Book of Revelation | Chapter 19

And I saw the copper on the side of the road with his radar pointing at my car, and I said, hello, brother, I'm doing 59 in a 60 zone. You cannot book me. Accepted in the church, rejected by the church.

For me, it's the same. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God. Amen.

We thank our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, always and forevermore for his infinite love, mercy, and kindness, allowing us to be in his holy church, sharing his word, which is the truth and the life-giving, the one and only, the word that is written in this holy book called the Holy Bible. Jesus Christ is the only way, the truth and the life, and there is no one else but him. For those who are with us in this holy church and those who are watching us through live streaming, I pray that you're always in good health and in good spirit in Jesus' mighty name.

Amen. So now we're going to come to our topic, book of Revelation, chapter 19. We'll be reading from verses 11 to 16, and I hope we'll be able to finish all these verses.

If not, then we'll finish them for next Friday, God willing. But before I do that, almost forgot, I just want to say a very happy Sunday resurrection of the Lord Jesus to every beloved Christian that celebrated the Sunday resurrection. I think it was last Sunday.

Yes, 31st of March. So happy Sunday resurrection. I don't refer to it as Easter.

I refer to it as Sunday resurrection. I believe it's more appropriate because Easter is not a Christian name. It's more of a pagan thing.

So that's why I refer to it as Sunday resurrection instead of Easter. So to all the beloved Christians, happy Sunday resurrection. For those who are still fasting, our Sunday resurrection will be on the 5th of May this year.

There has been a difference of over 30 days this year, but next year will be the same. We'll follow the same date sometime in April, maybe around the 16th of April. I'm not sure, but next year will be the same.

We need to pray for at least the Sunday resurrection date to be united with all the Christians in this big, beautiful world. Amen. We need to pray for that, my beloved.

But at the same time, we are Christians. We need to love one another, and we need to support one another, and the truth will always be the truth. Therefore, I want you to celebrate Sunday resurrection, the old calendar, not the new calendar.

See, the holy fire comes out on the old calendar. And I'll say this to my beloved Orthodox Christians or Christian Orthodox. It is not an Orthodox date.

It is the date the Lord Jesus chose where he's showing his divine power that this is the day I rose from the dead, where this divine light comes from his tomb, and it's been coming from that tomb every single year for the past 2,023 going on to 24 very, very soon. Every single year for over 2,000 years, this divine light has been appearing in the tomb of the Lord, the empty tomb, I should say, and add. So it's not about Orthodox.

It's not about Catholics. It's not about anyone. It's about one person that changed the history of mankind forever.

His name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth, who lives forever and reigns, rules, conquers forever. Amen. So if the Lord chose this day where he's showing his divine light, who am I to say no? Who am I to say no? We need to pray for all Christians to come and unite at least for Sunday resurrection.

It's very sad to celebrate at different dates. It's not a very nice image before the whole world. So we pray for the unity.

Amen. Beautiful. Now we come to Revelation chapter 19 and verses 11 to 16 inclusive.

Now I saw heaven opened and behold a white horse and he who sat on him was called faithful and true and in righteousness he judges and makes war. His eyes were like a flame of fire and on his head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except himself.

He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood and his name is called the word of God and the armies in heaven clothed in fine linen, white and clean followed him on white horses. Now out of his mouth goes a sharp sword that with it he should strike the nations and he himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He himself treads the wine press of the fierceness and wrath of almighty God and he has on his robe and on his thigh a name written king of kings and lord of lords and all glory be to our lord and savior Jesus Christ forever and ever.

Amen. Not sure if you're going to finish all the verses. Just a recap on what we've done thus far.

We said last time that chapter 17 and 18 was talking about this great harlot Babylon the great which is the UN slash United States and then chapter 19 comes and talks about a different woman being the bride to the lamb of God who is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. In chapter 19 we said there are there is the word hallelujah or alleluia mentioned four times. In chapter 19 the word alleluia is mentioned four times.

Praise Yahweh. The first two times where the word alleluia is being mentioned that is mentioned by the martyrs of that great tribulation. When you read in chapter 19 you'll see there are three different groups of people being mentioned there as well.

There is the martyrs of the great tribulation. There is the 24 elders and the four um the four um creatures the four creatures and then there is the people of the entire world. So there is the martyrs of the great tribulation the 24 elders and the four creatures and then the entire people of the world.

The first two alleluias were actually said by the martyrs of the great tribulation and they said alleluia because of the fall of this great harlot Babylon the great. In chapter 17 this great harlot fell because of her enemies that surrounded her but in chapter 18 it was her final fall never to get up again and that was the wrath of Jesus Christ of Nazareth upon this great harlot. So chapter 17 has one alleluia and chapter 18 another alleluia by the martyrs that came from the great tribulation.

Alleluia because her enemies made her fall and alleluia in chapter 18 because God dealt with her directly and judged her once and for all. And then there is the other alleluia from the 24 elders and the four creatures being the church of Christ both in new and old testament the 24 elders and the four creatures the gospel writers Matthew Mark Luke and John. And then the last alleluia was the voice of God the father where he brings the entire world at the feet of his beloved son Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

Every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is God revealed in the flesh and every knee will bow before him whether they like it or not. This is the promise of God the father to the whole world. You who have denied my son you have rejected my son you who have crucified my son I'll make sure that you will confess that he is lord and savior he is God revealed in the flesh and you will kneel before him and worship his mighty name.

Every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is the one and only. Now last time which was two weeks ago we spoke about this woman being the bride to the Lord Jesus. Now the angel said to John the beloved he said write this blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the lamb to the marriage supper of the lamb.

When John the beloved realized that those who are called to the marriage supper of the lamb are the entire old testament people and then he himself being the bride of the lamb of God he fell at the feet of the angel out of trembling and joy. Then the angel said to him whoa do not bow before me you only worship God. I'm a fellow servant with you and with your brethrens who have the testimonies of Jesus Christ.

Worship God only but it was out of joy said what a glorious moment it is. The entire old testament people Adam, Eve, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob all the prophets and the patriarchs of the old testament they're all invitees they've been invited to the wedding and I John the weakest of all I am the bride to the lamb of God. And what is the wedding all about the groom and the bride all those who are invited they are all focused on the bride and the groom.

So John out of joy he fell at the feet of the angel knowing this hearing this from the angel and the angel warned him he said do not bow before me you only bow before God because worship is only given to God amen. So now up until verse 10 we came to the marriage supper of the lamb. So there are two kind of suppers two kind of dinners one is to do with the marriage supper of the lamb and the other one is the supper of the great God.

Verse 11 comes into and enters into the supper of the great God and we're going to see what will take place in the supper of this great God totally different to the supper of the lamb totally different. Verse 11 now I saw heaven opened and behold a white horse and he who sat on him was called faithful and true and in righteousness he judges and makes war. He saw heaven opened.

In verse 11 of chapter 19 John the beloved sees heaven opened but in chapter 4 of revelation John the beloved sees a door opened in heaven. So in chapter 4 he sees the door opened in heaven but in 19 verse 11 he sees heaven itself opened not a door because now we're coming towards the judgment the second coming of the messiah no more doors heaven will be split in half and opened and every eye will see the glorious king of kings and lord of lords coming to judge the whole world who rejected him in his first coming. So I saw heaven opened and behold a white horse and he who sat on him was called faithful and true.

Who is this faithful and true and in righteousness he judges and makes war none but Jesus Christ of Nazareth. All glory to his holy and mighty name. Now why white horse and by the way if you think there are horses in heaven then you're mistaken.

The book of revelation or the holy bible is speaking in our language for us to comprehend and relate to. In heaven there are no horses there are no animals. We've said this before so many times and we'll say it again.

Now the only one who can make it to heaven are human beings. Why? Because out of the entire god's creations the only creation that has a spirit is the human being. Animals have a body and a soul.

They do not have a spirit and the only one that is going back to heaven is the spirit. That's why human beings are the only creation out of all other creations of God that have a spirit in them. Therefore the only ones who will make it to heaven are the human race.

So if you have a pet and you're so attached to that pet I'm so sorry to break these news to you. You will not have your pet with you in paradise or later on by the grace of the lord into the father's house. No animals, no pets, okay? Only human beings.

But the holy bible is speaking in our language and said there was a white horse. So there are no horses in heaven. Behold the white horse and he who sat on him was called faithful and true.

Why white horse? You see the lord jesus here is coming to judge. Because in righteousness he judges and makes war. Why white? The color white represents righteousness.

The color white represents fairness. The color white represents peace, no anger. So he's coming to judge even in his judgment.

He will judge fairly and he will judge calmly. He won't be angry, furious, fuming, trying to abolish everyone who went against him. He will judge with absolute peace, calmness, fairness, but sharp like a sword.

See one thing about the lord jesus, he never loses his control no matter what happens. Us humans we do a lot of times. We lose our control, we lose our balance, we lose it, we get angry and when we get angry everything is a blackout now.

I'll say whatever, I'll do whatever, I'll break whatever comes in my way. But the lord even when he is angry he is cool, calm and collected. You go over there and you come over here.

Thank you. Case closed. So the horse is white to say that he's doing it fairly, he's doing it calmly, he's doing it with control, but he is fair.

Now and he was called faithful and true. Faithful and true. We've said once before what is the difference between the lord jesus and us humans? I'm talking about the lord as the son of man, not the son of god, as the perfect human being.

What is the difference between jesus christ as the perfect man and every other human being? What is the difference? One thing, in every one of us there is the yes and there is the no. In jesus the man there is the yes and there is the amen. Jesus as the man, the perfect man, in him the word no does not exist.

In him there is yes and there is amen. In us all humans there is the yes and there is the no. That's why we break god's word because of the word no.

Come to church, no. Read the holy bible, no. Fast, no.

Pray, no. Smack you, no. Punch you, no.

The lord as the perfect man, when god the father says to him anything and everything, he says yes and he says amen to everything god asks of him. He always says yes and amen. Faithful, amen.

True, yes. With me? So he is called the faithful and true. He is the amen and he is the yes.

Faithful, amen and true, yes. Another thing, my beloved, faithful and true. We thank him for being faithful and true.

Why? Because the word true never changes. Truth never changes. Reality changes.

We can never relate to ourselves as the truth. We can never claim the word truth for ourselves. Why? Because we are reality.

We can never be the truth for one simple reason. What is reality? Everything that is under the time. And what is truth? Everything that is above the time.

That is the truth. So us, we are reality. Why? Because whatever is under the time is controlled by the time.

Our gathering here in the church is called reality. Why? Because time governs my coming and my going. There was a time, I was at work, I was at home, I was at a different place.

The time brought me to the church. There is a time and thank god it is the bishop preaching today because it will take a very long time before you go home. So there is a time, this bible preach session will end, this reality will change because time controls us.

Truth is above the time. Since there is no time, nothing changes. You see, change comes because of time.

As a human being, yesterday I was, today I am, tomorrow I will be. Yesterday I was a baby, today I'm a grown-up man, tomorrow I'm an old man. I change because of time.

The lord jesus, the holy bible says about him the following. Yesterday he is, not he was. He is, today he is and forever and evermore he is the same.

Why? Because he is the truth and we are the reality. When you read in the gospel according to saint john, you will never, you will never ever see the lord jesus using the word reality when it comes to him. Why? Because the gospel according to saint john talks about the lord and introduces him as the true divine god.

It is the gospel of divinity of christ. Since it's talking about the divinity of christ, the lord always talks about himself as the truth. John 14 6, I am the way, the truth and the life.

He didn't say I am the way, the reality and the life, which he could have very easily said it. He was not short on vocabulary. But the reason why he said the truth, because he's trying to tell us all, I am the only one that never changes.

All of you do. Since I am the truth, he is called the faithful and true. True means never changing.

Faithful means he sticks to every promise he makes. Why he sticks to every promise he makes? Because he is the truth. He never changes.

So whatever promise he makes, he is faithful that it will be done, delivered, stamp sealed. When the lord says I am with you all the days of your life and until the end of all ages, that is faithful. And since he is the truth, that means he will be with us all the days of our lives and until the end of all ages, this is the truth that never change.

Whatever I say, I deliver. I am faithful to my word and I am the never changing god that keeps his word. He is called faithful and true.

We're not going to finish the verses. And in righteousness, he judges and makes war. Amazing.

Wow. And in righteousness, he judges and makes war. At a human level, there is something not correct about this statement, this verse.

And in righteousness, he judges and makes war. What is not correct at a human level? How can you judge if you haven't made war first? See, you put judgment before war here. When you want to judge a country, you need to go into war with that country and overcome that country in order to be able to judge that country.

True? Now, why we need to engage in a war first before we make a judgment? Because as human beings, we cannot guarantee the war we're about to enter, whether we are going to be victorious, triumphant, or we're going to lose the war. We can't guarantee it. It could go either way.

But when it comes to God, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, he judges, then he makes war. Why? Because before God engages in any war, he's already won the war. With God, everything is victory.

No one can overcome God. That's why he makes the judgment, then he makes war. Because he's already won the battle.

When the Lord Jesus came to enter Jerusalem on what we call Palm Sunday, yes, some of us celebrated it, some of us are about to celebrate this eve. When he came to enter Jerusalem on that Palm Sunday, what did the Lord Jesus request and ask for? A donkey. The Lord Jesus sat on a mule.

You know why? Because my beloveds, the Israelite people lived in Egypt in slavery for 400 years. They learned so many customs of the Egyptians. The donkey, my beloveds, Pharaoh, when he came to engage into a battle, he would sit on a horse.

When Pharaoh won that battle, he would sit on a donkey. So when the people of his time saw Pharaoh sitting on a donkey, they knew and understood that the Egyptians, the Pharaohs have won the battle. So sitting on a donkey, a king sitting on a donkey, meaning that the war is won.

The Lord Jesus was about to enter Jerusalem. What was going to happen there? It was the last week, what we call the passion week. He was entering to engage himself in a battle against Satan and embrace the cross.

Before entering the battle, he sat on a donkey, the king of all kings. He was saying to all of us, when I come to enter a battle, the outcome is already determined. I am victorious because no one can overcome Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

That's why when it comes to God, he judges first, then he enters and makes war. You with me? If you believe in this God, that nothing stands in his way, that nothing shakes him, nothing breaks him, and he is always victorious and triumphant, why are you so worried? Why? Why are you so troubled? Why are you so concerned? Why are you so afraid? If you believe this God is always in control and he always wins. Before creating anything and everything, God judges already.

God judges. He is victorious and the one who judge, the one who judges is the one who is in control, the one who is in charge, the one who rules, who reigns and orders things to happen. God does not need to get engaged in a battle to find out if he's going to win or not because it's already predetermined.

God always wins. Nothing stands in his way. Trust in this God.

His name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth and let all your worries, all your problems, let him handle it for you. Let him handle it for you. Verse 12, his eyes were like a flame of fire and on his head were many crowns.

His eyes were like a flame of fire. If I bring any human being who have a perfect vision, what is it? 20, 2020, but we're in 2024. If I bring any human being who has a perfect vision, 2020 and they see little tiny writings from a very far distance, with this perfect vision, I bring them and I put them in a totally dark room.

Their vision will be zero out of zero. All that perfect vision becomes absolutely blindness when I put them in that dark room. Why? Because the eye needs the light in order to see and without the light, no matter what kind of a vision you have, without the light, we are totally blind.

We see nothing. The Lord's eyes, from them, flame of fire comes. What is the flame? Light, meaning that he is the light itself.

From him comes the light. Internally the light comes from him, not externally because he is the creator of light. He is the one who lives in the light and he is the one who gives that light.

I am the light of the world. He who walks with me shall never walk in darkness. Meaning his eyes see the unseeable.

His eyes penetrate places where it is beyond any other eye to see. In other words, everything is vividly clear in the eyes of the Lord Jesus. Nothing is hidden from him.

You can run but you cannot hide from the eyes of the Lord. So you may go into that dark little alley at midnight where it's extremely dark and you can do whatever in that dark alley saying to yourself, nobody sees me. Sorry, the Lord sees you.

You can't hide. You can do all the plots behind closed doors. You can do all the plannings behind closed doors, underground bunkers, secret societies.

Sorry, the Lord's eyes see everything visible and invisible. Nothing is obscure to the Lord. Everything is within his vision because his eyes were like a flame of fire.

Wow, there's so much to be said in these verses. I don't have the time. His eyes were like a flame of fire.

You know, in verse 11 when we said, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. I want to elaborate a little bit on this, why his eyes are like flame of fire. In righteousness he judges and makes war.

Who does the Lord judge here? This is the second coming. He will judge those who went after satan and followed satan. He will judge the people who followed satan and he will make war against satan himself.

So the judgment is for the people who worship satan and the war will be made against satan himself. How will the Lord judge the people that followed satan with his word and how is he going to make war with satan? With the eyes like the flame of fire. So with his eyes he will wipe satan and with his word he will judge the followers of satan.

One day this person was demented. He was brought to this priest. The priest took an icon of the Lord Jesus and put it in front of that demented person.

The demon inside started yelling and shouting saying, take these eyes away from me. They are burning me. His eyes like a flame of fire.

The Lord just by looking at satan, one tiny little look he will decimate satan. He will burn him forever. His eyes are like a flame of fire.

He will make war against satan with his eyes but he will judge the followers of satan with his word and will come to that. That word is the sword judgment. And on his head were many crowns.

On his head were many crowns. In revelation 13 we saw that beast that came out of the sea that had seven heads and ten horns and on those ten horns were ten crowns. That beast is satan.

Is satan. So does satan have crowns? What are crowns? Victories. Revelation 2 10 and if you remain faithful till the end I shall give you the crown of life.

If you remain faithful till the end I shall give you the crown of life. So crowns here means victories. Satan in revelation 13 had ten horns and ten crowns on those ten horns meaning victories.

Does satan get victorious at times? Yes. Every time he makes us fall and do something wrong he's victorious. Every time he takes us away from the Lord Jesus he's got a crown.

He's victorious. But his crowns are limited. But the crowns of this lamb of God are so many you cannot even count how many they are.

Because the Lord's victories are both in the old and the new testament. He was victorious when he saved all the people that of the old testament from Adam and Enoch and Noah and Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, all the prophets and all the fathers of the old testament. And in the new testament he was victorious with his 12 apostles and the 70 and the church fathers for 2,000 year long history.

He has been taking crown after crown after crown for being victorious through his children throughout all these many and long centuries. So the crowns of the Lord Jesus are many. You cannot count how many they are because he's always victorious in his children.

And on his head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except himself. He had a name written that no one knew except himself.

See the Lord Jesus on his second coming humanity would have denied him. And those who walk walked away from the Lord and denied the Lord his name will be unknown to them. His name will be unknown to them.

But here in this verse it doesn't say what that name is. But we can gather that this name will be the conqueror. The one who will conquer every nation, every tongue and every knee will be will kneel before him.

Only he knew this name. Christ on the second coming will be the conqueror forever. In the first coming he conquered over those who accepted him as Lord and savior.

Not the whole world accepted him. Only those who accepted him he conquered over them. But in the second coming those who accept him or not he will conquer over every single human being.

So maybe this name that is only known to him it may be the conqueror in his second coming. Why are you so quiet? Are you with me? That's good. Verse 13.

He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood and his name is called the word of God. He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood. Now this blood is not his blood.

This blood is the blood of those who have rejected him. This is the second coming. He is coming to judge.

So this blood is the blood of those who have rejected him. And then also the blood that he shed on Calvary will be that witness to everyone who has rejected the Lord Jesus. He will say to them the blood I shed on Calvary was to purchase you from eternal death and eternal condemnation.

But you rejected this precious blood which I shed for you on the cross. This time I'm coming to crush you forever. In the second coming the Lord will not be Mr. Nice Guy.

The first coming he is the lamb. The second coming he is the roaring lion. He will come to judge.

And the judgment of the Lord Jesus no one can come out of it in one piece. If I stand before the Lord and say the Lord is judging me I cannot say I am innocent because the Lord will reveal my entire life from day one till the last day and he will show me every single place where I have denied him. No one can get away from the judgment of the Lord Jesus.

So when the Lord comes to judge his robe will be dipped in blood because blood means they will all die when God judges. Because nobody comes out innocent from the courtroom of the of the Lord Jesus. Everyone will be found guilty because everyone broke God's word and everyone is a sinner.

This is why the Lord came in his first coming to give us the chance not to end up in his judgment on his second coming. For as long as we live in the flesh in the flesh we still have the chance and the time to come back and repent. The moment we repent from our wrongdoings we are saved.

The Lord will wash us clean with his own blood. If we do not receive the blood of the Lamb of God now we will receive our own blood upon ourselves in the second coming. So which one do you wish to receive the blood of the Lamb for your salvation or your blood for your destruction? It's entirely up to us.

Entirely up to us my beloved. Entirely up to us. So his robe will be dipped in blood.

That is the judgment of those who have rejected him. And his name is called the word of God. The word of God.

John 1 in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. And he's called the word of God meaning his word will judge. And the Lord Jesus said it.

He said I will not judge you. The word I spoke to you will judge you in the end. My word will judge you.

I spoke. If you believe in my word and receive my word you'll be saved. But if you reject my word my word will come back and judge you.

I am fair. I'm not harsh. I'm not coming to kill.

But my word naturally does this. My word in its core is salvation. But at the same time my word is law.

So if you break the law the law will judge you. But if you abide by the law the law will save you. True or not? If I'm driving in a 60 zone and I'm doing 59 I cannot be judged.

But if I'm doing 80 or 90 or 100 in a 60 zone that same law that saved me from being booked and fined delivered me. I was safe and sound and I saw the copper on the side of the road with his radar pointing at my car and I said hello ha. Brother I'm doing 59 in a 60 zone.

You cannot book me. But if I'm doing if I'm speeding I'm in deep trouble. The word that is the natural thing the word does.

You abide by the word you're saved. You disrespect and go against the word you're judged. And that's why it's called the word of God.

Because the word will judge those who will reject the word. Verse 14 and the armies in heaven clothed in fine linen white and clean followed him on white horses. The armies in heaven are the saints.

All the saints will come also dressed up in linen white and clean. Why they are white and clean? Because the blood of the lamb of God made them whiter than snow. Whiter than snow.

We read early in the book of Revelation. John the beloved saw these people coming from the great tribulation. They were martyred through during the great tribulation.

He said who are these dressed up in white? The angel said to John the beloved these are the ones who have been dipped in the blood of the lamb of God and being made white. They were dipped in red blood came out whiter than snow. Because the blood of the lamb of God cleanses you and makes you whiter than snow.

My beloved all those who are dressed up in linen and on white horses are the saints. They are white and clean because they accepted the sacrificial lamb of God as their lord and savior. His blood made them whiter than snow and perfect clean without a blemish, without a stain because of the lamb of God shedding his blood on Calvary.

Now out of his mouth goes a sharp sword that with it he should strike the nations. Verse 15. Now out of his mouth goes a sharp sword.

This is to everyone who thinks that the Lord Jesus came with the sword as well. And they attack Christianity. They attack the Lord Jesus and they say even your Jesus came with a because the Lord Jesus in the gospels said I came with the sword.

I came to divide the family on itself. Father against son, mother against daughter and mother-in-law against daughter-in-law. You see even your Jesus came with the sword.

Well in verse 15 that is the answer to you my dear friend what kind of a sword the Lord is talking about. This sword doesn't chop heads. This sword saves souls and keeps the head intact on that body.

Why? Because verse 15 says what kind of a sword the Lord came with. Now out of his mouth goes a sharp sword. Well if the Lord came with a sword that chops head that sword should be on the side here not in the mouth.

Yes? So out of his mouth came a sharp sword. What is out of his mouth that came a sharp sword? For he is called the word of God. The word of God is sharper than a double-edged sword.

It is his word my dear friend. It is his word that is likened onto a sword. What does the sword do? Two things.

Just like the word does two things. The sword can set someone free. The sword can kill someone.

If we are in a battle and my friend soldier is held captive by the enemy with the sword I went and cut the ropes and I set him free and the same sword kill the enemy. The sword frees who is with me and the sword kills who is against me. This is the word of the Lord which is like a sword come a sharp sword coming out of the mouth.

The Lord says my word when I say it when it is uttered out of my mouth it is like that sharp sword. When you accept my word the sword will set you free from the bondage of satan. You have been held captive by the enemy satan.

He chained you up in so many sins. My word came to set you free and clean you right out. I set you free from the bonds of satan but if you reject my word the sword will come back and judge you i.e. kill you in the end.

It's up to you. It's not my fault. I came to save you.

I came to deliver you. It's up to you if you accept me or not. It's entirely up to you.

So now out of his mouth goes a sharp sword that with it he should strike the nations because the nations would have rejected him on his second coming and he himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He will rule them with a rod of iron. We see this in psalm number two.

You will strike them and shatter them like that terracotta jars with a rod of iron and he will rule them with a rod of iron. What is the rod of iron? The word iron in aramaic syriac, those who speak the lord's language, those who speak the lord's language, iron in aramaic syriac is called perzla. Perzla.

Now in the aramaic language we only have the alphabets. We don't have numbers. So the alphabets are the alphabets and the numbers at the same time.

So alep which is a equivalent in english alep is the letter and also is the number one. So the letters are letters and are also numbers. So when i want to write number one in aramaic i write a alep.

We don't have numbers. The language does not have numbers. So the alphabet are the numbers.

When you come to the word perzla which is iron and convert the letters into numbers the word perzla adds up to 318 in numbers. 318. What is 318? The church fathers who got together in the nicaean creed and wrote the nicaean creed.

We believe in one god almighty creator of everything that is visible and invisible. We recite this in every liturgical service. 318 church fathers wrote and agreed on this nicaean creed.

There was around 2600 church fathers from all over the world gathered in that nicaea but only 318 out of the 2400 or 2600 church fathers only 318 agreed on what we have readily available at our hands. The nicaean creed. Only 318.

This nicaean creed is the iron rod that will rule everyone. If you do not believe in this nicaean creed then you will be striked down by the sword that comes out of the mouth of the lord jesus his word. If all christians come back to the nicaean creed we're united.

If all christians come back to the nicaean creed and forget about everything else we're all united. Jesus christ he was incarnate and born of the virgin mary. The nicaean creed says virgin.

You come and say she is not you're in deep trouble. Anybody home? This is the iron rod that will rule over you when the lord comes back again. If you do not believe that he is true god from true god jesus christ.

If you do not believe that he's true god from true god you're in deep trouble. If you do not believe that he was crucified in the days of Pontius Pilate and was buried and rose from the dead on the third day as it is written you're in deep trouble. If you do not believe that he ascended into heaven and sat at the right hand of his father and he will come back again to judge the dead and the living you are in deep trouble.

So the nicaean creed is that iron rod that will rule over everyone who has rejected the truth. So if all christians catholic orthodox everyone go back to the nicaean creed we don't have a problem. We're all united and he himself will rule them with a rod of iron.

He himself treads the wine press of the fierceness and wrath of almighty god. In the book of isaiah the lord says through isaiah the prophet i have walked through the wine press my by myself alone. He went through the wine press.

You know before they used to crush those grapes by foot. There's a little pond they would put all those clusters in there and then step on them and crush them and it has vents and then the the juice comes out and then they make wine out of it or or grape juice out of it. He said and he himself treads the wine press of the fierceness and wrath of almighty god.

It is he himself will come to judge those who have rejected him. Even our beloved muslims say that isa isos jesus will come to judge the dead and the living. If jesus is a prophet and he will judge everyone isn't god the judge? My beloved friend don't you believe that god is the judge? Now if god is the judge and this is a prophet and he will judge then where is god? Where is god? I just wonder.

Where is god? The last verse and he has on his robe and on his thigh a name written king of kings and lord of lords. Wow and he has on his rope and on his thigh a name written king of kings and lord of lords. My question to all of us how do you know this person is a king when they dress up in a kingly outfit correct? Now let's say when you look at a man and he's dressed up and thus that outfit tells you that this is the king.

It's a royal outfit. Imagine we bring this king and we strip him of all his clothing and we leave him naked. Would people know this is a king? They won't.

The only time you recognize a king by the outfit he puts on correct? But look at the lord here. He says and on and he has on his robe and on his thigh. When will you see the man's thigh when you strip him of his clothing? True or not? So on his robe and on his thigh a name written king of kings and lord of lords.

What this verse is trying to say that Jesus Christ is always king when they took him on the cross fully naked and he is king when he is fully dressed up in his kingly outfit. He was king on the cross and he is king in his second coming and his first coming from the very beginning till the end and forevermore he is the king whether dressed up or he is the king of all kings and the lord of all lords. When they crucified him he was reigning and ruling.

Before the crucifixion he said it he said if it wasn't my father who gave me this you wouldn't have been able to capture me. It is I who put it and it is I who take it away. I am willingly going into the tomb but I am coming out of the tomb also by myself.

Why? Because I'm the king. I rule. You thought you got rid of me.

You thought you stripped me naked. You thought you kicked me punched me and slapped me and whipped me and nailed me on the cross. All of that time I am the king of kings and lord of lords because I came to establish the kingdom of heaven on earth.

That's why I allowed you to do it. I am the one who ruled even when you nailed me on the cross I was ruling over you. In my utmost weakness I am the king and utmost mightiness I am still the same king.

Nothing can change that. I'll always be the king of all kings and the lord of all lords. On his robe and on his thigh was written king of kings and lord of lords.

On the cross good friday he was the he is the king and on sunday resurrection he is the king. In his first coming he is the king and in his second coming he is the king. He'll always be the king.

You know why? Because the king is born the king. That's why in a country where there is a king there is no voting. You don't vote a king in and you don't vote the king out.

You only vote when there is a president or a prime minister in that country. That's why we have votings in Australia, in America, in Canada and wherever there is a president or a prime minister there is voting even though they falsify the outcomes but doesn't matter there's voting. But when there is a king you don't vote because the king is the king whether you like him or not accept him or not that never changes.

Because whatever you are born with no one can take it away from you. Jesus Christ is born from his father from the very beginning as the king. So he will always be the king whether you drag him in the street or he sits on the throne he is ruling.

He is ruling my beloveds. There are some people nowadays in the end of times they think they are ruling the world. That's just a wishful thinking.

Believe me. They have the money, they have the wealth, they have the power, they have bought people in high places and influential places. They bought them with money and placed them there to do and fulfill their evil agendas.

In this they think they can do whatever they wish and get away with it. It is a wishful thinking. This has never happened, never will happen because at the end of the day there is only one king and one ruler and one judge over everyone and everything and his name is Jesus Christ of Nazareth.

Period. No one rules except him. No one my beloveds.

So they can do whatever they want. They won't go very far. The grave is awaiting them and when they go into that grave judgment is fulfilled upon them.

Judgment my beloveds. When you see the Lord Jesus in the next life you will then and then only understand no one can overcome this man. And I'm talking about the man not the divine.

The divine forget can't forget about that. I'm talking about this man. No one can overcome him.

He is that awesome. He is that perfect. He is that mighty as the man, son of man.

No one can overcome this man let alone his divinity. Impossible. Impossible.

So whatever you're going through now, whatever issues you have, whatever problems you have, whatever obstacles you're encountering, whatever challenges you are facing, remember Jesus Christ is way way greater beyond and above all the challenges put together. Why are you worried? The doctor said you have three weeks to live. Who cares? The doctor said you have three weeks to live.

Who cares my beloveds? So what? Whether I live on earth or move on matters not. Matters not. Why are you so afraid of leaving this world? Now whether we wish to remain here or not, one day I'll have to leave whether I like it or not.

And wouldn't you want to be with the love of your life sooner than later? Wouldn't you want to be with the Lord Jesus forever? Enjoy his holy presence and be filled with joy and happiness forever. There, there will be no more tears. There will be no more aging.

There will be no more aching. There will be no more pain, sorrow, no more weakness, no more. Everything will become anew.

So what? I live or die as long as I live and I die for the Lord. Doesn't matter. Believe me, it doesn't matter.

One day I'll have to go. I'm not here forever. Only the Lord is.

So we need to seek the Lord Jesus. We need to beg him to have mercy on us, to bring us back to him, to show us the way for he is the way. Live for the Lord and enjoy the moment with the Lord.

The people the Lord has given you, love them. The people the Lord has brought them your way, embrace them. The people the Lord has put you in the midst of them, pray for them and look after them.

It doesn't matter they give you a hard time or not. It doesn't matter they are nice to you and sometimes not so nice to you. It matters not.

The Lord gave you these people. Maybe to you this person is not smart enough, is not beautiful enough. Who cares? Do you think you're smart or beautiful? You're not.

All of us are the same. Every single one of us have, we have in us good things and bad things, beautiful things and not so beautiful things. But what matters is one thing, focus on the Lord and embrace everything the Lord gives you.

Even the partner you're with who is a pain in the neck, thank God for that partner. And when I say partner, I mean your husband or your wife, okay? No boyfriend, girlfriend. I will kill you.

I have red belt in karate. I'll chop you. Today I was listening to one of the lectures this girl bishop was preaching.

I laughed at the way the bishop was talking, like me. Because I said something and I cracked up laughing today. I said, man this guy is funny and he's crazy as well.

That was funny. I was actually talking about doing a facelift in Istanbul and I said, this woman changed from Khadija to Mariah Carey. I just laughed at this one.

How did I come up with this? I have no idea. Like on the spot, poor Khadija to Mariah Carey. What a great, you know, illustration.

Unbelievable. So I really laughed at the bishop. The way he spoke was very funny.

So you see, you can laugh at yourself as well sometimes when you listen to yourself. The Lord Jesus is the only reason for our existence. The only reason.

Love the Lord, my beloveds. Love the Lord. I'll leave you with this definitely, all right.

I want to keep you more what, you know. One day I was dying to become a priest. I'm a bishop at the moment.

Apparently very well known in the world but not accepted by some churches. But it doesn't matter. It's all good.

So I was dying to become a priest. All my hope, all my wish, every thought was circulating around this, I want to be a priest. The day came, they announced it that I will be ordained a priest.

Now I'm saying it for you. I'm not talking about anyone. Please don't take it out of context.

I am saying it for you from and learn from this living example before your own eyes. I benefit nothing from it but I want you to know one thing. How the Lord deals with every single one of us.

He taught me this and I'd like to share it with you after the Lord's permission. Will you Lord allow me? I was dying to become a priest. Was announced I'll be a priest.

Flying from joy and happiness. I wouldn't even sleep. I don't care.

I'm becoming a priest. There was two days left for my ordination. I got deposed from the church by the highest rank in that church.

Two days left to the ordination. I got deposed. For one week, literal one week, I ate nothing.

I drank nothing. I did not move from my room or from the room. It's not my room.

It's the Lord's. Everything is Lord's. I don't own nothing.

I am owned by the Lord and everything I have is the Lord's. One week, like a statue, from the biggest shock I received in my entire life until that moment. Every dream, every hope just trembled down right before my own eyes.

As if I was killed but I'm not dead yet. I became speechless, emotionless, you name it. Destroyed, destroyed big times.

After one week, my God rest her soul, my earthly mother. Mothers are wonderful, you know. My sons and daughters, respect your mom and dad.

Respect your mom and dad. They are not perfect. Sometimes they will do things that are wrong or say things that are wrong but I can assure you they are a treasure.

You will never understand that treasure until you lose that treasure. You'll never understand. So my mom came and son, come on, please come out, eat something, drink something.

I was gone, finished. Years went by. To be more sort of accurate, about six years, I was ordained a priest by the same church.

But at that time, I didn't want to be a priest. I fought against the Lord badly not to be a priest. I begged him, leave me alone.

I don't want it. I said, Lord, I don't want it. I'm not worthy.

Find someone else. I don't want it. I'm sure there are many other children of yours that are much more worthy than me.

I'm a piece of wreck. Find someone else. Two months struggled, two months struggled, begging the Lord, fighting the Lord, saying no.

Couple of days before I give an answer, the Lord came. Not a dream, not a vision, real. I'm sitting during the day.

He came and spoke. He said, stop fighting me. I have my hand holding your neck.

I've grabbed you from the neck. Stop fighting me. You cannot win.

Give up and do what I want you to do. This is from me for you. You will be a priest.

This is Jesus' wish. When I heard his voice talking to me this way, I surrendered. The entire struggle came to a full halt.

I became a priest after six years. He taught me a very valuable lesson, very valuable, and I'm sharing it with you. He said, you know why I allowed them to depose you from the church? It wasn't them.

It was me. You need to learn how the Lord operates. You need to trust.

You need to learn how to trust the Lord. He said, it wasn't them who deposed you. It was me.

I allowed them to depose you. I am in control. Yes, he is the king of kings.

This name is written on the robe and on his tie, whether naked on Good Friday or whether glorified on Sunday resurrection. I am always the king and I'm always in charge. So they can't depose you.

I allowed them because I am the king of all kings. I rule no one else. The Pope cannot do anything unless I allow it.

So you know why I allowed them to depose you? Because I wanted you to learn one thing and it took six years for you to learn. I understood. You know what it was? He said, you were not ready earlier for me to give you the rank.

I already gave it. I already gave it to you, but it was not the right time for you to have it as yet, but it's guaranteed you will be a priest and no one can stop it. But if I had given you the rank at the time, you would have looked at the rank and forgotten about the one who gave you the rank.

But now that I took you to the desert and I taught you well in that desert, now you are ready to receive the rank because when I'm going to give it, you will never look at the rank, but you will look at the one who gave you the rank. Now you're ready. And let me see those who went against you.

Let me see if they're going to stand against you when I say, now you are to be ordained. I'll make them come and ask you to be one. And they did.

They came. Matters not. Who cares? I'm a bishop.

Who cares? I'm the Pope. Who cares? Habibi, my darling, my center link. Let me tell you this.

It doesn't matter. You are the head of the church. You are the cardinal.

You are the bishop. You are a rich man. You are this or that.

It matters not. What matters is, are you with the Lord or not? Are you? So I thank you, Lord. I do not look at the rank anymore, even though it is holy because it comes from the holy of holies.

Jesus Christ is the high priest and he gives his priesthood rank to whom he chooses and gives to. But I more so, I thank the one who gave me the rank. Therefore, Lord, when people come in the millions and in the billions and say, Bishop, you're this, and we love you.

We adore you. You're wonderful. No.

You can say that. Fine. But for me, I've learned the lesson.

It is the Lord, not me. It is him who is glorious, who is beautiful, who is caring, loving, and he is merciful. It is the Lord who is reaching out to you.

I don't care about the position. That's why throne nor throne, for me, it's the same. Accepted in the church, rejected by the church, for me, it's the same.

You love me. You hate me. For me, it's the same.

I will love you. It doesn't matter, Habib Albi. I'll make you tabbouleh, baba ghanoush, and Italian pizza.

It matters not. You love me. You don't love me.

I love you. Believe me, nothing is worth it in this life because at the end, the grave is waiting and after the grave judgment by the true judge, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Find the Lord.

Look for the Lord. Search for the Lord. Don't look for nobody else.

Don't look for nobody else. It took six years. The Lord said, you were too eager to becoming a priest.

Dangerous. Not mature enough. I'll give the rank when you are more mature.

So now, bishop, we love you. Bishop, we hate you. I love you.

You're beautiful. You're ugly. I love you.

I know I'm beautiful in the eyes of the Lord. That's what matters. Who cares you call me ugly? The Lord says, he's my son.

Hallelujah, baby. Learn. Learn how to trust the Lord.

Everything he does is good. Even when it is painful, it's good. When I go through the operating theater and I look at the surgeon's knife, it's a scary sight to look at.

But that very knife that is going to cut me wide open is the very knife that is going to be the reason for my healing. The Lord operates. He cuts, extracts strange things in your body.

But then he stitches and heals the wound. After healing, you're recovered. No more pain, no more weakness, no more crying.

No more. It's all good. On the rope and on the thigh was written, King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

Oh, man. Jesus is amazing. The Lord is amazing.

Man, I love you. This is an Assyrian comedian that says this kind of words. It means on the grave of my auntie, I love you.

It's an Assyrian way of expressing like how much I love you. Like on the grave of my auntie, I love you. Even if I don't have an auntie, I'll make one and I'll kill her and I'll bury her so I can say on the grave of my auntie, I love you.

This is the typical Assyrian of expressing our love for the one we love the most. On the grave of my auntie, I love you. Love the Lord, my beloved.

Amen. Maybe you'll have a kingdom on earth. Maybe you'll have wealth on earth.