Mike Bickle emphasizes the revelation of Jesus as the Bridegroom, King, and Judge in Revelation chapter 1, highlighting the importance of understanding His majesty to equip believers for the challenges ahead. He outlines 18 facets of Jesus' majesty that are essential for the church to prepare for His second coming and the end-time events. Bickle stresses that the church is not waiting for Jesus but is called to actively participate in the unfolding of God's action plan, which includes the Great Tribulation and the preparation of the bride. He encourages believers to embrace their role in this divine narrative, recognizing the significance of prayer and unity in hastening the coming of the Lord. Ultimately, the sermon calls for a deeper understanding of Jesus' character and His plans for the world.

Father, we come to you in the name of Jesus and we ask you for the spirit of revelation concerning your Son. We ask for the spirit of inspiration to come and touch our hearts. Even now as we behold the majesty of your Son, Christ Jesus, we thank you in Jesus' name. Amen. Revelation chapter 1 is the foundational chapter to the entire book of Revelation. It's Jesus revealing his majesty. As you'll see later on in the notes, I've identified 18 specific facets of his majesty that he reveals himself. And these facets of his majesty is what he understands would be necessary to equip our mind and empower our heart. It would instruct our mind and it would empower our heart to have victory and to be an overcomer in the context of the events that are later revealed in the book of Revelation. So these 18 dimensions and facets or descriptions of his majesty is what he thinks we need to have victory and to overcome as the events of the book unfold. And so they are of the highest priority. Now we're not going to look at them in detail tonight. I have as usually, as usual, more notes than we'll cover. But what I want to really do is create the context for why these 18 descriptions of his majesty are so critical. And it's not the sort of thing that in a 45 minute teaching that you would grasp and we'd run with. But only to point to it, to hint at it. And you want to spend decades, I mean the rest of your life, feeding and feasting on what Jesus thinks we need to be equipped in understanding in the mind and to be empowered at the heart level. I cannot exaggerate the importance of us understanding these 18 things. But the context of what's happening in the book of Revelation and in chapter 1, my prayers is just understanding the big picture will create the urgency to go deep on these 18 descriptions. So it's kind of a session where I'm advertising the need. So that you say in your heart, I'm going for it. If, if I don't get anything else, I'm going to understand these 18 descriptions that Jesus gave of himself. Romans number one. The message of the book of Revelation is the majesty of Jesus. It's not only his personal majesty as a man who's fully God, fully man. But it's the brilliance of his action plan. He has an action plan that he unfolds through the book. And this action plan, he wants to, he is convinced this action plan will be the best context for his bride to be prepared in glory before the second coming. Now beloved, when we look around the world right now, it's clear the bride is not prepared in glory. So we know the second coming isn't coming any minute. Because the bride will be prepared. We say how? The Lord says my, I've, I'm going to create a context. The action plan is the book of Revelation. It will result in a prepared bride. Number two, it's going to result in the great harvest coming in from all nations. The church for 2,000 years has been preaching. But we haven't given a witness of the gospel to all nations in power. It will happen. And there will be a spirit of revival in every nation. So this action plan is going to produce an end-time revival with power. And this action plan is going to create the context to change every single evil government on the planet. 232 nations. Every single nation, the government will be changed and evil will be driven off the planet. And they will resist us at every single step of the process. So the Lord goes, watch. If you know these things about my, my heart and my glory and what's in my mind, the church will be prepared. The harvest will come in, in greatest numbers ever. And every government will be replaced against their will. Because they'll all oppose Him. They will raise up a very formidable resistance from a human point, point of view. The Antichrist empire will have the largest coalition of nations, the most powerful economy and the largest and most powerful army in history. And the Lord says, this is the showdown that my bride will be prepared and the harvest will be reaped in. And the governments will be all overturned in one sweeping series of events. And then I will come back and establish my kingdom on the earth. Now there's a continuum. This is the important part. What happens the couple decades before the actual appearing of Jesus in the clouds is connected. Jesus is not just appearing in the clouds suddenly one day, as you hear often. It's absolutely not biblical. He's coming when His church is ready in preparation and when the church is doing the assignment that He's given her on the earthly side, on the natural side, that has a dynamic connection with His appearing in the sky. He's not just going to come in a vacuum. He's coming in a context related to a prepared church. So the, so many people have it all backwards. They're waiting on the Lord. But the truth is, the Lord's waiting on the church. Because the church has a role to play that until it's done and successful, Jesus will not come back. He's actually waiting on the church. But the church thinks they're waiting on the Lord. It's what 2 Peter chapter 3, 12 says. We can hasten. We can speed up. And by implication, delay the coming of the Lord based on the global preparation of the church. Because there's a continuum. Meaning what we're doing for the couple decades before His appearing, and then especially those final seven years, and then especially the final three and a half years, has a dynamic connectedness. And there's a sequence and an intelligent unfolding of events that go together in the Father's mind. And so He says, I'm giving you my action plan ahead of time. Well, He's giving the devil his action plan as well. But He's not concerned about it. The book of Revelation is the action plan. The enemy knows it. But the Lord's not concerned. No general gives the enemy the action plan, the military strategy. But the Lord put it in the scripture 2,000 years ago. Chapter 1, verse 1. The whole book is called the unveiling or the revelation of Jesus. The word revelation is the word unveiling. God the Father has commanded Jesus to unveil a dimension of His glory in His personhood, and a dimension of the glory of His action plan that He had hidden up to that point in time. Now the Father has the ultimate authority over the measure of glory Jesus releases. It's the Father's prized possession is His Son. And He says, He says, Jesus, unveil yourself. Show your action plan and show dimensions of your glory that will be essential to equipping my people, your people, your bride to participate with you for these events to come to pass successfully. Paragraph B. Throughout the book, to summarize it, Jesus reveals Himself as a bridegroom, a king, and a judge. And there is no contradiction in Him in any one of those facets of who He is. Paragraph 1 is a bridegroom. He has tender love, but it's jealous love. Beloved, it's not only tender, it's not only that He's kind, He's fierce and He's possessive. He's in love and He means it. And He wants an equally yoked bride. He's not only tender, He's fierce in His love. He wants love from His people and it will come to pass. He's a bridegroom. But not only that, He's a king. He's going to take over every single government on the planet. Again, 232 nations. You can count it 262 if you use other designations for nations that some use. Now think of the complexity when a nation collides with a nation and the government has to be reordered. I mean, just the minimal way that we are involved in the establishing of a new government in Iraq. It's just chaotic. Just layers of chaos and division and confusion and all kinds of trouble. And it's only a minimal involvement in reordering a government. Now Jesus isn't going to reorder one government. He's going to reorder every single government. He's going to replace the leadership and it's against their will. And they're going to unify together globally to stop Him with the biggest army, the most money, the most sophisticated weapons building up to that time and the full power of Satan and false miracles operating through them. And they will obviously fail miserably. But He's coming as a king to replace all the nations. Now some people don't do the math on this. He's coming as a king that's glorious. But what does a king do? He rules nations. Well, the nations that exist, He's not going to wave His hand and they all die. He is going to defeat them and kill them and drive them off the planet and put new leaders in. This is so massive in reality in the natural world. The Lord, this is a massive undertaking. Not one nation, every one of them simultaneous against the greatest resistance with the weakest people on the earth. Peoples whose weapons is fasting and prayer and love and the Sermon on the Mount. Those are our only weapons or our primary weapons. He gives us some money, some divine ideas and some unity with each other. But our primary weapons is a Sermon on the Mount connection, lifestyle, a connection with Him. But our enemy has physical weapons. We have spiritual weapons. Paragraph three. He's not only coming as a bridegroom and a king. He's coming as a judge. But the action plan is so successful. Look at what, look at the response at the end of the action plan. When they stand before heaven, the people, when all the information is out and clear, they say, marvelous! Marvelous! Marvelous plan! Now the book of Revelation right now puts off a lot of people in the church. They go, well, it's a little bit heavy. Maybe it's just poetic allegory and it's all symbolism anyway. Doesn't matter. It's not poetic allegory. It's not just an allegorical story that kind of retells some of divine principles through poetry. That's not what's going on. It is an actual military plan. It's an action plan to change the environment, physically and spiritually, of the entire planet in a short period of time. The entire planet. And when he's done, the people who agree with him stand before him and they go, marvelous! Marvelous! And you were not unfair. Not one time at one percent, not even to the devil, did you ever show anything but perfect justice. You never cut a corner ever. The judgment was not too severe. It was not too lenient. It was not too late. It was not too early. It was perfect and true to your heart. It was true to your action plan. Everything you said, you did. You were true to everything you said and set out to do. Wow. And it produces love in the earth. Paragraph C, the nations will hate him. Now this is one thing that people get confused when they read the book of Revelation because it's so intense, because they don't figure into their mindset the level and the scope of the hatred the nations will have towards Jesus and the truth and his salvation and the saints. They will hate the saints, hate the truth, hate his healing power, and they want to drive it off the planet and he will completely confront them. And only because we don't grasp the measure and the depth of what is the response of not all the nations, because there'll be a, Lord willing, a billion, maybe two billion coming in the harvest, but there's going to be billions more who will be in perfect hatred towards him and towards you. They won't just hate him. They will hate you and they will hate the truth. Paragraph D, there's no contradiction. And that's what Jesus wants to show in these 18 facets, descriptions of his glory here in chapter 1. There is no contradiction in him as a bridegroom, as a high priest who makes a way for us to be in God's presence in love forever. Because the bridegroom and the high priest are connected deeply. He's the high priest that laid down his life. He's the husband that shed his blood to cleanse his bride. He made a way for us to dwell in God's presence forever in love with no guilt. So the bridegroom and the high priest are connected throughout the book of Revelation. But there's no, as, as we read, look at, as you study them, again we're not going to really look at them tonight, just barely mention them, these 18 descriptions. We find bridegroom, king and judge throughout them. The zealous Jesus of Armageddon who slays multitudes is the same zealous bridegroom who does everything for love. His judgments are to remove everything that hinders love. The Jesus of Christmas, and I mean that in the positive sense, not the commercial sense, the Jesus of Christmas who brings peace and goodwill, and the Jesus of Armageddon who confronts everything that hates love, is the same wise and loving man. We do not have to choose between the Jesus of Christmas and the Jesus of Armageddon. He will confront everything and establish goodwill among men on the earth and total unity in love. He will use the least severe means, I say this regularly, to reach the greatest number of people at the deepest level of love without violating anybody's free will. And that's an important principle to understand. And out of these 18 descriptions of his heart we see his fierce judgment, we see his tender love, we see his divinity, his humanity, we see his resolve, we see his brilliance, we see the fact that he's lived in time, but he is eternal. He has all the resources it takes mentally and emotionally and in his personhood to bring this action plan to completion and perfect success. And success to him means love is established and multiplied to the highest level possible without violating free wills. That's what success means. The bride's prepared, the harvest comes in, and evil is driven off the planet. And love has triumphed over judgment. Paragraph F. The theme of the book, the theme of the book, it's the unveiling of Jesus in the one sense, but it's, the theme of the book is he's coming as a man, fully God, but he's coming as a human king is what I mean. He's coming as a king to take a position in the human governments of the earth. He's not minimizing his deity when he comes, but he's take, he's coming to take a position, a human position, in the political structures of the nations. He's coming for that reason. And he's going to confront every single leadership and every person that is contrary to his character and his plan. Top of page two. Now in Revelation 1, Jesus is the son of man. And this, and he shows himself in Revelation chapter 1, verse 13, as the son of man. And it's obvious to even a casual foundational understanding about Bible prophecy. One of the main verses of the Messiah promises is Daniel 7. You just want to know Daniel 7. This was written about 500 years before the Lord came. About 500 years BC. Daniel, the prophet, had an open vision. Verse 13. He saw a man coming on clouds to stand before God. Now this is a complex prophecy because he's human, but he's divine. Because if you're coming on a clouds to the Ancient of Days, which is the Father's name, one of his names, you can't be just a man. You have to be more than a man to get coronated by the Ancient of Days, not in a great palace on the earth, at the throne of God, the throne of majesty. So Daniel says, I know he's a man, but he has supernatural abilities to travel on clouds to get coronated in God's presence in heaven. How did he get there? Because he's, he's a man that he sees him in a heavenly context. But what's happening, here's the paradox. Verse 14. All of the kingdoms of the earth, the political structures on the earth, are given to him. So he doesn't stay in heaven. He rules in the context of human dynamics on the earth. More than that, verse 27, he shares this position of authority with other human beings. He's not content to just have this authority. He's not content to have the authority by himself. He wants to share it with human beings. So in verse 27 he gives the authority to other human beings. Now it's not human beings in heaven. It's human beings that will be on the earth. Now we'll have resurrected bodies, but we'll be on the earth. Because the New Jerusalem is coming down. This is what the book of Revelation is about. Roman numeral two. Roman numeral two. The biblical view of the Great Tribulation. It's very important. There's few subjects in the Bible that are more misunderstood than the Great Tribulation. This is a critical that we get this right. The primary theme of the Great Tribulation is God's judgment on the Antichrist empire. Now remember this empire is the largest coalition of nations in history that are in unity. They have the largest army, the strongest economy, and they have supernatural power. I mean miracles of a very high order in their political gatherings and in their military exploits. They have supernatural power in the political arena, the military arena, the economic arena. They have supernatural dimension helping them. There's never been an army like this. And the Lord's raising up weak and broken people on the earth because the arena of the conflict is on the earth. And the Lord requires the conflict take place by people on the earth. Now the Antichrist is connected to Satan and the body of Christ is connected to Jesus at the right hand of the Father and we're connected to the Father as well by the Holy Spirit. But the conflict must take place by people that are in the natural realm on the earth. So the book of Revelation is Jesus, the Great Tribulation is the main subject or the main events that are described is the best way to say it. The main subject is the majesty of Jesus and his coming to the earth to take it over. But in terms of a series of events, the Great Tribulation, there's more describing that. The Great Tribulation is God's judgments against this vast empire through a praying people that are in unity with Jesus and under his authority. The Great Tribulation isn't God's judgment on the church. And the Great Tribulation is not Satan's judgment on the church. Now Satan's persecution of the church is clearly a sub-theme in the book of Revelation. But beloved, get this clear. It is a sub-theme. Matter of fact, it's a very minimal sub-theme. There's several verses to this. I mean it's significant. I don't want to dismiss it. But compared to the amount of the book, it's a fraction of the book is the sub-theme. For instance, in the book of Acts, what is the theme of the book of Acts? It's the acts of the Holy Spirit through the early apostles. People were martyred. The book of Acts isn't about martyrdom. The book of Acts is the power of the Holy Spirit through praying apostles. The book of Revelation is the same thing. The book of Revelation is the end time book of Acts, written in advance. And yes, there are martyrs in the book of Acts. But that's not what the book is mostly about. It's a glorious reality, but it's a sub-theme in the book. Paragraph B. We don't need to fear the Great Tribulation as powerless victims trying to escape it. We don't escape it. Beloved, we release it. Under the authority of Jesus, the church releases it, not escapes it. It's a completely wrong concept. We're not waiting on Jesus to come so we can escape. He's waiting on us to go up to release it. It's exactly the opposite of where the mindset is. So there's going to be some attention getting strategies of the Lord to the church of the earth. The church is almost completely offline and on the wrong message. He's going to get the attention. He's going to use it, he's going to get it positively by the outpouring of the Spirit, dreams and visions. And he's going to get it negatively by getting the attention of his church. Most of the church is either ignoring the subject entirely and just thinking about their personal comfort, money and their ministry influence. Or they're waiting on Jesus to come so they can escape. But Jesus is waiting on them to grow up in character and discernment of what he's doing so they can release it. So the continuum between what the church does on the earth, in the earthly conflict with earthly armies of the Antichrist, it's an earth conflict. Yeah, there's a spiritual dimension, obviously, but there's a collision is on the earth between armies. I mean, between the Antichrist armies and we're a spiritual army. Our weapons are the Sermon on the Mount, fasting, prayer, humility, kindness, prophetic declarations, intercession and worship. Those are our weapons that we're using. Now Moses did not seek to escape the time period after he was prepared for 40 years. He didn't try to escape his role in releasing tribulation on Pharaoh. Do you realize the 10 plagues of Egypt is the greatest tribulation that's ever hit a nation? From heaven, direct supernatural miracles. There's nothing like it in history. It will only be surpassed by the judgments from heaven that come at a greater measure on the end-time Pharaoh that's the Antichrist. Now could you imagine Moses getting right up after 40 years to the, uh, preparation, getting right up to the hour and saying, I want to be raptured. I want to go back to the burning bush. I want to stay there. Lord says, no. I want you to, through prayer, release judgment, release plagues, release tribulation on Pharaoh. And it is a picture of the end-time church and the, in a Moses position, releasing judgment on the end-time Pharaoh called the Antichrist. Imagine that's the apostles in the book of Acts. Here it is, Acts chapter 1. Jesus has been appearing to them for 40 days in the resurrected body. Then suddenly the cloud comes. Jesus goes off in the clouds. They go, we want to go on the cloud with you now. Jesus goes, no. I mean, this conversation did happen, but he would have said, no. There's this thing called the book of Acts. It's not written yet. But I need you on the earth because you're going to be the vehicle to release power on the earth. I want to go on the cloud with you. No, no. I understand you want to be with me. But the plan is for me to anoint you according to your, your response to me, to release something. And 28 chapters unfold in the book of Acts. And we see the wisdom of the apostles not going up on the cloud. Romans number three. The book of Revelation is the end-time book of Acts. Now this is the most marvelous thing. Because it's given to us in advance. The implications are staggering. They're given to us in advance. Could you imagine if the 12 apostles would have had the 28 chapters of the book of Acts in written form before it started? They're reading it. We know what city to go to. We know where the persecution is coming from. We know when. Look at this. Power's going to break forth in this way. Wow! Can you imagine the implication of having the book of Acts on the front end? All finished. I'm talking about canonized. I'm talking about a perfect presentation from heaven of what God's going to do. The pressure and the glory in advance written. Wow! With the sequence of events. The reason, one reason, that the three judgment series, there's seven seals, seven trumpets, and seven bowls of wrath. There's three judgment series of seven. The reason they're numbered, one reason, is so on the earth we know that the fifth seal comes after the fourth one. It's true. Some guy goes, what's it, why is it numbered? So when the fourth seal happens, we globally, think of this, hundreds of millions of intercessors, we know what the next seal is. It will unify the prayer movement across the whole earth in a way nothing has. It's canonized. It's written. It's not a new prophecy of a real powerful prophet that everyone's just getting to know. It's been written for 2,000 years, canonized. Nobody could have made it up. There is no credibility issue with it. Can you imagine on the sixth trumpet, the sixth trumpet, the next one is the seventh trumpet, the final trumpet, the one where the Lord appears. When the sixth trumpet happens, hundreds of millions of saints, we will be beside ourselves. Oh my goodness. We know what comes after six. It's, we know. Oh my goodness. We'll be communicating. It's the seventh one. There you go. Now you're all excited and you haven't released seven seals and six trumpets to have perfect credibility and accuracy and the momentum globally and the unity we will have and the thing will build the prayer movement in focus and in faith and in momentum and there will be no argument as to what is the Spirit is saying. I mean everybody in Asia and South America, Africa, Europe, North America, we will all in all the islands, all the prayer movements will be completely focused on it because the script is written in advance for the end time apostles and prophets and all the intercessors. It's the book of Acts for the end times. It's called the book of Revelation and Jesus said, it could have said something like this, no one is going to reveal this besides me personally. It's my bride. It's my church and it's my kingdom that I'm setting up immediately after this over the earth and I want to personally devise the action plan. I want to say what needs to be said and I'm going to orchestrate the whole thing in, in, in a deep connection with them. Now in Rev, Matthew chapter 16, this is what Jesus was actually talking about when he said this. Now he's talking about many other things but the high point of natural history is the book of Revelation. He says this, I'm going to build my church. The authority of Hades or hell, keys means authority, gates and keys, that's authority. It's not going to win. Now it's been 2,000 years and certainly 90 plus percent of all society is still under the influence of hell. So it's 2,000 years later. We're saying, Lord, he says, you wait. The same is going to pick up at a whole another pace. I'm going to drive hell off the planet and I'm going to do it through you. And he says, here's the deal. I'm going to give you the keys. Proclamation, intercession, sermon on the mount, lifestyle, whatever you bind. Now he describes a prayer movement. The binding and loosing will end up driving the authority of hell off the planet, beloved. He's talking about the great tribulation right here. Because there's no time in history, it's not the only thing he's talking about, but there's no time in history where the praying church will so effectively release the resistance of heaven on the authority of hell. Nothing like those final years. And the final three and a half is the ultimate crescendo. But the thing is building several decades. There's, again, the thing is all connected. It's not done in a vacuum. Everything's connected. What we're doing here, what the saints are doing over in Asia and Africa and Europe and South America and the islands of the earth. We're all connected in a grand strategy. It's a great symphony that Jesus is organizing. Right? Orchestrating. Top of page three. Paragraph D. The miracles of Exodus, the miracles of Acts combined and multiplied on a global level. My goodness. This is exciting. The miracles of Exodus. The ten plagues of Egypt and the producing of the food and the water supernaturally. Because the miracles of Exodus wasn't only the wrath on Pharaoh. It was also the protection of the saints and the provision of the saints and the supernatural direction of the saints. Those are all the miracles of, of Exodus. It's also going to be the miracles of Acts. They're going to be combined and multiplied. These are the greater works. This is the binding and loosing prayer anointing that's going to cause the authority of hell to be exposed and triumphed over openly. Now we know Jesus triumphed over hell on the cross. But for 2,000 years, again it's, it's 2,000 years later, 90 percent plus of society is still under the influence of hell. So the Lord has given us the task to take his victory and to enforce it through prayer and obedience and proclamation and serving and humility. And it's 2,000 years later. We've only made 10 percent or less. Lord, it's not happening. He says, don't worry. I've got a plan. I'll give it to you. And he prepared to John and laid it out to him. He goes, you'll gain more in a decade or two than you did two millennium. You'll gain more in a decade than you did in a millennium. It's two millennium. That's going to be through binding and loosing. And there'll be greater works than these. And don't imagine this verse has ever been fulfilled. Now maybe there's this one example where a great miracle happened. There's a tokens of it here and there undoubtedly. But I'm talking about a global, a global and a consistent anointing of the prayer of faith that doesn't only heal the sick. It loosens the plagues of Egypt on the Antichrist at a much higher level. Binding and loosing and hell being triumphed over not spiritually, legally at the cross 2,000 years ago, but manifest openly to where the unbelievers see it with their eyes. That's what I mean by openly manifest. The people who hate God will see it and admit it. That God triumphed fully, not partially, fully on the earth. Paragraph E. The book of Revelation is a canonized prayer manual. It's a prayer, but the canonization of it, the fact canonized means it's, it's, it's, legitimately part of the Scripture. It was recognized back in the early days when the New Testament was put together. It was recognized as being inspired by the Holy Spirit. That's what it means by canonized. Can you imagine having a prayer manual that's canonized? I don't care who the prophet is. I don't care if they have a thousand accurate prophecies in a row, never missed it once. Nobody could gain the credibility of a document canonized for 2,000 years that unfolds in perfect accuracy. It will unify the church globally. It's fantastic. Paragraph F. The whole body of Christ will use it. The momentum will build. I have written here it's an infallible prayer guide. We're all going seal number five, seal number six, trumpet number one. Guys over in Asia, hey trumpet two's coming. Yeah we know. We're reading the same prayer guide. Guys in South Africa and South America, hey they tell us first trumpet number two's coming. Yeah we knew that because trumpet one, that's what we told the guys in Asia. We will all have the same battle plan and strategy. Be no division. Can you imagine where the prayer of agreement, and we skipped that passage in Matthew 18 because, because he, he, Jesus quoted the, the binding and loosing passage twice. One time he quoted it and said the power of hell will be hopefully triumphed over. The next time he quoted it and said when you're in agreement it will work. Beloved we're not talking about a little agreement. We're talking about hundreds of millions of people with urgency and focus and faith and a life of purity and a vibrancy in the Spirit. It is exciting where this thing is going. Paragraph H. The sixth seal now. We'll go back to that. Sixth trumpet. Jesus comes at the seventh. When that sixth trumpet happens, and we know the seventh trumpet, everyone's going to be crying, come Lord Jesus. Come Lord Jesus. I mean second coming. Come. Literally. That's the very, the famous prayer. The Spirit of the Bride say come. What John was seeing, the Lord lifted the veil. He didn't just see the trend of the prayer movement. He actually saw the final global unified focused prayer. He actually saw the final one. Now there's many that will perceive that one, but he got to peer into the final one. The whole earth, the body of Christ is crying out in unity because the sixth trumpet just happened. It's the seventh one. And John goes wow! And of course that's the ultimate, but the momentum has been building event after event because they're numbered and they're in sequence. Paragraph I. It says in Revelation 8, John saw this, that the prayers of the saints will cause fire from the altar in heaven to hit the earth. So we're going to have Holy Spirit fire and revival hit the earth. But there will be the judgment fire that hits the earth. The church will release both types of fire. Now it's not only that we will release the fire. Now in this context it's judgment fire. But there's plenty of clarity. It's Holy Spirit, like Acts chapter 2, Day of Pentecost fire too. Because fire rested on them. Tons of fire. But the measure of the fire, the positive and the negative, will be, it won't be, it's not a finished deal. It's in the hands, in the, of the prayer movement, in a, in a vibrant living connection with a real bridegroom king at the right hand of the Father. And it's not all finished. He said you can hasten the day. Again 2 Peter 3 12. You can speed it up or you can delay it by not responding. And it's not three of us or ten of us responding. He's talking about hundreds of millions. They're going to respond by agreeing with this. Now the question is asked, does the prayer movement release the judgment? Or does the prayer movement stop the judgment? And the answer is both. On one occasion Moses stretched out his rod and he released judgment, the ten plagues, one of the ten plagues. The next day or the next week he went to Pharaoh. He prayed and he stopped the judgment. You say which is it? Do we start them or do we stop them? And the Holy Spirit will be communicating with us in a very vibrant and alive way. In one occasion the judgment is released, scale one to ten, out of five. And another occasion it's minimized and reduced. Another setting, I mean, it's, it's minimized. Another setting they completely avoid the judgment. Another setting gets an eight. It's like the, it's like the glory of God, like the waters of the sea. One place in the sea it's five miles deep. One place it's five inches deep. One place it's cold. One place it's hot. One place it's a hurricane. One place it's calm. The glory of God will have all the ebbs and flows across the planet according to the prayer movement in that geographic area. It really matters that we know the plan. We understand the book and we're connected to it. Now it's critical that we have a bride's heart. Because it's the Spirit of the Bride. Notice, notice it didn't say the Spirit and the army. We are the army of God, but that's not what it says. Spirit of the Bride. Here's why. Through bridal identity and more than identity, encounters where we feel his tender and jealous love. And we have tender and jealous love. Because that which we've experienced, now we have it as part of our, our life with God. Tender and jealous, which are, which are different extremes, or different expressions I mean. When we have, when we have bridal reality, we pray different. We pray for the glory different when we're in love with the bridegroom. When the glory breaking out isn't about our ministry getting established, but it's about people loving him with all of their heart. And you're a bride in love. You pray for revival different when it has nothing to do with your ministry and your money at all. And you pray for judgment different. When it has nothing to do with you, it has to do with love for him and his agenda. Because if it said the Spirit and the army, or the Spirit and the warriors, they would be calling down fire all day, every day. Because the warrior is in a vengeance mode. And the warrior is in a payback mode. And John the Apostle is a primary example of that. He's the guy who wrote Revelation 8. Earlier, 60 years earlier, when he was a young man, he tried to call fire down there in paragraph J in Luke 9, verse 55. The Lord said no. Did the Lord say no? Because fire will never be called down. Well 60 years later, he sees the Lord says no, fire will be called down by the prayer of the saints. But it won't be through a, a warrior paradigm where your pride was offended, you're frustrated, you're angry. Well just let the, the whole nation go down then. No, no. It will be a bridal paradigm releasing judgment. And the Lord told John, you got a wrong spirit. You want fire to hit them because they offended you. Because your pride was stirred up. They didn't come to your meetings. He goes, I want fire to hit because they hate love and they hate truth. And I can wake up some who don't yet hate love and truth. They're still in the balance. And I'm gonna let fire wake them up and bring them in. I do it for love. Paragraph K. It's interesting that the spirit of prophecy, which is the same thing as the spirit of prayer, is making known the heart of Jesus. Whether it's the spirit of prophecy or the spirit of prayer, it's the testimony of Jesus. In other words, it's what's on his heart that is manifest. It's interesting, the testimony of Jesus and the spirit of prophecy or the spirit of prayer, again they are two sides of one coin, is in verse 10 of Revelation 19. Look at what is in verse 11. The next verse. Jesus appears to make war. Well Jesus, is that your testimony? Is that what's on your heart? Yes. I want to make war against everything that hates love. I'm going to confront it openly. I've let it go for 2,000 years. I've, I've, I've confronted it mildly. Now I'm going to confront it finally and openly and globally through my church. So in his testimony, verse 10, and the spirit of prayer and prophecy is at its highest, verse 11, the bridegroom king will openly confront everything that hinders love because they go together. Paragraph L. The book of Revelation, top of page four. The book of Revelation has powerfully changed my paradigm of the prayer movement and the prophetic movement. When I think of the spirit of prophecy, people go, hey the prophetic movement's growing, or the prayer movement is growing. What do you think? I say it is growing. And I believe the prayer movement and the prophetic movement, I don't know it all. I mean the whole, every facet, but I know parts of it around the world. I know a fair amount of different leaders in ministry in different countries who are focused on prayer or on the prophetic ministry. And I would say this. There's a great sincerity, it's very sincere, and it's very dear to God. The prayer movement, it's young, but it's dear. But it's profoundly deficient in what the spirit is saying through Jesus in the book of Revelation. When I look at the prayer movement, I find almost nobody, small numbers, there are some, connected with this master plan. It's mostly a localized plan that has to do with the localized agendas. It's like, wait, there's more than a business breakthrough of some financial guys and some church growth. There's more going on. There's an eschatological purpose. There's a changing, not of a government, of a nation, of the entire government of every nation of the earth in a short amount of time. I appreciate the local concerns. We have local concerns and we're supposed to pray for them. But there's, we do the one without letting go the other. We don't do one or the other. We do both. When I see the prophetic movement, it's mostly focused on things other than the book of Revelation and the action plan there. I look, I go, Lord, we are profoundly deficient on what the Spirit is saying to the church through the, the canonized prayer manual of the end times. My point being isn't, bah humbug, isn't everybody bad? That's not my point. My point is, I believe the sincerity of the prayer movement and the sincerity of the prophetic movement is real. And it's growing. I mean the numbers of people. But we have to be intentional and serious about getting ourselves trained and being forerunners to train others so we're actually following the revealed master plan and not a plan of our own devising. It's easy to get a couple guys together and get a few dreams and visions and mix and match together and come up with a plan very opposite of what God's doing in the book of Revelation. I want to be locked into the spirit of prophecy, the thing that's burning on his heart. Now paragraph M. Jesus let the devil see his plan. I mean what general lets the other army see the plan? I like, Lord, he goes, no, don't worry. I have so much power. I have so much love. And I am so much smarter than all of them. I am completely unconcerned. Now what has the devil done? He's taken this canonized prayer guide and one group, he told him it's only an allegorical poem. So okay, we don't have to mess with it then. Boom. One chunk of the body of Christ. It's just a poem. It's a symbolism. Kind of neat. Let's learn a few of the symbols. Put a couple hours in the book. We got that down. Move on. Devil goes, good. Got them. The next group, they totally misinterpret it. They get fixated on escaping. They read it and go, we're going to be out of here. Or they read it and believe it's real and they get a fetus and they retreat. Like this is so terrifying. I just want to quit. Put my head in the ground. No, no. That's not the right response. But I think one of the most insidious strategies of hell, it's what he did in the Garden of Eden. It's the reversal of roles thing. When Satan went to Adam in the garden, he said, Adam, he said, God is really like the devil and I am really like God. It's a real reversal. He attributed his own darkness to God. He said, he lied to Satan and got, I mean to Adam and got Adam to believe God had the personality and the mindset of the devil. Role reversal. So there's a lot of folks around today. They go, Jesus's judgments are a contradiction to his love. No. No. It's critical. His judgments will cause love to explode across the earth. Nope. Nope. His judgment is the devil. It's the exact same role reversal that happened in the Garden of Eden. Attributing to God that which was true of Satan in reverse. Well, there's trouble because with that one, I mean, the escapist guys, you can get their attention and the retreating and fear guys and the indifferent guys that think it's only a poem. But the guys that think the judgment's all demonic, they say, because the message is that the judgments of Jesus is removing everything that hinders love. He judges in order to increase love, not in violation of love. And the message that the judgment is the violation of love and it's demonic is exactly what the devil wants to break up the prayer movement across the earth. To challenge Jesus's leadership. And there's a humanistic, liberal mindset among Bornegan believers. Let me tell you this. It's a doctrine of demons. I want to say it clear. It's a demonic doctrine that Bornegan believers say. Because they can still hold a doctrine like that without denying their faith. Because what's going to happen is the judgments are coming anyway. And the people in their influence will be so offended at Jesus. And the point of the book of Revelation is a prepared bride to trust him. Not a people who are attributing his works to Satan. And then when the works happen, they don't trust him anymore. And there's going to be massive offense in the camps of the people in whom the enemy is perverting this prayer manual. I would say it again. It's a doctrine of demons. I say it because I, I'm saying it as in the Lord's sight because I feel his pleasure. He's saying, speak up for me. Speak up for me. I know what I'm doing. My master plan is perfect. Don't let the devil put down my master plan in the eyes of my people. I am a bridegroom, king, a judge. I've written it in advance. It's going to come to pass. I want to do it in partnership with, with you. And I don't want any of you offended, but I won't violate your free will if you go there. I tell you, the saints of heaven, they rejoice at his judgments. Now, one day we stop his judgments through prayer like Moses did. And the next day we release it. One day we release revival. And the next day revival, we pray and nothing happens. We don't know. We do it in leadership of the Holy Spirit. Top of page five. We'll just bring this to an end. The great question of the hour in the early church, Matthew 16, Roman numeral four. We won't look at it. But the great question, he asked the twelve, who do you think I am? What am I like? Well, why is that so important? Because the whole book of Acts church is going to be, the foundation of it, is going to be upon your teachings and your perception of what I'm like. They got it right. The book of Acts was established. The same issue, the Holy Spirit is speaking to the end time apostles and the end time prophets. Who do you think I am? Because if you get this wrong, you won't bind in loose in unity with my heart. You won't use the keys of the kingdom to drive Satan away. You will actually open doors for Satan to cap out and have a stronghold in your midst. And so Jesus, Peter gets the answer. That's good. Great answer. But in Revelation chapter one, Jesus appears to John. I mean, John's in his 90s. John didn't write the book of Revelation for his generation. He died real soon afterwards. He wrote the book of Revelation for our generation, not his own. It didn't help him in his life. I mean, I'm sure it blessed him that day in a huge way. But I mean, he didn't use the book and build a 50 year ministry on it. He said, wow, Lord, I could have used this 50 years ago. Maybe he didn't say that. But I know one thing. Who do you say that I am? Revelation 1, 18 descriptions. He stands in front of them and he goes, this is who I am. I am bridegroom, king and judge. And everything we believe about him must be true to how Jesus revealed himself. And it must be true to the action plan. Let me say it differently. The perfect action plan that he established and he canonized it. So 2000 years ago, he did this so we could trust it and it would unify us. Amen. And amen. We are committed to the book of Revelation. Amen. 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