WEBVTT 1 00:00:16.324 --> 00:00:22.039 Good morning once again, it's good to see everyone here. 2 00:00:22.462 --> 00:00:28.430 We have been talking at length over the last weeks and 3 00:00:28.430 --> 00:00:33.850 months about the sign of the Son of Man, and 4 00:00:36.330 --> 00:00:41.420 it leads me to ask, what do you see? 5 00:00:44.320 --> 00:00:48.230 What do you see in the heavens? 6 00:00:52.360 --> 00:00:59.800 We see a sign, a shape, 7 00:01:01.890 --> 00:01:09.870 and it reminds us of Jesus' words when he said 8 00:01:10.940 --> 00:01:18.030 to the skeptical people, who were the scribes and Pharisees, 9 00:01:21.620 --> 00:01:29.610 in Matthew chapter 12, verse 39, well, then verse 38, 10 00:01:29.760 --> 00:01:33.480 the scribes and the Pharisees answered, saying to Jesus, Master, 11 00:01:34.490 --> 00:01:36.470 we would see a sign from thee. 12 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:45.170 Verse 39, but Jesus answered and said unto them, an evil and adulterous 13 00:01:45.250 --> 00:01:52.770 generation seeketh after a sign, and there shall no sign be given to it but 14 00:01:53.520 --> 00:01:56.530 the sign of the prophet Jonas. 15 00:01:57.170 --> 00:02:04.830 So one sign only would be given, the sign of the prophet 16 00:02:05.020 --> 00:02:11.720 Jonas. “For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, 17 00:02:12.820 --> 00:02:18.680 so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.” 18 00:02:23.870 --> 00:02:31.470 We'll come back to that later, but we see 19 00:02:33.150 --> 00:02:40.800 in the heavens the whale and the whale's belly where 20 00:02:41.630 --> 00:02:49.400 Jonah was. This is THE sign 21 00:02:50.450 --> 00:02:52.440 that Jesus said would be given. 22 00:02:53.630 --> 00:03:01.180 Now, what do we learn from Jesus when he says, 23 00:03:01.490 --> 00:03:06.200 no sign will be given but the sign of the prophet Jonah? 24 00:03:08.860 --> 00:03:16.170 Be thinking about that, because at first glance, 25 00:03:16.870 --> 00:03:24.650 it sounds like Jesus is saying that in 26 00:03:24.740 --> 00:03:32.660 a rejecting tone. You want a sign, but no 27 00:03:32.660 --> 00:03:37.350 sign is going to be given to you, just this sign of Jonah. 28 00:03:40.470 --> 00:03:46.150 What do you see? We see the sign of Jonah 29 00:03:48.490 --> 00:03:55.990 in the whale's belly. For 30 00:03:56.450 --> 00:04:01.790 as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, 31 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:10.640 so the Son of Man was three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 32 00:04:12.550 --> 00:04:18.300 We see that it's talking about the Son of Man. 33 00:04:22.640 --> 00:04:28.360 What do you see in this? 34 00:04:34.640 --> 00:04:42.030 We see the alpha and the omega 35 00:04:44.550 --> 00:04:52.200 that together form the divine monogram, the 36 00:04:52.200 --> 00:04:59.950 signature of the Lord, who calls himself in Revelation four times, 37 00:04:59.990 --> 00:05:04.940 he says, I am Alpha and Omega. 38 00:05:10.550 --> 00:05:16.110 We see His signature in the sign. 39 00:05:21.550 --> 00:05:29.250 We also see the scene of His 40 00:05:30.060 --> 00:05:37.570 baptism. When Jesus was baptized in the water 41 00:05:38.510 --> 00:05:46.650 and the dove descended, that was the sign that God gave to John 42 00:05:46.650 --> 00:05:54.600 the Baptist, that this is the Messiah, the dove resting 43 00:05:54.720 --> 00:06:02.560 on his head. We see in the sign turned over 44 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:10.210 the vessel, the lamp of the wise virgins 45 00:06:12.390 --> 00:06:19.280 shining with the oil of time filled with the 46 00:06:20.170 --> 00:06:22.160 Spirit, the oil of the Spirit. 47 00:06:26.820 --> 00:06:34.190 What do you see in the sign? We see the 48 00:06:35.020 --> 00:06:42.840 seven churches of Revelation outlined in a 49 00:06:42.840 --> 00:06:48.810 path following the course of the comets 50 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:58.280 in the reverse order as they're given in Revelation. 51 00:07:00.500 --> 00:07:07.600 We see how in Revelation, it starts with the first love 52 00:07:10.140 --> 00:07:16.170 and the rebuke to the church of Ephesus that they had lost that first love. 53 00:07:17.980 --> 00:07:23.680 And in each progressive church, it was a degrading condition, 54 00:07:25.280 --> 00:07:33.020 generally speaking, until Laodicea is completely warned, at 55 00:07:33.020 --> 00:07:40.560 least, of being spit out. But we're going in the opposite direction 56 00:07:41.460 --> 00:07:49.230 from Laodicea, the comet K2 comes this way, E3, the other 57 00:07:49.230 --> 00:07:53.860 direction, back to the first love. 58 00:07:56.680 --> 00:08:02.570 But what do you see? Or what do you hear? 59 00:08:02.570 --> 00:08:09.930 Do you hear what the Spirit is saying to the 60 00:08:09.930 --> 00:08:17.760 churches along that path? We 61 00:08:17.760 --> 00:08:23.620 see the two witnesses of time 62 00:08:26.110 --> 00:08:30.450 on either side of the river of time, 63 00:08:35.980 --> 00:08:39.650 and it shows us a picture 64 00:08:45.830 --> 00:08:51.360 that is given in the prophetic writings. 65 00:08:55.520 --> 00:09:00.640 And this sign with these two witnesses is a theme, 66 00:09:04.050 --> 00:09:11.510 two witnesses of time. And when we look at time prophecy in the Bible, 67 00:09:14.100 --> 00:09:21.290 we have to understand it in the perspective of two witnesses. 68 00:09:23.660 --> 00:09:31.550 And so, we see in the book of Daniel how the timelines that are 69 00:09:31.550 --> 00:09:38.210 given there, the 70 weeks or 490 years, 70 00:09:41.210 --> 00:09:49.490 which leads to the time when Jesus came to the earth and was crucified, 71 00:09:51.210 --> 00:09:58.830 and also culminates with the death of the first martyr 72 00:09:59.400 --> 00:10:07.050 of His disciples, and that is all a subset of the larger time 73 00:10:07.120 --> 00:10:13.450 prophecy, still in Daniel, that leads up to the time of judgment, 74 00:10:14.660 --> 00:10:21.790 the judgment of the dead. Then we had the first 75 00:10:22.470 --> 00:10:27.470 Orion cycle that we studied for a long time, the judgment cycle, 76 00:10:29.770 --> 00:10:33.600 and that led to the judgment of the living. 77 00:10:34.320 --> 00:10:38.760 First there's the judgment of the dead, then the judgment of the living. 78 00:10:40.110 --> 00:10:47.730 Peter speaks of Jesus when He comes, He will judge the living and 79 00:10:48.130 --> 00:10:53.180 the dead, and that is what we see, the judgment of the dead, 80 00:10:53.180 --> 00:10:59.880 and then the judgment of the living, coming into a second witness of time, 81 00:11:01.620 --> 00:11:09.440 a second application of the 2,300 days, with another 82 00:11:09.570 --> 00:11:16.610 70 weeks, and that leads to another cross in that 70th 83 00:11:17.350 --> 00:11:24.880 week, that cross being the cross of the Horologium, pointing 84 00:11:25.310 --> 00:11:33.010 directly to that last week where the comet comes exactly in the middle of the 85 00:11:33.010 --> 00:11:40.470 week to show that point where it crosses 86 00:11:42.330 --> 00:11:49.970 the cross. What do you see? We see 87 00:11:51.410 --> 00:11:58.080 two trunks of the Tree of Life on either side 88 00:11:59.630 --> 00:12:07.270 of the river that flows from the throne of God, as it is described in Revelation 89 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:14.710 22, and we see the leaves 90 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:21.650 of the Tree of Life in the Horologium with Comet BB. 91 00:12:27.510 --> 00:12:33.640 We see the prophecy of Zechariah 92 00:12:35.310 --> 00:12:41.320 4 where he sees two olive trees 93 00:12:43.260 --> 00:12:51.260 on either side of a candlestick with seven lamps, over which is a 94 00:12:51.310 --> 00:12:58.630 bowl and two pipes pouring out their oil for the lamp, 95 00:13:01.940 --> 00:13:09.370 all in this sign, olive trees, the two pipes, 96 00:13:11.590 --> 00:13:18.990 the bowl of oil like the bowl of manna in the Ark, 97 00:13:20.250 --> 00:13:28.120 all represented there. We see Jesus' 98 00:13:28.610 --> 00:13:36.290 parable of the fig tree where he had a fig tree 99 00:13:37.410 --> 00:13:45.190 planted in the vineyard where there are grapes, but he had a fig tree planted there, 100 00:13:46.060 --> 00:13:53.780 and year after year he sought fruit on that fig tree. 101 00:13:57.410 --> 00:14:05.410 These are the years characterized by the corona crisis, 102 00:14:06.110 --> 00:14:13.780 the vaccination crisis especially, and in the parable 103 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:24.940 Jesus comes, or the character in the parable that 104 00:14:24.940 --> 00:14:32.130 represents Jesus, he comes and pleads for 105 00:14:32.830 --> 00:14:39.300 another year because the owner of the vineyard says, hey, what is this 106 00:14:40.320 --> 00:14:44.200 fruitless tree doing in the vineyard? 107 00:14:44.640 --> 00:14:52.260 Cut it down. But the caretaker says, give it one more year, 108 00:14:54.650 --> 00:14:58.950 and that one more year is where we are now. 109 00:15:01.810 --> 00:15:08.090 It's the day of the Lord, the year that the Lord requested in the parable. 110 00:15:10.860 --> 00:15:16.850 And he said, then if it doesn't bear fruit, cut it down. 111 00:15:21.900 --> 00:15:29.590 What do you see? We see a 112 00:15:29.590 --> 00:15:37.260 sickle for the wheat and a sickle for the 113 00:15:37.260 --> 00:15:44.870 grapes. We see the barn where the wheat is gathered. 114 00:15:46.940 --> 00:15:53.060 We see the wine press where the grapes are 115 00:15:55.020 --> 00:15:58.210 tread underfoot. What do you see? 116 00:16:03.150 --> 00:16:10.510 We see the harp and the harpers 117 00:16:10.990 --> 00:16:16.860 who harp with their harp. It's the harp of 10 strings, 118 00:16:22.070 --> 00:16:27.460 and we can recognize what those strings are. 119 00:16:28.870 --> 00:16:36.090 In the two tables, just like there are two comets, the first table 120 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:45.000 connected with the comet K2, and the second table of the law, 121 00:16:46.140 --> 00:16:52.650 the Ten Commandments, in the second comet. 122 00:16:57.730 --> 00:17:07.250 These are the 10 strings of the harp that are played by God's 123 00:17:07.250 --> 00:17:13.360 people. We saw the churches in this same area. 124 00:17:16.090 --> 00:17:23.560 When we look at the entire area 125 00:17:24.060 --> 00:17:31.860 where the sign touches, and all of those constellations, we 126 00:17:31.860 --> 00:17:39.740 find 12 constellations. In ancient times, the ship was a 127 00:17:39.740 --> 00:17:45.170 single constellation. And 128 00:17:46.900 --> 00:17:51.790 those correspond with the tribes of Israel. 129 00:17:54.030 --> 00:17:59.610 It's a division of the lands that we see here. 130 00:18:04.050 --> 00:18:09.720 And when we look at that 131 00:18:12.820 --> 00:18:22.230 in our mind's eye, we can see some patterns that show us that 132 00:18:22.230 --> 00:18:29.790 this is an image of the holy city in Revelation 133 00:18:31.150 --> 00:18:39.030 that lies four square, and we see the pattern of the 134 00:18:39.030 --> 00:18:46.820 pyramid there with the Holy Spirit in the center 135 00:18:47.850 --> 00:18:57.330 of God's city. The holy city where all of the tribes of spiritual 136 00:18:57.330 --> 00:19:04.210 Israel have their allotted lands, if you will. 137 00:19:05.490 --> 00:19:08.540 The promise of that land. 138 00:19:14.220 --> 00:19:18.790 What do you see in the sign? 139 00:19:25.850 --> 00:19:33.530 That's the question. We can see the wounds 140 00:19:34.710 --> 00:19:42.370 of Jesus in Orion, the river of blood that 141 00:19:42.370 --> 00:19:45.640 flows from his side, 142 00:19:50.700 --> 00:19:57.790 from the creation of the world all the way until the present time. 143 00:20:02.420 --> 00:20:08.920 We see the name of the Father, 144 00:20:10.950 --> 00:20:18.990 Yahweh, in the ancient characters represented by the path of the 145 00:20:18.990 --> 00:20:23.970 comets, Yod-eh, Vav-eh, 146 00:20:27.720 --> 00:20:35.080 pointing to the hands, meaning literally, behold 147 00:20:36.060 --> 00:20:41.270 the hands, behold the nail. 148 00:20:43.950 --> 00:20:50.920 We see the nail that is in a sure place as 149 00:20:52.560 --> 00:20:56.510 the Bible describes it in Isaiah chapter 22. 150 00:20:56.510 --> 00:21:04.330 It points to, of course, Christ and His 151 00:21:05.330 --> 00:21:12.470 crucifixion. We have seen how 152 00:21:13.120 --> 00:21:20.680 along the path of Comet K2, we have represented each 153 00:21:20.810 --> 00:21:27.720 of the feasts of the year in their order 154 00:21:30.370 --> 00:21:33.920 from the Passover in the spring at the beginning of the year, 155 00:21:34.780 --> 00:21:41.560 the seventh day of unleavened bread, the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost, 156 00:21:42.190 --> 00:21:47.290 the Feast of Trumpets, both at this crossing place. 157 00:21:48.500 --> 00:21:56.450 We see Yom Kippur, Tabernacles dwelling with God 158 00:21:56.920 --> 00:22:00.880 or God dwelling with us. That's what Tabernacles represents. 159 00:22:01.770 --> 00:22:08.470 In the end, Shemini Atzeret, the prayer for the latter rain. 160 00:22:10.830 --> 00:22:18.780 And as well, the last great day was the last feast Sabbath of the 161 00:22:18.780 --> 00:22:24.100 year, the end of the Feast of Tabernacles. 162 00:22:27.790 --> 00:22:35.700 We see on the same path the history of Israel 163 00:22:38.120 --> 00:22:46.010 moving from Egypt, exiting Egypt, coming to 164 00:22:46.010 --> 00:22:52.930 the Red Sea, then at Mount Sinai, 165 00:22:53.620 --> 00:23:00.530 receiving the law and at the same time committing a great sin. 166 00:23:02.600 --> 00:23:10.810 It's interesting how the law and sin often go together because 167 00:23:10.810 --> 00:23:13.360 it's the law that exposes the sin. 168 00:23:16.540 --> 00:23:24.710 And of course, it points there to this specific event because 169 00:23:25.860 --> 00:23:33.020 the comets made this crossing on the anniversary, the Hebrew anniversary of that event. 170 00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:42.470 Likewise, at Yom Kippur, that was the anniversary when they had 171 00:23:43.170 --> 00:23:51.100 confirmation of God's forgiveness for their sin when Moses went the second time 172 00:23:51.740 --> 00:23:54.250 up the mountain. That was Yom Kippur. 173 00:23:57.140 --> 00:24:04.350 Then they had their wandering time through the wilderness, corresponding 174 00:24:05.040 --> 00:24:09.940 to that tabernacling time like we saw in the previous slide, 175 00:24:11.130 --> 00:24:14.780 before finally entering into Canaan. 176 00:24:19.010 --> 00:24:25.520 And so we see the entire journey of Israel represented 177 00:24:27.500 --> 00:24:33.940 in the path of the comet. Given the symbolism of the sign. 178 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:43.470 We also see the covenant of God with his 179 00:24:43.470 --> 00:24:50.160 people. It was a covenant of blood that began with Adam, 180 00:24:53.070 --> 00:24:59.650 continued with Noah in the flood where the 181 00:25:01.270 --> 00:25:08.030 waters overflowed the earth. In Abraham, 182 00:25:09.450 --> 00:25:17.030 the father of the tribe. Moses, the leader of Israel. 183 00:25:18.340 --> 00:25:23.780 David, the king of Judah and Israel. 184 00:25:25.260 --> 00:25:33.050 Jesus, all continuing the same covenant that 185 00:25:33.050 --> 00:25:40.380 God made with man. And when Jesus came, He gave 186 00:25:41.620 --> 00:25:50.790 His blood. Therefore, it is a fitting place at the throne where 187 00:25:51.280 --> 00:25:59.150 Jesus gave His blood for all of humanity 188 00:26:00.050 --> 00:26:07.620 from Adam, even until the last covenant, 189 00:26:08.190 --> 00:26:15.480 or rather the culmination of the covenant, is fulfilled in 190 00:26:18.080 --> 00:26:25.940 the last Elijah because Jesus said that Elijah shall come and restore all 191 00:26:25.940 --> 00:26:34.270 things. And so in the end, there is that spirit of Elijah who 192 00:26:34.270 --> 00:26:42.020 comes into the world and restores all things at the 193 00:26:42.020 --> 00:26:49.870 time of the coming of Jesus. What do you 194 00:26:49.870 --> 00:26:57.840 see? Many things. In the 195 00:26:58.070 --> 00:27:05.440 clock, we see the sword coming out of the mouth 196 00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:13.750 of time. We see the iron rod, the morning star. 197 00:27:16.750 --> 00:27:21.620 We see a side of Jesus that many do not dwell much on. 198 00:27:22.780 --> 00:27:28.780 It's a side of vengeance. It's a side of 199 00:27:31.440 --> 00:27:40.060 His warrior capabilities. You don't want to meet with those weapons. 200 00:27:41.340 --> 00:27:48.660 Those are for the grapes, those who do not want 201 00:27:49.980 --> 00:27:57.430 the Lord to reign over them. Those who reject the time also. 202 00:27:58.600 --> 00:28:05.820 We want to be among the wheat that are harvested and gathered 203 00:28:06.430 --> 00:28:13.910 into His barn. But in any case, whether 204 00:28:16.860 --> 00:28:21.440 wheat or grapes, there's a knife involved. 205 00:28:23.310 --> 00:28:27.080 The wheat is cut, the grapes are cut, they're trampled. 206 00:28:28.560 --> 00:28:36.290 It's not just a knife because the actual part that is useful of the wheat is 207 00:28:36.610 --> 00:28:40.900 not the part that is cut. But how do you get to that wheat? 208 00:28:42.020 --> 00:28:49.190 You have to thresh the grain. In ancient times, they would thresh the grain by, 209 00:28:50.630 --> 00:28:58.390 they'd have a big pile of it basically on the ground and they would trample on it 210 00:28:58.930 --> 00:29:06.940 with oxen. The oxen would step on it back and forth and back and 211 00:29:06.940 --> 00:29:14.910 forth until the wheat was separated from the chaff and then they would blow 212 00:29:14.980 --> 00:29:20.210 the chaff out from the wheat and they would collect it back again. 213 00:29:22.550 --> 00:29:28.630 So in either way, it's a process that 214 00:29:31.130 --> 00:29:37.560 you can understand from the perspective of the grain, if you will, 215 00:29:37.860 --> 00:29:40.470 or the grapes. It's not a pleasant process. 216 00:29:41.420 --> 00:29:48.490 The Bible uses the imagery of threshing the wheat as a very tumultuous time, 217 00:29:49.370 --> 00:29:54.570 referring to war and affliction. 218 00:29:57.190 --> 00:30:04.200 And likewise, for the grapes, when they're tread in the 219 00:30:04.370 --> 00:30:11.600 winepress, it's about the vengeance 220 00:30:12.620 --> 00:30:17.570 and the grape juice, of course, representing blood. 221 00:30:20.410 --> 00:30:28.620 Jesus is described in Revelation chapter 19 as having garments 222 00:30:28.720 --> 00:30:33.150 stained with blood from the winepress. 223 00:30:33.550 --> 00:30:38.560 So what do you see? 224 00:30:48.750 --> 00:30:56.490 Because what we have seen, though it is a 225 00:30:56.490 --> 00:31:02.450 lot, though it is many things, and that's just a sample, of course, 226 00:31:02.770 --> 00:31:10.400 there's even many other things, we haven't exhausted all of 227 00:31:12.510 --> 00:31:20.430 what God has put in the sign. There's more yet to be discovered and more 228 00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:25.410 that I haven't shared here that we've talked about before. 229 00:31:28.650 --> 00:31:36.420 But despite all of that, I want to say that 230 00:31:38.590 --> 00:31:45.290 it's not enough. It's not enough. 231 00:31:48.570 --> 00:31:55.980 Now, what do I mean by that? Let me ask 232 00:31:56.560 --> 00:32:02.180 a question. Do you believe 233 00:32:04.510 --> 00:32:11.980 in the sign? In the One that made the sign? 234 00:32:13.210 --> 00:32:20.870 Okay. Jesus made a certain comment 235 00:32:22.600 --> 00:32:30.290 in John chapter 7, and I want to start in 236 00:32:30.350 --> 00:32:37.970 verse 37. In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, 237 00:32:37.970 --> 00:32:44.760 saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. 238 00:32:46.600 --> 00:32:53.600 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly 239 00:32:54.410 --> 00:32:57.450 shall flow rivers of living water. 240 00:33:01.080 --> 00:33:08.750 So, Jesus pointed out that those who believe on 241 00:33:08.750 --> 00:33:16.420 him, out of their belly shall flow rivers 242 00:33:16.800 --> 00:33:18.590 of living water. What does that mean? 243 00:33:23.040 --> 00:33:30.710 Why did he use that language? You know, if you look at that verse in the commentaries, 244 00:33:32.620 --> 00:33:40.950 generally they say, well, the spirit will flow from the heart. 245 00:33:43.620 --> 00:33:48.370 And that's not inaccurate, but why did Jesus say the belly? 246 00:33:50.880 --> 00:33:54.590 They had a word for the heart, and they used it often. 247 00:33:54.930 --> 00:34:00.120 But why did he say it would flow out of their belly? 248 00:34:01.830 --> 00:34:09.570 Well, I think we see that in the sign, because it is the sign 249 00:34:10.140 --> 00:34:17.280 of the whale, the great fish of Jonah, where he was 250 00:34:18.240 --> 00:34:25.990 in the belly. That's here. And from 251 00:34:25.990 --> 00:34:32.970 that place, you see where the river, which I've 252 00:34:33.950 --> 00:34:38.960 colored red to signify the blood, wherein is the life. 253 00:34:39.430 --> 00:34:47.360 So, this is the river of living water that flows 254 00:34:48.440 --> 00:34:53.920 from the belly in two different ways. 255 00:34:54.730 --> 00:35:02.250 Two rivers, if you will. And therefore, Jesus said, he that believeth on me, 256 00:35:02.870 --> 00:35:06.420 as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers, 257 00:35:06.760 --> 00:35:10.360 plural, rivers of living water. 258 00:35:11.410 --> 00:35:18.780 Because there's, from this perspective, it's flowing in two different 259 00:35:18.910 --> 00:35:24.470 directions, as though from the top, as a spring from the top of the mountain flowing down. 260 00:35:26.530 --> 00:35:32.180 And Jesus said of Himself, I am the fountain 261 00:35:34.710 --> 00:35:42.330 of living water. Look at Jeremiah chapter 2, 262 00:35:45.460 --> 00:35:53.460 beginning with verse 11. God is speaking with His 263 00:35:53.570 --> 00:35:56.670 people and drawing a contrast. 264 00:35:57.940 --> 00:36:03.040 Because of what they have done. 265 00:36:04.670 --> 00:36:12.500 He says, has a nation ever changed their gods, which are 266 00:36:12.500 --> 00:36:18.800 yet no gods. So, He's talking about the nations that have their idols and they worship their idols. 267 00:36:19.030 --> 00:36:22.330 But every nation may have their idols and they stick with their idols. 268 00:36:22.760 --> 00:36:29.320 They, you know, Nineveh worships Dagon, the fish god. 269 00:36:30.670 --> 00:36:34.290 And it was always so. They kept to their gods. 270 00:36:34.350 --> 00:36:39.720 And so, the Lord is saying, has any nation changed their gods, 271 00:36:40.040 --> 00:36:47.760 which are yet no gods? But My people have changed their glory for that which does 272 00:36:48.040 --> 00:36:55.910 not profit. And then He says in verse 12, be astonished. 273 00:36:57.340 --> 00:37:05.200 Who? Oh, ye heavens, be astonished, ye heavens at this and be 274 00:37:05.230 --> 00:37:10.990 horribly afraid. Be very desolate, saith the Lord. 275 00:37:12.820 --> 00:37:16.040 And then He explains a little bit more. 276 00:37:16.860 --> 00:37:19.120 For my people have committed two evils. 277 00:37:19.770 --> 00:37:24.810 They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters. 278 00:37:26.730 --> 00:37:29.700 The fountain, a fountain springs up of its own. 279 00:37:30.660 --> 00:37:37.380 It gives that living water. And instead of the fountain, 280 00:37:38.700 --> 00:37:44.150 they hewed themselves out cisterns, broken cisterns. 281 00:37:44.180 --> 00:37:48.420 Now, what is a cistern for? It holds the water. 282 00:37:48.880 --> 00:37:53.070 It's not a fountain of water. It's just to hold the water. 283 00:37:53.930 --> 00:37:55.640 But it doesn't even hold the water. 284 00:37:56.730 --> 00:37:59.370 They're broken cisterns at that. 285 00:38:01.210 --> 00:38:07.290 And so, God is pleading with His people 286 00:38:09.730 --> 00:38:12.390 because of what they have done. 287 00:38:12.650 --> 00:38:18.720 They have forsaken the fountain of 288 00:38:20.630 --> 00:38:28.360 living water. And instead, they have these 289 00:38:29.090 --> 00:38:37.080 broken cisterns, which is man's attempt to accomplish 290 00:38:37.080 --> 00:38:40.930 the same purpose, but they're man-made. 291 00:38:41.490 --> 00:38:48.370 They're broken, fallible, not really working, dead cisterns. 292 00:38:49.470 --> 00:38:55.790 And what is the purpose of the living water? 293 00:38:58.700 --> 00:39:02.250 To give life, to save humanity. 294 00:39:02.770 --> 00:39:10.230 That's what we see, that Jesus gave his life, his blood for all of 295 00:39:11.000 --> 00:39:18.320 time, for all humanity. It's the DNA, His DNA. 296 00:39:18.940 --> 00:39:25.820 But man has made his own cisterns, his own 297 00:39:28.620 --> 00:39:36.460 way of saving himself by getting 298 00:39:37.670 --> 00:39:45.070 an injection, for example, saving yourself, saving 299 00:39:45.910 --> 00:39:53.340 the planet. All of these things that man has done, 300 00:39:57.120 --> 00:40:05.050 forsaking the fountain of living water, and instead making in 301 00:40:05.330 --> 00:40:13.180 our own concept a replacement that 302 00:40:13.230 --> 00:40:19.490 doesn't work. But who is He saying that to? 303 00:40:26.610 --> 00:40:31.280 For My people. He's not talking about the world. 304 00:40:32.280 --> 00:40:38.350 He's not talking about those out there who don't believe in Him. 305 00:40:40.160 --> 00:40:41.600 He's talking about His people. 306 00:40:49.130 --> 00:40:55.630 And so I ask again, what do you see? 307 00:41:03.940 --> 00:41:11.460 Where are His people? We've seen how the churches are represented 308 00:41:12.010 --> 00:41:17.800 inside. They have the Spirit, where there is the dove. 309 00:41:18.850 --> 00:41:23.750 They have the fountain of living water. 310 00:41:25.570 --> 00:41:27.400 What did Jesus say about them? 311 00:41:28.490 --> 00:41:30.340 Where would the fountain come from? 312 00:41:32.650 --> 00:41:40.420 In John chapter 7, he said, out of the 313 00:41:40.420 --> 00:41:43.880 heavens shall flow rivers of living water. 314 00:41:45.380 --> 00:41:51.000 No, out of the belly of the great fish shall flow rivers of living water. 315 00:41:53.510 --> 00:41:59.010 So what's the difference? What does it mean when He says out of his belly? 316 00:41:59.040 --> 00:42:05.300 That is out of the belly of the person, out of our belly, your belly. 317 00:42:07.540 --> 00:42:10.400 What's the difference? What do you see? 318 00:42:12.960 --> 00:42:18.430 Do you see the sign of the son of man? 319 00:42:18.530 --> 00:42:26.450 Do you see the river, the fountain 320 00:42:27.870 --> 00:42:32.880 of living water in heaven? 321 00:42:37.800 --> 00:42:45.740 Or what did Jesus 322 00:42:45.740 --> 00:42:53.260 say? He that believeth on the sign of the Son of 323 00:42:55.160 --> 00:42:58.240 man. No, he that believeth on Me. 324 00:42:59.340 --> 00:43:06.870 And that's different than the 325 00:43:06.870 --> 00:43:13.570 sign. So we have a contrast. 326 00:43:14.920 --> 00:43:22.510 We talk a lot about the sign of the Son of man, but that's just the sign. 327 00:43:28.640 --> 00:43:34.890 It represents the real thing, but the real thing 328 00:43:36.570 --> 00:43:43.740 is much more important. The sign is good. 329 00:43:45.200 --> 00:43:51.060 It's wonderful. It also shows us something about 330 00:43:53.150 --> 00:44:00.750 Jesus, like I hinted to, because it's just 331 00:44:01.980 --> 00:44:09.880 the sign of Jonah. And yet in that one sign of Jonah, 332 00:44:12.490 --> 00:44:19.140 we see a multifaceted picture of 333 00:44:22.100 --> 00:44:29.080 who Jesus is, but it's still just a sign. 334 00:44:32.340 --> 00:44:40.200 Jesus said, if you believe on me, He didn't say if you 335 00:44:40.200 --> 00:44:47.000 believe in my sign. And He said 336 00:44:48.550 --> 00:44:56.300 that there would be a fountain of living water flowing from your belly, 337 00:44:58.060 --> 00:45:02.650 not from the heavens. This is just a picture. 338 00:45:07.990 --> 00:45:15.990 So do you believe 339 00:45:18.300 --> 00:45:26.810 on Jesus or on the sign? It's important to make that distinction, 340 00:45:28.770 --> 00:45:36.440 that we understand 341 00:45:37.390 --> 00:45:44.810 that this is not just something nice that's happening in heaven, 342 00:45:46.720 --> 00:45:50.840 but that it happens in our own heart. 343 00:45:52.160 --> 00:45:59.050 That's where it counts. That's where the belief happens, 344 00:45:59.840 --> 00:46:06.970 because as James said, the devils also 345 00:46:07.590 --> 00:46:13.290 believe, and they tremble. A lot of times we don't even tremble, 346 00:46:15.300 --> 00:46:21.200 but the true belief that Jesus was referring to 347 00:46:25.020 --> 00:46:32.550 was not a belief in the sign, but in 348 00:46:33.590 --> 00:46:38.710 Himself. And so when we look at the sign, 349 00:46:42.350 --> 00:46:50.020 learn to see not symbols, not just a picture 350 00:46:51.340 --> 00:46:56.820 and an illustration, not just comets flying through the heavens, 351 00:46:59.000 --> 00:47:06.840 but see the Son of man. Jesus 352 00:47:06.840 --> 00:47:14.570 wants us to look at His works, whether his heavenly works 353 00:47:15.620 --> 00:47:23.450 in the sign or His creation or 354 00:47:23.450 --> 00:47:25.950 whatever experiences we have in life. 355 00:47:27.770 --> 00:47:32.140 He wants us not to see just those things. 356 00:47:33.890 --> 00:47:41.660 It's not just, oh, there's a clock in the heavens or stars or 357 00:47:42.600 --> 00:47:50.410 flying balls of ice. That's not what God is directing 358 00:47:50.460 --> 00:47:55.770 our attention to. He wants us to see Jesus, 359 00:47:58.290 --> 00:48:05.270 because God wants a relationship 360 00:48:07.110 --> 00:48:12.280 with His people. That's what the covenant is all about. 361 00:48:13.050 --> 00:48:20.240 It began with Adam and Eve, just one marriage, 362 00:48:22.290 --> 00:48:29.680 and it grew to a family, to a tribe, to a nation, to a kingdom, 363 00:48:30.730 --> 00:48:38.550 to a race, the human race, and then ultimately uniting the human 364 00:48:38.550 --> 00:48:46.510 race with all of heaven and all of the other races, the 365 00:48:47.900 --> 00:48:52.830 different worlds that we are a spectacle to, as Paul mentioned. 366 00:48:53.870 --> 00:49:01.760 That's the process. It's the deliverance of the prodigal son, 367 00:49:02.630 --> 00:49:04.900 the prodigal planet, if you will. 368 00:49:06.440 --> 00:49:12.370 But it's about God's family. He wants a family, 369 00:49:15.330 --> 00:49:22.590 and He is our father. And so, in a family 370 00:49:22.720 --> 00:49:29.400 situation, and even today, as much as the family is 371 00:49:30.140 --> 00:49:37.960 degraded and almost dissolved in this world, 372 00:49:39.960 --> 00:49:47.280 still, people hold very strongly and 373 00:49:47.500 --> 00:49:55.480 value very highly those family relationships with their children, 374 00:49:56.120 --> 00:50:04.160 their parents, their spouse, even brothers and sisters and aunts 375 00:50:04.160 --> 00:50:07.320 and uncles going out in the circle. 376 00:50:08.540 --> 00:50:15.170 It's the family relationships that are the most meaningful to us, 377 00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:21.430 and so it is with God, and He wants that closeness with us. 378 00:50:21.990 --> 00:50:27.990 He doesn't want to be up there in heaven where we just look up at a sign, 379 00:50:29.280 --> 00:50:34.300 but He wants to be with us in our hearts. 380 00:50:35.960 --> 00:50:43.640 And just as when Jesus came to the earth, and He 381 00:50:43.640 --> 00:50:51.230 was that fountain of living water, and He gave that 382 00:50:52.980 --> 00:51:00.880 water that flowed from His belly, He gave it to all 383 00:51:01.120 --> 00:51:08.140 of humanity, whoever would accept it, so it is with us. 384 00:51:12.590 --> 00:51:20.070 We, like He, when we have the 385 00:51:20.170 --> 00:51:26.620 fountain of living water in our body, 386 00:51:28.090 --> 00:51:36.060 then it will also flow out to others, because the 387 00:51:36.060 --> 00:51:43.910 Spirit, you'll remember a couple of weeks ago when we talked about the 388 00:51:44.870 --> 00:51:50.820 relationship between the spirit and the body and the soul, 389 00:51:54.010 --> 00:52:02.910 we saw how the Spirit is most often connected with the air and 390 00:52:02.910 --> 00:52:10.560 breath, but there are those times when God says, I 391 00:52:10.560 --> 00:52:17.350 will pour out My Spirit. So, that means the Spirit is in liquid form, 392 00:52:18.520 --> 00:52:26.060 and therefore the Spirit is also sometimes represented in terms of 393 00:52:26.750 --> 00:52:30.910 liquid water, for example, living water. 394 00:52:33.120 --> 00:52:40.080 But we see that that is in connection with the flesh. 395 00:52:40.430 --> 00:52:46.890 It says, I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh, just like when we breathe, 396 00:52:49.210 --> 00:52:57.000 we receive the air, and that air goes into our blood, then we 397 00:52:57.000 --> 00:53:04.690 have that life in the blood, so when we receive the Spirit from God, 398 00:53:04.690 --> 00:53:11.640 it comes into us and gives life to 399 00:53:12.990 --> 00:53:19.620 our soul, so to speak. And that is then 400 00:53:21.120 --> 00:53:25.680 given freely to those around us. 401 00:53:25.990 --> 00:53:33.900 We saw before how we have the sheep and the goats, and 402 00:53:33.900 --> 00:53:39.950 this is the goat's territory, and yet that's where the water goes to. 403 00:53:40.790 --> 00:53:48.010 We give to the goats, not 404 00:53:48.960 --> 00:53:56.690 that they remain in that condition, but that all will find life 405 00:53:57.540 --> 00:54:05.320 in Christ. So, all of those things are 406 00:54:06.510 --> 00:54:12.970 presented in the sign, but 407 00:54:14.080 --> 00:54:21.760 remember that it is a person that we're talking about, and we want to be 408 00:54:22.810 --> 00:54:29.220 united with Him and walk in 409 00:54:30.240 --> 00:54:36.760 His presence. You know, 410 00:54:39.460 --> 00:54:46.620 Jesus isn't physically here on the earth today, but He has given His Spirit 411 00:54:47.340 --> 00:54:55.020 to His people so that we become His 412 00:54:55.700 --> 00:55:02.400 representatives, and we give the light to the world. 413 00:55:04.650 --> 00:55:10.840 He does all things through His people, and 414 00:55:12.670 --> 00:55:20.420 therefore it's important that we learn to see things in the spiritual sense, 415 00:55:21.230 --> 00:55:29.140 and not just looking at the distant heavens, these 416 00:55:29.240 --> 00:55:34.730 are wonderful truths we believe, 417 00:55:37.240 --> 00:55:44.930 but the true belief that Jesus is looking for is the belief that brings those things from heaven 418 00:55:46.160 --> 00:55:53.100 into our hearts so that it will come out to those around us, 419 00:55:54.410 --> 00:56:02.060 and whatever state the world is in, you can't hide a light that 420 00:56:02.350 --> 00:56:05.290 is in the world set on a hill. 421 00:56:07.870 --> 00:56:15.420 It will be seen just as the stars of heaven are seen by the world. 422 00:56:16.750 --> 00:56:22.420 God gives His sun to shine on the just and on the unjust, 423 00:56:26.600 --> 00:56:33.820 but we're living in this time of division, the time of the final 424 00:56:34.360 --> 00:56:42.320 harvest, and so it's important for us to make a 425 00:56:42.320 --> 00:56:49.780 decision, to make it concrete, that it's not 426 00:56:49.830 --> 00:56:57.740 just nice things in heaven, but to allow 427 00:56:58.210 --> 00:57:06.100 His sickle to cut. It cuts through 428 00:57:06.580 --> 00:57:13.040 the churches. Some are inside, some are outside in each case. 429 00:57:14.110 --> 00:57:21.740 For each church, some are within Christ, and some are 430 00:57:22.550 --> 00:57:28.720 severed from Christ. The difference 431 00:57:30.570 --> 00:57:39.720 is whether we put Him at a distance or we receive Him personally 432 00:57:40.730 --> 00:57:47.530 in our hearts because He wants to be our Lord 433 00:57:50.350 --> 00:57:57.220 personally for each one individually, and so I 434 00:57:59.840 --> 00:58:04.410 want to close by asking you to 435 00:58:07.730 --> 00:58:15.730 take these things personally as a message 436 00:58:16.570 --> 00:58:24.380 from the Lord because He sent these messengers, these angels, 437 00:58:24.380 --> 00:58:29.060 if you will. It's the same word both in Hebrew and in Greek. 438 00:58:29.850 --> 00:58:37.210 Angel and messenger are the same word, and so these messengers, 439 00:58:37.810 --> 00:58:43.290 they come and they bear a message, but it's not the messenger, 440 00:58:44.030 --> 00:58:50.050 it's not the angels that we are really interested in. 441 00:58:51.000 --> 00:58:56.250 It's the message, and the message is the Word of God. 442 00:58:56.830 --> 00:59:01.580 It's the person of Jesus Christ. 443 00:59:02.540 --> 00:59:09.970 This is, if you will, the message of the Son of Man, the sign of the Son of Man, 444 00:59:11.010 --> 00:59:18.950 but it's the Son of Man who we want, and we can have the sign of 445 00:59:18.950 --> 00:59:24.370 the Son of Man just like you can hang a picture of your loved one in your house, 446 00:59:25.200 --> 00:59:31.590 but they're not there, and so take it personally 447 00:59:34.190 --> 00:59:41.430 and receive that relationship that the Lord wants with 448 00:59:42.100 --> 00:59:51.030 each of us individually so that we can be gathered into His barn 449 00:59:53.350 --> 00:59:58.590 and not be trampled along with the grapes. 450 01:00:02.870 --> 01:00:05.210 Let's stand for a word of prayer. 451 01:00:13.680 --> 01:00:19.260 Dear Heavenly Father, once again, we come before you and we thank you 452 01:00:21.470 --> 01:00:26.620 for this little sign of Jonah. 453 01:00:29.710 --> 01:00:35.260 It almost shows your humorous side if it weren't so serious, 454 01:00:36.120 --> 01:00:43.400 but it certainly shows us your love, how even an evil and adulterous generation, 455 01:00:46.600 --> 01:00:53.490 you may give one sign, but you put your whole heart 456 01:00:54.700 --> 01:01:02.050 and life and soul into that sign, and as the Creator, that means a lot. 457 01:01:04.780 --> 01:01:12.440 It's full of the richness and meaning that is 458 01:01:12.500 --> 01:01:16.610 comparable only to the written Word. 459 01:01:17.430 --> 01:01:23.310 We thank you for your goodness and your grace toward us 460 01:01:25.550 --> 01:01:31.950 that even in this generation when we are so far removed from you in spirit 461 01:01:34.830 --> 01:01:40.420 and have difficulty discerning your voice, yet you have 462 01:01:42.640 --> 01:01:49.420 given this sign to direct our attention 463 01:01:51.270 --> 01:01:59.910 to the person of your Son, and so we just receive your Spirit 464 01:02:00.260 --> 01:02:07.060 again today, just as we need 465 01:02:08.430 --> 01:02:16.240 air continuously, breath after breath, so we need that rejuvenation of your 466 01:02:16.240 --> 01:02:23.540 Spirit moment by moment, cleansing our blood and giving 467 01:02:23.880 --> 01:02:27.670 life to every member of our body. 468 01:02:29.480 --> 01:02:35.580 We thank you for the illustrations that you give to us in nature, 469 01:02:36.610 --> 01:02:43.800 for your artwork that is written throughout all time. 470 01:02:46.170 --> 01:02:53.760 We love you, Father, and we look forward to going through this time 471 01:02:53.870 --> 01:03:01.530 ahead though we know it will not be an easy time, but if we go with you and 472 01:03:03.390 --> 01:03:11.280 we receive you into our hearts to direct our lives, you 473 01:03:11.280 --> 01:03:18.920 alone can maneuver us through the complicated 474 01:03:20.630 --> 01:03:27.410 and even impossible maze of life, for you are the God of the impossible, 475 01:03:28.580 --> 01:03:35.650 and we commit our lives to you until we meet you 476 01:03:36.760 --> 01:03:44.260 face to face on the cloud. We pray these things 477 01:03:45.510 --> 01:03:53.490 in the name of our Savior who died for us that we may live in your presence and be part of 478 01:03:53.510 --> 01:03:59.890 your family. Amen. Thank you. We'll see you 479 01:04:06.180 --> 01:04:07.500 again 480 01:04:18.170 --> 01:04:20.240 next week.