:50,900
fulfilled throughout the course
of history and most of it’s been

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00:29:50,900 –> 00:29:52,800
fulfilled and there’s a little
bit at the end that we’re

561
00:29:52,800 –> 00:29:56,200
getting towards that still has
to be fulfilled so continuously

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00:29:56,200 –> 00:29:59,400
historic and there’s a whole
bunch of other historic, top

563
00:29:59,500 –> 00:30:02,800
interpretations.
I’m going to jump the Someone

564
00:30:02,800 –> 00:30:05,800
got a futurism futurism is quite
popular at the moment, you’ll

565
00:30:05,800 –> 00:30:10,800
find a lot of interpretive
framework surround futurism and

566
00:30:10,800 –> 00:30:15,500
a lot of modern commentators.
Take this view in this view.

567
00:30:16,000 –> 00:30:20,600
The, the interpretation of most
of Revelation is predictive for

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00:30:21,000 –> 00:30:24,800
a period of about seven years
that is likely to still come.

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00:30:24,800 –> 00:30:27,000
So it’s a future event that’s
going to roll out.

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00:30:27,100 –> 00:30:31,300
And in fact, the predictive sort
of commentators like to view a

571
00:30:31,300 –> 00:30:34,800
lot of what We would call symbol
and simile and metaphor as

572
00:30:34,800 –> 00:30:36,600
actually going to happen in
reality.

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00:30:37,100 –> 00:30:39,900
So because it’s impossible to
have seen it happen in the past,

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00:30:39,900 –> 00:30:42,400
they see it happening in the
future and a lot of it’s going

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00:30:42,400 –> 00:30:43,900
to actually happen.
We’re going to see some of the

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00:30:43,900 –> 00:30:47,800
stuff actually happening in
reality and then I skip the one

577
00:30:48,000 –> 00:30:52,100
Viewpoint Court idealism.
The idealistic view says the

578
00:30:52,100 –> 00:30:56,000
Book of Revelation is in fact a
book full of principles.

579
00:30:56,500 –> 00:31:01,000
When we read it we should be
looking for the principles the

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00:31:01,000 –> 00:31:02,300
approach.
And I’m going to tell you

581
00:31:02,400 –> 00:31:04,800
Difference between, in my view,
an approaching interpretation is

582
00:31:04,800 –> 00:31:09,000
in the moment that I’m
suggesting probably ends up when

583
00:31:09,000 –> 00:31:13,000
it ends up as an interpretation
mostly in the idealist category.

584
00:31:13,500 –> 00:31:17,300
However, pure idealists
commentators believe there’s no

585
00:31:17,300 –> 00:31:19,300
predictive element to the Book
of Revelation.

586
00:31:19,300 –> 00:31:22,800
I don’t quite bothered as I
showed you in that model

587
00:31:22,800 –> 00:31:25,100
earlier.
I think there’s a very important

588
00:31:25,100 –> 00:31:29,200
role to extract the principles,
but by their very nature, those

589
00:31:29,200 –> 00:31:32,600
principles are going to have
massive performance as we See

590
00:31:32,600 –> 00:31:34,200
the course of human history, run
its time.

591
00:31:34,300 –> 00:31:37,800
So in a sense, if you had to
force where I’m going into a

592
00:31:37,808 –> 00:31:42,100
category, I would have to sit
somewhere between idealism and I

593
00:31:42,100 –> 00:31:45,200
know this is like being a
postmodernist and all the others

594
00:31:45,400 –> 00:31:49,200
together.
So so that’s where we’re going

595
00:31:49,200 –> 00:31:52,800
now.
What I do want to emphasize in,

596
00:31:52,800 –> 00:31:57,300
whatever time we have is, what I
mean by a meditation approach.

597
00:31:57,500 –> 00:32:02,300
So really what freed me to be
able to listen to the advice

598
00:32:02,500 –> 00:32:07,700
Some of my sage uncle was
actually freeing myself from an

599
00:32:07,700 –> 00:32:11,000
interpretation framework.
I said to myself, you know,

600
00:32:11,000 –> 00:32:16,500
what, if this is a love L, then
what I need to do is just be

601
00:32:16,500 –> 00:32:21,200
prepared to pick up one or two
verses, a day from this book and

602
00:32:21,200 –> 00:32:25,200
to read it like a love letter.
And, you know, I’ll be honest, I

603
00:32:25,208 –> 00:32:27,400
haven’t received many love
letters recently, but I did

604
00:32:27,400 –> 00:32:30,700
receive some when I was going
out with Mark Martin and I’m

605
00:32:30,700 –> 00:32:34,000
sure you received some right,
some love L, and when you get a

606
00:32:34,008 –> 00:32:36,400
love letter, you hang on every
word.

607
00:32:36,400 –> 00:32:40,200
Don’t you what, how did she
addressed me and you know, Did

608
00:32:40,200 –> 00:32:43,200
you what words did she use to
describe how she’s feeling?

609
00:32:43,200 –> 00:32:46,200
Is she really missing me or just
not missing me that much.

610
00:32:46,300 –> 00:32:50,300
We hang on the detail.
And so for me it was you know

611
00:32:50,300 –> 00:32:53,700
what if I could pick up the Book
of Revelation and just hang on

612
00:32:53,700 –> 00:32:57,400
the detail and hang on the words
and focus on it.

613
00:32:57,500 –> 00:33:00,700
And and not be bound by some
framework that says well because

614
00:33:00,700 –> 00:33:04,200
I’m in chapter 9 and verse 7,
and I’ve already worked out

615
00:33:04,200 –> 00:33:07,700
previously that this symbol
means that and now my mind is

616
00:33:07,700 –> 00:33:11,700
more caught up in a framework,
but Let those words speak to me.

617
00:33:12,000 –> 00:33:14,600
Through focus and through Echoes
and I’ll share some of the

618
00:33:14,600 –> 00:33:18,900
techniques then, perhaps I can
get some amazing spiritual

619
00:33:18,900 –> 00:33:22,100
Insight that I can take with me.
And that’s really an Essence.

620
00:33:22,300 –> 00:33:25,000
Why I say what I’m presenting is
an approach.

621
00:33:25,100 –> 00:33:27,700
It’s a way that I’ve got to
really enjoy the Book of

622
00:33:27,700 –> 00:33:30,500
Revelation, it doesn’t.
Invalidate other approaches, it

623
00:33:30,500 –> 00:33:34,300
certainly doesn’t lead to a
interpretation that I can share

624
00:33:34,300 –> 00:33:37,100
with you that will then compete
against other interpretations.

625
00:33:37,100 –> 00:33:40,400
So if you come to me with your
interpretations, Love to hear

626
00:33:40,400 –> 00:33:44,000
them and it would be a part of
us having a great discussion of

627
00:33:44,008 –> 00:33:47,000
the Book of Revelation.
But what I’m sharing with you is

628
00:33:47,000 –> 00:33:50,600
really just an approach.
So I’ve already said it involves

629
00:33:50,600 –> 00:33:54,400
hanging on every word you know
because Revelation is so full of

630
00:33:54,400 –> 00:33:56,900
complex symbols.
If you try and take a Chapter or

631
00:33:56,900 –> 00:34:01,100
even eight nine ten verses you
just get lost because they all

632
00:34:01,100 –> 00:34:02,900
these symbols.
So when you can take a smaller

633
00:34:02,900 –> 00:34:06,000
piece of it, like you would do
with taking one or two Proverbs

634
00:34:06,000 –> 00:34:08,600
for the day, you’ll find that.
Actually, it’s not quite as

635
00:34:08,600 –> 00:34:10,900
intimidating.
If you free yourself from the

636
00:34:10,900 –> 00:34:13,400
chronology discussion and your
free yourself from some

637
00:34:13,400 –> 00:34:15,600
framework that says you have to
look at it in the past or in the

638
00:34:15,600 –> 00:34:17,300
future or it’s got to be some
prediction.

639
00:34:17,300 –> 00:34:19,900
And you’re looking at, we did
see a whole bunch of things

640
00:34:19,900 –> 00:34:23,000
actually becomes simpler.
In fact, when I first started

641
00:34:23,000 –> 00:34:25,699
talking about this approach,
which, you know, people

642
00:34:26,100 –> 00:34:28,000
misinterpreted, I said this is
the free approach.

643
00:34:28,400 –> 00:34:30,000
They said, oh good, we have to
pay any money for it.

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00:34:30,000 –> 00:34:33,100
I said y’all there, too.
But what I mean, is, it’s free

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from from a framework and from
from previous assumptions, you

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may have made.
Impacting, what you can get out

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of the passages that you’re
looking at this morning or this

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evening or whenever you choose
to to meditate, it helps us not

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to miss the wood for the trees
and it helps us to take less

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with more time so that’s what we
want to try and do now.

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We’re going to be going at 9:00
for meditation with with John,

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right.
So what do I mean by meditation?

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In fact, I practice I’m sure I’m
going to learn a lot but I

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practice, a lot of the
meditation that John’s referring

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to In fact, as one of the ways
that leads into this meditation

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are I’m a great believer in
breathing meditation trying to

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clear very busy Minds.
We have this a way of thinking

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00:35:19,400 –> 00:35:21,700
we can go from one activity into
the other and there does need to

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be a transition.
You’ll find that at this Bible

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week.
First day second day, you’re

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getting into it, suddenly third
or fourth day.

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It just feels that you are in
Heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

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that’s, that’s transition.
So meditation is a great

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00:35:34,600 –> 00:35:37,400
technique for transition.
The kind of meditation, I’m

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referring to is I guess the way
it’s you?

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Just in the Bible a lot.
I think the Bible is also

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referring to just that moment of
saying silent that moment and I

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love the idea, I think John just
said in his message that

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actually the gap between
meditation and prayer is, I

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don’t know that there’s a gap.
They just merge into each other.

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And and so I’m talking about
deep contemplation of a small

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portion of the word of God that
is meant to bring you to a point

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of worship and pray.
You know, it’s something that I

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learned only very recently and
that is that, no doubt every

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single passage of scripture and
we’ll see this in a little

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having said that’s a free
approach.

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I’m going to give you a bunch of
steps to follow.

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How’s that for for Paradox?
But anyway, I have got that side

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of my character as well but
we’ll just share it with you.

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The point is everything should
bring us to a point of

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application in my view.
If we, if we read scripture, we

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don’t get to the.
You are the man point, then it’s

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like David listening to the
great Parable that Nathan was

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And eventually he realizes, it’s
about himself, so that’s

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important.
But more than that or as

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important as that I should,
rather say it should bring us to

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a new appreciation or to not
necessarily a new but a real

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00:36:48,500 –> 00:36:55,100
consciousness of our presence.
Our of God’s presence around us

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and the Lord Jesus Christ
presence around us and that’s

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actually what the word worship
is all about worth-ship in his

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presence.
So I hope that as you

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contemplate, some Of the
passages from The Book of

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Revelation, that’s where we’ll
get to, we’ll get you a point of

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worship and that’s meditation.
So I did say that through the

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course of me trying to follow
the sage advice and making this

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one commitment, this is what I
can do.

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My sage Uncle, I can’t pick up
this book of Revelation.

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Start going through other
expositions that’s just not

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going to work.
So what I can do is I’m going to

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take just two or three verses
every morning for 15 minutes and

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I’m going to sit with them and
I’m going to try Here.

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The message Jesus has for me
this morning and that’s all I’ve

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00:37:38,300 –> 00:37:41,200
done that in that process.
I’ve developed a little bit of a

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00:37:41,600 –> 00:37:42,900
process.
I’m just going to shoot with

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you.
You will come up with your own

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00:37:44,400 –> 00:37:47,900
process and it’s pretty makes a
lot of sense and you probably do

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this kind of thing.
Anyway the first is this its

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focus and interestingly when you
look up the word meditation

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which appears a number of times
in the Old Testament, you’ll

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find that when that word
appears, there’s a lot of these

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ideas that come together with
the word.

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So for example, in Psalm 119 the
right, He says, I will meditate

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on your precepts and fix my eyes
on your way.

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So what she’s suggesting is when
he meditates, it’s helping him

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to fix his eyes on God’s ways.
Is this idea of real Focus?

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We don’t get a lot of time to do
that nowadays, don’t we, you

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00:38:22,600 –> 00:38:26,000
know, I practice this with with
a youth say we’re going to we’re

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going to meditate on one concept
for three minutes.

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It’s absolutely simple easy to
do that.

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And of course you not get
everybody quiet.

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Give them the concept and you
give them three minutes after

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00:38:36,900 –> 00:38:38,700
what you say, how many of you
stuck with it for three minutes?

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First of all the three minutes
take so long and as John also

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mentioned our minds, we can do
want to.

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So it’s not easy for us to do
this because we live in a world

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where we’re just so used to
interaction, people are

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00:38:49,500 –> 00:38:51,500
interacting with right now.
He’s sending you messages right

728
00:38:51,500 –> 00:38:52,600
now.
Emails are coming through for

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00:38:52,600 –> 00:38:53,900
you.
Yes you can look at them when we

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00:38:53,900 –> 00:38:57,600
finish and WhatsApp messages and
text messages, it’s a very

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interactive world.
So focus is at the essence of

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it.
So I find a quiet place.

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I do this in the morning.
By the way, some people have is,

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how do you get that?
Right?

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Well, we have readings with our
kids in the morning and we

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follow a little bit of a
discipline.

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And then I’m a good wife is
trained them to go and make

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their own lunch for school.
Otherwise, I don’t eat and in

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there, Tom, I escaped and
practice, physical silence, and

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00:39:21,100 –> 00:39:23,900
mental silence and actually take
my few verses from The Book of

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Revelation and, and focus on the
passage that I’ve chosen.

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So, that’s the first thing then.
One thing that that I think the

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psalm says they caused me to
understand the way of your

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00:39:35,500 –> 00:39:38,500
precepts that I might meditate
on your wonderful Deeds too

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00:39:38,500 –> 00:39:40,200
often.
We can we can pick up a

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scripture and oven when we going
into the detail.

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Before we go into the detail, we
don’t understand what the basic

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messages.
So before I get into the details

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of the passage and we will
practice some examples of this I

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try and ask myself, very simply
what simply being said?

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00:39:54,400 –> 00:39:56,800
Yeah, because most times believe
it or not, even if you’re

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00:39:56,800 –> 00:40:00,000
reading about a white horse or a
dragon, you know, blowing fire

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00:40:00,000 –> 00:40:02,600
or whatever you can.
You work out something simple as

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being say.
That might not be profound, but

755
00:40:04,300 –> 00:40:07,600
just stop and get the forest
before you get to the truth.

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Because I can think the trees
are exciting.

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00:40:08,900 –> 00:40:11,800
I love getting to the trees but
stop with the forest if you can

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00:40:11,800 –> 00:40:17,600
understand and then possibly the
one that I certainly love as a

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00:40:17,600 –> 00:40:22,300
Bible student, is the remember
Psalm 143.

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I remember the days of long ago,
I meditate on all your works and

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00:40:25,700 –> 00:40:27,300
consider what your hands have
done.

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00:40:27,400 –> 00:40:30,000
So the idea of listening for
bauble echoes.

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00:40:30,600 –> 00:40:35,600
He’s talking to us about a lamb
or about crowns or about a

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00:40:35,600 –> 00:40:37,600
number 6.
We have.

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00:40:37,600 –> 00:40:39,000
I heard it before.
What is it?

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Remind me of this is this idea
of its spiritual work with

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00:40:43,900 –> 00:40:46,800
spiritual, help me to understand
your Insight.

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00:40:46,800 –> 00:40:50,400
Your Truth through remembering
and then I mentioned the point

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earlier that all of that
ultimately for me at the end of

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00:40:54,100 –> 00:40:57,800
my little 15 minutes, it’s a
value because it brings me to

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the point of worship in some way
having understood.

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00:41:00,400 –> 00:41:03,700
Would in some better way.
What this passage was saying to

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00:41:03,700 –> 00:41:07,100
me today, as a spiritual
principle, I feel the very

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00:41:07,100 –> 00:41:09,200
presence of our father and the
Lord Jesus Christ.

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00:41:09,500 –> 00:41:12,600
And then, of course, you can
leave the day with something

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00:41:12,600 –> 00:41:16,400
that you can apply something
from what may have started off

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00:41:16,400 –> 00:41:19,800
as a fairly arbitrary piece of
scripture from The Book of

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00:41:19,800 –> 00:41:24,200
Revelation that has come out of
it, a principle, a spiritual

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00:41:24,200 –> 00:41:27,000
truth that you can go out for
the day and say, you know what,

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00:41:27,000 –> 00:41:29,400
I’m going to remember that, I’m
going to change some behavior,

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00:41:29,400 –> 00:41:32,700
I’m going to change.
I’m thinking as a result of that

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00:41:32,700 –> 00:41:35,500
Insight accorded, the, you are
the man syndrome.

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00:41:35,500 –> 00:41:38,800
And, and really, that is the
process I go through and all of

784
00:41:38,800 –> 00:41:41,500
that leads to spiritual insights
that.

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00:41:41,500 –> 00:41:44,500
I keep those in a journal.
And as a result of that journal,

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I’m here talking to you about
meditations on Revelation, and

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00:41:47,800 –> 00:41:49,200
we will leave it there for
today.