<TITLE>05. Par 36-39</TITLE>L-36 Now, on the church ages that we talked of last eight days in the meeting... Then last night I think we got to the 2nd verse of the 4th chapter of the Revelation. And I suppose all of you were here last night to--to get it. And so I... Maybe if I get down a verse or two of it this morning, and... Or how far the Lord will lead, I don't know. I've got down to about the 6th or 7th verse here, just little contexts wrote down where I can go back in the different parts of the Scriptures and pull out those things, and where I studied yesterday.

L-37 And now, we find out, we left off last night, I believe, at the 2nd verse, beginning on the 3rd, I think it was. And we just left off with "The voice of the trumpet." Wasn't that right? The sounding of the voice... Let me read it all so we get back now.
After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it was of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things... must be hereafter.
And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one set on the throne.
And he that set on the throne... he that set was to look upon like... jasper and... sardine stone: and there was a rainbow around about the throne, in the likeness of an emerald.

L-38 Now, this beautiful, oh, beautiful lesson... And this morning, just before I was coming down, I got down here into the 6th verse; I thought, "Oh, my, I can't get apassed that, because here's something in this 6th verse I want all the peoples to hear real well, when we get to these beasts." The different definitions of these beasts here, looking back into the original, one is a one kind of a beast, and the other four beasts is another. One is a animal's in the Greek, like wild animals. This other one is not translated right in the King James, for it isn't beasts, it's living Creatures. And how those Creatures, what they were, it wasn't human neither was it Angel. So it's living Creatures, and how they had four faces and four... Oh, my, we bring that right down to the Gospel, and bring it right back and place it today just as perfect as in here. And, remember, four is an earthly number. See? And it's just a beautiful lesson there, and so I--I'm pretty sure we won't get down into that, I... Maybe we will. But it's so wonderful.

L-39 Then, the Lord willing, then if we're around, maybe next Sunday we may try that again: try, down, see if we can finish up this 4th chapter before we get away. We don't know exactly yet where the first start will be.
Now, we find that after--after these things. "After" meant that "after the church ages had ceased."
Then John was summoned to come up higher, "come up hither," which means "come up here." He showed him all that was going to happen in the world of the--the church age. Then after the church ages was over, we find then that John was a type of every true believer that will be summoned by Christ on high. That right? Summoned, "Come up hither."
And we find out that the voice that spoke to him was the voice of a trumpet, clear, distinctly, and it was the same voice that spoke to him here on earth. See, as long as He was in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks, He was speaking to--or from. Oh, I like that, "Speaking from the candlesticks." See, He was in the candlesticks, speaking from them to His church. Then when the church age had ceased, He left the earth and moved up into the heavens and called His redeemed up with Him. Oh, isn't that beautiful? I--I... Oh, it just makes my heart jump.


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