WEBVTT 1 00:00:17.539 --> 00:00:21.984 Welcome, once again, it's good to see everyone. 2 00:00:22.592 --> 00:00:27.800 We are continuing our discussion today on 3 00:00:28.880 --> 00:00:36.100 the blood of Jesus. We've been looking at it in the light of the High Sabbath 4 00:00:37.050 --> 00:00:44.950 List, and in today's talk we're going to be looking at that from a 5 00:00:44.950 --> 00:00:51.970 different perspective, especially from the perspective of the wicked, 6 00:00:53.170 --> 00:00:57.970 because they also have a relationship to the blood of Jesus. 7 00:00:59.430 --> 00:01:07.160 But I've titled today's presentation, Which Way to 8 00:01:07.430 --> 00:01:14.970 Orion, and that will become clearer as we move 9 00:01:15.410 --> 00:01:18.030 along, the reason why I chose that. 10 00:01:19.860 --> 00:01:26.890 But to be sure, we're living in a time when we 11 00:01:27.720 --> 00:01:32.710 need to make decisions. It's a time for decision. 12 00:01:33.140 --> 00:01:40.790 It's not a time to be indecisive or inactive. 13 00:01:43.680 --> 00:01:50.330 And I want to start with a reminder from Elijah. 14 00:01:52.990 --> 00:02:00.240 In 1 Kings 18, the story begins, and where I start here, 15 00:02:01.130 --> 00:02:07.400 Elijah came unto all the people and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? 16 00:02:08.050 --> 00:02:10.620 If the Lord be God, follow him. 17 00:02:11.590 --> 00:02:17.470 But if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him, not a word. 18 00:02:21.300 --> 00:02:27.810 As we have been presenting on the sign of the Son of Man and on the heavenly themes, 19 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:36.750 we have seen many different aspects of how the Word 20 00:02:37.170 --> 00:02:44.800 has been fulfilled or is being fulfilled in the sign of the Son of Man or in 21 00:02:45.040 --> 00:02:52.830 other heavenly signs. And yet, the people, 22 00:02:54.170 --> 00:03:02.620 by and large, are silent. Elijah called the people to a decision, 23 00:03:04.810 --> 00:03:10.070 and that's what all of this is leading to. 24 00:03:11.000 --> 00:03:18.480 God doesn't present these truths, these harmonies, and these 25 00:03:18.480 --> 00:03:25.990 fulfillments in heaven just for our amusement or our curiosity 26 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:29.710 to say, Wow, we know how the Bible is fulfilled. 27 00:03:31.030 --> 00:03:37.560 It's to bring us to a decision, and that's where we need to come, 28 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:46.390 because either God is speaking through these signs or he's not. 29 00:03:47.630 --> 00:03:54.970 And if he is, then our lives should reflect those things that he is teaching. 30 00:03:58.770 --> 00:04:06.580 In Deuteronomy, chapter 30, Moses also 31 00:04:06.580 --> 00:04:09.720 called the people to a decision point. 32 00:04:11.410 --> 00:04:15.740 He said, I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, 33 00:04:16.370 --> 00:04:22.410 that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. 34 00:04:23.510 --> 00:04:29.500 Therefore, choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live. 35 00:04:31.110 --> 00:04:36.070 So, we have that choice. One way leads to life. 36 00:04:36.540 --> 00:04:40.040 The other way leads to death, to cursing. 37 00:04:43.150 --> 00:04:46.690 And it's our choice. Which way will we go? 38 00:04:47.630 --> 00:04:53.410 The evidence has been made plain, and we're going to see more of that again today. 39 00:04:56.260 --> 00:05:04.100 We need to make that choice. Moses continues, that thou mayest love the 40 00:05:04.100 --> 00:05:10.410 Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him, 41 00:05:11.570 --> 00:05:15.030 for he is thy life and the length of thy days. 42 00:05:15.580 --> 00:05:20.910 Notice, what is it that makes that possible? 43 00:05:21.850 --> 00:05:27.570 He says, choose this day. Where is it? 44 00:05:29.740 --> 00:05:32.220 I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. 45 00:05:32.220 --> 00:05:38.210 Therefore, choose life. That choice of life is what makes it possible, 46 00:05:38.760 --> 00:05:44.510 that both thou and thy seed may live, that thou may love the Lord. 47 00:05:44.790 --> 00:05:52.570 We don't have that in ourselves until we make that choice, and that choice has been made possible 48 00:05:53.510 --> 00:05:56.140 by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. 49 00:05:57.330 --> 00:06:05.130 And he continues with the potential as a result of making that choice, 50 00:06:05.710 --> 00:06:09.860 that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord swear unto thy fathers, 51 00:06:09.930 --> 00:06:13.240 to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them. 52 00:06:14.730 --> 00:06:24.050 So, entering the land, we see that as the heavenly promised land. 53 00:06:24.110 --> 00:06:28.300 That is the result of the choices that we make. 54 00:06:30.240 --> 00:06:36.420 So, these two paths are represented in the sign of the Son of Man as well. 55 00:06:37.690 --> 00:06:45.420 We've seen this before, but it's good to look at that once again today. 56 00:06:47.330 --> 00:06:52.880 In Psalm 1.1, it also makes reference to these 57 00:06:56.440 --> 00:07:02.040 two paths. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, 58 00:07:02.790 --> 00:07:08.310 nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 59 00:07:09.150 --> 00:07:16.360 You've seen the sixes on the path of the 60 00:07:16.890 --> 00:07:23.740 sinners, the scornful, those who have the counsel of ungodly, 61 00:07:24.200 --> 00:07:31.060 of the ungodly. That's the scepter of which organization? 62 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:34.630 The World Health Organization, exactly. 63 00:07:35.150 --> 00:07:40.150 We've talked about that before. I'm just kind of reviewing this a little bit. 64 00:07:41.490 --> 00:07:48.810 But there's another path. That's the one highlighted by the seven o'clock hour. 65 00:07:50.690 --> 00:07:57.280 For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish. 66 00:07:58.260 --> 00:08:05.490 From the same psalm. And this, of course, we have the seven 67 00:08:06.240 --> 00:08:13.740 from the hour, the seven weeks until the solar eclipse, and then the seven weeks until the 68 00:08:13.740 --> 00:08:21.430 crossing of the pendulum once again, which is just in some days from now. 69 00:08:24.520 --> 00:08:32.470 So, in the Horologium, we have a representation of a time 70 00:08:32.470 --> 00:08:40.050 of wrath. It's the wrath of Babylon against 71 00:08:40.320 --> 00:08:45.090 God's people, and it's the wrath of God against Babylon. 72 00:08:47.470 --> 00:08:50.820 Therefore, it's a time of war. 73 00:08:52.530 --> 00:08:59.730 Babylon warring against God's people, and God, or Jesus, 74 00:09:00.770 --> 00:09:03.950 coming to war against the wicked. 75 00:09:05.230 --> 00:09:12.170 In Isaiah, we see a representation of 76 00:09:12.900 --> 00:09:20.950 Jesus coming as that warrior. Who is this that cometh from Edom 77 00:09:21.280 --> 00:09:23.220 with dyed garments from Bozrah? 78 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:30.680 This that is glorious in his apparel, traveling in the greatness of his strength. 79 00:09:31.990 --> 00:09:35.920 I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. 80 00:09:36.780 --> 00:09:43.170 Notice his emphasis. He wants to save, and he's mighty in righteousness. 81 00:09:43.170 --> 00:09:49.110 He's capable of saving. Bozrah 82 00:09:50.890 --> 00:09:58.460 is a name of a place, but in the Hebrew, it's a word, and it means the 83 00:09:58.460 --> 00:10:05.050 "sheepfold", where the sheep are gathered in their pen. 84 00:10:05.740 --> 00:10:09.140 And that is what we see in the sign of the Son of Man. 85 00:10:10.110 --> 00:10:18.080 It's this sheepfold where we have the entrance there marked by the seven o'clock hour. 86 00:10:19.250 --> 00:10:26.220 In this part, he mentions that 87 00:10:27.470 --> 00:10:35.230 he's speaking, he's speaking, and I wanted to point out that this is the mouth 88 00:10:35.920 --> 00:10:42.090 of the great fish in the sign of the Son of Man, the sign of Jonah. 89 00:10:43.060 --> 00:10:49.250 That's the mouth. That's where he speaks, and he speaks with the word of time. 90 00:10:52.310 --> 00:11:00.220 And he's traveling. We're going to be talking about all of these elements 91 00:11:00.220 --> 00:11:06.650 today. So, we have these two paths, the 666 path of the world, 92 00:11:07.270 --> 00:11:13.690 and the path of the Lord's salvation, this 777 path. 93 00:11:14.420 --> 00:11:21.130 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat? 94 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:27.860 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: 95 00:11:31.490 --> 00:11:36.150 for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; 96 00:11:37.060 --> 00:11:43.050 and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. 97 00:11:45.040 --> 00:11:52.260 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. 98 00:11:53.660 --> 00:11:59.940 So, he's comparing the day with the year, and 99 00:12:01.980 --> 00:12:09.550 we know this day and year to be that 372 100 00:12:10.550 --> 00:12:18.720 days on the calendar between this crossing and the next crossing 101 00:12:19.280 --> 00:12:26.140 of the pendulum, very important times that form this year. 102 00:12:26.140 --> 00:12:31.760 372 is seven days more than one year. 103 00:12:31.940 --> 00:12:37.140 Now, the question is, it's a day of vengeance for what? 104 00:12:40.370 --> 00:12:44.790 Okay, for the wicked? What specifically? 105 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:50.140 What about the wicked? What is he avenging? 106 00:12:51.900 --> 00:12:58.710 The blood of those who died, the saints, the blood of the saints, 107 00:12:59.720 --> 00:13:07.520 and the martyrs, and yes, he will pour out the 108 00:13:07.520 --> 00:13:11.080 plagues, but he's avenging the blood of whom? 109 00:13:13.730 --> 00:13:19.060 His people, and most importantly, of his son. 110 00:13:20.770 --> 00:13:28.580 Right. Jesus gave his blood as one of the martyrs as well, and he had a 111 00:13:28.580 --> 00:13:36.070 sinless life, and therefore, it's especially the blood of Jesus that God is avenging, 112 00:13:37.270 --> 00:13:39.320 and Jesus himself is avenging. 113 00:13:40.770 --> 00:13:48.100 But of course, all the blood of the saints and God's people is represented in his own blood 114 00:13:49.680 --> 00:13:52.370 as we will also talk about a little bit more. 115 00:13:53.300 --> 00:14:00.070 So, therefore, we have the sacrifice of Christ represented in the Horologium, 116 00:14:00.560 --> 00:14:03.980 and we have the river of blood. 117 00:14:06.610 --> 00:14:13.020 We have these two camps, those who crucified Jesus on the cross, 118 00:14:14.780 --> 00:14:20.860 and on the other hand, there are those who benefited from that crucifixion, 119 00:14:21.120 --> 00:14:28.660 those whom he died for, whom he was crucified for; the righteous and the wicked. 120 00:14:31.620 --> 00:14:37.270 So, there's the relationship of the wicked to the blood of Jesus. 121 00:14:38.370 --> 00:14:43.790 The righteous accept blood and are redeemed. 122 00:14:44.750 --> 00:14:50.160 The wicked, they spilled the blood, and they didn't repent, 123 00:14:50.540 --> 00:14:58.300 and therefore, they are punished because of their 124 00:14:58.300 --> 00:15:00.520 rejection of the blood of Jesus. 125 00:15:00.810 --> 00:15:08.350 It's a lot like what we talked about before, accepting the blood of 126 00:15:08.350 --> 00:15:16.310 Christ, his way of the sanctuary, or choosing the way 127 00:15:16.310 --> 00:15:22.480 of the world in our own life, in our own blood. 128 00:15:23.710 --> 00:15:31.500 The blood of Jesus is our redemption, not any device of man. 129 00:15:32.850 --> 00:15:39.570 In fact, it's Jesus' vaccine that we've been talking about with the High Sabbath List. 130 00:15:40.410 --> 00:15:44.090 That's essentially what that is. 131 00:15:44.440 --> 00:15:49.780 When you get an infection, then your body, in order to overcome that infection, 132 00:15:50.970 --> 00:15:56.740 has to produce the antibodies, and what we saw is that the High Sabbath list, 133 00:15:56.960 --> 00:16:04.010 which is represented in the river, that is 134 00:16:04.810 --> 00:16:12.760 the genetic code that comes from Jesus and is given to us, injected into 135 00:16:13.330 --> 00:16:15.670 our lives, if you will, by faith. 136 00:16:16.780 --> 00:16:24.610 Therefore, in this part in the sign of the Son of Man, it points to that righteousness by faith, 137 00:16:25.210 --> 00:16:29.510 the character that's written in our heart, the character of Jesus, 138 00:16:29.800 --> 00:16:36.080 that new DNA from him written in our own hearts. 139 00:16:37.430 --> 00:16:43.290 So, Jesus, when he comes, he comes to 140 00:16:44.890 --> 00:16:51.350 avenge the blood that was spilled against those who rejected it, 141 00:16:51.640 --> 00:16:59.250 and this brings us to Daniel. We've seen this passage many times 142 00:16:59.250 --> 00:17:04.100 before, and at that time shall Michael stand up. 143 00:17:04.740 --> 00:17:09.500 Michael, of course, is the angelic name for Jesus. 144 00:17:10.700 --> 00:17:14.420 The great prince which standeth for the children of thy people, 145 00:17:15.230 --> 00:17:20.390 and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was, since there was a nation, 146 00:17:20.960 --> 00:17:26.950 even to that same time. And at that time thy people shall be delivered, 147 00:17:27.990 --> 00:17:30.670 every one that shall be found written in the book. 148 00:17:31.170 --> 00:17:35.960 So, Jesus comes to deliver his people, and at the same time, 149 00:17:36.820 --> 00:17:44.100 it's a great time of trouble because of the war and the vengeance that he is taking 150 00:17:44.610 --> 00:17:52.340 on the wicked. Now, I want to look briefly at the whole chapter 151 00:17:52.640 --> 00:17:59.530 of Daniel 12 because it has an interesting and 152 00:18:00.240 --> 00:18:08.240 important structure. It's like a mountain, a chiasm in the way that it 153 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:14.690 is expressed. I'm not going to read the whole thing, but if we start in the middle, 154 00:18:15.110 --> 00:18:22.810 that's like at the summit of the mountain, it has this 155 00:18:23.070 --> 00:18:28.680 key central point. All these things shall be finished in verse 7. 156 00:18:29.940 --> 00:18:36.590 And then, if we come down the mountain a little bit and we look at the next 157 00:18:38.070 --> 00:18:45.340 verses, a verse before, in verse 6, how long to the end of these wonders? 158 00:18:46.340 --> 00:18:53.790 Daniel is asking. And the verse after the summit is what, it says, 159 00:18:53.790 --> 00:18:56.620 what shall be the end of these things? 160 00:18:57.520 --> 00:19:04.770 So, you see, there's this relationship, very similar language being used as we come 161 00:19:05.550 --> 00:19:08.630 down the mountain, if you will, on either side. 162 00:19:09.460 --> 00:19:14.920 So, the middle verse, and then coming a verse earlier, a verse later, 163 00:19:15.100 --> 00:19:22.600 and we continue that a little bit earlier in verse 4, shut up the words and seal the book even to the time of the 164 00:19:22.600 --> 00:19:30.250 end. A verse later, in verse 9, the words are closed up and sealed to the time of the end. 165 00:19:31.030 --> 00:19:38.340 Very similar language. We keep expanding, going back to the beginning and toward the end, 166 00:19:39.300 --> 00:19:45.330 talks about they that turn many to righteousness, and in verse 10, 167 00:19:45.690 --> 00:19:48.280 many shall be purified and made white. 168 00:19:49.010 --> 00:19:52.800 So, turning to righteousness, purified, made white. 169 00:19:54.410 --> 00:20:00.000 Continuing, even in the same verses, they that be wise shall shine, 170 00:20:00.520 --> 00:20:06.260 the wise shall understand, that understanding is the light of shining. 171 00:20:08.450 --> 00:20:16.110 And also, they shall understand the time, in particular, that's the 172 00:20:16.110 --> 00:20:19.120 context, it's talking about the 1290 days there. 173 00:20:21.490 --> 00:20:25.230 Continuing on now, almost to the beginning, many shall awake, 174 00:20:25.620 --> 00:20:33.610 some to everlasting life, and this is in parallel with blessed is he that 175 00:20:33.610 --> 00:20:39.120 waiteth and cometh. Okay, I'm just picking out parts of the verses, 176 00:20:39.660 --> 00:20:42.780 but you see that there's this blessing. 177 00:20:43.870 --> 00:20:51.440 Many shall awake to life, and blessed is he that waiteth 178 00:20:51.990 --> 00:20:57.410 and cometh, and it gives a time frame in the actual verse. 179 00:20:57.860 --> 00:21:00.220 We will be talking about that more. 180 00:21:02.180 --> 00:21:09.460 And then, back to the first and last verses, at that time thy people shall be delivered, 181 00:21:10.820 --> 00:21:16.020 and that is compared with thou shalt stand in thy lot at the end of the days. 182 00:21:16.020 --> 00:21:22.920 So, that's the deliverance, that resurrection and being able to stand in his lot, 183 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:26.300 in the inheritance, the heavenly inheritance. 184 00:21:27.280 --> 00:21:35.270 So, that's just a brief outline of this chapter, and it shows us 185 00:21:35.550 --> 00:21:41.260 that there's a relationship between the verses at the end and the verses at the beginning. 186 00:21:41.740 --> 00:21:48.210 And those are the ones that we're going to be spending particular attention on as we go forward. 187 00:21:50.250 --> 00:21:57.630 So, looking again at Daniel 12 verse 1, and at that time shall Michael stand up, 188 00:21:58.280 --> 00:22:01.500 the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people. 189 00:22:02.480 --> 00:22:08.770 And there shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time. 190 00:22:08.770 --> 00:22:12.950 So, this time when Michael stands up, we've talked about that before. 191 00:22:14.020 --> 00:22:21.380 How is that represented? By the comet K2, when it comes, or when it came, 192 00:22:21.430 --> 00:22:29.260 rather, and crossed the lines going to the feet of Orion, 193 00:22:30.140 --> 00:22:37.570 that signified the legs, the standing up of Orion, 194 00:22:37.880 --> 00:22:44.300 representing Michael as Jesus, the commander of the host. 195 00:22:45.480 --> 00:22:51.710 And you'll notice also, it continues, there shall be a time of trouble. 196 00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:59.520 And that time of trouble, when the comet reaches 197 00:23:01.320 --> 00:23:08.860 the head, or if you think of it as a 12-hour clock, that would be what time, 198 00:23:09.110 --> 00:23:16.550 what hour? Midnight, exactly. So, that would be like the midnight cry, 199 00:23:16.940 --> 00:23:24.520 for example. And then he stands for the 200 00:23:24.520 --> 00:23:29.500 children of thy people, and there's this great time of trouble, 201 00:23:30.710 --> 00:23:36.460 and at that time thy people shall be delivered, everyone found written in the book. 202 00:23:36.760 --> 00:23:42.970 So, Jesus comes to deliver his people, and that's what we can 203 00:23:44.290 --> 00:23:47.160 expect according to this timeline. 204 00:23:49.930 --> 00:23:55.050 It's a process of harvesting, the harvest process. 205 00:23:55.330 --> 00:23:58.590 We'll talk also a little bit more about that. 206 00:23:59.220 --> 00:24:06.140 Blessed is he that waiteth, this is now the end of Daniel 12. 207 00:24:06.890 --> 00:24:11.670 Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to the thousand, three hundred, 208 00:24:12.370 --> 00:24:18.580 and five and thirty days. But go thy way till the end be, speaking to Daniel, 209 00:24:19.370 --> 00:24:23.850 for thou shalt rest and stand in thy lot at the end of the days. 210 00:24:24.570 --> 00:24:30.540 So, here again, he talks about "coming to", just like Jesus stands up, 211 00:24:32.290 --> 00:24:35.360 it's implied that he comes to the deliverance of his people. 212 00:24:36.140 --> 00:24:43.210 Here, Daniel, or it's stated in general, blessed is he that waiteth and 213 00:24:43.710 --> 00:24:50.100 comes to something. What does this thousand, three hundred, 214 00:24:50.190 --> 00:24:52.280 and five and thirty days represent? 215 00:24:53.320 --> 00:24:54.650 That's what we want to find out. 216 00:24:55.240 --> 00:25:01.990 But the way it's expressed is in a very tangible form, like he's actually arriving somewhere, 217 00:25:03.790 --> 00:25:09.390 but it's given in terms of this thirteen hundred and thirty five days. 218 00:25:11.380 --> 00:25:17.680 So, the question is where is this referring to? 219 00:25:20.540 --> 00:25:28.470 And it's this structure in Daniel 12 where we compare the beginning with the 220 00:25:28.470 --> 00:25:35.360 end of the chapter that gives us the clue as to what this is talking about 221 00:25:36.330 --> 00:25:43.600 because Michael stands up from 222 00:25:44.240 --> 00:25:51.420 Orion, right? We can even be more specific because 223 00:25:52.010 --> 00:25:59.950 where was he sitting? From Revelation chapter 14, we've studied this before and we know where 224 00:26:00.260 --> 00:26:07.540 Jesus, the Son of Man, is sitting because in chapter 14, verse 14, 225 00:26:08.260 --> 00:26:13.060 the harvest passage begins and this is where it starts. 226 00:26:13.170 --> 00:26:15.620 And I looked and behold a white cloud. 227 00:26:16.380 --> 00:26:21.220 Where's the white cloud? That's the Orion Nebula. 228 00:26:22.790 --> 00:26:28.200 That's the white cloud. And upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of Man. 229 00:26:28.510 --> 00:26:31.870 So, Jesus is sitting on the white cloud. 230 00:26:33.260 --> 00:26:39.700 That's where he's at. And he has on his head a golden crown in Auriga. 231 00:26:40.270 --> 00:26:44.330 There's the crown and the golden star Capella. 232 00:26:44.840 --> 00:26:49.600 It's a clearly yellowish golden color. 233 00:26:50.040 --> 00:26:53.480 It gives that aspect of the gold in the crown. 234 00:26:54.510 --> 00:26:57.150 And in his hand a sharp sickle. 235 00:26:57.950 --> 00:27:05.030 These are things we've talked about before so I'm just going past them so that you can remember that. 236 00:27:05.890 --> 00:27:13.820 But it's also interesting that on May 19th 237 00:27:15.020 --> 00:27:22.710 when the Orion clock by the comet K2 points 238 00:27:23.390 --> 00:27:30.410 to the head, that also signifies this time of the crown. 239 00:27:33.280 --> 00:27:39.460 So, here we have Jesus sitting on the cloud. 240 00:27:40.850 --> 00:27:45.170 That's the Orion Nebula, the white cloud. 241 00:27:46.840 --> 00:27:54.630 And when we compare that with Daniel 12, Michael shall stand up. 242 00:27:55.670 --> 00:27:58.510 From where? From the white cloud. 243 00:27:58.650 --> 00:28:04.830 That's where he was sitting. And in the harvest time he stands up and does the harvest. 244 00:28:09.040 --> 00:28:16.890 So, here's the first comparable verse in Daniel, or at least it 245 00:28:16.890 --> 00:28:18.820 shows where he's standing up from. 246 00:28:19.340 --> 00:28:23.220 And therefore where Daniel would be going to. 247 00:28:24.130 --> 00:28:29.040 Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to. 248 00:28:30.880 --> 00:28:35.110 In comparison with where Michael stood up from. 249 00:28:36.240 --> 00:28:38.910 So, we have that relationship there. 250 00:28:38.910 --> 00:28:46.410 The 1335 days must point to a 251 00:28:46.410 --> 00:28:53.030 location. And this is actually reiterated in the next verse at the end, 252 00:28:53.030 --> 00:28:58.290 the one that is directly chiastic with the first verse. 253 00:28:58.960 --> 00:29:02.360 But go thou thy way till the end be. 254 00:29:02.810 --> 00:29:08.570 For thou shalt rest and stand in thy lot at the end of the days. 255 00:29:09.080 --> 00:29:13.470 So, again, it's talking about a time or a place. 256 00:29:14.920 --> 00:29:17.520 Especially a place. Stand in thy lot. 257 00:29:18.050 --> 00:29:26.050 That's what he's going to do. And of course, it mentions at the end of the days. 258 00:29:27.040 --> 00:29:33.990 But keep in mind that the end can also refer to a distance, a location, 259 00:29:33.990 --> 00:29:35.660 the end of a road, as it were. 260 00:29:36.630 --> 00:29:41.720 And so, this points to 261 00:29:44.780 --> 00:29:51.910 the Orion Nebula. And it turns out that indeed, the Orion Nebula 262 00:29:52.290 --> 00:29:56.910 is about 1344 light years away. 263 00:29:58.070 --> 00:30:05.750 Very near the 1335 days that are mentioned 264 00:30:06.250 --> 00:30:13.540 in the verse. Notice we have days versus 265 00:30:14.260 --> 00:30:20.130 years. Light years. And here, it's just mentioned in the passage, 266 00:30:20.880 --> 00:30:24.080 days. But a day is like a year, exactly. 267 00:30:24.480 --> 00:30:31.890 And so, it's quite fitting, especially the light, God's people being 268 00:30:32.460 --> 00:30:35.260 the light of the world, as Jesus described it. 269 00:30:37.470 --> 00:30:45.070 There's always a certain amount of uncertainty in any measurement. 270 00:30:45.070 --> 00:30:46.960 This is just an astronomical measurement. 271 00:30:46.960 --> 00:30:53.680 If you Google the distance of the Orion Nebula, you find that result. 272 00:30:54.490 --> 00:31:02.310 But there's some variation to be expected there, because we can't measure so 273 00:31:02.310 --> 00:31:08.470 precisely. So, they report it as plus or minus 20 light years. 274 00:31:08.800 --> 00:31:12.560 Well within the range of the 1335. 275 00:31:13.710 --> 00:31:17.190 But we can do a little bit better. 276 00:31:17.790 --> 00:31:24.830 Here we have the Milky Way. And here is Orion. 277 00:31:25.450 --> 00:31:30.850 You see it? So, let's zoom into that. 278 00:31:33.070 --> 00:31:41.560 Here's the Orion Nebula. And we'll see what is the brightness 279 00:31:42.730 --> 00:31:45.300 of the nebula coming from. 280 00:31:53.300 --> 00:32:00.760 Here it is. What are these stars 281 00:32:01.780 --> 00:32:10.930 known as? This is the trapezium cluster named for its trapezium 282 00:32:11.070 --> 00:32:18.380 shape. And the brightest star there 283 00:32:19.380 --> 00:32:27.190 in this cluster is the one that is responsible for a large amount of 284 00:32:27.190 --> 00:32:36.510 the glow of the Orion Nebula. And that particular star is 1337 285 00:32:36.980 --> 00:32:40.880 light years away. That's very, very near. 286 00:32:40.990 --> 00:32:47.310 And of course, well within the margin of uncertainty in the measurement. 287 00:32:48.530 --> 00:32:54.760 Very close to that 1335 days in the prophecy. 288 00:32:55.540 --> 00:33:03.320 So, this suggests that this is the end 289 00:33:03.640 --> 00:33:11.140 of the travel. The end of those 1335 prophetic days, 290 00:33:11.690 --> 00:33:15.510 light years. That's where it comes to. 291 00:33:15.900 --> 00:33:23.380 This star. And that's significant because 292 00:33:23.980 --> 00:33:31.140 of where this is. First of all, this is in the heart of 293 00:33:32.890 --> 00:33:35.930 Orion and the Orion Nebula even. 294 00:33:36.460 --> 00:33:39.860 And it's giving the light to the whole nebula. 295 00:33:40.350 --> 00:33:48.100 It's also known that, or believed at least, that there is a black hole 296 00:33:49.150 --> 00:33:55.750 in this area because of the effects on the other stars in that area. 297 00:33:57.120 --> 00:34:03.030 There seems to be a black hole that is about 100 times more massive than the sun. 298 00:34:04.880 --> 00:34:12.620 And we have long connected a black hole with the 299 00:34:13.740 --> 00:34:19.360 Godhead. And so, that shows this picture of 300 00:34:21.530 --> 00:34:29.190 Jesus with his people standing in a square on the sea of glass. 301 00:34:30.340 --> 00:34:38.040 So, what we want to know is what this really 302 00:34:38.040 --> 00:34:46.630 means. This "blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to the 1335 303 00:34:46.870 --> 00:34:55.820 days." So, blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to this trapezium 304 00:34:56.950 --> 00:35:03.260 cluster in the heart, giving the light to the Orion Nebula. 305 00:35:08.470 --> 00:35:15.960 If you've been with our movement for a long time, you know that the Orion Nebula has 306 00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:19.780 always had this special place. 307 00:35:19.910 --> 00:35:28.230 And so, it's very exciting to see that this is pointing directly 308 00:35:28.230 --> 00:35:35.510 to the brightest star illuminating the whole cloud, the sea of glass, 309 00:35:35.650 --> 00:35:42.410 where the 144,000 are standing there with Jesus in the square 310 00:35:43.540 --> 00:35:45.660 as it has been prophesied as well. 311 00:35:47.320 --> 00:35:53.440 So, that alone is a very significant finding. 312 00:35:54.600 --> 00:36:02.300 But still, we want to know about this waiting time, because there's a waiting time and then coming 313 00:36:03.300 --> 00:36:11.280 to that distance. And if we consider 314 00:36:12.410 --> 00:36:18.820 what Jesus said about waiting, we have a little bit of an indication. 315 00:36:19.510 --> 00:36:23.370 Jesus said, Let your loins be girded about and your lights burning, 316 00:36:23.370 --> 00:36:30.510 and ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their Lord, when he will return 317 00:36:31.260 --> 00:36:36.170 from the wedding. So, it's about Jesus returning. 318 00:36:37.320 --> 00:36:40.470 That's connected with that waiting time. 319 00:36:42.940 --> 00:36:47.200 That when he cometh and mocketh, they may open unto him immediately, 320 00:36:48.120 --> 00:36:54.240 lest are those servants whom the Lord, when he cometh, shall find watching. 321 00:36:55.450 --> 00:37:02.270 Verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, 322 00:37:02.940 --> 00:37:04.680 and will come forth and serve them. 323 00:37:06.070 --> 00:37:13.680 So, Jesus is giving this parable, and in the process, he explains 324 00:37:13.770 --> 00:37:17.590 this waiting time in connection with his return. 325 00:37:18.490 --> 00:37:23.620 And so, that points us, again, to Revelation chapter 19. 326 00:37:26.850 --> 00:37:32.180 In Revelation 19, it talks about Jesus' return. 327 00:37:33.110 --> 00:37:39.010 So, we should see this waiting time represented in this passage as well. 328 00:37:40.220 --> 00:37:43.450 And I saw heaven opened, that's also a reference, by the way, 329 00:37:43.550 --> 00:37:50.140 to the Orion Nebula from when they first were looking at it in 330 00:37:51.850 --> 00:37:59.460 the 1800s. They described it as an open space because it looked like a hole 331 00:37:59.610 --> 00:38:07.070 in the heavens. And so, I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. 332 00:38:07.810 --> 00:38:14.650 And he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. 333 00:38:15.570 --> 00:38:19.670 His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns. 334 00:38:20.030 --> 00:38:23.980 And he had a name written that no man knew but he himself. 335 00:38:25.090 --> 00:38:32.910 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of God. 336 00:38:34.680 --> 00:38:42.420 Now, we've seen this with the blood before, but whose blood is that 337 00:38:42.580 --> 00:38:44.580 that his vesture is dipped in? 338 00:38:46.880 --> 00:38:54.230 Is that in the winepress? Because this is when he's first coming. 339 00:38:56.080 --> 00:39:00.140 I mean, that this is his arrival. 340 00:39:00.140 --> 00:39:04.430 It's actually before treading the winepress. 341 00:39:04.430 --> 00:39:10.010 He comes already with his garments stained with blood. 342 00:39:12.070 --> 00:39:17.690 This vesture that's dipped in blood is 343 00:39:19.960 --> 00:39:24.690 a reference, if you will, to what we talked about a few weeks ago, 344 00:39:25.640 --> 00:39:32.790 this archaeological find, the Shroud of Turin. 345 00:39:34.670 --> 00:39:41.770 This is the burial cloth of Jesus that was really dipped in blood, 346 00:39:41.770 --> 00:39:46.940 if you will. It received his blood on the fabric. 347 00:39:49.330 --> 00:39:54.840 It was Christ's vesture, and as we talked about before, 348 00:39:56.800 --> 00:40:03.980 this contains a time element from the count 349 00:40:04.700 --> 00:40:12.600 of the lashes, the blood stains on the cloth. 350 00:40:15.480 --> 00:40:21.100 And in Revelation 19, it says, "...out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, 351 00:40:21.620 --> 00:40:27.060 that with it he should smite the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron. 352 00:40:27.970 --> 00:40:33.240 And he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God." So, 353 00:40:33.240 --> 00:40:37.350 here is then where he treadeth the winepress. 354 00:40:38.510 --> 00:40:46.390 That's after, a couple of verses after he came with the garments dipped in blood. 355 00:40:49.280 --> 00:40:57.230 So, we have this time period of 372 days also represented 356 00:40:57.630 --> 00:41:05.000 in that vesture that he's wearing when he comes to tread the winepress. 357 00:41:05.310 --> 00:41:11.010 And it also hints at the vengeance for that blood. 358 00:41:12.360 --> 00:41:19.740 That was rejected. So, we have this choice, 359 00:41:20.120 --> 00:41:26.700 again, presented. Will we accept 360 00:41:27.380 --> 00:41:33.790 Christ's beatings, his lashes, and the blood that he gave 361 00:41:35.740 --> 00:41:40.140 in drinking that cup, that bitter cup, until the end? 362 00:41:41.030 --> 00:41:47.400 Or will we drink the cup? That's the option. 363 00:41:47.460 --> 00:41:50.950 Either Jesus drinks it, or we drink it. 364 00:41:53.970 --> 00:42:00.990 Now, again, you remember, 365 00:42:03.400 --> 00:42:11.270 we have the two paths, one for those who Jesus died for, 366 00:42:12.230 --> 00:42:20.130 or who accepted his sacrifice, and who believe that his blood covers their sin. 367 00:42:20.130 --> 00:42:26.570 And then there are those who crucified him, who 368 00:42:28.130 --> 00:42:36.050 deny him the faith, if you will, to cleanse their own sin. 369 00:42:38.310 --> 00:42:46.140 And this points to the supper of the birds, the slaughter, 370 00:42:46.250 --> 00:42:48.460 that vengeance that he's taking. 371 00:42:48.460 --> 00:42:55.300 That also comes later in chapter 19 of Revelation. 372 00:42:56.750 --> 00:43:03.320 In the harvest passage in chapter 14, we talked about Jesus sitting on the white cloud, 373 00:43:03.700 --> 00:43:05.650 and then he does the wheat harvest. 374 00:43:06.170 --> 00:43:11.210 But after the wheat harvest comes what? He does the grape harvest. 375 00:43:11.210 --> 00:43:14.920 And the grapes, in that case, represent the wicked. 376 00:43:15.560 --> 00:43:21.900 They're the grapes of his wrath. 377 00:43:22.770 --> 00:43:28.180 In verse 18, until the end of the harvest passage, it says, 378 00:43:28.360 --> 00:43:32.850 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire, 379 00:43:33.090 --> 00:43:36.340 and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle. 380 00:43:37.600 --> 00:43:45.330 And you'll recall from when we talked about the harvest in the context of the sign of the Son of 381 00:43:45.330 --> 00:43:50.940 Man, this other comet, S4 (Lemmon), 382 00:43:52.750 --> 00:44:00.480 is the one represented there. And this is representing this angel who came 383 00:44:01.060 --> 00:44:07.200 from the altar, from Taurus, and comes to the sign of the Son of Man, 384 00:44:08.130 --> 00:44:15.760 and crosses into the sign right at this very important time, 385 00:44:16.330 --> 00:44:23.510 May 27th to 28th, which is exactly the time when the sign of the Son of Man 386 00:44:24.050 --> 00:44:31.650 is complete. So, it's very relevant that he cries with a loud voice and 387 00:44:31.650 --> 00:44:39.550 says, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; 388 00:44:40.090 --> 00:44:42.400 for her grapes are fully ripe. 389 00:44:44.670 --> 00:44:49.310 And the angel thrust in his sickle to the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, 390 00:44:49.900 --> 00:44:54.260 and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. 391 00:44:55.220 --> 00:45:02.380 So, we have talked about the horologium as the winepress. 392 00:45:03.150 --> 00:45:07.990 The grapes are thrown into the large part of the winepress. 393 00:45:08.390 --> 00:45:14.070 Then the juice flows down the channel to the reservoir at the end. 394 00:45:14.710 --> 00:45:21.700 And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, 395 00:45:21.930 --> 00:45:27.260 even unto the horse bridles by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs. 396 00:45:27.810 --> 00:45:35.500 So, here we have described a picture where there's so much trampling of the 397 00:45:35.500 --> 00:45:39.810 grapes that the reservoir isn't sufficient to contain it. 398 00:45:41.090 --> 00:45:46.860 Therefore, it comes out of the winepress, and like a flood, 399 00:45:47.170 --> 00:45:53.260 it's coming up, and even to the horse bridles, it's flooding. 400 00:45:55.160 --> 00:46:00.870 And then it gives this space of a thousand six hundred furlongs. 401 00:46:02.800 --> 00:46:08.080 So, we've talked about this before, and we said, okay, well, 402 00:46:08.510 --> 00:46:16.140 the horse bridles must point to the Horsehead Nebula, which 403 00:46:16.140 --> 00:46:22.670 is pretty close to 1600 light years away. 404 00:46:26.330 --> 00:46:31.630 But in light of what we learned with the 1335, 405 00:46:34.960 --> 00:46:42.230 we can look at this again and understand it a little bit better. 406 00:46:45.770 --> 00:46:52.920 Because if we read this carefully, it says the blood came 407 00:46:53.630 --> 00:47:01.580 out of the winepress. It didn't just show 408 00:47:01.740 --> 00:47:08.850 up at the Horsehead Nebula, but it came out of the 409 00:47:08.850 --> 00:47:13.710 winepress and went to the horse bridles. 410 00:47:14.500 --> 00:47:20.800 So, this is a process. It's a flow of the blood that it's describing. 411 00:47:23.650 --> 00:47:30.090 So, could it be that there is another mystery hidden in this process? 412 00:47:30.310 --> 00:47:38.080 Is there a way to bring the blood from the winepress, that collection 413 00:47:38.240 --> 00:47:45.970 reservoir, to the Horsehead Nebula, or to the horse 414 00:47:46.010 --> 00:47:53.330 bridles? The question, as we ponder that, is first, 415 00:47:53.800 --> 00:48:00.830 where does it come out of? What part of the winepress? 416 00:48:02.330 --> 00:48:04.990 It's going to come out of the reservoir. 417 00:48:05.140 --> 00:48:09.830 It flows down the channel, and then it spills out from the end. 418 00:48:09.830 --> 00:48:17.700 And so, when we look at this, we need to get from 419 00:48:18.590 --> 00:48:25.300 here to the Horsehead Nebula, which is right by 420 00:48:26.210 --> 00:48:31.570 Alnitak. Alnitak is the rider of the horse. 421 00:48:31.710 --> 00:48:35.530 In fact, he's the one holding the bridles. 422 00:48:36.840 --> 00:48:44.790 So, better to go directly to he who's 423 00:48:44.870 --> 00:48:52.780 holding the bridles, and then the question is, how does the blood flow from here 424 00:48:54.170 --> 00:49:01.740 to there? And we have it already shown there in the course of 425 00:49:02.320 --> 00:49:10.310 this river. So, what we see is a path 426 00:49:11.040 --> 00:49:19.740 that the blood is flowing, just like the blood from Jesus flows 427 00:49:21.190 --> 00:49:27.280 out to the sign, to his people 428 00:49:29.200 --> 00:49:36.760 who receive the blood. In the opposite way, the blood 429 00:49:37.050 --> 00:49:44.670 of the wicked, who are trampled in the winepress, spills out and overflows 430 00:49:45.210 --> 00:49:51.700 and backs up all the way to Alnitak, flowing 431 00:49:54.850 --> 00:50:02.400 across the river. So, now, how does that work in 432 00:50:02.560 --> 00:50:08.950 reality? What can we do with that to explain this process? 433 00:50:11.340 --> 00:50:16.440 If we look at the stars, they give us a path. 434 00:50:18.880 --> 00:50:24.260 The stars actually show us the course of the river. 435 00:50:26.340 --> 00:50:33.750 And the question that arises, just like the 1,335 days, it pointed to a 436 00:50:33.750 --> 00:50:39.200 distance, 1,335 years, light years. 437 00:50:40.130 --> 00:50:47.090 And so, also, with this 1,600 furlongs, it's already a distance, 438 00:50:47.520 --> 00:50:56.430 but maybe we could analyze that a little bit deeper and find the 439 00:50:56.430 --> 00:51:04.480 distance that it would actually follow in order to get to Alnitak, 440 00:51:05.370 --> 00:51:10.850 going from star to star to star all along the river. 441 00:51:12.440 --> 00:51:19.480 Now, that's an interesting problem because, well, for one, there are millions of stars. 442 00:51:21.320 --> 00:51:27.190 And if you add up all the distances from every star, then it's infinitely long. 443 00:51:28.580 --> 00:51:33.880 But, of course, not every star was known in ancient times. 444 00:51:34.500 --> 00:51:41.560 And so, if we limit our study to the 445 00:51:43.680 --> 00:51:51.540 stars that have been named since ancient times, then we 446 00:51:51.540 --> 00:51:59.500 find a limited selection. And their names are Beemim, 1 and 447 00:51:59.500 --> 00:52:07.120 2 Theemim, or Theemin. I won't read them all because they're not natural for 448 00:52:07.440 --> 00:52:15.100 an English speaker. But here we have all the named stars along the river. 449 00:52:17.240 --> 00:52:23.960 All the other stars, there's no name to those stars. 450 00:52:26.700 --> 00:52:34.170 So, if we follow this path, we can actually, by 451 00:52:34.170 --> 00:52:41.610 knowing the distances to each of those stars, we can calculate 452 00:52:42.170 --> 00:52:44.470 the distance between the stars. 453 00:52:45.380 --> 00:52:53.030 And by that distance, I don't mean as we see it in the sky, but actually the three-dimensional 454 00:52:53.030 --> 00:53:01.110 distance between the two stars in space for each of those stars 455 00:53:01.600 --> 00:53:09.310 as it makes that path. So, what we have is coming from this star at the 456 00:53:10.750 --> 00:53:18.310 collection vessel of the winepress, we come to the closest place in the river, 457 00:53:19.530 --> 00:53:27.900 and then follow the river until we come to the foot of Orion. 458 00:53:28.900 --> 00:53:34.730 And then we go, because Orion is the one who is trampling the winepress, 459 00:53:34.730 --> 00:53:41.890 right? So, we come to the foot and then to Alnitak 460 00:53:42.320 --> 00:53:44.520 himself holding the horse bridles. 461 00:53:46.680 --> 00:53:54.520 And here is the path of just those stars that have been named since ancient times. 462 00:53:55.150 --> 00:53:59.860 And you see it pretty much follows the same course. 463 00:54:00.600 --> 00:54:04.480 It's interesting, this name Kursi al-Jauzah. 464 00:54:05.420 --> 00:54:10.120 Jauzah is just another name for Orion. 465 00:54:11.160 --> 00:54:19.110 And Kursi is, it means the throne, the throne 466 00:54:19.610 --> 00:54:25.690 of Orion. And that is an important point that I'll bring out at the end. 467 00:54:27.760 --> 00:54:35.230 So, what we have are between each of these stars, we can 468 00:54:35.670 --> 00:54:41.710 calculate the distance. And we've done that and verified it. 469 00:54:42.690 --> 00:54:47.300 And when you add up all of the distances, these are three-dimensional distances. 470 00:54:47.300 --> 00:54:52.650 So, even though it looks like a long distance here and you have 124 light years, 471 00:54:53.420 --> 00:55:00.710 but you have a short distance here and it's 722, that's because there's a lot of depth 472 00:55:01.020 --> 00:55:02.950 difference in the three dimensions. 473 00:55:03.500 --> 00:55:07.970 So, in three-dimensional space, calculating the actual distances, 474 00:55:09.780 --> 00:55:12.960 connecting those stars together, this is what you have. 475 00:55:13.460 --> 00:55:20.760 And when you add all of those numbers up, rounding each one to the nearest light year, 476 00:55:22.820 --> 00:55:26.220 you come up with exactly 1,601 light years. 477 00:55:27.230 --> 00:55:35.200 Exactly what the Bible tells us in that end of the 478 00:55:35.200 --> 00:55:42.800 harvest chapter, talking about the flow of the blood from the horologium to 479 00:55:43.550 --> 00:55:49.180 the horse bridles. Jesus, Alnitak, holding the horse bridles at the horse head nebula. 480 00:55:51.620 --> 00:56:00.790 And I mentioned that about the Kursi al-Jauzah because it represents 481 00:56:01.830 --> 00:56:07.510 the wicked then coming to the throne of Jesus, 482 00:56:11.200 --> 00:56:13.140 not in the way that the righteous do. 483 00:56:14.480 --> 00:56:17.470 See, we have this contrast. We have the two paths. 484 00:56:18.890 --> 00:56:24.640 Daniel and those with him who are raised in the resurrection, 485 00:56:25.570 --> 00:56:33.050 they come to the Orion Nebula by the path of the 1,335 486 00:56:34.120 --> 00:56:41.160 light years. Whereas the wicked, they follow this path of the 1,600 487 00:56:41.940 --> 00:56:45.950 light years, but they both come to the throne. 488 00:56:46.920 --> 00:56:54.270 They both come to Alnitak. The difference is, one 489 00:56:54.950 --> 00:57:00.210 is at the heart, the other is at the foot. 490 00:57:01.780 --> 00:57:09.670 Alive and dead, exactly. So we have here the path of the wicked 491 00:57:10.880 --> 00:57:18.810 following 1,600 light years from the winepress, where they're 492 00:57:19.080 --> 00:57:24.850 trampled, and then they follow the river until the throne of God. 493 00:57:25.240 --> 00:57:30.630 They meet the Lord after the millennium, after the trampling. 494 00:57:32.810 --> 00:57:37.300 And then they're raised and they meet the Lord after the millennium, 495 00:57:37.430 --> 00:57:43.070 according to Revelation 20. That's described in the 1,600 light years. 496 00:57:43.470 --> 00:57:50.670 Whereas the righteous, they are raised after that waiting time, 497 00:57:52.560 --> 00:58:00.070 which is this one year on the Horologium, the one year that's 498 00:58:00.580 --> 00:58:08.520 illustrated by the additional time from May 28th of this year 499 00:58:08.520 --> 00:58:12.120 until June 4th when it crosses the pendulum again. 500 00:58:12.950 --> 00:58:20.080 That is that waiting time until the resurrection when the righteous will 501 00:58:20.980 --> 00:58:28.800 be brought up to the Orion Nebula, to the sea of glass, at 502 00:58:28.800 --> 00:58:36.590 the trapezium cluster, it seems, and there they will be at the 503 00:58:37.190 --> 00:58:42.980 throne of God as well. But in a much more favorable light. 504 00:58:44.100 --> 00:58:51.470 So yeah, that's the 1,335 days for the righteous described in Daniel versus the 505 00:58:51.770 --> 00:58:59.720 1,600 days, or rather, light years described in Revelation for the harvest 506 00:58:59.900 --> 00:59:07.870 of the grapes, the wicked. Isaiah 45, he says, "I 507 00:59:07.870 --> 00:59:14.560 have sworn," the Lord's saying, "I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in 508 00:59:14.560 --> 00:59:21.280 righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, 509 00:59:22.320 --> 00:59:29.410 every tongue shall swear. Surely, shall one say, in the LORD have I righteousness and 510 00:59:29.410 --> 00:59:36.920 strength: even to him shall men come; and all that are incensed against him 511 00:59:37.490 --> 00:59:43.740 shall be ashamed. In the LORD shall all the seed of Israel be justified, 512 00:59:44.150 --> 00:59:52.620 and shall glory." So here we see that all come to the throne of 513 00:59:52.810 --> 00:59:54.970 the Lord, all will bow before him. 514 00:59:55.750 --> 01:00:04.260 The question is whether we stand before him on the sea of glass, 515 01:00:06.230 --> 01:00:12.770 or if we are under his foot, 516 01:00:14.400 --> 01:00:21.720 as it were, as the wicked, those whom he comes and he tramples underfoot. 517 01:00:22.680 --> 01:00:28.030 That is the question. That is the choice that we have to make. 518 01:00:29.260 --> 01:00:35.870 When we see these things, we see the fulfillments of 519 01:00:37.610 --> 01:00:43.160 God's word in the heaven. Here we see 520 01:00:45.630 --> 01:00:53.630 shown in this verse of the Bible, this particular area of 521 01:00:53.630 --> 01:01:00.910 the sky. That's not a coincidence. 522 01:01:02.040 --> 01:01:08.570 This is not something that you can make up just by following any random set of stars. 523 01:01:10.170 --> 01:01:15.510 This verse is pointing to this area of the sky and it fits not just, 524 01:01:15.970 --> 01:01:19.410 oh, I found a match with 1,600 light years. 525 01:01:19.810 --> 01:01:23.410 No, it fits with the winepress. 526 01:01:23.700 --> 01:01:31.320 It fits with the trampling. It fits with coming and bowing before the throne of Alnitak. 527 01:01:31.610 --> 01:01:39.260 Here it begins with that baptism scene of Jesus, where Jesus, 528 01:01:40.620 --> 01:01:47.990 it describes him in the tomb. This part of the sign shows him buried in the 529 01:01:48.540 --> 01:01:51.900 tomb, as it were. Also, that's what the baptism represents. 530 01:01:52.530 --> 01:01:55.920 And that's our relation to that. 531 01:01:56.160 --> 01:02:04.170 Do we accept that? Do we accept his cleansing for ourselves or 532 01:02:04.970 --> 01:02:12.540 do we take it on ourself and he executes vengeance against us? 533 01:02:14.700 --> 01:02:21.860 So, it points to this scene, this sign of the son of man. 534 01:02:23.100 --> 01:02:25.960 And that brings us to that decision. 535 01:02:27.550 --> 01:02:35.040 Do we just say, "oh, that's nice" and we go about our 536 01:02:35.040 --> 01:02:43.860 lives like nothing happened or do we take a step back and think 537 01:02:43.860 --> 01:02:51.190 about what that means? What it means that the Lord is pointing 538 01:02:51.820 --> 01:02:58.550 to this heavenly scene. Should we just ignore that 539 01:03:00.390 --> 01:03:05.930 or should we pay attention? Should we take heed to the lessons that are given? 540 01:03:06.440 --> 01:03:10.890 This is not any casual message. 541 01:03:12.860 --> 01:03:19.640 These are things that have never been revealed 542 01:03:21.750 --> 01:03:28.860 from God's word before. But now, in these last days, he's opening it up. 543 01:03:29.090 --> 01:03:32.110 He's revealing through the revelation. 544 01:03:32.110 --> 01:03:39.790 That's why it's called the revelation. He's exposing the secrets of his heavenly treasures. 545 01:03:41.380 --> 01:03:51.090 And that puts on us the burden to make that choice of following 546 01:03:52.510 --> 01:04:00.110 the lead of his message, of the truths that he is showing us in the heavens and not taking it lightly, 547 01:04:00.410 --> 01:04:07.650 not brushing it off as though this is some man's ideas because 548 01:04:08.540 --> 01:04:13.540 this is what only the creator can do. 549 01:04:14.570 --> 01:04:22.440 And writing these things 2,000 years ago with knowledge that couldn't even 550 01:04:22.440 --> 01:04:29.800 be discovered until the advent of modern telescopes and measurement 551 01:04:29.800 --> 01:04:37.110 techniques. Exactly, like it says in Daniel 12, the knowledge shall 552 01:04:37.280 --> 01:04:44.270 increase. That makes it possible for these things to be unsealed and exposed. 553 01:04:46.580 --> 01:04:53.510 And so, I invite you to take these things seriously 554 01:04:54.380 --> 01:05:01.440 and to give your heart and your life 555 01:05:03.140 --> 01:05:10.180 to the one who created all of this, who knows the end from the beginning and who works 556 01:05:11.660 --> 01:05:19.180 with man and with that knowledge and puts those things in the words 557 01:05:20.000 --> 01:05:24.700 from thousands of years in the past. 558 01:05:26.260 --> 01:05:33.650 So, with that, let's make a decision and stand for the Lord, 559 01:05:33.790 --> 01:05:41.210 for the one who loves us and took the penalty 560 01:05:42.010 --> 01:05:48.660 on himself for making it possible that we can take the 561 01:05:48.660 --> 01:05:55.090 1,335 route to stand on the sea of glass with him in our presence. 562 01:05:56.090 --> 01:05:57.710 Let's stand for a word of prayer. 563 01:06:03.820 --> 01:06:11.820 Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for the mysteries that you put 564 01:06:11.870 --> 01:06:17.880 in your word. We especially thank you for the revelation that you give. 565 01:06:17.880 --> 01:06:25.490 It is a gift from you. On our own, without your spirit, it would not be possible 566 01:06:26.860 --> 01:06:31.820 to discern the things that you have hidden in your word. 567 01:06:34.250 --> 01:06:41.090 But you have designed that at this time in history, just before your return, 568 01:06:42.060 --> 01:06:45.660 these things would be exposed and revealed. 569 01:06:48.450 --> 01:06:56.240 And it is amazing to us when we see the depth of meaning that is 570 01:06:56.280 --> 01:07:03.300 in some simple passages, but you have 571 01:07:03.990 --> 01:07:07.670 orchestrated all things in your infinite wisdom. 572 01:07:09.700 --> 01:07:16.630 And we see that reflected in the combination of the 573 01:07:17.660 --> 01:07:25.060 heavenly witness and the written witness of your holy word. 574 01:07:26.830 --> 01:07:31.000 And we just praise you for all that you have done, for your work, 575 01:07:33.190 --> 01:07:38.740 and we thank you for the love that you show us, undeserving as we are, 576 01:07:40.910 --> 01:07:48.270 because we can never merit anything worthy of 577 01:07:49.000 --> 01:07:55.100 salvation. But Jesus gave his life, 578 01:07:56.800 --> 01:08:03.860 his body, and his blood, so that we could escape 579 01:08:04.840 --> 01:08:12.720 these trials, as it is written, of Philadelphia. 580 01:08:15.700 --> 01:08:23.140 And that we can endure by faith all that you call us to endure. 581 01:08:27.140 --> 01:08:33.590 And for the wicked who have refused that, you have even shown 582 01:08:35.220 --> 01:08:41.210 how they are represented in your heavenly sign. 583 01:08:43.780 --> 01:08:51.620 And so, we just praise you for all of these things, and we ask that you will work in your 584 01:08:51.620 --> 01:08:59.290 people and bring conviction to every heart that 585 01:08:59.290 --> 01:09:07.150 is undecided, that is still faltering on one side of the fence or 586 01:09:07.150 --> 01:09:14.960 the other. Let us make a clean decision for you 587 01:09:16.020 --> 01:09:20.120 to stand whatever may come on this world. 588 01:09:22.430 --> 01:09:26.200 We pray these things in the name of our Savior, Jesus Christ, 589 01:09:26.200 --> 01:09:33.680 who made it possible for us that he can present us faultless before 590 01:09:34.080 --> 01:09:36.590 your throne with exceeding joy. 591 01:09:37.660 --> 01:09:42.310 And that is our joy as well. Amen. 592 01:09:43.170 --> 01:09:51.010 Amen. Thank you. And remember, we have our Lord's Supper by the time most are watching 593 01:09:51.010 --> 01:09:58.670 this, it will just be days away. But remember that on the 24th of May, 594 01:09:59.160 --> 01:10:07.020 after sunset, we will have our Lord's Supper service here, remembering these 595 01:10:07.020 --> 01:10:09.965 things that he did for us. Thank you.