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Muskegon SDA Church

The Book Of Revelation

Kameron DeVasher

Revelation 1-3

Revelation 4-9

Revelation 10

Revelation 11

Revelation 12

Revelation 13

Revelation 14: The First Angel’s Message

Revelation 14: The 2nd Angel’s Message

Revelation 14: The 3rd Angel’s Message

Revelation 15-20

Revelation 21-22

I hope we've all decided to make Jesus our choice.

If you're just joining us here today, which might be several of you, I sometimes I'll be honest with you, I scan the congregation and see what members are here.

I was trying to look for, and I can't, half your faces, I don't know.

We have a whole lot of visitors here today.

We'll be happy to have you whenever, but welcome.

We've been going through a study of the book of Revelation.

We've been going just chapter by chapter through the book of Revelation.

And of course, the book of Revelation is a very large book and it's a very difficult book sometimes to read through.

And so We could spend a lot of time getting into each little detail, but our goal is not to get every word and every idea, but to get the broad picture of what the book of Revelation is talking about.

And what we see, when we open up the book of Revelation, In fact, the very first words of the book of Revelation, Revelation chapter 1 and verse 1, it tells us what the book is all about.

It's not a revelation of a beast or of Satan or of all kinds of terrible, horrible things.

He is the center, He's the circumference, He's all in the book of Revelation.

But it goes on in verse 1 to say, "...the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants the things which must shortly take place." So from the author's perspective, the book of Revelation contains things that must happen still to come or future events.

It's a book of prophecy and it reveals to us Jesus Christ.

Now the book of Revelation, if you notice, and it should be this way in your Bible, if you have a Bible that doesn't have Revelation at the end of the Bible, then something's wrong.

But in most common Bibles, I believe all of them, has the book of Revelation right there at the very end of the Bible and it assumes that you've read all the Bible that comes before it.

There's a lot of references to previous things, things from the Old Testament or things earlier in the New Testament, things that you need to be familiar with to understand the book of Revelation.

It assumes that you've read the rest of the Scripture.

And so some of the things that might be confusing if they were taken away from the context, if they were taken out of its original environment, Make more sense when you place it right in Scripture and let the Bible be its own interpreter.

And so far what we've seen in the book of Revelation, again today we're going to be in Revelation chapter 12, but leading up to that we have seen several repeated sequences of history, chronological history, outlined that start in the time of the prophet.

Of course, the prophet in this instance is the name of John.

Starts in the time of John and it goes all the way through history until the coming of Jesus.

Starts in John and goes to the coming of Jesus.

You see a sequence of 7 churches right in the beginning and each 1 represents a period of time from the time of John until the coming of Jesus.

But it goes 123456 seals, and then right before it gets to the seventh seal, right with the coming of Jesus, there's an interruption for just a moment, and it describes to us in Revelation chapter 7 the 144, 000, those who are faithful to Jesus and will be alive when he returns.

Then you have the sequence of the 7 trumpets.

And again, we go 123456, and it lists them out.

But before we get to the sounding of the seventh trumpet, there's a pause.

And we find Revelation chapter 10, where John is told to eat a little book of Bible prophecy that had come before the book of Revelation which is of course the prophecies the time prophecies of Daniel specifically those that end at that time in Earth's history And we understand from that that there was a time when people were going to pick up, towards the end of Earth's history, they were going to pick up the Bible, and they were going to start to understand Bible prophecy and get so excited about it, it would seem sweet in their mouth, and they would start proclaiming the truth that they found there, and that Jesus is coming again.

Which he is coming again, but Jesus did a work first before he's coming again.

He moves in the heavenly sanctuary from the holy place to the most holy place to begin his work of judgment.

And that's what we see described in Revelation chapter 10.

Revelation chapter 11 gave us the standard that we're going to be judged in, in that judgment, the Word of God.

And it gives us the history of the Bible from the time of John again until the second coming of Jesus, How there would be a time of persecution where the Bible message was still good out, but it would be clothed in sackcloth, and it would be difficult, a time of persecution, but after that it would rise to prominence again.

And now we find ourselves Revelation chapter 12.

By the way, if you'd like to get any of the previous sermons that have gone with it, we can make recordings.

Some are already available out on our resource desk, or you can visit our church website at meskegansda.org, and all of those sermons are online ready to listen to.

So if you can catch us up to where we are now.

But today we're going to be in Revelation chapter 12, and it paints a fascinating picture of the history of the church leading up to the second coming of Jesus.

But before we get started in any study, what do we need to do first?

Heavenly Father, thank you so much for the awesome privilege of studying your word and Lord you've promised that the same Holy Spirit who inspired its writing will inspire our understanding.

So Lord we ask today that man's words will not be heard, but the word of God will be heard and that Jesus himself will be our teacher through his Holy Spirit representative.

Lord, speak to us now, for we pray it in Jesus' name.

So let's dive right into Revelation chapter 12 as we pick up our sermon series about the book of Revelation.

He says, now a great sign appeared in heaven.

So he's having this vision experience and he looks up and he sees in the skies, he sees in heaven, a great sign.

A woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of 12 stars.

And then being with child, she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth.

So we'll pause right there and try to understand what the book is telling us.

Now the book of Revelation is a book of symbolism.

There are things that represent other things.

Now, I don't think that he looked up in the sky and there was a giant woman standing on the...

But this represents something that is real.

It's a symbol that represents a real thing.

And 1 of the handy keys is, in Bible prophecy, a woman always represents the church.

The church is always represented by a woman.

You'll notice that even Jesus would call his Old Testament church and the New Testament church, too.

And now, later on in the book of Revelation, you're going to find another description of a woman that's not so beautiful, that's in fact corrupt, but it's just the church in a corrupt state.

But the woman always represents the church.

And here the church is seen clothed with the sun, with a moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of 12 stars.

Now again, the book of Revelation assumes that you've read all the other books that lead up to Revelation.

By the time you get to Revelation, you're at book number 66.

There are 65 books before this that have all kinds of language and imagery that's already been used, right?

So if you didn't know that, you would say, well, what in the world could the stars and the sun and the moon, what could that represent?

And then you'd say, well, I think, and you start making things up.

But the handy thing, the Bible has already decoded these mysteries for us.

This is a picture of the church at a certain point in time.

Well, we look at the symbols that are employed.

If you've been a student of Scripture, those symbols would probably come to your mind.

We go all the way to the first book of the Bible, Genesis.

Series

The Book Of Revelation

Revelation 12

Transcript

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