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\nWestern christadelphians Bible
\nschool, at Minooka, this is the <\/p>\n
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\nfirst class in a series given by
\nbrother, Matthew blew it on the <\/p>\n
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\nsubject.
\nMeditations in Revelation. <\/p>\n
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\nThis class is titled a
\nmeditation approach. <\/p>\n
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\nThank you.
\nGood morning everyone. <\/p>\n
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\nNice to be with you here from
\nSouth Africa. <\/p>\n
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\nI bring the love of all of your
\nbrothers and sisters from there.<\/p>\n
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\nSome of you have been so you
\nknow who they are, others will <\/p>\n
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\nbe coming.
\nI’m sure very soon. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s great to be with you.
\nAnd as you can see up on the <\/p>\n
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\nboard there on the screen, we’re
\ngoing to be hopefully see we’re <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to be enjoying some
\nmeditations from Revelation. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd if you had sort of known me,
\nat least five or six years ago, <\/p>\n
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\nyou would have known that
\nprobably Revelation was the Lost<\/p>\n
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\nbook on my list to look at.
\nIt was a book like I’m sure many<\/p>\n
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\nof you that I got to read once
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\nand enjoyed certain parts of it
\nbut pretty much got pretty <\/p>\n
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\nconfused.
\nBy the time I got to chapter 7 <\/p>\n
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\nand dragons and beasts were
\nflying all over the place and <\/p>\n
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\nhorses were coming in and the
\nchronology didn’t make sense. <\/p>\n
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\nSo if you did to me a few years
\nback that that I would be doing <\/p>\n
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\nthis, I want to see him
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\nThere is a reason for that and
\nit’s quite surreal actually that<\/p>\n
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\nI’m here telling you about this
\nreason and that is that my good <\/p>\n
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\nuncle.
\nLook at her and I believe he was<\/p>\n
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\nmentioned.
\nActually, the previous talk <\/p>\n
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\nabout half was saying so you’re
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\njust before you may not have
\nrealized. <\/p>\n
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\nBut so as I was saying, my uncle
\nHarold’s been also a large <\/p>\n
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\ninfluence of my life spiritually
\non the weightier matters of Law,<\/p>\n
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\nprimarily things like Faith,
\nJustice Mercy, that we were <\/p>\n
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\ntalking about in the previous
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\nto South Africa for some time
\nand he was sharing his wisdom <\/p>\n
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\nand he was about to leave.
\nAnd I thought, well, you know, <\/p>\n
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\nand I hate to say this to you
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\nhim again, you know, but look,
\nhe still fitting and healthy so <\/p>\n
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\nthis is good.
\nSo I said to, you know, let me <\/p>\n
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\ntry and get one last piece of
\njewelry of wisdom from him. <\/p>\n
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\nSo I said to him, look, you
\nknow, in all the things That <\/p>\n
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\nyou’ve been thinking about, have
\nyou got something else that you <\/p>\n
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\ncan share with me so that I can
\ncapture? <\/p>\n
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\nSo I had my pen ready in my book
\nfor this final piece of wisdom. <\/p>\n
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\nNow if you know, Harold lost it
\nat all. <\/p>\n
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\nI mean he does always talk about
\nRevelation. <\/p>\n
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\nSo you know, I might have
\nexpected something like this but<\/p>\n
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\nit was like one of those
\nsituations when you don’t get <\/p>\n
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\nthe answer you expected because
\nthere’s answer was, yes, I have <\/p>\n
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\none last piece of wisdom and
\nthat is get into revelation. <\/p>\n
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\nI was like, I don’t even need to
\nwrite that down and you know, <\/p>\n
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\nthis book of dragons and beasts
\nand fire and mass killings <\/p>\n
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\nreally just wasn’t something
\nthat I felt that excited about <\/p>\n
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\nbut, you know, you know, he said
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\ndo.
\nSo it really hurt me. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, I didn’t know what to
\ndo with this and I kind of <\/p>\n
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\nthought, you know, what I’ll do
\nis I’ll just put it at the <\/p>\n
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\nbottom of my list.
\nI have the blessing of <\/p>\n
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\nsometimes, being able to do
\nBible talks at back home and and<\/p>\n
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\nsome Bible school.
\nSo I’ve got a list of things. <\/p>\n
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\nThings that I want to do.
\nSo, if I put it at the bottom, <\/p>\n
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\nbefore I have to get to it.
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\non my mind.
\nThis, that I should look at the <\/p>\n
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\nBook of Revelation in more
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\nAnd as I’ve said before, you
\nknow, I just thought about this <\/p>\n
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\ncomplicated, this chronology. <\/p>\n
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\nBut he said one thing that
\ncaught My tension, and it goes <\/p>\n
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\nsaid, because it’s a love letter
\nfrom Jesus. <\/p>\n
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\nFor me.
\nThat’s not how I view the Book <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I think that was the kind of
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\nThe approach that I’ve taken to <\/p>\n
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\nRevelation and that’s all I
\nreally want to achieve together <\/p>\n
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\nbe some, you’re like my own <\/p>\n
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\nUncle who are really very
\nexcited about Revelation and for<\/p>\n
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\nyou even more excited and maybe <\/p>\n
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\nI’m going to run through what <\/p>\n
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\nlearned how I’ve gone about. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then the rest of the, of the<\/p>\n
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\nSo so, Why should we get into <\/p>\n
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\nthe Book of Revelation?
\nAnd, you know, when you step <\/p>\n
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\nmost difficult book, but I think<\/p>\n
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\nBut, you know, you know, there’s<\/p>\n
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\nWhy are they so much <\/p>\n
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\nCommentators, how are you meant <\/p>\n
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\nzoom out and get out of that
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\nWhy should we want to get in to
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\nI’m sure you probably did. <\/p>\n
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\nThe first is, it’s actually
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\nIt’s a book, it’s a letter from
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\nI love letter from Jesus.
\nNow, we know that because The <\/p>\n
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\nopening verse says this the
\nRevelation from Jesus Christ, <\/p>\n
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\nwhich God gave to him to show
\nhis servants which must soon <\/p>\n
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\ntake place that that phrase
\nwhich is translated their. <\/p>\n
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\nI think this is the NIV from
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\nSo it means belonging to Jesus <\/p>\n
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\nI think the KJV says of Jesus <\/p>\n
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\nSo if this is true and I firmly
\nbelieve it is here we have the <\/p>\n
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\nonly Look in the whole Bible,
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\nNow obviously, we know that <\/p>\n
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\ngospels, where we get Jesus <\/p>\n
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\nincredible Insight that we learn<\/p>\n
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\nBut here we have what seems to <\/p>\n
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\nbe a book a letter that’s
\nwritten to us bar Jesus. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd I think if we view it like
\nthat we would say well why would<\/p>\n
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\nhe want to share us with us a
\nfinal letter if it isn’t because<\/p>\n
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\nhe’s got some amazing Operation,
\nsome warnings, some <\/p>\n
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\nencouragement that he wants to
\ngive to all of us as we live our<\/p>\n
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\njourney towards the kingdom.
\nI think it’s later on <\/p>\n
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\nrevelation, 22.
\nIt confirms this, I Jesus have <\/p>\n
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\nsent mine Angel to give you this
\nmessage for the church’s. <\/p>\n
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\nI am both the source of David
\nand the heir to his throne. <\/p>\n
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\nSo clearly a message from Jesus
\nfor you. <\/p>\n
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\nNow, we rather romantically
\nreferred to as a love letter <\/p>\n
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\nbecause we all love to receive
\nlove L. <\/p>\n
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\nMy darling wife gives me one at
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\nme on my pillow.
\nAnd We are stochastic from South<\/p>\n
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\nAfrica.
\nSo most of the things I’m saying<\/p>\n
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\nhe’d a big big dose of sarcasm,
\nRevelation 1, verse 5 says, this<\/p>\n
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\nis a part of the introduction.
\nStill. <\/p>\n
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\nSo we’ve jumped from verse 1 and
\nfrom Jesus Christ, who is the <\/p>\n
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\nfaithful witness the firstborn
\nfrom the dead and the ruler of <\/p>\n
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\nthe kings of the earth to him
\nwho loves us and has freed us <\/p>\n
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\nfrom our sins by his blood.
\nWell I mean, if I’d wanted an <\/p>\n
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\nintro about the love of God and
\nwhat he’s prepared to do, but <\/p>\n
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\nhere is the love of God.
\nDemonstrated in Jesus and he <\/p>\n
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\nsending us this book.
\nHe sending us data because he <\/p>\n
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\nloves us.
\nSo I think the description of <\/p>\n
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\nRevelation which you may not
\nhave heard before as a love <\/p>\n
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\nletter from, Jesus is quite
\nappropriate and with that <\/p>\n
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\ndescription in your mind, I
\nthink you start saying, hang on <\/p>\n
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\nHow would I read a love letter? <\/p>\n
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\nHow would I, how would I want to
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\nParable.
\nSo speaking in Parables was <\/p>\n
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\nsomething Jesus did it says he
\nanswered and said to them <\/p>\n
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\nbecause it has been given to you
\nto know the mysteries of the <\/p>\n
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\nkingdom of God.
\nBut to them, it has not been <\/p>\n
337
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\ngiven.
\nNow, I want to stop there for a <\/p>\n
338
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\nwhile and I think we begin to
\nunderstand what is River. <\/p>\n
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\nShouldn’t really trying to
\nreveal to us. <\/p>\n
340
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\nAnd I think, just, like, with
\nThe Parables that Jesus taught, <\/p>\n
341
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\nit’s about the mysteries of, as
\nhe calls it, the Kingdom of <\/p>\n
342
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\nHeaven.
\nThere’s another phrase that I’d <\/p>\n
343
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\nlike to use throughout the
\nseries and that’s spiritual <\/p>\n
344
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\ntruths.
\nThey are spiritual principles <\/p>\n
345
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\nthat are not that they don’t
\nmake sense often in the natural <\/p>\n
346
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\nworld.
\nAnd, and Jesus is trying to <\/p>\n
347
\n00:18:05,000 –> 00:18:07,600
\nshare those those as it were
\nMysteries. <\/p>\n
348
\n00:18:07,600 –> 00:18:09,100
\nThere any Mysteries?
\nBecause from a human <\/p>\n
349
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\nperspective, they don’t
\nnecessarily make sense. yeah, <\/p>\n
350
\n00:18:11,900 –> 00:18:16,400
\nbut from God’s perspective,
\ntheir life And he’s trying to <\/p>\n
351
\n00:18:16,400 –> 00:18:20,500
\nshare them with us and because
\nthey are spiritual matters, he <\/p>\n
352
\n00:18:20,500 –> 00:18:23,500
\ndoesn’t just use poetry and
\nsomebody to make it difficult, <\/p>\n
353
\n00:18:24,100 –> 00:18:27,500
\nit’s because these are
\nmulti-dimensional Concepts. <\/p>\n
354
\n00:18:28,700 –> 00:18:31,500
\nThese are Concepts that are
\nmeant to be understood from <\/p>\n
355
\n00:18:31,500 –> 00:18:35,400
\ndifferent perspectives.
\nIt’s if we consider Revelation <\/p>\n
356
\n00:18:35,400 –> 00:18:38,400
\nas, as the handiwork of God,
\nit’s like his sculpture that <\/p>\n
357
\n00:18:38,400 –> 00:18:41,700
\nhe’s made and he presents it to
\nus in symbols because these <\/p>\n
358
\n00:18:41,700 –> 00:18:44,200
\nspiritual truths need to be
\nlooked at from different <\/p>\n
359
\n00:18:44,200 –> 00:18:47,300
\nperspectives as we go through
\nlife and we’ll see some examples<\/p>\n
360
\n00:18:47,300 –> 00:18:49,500
\nof this.
\nI mean, you don’t go to the <\/p>\n
361
\n00:18:49,500 –> 00:18:52,600
\nLouvre and see one of the
\nincredible sculptures at <\/p>\n
362
\n00:18:52,600 –> 00:18:55,100
\nMichelangelo has done.
\nAnd you know you look at it from<\/p>\n
363
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\nthe front so it’s awesome.
\nAnd not think to look at it from<\/p>\n
364
\n00:18:59,200 –> 00:19:02,400
\nthe side ogre around and look at
\nit from the back, because <\/p>\n
365
\n00:19:02,600 –> 00:19:04,900
\nthere’s so much depth and it’s
\nmulti-dimensional. <\/p>\n
366
\n00:19:05,800 –> 00:19:10,700
\nAnd here we have the Lord Jesus
\nChrist, wanting to share his, <\/p>\n
367
\n00:19:11,000 –> 00:19:14,800
\nhis spiritual truths with us,
\nand he chooses to use a <\/p>\n
368
\n00:19:14,800 –> 00:19:19,200
\nparabolic symbol based theme,
\nbecause that’s the best way for <\/p>\n
369
\n00:19:19,200 –> 00:19:24,000
\nhim to reveal the incredible
\ndepth of the spiritual truths <\/p>\n
370
\n00:19:24,200 –> 00:19:26,500
\nthat we can learn from The Book
\nof Revelation. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:19:29,800 –> 00:19:33,400
\nIt’s also difficult to read not
\njust because there’s a symbol in<\/p>\n
372
\n00:19:33,400 –> 00:19:36,700
\nthis poetry that they can
\nsometimes put us off because the<\/p>\n
373
\n00:19:36,700 –> 00:19:40,600
\nchronology is and we have to
\naccept this very difficult, you <\/p>\n
374
\n00:19:40,600 –> 00:19:43,500
\nwill see some people and and I’m
\nnot trying to actually even give<\/p>\n
375
\n00:19:43,500 –> 00:19:45,300
\nyou an interpretation of you
\ncan’t to get one you’ll be <\/p>\n
376
\n00:19:45,300 –> 00:19:48,300
\nhighly disappointed but you’ll
\nsee that often when when you <\/p>\n
377
\n00:19:48,308 –> 00:19:51,200
\nneed to try and interpret the
\nwhole book, people will try and <\/p>\n
378
\n00:19:51,200 –> 00:19:54,200
\ndraw up some sort of chronology
\nand I’m sure it is possible to <\/p>\n
379
\n00:19:54,200 –> 00:19:56,100
\ndo, but it’s very difficult to
\ndo. <\/p>\n
380
\n00:19:56,100 –> 00:19:58,100
\nWhy?
\nBecause as you can see from this<\/p>\n
381
\n00:19:58,100 –> 00:20:01,500
\ndiagram over here, Keep getting
\nbrought back to the kingdom. <\/p>\n
382
\n00:20:02,500 –> 00:20:06,100
\nSo, although it seems to be this
\nmessage, that’s bringing you to <\/p>\n
383
\n00:20:06,100 –> 00:20:10,000
\nthe point of the time, in which
\nthe lamb is Victorious. <\/p>\n
384
\n00:20:10,400 –> 00:20:13,200
\nWhat happens is we would
\nprobably write that and get all <\/p>\n
385
\n00:20:13,200 –> 00:20:15,700
\nthe way to chapter 22 and
\ndeliver the final message in the<\/p>\n
386
\n00:20:15,700 –> 00:20:18,900
\nchronologies they but we start
\nwith it in Revelation chapter 4,<\/p>\n
387
\n00:20:18,900 –> 00:20:22,600
\nwe’re already at the end, the
\nlamb is there and the Saints are<\/p>\n
388
\n00:20:22,608 –> 00:20:26,300
\nthere and everybody’s happy and
\nthen we start moving, and he’s <\/p>\n
389
\n00:20:26,300 –> 00:20:29,100
\nthere again in chapter 5 and
\nthen in chapter 7, we keep going<\/p>\n
390
\n00:20:29,100 –> 00:20:32,200
\nback to the end.
\nSo from a chronological point, <\/p>\n
391
\n00:20:32,400 –> 00:20:35,200
\nIt can also be quite difficult
\nto read this book. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:20:36,100 –> 00:20:41,900
\nSo the style that is used is
\noften referred to as apocalyptic<\/p>\n
393
\n00:20:41,900 –> 00:20:44,500
\nstyle.
\nSo I promise you not too much <\/p>\n
394
\n00:20:44,500 –> 00:20:47,600
\nGreek here, but apocalyptic we
\ncall it the apocalypse. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:20:47,800 –> 00:20:51,600
\nNow, unfortunately, that word
\nhas become to mean something <\/p>\n
396
\n00:20:51,600 –> 00:20:54,400
\ntotally different in our
\nEnglish. <\/p>\n
397
\n00:20:54,500 –> 00:20:57,600
\nSo for example, you’ve had some
\nwild fires and in other world is<\/p>\n
398
\n00:20:57,600 –> 00:20:59,400
\nit?
\nI do a little California to get <\/p>\n
399
\n00:20:59,400 –> 00:21:01,600
\nthat every year but anyway you
\nhad some wildfires in <\/p>\n
400
\n00:21:01,600 –> 00:21:03,600
\nCalifornia.
\nYeah, and when someone sees the <\/p>\n
401
\n00:21:03,600 –> 00:21:06,600
\ndevastation of an incredible
\nfire, that often say it looks <\/p>\n
402
\n00:21:06,600 –> 00:21:08,800
\nlike the apocalypse.
\nIt’s apocalyptic scenes in <\/p>\n
403
\n00:21:08,800 –> 00:21:12,100
\nCalifornia, but that’s just
\nbecause they Associated the <\/p>\n
404
\n00:21:12,100 –> 00:21:14,400
\napocalypse with lots of fire and
\nburning. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:21:14,600 –> 00:21:20,600
\nBut really that word apocalypse
\nactually means to reveal Jesus, <\/p>\n
406
\n00:21:20,600 –> 00:21:23,500
\nin sending you, this lovely does
\nnot dry hot things from you. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:21:24,100 –> 00:21:27,000
\nHe’s not trying to hold back
\nthings from you, so that you’ve <\/p>\n
408
\n00:21:27,000 –> 00:21:30,100
\ngot to go and work out, some
\nmagical coat and then crack it. <\/p>\n
409
\n00:21:30,200 –> 00:21:32,000
\nAnd then work out, how you’re
\ngoing to get into the kingdom. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:21:32,000 –> 00:21:35,600
\nThrough cracking, the code, he’s
\nactually giving you these <\/p>\n
411
\n00:21:35,600 –> 00:21:38,600
\nsymbols giving you this
\nbeautiful thing to uncover to <\/p>\n
412
\n00:21:38,600 –> 00:21:42,800
\nreveal, all right?
\nAnd, and, and the clue to how <\/p>\n
413
\n00:21:42,800 –> 00:21:46,300
\nyou reveal it is to take these
\nsymbols and to take these <\/p>\n
414
\n00:21:46,300 –> 00:21:52,200
\nmetaphors and unlock them.
\nThe spirit and we’re told, this <\/p>\n
415
\n00:21:52,200 –> 00:21:55,300
\nis a beautiful passage in 1st
\nCorinthians 2 verse 13. <\/p>\n
416
\n00:21:55,800 –> 00:21:59,100
\nThese things is poor.
\nWe also speak not in Words which<\/p>\n
417
\n00:21:59,100 –> 00:22:03,200
\nman’s Wisdom teaches but which
\nthe Holy Spirit teaches <\/p>\n
418
\n00:22:03,200 –> 00:22:06,700
\ncomparing spiritual things with
\nspiritual. <\/p>\n
419
\n00:22:07,200 –> 00:22:10,100
\nSo there’s a There is almost the
\nkey, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
420
\n00:22:11,300 –> 00:22:14,900
\nJesus is saying, I’m going to
\ngive you spiritual things, the <\/p>\n
421
\n00:22:14,900 –> 00:22:19,000
\nthe spiritual truths in my final
\nletter and to help you to <\/p>\n
422
\n00:22:19,000 –> 00:22:23,200
\nunderstand them, you need to
\ntake other spiritual things, to <\/p>\n
423
\n00:22:23,200 –> 00:22:25,200
\nunderstand these spiritual
\nthings. <\/p>\n
424
\n00:22:25,800 –> 00:22:29,600
\nAnd, of course, that means when
\nwe read about a lamb in the Book<\/p>\n
425
\n00:22:29,600 –> 00:22:32,100
\nof Revelation, or when we read
\nabout a name and the Book of <\/p>\n
426
\n00:22:32,100 –> 00:22:36,200
\nRevelation to amplifier, what
\nmight be meant by that idea, <\/p>\n
427
\n00:22:36,200 –> 00:22:39,300
\nthat theme that metaphor.
\nWe’ve got to go back to the <\/p>\n
428
\n00:22:39,300 –> 00:22:41,000
\nother parts of the other.
\nThe Bible, the other. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:22:41,200 –> 00:22:43,900
\nParts of the spirit to unlock
\nwhat we’re eating. <\/p>\n
430
\n00:22:43,900 –> 00:22:47,100
\nAnd that’s really in essence,
\nwhat we should be doing, dating <\/p>\n
431
\n00:22:47,100 –> 00:22:50,900
\nas we sometimes say, the Bible
\ninterpret itself, the spirit, <\/p>\n
432
\n00:22:51,100 –> 00:22:53,200
\nallowing the spirit to interpret
\nitself. <\/p>\n
433
\n00:22:53,200 –> 00:22:57,000
\nAnd Jesus says, if you do that,
\nAgain, talking about his <\/p>\n
434
\n00:22:57,000 –> 00:23:00,200
\nParables blessed are those who
\nsee and your ears that hear for <\/p>\n
435
\n00:23:00,200 –> 00:23:03,100
\nassuredly, I say to you that
\nmany prophets and righteous men,<\/p>\n
436
\n00:23:03,400 –> 00:23:07,300
\ndesire to see what you see and
\ndid not see it and to hear what <\/p>\n
437
\n00:23:07,300 –> 00:23:09,500
\nyou hear and did not hear it.
\nWhat a privilege. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:23:09,600 –> 00:23:12,400
\nMaybe this is why it says, we
\ncan be very blessed if we read <\/p>\n
439
\n00:23:12,400 –> 00:23:15,600
\nthe book of Revelation because
\nthere are things that Jesus is <\/p>\n
440
\n00:23:15,600 –> 00:23:19,300
\nrevealing in their principles.
\nThen it seems that Jesus is <\/p>\n
441
\n00:23:19,300 –> 00:23:22,200
\nsuggesting that that the men of
\nold, some of the Patriarchs <\/p>\n
442
\n00:23:22,200 –> 00:23:25,300
\nwould have done anything to
\nunderstand would have really <\/p>\n
443
\n00:23:25,300 –> 00:23:29,600
\nwanted to see themselves and we
\nhave the opportunity to read <\/p>\n
444
\n00:23:29,600 –> 00:23:33,700
\nabout them and try to understand
\nthem and most important put them<\/p>\n
445
\n00:23:33,700 –> 00:23:38,200
\ninto practice in our lives.
\nSo here’s a question in <\/p>\n
446
\n00:23:38,200 –> 00:23:41,800
\nRevelation, chapter 10 verse 1.
\nIt says that these are the words<\/p>\n
447
\n00:23:41,800 –> 00:23:44,900
\nof the prophecy of the things
\nwhich must shortly, come to <\/p>\n
448
\n00:23:44,900 –> 00:23:46,700
\npass.
\nSo some say, well, Matthew <\/p>\n
449
\n00:23:46,700 –> 00:23:49,000
\ntalking about the Book of
\nRevelation as if there’s any <\/p>\n
450
\n00:23:49,000 –> 00:23:52,100
\nspiritual principles and truths,
\nand we’ll talk a bit more about <\/p>\n
451
\n00:23:52,100 –> 00:23:55,400
\nexactly what I mean by that.
\nBut, isn’t it really just a book<\/p>\n
452
\n00:23:55,400 –> 00:23:57,700
\nof prediction?
\nI mean, that’s what it is. <\/p>\n
453
\n00:23:57,700 –> 00:23:59,700
\nIt’s a prophecy.
\nSo, I want to stop for a moment <\/p>\n
454
\n00:23:59,700 –> 00:24:01,300
\nand just think about that for a
\nmoment. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:24:01,300 –> 00:24:05,200
\nSo the text you probably would
\nhave to be really Superior in <\/p>\n
456
\n00:24:05,200 –> 00:24:08,400
\nyour Optics to It says, at the
\ntop there Greek I said you <\/p>\n
457
\n00:24:08,400 –> 00:24:09,800
\nweren’t getting too much Greek.
\nI was lying. <\/p>\n
458
\n00:24:09,800 –> 00:24:14,500
\nObviously, the Greek word for
\nProphecy in the New Testament is<\/p>\n
459
\n00:24:14,500 –> 00:24:17,700
\nprofe me PR.
\nOh, you know what, Pro is and <\/p>\n
460
\n00:24:17,700 –> 00:24:21,000
\nfemi and the only reason that’s
\nimportant is because the way in <\/p>\n
461
\n00:24:21,000 –> 00:24:24,500
\nwhich prophecy is used in the
\nNew Testament, and to a certain <\/p>\n
462
\n00:24:24,500 –> 00:24:27,400
\nextent in the Old Testament is a
\nbit different to the way we <\/p>\n
463
\n00:24:27,400 –> 00:24:29,000
\nthink of Prophecy.
\nSo we think a prophecy <\/p>\n
464
\n00:24:29,200 –> 00:24:33,600
\nprediction, some prediction is
\nbeing made, but in fact, the <\/p>\n
465
\n00:24:33,600 –> 00:24:40,300
\nword means literally Row fourth
\nto go forth, Fair me to speak to<\/p>\n
466
\n00:24:40,300 –> 00:24:42,500
\nspeak forth.
\nSo when people have the gift of <\/p>\n
467
\n00:24:42,500 –> 00:24:44,700
\nProphecy, for example, we didn’t
\nnecessarily mean that they would<\/p>\n
468
\n00:24:44,700 –> 00:24:49,000
\nstand up and say, you know,
\nJohn’s going to win the gulf. <\/p>\n
469
\n00:24:49,000 –> 00:24:54,700
\nAnd, you know, we’re going to
\nhave fish and chips tonight to <\/p>\n
470
\n00:24:54,700 –> 00:24:56,300
\neat.
\nI want to suggest anything for <\/p>\n
471
\n00:24:56,300 –> 00:25:00,100
\nthe kitchen, but it wasn’t that
\nkind of prediction. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:25:00,700 –> 00:25:03,700
\nIt was really that they could
\njust speak God’s words so they <\/p>\n
473
\n00:25:03,700 –> 00:25:05,800
\nwere prophets a gift of Prophecy
\nmeant that they would stand. <\/p>\n
474
\n00:25:06,000 –> 00:25:09,400
\nWhat they said was God’s words
\nand it was coming from the Lord <\/p>\n
475
\n00:25:09,400 –> 00:25:14,100
\nspeaking forth.
\nThe idea was this that the words<\/p>\n
476
\n00:25:14,100 –> 00:25:18,900
\nthat they spoke often might have
\nsome predictive part of them, <\/p>\n
477
\n00:25:19,200 –> 00:25:22,800
\nbut in the essence, they were a
\nprincipal, they represented a <\/p>\n
478
\n00:25:22,800 –> 00:25:26,100
\nprincipal coming from God,
\nsomething that that you could <\/p>\n
479
\n00:25:26,100 –> 00:25:29,100
\ngrab onto and make yourself.
\nAnd this is a very important <\/p>\n
480
\n00:25:29,100 –> 00:25:30,400
\nprinciple.
\nI want to try and illustrate it <\/p>\n
481
\n00:25:30,400 –> 00:25:33,700
\nthrough just one prophecy.
\nYou probably know well and <\/p>\n
482
\n00:25:33,700 –> 00:25:35,800
\nthat’s a prophecy that was given
\nin the hosiery. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:25:35,900 –> 00:25:39,800
\nIn verse 1.
\nWhen Israel was a child, I loved<\/p>\n
484
\n00:25:39,800 –> 00:25:42,500
\nhim and out of Egypt, I called
\nmy son, so he said, well there’s<\/p>\n
485
\n00:25:42,500 –> 00:25:46,300
\na prophecy so what what what
\nhappens in this easy prophecy? <\/p>\n
486
\n00:25:46,300 –> 00:25:49,200
\nWell, first of all, we notice
\nthat their prophecy actually <\/p>\n
487
\n00:25:49,200 –> 00:25:51,500
\ngets fulfilled, a number of
\ntimes. <\/p>\n
488
\n00:25:51,600 –> 00:25:54,400
\nSo the predictive element isn’t
\njust once it happens a few <\/p>\n
489
\n00:25:54,400 –> 00:25:57,600
\ntimes.
\nSo for example, when Israel was <\/p>\n
490
\n00:25:57,600 –> 00:25:59,300
\na child, I loved him and out of
\nEgypt. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:25:59,300 –> 00:26:00,200
\nI called my son.
\nWhat? <\/p>\n
492
\n00:26:00,200 –> 00:26:04,600
\nAt least the first performance
\nof that would have been Before <\/p>\n
493
\n00:26:04,600 –> 00:26:08,000
\nhistory, Exodus, absolutely.
\nHe took the people, the children<\/p>\n
494
\n00:26:08,000 –> 00:26:11,300
\nof Israel from the bondage of
\nEgypt and took them out to the <\/p>\n
495
\n00:26:11,300 –> 00:26:13,900
\npromised land.
\nAnd then the next fulfillment, <\/p>\n
496
\n00:26:13,900 –> 00:26:15,800
\nthere were many others, but the
\nnext big one that this has been <\/p>\n
497
\n00:26:15,800 –> 00:26:19,000
\nquoted as a fulfillment of later
\non, is Jesus. <\/p>\n
498
\n00:26:19,200 –> 00:26:22,400
\nJesus taken into in the gospel
\nof Matthew taken into Egypt <\/p>\n
499
\n00:26:22,400 –> 00:26:26,300
\nbecause Herod was doing nasty
\nthings, and then comes back. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:26:26,800 –> 00:26:30,900
\nAll right, but hang on a moment,
\nit’s going to happen again. <\/p>\n
501
\n00:26:31,600 –> 00:26:33,700
\nWe all going to hopefully be
\ncaught out of the way. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:26:33,900 –> 00:26:36,400
\nOld and brought to, to the
\nkingdom. <\/p>\n
503
\n00:26:36,600 –> 00:26:39,700
\nAnd hopefully that’s going to be
\nin the promised land. <\/p>\n
504
\n00:26:40,500 –> 00:26:42,500
\nBut actually, what is happening
\nhere? <\/p>\n
505
\n00:26:43,100 –> 00:26:46,100
\nThis prophecy is actually first
\na principal. <\/p>\n
506
\n00:26:46,900 –> 00:26:49,600
\nSo when we look at that
\nprophecy, it’s teaching a <\/p>\n
507
\n00:26:49,600 –> 00:26:51,100
\nprinciple.
\nWhat is the principal? <\/p>\n
508
\n00:26:51,800 –> 00:26:56,200
\nThe principal is all of us are
\nin bondage in Egypt. <\/p>\n
509
\n00:26:56,300 –> 00:27:00,700
\nWe’re all slaves to Egypt and we
\nhave to be called out to be a <\/p>\n
510
\n00:27:00,700 –> 00:27:02,600
\nSon.
\nOf God means that we are called <\/p>\n
511
\n00:27:02,600 –> 00:27:06,500
\nout from the Age of Egypt and
\nbecome Sons and Daughters of <\/p>\n
512
\n00:27:06,500 –> 00:27:09,400
\nGod, that’s a principle.
\nAnd no wonder, it’s been <\/p>\n
513
\n00:27:09,400 –> 00:27:11,800
\nfulfilled because God’s
\nprinciples because they are <\/p>\n
514
\n00:27:11,800 –> 00:27:15,500
\ntrue, will be fulfilled in the
\nbig examples we’ve given and <\/p>\n
515
\n00:27:15,500 –> 00:27:19,900
\nevery time we see someone get
\nbaptized or commit to God, we <\/p>\n
516
\n00:27:19,900 –> 00:27:21,500
\nsee that prophecy being
\nfulfilled. <\/p>\n
517
\n00:27:22,400 –> 00:27:26,200
\nSo I hope you can see that that
\nif you take a meditational <\/p>\n
518
\n00:27:26,200 –> 00:27:28,300
\napproach, as I’m going to
\ndescribe in a few moments, The <\/p>\n
519
\n00:27:28,300 –> 00:27:32,900
\nBook of Revelation and you look
\nfor the principles that is not <\/p>\n
520
\n00:27:32,900 –> 00:27:36,300
\nto say that the predictions may
\nor may not be happening all over<\/p>\n
521
\n00:27:36,300 –> 00:27:39,700
\nthe place.
\nThe principles are also if not <\/p>\n
522
\n00:27:39,700 –> 00:27:44,000
\nas important, maybe even more
\nimportant because they describe <\/p>\n
523
\n00:27:44,000 –> 00:27:47,900
\nthe spiritual truth, that Jesus
\nare sharing and there are things<\/p>\n
524
\n00:27:47,900 –> 00:27:52,100
\nthat we can make use of today
\nand we can keep them so that we <\/p>\n
525
\n00:27:52,100 –> 00:27:54,300
\ncan be a part of the wonderful
\nKingdom. <\/p>\n
526
\n00:27:54,300 –> 00:27:57,800
\nHe has planned for all of us
\nthough, much, this is Vines <\/p>\n
527
\n00:27:57,800 –> 00:28:00,400
\nexpository dictionary, though.
\nMuch of the Old Testament <\/p>\n
528
\n00:28:00,400 –> 00:28:04,000
\nprophecy was purely predictive
\nprophecy is not necessarily nor <\/p>\n
529
\n00:28:04,000 –> 00:28:08,100
\neven primarily for telling it is
\nthe Declaration of that, which <\/p>\n
530
\n00:28:08,100 –> 00:28:11,300
\ncannot be known by natural means
\nbeautifully. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:28:11,300 –> 00:28:15,500
\nPut it is the fourth telling of
\nthe will of God, whether with <\/p>\n
532
\n00:28:15,500 –> 00:28:18,300
\nreference to the past, the
\npresent, or the future. <\/p>\n
533
\n00:28:18,600 –> 00:28:22,500
\nSo I think that encapsulates,
\nthis idea that Kant naturally be<\/p>\n
534
\n00:28:22,500 –> 00:28:24,700
\nknown.
\nIt’s the mind of the spirit, <\/p>\n
535
\n00:28:25,000 –> 00:28:29,000
\ncapturing a principle that we
\ncan make good use of in our <\/p>\n
536
\n00:28:29,000 –> 00:28:34,400
\neveryday living.
\nSo Let us move on swiftly. <\/p>\n
537
\n00:28:35,100 –> 00:28:38,700
\nThere are a number of
\ninterpretation methods of the <\/p>\n
538
\n00:28:38,700 –> 00:28:42,300
\nBook of Revelation and you
\nhopefully or may not you’ll be <\/p>\n
539
\n00:28:42,300 –> 00:28:44,400
\nfamiliar with at least one or
\ntwo of these methods. <\/p>\n
540
\n00:28:44,500 –> 00:28:46,100
\nI’m going to go through this
\nvery quickly. <\/p>\n
541
\n00:28:46,400 –> 00:28:50,900
\nSo these are the four major
\ncategories by which people <\/p>\n
542
\n00:28:51,000 –> 00:28:52,600
\ninterpret the Book of
\nRevelation. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:28:52,800 –> 00:28:56,600
\nSo the first one was quite
\npopular actually by some of the <\/p>\n
544
\n00:28:56,600 –> 00:28:59,800
\nwritings of the the, the early,
\nChristian father’s, if you want <\/p>\n
545
\n00:28:59,800 –> 00:29:02,300
\nto term the net and it’s known
\nas the preachers. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:29:03,000 –> 00:29:05,400
\nInterpretation.
\nAnd that is looking at the book <\/p>\n
547
\n00:29:05,400 –> 00:29:09,300
\nprimarily from a predictive
\nperspective and seeing most of <\/p>\n
548
\n00:29:09,300 –> 00:29:14,600
\nthe prophecies as predictive
\nprophecies for food in the 40 <\/p>\n
549
\n00:29:14,600 –> 00:29:16,100
\nyears after the writing of the
\nbook. <\/p>\n
550
\n00:29:16,500 –> 00:29:19,100
\nSo up to 80 70 and a bit off 287
\nT. <\/p>\n
551
\n00:29:19,300 –> 00:29:22,300
\nSo that is the preachers View
\nand with a little bit right at <\/p>\n
552
\n00:29:22,300 –> 00:29:25,900
\nthe end potentially in terms of
\nthe Fulfillment of Revelation, <\/p>\n
553
\n00:29:25,900 –> 00:29:30,100
\n21 and 22, then there is the
\nhistoric category and the <\/p>\n
554
\n00:29:30,100 –> 00:29:34,300
\nhistoric category which includes
\nI guess the, the most <\/p>\n
555
\n00:29:34,300 –> 00:29:38,200
\ntraditional christadelphians top
\ninterpretation, which is the <\/p>\n
556
\n00:29:38,200 –> 00:29:41,600
\nidea of continuous historic fits
\ninto that category which says <\/p>\n
557
\n00:29:41,600 –> 00:29:44,900
\nthat the Book of Revelation is
\nprimarily a predictive book and <\/p>\n
558
\n00:29:44,900 –> 00:29:47,500
\nmost of those symbols are
\nprophecies that have been <\/p>\n
559
\n00:29:47,500 –> 00:29:50,900
\nfulfilled throughout the course
\nof history and most of it’s been<\/p>\n
560
\n00:29:50,900 –> 00:29:52,800
\nfulfilled and there’s a little
\nbit at the end that we’re <\/p>\n
561
\n00:29:52,800 –> 00:29:56,200
\ngetting towards that still has
\nto be fulfilled so continuously <\/p>\n
562
\n00:29:56,200 –> 00:29:59,400
\nhistoric and there’s a whole
\nbunch of other historic, top <\/p>\n
563
\n00:29:59,500 –> 00:30:02,800
\ninterpretations.
\nI’m going to jump the Someone <\/p>\n
564
\n00:30:02,800 –> 00:30:05,800
\ngot a futurism futurism is quite
\npopular at the moment, you’ll <\/p>\n
565
\n00:30:05,800 –> 00:30:10,800
\nfind a lot of interpretive
\nframework surround futurism and <\/p>\n
566
\n00:30:10,800 –> 00:30:15,500
\na lot of modern commentators.
\nTake this view in this view. <\/p>\n
567
\n00:30:16,000 –> 00:30:20,600
\nThe, the interpretation of most
\nof Revelation is predictive for <\/p>\n
568
\n00:30:21,000 –> 00:30:24,800
\na period of about seven years
\nthat is likely to still come. <\/p>\n
569
\n00:30:24,800 –> 00:30:27,000
\nSo it’s a future event that’s
\ngoing to roll out. <\/p>\n
570
\n00:30:27,100 –> 00:30:31,300
\nAnd in fact, the predictive sort
\nof commentators like to view a <\/p>\n
571
\n00:30:31,300 –> 00:30:34,800
\nlot of what We would call symbol
\nand simile and metaphor as <\/p>\n
572
\n00:30:34,800 –> 00:30:36,600
\nactually going to happen in
\nreality. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:30:37,100 –> 00:30:39,900
\nSo because it’s impossible to
\nhave seen it happen in the past,<\/p>\n
574
\n00:30:39,900 –> 00:30:42,400
\nthey see it happening in the
\nfuture and a lot of it’s going <\/p>\n
575
\n00:30:42,400 –> 00:30:43,900
\nto actually happen.
\nWe’re going to see some of the <\/p>\n
576
\n00:30:43,900 –> 00:30:47,800
\nstuff actually happening in
\nreality and then I skip the one <\/p>\n
577
\n00:30:48,000 –> 00:30:52,100
\nViewpoint Court idealism.
\nThe idealistic view says the <\/p>\n
578
\n00:30:52,100 –> 00:30:56,000
\nBook of Revelation is in fact a
\nbook full of principles. <\/p>\n
579
\n00:30:56,500 –> 00:31:01,000
\nWhen we read it we should be
\nlooking for the principles the <\/p>\n
580
\n00:31:01,000 –> 00:31:02,300
\napproach.
\nAnd I’m going to tell you <\/p>\n
581
\n00:31:02,400 –> 00:31:04,800
\nDifference between, in my view,
\nan approaching interpretation is<\/p>\n
582
\n00:31:04,800 –> 00:31:09,000
\nin the moment that I’m
\nsuggesting probably ends up when<\/p>\n
583
\n00:31:09,000 –> 00:31:13,000
\nit ends up as an interpretation
\nmostly in the idealist category.<\/p>\n
584
\n00:31:13,500 –> 00:31:17,300
\nHowever, pure idealists
\ncommentators believe there’s no <\/p>\n
585
\n00:31:17,300 –> 00:31:19,300
\npredictive element to the Book
\nof Revelation. <\/p>\n
586
\n00:31:19,300 –> 00:31:22,800
\nI don’t quite bothered as I
\nshowed you in that model <\/p>\n
587
\n00:31:22,800 –> 00:31:25,100
\nearlier.
\nI think there’s a very important<\/p>\n
588
\n00:31:25,100 –> 00:31:29,200
\nrole to extract the principles,
\nbut by their very nature, those <\/p>\n
589
\n00:31:29,200 –> 00:31:32,600
\nprinciples are going to have
\nmassive performance as we See <\/p>\n
590
\n00:31:32,600 –> 00:31:34,200
\nthe course of human history, run
\nits time. <\/p>\n
591
\n00:31:34,300 –> 00:31:37,800
\nSo in a sense, if you had to
\nforce where I’m going into a <\/p>\n
592
\n00:31:37,808 –> 00:31:42,100
\ncategory, I would have to sit
\nsomewhere between idealism and I<\/p>\n
593
\n00:31:42,100 –> 00:31:45,200
\nknow this is like being a
\npostmodernist and all the others<\/p>\n
594
\n00:31:45,400 –> 00:31:49,200
\ntogether.
\nSo so that’s where we’re going <\/p>\n
595
\n00:31:49,200 –> 00:31:52,800
\nnow.
\nWhat I do want to emphasize in, <\/p>\n
596
\n00:31:52,800 –> 00:31:57,300
\nwhatever time we have is, what I
\nmean by a meditation approach. <\/p>\n
597
\n00:31:57,500 –> 00:32:02,300
\nSo really what freed me to be
\nable to listen to the advice <\/p>\n
598
\n00:32:02,500 –> 00:32:07,700
\nSome of my sage uncle was
\nactually freeing myself from an <\/p>\n
599
\n00:32:07,700 –> 00:32:11,000
\ninterpretation framework.
\nI said to myself, you know, <\/p>\n
600
\n00:32:11,000 –> 00:32:16,500
\nwhat, if this is a love L, then
\nwhat I need to do is just be <\/p>\n
601
\n00:32:16,500 –> 00:32:21,200
\nprepared to pick up one or two
\nverses, a day from this book and<\/p>\n
602
\n00:32:21,200 –> 00:32:25,200
\nto read it like a love letter.
\nAnd, you know, I’ll be honest, I<\/p>\n
603
\n00:32:25,208 –> 00:32:27,400
\nhaven’t received many love
\nletters recently, but I did <\/p>\n
604
\n00:32:27,400 –> 00:32:30,700
\nreceive some when I was going
\nout with Mark Martin and I’m <\/p>\n
605
\n00:32:30,700 –> 00:32:34,000
\nsure you received some right,
\nsome love L, and when you get a <\/p>\n
606
\n00:32:34,008 –> 00:32:36,400
\nlove letter, you hang on every
\nword. <\/p>\n
607
\n00:32:36,400 –> 00:32:40,200
\nDon’t you what, how did she
\naddressed me and you know, Did <\/p>\n
608
\n00:32:40,200 –> 00:32:43,200
\nyou what words did she use to
\ndescribe how she’s feeling? <\/p>\n
609
\n00:32:43,200 –> 00:32:46,200
\nIs she really missing me or just
\nnot missing me that much. <\/p>\n
610
\n00:32:46,300 –> 00:32:50,300
\nWe hang on the detail.
\nAnd so for me it was you know <\/p>\n
611
\n00:32:50,300 –> 00:32:53,700
\nwhat if I could pick up the Book
\nof Revelation and just hang on <\/p>\n
612
\n00:32:53,700 –> 00:32:57,400
\nthe detail and hang on the words
\nand focus on it. <\/p>\n
613
\n00:32:57,500 –> 00:33:00,700
\nAnd and not be bound by some
\nframework that says well because<\/p>\n
614
\n00:33:00,700 –> 00:33:04,200
\nI’m in chapter 9 and verse 7,
\nand I’ve already worked out <\/p>\n
615
\n00:33:04,200 –> 00:33:07,700
\npreviously that this symbol
\nmeans that and now my mind is <\/p>\n
616
\n00:33:07,700 –> 00:33:11,700
\nmore caught up in a framework,
\nbut Let those words speak to me.<\/p>\n
617
\n00:33:12,000 –> 00:33:14,600
\nThrough focus and through Echoes
\nand I’ll share some of the <\/p>\n
618
\n00:33:14,600 –> 00:33:18,900
\ntechniques then, perhaps I can
\nget some amazing spiritual <\/p>\n
619
\n00:33:18,900 –> 00:33:22,100
\nInsight that I can take with me.
\nAnd that’s really an Essence. <\/p>\n
620
\n00:33:22,300 –> 00:33:25,000
\nWhy I say what I’m presenting is
\nan approach. <\/p>\n
621
\n00:33:25,100 –> 00:33:27,700
\nIt’s a way that I’ve got to
\nreally enjoy the Book of <\/p>\n
622
\n00:33:27,700 –> 00:33:30,500
\nRevelation, it doesn’t.
\nInvalidate other approaches, it <\/p>\n
623
\n00:33:30,500 –> 00:33:34,300
\ncertainly doesn’t lead to a
\ninterpretation that I can share <\/p>\n
624
\n00:33:34,300 –> 00:33:37,100
\nwith you that will then compete
\nagainst other interpretations. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:33:37,100 –> 00:33:40,400
\nSo if you come to me with your
\ninterpretations, Love to hear <\/p>\n
626
\n00:33:40,400 –> 00:33:44,000
\nthem and it would be a part of
\nus having a great discussion of <\/p>\n
627
\n00:33:44,008 –> 00:33:47,000
\nthe Book of Revelation.
\nBut what I’m sharing with you is<\/p>\n
628
\n00:33:47,000 –> 00:33:50,600
\nreally just an approach.
\nSo I’ve already said it involves<\/p>\n
629
\n00:33:50,600 –> 00:33:54,400
\nhanging on every word you know
\nbecause Revelation is so full of<\/p>\n
630
\n00:33:54,400 –> 00:33:56,900
\ncomplex symbols.
\nIf you try and take a Chapter or<\/p>\n
631
\n00:33:56,900 –> 00:34:01,100
\neven eight nine ten verses you
\njust get lost because they all <\/p>\n
632
\n00:34:01,100 –> 00:34:02,900
\nthese symbols.
\nSo when you can take a smaller <\/p>\n
633
\n00:34:02,900 –> 00:34:06,000
\npiece of it, like you would do
\nwith taking one or two Proverbs <\/p>\n
634
\n00:34:06,000 –> 00:34:08,600
\nfor the day, you’ll find that.
\nActually, it’s not quite as <\/p>\n
635
\n00:34:08,600 –> 00:34:10,900
\nintimidating.
\nIf you free yourself from the <\/p>\n
636
\n00:34:10,900 –> 00:34:13,400
\nchronology discussion and your
\nfree yourself from some <\/p>\n
637
\n00:34:13,400 –> 00:34:15,600
\nframework that says you have to
\nlook at it in the past or in the<\/p>\n
638
\n00:34:15,600 –> 00:34:17,300
\nfuture or it’s got to be some
\nprediction. <\/p>\n
639
\n00:34:17,300 –> 00:34:19,900
\nAnd you’re looking at, we did
\nsee a whole bunch of things <\/p>\n
640
\n00:34:19,900 –> 00:34:23,000
\nactually becomes simpler.
\nIn fact, when I first started <\/p>\n
641
\n00:34:23,000 –> 00:34:25,699
\ntalking about this approach,
\nwhich, you know, people <\/p>\n
642
\n00:34:26,100 –> 00:34:28,000
\nmisinterpreted, I said this is
\nthe free approach. <\/p>\n
643
\n00:34:28,400 –> 00:34:30,000
\nThey said, oh good, we have to
\npay any money for it. <\/p>\n
644
\n00:34:30,000 –> 00:34:33,100
\nI said y’all there, too.
\nBut what I mean, is, it’s free <\/p>\n
645
\n00:34:33,100 –> 00:34:38,400
\nfrom from a framework and from
\nfrom previous assumptions, you <\/p>\n
646
\n00:34:38,400 –> 00:34:41,100
\nmay have made.
\nImpacting, what you can get out <\/p>\n
647
\n00:34:41,100 –> 00:34:43,400
\nof the passages that you’re
\nlooking at this morning or this <\/p>\n
648
\n00:34:43,400 –> 00:34:47,900
\nevening or whenever you choose
\nto to meditate, it helps us not <\/p>\n
649
\n00:34:47,900 –> 00:34:51,900
\nto miss the wood for the trees
\nand it helps us to take less <\/p>\n
650
\n00:34:52,300 –> 00:34:55,300
\nwith more time so that’s what we
\nwant to try and do now. <\/p>\n
651
\n00:34:55,500 –> 00:34:59,700
\nWe’re going to be going at 9:00
\nfor meditation with with John, <\/p>\n
652
\n00:35:00,000 –> 00:35:01,900
\nright.
\nSo what do I mean by meditation?<\/p>\n
653
\n00:35:02,300 –> 00:35:06,500
\nIn fact, I practice I’m sure I’m
\ngoing to learn a lot but I <\/p>\n
654
\n00:35:06,500 –> 00:35:09,300
\npractice, a lot of the
\nmeditation that John’s referring<\/p>\n
655
\n00:35:09,300 –> 00:35:12,900
\nto In fact, as one of the ways
\nthat leads into this meditation <\/p>\n
656
\n00:35:13,300 –> 00:35:15,600
\nare I’m a great believer in
\nbreathing meditation trying to <\/p>\n
657
\n00:35:15,600 –> 00:35:19,300
\nclear very busy Minds.
\nWe have this a way of thinking <\/p>\n
658
\n00:35:19,400 –> 00:35:21,700
\nwe can go from one activity into
\nthe other and there does need to<\/p>\n
659
\n00:35:21,700 –> 00:35:24,600
\nbe a transition.
\nYou’ll find that at this Bible <\/p>\n
660
\n00:35:24,600 –> 00:35:26,900
\nweek.
\nFirst day second day, you’re <\/p>\n
661
\n00:35:26,900 –> 00:35:29,200
\ngetting into it, suddenly third
\nor fourth day. <\/p>\n
662
\n00:35:29,600 –> 00:35:32,200
\nIt just feels that you are in
\nHeavenly places in Christ Jesus,<\/p>\n
663
\n00:35:32,200 –> 00:35:34,600
\nthat’s, that’s transition.
\nSo meditation is a great <\/p>\n
664
\n00:35:34,600 –> 00:35:37,400
\ntechnique for transition.
\nThe kind of meditation, I’m <\/p>\n
665
\n00:35:37,400 –> 00:35:39,600
\nreferring to is I guess the way
\nit’s you? <\/p>\n
666
\n00:35:39,800 –> 00:35:43,000
\nJust in the Bible a lot.
\nI think the Bible is also <\/p>\n
667
\n00:35:43,000 –> 00:35:46,300
\nreferring to just that moment of
\nsaying silent that moment and I <\/p>\n
668
\n00:35:46,308 –> 00:35:48,400
\nlove the idea, I think John just
\nsaid in his message that <\/p>\n
669
\n00:35:48,400 –> 00:35:51,800
\nactually the gap between
\nmeditation and prayer is, I <\/p>\n
670
\n00:35:51,808 –> 00:35:54,200
\ndon’t know that there’s a gap.
\nThey just merge into each other.<\/p>\n
671
\n00:35:54,500 –> 00:35:58,700
\nAnd and so I’m talking about
\ndeep contemplation of a small <\/p>\n
672
\n00:35:58,700 –> 00:36:02,700
\nportion of the word of God that
\nis meant to bring you to a point<\/p>\n
673
\n00:36:02,700 –> 00:36:05,700
\nof worship and pray.
\nYou know, it’s something that I <\/p>\n
674
\n00:36:05,700 –> 00:36:10,100
\nlearned only very recently and
\nthat is that, no doubt every <\/p>\n
675
\n00:36:10,100 –> 00:36:12,900
\nsingle passage of scripture and
\nwe’ll see this in a little <\/p>\n
676
\n00:36:13,600 –> 00:36:14,700
\nhaving said that’s a free
\napproach. <\/p>\n
677
\n00:36:14,700 –> 00:36:16,600
\nI’m going to give you a bunch of
\nsteps to follow. <\/p>\n
678
\n00:36:16,600 –> 00:36:21,200
\nHow’s that for for Paradox?
\nBut anyway, I have got that side<\/p>\n
679
\n00:36:21,200 –> 00:36:23,300
\nof my character as well but
\nwe’ll just share it with you. <\/p>\n
680
\n00:36:24,000 –> 00:36:26,400
\nThe point is everything should
\nbring us to a point of <\/p>\n
681
\n00:36:26,400 –> 00:36:29,000
\napplication in my view.
\nIf we, if we read scripture, we <\/p>\n
682
\n00:36:29,000 –> 00:36:32,400
\ndon’t get to the.
\nYou are the man point, then it’s<\/p>\n
683
\n00:36:32,400 –> 00:36:34,700
\nlike David listening to the
\ngreat Parable that Nathan was <\/p>\n
684
\n00:36:35,000 –> 00:36:37,700
\nAnd eventually he realizes, it’s
\nabout himself, so that’s <\/p>\n
685
\n00:36:37,700 –> 00:36:40,500
\nimportant.
\nBut more than that or as <\/p>\n
686
\n00:36:40,500 –> 00:36:43,500
\nimportant as that I should,
\nrather say it should bring us to<\/p>\n
687
\n00:36:43,500 –> 00:36:48,500
\na new appreciation or to not
\nnecessarily a new but a real <\/p>\n
688
\n00:36:48,500 –> 00:36:55,100
\nconsciousness of our presence.
\nOur of God’s presence around us <\/p>\n
689
\n00:36:55,100 –> 00:36:57,500
\nand the Lord Jesus Christ
\npresence around us and that’s <\/p>\n
690
\n00:36:57,500 –> 00:37:01,400
\nactually what the word worship
\nis all about worth-ship in his <\/p>\n
691
\n00:37:01,400 –> 00:37:03,800
\npresence.
\nSo I hope that as you <\/p>\n
692
\n00:37:03,800 –> 00:37:05,900
\ncontemplate, some Of the
\npassages from The Book of <\/p>\n
693
\n00:37:05,900 –> 00:37:08,300
\nRevelation, that’s where we’ll
\nget to, we’ll get you a point of<\/p>\n
694
\n00:37:08,300 –> 00:37:14,000
\nworship and that’s meditation.
\nSo I did say that through the <\/p>\n
695
\n00:37:14,000 –> 00:37:18,200
\ncourse of me trying to follow
\nthe sage advice and making this <\/p>\n
696
\n00:37:18,200 –> 00:37:20,400
\none commitment, this is what I
\ncan do. <\/p>\n
697
\n00:37:21,100 –> 00:37:23,900
\nMy sage Uncle, I can’t pick up
\nthis book of Revelation. <\/p>\n
698
\n00:37:23,900 –> 00:37:25,800
\nStart going through other
\nexpositions that’s just not <\/p>\n
699
\n00:37:25,800 –> 00:37:28,600
\ngoing to work.
\nSo what I can do is I’m going to<\/p>\n
700
\n00:37:28,600 –> 00:37:32,300
\ntake just two or three verses
\nevery morning for 15 minutes and<\/p>\n
701
\n00:37:32,300 –> 00:37:35,500
\nI’m going to sit with them and
\nI’m going to try Here. <\/p>\n
702
\n00:37:35,800 –> 00:37:38,300
\nThe message Jesus has for me
\nthis morning and that’s all I’ve<\/p>\n
703
\n00:37:38,300 –> 00:37:41,200
\ndone that in that process.
\nI’ve developed a little bit of a<\/p>\n
704
\n00:37:41,600 –> 00:37:42,900
\nprocess.
\nI’m just going to shoot with <\/p>\n
705
\n00:37:42,900 –> 00:37:44,400
\nyou.
\nYou will come up with your own <\/p>\n
706
\n00:37:44,400 –> 00:37:47,900
\nprocess and it’s pretty makes a
\nlot of sense and you probably do<\/p>\n
707
\n00:37:47,900 –> 00:37:50,800
\nthis kind of thing.
\nAnyway the first is this its <\/p>\n
708
\n00:37:50,800 –> 00:37:54,000
\nfocus and interestingly when you
\nlook up the word meditation <\/p>\n
709
\n00:37:54,100 –> 00:37:56,800
\nwhich appears a number of times
\nin the Old Testament, you’ll <\/p>\n
710
\n00:37:56,800 –> 00:37:59,500
\nfind that when that word
\nappears, there’s a lot of these <\/p>\n
711
\n00:37:59,500 –> 00:38:01,700
\nideas that come together with
\nthe word. <\/p>\n
712
\n00:38:01,800 –> 00:38:06,400
\nSo for example, in Psalm 119 the
\nright, He says, I will meditate <\/p>\n
713
\n00:38:06,400 –> 00:38:10,000
\non your precepts and fix my eyes
\non your way. <\/p>\n
714
\n00:38:10,000 –> 00:38:14,400
\nSo what she’s suggesting is when
\nhe meditates, it’s helping him <\/p>\n
715
\n00:38:14,400 –> 00:38:19,900
\nto fix his eyes on God’s ways.
\nIs this idea of real Focus? <\/p>\n
716
\n00:38:19,900 –> 00:38:22,600
\nWe don’t get a lot of time to do
\nthat nowadays, don’t we, you <\/p>\n
717
\n00:38:22,600 –> 00:38:26,000
\nknow, I practice this with with
\na youth say we’re going to we’re<\/p>\n
718
\n00:38:26,000 –> 00:38:29,000
\ngoing to meditate on one concept
\nfor three minutes. <\/p>\n
719
\n00:38:29,400 –> 00:38:32,500
\nIt’s absolutely simple easy to
\ndo that. <\/p>\n
720
\n00:38:32,900 –> 00:38:34,600
\nAnd of course you not get
\neverybody quiet. <\/p>\n
721
\n00:38:34,800 –> 00:38:36,900
\nGive them the concept and you
\ngive them three minutes after <\/p>\n
722
\n00:38:36,900 –> 00:38:38,700
\nwhat you say, how many of you
\nstuck with it for three minutes?<\/p>\n
723
\n00:38:38,900 –> 00:38:42,700
\nFirst of all the three minutes
\ntake so long and as John also <\/p>\n
724
\n00:38:42,700 –> 00:38:44,200
\nmentioned our minds, we can do
\nwant to. <\/p>\n
725
\n00:38:44,200 –> 00:38:47,100
\nSo it’s not easy for us to do
\nthis because we live in a world <\/p>\n
726
\n00:38:47,100 –> 00:38:49,500
\nwhere we’re just so used to
\ninteraction, people are <\/p>\n
727
\n00:38:49,500 –> 00:38:51,500
\ninteracting with right now.
\nHe’s sending you messages right <\/p>\n
728
\n00:38:51,500 –> 00:38:52,600
\nnow.
\nEmails are coming through for <\/p>\n
729
\n00:38:52,600 –> 00:38:53,900
\nyou.
\nYes you can look at them when we<\/p>\n
730
\n00:38:53,900 –> 00:38:57,600
\nfinish and WhatsApp messages and
\ntext messages, it’s a very <\/p>\n
731
\n00:38:57,600 –> 00:39:00,700
\ninteractive world.
\nSo focus is at the essence of <\/p>\n
732
\n00:39:00,700 –> 00:39:03,100
\nit.
\nSo I find a quiet place. <\/p>\n
733
\n00:39:03,900 –> 00:39:05,800
\nI do this in the morning.
\nBy the way, some people have is,<\/p>\n
734
\n00:39:05,800 –> 00:39:06,500
\nhow do you get that?
\nRight? <\/p>\n
735
\n00:39:06,500 –> 00:39:08,700
\nWell, we have readings with our
\nkids in the morning and we <\/p>\n
736
\n00:39:08,700 –> 00:39:10,000
\nfollow a little bit of a
\ndiscipline. <\/p>\n
737
\n00:39:10,200 –> 00:39:13,700
\nAnd then I’m a good wife is
\ntrained them to go and make <\/p>\n
738
\n00:39:13,700 –> 00:39:16,600
\ntheir own lunch for school.
\nOtherwise, I don’t eat and in <\/p>\n
739
\n00:39:16,600 –> 00:39:21,100
\nthere, Tom, I escaped and
\npractice, physical silence, and <\/p>\n
740
\n00:39:21,100 –> 00:39:23,900
\nmental silence and actually take
\nmy few verses from The Book of <\/p>\n
741
\n00:39:23,900 –> 00:39:27,500
\nRevelation and, and focus on the
\npassage that I’ve chosen. <\/p>\n
742
\n00:39:27,500 –> 00:39:33,100
\nSo, that’s the first thing then.
\nOne thing that that I think the <\/p>\n
743
\n00:39:33,100 –> 00:39:35,500
\npsalm says they caused me to
\nunderstand the way of your <\/p>\n
744
\n00:39:35,500 –> 00:39:38,500
\nprecepts that I might meditate
\non your wonderful Deeds too <\/p>\n
745
\n00:39:38,500 –> 00:39:40,200
\noften.
\nWe can we can pick up a <\/p>\n
746
\n00:39:40,207 –> 00:39:42,600
\nscripture and oven when we going
\ninto the detail. <\/p>\n
747
\n00:39:42,900 –> 00:39:45,400
\nBefore we go into the detail, we
\ndon’t understand what the basic <\/p>\n
748
\n00:39:45,700 –> 00:39:48,200
\nmessages.
\nSo before I get into the details<\/p>\n
749
\n00:39:48,200 –> 00:39:50,900
\nof the passage and we will
\npractice some examples of this I<\/p>\n
750
\n00:39:50,900 –> 00:39:54,400
\ntry and ask myself, very simply
\nwhat simply being said? <\/p>\n
751
\n00:39:54,400 –> 00:39:56,800
\nYeah, because most times believe
\nit or not, even if you’re <\/p>\n
752
\n00:39:56,800 –> 00:40:00,000
\nreading about a white horse or a
\ndragon, you know, blowing fire <\/p>\n
753
\n00:40:00,000 –> 00:40:02,600
\nor whatever you can.
\nYou work out something simple as<\/p>\n
754
\n00:40:02,600 –> 00:40:04,300
\nbeing say.
\nThat might not be profound, but <\/p>\n
755
\n00:40:04,300 –> 00:40:07,600
\njust stop and get the forest
\nbefore you get to the truth. <\/p>\n
756
\n00:40:07,600 –> 00:40:08,900
\nBecause I can think the trees
\nare exciting. <\/p>\n
757
\n00:40:08,900 –> 00:40:11,800
\nI love getting to the trees but
\nstop with the forest if you can <\/p>\n
758
\n00:40:11,800 –> 00:40:17,600
\nunderstand and then possibly the
\none that I certainly love as a <\/p>\n
759
\n00:40:17,600 –> 00:40:22,300
\nBible student, is the remember
\nPsalm 143. <\/p>\n
760
\n00:40:22,300 –> 00:40:25,700
\nI remember the days of long ago,
\nI meditate on all your works and<\/p>\n
761
\n00:40:25,700 –> 00:40:27,300
\nconsider what your hands have
\ndone. <\/p>\n
762
\n00:40:27,400 –> 00:40:30,000
\nSo the idea of listening for
\nbauble echoes. <\/p>\n
763
\n00:40:30,600 –> 00:40:35,600
\nHe’s talking to us about a lamb
\nor about crowns or about a <\/p>\n
764
\n00:40:35,600 –> 00:40:37,600
\nnumber 6.
\nWe have. <\/p>\n
765
\n00:40:37,600 –> 00:40:39,000
\nI heard it before.
\nWhat is it? <\/p>\n
766
\n00:40:39,000 –> 00:40:43,900
\nRemind me of this is this idea
\nof its spiritual work with <\/p>\n
767
\n00:40:43,900 –> 00:40:46,800
\nspiritual, help me to understand
\nyour Insight. <\/p>\n
768
\n00:40:46,800 –> 00:40:50,400
\nYour Truth through remembering
\nand then I mentioned the point <\/p>\n
769
\n00:40:50,500 –> 00:40:54,100
\nearlier that all of that
\nultimately for me at the end of <\/p>\n
770
\n00:40:54,100 –> 00:40:57,800
\nmy little 15 minutes, it’s a
\nvalue because it brings me to <\/p>\n
771
\n00:40:57,800 –> 00:41:00,200
\nthe point of worship in some way
\nhaving understood. <\/p>\n
772
\n00:41:00,400 –> 00:41:03,700
\nWould in some better way.
\nWhat this passage was saying to <\/p>\n
773
\n00:41:03,700 –> 00:41:07,100
\nme today, as a spiritual
\nprinciple, I feel the very <\/p>\n
774
\n00:41:07,100 –> 00:41:09,200
\npresence of our father and the
\nLord Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n
775
\n00:41:09,500 –> 00:41:12,600
\nAnd then, of course, you can
\nleave the day with something <\/p>\n
776
\n00:41:12,600 –> 00:41:16,400
\nthat you can apply something
\nfrom what may have started off <\/p>\n
777
\n00:41:16,400 –> 00:41:19,800
\nas a fairly arbitrary piece of
\nscripture from The Book of <\/p>\n
778
\n00:41:19,800 –> 00:41:24,200
\nRevelation that has come out of
\nit, a principle, a spiritual <\/p>\n
779
\n00:41:24,200 –> 00:41:27,000
\ntruth that you can go out for
\nthe day and say, you know what, <\/p>\n
780
\n00:41:27,000 –> 00:41:29,400
\nI’m going to remember that, I’m
\ngoing to change some behavior, <\/p>\n
781
\n00:41:29,400 –> 00:41:32,700
\nI’m going to change.
\nI’m thinking as a result of that<\/p>\n
782
\n00:41:32,700 –> 00:41:35,500
\nInsight accorded, the, you are
\nthe man syndrome. <\/p>\n
783
\n00:41:35,500 –> 00:41:38,800
\nAnd, and really, that is the
\nprocess I go through and all of <\/p>\n
784
\n00:41:38,800 –> 00:41:41,500
\nthat leads to spiritual insights
\nthat. <\/p>\n
785
\n00:41:41,500 –> 00:41:44,500
\nI keep those in a journal.
\nAnd as a result of that journal,<\/p>\n
786
\n00:41:44,700 –> 00:41:47,800
\nI’m here talking to you about
\nmeditations on Revelation, and <\/p>\n
787
\n00:41:47,800 –> 00:41:49,200
\nwe will leave it there for
\ntoday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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