SID: Hello. Welcome. Welcome to my world where it’s naturally supernatural. You know, many people have given up on understanding the Book of Revelation. Other people are just flat so fearful they don’t want to read the Book of Revelation. And then others, believe it or not, they think the Book of Revelation was finished in 70 A.D. when the temple was destroyed. Well none of those three are acceptable. I always wondered about a scripture that I read in the New Testament: “The love of most will grow cold in the last days.” The love of most will grow cold. Why? They won’t understand the season and the times that they’re in. The Book of Revelation is the key to the last days. You must understand it. My guest has invested 80,000 hours researching the scriptures and is considered a pioneer in understanding the Hebraic roots of the faith and putting the two together. You will understand the End Time book for the Bible, the Book of Revelation. Well the studio audience is so excited because we have Perry Stone here. I feel like I know Perry because I’ve watched him on television so much and I’ve bumped into him when we both had tours to Israel. But Perry, 80,000 hours studying the Bible?
PERRY: Eight to 14 hours a day and my staff is here. They’ll verify that. It’s just been my life to understand the Word. You know, especially prophetic events and the Book of Revelation is one of those books.
SID: But why is it that many churches today are not interested in hearing prophecy? Look, when I became a believer in the Messiah I couldn’t get enough prophecy, prophecy about why Jesus was the Messiah, prophecy about End Times. But it seems as though the pendulum is swinging.
PERRY: I think there’s a couple of reasons. Reason number one is people think it’s too difficult to understand. Number two, it does contain symbolism, which has to be interpreted from the scripture itself. And if you don’t know the Old Testament, some of that symbolism isn’t going to make sense in the Book of Revelation. You have to, have to—
SID: Could that be the reason that many Christians are saying, well we’re no longer under the Law, so we won’t even look at the Old Testament.
PERRY: Let me give you an example. In the Book of Genesis, Joseph has this dream of sun and stars bowing before him. In Revelation Chapter 12, there’s a woman in travail and it talks about the sun and the stars, and the moon, and it all refers back to Joseph’s dream. Joseph’s dream was about Israel and that is a picture of the Nation of Israel. So if you don’t understand Joseph’s dream, which is in the Torah, how are you going to understand what’s written in the Book of Revelation? So what the book does, I think, we’re talking about why people don’t study. And the third reason is people see it as a negative book when it’s not. Here’s what the Book of Revelation actually is. It is Jesus as our high priest in Chapter 1. But we then see him in Chapter 19 coming back to rule on Earth in a thousand years as king of kings. The Book of Revelation is called the Revelation of Jesus Christ. But yet throughout the book you see plagues and judgment. So people don’t understand what’s taking place many times. Here’s the bottom line. It is Jesus transferring from the priestly position to the kingly position. He is transferring as the high priest to the king, because he is a priest after the Order of Melchizedek. Melchizedek was a priest and a king, priest of the most high God, king of Jerusalem. So in this role of priesthood that the Messiah, Yeshua is in. He is now high priest of the profession of our faith, but he has to transfer to take the world over as king. The Book of Revelation explains to you the process of how he judges the world in order to legally take it back from the God of this world who is Satan, who has taken over the kingdoms and the governments of this world. And so that’s what the whole theme of the book is, the transference of Yeshua the Messiah from high priest to king. And in the process of doing that what is interesting is in the book there’s a seven-seal book. In the Roman time, Cesar Augustus’ will was sealed with seven seals. In the Roman time, a wealthy person’s will was sealed with seven seals. But what those seals were —
SID: You know what? You would never understand any of this symbolism unless you knew the Old Covenant.
PERRY: That’s right.
SID: When it says, “No longer under the law” and it states that in the New Testament, Paul says it. What does he really mean?
PERRY: Let me just say this real quick, and those in — again understanding the Book of Revelation, understanding where we’re living. The Five Books of Moses, part of that contains is what is called The Law of God. It’s not the Law of Moses, the Law of God. But there was ceremonial, sacrificial and moral law. Sacrificial law was fulfilled through Christ. That’s what the Apostle Paul is talking about. You don’t go back to the temple to offer blood offering when the final lamb was offered. There is no more sacrifice of sin. However, the ceremonial law includes the Sabbath, the new moons and the Feast. Part of those were fulfilled through Christ. Part of those are going to be fulfilled with the future during the tribulation, the coming of Christ. We call it the rapture and also the kingdom, which is the rule and the reign. That happens in the future. That’s your three qualities. The moral law of God has never changed because the moral law of God is the character of God. So in other words, when you see God says, don’t like, don’t steal, don’t commit adultery, that’s all found in what we call the New Covenant teaching. And so in other words, people have, I grew up in a full gospel church and everybody kind of dubbed it altogether and said, Christ has done away the law. The problem you have with even implying it the way it’s understood in the West or interpreted in the West, is then you have to do away with those prophecies that are there that haven’t even come to pass yet. How could it be done away with when certain things have not yet happened?
SID: Well when he says, “no longer under the law,” we’re no longer under the law of temple animal sacrifices.
PERRY: Right.
SID: That’s what he’s talking about. But actually, Jesus makes it a little more difficult than we have in the Old Covenant. But you’ll never understand it unless you, Book of Revelation will remain a mystery unless you have the key, which is in the Old Covenant.
PERRY: Right.
SID: The Old Covenant will remain a mystery unless you have the key, which is the New Covenant. And the two together are the Word of God. But there’s only one book in the entire Bible that says, “I God will bless those that hear this book.” There’s only one book in the entire Bible in which God says, “I God will curse anyone that tampers with one word of this book.” It’s the Book of Revelation. And I don’t want it to be a mystery for you any more or you may miss what’s going on in the last days. Be right back.
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