Feast of the Open Book

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THE BOOK OF REVELATION

• Apocalypse (Greek apokálypsis "lifting of the
  veil" or "revelation" is a disclosure of
  something hidden from the majority of mankind in
  an era dominated by falsehood and misconception,
  i.e. the veil to be lifted.
• Revelation 1 a panoramic view of 2000 years of
  Church History The Millennium (1000 years) and
  the Kingdom
• Chapters 1-3 deals with the Church/Bride
• Chapter 4-19 deals with Israel as a nation
  Reveals the Sealed/Opened Book. Show activities
  in Heaven
• Chapter 19-22 is both together
• Hebrews 1139-40

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The Fivefold Division of the Bible

• The old testament has for its subject the King
  and His coming Kingdom, In promise and prophecy
• The four Gospels the kingdom offered and
  rejected. The King crucified.
• The Acts and earlier Pauline epistles the King
  and Kingdom reoffered and rejected by the
  Dispersion in Rome
• The Latter Pauline Epistles the King made head
  over all things to the Church
• The Apocalypse the Kingdom set up with Divine
  judgment, in power/glory. The King enthroned

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• Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are
  mature a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of
  the rulers of this age, who are passing away 7
  but we speak Gods wisdom in a mystery, the
  hidden wisdom which God predestined before the
  ages to our glory 8 the wisdom which none of the
  rulers of this age has understood for if they
  had understood it they would not have crucified
  the Lord of glory 9 but just as it is written,
•    THINGS WHICH EYE HAS NOT SEEN AND EAR HAS NOT
  HEARD, AND which HAVE NOT ENTERED THE HEART OF
  MAN, ALL THAT GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THOSE WHO
  LOVE HIM.
•  For to us God revealed them through the Spirit
  for the Spirit searches all things, even the
  depths of God. 11 For who among men knows the
  thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man
  which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no
  one knows except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we
  have received, not the spirit of the world, but
  the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know
  the things freely given to us by God, 13 which
  things we also speak, not in words taught by
  human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit,
  ecombining spiritual thoughts with spiritual
  words.

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The Unveiling Chapter One

• 1 Revelation of Jesus Christ
• 2 John is scribe and servant
• 3 The Blessing pronounced
• 4 The Salute to the Church
• 5 The Announcements
• 6 The Supreme Deity of Jesus Christ
• 7 The Patmos Vision
• 8 The 7 Fold Glory of His Person
• Therefore write the things which you have seen,
  and the things which are, and the things which
  will take place after these things.

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Writer is John

• Between A.D. 95-96
• Isle of Patmos 30 miles off the coast of Asia
  Minor, in the Aegean Sea, just opposite of the
  church at Ephesus where John was the Pastor
• Rocky Island full of serpents, scorpions and
  lizards
• Used like Alcatraz was in this day criminals
  were exiled to this place, stayed until they died
  
• Why was John there? Verse 9, for the WORD of GOD
  and for the TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST

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• Before going they boiled him in a vat of oil for
  24 hours, called him applied false charges and
  sent him to Patmos
• IN THE SPIRIT God can use you, ON THE LORDS
  DAY- caught up in the Spirit and Shown the coming
  of the Lord and the Judgments
• Voice as of a Trumpet a trumpet always
  announces the approaching of something somebody
  a great one is approaching
• Alpha Omega First Last Greatest
  Revelation is of the Supreme Deity of the Lord
  Jesus Christ. Recognizing the Overcoming King

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The Anointing, Message and Messengers

• Seven Golden Lampstands
• Seven Spirits of God
• Sevenfold Revelation of His Glory
• Seven Churches
• Seven Messengers
• 2 Corinthians 46 "For God, who commanded the
  light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in
  our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of
  the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ

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Seven Golden Lampstands

• The Representation of Christ through 7 Church
  Ages
• Zechariah 4Continual flow of Oil in each age.
  Moses Elijah
• Midst of Lampstand (Church Ages), saw One like
  the Son of Man God in human flesh Jesus
  Christ in every age.
• Directly Related to Daniel 7The Ancient of Days
• First introduced in Exodus 25. Moses made it
  according to the pattern shown to him in heaven.
• Only source of light in the Holy Place
• The Seven Lampstands symbolize God represented as
  the Seven Spirits before the Thrown.
• Made from a single piece of gold representing the
  Divine Nature.

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The Seven Spirits of God

• Isaiah 112-- Spirit of the Lord Spirits of
  wisdom and revelation Spirits of counsel and
  might Spirits of knowledge and reverential awe.
• The Eyes of the Lord--- Zechariah 39 Zachariah
  410. For who has despised the day of small
  things? But these seven will be glad when they
  see the dplumb line in the hand of
  Zerubbabelthese are the eyes of the LORD which
  range to and fro throughout the earth.
• Revelations 56---And I saw between the throne
  (with the four living creatures) and the elders a
  Lamb standing, as if slain, having seven horns
  and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of
  God, sent out into all the earth. 7 And He came
  and took the book out of the right hand of Him
  who sat on the throne.

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The Unveiling of Jesus as King/Judge

• The Sevenfold Revelation of His Glory
• 1. His Hair As White Snow
• 2. His Eyes as Flames of Fire
• 3. Feet of Burnished Bronze
• 4. Voice as the Sound of Many Waters
• 5. In His Right Hand Seven Stars
• 6. Out of His Mouth--Two-edged Sword
• 7. Face Like the Sun
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Hebrews 11-3 teaches us "God, who at sundry
times and in divers manners spake in time past
unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these
last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath
appointed heir of all things, by whom also he
made the worlds who being the brightness of his
glory, and the express image of his person, and
upholding all things by the word of his power,
when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down
on the right hand of the Majesty on high .
His body also was like beryl, his face had the
appearance of lightning, his eyes were like
flaming torches, his arms and feet like the gleam
of polished bronze, and the sound of his words
like the sound of a tumult. Daniel 106
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His Hair As White Snow 

• The symbolic depiction of this image involving
  the Lord's hair communicates the supreme wisdom
  by which He judges the affairs of mankind. The
  people of Israel vividly remembered the Glory
  once resident in their nation through the
  leadership of Solomon. The Heavenly impartation
  of wisdom given to this king became legendary.
  Nonetheless, a greater than Solomon has now come.
  The One who is the very source of all wisdom
  will judge from the books of heaven involving the
  issues of mankind and the restoration of lost
  heritage.
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• Both John and Daniel saw the purity of God's
  wisdom in His justice portrayed through hair as
  white as snow. He revealed Himself as the
  suffering lamb, now we will see demonstrations of
  the overcoming King who comes to wage war with
  His enemies and render justice. Revelations
  1911
• Acts 1730-31Therefore having overlooked the
  times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men
  that all people everywhere should repent, because
  He has fixed a day in which He will judge the
  world in righteousness through a Man whom He has
  appointed, having furnished proof to all men by
  raising Him from the dead.

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His Eyes as Flames of Fire 

• The penetrating and fiery eyes of Jesus the Just
  Judge have seen all that has taken place in the
  realm of mankind. Nothing has escaped His notice
  nor have the motives and thoughts resident in the
  hearts of people. Our thoughts are louder in
  heaven than our words on the earth.
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• The eyes of God have roved to and fro throughout
  the earth to record every act of righteousness
  and document every injustice committed against
  the heritage of Christ. Not one will go without
  restitution and restoration. The Sevenfold
  Spirit of God are the all-seeing eyes of God.
  For who has despised the day of small things? But
  these seven will be glad when they see the plumb
  line in the hand of Zerubbabel these are the
  eyes of the LORD which range to and fro
  throughout the earth. Zechariah 410

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Feet of Burnished Bronze

• His feet of burnished bronze represents His right
  to stand in judgment. Bronze is a very hard
  substance that has been tried by fire. The
  sinless, spotless son of God endured the
  harshness and recompense of iniquity and
  transgression on behalf of lost mankind. The
  fiery furnace of God's wrath against sin was
  heaped upon the Lord Jesus. He took it to the
  cross and won the right to release justice in the
  earth.
• His feet will stand upon the land and sea to
  surrender justice in the realm of man. The
  prophet Moses prophetically saw the Lord coming
  in His glory revealing the attributes of both
  mercy and justice. As the Lord passed before
  Moses He declared His eternal qualities of
  compassion and grace. He is slow to anger and
  abounding in lovingkindness and truth. He
  extends mercy and forgiveness to thousands,
  pardoning iniquity, transgression and sin but he
  will by no means leave the guilt of sin
  unpunished.
• If sin and transgression has been released to the
  Lord Jesus through His blood then there remains
  no judgment for sin. Justice then relinquishes
  blessings, favor and grace to the righteous.

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Voice as the Sound of Many Waters 

• Waters very often symbolically points to the
  multitudes of peoples and nations. Likewise, His
  Voice is the voice of ultimate authority and
  power. Throughout the ages a prophetic message
  has been delegated and entrusted to each
  generation through the messengers of Heaven.
  There has been an allotted portion of Heavenly
  Manna deposited throughout each juncture of
  church history.
• The prophet Daniel in his prayer of repentance
  acknowledged that the people of his day did not
  obey the Voice of the Lord presented to them
  through the His servants the prophets. He
  acknowledged,
• nor have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God,
  to walk in His teachings which He set before us
  through His servants the prophets Daniel 910
• When the day of justice arrives, every voice that
  has declared the revelation of God to their
  generation will be sounded as one. That voice
  will be the voice of the Holy Spirit rendering
  justice.

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In His Right Hand Seven Stars

• The Holy Spirit has utilized the agency of man to
  articulate His Voice. The seven stars are the
  ambassadors of Heaven who carried and imparted
  the revelation of Jesus to their generation. The
  Scriptures plainly emphasize the meaning of the
  seven stars as messengers.
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• Clearly, the apostle Paul was a messenger and
  voice to the early church who worked in
  cooperation with the Holy Spirit and the host of
  heaven. The message was oftentimes communicated
  to him and the apostle John through spiritual
  beings who embodied the revelation of God. That
  pattern continued throughout the Church ages and
  will be emphasized in this day. An accentuation
  of this reality has been plainly recorded in
  history. Martin Luther was a messenger to his
  day bringing the restoration of truth that the
  just shall live by faith. The progressive
  recovery of lost heritage continued through the
  messengers of the next generation including John
  Wesley, George Whitefield, John Knox and many
  others.
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• Finally, this generation will experience a
  company of messengers who not only impart a truth
  but embody the Truth. That is our promise and
  legacy.

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Two-edged Sword 

• The Living Word is quick and powerful and sharper
  than a two-edged sword. Only the Lord can
  separate spirit from soul. He is the one who
  discerns the thoughts and intentions of our
  hearts. The Lord Jesus has the unique ability to
  examine and weigh our motives to determine if we
  are capable of carrying the authority of Heaven
  to our generation.
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• It is His intent and desire to live in and among
  His people bringing the revelation of Himself and
  His Word. The book of Revelations depicts the
  Lord Jesus coming on a white horse with the
  declaration that He is faithful and true.
  Embroidered on His garment is the depiction of
  His person the Word of God. The Word became
  flesh and dwelt among mankind. He once again
  desires to do the same through His body.

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Face Like the Sun

• Resident in the Lord are manifold Holy
  attributes. Many people still envision the Lord
  as a baby in a manger. However, He is now an
  awesome, victorious, overcoming King great is
  His power and authority to be administered and
  experientially apprehended on the earth in a
  demonstration of His victory.
• The Son of Righteousness will arise with healing
  in His wings to bring a fresh revelation of His
  Person to the earth. The residue of Glory
  resting on Moses after his face-to-face
  encounters with God overwhelmed the people of
  Israel. He was forced to cover his face because
  of the tangible impartation of Heavenly virtue
  that he transported. How much more in this
  generation when the Lord demonstrates His victory
  and imparts His Glory not only upon, but within
  His Bride. Christ in us the hope of Glory.
  This endowment will come to those who view him
  with an unveiled face.

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The Open Door of Revelation

• The RemnantThe House of David
• And I will clothe him with your tunic And tie
  your sash securely about him. I will entrust him
  with your authority, And he will become a father
  to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house
  of Judah. "Then I will set the key of the house
  of David on his shoulder, When he opens no one
  will shut, When he shuts no one will open

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Lion
Ox
Man
Eagle
Pentecost
Present
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312
606
1520
1750
1906
EphesianAge
SmyrnaAge
PergamumAge
ThyatiraAge
SardisAge
PhiladelphiaAge
LaodiceaAge
Paul
Irenaeus
Martin
Columba
Luther
Wesley
White Horse
Red Horse
Black Horse
Pale Horse
Swarming Locust
Creeping Locust
Stripping Locust
Gnawing Locust
Seven Stars Seven Messengers
Four Living Creatures Attributes of the Holy
Spirit in those who overcome
Four Horses Riders Four Levels of maturity of
the Anti-Christ Spirit
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From John L. Moore

• On 7-7-11 I said, "The rock has rolled.
• Last week a freak thunderstorm crossed the north
  side of our ranch before bringing much
  destruction to a farming community east of us on
  the Yellowstone River.The photo above is a
  partial look at a landmark on our ranch, a
  massive rock with vertical lines (caused by ocean
  tides when eastern Montana was on the bottom of
  an ocean?) and stretching over 100 feet and
  rising up to 15 feet above the ground. Little
  about this rock has changed through the years.

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• After the storm Wally Badgett and I trailed some
  yearlings past Krumm Spring and I could not
  believe my eyes. The angry storm had dislodged a
  horizontal portion of the rock wall and left it
  standing vertically without rolling it down the
  hill. This rock is standing on a narrow ledge
  with its lines now pointing up. While I was
  watching the live streaming of the Open Door
  Conference at Chuck Pierce's church Friday night
  the Lord gave me understanding about this rock.
• The total rock represents the Church. For a long
  time all of the church's "lines" have been
  horizontal. The church has been concerned about
  fellowship, church growth, activities, social
  programs, etc...
• But a storm broke off a "remnant" without
  destroying it. Instead, the remnant is now
  pointing up to the heavens. See how this rock
  even resembles a hand.
• This is a sign for our times. A remnant within
  the church will break away from horizontal works
  and point upward to Christ.

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Christ Coming in Glory

• Old testament...speaks of the coming messiah in
  (Christ in promise and prophecy)
• Gospels...behold His life and sacrifice. (Christ
  in human form demonstrating Love)
• Acts...behold He lives (Christ demonstrated in
  His Church)
• Epistles...behold He saves (Christ in
  personal experience Inheritance appropriated)
• Revelation...behold He reigns (Christ in coming
  glory Tabernacleing in His People)

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Open Door Opportunity and Revelation

• Revelation 1 ParadigmJohns Experience
• He is the DoorJohn 107 So Jesus said to them
  again, "Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door
  of the sheep. "All who came before Me are
  thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear
  them. "I am the door if anyone enters through
  Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and
  find pasture.
• His IdentityHe is both Lord and Christ.
• Acts 236.

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The Door is OpenNumbers 13The Door is
ClosedNumbers 14

• Moses sent Spy's to investigate Their Land the
  Lord was going to Give them.
• The People Believed the Evil Report
• Numbers 1332-33
• The Remnant with a Different Spirit
• One Day the Door is Opened for Sure VictoryThe
  Next Day it is Closed and Certain Defeat.

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Seven Church Ages

• Ephesus...the apostolic church
• Smyrna...the persecuted church
• Pergamos...the married church 
• Thyatira...the mideval church
• Sardis...the denominational church
• Philadelphia...missionary church/open door
• Laodicea...the apostate/lukewarm church

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The Spreading of the Kingdom Message

• Corinthians 212, "Furthermore, when I came to
  Troas to preach Christ's Gospel, and a door was
  opened unto me of the Lord.".
•  Hebrews 21 For this reason we must pay much
  closer attention to what we have heard, so that
  we do not drift away from it. For if the word
  spoken through angels proved unalterable, and
  every transgression and disobedience received a
  just penalty, how will we escape if we neglect so
  great a salvation? After it was at the first
  spoken through the Lord, it was confirmed to us
  by those who heard, God also testifying with
  them, both by signs and wonders and by various
  miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit
  according to His own will.

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• Psalm 1Prophetic call for return to the Land.
• Psalms 39-49 World War II
• Psalm 48Reveals Israel's Restoration.
• Psalm 107 seemed to touch upon 2007, as the UN
  replaced the Lex Mercatoria (the ancient Law of
  the Seas) with a new UN treaty. Psalm 107 speaks
  of these sea merchants reeling over troubled
  seas. The UN took control of the worlds oceans,
  thus controlling national sovereignty, navigation
  rights, international taxation, the environment,
  and energy production. In the hands of a
  powerful, unelected few, the UN is threatening
  the long tradition of freedom on the high seas
  70 percent of the Earths surface. Also, in 2007,
  the UN began talks on global warming under the
  United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
  Change (UNFCCC) and developed the Kyoto
  Protocol. Furthermore, representatives of the
  United States and the European Union signed a new
  transatlantic economic partnership at a summit
  in Washington DC, agreeing to set up an economic
  council to move ahead with regulatory
  convergence in some 40 areas, including
  intellectual property, financial services,
  business takeovers and open skies the ability
  to fly to airports anywhere in Europe and America
  without the need for passports. Psalm 107 alludes
  to these subjects with a promise that the Messiah
  will soon come and judge the nations.

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• Psalm 108, which speaks of casting a shoe Over
  Edom will I cast out my shoe (Psalm 1089). We
  all remember seeing an Iraqi newsman throwing his
  shoes at President George Bush! This verse is
  also given in Psalm 608. Well, believe it or
  not, 1960 was the year Russian President Nikita
  Kruschev banged his shoe on his desk at the
  United Nations and declared, We will bury you.
• Psalm 109This psalm speaks of a wicked and
  deceitful ruler, who turns his back on Israel.
  David prays for Gods judgment upon him Set
  thou a wicked man over him and let Satan stand
  at his right hand (Psalm 1096). In 2009
  T-shirts were produced with Psalm 109 written on
  them. Although they were condemned by Washington
  elites, the psalm, nevertheless, set a powerful
  theme for 2009 concerning our leader turning on
  Israel.
• Psalm 110This is the most quoted psalm in the
  New Testament. It speaks of Gods Son sitting at
  His right hand until the time is right to return
  to Earth in Judgment. Perhaps the psalm is saying
  that 2010 is very close to the time for Christ to
  return, but not quite yet. Psalm 111
• As we look at Psalm 111, let us first look at the
  Hebrew layout of this psalm. Notice that the
  letters in red represent the Hebrew alphabet.
  Therefore, this is an alphabetic psalm. The
  famous rabbis, Rashi (A.D. 1040-1105) and Radak
  (A.D. 1160-1235), have both suggested that the
  initial letters of the stitches of this psalm
  (after the first word Hallelujah) follow the
  sequence of the Hebrew alphabet (Tehillim, Vol.
  2, p. 1348).

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7 Lampstands 7 Messengers

• As for the mystery of the seven stars which you
  saw in My right hand, and the seven golden
  lampstands the seven stars are the angels of the
  seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the
  seven churchesRevelations 120
• To the angel of the church in Ephesus write The
  One who holds the seven stars in His right hand,
  the One who walks among the seven golden
  lampstands, says this Revelations 21

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The Seven Stars

• MysteryMysterion. hidden thing, secret, mystery
  generally mysteries, religious secrets, confided
  only to the initiated and not to ordinary mortals
  a hidden or secret thing, not obvious to the
  understanding a hidden purpose or counsel secret
  will 1c of men 1c of God the secret counsels
  which govern God in dealing with the righteous,
  which are hidden from ungodly and wicked men but
  plain to the godly in rabbinic writings, it
  denotes the mystic or hidden sense of an OT
  saying of an image or form seen in a vision or a
  dream
• Seven Bright IlluminariesMessengers.
• StarsAs-tare. Use 13 times in Revelations.
• 1. Used of JesusNumbers 2417
• 2. Used of Saints2 Peter 119
• 3. Used of End of AgeMessengers Daniel 123
• AngelsAngelos. one who is sent, an angel, a
  messenger from God. 64 Times in Revelation.

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• AngelsAngelos. one who is sent, an angel, a
  messenger from God. 64 Times in Revelation.
• Right HandThe right hand or arm signifies the
  power and authority of God.
• For by their own sword they did not possess the
  land, And their own arm did not save them, But
  Your right hand and Your arm and the light of
  Your presence, For You favored them. Psalms 443
• Who is among you that fears the Lord, That obeys
  the voice of His servant, That walks in darkness
  and has no light? Let him trust in the name of
  the Lord and rely on his God. Behold, all you who
  kindle a fire, Who encircle yourselves with
  firebrands, Walk in the light of your fire And
  among the brands you have set ablazeIsaiah
  5010-11.

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The Lampstands

• Lampstand-- Exodus 2531. This is a type of the
  Holy Spirit illuminating all the things of God.
  The pure gold represents the purity of the spirit
  and of His word. The seven branches represents
  fullness and completion of the Spirits
  Revelation. The bowls represent the great
  provision of the Spirit. The flowers represent
  the beauty of the spirit. In the book of
  Revelation it is indicative of God's people.
• In the Holy Place there are three implements...
  Lampstand, Table of Shewbread, Altar of Incense.
• Zechariah 4. The Oil and the fire both come from
  God.
• And I will grant authority to my two witnesses,
  and they will prophesy for twelve hundred and
  sixty days, clothed in sackcloth." These are the
  two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand
  before the Lord of the earth. Rev 113-4

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Deliverers Ascending Zion

• But on Mount Zion there will be those who escape,
  And it will be holy. And the house of Jacob will
  possess their possessions. Then the house of
  Jacob will be a fire And the house of Joseph a
  flame But the house of Esau will be as stubble.
  And they will set them on fire and consume them,
  So that there will be no survivor of the house of
  Esau," For the Lord has spoken. The deliverers
  will ascend Mount Zion To judge the mountain of
  Esau, And the kingdom will be the Lord's.
  Obadiah 17-18 21.
• And of the angels He says, Who makes His angels
  winds, And His ministers a flame of fire.
  --Hebrews 17

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Best of Time-Worst of Times

• Time for Seeing
• Time for Separation
• Time for Deliverers
• Time for Covenant