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LESSON 2 * PART 4 * BOOK 59
REVELATION 1:11-2:10 - Part 2
My, mail time is just a thrill when we read all these letters of how you’ve gotten a new insight into Scripture. We just thank the Lord for it. Okay, back to Revelation chapter 2, verse 9.
Our churches are full of people who claim to be believers but they’re not, they’re following a false god. Revelation 2:9c
"…but they are the synagogue of Satan."
Now, that didn’t mean that they were not Jews by blood, but Jews by faith. All right now, Paul warns us of much the same way for this Age of Grace. My, the world is full of these false teachers. Because if they’re not in the Scriptures and truthful with it, then they do not merit your time. All right, verse 13 of II Corinthians 11, and my, what a statement under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Paul says:
II Corinthians 11:13
"For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ."
II Corinthians 11:14
an angel of light."
"…for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 15. Therefore it is not a great thing (it’s nothing to be surprised about) if his ministers (Satan’s ministers – not God’s) are transformed as the ministers of righteousness;…"
False! All right, it was the same way with these Jews.Satan doesn’t care who he deals with, whether it’s Gentiles or Jews, his end is the same.
Revelations 2:9b-10a
10. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer:…"
Could we handle intense persecution? Alright, so he says to these Jews: "But fear none of these things which thou shall suffer:…"
Jeremiah 25 verse 29. All right, Jeremiah 25:29. Jeremiah 25:29-30
Jerusalem) and should ye be utterly unpunished? It will be at the very center, just like it’s been with everything else in God’s dealing with the human race, so also with His judgments) saith the LORD of host. 30. Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, (and this is what God says, and God doesn’t lie) The LORD shall roar from on high, (now this is of course at the time of His Second Coming. Where does He speak of the grapes? 63? Yeah. Isaiah 63, and this compares word for word with Revelation where you have the same scenario. Ok, let’s look first at Isaiah, chapter 63. Let’s just begin with verse 1. Isaiah 63:1-2
2. Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that (what?) treadeth in the wine vat?"
Well, use a little imagination. We don’t do it here anymore, but in the Middle East, I know because we’ve been there and we’ve seen their wine vat. Well, if you tramp the grapes, how are you going to look? Grape juice splatters all over you. Isaiah 63:3-6
Well it isn’t. 6. And I will tread down the people in my anger, I will make them drunk in my fury, I will bring down their strength to the earth."
That’s the vengeance of God that’s coming. Revelation 14:14
Earlier today in Revelation. The Son of man, the Christ, Jesus of Nazareth) having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle."
Now, you’ve got to remember when you’re reading Scripture, and words come up, you have to understand the symbolic meaning. Well, the sickle here is speaking then of a harvest -God’s harvest. Revelation 14:15
"And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap, for the time is come for thee to reap the harvest of the earth is ripe, (and the Greek really implies, "over-ripe." It’s past time, God has already extended grace even longer than He would have had to.) 16. And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped. Revelation 14:18-19a
The humanity that is still on the earth at the end of the Tribulation) 19. And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth,…"
Revelation 14:19b
"…and gathers the vine of the earth, (which is the armies of the world) and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God."
How much nicer to proclaim the grace of God. (I Corinthians 15:1-4) Revelation 14:20
We were in verse 30.
Jeremiah 25:30b-32a
LORD) shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth. A noise shall even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD (God the Son, the Son of Man, Jesus of Nazareth, all the titles you can put on Him) has a controversy with the nations, (not just Israel, now.
"…and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the borders of the earth."
Alright, now then, let’s come back where we were in Revelation chapter 2 verse 10 again, so he says:
Revelation 2:10a
Now the Lord says) and ye shall have tribulation ten days;…"
Let’s go back and see how Scripture deals with ten days, not men’s ideas, but how does God use the term.
All right now, let’s pick up the story. Let’s pick it up in verse 49.

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