This transcript is given in three parts:  First, a transcription of
the original address with commentary in postscript; second, a 
parallel two-column presentation, with transcript on the left,
and more detailed commentary on the right; third, a comparison is
made between the actual comments and the altered transcript which was 
broadcast over the national newswire.

[Koresh 3-02-93]

      My name  is Dave  Koresh. I'm Speaking  to you from  Mount Carmel
      center. The  first thing that I  would like to introduce,  in our
      subject,  is the reasons for  the revelation of  Jesus Christ. In
      the  Book of  Revelation, commentary  states, that what  John has
      written in  Scripture, is  nothing other  than the  revelation of
      Jesus  Christ which  God gave  to him,  to  show to  his servants
      things which must shortly come to pass. And he sent and signified
      it, signified it, by his angel unto his servant John.

      Now, John bear the record of God,  and the word of Christ, and of
      all things  that he saw.  In the first  chapter of Revelation  it
      says, "Blessed is the man,  blessed is he that readeth, and  they
      that hear  the words of this  prophecy, and those who `keep' the
      things that are written therein, for the time is at hand."

      The Scripture states John writes this of the seven churches which
      are  in Asia:  Ephesus, Smyrna,  Thyatira, Sardis,  Philadelphia,
      Laodicea, so forth.  Naturally, we must understand that we're not
      in   Asia.  These   churches   once  existed   long  ago,   being
      beneficiaries  of the power  and the gifts of  the gospel. It was
      originally introduced by The Man himself.  Some knew him as Jesus
      Christ; others knew him by the name Yeshua.

      What we're trying to present today  may in somewise shed a better
      light in regards to my situation and my predicament here at Mount
      Carmel. One  point I'd like  to bring out before  we continue, is
      that if we take  a look at Matthew, Mark,  Luke and John, we  see
      the burden of  these ancient  writers: the burden  of heart,  the
      burden  of mind and spirit, to put  in a scriptural record, their
      personal  experience with Christ. A record that is to be received
      by men, all men, who will receive it.

      The point is true  that not all have seen Christ, but it has been
      in the wisdom  of God that certain men who  were witnesses of his
      life, and death,  and resurrection, that they would  bear witness
      by the written word,  and testify to the generations to  come, of
      the  terrible happening  that took  place, when  the men  of that
      generation  would  not believe  in the  man  who through  so many
      obvious  evidences -- proved beyond shadows of doubt, that he was
      the Son of God.

      But  sad to say,  if we take  a look  of the record  of John, the
      gospel writer of John,  say Chapter 7,  we see in  Scripture John
      writes  that  after certain  events,  after  these things,  Jesus
      walked in Galilee; he would not walk openly, he would not walk in
      Jewry,  he  would not  walk amongst  the  Jews, because  the Jews
      sought to kill him.

      We might  wonder why?  Wasn't Christ a such  a good man?  Now the
      Jews' Feast  of Tabernacles was  at hand. His  brethren therefore
      said unto him, "depart hence and go into Judea that thy disciples
      also may see thy works that thou doeth. For there is  no man that
      doeth  anything  in secret  and he  himself  seeketh to  be known
      openly.  If thou do these things, show thyself to the world." For
      neither did his brethren believe in him.

      Strange statement, isn't it? It's funny how that the men live and
      had to  deal with  the realities  of life. That  even a  man like
      Christ can have to meet with unbelief even from his own brethren.
      Then Jesus said  unto them, "My  time is not  yet come, but  your
      time is always ready."  And I'm sure most  of all bible  students
      will agree the time referred to, is the time of his crucifixion.

      They wanted  to kill  him,  and he  didn't want  to show  himself
      openly. Then Jesus said unto them, (Verse 7)... <excuse me, uhn>,
      "The world can not hate you, but me it hateth,  because I testify
      of it, that the works there are evil. Go ye up into this feast. I
      go not yet up into this feast, for my time is not yet full come."
      When he said these words to them while he abode still in Galilee.

      But when his brethren were gone up, then went he also up into the
      feast, not openly, but  as it were, in  secret. You would  wonder
      why  a man  like  Christ would  have something  to  hide. I  mean
      surely, the angels would protect  him, obviously. A person  would
      think  a  lot  of  things  about  this  strange  character,   and
      disposition of character.

      But we're  sure -- being Christians  -- that Christ knew  what he
      was doing. And  the Jews saw him at the feast and said, "Where is
      he?" And  there was  much murmuring among  the people  concerning
      him, but some said, "He is a good man." Others said, "Nay, but he
      deceiveth the people."  Howbeit no  man spake openly  of him  for
      fear of the Jews.

      Now  we  understand  the   Jews  at  that  time  had   their  own
      religious-political network, didn't they? They were pretty strong
      in the religious spectrum, although they  had no actual political
      power. They were  subject to the Roman government, and not to the
      Roman [Jewish?] judicial/levitical laws.

      Now about the vista of the feast. Jesus went up to the temple and
      taught. The Jews marvelled saying, "How knoweth this man letters,
      having never learned?" Now  in the days of Israel,  most scholars
      and  teachers will agree, that the schools of Israel, ordained by
      the Sanhedrin,  and also the  Pharisees, were schools  similar to
      the uh... ones of our own theological schools of today.

      Of which the careful student of Scripture observes,  that nowhere
      is  it  written in  the gospel  that  Christ ever  attended these
      schools. But at the  age of 12, he did enter into the temple, and
      had  a most unique and interesting  discussion with the religious
      leaders,  of which they were quite amazed that such a young lad's
      knowledge of Scripture.

      Now this man was teaching something -- no doubt. (Christ that is)
      that  inspired the people to  say, (you know),  "how knoweth this
      man  (you know)  letters  having never  learned?" They  marveled.
      Jesus answered them and says,  "My doctrine is not mine,  but his
      that  sent me."  Now, what  does that  mean?  "My doctrine is not
      mine, but his that sent me." "If any man will do the will, do his
      will,  he  shall know  the doctrine,  whether  it be  of God,  or
      whether I speak of myself."

                                - - -

      Now friends, people that love the Lord, this is where we begin to
      uhh... talk about some serious things.

      I'm  sure you're all  aware of how..  how I'm involved  in a very
      serious thing right now,  and I'm sure  that a lot of you realize
      that I should be  possibly  scared... concerned.  There's  women,
      children  and men involved in our situation here at Mount Carmel.
      But I  am really concerned  about the lives of  my brethren here,
      and also would be concerned even greater, about the lives of  all
      those in this world.

      You know, without Christ,  without Jesus,  we have no hope.  Why?
      Well, because we know that the standard of God's righteousness is
      law,  a  law of  the  Ten Commandments,  a  law  of statutes  and
      judgments. And which God  gave unto Moses on Sinai  saying, "This
      is thy righteousness O Israel."

      But you know, God also gave another law. A law revolving around a
      system of shedding a poor and innocent lamb's blood.  So that all
      who  would  break  the  Law  of  God,  who  would  seek  God  for
      forgiveness and pardon,  had to bring a lamb, something innocent,
      and slay it -- although,  Israel themselves never really knew the
      real  meaning of this. Nonetheless, they were commanded to do it.
      Also there  were other  sacrifices such as:  turtle-doves, goats,
      oxen, red heifers.

      But, it was a very sophisticated and very prolific type system of
      worship.  Of course,  God  had to  give  these people  their  own
      country. He had to give them blessings and things,  to be able to
      perform these rituals.  And naturally of course having to  slay a
      lamb  for your sins,  (or such  sacrifices),  it would definitely
      keep a man  on guard not  to sin too  much, because otherwise  he
      could lose the livestock pretty quick, couldn't he?

      Well   anyway,  "thanks  be  unto  God,"  from  as  far  back  as
      Deuteronomy  32, all the way  through to Malachi,  there has been
      other writings,  writings of  the prophets. Writings  who do  not
      usurp  the  authority of  Moses, but  actually  exalt The  Law of
      Moses.  But yet there's an additional testimony. For the same God
      of Heaven -- Who's rich  in mercy -- has not only given  to men a
      law, but  also a  way of escape,  for those  repentant souls  who
      might fall short of the  glory of God's law. Which  some scholars
      will  agree, that the  glory of God's  law is that  it's a divine
      precept of His own character.  God's character is revealed in the
      law.

      Now, Christ is the only  hope for a world that sins.  Now, how do
      we know?  Well --  The Prophets --  have prophesied? But  what if
      we're  not  familiar  with  the  prophets?  Well, were  the  Jews
      familiar with the prophets when this  Word-of-God was made flesh?
      When Mary, The Virgin, had a baby boy,  did everyone believe that
      she was really a virgin when Christ was conceived?

      If we search the Scriptures,  we'll find in certain arguments the
      Pharisees confronted Christ  -- and said to him,  "We be not sons
      born of fornication." So obviously, not everyone believed that he
      was a  child of  a virgin  birth.  If they hadn't looked  back to
      Isaiah chapter 8, and  learned the mystery of Immanuel  -- that a
      virgin would  conceive and  bear a  son --  then  they might  not
      really  put too  much  ahhm... [con]sistency into  the fact  that
      Christ at  that day claimed  to be born  of a virgin.  I mean, if
      Isaiah the prophet was a false prophet,  well then naturally they
      would  conclude  that  anyone   claiming  to  have  these  things
      fulfilled would be false, too.

      But of course, Christ, he did something more than to just fulfill
      prophecy. He did miracles. Miracles of mercy such as: healing the
      sick, feeding the hungry, raising the dead. And if we study we'll
      see that Matthew, Mark, Luke and John gives us in somewhat a full
      view of the oppositions, (and also the confidements), that he had
      in  doing these miracles.  He gathered many unto  him through the
      means of these miracles.

      But  sad  to say,  even  though  he had  done  so  many miracles,
      Scripture says, yet  when it came right down to it,  they did not
      believe in him. It's amazing to think that even his own disciples
      forsook him -- except Mary Magdalene.  She stayed with him to the
      very end, didn't she?  Last to leave The Cross,  first to come to
      the sepulchre.

      Now,  we need  to  sit here  and  we need  to  ask ourselves  the
      question.  How come the men of that generation did not believe in
      Christ?  In  Matthew  23, Christ  had  to  say  to  the Jews,  "O
      Jerusalem, Jerusalem,  how often I would have gathered  you,  but
      you would not." Why?  He tells them  that they have forsaken  The
      Prophets. "Thou that killest the prophets, how often I would have
      gathered you."  How does the subject of gathering Israel, and the
      prophets, combine together?

      Then he tells  them that their houses,  their temple,  is left to
      them  desolate.  And that in  Matthew 24,  as Christ said  on the
      Mount of Olives, his disciples came to him secretively to ask him
      concerning these things.  What  should be the sign of thy coming,
      and of the end of the  world?  Well, Christ begins  to tell them,
      "Let no man deceive you, for many shall come in my name, saying I
      am Christ, and shall deceive many."

      A lot  of bible students  think that  verse refers to  the people
      coming,  and  saying  that   they  themselves  are  Christ.  Well
      naturally,  if someone came claiming to be Christ,  Christ covers
      that subject by saying,  that  "If any shall say,  Lo he's in the
      desert believe him not, go not forth. If he has a secret chamber,
      believe him  not." But he goes on to say that as lightning shines
      in the east, even to the west,  so also shall his coming be."  He
      goes on to add,  "But wheresoever the carcase is,  there will the
      eagles be gathered together."

      Now unless we knew what was on the mind of Christ, the day he sat
      with  his  disciples  on  the  Mount  of  Olives,  and  gave  the
      instruction to them according to Matthew 24; unless we could look
      into his mind, we would only  have to speculate, it would only be
      an opinion to try  to figure out what it  means, "wheresoever the
      carcase  is, the  eagles..."  What carcass?  Whose carcass?  What
      eagles? What are the eagles?

      Well, Christ  tells you of  many signs  in Matthew  24. He  says,
      "when  ye shall see the  abomination of desolation,  spoken of by
      Daniel the  prophet, stand in the Holy Place, (Of course, it says
      ye that readeth, let  him understand), those who are in Judea are
      supposed to flee into the mountains.

      Now, what  kind of  points  are these?  What is  in  the mind  of
      Christ? Is Christ trying  to tell us that we need to  go back and
      study  the  prophet  Daniel, to  see  if  maybe  Daniel had  some
      insight, in regards to an abomination  that maketh desolate? Now,
      an abomination is something nobody wants, especially if  it makes
      us desolate. Now, what do these things mean?

      Well, we  learned earlier in the Book of John, Christ stated, "My
      doctrine  is  not  mine, but  he  who  sent me."  Now,  we've got
      Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and everybody in the Christian world
      who's  free, to  hear these  men reveal  Christ. The  Christ they
      lived  with. The Christ they  loved. The Christ  that they didn't
      understand sometimes. The Christ they had  to see cruelly mocked,
      and beaten, and ridiculed, and rejected, and killed.

      But thanks be unto God on the  cross, their Jesus stated, "Father
      forgive them, for they know not  what they do." And he also said,
      which is the  point that we're fixin' to  get into quite heavily,
      "Father, into thine hands, I commend my spirit."

                                - - -

      Taking from  Psalms 31,  we  begin to  see that  Christ is  quite
      well-versed in  the Scriptures,  just like the  Gospels tell  us,
      when  he  confronted  the  devil. Always  referring  against  the
      temptation  by  stating, "It  is written,  it  is written,  it is
      written."

      Now what is  this spirit of Christ? Well,  they pierced his side,
      and out his  side came  blood and water.  Again another  mystery.
      Which  became something to do  with eating his  body and drinking
      his  blood, (some implements for The Church). But what does these
      things  really mean? Well, after  we've read Acts  and learned of
      the Power on Pentecost -- the "cloven tongues of fire"  that came
      upon the apostles who by mercy through Christ, were given another
      chance to recover from their falling.

      We learned through Romans that there is a righteousness of God in
      Christ, "Declare his righteousness."  We learn in Corinthians 1st
      & 2nd; we learn in  Ephesians, Galatians, and Phillipians... Ohh!
      We have such a wealth of information of such intelligent men, who
      speak sometimes very deep, mystical things about a God, who is in
      the  form of humanity,  who is  the Son of  God, who sits  at the
      right  hand of God  in the  highest courts  of the  universe. Who
      promises that one day He will come again.

      Well, the  last living  Apostle, through this  great controversy,
      (and I might  add, those  who persecuted Christ),  who would  not
      hear  him  no matter  what sign  was  given, also  persecuted his
      disciples.

                                 - - -

      And finally, we end up in the Book of Revelation, where John, the
      last living disciple, on the isle of Patmos, being a prisoner for
      the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ, (which no
      doubt is a thing Jesus has to say). Which would probably be quite
      controversial to the  things that the Pharisees  and Sanhedrin of
      the day had to say, we're sure.

      He, (being  on this isle of Patmos a prisoner on the Lord's day),
      had a vision.  And it states  in this vision,  (we should all  be
      familiar with  it hopefully, or get  familiar with it),  he has a
      messenger, The Angel Lord, come to him, who identifies himself as
      the  Spirit. And  he is told  to write  to the  seven churches of
      Asia.  Of which we  can see clearly in  the Scriptures, that they
      were  given specific and direct messages from Christ. And in each
      one of these messages,  Christ specifically told to  the churches
      what he would have them to do.

      {Now we  know that Christ is  the only man in  Scripture who ever
      kept  The Law of God perfectly.  We know that because we've heard
      the  writings of  the apostles.  But, sad  to say,  the religious
      leaders of  his days,  and the  majority of the  populace of  his
      days, didn't think so. It's funny  how that is. It's kind of like
      people  always like to build the sepulchres of the dead prophets,
      and  garnish their  tombs,  but yet  they  hate and  kill  living
      prophets. Only God knows why that is.}

      But  nonetheless --  the  church of  Ephesus, Smyrna,  Thyratira,
      Sardis, Philadelphia,  Laodicea --  the  churches thus  involved,
      (for  anyone to read),  direct counsel given,  beginning with "To
      the  Angel of the church  of Ephesus write  these things, then...
      blah-blah," and what happens  is this message is given.  And then
      the decision is up to those who profess Christ. Each counsel ends
      with, "he that has an ear to  hear, (`only if you want to know'),
      let him hear what the Spirit sayeth unto the churches. "

                                 - - -

      Finally, we get  to the  fourth chapter of  Revelation, (and  the
      student of  Scriptures becomes interested in  the subject), which
      according to John says,  "After these things...", ( of  course he
      was referring  to the last part of the 3rd chapter of the message
      to  Laodicea). He says, after these things, "I fall... and behold
      a door was  open into heaven. And the first  voice which spake to
      me as it were a of a trumpet, talked  with me." Which says, "come
      up hither and I will show you that which must be hereafter."

      Now,  the question  to  every true  Christian  is this:  Is  John
      telling  it as a truth, or  is John lying to us?  We know he just
      gave counsels  to the 7 churches  of Asia, (which were  alive and
      hopefully  in good  health when  he first  gave these  letters to
      them).  But nonetheless, they being of  Asia are no wise the same
      people of us today, or even of the oncoming years thereafter.

      So the events of  Chapter 4 clearly explained  by John, that  his
      messenger as  sent to him  stated that  he'd be taken  up hither,
      (therefore  a door opened into heaven, the Bible records), and he
      would be shown  things which must  be hereafter, sometimes  after
      John's day.

      Now what does he behold? In chapter 4 of Revelation, he says that
      he  was  in the  spirit, "immediately  I was  in the  spirit, and
      behold a  throne was set in heaven." And he states the throne was
      occupied. "One sat on the throne." He sat upon a throne which was
      lined  with jasper  and  sardonyx stone.  (A  careful student  of
      Scripture knows all the way through prophecy, all the way through
      the Bible,  as far  back  as the  days of  Genesis,  even to  the
      prophecy of Deuteronomy 32, where it  says, "God is a rock; he is
      a rock." And his work is done in truth and righteousness. All the
      prophets refer to God as a rock.

      Now here we see in Revelation John likewise witnesses God has the
      appearance of a Jasper  and Sardonyx Stone. He claims  that there
      was a  rainbow round about  the throne  ... like  an Emerald.  He
      carefully saw that there were living creatures  around the throne
      saying that God  is holy, holy,  holy -- which  was, and is,  and
      is-to-come. A God, who created all things, "for His pleasure they
      were and are created."

      Now this instruction emphasizes that there is a God, a kingdom, a
      judiciary. (In the respect that John witnesses that there are "24
      elders sitting on  24 thrones"  seems to imply  a judgment.)  But
      uniquely enough in this judgment, or in this throne. (Or "in this
      heavenly  sanctuary," as  we see  from the  writings of  Paul the
      Apostle. Paul  talks about  the heavenly sanctuary,  the heavenly
      Zion.)

      In  this sanctuary  we see  a God,  a rainbow,  a throne;  living
      creatures stating that God is holy,  which was, and is, and is to
      come (God  of the past, present, and  future). And that this God,
      who  is the  creator of all  things, is  holy and  deserves to be
      worshipped. We continue  on in chapter 5 to see, that "I beheld,"
      John says, "in  the right hand of  him that sat  on the throne  a
      book,  or  a scroll  -- sealed  with  seven seals."  (Notice it's
      written on the inside and the backside.)

      Well, the meaning of  these things can only be  speculated, until
      we  have solid  proof.  (In other  words,  unless we  were  there
      ourselves to see it in  detail.) Then what we are allowed  to see
      in  the Scripture, as  John also beholds,  is a  mighty angel. In
      this  throne  room  were   all  these  angels:  "thousands  times
      ten-thousands and thousands" are called together. And this mighty
      angel questions all  those in heaven, "Who is worthy to open this
      book, and  to loose the  seven seals thereof?"  Clearly Scripture
      states "no man  in heaven,  neither on earth,  neither under  the
      earth,"  (of course `buried,' we do  have dead in this world, you
      know), "was worthy to open, neither to look thereon."

      So  hey,  God  says in  Scripture,  at  least  John testifies  in
      Scripture, that  the Mystery  of God  -- His  Book --  is sealed.
      Well, what  happens is, as we  continue on, we see  in Chapter 5,
      that John begins to weep until one of the elders  says, "Weep not
      John; behold the  Lion of the Tribe of Judah,  the root of David,
      hath prevailed to  open the Book, and to loose the seal thereof."
      (Of which we know the Lamb, being a symbol of  Christ, is brought
      to view.)  And John  beheld a  Lamb that had  been slain  (in the
      midst of the throne and the 4 beasts  and the Elders) with 7 eyes
      and 7 horns.

      Well, what's  the meaning  of these  things? If  God does have  a
      revelation of Jesus Christ, which he gives to him to  show to his
      servants, then here we begin to see the  meaning of these things.
      We see that  God has a  Book, which must be  hereafter. (Sometime
      after John's day;  can-not be  before John's day.)  The event  is
      clearly identified as  one which must be in the hereafter, and in
      this event there's a  judgment that takes place. The  Question --
      "Who is worthy?"  (The answer, "No man.")  The Answer to this  --
      "Only the Lamb." So in Scripture the Lamb comes to the One on the
      Throne  and takes  the Book  out of  his right  hand, and  all of
      heaven bows  before Him and gives  him glory and  honor. And then
      John beheld the Lamb in Chapter 6, beginning to OPEN THE SEALS.

                                  - - -

      Now, I've heard a lot of statements the past couple of days, from
      people  that  are versed  in  Scripture,  from  people  that  are
      students  of the  Bible, saying  this and  saying that  about the
      meaning  of these  seals. But  remember, we  already see  that in
      heaven,  Christ, when he reveals the seals  -- He is the only one
      that can  do so.  And  remember it's  already  been said  it's  a
      revelation of him, so  there's a mystery between God  the Father,
      His Book, and Christ, and what He is to reveal.

      What Scripture does tell us though, is that John beheld  The Lamb
      open the  1st seal in chapter  6, "There was a  noise of thunder,
      and one of the 4 beast said come and see." John witnessed <excuse
      me>. John witnessed  that when he opened the 1st  seal, there was
      "behold a white horse,  and he that sat up on him  had a crown, a
      bow  was given  to  him, and  he  went  forth conquering  and  to
      conquer." Well, how  does this reveal Christ? Oh,  well, a lot of
      people will tell  you this  was the early  christian church.  The
      white horse  is a  symbol of  purity. Some even  say this  is the
      anti-christ. But now  wait a minute. A lot of  opinions have been
      given on this subject.

      So also on  the 2nd seal.  The man on the  red horse has  a great
      sword,  going forth (you know) killing one another... I mean come
      on! Is this a revelation of Jesus Christ?

              o  "One who has a bow ... conquering and to conquer."
                  Sounds like war.

              o  And the 2nd seal -- "A great sword ... that they
                 should kill one another." Sounds terrible.

              o  The 3rd seal -- "man on a black horse," has
                 balances. You know. What's this wheat & barley
                 stuff? "Hurt not the oil and the wine."

              o  The 4th seal -- "a pale horse," the name of the
                 one who sits on there is Death, and Hell follows
                 him. How can these things reveal Christ?

              o  The 5th seal -- Souls under altar, crying to God
                 to avenge their blood which was shed upon the
                 earth. I mean, what is this?

              o  The 6th seal -- Suns and stars being darkened. The
                 heavens depart as a scroll. The sons of men crying
                 to the rocks and mountains to hide them from the
                 face of the One who sets upon the Throne. I mean
                 "The One who sets upon the Throne," that's The
                 Father. That's The Rock isn't it? What can these
                 things mean?

              o  The 7th seal is opened. And all of a sudden "the
                 angel at the altar." Then we begin to see the
                 opening of the trumpets.

      Remember now, the 7th seal contains all the information from that
      point -- to the rest of the Bible.

      The  trumpets contain  a very interesting  and unique  story, but
      remember,  we've got  to  understand "how  to  find the  key"  to
      interpret these things  -- not  with our opinions,  but with  the
      mind of God. And no one can do that, unless we have the Spirit of
      God. And no one can have that unless God gives it to us.

                                 - - -

      Now let me review.

      Notice how during the 6th seal, the question is asked in the time
      of God's apparent  wrath, "Who shall be able  to stand?" "For the
      day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to stand?"

      Notice how that in the next chapter, chapter 7, NOT an additional
      seal is opened, but an answer. John sees that he  beheld 4 angels
      standing on  the 4 corners of  the earth, holding the  4 winds of
      the earth; if the winds should not blow on the earth,  nor on the
      tree, or sea.

      And he  saw an angel ascending  from the east having  the seal of
      The  Living God. What could that seal  be? Who is The Living God?
      Is the Living God the One on the Throne? Does the Living God have
      something we  need to know? Does the Living God have some kind of
      seal? What could the SEAL be? We know there's 7 seals, but that's
      sealed. No one can know that  but Christ. Well, who is that angel
      from the east?

      Yes, in  Matthew 24,  a lot  of  ministers confront  me and  say,
      "there  will  be many  false prophets  in  the latter  days." For
      remember,  Christ told his disciples then, that when they see the
      "abomination of desolation," as spoken of by the  Prophet Daniel,
      they would understand something. And he also said, that when they
      shall  say in  the desert, go  not forth  ... he's  in the secret
      chamber,  believe it  not. "For  as lightning  in the  east shall
      shine unto the west, so also shall the Son of Man be."

      <side one of duplicate tape ends, flipped over>

      When the 7th  seal opens --  there's silence. An  7 angels and  7
      trumpets prepare  themselves to sound.  And it appears  that some
      terrible  plagues take place. What could these things mean? Well,
      just as there was an interruption under the 6th seal, so is there
      an interruption under the  6th trumpet. Under the 6th  trumpet we
      learn about a mighty of 200 million. What are they doing?

      Well, we  see that  during the  break of this,  in chapter  10, a
      mighty angel comes down from heaven  -- clothed with a cloud, his
      face as it were the sun, his feet are pillars of fire, and he has
      in his hand a little  book opened. He puts his right foot  on the
      earth, left foot on the sea, and  cries and a lion roars. When he
      cried,  7 Thunders  uttered their  voices. Now  what are  these 7
      Thunders?  What do these things  mean? How do  we categorize this
      book? What are we really looking at?

      <side one of original tape ends, flipped over>

      Remember, it is  a revelation of Jesus Christ, which  God gave to
      Him, and remember the most  fearful warning ever given to man  is
      the warning found  in Revelation  22, where Christ  says, "For  I
      testify to every man that hears the word of this prophecy: If any
      man should add to the words  of this prophecy, God shall add unto
      him the plagues that are written in this prophecy. And if any man
      shall take away from  the words of this prophecy, God  shall take
      away his name OUT of the Lamb's Book of Life, and from the things
      in prophecy."

      Now that's fearful. That means the  book is not to be messed with
      or pranked  with by anybody who would dare think that they can by
      speculation, or private opinions, unlock the mystery of the seals
      and  what  they contain.  Remember the  events  of the  7th seal.
      Contained  from  the  7th  chapter  on,  the   trumpets  and  the
      information thereof,  just as  the 6th seal  contains information
      thereof.

      Well then, what must be hereafter, after John's day? A revelation
      of who? Who  gave it to him? Who only  can reveal it, (Revelation
      22). Who's going to come?  What's he going to bring,  his reward?
      What is his reward? Is it true in Isaiah 40 &  41 that He's going
      to come with a strong hand? Who is the "Behold my servant, whom I
      uphold?" What do these things mean?

      Well, we know in  the 1st seal, that Christ opens it  and we hear
      the noise  of thunder. One of the four beasts says, "come and see
      ... and behold a white horse." He  that sat upon him had a bow. A
      crown was given to him and he went forth conquering to conquer.

      Well, in order  to understand this  seal, we have  to find out  a
      secret about Christ. <tape clicks  off and on> In the  counsel to
      the church of Philadelphia, we  see Christ addresses that  church
      in chapter 3 of Revelation, with  this message: "And to the angel
      of  the church of Philadelphia write, these things sayeth he that
      is holy, He  that hath the key of  David. He that openeth  and no
      man shutteth, and shutteth and no man openeth."

      Well, what does he  mean to this church -- "I set  before thee an
      open door  and no  man can  shut it,  for thy  hath but  a little
      strength?"  What could  this  mean? What  is  the Key-of-  David?
      Isaiah  22  talks  about  the  Key-of-David,  but  it  refers  to
      "Eliakim." But still, what is the Key-of-David?

      Well,  of ancient times, Christ  being the root  and offspring of
      David. David was a great  king in Israel. And David was  anointed
      of God, being a shepherd lad. But through the power of God he was
      able  to overthrow the greatest obstacle in his day, Goliath, the
      Philistine. Using 5 smooth stones, he chose one, and it sunk deep
      into the forehead of the giant.

      Well, what  happens is  this. We see  that this  David wrote  150
      Psalms that are published in most Bibles of today's modern world.
      Now I say that  because some scholars will  agree that there  are
      other psalms, too. But as far as the King James, and the books of
      that caliber, we have 150 psalms.

      Well,  our subject  is the 1st  seal. We  don't want  to have any
      opinions, though. We  just want to simply...  see if we  can find
      the mystery of God in the prophets.

                                  - - -

      Well, let's turn  in our Bible to Psalm  45, and let's see  if we
      can't  get some kind of hint in  regards to what the 1st seal is.
      <tape clicks on and off>  It states here (this is the  King James
      Version),  "my heart is  inditing a good  matter. I  speak of the
      things  which I  have  made touching  the  king." What  could  it
      possibly  mean? What does it  mean, "my heart  is inditing a good
      matter?" Does that  mean "my heart is inditing a good matter?" Is
      somebody's heart inditing  a good  matter? "I speak  of things  I
      have made touching the king." Does that mean by interpretation "I
      speak  of the  things  I have  made  touching the  king?" Is  our
      subject about a king?  Is our subject about somebody's  heart? Is
      our subject about "my tongue is the pen of a ready writer?"

      Now, who is talking here? Well, naturally David of Old is talking
      here, correct? Well, who is the king he's talking about? Solomon?
      Well, let's see. "Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace
      is  poured  into thy  lips: therefore  God  has blessed  thee for
      ever." Well,  Solomon was a wise man wasn't he? Ok, it says here,
      "gird thy sword upon thy thigh O most mighty, and  with thy glory
      and thy majesty." "And in thy majesty ride  prosperously, because
      of  truth. (I wonder what Solomon rides? Probably, rides a horse,
      doesn't he?)

      "And in  meekness  and righteousness,  and thy  right hand  shall
      teach thee  terrible things." Huh?  I guess  with a sword  in you
      right  hand, you could  learn a lot of  terrible things! Whoa. In
      verse 5,  "Thine arrows  are  sharp in  the heart  of the  King's
      enemies,  whereby  the people  fall  under  thee." Hmmm.  Solomon
      doesn't seem really like too nice of a guy.  That is if he's your
      enemy.

      But anyway, "Thy  throne, O God, is for ..."  Huh? wait a minute!
      "Thy throne  O God is  for ever  and..." Now, wait  a minute.  Is
      David saying that Solomon is God? No -- he's probably just saying
      that God is God. Well, why would a prophecy about Solomon have to
      do with God's throne? "Thy  throne, O God, is for ever  and ever:
      the  sceptre of  thy kingdom  is a  right sceptre.  Though lovest
      righteousness and  hateth wickedness: therefore God,  thy God..."
      Wait a minute, "therefore God, thy God," what could this possibly
      mean? Who is what God? "Thy God has anointed thee with the oil of
      gladness above thy fellows." This is very strange, or is it?

      Well, let's look at it again a little closer. Scripture says that
      David  was a man after God's own heart. Although David transgres-
      sed, and that in no  wise is like God's  heart.  But nonetheless,
      David was a prophet, and he was inspired. Could it  be that David
      was used by  God to write down God's messages  that would one day
      be  revealed by  Christ? If  Christ  does have  the Key-of-David,
      would he not be able to reveal the heart of God?

      God in heaven looks to  be a rock, doesn't he? "Oh hard rock God,
      right. God's  long, God's  hard..."  But wait  a minute,  through
      Christ we can see that God is not as hard as you think he is.

      Look at  God. Come up hither,  in the light of  judgment, and see
      the Father  on the throne.  See the book  in his right  hand, and
      watch him give it to Christ, and watch him open the 1st seal. And
      let's see about this man on the white horse who has a crown and a
      bow.

      Now, God is the one who  is ridden. "My heart is inditing a  good
      matter: I speak  of things which I have made..."  Is God a maker?
      Is he Creator? What does  he want to talk about? The  things he's
      made touching the king. Who is the king? Could it  be Christ? "My
      tongue is the pen of a ready writer." Did God  write a book? Does
      God want  to talk about His  Son according to a  Book? Well, what
      does  God then  think about  His Son?  "Thou art  favored  of the
      children of men."

      Well, if that's what  God thinks? Although, Isaiah 53  says, that
      they will see in  him no beauty or desire  him; God, nevertheless
      says, "He is fairer than the  children of men." Why?! "Grace,  is
      poured into thy lips."  Huh? I guess whatever Christ  says, those
      who hear it,  will find  grace, won't they.  Therefore, "God  has
      blessed thee for ever."

      Well. "Gird thy sword  upon  thy thigh, O most mighty." Is Christ
      the most  mighty? "With  thy glory  and thy  majesty," I mean  it
      seems like in Revelation all of Heaven bowed before the Lamb, did
      they not? That's a lot of  glory. "For thou were slain to receive
      power,  honour,  glory, riches,  wisdom,  kingdom, might,"  Oooh!
      That's  a lot of inheritance there. Especially in the Gospel when
      it says, "I have received all  things from my Father. "And in thy
      majesty ride prosperously because of truth."

      <cell phone rings in background, tape clicks off and on>

      So what could this truth be? What truth in the  Bible talks about
      riding  a  horse  prosperously   and  its  truth?  Could  it   be
      Revelation? Could it be the 1st seal? Maybe a truth about Christ?
      Maybe  a truth about him being a  king, (which is a crown)? Could
      it be a truth about him  having a horse, riding conquering and to
      conqueror? Huh.

      So because of truth, the truth of God's Book, the heart intention
      of He's indited. His tongue is the pen of  a ready writer. And he
      doesn't  say nothing in the judgement. You  see, He just gives it
      to the Lamb. And,  you know the Lamb: rides  prosperously; writes
      in  truth, in  meekness  and righteousness,  "And thy  right hand
      shall teach thee terrible things." Oooh. Well, what's that in his
      right hand -- a sword or a book?

      Well, what does this book teach? My arrows are sharp in the heart
      of the kings enemies. Surely, Solomon... was  he a killer? Did he
      kill for God? Christ, is  he a killer? Did he kill for  God? Will
      Christ ever  destroy the wicked,  "whereby the people  fall under
      thee?" What  kind of  gospel  is this?  "Thy  throne, O  God,  is
      forever and ever," Is  Christ God? "The sceptre of thy kingdom is
      a right sceptre." I mean, does he deserve to rule? Why?

      Does he love righteousness and  hate wickedness? Therefore God is
      not  Christ, God... thy God? Is not his  God -- the Father? Is he
      not going to  anoint him above (with  oil of gladness)  above his
      fellows? What is this oil of gladness? "All thy garments smell of
      myrrh, and aloes,  and cassia,  out of the  ivory palaces,"  what
      about it made thee glad? I mean, should Christ ever be made glad?
      Where's this at? When's this take place?

      "King's daughters were among  the honourable women." What's that?
      "Upon  thy right hand did stand the  queen in gold of Ophir. "How
      can  this be Christ? Christ is God. What would he be doing with a
      woman? Well,  maybe she's the  church. Maybe she's  the spiritual
      church.  Well,  who's  the  king's daughters  then?  Hmmm.  Maybe
      there's more than one church.

      Well, whatever it  may be, we  know in verse  10, whether it's  a
      spiritual church, or a literal woman, there's one thing required.
      "Hearken, O  daughter, and  consider..." Consider  what? Consider
      God's  heart inditing in good  matter. Consider Who  the King is.
      Consider who's going to be the Powerful One.  Who's going to win.
      Consider about the Throne of God. Considering maybe Revelation --
      Who the Father gives The Book to.

      "Incline thine ear; forget also thine own people and thy father's
      house." Well, if this was a spiritual  church, it would seem kind
      of funny, for God to tell the spiritual church, to forget her own
      people, (which would be her denomination of  the Father's house),
      which would be..., well I thought her father would be  God, if it
      were spiritual?

      Now, if it were  a literal girl, "Hearken, O  daughter, consider,
      incline thine ear;" then  we can understand naturally, if  a girl
      is going to  marry a man, she  has to uproot the  one family, and
      join to  another. Not  completely, but  we understand what  we're
      saying. So  if she wants  to listen and  learn -- "so  should the
      king greatly desire thy  beauty, for he is thy lord,  and worship
      thou him."

      "And the  daughter of  Tyre shall  be there  with a gift."  Who's
      Tyre? Wonder what that is? "Even  the rich among the people shall
      intreat thy favor." Rich people want to intreat the favor of this
      queen?

      "The  king's daughter is all glorious within." How did she become
      the king's daughter? "Within?" Why  is she glorious within?  Does
      she  have a truth, or somethin'? Is  there some kind of light she
      has within her?  Her clothes are of "wrought gold."  She is to be
      brought to the king in raiment of needlework.

      "The virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto
      thee. With  gladness and  rejoicing shall they  be brought.  They
      should  enter into the king's palace." Instead of thy fathers, it
      shall be thy children." Now, what does that mean?

      Well,  let's break  this down. If  Christ is  the Son  of God, if
      that's the case, and if  we all are sons of God, if we believe in
      Christ; then naturally  every girl  would be a  daughter of  God,
      wouldn't she?  Well, we look up  to the Father on  the Throne, of
      which we want to exalt. We know that He is  greater than all. And
      He's Christ's Father, and He's also everyones' Father. And Psalms
      83 said,  God says,  "I say,  you are  gods, and  all of  you are
      children of the Most High." [should be, Psalms 82:6]

      Hosea teaches us that we're to say, "You're not my people." There
      should  be said, "You're the  sons of the  living God." So Christ
      says in the  Gospels, "if he calls  him God, to whom  the word of
      God came, the law can not be broken."

      Well, we're ruining God's Word -- it's God's Spirit. This is what
      makes us become born again, born by the Spirit, the knowledge  of
      God. Well, so, a girl believes in God, and so does everybody else
      that  believes in  God.  So therefore  God  the Father  has  many
      children,  doesn't he?  Christ being the  firstborn, and  ... all
      thereafter that believe. But instead of thy fathers, it should be
      thy children, "whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth."

                                - - -

      To  the person  that  really doesn't  understand Scripture,  this
      would seem to  be a  very controversial subject.  I mean,  Christ
      never had  any wife,  has to be  Spiritual. "I'll  make thy  name
      remembered in all generations,  therefore shall the people praise
      thee for ever and ever."

      Well even if it is Spiritual, we know one thing; We know that are
      the  servants of  God, know that  Psalm 45  is the  very prophecy
      which  must be hereafter according  to the 1st  seal. But just to
      make  sure we know it's going to  be fulfilled, let's turn in our
      Bible to REVELATION  19. (Just so we can get  a better caption of
      what we are really looking at.)

      Now remember, in  the 18th  chapter of Revelation,  we know  that
      Babylon the  Great falls. She made all nations drink of some kind
      of  wine  of the  wrath of  her  fornication. Now,  we  find that
      something very bad  happens, and then in verse 23  of Chapter 18,
      "no more light of the candles shall shine there, nor the voice of
      the bridegroom and the voice of the bride."

      Well, the merchants, who are the  great men of the earth, it says
      in verse  23, "And for  by their  sorceries were all  the nations
      deceived."  We  all  know  about capitalization.  We  know  about
      advertisement selling  something, making  it better than  what it
      really is. "For here is found the blood of prophets, and  saints,
      and of all that were slain upon the Earth." You see, just because
      people don't accept the  truth from God's Word does not mean it's
      not  Truth? And  some truth  that we  might teach  can get  us in
      trouble.

      But anyway, in 1st  verse, Chapter 19, it says,  "And after these
      things  I heard  a great  voice of  much people in  heaven saying
      Alleluia, salvation,  and glory, and  honour, and power  unto the
      Lord our God." Why? "For true and righteous are his judgments." I
      wonder what his judgments were?

      Isaiah  51 talked about  judgments of God.  Says something about,
      "HEARKEN  to me, ye that  seek after righteousness,  ye that seek
      the  LORD:  look  unto  the rock  whereby  you're  hewn."  Again,
      remember in  Revelation, God the rock? If God is a rock, he's the
      only one who can make  us new, right? And  it says, "look to  the
      pit  from which you're dug," in Isaiah 51. It talks about Abraham
      and promises of God. Then it  says, "Hearken unto me, my  people;
      and  give ear unto me, O my nation:  for a law shall proceed from
      me,  and I  will make  my judgment  to rest  for  a light  to the
      people."

      Now,  we  know that  what  the  Law of  God  commands  is the  10
      Commandments,  but we know when God sent  His Son into the world,
      he  was  the  Law  made  flesh. And  although  he  kept  the  law
      perfectly;  nonetheless,   he  also   forgave,  based   on  men's
      ignorance. "Father, forgive them for they know not what they do."
      But he  also commended his Spirit  into the hands of  God so that
      none would be without excuse.

      We all know on the right hand of God there's  more light..., more
      light(!), to  be known. So  if God's judgments, (which  are the 7
      seals), are righteous and true, 'cause he judges the great whore.
      (Which no doubt  a whore is  not a very  faithful bride, is  she?
      Absolutely  not!)   "Which  did   corrupt  the  earth   with  her
      fornication and hath  avenged the  blood of his  servants at  her
      hand?"

      It  seems like  this great  whore doesn't  commit itself  to God,
      herself  to God, does she?  And she probably  will be responsible
      for  the blood of God's servants, because she probably won't know
      where they're coming from. "And again they said, Alleluia, and he
      smoke rose up for ever and ever."

      So we know Babylon the great is a big whore, right? I mean, she's
      not really  very faithful, when it  comes to God's Word,  when it
      comes  to knowing God's  Truth. And  I betcha  she's the  kind of
      person that'll claim  to be with a  guy, and love a guy,  and not
      even know where he's  coming from -- that's how  most whores are,
      isn't it?  Just think  of how many  people claim they  love Jesus
      Christ, and that there is... they don't even know where the seals
      are  found in  the prophecies.  Huhhh. I  wonder what  that could
      mean?

      "And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and
      worshipped God who  sat upon  the Throne." "And  a voice came  in
      heaven," verse  5 says, "Praise our  God." How many? "All  ye his
      servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great." "Heard the
      word, of  the voice of a  great multitude, and the  voice of many
      waters, and as the voice of mighty  thunderings saying, Alleluia:
      for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth." (All powerful reigns!)

      "Let  us be  glad and  rejoice, and  give honor  to him:  for the
      marriage of the Lamb", (which we learned about in  Psalm 45), "is
      come." So  here we see  that in  Psalm 45, the  Lamb only has  to
      destroy his  enemies. And who are  his enemies? Those  who do not
      believe the word of God.

      Now  if a  person never  had a  chance to  know -- you've  got to
      forgive 'em  -- for  they  don't know  what they  do. But  should
      anybody dare, try to go against the Truth of God, and try to hurt
      Christ, because they  know not,  and refuse to  know, well  then,
      we're talking somethin' serious.

      "Let us be glad ...  and give honour to him: for  the marriage of
      the Lamb  is come, and his  wife has made herself  ready." How do
      you think that girl in Psalms 45 made herself ready? Do you think
      she  made herself ready by denying God  on the throne? By denying
      the importance of the Lamb opening the 1st seal? Do you think she
      made herself ready by denying that Christ had a Key-of-David?

      Well,  if so then Psalms  45 wouldn't mean  nothing to her, would
      it? But anyway,  it says, "To her it was  granted that she should
      be arrayed  in fine linen, clean and white, for the fine linen is
      the righteousness of the saints."

                                - - -

      My friends, are you  right? Are you right?  Don't worry about  me
      Are you  right? Does your Father sit on  a throne? Does He have a
      Book in his hand? Did he give it to the One you say you love? Was
      the promise that I come,  and my reward is with me, was  that not
      true? "For  someone that so loved the world that he gave his only
      begotten  son," do  you not  believe God's  Heart indites  a good
      matter?

      The question of the  judgment is not  who's done wrong, or  who's
      done  evil. The question is, "Who is Worthy?" Now, Christ doesn't
      come  to  be  worthy above  you.  Christ  comes to  give  you his
      knowledge,  his righteousness. And is it not right that Psalms 45
      is  the same as  the 1st  seal? Is  not Revelation  19 confirming
      this?

      Well,  if  she has  the righteousness  of  saints, we  as saints,
      should we not know rightly how to divide the Word of God... (line
      upon line, precept  on precept; is he  here, there; and a  little
      here, and there a little.) ...the Truth of God?

      He  said,  "Write, Blessed  are they  which  are called  unto the
      marriage supper of  the Lamb. And he said unto  me, these are the
      true sayings of God." Well, some people may not think so.

      But now notice  how John wanted  to fall down and  worship before
      the feet  of the angel  which showed him  these things? He  said,
      "See thou  do it  not:  for I  am thy  fellowservant  and of  thy
      brethren that have the  testimony of Jesus: worship God:  for the
      testimony of Jesus is the spirit of Prophecy.

      What do yo  want to do? Do you  want to learn about the  wrath of
      Christ by him riding a white horse into heaven and destroying the
      unbelievers? Or would  you rather  him just come,  and teach  you
      these things ahead of time?

      "And John saw  heaven opened, and  behold a white  horse; and  he
      that   sat  upon  him  was  called  Faithful  and  True,  and  in
      righteousness he doth judge and make  war." He doesn't do it  out
      of unrighteousness. There's a truth that's almost 2,000 years old
      called  the  Revelation.  And  men  have  built  up  empires  and
      churches, all in the name of Christ. But have they given to their
      people the knowledge of which only the Lamb can give? No.

      "His eyes were as a flame of fire," the way he sees, with 7 eyes,
      really burns. "And on his head  were many crowns," He takes those
      from the  kings of the Earth,  you know. "And had  a name written
      that no man knew, but he himself."

                                - - -

      People don't understand what the name Koresh means. No one knows.
      Scholars can not tell you. Look at all the concordances, and they
      don't know. But it's found in Isaiah 45. It was originally a name
      given  to  a Persian  king,  who overthrew  ancient  Babylon. But
      there's a mystery to the name Koresh. He was clothed in a vesture
      dipped in blood,  because people  don't like to  learn the  truth
      that's not out of their own head. And his name is called the Word
      of God.

      That's why so  many times Christ has  to be rejected.  For people
      know not  the Word of God,  and without knowing the  Word of God,
      The  Book, they'll not know the seals. Without knowing the seals,
      they'll do  unto Christ, fulfilling (Isaiah..  excuse me) Matthew
      24,  "where  the  carcass  is,  there  will  be  eagles  gathered
      together." Why?  Because Isaiah  says, he'll  come with  a strong
      hand, and what's stronger than that book of seven seals -- that's
      the Word  of God  -- fulfilling  what it says  in John.  "He that
      believeth me, believeth not on  me, but on him that sent  me. For
      my doctrine is not my own, but his  that sent me." And the armies
      which are in Heaven followed him upon white horses. There. That's
      the Armageddon here. Clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

      Now, Isaiah  13 will tell you  more detail. Just like  in Joel 2.
      You'll also  learn in Joel 2, as well as Zephaniah, and Amos, and
      Hosea, all the different prophecies referring to these seals.

      Now let me emphasize something to you again, when you read Psalms
      1, always keep your mind  up hither -- and remember --I'm  giving
      you a Key-of-David now. I'll share with you. Every time  you read
      a  psalm, like in Psalms 1, the judgment  is the one spoken of in
      Revelation  4 and  5. When  you read  Psalms 2, the  heathen that
      rage, that imagine vain  things, they're the ones whose  thoughts
      are  contrary to  the  thoughts of  God.  "Against the  Lord  and
      against his anointed, saying,  "Let us break their  bands asunder
      and cast their cords from us."

      You see, when the Lamb comes again, there's only one  way to know
      who he is:  He has to reveal  the 7 seals.  "That men may not  be
      judged by the law,  for all have broken the law and come short of
      glory of God." That they be might be judged by  nothing more than
      Truth. 'Cause  notice in Psalms  2, <tape cuts  off and on>,  the
      heathen rage,  and they imagine a vain thing -- they want to stop
      this anointed one. "Let us break  his bands asunder." What do you
      think that  is? How many bands  are there on the  book? There are
      seven bands on the book.

      Why this is happening today.  He that sits in heaven,  that's the
      Father  you know, sits on the throne.  He laughs! He laughs while
      men begin  to make the worst  mistake they've ever made.  All the
      nations, from Babylon, to  Persia, Greece, and Rome, were  judged
      by a judgment, and they fell when it became time for God  to make
      them fall.

      Now, yes,  in Psalms 2 it  says, "I will declare  the decree: the
      Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten
      thee." Well,  aren't we all sons of  God if we hear  the words of
      God? Now the Psalms are not written because Christ is desiring to
      destroy  mankind. On the contrary.  The warnings of  Psalms 1, in
      the light of the judgment is  so that men might fear, and receive
      redemption. The same is Psalms  2. Absolute terrible warnings are
      given, such as, "I will dash them to pieces with  a rod of iron,"
      right? We know that Christ would never want to do that.

      But finally, it comes to a time when judgment must begin. Clearly
      it says [Psalms  2:10-12] "Now therefore be ye wise,  ye kings of
      the earth, be instructed  ye judges of the earth. Serve  the Lord
      with  fear,  rejoice with  trembling. Kiss  the  Son, lest  he be
      angry, and ye perish from the  way, when his wrath is kindled but
      a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him."

                                 - - -

      Now, ministers should show  you where the seals are.  I have just
      given  you  a  small  little  taste. Is  Psalms  45  the  same as
      Revelation? Doesn't  that  make it  plain?  It's the  subject  of
      Christ getting married. A  subject of Christ having to  deal with
      the enemies, who believe not God's Word. Does not  Psalms 1 teach
      us to  stand  in the  judgment,  don't sit  in  the seat  of  the
      scornful, or of the sinners?

      Only God's thoughts are holy. And when God's thoughts be revealed
      in  the seven seals, all  true Christians should  make that their
      first and foremost interest. In Psalms 2, why do the heathen have
      to rage, why do they have to fight the guy that's  got the seals?
      In Psalms  3, who's the person  there that says, "Many  say of my
      soul there's  no help for  him in God."  How come people  have to
      judge according  to appearances  of things,  but they  won't open
      their eyes  and ears and  hear where a  person's coming  from? In
      Psalms 4, who is the one speaking there where it says, "O ye sons
      of men,  how long will ye turn my glory into shame? How long will
      you seek after leasing, and love vanity?

      But  know  that the  Lord has  set apart  him  that is  Godly for
      himself: the Lord  will hear when  I call unto  him." Who in  the
      heavens has God separated from all of heaven -- a part -- that is
      Godly for  himself. The Lamb who wishes to judge no man after the
      flesh,  but gives  to  all  men a  truth  in  fulfillment of  the
      testimony of John:

      "That if you  continue in my doctrine, then  you are my disciples
      indeed, and ye shall know the  truth, and the truth shall set you
      free."

      In Zechariah, who is the man on the red horse? Doesn't Revelation
      talk about  a man on a red  horse? How does it  apply? In the 3rd
      seal, the  Book of  Hosea, who  is  that merchant  man with  "the
      balances of deceit," that Hosea speaks  of? Could it be that  man
      who  has balances --  who's trying to  sell? I mean,  what are we
      dealing with here? Where is the 4th seal found in the prophecies?
      The 5th seal?  The 6th seal? The importance of  the seals is that
      if you do not listen, you are going to end up making the worst
      mistake, you've ever made, in all of your lives.

                                  - - -

      We made an  agreement, with the  ATF agents, that  if they  would
      allow me to have  national coverage with this tape:  that I might
      give to the  world a small  minute.. a small  minute bit, of  the
      information that I have tried so  hard to share with people; that
      if I  would do this,  that all  the people here  at the  facility
      (compound here, as y'all call it) will give ourselves over to the
      world, give  ourselves out to you.  And this is  what I promised.
      And this is what we're going to keep.

      Now  remember, Revelation Chapter 13 tells  us, very clearly what
      our ideology should be toward that beast, and all the  world that
      wonders after that beast. Who do they worship? Remember, before I
      said it  to you, God said  it. They worship the  dragon. And will
      Christ give up on anybody for worshipping the dragon unwillingly?
      No. Just  like the woman at  the well. "Woman, you  know not whom
      you worship,"  Christ told her.  But now in Spirit  and in Truth,
      let's come up hither to where I come from. Let's believe in a God
      on the Throne  now. All  churches. Papacy,  Lutherans, we're  all
      brethren.  But let's get into unity with  one God, one Truth, one
      Lamb,   one  Spirit   --  and   let's   receive  the   reward  of
      righteousness.

      Thank you very much. God Bless.


[Commentary by Stephen Tice:]

If you kept a media transcript from the original broadcast -- you may 
be stunned at how badly butchered, mishandled, or intentionally altered
the press copies were -- compared to this one. 

I found in listening to tape dubbed from one of the original tapes for 
broadcast, that not only is the message cogent, rather than rambling and 
disorganized, but it expresses some deeply insightful points. Of course, 
it helps to be Biblically well-versed, or at least to use a dictionary. 
{Such as for "inditing."} 

Several curious points are evident in working from the tape:

	o  twiced a cellular phone rings (I noted the second occurence
	   in the transcript, and will probably do a more detailed 
	   analysis noting background details.)

	o  though the content of the message is fairly consistent
	   throughout, either Koresh or others, seem to have inserted
	   material from a prior "sermon" (This is even more apparent
	   on the tape, comparing the halting presentation intitially
	   -- as in pain -- with the more robust presentation later,
	   returning to halting remarks near the end.) 

	o  Koresh is obviously very much Christian, and upholds
	   Christian doctrine, though older, and novel, material
	   has been brought in.

In short -- there's a message worthy of consideration, not only for the
mastery of the subject demonstrated -- but because of the inspired and
novel "harmonizing" of the entire Bible. I agree with the bulk, if not 
all of the message presented. 

Whether or not Koresh himself believes in some special role for himself, 
beyond that of "watchman" or "prophet" remains to be seen. What little 
indication there is of some unique calling, is hardly different than 
that of any of us who profess that we are "One in Christ," and the 
"Living Stones" of God's Church for whom Christ is the Cornerstone. 

{If you're not familiar with these "messages" from Christ's followers, 
I'll point out the references on request.} 

Which is not to say that crimes and foolish mistakes weren't committed
by certain members of the Davidians and the ATF. 

What I am most impressed by, is that Koresh could have offered the 
message he did to the world, considering the previous events of the 
few days leading up to it. Assuming this is what he intended, even
if only partial.

It's clear to me that some of his followers responded, rightly or 
wrongly, as though an assassination attempt were being carried out on 
their Religious "leader." Considering X, King, Ghandi, Pope Paul II,
and similar religious leaders throughout the ages, I can't say I'm
surprised at the response of the erring knee-jerk "pro-" or "anti-"
factions.

Just like in the Rodney King affair, it always takes at least two 
groups of trouble-makers wielding force, or coercion, to really foul 
things up for the rest. But I've yet to see repentance or regret on 
any side. Including the spectators giving thumbs-up or thumbs-down 
to the games. For all too many this is just another "cop-show." It
was no different in Rome, or Nazi Germany, I reckon.

A thought for those still troubled. If you're trying to figure out 
who and what is right and wrong in this whole affair -- look to GOD 
-- otherwise it will forever be a black-hole drawing you ever deeper 
into doubt. Neither group is entirely right, nor entirely wrong.

One of the problems of being human, or should I say -- one of the
lessons. 

   |
-- J --
   |
   | stephen


From: b645zaw@utarlg.uta.edu (stephen)
Subject: Biblical Backing of Koresh's 3-02 Tape (Cites enclosed)

For those who think David Koresh didn't have a solid structure,
or sound Biblical backing for his hour long tape broadcast,
I've enclosed a partial list of the sources he cites or quotes
he exactly used. As a Christian sermon, it's pretty good, if not 
inspired.

Though I differ in part on some of his conclusions, the argument 
he presents is well backed -- which is why it's taken me this long
to work through -- still ongoing. 

If you thought it was rambling -- that says far more about you than
it does Koresh. There is a very definite relationship between the
First Seal in Revelation 6, the entirety of Psalms 45, and the
most of Revelation 19 -- which demonstrated one of his major points 
about how the writings in the Prophets (including David), and in 
the Psalms, and in Revelation are all telling the same story when 
you understand how they're related (ie have the key). The largely 
explain each other. 

The sequence following is keyed to the Koresh tape, should you care
to check it out. You can almost see the note cards he used when 
doing the analysis. 

        Rev. 1:3
        Rev. 1:11

        John 7:1
        John 7:2
        John 7:3
        John 7:4
        John 7:5
        John 7:6
        John 7:7
        John 7:8
        John 7:9
        John 7:10
        John 7:11
        John 7:12
        John 7:13
        John 7:14
        John 7:15
        John 7:16

        Lev. 12:6
        Num. 19:2
        Heb. 9:12
        John 8:41
        Isa. 7:14

        Mat. 23:37
        Mat. 23:38
        Mat. 24:1-2
        Mat. 24:3
        Mat. 24:4
        Mat. 24:5

        Mat. 24:26
        Mat. 24:27
        Mat. 24:28

        Mat. 24:15
        Mat. 24:16

        John 7:16
        John 17:25
        Mat. 27:55-56
        Mark 15:37-40
        Luke 24:10
        Mark 16:1,9
        John 20:11-18
        Luke 23:34
        Luke 23:46

        Mat. 4:1-11
        Luke 4:2-22
        Mark 1:12,13

        1 Joh. 5:6-8
        John 19:34
        Mat. 26:26-29
        Heb. 9:18-23
        1 Cor. 10:16-17
        1 Cor. 11:23-27

        Acts 2:3
        Rom. 3:21-28
        Rom. 3:25

        Acts 17:27-31
        1 Cor. 9:1,2  & 15:9
        Acts 9:4 & 22:6-8
        1 Cor. 9:20-22
        Acts 9:1,13
        Mat. 12:38 & 16:1
        Mar. 8:11

        Rev. 1:9
        Rev. 1:10
        Rev. 1:11
        Rev. 1:19

        Mat. 23:27-34

        Rev. 2:1
        Rev. 2:7,11,17,29
        Rev. 3:6,13,22
        Rev. 3:20
        Rev. 4:1
        Rev. 4:2
        Rev. 4:3
        Rev. 4:6-9
        Rev. 4:8
        Rev. 4:11

        Rev. 4:4
        Deu. 4:48
        Rev. 4:7-8 (cf. Eze. 1:10)
        Rev. 4:11
        Rev. 5:1
        Rev. 5:2
        Rev. 5:11

        Rev. 5:2
        Rev. 5:3
        Rev. 5:4
        Rev. 5:5
        Rev. 5:6
        Rev. 5:7
        Rev. 5:8,14
        Rev. 6:1
        Rev. 6:2
        Rev. 6:4

        Rev. 6:2
        Rev. 6:4  (cf. 1:16)
        Rev. 6:5-6  (cf. 9:4)
        Heb. 12:16
        Rev. 6:8  (cf. 1:17,18)
        Rev. 6:9  (cf. 3:10)
        Rev. 6:12
        Joel 2:31
        Rev. 6:14
        Isa. 34:4
        Rev. 6:16  (cf. 1:16)
        Rev. 8:3

        Rev. 6:17
        Rev. 7:1
        Rev. 7:2

        Mat. 24:3,11
        Mat. 24:15
        Mat. 24:23,26
        Mat. 24:27

        Rev. 8:1
        Rev. 8:2,6
        Rev. 8:7-13
        Rev. 9:1-12
        Rev. 9:13
        Rev. 9:16
        Rev. 10:1
        Rev. 10:2
        Rev. 10:3

        Rev. 22:18
        Rev. 22:19

        Rev. 22:10
        Rev. 22:12

        Rev. 6:1-2

        Rev. 3:7
        Rev. 3:8

        Psa. 45:1
        Psa. 45:2
        Psa. 45:3
        Psa. 45:4
        Psa. 45:5
        Psa. 45:6
        Psa. 45:7


        Psa. 45:1
        Psa. 45:2
        Psa. 45:3

        Rev. 5:12,13
        Rev. 7:9-12
        Rev. 6:2 ??

        Rev. 19:11
        Rev. 19:12

        Rev. 5:1


        Psa. 45:6
        Psa. 45:7
        Psa. 45:8
        Psa. 45:9
        Psa. 45:10
        Psa. 45:11
        Psa. 45:12
        Psa. 45:13
        Psa. 45:14
        Psa. 45:15
        Psa. 45:16
        Psa. 45:17

        Rev. 18:23
        Rev. 19:1
        Rev. 19:2


        Rev. 4:3
        Rev. 16:19
        Rev. 19:2
        Rev. 19:3
        Rev. 19:4
        Rev. 19:5
        Rev. 19:6
        Rev. 19:7
        Rev. 19:8

        John 3:16

        Rev. 19:9
        Rev. 22:8
        Rev. 22:9
        Rev. 19:11
        Rev. 19:12

        Mat. 24:28
        John 7 12:44-49

        Rev. 19:14

        Psa. 1:5
        Psa. 2:1
        Psa. 2:3
        Psa. 2:7
        Psa. 2:10-12

        Psa. 1:1
        Psa. 2:1-3
        Psa. 4:2
        Psa. 4:3


Seems to me Koresh is yet another messenger that got killed
for the message he carried. (Which says nothing about the 
character of the messenger.) I reckon we'll have to find out
the rest the hard way.

In the mean time, we sure learned a lot about evil and corruption.
Are you surprised things have gotten that rotten?

Oh yeah, one last point for the believers -- Philippian 2:14-19.

   |
-- J --
   |
   | stephen 


Koresh Text from 3-02 (part 1 of 4)        Analysts' Notes            jst/sdt
======================================== | ==================================
March 2nd, 1993.                         |
                                         |
My name is Dave Koresh.  I'm Speaking to | I. Introduction to the Revelation
you from Mount Carmel center.  The first |    of Jesus Christ.
thing that I would like to introduce, in |
our subject, is the reasons for the reve-|
lation of Jesus Christ.                  |
                                         |  A. The Reasons for
                                         |
In  the Book of  Revelation,  commentary |   1. To Show What Must Come.
states,  that what John  has  written in |
Scripture,  is  nothing  other  than the |
revelation  of  Jesus Christ  which  God |
gave  to him,  to show  to his  servants |
things  which must shortly come to pass. |
And he sent and signified it,  signified |
it, by his angel unto his servant John.  |
                                         |
Now,  John bear  the Record of God,  and |   2. To Bless the Reader.
the Word of Christ,  and  of  all things |
that  he saw.  In the  first  chapter of |
Revelation it says, "Blessed is the man, |       Rev. 1:3
.. blessed is he that readeth, and they |
that  hear the  words of  this prophecy, |
and those who "keep" the things that are |
written  therein,  for  the  time  is at |
hand."                                   |
                                         |
The Scripture states John writes this to |   3. To Address the Churches.
the  seven churches  which are  in Asia: |       Rev. 1:11
Ephesus, Smyrna, Thyatira, Sardis, Phil- |
adelphia, Laodicea, so forth. Naturally, |       also Pergamos
we  must  understand  that  we're not in |
Asia.  These churches once existed  long |
ago,  being  beneficiaries of  the power |
and the gifts of the gospel. It was ori- |
ginally introduced by,  The Man himself. |
Some knew him  as  Jesus Christ;  others |
knew him by the name -- Yeshua.          |
                                         |
What  we're trying  to present today may |   4. To Impart the Burden of
in somewise shed  a better light  in re- |      Heart, Mind, and Spirit.
gards to my situation and my predicament |
here at Mount Carmel. One point I'd like |    a. Record of Christ's life.
to bring out before we continue, is that |
if we take a look at Matthew, Mark, Luke |       The Gospel Writers.
and John,  we see  the  "burden of these |
ancient  writers:"  the burden of heart, |
the burden of mind and spirit, to put in |
a scriptural record,  their personal ex- |
perience with Christ.  A record  that is |    b. For anyone to read.
to be received by men, all men, who will |
receive it.                              |
                                         |
The point is true that not all have seen |   5. Witnesses of the Rejection
Christ, but it has been in the wisdom of |      of the Son of God.
God that certain men  who were witnesses |
of his life, and death, and resurrection,|
that they would bear witness by the writ-|    a. Witnesses for Christ
ten word, and testify to the generations |       ie Apostles & Disciples
to come,  of the terrible happening that |
took place, when the men of that genera- |       cf. Prophets, as witnesses
tion  would not  believe  in the man who |       for God
through so many obvious evidences proved |
beyond shadows of doubt, that he was the |
Son of God.                              |
                                         |  B. The Revealer: Jesus Christ.
                                         |   1. Jesus Rejected.
                                         |
But sad to say, if we take a look of the |    a. Left Juda under threat of
Record of John,  the `Gospel Writer'  of |       death.
John, say Chapter 7. We see in Scripture |
John writes  that after certain  events, |       John 7:1
after  these  things  "Jesus  walked  in |
Galilee:"  he would not walk openly, "he |       Koresh is quoting the Bible,
would not walk  in Jewry,"  he would not |       from the Book of John.
walk amongst the Jews, "because the Jews |
sought to kill him."   We  might  wonder |
why?  Wasn't Christ a such a good man??  |
                                         |
"Now the Jews' Feast of Tabernacles  was |    b. His own brethren doubt him.
at hand. His brethren therefore said un- |       John 7:2
to him, Depart hence, and go into Judea, |       John 7:3
that  thy disciples  also  may  see  thy |
works  that thou doeth.  For there is no |       John 7:4
man that doeth any thing in secret,  and |
he himself  seeketh  to be known openly. |
If thou do these things, show thyself to |
the world.  For neither did his brethren |       John 7:5
believe in him." Strange statement isn't |
it?  It's funny how that, when men live, |
and have to deal with realities of life, |
that even a man like Christ, can have to |
meet  with unbelief,  even  from his own |
brethren.                                |
                                         |
"Then Jesus said  unto them,  My time is |    c. Hated by the world.
not yet come:  but  your time  is  alway |       John 7:6
ready." And I'm sure most of all,  bible |
students  will agree,  the time referred |
to, is the time of his crucifixion. They |
wanted to kill  him,  and he didn't want |
to show  himself openly.                 |
                                         |
Then Jesus said unto them... <excuse  me |    d. You are of the world.
uhnn>, (Verse 7) "The world can not hate |       <Koresh seems in pain.>
you; but me it hateth, because I testify |       John 7:7
of it,  that the works thereof are evil. |       John 7:8
Go ye up  unto this feast:  I go not  up |
yet unto this feast;  for my time is not |
yet full come." When he said these words |       John 7:9
to them while he abode still in Galilee. |
                                         |
"But when  his brethren  were  gone  up, |    e. Went to feast in secret.
then went he also up unto the feast, not |       John 7:10
openly,  but as it were in secret."  You |
would wonder why a man like Christ would |
have something  to hide?  I mean surely, |
the angels would protect him, obviously. |
A person  would  think  a  lot of things |
about this strange character, and dispo- |
sition of character.                     |
                                         |
But  we're sure --  being Christians  -- |    f. Caused contention.
that Christ knew what he was doing.  And |       Koresh is Christian?!
"the Jews [sought] him at the feast, and |       John 7:11
said,  Where is he?  And  there was much |       John 7:12
murmuring  among  the people  concerning |
him: [for] some said,  He is a good man: |       Rev. 7:1
others said, Nay; but he deceiveth * the |       * <child cries>
people.  Howbeit  no man spake openly of |       John 7:13
him for fear of the Jews."               |
                                         |
Now we understand *the Jews at that time |    g. Backdrop: Corrupt leaders.
had  their own  religious-political net- |
work,  didn't  they?  They  were  pretty |
strong  in the religious spectrum, * al- |       * <child's voice>
though  they  had  no  actual  political |
power.  They were subject  to  the Roman |
government,  and not  to their own judi- |
cial/levitical laws.                     |
                                         |   2. Taught with Authority.
                                         |
"Now about the midst of the feast  Jesus |    a. The people marvel.
went up  into  the temple,  and  taught. |       John 7:14
And  the  Jews  marvelled,  saying,  How |       John 7:15
knoweth this man letters,  having  never |
learned?" * Now in the days of Israel, * |       * <child whines>
most scholars * and teachers will agree, |       * <child crying>
* that  the schools of Israel,  ordained |       * <tape off & on>
by the Sanhedrin and also the Pharisees, |
were schools  similar  to the uhh,  ones |
of our own theological schools of today. |
                                         |
Of which  the careful student  of Scrip- |    b. Insights to Scripture.
ture observes,  that nowhere is it writ- |
ten in the gospel  that Christ  ever at- |
tended these schools.  But at the age of |
12,  he did enter  into the temple,  and |       Luke 2:41-47
had  a most unique  and interesting dis- |
cussion with  the religious leaders,  of |
which they were  quite amazed at, such a |
young lad's knowledge of Scripture.      |
                                         |
Now this man  was teaching  something -- |    c. For it was God's teachings.
(no doubt Christ that is)  that inspired |
the  people  to  say,  (you know),  "How |       John 7:15 cont.
knoweth  this  man  (you  know)  letters |
having  never learned?"  They  marveled. |
"Jesus answered them and [said], My doc- |       John 7:16
trine  is not  mine,  but his that  sent |
me."  Now, what does that mean? "My doc- |
trine is not mine, but his that sent me. |
If any man,  will" (do the will) "do his |
will,  he shall know  [of] the doctrine, |
whether it be of God, or whether I speak |
of myself."                              |
                                         |
                  - - -                  : * Koresh Tells His Motives *
                                         |
Now friends,  people that love the Lord, |       There's a short break
this  is where  we begin  to uhhh,  talk |       from the message about
about some serious things.               |       Christ here.
                                         |
I'm sure you're all aware of how...  how |
I'm  involved  in a  very serious  thing |
right now,  and  I'm sure that  a lot of |
you  realize  that I should  be possibly |
scared, concerned. There's women, child- |
ren, and men involved,  in our situation |
here  at Mount Carmel.  But  I am really |
concerned about the lives of my brethren | <- Concern for family.
here,  and also, would be concerned even |
greater, about the lives of all those in | <- Concern for rest of world.
this world.                              |
                                         |
                  - - -                  :
                                         |   3. Jesus is Our Hope.
                                         |
You know, without Christ, without Jesus, |    a. God's law of righteousness.
we have no hope.  Why?  Well, because we |
know  that  the standard  of God's righ- |       Deu. 4,5,6
teousness is Law,  a law of the Ten Com- |
mandments,  a law of statutes  and judg- |
ments.  And which  God gave  unto  Moses |
on Sinai,  saying this is thy righteous- |
ness, O Israel.                          |
                                         |
But you know, God also gave another law. |    b. Sacrifice as a shadow of
A law revolving around a system of shed- |       grace.
ding  a poor and innocent lamb's  blood. |
So that  all who would break  the Law of |
God,  who would seek God for forgiveness |
and pardon,  had to bring a lamb,  some- |
thing innocent, and slay it -- although, |
Israel themselves  never really knew the |
real meaning of this.  Nonetheless, they |
were commanded to do it. Also there were |       Lev. 12:6
other sacrifices, such as: turtle-doves, |       Num. 19:2
goats, oxen, red heifers.                |       Heb. 9:12-14
                                         |
But,  it was  a  very sophisticated  and |    c. Social impacts. (An aside)
very prolific type system of worship. Of |
course,  God  had to  give  these people |
their own country.  He had  to give them |
blessings and things, to be able to per- |
form these,  rituals.  And  naturally of |
course,  having to slay a lamb  for your |
sins or such sacrifices, it would defini-|
tely keep a man on guard, not to sin too |
much,  because  otherwise  he could lose |
the livestock pretty quick, couldn't he? |
                                         |
Well anyway, (thanks be unto God),  from |    d. The Law and The Prophets
as far back as  Deuteronomy 32,  all the |       highlight God's mercy.
way through to Malachi,  there  has been |
other writings,  writings of  the Proph- |       God's writings are His
ets.  Writings who do not  usurp the au- |       Word
thority of Moses, but actually exalt The |
Law of Moses.  But yet  there's an addi- |       God's rock hard law
tional testimony.  For the same  God  of |
Heaven -- Who's rich in mercy -- has not |       God's loving mercy
only given to men a Law,  but also a way |
of escape, for those Repentant Souls who |
might fall short  of the glory  of God's |
law.  Which  some scholars  will  agree, |
that the glory of God's law is that it's |
a divine precept of  His  own character. |
God's character is revealed in The Law.  |
                                         |
Now, Christ is the only hope for a world |    e. Is Christ the Word of God?
that sins.  Now, how do we know? Well -- |
The  Prophets  --  have prophesied?  But |
what  if  we're  not familiar  with  the |
prophets?  Well, were the Jews  familiar |
with the prophets when  this Word-of-God |
was made flesh?  When Mary,  The Virgin, |
had  a baby boy,  did everyone  believe, |
that she was really a virgin when Christ |
was conceived?                           |
                                         |
If we search the Scriptures,  we'll find |    f. The Prophet's told.
in certain arguments  the Pharisees con- |
fronted Christ  --  and said to him, "We |       John 8:41
be  not  sons  born of fornication."  So |
obviously, not everyone believed that he |
was a  child of a virgin birth!  If they |       Prophets were ignored
hadn't  looked back to Isaiah chapter 8, |
and  learned  the  mystery  of  Immanuel |       Isa. 7:14
-- that a virgin would conceive and bear |
a son --  then they might not really put |
too much ahhm...  [con]sistency into the |       <tape off & on>
fact that Christ  at that day claimed to |
be born of a virgin.  I mean,  if Isaiah |
the  prophet was  a false prophet,  well |
then naturally they  would conclude that |
anyone  claiming  to have  these  things |
fulfilled would be false, too.           |
                                         |
But of course, Christ,  he did something |    g. Miracles confirm.
more, than to just fulfill prophecy.  He |
did miracles. Miracles of mercy such as: |
healing  the sick,  feeding  the hungry, |
raising the dead.  And if we study we'll |
see that "Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John" |
gives us in somewhat, a full view of the |
oppositions, and also, the confidements, |
that he had in doing these miracles.  He |
gathered many unto him through the means |
of these miracles.                       |
                                         |
But sad to say,  even though he had done |    h. Those healed believed.
so many  miracles,  Scripture says,  yet |
when it came right down to it,  they did |
not  believe in  him.  It's  amazing  to |
think that  even his own disciples  for- |
sook  him -- except Mary Magdalene.  She |
stayed with him to the very end,  didn't |
she?  Last to leave The Cross,  first to |
come to the sepulchre. * Now, we need to |       * <tape off & on>
sit here,  and we need  to ask ourselves |
the question,  `how come the men of that |
generation did not believe in Christ?'   |
                                         |
In Matthew 23,  Christ had to say to the |    i. Christ confirmed by Prophets
Jews "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem"  how often |       Mat. 23:37
I would have gathered you, but you would |
not.  Why?  He tells them that they have |       Not re-gathered, since
forsaken The Prophets.  "Thou that kill- |       they've forsaken the
est the prophets,"  how  often  I  would |       Prophets.  Has Christ
have gathered you.  How does the subject |       then told plainly how?
of `gathering Israel' and `the prophets' |
combine together?  Then  he  tells  them |
that their houses, their temple, is left |       Mat. 23:38
to them desolate.                        |
                                         |   4. Christ's Teachings on
                                         |      Last Things.
                                         |
And that in Matthew  24,  as Christ said |    a. What signs of his coming?
on  the Mount of Olives,  his  disciples |       Mat. 24:1-2
came to him secretively to ask him, con- |       Mat. 24:3
cerning these things. What should be the |
sign of thy coming and of the end of the |
world? Well, Christ begins to tell them, |       Mat. 24:4
let no man deceive you,  "For many shall |       Mat. 24:5
come  in my name,  saying,  I am Christ; |
and shall deceive many."                 |
                                         |
A lot of bible students think that verse |    b. Some willingly deceived?
refers to the people coming,  and saying |
that  they themselves are Christ.  Well, |
naturally,  if someone came  claiming to |
be Christ...  Christ covers that subject |
by saying that if any shall say, Lo he's |
"in the desert;" believe him not "go not |       Mat. 24:26
forth." If he is in the secret chambers; |
"believe it not."                        |
                                         |
But he goes on to say, that as lightning |    c. Certain signs.
shines  in  the east,  even to the west, |       Mat. 24:27
so also shall his coming be. And he goes |
on to add,  but "wheresoever the carcase |       Mat. 24:28
is,  there will  the eagles  be gathered |
together."                               |       The carcass of Babylon?
                                         |
Now, unless we knew what was on the mind |    d. Eagle's Nest??
of Christ,  the day he sat with his dis- |
ciples on the Mount of Olives,  and gave |
the  instruction  to  them according  to |
Matthew 24;  unless  we could  look into |
his mind,  we would only have  to specu- |
late, it would only be an opinion to try |
to figure out what it means, "wheresoev- |       Mat. 24:28
er the carcase is, the  eagles..."  What |
carcass?  Whose  carcass?  What  eagles? |
What are the eagles?                     |
                                         |
Well,  Christ tells you of many signs in |    e. Abomination of Desolation.
Matthew 24.  He says, "when ye shall see |       Mat. 24:15
the abomination of desolation, spoken of |
by Daniel the prophet, stand in the Holy |
Place, (of course, it says ye that read- |
eth, let him understand),  those who are |
in Judea are  supposed  to  flee  to the |       Mat. 24:16
mountains.                               |
                                         |
                                         |   5. Christ points to the Prophets
                                         |
Now, what kind of points are these? What |    a. Where to Get Insight.
is in  the mind  of  Christ?  Is  Christ |       1 Cor. 2:16
trying  to tell us,  that we need  to go |
back  and study  the prophet Daniel,  to |
see if maybe Daniel had some insight, in |
regards  to  an abomination  that maketh |       Dan. 9:27 & 12:11
desolate?  Now,  an abomination is some- |       A reference to any vileness
thing  nobody wants;  especially,  if it |       set up in place of God; the
makes  us desolate.  Now, what  do these |       result, wasted barrenness.
things mean?                             |
                                         |
Well,  we learned earlier in the Book of |    b. Not his, but God's Teachings
John, Christ stated, "My doctrine is not |       John 7:16
mine,  but he who sent me."  Now,  we've |
got "Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John" (and |       The Apostles
everybody  in  the Christian  world his- |       John 17:25
tory), to hear these men  reveal Christ. |       Mat. 27:55-56
The Christ they lived with.  The  Christ |       Mark 15:37-40
they loved.  The Christ that they didn't |       Luke 24:10
understand  sometimes.  The Christ  that |       Mark 16:1,9
they  had  to  see  cruelly mocked,  and |       John 20:11-18
beaten,  and  ridiculed,  and  rejected, |
and killed.                              |
                                         |
But, thanks be unto God on the Cross[!], |    c. Christ's Expression of Love.
their Jesus,  stated,  "Father,  forgive |       Luke 23:34
them;  for they know not  what they do." |
And he also said,  (which  is  the point |
that we're fixin' to get into quite hea- |
vily),  "Father,  into thy hand I commit |       Luke 23:46  Psa. 31:5
my spirit."                              |       Koresh says "commit" for
                                         |       "commend," same meaning.
                                         |
Taking from Psalms 31,  we begin  to see |    d. The words of God, Scripture.
that  Christ is quite well versed in the |
Scriptures,  just like  the Gospels tell |       Mat. 4:1-11
us, when he confronted the devil. Always |       Luke 4:2-22
referring against the temptation by sta- |       Mark 1:12,13
ting,  "It is written, It is written, It |
is written."                             |
                                         |   6. Is the Spirit Imparted
                                         |      Through the Written Word?
                                         |
Now what is this Spirit of Christ? Well, |    a. Sharing Blood and Flesh.
they pierced his side,  and out his side |       1 John 5:6-8  John 19:34
came blood and water. Again another mys- |       Mat. 26:26-29
tery.  Which became something to do with |       Heb. 9:18-23
eating his body, and drinking his blood, |       1 Cor. 10:16-17
some implements for The Church.          |       1 Cor. 11:23-27
                                         |
But, what does these things really mean? |    b. Bathed in Righteousness.
Well,  after we've read Acts and learned |
of the Power on Pentecost -- the "cloven |       Acts 2:3
tongues of fire" --  that came  upon the |
Apostles,  who by mercy  through Christ, |
were  given  another  chance  to recover |
from  their  folly;  we learned  through |
Romans  that there is a righteousness of |       Rom. 3:21-28
God in Christ,  "declare  his righteous- |       Rom. 3:25
ness."                                   |       Jer. 23:6
                                         |
We learn in Corinthians 1st and 2nd.  We |    c. Child of God.
learn in Ephesians, Galatians, and Phil- |
lipians...  Ohh!  We have such a wealth: |
of information, of such intelligent men, |
who speak sometimes, very deep  mystical |       Acts 17:27-31
things about a God -- who is in the form |
of humanity -- who is the Son of God who |       A God within human hearts
sits  at  the right hand  of God  in the |       and minds??
highest courts of the universe. Who pro- |
mises that one day, He will come again.  |
                                         |
                                         |   7. Christ & Disciples Persecuted
                                         |
Well,  the last living Apostle,  through |    a. Pointing to Paul?
this great  controversy...  (and I might |       1 Cor. 9:1,2  & 15:9
add -- those who  persecuted Christ, who |       Acts 9:4 & 22:6-8
would not hear him  no matter what  sign |       1 Cor. 9:20-22
was given) ...also persecuted his disci- |       Acts 9:1,13
ples.                                    |       Mat. 12:38 & 16:1
                                         |       Mark 8:11
                                         |
And finally,  we end  up in the  Book of |    b. John's controversy -- The
Revelation, where John, (the last living |       Testimony of Jesus Christ.
disciple on the isle of Patmos), being a |
prisoner for the Word of God and for the |
testimony  of Jesus Christ  --  which no |       Rev. 1:9
doubt is a thing Jesus has to say. Which |       Jer. 23:16
would probably be quite controversial to |
the things that the Pharisees and Sanhe- |
drin of the day had to say, we're sure.  |
                                         |
He, (being on this isle of Patmos a pri- |    c. John's Vision.
soner, on the Lord's day), had a vision. |       Rev. 1:10
And it states in this vision, (we should |
all be familiar with it hopefully  -- or |
get familiar with it),  he has a messen- |       Rev. 1:11
ger,  The Angel Lord  come  to him,  who |
identifies himself as the Spirit. And he |
is told, to write  to the seven churches |       Rev. 1:19
of Asia.  Of which,  we  can see clearly |       Rev. 2 & 3
in the Scriptures, that they  were given |
specific  and  direct  *  messages  from |       * <cell phone rings>
Christ. *  And in each one of these mes- |       * <tape off & on>
sages,  Christ specifically told  to the |
churches what he would have them to do.  |
                                         |
Now, we know that Christ is the only man |    d. Christ also rejected.
in  Scripture  who ever kept  The Law of |       Heb. 4:15
God  perfectly.  We  know  that, because |
we've heard the writings of the apostles.|
But,  sad to say,  the religious leaders |
of  his days,  and  the majority  of the |
populace  of his days,  didn't think so. |
It's funny  how  that is.  It's  kind of |       Mat. 23:27-34
like  people  always like  to build  the |
sepulchers  of the  dead  prophets,  and |
garnish their tombs,  but yet  they hate |
and kill living prophets. Only God knows |
why that is. But nonetheless...          |
                                         |
To the church (of Ephesus, Smyrna, [Per- |    e. Counsel to the Churches.
gamos,]  Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, |
Laodicea  -- the churches thus involved, |
for anyone to read) direct counsel's gi- |
ven.  Beginning  with,  "UNTO  the angel |       Rev. 2:1
of the church  of Ephesus  write;  These |
things," (then... blah - blah), and what |       Likely missed in editing.
happens is this message is given.        |
                                         |
And then the decision is up to those who |    f. Those who overcome.
profess Christ.  Each counsel ends with, |       Rev. 2:7,11,17,29
"he that hath an ear..." --  to hear  -- |       Rev. 3:6,13,22
(only if you want to know) "let him hear |
what the Spirit saith unto the churches."|
                                         : II. Book of Seven Seals.
                                         |  A. John's account.
                                         |
Finally, we get to the fourth chapter of |   1. Throne Room.
Revelation. And the student of Scripture |
becomes interested in the subject, which |
according to John says, "After..." these |
things, (of course,  he was referring to |          Rev. 3:20
the last part of the 3rd chapter, of the |       "I stand at the door
message to Laodicea).                    |        and knock..."
                                         |
He says  after  these things, <I fol...> |   2. John Enters Heaven.
"And, behold, a door was open in heaven: |       Rev. 4:1
and  the first voice  which" spake to me |
"as it were of a trumpet,"  talked  with |       Col. 4:3
me;  which says,  "come up hither, and I |
will shew" you that "which must be here- |
after."                                  |
                                         |
Now,  the question to every true  Chris- |   3. Do You Believe?
tian is this:  Is John  telling it  as a |
truth,  or is John lying to us?  We know |
he just gave counsels  to the 7 churches |
of Asia, (which were alive and hopefully |
in good health, when he first gave these |
letters to them).  But nonetheless, they |
being of Asia, are no wise the same peo- |
ple of us today, or even of the oncoming |
years thereafter.                        |
                                         |
So, the events of Chapter 4, clearly ex- |   4. A Vision of the hereafter.
plained by John,  that his messenger  as |
sent to him stated that he'd be taken up |       Rev. 4:1
* hither -- therefore a Door opened into |       * <tape off & on>
Heaven (the Bible records), and he would |
be shown things which must be hereafter, |
* sometimes after John's day.            |       * <child murmurs>
                                         |
                                         |  B. Judgment Room.
                                         |
Now what does he behold? In chapter 4 of |   1. John in the Spirit.
Revelation,  he says that  he was in the |
spirit, "immediately I was in the spirit:|       Rev. 4:2
and, behold, a throne was set in heaven."|
And h e states that the throne was occu- |
pied, "one sat on the throne."           |
                                         |
And, He that sat upon the Throne,  which |   2. Is God the throne?
[was] "lined"  with jasper  and  sardine |       Heb. 1:8
stone.  A careful student  of Scripture, |       The Rock -- symbol of Law
knows, all the way through prophecy, all |
the way  through the Bible,  as far back |
as the days of Genesis, even to the pro- |       Deu. 32:4,15,18
phecy of Deuteronomy 32,  where it says, |       2 Sam. 22:32  Psa. 31:2,3
God is a rock -- `He is a Rock.' And his |       Isa. 8:14, 17:10, 44:8
work is done in truth  and righteousness |       1 Cor. 10:4
--  all the prophets refer  to God  as a |       1 Pet. 2:6
Rock.                                    |
                                         |
Now here we see in Revelation John like- |   3. In & Around the Throne.
wise witnesses God has the appearance of |       Rev. 4:3
a  jasper and sardine  stone.  He claims |       Eze. 1:26
that there was a rainbow round about the |
throne in sight like an emerald. He care-|
fully  saw that  there were living crea- |       Rev. 4:6-9
tures around the throne saying that  God |
is  "holy, holy, holy ... which was, and |       Rev. 4:8
is, and is to come."  A God, who created |
all things,  for His pleasure  they were |       Rev. 4:11
and are created."                        |
                                         |
Now,  this instruction emphasizes,  that |   4. 24 Elders.
there is  a God, a kingdom, a judiciary, |
(in the respect that John witnesses that |       Rev. 4:4
there  are  24  elders,  sitting  on  24 |
thrones, seems to imply a judgment). But |       the Prophets & Apostles
uniquely enough in this judgment,  or in |
this throne, (or in `this heavenly sanc- |       Heb. 8:1-5
tuary,'  as we see from the writings  of |
Paul, the Apostle), Paul talks about the |       Heb. 12:22 (12:18-29)
heavenly sanctuary, the heavenly Sion.   |       Deu. 4:48
                                         |
In this sanctuary  we see a God, a rain- |   5. Mystery of Christ.
bow, a throne;  living creatures stating |       Eph. 3:4,9
that God is holy; which was, and is, and |       Rev. 4:7-8
is-to-come --  God of the past, present, |       Eze. 1:10
and future.  And that  this God,  who is |       Rev. 4:11
the Creator of all things,  is holy  and |       Col. 1:9-20
deserves to be worshipped.               |       Col. 1:25-27
                                         |
                                         |  C. Sealed Book
                                         |
We continue on in chapter 5, to see that |   1. Scroll.
I beheld, John says,  "in the right hand |       Rev. 5:1
of him that sat on the throne a book" or |
a scroll  --  "sealed with seven seals." |
(Notice,  it's written on the inside and |
the backside.) Well the meaning of these |
things can only be speculated,  until we |
have solid proof, in other words, unless |
we were there  ourselves  to see it,  in |
detail.                                  |
                                         |
But,  what we are allowed to see  in the |   2. Congregation.
Scripture, (as John also beholds) [is] a |
mighty angel.  In this throne room  were |       Rev. 5:2
all these angels,  "[ten] thousand times |       Rev. 5:11
ten  thousand,  and  thousands  of thou- |       Psa. 68:17-18
sands," are called together.             |       Dan. 7:10
                                         |
And,  this  mighty angel  questions  all |   3. Mighty Angel Prosecutes.
those in heaven,  "Who is worthy to open |       Rev. 5:2
this book,  and to loose the seven seals |
thereof?"  Clearly Scripture states, "no |       Rev. 5:3
man in heaven,  [nor in] earth,  neither |
under the earth" (of course `buried'  in |
other  words,  we do  have dead  in this |
world,  you know),  was  worthy  to open |
"neither to look thereon."               |
                                         |
So hey!  God says in Scripture, at least |    a. God's living Book,
John testifies,  in Scripture,  that the |       written in our hearts?
Mystery of God -- His Book -- is sealed. |
                                         |
Well, what happens is, as we continue on |   4. One Worthy to Judge.
we see in Chapter 5, that John begins to |    a. John's sorrow.
weep until one of the elders says, "Weep |       Rev. 5:4
not" John "behold, the Lion of the Tribe |    b. The Lion.
of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevail-|       Rev. 5:5
ed to open the book,  and  to loose [the |
seven] seals thereof." (Of which we know |
the Lamb,  being a symbol of Christ,  is |    c. The Lamb.
brought to view.)                        |
                                         |
And,  John beheld a lamb,  that had been |    d. Is the Lamb, King?
slain "in the midst of the throne and of |       Rev. 5:6
the four beasts,"  and the elders,  with |       1 John 5:7
seven eyes and seven horns. Well, what's |       Father, Spirit, Word???
the meaning of these things?             |
                                         |
If God,  does have a revelation of Jesus |   5. God's Book is the Evidence.
Christ, which he gives to him to show to |
his servants,  then here we begin to see |    a. Another pointer to Jesus.
the meaning of these things. We see that |
God has a Book, which must be hereafter, |
(sometime after  John's day;  can-not be |
before John's day). The event is clearly |
identified as [one] which must be in the |
hereafter.  And in this event, there's a |
Judgment that takes place.               |
                                         |
The Question  --  `Who is worthy?'  (The |   6. Innocent Victim.
answer, `No man.') The Answer to this -- |
`Only  the Lamb.' So, [in] Scripture the |       Jesus Christ is a man.
Lamb comes to the  One on the Throne and |       Rev. 5:7
takes the  Book out  of his  Right Hand, |       Rom. 8:34
and all  of heaven bows before  Him, and |       Rev. 5:8,14
gives Him glory and honor. And then John |       Who is the Lamb?
beheld the Lamb, in Chapter 6, beginning |
to OPEN THE SEALS.                       |
                                         |
                                         |  D. Overview of the Seals.
                                         |
Now, I've heard a lot of statements  the |   1. Let the Record Show.
past  couple of days,  from  people that |
are  versed  in Scripture,  from  people |
that are students  of the Bible,  saying |
this and  saying that  about the meaning |    a. Message or Seal??
of these seals. But remember, we already |
see  that in  heaven,  Christ,  when  he |
reveals the seals --  He is the only one |
that can  do so.  And remember, it's al- |
ready  been  said  it's  a revelation of |    b. Father, Holy Spirit, and Son
Him,  so there's  a mystery  between God |
the Father,  His Book,  and Christ,  and |    c. No doubt Koresh is Christian
what He is to reveal.                    |
                                         |
What  Scripture does tell us though,  is |   2. First Seal.
that John  beheld The Lamb  open the 1st |    a. Thunder? Perhaps a clue.
seal in chapter 6,  there was a noise of |       Rev. 6:1
thunder,  and  one of  the 4  beast said |
come and see.  John witnessed... <excuse |
me>.  John witnessed that when he opened |
the 1st seal,  there was "behold a white |    b. The rider on the white horse
horse:" and he that sat up on him  had a |       Rev. 6:2
crown,  a bow was  given to him, "and he |       Is this rider good or evil?
went forth conquering, and to conquer."  |
                                         |
Well, how does  this reveal Christ?  Oh, |    c. Speculations.
well, a lot of people will tell you this |
was  the  early  christian  church.  The |       a hint
white horse is a symbol of purity.  Some |       2 Cor. 4:2,3,12-18
even  say this  is the anti-christ,  but |
now wait  a  minute.  A lot of  opinions |       opinions
have been given on this subject.         |
                                         |   3. Second Seal.
So also on the 2nd seal.  The man on the |    a. The rider on the red horse
red horse has a great sword, going forth |       Rev. 6:4
(you know) killing one another... I mean |
come on!  Is this a revelation of  Jesus |       What is the message from God
Christ?                                  |       being revealed by Christ?
                                         :
                                         : <odd break in flow of presentation>
                                         :
                                         |   4. An Executive Overview:
                                         |
o [The first seal]                       |    a. Rev. 6:2  (ie The 1st Seal)
                                         |
  One who has  "a bow",  "conquering and |       The march of governments??
  to conquer" -- sounds like war.        |       But we are more than
                                         |       conqerors. Rom. 8:37 (31-39)
                                         |
o And the 2nd seal.                      |    b. Rev. 6:4  (cf. 1:16)
                                         |
  "A  great sword",  "that  they  should |       Truth wielded as a weapon,
  kill one another" -- sounds terrible.  |       but not in love -- cuts both
                                         |       ways. Eph. 4:15
                                         |
o The 3rd seal.                          |    c. Rev. 6:5-6  (cf. 9:4)
                                         |
  [The] "man on a black horse," has bal- |       Not worth selling your
  ances. You know. What's this wheat and |       birthright or your soul for.
  barley stuff?  "Hurt not  the oil  and |       Mat. 16:26  Mar. 8:36,37
  the wine."                             |       Luk. 21:34  Heb. 12:15,16
                                         |                   Deu. 29:17-20
                                         |
o The 4th seal.                          |    d. Rev. 6:7,8 (cf. 1:17,18)
                                         |
  "A pale horse,"  [and the] name of the |       Fear not, the Son of man
  one  who sits on there  is Death,  and |       holds the keys to hell
  Hell follows him. How can these things |       and death.
  reveal Christ?                         |       1 John 4:18
                                         |
o The 5th seal.                          |    e. Rev. 6:9-11  (cf. 7:14)
                                         |
  Souls under [the] altar  crying to God |       Rom. 8:35,36
  to avenge  their blood  which was shed |       So, so many impatient
  upon the earth.  I mean, what is this? |       children under foot.
                                         |       How many times...
                                         |
                                         |       Rev. 1:9    2:2,3,19
                                         |            3:10   13:10
                                         |            14:12  22:11
                                         |       Mat. 18:23-35
                                         |       Luke 8:15   21:19
                                         |       Rom. 5:3,4  8:25   15:4,5
                                         |       2 Cor. 6:4  12:12
                                         |       Col. 1:11
                                         |       1 The. 1:3
                                         |       2 The. 1:4
                                         |       1 Tim. 6:11
                                         |       2 Tim. 3:10
                                         |       Heb. 6:12   10:36  12:1
                                         |       Jam. 1:3,4  5:7,10,11
                                         |       2 Pet. 1:6
                                         |       Tit. 2:2
                                         |
o The 6th seal.                          |    f. Rev. 6:12-17
                                         |
  Suns and stars being darkened. The hea-|       Joel 2:31  Psa. 102:26
  vens depart  as a scroll.  The sons of |       Rev. 6:14
  men crying to the rocks  and mountains |       Isa. 34:4  Heb. 1:10-12
  to hide them  from the face of the One |       Rev. 6:16  (cf. 1:16)
  who sets upon the Throne. I mean,  The |
  One who sets upon the Throne -- that's |       Perhaps they hide in an
  The Father, that's The Rock, isn't it? |       effort to shield themselves
  What can these things mean?            |       from the glory of the Lord.
                                         |
                                         |       Gen. 3:8
                                         |       Exo. 3:2-4  19:18
                                         |            24:17  33:20-23
                                         |            34:34,35
                                         |       Deu. 4:11,12,24  9:3
                                         |       Psa. 37:6  97:3-6
                                         |       Isa. 30:26
                                         |       Dan. 7:9
                                         |       Nah. 1:5,6
                                         |       Hab. 3:3-5
                                         |       Zec. 14:12
                                         |
                                         |       Acts 26:13
                                         |       Heb. 12:18,25-29
                                         |       2 The. 1:7-10
                                         |       1 Pet. 4:12
                                         |       2 Pet. 3:7-12
                                         |       1 Joh. 1:5
                                         |
                                         |       Rev. 14:10-12,18  16:7,8
                                         |
o The 7th seal is opened.                |    g. Rev. 8:3
                                         |
  And all of a sudden  `the angel at the |       Rev. 6:9   8:3-5  9:2,13
  altar.' Then we begin to see the open- |       Rev. 11:1  14:18  16:7,8
  ing of the trumpets.                   |
                                         |
Remember now, the 7th seal, contains all |   5. Key Bestowed by God.
the information  from  that point  -- to |
the rest of the Bible. The trumpets con- |
tain a very interesting and unique story,|
but  remember,  we've got  to understand |
`how to find the key' to interpret these |
things  --  not with our  opinions,  but |
with the Mind of God.  And no one can do |       1 Cor. 2:16
that,  unless we have the Spirit of God. |       John 6:63  16:13
And  no one  can  have that,  unless God |       Psa. 119:50
gives it to us.                          |       1 The. 3:13
                                         |       2 Cor. 3:3
                                         |       Eph. 4:30
                                         |
Now let me review.                       |  E. A Short Review.
                                         |
Notice  how  during  the  6th seal,  the |   1. In Seal 6 -- Who Can Stand?
question is asked  in the time  of God's |       (note this)
apparent wrath,  who  shall be  able  to |
stand? "For the [great] day of his wrath |       Rev. 6:17
is come; and who shall be able to stand?"|       Psa. 76:7
                                         |
Notice, how  that in,  the next chapter, |   2. Sealing the 144,000.
chapter 7,  NOT  an  additional  seal is |       the tribulation harvest
opened, but an answer. John sees that he |
beheld "four angels standing on the four |       Rev. 7:1  9:4
corners of the earth,  holding  the four |
winds of the earth, that the wind should |       Rev. 9:4  8:7
not blow on the earth,  nor on the [sea, |       James 1:11  Deu. 29:23
nor on any tree.]"                       |       <tape garbled>
                                         |
And he saw an  "angel ascending from the |   3. Seal of the Living God
east,  having  the  seal  of  The Living |       Rev. 7:2  9:4  14:1
God:"  What could that seal be?  Who  is |       2 Cor. 1:21,22  3:3
The Living God?  Is  the Living God  the |       Eph. 1:13  4:30
One on the Throne?  Does  the Living God |       2 Tim. 2:19
have  something  that  we need  to know? |       Exo. 13:9,16
Does  the Living God  have some  kind of |       Deu. 6:8  11:18
seal?  What could the SEAL be?  We  know |
there's seven seals,  but that's sealed. |       Son, Spirit, Word ???
No one can know that, but Christ.  Well, |       Doesn't the sun rise in
who is that angel from the east?         |       the east?
                                         |
Yes,  in Matthew 24,  a lot of ministers |   4. Risen Son.
confront me and say,  there will be many |
false prophets in  the latter days.  For |       Mat. 24:3,11
remember,  Christ   told  his  disciples |
then,  that when they see the  "abomina- |       Mat. 24:15
tion of desolation," as spoken of by the |       Dan. 9:27, 12:11
Prophet  Daniel,  they would  understand |
something.  And he also said,  that when |       Mat. 24:23,26
they shall say `[he's] in the desert...' |
[then] go not forth, `he's in the secret |
chamber, believe it not.'  For as light- |       Mat. 24:27
ning in the east, shall  shine  unto the |       Rev. 10:1
west; so also [shall the ] Son of man be.|       Zec. 9:14
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                                         |  F. The 7th Seal.
                                         |
[When the]  7th seal  opens  --  there's |   1. Trumpets.
silence. And 7 angels and 7 trumpets pre-|       Rev. 8:1  (7 & 8  cf. 14)
pare themselves to sound. And it appears |       Rev. 8:2,6
that some terrible plagues  takes place. |       Rev. 8:7-13  9:1-12
What could these things mean? Well, just |
as there was  an interruption under  the |
6th  seal,  so is there  an interruption |       Rev. 9:13
under the  6th  trumpet.  Under the  6th |
trumpet we learn about  a mighty army of |       Rev. 9:16
200 million. What are they doing?        |
                                         |
Well,  we see,  that during the break of |   2. 7th Angel(?)
this in chapter 10, a Mighty Angel comes |       Rev. 10:1
down from heaven, "clothed with a cloud, |       Rev. 1:7  14:14  Mat. 26:64
.. his face ... as it were  the sun ... |
his feet are pillars of fire" and he has |       Rev. 10:2
"in his hand  a little book opened."  He |       Rev. 5:7
puts his right foot  on the [sea],  left |       Koresh reversed earth & sea
foot on the [earth] and cries and a lion |       Rev. 10:3
roars.  And  when  he had cried,  "seven |       Dan. 12:4,10
thunders uttered their voices." Now what |
are these  7  thunders?  What  do  these |
things mean?  How do we  categorize this |
book?  What  are  we really looking  at? |
Well...                                  |       <side 1 of source tape ends>
                                         |
Remember,  it is the Revelation of Jesus |   3. "I Do Solemnly Swear."
Christ,  which God gave to Him,  and re- |    a. Another pointer to Jesus.
member  the  most fearful  warning, ever |
given to man in Scripture is the warning |       Rev. 22:15
found  in  Revelation 22,  where  Christ |       Rev. 22:18
says,  "For I testify  to every man that |
hears the word of this prophecy:  If any |       "Let none of you imagine
man  should  add  to  the words  of this |       evil in your hearts against
prophecy,  God shall ADD  unto  him  the |       his neighbor"
plagues  that  are written  in this pro- |       Rev. 22:19
phecy.  And, if  any man shall take away |       1 Peter 2:1-25
from  the words  of  this prophecy,  God |       Zec. 8:16,17
shall  take away  his name  OUT  of  the |       Pro. 3:29,30
Lamb's Book of Life, and from the things |
in prophecy."                            |
                                         |
Now that's fearful.  That means the book |   4. Orderings.
is not to be messed with or pranked with |
by anybody who would dare,  think,  that |
they,  can by  speculation,  or  private |
opinions,  unlock  the  mysteries of the |       Rev. 22:10...
seals  and  what they contain.  Remember |
the  events of  the 7th seal,  contained |       "Seal not the sayings of
from the 7th chapter on  -- the trumpets |        the prophecy of this book"
and the information thereof, just as the |
6th seal contains information thereof.   |
                                         |
Well then, what must be hereafter, after |   5. Hereafter.
John's  day?  A revelation  of who?  Who |
gave it to him?  Who only can reveal it, |
(Revelation  22)?  Who's going  to come? |       Rev. 22:12,17,20
What's  he going  to bring,  his reward? |       Rev. 22:12
What is his reward? Is it true in Isaiah |       Isa. 62:11  40:10
40 & 41 that, He's going to  come with a |
strong hand?  Who is the "Behold my ser- |       Isa. 42:1  40:10+
vant,  whom  I uphold?"  What  do  these |
things mean?                             |
                                         |  G. The First Seal.
                                         |
Well,  we  know in  the  1st seal,  that |   1. Rider on the White Horse.
Christ opens it and we hear the noise of |       Rev. 6:1-2
thunder. One of the 4 beasts says, "Come |
and see."  And behold a white horse. "He |
that sat upon him  had  a bow;  [and]  a |       Zec. 9:13
crown was given  unto him:  and  he went |
forth conquering, and to conquer."       |
                                         |
Well,  in order to understand this seal, |   2. Christ's Secret.
we  have  to  find  out  a secret  about |
Christ. * In the counsel  to  the church |       * <tape off & on>
of Philadelphia, we see Christ addresses |
that church in chapter 3  of Revelation, |
with this message:  "And to the angel of |       Rev. 3:7
the church of Philadelphia write;  These |
things saith he that is holy ... he that |
hath the key of David,  he that openeth, |
and no man shutteth;  and shutteth,  and |
no man openeth."                         |
                                         |
Well,  what does he mean to this church, |   3. Key to the Door.
"I ... set before thee an open door, and |       Rev. 3:8
no man can shut it: for thou hast a lit- |
tle strength?"  What  could  this  mean? |
What  is  the  Key-of-David?  Isaiah  22 |       Isa. 22:20
talks about the Key-of-David, but it re- |
fers to  "Eliakim."  But still,  what is |
the Key-of-David?                        |
                                         |
Well, of ancient times, Christ being the |   4. God's Chosen King.
root and offspring of David. David was a |       2 Sam. 7
great  king  in  Israel.  And  David was |       (God's covenant with David)
anointed of God,  being  a shepherd lad. |
But through the power of God he was able |       1 Sam. 17
to  overthrow,  the greatest obstacle in |
his day, Goliath, the Philistine.  sing |
5 smooth  stones,  he chose one,  and it |       Zec. 9:15,16
sunk deep into the forehead of the giant.|
                                         |
Well, what happens is this.  We see that |   5. Psalms Record.
this  David  wrote 150  Psalms  that are |       Luke 24:44...
published  in  most  Bibles  of  today's |       establishes correlation
modern world.  Now  I say  that  because |        - Law of Moses
some scholars will agree, that there are |        - The Prophets
other psalms,  too.  But as  far  as the |        - Psalms
King James,  and the books of that cali- |
ber, we have 150 psalms.                 |
                                         |
Well, our  subject is  the 1st seal.  We |   6. Prophet's Account.
don't want to have any opinions, though. |       Mat. 7:12
We  just  want  to  simply...  see if we |
can't  find  the mystery  of God  in the |
prophets.                                |
                                         |
                                         |  H. The 1st Seal in Light of
                                         |      The 45th Psalm.
                                         |
Well,  let's turn  in our Bible to Psalm |   1. God's writing.
45,  and let's see if we  can't get some |
kind of hint in  regards to what the 1st |
seal is. *  It states here  (this is the |       * <tape off and on>
King  James  Version)  -- "my  heart  is |       Psa. 45:1
inditing a good matter.  I speak  of the |
things  which I have made,  touching the |
king." What could it possibly mean? What |
does it mean,  "my heart  is inditing  a |       "indite" (rhet.) -- to write
good matter?"  Does that mean  "my heart |       down (a poem, speech, etc.)
is  inditing  a good  matter?"  Is some- |
body's heart  inditing  a  good  matter? |       Heb. 8:10  10:16
"I speak of things  I have made touching |
the  king."  Does that mean by interpre- |       Is this about God's Law (His
tation  "I speak  of  the things  I have |       righteousness),  written  in
made touching the king?"  Is our subject |       our own hearts and minds (as
about a king? Is our subject about some- |       a new covenant)?  Writing as
body's heart?  Is our subject about  "my |       in  Speaking The Word  --  a
tongue is the pen  of a ready writer?"   |       new "Living God" being born?
                                         |
Now, who is talking here? Well, natural- |   2. David Anticipates.
ly  David of Old is talking here -- cor- |
rect? Well, who is the king he's talking |
about? Solomon??  Well, let's see. "Thou |       Psa. 45:2
art  fairer than  the  children of  men: |       (also compare Psa. 72)
grace is poured into thy lips: therefore |
God  has blessed  thee for  ever." Well, |
Solomon was a wise man wasn't he? Ok, it |
says  here,  "Gird  thy  sword  upon thy |       Psa. 45:3
thigh, O most mighty, []  with thy glory |
and  thy majesty."  "And in  thy majesty |       Psa. 45:4
ride prosperously because of truth ..."  |
                                         |
I wonder what Solomon  rides?  Probably, |   3. Rider.
rides a horse, doesn't he? "...and meek- |
ness  and  righteousness;  and thy right |       Rev. 19:11
hand shall teach thee  terrible things." |
Huh?  I guess with a sword  in you right |
hand,  you could learn a lot of terrible |
things. Whoa (in verse 5), "Thine arrows |       Psa. 45:5
are  sharp  in  the heart  of the King's |
enemies;  whereby  the people fall under |
thee." Hmmm. Solomon doesn't seem really |
like  too  nice  of  a guy.  That is  if |
you're enemy.                            |
                                         |
But anyway,  "Thy throne,  O God, is for |   4. Thy Throne, Thy God.
.." (Huh? Wait a minute!)  "Thy throne, |       Psa. 45:6
O God is for ever and..."  (Now,  wait a |
minute.) Is David saying that Solomon is |
God?  No, he's probably just saying that |
God is God. Huh.  Well, why would a pro- |
phecy  about  Solomon  have  to  do with |
God's throne? "Thy throne, O God, is for |       Heb. 1:8
ever and ever:  the sceptre of thy king- |
dom  is a  right sceptre.  Though lovest |       Psa. 45:7
righteousness,  and hateth   wickedness: |
therefore God,  thy God..." (Wait a min- |
ute.) "...therefore God, thy God,"  what |
could  this possibly  mean?  Who is what |
God?  "Thy God,  hath anointed thee with |       Psa. 89:20
the oil of gladness  above thy fellows." |       Heb. 1:9
This is very strange, or is it?          |
                                         |
Well,  let's look at it  again  a little |   5. Key to God's Heart.
closer.  Scripture says that David was a |       "again"
man  after  God's  own  heart. (Although |       1 Sam. 13:14
David transgressed,  and that in no wise |       Acts 13:22
is like  God's Heart.)  But nonetheless, |
David was  a prophet,  and  he  was  in- |
spired.  Could it be that David was used |
by God to write down God's messages that |
would one day be revealed by Christ?  If |       Recall Psa. 45:1:
Christ does have the Key-of-David, would |       "My heart is inditing..."
he not be able to reveal -- the Heart of |       "My tongue is the pen..."
God?                                     |
                                         |
God in heaven looks to be a Rock,  does- |   6. The Law yields to Love.
n't he?  `Oh hard rock God, right. God's |       Rev. 4:3
long, God's hard...'  but wait a minute. |       Song lyrics perhaps??
Through Christ  we can see  that  God is |
not as hard as you think he is.  Look at |       Rev. 4,5,6
God.  Come up hither,  in  the light  of |       Keeping heart and mind
the judgment,  and see the Father on the |       on high.
throne.  See the book in his right hand, |
and  watch him  give it  to Christ,  and |
watch him open  the 1st seal.  And let's |
see about  this man  on  the white horse |
who has a crown and a bow.               |
                                         |
Now, God is the one who has written, "My |   7. From the Heart.
heart is inditing a good matter: I speak |       Psa. 45:1
of things which I have made..." Is God a |
maker? Is he Creator?  What does he want |       Isa. 45:6-12,18
to  talk about? [The] things  he's  made |       When God talks things
touching  the  king.  Who is  the  king? |       happen, as in:
Could  it be  Christ?  "My tongue is the |       "Let there be light!"
pen of a ready writer."  Did God write a |       Rev. 19:15
book?  Does God want  to talk about  His |       Isa. 29:11-12,18
Son according to a Book? Well, what does |       Rev. 21:27
God then think about His Son?            |
                                         |
"Thou art  fairer  than the children  of |   8. Living Word.
men." Well, if that's what  God  thinks? |       Psa. 45:2
Although, Isaiah 53 says, that they will |       Isa. 53:2
see in him no beauty or desire him; God, |
nevertheless  says,  "He is  fairer than |       Gen. 2:7
the children  of men." Why?!  "Grace, is |       John 1:1-5
poured  into  thy  lips."  Huh?  I guess |
whatever Christ says, those who hear it, |
will find grace, won't they.  Therefore, |
"God has blessed thee for ever."         |       All ye who heed the Word.
                                         |
Well. "Gird thy sword upon thy thigh,  O |   9. Inheritance.
most mighty." Is Christ the most mighty? |       Psa. 45:3  Eph. 1:17-23
"With thy glory and thy majesty," I mean |       Isa. 2:21
it seems like in Revelation all of Heav- |
en bowed before the Lamb,  did they not? |
That's a lot  of glory.  "For thou  were |       Rev. 5:12,13
slain to receive  power, honour,  glory, |       Rev. 7:9-12
riches,  wisdom, kingdom,  might," Oooh! |
That's a lot of inheritance there. Espe- |
cially in  the Gospel when  it says,  "I |       John 3:35
have  received  all  *  things  from  my |       * < cell phone rings>
Father.                                  |       John 13:3  Mark 28:18
                                         |
"And  in  thy majesty  ride prosperously |  10. White Horse or Red Herring?
because of truth." *  So what could this |       Psa. 45:4
truth be? What truth, in the Bible talks |       * <tape off & on>
about riding a horse  prosperously,  and |
its truth? Could it be Revelation? Could |       Rev. 6:2 ??
it be the 1st seal?  Maybe a truth about |       Rev. 19:11
Christ?  Maybe a truth about him being a |       Rev. 19:12
king, (which is a crown)?  Could it be a |
truth, about him having a horse, riding, |
conquering, and to conqueror? Huh.       |       Christ or anti-christ??
                                         |
So because of truth,  the truth of God's |  11. God's Spirit Indwelling.
Book, the heart intention of He's indit- |       2 Cor. 3:2-3
ed.  His tongue  is  the pen  of a ready |
writer.  And he  doesn't say  nothing in |       God's actions.
the judgement. You see, He just gives it |
to the  Lamb.  And,  you know  the Lamb: |       Rev. 19:13-16,21
rides prosperously;  writes in truth, in |
meekness  and  righteousness,  "And  thy |       Isa. 35:5,8,16,17
right  hand  shall  teach thee  terrible |
things."  Oooh. Well, what's that in his |       Rev. 5:1
right hand -- a sword or a book?         |       Heb. 4:12-14
                                         |
Well, what does this book teach? `My ar- |  12. Raised from the Dead.
rows are sharp in the heart of the kings |       Psa. 45:5
enemies.'  Surely,  Solomon...  was he a |
killer?  Did he kill for God? Christ, is |       David's heirs.
he a killer?  Did he kill for God?  Will |       Eph. 1:17-18,19-23  2:3
Christ ever destroy the wicked,  whereby |       Which is his body, the
the  people  fall  under  the  <garble>? |       Church, of those previ-
What kind of gospel is this?             |       ously dead in sin.
                                         |
"Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever:|  13. Throne.
Is Christ God? "The sceptre of thy king- |       Psa. 45:6
dom is a right sceptre." I mean, does he |       Heb. 1:8
deserve to rule? Why?                    |
                                         |
Does he love righteousness and hate wick-|  14. Made Glad.
edness? Therefore God... is not Christ's |       Psa. 45:7
God... thy  God?  Is not his God  -- the |       Heb. 1:9
Father?  Is he not  going  to anoint him |
above  (with oil of gladness)  above his |       Isa. 61:3
fellows? What is this oil of gladness?   |       Psa. 89:20
                                         |
"All thy garments  smell of  myrrh,  and |  15. Garments.
aloes,  and cassia,  out  of  the  ivory |       Psa. 45:8
palaces,"  what about it made thee glad? |
I mean, should Christ ever be made glad? |       Eph. 5:24,30-32
Where's this at? When's this take place? |       Do you hear wedding bells?
                                         |
"Kings' daughters were among the honour- |  16. Daughters.
able  women."  What's  that?  "Upon  thy |       Psa. 45:9
right hand  did stand the  queen in gold |       def. "Ophir" -- (red dust?)
of  Ophir.  "How  can  this  be  Christ? |             Solomon's gold from
Christ  is God.  What would he  be doing |             this region in Arabia?
with  a  woman?  Well,  maybe  she's the |       Rev. 12
church.   Maybe   she's  the   spiritual |       Rev. 1:20
church. Well, who's the king's daughters |       Eph. 2:13-22
then?  Hmmm. Maybe there's more than one |       "Builded together for an
church.                                  |       habitation of God through
                                         |       the Spirit."
                                         |
Well, whatever  it may  be,  we know  in |  17. Bride Considers Proposal.
verse  10,  whether  it's   a  spiritual |       Psa. 45:10
church, or a literal woman,  there's one |
thing  required.  "Hearken, O  daughter, |
and consider..." Consider what? Consider |       "Think" about it.
God's  heart  inditing  in good  matter. |
Consider Who the King is. Consider who's |
going to be the Powerful One.  Who's go- |
ing to win, considering about the Throne |
of God. Considering maybe  Revelation -- |       Is God's Book a mystery??
who the Father gives The Book to.        |       Eph. 5:32
                                         |
"Incline  thine ear;  forget  also thine |  18. Breaking Ties.
own  people,  and  thy father's  house." |       Psa. 45:10 continued
Well, if this was a spiritual church, it |
would  seem  kind of  funny,  for God to |       Eph. 3:1-4,9-11  1 Pet. 3:22
tell the spiritual church, to forget her |
own people,  (which would be her denomi- |
nation  of  the  Father's house),  which |
would be...,  well I thought  her father |       Eph. 5:6-8
would be God, if it were spiritual?      |       Col. 3:6
                                         |
Now, if it  were a literal girl,  "Hear- |  19. New Name.
ken, O daughter ... consider ... incline |       Psa. 45:10 cont.
thine ear;"  then  we can understand na- |       "listen"
turally.  If a girl is going  to marry a |       Isa. 62:5
man, she has to uproot [from] one family,|       Mat. 19:4-6  Mar. 10:7
and join to another. Not completely, but |       Mat. 19:29
we understand  what we're saying.  So if |       "learn"
she wants to listen and learn; so should |       Psa. 45:11
"the king greatly desire thy beauty: for |       Eph. 5:23
he is thy Lord, and worship thou him."   |
                                         |
"And the daughter of Tyre shall be there |  20. Radiant Beauty.
with  a gift."  Who's Tyre?  Wonder what |       Psa. 45:12 (Zep. 2:15)
that is? "Even the rich among the people |       def. "Tyre" -- (rock)
shall intreat  thy favour."  Rich people |             city now Sur, Lebanon
want to intreat the favor of this queen? |       Eze. 28 (and 26 & 27)
"The  king's  daughter  is  all glorious |       Psa. 45:13
within."  How did she become  the king's |
daughter?  "Within?" Why is she glorious |
within?  Does she have a truth, or some- |       Isa. 62:1-2
thin'?  Is there some kind  of light she |
has within her?                          |
                                         |
Her clothes are of  "wrought gold."  She |  21. Prospect of Children.
is to be brought  to the king in raiment |       Psa. 45:14 (cf. Eze. 16:10)
of needlework:  "the virgins her compan- |       Isa. 61:10
ions  that follow her  shall be  brought |       Mat. 25:1-13
unto thee."  With gladness and rejoicing |       Psa. 45:15
shall they be brought. They should enter |
into the king's palace."  Instead of thy |
fathers, it shall be thy children." Now, |       Psa. 45:16
what does that mean?                     |
                                         |
Well,  let's break this down.  If Christ |  22. Children for God.
is the  Son of God,  if that's the case, |       Heb. 2:1
and if we all are sons of God  --  if we |       2 Cor. 6:16-18
believe in Christ,  then naturally every |       Hos. 1:10
girl would be a daughter of God wouldn't |
she?  Well,  we look up to the Father on |
the Throne,  of which  we want to exalt. |
We know that He is greater than all. And |
He's  Christ's  Father,  and  He's  also |
everyones  Father.  And  Psalms 83 says, |       Psa. 82:6 (should be)
God says,  I say you are gods,  "and all |
of you are children of the most High."   |
                                         |
Hosea teaches us, that we're to say, "Ye |  23. King and Law.
are not my people." There  it  should be |       Hos. 1:9,10  2:23
said,  "Ye are  the sons  of  the living |
God." So Christ says in the Gospels, "if |       John 10:35
he called them gods,  unto whom the word |
of God came," the Law can not be broken. |
                                         |
Well,  we're ruining  God's Word -- it's |  24. Word and Spirit.
God's Spirit.  This  is  what  makes  us |       Eph. 6:17  Rev. 1:16  19:15
become born again,  born  by the Spirit, |       1 Pet. 1:22-23
the knowledge of God. Well... so, a girl |
believes in God,  and so does  everybody |
else that believes in God.  So therefore |
God the Father has many children doesn't |
He.  Christ being the firstborn, and ... |       Col. 1:18
all thereafter that believe. But instead |
of "thy fathers," it should be "thy chil-|       Psa. 45:16
dren,  whom thou mayest make  princes in |
all the earth."                          |
                                         |
To the person that really doesn't under- |  25. Birth of Human Spirit.
stand Scripture,  this  would seem to be |
a very  controversial  subject.  I mean, |
Christ never had any wife, [thus it] has |       Historically, that is.
to be Spiritual. I'll make thy name "re- |       Psa. 45:17  Psa. 72:17
membered  in all generations:  therefore |
shall  the people  praise thee  for ever |
and ever."                               |
                                         |  I. The 1st Seal in the Light
                                         |     of Revelation 19.
                                         |
Well even if it is Spiritual we know one |   1. Triangulation.
thing.  We know  -- that the servants of |
God know --  that Psalm 45,  is the very |
prophecy which must be hereafter accord- |
ing to  the 1st seal.  But just  to make |
sure we know it's going to be fulfilled, |
let's  turn in  our  Bible to REVELATION |       Yep. It's a sermon.
19.  (Just so that  we can get  a better |
caption  of what  we are  really looking |
at.)                                     |
                                         |
Now  remember, in  the  18th chapter  of |   2. Babylon "The Great."
Revelation,  we  know  that Babylon  the |       Rev. 18
Great  falls. She made all nations drink |       Eze. 26,27,28
of some kind of wine of the wrath of her |       Isa. 13:19-20
fornication. Now, we find that something |
very bad happens,  and then in  verse 23 |
of Chapter 18  --  no more: light of the |       Rev. 18:23
candles shall shine there, nor the voice |       Isa. 23:8
of the bridegroom, nor the voice  of the |       Eze. 26,27,28
bride.                                   |
                                         |
Well,  the merchants,  who are the great |   3. "Great Men" of the Earth.
men of the earth,  it says  in verse 23, |       Rev. 18:23 cont.
and for by their sorceries  were all the |       Zep. 1:10-11
nations deceived.  We all know about  -- |
capitalization. We know about advertise- |       Amos 8:4-7
ment selling something, making it better |
than  what it  really is.  For  here  is |       Rev. 18:24
found the blood of prophets, and saints, |       Hos. 12:7
"and  of all  that were slain  upon  the |
earth."  You see,  just  because  people |
don't accept  the truth from  God's Word |
does not mean it's  not Truth?  And some |
truth that we might teach  can get us in |       Such as, truth without love.
trouble.                                 |
                                         |
But anyway, in 1st verse, Chapter 19, it |   4. The Gallery Cheers.
says,  and "after these things I heard a |       Rev. 19:1
great voice  of  much people  in heaven, |
saying, Alleluia;  Salvation, and glory, |
and honour, and power, unto the Lord our |
God."  Why? "For true  and righteous are |       Rev. 19:2
his  judgments." I wonder what his judg- |
ments were?                              |
                                         |
Isaiah 51 talked about judgments of God. |   5. Righteous Judgment.
Says something about, "HEARKEN to me, ye |       Isa. 51:1
that seek after righteousness,  ye  that |
seek the LORD: look unto the rock where- |
by  you're  hewn."  Again,  remember  in |       Rev. 4:3
Revelation -- God's a rock.  If God is a |       Deu. 32:31
rock,  he's the only one who can make us |       1 Sam. 2:2
new,  right?  And it says,  "look to the |       2 Sam. 22:2,32
[hole of the]  pit,"  from  which you're |       Psa. 18:2,31 28:1 42:9
dug.                                     |       Psa. 62:2,6  71:3 78:35
                                         |       1 Cor. 10:4
                                         |
In Isaiah 51, it talks about Abraham and |   6. A Living Law.
promises of God.  Then it says, "Hearken |       Isa. 51:2-3
unto me, my people; and give ear unto me,|       Isa. 51:4
O  my  nation:  for a law  shall proceed |
from me,  and I will make my judgment to |
rest for a light [of] the people."       |       Koresh says "to."
                                         |
Now,  we know that [what] the Law of God |   7. Forgive Them.
commands is the 10 Commandments,  but we |
know  when God  sent  His Son  into  the |
world,  he was the Law  made flesh.  And |       Gal. 3:17
although  he  kept  the  law  perfectly; |
nonetheless,  he also  forgave  based on |
men's  ignorance.  "Father, forgive them |       Luke 23:34  1 Cor. 2:8
for they know not what they do."  But he |
also committed his Spirit into the hands |       Luke 23:46
of God,  so that none  would  be without |       Psa. 31:5   1 Pet. 2:23
excuse.                                  |
                                         |
We  all know  on the  right hand  of God |   8. The Whore is Judged.
there's  more  light... more  light,  to |       Not just thunderbolts.
be known. So if God's judgments -- which |       Rev. 16:all (note :5,7)
are  the 7 seals  --  are righteous  and |
true... 'cause he judges the great whore.|       Rev. 16:19 & Rev. 17
(Which no doubt  a whore  is not  a very |
faithful bride, is she? Absolutely not!) |
"Which did  corrupt  the earth  with her |       Rev. 19:2  17:2
fornication,  and hath avenged the blood |
of his servants  at her hand?"  It seems |
like this great whore doesn't really com-|
mit itself to God,  herself to God, does |
she? And, she probably will be responsi- |
ble  for  the blood  of God's  servants, |
because  she  probably  won't know where |       Or care, preferring vain
they're coming from.                     |       imaginings.
                                         |
"And  again  they  said,  Alleluia.  And |   9. Do You Care?
[her] smoke rose up  for ever and ever." |       Rev. 19:3  (cf. 14:11)
So, we know  Babylon-The-Great  is a big |       Isa. 34:10
whore, right?  I mean,  she's not really |
very  faithful,  when  it comes to God's |
Word,  when  it comes  to knowing  God's |
Truth.  And  I betcha  she's the kind of |
person  that'll claim  to be with a guy, |
and love a guy,  and not even know where |
he's  coming  from  --  that's  how most |
whores are, isn't it?  Just think of how |       Isa. 35:16,17
many people claim they love Jesus Christ,|       Mal. 3:16
and  that  there is ... they  don't even |
know  where  the seals  are found in the |
prophecies.  Huhhh.  I wonder  what that |
could mean?                              |
                                         |
"And the four and twenty elders  and the |  10. Prophets and Apostles.
four beasts fell down and worshipped God"|       Rev. 19:4
who sat  upon  the Throne.  And  a voice |       Rev. 19:5
came in heaven,  verse 5  says,  "Praise |
our God."  How many?  "All  ye his  ser- |
vants,  and ye that fear him, both small |
and great."                              |
                                         |
"[And I] heard as it were the voice of a |  11. Alleluia.
great multitude,  and [as]  the voice of |       Rev. 19:6
many waters,  and as the voice of mighty |
thunderings  saying,  Alleluia:  for the |
Lord God Omnipotent reigneth." (All Pow- |
erful reigns!)                           |
                                         |
"Let us  be glad  and rejoice,  and give |  12. The Marriage of the Lamb.
honor to him:  for the  marriage  of the |       Rev. 19:7
Lamb",  (which we learned about in Psalm |       Psa. 45:15
45), "is come."  So here we see  that in |       Rom. 7:4
Psalm 45,  the Lamb only has  to destroy |       Hos. 2:18-23
his  enemies.  And who are  his enemies? |       Rev. 19:15,21
Those who do not believe the Word of God.|
                                         |
Now, if a person  never had a chance  to |  13. Mitigating Circumstances.
know -- you've got to forgive 'em -- for |       Luke 23:34
they don't know what they do. But should |       Mat. 5:44-45
anybody dare try to go against the Truth |
of God,  and try to hurt Christ, because |       Rev. 22:11
they know not, and refuse to know,  well |       Who of us can judge?
then, we're talking somethin' serious.   |       Who's worthy?
                                         |
"Let us be glad [and rejoice,]  and give |  14. Getting Ready.
honour to him:  for the marriage  of the |       Rev. 19:7
Lamb is come,  and  his  wife  has  made |       Rom. 7:4
herself ready."  How  do you  think that |
girl in Psalms 45 made herself ready? Do |       By putting on the gown?
you think she made herself ready by deny-|
ing God  on the throne?  By denying  the |
importance  of the Lamb  opening the 1st |
seal?  Do  you  think  she made  herself |
ready  by denying that Christ had a Key- |
of-David?  Well,  if so  then  Psalms 45 |
wouldn't mean nothing to her, would it?  |
                                         |
But anyway, it says, to her it was gran- |  15. White Bridal Gown.
ted  "that she should be arrayed in fine |       Rev. 19:8
linen, clean and white: for the fine lin-|       Psa. 132:9
en is the righteousness of the saints."  |       Isa. 55:7-9
                                         |
My  friends,  are  you  right?  Are  you |  16. Marriage Proposal.
right?  Don't  worry  bout me.  Are  you |
right? Does your Father sit on a throne? |       Koresh Pops
Does He have a Book in his hand?  Did He |       the Question.
give it to the One you say you love? Was |
the promise that I come,  and my  reward |
is with  me,  was  that  not  true?  For |       John 3:16
someone  "that so loved the world,  that |       Rom. 5:8
he gave his only begotten Son,"  do  you |       1 John 4:7-21
not believe God's Heart indites  a  good |       1 John 4:1,2
matter?                                  |
                                         |
The  question of  the  judgment  is  not |  17. Is Conqueror also Groom??
who's  done wrong,  or who's  done evil. |       Koresh's method for
The  question is, "Who is Worthy?"  Now, |       examining scripture.
Christ doesn't come  to be worthy  above |
you. Christ comes to give you his knowl- |
edge, his righteousness.  And  is it not |       Does what you see in the
right  that Psalms 45 is the same as the |       1st seal depend on whether
1st seal?  Is not Revelation 19 confirm- |       YOU personally are seeking
ing this?                                |       out Christ, or anti-christ?
                                         |
Well,  if she  has the  righteousness of |  18. Arriving at the Truth.
saints, we as saints, should we not know |
rightly how to divide the Word of God... |
(line upon line,  precept on precept; to |       Isa. 28:10,13
see here, there;  and a little here, and |       Isa. 34:16,17
there a little.) ...the Truth of God?    |       1 Cor. 2:1-16
                                         |
He said, "Write,  Blessed are they which |  19. Marriage Supper.
are called unto  the marriage supper  of |       Rev. 19:9
the Lamb. And he said unto me, These are |
the true  sayings  of God."  Well,  some |
people may not think so.                 |
                                         |
But now  notice how John wanted  to fall |  20. The Testimony is The Spirit.
down and worship before the feet of  the |       Rev. 19:10
angel which showed him these things?  He |
said, "See thou do it not" for "I am thy |       Same as Rev. 22:8,9 except:
fellowservant, and of thy brethren..that |       "... the prophets, and of
have  the  testimony  of Jesus:  worship |       them which keep the sayings
God:  for the testimony of Jesus  is the |       of book: worship God."
spirit of Prophecy."                     |
                                         |
What  do yo want to do?  Do  you want to |  21. What are You Looking For?
learn about  the wrath of Christ  by him |
riding  a white  horse  into heaven  and |       Phi. 1:14-19
destroying the unbelievers? Or would you |       Are not "bonds" also "seals"
rather  him just  come,  and  teach  you |       Phi. 2:1-11
these things ahead of time?              |
                                         |
And John saw, "heaven opened, and behold |  22. Who Gives You Knowledge?
a white horse;  and he that sat upon him |       Rev. 19:11
was called  Faithful  and True,  and  in |
righteousness  he  doth  judge and  make |
war."  He doesn't  do it out  of unrigh- |
teousness. There's a truth that's almost |
2,000 years old  called the  Revelation. |
And men have built up empires, and chur- |
ches,  all in  the name  of Christ.  But |
have  they given  to  their  people  the |
knowledge  of which  only  the Lamb  can |
give? No.                                |
                                         |
"His eyes were as a flame of fire,"  the |  23. The Nature of Truth.
way he sees with 7 eyes -- really burns. |       Rev. 19:12
"And on his head were many  crowns."  He |
takes those from the kings of the Earth, |       Rev. 4:10,11  21:24
you know.  And he  "had a name  written, |
that no man knew, but he himself."       |
                                         |
People  don't  understand what  the name |  24. The Meaning of Koresh.
Koresh means. No one knows. Scholars can |       "Cyrus" is the Persian name
not tell  you.  Look at all  the concor- |       for the sun, and in Hebrew
dances,  and they  don't know.  But it's |       is "Koresh,"  which is the
found in Isaiah 45. It was  originally a |       same as the Egyptian "Phrah"
name given to a Persian king,  who over- |       Isa. 45:1+
threw  ancient  Babylon.  But there's  a |       Rev. 10:1,7
mystery  to  the  name  Koresh.  He  was |
"clothed with a vesture dipped in blood,"|       Rev. 19:13
because  people don't like to  learn the |       Gen. 37:31
truth  that's not out of their own head. |
"And his name is called The Word of God."|       John 1:1  1 John 5:7
                                         |
That's  why so many  times Christ has to |  25. The Word Paves the Way.
be  rejected.  For people  know  not the |  If the prophets were all killed,
Word of God,  and  without  knowing  the |  their very blood would cry out
Word of God  -- The Book --  they'll not |  from the rocks of earth to give
know  the  seals.  Without  knowing  the |  the testimony of the Spirit of
seals,  they'll do unto Christ,  fulfil- |  prophecy -- had we not The Word.
ling, (Isaiah.. excuse me),  Matthew 24, |       Mat. 23:34,35  24:28
where  the carcass is,  "there  will the |       Heb. 11:4
eagles be gathered together."            |       Which speaks volumes to
                                         |       patriots.
                                         |
Why? Because Isaiah says he'll come with |  26. The Sealed Book is the Word.
a strong hand,  and what's stronger than |       Job 39:27-30
that  book  of  seven seals?  That's the |       Isa. 11 18 40
Word of God,  fulfilling what it says in |       John 7:16-18  12:44-49
John: He that believeth on me, believeth |       Rev. 5:7 shows the Lamb
not on me, but on him that sent me. "For |       takes the Book out of
my doctrine is not my own,  but his that |       God's strong right hand
sent me." "And the armies" which are "in |       -- the hand of power.
heaven followed him  upon white horses." |       Rev. 19:14
There --  that's the Armageddon here  -- |
clothed in  fine linen, white and clean. |       And written in black & white
                                         |
Now, Isaiah 13  will tell  you more  de- |  J. Other Testimony.
tail.  Just like in Joel 2.  You'll also |
learn  in Joel 2,  as well as Zephaniah, |
and Amos, and  Hosea, all the  different |
prophecies referring to these seals.     |
                                         |
                                         |  K. Unlocking the Psalms.
                                         |
Now  let me  emphasize something  to you |   1. A Key-of-David.
again,  when you  read Psalms 1,  always |       Psa. 1:5
keep your mind  up-hither -- remember -- |       In other words, "on high,"
I'm giving you a Key-of-David now.       |       -- look first always for
                                         |          for God.
                                         |
I'll share with you. Every time you read |   2. Revelations and Psalms.
a psalm, like in Psalms 1,  the judgment |
is the one spoken of in Revelation 4 and |
5.  When you read Psalms 2, `the heathen |       Psa. 2:1
that  rage,  that imagine vain  things,' |
they're the ones whose thoughts are con- |
trary to the thoughts of God.  "Against  |       Psa. 2:2
the Lord, and against his anointed, say- |
ing,  Let us break  their  bands asunder |       Psa. 2:3
and cast their cords from us."           |
                                         |
You see,  when  the  Lamb  comes  again, |   3. Breaking the Bands.
there's only one way  to know who he is, |       What's important is that
he has to reveal the 7 seals.  `That men |       the Lamb knows you.
may not  be judged  by the law,  for all |       Rom. 3:23
have broken  the law  and come short  of |       Gal. 3:21-29
glory  of God.'  That they  be might  be |
judged by nothing more than Truth.       |
                                         |
'Cause, notice in Psalms 2, `the heathen |   4. God Judges the Nations.
rage,  and they  imagine  a vain thing.' |       Psa. 2:1-3
They  want  to stop  this  anointed one; |       <tape off & on>
`let us break  his bands asunder.'  What |
do you think that is? How many bands are |
there on the book? There are seven bands |
on the book. Why this is happening today,|       A seal is also a vow.
and He that sits in heaven,  (that's the |
Father you know), sitting on the Throne, |
He laughs.  He laughs while men begin to |       Psa. 2:4
make the worst mistake they've ever made.|
All the nations, from Babylon, to Persia,|       Psa. 2:5
Greece, and Rome, were judged by a judg- |
ment,  and they fell when it became time |
for God to make them fall.               |

Now, yes,  in Psalms 2 it says,  "I will |   5. Children of God.
declare  the decree:  the Lord hath said |       Psa. 2:7
unto me, Thou art my Son;  this day have |
I  begotten thee."  Well,  aren't we all |
sons of God if we hear the words of God? |
                                         |
Now,  the Psalms are not written because |   6. Warnings of Psalms.
Christ  is desiring  to destroy mankind. |
On the contrary.  The warnings of Psalms |
1,  in the light of the Judgment,  is so |
that men might fear, and receive redemp- |
tion.  The same  is  Psalms 2.  Absolute |
terrible warnings are given, such as, `I |       Psa. 2:8-9
will dash them  to pieces  with a rod of |
iron,' right?  We know that Christ would |
never want to do that.                   |
                                         |
But,  finally,  it comes  to a time when |   7. The Time for Judgment.
judgment must begin.  Clearly,  it  says |
`Now therefore  be ye wise,  ye kings of |       Psa. 2:10
the earth,  be  instructed  ye judges of |
the earth.  "Serve  the Lord  with fear, |       Psa. 2:11
rejoice  with trembling.  Kiss  the Son, |       Psa. 2:12
lest he be angry, and ye perish from the |
way,  when  his wrath  is  kindled but a |
little.  Blessed are  all they  that put |
their trust in him."                     |
                                         |
Now, ministers should show you where the |   8. The High Road.
seals are. I have just given you a small |       There do seem to be alter-
little taste.  Is Psalms 45  the same as |       nate views of the same
Revelation?  Doesn't that make it plain? |       events; other writings of
It's the subject  of Christ getting mar- |       the Prophets & Apostle's
ried [and] a subject of Christ having to |       likewise.
deal with the enemies,  (who believe not |       Psa. 1:1-5
God's Word).  Does not Psalms 1 teach us |
to stand  in the Judgment,  don't sit in |       As in standing
the seat of the scornful, or of the sin- |       to be married.
ners?                                    |
                                         |
Only God's  thoughts are holy.  And when |   9. God's Thoughts.
God's thoughts be revealed in  the seven |       "God's thoughts" are only
seals,  all true  Christians should make |       a partial aspect of God,
that  their first and foremost interest. |       better is to love God,
                                         |       (speaking as a child).
                                         |
In Psalms 2,  why do the heathen have to |  10. Heathen Rage.
rage,  why do they have to fight the guy |       Psa. 2:1-3
that's got the seals?                    |       Isn't God's Word more
                                         |       important than the seals?
                                         |
In Psalms 3, who's the person there that |  11. Many Say No Hope.
says,  `Many say  of my soul  there's no |       Psa. 3:2
help for him in God.'                    |       Historically, it's King
                                         |       David, as he fled from
                                         |       his son Absalom.
                                         |
How come people  have to judge according |  12. Looking Beyond the Image.
to appearances of things, but they won't |       There do seem to be mul-
open their eyes and ears, and hear where |       tiple levels of meaning.
a person's coming from? In Psalms 4, who |
is the one speaking there where it says, |
`O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn |       Psa. 4:2
my  glory into shame?  how long will you |       It does seem to be a
seek after leasing, and love vanity?'    |       dialogue between David
                                         |       and God.
                                         |
"But  know that  the LORD  has set apart |  13. Set Apart.
him that is godly for himself:  the LORD |       Psa. 4:3
will hear when I call unto him."  Who in |
the heavens  has God separated  from all |
of heaven, (a part that is godly for him-|       How 'bout The Word?
self).                                   |
                                         |
                                         | III. Conclusions.
                                         |
The Lamb, who wishes to judge no man af- |  A. Keep the Word.
ter the flesh,  but  gives  to all men a |
truth in fulfillment of the testimony of |       The passage actually
John:  that `If you continue  in my doc- |       says: If you continue
trine, then you are my disciples indeed, |       in "my word"
and  ye shall  know the truth,  and  the |       John 8:32
truth shall set you free.'               |
                                         |
In Zechariah,  who is the man on the red |  B. The Rest of the Seals.
horse?  Doesn't Revelation  talk about a |       Zec. 1:8
man on  a red horse?  How does it apply? |       Rev. 6:3-4
In the 3rd seal,  the Book of Hosea, who |
is that merchant man with  "the balances |       Hos. 10:7
of deceit," that Hosea speaks of?  Could |       Mic. 6:11
it be that man who has balances -- who's |
trying  to sell?  I mean,  what  are  we |
dealing with here? Where is the 4th seal |
found in  the prophecies?  The 5th seal? |
The 6th seal?                            |
                                         |
The importance  of the seals  is that if |  C. The Importance of the Seals.
you do not listen,  you are going to end |
up making the worst mistake, you've ever |
made, in all of your lives.              |
                                         |
We  made  an  agreement,  with  the  ATF |  D. ATF Promises
agents,  that if they would allow me, to |
have national coverage  with this  tape, |
that I  might give to the  world a small |
minute... a  small  minute  bit,  of the |
information that I have tried so hard to |
share  with people;  that if  I would do |
this,  that all the people  here  at the |
facility ("compound" here, as y'all call |
it)  will  give  ourselves over  to  the |
world,  give ourselves  out to you.  And |
this  is what I  promised.  And  this is |
what we're going to keep.                |
                                         |
Now  remember,   Revelation  Chapter  13 |  E. Those of the Dragon.
tells us, very clearly what our ideology |
should be toward that beast, and all the |
world that wonders after that beast. Who |
do they worship? Remember, before I said |
it to you, God said it. They worship the |
dragon.  And will Christ give up on any- |
body for worshipping the  dragon unwill- |
ingly?  No.  Just like the woman  at the |       John 4:2
well. `Woman, you know not whom you wor- |       The text actually refers
ship,' Christ told her.                  |       to "what" -- not "whom.
                                         |
But now,  in Spirit and in Truth,  let's |  F. Heavenly Perspective.
come up hither  to where  I  come  from. |
Let's  believe  in  a God  on the throne |       God's not a "what."
now.  All churches.  Papacy,  Lutherans, |
we're all brethren.  But  let's get into |
unity with one God, one Truth, one Lamb, |       1 Cor. 1:10
one Spirit  --  and  let's  receive  the |
reward of righteousness.                 |
                                         |  Analysts:  Stephen Tice
Thank you very much. God Bless You.      |             James Trimm 
                                         |              
(Arlington Texas, 4-23-93)

This is a *side by side* listing of:

        (a) the transcript I made from a tape of the broadcast

        (b) the transcript credited to the Associated Press,
            as published in one of the local newspapers.

More specifically the news service transcription was printed in the
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Wed. Mar. 3rd, 1993, pp. A16-A17, under
"Text of Vernon Howell's Message" and "Text of Vernon Howell's Radio
Message Yesterday."

It's my opinion that the twisted and mangled news service transcript
wrongfully, (and possibly maliciously), exacerbated the confrontation
between Davidians and the Law Enforcement Agencies. This is based on

        o  Many phrases were twisted to have almost opposite meaning.
        o  The section about the seven seals was excluded.
        o  Numerous references to Jesus Christ were altered or left out.
        o  Quotes from the Bible book of Revelation were altered.

The problem is that Koresh was portrayed as irrational, which is counter
to the address he actually presented. He was likely dismissed as being
reasonable, and so negotiations degraded from that point on.

Most importantly, the considerable Biblical Scriptural content of Koresh's 
message (a wholly separate issue) was smeared and irresponsibly presented
by the news agencies. 

I've previously posted the Koresh-Text with related Bible passages clearly
referenced. Koresh quoted Scripture passages every several lines of the text, 
and most often correctly and accurately. A cogent message was presented -- 
all the more amazing considering his injuries, and stress (which suggests he
may have had help). However -- the news transcript contorted most of these 
Scripture quotes quite badly.

If you have a copy of a local or national newspaper or magazine transcript
of the Koresh-Text, that you'd be willing to send me via US mail, please
let me know by email at b645zaw@utarlg.uta.edu (I'd definitely settle for
just a note about any transcript or extract that you're aware of, whether
mangled or valid).

Pondering Points:  If you think the news service distortions resulted from
simple unfamiliarity with the Biblical material Koresh used in his taped 
address, then how much more distorted do you think the BATF and FBI "inter-
pretations" of Koresh's religious "preachings" might have been??  And, did 
the Press use people unqualified to do the job???  If so, is this happening
constantly?  Are situations intentionally polarized and aggravated by the 
media in order to increase sales?  If true -- is this not an alarming threat 
to our well-being in society -- which requires correction (such as "equal 
time").  Moreover, the *survivors* of the Davidians who died (such as the 
children released and those few Davidians remaining) might have a pretty 
good civil case, as well as, a civil-rights case -- for being intentionally 
religiously misrepresented. 

Transcript from Broadcast Tape             Transcript from Press Services
========================================= ====================================
March 2nd, 1993.                         |
                                         |
My name is Dave Koresh.  I'm Speaking to | My name is David Koresh. I'm Speak-
you from Mount Carmel center.  The first | ing to you from Mount Carmel center.
thing that I would like to introduce, in | The first thing I would like to in-
our subject, is the reasons for the reve-| troduce in our subject is the reason
lation of Jesus Christ.                  | for the revelation of Jesus Christ.
                                         |
In  the Book of  Revelation,  commentary | The Book of Revelation doesn't
states,  that what John  has  written in | clearly state what John has written
Scripture,  is  nothing  other  than the | in Scripture, nothing other that the
revelation  of  Jesus Christ  which  God | revelation of Jesus Christ which God
gave  to him,  to show  to his  servants | gave to him, to show that his ser-
things  which must shortly come to pass. | vant David must shortly come to
And he sent and signified it,  signified | pass. And he signified it by his
it, by his angel unto his servant John.  | angel to his servant John.
                                         |
Now,  John bear  the Record of God,  and | Now, John bears the record of God as
the Word of Christ,  and  of  all things | the word of Christ of all things to
that  he saw.  In the  first  chapter of | come. In the first chapter of Reve-
Revelation it says, "Blessed is the man, | lation it says, 'Blessed is the man,
.. blessed is he that readeth, and they | blessed he that readeth and who hear
that  hear the  words of  this prophecy, | the words of prophecy,
and those who "keep" the things that are | and those keep the things that are
written  therein,  for  the  time  is at | written therein, for the time is at
hand."                                   | hand.'
                                         |
The Scripture states John writes this to | The Scripture says that John writes
the  seven churches  which are  in Asia: | this of the seven churches that are
Ephesus, Smyrna, Thyatira, Sardis, Phil- | in Asia: Ephesus, Smyrna, Thyatira,
adelphia, Laodicea, so forth. Naturally, | Philadelphia, Laodicea, so forth.
we  must  understand  that  we're not in | Naturally we must understand that
Asia.  These churches once existed  long | we're not in Asia. These churches
ago,  being  beneficiaries of  the power | once existed long ago, being benefi-
and the gifts of the Gospel. It was ori- | ciaries powered in the gifts of the
ginally introduced by,  The Man himself. | gospel which was originally intro-
Some knew him  as  Jesus Christ;  others | duced by the man himself, people who
knew him by the name -- Yeshua.          | knew him as J. Christ; others knew
                                         | him by Shua.
                                         |
                                         | What we're trying to present today
What  we're trying  to present today may | may in somewise may shed a better
in somewise shed  a better light  in re- | light in regards to my situation, my
gards to my situation and my predicament | predicament here at Mount Carmel.
here at Mount Carmel. One point I'd like | One point I'd like to bring out
to bring out before we continue, is that | before we continue: that if we take
if we take a look at Matthew, Mark, Luke | a look at Matthew, Mark, Luke and
and John,  we see  the  "burden of these | John, we see the burden of these
ancient  writers:"  the burden of heart, | ancient writers to learn to part the
the burden of mind and spirit, to put in | burden of mind and spirit, to put in
a scriptural record,  their personal ex- | a scriptural record, their crucial
perience with Christ.  A record  that is | experience with Christ, a record
to be received by men, all men, who will | that is to be received by all men
receive it.                              | that will receive it.
                                         |
The point is true that not all have seen | The point is true that not all have
Christ, but it has been in the wisdom of | seen Christ but invented the wisdom
God that certain men  who were witnesses | of God in certain men who were wit-
of his life, and death, and resurrection,| nesses of his life, death and resur-
that they would bear witness by the writ-| rection that they would bear witness
ten word, and testify to the generations | ...
to come,  of the terrible happening that | to come of the terrible happenings
took place, when the men of that genera- | that took place ...
tion  would not  believe  in the man who |
through so many obvious evidences proved |
beyond shadows of doubt, that he was the | he was challenged now that he was
Son of God.                              | the of God.
                                         |
But sad to say, if we take a look of the | It's sad to say that if we take a
Record of John,  the `Gospel Writer'  of | look of the record of John ..., say
John, say Chapter 7. We see in Scripture | Chapter 7, we see a Scripture John
John writes  that after certain  events, | writes that after certain events,
after  these  things  "Jesus  walked  in | after these things, Jesus walked in
Galilee:"  he would not walk openly, "he | Galilee; he would not walk amongst
would not walk  in Jewry,"  he would not | the Jews
walk amongst the Jews, "because the Jews |                     because the Jews
sought to kill him."   We  might  wonder | sought to kill him. You might wonder
why?  Wasn't Christ a such a good man??  | why? Wasn't Christ a good man?
                                         |
"Now the Jews' Feast of Tabernacles  was | Now the Jews seized the Tabernacle
at hand. His brethren therefore said un- | that was at hand ...
to him, Depart hence, and go into Judea, |                    and go into Judea
that  thy disciples  also  may  see  thy |
works  that thou doeth.  For there is no |                 ...   so there is no
man that doeth any thing in secret,  and | man that knows anything ...
he himself  seeketh  to be known openly. |            to get to be known openly
If thou do these things, show thyself to | if thou do anything, show thyself to
the world.  For neither did his brethren | the world for neither ...   brethren
believe in him." Strange statement isn't | believed in him.  Strange statement,
it?  It's funny how that, when men live, | isn't it? It's funny how the man
and have to deal with realities of life, | lived      with ... the realities of
that even a man like Christ, can have to | life, that even a man like Christ
meet  with unbelief,  even  from his own | would have to meet with unbelief
brethren.                                | even from his own brethren.
                                         |
"Then Jesus said  unto them,  My time is | When Jesus said unto them, "My time
not yet come:  but  your time  is  alway | is not yet come, but your time is
ready." And I'm sure most of all,  bible | always ready." And I'm sure most of
students  will agree,  the time referred | my students will agree the time re-
to, is the time of his crucifixion. They | ferred to is the time of his cruci-
wanted to kill  him,  and he didn't want | fixion. They wanted to kill him, and
to show  himself openly.                 | he didn't want to show himself open-
                                         | ly.
                                         |
Then Jesus said unto them... <excuse  me | Then Jesus said unto them,
uhnn>, (Verse 7) "The world can not hate |      "The world can not hate you ...
you; but me it hateth, because I testify | It is me that is hated, and I have
of it,  that the works thereof are evil. | testified that the works of every
Go ye up  unto this feast:  I go not  up | evil ...
yet unto this feast;  for my time is not |                       My time is not
yet full come." When he said these words | yet full come.     And he said these
to them while he abode still in Galilee. | words while still in Galilee.
                                         |
"But when  his brethren  were  gone  up, | When his brethren had gone up,
then went he also up unto the feast, not | then went he also up into the fields
openly,  but as it were in secret."  You | not openly, but in secret. You would
would wonder why a man like Christ would | wonder why a man like Christ would
have something  to hide?  I mean surely, | have something to hide. I mean sure-
the angels would protect him, obviously. | ly, the angels would protect him,
A person  would  think  a  lot of things | obviously. A person would think a
about this strange character, and dispo- | lot of things about this strange cha-
sition of character.                     | racter and disposition of character.
                                         |
But  we're sure --  being Christians  -- | But we're sure that Christ knew what
that Christ knew what he was doing.  And | he was doing. That if you had thought
"the Jews [sought] him at the feast, and | he was a theif and said, "Where is
said,  Where is he?  And  there was much | he?" there was much ... among the
murmuring  among  the people  concerning | people concerning him, but some said,
him: [for] some said,  He is a good man: | "He is a good man," only today. But
others said, Nay; but he deceiveth   the | he didn't see what the people, how
people.  Howbeit  no man spake openly of | be it no man say hopefully again for
him for fear of the Jews."               | fear of the Jews.
                                         |
Now we understand  the Jews at that time | Now we understand that Jews at that
had  their own  religious-political net- | time had their own religious politi-
work,  didn't  they?  They  were  pretty | cal network, didn't they? They were
strong  in the religious spectrum,   al- | pretty strong in the religious sec-
though  they  had  no  actual  political | tor, although they had no actual
power.  They were subject  to  the Roman | political power and were subject to
government,  and not  to their own judi- | the Roman government. And that was
cial/levitical laws.                     | traditionally the law.
                                         |
"Now about the midst of the feast  Jesus | Now about the ... of the scene. Je-
went up  into  the temple,  and  taught. | sus went up to the temple and talked
And  the  Jews  marvelled,  saying,  How | The Jews ...
knoweth this man letters,  having  never |                        having never
learned?"   Now in the days of Israel,   | learned.  Now the days of Israel,
most scholars   and teachers will agree, | most scholars, teachers will agree
  that  the schools of Israel,  ordained | that the schools of Israel ordained
by the Sanhedrin and also the Pharisees, | by the king of Egypt and also the
were schools  similar  to the uhh,  ones | Pharisees were still subject to the
of our own theological schools of today. | ... theological ... of today.
                                         |
Of which  the careful student  of Scrip- | I wish they could fulfill the Scrip-
ture observes,  that nowhere is it writ- | ture that nowhere is it written in
ten in the gospel  that Christ  ever at- | the gospel that Christ ever attended
tended these schools.  But at the age of | these schools. But at the age of 12,
12,  he did enter  into the temple,  and | he did enter into the temple ...
had  a most unique  and interesting dis- | the most unique and interesting dis-
cussion with  the religious leaders,  of | cussions with the religious leaders
which they were  quite amazed at, such a | and they were amazed at the young
young lad's knowledge of Scripture.      | man's knowledge of the Scriptures.
                                         |
Now this man  was teaching  something -- | Now this man was teaching ...
(no doubt Christ that is)  that inspired | Christ that is, that as far as the
the  people  to  say,  (you know),  "How | teachings go, you know, how low is
knoweth  this  man  (you  know)  letters | man that he
having  never learned?"  They  marveled. |        never learned. They marveled.
"Jesus answered them and [said], My doc- | Jesus went to them and said, "My
trine  is not  mine,  but his that  sent | doctrine is not mine, but his that
me."  Now, what does that mean? "My doc- | sent me." What does that mean? My
trine is not mine, but his that sent me. | doctrine is not mine, but his that
If any man,  will" (do the will) "do his | sent me. If any man will do his
will,  he shall know  [of] the doctrine, | will, he shall know the doctrine,
whether it be of God, or whether I speak | whether it be a god or whether I
of myself."                              | speak of myself.
                                         |
Now friends,  people that love the Lord, | But friends, people that love the
this  is where  we begin  to uhhh,  talk | Lord, this is where we begin to talk
about some serious things.               | about very serious things.
                                         |
I'm sure you're all aware of how...  how | I'm sure you're all aware of how I'm
I'm  involved  in a  very serious  thing | involved in a very serious thing
right now,  and  I'm sure that  a lot of | right now, and I'm sure that a lot
you  realize  that I should  be possibly | of you realize that I should be pos-
scared, concerned. There's women, child- | sibly scared, and hurt. There's wo-
ren, and men involved,  in our situation | men, children and men involved in
here  at Mount Carmel.  But  I am really | our situation here at Mount Carmel.
concerned about the lives of my brethren | But I am really concerned about the
here,  and also, would be concerned even | lives of my brethren here, and also
greater, about the lives of all those in | would be even greater concerned
this world.                              | about the lives of all those in this
                                         | world.
                                         |
You know, without Christ, without Jesus, | You know, without Christ, without
we have no hope.  Why?  Well, because we | Jesus, we have no hope. Why? Well,
know  that  the standard  of God's righ- | because we know that the standard of
teousness is Law,  a law of the Ten Com- | God's rigteousness is law, a law of
mandments,  a law of statutes  and judg- | the Ten Commandments, a law of
ments.  And which  God gave  unto  Moses | statutes and judgements that which
on Sinai,  saying this is thy righteous- | God gave to Moses. This is my righ-
ness, O Israel.                          | teousness and wisdom.
                                         |
But you know, God also gave another law. | But you know, God also gave another
A law revolving around a system of shed- | law. A law revolving on a system
ding  a poor and innocent lamb's  blood. | called shedding of horror and inno-
So that  all who would break  the Law of | cent man's blood. But it all would
God,  who would seek God for forgiveness | break the law of God who would seek
and pardon,  had to bring a lamb,  some- | God for forgiveness and pardon ...
thing innocent, and slay it -- although, | had to bring a lamb, something inno-
Israel themselves  never really knew the | cent and slay it although ... never
real meaning of this.  Nonetheless, they | knew the real meaning of this. None-
were commanded to do it. Also there were | theless, they were commanded to do
other sacrifices, such as: turtle-doves, | it, ... the sacrifice of the turtle
goats, oxen, red heifers.                | dove, red heifer.
                                         |
But,  it was  a  very sophisticated  and | It was a very sophisticated and very
very prolific type system of worship. Of | holistic type of worship. Of course,
course,  God  had to  give  these people | God had to give these people their
their own country.  He had  to give them | own own country and had to give them
blessings and things, to be able to per- | ...     things to be able to perform
form these,  rituals.  And  naturally of | the rituals and ...
course,  having to slay a lamb  for your |         lamb for your sins that they
sins or such sacrifices, it would defini-| sacrificed. It would definitely keep
tely keep a man on guard, not to sin too | a man on guard not to sin too much,
much,  because  otherwise  he could lose | because otherwise he could lose his
the livestock pretty quick, couldn't he? | livestock pretty quick in the end.
                                         |
Well anyway, (thanks be unto God),  from | Well anyway, thanksgiving to God
as far back as  Deuteronomy 32,  all the | from as far back as the year 32 all
way through to Malachi,  there  has been | the way to Malachi. There has been
other writings,  writings of  the Proph- | other writing, writing of the proph-
ets.  Writings who do not  usurp the au- | ets, writing to that Utopia ...
thority of Moses, but actually exalt The | of Moses, but actually it dealt the
Law of Moses.  But yet  there's an addi- | law of Moses with an additional
tional testimony.  For the same  God  of |          testimony  for the same God
Heaven -- Who's rich in mercy -- has not | who ... mercy has not only given us
only given to men a Law,  but also a way | a law but also a way to escape for
of escape, for those Repentant Souls who | those ... souls who might fall short
might fall short  of the glory  of God's | of the glory of God's law. Some
law.  Which  some scholars  will  agree, | scholars will agree that the glory
that the glory of God's law is that it's | of God's law is the divine percep-
a divine precept of  His  own character. | tion of an old character. God's
God's character is revealed in The Law.  | characters are yet the law.
                                         |
Now, Christ is the only hope for a world | Now, Christ is the only hope for a
that sins.  Now, how do we know? Well -- | world to mend now. How do we know?
The  Prophets  --  have prophesied?  But | Well, the prophet. The prophet died
what  if  we're  not familiar  with  the | But what if we're not familiar with
prophets?  Well, were the Jews  familiar | the prophet? Well, were the Jews
with the prophets when  this Word-of-God | familiar with the prophet when this
was made flesh?  When Mary,  The Virgin, | word of God was made flesh? When
had  a baby boy,  did everyone  believe, | Mary, the virgin, had a baby boy,
that she was really a virgin when Christ | did everyone really believe that
was conceived?                           | she was truly a virgin when Christ
                                         | was conceived?
                                         |
If we search the Scriptures,  we'll find | We search the Scriptures and we'll
in certain arguments  the Pharisees con- | find that certain arguments -- the
fronted Christ  --  and said to him, "We | Pharisees confronted Christ and said
be  not  sons  born of fornication."  So | to him, "We be not sons born of for-
obviously, not everyone believed that he | nication." So obviously, not every-
was a  child of a virgin birth!  If they | one beleived that he was a child of
hadn't  looked back to Isaiah chapter 8, | a virgin birth. If they hadn't
and  learned  the  mystery  of  Immanuel | looked back to Isaiah ... and
-- that a virgin would conceive and bear | learned the mystery of Immanuel,
a son --  then they might not really put | that a virgin was conceived ... then
too much ahhm...  [con]sistency into the | they might not really put too much
fact that Christ  at that day claimed to | consistency into the fact that that
be born of a virgin.  I mean,  if Isaiah | day Christ claimed to be born of a
the  prophet was  a false prophet,  well | virgin. I mean, if Isaiah he prophet
then naturally they  would conclude that | was a false prophet, well then
anyone  claiming  to have  these  things | naturally they would be ... having
fulfilled would be false, too.           | things before would be false, too.
                                         |
But of course, Christ,  he did something | But Christ, he didn't look ...
more, than to just fulfill prophecy.  He | to just fulfill prophecy. He did
did miracles. Miracles of mercy such as: | miracles. Miracles of mercy such as
healing  the sick,  feeding  the hungry, | healing sick, feeding the hungry,
raising the dead.  And if we study we'll | raising the dead, and we said he was
see that "Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John" | seen. ... Matthew, Mark, Luke and
gives us in somewhat, a full view of the | John gives us a full view of the
oppositions, and also, the confidements, | opposition and also the confinement
that he had in doing these miracles.  He | in doing these miracles.
gathered many unto him through the means |
of these miracles.                       |
                                         |
But sad to say,  even though he had done | But sad to say, even though he had
so many  miracles,  Scripture says,  yet | done so many miracles in his day,
when it came right down to it,  they did | yet when it came right down to it,
not  believe in  him.  It's  amazing  to | they did not believe in him. It's
think that  even his own disciples  for- | amazing to think that even his own
sook  him -- except Mary Magdalene.  She | disciples were slipping, except Mary
stayed with him to the very end,  didn't | Magdalene. She stayed with him to
she?  Last to leave The Cross,  first to | the very end, didn't she? Last ...,
come to the sepulchre.   Now, we need to | first ... to come to ....     But we
sit here,  and we need  to ask ourselves | need to sit here and we need to ask
the question,  `how come the men of that | ourselves the question, How come the
generation did not believe in Christ?'   | men of that generation did not
                                         | believe in Christ?
                                         |
In Matthew 23,  Christ had to say to the | In Matthews 23, Christ had to say to
Jews "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem"  how often | the Jews, "All of Jerusalem, Jerusa-
I would have gathered you, but you would | lem, how often I would have gathered
not.  Why?  He tells them that they have | you, but you would not."  Why?  He
forsaken The Prophets.  "Thou that kill- | tells them that they have forsaken
est the prophets,"  how  often  I  would | the prophet. How does the subject of
have gathered you.  How does the subject | gathering Israel and the prophet
of `gathering Israel' and `the prophets' | combine together? Then he tells them
combine together?  Then  he  tells  them | that their house, their temple, is
that their houses, their temple, is left | left in dust
to them desolate.                        |
                                         |
And that in Matthew  24,  as Christ said | and that in Matthew 24 as Christ ...
on  the Mount of Olives,  his  disciples |                        his disciples
came to him secretively to ask him, con- | came to him secretly to ask him con-
cerning these things. What should be the | cerning these things, that should be
sign of thy coming and of the end of the | the sign of my coming, like the end
world? Well, Christ begins to tell them, | of the world. Well, Christ began to
let no man deceive you,  "For many shall | tell them that no man deceives you,
come  in my name,  saying,  I am Christ; | ...    and my name, and I am Christ.
and shall deceive many."                 |
                                         |
A lot of bible students think that verse | A lot of bible students think that
refers to the people coming,  and saying | the verse refers to the people com-
that  they themselves are Christ.  Well, | ing and saying that they themselves
naturally,  if someone came  claiming to | are Christ. Well, actually if
be Christ...  Christ covers that subject | someone came claiming to be Christ,
by saying that if any shall say, Lo he's | Christ covers that subject by saying
"in the desert;" believe him not "go not | ... alone in the desert, believe him
forth." If he is in the secret chambers; | not ... if he has a secret chamber,
"believe it not."                        | believe him not.
                                         |
But he goes on to say, that as lightning | But he goes on to say that as light-
shines  in  the east,  even to the west, | ning strikes to the east, even to
so also shall his coming be. And he goes | the west, will also show in ... me.
on to add,  but "wheresoever the carcase | He goes on to add, "But wheresoever
is,  there will  the eagles  be gathered | the carcass will end, there wil the
together."                               | eagles be gathered together."
                                         |
Now, unless we knew what was on the mind | Now unless we knew what was on the
of Christ,  the day he sat with his dis- | mind of Christ the day he sat with
ciples on the Mount of Olives,  and gave | his disciples ... and gave instruc-
the  instruction  to  them according  to | tion to them according to Matthew
Matthew 24;  unless  we could  look into | 24. Unless we could look into his
his mind,  we would only have  to specu- | mind, we would only have to specu-
late, it would only be an opinion to try | late and it would only be an opinion
to figure out what it means, "wheresoev- | to try to figure out what it means,
er the carcase is, the  eagles..."  What | "wheresoever the carcass is, the ea-
carcass?  Whose  carcass?  What  eagles? | gles." What carcass? Whose carcass?
What are the eagles?                     | What eagle? What are the eagles?
                                         |
Well,  Christ tells you of many signs in | Well, Christ tells you ... in
Matthew 24.  He says, "when ye shall see | Matthew 24. He says that ye shall
the abomination of desolation, spoken of | see the abomination of desolation,
by Daniel the prophet, stand in the Holy | spoken of by Daniel the prophet, and
Place, (of course, it says ye that read- | the Holy Place. Of course, it says
eth, let him understand),  those who are | ye that read it may not understand.
in Judea are  supposed  to  flee  to the |
mountains.                               |
                                         |
Now, what kind of points are these? What | What kind of points are these? What
is in  the mind  of  Christ?  Is  Christ | is in the mind of Christ? Is Christ
trying  to tell us,  that we need  to go | trying to tell us that we need to go
back  and study  the prophet Daniel,  to | back and study the prophet Daniel?
see if maybe Daniel had some insight, in | That maybe Daniel had the inside
regards  to  an abomination  that maketh | story on abomination and desolation?
desolate?  Now,  an abomination is some- |             Abomination is something
thing  nobody wants;  especially,  if it | nobody wants, especially if it
makes  us desolate.  Now, what  do these | makes desolate. What do these things
things mean?                             | mean?
                                         |
Well,  we learned earlier in the Book of | Well, we learned earlier in the Book
John, Christ stated, "My doctrine is not | of John. Christ stated, "My doctrine
mine,  but he who sent me."  Now,  we've | is not mine, but he who sent me. "
got "Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John" (and | Now we've got Matthew, Mark, Luke
everybody  in  the Christian  world his- | and John and everybody in the Chris-
tory), to hear these men  reveal Christ. | tian world who's free. To hear these
The Christ they lived with.  The  Christ | men reveal Christ, the Christ they
they loved.  The Christ that they didn't | lived with, the Christ they loved,
understand  sometimes.  The Christ  that | the Christ they didn't understand
they  had  to  see  cruelly mocked,  and | sometimes, the Christ they had to
beaten,  and  ridiculed,  and  rejected, | see cruelly mocked and beaten and
and killed.                              | ridiculed, and killed.

But, thanks be unto God on the Cross[!], | But thanks being to God on the
their Jesus,  stated,  "Father,  forgive | cross, their Jesus said, "Father
them;  for they know not  what they do." | forgive them, for they know not what
And he also said,  (which  is  the point | they do," He also said, which is the
that we're fixin' to get into quite hea- | point ... to get into not quite yet,
vily),  "Father,  into thy hand I commit | that "Father, in thy hand I commit
my spirit."                              | my spirit."
                                         |
Taking from Psalms 31,  we begin  to see |                ... began to see that
that  Christ is quite well versed in the | Christ is quite well versed in the
Scriptures,  just like  the Gospels tell | Scriptures.
us, when he confronted the devil. Always |                               Always
referring against the temptation by sta- | referring the temptation by saying,
ting,  "It is written, It is written, It | 'It is written, it is written, it is
is written."                             | written.'
                                         |
Now what is this Spirit of Christ? Well, | Now, what is this spirit of Christ?
they pierced his side,  and out his side | Well, they pierced his side and out
came blood and water. Again another mys- | his side came blood and water. Again
tery.  Which became something to do with | another mystery. Which became some-
eating his body, and drinking his blood, | thing to do with eating his body
some implements for The Church.          | and drinking his blood.
                                         |
But, what does these things really mean? | But what do these things really mean?
Well,  after we've read Acts and learned | Well, after we've read Acts and
of the Power on Pentecost -- the "cloven | learned of the pyro ... and glowing
tongues of fire" --  that came  upon the | tons of fire that came upon the
Apostles,  who by mercy  through Christ, | apostles who by firstly knew Christ
were  given  another  chance  to recover | were given another chance to recover
from  their  folly;  we learned  through | from their falling. We learned
Romans  that there is a righteousness of | through Romans that there is a
God in Christ,  "declare  his righteous- | righteousness in Christ and through
ness."                                   | Corinthians ...
                                         |
We learn in Corinthians 1st and 2nd.  We |
learn in Ephesians, Galatians, and Phil- |                     Oh, we have such
lipians...  Ohh!  We have such a wealth: | a wealth of information from such
of information, of such intelligent men, | intelligent men who speak sometimes
who speak sometimes, very deep  mystical | very deep, mythical sayings about a
things about a God -- who is in the form | God who is the form of humanity, who
of humanity -- who is the Son of God who | is the son of God, who sits at the
sits  at  the right hand  of God  in the | right hand of God in the highest
highest courts of the universe. Who pro- | court in the universe, who promises
mises that one day, He will come again.  | that one day he will come again.
                                         |
Well,  the last living Apostle,  through | Well, the last move is possible
this great  controversy...  (and I might | through this great controversy, And
add -- those who  persecuted Christ, who | I might add, those who persecuted
would not hear him  no matter what  sign | Christ, who would not hear him no
was given) ...also persecuted his disci- | matter what sign was given, also
ples.                                    | persecuted his disciples.
                                         |
And finally,  we end  up in the  Book of | And finally, we end up in the Book
Revelation, where John, (the last living | of Revelation, where John, the last
disciple on the isle of Patmos), being a | living disciple on the island of ...
prisoner for the Word of God and for the | being a prisoner for the word of God
testimony  of Jesus Christ  --  which no | and for the testimony of Jesus
doubt is a thing Jesus has to say. Which | Christ, which would probably be
would probably be quite controversial to | quite controversial to the saints
the things that the Pharisees and Sanhe- | and the Pharisees of the day would
drin of the day had to say, we're sure.  | have to say, we're sure, ...
                                         |
He, (being on this isle of Patmos a pri- |                             on the
soner, on the Lord's day), had a vision. | Lord's day had a vision. It states
And it states in this vision, (we should | in this vision -- we should all be
all be familiar with it hopefully  -- or | familiar with it hopefully, or
get familiar with it),  he has a messen- | get familiar with it -- he has a
ger,  The Angel Lord  come  to him,  who | messenger who comes to him and
identifies himself as the Spirit. And he | identifies himself as the Spirit,
is told, to write  to the seven churches | and he is told to write to the
of Asia.  Of which,  we  can see clearly | seven churches of Asia of which we
in the Scriptures, that they  were given | can see clearly in the Scriptures
specific  and  direct     messages  from | that they were given specific and
Christ.    And in each one of these mes- | direct messages from Christ ...
sages,  Christ specifically told  to the | specifically told the churches what
churches what he would have them to do.  | he would help them to do.
                                         |
Now, we know that Christ is the only man | Now we know that Christ is the only
in  Scripture  who ever kept  The Law of | man in the Scripture who ever kept
God  perfectly.  We  know  that, because | the law of God perfectly. We know
we've heard the writings of the apostles.| that because we've heard the rite of
But,  sad to say,  the religious leaders | the apostles. But, sad to say, the
of  his days,  and  the majority  of the | religious leaders of his day and the
populace  of his days,  didn't think so. | majority of the apostles of his day
It's funny  how  that is.  It's  kind of | didn't think so. It's funny how that
like  people  always like  to build  the | is. It's kind of like people always
sepulchers  of the  dead  prophets,  and | like to build the ...
garnish their tombs,  but yet  they hate | and garnish their ...      yet they
and kill living prophets. Only God knows | hate to kill living prophets.
why that is. But nonetheless...          | But nonetheless,
                                         |
To the church (of Ephesus, Smyrna, [Per- |
gamos,]  Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, |
Laodicea  -- the churches thus involved, |    the ... churches lived to see it.
for anyone to read) direct counsel's gi- | For anyone to read direct counsel
ven.  Beginning  with,  "UNTO  the angel | given, beginning with a name for
of the church  of Ephesus  write;  These | church ...
things," (then... blah - blah), and what |
happens is this message is given.        |            the rest is given.
                                         |
And then the decision is up to those who |
profess Christ.  Each counsel ends with, |
"he that hath an ear..." --  to hear  -- |
(only if you want to know) "let him hear |
what the Spirit saith unto the churches."|
                                         |
Finally, we get to the fourth chapter of | Finally, we get to the fourth chap-
Revelation. And the student of Scripture | ter of Revelation, and the student
becomes interested in the subject, which | of Scriptures becomes interested in
according to John says, "After..." these | the subject, which according to John
things, (of course,  he was referring to | says,
the last part of the 3rd chapter, of the |
message to Laodicea).                    |
                                         |
He says  after  these things, <I fol...> |          "After these things I fall
"And, behold, a door was open in heaven: | behind the road to go to heaven..."
and  the first voice  which" spake to me |
"as it were of a trumpet,"  talked  with |
me;  which says,  "come up hither, and I |
will shew" you that "which must be here- |
after."                                  |
                                         |
Now,  the question to every true  Chris- | The question that every true
tian is this:  Is John  telling it  as a | Christian is this: Is John telling
truth,  or is John lying to us?  We know | the truth, or is he lying? He know
he just gave counsels  to the 7 churches | he just gave ... to the seven
of Asia, (which were alive and hopefully | churches of Asia ...
in good health, when he first gave these |
letters to them).  But nonetheless, they |
being of Asia, are no wise the same peo- |
ple of us today, or even of the oncoming |                      or even of the
years thereafter.                        | oncoming years thereafter.
                                         |
So, the events of Chapter 4, clearly ex- | So the events of Chapter 4 clearly
plained by John,  that his messenger  as | explained by John that his messenger
sent to him stated that he'd be taken up | as sent to him stated that he be
  hither -- therefore a Door opened into | taken up hither, which must be
Heaven (the Bible records), and he would | hereafter.
be shown things which must be hereafter, |
  sometimes after John's day.            |
                                         |
Now what does he behold? In chapter 4 of | Now what does he behold? He says he
Revelation,  he says that  he was in the | is of the spirit, immediately after
spirit, "immediately I was in the spirit:| the spirit was behold that a throne
and, behold, a throne was set in heaven."| was set in heaven. And he states the
And  he states that the throne was occu- | throne was occupied.
pied, "one sat on the throne."           |
                                         |
And, He that sat upon the Throne,  which | What sat on the throne? ...
[was] "lined"  with jasper  and  sardine |
stone.  A careful student  of Scripture, | A careful study of Scripture goes
knows, all the way through prophecy, all | all the way through prophecy, to
the way  through the Bible,  as far back | the Bible, as far back as the days
as the days of Genesis, even to the pro- | of Genesis ...
phecy of Deuteronomy 32,  where it says, |                      where it says
God is a rock -- `He is a Rock.' And his | God is a rock; he is our rock.
work is done in truth  and righteousness |
--  all the prophets refer  to God  as a | All the prophets refer to God as a
Rock.                                    | rock.
                                         |
Now here we see in Revelation John like- |
wise witnesses God has the appearance of |
a  jasper and sardine  stone.  He claims |                           He claims
that there was a rainbow round about the | that there was a rainbow around the
throne in sight like an emerald. He care-| throne,
fully  saw that  there were living crea- |       that there were living beings
tures around the throne saying that  God | around the throne, saying that God
is  "holy, holy, holy ... which was, and | is holy, holy, holy, which was, is
is, and is to come."  A God, who created | and is to come, God, who created
all things,  for His pleasure  they were | all things, were and are.
and are created."                        |
                                         |
Now,  this instruction emphasizes,  that | Now these instructions emphasized
there is  a God, a kingdom, a judiciary, | that there is a God, a kingdom, a
(in the respect that John witnesses that | judiciary and the respect that John
there  are  24  elders,  sitting  on  24 | witnesses that there are 24 elders
thrones, seems to imply a judgment). But | sitting on 24 thrones seems to im-
uniquely enough in this judgment,  or in | ply a judgment that uniquely enough
this throne, (or in `this heavenly sanc- | in this judgment or in this throne
tuary,'  as we see from the writings  of | or in this heavenly sanctuary as we
Paul, the Apostle), Paul talks about the | see in the rise of Paul the apostle.
heavenly sanctuary, the heavenly Sion.   | Paul talks about the heavenly
                                         | things, the heavenly design.
                                         |
In this sanctuary  we see a God, a rain- | In this sanctuary we see a God, a
bow, a throne;  living creatures stating | rainbow, a throne,
that God is holy; which was, and is, and |
is-to-come --  God of the past, present, |
and future.  And that  this God,  who is |                     and this God
the Creator of all things,  is holy  and | created all things, is holy and
deserves to be worshipped.               | deserves to be worshiped.
                                         |
We continue on in chapter 5, to see that |
I beheld, John says,  "in the right hand |           .... the idea being this
of him that sat on the throne a book" or | is in a book or a scroll, sealed
a scroll  --  "sealed with seven seals." | with a seal. Notice it's written
(Notice,  it's written on the inside and | on the inside and the backside ....
the backside.) Well the meaning of these | Well, the meaning if these things
things can only be speculated,  until we | can only be speculated until we
have solid proof, in other words, unless | have solid proof -- in other words,
we were there  ourselves  to see it,  in | unless we were there ourselves to
detail.                                  | see it in detail,
                                         |                   then what we are
But,  what we are allowed to see  in the | allowed to see in the Scripture as
Scripture, (as John also beholds) [is] a | John also divulges, is this mighty
mighty angel.  In this throne room  were | angel. This angel is this little
all these angels,  "[ten] thousand times | room with all these angels, thou-
ten  thousand,  and  thousands  of thou- | sands and thousands,
sands," are called together.             |
                                         |
And,  this  mighty angel  questions  all |               and this mighty angel
those in heaven,  "Who is worthy to open | questions all those in heaven: "Who
this book,  and to loose the seven seals | is the one who owns this book and
thereof?"  Clearly Scripture states, "no | the ..." Clearly the Scriptures say
man in heaven,  [nor in] earth,  neither | that no man have it, neither on
under the earth" (of course `buried'  in | earth, neither under the earth.
other  words,  we do  have dead  in this |
world,  you know),  was  worthy  to open |
"neither to look thereon."               |
                                         |
So hey!  God says in Scripture, at least | So hey, God says in his book, at
John testifies,  in Scripture,  that the | least John testified in his book
Mystery of God -- His Book -- is sealed. | that the mystery of God is sealed.
                                         |
Well, what happens is, as we continue on | Well, what happens is as we continue
we see in Chapter 5, that John begins to | on in Chapter 5 that John begins to
weep until one of the elders says, "Weep | weep until one of the others says,
not" John "behold, the Lion of the Tribe | "Please do not John; behold the lion
of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevail-| of the trial of Judas. ..."
ed to open the book,  and  to loose [the | ... to open the book and to loose
seven] seals thereof." (Of which we know | the seal thereof. We know the lamb
the Lamb,  being a symbol of Christ,  is | is the symbol of Christ is brought.
brought to view.)                        |
                                         |
And,  John beheld a lamb,  that had been | John beheld a lamb that had been
slain "in the midst of the throne and of | slain in the midst of the throne ...
the four beasts,"  and the elders,  with | Well, what's the meaning of these
seven eyes and seven horns. Well, what's | things?
the meaning of these things?             |
                                         |
If God,  does have a revelation of Jesus |
Christ, which he gives to him to show to |
his servants,  then here we begin to see |
the meaning of these things. We see that | We see that God does have a book,
God has a Book, which must be hereafter, | which must be the hereafter
(sometime after  John's day;  can-not be | somewhere -- cannot be before
before John's day). The event is clearly | John's day.
identified as [one] which must be in the |
hereafter.  And in this event, there's a |
Judgment that takes place.               |
                                         |
The Question  --  `Who is worthy?'  (The |
answer, `No man.') The Answer to this -- |
`Only  the Lamb.' So, [in] Scripture the |
Lamb comes to the  One on the Throne and |
takes the  Book out  of his  Right Hand, |
and all  of heaven bows before  Him, and |
gives Him glory and honor. And then John | And then John beheld a lamb in
beheld the Lamb, in Chapter 6, beginning | Chapter 6, beginning
to OPEN THE SEALS.                       | to open the ...
                                         |
Now, I've heard a lot of statements  the | Now, I've heard a lot of statements
past  couple of days,  from  people that | the last couple of days from people
are  versed  in Scripture,  from  people | that are versed in Scripture saying
that are students  of the Bible,  saying | this and that about the meaning of
this and  saying that  about the meaning | these seals.
of these seals. But remember, we already | Now remember, we have already seen
see  that in  heaven,  Christ,  when  he | in heaven when Christ reveals the
reveals the seals --  He is the only one | seals, he is the only one that can
that can  do so.  And remember, it's al- | do so, and remember the revelation
ready  been  said  it's  a revelation of |
Him,  so there's  a mystery  between God |                        between God
the Father,  His Book,  and Christ,  and | and Christ and the Father and how
what He is to reveal.                    | he is to reveal the seals.
                                         |
What  Scripture does tell us though,  is |
that John  beheld The Lamb  open the 1st |
seal in chapter 6,  there was a noise of |
thunder,  and  one of  the 4  beast said |
come and see.  John witnessed... <excuse | John witnessed the ...
me>.  John witnessed that when he opened |
the 1st seal,  there was "behold a white |
horse:" and he that sat up on him  had a |
crown,  a bow was  given to him, "and he |
went forth conquering, and to conquer."  |
                                         |
Well, how does  this reveal Christ?  Oh, |
well, a lot of people will tell you this |
was  the  early  christian  church.  The |
white horse is a symbol of purity.  Some |
even  say this  is the anti-christ,  but |
now wait  a  minute.  A lot of  opinions |
have been given on this subject.         |
                                         |
So also on the 2nd seal.  The man on the |
red horse has a great sword, going forth |
(you know) killing one another... I mean |
come on!  Is this a revelation of  Jesus |
Christ?                                  |
                                         |
o [The first seal]                       |
                                         |
  One who has  "a bow",  "conquering and |
  to conquer" -- sounds like war.        |
                                         |
o And the 2nd seal.                      |
                                         |
  "A  great sword",  "that  they  should |
  kill one another" -- sounds terrible.  |
                                         |
o The 3rd seal.                          |
                                         |
  [The] "man on a black horse," has bal- |
  ances. You know. What's this wheat and |
  barley stuff?  "Hurt not  the oil  and |
  the wine."                             |
                                         |
o The 4th seal.                          |
                                         |
  "A pale horse,"  [and the] name of the |
  one  who sits on there  is Death,  and |
  Hell follows him. How can these things |
  reveal Christ?                         |
                                         |
o The 5th seal.                          |
                                         |
  Souls under [the] altar  crying to God |
  to avenge  their blood  which was shed |
  upon the earth.  I mean, what is this? |
                                         |
o The 6th seal.                          |
                                         |
  Suns and stars being darkened. The hea-|
  vens depart  as a scroll.  The sons of |
  men crying to the rocks  and mountains |
  to hide them  from the face of the One |
  who sets upon the Throne. I mean,  The |
  One who sets upon the Throne -- that's |
  The Father, that's The Rock, isn't it? |
  What can these things mean?            | How can these things be -- the seven
                                         | seals opened?
o The 7th seal is opened.                |
                                         |
  And all of a sudden  `the angel at the |
  altar.' Then we begin to see the open- | We will begin to see the opening
  ing of the trumpets.                   | of the seventh seal --
                                         |
Remember now, the 7th seal, contains all | contains all the information for the
the information  from  that point  -- to | Bible.
the rest of the Bible. The trumpets con- |
tain a very interesting and unique story,|
but  remember,  we've got  to understand |
`how to find the key' to interpret these | We have to find a key to understand
things  --  not with our  opinions,  but | these things. The only way we can do
with the Mind of God.  And no one can do | that is to have the fear of God.
that,  unless we have the Spirit of God. |
And  no one  can  have that,  unless God |
gives it to us.                          |
                                         |
Now let me review.                       |
                                         |
Notice  how  during  the  6th seal,  the |
question is asked  in the time  of God's |
apparent wrath,  who  shall be  able  to |
stand? "For the [great] day of his wrath |
is come; and who shall be able to stand?"|
                                         |
Notice, how  that in,  the next chapter, |
chapter 7,  NOT  an  additional  seal is |
opened, but an answer. John sees that he | John sees that he beheld four angels
beheld "four angels standing on the four | scattered to the four corners of the
corners of the earth,  holding  the four | earth.
winds of the earth, that the wind should |
not blow on the earth,  nor on the [sea, |
nor on any tree.]"                       |
                                         |
And he saw an  "angel ascending from the |
east,  having  the  seal  of  The Living |
God:"  What could that seal be?  Who  is |
The Living God?  Is  the Living God  the |
One on the Throne?  Does  the Living God | The living God has something that
have  something  that  we need  to know? | we need to know,
Does  the Living God  have some  kind of |
seal?  What could the SEAL be?  We  know |
there's seven seals,  but that's sealed. |
No one can know that, but Christ.  Well, |
who is that angel from the east?         |
                                         |
Yes,  in Matthew 24,  a lot of ministers |
confront me and say,  there will be many |
false prophets in  the latter days.  For |
remember,  Christ   told  his  disciples |
then,  that when they see the  "abomina- |
tion of desolation," as spoken of by the |
Prophet  Daniel,  they would  understand |
something.  And he also said,  that when |
they shall say `[he's] in the desert...' |
[then] go not forth, `he's in the secret |
chamber, believe it not.'  For as light- |
ning in the east, shall  shine  unto the |
west; so also [shall the ] Son of man be.|
                                         |
[When the]  7th seal  opens  --  there's |                  and the seven seals
silence. And 7 angels and 7 trumpets pre-| have seven angels and seven trumpets.
pare themselves to sound. And it appears |
that some terrible plagues  takes place. |
What could these things mean? Well, just |
as there was  an interruption under  the |
6th  seal,  so is there  an interruption |
under the  6th  trumpet.  Under the  6th |
trumpet we learn about  a mighty army of |
200 million. What are they doing?        |
                                         |
Well,  we see,  that during the break of | In chapter 10, a mighty angel comes
this in chapter 10, a Mighty Angel comes | down from heaven and speeds through
down from heaven, "clothed with a cloud, | the clouds and the fire, and he has
.. his face ... as it were  the sun ... | in his hand a little book open. He
his feet are pillars of fire" and he has | puts his right foot upon the earth
"in his hand  a little book opened."  He | ... and cries and the lion roars.
puts his right foot  on the [sea],  left |
foot on the [earth] and cries and a lion |
roars.  And  when  he had cried,  "seven |
thunders uttered their voices." Now what |
are these  7  thunders?  What  do  these | What do these things mean? What are
things mean?  How do we  categorize this | we really looking at?
book?  What  are  we really looking  at? |
Well...                                  |
                                         |
Remember,  it is the Revelation of Jesus | The revelation is the revelation of
Christ,  which God gave to Him,  and re- | Jesus Christ that God gave to him,
member  the  most fearful  warning, ever | and remember the most fearful
given to man in Scripture is the warning | warning ever given to man is the
found  in  Revelation 22,  where  Christ | warning found in Revelation 22,
says,  "For I testify  to every man that | where Christ said, "For I testify to
hears the word of this prophecy:  If any | every man to ever hear the word of
man  should  add  to  the words  of this | this prophecy: If any man should add
prophecy,  God shall add  unto  him  the | to the words of this prophecy, God
plagues  that  are written  in this pro- | shall add unto him the plague that
phecy.  And, if  any man shall take away | reaps this prophecy; if any man
from  the words  of  this prophecy,  God | shall take away from the words of
shall  take away  his name  out  of  the | this prophecy, God shall take away
Lamb's Book of Life, and from the things | ... the glance of life, the things
in prophecy."                            | in life of this prophecy.
                                         |
Now that's fearful.  That means the book | Now that's spiritual. That means the
is not to be messed with or pranked with | book is not to be messed with or
by anybody who would dare,  think,  that | pranked with by anybody who would
they,  can by  speculation,  or  private | dare think that they can make specu-
opinions,  unlock  the  mysteries of the | lations or private opinions or
seals  and  what they contain.  Remember | unlock the mystery of the seven
the  events of  the 7th seal,  contained | seals and what they contain.  Remem-
from the 7th chapter on  -- the trumpets | ber the event of the seventh seal.
and the information thereof, just as the | Contained from the seventh chapter
6th seal contains information thereof.   | on, the trumpets and the information
                                         | thereof, just as the sixth seal
                                         | contains information thereof.
                                         |
Well then, what must be hereafter, after | Well then, what must be hereafter,
John's  day?  A revelation  of who?  Who | John says? A revelation of who? Who
gave it to him?  Who only can reveal it, | gave it to him? Who only can reveal
(Revelation  22)?  Who's going  to come? | it -- who can come -- what can one
What's  he going  to bring,  his reward? | bring?
What is his reward? Is it true in Isaiah |        What reward? ...
40 & 41 that, He's going to  come with a |                         Will he come
strong hand?  Who is the "Behold my ser- | with a strong hand?
vant,  whom  I uphold?"  What  do  these |                      What do these
things mean?                             | things mean?

Well,  we  know in  the  1st seal,  that | We know in the first seal that
Christ opens it and we hear the noise of | Christ opens it and we hear the
thunder. One of the 4 beasts says, "Come | noise of thunder. One of the four
and see."  And behold a white horse. "He | kings says, come and see and behold
that sat upon him  had  a bow;  [and]  a | a white horse. He that sat upon him
crown was given  unto him:  and  he went | had a bow. A crown was set upon him
forth conquering, and to conquer."       | and he went forth to conquer.
                                         |
Well,  in order to understand this seal, | Well, in order to understand this
we  have  to  find  out  a secret  about | seal, we have to find out a secret
Christ.   In the counsel  to  the church | about Christ. And to the aides of
of Philadelphia, we see Christ addresses | the church of Philadelphia, we see
that church in chapter 3  of Revelation, | Christ addresses them with this
with this message:  "And to the angel of | message: "Of he that is holy, of he
the church of Philadelphia write;  These | that has the key of David, he that
things saith he that is holy ... he that | open it and no man shut it, and shut
hath the key of David,  he that openeth, | it and no man open it" -- this from
and no man shutteth;  and shutteth,  and | Chapter 3 of Revelation.
no man openeth."                         |
                                         |
Well,  what does he mean to this church, | Well, what does this door opening
"I ... set before thee an open door, and | and shutting mean?
no man can shut it: for thou hast a lit- |
tle strength?"  What  could  this  mean? |
What  is  the  Key-of-David?  Isaiah  22 |                      Isaiah 22 talks
talks about the Key-of-David, but it re- | about the key of David but refers to
fers to  "Eliakim."  But still,  what is | Hilkiah. But still, what is the key
the Key-of-David?                        | of David -- what does this mean?
                                         |
Well, of ancient times, Christ being the | Well, I think at the time, Christ
root and offspring of David. David was a | being the root offspring of David,
great  king  in  Israel.  And  David was | David was a great king in Israel. If
anointed of God,  being  a shepherd lad. | David was an ordant of God, being a
But through the power of God he was able | shepherd lad and to the power of God
to  overthrow,  the greatest obstacle in | he was able to overthrow the
his day, Goliath, the Philistine.  Using | greatest ..., Goliath, in his day.
5 smooth  stones,  he chose one,  and it | ...
sunk deep into the forehead of the giant.|
                                         |
Well, what happens is this.  We see that | Well, we see that this David wrote
this  David  wrote 150  Psalms  that are | 150 Psalms that are published in
published  in  most  Bibles  of  today's | most Bibles of today's modern world.
modern world.  Now  I say  that  because | Now I say that because some scholars
some scholars will agree, that there are | will agree that there are other
other psalms,  too.  But as  far  as the | psalms, too. But as far as the King
King James,  and the books of that cali- | James and the books of that caliber,
ber, we have 150 psalms.                 | we have 150 psalms.
                                         |
Well, our  subject is  the 1st seal.  We | Well, our subject is the first seal.
don't want to have any opinions, though. | We don't want to have any opinions,
We  just  want  to  simply...  see if we | though; we just want to simply the
can't  find  the mystery  of God  in the | mystery of God in the prophets.
prophets.                                |
                                         |
Well,  let's turn  in our Bible to Psalm | Well, let's turn in our Bible to
45,  and let's see if we  can't get some | Psalm 45, and let's see if we can't
kind of hint in  regards to what the 1st | get some kind of hint to what the
seal is.    It states here  (this is the | first seal is. It states here --
King  James  Version)  -- "my  heart  is | this is the King James Version --
inditing a good matter.  I speak  of the | "My heart invited a good matter. I
things  which I have made,  touching the | speak of the things which I have
king." What could it possibly mean? What | made touching the king." What could
does it mean,  "my heart  is inditing  a | it possibly mean? What does it mean
good matter?"  Does that mean  "my heart | about the king, about somebody's
is  inditing  a good  matter?"  Is some- | heart?
body's heart  inditing  a  good  matter? |
"I speak of things  I have made touching |
the  king."  Does that mean by interpre- |
tation  "I speak  of  the things  I have |
made touching the king?"  Is our subject |        Is our subject about a king
about a king? Is our subject about some- | or a person's heart? Is he talking
body's heart?  Is our subject about  "my | about Solomon?
tongue is the pen  of a ready writer?"   |
                                         |
Now, who is talking here? Well, natural- |
ly  David of Old is talking here -- cor- |
rect? Well, who is the king he's talking |
about? Solomon??  Well, let's see. "Thou |
art  fairer than  the  children of  men: |
grace is poured into thy lips: therefore | "... therefore God blessed me
God  has blessed  thee for  ever." Well, | forever ...
Solomon was a wise man wasn't he? Ok, it |
says  here,  "Gird  thy  sword  upon thy |
thigh, O most mighty, []  with thy glory |
and  thy majesty."  "And in  thy majesty |            in thy majesty ride
ride prosperously because of truth ..."  | prosperously because the truth ...
                                         |
I wonder what Solomon  rides?  Probably, |
rides a horse, doesn't he? "...and meek- |
ness  and  righteousness;  and thy right | and thy right hand shall teach thee
hand shall teach thee  terrible things." | terrible things ...
Huh?  I guess with a sword  in you right |
hand,  you could learn a lot of terrible |
things. Whoa (in verse 5), "Thine arrows |
are  sharp  in  the heart  of the King's |
enemies;  whereby  the people fall under |
thee." Hmmm. Solomon doesn't seem really |
like  too  nice  of  a guy.  That is  if |
you're enemy.                            |
                                         |
But anyway,  "Thy throne,  O God, is for |
.." (Huh? Wait a minute!)  "Thy throne, |    thy throne, oh God, is for ever."
O God is for ever and..."  (Now,  wait a |
minute.) Is David saying that Solomon is | Is David saying that Solomon is God?
God?  No, he's probably just saying that | He's probably saying that God is
God is God. Huh.  Well, why would a pro- | God. Why would a prophecy about
phecy  about  Solomon  have  to  do with | Solomon have to do with God's
God's throne? "Thy throne, O God, is for | throne? What could this possibly
ever and ever:  the sceptre of thy king- | mean? Let's take a look.
dom  is a  right sceptre.  Though lovest |
righteousness,  and hateth   wickedness: |
therefore God,  thy God..." (Wait a min- |
ute.) "...therefore God, thy God,"  what |
could  this possibly  mean?  Who is what |
God?  "Thy God,  hath anointed thee with |
the oil of gladness  above thy fellows." |
This is very strange, or is it?          |
                                         |
Well,  let's look at it  again  a little |
closer.  Scripture says that David was a | Scripture says that David was made
man  after  God's  own  heart. (Although | for God's own heart. Although David
David transgressed,  and that in no wise |
is like  God's Heart.)  But nonetheless, | ... by God's heart ...
David was  a prophet,  and  he  was  in- |
spired.  Could it be that David was used | Could it be that David was used by
by God to write down God's messages that | God to write down God's messages
would one day be revealed by Christ?  If | that would one day be revealed by
Christ does have the Key-of-David, would | Christ? If Christ does have the key
he not be able to reveal -- the Heart of | of David, would he not be able to
God?                                     | reveal the heart of God?
                                         |
God in heaven looks to be a Rock,  does- | God in heaven looks to be a rock,
n't he?  `Oh hard rock God, right. God's | doesn't he? Oh God, hard rock, but
long, God's hard...'  but wait a minute. | wait a minute ... through Christ we
Through Christ  we can see  that  God is | can see that God is not as hard as
not as hard as you think he is.  Look at | you think he is.
God.  Come up hither,  in  the light  of | Come up hither in the light of
the judgment,  and see the Father on the | judgment and see the Father on the
throne.  See the book in his right hand, | throne. See the Father on the
and  watch him  give it  to Christ,  and | throne. See the book in his right
watch him open  the 1st seal.  And let's | hand and watch him give it to Christ
see about  this man  on  the white horse | and watch him open the first seal,
who has a crown and a bow.               | and let's see about the man on the
                                         | white horse with a crown and bow.
                                         |
Now, God is the one who has written, "My | Now God is the one who is ridden.
heart is inditing a good matter: I speak | My heart sank in that. ...
of things which I have made..." Is God a |                            Is God a
maker? Is he Creator?  What does he want | maker or a creator?
to  talk about? [The] things  he's  made |
touching  the  king.  Who is  the  king? |                     Who is the king?
Could  it be  Christ?  "My tongue is the | Could it be Christ?
pen of a ready writer."  Did God write a |                     Did God write a
book?  Does God want  to talk about  His | book? Does God want to talk about
Son according to a Book? Well, what does | his son according to the book? What
God then think about His Son?            | then, does God think about his son?
                                         |
"Thou art  fairer  than the children  of |
men." Well, if that's what  God  thinks? |          ... Although I did decree
Although, Isaiah 53 says, that they will | this ... when you see there's no
see in him no beauty or desire him; God, | ... desiring, God never left us.
nevertheless  says,  "He is  fairer than | He's found the children of men.
the children  of men." Why?!  "Grace, is | One, grace is poured into thy lips.
poured  into  thy  lips."  Huh?  I guess | I guess whatever Christ says those
whatever Christ says, those who hear it, | who hear it will find grace, won't
will find grace, won't they.  Therefore, | they? Therefore God has blessed me
"God has blessed thee for ever."         | forever.
                                         |
Well. "Gird thy sword upon thy thigh,  O |               ... Thy sword upon thy
most mighty." Is Christ the most mighty? | side, oh most mighty? Is Christ the
"With thy glory and thy majesty," I mean | most mighty? With thy glory and thy
it seems like in Revelation all of Heav- | majesty? I mean, it seems like in
en bowed before the Lamb,  did they not? | Revelation like all of heaven bowed
                                         | before the Lamb, did they not?
                                         |
That's a lot  of glory.  "For thou  were | That's a lot of glory ... power,
slain to receive  power, honour,  glory, | honor, glory, riches, kingdom,
riches,  wisdom, kingdom,  might," Oooh! | might. Whoa, that a lot of
That's a lot of inheritance there. Espe- | inheritance there. But in the gospel
cially in  the Gospel when  it says,  "I | it says I've received all things of
have  received  all     things  from  my | my father ...
Father.                                  |
                                         |
"And  in  thy majesty  ride prosperously | So what could this truth be? What
because of truth."    So what could this | truth in the Bible talks about
truth be? What truth, in the Bible talks | riding a horse prosperously and its
about riding a horse  prosperously,  and | truth? Could it be Revelation? Could
its truth? Could it be Revelation? Could | it be the first seal, maybe a truth
it be the 1st seal?  Maybe a truth about | about Christ, maybe a truth about
Christ?  Maybe a truth about him being a | him being a king with a crown; could
king, (which is a crown)?  Could it be a | it be a truth about him having a
truth, about him having a horse, riding, | horse, riding conquering as a
conquering, and to conqueror? Huh.       | conqueror?
                                         |
So because of truth,  the truth of God's | So in the cause of truth, the truth
Book, the heart intention of He's indit- | of God took the heart ... and he
ed.  His tongue  is  the pen  of a ready | doesn't say nothing about the
writer.  And he  doesn't say  nothing in | judgement.
the judgement. You see, He just gives it | You see he just gives it to the
to the  Lamb.  And,  you know  the Lamb: | lamb, and you know the lamb ...
rides prosperously;  writes in truth, in | terrible thing.
meekness  and  righteousness,  "And  thy |
right  hand  shall  teach thee  terrible |
things."  Oooh. Well, what's that in his |                 Ooh. So in his right
right hand -- a sword or a book?         | hand, a sword or a book --
                                         |
Well, what does this book teach? `My ar- | well what does this book teach? My
rows are sharp in the heart of the kings | arrows are sharp in the heart of the
enemies.'  Surely,  Solomon...  was he a | kings enemies. Surely, Solomon was
killer?  Did he kill for God? Christ, is | he a killer? Did he kill for God?
he a killer?  Did he kill for God?  Will | Christ, is he a killer? Did he kill
Christ ever destroy the wicked,  whereby | for God? Will christ ever destroy
the  people  fall  under  the  <garble>? | the wicked.
What kind of gospel is this?             |
                                         | What kind of gospel is this? My
"Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever:| throne, oh God, is forever and ever.
Is Christ God? "The sceptre of thy king- | Is Christ God? The scepter of thy
dom is a right sceptre." I mean, does he | king, the right scepter -- does he
deserve to rule? Why?                    | deserve to rule? Why?
                                         |
Does he love righteousness and hate wick-| Does he love rigteousness and hate
edness? Therefore God... is not Christ's | wickedness? Therefore God is not a
God... thy  God?  Is not his God  -- the | Christ God. My God is not his God,
Father?  Is he not  going  to anoint him | the Father? Is he not going to
above  (with oil of gladness)  above his | ignore him above that ... above his
fellows? What is this oil of gladness?   | fellows?
                                         |
"All thy garments  smell of  myrrh,  and | All thy garments .. that made me
aloes,  and cassia,  out  of  the  ivory | glad; I mean, should Christ ever be
palaces,"  what about it made thee glad? | made glad? What is that, where did
I mean, should Christ ever be made glad? | that take place?
Where's this at? When's this take place? |
                                         |
"Kings' daughters were among the honour- | The king's daughters were among the
able  women."  What's  that?  "Upon  thy | honorable women? What's that? How
right hand  did stand the  queen in gold | can this be Christ? Christ is God.
of  Ophir.  "How  can  this  be  Christ? | What would he be doing with a woman?
Christ  is God.  What would he  be doing | Well, maybe she's the church. Maybe
with  a  woman?  Well,  maybe  she's the | she's the spiritual church.
church.   Maybe   she's  the   spiritual |
church. Well, who's the king's daughters | Who's the king's daughters then?
then?  Hmmm. Maybe there's more than one | Maybe there's more than one church.
church.                                  |
                                         |
Well, whatever  it may  be,  we know  in | Well, whatever it may be, we know in
verse  10,  whether  it's   a  spiritual | verse 10 whether it's a spiritual
church, or a literal woman,  there's one | church or a literal woman, there's
thing  required.  "Hearken, O  daughter, | one thing required. "Harken, oh
and consider..." Consider what? Consider | daughter, and consider." Consider
God's  heart  inditing  in good  matter. | what? Consider God's heart ... ?
Consider Who the King is. Consider who's | Consider who the king is? Consider
going to be the Powerful One.  Who's go- | who's going to be the powerful one,
ing to win, considering about the Throne | who's going to win? Consider about
of God. Considering maybe  Revelation -- | the throne of God? Consider maybe
who the Father gives The Book to.        | Revelation? Who the Father gives the
                                         | book to?
                                         |
"Incline  thine ear;  forget  also thine | "Incline thine end, forget ... thy
own  people,  and  thy father's  house." | own people thy father's house."
Well, if this was a spiritual church, it | Well, if this was a spiritual
would  seem  kind of  funny,  for God to | church, it seems kind of funny for
tell the spiritual church, to forget her | God to tell the spiritual church to
own people,  (which would be her denomi- | forget her own people and fear the
nation  of  the  Father's house),  which | domination of the father's house and
would be...,  well I thought  her father | be  -- well, I thought her own
would be God, if it were spiritual?      | father would be God if it were
                                         | spiritual.
                                         |
Now, if it  were a literal girl,  "Hear- | Now, if it were a literal girl --
ken, O daughter ... consider ... incline | 'Harken, oh daughter, consider,
thine ear;"  then  we can understand na- | incline thine ends' -- we can
turally.  If a girl is going  to marry a | understand. Now if a ... girl is
man, she has to uproot [from] one family,| going to marry a man, she has to
and join to another. Not completely, but | uproot the one family and join to
we understand  what we're saying.  So if | another. Not completely, but we
she wants to listen and learn; so should | understand what we're saying. So if
"the king greatly desire thy beauty: for | she wants to listen and learn "so
he is thy Lord, and worship thou him."   | should the king greatly desire thy
                                         | beauty, for he is thou lord, and
                                         | worship thou him.
                                         |
"And the daughter of Tyre shall be there | And the daughter Tyre shall be
with  a gift."  Who's Tyre?  Wonder what | with him again." Who's Tyre? Wonder
that is? "Even the rich among the people | what that is "Even the rich among
shall intreat  thy favour."  Rich people | thy people shall entreat thy favor."
want to intreat the favor of this queen? | Rich people want to treat the favor
"The  king's  daughter  is  all glorious | of the queen? "The king's daughter
within."  How did she become  the king's | is all ..." How did she become the
daughter?  "Within?" Why is she glorious | king's daughter? ... why does she
within?  Does she have a truth, or some- | grow ... does she have a truth or
thin'?  Is there some kind  of light she | something?  Is there some kind of
has within her?                          | light she has within her?
                                         |
Her clothes are of  "wrought gold."  She | Her clothes are of raw gold. She is
is to be brought  to the king in raiment | to be brought to the king in raiment
of needlework:  "the virgins her compan- | of needlework. The virgins, her
ions  that follow her  shall be  brought | companions that follow her should be
unto thee."  With gladness and rejoicing | brought to thee with gladness;
shall they be brought. They should enter | rejoicing they be brought. They
into the king's palace."  Instead of thy | should enter in the king's palace.
fathers, it shall be thy children." Now, | Instead of my father, it shall be
what does that mean?                     | thy children." What does that mean?
                                         |
Well,  let's break this down.  If Christ | Well, let's break this down. If
is the  Son of God,  if that's the case, | Christ is the son of God, if that's
and if we all are sons of God  --  if we | the case, and if we all are sons of
believe in Christ,  then naturally every | God, if we believe in Christ, then
girl would be a daughter of God wouldn't | naturally every girl would be a
she?  Well,  we look up to the Father on | daughter of God, wouldn't she? When
the Throne,  of which  we want to exalt. | we look up to the Father on the
We know that He is greater than all. And | throne ... we know that he is
He's  Christ's  Father,  and  He's  also | greater than all. And he's Christ's
everyones  Father.  And  Psalms 83 says, | Father and He's also everyone's
God says,  I say you are gods,  "and all | father ...
of you are children of the most High."   |
                                         |
Hosea teaches us, that we're to say, "Ye | Hosea teaches us that we're to say,
are not my people." There  it  should be | 'You're not my people"; there should
said,  "Ye are  the sons  of  the living | be said, 'You're the son of the
God." So Christ says in the Gospels, "if | living God." So ... says in in the
he called them gods,  unto whom the word | Gospels, if he calls him God then
of God came," the Law can not be broken. | the word of God of ... will not be
                                         | broken.
                                         |
Well,  we're ruining  God's Word -- it's | Well, we're ruining God's Word and
God's Spirit.  This  is  what  makes  us | God's Spirit. This is what makes us
become born again,  born  by the Spirit, | become born again, born by the
the knowledge of God. Well... so, a girl | Spirit ... Well, so, a girl believes
believes in God,  and so does  everybody | in God; so does everybody else that
else that believes in God.  So therefore | believes in God. So therefore God
God the Father has many children doesn't | the Father has many children,
He.  Christ being the firstborn, and ... | doesn't he? Christ being the
all thereafter that believe. But instead | firstborn and all thereafter ... But
of "thy fathers," it should be "thy chil-| instead of they father, it should be
dren,  whom thou mayest make  princes in | thy children. "Now man's ...
all the earth."                          | presence on all the earth."
                                         |
To the person that really doesn't under- | To the person that really doesn't
stand Scripture,  this  would seem to be | understand Scripture, this would
a very  controversial  subject.  I mean, | seem to be a very controversial
Christ never had any wife, [thus it] has | subject. I mean, Christ never had
to be Spiritual. I'll make thy name "re- | any wife. Has to be Spiritual. "I'll
membered  in all generations:  therefore | make thy name remembered in all
shall  the people  praise thee  for ever | generations therefore, so the
and ever."                               | people praise thee forever and
                                         | ever."
                                         |
Well even if it is Spiritual we know one | Well even if it is spiritual, we
thing.  We know  -- that the servants of | know one thing: We ... the spirits
God know --  that Psalm 45,  is the very | of God know that Psalm 45 is the
prophecy which must be hereafter accord- | very prophecy which must be
ing to  the 1st seal.  But just  to make | hereafter according to the first
sure we know it's going to be fulfilled, | seal. But just to make sure that
let's  turn in  our  Bible to REVELATION | it's going to be fulfilled, let's
19.  (Just so that  we can get  a better | turn in our Bible to Revelation 19.
caption  of what  we are  really looking | Just so we can get a better chapter
at.)                                     | of what we are really looking at.
                                         |
Now  remember, in  the  18th chapter  of | Now remember, in the 18th chapter of
Revelation,  we  know  that Babylon  the | Revelation we know that was the
Great  falls. She made all nations drink | great call. He made all nations
of some kind of wine of the wrath of her | drink of some wine of the wrath of
fornication. Now, we find that something | fornication. Then we find something
very bad happens,  and then in  verse 23 | very bad happens, and then verse 23
of Chapter 18  --  no more: light of the | of Chapter 18, "no more at all
candles shall shine there, nor the voice | candles will shine there ... the
of the bridegroom, nor the voice  of the | voice of the bridegroom and the
bride.                                   | voice of the bride."
                                         |
Well,  the merchants,  who are the great | Well, the merchants of the earth ...
men of the earth,  it says  in verse 23, | says in verse 23: "And for by thy
and for by their sorceries  were all the | sorceries were all the nations de-
nations deceived.  We all know about  -- | ceived." We all know about capitali-
capitalization. We know about advertise- | zation; we know about advertisement,
ment selling something, making it better | selling something, making something
than  what it  really is.  For  here  is | better than it really is. "For here
found the blood of prophets, and saints, | is found the blood of prophets,
"and  of all  that were slain  upon  the | saints of all who were slain upon
earth."  You see,  just  because  people | the Earth." You see, just because
don't accept  the truth from  God's Word | people don't accept the truth of
does not mean it's  not Truth?  And some | God's word does not mean it's not
truth that we might teach  can get us in | true. And some truth that we might
trouble.                                 | teach can get us in trouble.
                                         |
But anyway, in 1st verse, Chapter 19, it | But anyway, in ... Chapter 19 it
says,  and "after these things I heard a | says, "And after these things I
great voice  of  much people  in heaven, | heard a great voice ... from heaven.
saying, Alleluia;  Salvation, and glory, | Halelujah. Salvation, and glory, and
and honour, and power, unto the Lord our | honor, and power to the Lord our
God."  Why? "For true  and righteous are | God. Why? ...
his  judgments." I wonder what his judg- |
ments were?                              |
                                         |
Isaiah 51 talked about judgments of God. | Isaiah 51 talks about judgments of
Says something about, "HEARKEN to me, ye | God. Says something about hard for
that seek after righteousness,  ye  that | me to seek after righteousness, yet
seek the LORD: look unto the rock where- | I seek the Lord, look to the rock
by  you're  hewn."  Again,  remember  in | ..." Again, remember in Revelation,
Revelation -- God's a rock.  If God is a | God the rock? If God is a rock, he's
rock,  he's the only one who can make us | the only one who can make us new,
new,  right?  And it says,  "look to the | right? And it says look to the pit
[hole of the]  pit,"  from  which you're | for which you've dug in Isaiah 51.
dug.                                     |

In Isaiah 51, it talks about Abraham and | Talks about Abraham and promises of
promises of God.  Then it says, "Hearken | God. "Hearken unto me, my people;
unto me, my people; and give ear unto me,| and give ear unto me. O my nation.
O  my  nation:  for a law  shall proceed | For laws are received from me and I
from me,  and I will make my judgment to | will make my judgments rest, for a
rest for a light [of] the people."       | light to the people."
                                         |
Now,  we know that [what] the Law of God | Now we know that the Law of God
commands is the 10 Commandments,  but we | commands. Now we know what God and
know  when God  sent  His Son  into  the | his sons of the world --  he was the
world,  he was the Law  made flesh.  And | Law made flesh. And though he kept
although  he  kept  the  law  perfectly; | the law perfectly, nonetheless he
nonetheless,  he also  forgave  based on | also forgave based on men's
men's  ignorance.  "Father, forgive them | ignorance. "Father, forgive for
for they know not what they do."  But he | they know not what they do." ...
also committed his Spirit into the hands |
of God,  so that none  would  be without |
excuse.                                  |
                                         |
We  all know  on the  right hand  of God | We all know on the right hand of God
there's  more  light... more  light,  to | there's more light, more light to be
be known. So if God's judgments -- which | known. So if God's judgment of the
are  the 7 seals  --  are righteous  and | seven seals are righteous and true,
true... 'cause he judges the great whore.| 'cause he judges the great whore,
(Which no doubt  a whore  is not  a very | which no doubt a whore is not a very
faithful bride, is she? Absolutely not!) | faithful bride, is she? Absolutely
                                         | not:
                                         |
"Which did  corrupt  the earth  with her | "Which did corrupt the earth with
fornication,  and hath avenged the blood | her fornication and revenge at the
of his servants  at her hand?"  It seems | blood of his servants at her hand?"
like this great whore doesn't really com-| Seems like this great whore doesn't
mit itself to God,  herself to God, does | commit itself to God, herself to
she? And, she probably will be responsi- | God, does she? She probably will be
ble  for  the blood  of God's  servants, | responsible for the blood of God's
because  she  probably  won't know where | servants; she probably won't know
they're coming from.                     | where they're coming from ...
                                         |
"And  again  they  said,  Alleluia.  And |
[her] smoke rose up  for ever and ever." |
So, we know  Babylon-The-Great  is a big |                        I mean, she's
whore, right?  I mean,  she's not really | not really very faithful when it
very  faithful,  when  it comes to God's | comes to God's word, when it comes
Word,  when  it comes  to knowing  God's | to knowing God's truth. And I think
Truth.  And  I betcha  she's the kind of | that the kind of personal thing to
person  that'll claim  to be with a guy, | be with a guy and love a guy and not
and love a guy,  and not even know where | even know where he's coming from --
he's  coming  from  --  that's  how most | that's how most whores are isn't it?
whores are, isn't it?  Just think of how | Think of how many people claim they
many people claim they love Jesus Christ,| love Jesus Christ and that there is
and  that  there is ... they  don't even | truth and they don't even know where
know  where  the seals  are found in the | the seals are found in the
prophecies.  Huhhh.  I wonder  what that | prophecies. Huh, wonder what that
could mean?                              | could mean?
                                         |
"And the four and twenty elders  and the | And the .. elders, the four thieves
four beasts fell down and worshipped God"| fell down and worshiped God instead
who sat  upon  the Throne.  And  a voice | of on a throne, and a voice came in
came in heaven,  verse 5  says,  "Praise | heaven ... verse 5 says, "Praise our
our God."  How many?  "All  ye his  ser- | God. How many, all of your servants
vants,  and ye that fear him, both small | ...
and great."                              |
                                         |
"[And I] heard as it were the voice of a | heard the voice of a great
great multitude,  and [as]  the voice of | multitude, heard the voice of many
many waters,  and as the voice of mighty | waters, the voice of mighty
thunderings  saying,  Alleluia:  for the | thunderings saying, 'Halelujah,' for
Lord God Omnipotent reigneth." (All Pow- | the Lord God omnipotent reigneth."
erful reigns!)                           |
                                         |
"Let us  be glad  and rejoice,  and give | "Let us ... and rejoice and give
honor to him:  for the  marriage  of the | honor to him, for the marriage and
Lamb",  (which we learned about in Psalm | the lamb, which the marriage and
45), "is come."  So here we see  that in | the lamb" -- which we learned about
Psalm 45,  the Lamb only has  to destroy | in Psalm 45 -- is come." So here we
his  enemies.  And who are  his enemies? | see that in Psalm 45 the lamb only
Those who do not believe the Word of God.| has to destroy his enemy. And who
                                         | are his enemies? Those who do not
                                         | believe the word of God.
                                         |
Now, if a person  never had a chance  to | Now if a person never had a chance
know -- you've got to forgive 'em -- for | to know, you've got to forgive 'em,
they don't know what they do. But should | for they don't know what they do.
anybody dare try to go against the Truth | But should anybody dare to go
of God,  and try to hurt Christ, because | against the truth of God and try to
they know not, and refuse to know,  well | hurt Christ because they know not,
then, we're talking somethin' serious.   | and refuse to know, then we're talk-
                                         | ing something serious.
                                         |
"Let us be glad [and rejoice,]  and give | "Let us be glad and give honor to
honour to him:  for the marriage  of the | him, for the marriage of the lamb
Lamb is come,  and  his  wife  has  made | has come and his wife has made
herself ready."  How  do you  think that | herself ready." How do you think
girl in Psalms 45 made herself ready? Do | that girl in Psalm 45 made herself
you think she made herself ready by deny-| ready? You think she made herself
ing God  on the throne?  By denying  the | ready by denying God on the throne?
importance  of the Lamb  opening the 1st | By denying the importance of the
seal?  Do  you  think  she made  herself | lamb on the first seal? Do you think
ready  by denying that Christ had a Key- | she made herself ready by denying
of-David?  Well,  if so  then  Psalms 45 | that Christ had a ... of David?
wouldn't mean nothing to her, would it?  | Well, if so then Psalm 45 wouldn't
                                         | mean nothing to her, would it?
                                         |
But anyway, it says, to her it was gran- | But anyway, it says, "To her it was
ted  "that she should be arrayed in fine | granted that she should arrayed
linen, clean and white: for the fine lin-| in fine linen, clean and white, for
en is the righteousness of the saints."  | the fine linen is the rigteousness
                                         | of the saints."
                                         |
My  friends,  are  you  right?  Are  you | My friends, are you right? Are you
right?  Don't  worry  bout me.  Are  you | right? Don't worry about me. Are you
right? Does your Father sit on a throne? | right? Does your Father sit on a
Does He have a Book in his hand?  Did He | throne? Does he have a book in his
give it to the One you say you love? Was | hands? Did he give it to the one you
the promise that I come,  and my  reward | say you love? Was the promise that I
is with  me,  was  that  not  true?  For | come ... with me, was that not true?
someone  "that so loved the world,  that | Was someone that so loved the world
he gave his only begotten Son,"  do  you | that gave his only begotten son, do
not believe God's Heart indites  a  good | you not believe ...
matter?                                  |
                                         |
The  question of  the  judgment  is  not | The question of the judgment is not
who's  done wrong,  or who's  done evil. | whether you're doing wrong or you've
The  question is, "Who is Worthy?"  Now, | done evil. The question is, who's
Christ doesn't come  to be worthy  above | worthy. Now, Christ doesn't come to
you. Christ comes to give you his knowl- | be worthy of us. Christ comes to
edge, his righteousness.  And  is it not | give you his knowledge, his right-
right  that Psalms 45 is the same as the | eousness. Is it not right that Psalm
1st seal?  Is not Revelation 19 confirm- | 45 is the same as the first seal? Is
ing this?                                | not Revelation 19 that confirms this?
                                         |
Well,  if she  has the  righteousness of | Well, if she has the righteousness
saints, we as saints, should we not know | of saints, we as saints, do we not
rightly how to divide the Word of God... | know rightly how to divide the word
(line upon line,  precept on precept; to | of God, line upon line, ...
see here, there;  and a little here, and | precepts, is he here, there, and a
there a little.) ...the Truth of God?    | little here and there a little? The
                                         | truth of God?
                                         |
He said, "Write,  Blessed are they which | He said, "Be right; blessed are they
are called unto  the marriage supper  of | which are called to the marriage ...
the Lamb. And he said unto me, These are | of the lamb." And he said unto me,
the true  sayings  of God."  Well,  some | 'Here are the true sayings of God.'
people may not think so.                 | Well, some people may not think so.
                                         |
But now  notice how John wanted  to fall | But now notice how John wanted to
down and worship before the feet of  the | fall down and worship before the
angel which showed him these things?  He | seat of the angel before some of
said, "See thou do it not" for "I am thy | these things? He said, "Heed unto it
fellowservant, and of thy brethren..that | not, round thy fellow servants and
have  the  testimony  of Jesus:  worship | thy brethren at the testimony of
God:  for the testimony of Jesus  is the | Jesus." Worship God. The testimony
spirit of Prophecy."                     | of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
                                         |
What  do yo want to do?  Do  you want to | What do you want to do? You want to
learn about  the wrath of Christ  by him | learn the wrath of Christ by him
riding  a white  horse  into heaven  and | riding a white horse into heaven and
destroying the unbelievers? Or would you | destroying the unbeleivers? Or would
rather  him just  come,  and  teach  you | you rather him just come, and teach
these things ahead of time?              | you these things ahead of time?
                                         |
And John saw, "heaven opened, and behold | "And John saw him and opened and
a white horse;  and he that sat upon him | behold, a white horse. And he that
was called  Faithful  and True,  and  in | sit upon him was called faithful and
righteousness  he  doth  judge and  make | true. And if right ... judge make
war."  He doesn't  do it out  of unrigh- | war." He doesn't do it out of
teousness. There's a truth that's almost | unrighteousness. There's a truth
2,000 years old  called the  Revelation. | almost 2,000 years old called the
And men have built up empires, and chur- | Revelation. And men have built
ches,  all in  the name  of Christ.  But | empires, churches, all in the name
have  they given  to  their  people  the | of Christ. But have they given to
knowledge  of which  only  the Lamb  can | their people the knowledge of which
give? No.                                | only the lamb can give? No.
                                         |
"His eyes were as a flame of fire,"  the | "His eyes were a flame of fire, the
way he sees with 7 eyes -- really burns. | way he sees, seven eyes will be
"And on his head were many  crowns."  He | burned, and on his head were many
takes those from the kings of the Earth, | crowns." Takes those from the kings
you know.  And he  "had a name  written, | of the Earth, you know. And he had
that no man knew, but he himself."       | a name written that no man knew but
                                         | himself.
                                         |
People  don't  understand what  the name | People don't understand what the
Koresh means. No one knows. Scholars can | name Koresh means. No one knows;
not tell  you.  Look at all  the concor- | scholars could not tell you; you
dances,  and they  don't know.  But it's | look at all the courses they don't
found in Isaiah 45. It was  originally a | know, but it's found in Isaiah 45.
name given to a Persian king,  who over- | It was originally a name given to a
threw  ancient  Babylon.  But there's  a | Persian king ... But there's a
mystery  to  the  name  Koresh.  He  was | mystery to the name Koresh. He was
"clothed with a vesture dipped in blood,"| clothed in a ... dipped in blood
because  people don't like to  learn the | 'cause people don't like to learn
truth  that's not out of their own head. | truth that's not out of their own
"And his name is called The Word of God."| head, and his name is called the
                                         | Word of God.
                                         |
That's  why so many  times Christ has to | That's why so many times Christ has
be  rejected.  For people  know  not the | to be rejected. For people know not
Word of God,  and  without  knowing  the | the word of God, and without knowing
Word of God  -- The Book --  they'll not | the word of God, the book, they'll
know  the  seals.  Without  knowing  the | not know the seals. Without knowing
seals,  they'll do unto Christ,  fulfil- | the seals, the ... of Christ,
ling, (Isaiah.. excuse me),  Matthew 24, | fulfilling Isaiah, should be Matthew
where  the carcass is,  "there  will the | 24, where the carcass is, there will
eagles be gathered together."            | be eagles gathered together.
                                         |
Why? Because Isaiah says he'll come with | Why, because Isaiah ... strong hand,
a strong hand,  and what's stronger than | and what's stronger than that book
that  book  of  seven seals?  That's the | of seven seals, that's the word of
Word of God,  fulfilling what it says in | God, fulfilling what it says in
John: He that believeth on me, believeth | John. "He that believeth ... on me
not on me, but on him that sent me. "For | believeth not on me but on him that
my doctrine is not my own,  but his that | sent me. For my ... is not my own
sent me." "And the armies" which are "in | but his that sent me. And the armies
heaven followed him  upon white horses." | which are in Heaven follow him upon
There --  that's the Armageddon here  -- | white horses. There. That's the
clothed in  fine linen, white and clean. | Armageddon here. Clothed in white
                                         | linen, fine and clean.
                                         |
Now, Isaiah 13  will tell  you more  de- | Now, Isaiah 13 will tell you
tail.  Just like in Joel 2.  You'll also | more detail. Just like in Job 2....
learn  in Joel 2,  as well as Zephaniah, |
and Amos, and  Hosea, all the  different |
prophecies referring to these seals.     |
                                         |
Now  let me  emphasize something  to you | Now let me emphasize something to
again,  when you  read Psalms 1,  always | you again ...
keep your mind  up-hither -- remember -- |                          Remember,
I'm giving you a Key-of-David now.       | I'm giving you a key of David now ...
                                         |
I'll share with you. Every time you read | Every time you read a psalm, like in
a psalm, like in Psalms 1,  the judgment | Psalm 1, the judge is the one spoke
is the one spoken of in Revelation 4 and | of in Revelation 4 and 5.
5.  When you read Psalms 2, `the heathen | When you read Psalm 2, the heathens
that  rage,  that imagine vain  things,' | that rage, that imagine vain things,
they're the ones whose thoughts are con- | they're the ones whose thoughts are
trary to the thoughts of God.  "Against  | contrary to the thoughts of God,
the Lord, and against his anointed, say- | against the Lord and against his
ing,  Let us break  their  bands asunder | anointed, saying, "Let us break
and cast their cords from us."           | their bands asunder and cast their
                                         | cords from them."
                                         |
You see,  when  the  Lamb  comes  again, | You see, when the lamb comes again,
there's only one way  to know who he is, | there's only one way to know who he
he has to reveal the 7 seals.  `That men | is: He has to reveal the seven
may not  be judged  by the law,  for all | seals. "That man must not be judged
have broken  the law  and come short  of | by the law, for all have broke the
glory  of God.'  That they  be might  be | the law come short of the ... of
judged by nothing more than Truth.       | God. That they be ... but truth."
                                         |
'Cause, notice in Psalms 2, `the heathen | But notice in Psalm 2: The heathen
rage,  and they  imagine  a vain thing.' | rage and imagine vain things; they
They  want  to stop  this  anointed one; | want to stop this anointed one,
`let us break  his bands asunder.'  What | 'cause, to make his bands asunder.
do you think that is? How many bands are | What do you think that is, I mean
there on the book? There are seven bands | bands ... there are seven bands on
on the book. Why this is happening today,| the book. This is happening today.
and He that sits in heaven,  (that's the | He that sits in heaven -- that's the
Father you know), sitting on the Throne, | Father, you know, sitting on the
He laughs.  He laughs while men begin to | throne. He laughs! He laughs while
make the worst mistake they've ever made.| man began to make the the worst mis-
All the nations, from Babylon, to Persia,| take they've ever made. All the na-
Greece, and Rome, were judged by a judg- | tions ... were judged by a judgment
ment,  and they fell when it became time | and they fell when it became time
for God to make them fall.               | for God to make them fall.
                                         |
Now, yes,  in Psalms 2 it says,  "I will | Now, yes, in Psalms 2 it says, "I
declare  the decree:  the Lord hath said | will declare the decree the Lord
unto me, Thou art my Son;  this day have | said unto me: Thou art my Son; this
I  begotten thee."  Well,  aren't we all | day have I begotten thee." Well,
sons of God if we hear the words of God? | aren't we all sons of God if we hear
                                         | the words of God?
                                         |
Now,  the Psalms are not written because |
Christ  is desiring  to destroy mankind. |
On the contrary.  The warnings of Psalms |
1,  in the light of the Judgment,  is so |
that men might fear, and receive redemp- |
tion.  The same  is  Psalms 2.  Absolute |                         ... Absolute
terrible warnings are given, such as, `I | terrible warnings are given ...
will dash them  to pieces  with a rod of |
iron,' right?  We know that Christ would | We know Christ would never want to
never want to do that.                   | do that.
                                         |
But,  finally,  it comes  to a time when | The ...         comes to a time when
judgment must begin.  Clearly,  it  says | the judgement when it begins, clear-
`Now therefore  be ye wise,  ye kings of | ly it says, now this will be why he
the earth,  be  instructed  ye judges of | came to the earth ...
the earth.  "Serve  the Lord  with fear, |
rejoice  with trembling.  Kiss  the Son, |
lest he be angry, and ye perish from the |
way,  when  his wrath  is  kindled but a |
little.  Blessed are  all they  that put |
their trust in him."                     |
                                         |
Now, ministers should show you where the | Now, ministers should show you where
seals are. I have just given you a small | the seals are. I have given you a
little taste.  Is Psalms 45  the same as | small taste. Is Psalm 45 the same as
Revelation?  Doesn't that make it plain? | Revelation? Doesn't that make it
It's the subject  of Christ getting mar- | plain? ... Christ getting married
ried [and] a subject of Christ having to | ... Christ having to do with the
deal with the enemies,  (who believe not | enemies who believed not God's Word.
God's Word).  Does not Psalms 1 teach us | Does not Psalm 1 teach us to stand
to stand  in the Judgment,  don't sit in | in the judgment, don't receive ...
the seat of the scornful, or of the sin- | the scorn of the sinners.
ners?                                    |
                                         |
Only God's  thoughts are holy.  And when | Only God's thoughts are holy. And
God's thoughts be revealed in  the seven | when God's thoughts be revealed in
seals,  all true  Christians should make | the seven seals, all true Christians
that  their first and foremost interest. | should make that their foremost
                                         | interest.
                                         |
In Psalms 2,  why do the heathen have to | In Psalm 2, why do the
rage,  why do they have to fight the guy | heathen rage, why do they have to
that's got the seals?                    | fight the guy that's got the seals?
                                         |
In Psalms 3, who's the person there that |
says,  `Many say  of my soul  there's no |
help for him in God.'                    |
                                         |
How come people  have to judge according | ... How come people have to judge
to appearances of things, but they won't | according to appearances and say
open their eyes and ears, and hear where | that they won't open their eyes and
a person's coming from? In Psalms 4, who | ears and hear where a person's com-
is the one speaking there where it says, | ing from? In Psalms 4, who is the
`O ye sons of men, how long will ye turn | one speaking there when it says,
my  glory into shame?  how long will you | "... sons of man, how long will you
seek after leasing, and love vanity?'    | turn my glory to shame? How long
                                         | will you seek after leasing and love
                                         | vanity?"
                                         |
"But  know that  the LORD  has set apart |
him that is godly for himself:  the LORD |             ... The Lord will hear
will hear when I call unto him."  Who in | when I call unto him. Who in the
the heavens  has God separated  from all | heavens has God separated from all
of heaven, (a part that is godly for him-| of heaven? ...
self).                                   |
                                         |
The Lamb, who wishes to judge no man af- | The lamb wishes to judge no man as
ter the flesh,  but  gives  to all men a | to the flesh but gives to all men a
truth in fulfillment of the testimony of | truth in fulfillment of the testi-
John:  that `If you continue  in my doc- | mony of John.
trine, then you are my disciples indeed, |
and  ye shall  know the truth,  and  the | "... You shall know the truth, and
truth shall set you free.'               | the truth shall set you free."
                                         |
In Zechariah,  who is the man on the red | In Zechariah, who is the man on the
horse?  Doesn't Revelation  talk about a | red horse? Does Revelation talk
man on  a red horse?  How does it apply? | about men on a red horse? How does
In the 3rd seal,  the Book of Hosea, who | it apply? ... In the Book of Hosea
is that merchant man with  "the balances | who is that merchant man ...
of deceit," that Hosea speaks of?  Could | that Hosea speaks of? ...
it be that man who has balances -- who's |                 Is he tring to sell?
trying  to sell?  I mean,  what  are  we | I mean, what are we dealing with
dealing with here? Where is the 4th seal | here? Where is the fourth seal found
found in  the prophecies?  The 5th seal? | in the prophecies? Where is the
The 6th seal?                            | fifth seal? The sixth seal?
                                         |
The importance  of the seals  is that if | The importance of these seals is, if
you do not listen,  you are going to end | you do not listen, you are going to
up making the worst mistake, you've ever | make the worst mistake you've ever
made, in all of your lives.              | made in all your life.
                                         |
We  made  an  agreement,  with  the  ATF | We made an agreement with ATF agents
agents,  that if they would allow me, to | that they would allow me to have na-
have national coverage  with this  tape, | tional coverage of this tape that I
that I  might give to the  world a small | might give to the world all ... of
minute... a  small  minute  bit,  of the | information that I have tried so
information that I have tried so hard to | hard to share with people -- that if
share  with people;  that if  I would do | I would do this that all the people
this,  that all the people  here  at the | here at the facility, compound here,
facility ("compound" here, as y'all call | which y'all call it, will give our-
it)  will  give  ourselves over  to  the | selves over to the world, give our-
world,  give ourselves  out to you.  And | selves out to you; this is what I
this  is what I  promised.  And  this is | promised; this is what we're going
what we're going to keep.                | to keep.
                                         |
Now  remember,   Revelation  Chapter  13 | Now, Revelation Chapter 13 tells us
tells us, very clearly what our ideology | very clearly what our ideology
should be toward that beast, and all the | should be ...           and all the
world that wonders after that beast. Who | world that wonders that ...     who
do they worship? Remember, before I said | do they worship? Remember before I
it to you, God said it. They worship the | said it to you, God said it. ...
dragon.  And will Christ give up on any- |
body for worshipping the  dragon unwill- |
ingly?  No.  Just like the woman  at the |
well. `Woman, you know not whom you wor- |
ship,' Christ told her.                  |
                                         |
But now,  in Spirit and in Truth,  let's | But now in spirit and in Truth,
come up hither  to where  I  come  from. | let's come up here when I come from.
Let's  believe  in  a God  on the throne | Let's believe in a God on the throne
now.  All churches.  Papacy,  Lutherans, | now, all churches ... we're all
we're all brethren.  But  let's get into | brethren. But let's get into unity
unity with one God, one Truth, one Lamb, | with one God, one truth, one lamb,
one Spirit  --  and  let's  receive  the | one spirit, and let's receive the
reward of righteousness.                 | reward of righteousness.
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Thank you very much. God Bless You.      | Thank you very much. God Bless.

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   | stephen   (b645zaw@utarlg.uta.edu)     Arlington Texas      4-30-93
