<TITLE>17. Par 141-149</TITLE>L-141 I'd like to bring to you another thing; after Jesus had died, buried, in Saint John 21:20. Some critic started this in the early day. Right while we're in the lesson, let's clean it up. In Saint John 20:21, Jesus had met with His disciples, fed them fish and bread upon the fire. And as they went up the bank, John leaned upon His bosom; and Peter asked the question, said, "What will happen to this man?" Jesus loved John. John was a man of love. And he said, "What will happen to this man? What's going to be his estate? What's going to be his future?"
And Jesus said to them, "What is it to you if he tarries until I come, till I return? What is it?"
And the disciples made a mistake; they said that Jesus said that--that--that he was going to live till the coming. But Jesus didn't make no mistake. Right here in Revelations, the 4th chapter, Christ kept His Word. He brought John up into heaven and rehearsed the whole thing to him. Glory. He--he saw the preview. He saw it just as though he lived on earth and saw the whole church ages come to pass to the coming of the Lord, the whole Book of Revelations. Oh, my.

L-145 See how infallible His promises is? Now, your...?... James to do that; John, any of the rest of them; wouldn't even let Paul see it, tell it, nothing.
He said, "What is it to you if he tarries until I come?"
And being that they said that, He just chose John, and took him up, and showed him the whole thing before he even died, just like he lived the whole thing through: showed him what it would be. (Brother Pat, ain't that wonderful?) Oh, see, picked him right up. Why, it's here, the 4th chapter and the 2nd verse proves it. "He showed him things which was, which is, and what shall come." He showed him the church age, the coming of the Jews, the pouring out of the plagues, the rapture, the coming again, and the millennium, and the eternal home of His saved; just as though he lived right down through the whole thing, he saw it all happen. See? He just took him up and showed him the--the--the film that He's turning, let him see the whole thing rehearsed. Oh, my.

L-147 Caught up, fulfilled His promise in--in Revelation 4:2. Before his death he was caught up in the Spirit and seen things just as though he had lived. He--he seen it all rehearsed. Thus he saw in a vision exactly what would've took place and what did take place on the earth from that time until the coming of the Lord Jesus: Show it to him in a vision.
So then the disciples... Or no one that ever said that He said He'd come in that age. He said, "What is it to you if, otherwise, if he tarries till I come?" Then He took him up and just rehearsed the thing to him and showed him what was going to happen. Oh, I just love that. Hm. Oh, my.

L-149 Notice now, let's see what was this:
And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one set upon it, upon the throne.
There was a voice that called him. Oh, that voice. Oh, I can't get away from that, that voice of that One behind him. Then he looked around there, and He showed him all the church ages, 'cause he was standing in the church ages, the seven golden candlesticks. Then he heard that voice after the church ages had ceased, that voice left the earth, went up. When He got into glory, he heard Him say, "Come up here. I'm going to show you what's going to happen from hereafter." Oh, my.


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