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Advent HOPE Sabbath School

Carlos Muñoz

The Ascension of Christ

Father, we thank you for the opportunity, for the blessing, for the privilege that you have given us to come today on this Sabbath, your holy day, in this holy place to study your holy word.

And we just ask, Father, that if there's any Spirit that is of confusion or any Thing that is not of your presence that may leave this place and may we dwell in your holy presence We thank you father for the music.

We thank you for the privilege and this honor again, and we ask this in Jesus name.

Amen Amen, so I make a I basically make a living or I dedicate my life to doing 2 things.

I teach prophecy and I train in evangelism.

So obviously by teaching prophecy, that automatically implies that my favorite book is the book of Revelation.

Anybody else here whose favorite book is the book of Revelation?

I see a few hands and I know or that's why ready here okay so I know that 1 of the reason is because of there's a lot of confusion around the book of Revelation, right?

It can be complicated to some, it can be, some people are afraid of it, right?

And in my prophecy seminars, 1 of the things that I do is I teach people, I give them the tools so they can be able to understand the book of Revelation so that they can, it's accessible to them so that they can also learn on their own way of studying it.

So 1 of the principles to understanding the book of Revelation, 1 of the keys is that the chapters in Revelation do not follow chronological order.

In other words, some people when they read the book of Revelation, they'll read Revelation chapter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, all the way into 22, and they think that by reading it, they're following a chronological order.

Now if you study, if you read the book of Revelation in that way, you're gonna get very confused, right?

And when I started, because I was not raised in a Christian home, when I started to study the book of Revelation or the Bible on my own, that's 1 of the, when I was looking at the different interpretation and understandings, that's 1 of the things that I noticed, that a lot of people are very confused or they're very distorted in their understanding of the book of Revelation because they read it chronologically, but the book of Revelation is not written in a chronological order.

There is a chronological foundation to the book, but if you read the chapters in a chronological order, you're going to get very, very confused.

In Revelation chapter 1 we see that there is what the first vision is Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ is standing amongst what?

They're in the sanctuary in the holy place.

So automatically when I see this vision of Jesus standing among the candlesticks my first question is Why is He in the holy place?

Because most of Christianity has Jesus on the cross.

Us at Seventh-day Adventists, we specialize on teaching of Jesus where?

But yet, Revelation starts with Him in the holy place.

And so the question is, I don't know if we're going to be able to answer it today, maybe some other time, is why is Jesus standing in the holy place to start off the book of Revelation?

But that's not the point that we're focusing on this morning.

If the book of Revelation is not written in chronological order, that means that Revelation chapter 1 is not the first chapter if we were going to follow the chronology of the history of Revelation.

Now my question is, let's see if there's any theologians around here.

If we were to put Revelation in chronological order, who can tell me what would be chapter number 1?

If we were to put, pay attention to the question.

If we are going to put the chapters in Revelation in chronological order, can anybody tell me what would be chapter number 01:12, excellent, Very good.

Go with me please to Revelation chapter 12.

Revelation chapter 12 and we're gonna start on verse number 1.

If you're sitting down, if there's any guests or visitors and they do not have a Bible in their hands, please share the Word of God with them.

Right in the middle of Revelation, we're going to start.

It says, Now a great sign appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with what?

Under her feet and on her head a garland of 12 stars.

The first vision, or at least this vision in Revelation chapter 12 starts and it speaks about a woman and the woman is clothed with what?

What does the Son represent in this context?

She's covered with the righteousness of God and she's standing on the moon.

What does the moon represent in this context?

From the sun and the sun is Christ so if she's standing on the moon, what is the moon?

The Sun so the moon is a reflected or reflecting the Sun or the glory of Christ That means that what does the moon represent that she is standing on?

So the foundation, what does a woman represent my loved ones?

And there's so many different ways Christ compares the church to his bride.

So we see the woman of the church, she is founded on what?

She's supposed to be founded on the pastor.

It's Jesus Christ is the foundation of the church.

And it continues to say verse number 2, then being with child she did what?

She cried out in labor pain, and labor, and in pain to give what?

Now this second verse is a direct citation, is directly connected to a very interesting verse in the Bible.

Can anybody tell me what verse is connected to this second verse?

The Ascension of Christ

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