REVELATION - The Interlude and the 144,000 part 6
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REVELATION - The Interlude and the 144,000 part 6
As worship ends and I come up
AS WORSHIP PLEASE STAY UP AND PAD
SLIDE 1 “God is spirit and those who worship Him”
Insight and Encouragement from worship
We have been blessed at The Road with a wonderful worship team
They bring the heart to provide that atmosphere and opportunity of worship not to entertain
SLIDE 2 “The church that can’t worship must be entertained”
The attitude of everyone that is involved is that we would all experience God’s presence
I do not want to be entertained when coming to church, I NEED to be filled .......filled with his forgiveness, acceptance, His love, His encouragement, His word, to be reminded who God says that I am and to be re-filled with His Spirit to take on another week
If we desire to be entertained then here is what we get
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Entertainment-
*pleasure
*non-cerebral activity
*no lasting impact on the participant
*escape from reality to utopia
The closest word to entertainment is theatre
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Theater (theatron) - “seeing place”
and the Greek word for theater is seeing place
But ! You and I are priest according to 1 Peter 2 and Rev 1 ...
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5 you also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
We minister to God, we are a temple of the Holy Spirit
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16 Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
May we all be encouraged this morning why we worship
Worship is not merely something we do and see ....its who God made us to be and who we are though His Son Jesus!
I MIGHT AS WORSHIP TEAM TO PLAY PART OF SONG AGAIN
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Well this mornings worship experience plays right into our continuation in Revelation chapter 7
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Last week the Lord showed us not only who the principalities or gods are but what they actually do......
All to show us why everything is evolving to the state of the worlds spiritual state
And the need for Jesus to come again
Hey I had wanted to include this Scripture for last week for us to battle against these principalities or gods.....because everything we do lying down or sitting up begins with our minds ....amen
So church family and those watching today.....write this down everywhere you can think of that will remind you of this truth.....actually even memorize so that it is instant in our time of need
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4 for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.
5 We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ,
These two verses will give you victory when the enemy is lying about you, condemning you, trying to deceive you, when you are tempted, when your mind is reeling from one false thing and keeps piling on more to make you believe something that just started with one little thought.
Prayer …Amen
Well we finish up chapter 7 …will be kinda short since so much the Lord has shown us in worship and His wonderful truth to give us victory
The four winds or spirits wanting to harm the earth, trees and sea, but angel of the Lord stops them and now we have been in this interlude
So appropriate for this interlude for the Lord to encourage us that we are eternally His and the protection we have in Him.....and our names are written in heaven!
So what has the Lord been showing us in all this we have seen here in Revelation and other books of the bible? This what The Lord told John in Revelation chapter 1
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19 “Therefore write the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will take place after these things.
And this is what we have been doing as the Lord has guided us in many places of the bible for us to get more insight into the book of Revelation
So back into chapter 7, the angel of the Lord says do not harm the earth or sea
And this interlude and will recognized those saved
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4 And I heard the number of those who were sealed, one hundred and forty-four thousand sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel:
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12,000 from each tribe of Israel-
Judah, Reuben, Gad, Asher,
Naphtali, Manasseh, Simeon, Levi
Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, Benjamin
(12 x 12,000 = 144,000)
Also neat that you can take 12 tribes x 12 apostles x 1000 years and get 144,000 which we will catch in Revelation 20 verse 4, the number 1000 being God’s number of completeness and perfection
Another interesting thing and found it so amazing that it involves what the Lord has taken us and shown us the last 6 weeks
Really the main question has been “could this be about worship”
But if you are familiar with the 12 tribes of Israel....if not its okay
There are 2 tribes not listed here in Revelation 7 that you have normally seen in the Old Testament
Dan and Ephraim are nor shown and why from Scripture would we see that and does it have anything to do with who we worship?
Now firstly any time God took census of those old enough to go to war in Numbers 1 and Numbers 26 and 1 Kings, other places He always mentions in those verses saying, “the sons of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt”
Could this be about who we worship lets look at these passages
Now the setting here is the divided Israel after Solomon’s reign as king - south being of Judah and north called Israel, two kings now and Rehaboam king of Judah and Jeraboam king of Israel
Solomons temple and worship is in Jerusalem under king Rehaboam- the south Judah
Jeraboam says is this the only place to worship God is in Jerusalem? so look what he does and could this be about worship?
This is astounding!!
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28 So the king consulted, and made two golden calves, and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem; behold your gods, O Israel, that brought you up from the land of Egypt.”
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29 He set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.
30 Now this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one as far as Dan.
Ephraim was guilty of the same thing- leading other tribes into worshiping idles that lead to acts of immorality
The Lord had made a promise in Deut 29 to blot out those that did these things
Next week we get to look at us mentioned in chapter 7
Its worth it church, keep pressing ahead no matter how hard it gets how discouraged sometime keep pressing look here
WORSHIP TEAM COME
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9 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands;
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Prayer / Close