WEBVTT 1 00:00:11.682 --> 00:00:16.312 Welcome, it's good to see everyone. 2 00:00:16.322 --> 00:00:32.063 We have been talking about the sign of the Son of Man in the recent weeks, and there is a lot to discover in that sign. 3 00:00:32.073 --> 00:00:41.710 It's a sign that we have been waiting for, for essentially two millennia. 4 00:00:43.539 --> 00:00:45.405 It's a long time. 5 00:00:45.415 --> 00:00:58.805 And Jesus said that when we would see the time of the end, the last events starting to take place, that we should look up. 6 00:00:58.815 --> 00:01:05.489 And when we would look up, we see the sign of the Son of Man. 7 00:01:07.730 --> 00:01:14.281 And looking up is what we have been doing for a number of years. 8 00:01:14.291 --> 00:01:23.812 We look at the heavens, and in the heavens we understand that God is speaking with symbolism. 9 00:01:23.822 --> 00:01:28.000 Unfortunately, it's been perverted a lot. 10 00:01:29.019 --> 00:01:33.974 And so we have things like astrology, the zodiac, 11 00:01:33.984 --> 00:01:46.412 it's turned into a personal thing where we just supposedly learn about who we should date or not date and stuff like that. 12 00:01:46.422 --> 00:01:49.849 But God's original is still there. 13 00:01:50.730 --> 00:02:00.170 He has a purpose for the constellations in the heavens, and that's what we've been studying. 14 00:02:02.129 --> 00:02:05.692 And as we've been studying those things, 15 00:02:05.702 --> 00:02:18.160 God has led us and shown us many things until we came to this point where we have discovered what we believe is the sign of the Son of Man. 16 00:02:18.170 --> 00:02:19.951 It's a special sign. 17 00:02:19.961 --> 00:02:22.969 I'll show you it in just a minute. 18 00:02:24.770 --> 00:02:31.000 And it's formed from two comets that are presently in the heavens. 19 00:02:31.010 --> 00:02:34.597 You can look at them with a telescope. 20 00:02:34.607 --> 00:02:38.080 They've been reported on in the news. 21 00:02:41.960 --> 00:02:55.669 And for many reasons, we recognize the sign of the Son of Man in the path of those comets. 22 00:02:56.370 --> 00:03:07.842 Because they travel through certain constellations that have symbolism that we can understand when we go back to the Bible. 23 00:03:07.852 --> 00:03:10.919 And that's always our foundation. 24 00:03:11.659 --> 00:03:12.759 It's the Bible. 25 00:03:12.769 --> 00:03:14.747 We look at the Word of God. 26 00:03:14.757 --> 00:03:15.909 We compare that. 27 00:03:16.810 --> 00:03:23.458 How does that compare with what we see in the heavens? 28 00:03:23.468 --> 00:03:30.599 So today we're going to talk about the mystery of baptism. 29 00:03:32.409 --> 00:03:38.423 And this is actually a very central theme in God's kingdom. 30 00:03:38.433 --> 00:03:44.639 And in the sign of the Son of Man, it is also featured there. 31 00:03:47.639 --> 00:03:49.682 This is the sign. 32 00:03:49.692 --> 00:03:55.699 And you see these are the paths of the two comets. 33 00:03:55.709 --> 00:04:04.219 One comes this direction, and the other comes around in that direction. 34 00:04:06.409 --> 00:04:17.066 And it forms the shape of, it looks like a rudimentary drawing of a whale. 35 00:04:17.076 --> 00:04:29.749 Jesus said, I will give no sign but the sign of Jonah, who was in the body of the whale. 36 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:37.660 And it's interesting how God uses all of these symbols. 37 00:04:38.740 --> 00:04:40.909 Some are ancient. 38 00:04:40.919 --> 00:04:43.599 Some are more modern. 39 00:04:43.609 --> 00:04:47.290 Some are even in the artwork. 40 00:04:47.379 --> 00:04:55.634 This is a very popular free program called Stellarium that we use. 41 00:04:55.644 --> 00:05:06.026 It's probably the most, or one of the most popular programs to explore the heavens. 42 00:05:06.036 --> 00:05:12.519 And this is just the default artwork for this river. 43 00:05:13.790 --> 00:05:21.281 And some of these things are based on mythology, Greek mythology. 44 00:05:21.291 --> 00:05:28.552 But God created the whole world, and he uses whatever he wants. 45 00:05:28.562 --> 00:05:33.959 But we see it in the context of the scriptures. 46 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:49.339 And it's just interesting that along this river that we see in the heavens, this is the constellation of Eridanus, 47 00:05:49.349 --> 00:05:52.824 there is an image of a body, 48 00:05:52.834 --> 00:05:56.430 a person buried in the river. 49 00:05:59.519 --> 00:06:06.764 Now this artwork was drawn to reflect the Greek mythology, because there was a story where, 50 00:06:06.774 --> 00:06:11.860 I probably shouldn't repeat it because I don't know it so well. 51 00:06:11.860 --> 00:06:20.410 But as I recall the son of the sun god or whatever was going across the sky. 52 00:06:20.410 --> 00:06:29.401 And he wanted to drive the chariot of the sun, but he couldn't do it very well, and he fell down into the river. 53 00:06:29.411 --> 00:06:34.699 And that's where that came to be represented, a body in the river. 54 00:06:35.829 --> 00:06:44.654 Now we're not really interested so much in the mythology, but God, knowing the end from the beginning, 55 00:06:44.664 --> 00:06:48.374 orchestrated all of these things together. 56 00:06:48.384 --> 00:06:54.949 And here, just in this little portion of the river that is inside the whale. 57 00:06:56.060 --> 00:07:04.457 There is this image of a person, just like Jonah, inside the whale's belly. 58 00:07:04.467 --> 00:07:18.790 Notice, he's in the belly of the whale, he's not in the tail, he's not in the head, he's in the belly, just like the Bible says. 59 00:07:22.100 --> 00:07:31.927 So that's just a testament to how God knows the end from the beginning, and he uses all things, you know, 60 00:07:31.937 --> 00:07:41.379 the Bible says all things work together for good to them that are called according to God's purpose. 61 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:56.901 Now we've been looking at this comet, which for several years was the biggest comet ever known, 62 00:07:56.911 --> 00:08:09.009 and it earned its name until there was one bigger comet that was discovered to be a comet just in 2021. 63 00:08:11.860 --> 00:08:21.889 And that one's not shown here, but it has been going through the clock phase that we see there in these last years. 64 00:08:23.980 --> 00:08:33.779 It was discovered to be a comet just about the time that it was entering the clock and now it's on the other side coming out. 65 00:08:36.100 --> 00:08:41.963 And that's the biggest comet that has ever been discovered to date. 66 00:08:41.973 --> 00:08:49.490 One in the clock the biggest, and before that was this comet here, discovered in 2017. 67 00:08:51.220 --> 00:08:59.002 That was the biggest until the other one was discovered in the clock phase. 68 00:08:59.012 --> 00:09:10.210 Now this is just one small area of the sky, and yet we see these comets all converging on this little clock. 69 00:09:12.990 --> 00:09:26.508 So these things are very significant in terms of understanding the time, because right from the beginning in Genesis, he created the sun, 70 00:09:26.518 --> 00:09:27.495 the moon, 71 00:09:27.505 --> 00:09:33.120 and the stars for the purpose of understanding the time. 72 00:09:36.799 --> 00:09:45.314 But this is the sign of the Son of Man, and it comes just before his second coming. 73 00:09:45.324 --> 00:09:48.700 Let's look at that one more time. 74 00:09:51.360 --> 00:10:02.251 In Matthew 24, verse 30, he says, Jesus speaking, and then shall appear the sign of the son of man in heaven, 75 00:10:02.261 --> 00:10:07.247 and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, 76 00:10:07.257 --> 00:10:16.539 And they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 77 00:10:19.350 --> 00:10:24.451 So there's three things that he's mentioning here. 78 00:10:24.461 --> 00:10:36.899 First the sign of the Son of Man, then the tribes of the earth mourn, and then the Son of Man comes himself in the clouds. 79 00:10:39.610 --> 00:10:53.559 Now these are words that can be understood in different ways, because God likes to use riddles. 80 00:10:54.100 --> 00:10:56.451 He wants to exercise our minds. 81 00:10:56.461 --> 00:10:59.951 He doesn't put everything just on the surface. 82 00:10:59.961 --> 00:11:01.610 We have to dig for it. 83 00:11:01.659 --> 00:11:03.903 We have to look for things. 84 00:11:03.913 --> 00:11:12.470 And it's interesting when he says the Son of Man is coming in the clouds, he says the clouds of heaven. 85 00:11:12.480 --> 00:11:19.440 Is that just saying he comes with the white fluffy clouds that float across the sky? 86 00:11:20.509 --> 00:11:32.751 Or is he referring something to something perhaps a little bit more symbolic of what we will see in the last days? 87 00:11:32.761 --> 00:11:43.490 Because these comets, you know, here I've just drawn lines because that shows the path of the comet. 88 00:11:44.450 --> 00:11:53.899 But a comet is an object in space that has a cloud around it. 89 00:11:55.529 --> 00:12:07.388 They're usually made from ice, and then the ice evaporates off of the core stone, if you will, of the comet, 90 00:12:07.398 --> 00:12:14.745 and that makes this shimmering tail that points away from the sun. 91 00:12:14.755 --> 00:12:17.600 That's what makes a comet. 92 00:12:18.120 --> 00:12:23.152 So comets and clouds are connected. 93 00:12:23.162 --> 00:12:32.508 When Jesus says he comes with the clouds, it's symbolic language. 94 00:12:32.518 --> 00:12:44.720 And in the heavens, we can understand that to mean he comes with the cometary clouds. 95 00:12:46.860 --> 00:12:49.928 And that's what we're looking at here. 96 00:12:49.938 --> 00:12:55.419 We're looking at the comets to understand the time of Jesus' return. 97 00:12:58.610 --> 00:13:09.444 And when the sign began, it began in March, and that's the first part of Jesus' statement here, 98 00:13:09.454 --> 00:13:14.690 then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man. 99 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:25.250 That refers to this beginning part where the sign appears beginning at that time in March. 100 00:13:25.259 --> 00:13:36.110 That was when K2, this darker blue comet, as I've drawn it, that's when it started and left the clock there. 101 00:13:37.929 --> 00:13:48.460 We discovered the dates from looking at the heavens in comparison with the prophecies in the Bible. 102 00:13:51.049 --> 00:14:04.232 But the second thing that Jesus mentioned, then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn. 103 00:14:04.242 --> 00:14:17.276 Now this happens right when this comet came to its middle point, right here at the tip. 104 00:14:17.286 --> 00:14:21.909 This is where the comet is now. 105 00:14:21.909 --> 00:14:24.426 It's just about right there. 106 00:14:24.436 --> 00:14:30.099 And this is the time when the tribes of the earth are mourning. 107 00:14:30.109 --> 00:14:33.076 What are the tribes of the earth? 108 00:14:33.086 --> 00:14:38.090 We talked about that before in light of the recent news. 109 00:14:39.429 --> 00:14:55.297 It's easy to understand that Israel, the tribes of Israel are mourning because of the attack and now the war that has been ensuing. 110 00:14:55.307 --> 00:15:09.470 So the tribes of the earth, earthly Israel, are presently in mourning exactly in the middle of the time of this sign. 111 00:15:11.860 --> 00:15:17.035 Starting with the appearance of the sign of the Son of Man, 112 00:15:17.045 --> 00:15:26.509 in the middle the tribes are mourning and at the end the Son of Man returns with the clouds of the heavens. 113 00:15:29.169 --> 00:15:42.519 So that's one aspect there that we see the sign of the Son of Man pointing to the time outlining in broad strokes this verse Matthew 24:30. 114 00:15:45.419 --> 00:15:54.982 And then we started to look at this in a different context because Jesus' 115 00:15:54.992 --> 00:16:04.283 deliverance from the earth is symbolized in an old story in the Bible, 116 00:16:04.293 --> 00:16:10.309 the story of the exodus of Israel from Egypt. 117 00:16:12.669 --> 00:16:25.759 And we saw how the clock in combination with the course of the comets marks the midnight hour. 118 00:16:29.139 --> 00:16:44.148 I won't go into that detail again now but if you look at the path of this comet a little bit before this sign of the Son of Man began, 119 00:16:44.158 --> 00:16:52.659 that was when the comets crossed right past the midnight hour on the clock. 120 00:16:54.610 --> 00:17:02.358 That was confirmed in other ways through the scriptures also. 121 00:17:02.368 --> 00:17:06.549 So this marked the midnight hour. 122 00:17:09.500 --> 00:17:24.836 It was at midnight when in Egypt the angel of death passed over the houses of the Israelites who had the blood of the lamb over their house, 123 00:17:24.846 --> 00:17:28.123 over the door of their house. 124 00:17:28.133 --> 00:17:30.433 That was at midnight. 125 00:17:30.443 --> 00:17:33.819 There was a great cry in Egypt. 126 00:17:36.230 --> 00:17:40.158 There was mourning because they lost their firstborn. 127 00:17:40.168 --> 00:17:48.829 Every family lost the firstborn if they didn't have the protection of the blood which represents the blood of Christ. 128 00:17:51.059 --> 00:17:56.529 And then a short time later they left Egypt. 129 00:17:57.690 --> 00:18:01.805 It was the same night for them at midnight. 130 00:18:01.815 --> 00:18:11.950 Then when the Egyptians saw that they had suffered a great loss, they were very eager to send away Israel. 131 00:18:13.720 --> 00:18:23.250 So Israel escaped out of Egypt and they took with them many goods from the Egyptians. 132 00:18:26.390 --> 00:18:35.848 So that explains this little difference that we see between the midnight hour and the beginning of the sign 133 00:18:35.858 --> 00:18:45.130 of the Son of Man because first it was midnight and then there was a short time before the exodus began. 134 00:18:47.500 --> 00:18:50.819 Yes, it was early in the morning. 135 00:18:50.829 --> 00:18:55.950 It was about sunrise when they actually left Egypt. 136 00:18:57.609 --> 00:19:08.149 And there, if you look at the hours of the clock, that would be around the hour of the sunrise even. 137 00:19:08.159 --> 00:19:13.630 And then what was the next stop that Israel came to? 138 00:19:14.720 --> 00:19:20.241 They left Egypt and then they went until the Red Sea. 139 00:19:20.251 --> 00:19:26.180 Here we have the next stop of this comet is at the water. 140 00:19:27.890 --> 00:19:30.077 They couldn't go any further. 141 00:19:30.087 --> 00:19:32.576 They needed to cross the Red Sea. 142 00:19:32.586 --> 00:19:34.829 Of course, you know the story. 143 00:19:36.289 --> 00:19:53.630 God told Moses to part the sea and then when they went through, the Egyptians tried to pass after them and they were drowned. 144 00:19:54.559 --> 00:20:12.630 And we see through this course that the comet makes, we see the course of the children of Israel from Egypt until the Promised Land. 145 00:20:14.859 --> 00:20:25.329 From Egypt they came to the Red Sea and then they came to the Mount Sinai experience. 146 00:20:26.640 --> 00:20:30.268 Now this is review for some of you. 147 00:20:30.278 --> 00:20:39.390 When was, on what day did Moses go up the mountain to receive the two tables of the law? 148 00:20:40.069 --> 00:20:48.420 When the mountain was on fire and there was smoke and thunder and the sound of a trumpet, it was Pentecost. 149 00:20:50.869 --> 00:21:06.501 And it just so happens that these two comets, they cross right here at this point and the time when they crossed, 150 00:21:06.511 --> 00:21:10.789 this was at Pentecost in 2023. 151 00:21:12.390 --> 00:21:23.519 That was May 27th, 2023, right at the beginning of that day, which in the Hebrew terms is actually on the 26th in the evening. 152 00:21:24.670 --> 00:21:39.330 But that was the very time when the path of those comets crossed and this comet was just going over the path of that comet, 153 00:21:39.340 --> 00:21:41.475 it was Pentecost. 154 00:21:41.485 --> 00:21:46.720 So it marks that point in history of Israel. 155 00:21:47.809 --> 00:21:57.008 And then we come to the tip, and what day was that at the tip? 156 00:21:57.018 --> 00:22:04.130 Yom Kippur, it was the day of atonement in 2023. 157 00:22:04.809 --> 00:22:10.025 So the timing of these comets in our modern times, 158 00:22:10.035 --> 00:22:22.440 it points back to the history of Israel when Moses received the Ten Commandments on Pentecost and Moses on Yom Kippur. 159 00:22:22.440 --> 00:22:31.670 He went back to the mountain and he received the Ten Commandments for the second time because they had broken them the first time. 160 00:22:35.009 --> 00:22:36.009 Yes, thank you. 161 00:22:36.109 --> 00:22:52.691 We even see this in this constellation, we see this X, and X is representing the number 10. The Roman numeral X is the number 10, 162 00:22:52.701 --> 00:22:58.089 and that represents the Ten Commandments. 163 00:22:59.589 --> 00:23:07.395 So we see even that is marked, illustrating the significance of that time, 164 00:23:07.405 --> 00:23:18.259 both in the time when the comet crossed and visually we see a reminder this is about Ten Commandments. 165 00:23:20.700 --> 00:23:30.529 And we saw that also before, there are other things like it was about the prayer of Moses who said, blot me out, 166 00:23:30.539 --> 00:23:33.425 and when you blot something out, 167 00:23:33.435 --> 00:23:35.619 you strike an X over it. 168 00:23:36.940 --> 00:23:46.417 So we see different symbolism, different ways of understanding this crossing of the comets. 169 00:23:46.427 --> 00:23:53.500 So after Moses came down the second time, they built the tabernacle. 170 00:23:55.839 --> 00:24:04.970 God had given them instructions, and when they built the tabernacle, it made it possible that God could go with them. 171 00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:17.457 Because when they had sinned, God was ready to blot the people out, like that X blotting them out, but Moses interceded and said, 172 00:24:17.467 --> 00:24:19.160 blot me out instead. 173 00:24:22.619 --> 00:24:34.529 But then God said, no, I have a different plan, and he gave them instructions for building the sanctuary so that God could dwell with them. 174 00:24:35.700 --> 00:24:42.058 That's what we see here, these three belt stars of Orion. 175 00:24:42.068 --> 00:24:50.987 This symbolism comes from Revelation chapters 4 and 5, where we have the throne, 176 00:24:50.997 --> 00:24:58.123 and the three stars represent the three persons of the Godhead, 177 00:24:58.133 --> 00:24:59.461 the Father, 178 00:24:59.471 --> 00:25:00.464 the Son, 179 00:25:00.474 --> 00:25:02.359 the Holy Spirit. 180 00:25:03.940 --> 00:25:12.099 And in Revelation it talks about four living creatures surrounding the throne. 181 00:25:12.109 --> 00:25:22.559 This is where we spent many years studying, and the throne is represented by those three belt stars. 182 00:25:23.339 --> 00:25:37.783 So that represents, now as this comet passes by the throne, it represents God traveling with his people, 183 00:25:37.793 --> 00:25:48.893 just as Israel traveled through the wilderness with their God in the sanctuary, 184 00:25:48.903 --> 00:25:55.004 before finally coming to the promised land, 185 00:25:55.014 --> 00:26:03.337 represented by the end point of the sign of the Son of Man, 186 00:26:03.347 --> 00:26:10.003 where we cross the heavenly Jordan in our case. 187 00:26:10.013 --> 00:26:11.670 Interesting. 188 00:26:12.859 --> 00:26:26.847 You're saying that the Orion Nebula is also a cloud, and it's a fiery cloud, if you will, just like the cloud, the pillar of cloud by day, 189 00:26:26.857 --> 00:26:30.091 or the pillar of fire by night, 190 00:26:30.101 --> 00:26:34.450 was over the tabernacle in the wilderness. 191 00:26:35.930 --> 00:26:37.472 Good, nice. 192 00:26:37.482 --> 00:26:49.125 So last week we started to look a little bit more closely at this part of the sign. 193 00:26:49.135 --> 00:27:01.740 Previously we looked at the entrance, where we enter into the sign, if you will, by faith. 194 00:27:03.769 --> 00:27:12.049 Just as Jesus said, come to me and I will give you rest, the clock signifying that rest. 195 00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:22.885 And then we looked last week, we started to see about the symbolism of the baptism. 196 00:27:22.895 --> 00:27:34.869 This is 1 Corinthians chapter 10 and verse 2. Paul says, of the children of Israel who passed through the Red Sea. 197 00:27:35.569 --> 00:27:48.176 They were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud that was above and in the sea, which was made into two walls as they passed through. 198 00:27:48.186 --> 00:27:54.720 So they were surrounded by water, and he connects that with baptism. 199 00:27:59.180 --> 00:28:07.642 And so last week we looked at how this represents not just that baptism, 200 00:28:07.652 --> 00:28:15.988 but when we look at that in connection with the other symbolism there, 201 00:28:15.998 --> 00:28:21.160 we have the dove over the one in the river. 202 00:28:22.140 --> 00:28:25.610 What does that bring to mind? 203 00:28:25.620 --> 00:28:27.415 Jesus' baptism. 204 00:28:27.425 --> 00:28:33.390 Let's look at that in Matthew chapter 3, verse 16. 205 00:28:35.460 --> 00:28:40.730 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water. 206 00:28:40.740 --> 00:28:48.410 So John lowered him into the water, and when he came up out of the water, lo, the heavens were opened. 207 00:28:50.059 --> 00:29:00.690 Now, whenever you read the heavens are opened, that directs our attention upwards to look in the heavens. 208 00:29:01.539 --> 00:29:09.388 Perhaps there is something in the stars of heaven that reflects this scene. 209 00:29:09.398 --> 00:29:15.039 The heavens were opened unto him, and what did he see? 210 00:29:15.809 --> 00:29:22.063 He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting upon him. 211 00:29:22.073 --> 00:29:29.390 That's exactly what we see here in the sign of the Son of Man, in the center even. 212 00:29:31.319 --> 00:29:40.509 The baptism, now representing Jesus in the water, and the dove coming down upon him. 213 00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:54.625 Last week, we looked at the symbol of this sculptor's chisel, as it was originally named in full, 214 00:29:54.635 --> 00:30:01.966 and we saw how that points to how God is our sculptor. 215 00:30:01.976 --> 00:30:05.569 He sculpts us in his image. 216 00:30:07.230 --> 00:30:16.683 And we saw how that is connected also with his baptism. 217 00:30:16.693 --> 00:30:29.240 Because when we are baptized, we pass through the doors of the sanctuary. 218 00:30:29.250 --> 00:30:41.950 This is the old tabernacle that Moses constructed, and it has three doors. 219 00:30:45.430 --> 00:30:48.415 And Jesus said, I am the door. 220 00:30:48.425 --> 00:30:53.899 Now it's interesting, he said, I am the door, singular. 221 00:30:53.909 --> 00:31:00.059 But elsewhere, he said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. 222 00:31:01.230 --> 00:31:12.937 And these doors were called, they had names, and they called them the way, the truth, and the life. 223 00:31:12.947 --> 00:31:18.860 So Jesus was the door, but he was all three doors. 224 00:31:18.870 --> 00:31:22.990 At each place, it represents Jesus. 225 00:31:24.019 --> 00:31:28.509 In order to pass through, we must come through Jesus. 226 00:31:31.269 --> 00:31:41.457 When someone had a sin that they wanted to confess, they would come, they would bring the lamb, 227 00:31:41.467 --> 00:31:46.389 and they would confess their sin on the lamb, 228 00:31:46.399 --> 00:31:50.250 and it would be slain on the altar. 229 00:31:50.980 --> 00:31:58.319 That represents our repentance and Jesus' sacrifice. 230 00:31:58.759 --> 00:32:03.742 An innocent lamb was killed for our sin. 231 00:32:03.752 --> 00:32:18.690 And we saw last week how that points to, there's even the laver there, how we are cleansed in the baptism of repentance. 232 00:32:20.000 --> 00:32:29.000 When we repent and we come to Jesus, he cleans us, and he accepts us. 233 00:32:29.599 --> 00:32:44.712 We enter into the realm where God dwells, and we're part of his family when we come to Jesus. 234 00:32:44.722 --> 00:32:55.599 In order to enter here, you enter through the door, which is Jesus. 235 00:32:59.460 --> 00:33:03.650 But Jesus doesn't just say, okay, now you're part of the family, it's all over. 236 00:33:05.160 --> 00:33:13.500 No, there's another door, and that door also represents Jesus. 237 00:33:13.510 --> 00:33:24.407 And when we go through that door, we learned last week that it's another baptism. 238 00:33:24.417 --> 00:33:29.509 The word baptism just means immersion. 239 00:33:31.849 --> 00:33:36.746 So when we're baptized, we're immersed. 240 00:33:36.756 --> 00:33:41.402 First we're immersed with repentance. 241 00:33:41.412 --> 00:33:56.710 We come to Christ with an atmosphere of repentance, and we're immersed in water, cleansing, to cleanse away all our guilt. 242 00:33:59.759 --> 00:34:03.417 But here, we're immersed in light. 243 00:34:03.427 --> 00:34:14.389 Once you enter, there's the light of the Holy Spirit, and the bread, which represents the word of God. 244 00:34:15.489 --> 00:34:32.840 So the light shines on the word, and it's reflected all through the golden walls, and the priest would be completely immersed in that light. 245 00:34:34.030 --> 00:34:42.732 And that corresponds to what John the Baptist said that Jesus would do. 246 00:34:42.742 --> 00:34:52.659 In Mark 1, verse 8, John the Baptist said, I indeed have baptized you with water. 247 00:34:54.070 --> 00:35:03.050 That's the first part, the first door, the first passage into the sanctuary, is that baptism of water. 248 00:35:04.489 --> 00:35:14.513 But then he said, but he, referring to Jesus, shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost. 249 00:35:14.523 --> 00:35:19.057 And that is this baptism, if you will. 250 00:35:19.067 --> 00:35:23.940 Remember, there's one door, that's Jesus. 251 00:35:24.500 --> 00:35:29.287 So when we come to Jesus, there's one baptism. 252 00:35:29.297 --> 00:35:36.260 But it's a baptism of repentance, and it's a baptism of the Spirit. 253 00:35:37.320 --> 00:35:49.465 So it's not that we have to get baptized more than once, but our baptism into Christ opens the way through the first door, 254 00:35:49.475 --> 00:35:51.954 through the second door, 255 00:35:51.964 --> 00:35:55.239 and even through the third door. 256 00:35:56.710 --> 00:36:14.013 That was the new element that we looked at last week, where when the priest would enter that third door, there was a third immersion. 257 00:36:14.023 --> 00:36:17.146 What was he immersed in? 258 00:36:17.156 --> 00:36:18.847 You remember? 259 00:36:18.857 --> 00:36:21.559 The cloud of incense. 260 00:36:23.079 --> 00:36:30.646 We saw how he was instructed to put incense on the coals in large amounts, 261 00:36:30.656 --> 00:36:40.360 and it would make a big cloud of incense that would fill this whole small chamber in the back. 262 00:36:40.909 --> 00:36:48.415 So that when he entered, it was a baptism into that incense. 263 00:36:48.425 --> 00:37:02.059 And so when we're baptized into Christ, we're baptized into repentance, we're baptized with this Holy Spirit, 264 00:37:02.069 --> 00:37:06.062 and we're baptized into prayer. 265 00:37:06.072 --> 00:37:09.679 That's what we saw last week. 266 00:37:10.010 --> 00:37:14.150 That incense represents prayer. 267 00:37:14.160 --> 00:37:24.711 And in connection with the sign of the Son of Man, we have the exodus of Egypt. 268 00:37:24.721 --> 00:37:37.389 So we look back at Moses' prayer when he interceded with God in Exodus chapter 32 and verse 32. 269 00:37:39.380 --> 00:37:52.526 Moses was speaking with the Lord, and he says, because this was when the children of Israel had sinned with the golden calf, he said, Yet now, 270 00:37:52.536 --> 00:37:53.822 if thou wilt, 271 00:37:53.832 --> 00:37:55.581 forgive their sin, 272 00:37:55.591 --> 00:37:56.692 and if not, 273 00:37:56.702 --> 00:37:57.432 let me, 274 00:37:57.442 --> 00:37:58.636 I pray thee, 275 00:37:58.646 --> 00:38:00.210 out of thy book. 276 00:38:02.139 --> 00:38:16.282 And this is the character of Christ that God wants us to be baptized into, so that we, ourselves, have the same character, 277 00:38:16.292 --> 00:38:19.760 that same willingness to say: 278 00:38:19.760 --> 00:38:37.670 Lord, blot me out of your book, take, it's okay if I don't experience the glory of the eternal kingdom, but forgive your people. 279 00:38:39.880 --> 00:38:45.389 That's that sacrificial attitude that Jesus refers to there. 280 00:38:47.820 --> 00:38:55.861 Yes, just as Jesus said on the cross, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. 281 00:38:55.871 --> 00:39:03.550 When we look at Jesus' baptism, there's one more element that we haven't looked at yet. 282 00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:22.789 After he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove in Matthew chapter 3 and verse 17, says, And lo, a voice from heaven, saying, 283 00:39:22.799 --> 00:39:25.594 This is my beloved Son, 284 00:39:25.604 --> 00:39:28.750 in whom I am well pleased. 285 00:39:31.510 --> 00:39:40.755 So, it's fitting, first of all, that we see this in the sign of the Son of Man. 286 00:39:40.765 --> 00:39:49.659 It's the voice that says, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. 287 00:39:49.669 --> 00:39:51.989 It represents Jesus. 288 00:39:56.440 --> 00:40:10.429 Now, that wasn't the only time that there was a voice from God saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. 289 00:40:12.349 --> 00:40:18.785 Who can tell me where there was another time that that voice was heard? 290 00:40:18.795 --> 00:40:21.695 At the Mount of Transfiguration. 291 00:40:21.705 --> 00:40:23.769 So, let's look at that. 292 00:40:25.590 --> 00:40:36.343 That's in Matthew chapter 17. Let's just start at the beginning here in verse 1. After six days, Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John, 293 00:40:36.353 --> 00:40:37.717 and his brother, 294 00:40:37.727 --> 00:40:41.760 and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart. 295 00:40:43.559 --> 00:40:56.679 And he, Jesus, was transfigured before them, and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. 296 00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:02.175 Remember that. 297 00:41:02.185 --> 00:41:10.665 And behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him. 298 00:41:10.675 --> 00:41:19.739 So, there was Jesus, and then appeared with him Moses and Elijah, or Elias. 299 00:41:22.559 --> 00:41:30.525 And then Peter says some stuff that he wasn't really awake to say. 300 00:41:30.535 --> 00:41:43.679 And then, in verse 5, while he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud, a cloud like the comets, overshadowed them. 301 00:41:43.679 --> 00:41:54.090 And behold, a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. 302 00:41:55.019 --> 00:41:56.846 Hear ye him. 303 00:41:56.856 --> 00:42:13.755 So, we hear the same voice speaking to Jesus, or to the disciples, when Jesus was transfigured on the mountain. 304 00:42:13.765 --> 00:42:16.961 And who was with him? 305 00:42:16.971 --> 00:42:19.530 Moses and Elijah. 306 00:42:22.360 --> 00:42:24.708 Now, that's interesting. 307 00:42:24.718 --> 00:42:34.203 We were just talking about how the children of Israel were baptized into Moses, which, of course, 308 00:42:34.213 --> 00:42:38.506 is just a type for the baptism into Christ, 309 00:42:38.516 --> 00:42:41.440 but a different aspect of it. 310 00:42:43.219 --> 00:42:51.289 And then there was Jesus there on the mountain, and Jesus baptized with the Holy Spirit. 311 00:42:52.719 --> 00:42:56.007 And then there was Elijah. 312 00:42:56.017 --> 00:43:02.086 Now, we haven't talked about Elijah, or have we? 313 00:43:02.096 --> 00:43:05.383 Who does Elijah represent? 314 00:43:05.393 --> 00:43:07.542 John the Baptist. 315 00:43:07.552 --> 00:43:16.110 Jesus said of John the Baptist that this was Elijah who was to come. 316 00:43:16.989 --> 00:43:20.599 He had the spirit of Elijah. 317 00:43:20.609 --> 00:43:29.633 So, on the Mount of Transfiguration, we have Moses, Jesus, and Elijah. 318 00:43:29.643 --> 00:43:38.260 The three who represent the three different aspects of the baptism. 319 00:43:39.570 --> 00:44:03.769 Let's look at Matthew chapter 17. This is the story of the transfiguration, and the disciples were questioning Jesus afterward about Elijah, 320 00:44:03.780 --> 00:44:07.918 because they asked him, 321 00:44:07.928 --> 00:44:17.079 why then say the scribes that Elias must first come? 322 00:44:19.380 --> 00:44:27.750 The scribes understood that Elijah would have to come before the Messiah, before Jesus. 323 00:44:27.760 --> 00:44:36.409 Jesus answered and said to them, yes, Elias truly shall come first and restore all things. 324 00:44:38.750 --> 00:44:41.446 Now, it's interesting. 325 00:44:41.456 --> 00:44:44.152 He says he shall come. 326 00:44:44.162 --> 00:44:55.539 And yet, the next thing that he says, he says, but I say unto you that Elias is come already. 327 00:44:57.019 --> 00:45:02.872 And they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. 328 00:45:02.882 --> 00:45:07.123 Likewise shall also the Son of Man suffer of them. 329 00:45:07.133 --> 00:45:13.559 And then the disciples understood that he spake to them of John the Baptist. 330 00:45:15.519 --> 00:45:20.975 So, Jesus connected Elijah with John the Baptist. 331 00:45:20.985 --> 00:45:28.891 And yet, he said first that Elijah will first come, will in the future. 332 00:45:28.901 --> 00:45:32.110 And yet, he had already come. 333 00:45:33.760 --> 00:45:43.644 So, we have Moses and Jesus, but John the Baptist has this dual role. 334 00:45:43.654 --> 00:45:45.516 He was there. 335 00:45:45.526 --> 00:45:50.519 He came as the forerunner to Jesus. 336 00:45:54.480 --> 00:46:04.232 But Jesus says that Elijah would not be just in John the Baptist, but he also shall come. 337 00:46:04.242 --> 00:46:12.889 Now, that makes sense when we look at the prophecy that spoke of Elijah coming. 338 00:46:14.250 --> 00:46:22.317 That comes from Malachi chapter 4 and verse 5. He says, behold, 339 00:46:22.327 --> 00:46:34.610 I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. 340 00:46:36.679 --> 00:46:50.909 Well, now, that's interesting because John the Baptist came before Christ in the spirit and power of Elijah at his first coming, right? 341 00:46:51.320 --> 00:46:56.738 But is that what the great and dreadful day of the Lord is referring to? 342 00:46:56.748 --> 00:47:01.480 No, the great and dreadful day of the Lord, that's in our time. 343 00:47:02.849 --> 00:47:16.234 And that means Elijah must point, or he must come again at the end just before Jesus returns. 344 00:47:16.244 --> 00:47:30.769 So, in the transfiguration, we have this voice that connects the transfiguration with Jesus' baptism. 345 00:47:31.980 --> 00:47:39.019 Because in both cases, God says, this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. 346 00:47:40.349 --> 00:47:50.200 But in the mount of transfiguration, we have Moses and Elijah showing the complete picture of the baptism, 347 00:47:50.210 --> 00:47:54.289 the three different aspects of our baptism. 348 00:47:55.860 --> 00:48:08.750 The Moses' aspect, where we're baptized into his character, the self-sacrificial character of Christ. 349 00:48:10.739 --> 00:48:24.110 That's that inner part of the sanctuary where we're baptized into the prayer that Moses exemplified. 350 00:48:24.120 --> 00:48:32.142 But then, there was Jesus who baptized with the Holy Spirit. 351 00:48:32.152 --> 00:48:37.079 That's going through the second door. 352 00:48:37.980 --> 00:48:44.501 And then, yes, the Holy Spirit, of course, gives us the truth, the word of God. 353 00:48:44.511 --> 00:48:48.960 Leads, Jesus said, the spirit leads us into all truth. 354 00:48:50.980 --> 00:49:05.420 And then, there's Elijah's baptism as John the Baptist represented there in the baptism of repentance. 355 00:49:07.260 --> 00:49:13.456 But on the mount of transfiguration, they're all together. 356 00:49:13.466 --> 00:49:18.808 And that's where Jesus said that Elijah will come. 357 00:49:18.818 --> 00:49:25.849 There's a coming time where we will see these things put together. 358 00:49:29.530 --> 00:49:34.275 Let's look at that a little bit more. 359 00:49:34.285 --> 00:49:44.162 Because on the mount of transfiguration, you have Moses and Jesus and Elijah. 360 00:49:44.172 --> 00:49:50.949 Now, Moses and Jesus are spoken of in the Revelation. 361 00:49:52.869 --> 00:49:54.585 Let's look at that. 362 00:49:54.595 --> 00:50:01.809 Revelation 15, verse 2, And I saw, as it were, a sea of glass mingled with fire. 363 00:50:02.489 --> 00:50:07.123 And them that had gotten the victory over the beast and over the image and 364 00:50:07.133 --> 00:50:11.694 over his mark and over the number of his name stand on the sea of glass, 365 00:50:11.704 --> 00:50:13.260 having the harps of God. 366 00:50:14.849 --> 00:50:24.300 And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb. 367 00:50:24.310 --> 00:50:28.065 So, we have Moses and the Lamb. 368 00:50:28.075 --> 00:50:33.750 And then, it gives more description about that. 369 00:50:34.039 --> 00:50:37.113 But it connects Moses and the Lamb. 370 00:50:37.123 --> 00:50:42.469 Now, I want to show you another connection between those two. 371 00:50:45.090 --> 00:50:58.411 We saw how Jesus, on the mount of transfiguration, Matthew 17, in verse 2, Jesus was transfigured before them, 372 00:50:58.421 --> 00:51:02.650 and his face did shine as the sun. 373 00:51:03.949 --> 00:51:09.093 So, his face was bright and shining. 374 00:51:09.103 --> 00:51:13.103 Who else had a shining face? 375 00:51:13.113 --> 00:51:13.970 Moses. 376 00:51:13.980 --> 00:51:19.552 And when did Moses have a shining face? 377 00:51:19.562 --> 00:51:26.380 When he came down the mountain from Mount Sinai. 378 00:51:26.599 --> 00:51:32.179 And looking at the sign of the Son of Man, that corresponds to this time up here. 379 00:51:32.699 --> 00:51:52.098 Not the first time, but the second time, after he made his prayer, when he came down, his face was shining. 380 00:51:52.108 --> 00:51:57.728 But who else has shining faces? 381 00:51:57.738 --> 00:52:00.639 Who can tell me? 382 00:52:00.649 --> 00:52:03.519 Jesus and Moses. 383 00:52:06.780 --> 00:52:24.789 Okay, but specifically in the Bible, if we look at the book of Daniel, chapter 12 and verse 3, And they that be wise shall do what? 384 00:52:25.889 --> 00:52:27.286 They shall shine. 385 00:52:27.296 --> 00:52:32.633 They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament. 386 00:52:32.643 --> 00:52:36.093 What makes the firmament, the sky, bright? 387 00:52:36.103 --> 00:52:36.730 The sun. 388 00:52:37.190 --> 00:52:40.010 So, they will shine just like Jesus did. 389 00:52:40.020 --> 00:52:42.418 His face was shining with the sun. 390 00:52:42.428 --> 00:52:46.639 The wise shall shine with the brightness of the sun as well. 391 00:52:48.079 --> 00:52:55.267 They that turn many to righteousness as the stars. 392 00:52:55.277 --> 00:53:02.033 Directing our attention to the stars of heaven. 393 00:53:02.043 --> 00:53:03.193 So, who? 394 00:53:03.203 --> 00:53:11.079 We have Jesus and Moses as examples, whose faces shone. 395 00:53:11.889 --> 00:53:14.129 Then we have the wise. 396 00:53:14.139 --> 00:53:27.564 Now, Elijah, who was also there on the Mount of Transfiguration, there's no story that talks about his face shining, but Jesus said, 397 00:53:27.574 --> 00:53:29.090 he shall come. 398 00:53:30.309 --> 00:53:43.480 And when he comes, before the coming of the Lord, his face needs to shine also. 399 00:53:44.489 --> 00:53:49.429 Just like Moses' face and Jesus' face. 400 00:53:49.440 --> 00:53:53.860 Elijah's face also needs to shine. 401 00:53:53.870 --> 00:53:56.210 But who is Elijah? 402 00:53:56.220 --> 00:53:56.870 What? 403 00:53:56.880 --> 00:53:58.010 The wise. 404 00:53:58.050 --> 00:53:58.806 Exactly. 405 00:53:58.816 --> 00:54:08.749 These are those who come in the power, in the spirit and power of Elijah, just like John the Baptist did. 406 00:54:08.759 --> 00:54:12.050 Now we have a collection of people. 407 00:54:13.000 --> 00:54:21.010 They that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, that is, as the sun. 408 00:54:22.199 --> 00:54:30.095 And they that turn many to righteousness shining as the stars forever. 409 00:54:30.105 --> 00:54:45.659 So, in this time, and I say in this time because this points to that time when Moses came down from the mountain and his face was shining. 410 00:54:47.059 --> 00:55:00.976 So, in that time, the face of the last day Elijah's, if you will, the people who come in the spirit and power of Elijah, 411 00:55:00.986 --> 00:55:08.166 who are the wise and turn many to righteousness as the stars, 412 00:55:08.176 --> 00:55:12.110 they will shine during this time. 413 00:55:22.219 --> 00:55:25.528 Yes, that's a good point. 414 00:55:25.538 --> 00:55:36.909 We have here, as we've spoken about before, this cone at the top represents a trumpet. 415 00:55:37.789 --> 00:55:42.641 We've been waiting for the seventh trumpet in here. 416 00:55:42.651 --> 00:55:50.642 If you just kind of hide that part, you see it's kind of like the bell of a trumpet. 417 00:55:50.652 --> 00:55:52.630 Let me show you that. 418 00:55:55.699 --> 00:56:05.860 Here, looking on the side, here's the comet as it comes, and it forms something like the bell of the trumpet. 419 00:56:07.050 --> 00:56:20.319 And it was within these dates here at the end, marked by this tight crossing of the comets, that certain events have happened, 420 00:56:20.329 --> 00:56:23.690 most notably the war in Israel. 421 00:56:25.849 --> 00:56:39.070 That is like the air that is being blown into the trumpet and getting louder and louder as this last time progresses. 422 00:56:40.659 --> 00:56:53.838 So, it's in that time of the seventh trumpet during which we can expect the louder voice from heaven saying, 423 00:56:53.848 --> 00:56:59.940 this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased. 424 00:57:02.789 --> 00:57:07.260 That's the voice that is to be amplified. 425 00:57:07.270 --> 00:57:18.710 In the heavens, when the Bible speaks of a voice in heaven, when we look in the stars, they're all quiet. 426 00:57:21.289 --> 00:57:30.980 But a voice, or a loud voice, is represented in heaven by a brighter light. 427 00:57:30.990 --> 00:57:42.349 So, like the greater light of the sun or the moon, these are the great voices in heaven. 428 00:57:44.619 --> 00:57:58.400 And so, that's what the seventh trumpet is pointing also to this time of the faces of the wise who understand the heavens, 429 00:57:58.410 --> 00:58:03.710 who turn many to righteousness like the stars. 430 00:58:06.909 --> 00:58:17.969 That's referring to that loudness of the heavens, the brightness of their faces. 431 00:58:17.979 --> 00:58:29.869 So, there was the trumpet sound as well when they first received the Ten Commandments. 432 00:58:29.879 --> 00:58:33.730 And then Moses' face shined. 433 00:58:44.510 --> 00:58:57.050 So, the key thing is we have, especially at these two points, both of them point to receiving the Ten Commandments on both points. 434 00:58:57.130 --> 00:58:59.739 It's about the Ten Commandments. 435 00:58:59.749 --> 00:59:07.079 And those who are faithful to the Ten Commandments are in two different classes of people. 436 00:59:08.010 --> 00:59:15.474 There are those who are faithful unto death, like the martyrs, like Moses was. 437 00:59:15.484 --> 00:59:16.249 He died. 438 00:59:16.259 --> 00:59:21.119 And there are those who are faithful in their life. 439 00:59:22.670 --> 00:59:27.338 But they also embrace a form of death. 440 00:59:27.348 --> 00:59:40.366 Because Jesus said in John chapter 15 and verse 10, If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love, 441 00:59:40.376 --> 00:59:46.015 even as I have kept my father's commandments, 442 00:59:46.025 --> 00:59:48.840 and abide in his love. 443 00:59:51.250 --> 01:00:01.639 And he said, These things I have spoken to you, that my joy might remain in you, that your joy might be full. 444 01:00:02.309 --> 01:00:05.498 Then he said, This is my commandment. 445 01:00:05.508 --> 01:00:08.954 So, he's clarifying what he said before. 446 01:00:08.964 --> 01:00:14.889 This is my commandment, that ye love one another as I have loved you. 447 01:00:15.039 --> 01:00:17.539 And how did Jesus love us? 448 01:00:17.549 --> 01:00:19.856 He gave his life for us. 449 01:00:19.866 --> 01:00:31.190 Therefore, he continues and he says, Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. 450 01:00:32.050 --> 01:00:40.570 And that's what we see in the prayer of Moses, is that willingness to lay down our lives, not just our physical lives. 451 01:00:40.570 --> 01:00:43.435 Moses laid down even his eternal life. 452 01:00:43.445 --> 01:00:45.858 He said, He didn't say, Kill me. 453 01:00:45.868 --> 01:00:48.789 He said, Blot my name out of your book. 454 01:00:50.250 --> 01:00:55.035 That means that's an eternal sacrifice. 455 01:00:55.045 --> 01:01:00.199 That's the love with which Jesus loved us. 456 01:01:00.209 --> 01:01:10.619 Will we give our greatest hope for our friends, to lay down his life for his friends? 457 01:01:11.119 --> 01:01:17.223 That's what Jesus experienced when having never sinned himself, 458 01:01:17.233 --> 01:01:25.750 having never done anything that would cause God to say that he is not pleased with him. 459 01:01:28.190 --> 01:01:35.813 He never did anything that would break that union with his father. 460 01:01:35.823 --> 01:01:40.559 And yet, he became sin for us, Paul says. 461 01:01:40.569 --> 01:01:46.210 And when he did, there was an eternal separation. 462 01:01:46.210 --> 01:02:02.065 And we can understand that because his new name, which comes from the belt stars of Orion that represent the throne, 463 01:02:02.075 --> 01:02:08.079 and the one that represents him is Alnitak, 464 01:02:08.089 --> 01:02:12.179 and it means the wounded one. 465 01:02:13.179 --> 01:02:15.619 Jesus is the wounded one. 466 01:02:15.629 --> 01:02:21.179 When we are raised from the dead, we're given new bodies. 467 01:02:21.820 --> 01:02:27.764 We're raised in the newness of the glorious body. 468 01:02:27.774 --> 01:02:33.354 But Jesus, when he was raised, he was wounded. 469 01:02:33.364 --> 01:02:47.659 After, when he met with his disciples, remember Thomas, he said, Unless I put my hand in your wounds, I won't believe. 470 01:02:49.380 --> 01:02:58.445 And that wasn't so good for Thomas, because it's always better to believe in faith. 471 01:02:58.455 --> 01:03:06.974 But it shows us that Jesus was wounded even after he was raised from the dead. 472 01:03:06.984 --> 01:03:10.349 And he retained his human body. 473 01:03:11.969 --> 01:03:17.548 It was a glorified body, but it was a human body. 474 01:03:17.558 --> 01:03:30.869 And even keeping the wounds in his side, in his hands, in his feet, the wounds that are marked in Orion by the stars. 475 01:03:31.949 --> 01:03:37.730 So Jesus, for all eternity, is the only one who will forever be wounded. 476 01:03:39.719 --> 01:03:51.150 He made an eternal sacrifice, and I think that is most significant in the fact that he is in a human body, just like us. 477 01:03:52.110 --> 01:04:04.889 He ascended into heaven in a human body, not in a glorious divine body, spiritual body that he had in the beginning. 478 01:04:05.639 --> 01:04:10.579 So that was an eternal sacrifice that Jesus made for us. 479 01:04:12.760 --> 01:04:13.352 Amen. 480 01:04:13.362 --> 01:04:20.929 So with that, let's stand and we'll close with a word of prayer. 481 01:04:29.159 --> 01:04:43.007 Dear Father in heaven, we thank you for the sacrifice that you made for us, showing us how to love one another, 482 01:04:43.017 --> 01:04:47.748 how to deny ourselves and follow you, 483 01:04:47.758 --> 01:04:50.368 taking up our cross, 484 01:04:50.378 --> 01:04:51.989 as you said. 485 01:04:54.829 --> 01:05:08.157 We thank you for making it possible by being the door of baptism, that we're baptized into your character with repentance, 486 01:05:08.167 --> 01:05:10.670 receiving your Spirit. 487 01:05:13.219 --> 01:05:22.368 And ultimately reflecting your character of self-sacrifice, that we can pray for our friends, 488 01:05:22.378 --> 01:05:28.960 that you would forgive them even at the cost of our eternal lives. 489 01:05:31.409 --> 01:05:47.519 This is the baptism that you have opened the way for us to participate in, and when we do, we participate in your life, in your love. 490 01:05:49.480 --> 01:06:00.329 And there's no greater communion with you than to experience what you experienced to the greatest extent that it is possible for us. 491 01:06:02.420 --> 01:06:10.230 And so we thank you for that experience, that we may taste your love as we share it with others. 492 01:06:12.750 --> 01:06:24.543 Go with us always, and may our faces shine with the light of understanding of the sign of the Son of Man in this time, 493 01:06:24.553 --> 01:06:30.239 and with the hope of seeing him visibly when he returns. 494 01:06:32.039 --> 01:06:34.190 We pray these things in the name of Jesus Christ. 495 01:06:35.349 --> 01:06:40.229 And in Alnitak, his new name, the wounded one. 496 01:06:40.239 --> 01:06:40.760 Amen. 497 01:06:42.789 --> 01:06:47.190 Thanks again for coming, and we'll see you next week, I hope. 498 01:06:49.360 --> 01:06:50.105 Amen. 499 01:06:50.115 --> 01:06:51.597 Thank you.