Celebration Church: Stovall and Kerri Weems

Tabernacles Fulfillment: Revelation21:1-4 | Pastor Stovall Weems

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Pastor Stovall kicks off a series on the apocalypse, revealing why God intentionally made end-times prophecy cryptic.

Pastor Stovall Weems opens the episode by announcing a new series called The Apocalypse, starting in October, with four messages and a Q&A session. He explains that Messianic prophecy is intentionally cryptic to prevent evil from exploiting it, but the Holy Spirit reveals more as the end times approach. Stovall uses a football analogy, comparing the Jacksonville Jaguars' practice to biblical feasts preparing believers for eternity. He references consulting Hebrew scholars to understand the original Hebrew context of scripture. Stovall defines key terms: the tribulation as a 3.5-year period of distress, the day of the Lord as a twofold event including the rapture, and the rapture as the catching away of believers. He reads Revelation 21:1-4 about the new heaven and earth, then backtracks to explain end-times chronology. Stovall discusses the biblical feasts chart, noting that spring feasts were fulfilled by Jesus in the same year, and argues fall feasts will follow a similar pattern. He connects the rapture to the Feast of Trumpets, citing Matthew 24 and 1 Corinthians 15, and explains that no one knows the day or hour, akin to the uncertainty of Rosh Hashanah's timing. Stovall references 2 Thessalonians to describe events before the rapture, such as the rebellion and revelation of the man of lawlessness. He concludes with Revelation 11:15 about the seventh trumpet and the kingdom becoming the Lord's, then leads a prayer for salvation and loyalty to Jesus.

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A church-centered sermon reading the feast calendar as a pattern for the end times.

The episode uses the Feast of Tabernacles as a way into a broader reading of Christ's return, moving through the spring and fall feasts, Revelation, Daniel, and the sequence of end-time events.

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You want the biblical feasts, Revelation, and Daniel used as a bold introductory outline for thinking about Christ's return and the apocalypse.

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