Bible Study No 29 of Revelation

Well, good evening, brethren. Welcome to our 29th Bible study on the book of Revelation.

And today we're going to see how God's festivals point to key prophetic events.

So we're going to be reviewing quite a bit and then tie that into God's festivals.

We have completed the description of prophetic events in first place, building up to the Day of the Lord that we did do quite a while ago.

So you're welcome to review previous lessons to see that. These events, building up to the Day of the Lord, are events which will occur before the sign of Christ's coming.

Now, in Matthew 24 verse 30, you see, well, let me read verse 29. It says, Immediately after the tribulation of these days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give the light, the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. And then verse 30 says, Then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven.

And so that sign, it is very probable, the sign, the heavenly signs, which is the sign of the Son of Man, the sign that is coming soon. And it is therefore the beginning of the Day of the Lord as we went through that. So that is, in other words, before the symbolism of the Day of Trumpets, because the Day of Trumpets is basically the symbol for the Day of the Lord.

Right. Therefore, these prophetic events which will occur before that sign, before the heavenly signs, are Jesus Christ's messages to God's Church throughout the ages. We covered that in Revelation 2 and 3. It's the first four seals, which are the four horsemen, which we covered that in Revelation 6, 1 through 8. And it's also covered in Matthew 24, 6, and 7. We went through that quite in depth in previous studies. And in summary, they are false ministers, or in other words, false churches, false religion, wars. A lot of them triggered by false ideas, false religions, lies about ideologies. Those wars then cause hunger, which is the third seal or the third horseman. And then it leads to diseases like pandemics and the ultimate death from those wars, hunger, and diseases. Then we look also at the fifth seal, which is Revelation 6, verses 9 through 11, which is parallel to Matthew 24, 15 through 22, which that great tribulation is for three and a half years, and which represents the great persecution of Israel. That's both spiritual Israel, which is God's church, and physical Israel, which are the twelve tribes. And this great persecution of this great tribulation will greatly impact the whole world. Right. So I also showed you a little chart, which I've given you as handout in previous lessons, which basically covers this. It shows the first four horsemen, or the first four seals, as I described them very briefly now. Then I also described to you the fifth seal, or the great tribulation, which runs for three and a half years. But one year before it ends, there are the heavenly signs, which is the sixth seal. So this is what I reviewed so far in the previous slide. And now we're going to today talk a little bit further about the heavenly signs. Just going to review that. We're going to review the seven trumpets. And we're also going to review what we covered in this area. And then we're going to tie in God's holy days to these festivals.

Right. So the sixth seal, and let me go back again, the sixth seal is the Suan Yahn, which is the heavenly signs. So the sixth seal, Revelation 6, 12-17 and Matthew 24-29, are the heavenly signs which point to the beginning of the day of the Lord.

So the day of the Lord is now for one year, a day for a year, and it symbolizes, or the day of trumpets is what symbolizes the day of the Lord. The day of trumpets points to those seven trumpets, which run for one year. The day of trumpets, obviously, the main meaning that we normally refer to is to the lost trumpet, but the day of trumpets, plural, includes all of them. So before, however, before the events of the day of the Lord, and now let me go back to the slide, before the events of the day of the Lord, which is the seventh seal, which is that before, so after the heavenly signs, but before the events of the seventh seal, which is the day of the Lord, which is the day of His wrath, servants are sealed.

Right, so we covered that very clearly in previous studies. So once again, I'm just doing a quick revision. So before the day of the Lord, those that repented during the first two and a half years of the Great Tribulation are specially sealed, protected, and those are the ones covered in Revelation 7. Then after that, we have the seventh seal, which starts in Revelation 8, which consists of seven trumpets, which are mentioned, symbolized by the Feast of Trumpets.

So that is the beginning of the wrath of the Lamb and the wrath of God, which overlaps with the last year of the Great Tribulation. The first four trumpets affect a third of the land, a third of the sea, a third of the rivers, and a third of the sun, moon, and stars, as we read in Revelation 8, 7, 3, 13. Then the fifth trumpet is what the Bible refers to also as the first vowel, which uses the symbology of locusts, and as we mentioned, possibly representing an attack by the beast on the nations for five months, particularly the nations of the north and east. We see that in Revelation 9, 1 through 12. Then the sixth trumpet, which is the second vowel, which is the counter-attack of those eastern and northern nations. We read that in Revelation 9, 13 through 21, and it's also paralleled in Daniel 11 verse 44. Now, after this attack, first of the beast vowel, and then the counter-attack of the nations of the eastern north, it basically, the world is now set to completely self-destruct itself. If Christ would not intervene now, these two superpowers, which are basically the two left superpowers on the world scene, would wipe each other out and wipe mankind out of the world. It would then literally be the end of the world.

But they will not be the end of the world because Christ will intervene. So the seventh trumpet, which is the last, which contains the seven trumpet, contains the seven lost plagues, and it is the third world, which symbolizes the coming of Christ, which includes various events.

The first resurrection, the reward of the saints, and the destruction of those who destroyed the earth. And we saw that in Revelation 11, verses 15 through 18. But particularly, you can read that in Revelation 11, verse 18, a list of those three major events during Christ's return. Now, let me just mention something here. These trumpets, the Feast of Trumpets, these trumpets are, let's call it, the prophetic trumpets, which are tied to the Feast of Trumpets.

Why do I say that? Because sometimes there are people that say, oh well, the first trumpet is Passover, the second trumpet is the first day of 11 bread, and so on. And then they say, well, now we, and they therefore get a complete different understanding and interpretation of what these prophetic trumpets are. They represent these meanings of the Feast of Trumpets.

So this is important to keep that in mind. So let's continue there. The seventh trumpet, therefore, has these seven lost plagues, is the third wall, and includes many events, a number of events, a number of things, of which is the first resurrection, resurrection of the saints, the reward of the saints, and the destruction of those who destroy the earth. Now, we then went through a number of additional details which have been inserted in the book of Revelation.

For instance, the war between Satan and the church. We went through that. We spent a whole Bible study covering that, which is Revelation 12. Then Revelation 13, if I remember correctly, we did two Bible studies on that, one addressing the beast rising out of the sea, civil government, and then the latter part of Revelation 13, which is the beast rising up of the earth, which is a religious beast power. Then we went through Revelation 14, which are basically messages to encourage us to persevere till the end. In a sense, it is in the middle of all this, a nugget of encouragement. Then Revelation 15 and 16 go into the seven lost plagues.

Now, these seven lost plagues are so drastic and so strong, they are for a very short period of time, a very short period of time, and they are in Revelation 15 and 16. One of them, as you may remember, is Revelation 16 verse 12 through to 16, which is the sixth lost plague or the sixth ball, in which it shows that the river Euphrates dries up and those armies are gathered together in a place called in Hebrew Armageddon to fight Christ. So there is a time now they see this quote-unquote invasion from outer space. They see all these drastic, extremely serious things happening on the earth and now they want to fight Christ. So they're going to gather together at the value of Armageddon and then they'll march to Jerusalem. So the actual war is the battle of the great day of God Almighty, which will be in Jerusalem, as you can read in Revelation 16 verse 14. That's the name, the battle of that great day of God Almighty. It's not the battle of Armageddon, it's the battle of the great day of God Almighty, which will be conducted in Jerusalem, not in Armageddon. So they gather in Armageddon, then they travel to Jerusalem to fight Christ.

So these seven lost plagues are the completion of God's wrath. Now what I mean by that? It's because these seven trumpets, which is the sole period of a year, are God's wrath. But right at the end on the last trumpet, when Christ comes and the nations are going to fight against Christ, this is the completion, the summation, the final exercise of God's wrath on the nations. So that is the seven lost plagues are the completion of God's wrath. Then we went through Revelation 17 and 18, which is Babylon's fall. And basically we went through the fall of modern years, reformed and syncretized the religious system. That is the organized church that will fall, and then the fall of Babylon, the civil government. So that is described in Revelation 17 and 18. And I also went through those chapters in previous studies. So once again, I'm just doing a quick review of everything that we've covered. Both the religious system and the civil government system has a linkage all the way back to Babylon. And that tizene, as I mentioned before, to that image or that statue of Daniel 2, that which the head is the head of gold, which is Babylon. And that has a linkage, a continuity all the way to the feet. And the feet of those ten toes is this civil government right at the time of Christ's coming. So again, I've gone through this very carefully in previous studies. Then on the last study, if I remember correctly, it was the one, the previous one, we went through Revelation 19, which is the rejoicing, because Christ rules and marries the Lamb, and the ruling Christ, which then destroys the armies of the earth, and the actual leader of the beast, and the leader of that false religion, which has already collapsed, as we showed in Revelation 17 and 18. But now it's the destruction of the leader of the beast, and the leader of that false church, the false prophet, and they both will be thrown into the lake of fire. So now we have the nations destroyed, we have Christ ruling, and now the world is ready for the events which are symbolized by the three last festivals, namely the Day of Atonement, the Feast of Tabernacles, and the Eighth Day, and the Eighth Day, or, as we so lovingly call in the church, the Last Great Day. That last day that points to the meanings of the Second Resurrection and whatever else beyond, but the meaning of the Second Resurrection is so encouraging and so meaningful that we should, or must never forget. All right, so let's look at this meaning of the Day of Atonement, and we start now in Revelation chapter 20.

And we read verse 1 and 2. Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit, and a great shine in his hand. And he laid all of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the devil, and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. So, yeah, we have Satan is bound, and the battle for the control of the earth is now over. The physical leaders are out of the way, the rebel, the government of the physical, and now the head, Satan, is put. Let's call it Angel. Now, this is, as we know, symbolizes the Day of Atonement. So, let's look at Leviticus 23, because as I said today, I was going to cut and pry all this to God's festivals. So, Leviticus 23. Start in verse 26. Leviticus 23 verse 26.

And the Lord spoke to Moses, also on the tenth day of the seventh month shall be the Day of Atonement. It shall be a holy convocation for you. You shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire to the Lord, and shall do no work on that same day, for it is the Day of Atonement, to make a tournament for you before the Lord your God. For any person who is not afflicted in Saul on that same day shall be cut off from his people. And that person that does not work on that same day, beg your pardon, and any person who does any work on that same day, that person I will destroy from among these people. You shall do no manner of work. It shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings. And it shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest.

And you shall afflict your souls on the ninth day of the month at sunset. So, it starts from sunset to sunset, from evening to evening, and you shall celebrate the Sabbath. So, Yahweh is a structure that clearly proves that the Sabbath is from sunset to sunset, from evening to evening.

So, it is a very solemn day, the Day of Atonement. We also tie the end with Leviticus 16. So, let's just quickly look at Leviticus 16.

Leviticus 16, in verse 29 through 31, it says in in Leviticus 16 verse 1, all the way through to 29, describes the ceremony. But then in verse 29, as a conclusion, then it says, this shall be a statute forever for you in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, which is the Day of Atonement. You shall afflict your souls and do no work at all whether an item of your own country or a stranger would dwell amongst you. So, Yahweh we have exactly tying in to Leviticus 23, the Day of Atonement, as we read a moment ago.

Verse 30, for on that day the priest shall make atonement for you, to cleanse you that you may be clean from all your sins before the Lord. It is a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and it shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever. So, these events of Leviticus 16, from verse 1 through verse 28, are done on the Day of Atonement. So, that is the events, and basically in a very quick summary, and you can study this and you probably remember this has been covered by many menaces during the Holy Day. It's basically the story of two goats. And in verse 15, we can see this verse 15 of Leviticus 16. Verse 15 says, then that is the high priest shall kill the goat of the sin offering which is for the people. So, the goat which is for of the sin offering which symbolizes the Lamb of God which was offered on Passover for our personal sins.

So, there it is. That's the goat of sin offering. Now, that represents Jesus Christ. So, the goat of sin offering symbolizes the Lamb of God because Christ is the Lamb of God which died on Passover. So, Yah on a Talmud is a symbolism of a symbolism, let's put it this way, which points to the Lamb of God which is Christ which is offered on Passover. So, the sin of the people, that is again the people. So, what do we have is the nations of the nations, the sin of the nations is forgiven. So, it's not just our individual sins but it's mankind's sins, the whole of mankind, the world as a whole is redeemed from Satan's corruption of all truth. As we can see today, there's an absent corruption of truth, of evil deeds and filthy wise. So, we also know that today the God of the world is Satan. We read that in 2 Corinthians 4 verse 4. Let's just quickly read these few verses. 2 Corinthians 4 verse 4. 2 Corinthians 4 verse 4. Let me just turn there. 2 Corinthians 4 verse 4. Talking about whose minds the God of this age, that Satan has blinded.

So, the God of this age, the God of this world is Satan. And then look at 1 John 5 verse 19.

1 John 5 verse 19.

He says, we know that we are of God and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one, of Satan today. But Satan will now be put away and the world will be no more under the sway of Satan, of the wicked one. Look at Galatians chapter 1 verse 4. Galatians chapter 1 verse 4.

And it says, talking about grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil age. Christ is delivering us, but he's going to deliver the whole world. That's a greater meaning of the day of atonement, which is for the whole world, the whole of society. So, Christ is now ruling, the day of atonement is now effectively in place, and Satan is being put in jail, and therefore that sway of of Satan, that he has the whole world in sway, is removed, is delivered. We are, we mankind, the whole of mankind, not just as as Christians, but the whole world. So, that is a very important day because it points to the whole of society. So, continue then in Leviticus 16, as we were looking at a moment ago, Leviticus 16 verse 20 through 22, then he talks about, and when he has made an end of a town in the holy place, the tabernacle of meeting and altar, he shall bring the life goat. That is Satan, as a zeal, which is the name of the evil spirit, as a zeal, which is none other than pointing to Satan. So shall bring the life goat. That's what that life goat represents. Then Aaron shall lay both his hands on the head of the life goat, confess over it all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all the transgressions concerning all their sins, putting them on the head of the goat.

So it's for the whole nation. But now, because we are looking at the whole world, because Christ is redeeming the whole world, this analogy applies to the whole society, not just to Israel, but the iniquities of all mankind will be put on Satan, on the head of this life goat, which represents Satan, and shall send this life goat, Satan, away into the wilderness by the hand of a suitable man. That's in verse 21. And the goat shall bear on itself all the iniquities to an uninhabited land, and he shall release the goat in the wilderness. In other words, he is bound. He is bound in the bottomless pit, as we read in Revelation 20 verse 1. Let's read Revelation 20 verse 1 again. And it says, there's the angel having a coming down from heaven. So it's an angel that's in Leviticus 16. It talks about a man, a suitable man, but in Revelation 20, clarifies that it actually is an angel coming down from heaven. And it says, having the key of the bottomless pit. So it is put into the wilderness. That is the bottomless pit in this example. And a great Chinese is in. So he is taken by this great Chinese into this bottomless pit. And he laid hold of the dragon, that superlobald, and bound him for a thousand years. He is stuck, he is bound in this wilderness for a thousand years. He cannot deceive or influence mankind anymore during the millennium. So in Revelation 20 verse 3, and he cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set the seal on him so that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But after these things, after the thousand years, he must be released for a little while. So he is in prison during the millennium. His reign has come to an end. Christ is now ruling and Satan is put in jail.

So we can see, as I mentioned, yeah, in the book of Revelation, we can see symbology pointing to God's Holy Dice. Now, because Satan is aware that this is going to happen, and he knows that very well, he is furious. And because he knows he has a short time, we are now living in the most critical time just before he is thrown out of heaven, and he comes to earth with great wrath. But this is on the edge of happening. He knows it's on the edge of heaven. So he's already furious and he's causing great havoc on earth. Reverend, this is the time of the end. Let's not think that we've got years and years to go. Time is short. This is the time of the end. This is the beginning of sorrows. These are the days that we live in.

Let us not be deceived about that. We have to prepare ourselves because this great revelation and the appearing of this resurrected Roman Empire and this beast power and this false prophet is to be revealed soon, very soon. So the next, what happens immediately as we look into Revelation 20 verse 4, is the symbols of what happens for the Feast of Tabernacles. So yeah, we have, there are soul thrones and then it's set on them and judgment was committed to them.

Hey, that's what we're going to be doing in a millennium. The saints are rewarded and reign with Christ for a thousand years during the millennium. The saints are now in the kingdom of God. The saints are in the kingdom of God, not the physical human beings living in a millennium. The physical human beings living in the millennium are being ruled by the kingdom of God, but they're not yet in the kingdom of God because flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. But the saints resurrected in the first resurrection are now spirit beings. They now know more flesh and blood. They now are in the kingdom of God. And so continue reading here in verse 4. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received the mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. That's us. We've not worshiped the beast. We're not worshiping this pagan idolatrous system of the great harlot.

We're not. We're walking away from these pagan teachings and the practices that are so common in today's world. So that's what we're doing now. That tisim with Revelation 2 verse 26. So let's go and read Revelation 2 verse 26 because there it says, I'll be your partner, that we will reign. Let's look at verse 26. He overcomes and keeps my wars until the end, to him I'll give power over the nations. We will reign. We'll be given power. Look at 3 verse 21. It says, to him who overcomes, I will grant to sit with me on my throne, as I also overcame and sat down with my father on his throne. So what do we have here, brethren? Is the millennial reign and provided we are not only called, not only chosen, but we are faithful till the end and we overcome till the end, then we'll reign on earth with Christ. That's what it says in Revelation 5 verse 10 says, and have made us kings and priests to our God and we shall reign on the earth.

So that's the signs that they will be reigning on the earth. Now that ties in with Daniel 2 verse 44 and 45. So let's look at Daniel chapter 2 verse 44 and 45. And this is that image of Daniel 2 and in verse 44-45 it says, in the days of those kings, which kings those, the kings represented by the ten toes of the feet, which is iron mixed with clay, and it says, and the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom. Which kingdom? The kingdom of God will be set up on earth, which shall never be destroyed.

The kingdom of God is eternal. Yes, it will reign on earth initially for a thousand years. In the new earth and new heaven will then reign over the universe, not just earth, over the universe for eternity. But initially will just be over the earth for a thousand years. And it says, and the kingdom shall not be left to other people. Oh yeah, after three years or after four years there will not be new elections and new leaders. No, those leaders, elected by God, not by man, elected and selected by God, called and chosen.

Chosen means elected. Selected by God. And they have been faithful till the end. They will be given the kingdom and will not be left to other people. They will be rulers forever. And that kingdom it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms of the earth. They will be wiped out no more. And the kingdom of God it shall stand forever. Verse 45, in so much as you saw the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands.

Yes, because it's from God. It's the kingdom of God. And remember, a mountain represents a kingdom. So, and that it broke in pieces, the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold. The great God has made known to the king, that's never gonna exist, what will come to pass after this.

The dream is certain and its interpretation is sure. So we can see the kingdom will not be destroyed. It is eternal. That tisine of Daniel 7. And remember, we went through these scriptures before and we showed the charts comparing Daniel 2 with Daniel 7. So if you want to look at that, please look at Revelation and those comparisons.

But yeah, in Daniel 7 verse 21 and 22 it says, as I was watching and the same horn was making war against the saints and prevailing against them. So this is that false religion. Until the ancient of days came, which is a guy says, and a judgment was made in favor of the saints of the Most High. And the time came for the saints to possess the kingdom. So yeah, we have Jesus Christ comes under the authority, under the leadership, under the instruction of the Most High and Christ then comes as representative of the Most High.

And the saints therefore will possess the kingdom forever and ever. Look at verse 27. Then the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole earth shall be given to the people, the saints of the Most High. His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. All dominions shall serve and obey him. So this basically represents that first phase, that first 1000 year phase, in other words, the millennium, this represents that period in Revelation 20 verse 4, which is basically the period between the first and the second resurrection.

You see, you got the first resurrection, then you got the millennium. At the end of the millennium, then you got the second resurrection. Right, let's continue then reading in Revelation 20 verse 5 and 6. Revelation 20 verse 5 and 6. But the rest of the dead, you see, there were some dead that got resurrected in the first resurrection during Christ's coming. The rest of the dead did not live again until after the millennium, until after the thousand years were finished.

So the ones that were resurrected first is the first resurrection. The others is a later resurrection, which we call second and third.

Not discussing that in detail now. Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection.

That's the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power. The second death has no power over those of the first resurrection. Why? Because they are spirit beings. You see, the first resurrection is a resurrection to become spirit beings. Over such the second death has no power. But they shall be priests of God and of Christ and shall reign with him a thousand years. Yes, a thousand years on earth. That's that first phase of a thousand years. And again, if we just quickly look at Hebrews chapter 11 verse 35, Hebrews chapter 11 verse 35, we see, talking about people that had wonderful miracles happen to them. Women received their dead, raised to life again. Others did not have wonderful things happen to them. They had to remain faithful to the end and they had to die in the faith, not being rescued from their trials. But they were in the faith. They never gave up the faith. So others were tortured, not accepting the deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection. What is a better resurrection? The first resurrection. Why is it better? Because it's a resurrection to eternal life. That's why it's a better resurrection. Right, so now we continue. And we see that this period of a thousand years is the millennium. That's cross rain on earth. So let's just look at that very quickly. The millennium. First, we're going to look at Isaiah chapter 11. And that always is symbolized by the Feast of Tabernacles, Isaiah chapter 11, and from verse 1 to verse 10.

He says, They shall come forth a rod from the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots. The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him.

The Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of castle and might, the Spirit of knowledge, and the fear of the Lord. So that's basically Christ. He's the light, he's in the fear of the Lord. He shall not judge by the sight of his eyes, nor decide by the hearing of his ears, but with righteousness he shall rule the power and decide with equity for the meek of the earth.

He will strike the earth with the rod of his arms now. So any people that then want a rebel they will be strongly corrected, strongly corrected. And with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked. Righteousness shall be the belt of his loins, and faithfulness the belt of his waist. He has a verse 6, a scripture often read in the church, the wolf shall also dwell of the lamb, the leopard shall lie down of the undergird, the calf and the lion together and the fattening together, and the little child shall lead them. So quite often we look at this as the wonderful peace of the millennium of what we call the wonderful world tomorrow, but understand also that there is a spiritual analogy to it. That means nations and people that have a wrong spirit will be changed and will be able to be at peace with people with a positive spirit. So you know there'll be peace and children will be there then. And look at it, the cow and the bear shall rise and the young one shall lie down together, the lion shall eat straw like the ox. So the powerful nations and we will also, I mean obviously it's physical, but also there is a spiritual intent here. The nursing child shall play by the cobra's hole and the wind child shall put his hand on a viper's den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in my whole mountain. Remember mountain means kingdom, so they shall not hurt nor destroy in the kingdom of God. For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of God, of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. In that day there shall be a root of Jesse who shall stand as a banner to the people. For the Gentile shall seek him and his resting place shall be glorious. And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people who are left. And that is, as the millennium starts, at the beginning of the millennium, there will be what we normally call the second exus. And there will be a second exus and those people will come and when people look at the first exus there will be nothing compared to the second exus when nations of people come from all over the world to Jerusalem to keep the feast. So therefore this period of days between, for instance, the day of Atonement and the actual feast of Tabernacles. So let's read a few more. Yeah, this is what we read, Isaiah 11. Let's look at Isaiah chapter 2 verse 1 through 5. Isaiah chapter 2, 1 through 5. And it says, this is in the latter days, that the mountain of the Lord's house, you know, that's the kingdom of God, the mountain, mountain means the kingdom, and of the Lord, that is of God, shall be established on top of the mountains, in the words, shall be above all other nations, and shall be exalted above all the nations, that all nations shall flow to it. Many people shall come and say, come and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways, and we will walk in His paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the Lord, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations and rebuke many people. So any nations that have their own little ideas, because remember, carnal mind will still be there. And a lot of people have been badly influenced by the sword, surviving people. So they'll be rebuked. Those ideas, those wrong statements, like we hear today, people go on the news and say horrible things, disgusting things, that will be rebuked immediately by Christ. And He says, they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and they spears into primming hooks. Nations shall not lift up sword against nation. Nada shall learn war anymore.

And O house of Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of the Lord. And then look at Isaiah 25.

Isaiah 25 verse 6 through 9. Isaiah 25 verse 6 through 9 says, And in this mountain, in this kingdom, the Lord of hosts will make for all people a feast of choice pieces. So in the kingdom of God, when the kingdom of God is ruling on the earth, the people, to them, this government, the fruit, the end result, the outcome of of God's government ruling on earth, will be a feast of choice pieces, will be a feast of wines and leaves, of fat things full of marrow, of well-refined wines on the leaves, and He will destroy on this mountain the surface of the covering costs over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations. In other words, when Christ is ruling that veil, that false, false ideas, those fake ideas that we continuously see on the news or on social media, whatever it is, with people saying horrible things, that will be rebuked by Christ Himself. And that veil that people don't understand will be removed. It says the veil that is spread over all nations, that will be removed. You'll swallow up death forever.

And the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces. The rebuke of His people will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken. So yes, ultimately God will put away all death. Yes, initially He is the ones in the first resurrection. But those people then will have a chance to repent, to change, etc., so that they will not suffer the second death. So there it is.

Look at Isaiah 65 verse 17. Isaiah 65 verse 17. This is also a lovely structure, starting in verse 17. And it says, For the old I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former shall not be remembered or come to mind. Now some people think that it's actually talking about the new heaven and new earth. But Yah is a twofold meaning. Yes, He could interpret that as a new heaven and new earth, but it's not because when Christ comes and establishes the kingdom of God on earth, ruling on earth, the earth will become like a new earth. The heavens will become like new heavens.

Because there will be a rainy, new season, there won't be these extreme temperatures, and things like that. So the heavens and earth, during the millennium, will become like a new heaven and a new earth. So we can see layers of meaning. So specifically the content as we read the Revelation, I beg your pardon, Isaiah 65 verse 17 through to the end of this chapter, represents the world tomorrow. That's why it says right at the end of this chapter, the wolf and the lamb shall feed together, the lion shall eat straw, black dogs, etc. It's actually talking about the millennium, about the wonderful world tomorrow. And yes, it will be a new heavens and a new earth. Yes, we do know there's a duality of meaning after the millennium when there will be a new heaven and new earth. But in this context, it's not talking about that yet. So we're going to understand there is duality in scriptures quite often, twofold meaning. And as you read through verse 18 through 25, we can see it's talking about the millennium. It's talking about people and being happy and living a happy long life and being healthy, etc. But then in a middle day, in verse 20, is a very interesting verse, which again has a twofold meaning. Look at verse 20, no more shall uneven from there live but a few days. Nor an old man who has not fulfilled these days. What do you mean? It's because it has a dual meaning because it's talking about also the Second Resurrection. Because those people in the Second Resurrection will, if they were young or infants, they will no longer just die, but they will be resurrected and be able to live the rest of their lives. For the child shall die 100 years old. Why will the child die 100 years old? Because it's the child that has resurrected. You see the duality of the meaning? And the sinner, where's the sinner? The sinner that died in his life and is resurrected, being 100 years old, then if he stays sinner, he will be accursed. But there is a duality of meaning. So we do believe, and that's what the Church has always believed, we do believe that this is applicable to the period of the Second Resurrection. That is quite often, that is why, quite often, we call this period the 100 years period. That is why. So that is a duality in there.

So obviously, the subject, particularly of this section of the Second Resurrection, well, the millennial obviously covered in greater detail during the Feast of Tabernacles, and the Second Resurrection in that period is covered during the eighth die of the Feast of Tabernacles. So going back to Leviticus 23, going back to Leviticus 23, as we come to a conclusion today, Leviticus 23, Leviticus 23, verse 33 and 34.

It says, then the Lord spoke to Moses, speaking to children of Israel, saying, the fifteenth day of the seventh month shall be a feast of tabernacles for seven days.

So that's that, and then in verse 40, it says, you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of beautiful trees, branches, palm leaves, piles of leafy trees, and willows on the brook, and you shall rejoice before the Lord your God. So you shall rejoice here.

For instance, at services, people make beautiful flower arrangements and all that during the Feast and things like that. And you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord for seven days in the year it shall be a statute forever in the generations. You shall celebrate it in the seventh month. You shall dwell in booths or in tabernacles or in temporary dwellings, as we do for a period of seven days, which symbolizes complete, which is symbolic of that millennium.

And it says that all know that I made the children dwell in temporary dwellings, and it says, I am the Lord your God. So this ties in beautifully. This section, yeah, in Revelation 20, verse four, and five and six, ties in beautifully to the millennium. So the Feast on Boops, the Feast of Tabernacles, reminds us that life is temporary. Yes, in temporary dwellings. The world tomorrow will be much better. We'll be much better. We can see there'll be, we looked at some scriptures here in Isaiah and others, that will be a wonderful, will be a feast. Good food and healthy food and people be healthy. People live long. And we now have the world being prepared during the millennium, and particularly during the latter part of the millennium, the world is now preparing itself for the Second Resurrection. Why? Because we all have billions and billions of people being resurrected at the same time, probably, let's say, as many as 70 billion people. Like, that's 10 times what the world's population is today. Today we live with about 7 billion people on earth. We are talking about 70 billion people, probably the size of that resurrection, or maybe more, maybe less. But let's say it's a number like 70. I like the number 7 because it's a combination of 7, which means complete, but it doesn't have to be that. But if you kind of do some calculations of how many people lived on earth since the days of Adam and Eve, it would probably be a number about 70 billion or even more. So the world has to be prepared. Why? Because you're going to have to have basic amenities for all these people, such as clothes, food, etc. You think about it. People are going to need toothbrushes. People are going to need fresh water to drink. People are going to need plenty of variety of healthy food, etc. The earth has to be blossoming with prosperity at that time before the sake of resurrection. And so we'll be prepared. Why? Because you have to have enough houses for these people. You have to have enough toilet paper for all these people. And whatever you think about, there will be a lot of people that will have requirements. A lot of clothes and changes of clothes and things like that. So there's a lot of things that we have to prepare. And that's why in the millennium there will be great prosperity towards the end. And that prosperity, yes, will cause some people to say, oh well, it's always been like this. And oh well, I'm rich in increase of goods. So it will kind of, a few people become rebellious because of that. That's why Satan has to be released temporarily for a little bit. But that's a topic of next study. So brethren, as I mentioned today, I wanted to tie in, as part of a review, tie in God's Holy Days into this book of Revelation, and particularly showing how the Revelation builds up to the Day of the Lord. And basically, the main theme of the book of Revelation is the Day of the Lord, and the things that happen around there, and tying in to God's feasts, and those meanings and symbolism of God's festivals, which show us, in the end, God's great plan of salvation. Thank you, brethren, and then see you next time.