Revelation 10 - Verse by Verse Bible Study

By Pastor Steven L Anderson

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January, 2013

Now in Revelation chapter 10, we just finished up with the events of the fifth and sixth

trumpets. And before we get into the seventh trumpet, God spends some time in chapters

and just talking about some things that have to do with the seventh trumpet, and things

that lead up to the seventh trumpet. Look at chapter , verse number one. It says "And

I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow

was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:

And he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and

his left foot on the earth, And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and

when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices." So I want you to get the picture

here. This mighty angel comes down from heaven clothed with a cloud, rainbow on his head,

his face is just bright as the sun, and he comes and sets one foot on the sea, and his

left foot on the earth, and he CRIES with a loud voice as when a lion roareth, "and

when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices. And when the seven thunders

had uttered their voices, I was about to write". So these seven thunders that utter their voices,

when the angel cries out, they're saying something, they're giving some information. But for some

reason, God does not want us to have that information at this time, because he says

to John, actually... I'm sorry- the angel tells him... It says he was about to write,

but he heard a voice from heaven "saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders

uttered, and write them not." So John hears what the seven thunders have to say, he goes

to write it down, and he is told, "Do NOT write that down. Seal up those things which

the seven thunders uttered and write them not." And this is really interesting, because

the book of Revelation is open with us. And it reveals so much to us, and God gives us

so much information that it's strange here that this is the only place in Revelation

where God is withholding some piece of information from us. I'm not sure why it's being withheld.

But something that those seven thunders uttered, is something that we are NOT supposed to know

about, and I've often wondered about it and tried to figure it out, but obviously He just

doesn't want us to know. We'll find out someday. But it says in verse , " the angel which

I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven", the same angel,

"And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that

therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea, and the things

which are therein, that there should be time no longer: But in the days of the voice of

the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished,

as he hath declared to his servants the prophets." Now, this ties in heavily with Daniel .

And I'm going to take you to Daniel in just a moment. In fact, if you want to turn

there, you can because that's where we're going in just a moment. But let me say this.

Some people have misunderstood this statement in chapter where he swears that there shall

be time no longer. Some people have misinterpreted that to say "well, this means that time is

going to cease to exist from here on out." That's not what he means at all, because after

this point, we still have the millennium, or the thousand year reign of Christ. Well

if we have a thousand years, obviously we are measuring time. So time still exists after

the seventh angel sounds the trumpet. But what he is saying is, "there shall be time

no longer:" And then there is a colon there... And then it says "But in the days of the voice

of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished,

as he hath declared to his servants the prophets." And so what he is saying there, is that when

the seventh trumpet sounds, the time that will be no longer, is there will be no more

time remaining, until the mystery of God is finished. So, when the seventh angel begins

to sound the seventh trumpet, the mystery of God will be finished, as he hath declared

to his servants the prophets. Now I am going to get into what that mystery is in a moment.

But first of all, let's go to Daniel chapter , and let's compare what we have seen so

far in Revelation with what we see in Daniel chapter , because there is something very

similar in Daniel chapter . But I want to start at the beginning of Daniel chapter ,

and go through it verse by verse. It says in Daniel :, "And at that time shall Michael

stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there

shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that

same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found

written in the book." So, verse right there is just packed with information. Let's break

it down slowly here. It says first of all, that "there shall be a time of trouble, such

as never was since there was a nation even to that same time". Well compare that to Matthew

, when the Bible says "For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the

beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be." We see that "trouble" and

"tribulation" are often used interchangeably in the Bible. For example, in nd Corinthians

chapter , it says "who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort

them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God."

So in nd Corinthians , he uses "trouble" and "tribulation" interchangeably. Throughout

the Bible, you'll see the words "trouble" and "tribulation" interchangeably. So when

he says there shall be a time of "trouble" such as never was since there was a nation

even to that same time", that is the same period of time that he is referring to in

Matthew verse where he says "For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not

since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be." So we're dealing with

the great tribulation. Well, now let's start at the beginning of the verse and read it

again. "And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the

children of thy people", this is talking about Michael the archangel. It says Michael will

stand up, and there shall be a time of trouble such as was not since the world began and

so forth. Because we're tying it in with Matthew . Well, in Revelation chapter , do you

remember the scripture about there being a war in heaven? And it says "Michael and his

angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels", that's what's

being alluded to in Daniel chapter verse . So what the Bible is telling us is that

Michael the archangel is going to battle with the devil, we read about it in chapter ,

and the devil is going to be cast out of heaven, he is going to be cast down to the earth.

And when the devil is cast down to the earth, the Bible says that he has great wrath, because

he knoweth that he hath but a short time. And so when the devil is cast down to the

earth, he knows that he has a short time, he goes to persecute the woman which brought

forth a man child, we'll deal with that in the sermon on Revelation ... But then it

says at the end, it says "the dragon was wroth with the woman"- last verse of chapter -

"and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God,

and have the testimony of Jesus Christ." And what do we see in the next chapter, chapter

? We see Satan making war with the saints through the antichrist. The dragon or Satan

puts the antichrist in power to make war with the saints, to make war with God's people,

and that is taking place in chapter , we see the mark of the beast and all that, that

is known as the great tribulation, that period of persecution, people are being killed, and

beheaded for not taking the mark of the beast and so on and so forth. So that matches perfectly

with Daniel chapter . Because in chapter of Revelation, the devil is cast out of

heaven, he goes to make war with the saints. That's what basically initiates the tribulation,

is the devil being cast down to earth, and then he goes out to persecute first the woman,

then the saints. And we'll get into that more in the Revelation sermon. Now let's look

at it in Daniel : again with that in mind. "And at that time shall Michael stand up,

the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people"- we know that that's referring

to where he fights against the devil, casts the dragon out of heaven, "and there shall

be a time of trouble"- so there's the tribulation- "such as never was since there was a nation

even to that same time"- and then look at this- "and at that time thy people shall be

delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book." And that's obviously referring

to those that are saved, that are going to be delivered at that time. So it's a perfect

order here. Devil is cast out of heaven, great tribulation, THEN the rapture, okay? Because

it says in verse , "many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake". That's

a resurrection there, do you see that? "Some to everlasting life, and some to shame and

everlasting contempt. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament;

and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever." So in Daniel

chapter , verses through , here are the events. Michael stands up, and basically fights

against the dragon, casts him out of heaven, when he gets down to the earth, he goes out

to persecute first the woman, then he persecutes the remnant of her seed that keep the commandments

of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. That period where he is persecuting the saints

and so forth is called "the great tribulation". AFTER that, basically the saved are resurrected,

everyone whose name is in the book is delivered, the rapture takes place. But first the dead

in Christ rise, then we which are alive and remain are caught up together with them in

the clouds. And so on and so forth. Now look at verse . " But thou, O Daniel, shut up

the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,

and knowledge shall be increased." Now, here is the tie in with Revelation . "Then I

Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the

river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river. And one said to the man clothed

in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of

these wonders? And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the

river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him

that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall

have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be

finished." So, what do we have here? We have two angels, one of them is standing on one

side of a river, and one of them is standing on the other side of the river. And one of

them says to the one on this side of the river "How long shall it be to the end of these

wonders?" He lifts up his hands to heaven, and he swears by Him that liveth for ever

and ever that it should be for a time, times and half a time. Well what's interesting is

that in Revelation , what do we see? An angel standing with one foot on the sea, and

another foot on the earth lifting up his hand to heaven, and swearing by Him that liveth

for ever and ever that there should be time no longer. So what I believe is that these

two angels standing on either side of the river... One of them that says "it shall be

for a time, times and half a time", as we see in Daniel . But then the other angel

we see in Revelation on the other side of the river saying "there shall be time no

longer". So we're dealing with a and a half year period between the angel that speaks

in Daniel , and the angel that speaks in Revelation chapter . And the reason I say

and a half years, is that when the Bible says "time, and times and half a time", it's

referring to and a half years. Or and a half periods of time, because "time" is

one, right? Then we have "times". And then a half a time. So what is what is one, plus

two, plus a half? Three and a half. And I'll show you that a little bit later in the sermon

how "time and times and half a time" is used synonymously with three years. Now, it says

that there will be a time, and times and half a time, at the end of verse there, "and

when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things

shall be finished." And that's similar to the statement in Revelation , where he says

the mystery of God should be finished "as he hath declared to His servants the prophets."

You say "Pastor Anderson, I don't understand anything that you just said." Well, join the

club, because Daniel didn't understand it either. Because it says in verse number ,

"And I heard, but I understood not", so if you don't understand what I've just explained,

well, neither did Daniel at that time. And hopefully you'll understand it by the end

of the sermon tonight. It says "I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be

the end of these things?", verse . "And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are

closed up and sealed till the time of the end." Now, I've got good news for you though.

We're living in the time of the end. Because in Revelation chapter , at the very end

of the book of Revelation, the Bible says in verse "And he saith unto me, Seal NOT

the sayings of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand." So at the end of

the book of Daniel, Daniel said "I don't understand these things", and God said "Go thy way Daniel,

seal up the words, it's not until the time of the end." At the end of Revelation, he

says "seal not the sayings of the prophecy of the book, for the time is at hand." And

so we today, with the book of Revelation in our hand, can understand what Daniel failed

to understand in the book of Daniel. So the fact that I just read it to you from Daniel

chapter , and you're scratching your head having trouble understanding it, makes perfect

sense, because he didn't understand it either. But, when we combine it with the book of Revelation,

it will make sense. And you will understand it. And if Daniel would have had the book

of Revelation available to him, he would have understood it too. Verse . "Many shall be

purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the

wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand." So, God is saying "look Daniel,

you don't understand this now, but at the time of the end people will understand it."

But is He saying that EVERYONE is going to understand it at the time of the end? No.

He is saying THE RIGHTEOUS will understand it in the time of the end, but none of the

wicked shall understand. So in order to be able to understand biblical prophecy, you

know what the first thing you've got to do is be saved. And a lot of people, the reason

they don't understand biblical prophecy, is because they're not saved. Because the Bible

says the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness

unto him, NEITHER CAN HE KNOW THEM, because they are spiritually discerned. And I often

find that when someone is very confused about biblical prophecy, and cannot understand basic

simple truths- and I know tonight's sermon is not that basic, but other sermons that

are REALLY basic on Bible prophecy, and it goes right over their heads, you know, then

you talk to those same people about salvation, and they're wrong on salvation. They don't

believe it's by grace through faith, they don't believe that everlasting life is the

gift of God to whosoever believeth. And then it makes perfect sense why they don't understand,

because they don't have the Holy Spirit inside them to teach them and to guide them. And

the Bible is clear. None of the wicked shall understand. And of course, we don't have our

own righteousness, but we are righteous through the blood of Christ, through our saviour.

Then in the next three verses he gives some very very specific key information about the

end times. He says in verse . "From the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken

away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred

and ninety days." Little earlier in the chapter, what did the angel say when he swore by Him

that liveth for ever and ever? He said "until the end, there shall be a time, time and half

a time." That is three and a half years. Well, that matches PERFECTLY with verse , when

it says "from the time", meaning "starting with the time" that the daily sacrifice is

taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, he says "there shall be a

thousand two hundred and ninety days." So from the abomination of desolation, to the

end, he says there will be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. Well, just to help

you out... days IS three and a half years. Now, go if you would- keep your finger in

Daniel there, go back to Daniel chapter , Daniel chapter verse , this is where

we see what people call "Daniel's seventieth week." This seven year period in end times

Bible prophecy. It says in verse , "And he shall confirm the covenant with many for

one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation

to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the

consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate." So according to

Daniel , verse , at what point in the seven year period, or "Daniel's seventieth week"

as people like to call it... At what point in that seven years, does the abomination

take place according to Daniel :? It happens in the midst of the week, doesn't it? He says

"in the midst of the week", the abomination of desolation takes place. Now if we compare

that to Daniel chapter , he says FROM the abomination of desolation, TO THE END, there

shall be days. Now, before I go any further, let me just explain to you how the Bible reckons

days and months and years, and what calendar the Bible uses. From Genesis to Revelation,

the bible very consistently uses THIRTY DAY MONTHS. Therefore God is not on the exact

same type of calendar that we're on, because our months are not all thirty days, are they?

"Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November, but all the rest have , save

February with ", okay? So February has days, we have a lot of months with ,

and so forth. Therefore, our year contains days, does it not? Well in the Bible,

the year consists of months of days each, which makes a year of days, not

. BUT, when you're using a system that only has days in a year, you are not in

sync with the sun and with the earth’s rotation around the sun, because how long does it take

the earth to go around the sun? Approximately and a quarter days. Now days is not

in perfect sync with the sun either, which is why every four years what do we need? A

leap year, right? But every hundred years, we don't have a leap year, because it's not

exactly and a quarter. So, even our calendar is not perfect, and has to have adjustments

made, to keep us in line with the sun. Otherwise over the course of hundreds and hundreds of

years, those quarter days would add up, and pretty soon it will be Christmas in July,

you know, it'll be snowing outside, when it's supposed to be summertime. That wouldn't make

any sense. Well, if you're on the Bible's system of time, with , -day months, you're

REALLY going to get out of sync with the sun fast, aren't you? Because you're five and

a quarter days off all the time. And so you are continually going to be going out of sync

with the sun. That's why when you use the system that the Bible uses of a day year,

, -day months, you must every six years add an extra month, right? Because six times

five is . And so the five days that you are losing every year, those add up after

six years to thirty days, you tag on an extra month to make up for that. You say "Pastor

Anderson, who in the world has ever used such a system? I know you are saying it's in the

Bible..." And yeah we could go back to Noah's day, and he equates a days to five months.

In the book of Revelation, in the book of Daniel, he equated days to and a half

years. He equates months, to days. But you say, "Is there an example in our world

of people using this calendar today?" Believe it or not, the Iranians, the Persians used

this calendar for thousands of years. In fact, the longest known running calendar, known

to man that can be documented, is a Persian calendar that has gone off of these day

years, adding a leap month- I'm calling it a "leap month"- you know just adding in a

leap month, every six years to bring things in line with the heavenly bodies. Because

remember, in Genesis , the Bible very clearly tells us that one of the purposes of the sun

and moon and stars, is that they will help us with signs and seasons and days and months

and years. So to teach that "oh, there's a day year, and it has nothing to do with

the sun and moon", that's bizarre. Because without adding these extra months, you're

going to be having spring time and harvest, and summer and winter coming at all the wrong

times in the year, it's not going to make sense. It would totally mess up God's feast

days in Leviticus . So, that is why, when you study the book of Revelation, it's very

clear that the first half of Daniel's th week, is often referred to as lasting for

days, but the SECOND HALF of Daniel's th week, is mentioned as lasting days.

Why is that? Because months at days, is days. But by the time we get to the

second half of Daniel's th week, we must add an extra month, because every six years

you've got to add that extra month to keep it in line with the heavenly bodies. Therefore,

if God's talking about a week, or a seven-year period, it would not be a complete seven years,

with months of days each. days is not going to cut it. You've got to add

in that extra month, and then you are up to days for the entire week. in the

first half, in the second half. That's why the Abomination of Desolation happens

in the middle of the week, and FROM the Abomination of Desolation going forward, the Bible says

in Daniel : there shall be a thousand two hundred and NINETY days, okay? Look at the

next verse. Verse . "Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three

hundred and five and thirty days. But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest,

and stand in thy lot at the end of the days." So there are two KEY numbers given here at

the end of Daniel . There's the twelve hundred and NINETY day number, which is talking about

what? The second half of Daniel's th week, FROM the Abomination of Desolation going forward.

And then we know at that time, it's over, okay? Well, what's the day period? Well,

there's no room to fit the days in the second half. Second half of the week only

lasts days. days would be more than that. Not going to happen. But not only that,

the Bible is clear in verse that Daniel will REST, and will stand in his lot at the

end of "THE DAYS". What are "the days"? The days which he just mentioned. Let me

read it to you again. "Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three

hundred and five and thirty days. But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest,

and stand in thy lot at the end of THE DAYS." Referring to the days that he just mentioned.

So, if Daniel is rising again after the days, if we were to start those days

at the beginning of Daniel's th week, how long is days? Well, the first days

of that would bring us to the abomination of desolation, and then that leaves us with

more days, doesn't it? Because is more than and a half years, it's actually

two and a half months in to the second half. So with that in mind, if Daniel is going to

rise again, or be resurrected at the end of the days, that would mean that the

days is referring to what we know as "the rapture", or "the first resurrection". Because

when Jesus Christ comes in the clouds, the DEAD in Christ shall rise first, THEN we which

are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in

the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Now you say, "Pastor Anderson, wasn't

Daniel already resurrected in the past at some time?" I know there are people out there

that teach that "when Jesus rose from the dead, all the Old Testament saints rose."

That's a false doctrine, because it says in Acts :, "men and brethren, let me freely

speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre

is with us unto this day." So according to Acts :, David was still in the grave, in

the sepulchre BODILY, AFTER the resurrection of Christ, when Peter is preaching at the

day of Pentecost. David was in the grave. Well, guess what? Daniel was in the grave

too. All the Old Testament Saints were still in the grave when Peter preached that sermon.

They will be resurrected in the first resurrection, when Christ comes in the clouds, the dead

in Christ will rise first. That'll be David's dead body, that'll be Daniel's dead body,

that'll be all the Old Testament saints, that'll be all the New Testament saints, the dead

in Christ will rise first, THEN we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together

with them in the clouds. So, if that resurrection of Daniel is taking place days into Daniel's

th week, or during the second half of Daniels th week, what does that mean? That means

that days into Daniels th week, is the abomination of Desolation. Well when the

Bible says in Matthew , when we SEE the Abomination of Desolation, he says "THEN shall

be great tribulation". That's where we see a lot of people being killed for the cause

of Christ. That's where we see the antichrist come into TOTAL control, at the Abomination

of Desolation, where he is ruling over every kindred and tongue and people and nation,

and where he is causing EVERYONE to have to have a mark in their right hand or in their

forehead to buy or sell. THAT is the time of trouble unlike anything the world has ever

seen, right? And that takes place at the midpoint. That means there is more days, until we're

raptured. There are more days until we are caught up in the clouds right after the

dead in Christ rise. That means the period of GREAT tribulation will last days. You

know, there will be a time of trouble, and tribulation, obviously for the three and a

half years leading up to the Abomination of Desolation. But when GREAT tribulation begins,

it's at that Abomination. That's the one where basically, believers are being killed off

en masse. And look, it's a good thing that that period only is lasting for days, because

if those days had not been shortened, no flesh would be saved. I mean if the antichrist were

allowed to persecute God's people for the whole months of his reign, there would

be no flesh saved, would there? I mean, nobody could survive because of the fact that.....

And again, I'll go into that more on the sermon on chapter . But you understand what I am

saying that there are two key numbers here. days from the abomination to the end

of the week, and days from the beginning of the week, unto the resurrection of Daniel,

unto the resurrection of all believers, unto the rapture, or Christ coming in the clouds.

To me this is a clear passage, but even to confirm this more, remember what we talked

about back in Revelation chapter ? Where he said "ye shall have tribulation for

days, be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life"? Those days

are SYMBOLIC of the ten days of the Hebrew calendar, where the first day of the seventh

month is the blowing of the trumpets, at the exact MIDPOINT of the Hebrew calendar year,

which represents the Abomination of Desolation at the exact midpoint of Daniel's th week.

And then if you remember on the th day of the th month of the Hebrew calendar, we have

the trumpet of jubilee sounding, which, the trumpet of jubilee represents the trumpet

of LIBERTY, the trumpet of the rapture, where the trumpet sounds, and we are gathered unto

our inheritance in the heavens. And so what is the distance between the exact midpoint

of the Hebrew year, TO the tenth day of the seventh month when the trumpet of the Jubilee

sounds? Obviously, those are ten days. The first ten days of that seventh month. That's

what he's referring to in Revelation . And I went into it in more detail in my Revelation

sermon. Hopefully you were there and you heard it, before you are hearing this sermon.

But those ten days are the ten days he is referring to, of the tribulation. You say

"well, the tribulation lasts days!". That's the "great tribulation". That's because we

are dealing with a seven year period, as opposed to a one year Hebrew calendar year. And that's

why if you take the number and divide it by , since we're dealing with only one

year, as opposed to seven years, if you take and divide it by , it comes out to ....

Well, what's the hundred and ninetieth day of the year? The tenth day of the seventh

month. When does the trumpet of the Jubilee sound? Tenth day of the seventh month. When

does the rapture take place? days into Daniel's th week. Now, that's enough of

Daniel . Let’s finish out in Revelation. But we needed the information we just gained

in Revelation to understand the rest of what I'm going to show you from Revelation. We

needed Daniel . Now people will often accuse me of setting a date for the rapture. Now,

has anything I've said in the last ten minutes, set a date of the rapture? Have I mentioned

any calendar dates or years? Look, I have no clue, when the rapture will take place,

I have no clue when Christ coming in the clouds will be. I have not the slightest idea. It

could happen in the next.. Ten years? It could happen years from now. It could happen

in my lifetime, it could happen after I'm gone. I have no clue when it's going to be!

I have not set a day, I will not seek to set a date! And they say "well, the Bible says

no man knoweth the day or the hour, you're saying it happens days into Daniel's

th week, you're pinpointing the day!" NO, I'm not. Because we don't know when Daniel's

th week begins, do we? So I'm not setting a date. Now people will often say "well yeah,

but once it begins we'll know". But hold on a minute, will we really know? Because the

Bible says that the week begins with the antichrist confirming the covenant with many for one

week. How do we know that that's going to be a public event? We may not know when that

confirmation of the covenant with many... "Oh, the peace treaty with Israel"... It DOESN’T

SAY "peace treaty with Israel"! That's what your prophecy teacher taught you. It says

"he will confirm the covenant with many for one week." It doesn't mention making a peace

treaty with Israel. There is no peace in the first half of Daniel's th week. The second

seal is world warfare! People will say, "Oh, the first half of Daniel's th week is a

period of peace." That is such a lie. The second seal is opened and the whole world's

at war! That's the second seal! But the covenant confirmed with many for one week could take

place behind closed doors in a smoke filled room , for all we know. We're not necessarily

going to know when that begins, to start counting the days, okay? But, let's say when the

abomination of desolation takes place, will we know the exact day the abomination is set

up? I think it's very likely that we will. So at that point, yes, you could count

days. But here is the thing, at that point, we're so far into this anyway, we're getting

so close to the end... we're only and a half months away from it at that point, we've

already seen the events of the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth seals, we've seen

the abomination of desolation... Jesus said, "When you see these things begin to come to

pass, look up and lift up your heads for your redemption draweth nigh". I mean, obviously

there is going to come a point where we realise "hey, we're into Daniel's th week! Hey,

there's a one world government! Hey, the antichrist is asking us to take a mark to buy or sell!"

So at that time, obviously we know that it's about to happen. So here's the key. Jesus

did not say "no man will EVER know the day or the hour of my coming". He meant "no man

knows NOW", when he was talking back then, "no man knoweth the day or the hour, but my

Father only". So obviously... Okay, let me put it to you this way, after it happens,

will we know the day or the hour? Obviously after it happens, looking back we will be

able to know. Well guess what? As we get very close to it, at that point we will also know

when it is coming. If we are in the know, if we have studied our Bibles. And so obviously

when we see the sun and moon darkened, right, we'll know "it's going to happen today, here

it is, here it comes". And so that whole argument of claiming that it is date setting, to say

that it happens days into the week, that just falls apart, because we are not setting

any year, we are not setting any month. And frankly, I don't know what day, or what calendar

month his coming will be. When I say "the tenth day of the seventh month", I'm not saying

according to our calendar, I'm not even talking about according to the Hebrew calendar. I'm

talking about symbolically according to the Hebrew calendar. Meaning that it will be at

that point in Daniel's th week, days in. I don't know whether this is going to

be December, January, March, I have no clue what month, what day or what year. So I'm

not setting any kind of a date, I never have, and I never will, until I see the abomination

of the desolation. And then I am going to start setting a date. Hopefully I'm still

alive at that time. So what have we learnt from Daniel in a nutshell? Well we learnt

basically that there is a seven year period, we learnt that by comparing Daniel , Daniel

and a lot of the scriptures. There is a seven year period. HALFWAY through that period,

there is the abomination of desolation. There are days remaining after that. The time

of tribulation comes before the rapture, we saw that in Daniel chapter , verse . And

so on and so forth. Now with all that information in mind, keeping in mind what the angel said

about a time, and times and half a time until the end... And then looking at Revelation

, verse , it says this, very similar to what we saw in Daniel , except that the

time is different. The angel in Daniel lifted up his hand and sware that it would

be for a time, times and half a time. The angel in Revelation lifts up his hand,

verse , "And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up

his hand to heaven, And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, who created heaven,

and the things that therein are, and the earth, and the things that therein are, and the sea,

and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer". So no more "time,

times and half a time" he said "this is it". "But in the days of the voice of the seventh

angel"- here is the key- "when he shall BEGIN to sound, the mystery of God should be finished,

as he hath declared to his servants the prophets." So, the mystery of God is finished in the

days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall BEGIN to sound. So, when we talk

about the events of the seventh trumpet, when is the mystery of God finished? At the beginning

of the events of the seventh trumpet, or at the end of the events of the seventh trumpet?

At the beginning, right? So this isn't the very, very end of things. Because the seventh

trumpet still has to sound, and the events of the seventh trumpet still have to play

out, which we see recorded in chapter . So, he says that the mystery of God should

be finished. What is he referring to when he says "the mystery of God"? Go to Romans

:. Romans : will tell us what the mystery of God is, that will be finished in

the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound. Look at Romans

, verse , it says "For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery,

lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to ISRAEL,

until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in." So the mystery in Romans : is that

blindness has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. "And

so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer,

and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them, when I

shall take away their sins." Now, first of all, let it be said that when it says "all

Israel shall be saved", it's important to get the context of the whole passage of chapters

through of Romans, because in chapter , he says in verse "Not as though the word

of God hath taken none effect, for they are not all Israel which are of Israel. Neither,

because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but in Isaac shall thy

seed be called." So in chapters and and , he already explained to us how the true

Israel is only those who are believers, and that the rest of the "Israelites" who don't

believe, have been broken off of the olive tree, they are NOT part of the olive tree,

they are NOT part of the nation. So notice, what he said there, that "the MYSTERY of God"

there, in Romans : through , was the fact that blindness had happened- let me just

go there again and make sure I get the exact wording- "that blindness in part is happened

to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in." SO the mystery that's being finished,

I believe, in Revelation , is the fullness of the Gentiles being come in, referred to

in Romans : through . Now, go if you would to Revelation chapter number . Revelation

chapter number . And let's see if we can figure out when the fullness of the Gentiles

is come in shall we? It says " And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel

stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship

therein. But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for

it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot FORTY AND

TWO MONTHS.. And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy A THOUSAND

TWO HUNDRED AND THREE SCORE DAYS, clothed in sackcloth." So right there we see that

there is a forty tow month period, or day period, in which Jerusalem shall lay desolate,

and where the holy city shall be trodden underfoot of the Gentiles. It says, "it is given UNTO

THE GENTILES, and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months." Now,

you might look at that days, or forty two months and say "oh, that's the first half

of Daniel's th week." Wrong! Because you have to understand that the reason why this

is only days instead of full days, even though it's in the second half- because

look... When does the abomination of desolation take place? The midpoint. Well, when is Jerusalem

going to be trodden under foot and made desolate? At the abomination of desolation. And if we

compare Daniel and Revelation, I don't have time to show you all the scriptures, but clearly

Revelation : and lines up with the abomination. Well, the witnesses begin to prophecy WHEN

the city is laid desolate at the abomination of desolation, the city is desolate for forty

two months, they prophecy for days. But if you remember, AFTER they're done prophesying,

THEN the antichrist makes war with them, THEN he kills them, then they lay in the street

for three days, then they're resurrected... So there are still things that have to happen

in those final thirty days. But, those are the days, that final thirty days are the days

when the seventh trumpet sounds, and those events are carried out. Let's compare that

to Luke :. The Bible reads "And they shall fall by the edge of the sword", and this is

referring to people dwelling in Jerusalem and Judaea, he says "they shall fall by the

edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden

down of the Gentiles, UNTIL THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES BE FULFILLED." So, he says there

that Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, that's EXACTLY what we saw in Revelation

, through , and he said "UNTIL the times of the Gentiles shall be fulfilled." How long

shall the city be trodden down of the Gentiles, according to Revelation :? Forty two months.

So, when is the times of the Gentiles fulfilled? Forty two months AFTER the abomination of

desolation, according to Luke , , and Revelation : and , forty two months AFTER

the abomination of desolation, the time of the Gentiles shall be fulfilled. Well, The

Bible says " in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound,

the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets."

What is the mystery of God being finished? Romans : and tells us, that it is the

fulness of the Gentiles being come in. It is blindness in part happening unto the Gentiles,

UNTIL the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. WHEN is the fulness of Gentiles come in?

WHEN does the time of the Gentiles end? When will the Gentiles cease to have control of

Jerusalem? Well, that is forty two months AFTER the abomination of desolation, that

is approximately days after the abomination of desolation, that is days before the

end of Daniel's th week, and so that tells us EXACTLY when the seventh trumpet is going

to sound. Everybody getting this? The seventh trumpet will sound right at the end, approximately

days before the end of Daniel's th week. Because it's the days of the seventh angel,

when he shall begin to sound, that's when the mystery of God is finished. That's when

the fulness of the Gentiles is come in. That's when the time of the Gentiles is over, that's

when the seventh angel begins to sound. So, you know what that proves? That proves that

the seventh angel does not sound, and the events of the seventh angels trumpet do not

take place until the last days of Daniel's th week. Are you getting the significance

of that? The seventh trumpet's events and judgments of great hail, and lightning and

thunder take place in the last days of Daniels th week. And what that proves is,

that that is the end of God pouring out His wrath. Why? Because when the seventh angels

sounds, they say "the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of

his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever." Well, what do we have after Daniel's

th week? The millennial reign of Christ. See how it all fits together perfectly? Now

look, I apologise, this is the most complicated that I have probably ever preached on Bible

prophecy, and it's an advanced sermon. If you are here tonight, and maybe you are a

little newer at Bible prophecy, probably a lot of the sermon went over your head. You

probably need to go back and listen to Revelation through . Because this is probably one

of the most complicated, in-depth sermons I've ever preached on Bible prophecy, it really

assumes that you know the basics. But, we need to know some of the strong meat sometimes

of this subject. And you know there is a chart. I've put together a chart that kind of lays

this out. You can go to KJVprophecy.com and the Daniel's th week chart, maybe it will

help you to see it in a pictorial representation. And then at the bottom, all the scriptures

are there, proving all the points are biblical, and in line with scripture. But let's quickly

finish up with Revelation here. It says in verse , " But in the days of the voice

of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished,

as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. And the voice which I heard from heaven spake

unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel

which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. And I went unto the angel, and said unto him,

Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make

thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. And I took the little book

out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as

soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. And he said unto me, Thou must prophesy again

before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings." So here, the angel that stands

on the sea and on the earth, that sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, he has

this little book open in his hand. John is commanded to take the book out of his hand,

and eat it. He goes to the angel, and says to him, "Give me the little book". The angel

gives him the little book. He eats the book. The book is in his mouth, sweet as honey,

and his belly is made bitter as a result of eating the book. After he eats the book, he

is told to go preach, he is told that he must prophecy again before many peoples and nations

and tongues and kings. You say "what is the little book?" Well, go back to Ezekiel chapter

number . Ezekiel chapter number . Because often in the Bible, the concept of eating

a book comes up and it's always referring to God's word. Like for example, the Bible

says "man doth not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth

of God." So, eating God's word is a concept that's throughout the Bible, because God's

word is represented as food, it's our daily bread. The manna that the children of Israel

ate, is related unto God's word in Deuteronomy chapter verse . We don't live by bread

alone, we live by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Jeremiah said "Thy

words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing

of mine heart". Job said "I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary

food." So Job, Jeremiah, the children of Israel... Over and over again, eating the word of God

comes up. Look at Ezekiel chapter . " But thou, son of man, hear what I say unto thee;

Be not thou rebellious like that rebellious house: open thy mouth, and eat that I give

thee." He's saying "eat what I give you, Ezekiel, open your mouth and eat what I give you".

"And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein".

So what is Ezekiel being told to eat at the end of chapter ? A roll of a book. And look

what it says in verse . " And he spread it before me", he spread out the scroll. "Roll"

means "scroll" there. He spreads out the scroll of the book before him, "and it was written

within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe."

So the book that Ezekiel is told to eat at the end of chapter is a scroll containing

lamentations, mourning and woe. So not only is that scroll God's word, but it's a very

negative portion of God's word, isn't it? Because it's a part of God's word that has

to do with lamentations, mourning and woe. Well the book that John is being told to eat

in Revelation chapter is the same way. It's a book that has to do with the words

of God's judgment and wrath upon this earth. And he eats that book, and it's in his mouth

sweet as honey. Why was the book that John ate in Revelation sweet as honey to his

mouth? Because God's word is sweet to the mouth. The Bible says in Psalm chapter ,

the famous passage " The law of the Lord is perfect", verse , "converting the soul: the

testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple." We're talking about the word

of God, the law of the Lord, the testimony of the Lord. "The statutes of the Lord are

right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.

The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and

righteous altogether." So God's judgments are true and right. God's commandments, God's

statutes, God's word is PERFECT! He says "More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than

much fine gold", watch this, "sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb." So God's word

is sweeter than the honeycomb. David said in the book of Psalms that God's word was

sweet unto his mouth, unto his taste. But why did it make his belly bitter? Because

of the negative subject matter. So what the Bible is teaching here is that many negative

portions of scripture... they're sweet to our taste, because honestly, the whole Bible

is sweet to our taste, I mean... We as Christians, we love the word of God, and I don't know

about you, I love every part of the word of God. I love the positive parts of the word

of God, and I love the negative parts of the word of God. Because I just love God. I just

love His word. But there are parts of it that can make our belly bitter as we read about

judgments and lamentations and woe. Some parts of the Bible make us sorrowful, don't they?

Even though they are sweet to our taste, in the sense that we love God's word. We are

sorrowful when we think about unsaved people going to hell, aren't we? I mean doesn't that

make us sorry? We don't question God's justice and God's judgment, but it can still bring

sorrow and it can bring bitterness to our belly when we think about the wrath that's

going to be poured out with the seven trumpets, when we think about the wrath that's going

to be poured out with the seven vials. And so when he ate the book, he said it was in

his mouth sweet as honey, but as soon as he had eaten it, his belly was bitter, and the

angel said unto him, "Thou must prophecy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues,

and kings." Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer. Father we thank you so much

for your word, and we thank you so much for these truths. I pray that those that are here

would study to show themselves approved. This is not a simple sermon, this was not the milk

of the word, this was definitely the strong meat. I went into a lot of subjects that are

very deep and complicated, but I pray that many people will understand the things that

I've preached in this sermon, that they would study and read and maybe look at the chart

that I've made, maybe make their own chart, just based on what the Bible teaches, and

come to grips and understand these deep truths of your word, and come to a VERY clear and

specific understanding of the book of Revelation through these messages. And in Jesus' name

I pray Amen.