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This is the valley of Megiddo. That we'll see later is the winepress. Scripture says the Lord is going to tread the winepress, and the blood will come out of the wine press. And where does this valley end up? Jerusalem and the Kidron Valley.
When he came in, the power of the spirit, after being tested in the wilderness, He came to Nazareth, where he'd been brought up. And as this custom was, the synagogue the Sabbath day, and stood up to read. And you all saw the scroll last night when they delivered the book to him. It wasn't like they brought him a book like this. And He read the portion of Scripture that was prepared for that day, and just by chance, it happened to be a prophecy of him. He stood up to read, and there was delivered to him the book of the prophet Isaiah. “When he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written.” This comes from Isaiah chapter 61. “The spirit of the Lord is on me. You notice again the emphasis on the spirit of the Lord, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, the recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are bruised or beaten down, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.” The interesting thing about this is that he read to a certain point and stopped. He's reading from Isaiah 61. That's where he stopped in the middle of a verse. Why did he stop in mid verse? Because between the first part of the verse and the second part of the verse is an undetermined period that you and I know as the church age. So, he quoted only the part that related to his immediate coming. The other part is going to relate to the day of the vengeance of the Lord.
When we think about the tribulation. What do we think about? Starvation. Warfare. Famine. Plagues. Pestilence. Earthquakes. Mayhem. Persecution. Slaughter. You and I should have the tribulation entirely different to all of the negatives of the tribulation are from human viewpoint. That's from the world's point of view, from divine viewpoint. The tribulation, while it may be the day of the vengeance of God and the wrath of God on those who reject Christ, it's going to be in a seven year period of time. The greatest period of evangelism the world has ever known. The whole world is going to be evangelized. You know, once again, people make a mistake of reading the passage that says, the gospel will be preached in the whole world, and then the end will come. And they say, well, Jesus can't come yet because we haven't finished the job. He's not waiting on us. During the time of the tribulation period, it's going to begin with 144,000 Jewish evangelists in revelation chapter seven. Think of these guys as 144,000. Apostle Paul, or 144,000 Elijah's unleashed on the world. They're going to be supernaturally protected so that they can go through the entire time without being killed. But that's only the beginning.
That's the first wave of evangelism. The second wave of evangelism for the converts, 144,000. You know, you unleash 144,000 from the 12 tribes. It's like Jesus had 12 apostles. I included Paul in that. Judas was the fake. Of course, and with 12 men he shook the whole world. What are you going to be able to do with 144,000 like that? And then there are converts. If you read on in revelation chapter seven, a multitude that could not be counted from every tribe, every tongue, every nation, every family standing in heaven, why are they in heaven? Because they've all been murdered. But until they got martyred, what do they've been doing? They've been winning other people. The first wave of starts, a second wave that's even bigger. And then you get to mid-tribulation and you have a visitation of the two witnesses, which I take to be Moses and Elijah, representing the law and the prophets. And they can't be killed at the top of that church right there on Tabor. You have a name, church of the Transfiguration. And on each side you have a chapel of Moses and a chapel of the light.
And it all started right here. You'll remember if you read on in the passage there in Luke four, they brought him to the brow of the hill to cast him off the crowd started moving in on him, locking arms, trying to push him, possibly from this place, and he passed in the midst. They're all going, where did he go? Supernaturally delivered. Christ could not be killed until the moment that God ordained hang on the cross for your sins and my sins.
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