Our Guest Perry Stone
Perry: Then you go all the way ahead to Revelation, chapter 19 and you discover He’s coming back on a white horse. He has on His vesture a name written “King of Kings and Lord of Lords.” Now what has happened? What has happened between chapter 1, where He’s standing there with the white garment on, then you find out in chapter 1 He has no crown, right? But in chapter 19 on His head were many crowns. Now what has happened between chapter 1 and chapter 19? What has happened is just like throughout history, one king is going to go after another king’s kingdom. What does he do? He forms an army, he forms a huge militia or an army. He then attacks that king’s nation to remove out of that kingdom anything that’s dangerous, anything that would be of harm, anything that would interrupt the kingdom. And he removes it and then goes into that country. For example Alexander the Great conquered the Medes and the Persians. And the Babylonians conquered the Assyrians. And we could go on and talk about the Babylonians conquering the Egyptians and this is what they did and they did it through different methods. So what Christ does is this. Christ uses the “Seven Sealed Book.” You know we’ve talked about this on our series in detail. Because in the Book of Revelation one of the first things you see in heaven is the Lamb has a Seven Sealed Book. Now don’t think of a book like your Bible because in John’s day these would be scrolls. They would be a very large scroll. And it has leather ties— in the scrolls in that day in the Roman period, or in the time of when John wrote this, you’d have a scroll and you would have leather that would, let’s say seven straps of leather and you tie it. Then to seal it you’d take hot wax and you put on top of the leather… and every… you have to have a Signet ring. A Signet ring, a Signet was a ring that had a symbol on it. It could be a lion, it could be a, a serpent, it could be uh, uh, an animal, it could be a cosmic thing, it just depended on the family. Sometimes it was a family seal or a, or a kingly seal. And when the wax was hot you, you put your imprint of that ring on that. Now you know, I think we’ve talked about this, I know our ministry partners know this, that, that I tend to be very strong what we call “Pre-Trib,” meaning that somewhere before the, or right at the time of, or right before the signing of the seven year treaty there’s a “catching away.” Now let me tell you one of the reasons why— and this is a strong point and most people know nothing about what I am getting ready to tell you. This was done through research. It has to do with the Seven Seal Scroll. Now let me explain this to you. Caesar Augustus had a will made in which he put seven seals on the will. Now this is the, this is the cultural pattern of that day when John wrote this. If I was an extremely rich man, I would call 7 men. Now remember this. It wasn’t like Charlotte and New York where the family moves away and the family’s got to come in, you know, for a three hour flight or ten hour drive. Back in that day if I owned property I gave it to my son and he would give it to his son and it never left. If we lost it we could even redeem it back on a “Jubilee Year.” Okay, you with me? So what happened was every father had a ring which was called a ring that was used to seal documents with wax. Any document that was legal or any letter, letter that he didn’t want read by anybody he’d always put a wax seal on it.
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