Perry: You know people do that today sometimes. Now, that ring when it was delivered, let’s say, let’s say we know these 7 men, okay, but if I’m delivering this they know my ring emblem to know that is not a fake letter. Like only I had a certain ring emblem so if they got a letter that was supposed to be from me and a guy said ‘this is from King Perry up there in Eilat and they looked at that seal on the back of that letter and it didn’t match what they knew as my seal they knew this is a fake letter, because it may say join me in war against somebody. And then it wouldn’t— okay? So the Signet ring was very significant to, to a legal document. Now you got to catch this “cause this is really neat. So Caesar Augustus has a will with 7 seals on it. Now what I would do as a wealthy man is I would make out my trust or my will and I’d roll it up in front of the judge and then I would call my 7 closest friends who lived around me and I would say I want you to help me seal this. And so they would tie it with leather. He’d have a ring with wax, he’d have a ring with wax. Seven. Now here’s the catch. When I died, when I died it was a normal thing to have to call— now if you guys had died your son had your ring— you had to call and match your seal and the ring by the person who sealed it. Meaning first seal had to match this brother, the second one— so then they would unlock it that way, they would unravel it or cut the, the leather and then be able to read the contents. Now this explains perhaps why Jesus addresses only 7 churches. You’ll get this in a minute. There’s a lot more than 7 churches in the early church. Okay? As a matter of fact some of these churches Paul started and after Paul’s death historians will tell you they turned the whole church over to John. John, after everybody died for 20 some years was the bishop of the whole Christian church, okay? This was before it was in Rome because at that time Rome was killing everybody. Heh. You didn’t put the headquarters in Rome where they’re cutting everybody’s head off, you know? But he, he, he lived with Mary in Ephesus for a long time according to historians before he was taken to the Isle of Patmos. In fact he lived in freedom in a house up on the hill in Ephesus and had total freedom until the persecution started against Christians. And then what happened with John— and I, I, don’t— remind me of the “Seven Seal Book” if I get off of it because I got to finish this— but see the thing about John was this: one of the reasons that Domitian, who was an Emperor, uh, he boiled do you all know, do you all know about this? He boiled— the early fathers said they took John to Rome and put him in oil to boil him because they didn’t like it because the rumor was out that as long as he lived that he would live to see Jesus return. See this was still circulating. Read John 21. It’s circulating among the church. John is still living. The Temple’s been destroyed. Whooo! I, I believe, probably, I’m, I’m speculating, but back in there they’re probably saying “Whooo, a 100 A.D. is coming, a hundred is His cycle, it took Noah a hundred years to build the Ark.” Whooo! C’mon you all listening. You know, like people do today, I’ve been excited about numbers before. And so everybody, everybody’s like it’s coming, it’s about to happen! So they boil John in oil saying “if we can kill him it’ll stop all these rumors.” He got boiled in oil and lived. The tradition says when he got boiled in oil and lived the whole, the whole stadium got saved. Which made the Emperor even more mad and they banished him to the Isle of Patmos thinking that if they banished him there everybody would forget him. And instead he got a visitation from God of the Book of Revelation and got caught up, what about it. God will give you a visitation in bad places! C’mon! God will visit you in rough places, hallelujah! Isn’t that something?
