So here’s the point. See when Jesus says that in the Book of Revelation, we’re in the West, and if you don’t understand a little Jewish history, all you got to do is understand a little Jewish history about the Temple, you say “that’s what Jesus is talking about.” Everybody in his day would have understood it. Because the Temple, even though the Book of Revelation’s written in 95 A.D., the Temple was still be fresh on people’s mind. So a couple of things about the Book.

John, uh, one of the early father’s says that John, I may even have that quote here somewhere but if I don’t I can, I can share it with ya, that John actually would have worn the miter of the priesthood. In other words, let me ask you this, John, the trial of Jesus. Who gets into the trial? John. Who gets Peter into the trial? John. Can I ask you question? How did John get into the trial?

And the answer is he knew the priest, he knew the priestly family, he knew the people that were there. So John writes the Book of Revelation  from a priestly perspective and let me tell you something else he does. Ready? He uses all kinds of symbolisms of the feasts of Israel in the Book. And again most people are never going to catch this “til you know the feasts and you understand for example, in one place it talks about the, a multitude that has come out of great tribulation waving palm branches in their hands. That’s the “Feast of Tabernacles.”

And these martyrs have come out of every nation. Tribulation, the Tabernacles is all the nations that celebrate. Uh, let me give you another one. Do you remember reading in Revelation where it says that Michael the Archangel comes down and hurls the devil out of the second heaven and casts him to the earth? That’s the “Day of Atonement” when they would take “Azazel,” the scapegoat and they would throw it off of the mountain to its death to meet its doom.

PERRY:   But in chapter 1 of Revelation you see Him and you know what you have a picture of there? A priest on the Day of Atonement. Because on the Day of Atonement the High Priest had to take off all of his 8 “Garments of Beauty” which is the breastplates, the blue garment, the red, the, the miter which is the gold crown that says “Holy unto the Lord,” had to take it off and he had to put on four linen garments, linen pants that went down to the ankle, a linen robe, a linen belt and he had a linen headdress. Now in Revelation you see Jesus with the gold belt.

I always said that gold belt is like World Wrestling Federation, that means He’s the champion, you know. So that’s, now that’s not in the Bible by the way, I just want to make that clear. But, uh, He’s got the gold belt on and He’s standing there before the candlestick so in other words that’s a picture of priest. Then you go all the way ahead to Revelation, chapter 19 and you discover He’s coming back on a white horse. He has on His vesture a name written “King of Kings and Lord of Lords.”

Now what has happened? What has happened between chapter 1, where He’s standing there with the white garment on, then you find out in chapter 1 He has no crown, right? But in chapter 19 on His head were many crowns. Now what has happened between chapter 1 and chapter 19? What has happened is just like throughout history, one king is going to go after another king’s kingdom. What does he do? He forms an army, he forms a huge militia or an army.

He then attacks that king’s nation to remove out of that kingdom anything that’s dangerous, anything that would be of harm, anything that would interrupt the kingdom. And he removes it and then goes into that country. For example Alexander the Great conquered the Medes and the Persians. And the Babylonians conquered the Assyrians.

PERRY: Bless the Lord! We want to welcome you to this Mentoring Session. We’re going to be dealing today, I’m Perry Stone, we’re going to be dealing with a book that has been rejected by some in our culture today because of perhaps the difficulty of not understanding the symbolism of it, or perhaps because people think it’s a negative Book or perhaps because people think it’s already been fulfilled. And that is the Book of Revelation. And the Book of Revelation, a little bit history about the Book. Was written by the Apostle John.

And it’s real interesting because I want to go back and tell you a statement that Christ made. Christ made a statement in which He said: “There are some of you standing here which shall not taste death until you see the Son of man coming in the Kingdom.” Now some people believe that because Jesus made that statement that all of His prophecies about the time of the End had to happen by the destruction of the Temple in the year 70. But then if you take the statement that Jesus made and go to John 21 where He is there with His disciples.

Remember that He gives a prediction to Peter that Peter would live to be an old man. And Peter says to John, he looks at John the Apostle, and says: “What about this man?” And Jesus makes this statement: He says, “What is it to you if he tarry or he’s still living when I come?” The next verse written by John says, “Then went this saying abroad among the disciples that that disciple should not die.” But Jesus did not say he would not die, he just said what is it to you if he tarry ‘til I come. Based on that verse there are people that feel like all of the prophecies had to be fulfilled in the time of John. So in other words this came up with the doctrine that we hear today called “preterism.”

Where people take those two verses and they say well you know the Book of Revelation had to already been fulfilled because Jesus said “All of this will come on one generation” and Jesus said “This generation shall not pass until all these things are fulfilled.” Now if you don’t understand what Jesus is saying there you would think that the Book of Revelation was written before the destruction of the Temple or you would think that the Book of Revelation’s already been fulfilled.