Good morning once again, it's good to see everyone here.
We have been talking at length over the last weeks and
months about the sign of the Son of Man, and
it leads me to ask, what do you see?
What do you see in the heavens?
We see a sign, a shape,
and it reminds us of Jesus' words when he said
to the skeptical people, who were the scribes and Pharisees,
in Matthew chapter 12, verse 39, well, then verse 38,
the scribes and the Pharisees answered, saying to Jesus, Master,
we would see a sign from thee.
Verse 39, but Jesus answered and said unto them, an evil and adulterous
generation seeketh after a sign, and there shall no sign be given to it but
the sign of the prophet Jonas.
So one sign only would be given, the sign of the prophet
Jonas. “For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale's belly,
so shall the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.”
We'll come back to that later, but we see
in the heavens the whale and the whale's belly where
Jonah was. This is THE sign
that Jesus said would be given.
Now, what do we learn from Jesus when he says,
no sign will be given but the sign of the prophet Jonah?
Be thinking about that, because at first glance,
it sounds like Jesus is saying that in
a rejecting tone. You want a sign, but no
sign is going to be given to you, just this sign of Jonah.
What do you see? We see the sign of Jonah
in the whale's belly. For
as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale's belly,
so the Son of Man was three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.
We see that it's talking about the Son of Man.
What do you see in this?
We see the alpha and the omega
that together form the divine monogram, the
signature of the Lord, who calls himself in Revelation four times,
he says, I am Alpha and Omega.
We see His signature in the sign.
We also see the scene of His
baptism. When Jesus was baptized in the water
and the dove descended, that was the sign that God gave to John
the Baptist, that this is the Messiah, the dove resting
on his head. We see in the sign turned over
the vessel, the lamp of the wise virgins
shining with the oil of time filled with the
Spirit, the oil of the Spirit.
What do you see in the sign? We see the
seven churches of Revelation outlined in a
path following the course of the comets
in the reverse order as they're given in Revelation.
We see how in Revelation, it starts with the first love
and the rebuke to the church of Ephesus that they had lost that first love.
And in each progressive church, it was a degrading condition,
generally speaking, until Laodicea is completely warned, at
least, of being spit out. But we're going in the opposite direction
from Laodicea, the comet K2 comes this way, E3, the other
direction, back to the first love.
But what do you see? Or what do you hear?
Do you hear what the Spirit is saying to the
churches along that path? We
see the two witnesses of time
on either side of the river of time,
and it shows us a picture
that is given in the prophetic writings.
And this sign with these two witnesses is a theme,
two witnesses of time. And when we look at time prophecy in the Bible,
we have to understand it in the perspective of two witnesses.
And so, we see in the book of Daniel how the timelines that are
given there, the 70 weeks or 490 years,
which leads to the time when Jesus came to the earth and was crucified,
and also culminates with the death of the first martyr
of His disciples, and that is all a subset of the larger time
prophecy, still in Daniel, that leads up to the time of judgment,
the judgment of the dead. Then we had the first
Orion cycle that we studied for a long time, the judgment cycle,
and that led to the judgment of the living.
First there's the judgment of the dead, then the judgment of the living.
Peter speaks of Jesus when He comes, He will judge the living and
the dead, and that is what we see, the judgment of the dead,
and then the judgment of the living, coming into a second witness of time,
a second application of the 2,300 days, with another
70 weeks, and that leads to another cross in that 70th
week, that cross being the cross of the Horologium, pointing
directly to that last week where the comet comes exactly in the middle of the
week to show that point where it crosses
the cross. What do you see? We see
two trunks of the Tree of Life on either side
of the river that flows from the throne of God, as it is described in Revelation
22, and we see the leaves
of the Tree of Life in the Horologium with Comet BB.
We see the prophecy of Zechariah
4 where he sees two olive trees
on either side of a candlestick with seven lamps, over which is a
bowl and two pipes pouring out their oil for the lamp,
all in this sign, olive trees, the two pipes,
the bowl of oil like the bowl of manna in the Ark,
all represented there. We see Jesus'
parable of the fig tree where he had a fig tree
planted in the vineyard where there are grapes, but he had a fig tree planted there,
and year after year he sought fruit on that fig tree.
These are the years characterized by the corona crisis,
the vaccination crisis especially, and in the parable
Jesus comes, or the character in the parable that
represents Jesus, he comes and pleads for
another year because the owner of the vineyard says, hey, what is this
fruitless tree doing in the vineyard?
Cut it down. But the caretaker says, give it one more year,
and that one more year is where we are now.
It's the day of the Lord, the year that the Lord requested in the parable.
And he said, then if it doesn't bear fruit, cut it down.
What do you see? We see a
sickle for the wheat and a sickle for the
grapes. We see the barn where the wheat is gathered.
We see the wine press where the grapes are
tread underfoot. What do you see?
We see the harp and the harpers
who harp with their harp. It's the harp of 10 strings,
and we can recognize what those strings are.
In the two tables, just like there are two comets, the first table
connected with the comet K2, and the second table of the law,
the Ten Commandments, in the second comet.
These are the 10 strings of the harp that are played by God's
people. We saw the churches in this same area.
When we look at the entire area
where the sign touches, and all of those constellations, we
find 12 constellations. In ancient times, the ship was a
single constellation. And
those correspond with the tribes of Israel.
It's a division of the lands that we see here.
And when we look at that
in our mind's eye, we can see some patterns that show us that
this is an image of the holy city in Revelation
that lies four square, and we see the pattern of the
pyramid there with the Holy Spirit in the center
of God's city. The holy city where all of the tribes of spiritual
Israel have their allotted lands, if you will.
The promise of that land.
What do you see in the sign?
That's the question. We can see the wounds
of Jesus in Orion, the river of blood that
flows from his side,
from the creation of the world all the way until the present time.
We see the name of the Father,
Yahweh, in the ancient characters represented by the path of the
comets, Yod-eh, Vav-eh,
pointing to the hands, meaning literally, behold
the hands, behold the nail.
We see the nail that is in a sure place as
the Bible describes it in Isaiah chapter 22.
It points to, of course, Christ and His
crucifixion. We have seen how
along the path of Comet K2, we have represented each
of the feasts of the year in their order
from the Passover in the spring at the beginning of the year,
the seventh day of unleavened bread, the Feast of Weeks or Pentecost,
the Feast of Trumpets, both at this crossing place.
We see Yom Kippur, Tabernacles dwelling with God
or God dwelling with us. That's what Tabernacles represents.
In the end, Shemini Atzeret, the prayer for the latter rain.
And as well, the last great day was the last feast Sabbath of the
year, the end of the Feast of Tabernacles.
We see on the same path the history of Israel
moving from Egypt, exiting Egypt, coming to
the Red Sea, then at Mount Sinai,
receiving the law and at the same time committing a great sin.
It's interesting how the law and sin often go together because
it's the law that exposes the sin.
And of course, it points there to this specific event because
the comets made this crossing on the anniversary, the Hebrew anniversary of that event.
Likewise, at Yom Kippur, that was the anniversary when they had
confirmation of God's forgiveness for their sin when Moses went the second time
up the mountain. That was Yom Kippur.
Then they had their wandering time through the wilderness, corresponding
to that tabernacling time like we saw in the previous slide,
before finally entering into Canaan.
And so we see the entire journey of Israel represented
in the path of the comet. Given the symbolism of the sign.
We also see the covenant of God with his
people. It was a covenant of blood that began with Adam,
continued with Noah in the flood where the
waters overflowed the earth. In Abraham,
the father of the tribe. Moses, the leader of Israel.
David, the king of Judah and Israel.
Jesus, all continuing the same covenant that
God made with man. And when Jesus came, He gave
His blood. Therefore, it is a fitting place at the throne where
Jesus gave His blood for all of humanity
from Adam, even until the last covenant,
or rather the culmination of the covenant, is fulfilled in
the last Elijah because Jesus said that Elijah shall come and restore all
things. And so in the end, there is that spirit of Elijah who
comes into the world and restores all things at the
time of the coming of Jesus. What do you
see? Many things. In the
clock, we see the sword coming out of the mouth
of time. We see the iron rod, the morning star.
We see a side of Jesus that many do not dwell much on.
It's a side of vengeance. It's a side of
His warrior capabilities. You don't want to meet with those weapons.
Those are for the grapes, those who do not want
the Lord to reign over them. Those who reject the time also.
We want to be among the wheat that are harvested and gathered
into His barn. But in any case, whether
wheat or grapes, there's a knife involved.
The wheat is cut, the grapes are cut, they're trampled.
It's not just a knife because the actual part that is useful of the wheat is
not the part that is cut. But how do you get to that wheat?
You have to thresh the grain. In ancient times, they would thresh the grain by,
they'd have a big pile of it basically on the ground and they would trample on it
with oxen. The oxen would step on it back and forth and back and
forth until the wheat was separated from the chaff and then they would blow
the chaff out from the wheat and they would collect it back again.
So in either way, it's a process that
you can understand from the perspective of the grain, if you will,
or the grapes. It's not a pleasant process.
The Bible uses the imagery of threshing the wheat as a very tumultuous time,
referring to war and affliction.
And likewise, for the grapes, when they're tread in the
winepress, it's about the vengeance
and the grape juice, of course, representing blood.
Jesus is described in Revelation chapter 19 as having garments
stained with blood from the winepress.
So what do you see?
Because what we have seen, though it is a
lot, though it is many things, and that's just a sample, of course,
there's even many other things, we haven't exhausted all of
what God has put in the sign. There's more yet to be discovered and more
that I haven't shared here that we've talked about before.
But despite all of that, I want to say that
it's not enough. It's not enough.
Now, what do I mean by that? Let me ask
a question. Do you believe
in the sign? In the One that made the sign?
Okay. Jesus made a certain comment
in John chapter 7, and I want to start in
verse 37. In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried,
saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink.
He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly
shall flow rivers of living water.
So, Jesus pointed out that those who believe on
him, out of their belly shall flow rivers
of living water. What does that mean?
Why did he use that language? You know, if you look at that verse in the commentaries,
generally they say, well, the spirit will flow from the heart.
And that's not inaccurate, but why did Jesus say the belly?
They had a word for the heart, and they used it often.
But why did he say it would flow out of their belly?
Well, I think we see that in the sign, because it is the sign
of the whale, the great fish of Jonah, where he was
in the belly. That's here. And from
that place, you see where the river, which I've
colored red to signify the blood, wherein is the life.
So, this is the river of living water that flows
from the belly in two different ways.
Two rivers, if you will. And therefore, Jesus said, he that believeth on me,
as the scripture has said, out of his belly shall flow rivers,
plural, rivers of living water.
Because there's, from this perspective, it's flowing in two different
directions, as though from the top, as a spring from the top of the mountain flowing down.
And Jesus said of Himself, I am the fountain
of living water. Look at Jeremiah chapter 2,
beginning with verse 11. God is speaking with His
people and drawing a contrast.
Because of what they have done.
He says, has a nation ever changed their gods, which are
yet no gods. So, He's talking about the nations that have their idols and they worship their idols.
But every nation may have their idols and they stick with their idols.
They, you know, Nineveh worships Dagon, the fish god.
And it was always so. They kept to their gods.
And so, the Lord is saying, has any nation changed their gods,
which are yet no gods? But My people have changed their glory for that which does
not profit. And then He says in verse 12, be astonished.
Who? Oh, ye heavens, be astonished, ye heavens at this and be
horribly afraid. Be very desolate, saith the Lord.
And then He explains a little bit more.
For my people have committed two evils.
They have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters.
The fountain, a fountain springs up of its own.
It gives that living water. And instead of the fountain,
they hewed themselves out cisterns, broken cisterns.
Now, what is a cistern for? It holds the water.
It's not a fountain of water. It's just to hold the water.
But it doesn't even hold the water.
They're broken cisterns at that.
And so, God is pleading with His people
because of what they have done.
They have forsaken the fountain of
living water. And instead, they have these
broken cisterns, which is man's attempt to accomplish
the same purpose, but they're man-made.
They're broken, fallible, not really working, dead cisterns.
And what is the purpose of the living water?
To give life, to save humanity.
That's what we see, that Jesus gave his life, his blood for all of
time, for all humanity. It's the DNA, His DNA.
But man has made his own cisterns, his own
way of saving himself by getting
an injection, for example, saving yourself, saving
the planet. All of these things that man has done,
forsaking the fountain of living water, and instead making in
our own concept a replacement that
doesn't work. But who is He saying that to?
For My people. He's not talking about the world.
He's not talking about those out there who don't believe in Him.
He's talking about His people.
And so I ask again, what do you see?
Where are His people? We've seen how the churches are represented
inside. They have the Spirit, where there is the dove.
They have the fountain of living water.
What did Jesus say about them?
Where would the fountain come from?
In John chapter 7, he said, out of the
heavens shall flow rivers of living water.
No, out of the belly of the great fish shall flow rivers of living water.
So what's the difference? What does it mean when He says out of his belly?
That is out of the belly of the person, out of our belly, your belly.
What's the difference? What do you see?
Do you see the sign of the son of man?
Do you see the river, the fountain
of living water in heaven?
Or what did Jesus
say? He that believeth on the sign of the Son of
man. No, he that believeth on Me.
And that's different than the
sign. So we have a contrast.
We talk a lot about the sign of the Son of man, but that's just the sign.
It represents the real thing, but the real thing
is much more important. The sign is good.
It's wonderful. It also shows us something about
Jesus, like I hinted to, because it's just
the sign of Jonah. And yet in that one sign of Jonah,
we see a multifaceted picture of
who Jesus is, but it's still just a sign.
Jesus said, if you believe on me, He didn't say if you
believe in my sign. And He said
that there would be a fountain of living water flowing from your belly,
not from the heavens. This is just a picture.
So do you believe
on Jesus or on the sign? It's important to make that distinction,
that we understand
that this is not just something nice that's happening in heaven,
but that it happens in our own heart.
That's where it counts. That's where the belief happens,
because as James said, the devils also
believe, and they tremble. A lot of times we don't even tremble,
but the true belief that Jesus was referring to
was not a belief in the sign, but in
Himself. And so when we look at the sign,
learn to see not symbols, not just a picture
and an illustration, not just comets flying through the heavens,
but see the Son of man. Jesus
wants us to look at His works, whether his heavenly works
in the sign or His creation or
whatever experiences we have in life.
He wants us not to see just those things.
It's not just, oh, there's a clock in the heavens or stars or
flying balls of ice. That's not what God is directing
our attention to. He wants us to see Jesus,
because God wants a relationship
with His people. That's what the covenant is all about.
It began with Adam and Eve, just one marriage,
and it grew to a family, to a tribe, to a nation, to a kingdom,
to a race, the human race, and then ultimately uniting the human
race with all of heaven and all of the other races, the
different worlds that we are a spectacle to, as Paul mentioned.
That's the process. It's the deliverance of the prodigal son,
the prodigal planet, if you will.
But it's about God's family. He wants a family,
and He is our father. And so, in a family
situation, and even today, as much as the family is
degraded and almost dissolved in this world,
still, people hold very strongly and
value very highly those family relationships with their children,
their parents, their spouse, even brothers and sisters and aunts
and uncles going out in the circle.
It's the family relationships that are the most meaningful to us,
and so it is with God, and He wants that closeness with us.
He doesn't want to be up there in heaven where we just look up at a sign,
but He wants to be with us in our hearts.
And just as when Jesus came to the earth, and He
was that fountain of living water, and He gave that
water that flowed from His belly, He gave it to all
of humanity, whoever would accept it, so it is with us.
We, like He, when we have the
fountain of living water in our body,
then it will also flow out to others, because the
Spirit, you'll remember a couple of weeks ago when we talked about the
relationship between the spirit and the body and the soul,
we saw how the Spirit is most often connected with the air and
breath, but there are those times when God says, I
will pour out My Spirit. So, that means the Spirit is in liquid form,
and therefore the Spirit is also sometimes represented in terms of
liquid water, for example, living water.
But we see that that is in connection with the flesh.
It says, I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh, just like when we breathe,
we receive the air, and that air goes into our blood, then we
have that life in the blood, so when we receive the Spirit from God,
it comes into us and gives life to
our soul, so to speak. And that is then
given freely to those around us.
We saw before how we have the sheep and the goats, and
this is the goat's territory, and yet that's where the water goes to.
We give to the goats, not
that they remain in that condition, but that all will find life
in Christ. So, all of those things are
presented in the sign, but
remember that it is a person that we're talking about, and we want to be
united with Him and walk in
His presence. You know,
Jesus isn't physically here on the earth today, but He has given His Spirit
to His people so that we become His
representatives, and we give the light to the world.
He does all things through His people, and
therefore it's important that we learn to see things in the spiritual sense,
and not just looking at the distant heavens, these
are wonderful truths we believe,
but the true belief that Jesus is looking for is the belief that brings those things from heaven
into our hearts so that it will come out to those around us,
and whatever state the world is in, you can't hide a light that
is in the world set on a hill.
It will be seen just as the stars of heaven are seen by the world.
God gives His sun to shine on the just and on the unjust,
but we're living in this time of division, the time of the final
harvest, and so it's important for us to make a
decision, to make it concrete, that it's not
just nice things in heaven, but to allow
His sickle to cut. It cuts through
the churches. Some are inside, some are outside in each case.
For each church, some are within Christ, and some are
severed from Christ. The difference
is whether we put Him at a distance or we receive Him personally
in our hearts because He wants to be our Lord
personally for each one individually, and so I
want to close by asking you to
take these things personally as a message
from the Lord because He sent these messengers, these angels,
if you will. It's the same word both in Hebrew and in Greek.
Angel and messenger are the same word, and so these messengers,
they come and they bear a message, but it's not the messenger,
it's not the angels that we are really interested in.
It's the message, and the message is the Word of God.
It's the person of Jesus Christ.
This is, if you will, the message of the Son of Man, the sign of the Son of Man,
but it's the Son of Man who we want, and we can have the sign of
the Son of Man just like you can hang a picture of your loved one in your house,
but they're not there, and so take it personally
and receive that relationship that the Lord wants with
each of us individually so that we can be gathered into His barn
and not be trampled along with the grapes.
Let's stand for a word of prayer.
Dear Heavenly Father, once again, we come before you and we thank you
for this little sign of Jonah.
It almost shows your humorous side if it weren't so serious,
but it certainly shows us your love, how even an evil and adulterous generation,
you may give one sign, but you put your whole heart
and life and soul into that sign, and as the Creator, that means a lot.
It's full of the richness and meaning that is
comparable only to the written Word.
We thank you for your goodness and your grace toward us
that even in this generation when we are so far removed from you in spirit
and have difficulty discerning your voice, yet you have
given this sign to direct our attention
to the person of your Son, and so we just receive your Spirit
again today, just as we need
air continuously, breath after breath, so we need that rejuvenation of your
Spirit moment by moment, cleansing our blood and giving
life to every member of our body.
We thank you for the illustrations that you give to us in nature,
for your artwork that is written throughout all time.
We love you, Father, and we look forward to going through this time
ahead though we know it will not be an easy time, but if we go with you and
we receive you into our hearts to direct our lives, you
alone can maneuver us through the complicated
and even impossible maze of life, for you are the God of the impossible,
and we commit our lives to you until we meet you
face to face on the cloud. We pray these things
in the name of our Savior who died for us that we may live in your presence and be part of
your family. Amen. Thank you. We'll see you
again
next week.