Roche Coleman Ministries: The Infusion Broadcast

Guest (Male): The mere fact that you woke up, the mere fact that you survived 99 while you were traveling, the mere fact that you made it on the Beltway, on the Toll, on 45, the mere fact that you still have finances and food, the mere fact that God is good, God is gracious, God is giving you joy, the mere fact that He is God, I think He is worthy of just a little bit of praise every now and then.

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Today, Dr. Coleman continues the teaching on heaven based on the book of Revelation, chapter 11, where we see events of the tribulation period and also God ushering in something new. Today's message is titled, "Cultivating a Posture of Praise."

Dr. Roche Coleman: In the book of Revelation, I hope you stay with me. We are in Revelation chapter 11. Now, we remember we're in the tribulation period. Don't listen to anything you've heard previously, all the scare tactics, like "don't read Revelation." Don't believe it. From a structural standpoint, it is laid out wonderfully and outlined beautifully and easily. The message is going to bless you.

So, we want to look at it. Revelation chapter 11. Sermon notes are available for download. Text us any questions, and we're going to get back to you. Please do. I will make sure we get back to you on the questions if you text us. Also, we want you to subscribe to our YouTube. Go out there, hit us up, subscribe and like. Ask your friends, family, and loved ones to subscribe to our YouTube.

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Revelation chapter 11. We are going to focus today on the conclusion after the two witnesses, because we saw the two witnesses last week. We're going to look at the cataclysmic event that takes place beginning in verse 13 of Revelation chapter 11. I'm reading from the New American Standard Translation.

"And in that hour, there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. Seven thousand people were killed in the earthquake, and the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven. The second woe is past. Behold, the third woe is coming quickly." Verse 15: "Then the seventh angel sounded, and there were loud voices in heaven saying, 'The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever.'

And the 24 elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshipped God, saying, 'We give you thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who are and who were, because You have taken Your great power and have begun to reign.'" Father, we love You. We thank You. We bless Your name today.

Lord, we ask that You guide us, be with us as we look into Your word. Lord, we want to hear from You. We want Your spirit to have its way. Rise up, O Lord, and let Your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate You flee before Your presence. We thank You and we love You. We ask this in Jesus' name. Amen.

As we've been going through the book of Revelation, there's something I want you to understand and grasp from this book. It is found in Revelation chapter 1, verse 3. There are many people who have espoused the notion that it is not healthy for people to read the book of Revelation. As a matter of fact, in many churches, pastors retreat from the book. They don't want to address the book that deals with the end times, that deals with prophecy.

But if you look with me in Revelation chapter 1, verse 3, the text says something that I want you to receive and hear today. It says, "Blessed," or "kurios" is the Greek term here, "is he who reads," underline this please in your text, "and those who hear the words of the prophecy." He says there is a blessing to the person who not only reads but hears the words of the prophecy, the prophetic words of the apocalypse here in Revelation.

What else does he say? He says, "and heed the things which are written in it, for the time is near." The time for these events, he said, is near. "Revelation" is the Greek term "apokalypsis," the unveiling. That which was previously hidden has been revealed and disclosed. God did this through John, who was exiled on the island of Patmos. God gave him a divine revelation of the things that were to happen in the future.

You and I can receive a blessing from God, guaranteed, by reading these words, hearing these words, and heeding these words. You can receive a blessing from God. I want to encourage you as we are going through this book. Read with me. Stay with me as we study this book. Receive your blessing. Don't leave a blessing on the table that you can easily receive by just reading, hearing, and heeding. Take your blessing.

In dominoes, they say "all money is not good money." Some money you just would leave; you say, "I'm not going to touch it." But when it comes to blessings, I want all the blessings that God has for me, and I'm going to collect them.

Revelation chapter 11. He gave us first the vision in the temple in the first two verses of the chapter. Three through 12, he gives us the account of the two witnesses. The two witnesses are those individuals that God used in the tribulation period to proclaim His truth.

If you look at this first chart, you will see that we laid it out here, and it gives us an account of the time and the age. We begin first with the church age, Revelation chapters 1 through 3. We are currently residing in what is called the church age, and it is also the period of the Gentiles where Gentiles are ruling.

We believe that there is going to be this rapture according to 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, verses 16 and 17, that is going to happen. We will be caught up as believers and raptured from the earth, and then we will have the judgment seat of Christ. We believe this will happen, and then after that happens, we're going to go into a period which is called the tribulation period.

I isolated it in the second slide because I want you only to focus on the tribulation period, which is what we're going to study and focus on today in Revelation chapter 11. If you see the first arrow, we have Daniel chapter 9, and it denotes the beginning of the tribulation period, which will start according to Daniel 9:27 when the Antichrist signs an agreement with Israel.

This agreement will be signed, and it is going to also usher in what is called the 70th week of Daniel. We note it down here: the first three and a half years, there will be peace and seemingly prosperity. But in the middle of the 70th week, at the midpoint, according to Daniel 9:27, the Antichrist will breach his agreement with Israel. As a result of breaching that, havoc will be unleashed.

The worship will end, circumcision, and all of the rituals the Jews enjoy; it will be cut off. As a result of that, the great tribulation, which is called the second half of the 70th week, three and a half years, will happen. It will usher in all sorts of tyranny and calamity. That is where we're focusing today in Revelation chapter 11, the second half of the tribulation period, which is called the great tribulation.

It is during this period we will see some of the greatest activity of Satan. The beast we saw coming up out of the abyss, we're going to be introduced at a new level in Revelation 12 and 13 to the Antichrist. He will ply his trade, and then the false prophet. Both are introduced in Revelation 12 and 13, and they will unleash havoc because they operate as the evil trinity.

It is Satan's attempt to duplicate or emulate with a pseudo-religion through himself, the Antichrist, and the false prophet. Here in Revelation chapter 11, we're picking up and looking at some of the key observations that are going to happen here in this period, and I don't want you to miss it.

If you slide down here to verse 11, you will see we saw the witnesses first were resurrected. After the resurrection in verse 12, we see they ascend back to the Father. After they ascend, in that hour, we're going to see that there are going to be these cataclysmic events that are happening in the context of the earth.

The Bible is real clear that these things are happening, I'm convinced, as a result of the departure of these two witnesses who symbolically represent what the testimony of Jesus Christ is. They are what is called the "martyr," being testimony, witness of what the Lord has done.

In Revelation 11:13, it says, "In that hour, a great earthquake occurs." Three things happen here in verse 13. First of all, we get the earthquake. A tenth of the city will fall. Seven thousand people were killed because of the earthquake, and then the rest are terrified, but they give God glory.

Earthquakes are usually very symbolic of either the presence or the departure of God. If you recall back in Exodus chapter 19 and verse 18, in Exodus 19, remember when God had taken Israel and redeemed them from bondage in Egypt, God brought them in 1446 to Mount Sinai. They stayed there until 1445 BC.

God descended down to Mount Sinai to give them the law, to manifest Himself to them, and Moses had prepared them to cleanse themselves. But when the Lord descended on the mountain, what happened? The earth began to shake. The clouds, the thunder, and the lightning. Why is this transpiring? It is happening because whenever you have the presence of God, whenever His glory, His splendor, His majesty, whenever it comes forth, there is a shaking and a shifting that happens because God is present.

Things can never remain the same when God shows up. This is why when someone's life has truly changed and been revolutionized, it is because God has descended and manifested His glory and His power.

I love this. Watch this. An earthquake takes place, but it's after the departure of His witnesses, who have been killed, left there, their bodies, no one buried them. God resurrected them, breathed life back into them, and they ascend back to the Father. Now with them gone, God allows these cataclysmic events to occur.

The earth is quaking, people are killed. Can you imagine the carnage? I'm not certain if these 7,000 who die, if they die because debris falls on them. I'm not certain it's because of the earth movement or they fall in a crater or something. Nevertheless, they're dead. Either way, there's carnage, tremendous carnage that is going on. As a result of all of this carnage that's happening, people are fearful and they're afraid.

I want to let you know something: if there's an earthquake, you cannot remain the same. Can you imagine the uncertainty, the hopelessness? "What are you going to hold? Everything is shaking. You're shaking." You probably would want somebody to hold you because, "Oh my God, what do I grab? Where do I go?"

The people are terrified. Seven thousand are dead, and the Bible says, "Look, look, look, the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven." When I see this, that these people are giving glory to God, I ask the question: are they giving glory because He is God, or are they giving glory because they are just afraid and they recognize what they have seen in the beast that came out of the abyss, the beast out of the sea, the beast out of the earth, Satan, Antichrist, false prophet, that they see they are a farce, and now they see the real work from the true God and they say, "This has to be an act of the true and living God."

But see, here's the one thing I'm convinced of, and I want you to hear me: I don't believe we should wait until somebody is resurrected from the dead. I don't think we have to wait until somebody is ascending back to heaven. I don't think we should have to wait for an earthquake. We should give God praise because He's worthy.

The mere fact that you walked in, the mere fact that you woke up, the mere fact that you survived 99 while you were traveling, the mere fact that you made it on the Beltway, on the Toll, on 45, the mere fact that you still have finances and food, the mere fact that God is good, God is gracious, God is giving you joy, the mere fact that He is God, I think He is worthy of just a little bit of praise every now and then.

Here it is. I love this. It's beautiful. Watch this, watch this. Stay with me. This is happening in the midst of the tribulation. Contextually, you've got to see what is going on. The earth is quaking, people are dying, there's carnage, there's death, the stench in the nostrils of people, and they're viewing all of this. It causes them to say, "We've got to give Him glory."

Just casually, he pivots to verse 14 and he says, "The second woe is past." John just casually goes and says, "The second woe is past." These woes mark a significant amount of judgment from God. The sixth trumpet now is concluded, and we are awaiting, verse 14, the third woe, and it's coming quickly.

Verse 15, we shift here, and we're going to see here that the Lord now is ushering in something new during this period. This tribulation is dark; I want you to know it. This is not a time where we would want to live, and it's not a time we would want to be there. We have to thank God that He's gracious to us, but we pray for those who have to go through such turbulence.

The seventh angel sounds his trumpet, his horn, and there were loud voices in heaven. Now there's this cacophony of voices that dispense and they are uttering something. Look what they're declaring as they're speaking, verse 15: "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He will reign forever and ever."

The voices from heaven are saying the Messiah, the one who was slain, the one who has been rejected, the one John says came unto His own and His own received Him not, now the voices from heaven are declaring He has begun to reign on His throne forever and ever. They're denoting the eternality of the kingdom of the Messiah, the one who had been rejected.

But now, we are seeing that those who rejected Him are going to have to face the reality. As Paul wrote to the church at Philippi, Jesus is truly Lord God who will reign forever, and every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess. As a result of this, there are those hearing these voices now and it's being declared, and those who hear, I'm certain, are thinking about the Christ and the Lamb whom they have rejected.

In verse 16, now we see another group who is there declaring the goodness of God. It's important that we glean from this second group because I love how they continually find themselves emerging in the book of Revelation and they are praising and giving glory to God. Look in verse 16, the 24 elders, and look, they are sitting on thrones.

These are 24 elders, and they have a place in the royal throne room and kingdom of God. They're sitting, they have a posture of reclining and relaxing. But the Bible tells us something happened that caused them to get up off of their thrones. They sit before God, but when they hear the declaration in verse 15, the Bible says they fell on their faces and worshipped God.

Oh, I love this because it shows us that these 24 elders have a grasp of the magnitude in whose presence in which they find themselves. They can no longer remain seated; they get up and they assume the posture of praise. Why? Because they recognize the one who is before them is worthy of praise.

See, I understand that some of us, we all praise God in our own way, and I know there are some of us, we're more reserved, we're kind of conservative. But I'm convinced that every now and then, the saint of God who has been redeemed by His blood, every now and then you need to have a time of praise and worship and glory to God.

I don't think anyone should have to push or summon you when you get in the sanctuary. "Oh y'all, come on now." Nobody should have to call you. Every now and then at your home, you should say, "Lord, I recognize that You have been gracious to me. I remember when we were living in 900 square feet, Lord God, but now I'm living in much more than that, and You've been good to me."

"I'm just going to walk in every room and I'm going to thank You for it. I'm going to thank You for the food in the pantry. I'm going to thank You for more than one bathroom. I'm going to thank You, Lord God, that I have windows. I'm going to thank You, Lord God, I have doors. I'm going to thank You for a garage I can pull in. Lord God, I'm going to thank You because I remember there was a time I did not have it." Yeah, every now and then you have to thank Him. It's beautiful. Watch this, watch this, stay with me.

Guest (Male): Dr. Coleman will pick up where he left off with his message on our next broadcast. Please be sure to join us. Wow, even all who rejected Jesus Christ will bow before Him, Dr. Coleman. Thank you for this detailed study of the events that are to be fulfilled and for the challenge that we as believers are not to remain silent. God sent His Son to reconcile us to Himself. Let's not put off this chance we have now to accept Him as our Lord and Savior.

If you want to grow in your faith and intimacy with God, I want to recommend Dr. Coleman's book, "Connecting the Chasm: Bridging the Gap Between Infancy and Spiritual Maturity" to you. I hope you'll visit us online at rochecolemanministries.org to order your copy today. As we close now, our impact thought is, cultivating a pattern of perpetual praise and worship in time is preparation for eternity. I hope you'll take the challenge to cultivate a time of worship and praise to God daily. He truly is worthy.