Revelation 11 Louis Talbot

And good morning my radio friends and friends of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, this is

Louis T. Talbot welcoming you to another broadcast of Bible study. And I welcome you once again in the name of our soon- coming Lord. And you know that over 48 years, the Bible

Institute of Los Angeles has been training young men and young women to carry the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to the millions of people who are sitting in darkness and in the shadow of death. You know you can scarcely go to any part of the world where there are people without finding some graduate of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles, and some of the great spiritual leaders in the world have received their training in this school.

And so, the Lord has been blessing this school in the training of young men and young women.

And you know that it delights our heart to know that some 70 percent of the students of the Bible

Institute have their faces turned toward the foreign field. I want you to pray for the Bible Institute every morning; pray for the faculty, pray for the student body, that all of these young men and young women may find their place in the vineyard of the Lord in due time.

Now we are making a study of the Book of Revelation and I want every one of you please to have a Bible and have it turned to Revelation chapter 11. We have gotten this far in our study.

And if my voice does not seem to be natural this morning, it is just simply because I sat in the dentist's chair for about two hours yesterday afternoon, and my, my, but what a drilling I got. But

I am feeling a little better, although my gums are not in good shape. You know that the gums are Talbot – Revelation 11 to be cut in order that, that dentist might get down to the root of what seemed to be the trouble with my tooth. And so if I just lisp a little bit, you will know that it's just due to this.

Now I want you to read with me please verses one and two. Verses one and two of the eleventh chapter of the Book of Revelation. And there we read this, "And there was given me a reed like unto a rod; and the angel stood saying, 'Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and them that worship therein. But the court which is without the temple, leave out and measure it not for it is given under the Gentiles and the holy city as shall they tread underfoot forty and two months.'"

Now my friends, all this is very very significant in regard to what is going to happen in the city of Jerusalem during that period of time that will run its course between the translation of the

Church and the return of the Lord in glory. I pointed out yesterday the significance of these two verses. This is the first time that the city of Jerusalem and the temple are mentioned in the Book of Revelation. You will remember that in the preceding chapters that God is described in, in His dealing in judgement with the nations. But now the city of Jerusalem and the temple especially comes into the foreground. And and John is commanded to take a measuring rod and measure the temple. You know that when a man is contemplating taking over a piece of land or purchasing a piece of land or building on it, that he usually has it measured and that measuring takes place before he buys it. And so the command in verse one, "rise and measure the temple" is very significant.

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You know that the temple speaks of worship and the City of Jerusalem is the, is God's metropolis in the world. One of these days that God is going to govern this world upon the city of

Jerusalem. The land of Palestine is the center of all the nations of the earth. And do you remember how that that when God scattered the nations, that He, He fixed their bounds in relation to the land of Palestine and God has designated that land as the geographical and the political center of this earth and the City of Jerusalem is going to be the metropolis of the world.

And in view of the fact that we are getting, in this Book of Revelation, to the time when the Lord

Jesus is going to return and the kingdoms that this world are going to be the kingdoms of, of God and of His Christ. And He is going to sit upon the throne of His father, David that naturally, that we would expect Jerusalem and the temple to come into view. And it just means here that God,

He is, He is going to deal with the world's worship as well as how with the world's government.

He is going to unify the world worship as well as the world's rulership in His Son.

That's the reason why Jerusalem and the temple are linked together. And my friends what is needed today is not only a right government, but there is also the need of a unification of worship. And in the millennia reign of Christ, that there is going to be a that unification. That is that God is going to rule this world through His Son and there is going to be one worship. And the object to that worship will be God in the person of His Son.

I pointed out to you yesterday that there is only one in this universe to be worshiped and that one is the one true God. And He was manifested nineteen hundred years ago in the person of His Son the Lord Jesus Christ. But you know that there is in India alone, and I think that I made reference to this yesterday, that in India alone there are three hundred millions of gods. But there is going

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Talbot – Revelation 11 to be a put an end to that one of these days. And you know that there is going to be one worship and there is going to be one government and the Lord Jesus Christ will be the object of that worship and He will be the governor of the universe. That is the reason why we have in this chapter eleven, Jerusalem, the metropolis of the world and the temple coming into view.

You know that there have been three temples in Jerusalem? The first one was the one that was planned by David and built by Solomon and later was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar. And then the second one was built by Ezra and Nehemiah and Zerubbabel, and that was destroyed by a

Syrian ruler by the name of (inaudible). And the third temple was Herod's Temple. And that was the one that was standing when the Lord Jesus Christ came into the world. And that temple that the Lord Jesus visited and out of which He drove the money changers, that temple was known by

Herod as Herod's Temple because Herod had built it and that was destroyed by Titus, the Roman emperor in Anno Domini seventy. And upon the temple sank the day, there stands the Mosque of

Omar, a place sacred to every Mohammedan and it it is perhaps the second most important mosque in the Mohammedan world. And it stands right on the site where Solomon's Temple stood.

But my dear friends, the word of God tells us that there is to be two other temples to be erected on that site. Now how that is to be brought about, we do not know. One of these days, God is going to cause the Mosque of Omar, or at least the site on which the Mosque of Omar stands, He is going to cause that site to pass into Jewish hands. Now how that is to be brought about, only

God knows. You know that God has been doing wonderful things in recent years.

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For instance, before World War Number two, you know that people used to raise the question as to how Palestine could ever be in possession of the nation of Israel in view of the fact that the

Mohammedan world had controlled it for some eighteen hundred years and and they were just as fanatical in their desire to hold it as the Jews could ever be in their desire to possess it. And the question was in the minds of people, how could it ever come to pass when Israel could ever become a nation? And yet you and I, my dear friends, have come to see that miracle take place in your day and mine.

And the day is going to come when that site on which the Mosque of Omar stands today, that very site where Solomon's Temple stood and where the temple stood that the Lord Jesus Christ saw in the days of His flesh, will be turned into, turned over to the hands of the Jews.

Now the word of God teaches us that there are to be two other temples to be erected on that site.

There is first to be the one that will be in existence during the interval between the translation of the judge and the return of the Lord in glory. Now we know that because the Antichrist is going to set up his image in it during the tribulation period. Do you remember how that and the Apostle

Paul talks about that? That he used that the man of sin will sit in the temple of God showing himself that he is God.

Now the Bible doesn't say very much about the temple that he is going to be on the temple site during the 70th week of Daniel. It may be that that temple will be the present Mosque of Omar, renovated. That is that God may, in His own way, turn the Mosque of Omar over to the Jews and it will be a place of temporary worship. It'll be a renovated, no doubt. And that may be the

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Talbot – Revelation 11 temple into which the Antichrist will put up his image. But we know that the Jews are going to have o temple in Jerusalem during the 70th week of Daniel. How it is going to be brought about, only God knows.

But the great temple that is yet to be, will be the millennial temple and that is described of in the book of Ezekiel from chapter forty right to the end of that prophecy. And you know that one of the great architects in England made the statement that if a temple is ever erected according to the description that is given in the closing chapters in the book of Ezekiel, it will be a building that will pale into insignificance every building that this world has ever known.

All right now, I wanted to come back to to our lesson. I wanted a note my dear friends, the verses that we have just read and we read this, "But the court, which is without the temple leave out and measure it not for it is given unto the Gentiles." Now we're reading in verse two. And there John is instructed when he measures the temple to only measure a part of it. He says that the court, which is without the temple, leave it out. Don't measure that. "Measure it not for it is given unto the Gentiles and the holy city," that is it is the city of Jerusalem, "shall be trodden shall they tread underfoot a forty and two months." Which of course is three and a half years, the length of the tribulation period. Now the significance of the command to measure only a part of the temple, is that God will own just a witnessing company that will be within the nation of Israel.

We am witnessing company. I think I will be doubtless the one hundred and forty four thousand who will really know the Lord. Do you see that during the 70th week of Daniel, all of Israel will not know the Lord at all.

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In fact the greater part of them will not. We learn in the book of Daniel, that, that the nation of

Israel is going to make a covenant with the Antichrist and that he will be given authority. He will guarantee their integrity. That is as a nation and they will be looking to him for protection, but within the nation of Israel there will be a worshipping body that God will recognize and they will be the hundred and forty four thousand. Now I think that this is the meaning of the significance of the measuring of only a part of the temple. That is that God will recognize within the nation of

Israel a witnessing and a worshipping body, but the greater part of the nation will be in that covenant that they're going to make with the end of Christ for a period of 42 months. Which is three and a half years.

But my friends, in that day, there is going to appear in Jerusalem two witnesses. And we read about them in the closing, in the latter part, of this eleventh chapter of Revelation. Just bear in mind this that only a part of Israel will be a witnessing body for God and they will be the real

Jehovah's Witnesses. But the greater part of the nation will be in covenant with the Antichrist.

They're going to make a covenant with hell and God is going to raise up two witnesses in the city of Jerusalem. Now the hundred and forty four thousand will be God's witnesses, but they will witness throughout the whole world.

But God is going to raise up in the city of Jerusalem two witnesses and we're going to read about them. I want you to read with me please verse three. Just read verse three, will you? "And I will give power unto my two witnesses and they shall prophesy a thousand, two hundred and three stor-score days, clothed in sackcloth." Now in verse two, it was forty two months. Here it is a thousand, two hundred and threescore days and then in another place it is three and one a half

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Talbot – Revelation 11 years and then in another place it is a time and times and a half a time. All of which is a period of three and one half years, the tribulation period during which the Antichrist shall reign and Israel shall be in that covenant. And the two witnesses are raised up by God to turn the nation of Israel away from the worship of the Antichrist or rather they will not worship the Antichrist, but they'll be in a political covenant with him. And that covenant will be the covenant of hell.

You know that the trouble with Israel today is the same as the trouble that they will have in that day. They will be looking to man, that is is the greater part of the nation, will be looking to man to accomplish their great desires rather than to look to God. And they will align themselves in a covenant with this great ruler, the Antichrist and their covenant, God calls a covenant of hell.

Now God raises up two witnesses in the city of Jerusalem.

Let us read about them in verses four to six. "These are the two olive trees and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. And if any a man will hunt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed. These have power to shut the heaven that it rain not in the days of their prophecy and have power over the waters to turn them to blood and to smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will." Now there has been a great deal of conjecture as to who these witnesses are and, my dear friends, I have to tell you that I do not know for a certainty but you know I believe that they're going to be two men and I am almost persuaded and convinced that these two witnesses that God is going to raise up in Jerusalem in that day will be Moses and

Elijah.

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Moses, you'll remember, represented the Old Testament law and Elijah represented the prophets.

They stood with the Lord on the Mount transfiguration. Now Elijah did not die, but he dies here.

Because when his ministry is complete, then the Antichrist will kill him. Moses did die. Do you remember how that Moses died? That he had a command from God. The strongest command that man ever had. God said to Moses, "Moses go up into the mountain and die." Now who can die just because the Lord tells him to? Now that is what Moses was told and God buried Moses there. And then you'll remember how that the devil and the Archangel Michael fought over the body of Moses. God was preparing it for some reason and it may be that he was preparing it to come back to this place on the earth. That is in the Book of Jude. How that might go Michael and

Satan, fighting over the body of Moses.

Now I do not know but these two witnesses do have the power to do what Moses and Elijah did.

You know that Moses in a miracle from God, he turned the into blood the waters of Egypt. And

Elijah, you'll remember, plot the heavens by faith and he put the key in his pocket and he walked off with it. And you know that they couldn't any rain until Elijah came back and put in the key.

They could not get the heavens to open until they found Elijah. And he turned the key and the heavens were open and they got rain, but we are told here that fire comes out of their mouth. And you might think that that is a strange thing. But my friend if you turn the Second Kings and chapter 1 and verse 3, you will find that a similar thing happened in the day in the ministry of

Elijah. Second Kings chapter 1, verse 3. And there we read this, "But the angel of the Lord said

Elijah the Tishbite, 'Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria.'" Now this is where they look for him and they finally found him. And when the commander of the 50 soldiers and the 50 soldiers came to Elijah, this is what happened. Second Kings, chapter 1 verse 10,

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"And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, 'If I be a man of God, then let fire come down from heaven and consume thee end and they fifty.' And there came down fire from heaven and consumed him and his fifty." That is Elijah and that is what happens in the Book of

Revelation. My friends, I must close because my time is up, but I have an idea that these two witnesses that God will rise up in Jerusalem will be Moses and Elijah back here in that terrific day.

My time is up. God bless you.

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