Hartland Winter Convocation 2021: The Mind Which Has Wisdom

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Hartland Institute of Health and Education

Steve Wohlberg

01 Identifying the Bloody Woman

So, okay, well, this is the first of a series of talks, and we have our first slide up on the screen.

How many of you like the Book of Revelation?

It's really, it is my favorite book in the Bible.

The first sentence says, it's the revelation of Jesus Christ.

There's beasts and a dragon, and there's horns and kings and a woman Riding a Beast in Revelation chapter 17, and that's what our focus is tonight.

We've been, I think the scripture reading was Revelation 17 verse 1.

I've actually written a book that just came out.

I'll just let you know, I have been studying Revelation chapter 17 for probably about 2 years.

And it's been a long journey trying to figure out this chapter.

Revelation 17 is not an easy chapter to figure out.

I don't know if you, how many of you are aware of that.

And when I first started reading it, I just had this, well, I've read it off and on for many years, but about 2 years ago, just this conviction just came to me that I really needed to just dive in to that chapter.

It's 1 of the most mysterious chapters in the entire Bible.

And I've been studying it and pondering it and I've been wrestling with it.

There were times when I thought I had some things figured out, and then there were some roadblocks that things didn't make sense, and then I had to work through those, And I just kept praying, Lord, help me to understand this chapter.

There must be a reason why you're impressing me to just keep studying and studying and studying this.

I'm sure there's more that I need to learn in this chapter, but the time finally came after putting a lot of pieces together and praying and talking to people point by point that I finally came to the conviction that now is the time for me to go public with this material.

It just came out, quite a dramatic title, the Bloody Woman and the Seven-Headed Beast.

I've written a lot of books and I've learned that titles get people's attention.

The lady that's there on the screen there that's riding that beast, She's actually somebody that our ministry hired to come into our studio and 1 of our designers, our producer, photographed her and worked with the cover and finally put this together.

And our ministry actually has a publicist that we've hired.

And just within the last couple of days, she has sent out a press release to major media, mainstream Christian media.

And we're hoping for some interviews on some major shows to talk about Revelation 17 and current events.

So you can maybe add that to your prayers and we are hoping that God will truly bless.

This chapter is really a monumental chapter.

It is shocking, it is hard-hitting, it is straightforward, and yet in the middle of it is the Lamb, is Jesus Christ.

He's right in the middle of Revelation 17.

So what my book does is it goes through every verse in the chapter, point by point.

And so what we're going to do this weekend is we are going to go verse by verse right through and we are going to study what the chapter is about.

Who is this woman that's sitting on a beast in Revelation chapter 17?

Tomorrow we're gonna look at part 2, which is identifying the seven-headed beast.

And then the third meeting is also from Revelation 17.

Revelation 17 talks about 5 kings that are fallen, 1 king that is, the other king that's not yet come.

And when he comes, he continues for a short space.

And then it talks about the beast that was and is not, and he will ascend out of the bottomless pit, and he will go into perdition.

And the last meeting is called 10 horns at war with the lamb.

Because it talks about that also in chapter 17.

There's a lot of ways that we can go with this chapter.

I was reading a book not too long ago, and I read 9 different interpretations of some of these verses.

And I'll let you know right up front that my goal is to, as much as possible, to avoid speculation.

I'm into trying to find solid Bible truth.

In order for me to go public with something, I have to have a pretty good conviction that I've got a handle on what I'm talking about, or I wouldn't be doing this.

And I'll also tell you, this is the first time I've ever really preached on this subject.

This is the first, the book just came out, and when I thought about what should I talk about, I thought, well, the book's about to come out, this'll be perfect for me to go to Heartland and to go through a series on this.

So I've been working on my talks and putting my slides together, and so this is a first for me.

And I just, I believe that God is going to bless.

And I believe you're going to be blessed, I'm going to be blessed.

It's just a privilege to be able to share these truths.

And my hope and my desire, and we'll pray in just a second, is that the lights will connect.

You know, the lights will go on, the dots will connect, And when this is all over, you're just gonna be really convicted and moved to share God's word with others, because time is running out.

We don't have a lot of time left down here.

If we're ready for Jesus to come, our greatest desire is to go home and be with him.

As beautiful as this campus is, it's nothing like heaven.

God has a beautiful place for us that he's preparing, and he wants us to be there.

So let's open our Bibles to Revelation 17.

Slide this over and give myself a little more room with my Bible here.

And I'd like to kneel and pray, and then we're going to dive right in to part 1.

We're going to look at a big subject and see how the Lord leads us.

And if your knees are bad, you know, don't feel like you have to kneel.

I understand if, you know, age sometimes has its way of affecting our bodies.

Dear God in heaven, I'm grateful to be here.

Thank you for this group that has come together.

And I know there are others, probably many that are watching online and we pray that you will bless all of us.

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