Dissecting The Book of Revelation w⧸ Ed Mabrie Pt. 1
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In this episode of the Book of Revelations series, we are joined by Ed Mabry, host of the show Faith By Reason, to discuss the book of Revelations. Ed has been on the show before, but it has been a long time since he has been able to do a deep dive on the book, and we are so excited to have him back.
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We are being hypnotized by people like this, newsreaders, politicians, teachers, lecturers.
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We are in a country and in a world that is being run by unbelievably sick people.
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The chasm between what we're told is going on and what is really going on is absolutely important.
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It's like we all know what's going down, but no one's saying shit what happened to the home of the brave.
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These motherfuckers, they're controlling this now, and no one's talking about how they made us try to be slaves.
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And everybody's just walking around, heading to clouds and won't awaken to a dead in the grave.
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But then it's too late, we need to be ready to raise up.
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Welcome back, everybody, to a very special episode of Nephilim Death Squad.
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And today, for a special sort of dissecting the Book of Revelations series, we welcome back Ed Mabry.
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It's been not that long, but it's good to see you again.
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I was rocking out to your music, your intro music.
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Yeah, so we, I've been, it's, you've been someone that's been on our mind for a while.
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Like, ever since the episode ended, I'm like, got to have him back on.
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But it's like, you don't want to call that girl after the first date right away.
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And then I saw you finishing, I'm, I'm, I'm a couple episodes into your Revelation series.
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But I also want you to introduce our audience to it because, you know, people are fickle.
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So I said, maybe I could trick Ed to come in and talking with us again.
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So, yeah, this, this will be some kind of a series.
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But I want you to run through what you've been running through on your show and hopefully
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It's my favorite book in the Bible and I don't understand it.
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So I've done, well, I'm on my last episode and I've done 60.
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I think I'm going to try to make it maybe 15-ish.
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I mean, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll let it do what it does, but it won't be 60.
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I'm going to be condensing it for, you know, for this audience because, you know, number
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one, I don't want to take over your entire show.
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And secondly, you know, you can, you can go to, to my channel, faithbyreason.net.
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Also faith by reason, my rumble channel, all the same.
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You can go there and you can do the deeper dives.
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Some of these are an hour long or, or even a little bit more than that, but I want to
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really do highlights and just kind of whet your appetite for, for what this book is
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And like you said, top, it, it's your favorite book.
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Even from the time I first became interested in, in the Bible and biblical literature and
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I mean, there's so much incredible stuff happening.
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You know, you've got, now you have, you know, these visions of, of Jesus, of the throne room
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of, of, of God, the father, you've got, um, these four horsemen riding around, you've
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You have, Oh, the rapture, which is probably the most controversial.
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Oh, the rapture, by the way, all of eschatology, whether you believe there is one or when you
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I promise whatever you, whatever your belief is about the rapture, my position is going
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Um, you know, you got all these, you got the mark of the beast.
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You've got these hundred pound hailstones, rivers and oceans turning to blood.
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Then, you know, Armageddon, the return of Jesus.
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This is probably the most dramatic book in the Bible easily.
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And because I believe that most of it's happening in the future, some don't, we'll talk about
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It's a little mysterious because people, because it hasn't happened yet.
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There's a lot of guesswork, a lot of speculation.
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And that's what makes it such a fascinating book, but it's also what makes it a difficult
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You know, when I first got into, uh, conspiracies, one of the very first things I did as a young
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man was I went to my local church and I asked the pastor for a Bible and he was very eager
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Little did he know that I wanted to skip through the entire thing and get to the end and try
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Didn't understand a lick of it, like not even the smallest amount of it.
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Uh, so I'm really excited to be doing this with you.
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Um, I, I guess take us wherever you want, uh, in regards to the starting point here and,
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So, um, you know, I wish I, I don't have a ton of time today, unfortunately, so this is
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really just going to be a primer, um, you know, when we do this next, you know, the
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next week and following, I'll, you know, you have my full-time hour and a half, two
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hours to do a deeper dive, but this is really going to be like a commercial for what we're
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doing, what, what I'll be talking about in revelation.
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So the reason revelation is so difficult to understand is because I think that we don't
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You know, I think we're looking at it from the perspective of, you know, what we personally
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And most of us think the Bible is a story about us.
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We think it's a story about humanity and, and, you know, our struggle against evil and
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how to be better and our history and things like that.
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And there are, that is in the Bible, you know, just history in the Bible.
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There's, you know, guides on how to behave, how to please God, so forth and so on.
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But the truth is the Bible is Jehovah's Yahweh's story.
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It's him telling us his story about what he wants so we can get to know him better.
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So if you understand the divine perspective of revelation, it's going to help you understand
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And that divine perspective is that this is the culmination of everything of the entire
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biblical narrative where God finally gets what he wants.
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And what he wants at the end is what he wanted at the beginning, which is the state of Eden.
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The Edenic state is humanity being in perfect provision and perfect purpose and in perfect
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intimacy with the spiritual realm, with, with, with God, with Jehovah.
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We know Adam and Eve had that, but then the rest of the story is us screwing up the fallen
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And the, the rest of the story from basically Genesis chapter three to the end of revelation
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is everything that Jehovah God does to get us back to what he wanted in the first place.
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So the reason revelation is so important to understand is that if the Bible ended without
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revelation, this story would be a tragedy because I mean, look at what happened, you know,
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original sin, we keep screwing up the, and God floods the world to get rid of the Nephilim.
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Then he, you know, then you have Babel, then you have him trying to, uh, redeem the world
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through Israel culminating with the advent of Jesus who, you know, according to Christian
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philosophy, which I obviously believe, you know, he died for our sins.
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He redeemed us and things were going great for a few decades that no, the new church was
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The book of Acts talks about that, but then things start going downhill and the more people
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who come into the church, the more the church becomes corrupted to like half the new
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Testament is just, you know, books by the apostle Paul and some of the other apostles, just
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admonishing people saying, Hey, here's where you're screwing up.
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So it looks like if not for the book of revelation, Jehovah never gets what he wants.
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But this book is about the last stage of him getting what he wants, which is getting rid
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of spiritual evil, getting rid of all evil, and then returning us to an Edenic state.
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So what I like to do is, um, when we start, obviously you're going to start with the first
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chapter, but just, just looking at the first few words, which gives you the perspective
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And it, and the first words are the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him.
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So first thing is, and this is kind of just a little pet peeve of mine.
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It's the revelation of, it's a singular revelation of Jesus, which God gave him.
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I was like, well, I hope I didn't miss that one.
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I was wondering, I didn't realize we could see it.
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Look, my, my, my dad is a pastor and he calls it the book of revelations.
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I'm like, dad, come on, you got to do better than that.
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That's the second word in the book is the revelation you got.
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But what I want people to understand is that this is not a book of a bunch of revelations.
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It's, it's basically God revealing Jesus to Jesus.
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So we're basically, what we're doing is we, we have the opportunity to eavesdrop on a conversation
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between the eternal father and the eternal son.
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Now, some may ask if you're of the Trinitarian point of view, which I am, where we believe
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How could, how could the father know something that the son doesn't?
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But keep in mind that yes, Jesus is the eternal son, but there was a time 2000 years ago where
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he temporarily gave that up and he became a human being.
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When he was a baby, he didn't, you know, come out of Mary's womb, you know, talking physics.
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He was a baby, cried and peed and pooped like any other baby.
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But the, it says in the, I think in the book of Luke that he grew in grace and favor with
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So he's, he started getting information and he was getting information from God.
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So he, so this is kind of the, the culmination of that, where when he ascends to heaven, God
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gives him in computer terms, a download of all this information.
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And the, the next verse says that he's Jesus, he sent and signified it or rendered it into
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signs through his apostle, John, I'm paraphrasing his apostle, John to be sent to the churches.
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So this conversation between Jehovah and Jesus is intended to be heard and understood by the
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churches, but it said he signed up, he signified it.
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He rendered it into signs so that we can understand it.
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And that's another reason why this book is tough to understand because there's a lot
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of signs, a lot of symbolism, but it's explained either in revelation or interestingly, other
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So that's, so that's the second reason why it's difficult to understand.
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One is because it's in the future of speculation.
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Secondly, because it's an eternal language that we don't get.
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When Jesus told this story to John, when, uh, when in Jesus's life was this?
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Well, um, at this point, Jesus had already sent it to, to heaven.
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So this, he, he sent it to heaven in about 33 ish AD.
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The book of revelation was written around 95 AD.
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So the apostle John is, he actually is the last living disciple.
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This is, you know, towards the end of the first century, all the other disciples have
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been martyred by this time, by either the Roman church primarily, or by the Pharisees,
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um, who were the, the Jewish religious leaders at the time.
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He was in exile on an Island called Patmos, which is in the middle of the Mediterranean
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And while he's there, he gets a vision of Jesus, which is in the first chapter.
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And that's when Jesus gives him the visions that he writes down, which composes the book
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That that's why the book kind of like stands out to so many people, because in today's day
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and age, we're talking about, we talk about being visited by aliens and things like this
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all the time, but this is very much the same phenomenon.
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And when we, we like to say that the aliens are just a rebrand of something spiritual and
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coming from the other side, this same phenomenon that you're describing right now is just coming
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I mean, if you look at the definition of extraterrestrial, it just means extra meaning
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above or beyond terrestrial, meaning our earth.
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So it doesn't necessarily mean, you know, some biological entity from the planet Xenon
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It means a communication from an entity that is not of this physical realm.
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I believe that the so-called alien phenomenon, it's, it's, these are spiritual beings for
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And I think if you look at a lot of the alien phenomenon, it looks like it's for the worst.
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So I think that they're not communing with biological entities from another planet.
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I think they're communing with, um, other spiritual entities, but in this case, um, the
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spiritual entity that, that the apostle John was communicating with was, was Jesus.
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So I just want to say the third thing that makes it difficult to understand for a lot of
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people is because you need to understand the rest of the Bible in order to understand
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And I'm, I'll point that out as we, as we go along this, with this series, but if you
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don't understand, you know, the book of Daniel, the book of Isaiah, Genesis, all the rest of
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it, you aren't going to get it because it referenced just like a good conclusion to any
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It references all the main points that happened previously.
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We're going to see them when we get to chapter six, um, we're going to see a return of Nimrod
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in my opinion, when we get to the, um, chapter 13.
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I think that the, the way the earth is going to be, is going to be very similar to the days
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He said that as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be at the time of my return, the
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And what were things like in the days of Noah, the Nephilim, that was the most, he was speaking
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to a, you know, well-versed Jewish audience in the first century.
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And when you say the days of Noah, they think, oh, the Nephilim, these giant, weird creatures
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But if you don't understand that, then you don't, you're not going to get it.
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The last time we spoke, we spoke about the speed of light and, uh, how it's diminishing
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And then we also touched on something like whether we think there would be a, uh, an awakening
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And we kind of like, well, maybe, maybe, but as you're saying that if,
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if things will be as they were in the times of Noah, then the speed of light has to speed
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up a little bit in order for us to see these supernatural things.
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So, um, a great revival or something that draws us closer to God in a way kind of does
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Well, that could possibly be, here's one thing that I was, and I know we're getting off topic
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a little bit, but it's because something I've been talking about with, with a friend of
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mine, um, about, you know, the way things happen towards the end of, of, of time where
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the speed of light is slowing down, but it also seems like time seems to be speeding up.
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There's something that Jesus says that, you know, unless those days were shortened, the
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time of this, you know, this end time, there will be no flesh saved.
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Well, how do you speed, how does, how do you shorten the days?
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Well, you're not going to make, you know, if it's going to be seven years and we talk
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about what that means, the seven years tribulation that, um, is part of, of, of Christian eschatology.
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I can't, he can't say I'm going to shorten it to six and a half.
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No, otherwise he'd be, you know, stating a mistruth, but it could be that time is speeding
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Could it be that as light slows down, time speeds up?
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So as light, which is, you know, order, we talked about this last time, instability decreases,
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And how would you be able to tell that since we're in time?
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I would say that ask yourself, do you feel like it takes you like, you know, you don't
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have enough time to do the things you used to do?
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And anytime somebody brings something up, I'm like, I don't remember anything since COVID
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It's like one, we used to laugh about how the news cycle would be like in a month, this
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So, so yeah, so the thing is, the thing with, with revelation and the reason that I think
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it is, can be understood is because like, like it says at the very beginning, it's intended
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And I will tell you that where I don't know things and, but I will, I'll give you my best
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I mean, there are other, there's a place like, for example, there's in the, in chapter
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eight, you have these demonic locusts that come out of the, the abyss and these, and
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it says that, and this is one of the trumpet judgments.
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It says that people will, they'll be tormenting men, these giant scorpion like locusts, they'll
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And it says men will seek to die, but they won't be able to.
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I have some theories about it, but I'm not sure exactly, but I'll now tell you that it's
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But there's also, I think in chapter 14 or 15, where it says that seven thunders utter
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their voices and John is about to write it down.
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And he, and God says, no, don't write these down, seal these up to the end times.
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I don't know because it hasn't been revealed yet.
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So all that to say is there are areas that are going to still be mysterious, but we're
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still going to do the, do the best to our ability to understand it.
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And, you know, and that's what the perspective that I take.
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So the divine, just to wrap up the divine perspective, I'll let you guys give your thoughts.
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The divine perspective is that this is a conversation between the father and the son.
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It's, it's a God revealing Jesus's ultimate destiny to him.
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And that ultimate destiny is going to end with a return to Eden.
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So if you look at the revelation, look at revelation from that standpoint, it'll be much
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easier to understand and not from our standpoint.
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I mean, you get people, I get people all the time asking me, where do you think America
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We're not in Bible prophecy for a couple of reasons.
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Number one, United States didn't exist when these books were written.
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And secondly, the story isn't about the United States.
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I think it's, it was founded on great principles, but we're not the focus of God's plan.
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The focus of God's plan is redemption through Israel, through his Messiah.
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So that's why the Bible is so focused on Israel, not because God doesn't care about China or
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It's because he's traveling his story and his story is about the redemption of mankind and
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And that is done through the, through Israel and through the King of the Jews, who is Jesus.
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You know, one of the things you said when we started this, that I, I found really potent was
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this idea that, um, the book of revelations without it, this would actually be a story of
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Uh, but, um, that is completely in juxtaposition to what people view the book of revelation
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Um, as somebody who wasn't raised, uh, Christian or, or with any religious background or knowledge
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or anything like that, my peripheral knowledge of the book of revelation was that it was this
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almost horror story, but to hear you say that, um, is something that I knew on some level,
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but I hadn't been reminded of that as potently.
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It's like, without the book of revelation, this is actually a sad story and that it's the
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It's the part where God gets what he originally intended for us.
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And so I just kind of find that beautiful because it is the public perception of it is
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It's think about like your favorite action movie.
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You know, the good guy and the bad guy had their final battle.
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You know, the good guy is getting his butt kicked for a while.
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Then he, he, you know, finds it within himself to beat up the bad guy.
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He finally goes through his, his, you know, the princess, the love of his life, whoever
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But what happens after the final fight, the good guy wins.
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He gets his, the love of his life or whatever he was fighting for.
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And then, you know, it's all happiness and roses.
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So, so if you focus on both of those parts and you'll see, yeah, it's going to be brutal,
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When you get to all the cataclysmic judgments, those were not intended for human beings.
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God did not intend for humanity to, to be judged.
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He only intended to, to, um, to judge spiritual evil.
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His intention was for all of us to be with him.
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And then, you know, he, he, he, uh, judges all the, the fallen Elohim and the Nephilim
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However, since, but if you, but if you choose to be on that side, if you reject his provision
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for you, then, well, you know, it's like, if you're in a house that's on fire and someone
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says, Hey, get out of the house and you're like, no, I'm going to stay here.
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Well, it was their will for you to get out of the house, but you decided, Nope, I'd rather
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So the, the idea of judgment, the, the, to me, when you say judgment, it means that there
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And if you're putting someone on trial, it means that there could be innocence or guilt.
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And if we're talking about the Nephilim and the Elohim fallen angels, um, is there,
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Because I know we saw, I saw that movie Noah where it's a lot of it is like bullcrap and
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But, um, our friend, Joel Thomas came on, he talks about the good Nephilim and possibly
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there being some good Nephilim fighting along the side of David and the mighty men and so
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on and so forth in different, you know, examples throughout the Bible.
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Um, honestly, I've never, I haven't written, read anything about good Nephilim, um, because
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everything that I've read in, in the, and I'm not sure I, I, I'd love to, um, I'd have
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to listen to that show and see what his source material is, but the, um, in the biblical text,
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they are 100% evil because they were, they're, they're not the creation of God because they
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were not his creation because they don't have any, they have no connection to him.
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Now, granted, so you can have even an unbeliever and an atheist can still do good things.
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I mean, I know several atheists who are very nice people.
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They just happen to not believe in anything spiritual, but they still have a spiritual
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connection because the, because if you didn't have a spiritual connection, you can never even
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So if they're the progeny of fallen angels and human women, then they're, they're not
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And so they have, they have no connection to his goodness.
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Um, I'd love to see what the source material is.
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I, I, I'm, I'm open to listening to anything, but I've not, I, on, on the surface, I would
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say, I don't, I think that's incorrect, but I don't want to dismiss anyone's opinion.
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And when, before I hear it, because I think that's really the worst thing you can do is,
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is just, is dismissal without any type of analysis.
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But it's great that you mentioned the term trial because there is a trial, but it's more,
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it's, um, it actually starts in the book of Daniel.
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Um, when we get to chapter four, when we, when we get to, um, the vision in heaven where
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you, cause this, the first three chapters are a revelation are based on earth.
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It talks about the seven letters, the seven churches, which is amazing stuff.
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And then you get the chapter four and it shifts to heaven.
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And in heaven, you get the conclusion of a trial that began in the book of Daniel.
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And in that trial is where the, the, the, the fallen Elohim, the fallen angels give, tell
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their plan because there's a, a, a spiritual law where you have to speak what you're going
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to do in one realms that it manifests in the other.
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Maybe I may have talked about this on this show.
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I know I talked about it on the Sam Tripoli show.
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Um, and so they make their statement of what they're going to do and how they're going
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And then Jehovah says, okay, well, I've heard, I've heard you.
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And now I can rightly, um, render justice to you by, um, giving the world over to the
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And so that, that trial begins there and it ends in, um, revelation chapter four and
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after you have revelation chapters four and five.
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So there is a trial of, of the, um, of the spiritual evil and they're found literally
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It's, it's like, uh, it makes me think of like, like old timey battle where the British
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would line up in front of each other and just like fill their muskets.
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It's like, this is what I will do to you if you allow it.
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And then they shoot you and you're like, damn kind of gangster.
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I'm going through a whole episode on that because I think it's really fascinating going back to
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the book of Daniel and seeing how this works because it not only sheds light on what's
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going on in revelation, but it also helps you understand the, how, how things work in the
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And that's another thing I want to make clear before I, before I head off is that not only
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do I look at this from the, from the standpoint of that divine perspective, I also look at
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I mean, I, I, I look at it from what's happening in that realm because that's really going to
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Um, but before I, I, I get going, I think I have like, what about another 15 minutes or
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I also want to talk about men's perspective because, you know, there's, because this is
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such a popular book revelation because it has so much going on.
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I mean, many, many pastors, you go to YouTube, there's like hundreds and hundreds of, of Bible
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teachers who will talk about in times, talk about revelation.
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So there are three major categories of, of, of, of man's perspective on this.
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I mean, there are hundreds of people who, if you talk to a hundred people, you get a
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hundred different opinions about it, but there are three major categories that, um, man's
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There's the historist or preterist point of view, and there is the futurist point of view.
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So the allegorical point of view, as, as the name one applies, people who, who fall into
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this category believe that revelation is allegory, that all the stuff happening, you
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know, water's turning to blood, hailstones falling, demonic locusts and the horsemen
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and all this stuff is, it's not, it's not literal.
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A lot of secular historians believe that the apostle John was a, basically a Jewish patriot
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who was writing this book as a, as a treatise against the Roman empire, but he couldn't
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Otherwise, you know, it couldn't be distributed.
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So the demonic armies are a symbol of the army of Rome, though the antichrist is a symbol
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And, you know, the final battle of good and evil at the end is basically when, you know,
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Jesus will, will, will triumph and, and, you know, and, and, um, will, uh, free the nation
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of Israel, because again, they, they don't believe that, that, um, that John, that, that,
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Another group that, that holds that allegorical point of view is the Catholic church, not necessarily
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Now, maybe there are probably Catholic people who do take revelation, maybe more literally
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and seriously, but the official position of the Catholic church is that this is allegory,
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that it's not, that this is kind of a symbol of the eternal battle between good and evil,
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which, okay, if that's the case, then it basically makes revelation worthless because,
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okay, it's just a story about symbols and good and evil fighting by a nice story, like Lord
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of the Rings or something, but it doesn't give it any impact on your life.
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And also that allegorical point of view is tacitly, uh, promoted by most mainline churches,
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mostly because most of them don't teach revelation.
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So if you don't teach something that you know is in the Bible, then you're just basically
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And I think they don't want to teach it because it's uncomfortable.
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And, you know, if, and if you preach revelation a lot, then you maybe those, you know, the,
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the offering plate doesn't get as full on Sundays and you're not able to afford your Bentley
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If you're a mega pastor, so you can't afford to fly in that, uh, that private jet.
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If you aren't getting the donations and you only get the donations, if you talk about
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peace and love and Jesus is going to give you a bunch of money, if you believe hard
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If you don't explain revelation accurately through a spiritual lens and then you can't
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explain the rest of the Bible, which is why I was never, most people are interested in
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And it's why I was never really interested, especially in the old Testament.
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You're teaching me, I guess maybe they're teaching me allegorically, but when you start
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looking at it and you're like, Oh my God, like, what are you really telling me?
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So obviously I don't take that point of view, the, um, the allegorical point of view.
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Um, the other point of view is a history's point of view or the preterist point of view
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That's the belief that most of revelation has already happened.
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That from chapter one to about chapter 20 took place in the first century.
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Um, you can go, go to faithbyreason.net and you can get into all this.
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I spent a whole, um, episode on each one of these.
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And, but basically they, they go to Matthew chapter 16, where this is their entire, their
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entire, uh, point of view is based on their entire doctrine is based on this one verse
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where Jesus says, he's talking to a group of his followers.
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He said, there are some of you who are, I'm paraphrasing.
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There are some of you who are standing here who would not taste death until they see me
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Okay, well, Jesus means that the people are going to be alive to see his second coming.
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So, but the problem with that is that when you use the English translation and you, and
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you don't, you know, stay cognizant of the idea that the Bible was not written in English.
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And what Jesus actually says is there are some of you here who will not die until you
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Now, if that is the second coming, then they have a point because they said they'll live,
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So the preterists take that to mean that all the events of revelation must have happened
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The only thing that was cataclysmically happening to Israel at that time was 70, was in 70 AD,
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So they basically say that all of revelation, the tribulation period, all the judgments happened
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Problem is none of that stuff actually happened.
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No, the Antichrist didn't set himself up in the temple to be worshiped.
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But the quick solution to the, the Preterist point of view is that instead of waiting till
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70 AD, use Occam's razor, look at the simplest explanation.
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The very next chapter in chapter 17 is the transfiguration of Jesus.
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He's transfigured before a group of his disciples, a subset of those who were there.
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But Preterists believe that they're a very small and very vocal group, but they believe
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And they also believe that Jesus returned to earth in 70 AD, but I guess no one decided
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But anyway, obviously I don't take that point of view.
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And the final point of view is one I take, which is the futurist point of view, which is
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that most of Revelation from chapter four, from chapter four to the end of the book hasn't
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I'm realizing like as Ed's talking and I'm like totally enamored with this whole idea.
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And I'm so excited to go down this path that we're going to, you know, end up doing this
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And I'm like, oh my God, we need to do like a Bible study.
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Like we need to, I'm realizing this in real time.
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We've had, we've had people in our telegram do like a, like they've, they've been trying
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It's, it's funny how they keep on building community.
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Every time I look at it, I'm like, what's going on in this place?
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They're, they're working on it, but yeah, we should, this is the start of it.
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So yeah, I think, I actually think this is a good place to leave it.
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You got five minutes before you got to go wherever you got to go.
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Let me just say in my last bit of the commercial, here's what you guys are going to get.
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I just want to just tell the audience, this is what you guys are going to get.
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You're going to get a deep dive into a lot of stuff.
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And I guarantee you, there are some areas there that you are going to completely disagree with me on, because they're going to be things that you may have never heard before.
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My take on the rapture, I think is fairly unique.
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I believe the four horsemen are something different than what everyone else thinks it is.
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We're going to talk about the Gog-Magog war, which I didn't know was as controversial as it actually is.
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But when I did my series on it, I got more comments on that than any place else, because people think that, you know, it's Russia invading Israel.
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Why don't people believe that Jesus is going to rule for a thousand years?
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Why don't they want him to rule for a thousand years?
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We're going to get into what the mark of the beast is, which, and again, I think I have a, I would say a unique take, but I have a different take on that.
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So what I'm going to guarantee you is it's going to be an exciting ride.
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Don't believe anything I say, unless you research it yourself.
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If you, if you, if you just take what I say and run with it, you fail the course.
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Whenever it comes to things that I say in particular, I always temper it to the audience.
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If you believe without researching what I say, then you're just as retarded as I am.
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And so I think that you put it much more elegantly, but I'm very excited, man.
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And I feel like I need to scramble now to try to understand some things and do some homework until the next episode.
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You've got 30 years of going, being forced to go to like Bible study and you can do that in a week.
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I'm just going to come back next week just shaking.
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If you want to head start, just go to faithbyreason.net.
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But if you want to just get your appetite, wet it, wet it for, for this, then, you know,
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come back next, please come back next week and we'll, we'll, we'll do it in a shorter form.
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And if you want to take a deeper dive, it's, it's all the information is there for you.
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Listen, definitely, if you're not listening to his episodes after this, you have also failed.
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Come back next week and I, Monday, we're going to be on with Dr. Narco Longo.
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Oh yeah, we're going to be on, yeah, we are going to be on Dr. Narco Longo.
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I don't know if that's live, but yeah, we'll be there Monday.
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And then I know we'll have a, probably Tuesday, an F2 America, and then we got to figure it out.
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The greatest hypnotist on planet Earth is a oblong box in the corner of the room.
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It is constantly telling us what to believe is real.
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You can persuade them that what they see with their eyes is what there is to see to come.
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Because they'll laugh in the face of an explanation that portrays the bigger picture of what's happening.
00:38:42.160
They see the effect of what they see with their eyes.
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And then things make every other go-along box and do what they see with their emissions.
00:38:47.160
And then they make every other two coats of stuff.
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And they have to understand that they're Teil Aro