Back into the recesses

Revelation 20:13 says, “And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.”

Death and hell are cast into the “lake of fire.” Physical death and spiritual death are cast into the lake which is the “second death.”

Jordan explains, “When he talks about the sea, that’s a little bit harder part of that verse. You say, ‘Is that like when Osama bin Laden died, they threw him in the Indian Ocean and crabs ate his body?’ Well, it’d be kind of a strange reference if it was.

“When he talks about the sea, it’s like that verse back in Exodus 15: ‘The horse and his rider hath he cast into the sea.’ What he did with Pharaoh is a picture of what he’s going to do with Satan and the sea.

“That deep up there and that deep down there is represented by the sea and that stuff in Job 9 about the chambers of the south down at the bottom (where the lake of fire is down at the bottom of the universe).

“That verse about the sea is a reference to Jude 6 when he’s talking about the judgment of the angels. And those angels are kept in chains of darkness awaiting the great day of judgment. In other words, not just lost men and women are judged here, but the loss of the angelic creation also find their judgment here.

“So they face this great white throne. Solomon builds a house up here that has this great white throne on it. The parallel is Jerusalem here on the earth and up north up here in the universe . . . by the way, come with me to Isaiah 14:12-13: ‘How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
[13] For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north.’

“Now that expression, ‘the sides of the north,’ there are passages back in Samuel where he talks about going up into the sides of the cave. That’s a reference to going way back into the recesses of the thing. When you get back to the farthest part of it.

“Up in the northern part of the universe there is a mountain—it’s called the mount of the congregation—up in the extreme northern part of the universe. There’s a mountain in which the angelic host congregate together to give account of themselves to God and to have their stewardship of their responsibility judged by God.

“Literally that mount of the congregation of the sides of the north is a throne of judgment. You remember in Job 1 and 2 when it says that the angels came to appear before God and Satan came with them?

“And people always say, ‘Well, how could Satan have gotten up into the third heaven where God is? Why would He let him?’ He wasn’t up there! These angels are coming and there’s a regular routine back here where they give account to God. We’ve read about it in Isaiah where in the millennium they come up on that regular basis and worship before the Lord; they do the same thing in the angelic host up here and where they come to is that mount of the congregation on the sides of the north.

“What Solomon’s doing over here is he’s building in the land of Palestine a replica of what God has in the universe. He’s not building it in order to honor the Lord; he’s going to build it in order to have a counterfeit to try to thwart what God’s doing.

“When you counterfeit something it’s not because you like the original real thing; it’s because you want to take the real thing and have something like it.

“Isaiah 14:15 says, ‘Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.’

“Over and over and over, what they do is try to make something like what God’s doing in order to subvert and supplant what God is doing.

“In Judges 17 you have a very critical moment in the life of the nation Israel. Micah had a house of gods and he made an ephod (the robe the priest wears) and a teraphim (the idol used) and consecrated one of his sons who became his priest. He’s got his own church. He starts his own religion. But his house of gods is a counterfeit to Israel’s religion. The message was, ‘You don’t need to go to Jerusalem; you can come here.’

“Revelation 12:12 says, ‘Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.’

“That war in heaven where the Lord Jesus Christ comes out of the third heaven up here, there are passageways through here. They’re identified before you back in the book of Nehemiah. And He comes out of that heaven with the armies of God and He comes down into this universe and what He’s going to do—you see the reason He starts up here in His Second Advent on the earth is He starts up here and takes this territory away where Satan’s stronghold was. He comes back into the earth and comes in and takes possession.

“My point is what He does in the heavens is mirrored by what He’s going to do in the earth. And what Solomon was doing back there in building that house . . .

“Go to Ezekiel 31 and you’ll see those cedars are used to describe Pharaoh, a type of the Antichrist. When you look at these things about the Second Advent of Christ, the prophetic program and all of that, it’s fascinating to see how the scriptures continuously gives you more threads of understanding and how these things weave themselves together.”