Think about that. Couldn’t wait to get saved. Couldn’t wait to get right with God. Why? The sword came down. Pierced his heart. Everyone bowed, no one looking around. If you need forgiveness, you know you’re not where you should be with Jesus. At home and in this room. I’m going to count to three. When I get to three you put up your hand, put it right back down. And this day, this day, on this day everything’s going to turn around. And you’re going to make a concerted effort to live for Jesus all the days of your life. If you need forgiveness on the count of three put your hand up and put it right back down. It doesn’t matter who you’re here with.

You could be a pastor, you could be a layperson it does not matter. If you need forgiveness put your hand up put it right back down on the count of three. One, two, three. Up and back down. Up and back down. Up and back down. I’m not going to have anyone come forward right now because two thirds of the crowd raised their hand. Thank you. You hear me? Thank you. You say, “Well Brother Steve, I’m not getting saved, I’m just getting right with God.” Thank you. Thank you. Who’s worse off? Someone who’s right, who, who knows the Lord but is in sin or someone who’s never known the Lord? The one that’s worse off is someone who knows the Lord but is living in sin.

They’re like every day is hell. Because there’s always like this shadow around them. You know, His name is Jesus. He’s just always everywhere they go, everything they do. He’s just there. They’re always thinking about I could be better, I should, I could, I should be doing this, I should be doing that, why am I sinning, why am I doing this? That’s what a Christian goes through that’s in sin. So we’re going to pray together and ask the Lord to wash us, to cleanse us. Those of you at home, if you see a number, some information on the screen, I want you to log on, contact us, let us know what God’s doing in your heart. This is so important for you to do that. Okay? I’m amazed.

We have a Bible Study on our website, just a two week Bible Study called “Serious About God.” My Lord, it’s amazing. It’s so simple. And we had a major narcotics addict, I’m talking mainliner for years. Prayed with us over the phone a month ago.

STEVE: And I went on a chat room and just sat there and listened, and very rarely will I log in or chime in. And it’s just, it’s just too goofy. But this one man was talking about Steve Hill, and, um, you know there’s just tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands of people that have an opinion about this preacher. But this one man was broken up about, um, my vision. He was, um, he was convicted. To be convicted is to me is to be found guilty.

A convict in a prison is someone who has been found guilty. That’s why they’re in prison. And this man was writing about the words that were all over the internet from Steve Hill and then he was researching me. And we’re everywhere. That’s not my doing. We’re just everywhere. And, um, in the chat room he was saying “This is really getting to me. This is really bothering me.” He said “I’m troubled.” He said “This sounds like truth! What do I do?” And the person who answered him said this: “Do nothing. Trash his vision. Pay no attention. It’s bothering you. So you need to get it out of your life. Respectively, Dave.” And I immediately felt the judgment of God.

Because Jesus said ëit would be better for you that a millstone would be hung around your neck and you be thrown into the sea than offend one of these little ones.” I’ve got a book in my home that we just ordered. And it’s I think it’s from like an Episcopalian pastor. It’s not a theological book at all. It’s just a book called “The Red Letters.” And I got it because Al Roever, a good friend of mine, many of you know who he is, Dave Roever’s brother, he’s a theologian. When he was a boy he had a book called “The Red Letters.” And I’m trying to find it. It’s just an old, old book and it’s just the red letters.

That’s all it is, it’s just the red letters. And the truth of the matter is you know a lot of the Old Testament should be red letters because it’s all God teaching and talking and all. But it’s just The New Testament, the red letters. And I had the other day devotions in that little book.

PERRY: So here’s another one. Ready? The tail of the dragon and serpent, remember it’s actually the Greek word for serpent, draws a third of the stars of heaven. You know what’s really wild? There is another snake in heaven. All the ancients know it as “Hydra, the serpent.” And if, if you take it and put it right in the circuit of heaven where the twelve major constellations are, from head, from the head of it to the tail of it, it can take up a third of the heaven.

If you, if you take it this way and then turn it around and go that way, and I’m talking about in the circuit, some say it’s about a fourth total where it sits, but if you move it in to where the circuit is. Now is that not amazing how God would take an emblem of a snake, they called it a dragon. Because why? So that the people of that day who were so aware of this stuff, He would say “Now wait a minute, let me show you the real story of what happens in the heavens. Let me, let me use parallels.”

So, so the point I make is we in the west, we don’t speak in symbolism. You know, we just tell it like it is. “I’m going to tell it like it is. You know, give him my piece of mind! Okay?” And we just make it clear: that’s purple, that’s blue, uh, the floor right here is black. That’s grey carpet. And we just tell it plain. We don’t say “And I saw sapphire-looking bricks.

AUDIENCE: (LAUGHTER) PERRY: like the firmament of the heaven on a clear day. No, I just say “That’s pretty colorful, it looks like a sapphire blue, ain’t it? Cool.” Okay? We don’t talk that way. But the ancients, if you’ve ever read the writings of the philosophers, they were detailed. They were descriptive. And the culture of that day demanded that a book be written in that form. Another thing you have to understand is let’s go back, because Daniel. Here’s something else.

The Book of Daniel is the companion book to the Book of Revelation. I mean there are ten things that Daniel saw that John repeats. All right? One of the thing, one of the things that John saw that Daniel never got in detail with is, uh, John saw the “false prophet” in Revelation, chapter 13. And most of your Old Testament writers they see the “anti-Christ”, but they never see the “false prophet.” Now why does John wait to see the false prophet? Because the false prophet is representative as a lamb which is a false Christianity, and so God never showed it to Daniel because Christianity didn’t exist then.  So what God does is He waits ‘til it exists. He waits ‘til it come into existence. And then He said, Okay, John, I’m going to show you something else. There’s a lamb with two horn’s going to come with this guy and he’s going to issue them, and He goes into all that.