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in your Bible to the book of Romans in chapter 6, that Romans chapter 6. I titled this message created in the likeness of Christ, created in the likeness of Christ. The reason for that, if you’ll notice here in chapter 6, look in verse 5. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of His death, we shall also be in the likeness of His resurrection, and then down in verse 10 He says, for in that he, referring to Christ, he died, understand once, but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

So then we should be in the likeness of his life. In the book of Romans, chapter six, there are three questions that are asked. Look at verse one, verse one. What shall we say then? Now this is the question that’s coming up is because now you have been justified. See, See there in chapter five, look in chapter five verse one, therefore being justified by faith. So we’re talking to those who have been justified. Okay, you’ve heard the message, you accepted Christ as your savior, you’ve been declared righteous, you’re saved, you have eternal life, you’re a Christian, you’re born again, you’re going to heaven when you die.

Now, what? So chapter six verse one says, what shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? shall we continue in sin? Does God want you as his child to continue in sin? Well, evidently it must be possible or there wouldn’t have to be an issue, would it? Evidently a Christian can continue to live in sin. Or why bring it up? Because evidently you can continue to live in sin. But should you? Well, no. And then in verse two he says, God forbid, how shall we, and this is what really is the kicker?

How shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein? It says, well, if you’re dead to sin, how can you live in sin? So what does that mean? Well, that’s what I’m going to try to explain to you this morning. The first question, shall we continue in sin? Now that we have been justified by faith, not going to be have been, shall we continue to live under the domination of our old sinful nature? should you allow that old sinful nature that dominated you for all those years, up until the time you trust the Lord, still rain in your mortal body?

Should you still let it rain in superiority over you? Well, look what he says in verse 14, for sin shall not have dominion over you. So evidently something has transpired from the time that you trusted Christ as your Savior. Something happened, something changed. And it did. How shall we live any longer therein? Now this seems like how can you continue to live in sin? How is it possible? Well it’s very possible. Well from God’s viewpoint I want you to see what he’s talking about.

Is it possible for a Christian to live in the flesh? Have you ever seen people and you say well now that that Christian is in the flesh and that Christian is in the spirit? Well Let me try to explain to you as clear as I possibly can. And it’s not gonna be the easiest thing in the world. When you are born into the world, you are a child of the flesh and you live in the flesh. Now I’ve done this before, but kind of watch very briefly.

This arm here represent our first birth. We are children of the flesh. And the Bible says we are in the flesh, not only living inside of a physical body, but we have a flesh nature, a sinful nature. So God looks at us as in the flesh. That’s where you are. In the flesh. So, if you’re in sin, you’re in the flesh. If you’re in the flesh, you’re in sin. That’s where you are. Now, when you trusted Christ as your Savior, you are now different than you used to be.

You see, where you were dead in sin, you were in sin, but you were dead. This is mentioned in the book of Ephesians chapter 2 and verse 1 where it says we were dead in sins and trespasses and so on. That in sin means that you are as a sinner dead to God. You’re separated from God. Death doesn’t mean annihilation. Death means separation. So you are in the flesh, in sin. You’re dead in sin. You’re separated from God. If you’re dead and separated from God, then you can’t serve God.

You can’t please God. You can’t do anything for God. You are a lost man walking around in the flesh, in sin. This the Bible says is separate from God. You’re dead in your sins. When you trusted Christ as your Savior, He has to separate you from the flesh. So when you trusted Christ, you were born again, born of the Spirit, and you now live in the spirit and this one is alive unto God. This one is dead in sin.

So when you trusted Christ as your Savior, you are not dead in sin, you are dead to sin. So if you’ll notice what he says in verse 2, God forbid, how shall we that are dead to sin? That’s why even the prepositions in the Word of God mean something. You see, you were dead in sin separated from God. Now that you trusted Christ as your Savior, the new one, you’re dead to sin. You’ve been separated from sin this new over so that you have something totally new.

This one born of God is in the Spirit. You do not find, I don’t believe, I could be wrong, but as I’ve check the Scriptures, I do not find it where we are in the flesh or we as a child of God can live in the flesh. Even though we see some people doing things, you can say, well, you know, they’re just in the flesh. No, a Christian can’t live in the flesh, but the Christian can walk after the flesh.

Here’s the old man and And you can walk after the flesh, but you can’t be in the flesh. I’ll show you what I mean. In this portion of scripture that I mentioned to you that so sometimes difficult to understand, I want you to see several verses. So we’re going to jump down to letter E under number one. If you look at little letter E, a Christian cannot live in the flesh, but may walk after the flesh only by choice.

Words mean something. Phrases mean things. Little prepositional phrases mean something. And so if you will take your Bible and look there in Romans chapter 8. And notice what it says there in verse 5. A Christian is seen differently from the lost man. The lost man is in the flesh and in his sins. And he is dead in his sins, separated from God because of his sins. You are looked at totally different from God’s point of view. This is what happened to you when you trusted Christ.

You now are a child of God in the Spirit, a spiritual birth. This one is in the Spirit, this one is in the flesh. So the Christian cannot be in the flesh. Here in Romans chapter 8 and verse 5, for they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh, but they that are after the spirit, the things of the spirit. So you see, you can be after something in a sense that you follow something, but now it’s all by choice.

You were by nature, you did the wrong things. Now, as a child of God, it’s because you have choices, a choice to walk either in the spirit or a choice to walk in the flesh. You didn’t had that before. So the Bible doesn’t say you’re in the flesh because that would be like God not recognizing your birth. Notice what else he says here. In verse seven, because the carnal mind is emmity against God for it is not subject to the love God, neither indeed can be.

Verse eight, so then they that are in the flesh cannot please God, though they’re in the flesh, in the flesh. But ye are what? Not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is not at his. So the lost man is in the flesh, the Christian is in the Spirit. If so be that the Holy Spirit dwells within you.

So when you trusted Christ as your Savior, you became a child of God, the Holy Spirit indwells you. You have a divine nature. This one has a sinful nature. There’s two people here. This one is the old man before you trust the Lord, and then the new man since you trusted Christ. So God sees you in the spirit and not in the flesh. So the Christian has never looked upon as walking in the flesh, living in the flesh, but the Christian can walk after the flesh by deliberate choices because God has separated you from the old man.

Now you have choices. That’s why when you read the other part of chapter six, You’ll notice the word yield, yield, yield, yield, cause now you yield to the spirit or you yield to the flesh and you can produce the same works, the same evil deeds and same evil thoughts that you always have, but you’re doing it now by choices of yielding to those things. You’re not as far as God can turn under the domination of it. He says you don’t have to live that way anymore.

You can have victory in your Christian life, but it’s because you choose to have it. I want you to also look there in verse 12 of chapter eight of Romans. Therefore brethren, we are debtors not to the flesh to live. And here’s those words in after the flesh. You’re not in the flesh because you’re in the spirit. Chow of God is in the spirit. Chow of the flesh is in the flesh. And there’s two different natures, two different births.

So as a Christian, you are to walk after the Spirit, not after the flesh. Your flesh birth will always walk in the flesh, but you have two births. And that’s why the question was asked, shall we that are dead to sin, live any longer than it is? This is the sin. We that are dead to sin. That means that you’ve been separated from it, death and separation. that are separated from this sinful nature, this sinful birth, you’ve been separated from it.

That you now are alive under God. Now look there again in Romans chapter 8. Therefore, brethren, we are debtors not to the flesh to live after the flesh, for if you live after the flesh, you shall die, but if you through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live. This is talking about a believer. Only believer has this choice. A lost man doesn’t live after the flesh. He lives in the flesh. You and I live in the spirit, but we can walk after the flesh.

You say, well, I don’t understand the difference in time you will, but I want you to follow me first. I want you to look in Galatians chapter 5 and verse 25. Galatians chapter 5 and verse 25. When you have the battle that goes on in the Christian’s life, the Bible tells us there in verse 25, if we live in the Spirit, if we live in the Spirit, all believers live in the Spirit. I’m not talking about your spiritually minded, I’m talking about that’s how you are alive on the God because you are in the Spirit.

You have a new birth born by the Spirit of God, born again. Let us also do what? walk in the spirit. You see a Christian should walk in the spirit because he is alive in the spirit. You have been separated from the sinful nature, the old man, and God has made you alive in Christ and now you are in the spirit therefore walk in the spirit. Now look there in verse 16, verse 16. This I say and walk where?

In the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. That’s the old sinful nature that you have. So you as a believer have a choice that the people of the world don’t have. They can’t choose to walk in the Spirit because they’re not in the Spirit. They’re not a child of God. But you are. And that’s why it says, be not deceived, God is not mocked for what serve man so that shall he also reap. In other words, you as a Christian don’t have to live in sin.

You don’t. You do it because you choose to. You want to, but you don’t have to. This new birth that God gave you is sufficient, strong enough, powerful enough to overcome the loss of the flesh. The only reason this one ever gets victory in your life because you let it, you chose to. Not because it had to. How do you apply this truth? To the experiences of life. Now here in verse 25, let us also walk in the spirit so it means that you can live in the spirit and not walk in the spirit.

There’s people that have trusted Christ as their Savior, but they walk after the flesh. They walk after that old man. Now you say, how do you explain a little bit of that? Let me give you this idea. Let’s just use a person, for example. But let’s say Milton’s got some bad habits and bad ways and he’s got old sinful nature. And he does, just like everybody. But if Milton was to drop over right now and he’s dead in the door nail, laying right there on the floor, dead.

He’s a dead man. Is he gonna tell him more lies? Is he gonna get mad anymore? Is he gonna say anything he shouldn’t say? Can he get drunk? No. Can he commit adultery? No. Can he lie? No. Can he steal? No. Why can’t he? He’s dead. He’s dead. He’s dead. He’s dead. Dead man can’t sin. Dead man can’t do anything like that. He’s a dead man. Well, lo and behold, when you trusted Christ as your savior, you died. You died.

So the question is, how can you commit sin if you’re dead? God wants you to know how to apply that truth, that principle in your life. If you ever latch onto it and you really see it and understand it, it will help you all the days of your life. If you don’t, you’re going to have a battle in your old flesh sinful nature that you’re not going to have victory over, and it’s going to pull you down. And as yours roll by, you want to be victorious, and there is a way.

But this is why the book is written so that you and I could understand this. Romans chapter 6. Number three in your notes there says, no you not. That we were baptized into his death. And then I wrote this statement there in your notes. Herein lies the key to understanding the Christian life. This is not speaking about water baptism. This is Holy Spirit baptism which places us into the body of Christ of which water baptism is a picture. You see, water doesn’t place you into Christ.

It doesn’t baptize you into His death or His burial or His resurrection. It’s only a picture of it, but it can’t place you there. These are positional truths, things that happen to you because you were justified by faith, not because you did something, because you did some deed. You got baptized in water. Being baptized in waters, a picture of your death, Berlin resurrection, but it does not save you. Why should we walk in newness of life? Why should we?

In letter A, because we were baptized into Christ’s death, that means crucified with him. Because we were buried with him, that’s in verse four. Because we were raised up from the dead in Christ, that’s in verse four. This was your death, your burial, your resurrection. What is the gospel? the death, burial, resurrection of Jesus Christ. He did that for you. So what he did was put to your account and so that became your death and your burial and your resurrection.

So if you died and come back from the dead, then the old man died. The old sinful nature died. That’s why his Bible tells us that our old man crucified with Christ on the cross. Well if that’s been done and you came back from the dead then the old man is dead, been crucified. Then why should you resurrect him the old man instead of just letting the new man live? Let the old man die because as God sees it, He did die and God’s eyes.

So you and I are supposed to reckon this to be true. Would you show you one verse there in verse 11? I want you to look in verse 11. Likewise, because of this positional truth that is true, likewise, reckoning also yourselves to be dead indeed on the sin. In other words, separated from that sinful nature, and it has no power over you, no domination over you, you don’t have to do it. You have been severed from it by death.

You died. You died. A dead man is not under the law because he’s dead. law that God gave doesn’t condemn a dead man. That’s why those that are in Christ can never be condemned in the future because you can’t be condemned if it can’t sin. If it can’t sin, it can’t be condemned by the law. So the dead man is free from the law and the law can’t touch him. can never be condemned again. That’s why there’s no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus.

Those are in Christ, no condemnation. Law can’t touch you. Why? Because you’ve already died. The ways of sin is death and you paid it. You’re free. And because you are now free, you’re free to serve God. Look what He says there in verse six. Knowing this that our old man is crucified. Who says, see, I didn’t make that up. That’s in here. That’s in the Bible. Knowing this that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth from now on, from this point on, we should not serve sin.

For he that is dead is what? Freed from sin. If Milton is dead, he’s free from the sinful nature, right? Now what God says is His death was put to your account. Now you live like a dead man. Live like the old man is totally dead and the sinful nature, the sinful lust and desires and all that. You’re not going to satisfy them because those came from that old dead man and you’re alive in God. And that’s why He says they’re in verse eight.

Now if we be dead, look what He says, look at it. If we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him. So now you are separated from that sinful nature, that old man, he’s dead. Now live unto God. Now what some people make the mistake of doing this in that in our life, the old man is totally eradicated and we don’t have those desires anymore. It is true positionally, but in your life experientially, he’s very much alive.

And he wars against your soul. And that old sinful nature is just as mean and honoree as it always has been. And that’s why now you can still get just as mean and sinful as you want to be. But it’s because you yielded to it. You didn’t have to. You have within you a power called the power of the Holy Spirit to live the way God wants you to live. But you have these two natures. This one will never improve.

This one can’t improve because this one is perfect. This one is sinful. They’ll always be like that. Take your Bible and look there in Romans and look what it says here in verse four. Verse 4 of Romans 8 that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit. So the Christian is to walk after the Spirit and not after the flesh. Loss man can’t do that. And by doing so, then God says that you are not condemned.

The Baron verse 1 will tell you that. Now go back there to the book of Romans and chapter 5. chapter six. I want you to understand that I don’t believe that this is referring to the water baptism because water baptism doesn’t put you into Christ. This is what happened when Christ went to the cross and he died. See there in verse three. No you’re not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death.

Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into a death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in the newness of life. You should walk as though you just died on the cross and paid for all of your sins and you come back from the dead, you’re a new person. Now as a new person, walk in the newness of life, walk like Christ. You were like Him in His death, you were like Him in the burial, you were like Him in the resurrection.

Now be like Him in your life. These are truths that God has laid down in his word. Now what I did is I drew a little diagram here on your paper and you see the word positional truth? On the cross, on the cross. The old man, what? The old man died. In the resurrection, the new man arose. Look there in Romans chapter 5 and look at this verse. I want you to see this. In verse 25, who was delivered for our offenses, that means he died for the old man.

And was raised again for our justification, so that’s the new man. So one was to pay for the sin and he come back again from the dead. That’s us coming to new life as a plant out of a dry ground as Christ was looked upon in Isaiah chapter 53. Separating these two, the old man from the new man is the word D-E-A-T-H. Death whose death was that really? That was the Lord’s death on the cross But his death was put to your account and when you believe he did that for you This death payment is put to your account as though you paid it So you were crucified with Christ you were Buried with Christ you were raised with Christ you ascended with Christ and you’re seated in the heavenlies in Christ That’s all put to your account.

God sees you in your new birth. He doesn’t see you in the flesh anymore. God does not recognize the old man that used to be. He sees the new man. You as his child and his family. God deals with you now only as a child of God. He doesn’t deal with you at all as a lost man. As a man in the flesh. A man that was under the law. A man that was in sin. A man that was dead.

God doesn’t deal with you anymore like that. because he don’t see you like that. He sees you only as his child and he deals with you as his child from now on, from henceforth. The old man is in sin, the old man is in the flesh, the old man is under the law. To the right, a Christian is in righteousness, a Christian is in the spirit, a Christian is under grace. Look there in Romans chapter 6 and verse 14.

For sin, this old sinful nature, that you were dead in your sins, shall not have dominion over you because you died. And it was in your old man, not the new man. For you’re not under the law, because the old man was under the law, you’re not under law, you’re under what? You’re under Grace, what’s that word? Look what he says here. You’re not under the law but under grace. You’re under grace. Grace is a different position. Remember over there in the book of Gereomans in chapter 5 when it says that we have access into this grace?

When you trusted Christ as your Savior, God took you from there here. Let this one die, gave you a new birth, this one is in grace. Or another way This one is in Christ. This one is in the Spirit. You are now a child of God and you’re going to heaven whenever you die. That can never change. That’s a position of truth. That’s what God did for you, the day that you trusted Christ as your Savior. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr.

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Take your Bible and turn to the Book of Acts in chapter 2. Book of Acts chapter 2. In the Christian realm, there’s many prophetic words that you will hear. You hear these words, but you don’t know where they belong. You know what they mean. Somebody says, I’m pre-millennial, or I’m post-trib, or I’m all millennial. So what in the world is all of that? Well I knew you wanted to know, so I want to explain them to you. I found out one thing that really helped me over the years is being able to visualize a timeline, a time chart.

Then is this supposed to happen or when did that take place? And so prophetic survey is a tremendous tool that God gives to us because He says He planned the ages in the book of Hebrews in chapter 11. So if He planned the ages means He outlined the different periods of time, different dispensations in which God deals with man. He didn’t tell us all to do everything, exactly the same thing that He told somebody else to do. tell us not to eat the fruit off that tree.

That was to Adam and Eve, that wasn’t to us, so we don’t have to worry about that. He didn’t tell us to build a boat, so we don’t worry about building a boat, so that doesn’t apply to us. Now all of the Word of God is for us, but not all of the Word of God is to us. Many of the things that are written in the New Testament are written to us, and so we can study the Old Testament because the Bible says there’s admonition that we can have for ourselves, we can learn from it.

You have first of all the death, burial and resurrection of Christ because everything starts with history. History is history. So we always go back to Christ. Every time you write a check, you put his date on it. His history is the history of what God has done and what God is doing. All of this has to do with what God is doing with man, what God did with the angels, what God is going to do with the earth. Whether it’s the tribulation period is what God’s going to do to this earth and the people, the thousand year reign, that’s what God’s going to do.

Everything deals with what God is going to do. Now God has told us things to do and if we don’t obey, there are consequences. So at the end of each one of these is a judgment. In other words, how God judges mankind. So if you and I are wise, we’re supposed to learn from these things. But to start with the death, burial and resurrection of Christ, that is what makes the gospel possible. Many people say, well the death, burial and resurrection, that is the gospel.

That’s what makes the gospel possible because without the death, Maryland resurrection, there would not be a good news. The good news is he did that for me. He did it, but if I don’t know he did it for me so that I don’t have to try to earn my salvation, then I don’t see it as good news. That’s just a historical fact. He did that. But does it mean you’re going to heaven because you believe he did that? You must personally believe he did it for you that he paid for your sins and you’re trusting Him and Him alone is your only hope of going to heaven.

And once you do, you have eternal life. Now, here in the book of Acts in chapter two, verse one, and when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. Pentecost means 50 days, 50 days from the resurrection of Christ. So Christ came back from the dead, ascended into heaven, and then the Bible says that there was a time limit. There was also a time limit from the time that he actually ascended in, went into heaven from the Mount of Olives.

But, see, Pentecost means 50 days, and when that day was fully come, something happened on that day. That’s the day the Holy Spirit came. Now remember this, when Jesus was here preaching, He told him, He says, that I’m going to baptize you with the Holy Spirit. But the people didn’t understand everything that was said. John the Baptist says, I baptize you with water, but he that cometh after me, he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit. But during Christ’s lifetime, he never baptized anybody with the Holy Spirit.

It hadn’t taken place yet. So on the day of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit came, the Bible says, in cloven tongues is a fire, the Bible says those believers were baptized. They were already believers. They were baptized into the body of Christ. This is the beginning of the church. It is the birth of the church This one the church began and Christ said I will build my church and so The church is made up a body of believer. So when you trusted Christ as your Savior the Holy Spirit places you and I into the body of Christ That’s the baptism of the Holy Spirit.

It is not a feeling that you have the very moment you trusted Christ as your Savior, you were born spiritually. You were placed into the body of Christ spiritually. It’s not something you saw or felt, but it’s something that happened because God said so. That’s when the church began. The church age goes from Pentecost until the rapture. That is the period of time that you and I live in. So we are now waiting for the rapture to take place.

Now turn in your Bible to 1st Thessalonians chapter 4, 1st Thessalonians and chapter 4. The Bible tells us that loved ones are going to die. It means they will not be here when the rapture take place. So some of the people that were there when Christ was there who believed all of this began to die. And so as people began to die, the question came up, well, where are they? And the longer Jesus Christ carries, the more people are going to die.

So He has carried for almost 2,000 years. And because of that, many people have died. Well, what happens to those people? The Bible says that If you were to die, you will be absent from the body present with the Lord. So when you die, you’re present with the Lord in heaven. Your body goes to the grave. The Lord says that when he comes back, he’s going to bring those people who have already died with him. So he brings them with him and the Bible says the bodies are in the graves are going to be resurrected and they will be a reunion.

And we that are alive at this time will be caught up to meet the Lord in the and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” Now look what he says in verse 13, but I would not have you to be ignorant brethren because there are so many ignorant brethren. It doesn’t want you to be ignorant. He says this, concerning them which are asleep, those who’ve already died, that you sorrow not even as others which have no hope. In other words, you can’t see the person after they died.

Don’t you believe like lost people? Don’t you believe that there’s nothing more to it that you don’t know where they are and you don’t know what’s gonna happen and No, no, no. He says we don’t sorrow like those who have no hope. We know we are going to see them again We know where they are To be absent from the body president Lord God says they’re with him. So don’t you worry about it We know somebody who’s on the other side and he’s told us everything we need to know all you and I need to know He’s told us you don’t need to know anything if it’s not revealed in the book But what you do need to know and understand it’s in there understand and know what God did say and don’t worry about anything he did not reveal.

You’ll have plenty enough to read. Look in verse 14, for if we believe that Jesus died and runs again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring what? With him he’s going to bring him with him. He can’t bring him with him if they’re not with him, but they are. Then he says this in verse 15, for this we say unto you by the word of the Lord that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep or go before them which are asleep.

The Lord says he’s going to come back. So there’s going to be some people who died. Some people who are going to be alive when it takes place. And the Lord says that we are going to be alive when he returns and then the Bible says something is going to take place. In verse 16, For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with a voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first.

That’s the bodies that are in the graves. Verse 17, then we which are alive and remain when he comes back shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord where? In the air. So shall we ever be with the Lord. It means we that are alive when this takes place won’t die. In the book of 1 Corinthians, in chapter 15, he says, we shall not all die. This is a mystery, but we shall all be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye for the corruptible must put on in corruption and mortal subject to die.

Those are still alive. We’ll put on immortality. So this moment is coming. Now, I want you to look at these verses. These are very important verses. Look there in the book of Romans and chapter 14. Romans and chapter 14. Look there in verse 10. Verse 10, but why does thou judge thy brother? Oh, why does thou set it not thy brother? For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. For it is written as I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, every tongue shall confess to God.

So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. The judgment seat of Christ is what takes place the moment raptured happens and we’re caught up to meet the Lord in the air. The Bible says we will disappear here and we will appear at the Judgement Sea of Christ. The Judgement Sea of Christ is a rewarding stand. That is where God is going to reward you for what you have done for him. If you don’t do anything for him, you will still be there.

You’ll be ashamed before him at his coming and your whole life that you got to live can be a total waste. You could have have used your life and done nothing more than bring forth briars and thorns and weeds, or you could have invested your life for the Lord. That’s why down here, so you can brag about your money you make and where you work and all the possessions that you have, all of that is zero there. What did you do for him?

What did you do for the Lord? That’s what God is gonna reward you for. That’s why God is watching every decision you make, every deed that you have done. Every thought, every word. And God is gonna reward you when you get at the judgment, seat of Christ. Now look there in 1 Corinthians chapter three. Just turn to your right, couple pages, 1 Corinthians and chapter three. 1 Corinthians chapter three, look there in verse eight. Now he that planet and he that water are one.

And every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labor. One of the things that you need to understand down here is that life isn’t fair. Have you found that out yet? Life is not fair, right? But God said he’s gonna reward every man according to his own work. So that means that whatever you do for the Lord, it will be fair, it will be right. Because he is the righteous judge. He knows every sacrifice you made, everything that you’ve given up, everything that you’ve done.

And if you did it for him, you can’t lose. So you don’t put your hopes in people, they’re not gonna be your judge. The Lord is. Now look what he says there in verse 12. Now if any man build upon this foundation, which is Christ, go silver precious stones, wood, hay and stubble, two different kinds. Every man’s work shall be made manifest. For the day shall declare it because it shall be revealed by fire and the fire shall try every man’s work of what sort it is.

Whether it’s gold, silver and precious stones or wood, hay and stubble. If any man’s work abide which he had built there upon, he shall receive what? Reward, remember this, rewards are earned. Salvation is free. Salvation and rewards are not the same thing. Going to heaven is free. That’s a gift. That’s what He did for us. He paid our way. So I’m going to heaven because of what Christ did for me. What I have when I get to heaven, rewards are earned.

That’s why I want to study the Bible to find everything I’m supposed to do and try to eliminate all the things I’m not supposed to do Because I want when I stand there, I want God to bless me. I want him to reward me. I don’t know what they all might be. It doesn’t matter. God said it will be worth it all. It will be worth it all when we see Christ. Now look what he says here in verse 15.

If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer lost. But he himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire. Some people tell you this. You get saved and if you don’t live right, Well, you’re going to hell. That’s not true. You can get saved and not live right. You can live like a dirty bird. You can live like the devil. Still be a child of God. You’ll stand at the judgments of the Christ. And God says your works are going to be burned up.

And what you could have had, you won’t get. God wanted to reward you, but He couldn’t reward you. But He Himself shall be saved, but He’s lost rewards that He could have had. So you see, up to you, nobody can make you do this. But if you decide to serve a Lord and be faithful, nobody can stop you. Isn’t that great to know? It’s all an individual thing. That’s why I try to tell people what the Word of God says.

I can’t make people respond to it. But if you really want that, and you believe that’s the most important thing in your life, because that’s where we’re headed. And if you really believe it will be worth it, you’ll sacrifice everything down here to put God first and get your priorities straight. And do what you know you need to do, why you can. But if you don’t think that’s important, devil fool with your mind, I got a lot of time.

I’ll serve God when I’m old. Oh great. When you’re 90 years old and one puts in the grave, one’s on the banana peel, and I’m going to throw the Lord. You know how much you’re going to get done now? Serve the Lord in the days of life. Youth, why you’re young. That’s when you reveal how wise you are. You’re not wise because you know you should serve God. You’re wise if you do. You’re a fool if you don’t. But now, this is the decision every individual has to make for themselves.

Now, 2 Corinthians 5, look at it very quickly, 2 Corinthians and chapter 5. And notice they’re in verse 10. 2 Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 10. And verse 10, for we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ. Remember, this isn’t in order to bring up all of our sins that we’ve done. Now this is a rewarding stand. They call it a beam of seat. It’s kind of like the Olympics. After you’ve done running the races and you stand up there and you get your crowns.

God says we’re gonna stand at the judgment of Christ and be rewarded. Now look what he says, that everyone may receive the things done in his body. In other words, done in his body means during your lifetime. While you’re in this body, everything about you is affecting eternity, like it or not. Now look what he says. According to that, he hath done whether it be good or bad, means truthful or unfruitful. You’re gonna stand at the judgment center of Christ.

It’s coming, it’s gonna happen. And you’re going to appear there. And appear there means you’ll disappear here, change the moment twicken of it not gone. Meet the Lord in the air and phew, we’re going to the judgment center of Christ. Take your Bible look in the book of 2 Corinthians in chapter 11, 2 Corinthians and chapter 11. One of the things that the Apostle Paul wanted to do with the people that he’d won the Christ, the various churches scattered throughout Macedonia and all the places in the Galatian, and Listeron, Derby and so on, he says in 2 Corinthians chapter 11, look in verse 1, he said, would the God ye could bear with me a little in my folly?

And indeed bear with me, he says, this is how I feel. For I am jealous over you with Godly jealousy. For I have espoused you to one husband that I may present you as a chase virgin to Christ in the Old Testament time when a man says he wanted to marry a woman and a woman says she wants to marry a man, well they would have about a year. And during that year she had to prove her faithfulness and he had to prove his faithfulness.

They were considered looked upon as though they were husband and wife. But he can’t touch her until she’s actually his. This is the same story that happened with Joseph and with Mary. In the words, because he was gonna put her away. Well, he hadn’t even married her yet, but he was a spouse to her. In other words, he would have looked upon as, that’s his wife. God, he found out she was gonna have a child. And according to the law, he has to put her away.

He has to squeal on her, but he didn’t wanna do nothing. He just gonna just walk away from this thing. And the angel had to come in and says, don’t be afraid to take on the me, the Mary thy wife. So they had about a year-long engagement period. And during that time, she was to prove her faithfulness to her husband, to be. With Christ, the body was born on this day, the birth of the church. The body has been building for 2,000 years.

You and I are part of the body. We are going to be the bride of Christ. So he says, I want to espouse you in a sense that whenever You meet the Savior, you’re a virgin, and to be presented to the Lord so that God wants to take all of us as believers, and we’re gonna stand there, and we’re gonna be rewarded in our attire, that all of us as individuals are going to wear. To the wedding, the Bible says they are dressed in the righteous acts of the saints.

It means that the righteous acts that we do in the body we are rewarded for, and we are going to wear our honor, our glory, our crowns, our rewards, whatever it is, God says that we are going to be dressed in the righteous acts of the saints and the bride had made herself ready for the marriage. Look there in verse 2, for I have espoused you to one husband that I may present you as a chase virgin to Christ.

So we are the bride of Christ. Now take your The Bible and turn to the book of Revelation chapter 19. Revelation and chapter 19. Now look in verse 7. Let us be glad and rejoice because the day is arrived. Give honor to him for the marriage of the Lamb is come. The Lamb is Christ and Christ is going to get married. God the Father, Jehovah, took a woman Israel as his wife. So when you read the Old Testament, God, Jehovah and Israel were like married.

Well, they had a child. Their child was the son. Jesus Christ, who came into the world. He was rejected by the mom. The mom rejected her child. But what the father has been doing is finding a bride for his son. And so the son is one day going to get married. But the father finds the bride for the son. And that’s why all that the father, give me, shall come to me. So that’s in the book of John chapter 6.

It means that all those who go to the Father through the Son, the Father gives all of those to the Son as the bride. And we become the bride of Christ. He went to the cross and died there in order to bring many sons into glory so that we could have eternal life and be with God. See, God, being God is a God of love. God wanted somebody to love him back. So God allowed everything that happened the way that it has with all the sin, the devil, the hell, everything that’s ever taken place that you and I might learn to love God.

And God says you have no idea what I’m going to do for all those that love me. If you would only learn love the Lord with all of my heart. See God doesn’t want to be alone. He’s God. He can create all the angels. He can create the earth. He created the world. But one thing he wants more than anything else is he wants you and I to love him. And some of that desire he placed within you, that’s why you like to be loved.

That’s why you even wanted to get married one day because you loved somebody and love can make you do the strangest thing, the craziest thing. Have you ever heard love is blind? I get married and it will wake up. Look at your eyesight back. But notice what he says here and down in verse 8. And to her was granted that she should be a raid and fine linen, clean and white, for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.”

In other words, this is not the righteousness of God that He gave to us to get to heaven on. The righteousness of the saints is the works that you have done for the Lord while in the body. Now the Bible says in verse 9, and He said unto me, right, blessed are they, which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. Now the marriage supper of the Lamb, we are going to be the bride, but I believe it’s the Old Testament say it’s going to be the guest at the wedding.

And you’ll read that in the book of Matthew in chapter 25 when it talks about the ten virgins, five wives and the five foolish, some days go back and read that. Some ready and some not ready, some get to go to their wedding. As you look in these things, you’ll find out all the way to the right, the great, white throne judgment. Now look up here. This is the great, white throne judgment. You and I are not going to stand there and be judged.

This is a judgment for all the people who have never trusted Christ as their Savior. You see, you and I don’t stand there because you see Christ took our judgment for our sins. This is not a judgment in the sense it is a rewarding stand where God rewards you for what you’ve done. We then will go to the marriage feast of the Lamb and then as the bride we come back to this earth and power and great glory and we will rule and reign with Christ over the earth for 1,000 years, then there will be the great white throne judgment for all the people that have rejected Jesus Christ as their Savior.

And the Bible says they will be cast into the lake of fire. This is the final hell. Some day we’ll get into all of that. But what I want you to look now is that we believe that Jesus Christ is coming back before the tribulation. If we say mid-trib position, that means that we believe Christ is coming back in the middle of the tribulation. If we say post-trib means we believe that Christ is coming back at the end of the tribulation.

But for you and I, He is coming back here, pre-trib for His saints. He’s coming for us, before the tribulation, so that we don’t go into the tribulation period upon the earth. If you believe it’s mid-trib, then you believe you’re going into parts of it. And if you believe that He comes back for us here, then you believe you go through the whole seven years of it. You see the difference. But the Lord says He’s coming back to deliver us from the wrath to come.

You and I will not be here during the tribulation period upon the earth talking about this great worldwide tribulation, the worst time that the world has ever known. Now when we talk about pre-millennial and post-millennial and all millennials, we say what do they all mean? When you say pre-millennial means you believe Christ is coming back to the earth to rule and reign with His saints. Here He come for us, here He comes with us. And pre-millenemies, He is coming back before the millennium.

If you believe in post, you would say he’s coming back at the end of the kingdom. That means that since we haven’t got into this millennium yet, well he wouldn’t be coming back for over a thousand years yet at least. And we haven’t brought in no kingdom. I mean I wouldn’t if I was you let the children play with a lion or a bear. Remember that song? Premillennial is when Christ is a man. is when Christ comes back before the millennium, which is what I believe, and I believe the Bible teaches that.

That is the correct position. Post-millennial is the wrong position. Then there’s those who believe a millennial. A is the A before a word in the Greek means no. So there’s no millennial, no millennium. They don’t believe it’s kind of calm. They believe we’re already in the millennium. This is the millennium. Can you believe that? I don’t believe that we’re in a millennium. They believe it’s going to get better and better and better. No, according to the Bible, it’s going to get worse and worse and worse.

And sooner or later, the Lord’s going to come back. And I believe the world is getting set, and I am excited about that. But I want you to not only make sure that you have trusted Christ as your Savior, but make sure that if you know the Lord as your Savior, You want to serve Him and correct everything that you can correct because to do so is a great reward. You’ll be so glad you did. You say, well, if my husband don’t want to do it, I don’t want to do it.

No, no, no, no. You’re an individual. When you stand before the Lord, you can’t blame children. You can’t blame husband. You can’t blame wife. You can’t blame nobody. It’s a personal thing. Each man, every man, accountability, personally. And I want you to serve the Lord. Look up here. This hand represents you and me and the wallet represents sin. We all have sin upon us. God loves us, hates our sin. And for you and me to pay for this sin is eternal separation from God, in hell.

Now God loves us and wants us to go to heaven and to go to heaven we have to be as righteous as God. We have to be perfect and none of us are perfect. And so the Bible says you cannot save yourself. You cannot earn eternal life. we need a Savior. This ends in Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, He came into the world because He loves us. He hates our sin, because our sin separates us from the Lord.

So Christ paid for our sins on the cross, came back from the dead. He said, if you and I, if we would believe that what He did was for us, He would save us, save us from hell, give us eternal life, and we’d go to heaven on what He did for us. That’s the gospel, that’s the good news. You can have eternal life, you can go to heaven. It’s free. You don’t have to promise God anything, You don’t have to stop anything.

You don’t have to join anything. Because going to heaven is what He did for us. He made it free. So all you have to do is trust Christ as your Savior. Once you trust Christ as your Savior, your God’s child. Now as a child of God, you may be obedient, you may be disobedient, but you’re still His child. I found out long time ago, life is a lot more fun, a lot easier, serving the Lord and doing right. And I want you to do the same thing, let’s pray, shall we?

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Did you know that in most places, 10% of the people in a church do the work? If you’re lucky, but most people are just on the sideline. They just sat and watched, but they never get involved, never help. And I’ve asked people over the years, I need help. You’ve heard the Apostle Paul pleading, you know, those who help me in the gospel, help me in the ministry. You see, what value is people, if they don’t help, they never help.

You can’t depend on them. They’re not dependable. You can build a work on the backs of people who are faithful and some people, well they just stand on the sidelines and they’re that Monday morning quarterback that always tell you what he should have done. You ever sit down the couch and you wonder why the dumb quarterback can’t see the guys open down earning in zone. Why can’t he see that? Well, it might be because he got five big guys in front of him.

So easy for you to set a fair, you got cameras all over the place and you can see what he ought to be doing. And why some guy lines up and runs right toward a brick wall and there’s five guys standing right there. He’s thinking, well, why didn’t they, why didn’t he do that? He should have went around this way.

Well, see, he’s supposed to run where he’s supposed to run, believing that his line are going to make a hole. And if he waits till there’s a hole, it’ll be too late. He has to run, trusting, they’ll make away when he gets there. So he’s believing and trusting and giving it all he’s got full steam into a brick wall because sometimes it don’t work. And then when it does work, the guy runs into the end zone and he throws the football down and jumps all over the place like, look what I did, look what I did, look what I did, look what…

Wait a minute, do you realize if those guys had to make a hole, you would never have got through it. And as though he did it all by himself, did you realize that God knows what we do because we have people working together to get something done? Remember the other night I was talking about how that the Apostle Paul in the book of Philippians says, not because I desire a gift, but fruit that may abound to your account because the the people who work together and help the Apostle Paul to do what he did.

That’s the way it is with every pastor. You know that you’re limited and you can only do so much, but if people work together, you can accomplish so much more, so much more. But we do it because we are trusting that everybody believes the same thing. That’s why I want to keep teaching this book until it’s in your brain. You’ll think about it even when you don’t want to think about it. And you’ll carry tracks and you’ll want to witness to people, even when you don’t want to do it.

You’ll do it anyway, because it’ll be in your heart and you can’t get away from it. Look what he says here in verse 16, I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify in to you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David. You know the root means that he’s before David and the offspring means he’s after David. Now how can Jesus be before David and after David? But that’s what it says. And when you read the book of Isaiah, it talks about, I have a tender branch that’s going to grow up.

The root of Jesse. So he’s the root of Jesse, but he can be before David, but he’s after David. Now how can all of this be? Because Jesus is God. And he came into the world through the line of David. So he was before David, but he came through the line a thousand years later and he’s after David. So he says… I am the root and the offspring of David and the bride and morning star. Now, I want you to take your Bible and look at this verse.

Look there in the book of Malachi 4. Malachi 4. Last book in the Old Testament, Malachi. And you’ll see that there’s a statement made here. That’s pretty good. Malachi chapter four and look there in verse two. Verse two says, but unto you that fear my name shall the son of righteousness arise with healing in his wings. Now I wonder who this is talking about. The son of righteous. Now that’s not S-O-N, this is S-U-N. Now generally the bright and morning star, right before dawn, it’s at the darkest point and there’s this bright and morning star.

You see I believe the bright and morning star is a reference to the church when Christ comes for us. And then the sun, S-U-N of righteousness. So So the Bible talks about Jesus Christ is the bright and morning star. Satan is not the bright and morning star in the book of Isaiah, not him. He is the son of the morning, but he is not the morning star. He is not the bright and morning star. Totally different. But go back here to the book of Revelation in chapter 22.

So Jesus Christ is before David and after David. And He is the bride and morning star. He is the son of righteousness and He is coming. And the spirit of the bride said, come. Because He didn’t said twice. I’m coming. So they said, come. We as the bride of Christ, the church, don’t we look forward to the coming of Christ? What difference should it make? Hold your place right here and just look at this real quick. in the book of 1 John chapter 3, 1 John and chapter 3.

Make sure you look at these verses. Don’t just say, well, I’ve got the Bible committed to memory. Yeah, no. But in verse one it says, Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God. Therefore the world knoweth us not because that knew him not, but love it now are we the sons of God. And it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him, but we shall see him as he is.

And every man that hath this hope in him purifyeth himself.” In other words, to those who are looking for Christ to come will purify his life. When you no longer are looking for him to come, your life is going to become corrupted. That’s why he says in 1 John chapter 2 verse 28, my little children abide in him that when he shall appear we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming. So yes, the Lord is coming back.

It is supposed to be a purifying hope, but many people fail to understand all that God has for them. Now, I can’t make people serve a Lord. Man, I wish I could. I, it would, but it won’t help because it has to be something that you do willingly. It has to be on the volunteer basis. No one can make you love God. You believe it or not. Nobody can make you love your parents. You can’t make your parents love the kids.

You can’t make the pastor love the people. Well, you can’t make the people love the pastor either. We’re going to pass a law. Everybody in the church must love the pastor. It won’t work because it can’t be forced. It has to be voluntary. You have to do it because there’s something that’s greater on the inside of you that makes you do what you’re supposed to do. So go back there to this book of Revelation and look at it in verse 18.

He says, for I testify unto every man that hears the words of the prophecy of this book. If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plays that are written in this book. Now the reason this is so important is this. This is the last book in the Bible. These are the last words. Given under inspiration of the Holy Spirit. There is nobody since this book has been finished that has the right of the authority to say God has revealed in the me additional revelation.

He has not. Not to anybody. There is no more biblical revelation. There’s no more books to be added. He’s, you don’t add one more word to this book. And this is the last book. Nobody has the right of the authority to speak for God when God has not spoke. God puts a curse upon the people who claim to speak for God when God hath not said. And so he says, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book.

Now even though this is at the end of the book of Revelation, it is a reference to the church that was back here. Because remember when John wrote, John was back here during the church age. This was a hundred or ninety years after the birth of Christ. So we’re talking about this is when we’re supposed to be learning all of this and doing all of it. And so this is to us. And he says, I’ll add unto him the plagues of this book.

Now you and I know that if we’re back here, and it’s been 2000 years since then, look at all the people that had been born, trust the Lord, and died and gone to heaven. And all the people that have lived and died, but they never got under the plagues in the tribulation period. They were not living here and got in the cast in the outer darkness and weeping and wailing the nation of teeth, but in each part there is a consequence.

And the consequence is the lake of fire. This is the final judgment that takes place on all unbelievers. So whether they’re unbelievers from here, they go here. Unbelievers here, they go here. Unbelievers here, they go here. And anyone who does not believe what God said, that His Word is not true. What a price to pay. So I wouldn’t want to take away from the word of God and I don’t want to add to what God’s word says. I’d like to just tell it, this is what it says, and in light of other scriptures that I know trying to seek to understand it, but I know that there are no verses that will ever contradict the simplicity of the gospel.

Does it mean that I understand all of those complicated verses I don’t have to. God has revealed enough things that are simple enough to understand that I can understand it and it’s clear. Salvation is always by grace. No man has ever been saved by his works. Once a man is saved, he has eternal life and God will never cast him out. And I won’t let any other verse contradict that basic teaching because that’s the purpose of the Bible is how can a man be just with God?

Did you know even way back there in the book of Job, which some believe it could have been the first book ever written? Job asked that question of 11, chapter 10, how can a man be just with God? And God answered that question and we know now in the New Testament exactly how a man is to be just with God. Look in verse 19. And if any man shall take away from the word of this book, of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life and out of the holy city and from the things that are written therein.

You take that word part and just hold your place right here. Look in the 17th Psalm, the 17th Psalm, way back in the Old Testament, the 17th Psalm. And there’s a verse that might shed a little light on this. And look there in verse 14. From men which are thy hand. Now that’s an explanation of the verse that went right before it in verse 13, where it says, deliver my soul from the wicked which is thy sword. So God uses the wicked man as his sword in his hand to do whatever God wants to do.

do. He says, from men of the world which have their portion in this life. In other words, let’s say for example here, God has created a wonderful world. God created the garden of Eden, put man in here. But now when God put man in this world, didn’t God already provide the air for him to breathe, the food for him to eat? Everything man needed God had already provided. So God met the needs of man before he made the man.

So that’s why every man born into the world has already had all of his needs met. Now like we used before, there’s the bird and there’s the worm. God provided The food for the bird, but God does not throw the worm in the nest. God provided the bird with all that he needed to find the worm. Now God has put everything man needs in this world to survive. But God has given to man a mind and a body to perform the work that he needs to make a living.

So God has met the needs of everybody. It’s just some people don’t want to work. Have you ever seen anybody like that? So if they won’t work, then they have to have somebody else meet their needs. Now when people can’t work is one thing and they have to depend on one another, but the point is God has provided everything. But isn’t it true that some people do not take advantage of that portion of what God has provided for them in life?

I believe there’s a good possibility that when we get to that when we get to heaven, God may just say, let me show you something and open up this great, big old room with all of those treasures and rewards. And it says, this is what I was gonna give to you, but you didn’t serve me, you weren’t faithful. So you don’t get those. What? And these were all of your opportunities. Because I believe that God tells the truth. I believe that God is honest and that I believe that when he died on that cross, he really did died to pay for the sins of the whole world.

But does that mean that everybody takes advantage of a payment that was made for them? No. Is it possible that God really wants everybody to go to heaven? Well, if he wanted everybody to go to heaven, he probably would have made big enough for everybody to go there. I mean, he wouldn’t have made it too small, would he? I believe that God, being God, loving man the way he does, has so much that he wanted to do for us.

When we get to heaven and see what we gave up, all these opportunities, what I want you to do is just take that word in verse 19, take the word part and put down the word opportunity. You see in the Old Testament, you’ll find in the book of Judges, excuse me, the book of Joshua, that it talks about in chapter 17 on where it talks about God had this lot and this lot, this lot. It means that it was their inheritance in the promised land.

And God had divided the land up according to these lots for God’s people, the twelve tribes. Now, isn’t it true that majority of the time they never got to enjoy the land that God gave to them? They didn’t get rid of all the enemy in all the land, which they were supposed to do. It was there. God gave it to them, but they didn’t claim their inheritance. But I remember one story about one man named Caleb. He was 80 years old.

He said, I want that mountain, the mountain that the Lord has got for me. And he wanted it and you went after it. Here God shall take away when a man dies. All opportunities are gone. And when all opportunities are gone because a man is dead, as he dead, all chances for the lost man to get saved are gone. There is no more chances. All the opportunities for you and I to get rewards in heaven or to serve a Lord upon the earth is all over.

No more chances. What you and I do now is the only opportunity we have. And what we do for the Lord is based upon whether or not do I really believe what God says in His Word, believing it affects my life, not to believe it affects my life. This book to believe it or not to believe it is what challenges and motivates you and I to do what God wants us to do but if we don’t we have forfeited such great opportunities.

Haven’t you wondered that when you get to heaven how many opportunities we’ve really missed out on? Do you really think you have done all that you could have done or do you think there’s still something that I could have done in a greater way or a better way for a longer period of time. Do you think that God’s people are going to grieve when we get there? And when he talks about he’ll wipe away all tears from their eyes?

What’s causing all of this? I don’t believe it’s just that there’s lost people we didn’t reach, but because of maybe some service that we could have done for God’s people that could have made a difference in people’s lives. Do you realize the thing that that we say and that we do, that can so kill the will of a Christian, a child of God, to perform, to be the best they can be, because we did something to destroy their will.

To perform and it cost them so many opportunities. They’ll never get back. I cringe sometime when I think about little teenagers. That if they don’t learn to love the Lord in the days of their youth, they’re going to forfeit some of those great opportunities. When I think about people that are in their twenties and thirties and they’re not yet serving the Lord. They know the Lord. They go into heaven, but they won’t serve the Lord. They are forfeiting all of these opportunities.

And they think, well, when I get old, I’ll settle down, and then I’ll do it. And you can’t make them see it. But the opportunities are gone. And I’ll take away all opportunities. And you won’t have no part. Look what you could have had. And you blew it, you blew it. You know what I read this? This is where I come from. So I’ve got one main thing. I wrote a book called The Gospel Driven Man. because the gospel drives.

It motivates. You take away the gospel and it’s lost all of its power in the Christian. There’s nothing to live for. It’s all a game. There’s no purpose there. I’m talking about the grand finale. One day all of this is going to be over and we’re going to be there and there’s going to be this grand finale. There’s see all these faces of all the people you you help to reach for the Lord. The challenges that we have now, the opportunities we have now, you know why I wanna have kids go to camp?

Because I don’t have anything else to do and I thought it would be great to have a camp so I could just go and sit there and twiddle my thumbs. You know why I want camp? Because it might give some of these kids an opportunity. They may learn some verses in the Word of God might change their life. It might make the difference on who they married because of the goal they have in life. He might change some things.

And yet some people may not even see any of that and all they want, I don’t want to go to camp. Who wants to go to camp? It’s an opportunity. And what you’re trying to do is challenge people because the day is coming when there’ll be no more opportunities. When a man is dead, and you’ll find this written in your testimony, and they plead you with God, even Hezekiah. Lord, when I’m dead, how can I praise you? If I’m dead, how can I serve you?

Look, Lord, look what I’ve done for you. Give me some more time to live. God gave him 15 more years. Probably been better off, just took him all home. He lived long enough to have a son, and the lion stayed good. God knows what he was doing. I was the after guy, but personally. Looking verse 20, he which testified these things said, and you ought to underline it. Surely I come quickly. It’s all about Jesus coming. And it’s all about me getting people to come to Him.

So why we can, we do what we can do. And in the last part of it says, even so come Lord Jesus. Should not be the heart cry of all of God’s people. I want the Lord to come. But if He doesn’t come, you know what it means? You still have opportunities. We still have some time. There’s so much that needs to be done. So let’s do what we can with what we have, where we are, until the Lord comes back again.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all, amen and amen. Look up here. This is so important because when you die, it’s final. There’s no more opportunities for the lost man to get saved. There’s no more opportunities for the Christian to gain rewards. over its final. This hand represents you and me. The wallet represents sin. We all have sin on us. It means that we’ve all done things wrong. We cannot save ourselves because the wages of sin is death.

We’re all condemned. And God says because you’re condemned, you can’t save yourself. You can’t deliver yourself from the condemnation. You’re already sentenced to hell. You’re just waiting for the day of execution. You don’t know when it is going to be. You don’t know when you’re going to die. But to go to heaven you have to be perfect as righteous as God and none of us are perfect, none of us are righteous. The Bible says because of this sin we can’t get in.

None of our good deeds will take away one sin. We need a Savior. The wages of sin is death. This end represents Jesus Christ. He’s the Lord God in the flesh. He came into the world because He loves us. Hates our sin because it separates us from Him. So Jesus Christ who had no sin didn’t have to die. He took our sins, paid for them on the cross, came back from the dead. And God said that if you and I, if we would be leave, he did it for us.

He put this payment to our account and we get to go to heaven on what Jesus Christ did for us. That’s the best news in all the world. Share the gospel with people. Take advantage of whatever opportunity you can. I already know I’m going to be grieving when I get to heaven, because I have not taken advantage of all my opportunities. I have failed many, many times. Now, I’m thankful for the opportunities that I did avail myself of, but I’ve also wondered many times in my life, I wonder what God could have done with me if I’d have been more faithful to him.

I can see how God has used me in a lot of ways and I’m thankful for that. But when I get to heaven and find out, it was only a pittance of what I could have done. That’s going to be hard to swallow. Let’s pray, shall we? With every head bowed and every eye closed and no one looking around. One at right now in the kindness of this moment, if you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, I want to just talk to the Lord and say something simple like this, Lord, I know I’m a sinner.

But I believe Christ died and paid for my sins. And Lord, I want to go to heaven. I can see that it’s final when I die. And I don’t know when I’m going to die. And friend, if you’re watching by internet tonight, right where you are, there’s only one thing you need to do. Not 10 steps or 20 steps, it’s just one thing. Would you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ? Would you trust Him and Him alone as your only hope of going to heaven?

would you believe what he said that if you trusted him, he would save you and give you eternal life as a free gift. For in God’s it if you trust him, it’d save you. So he heads by nice clothes and no one looking around. Is there anyone at all? He said, yes, I will trust Christ as my Savior tonight. I’m going to pray to life for you to pray for me. We’ll just slip you in it very quickly, him at all.

If you’ve already trusted Christ as a Savior, you’re going to heaven. But you realize that death is final. And the opportunities the door will be closed. Do what you can, why you can. Do it now. Our Father, we thank You so much for this time together. Bless each one here and those that listen by Internet. Lord, there’s no doubt a lot of hungry hearts. Hungry for the unquenchable Word that You’ve given to us. That Father, You can give to us that which we need, that we thirst for, that we can come without money, and Father, it can satisfy so well for all eternity.

We ask Lord, Your blessings upon each one here, and those that may be listening, that Your will will be done in their life. They don’t know yet that they would trust You, and those that do know You, they would serve You. Blessed in Christ and we pray, Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771.

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Bibleline Bibleline, here God’s word on Bibleline, everywhere, every time. Here God’s truth on Bibleline. Welcome to Bibleline with Dr. Ralph Yankee Arnold, pastor of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida. Clearly declaring the gospel of Jesus Christ through the radio and the internet. Your regular prayers and monthly support make it possible for Bibleline to continue on the air. on the air. You can reach us toll free at 1-800-576-3771.

Online donations may be made through the Bibleline website at calvaryoftampa.org. We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s message will be a blessing to you and your family. Remember he says, it is appointed under every man wants to die and after this the judgment. Now, some people believe that you’re going to get a second chance. No, later on, you’ll get another chance. Well, the Bible doesn’t say you’ll get another chance.

It says after this, the judgment. But what does the word of God say here? Look what he says. In verse 11, he says, he that is unjust. Let him be unjust, steal. I believe this is talking about, if you die as a lost man, You will be lost forever if you die unjust. You were not justified. Never trust the Christ the Savior. All the opportunities are gone. There are no more opportunities. However the tree falls, there shall it lie.

There’s only two kinds of people in the world, believers and unbelievers, the saints, the aunts. Those that are going to heaven and those that are going to hell. And what determines is whether or not did you or did you not trust Christ as Savior, but at the time of death, there are no more choices. There are no more chances. It is all over with. And this is the ending of the grand finality. And it just cast all those people who stood at the Great Hvathram, they were cast where?

Into the lake of fire. That’s the final Gehenna. And they will be there for all eternity. And once they’re dead and separated from God in this literal fire burning place, God says, there is no second chance. It is final. It’s over as far as all opportunities are gone. That’s why we’re supposed to invite people to come while they are alive to reach people why we can. See, if it wasn’t true, and I didn’t really believe that, why we change anybody?

Just wait and let them have another chance later. That’d make more sense to me. If they can have another chance here, then let them have that second chance there. Why should we sacrifice and pay and give and go and do all of that? Just because it ain’t real. It’s not final. Unless we believe that death is final. It’s final as far as all the choices, all the opportunities that a man can have. But look also for the believer. It says in the same verse, middle part of verse 11, and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still.

Now if we say that the unjust means that they die and that’s all there is, then the same principle would be holding true to the believer. So that means once you have been saved and you’re justified, well then if this guy doesn’t exist anymore, then neither does this guy. But it’s showing you that the lost man still exists and the saved man still exists. And if you’re saved when you die, you’re saved forever. And if you’re lost when you die, you’re lost forever.

That’s why Christ says, if you do not believe that I am He, you shall die in your sins. It means that you were born in sin, you have lived in sin, and you died in sin. Remember there were three that died on the cross. One died two sin, one died in sin, one died four sin. And the thief that rejected the Lord died in his sins. I mean he did not trust Christ as Savior. Christ died for my sins.

So I I don’t die in my sin. Christ died for my sins. So there’s these things to keep in mind. And he that is holy, let him be holy still. You are separated, you belong to the Lord. It will be that way for all eternity. It’ll never be changed. It is final. This is the final combination of everything that this whole book teaches. And it’s in the proper place. This is where it should be. It should belong. But now notice, if a man has trusted Christ as Savior, and whenever you die, all opportunities are lost.

lost. And no man knows when he’s going to die. Doesn’t it make sense for the lost man to trust the Lord while he can? That makes sense because that’s what the book teaches. Now is the accepted time. The whole now is the day of salvation. You will not find anywhere in the Bible where God says, wait, you’ll get a second chance later. Find the verse. There is no verse. There’s no even principles that are even hit toward anything like that.

But we’re told in his word, he that believeth on him hath everlasting life, he that believeth not shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides upon him. This is final. Now in verse 12, where he says, and behold I come quickly and get this, my reward is with me. Now who gets the rewards? Rewards are something that God going to give his saints here, and he’s coming back again and he’s going to give them rewards because rewards are going to be used here in the Davidic Kingdom.

And maybe after this there might be another time he gives them. I don’t know how many times. I don’t care when he gives them. I don’t care how he gives them. I don’t care who he gives them. It’s just that whatever the rewards really are. Now I preach a lot of sermons on the five crowns and so on. whether or not we’re going to have stars in our crown, but who would want a starless crown? I don’t understand all of it and how it all going to work, but whatever it is, we’re going to wish we had done more.

But our only opportunity to do what God wants us to do is before we die, because all the rewards are given to a man after he leaves this life. only because of what we do in this life, because death ends all opportunities. There are no more choices, no more chances. Now we’ll serve the Lord for all eternity, but it doesn’t say that we get rewarded for any of those. We get rewarded for what we do in this little little obitit time that we have to live on planet earth.

That’s why your faithfulness to the Lord right now is so important. And it won’t matter how many people agree with you on anything. Is it, are you right with the the Lord yourself? Or are you doing anything that would hinder the Lord from blessing your life here and rewarding you when you get to heaven? So to the lost man he’ll be eternally separated from God in a literal fire burning hell. To the Christian God says he is going to be rewarded.

So the reward is coming. Now look in verse 14. Once again it shows you a division, a division. Verse 14, blessed are they that do His commandments and they that have right to the tree of life and may enter into the gates into the city. Well, we know that that’s only those who have trusty Christ as their Savior. They have a right to enter into the the Holy City. See there in verse 24 chapter 21? And the nations of them which are saved shall walk the light of it, talking about the holy city that’s mentioned there in this whole chapter.

You have to be saved to enter into the holy city. So if you have been saved, and then we talked about in the last week about Romans and chapter, excuse me, the book of I John in chapter 5 and verse 4 where it says, they that be of faith, these are the ones that have overcome the world, even our faith. This is the victory. Those who have believed on the Lord Jesus Christ. So you and I, when we trust Christ as our Savior, we have a right to the tree of life.

The tree of life, I guess you could say in many respects, Christ Himself. Christ is going to be there. Christ is the life. And that’s why they could have ate from the tree of life in the garden. Maybe it’s the same tree. I don’t know. But I do believe that it’s going to be interesting for all of those who trust the Lord and they’re separated. And how to, I guess, visualize all this stuff in heaven is a difficult thing.

That’s what we talked about last week. How to mentally… Abedin Krug WemONDON +— The visualize what God is talking about and yet we have to take it by faith and what God says is true. Now look what he says in verse 15. Verse 15 is a reference to those who are on the outside. They do not have the right to enter into the holy city. See in verse 15 for without are dogs and sorcerers and hormongers and murders and idolaters and whosoever loveth and make it the life.

Now the word dogs can refer to homo section. that does in the Old Testament. It also refers to unsaved Gentiles, which sometimes they, Jewish people, refer to them as such. But these are without. There’s others that are within. So there’s two groups, the believers and the unbelievers, the saints and the aunts, and it’s final. And however a man finds himself at the moment of death is the way it will be for all eternity and it will not change. You do not find It’s not fine where it says in verse 15, these people will now get an opportunity to really believe on the Lord that they want to.

It’s not there. Because you see there, look there in Revelation in chapter. chapter 20 and look there in verse 15.alyses and whosoever, whosoever, was not found written in the book of life was cast where? Into the lake of that’s final. This is the final hell. The other one where if you died today you would go to a place called Hades, which is a place of torment, but that’s not the final hell. We’re talking about now at the end of time after the great white throne judgment and those who have never trusted Christ to save you will be cast into the eternal lake of fire.

That’s called Gahanna. Mentioned 12 times in New Testament, 11 times by Christ Himself. So if people say, well I believe in heaven, I just don’t know. Well, Jesus spoke more on hell than He spoke on heaven. And you don’t need a person to down the cross and pay for your sins to keep you from going to a place if it doesn’t exist. It does exist and it is real.” So go back there to chapter 22. So there is these two groups of people.

Names of various sins and when a person dies and goes to hell, I believe he also will be judged according to his works, according to chapter 20, and it determines the amount of suffering that they receive in hell because the principle of us being rewarded according to our works is what we’re going to be rewarded to when we get to heaven. So those who have done little will be rewarded little. And the Bible also talks about in the book of Luke that those who have known little will be punished little.

those who know much will be beaten with many stripes and so forth. And so that principle is laid down in the Word of God. So God’s the one that knows how much a lost man knew what he understood. I don’t try to figure it out. I believe if God is the righteous judge and God is God and he is perfect and he makes no mistakes, he doesn’t do anything wrong. Whatever he decides to do, it will be right. and he will be just in everything that he does.

Even though there’s people that are setting judgment on God, God is going to set in judgment on man. And God will be able to prove everything that he says and everything that he does. And he can reveal to a man everything that he’s ever done because God sees all, knows all, records all, and never forgets unless he chooses to forget.

Verse 16, I, Jesus, have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things and the churches. So according to this verse, Jesus is letting us know that he’s the one that sent those messengers to those seven churchesumably. Jesus is the one who authored this book of Revelation. And he’s the one that says this book of Revelation is for us to know. knowledge is not so you can sit around and just look spiritual. It’s to call it should drive us to action.

Now listen, most of y’all in here, most of you, new Hank Lindstrom as a great soul winner. True? Above anything else, he won people to Christ. Why? Why? Why didn’t he just wait if they’re going to get a second chance? Why do it? Why always giving the gospel? Because that’s what God’s Word tells us to do. That’s why we do it. Why? Remember, he was going up here to Gainesville and he was going to be an electrical engineer. I remember his testimony.

But why didn’t he do that? He probably could have made good money. Hank was smart. He could… He had a way with people that just caused everybody to like him. He had a very soothing, calming way about him. I’m telling you the truth. Everybody at Bible College, everybody liked Hank. Hank was a different kind of an animal. I mean, there’s not many people like him. But why did he give his life for this stuff? Because he believed it. He really believed it.

So it didn’t matter if it was radio or television. He did everything he could to reach the lost people, didn’t he? Why do you think he had all those things printed up back there like that? If it doesn’t make any difference, it doesn’t matter because he knew that everything mattered. But it’s not just Hank. It’s people all over this world that believe this and it’s changed their lives. it be a shame for you to believe something different than the man who reached you?

And yet most of you probably trust the Lord because of Hank. What if Hank didn’t do that? I had a person one time tell me that I just don’t like the way Yankee is. He is so aggressive sometimes. And no, he’s like, he’s he’s in your face type. Well, I don’t mean to be, but it’s just the way I am sometime. And I told a person one this little lady, she came up to me. Oh, she burned me. Oh, she burned me.

Because I had made a statement. We had about 10 or 15 trust the Lord in ranch one night. I was still on cloud nine the next day. Well, anyway, Sunday came and I announced it in church and told what would happen and how many we had coming off the buses and just all these people that did the trust. And she came up to me afterwards and she was kind of prissy. She says, you ought not say you led them to the Lord.

It was the Lord that did it. If she’d have been a man out of here, I says, ma’am, I like the way I say it better than the way that you can’t say it. You say, you didn’t say that. Yes, I did, but a lot stronger. I come and glued on that lady. She was a spiritual snob. And I’d venture to say that they’re everywhere. They never win anybody to the Lord, but they know how to do it. Oh, I would never do it like that.

Well, blessed be God. How do you do it? And most of them don’t do it at all. Somebody told a little moody, I think it was. An English teacher, she says, you know, you murder the English language. He says, I like the way I do it better than your way of not doing it. Somebody can have all the talent in the world, all the ability, but it doesn’t. What are you doing? What are you accomplishing? A lot of people are nothing but talk.

They’re mouths, but never accomplish anything. They can pick anybody apart, but they don’t accomplish a thing themselves. There is in the bosom of God’s people that know and believe with all their heart that God is a righteous judge and God is going to settle the score, open up the books, and he’s going to make it right. So it doesn’t matter what everybody thinks or says. We’re supposed to do what God wants to do because we believe it’s worth it and God is going to make it right.

Whatever it is and it don’t matter whether or not people were for you or again you. I thought many times in my life what we could have done if all of God’s children had worked together. Did you know that in most places, 10% of the people in a church do the work? If you’re lucky. But most people are just on the sideline. They just sat and watched, but they never get involved, never help. And I’ve asked people over the years, I need help.

You’ve heard the Apostle Paul pleading, you know, those who help me in the Gospel, help me in the ministry. You see, what value is people, if they don’t help, they never help, you can’t depend on them. They’re not dependable. You can build or work on the backs of people who are faithful. And some people, well, they just stand on the sidelines and they’re that Monday morning quarterback that always tell you what he should have done. You ever sit there on the couch and you wonder why the dumb quarterback can’t see the guys open down earning end zone?

Why can’t he see that? Well, might be because he got five big guys in front of him. It’s so easy for you to set a fair, you got cameras all over the place and you can see what he ought to be doing. And why some guy lines up and runs right toward a brick wall and there’s five guys standing right there and you think, well, why didn’t he do that? He should have went around this way. See, he’s supposed to run where he’s supposed to run, believing that his line are going to make a hole.

And if he waits till there’s a hole, it’ll be too late. He has to run, trusting, they’ll make away when he gets there. So he’s believing and trusting and giving it all he’s got full steam into a brick wall because sometimes they, it don’t work. And then when it does work, the guy runs into the end zone and he throws the football down and jumps all over the place like, look what I did, look what I did, look what I did, look what, wait a minute.

You realize if those guys had to made a hole, you would have never got through it. And so he did it all by himself. Did you realize that God knows what we do because we have people working together to get something done? Remember the other night I was talking about how that the Apostle Paul in the book of Philippians says, not because I desire a gift, but fruit that may abound to your account, because the people who work together and help the Apostle Paul to do what he did.

That’s the way it is with every pastor. You know that you’re limited and you can only do so much, but if people work together, you can accomplish so much more, so much more. But we do it because we are trusting that everybody believes the same thing. That’s why I want to keep teaching this book until it’s in your brain. You’ll think about it even when you don’t want to think about it. And you’ll carry tracks and you’ll want to witness to people even when you don’t want to do it.

You’ll do it anyway because it’ll be in your heart and you can’t get away from it. Look what he says here in verse 16, I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David. So the root means that He’s before David and the offspring means He’s after David. Now how can Jesus be before David and after David? But that’s what it says. And when you read the book of Isaiah talks about, I have a tender branch that’s going to grow up.

The root of Jesse. So He’s the root of Jesse, but He can be before David, but He’s after David. Now how can all of this be? Because Jesus is God and He came into the world through the line of David. So He was before David, but He came through the line a thousand years later and He’s after David. So He says, I am the root and the offspring of David and the bride and morning star. Now I want you to take your Bible and look at this verse.

Look there in the book of Malachi chapter 4. Malachi chapter 4, last book in the Old Testament, Malachi. And you’ll see that there’s a statement made here that’s pretty good. Malachi chapter 4 and look there in verse two. Verse two says, but unto you that fear My name shall the son of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.” Now I wonder who this is talking about. The son of righteousness. Now that’s not S-O-N, this is S-U-N. Now generally the bright and morning star right before dawn it’s at the darkest point and there’s this bright and morning star.

You see, I believe the bright morning star is a reference to the church when Christ comes for us. And then the son, S-U-N, of righteousness. So the Bible talks about Jesus Christ is the bright and morning star. Satan is not the bright and morning star in the book of Isaiah, not him. He is the son of the morning, but he is not the morning star. star. He is not the bright and morning star. Totally different. But go back here to the book of Revelation in chapter 22.

So Jesus Christ is before David and after David. And He is the bright and morning star. He is the son of righteousness and He is coming. And the spirit of the bride say, come, because He then said twice, He’s I’m coming. So they they come. We as the bride of Christ, the church, don’t we look forward to the coming of Christ? What difference should it make? Hold your place right here and just look at this real quick. Look in the book of 1st John chapter 3, 1st John and chapter 3.

Make sure you look at these verses. Don’t just… So well I’ve got the Bible committed to memory? Yeah, I know. But in verse one it says, Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God. Therefore the world knoweth us not because it knew him not. Beloved now are we the sons of God. And it doth not yet appear what we shall be. But we know that when he shall appear, we shall be like him, but we shall see him as he is.

And every man that hath this hope in him purifyth himself.” In other words, to those who are looking for Christ to come will purify his life. When you no longer are looking for him to come, your life is going to become corrupted. That’s why he says in 1 John chapter 2 verse 28, My little children abide in him that when he shall appear, we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming. So yes, the Lord is coming back.

It is supposed to be a purifying hope, but many people fail to understand all that God has for them. Now, I can’t make people serve Lord. Man, I wish I could. I, man, I will. But it won’t help because it has to be something that you do willingly. It has to be on a volunteer basis. No one can make you love God. You believe it or not. Nobody can make you love your parents. You can’t make your parents love the kids.

You can’t make the pastor love the people. Well, you can’t make the people love the pastor either. We’re going to pass a law. Everybody in the church must love the pastor. It won’t work because it can’t be forced. It has to be voluntary. You have to do it because there’s something that’s greater on the inside of you that makes you do what you’re supposed to do. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr.

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We have an interesting subject to talk about tonight. And because we’re finishing up the book of Revelation tonight. And I want you to note that if it had not been for the book of Revelation, if there had been no book of Revelation, we would have a lot of streams in the desert that never formed into a river. All the Old Testament prophets, it would have just ended suddenly and left everything hanging. And that would have been a shame. You see, if it hadn’t been for the book of Revelation, see, we would not have understood the church age right here because chapter two and chapter three talks about the church age.

We would not have understood about the tribulation period and where it belonged because it’s not clearly marked. We just know that there’s supposed to be one somewhere, somehow, but all those things that happen. And it brings all the things together. that’s what the book of Revelation does. We would not have had a clear understanding about the thousand year reign upon the year. All this from here, all the way through is because of the one book, the book of Revelation.

So God says this is an important book and blessed are they that read this book and understand this book because they get to understand things that you would have never known no other way. So the book of Revelation is truly a jewel. It is an awesome book. It’s the combination of all these things all put together and it gives us a grand finale. So the scripture we look at tonight is just that. We used to put on programs in our Christian school out in Colorado and we would have individual little plays and so forth to come together And then we would have the grand finale, the grand finale, where everything comes together, and then we would have all the kids come up on the stage and the teenagers and the little kids on all the adults and everybody would sing and boy was hit something.

And then we’d have a thousand people that would be watching and understanding and enjoying all of this and it was their kids. And because we had so many kids and people, We had to do it two nights in a row, and so like A to L was there the first night, and then those after that would be there the next night. And we would have the grand finale. Well, it’s almost like this is the grand finale of the culmination of all these wonderful things.

So take your Bible and look there in the book of Revelation and chapter 22, chapter 22. It almost seems like the great white-thrown judgment has just taken place, and you would think that this is the grand finale. Well I don’t believe that all the lost people ought to be part of the grand finale. You know like yay, they’re not going to be whipping and yailing. They’re going to be wailing, but they’re going to be casting to the lake of fire.

And then the Holy City, New Jerusalem, comes down from God out of heaven. And when all of this takes place, you wonder, now, is this the grand finale? Watch it, all of this take place. And is the angel’s going to be there and all the saints? And it’s just going to be one big, happy family. We’re all in the same family. It was surprising the other day I was talking to this guy. And I said, did you know that you’re my brother?

It looked at me kind of funny. I said, you’re my brother. He said, oh, I get it because we’re in God’s family. I said, you got it because we’re all in God’s family because when you trust Christ to save you, you become God’s child. And we are going to heaven because of what Christ has done on the cross for us. Now, there’s quite a few things that I want you to see here in the book of Revelation. Well, look in verse seven, verse seven of chapter 22.

Chapters 22 and verse seven. You’ll see the word behold. I come. quickly. I believe this is talking about because you know that he didn’t really come quick as far as what we’re concerned because it’s been 2,000 years and he hasn’t got here yet. But I believe that I will come on time. He will come right on schedule. The Bible says when he came the first time he came in the fullness of time. He was born of a woman but he was in the fullness of time right on schedule.

The Bible also makes the statement that the time is at hand. And you’ll see that phrase mentioned a few times throughout the Scriptures here. And especially look down in verse 10. See that in verse 10? And he says unto me, seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand. There is the time for everything with the Lord. And this is sometimes hard for you and I to the grass because we think God’s late for a lot of stuff.

God is never late. God is always on time. As it says, call upon him and so forth, because he will give you help in the nick of time, right at the right time. And we said, Lord, I needed your help two days ago. Lord said, I’m never late. I’m right on schedule. But here he talks about, behold, I come quickly. And then you’ll notice he mentions it again in verse 12 where says, Behold, I come quickly. Now these two statements is talking at the end of the book, but it’s not as though it’s something that we need to read after the holy city comes down and now we read these verses.

He’s told us all these things that’s coming upon the earth. Now he’s writing to the people, John was, to the people in the church age. So that’s why he says to the people in the church. So those in the church, see there in verse 16, I Jesus have sent my angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. So this book of revelation is for us here, it’s for the tribulation saints here, and then the book will also be for the people during the kingdom.

This book is an awesome book that covers so many thousands of years. There’s 2,000 right there and there’s seven years and there’s a thousand years. So the Bible is complete for that which God has intended. Now when we studied the Davidical Kingdom upon the earth when David himself will actually be here, this is like a continuation of the book of Matthew. See when Christ came the first time, this is how they thought he would come on a white horse in power to rule and reign, take care of the Roman Empire and set up his kingdom.

So all of this right here, they were expecting him to do that back here. But when he came the first time, he didn’t come like a lion. He came as a, what? A lamb. So he came as a lamb and he was crucified. So this was all moved out here, but all of this could be shoved up against here. And this is where it should have been, but no, they did not believe on the Lord. So the Bible says, behold, I come quickly and the message is to the church, to the tribulation saints and to the millennial saints.

So if we go back to here, he’s already told us all that’s going to take place in these 22 chapters and then he’s addressing that the church. Now what he says is in view of everything he saw he said not because you know all of this. Let me tell you something. Let me tell you the point of of the grand finale. What is it supposed to do? What should it mean to you? What should it mean to me? And so he gives us several things here that are final.

Things that will never be changed. And if you’ll notice it says twice. Behold, I come quickly. Then you look in verse 20, it says, he which testify of these things said, surely I come quickly. And then in verse 21, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all amen. But the last part of verse 20 says, even so come, Lord Jesus. So the book of Revelation is about the second coming of Christ to the earth. So as we live our life back to the earth.

we live our life back here, we should be saying, come Lord Jesus. We want the Lord to come. Now, there’s something else that I want you to see. In between all of these words and verses, you’ll notice that right in the middle of it in verse 17, it says, and the spirit and the bride say come. Now many times we’ll take these verses here, especially verses 17, and apply them to the lost man as we plead with the lost man to come to Christ.

And there’s nothing wrong in that. I’ve used it many times, but I believe it’s a secondary application, at least the first part of the verse. I believe it’s the Lord is coming quickly. The Lord is coming quickly. The Lord is coming soon. And so the Spirit and the bride say, come Lord Jesus. So it’s like we’re saying that Lord come and get us out of here because we know what is going to happen. We’re looking for the coming of the Lord.

And then he makes a statement here and let him that hear it say come and then look in verse three. I mean that’s part of the verse. Let him that is a thirst come. Now that is an invitation to those that are lost to come to Christ. So there’s two things I want you to look at. One, come Lord Jesus. We want Him to come back for His saints. Here He will come with His saints to the earth. But while we’re here, we should be saying to the lost men to come to Christ.

To trust Jesus Christ as Savior. If anybody is thirsty, let him come and drink. And everyone that hearmonton say come. Every person who trusts Christ’s Savior should be inviting somebody else to come to the Savior. But I believe there’s two of these things mentioned here. So it’s referring to it twice before verse 17, twice after verse 17. And in those it’s a reference to the Lord coming back again. So the revelation of Christ is in this whole book. Christ is revealed and that we’re supposed to have on, I believe our hearts, Lord come.

I was looking for the Lord to come back today. Now He still may come tonight, but if you don’t come back tonight guess what I’m going to be doing tomorrow. I’m going to be looking for Him tomorrow. And if you don’t come tomorrow, guess what I’m going to be doing the next day. I’m looking for them to come the next day. Because I know that one of these days I’m not going to be surprised. I am looking for the Lord to come.

Now because I’m looking for the Lord to come, I’m also realizing that my purpose here in life is to get others to come. So the Lord and the others, and you want them to meet. You see, winning souls to Christ, winning people to Christ, is introducing a lost man to the Lord. That’s all we’re doing. Let me introduce to you the greatest person that I know. Jesus Christ is the Lord. And when you explain the good news to them, you’re introducing them to somebody.

Now he knows them, but they don’t know him. And so this is what we’re doing. in these verses I want you to take your Bible and look very quickly all the way over to the book of Isaiah 55 Isaiah and 55 Isaiah 55 and you’ll see there a very interesting verse because even in the Old Testament God tells us something that we see mentioned all the way over there in the New Testament see in verse says, Ho, everyone that thirsteth.

See, the invitation has always been into Word of God. And even when Jesus was here, He says, on that great day of the feast, Jesus stood in Christ. And if any man thirstled in coming to me and drinking as the scripture hath set out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. Ho, everyone that thirsteth come ye to the waters and he that hath no money come Come in by and eat. Yay, come by wind and milk without money and without price.

In other words, it won’t cost you anything. I’ve got something that’ll satisfy you. This is way back here in the Old Testament. He says, wherefore do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which satisfy it not? In other words, there’s something that satisfies a man more than anything else in the world. You remember whenever Christ went to see the woman at the well, his disciples had gone into the city to get him a big Mac or something.

And when they came back, They said have you had anything to eat? He says I have meat to eat that you know not of In other words, there’s something that satisfies me more than my necessary food The hunger that you have for the Lord the thirst that you have for the Lord ought to be greater than the hunger and the thirst that you have for food and you know how we are about food We hate to miss a meal but God has told us in his word come to the waters.

Look what he says in Revelation in chapter 22. Chapter 22 and look in the last part of this verse 17. He said let him that is a thirst come and whosoever on open invitation to anybody will let him take the water of life freely freely. No cost no charge. See this is what we’re supposed to be doing. This is to us back here. The whole book of Revelation has been given to us and now he tells us what we’re supposed to be doing with this knowledge.

See some people love knowledge and it puffs up and people like to brag about how much they know about the Bible or how many times they’ve been through the Bible. Well if you have never, well, let the Bible control your life then you really don’t know the Bible. You don’t know the book until the book controls your life. And that’s a different story altogether. Now, another thing I want you to look at there, look there in verse 9, then said, He unto me, see thou do it not, for I am thy fellow servant and of thy brethren the prophets and of them which keep the sayings of this book, worship God.

Now in this book, now I know that we look at the book of Revelation as a separate book. And whether not the book of Revelation was the book in chapter 5 that nobody could answer. Nobody had the right to open it or to explain it. I don’t know if it is or not, but it seems like it’s the last book and nobody could give us this book and it’s the grand finale. In other words, all this year has gone on for all thousands of years and now we have the book that explains, it’s the last chapter in the book, that explains everything that man needs to know about what’s going to take place.

And you know that if you were here Sunday morning and I was talking a little bit about some of the things that are happening in the world today, to those who know the Lord, you don’t have to be worried about anything that’s going on in this world because we already knew this was going to happen. I have been preaching this stuff for 30-something years. And we knew somewhere along the line something has to happen with all these Arab nations to bring them together so that they will unite together.

Something’s going to unite these Arab nations together. You watch and see. They’re losing all their individual leaders. It seemed like they’re ripe for a leader. And I have a few ideas, but I’m not going to teach all that down. But I do get interested. I can’t hardly wait until the next day to see what’s going to happen next. It is so exciting. It really is. And here’s little old Israel over there and the midst of all of this. And I know what’s going to happen with Israel.

And yet it’s going to be the greatest nation in all the world someday. But we know how it’s going to end. But between now and then, things are going to get very dark, very bleak. But there’s going to be this seemingly peaceful transition right here. And we talked about the anti-Christ Sunday morning. So I don’t want to get into that again tonight. But now, when he talks about the book, this is the book that he says, do not seal this book.

Now the book of Daniel that was written back before the Lord, then that book he says, seal up the book until the time of the end. says don’t seal this book because the time is at hand. The book of Revelation is the book that unlocks the book of Daniel so that that’s why most Bible teachers when they teach the book of Revelation always teach the book of Daniel along with it. So that’s why I’m always going back to the book of Daniel because they both go together.

Now look what he says in verse 10, and he says unto me, seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book for the time is at hand. Now what did he say about this book? What did he say about the book of Revelation? If you look there in chapter 1, look in verse 3. Chapter 1 and verse 3. Blessed is he that readeth and they that hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written therein for the time is the day of the day.

at hand. In other words, because you know what’s going to happen in the future, not just that you know that the Lord is going to come back, not just that you know that there’s going to be a seven year tribulation period. All the Lord’s coming to the earth and we’re going to rule on the earth. It’s because of what you’re going to get when you get to heaven. You see, the Christian is going to be judged at the judgments of the Christ.

This is going to be rewards that last for eternity. You and I are going to be here during the Davidic Millennial Kingdom and how we rule and reign with Christ for this thousand years depends on what we do for the Lord now. So this knowledge and this knowledge and this knowledge is supposed to affect our lives. It’s why we do what we do. It motivates us. A lot of Christians today are sound asleep. They’re doing nothing playing games. They’re not really serious about this stuff and I I get challenged and motivated just by thinking about it.

And then I get to teach it. Oh, I love it. But it says this book in verse one of chapter one of Revelation is the book of the revelation of Jesus Christ. So this is a revelation, a revealing of the coming of Christ. And he gets to something here that’s grand finale. You see, once it gets to the place place where we have cleared the great white throne judgment and it’s all over. It’s all over. Remember, he says, it is appointed unto every man who wants to die and after this the judgment.

Now, some people believe that you’re going to get a second chance. No, later on you’ll get another chance. Well the Bible doesn’t say you’ll get another chance. It says after this, the judgment. But what does the word of God say here? Look what he says. Verse 11 he says, he that is unjust. Let him be unjust. Still, I believe this is talking about if you die as a lost man, you will be lost forever. If you die unjust, you were not justified.

Never trust the Christ of Savior. All the opportunities are gone. There are no more opportunities. However the tree falls, there shall it lie. only two kinds of people in the world, believers and unbelievers, the saints, the aunts, those that are going to heaven and those that are going to hell. And what determines is whether or not did you or did you not trust Christ as Savior, but at the time of death there are no more choices, there are no more chances.

It is all over with. And this is the ending of the grand finality and it just cast all those people who stood at the great hwathram they were cast where into the lake of fire that’s the final jahina and they will be there for all eternity and once they’re dead and separated from God in this literal fire burning place God says there is no second chance it is final it’s over as far as all opportunities are gone that’s That’s why we’re supposed to invite people to come while they are alive to reach people why we can.

See, if it wasn’t true and I didn’t really believe that, why would we change anybody? Just wait and let them have another chance later. That’d make more sense to me if they can have another chance here. Didn’t let them have that second chance there. Why should we sacrifice and pay and give and go and do all of that? Just because it ain’t real. It’s not final. unless we believe that death is final. It’s final as far as all the choices, all the opportunities that a man can have.

But look also for the believer. It says they’re in the same verse, middle part of verse 11, and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still. Now, if we say that the unjust means that they die they die and then that’s all there is. Then the same principle would be holding true to the believer. So that means once you have been saved and you’re justified, well then if this guy doesn’t exist anymore, then neither does this guy. But it’s showing you that the lost man still exists and the saved man still exist.

And if you’re saved when you die, you’re saved forever. And if you’re lost when you die, you’re lost forever. That’s why Christ says, if you do not believe that I am He, you shall die in your sins. It means that you were born in sin, you have lived in sin, and you died in sin. Remember there were three that died on the cross. One died two sin, one died in sin, one died four sin. And the thief that rejected the Lord died in his sins.

I mean, he did not trust Christ as Savior. Christ died for my sins. So I don’t die in my sin. Christ died for my sins. So there’s these things to keep in mind. And he that is holy, let him be holy still. You are separated, you belong to the Lord. It will be that way for all eternity. It’ll never be changed. It is final. This is the final combination of everything that this whole book teaches. book teaches and it’s in the proper place.

This is where it should be, where it should belong. But now notice, if a man has trusted Christ as Savior and whenever you die, all opportunities are lost and no man knows when he’s going to die, doesn’t it make sense for the lost man to trust the Lord while he can? That makes sense because that’s what the book teaches. Now is the accepted time. The whole now is the day of salvation. You will not find anywhere in the Bible where God says, wait, you’ll get a second chance later.

Find the verse. There is no verse. There’s no even principles that are even hit toward anything like that. But we’re told in His word, He that believeth on Him hath everlasting life. He that believeth not shall not see life but the wrath of God abides upon Him. this is final. Now in verse 12 where he says, and behold I come quickly and get this my reward is with me. Now who gets the rewards? Rewards are something that God going to give to his saints here and he’s coming back again and he’s going to give them reward because rewards are going to be used here in the Davidic Kingdom and maybe after this there might be another time he gives them.

I don’t know how many times. I don’t care when he gives them. I don’t care how he gives them. I don’t care who he gives them. It’s just that whatever the rewards really are, and I preach a lot of sermons on the five crowns and so on. And whether or not we’re going to have stars in our crown, but who would want a starless crown? I don’t understand all of it and how it all going to work, but whatever it is, we’re going to wish we had done more.

But our only opportunity to do what God wants us to do is before we die. Because all the rewards are given to a man after he leaves this life. It’s only because of what we do in this life because death ends all opportunities. There are no more choices, no more chances. Now we’ll serve the Lord for all eternity, but it doesn’t say that we get rewarded for any of those. We get reward for what we do in this little obitit time that we have to live on planet Earth.

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Caught up to meet the Lord in the air. So live today and every day, believing that the Lord is coming soon, and just keep looking up.

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your Bible and turn to the book of Psalms. This is the 51st Psalm. Even though this was written by David who had sinned with Bathsheba and this is his confession to the Lord, there are some things in these several verses that would help us. He makes the statement here in verse 4. Verse 4, against thee and thee only have I sinned. Now he’s praying, talking to the Lord and done this evil in thy sight that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest and be clear when thou judges.”

In other words, when God judges a man, it will be right and it will be clear cut. It won’t be shady. It won’t be gray. No gray areas. It’s right or wrong. And God is perfect and righteous and just and he makes no mistakes. So the Bible does tell us that it is appointed under every man wants to die and after this the judgment. So every man is going to die and every man is going to be judged and God is going to be justified in whatever he says.

When the Lord says to some, into thy one to the joys of the Lord, it’ll be right. When the Lord says you can’t come, it’ll be right. But wouldn’t that be a devastating thing for so many people who have gone to church all their lives? Gave money support of the Lord’s work saying in the choir did all kind of things saying specials Maybe a deacon who knows whatever they’ve done Missionaries evangelist and yet the Lord tells them you can’t come We think that’s going to do to them who thought they were on their way all those years But one of the reasons as he says here in verse five now Behold, I was shaping in iniquity and in sin.

Did my mother concede me now you and I were born in sin sin is a state of condition. It’s a way that you are you were born in sin and because you were born in sin, you have a sinful nature and we all do according to this verse. It doesn’t mean that the parents sinned and having you. That’s not what he’s saying. He says, you are born in sin, you meaning that you were born with a sinful condition. It’s like some babies that are born that have a defect, something’s wrong.

Some are born like that. All of us were born with a sin defect. We have a sinful nature. And because of the sinful nature, that’s why we do what we do. Take your Bible and turn to the book of Romans in chapter 3, the book of Romans and chapter three. But see you and I were born in sin and we live in sin. You and I live in sin. We often think of individuals who live in sin as living in some great grievous gross sin, not necessarily that that is the only kind of living in sin there is.

Here he says in the book of Romans in chapter 3, look in verse 23. Verse 23 says, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. It’s not that all of us have sinned one time. We’ve only sinned once. No. We lived in sin. You see, when you have a sinful nature and you are separated from God, we all live in sin. We live in this state of being, this condition that we are in. We live as a sinner.

Even though we try to do a lot of things that are right, we still have a sinful nature. We’re in a sinful condition and that’s why we’re in rebellion to God. A man that doesn’t even commit adultery, maybe he doesn’t rob banks, hasn’t murdered anybody, but if you live without God. You’re still living in sin. You’re living in rebellion to God. Because if you’re not right with God, then you’re in air against God. And the Bible says all have sin and comes short of the perfection of God.

What does sin mean? Comes from a Greek word, harmatano means to miss the mark. Miss the mark of what? The mark of perfection. You see, it’s like taking a bow and arrow and you shoot the arrow and you missed it by an inch. Somebody else might shoot, miss it by 10 feet. Somebody else, 10 yards. You see, we sometimes say, well, I’m not as bad as so-and-so because they missed it by 10 yards. I only missed it by two inches.

But if you miss the mark of perfection, you still miss the mark. And to go to heaven, you have to be perfect and none of us are. So all of us, with all of our decisions and all of our action, we never produce any any acts or works of perfection, everything is flawed. So we live with a sinful nature and we live in sin as the Bible tells us. All of us do. And because of that, things have to be changed, but you need to understand what he’s saying.

Now take your Bible and turn to the book of Ephesians in chapter 2, the book of Ephesians and chapter 2. When the Lord says, You have to be quickened in verse 1, who were dead in trespasses and sins. It means because of you have trespassed. God says, thou shalt not, you did. You trespass, you overstep the law. You want to crawl over the boundary. So you trespass and the wages of trespassing is eternal separation from God. So you’re considered to be spiritually dead.

You’re physically alive, but spiritually you’re dead. because you’re spiritually dead. And the Lord says, you’re separated from God and you live in sin. That’s why He makes the statement in verse two. He says, where in time pass ye walked? When he says you walk means you lived according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air. Now you may not have known it, but you still did. You He made it in planet, but you did.

Because you see, a lost man can’t serve God. A lost man might be used of God, but he is not serving God. God can use anybody for his honor and glory. And so a lost man can’t please God, because he’s in the flesh. And as long as you’re in the flesh, you’re in your sinful nature. And when you’re in your sinful nature, you’ve got additional problems that God says, you can’t come. cannot go where he’s going. So he makes the statement here.

In verse 3, among whom also we all had our conversation, that means your manner of life or the way we lived. He says, in time passed in the lust of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind. And we’re by nature, by nature. Those two words are very important. It is your nature to live after the flash after the desires of the mind, you know, it’s whatever I want, whatever I want to be, where I want to go, how I want to live, who I like and who I don’t like and what I think, it’s all I, I, I, I, I, I, as a new God.

And so many people govern their lives about what they want to do in life has nothing to do and what does God want me to do. And so many people do what makes them feel good. And that’s why they have a little slogan. If it It feels good, do it. Whatever you want, live the way you want to live, sure life. That’s living in sin. It means you’ve missed the mark for your life. And so the Lord tells us this in His word, but God has done some things for us.

Now, why don’t you take your Bible and turn to the book of John chapter eight, the gospel of John and chapter eight? Look there in verse 19. He said, then said they unto him, where is thy father? Jesus answered, ye neither know me nor my father. Now Jesus is talking about his heavenly father, that there’s a lot of people today, a lot of religions that talks about God and they have various names for God. And so a lot of times people think that it really doesn’t matter what his name is or what people call him as long as we’re all talking about the same God.

But you see, the way you find out if they’re talking about the same God, is it, are you talking about the one that is the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ? Because either true and living God had a son in his name was Jesus. That’s why over and over again it says Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God. The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. So he’s not just any God by any name. You can’t just attach a name to him and call him, well, this is God.

No, the real God has a name. The real God, true God, has a son. And his name is Jesus, and he says, if you know my Father, then you know me. He said, but if you don’t know me, then you don’t know my Father. He said, but if you do know me, you know my Father. And if you know my Father, you know me. He said, but you don’t know me. And because you don’t know me, you don’t know my father.

Because, you see, Jesus and the Father are the same one. He says, I and the Father are one. And that’s why he told Tommy, he said, that have seen me have seen the Father. I and the Father are one and the same. That’s why they were going to take up stones to stone him because of blasphemy. He said, for what good work are you going to stone me for it. They said not for a good work, but for blasphemy because that thou being a man you make yourself God.

They understood what he was claiming. They knew what he was saying. Jesus claimed to be God. But there were people who did not believe that. And he says, who is your father? He makes the same here in verse 19. You neither know me nor my father. If you had known me, you should have known my father also. These words spake Jesus in the treasure as he taught in the temple and no man laid hands on him for his hour was not yet come.

In other words, they could not, in their own power, bring Jesus to a premature death, though at times they wanted to kill him. They wanted to push him off a cliff. They wanted to stone him. But God would not allow that because he was under the protection of God the Father and he trusted the Lord to take care of him as the Father. So he makes the statement here in verse 21, then said, Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins.

Whether I go, ye cannot come. Now the reason they cannot come is because he says, ye shall die in your sin. If you die in your sins, you cannot go. So the key of course is not to die in your sins. It’s kind of like this. What if God says all those who live in Athens will die and go to hell? What would you wanna do? Get out of Athens. Well, this is what the Lord has done for us.

The Lord has made a way, a possibility for you and I to do this. Now look there in verse 21, again where he says, ye shall die in your sins, whether I go, ye cannot come. Remember this, anyone who dies in their sin cannot come. If you knew that everybody who died in Athens would go to hell, you’d wanna get out of Athens as quickly as possible because you knew that you didn’t have a clue as when you would die.

Every lost man needs to know. You are born in sin, you live in sin, and if you don’t get out of there, before you die, you will die in your sins, and if you die in your sin, you cannot go to heaven. This is what Jesus Christ said. So he made a statement down there in verse 22. They didn’t understand what he said. Can you understand what I’m saying? The people he told this to, they didn’t understand that. So they said there in verse 22, then said that Jews, will he kill himself?

Because he said, where I go, you cannot come? They figured the only way you can get anywhere that we can’t go is you gotta have to kill yourself. And we ain’t going there. But if he died, where does he go? He goes to heaven. If they died, where do they go? They can’t go. So we made this statement here. Verse 23, he said unto them, ye are from beneath, I am from above. Ye are of this world, I am not of this world.

Now remember this, you can be born on the earth, but he says you’re born from below, I am from above. You are of this world, I am not of this world. all those who are born in this world or of this world and live in this world and will die in this world. But God sent His Son who came from another world into this world and tells us that if we would believe that He died on the cross, the paper hour said, we would be born from above.

The word born again, and John chapter 3 means born from above. So we would be born from that world. Though we’re in this world, we’re not of this world. And so one day God’s gonna take us out of this world. So you and I as a child of God cannot die in our sins. Remember this on the cross, there were three. Two thieves, one on each side of Jesus Christ. One died to sin. One died in sin. . .

. . . . . . . And one died for sin. Jesus died for sin. One died to sin, which was the thief on the cross that said, remember me when thou comeest into thy kingdom. The one that didn’t believe it died in his sins. So when Jesus died, one could go with him and one could not go with him. If you die in your sins, you cannot go. That’s why you need to be born from above. By accepting the payment Jesus Christ was.

made on the cross for you. Now look at verse 24, I said there for unto you that ye shall die in your sins for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins. So if the reason you die in your sin is not because of all the bad things you’ve done. It’s because you don’t believe that he is who he claimed to be. He said if you don’t believe on me, you will die in your sins.

In other words, you were born in sin, you’ve lived in sin, you’ll die in sin and be eternally separated from God for all eternity. Now it doesn’t have to be that way. The Bible tells us that Jesus Christ came into the world and died on the cross to make a payment for our sins. Let’s say for example, you have sinned against God and the wages of sin is death, the wages of sin is death. So when you sinned, you’re supposed to receive wages, what you earned for what you did.

And the wages that you’ve earned is eternal separation from God in hell. You deserve to go there. You have to pay for that. That’s what you did. This is what you received. That is just. And the judgment It’s clear, there’s no doubt about it. So you are in debt, you have a debt to pay. You were born with a sinful nature, you have lived and committed sins through your life. And if you die in your sins with this debt over your head, you’re in a heap of trouble, boy, and you need help.

Jesus Christ came into the world and He took the sins that we have all done, In the words the debt we owe, the payment we’re supposed to pay. Christ took him upon him and he made a payment he died in our place. And it’s kind of like if the Lord had all this money in here. All this money is put into an escrow account. People who buy and sell houses know what an escrow account is. Most lawyers know what an escrow account is.

That you can put money into an account and it can be taken out. And it’s part of a payment that is set up to make sure that the money there. Well, Jesus made a payment for the sins of the whole world and the money is sitting in an escrow account. And so the payment, there’s enough money in this offering plate right here to pay for all the sins of all the world, but it’s not automatically paid. Everybody’s sins are not automatically paid and automatically forgiven.

You as an individual, you must believe that He did that for you, that there is an escrow account and that when you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, He takes the payment that’s necessary and makes a payment to your account. See the payments not put to your account till you believe He did it for you. When you believe it, He saves you and gives you eternal life. Therefore you do not die in your sin because your sins are paid you’re free from your sins.

It’s like you live in Athens and you know you need to get out because you were born here. You lived here, but if you died here, you’d go to hell, only in the illustration, but you couldn’t afford to move. What if somebody was to put a bunch of money into an account and all you had to do is draw on it and you would have enough to get a mansion out of the town and it’s totally paid for by somebody else?

Wouldn’t that be a wonderful thing? Well, that’s what Jesus Christ has done for us. Now take your Bible and turn to the book of 1 John and chapter two. And notice there in verse two, the Bible says in verse two and he Christ is the propitiation for our sins. Now that’s a big word, it means the satisfaction, the mercy seat, he is the payment for our sin. That’s why you hear me often make the statement, Jesus Christ made a payment for our sins.

So he says he is the payment for our sins and look at him, not for ours only, but also for the sins of the who? Whole world. Jesus made a paymentWARE for the sins of the whole world, but the payment is not put to your account to you believe. That’s why he could tell those people that he had talked to there in John chapter eight, unless you believe that I am healed, you will die in your sins. They’re not having to die for them, but they’re dying in their sins.

They refuse to accept the payment that was made for them. That’s a shame. That’s a disgrace for the judgment of individual who considered themselves to be so smart and intellectual. A payment has been made and everybody can have this free gift of eternal life. Take your Bible look here in the book of Philippians and chapter 3 Philippians chapter 3 and verse 9. You see, if the Lord says, do not die being found in your sins, then you need to be saved from your sins.

You need to be looked at as an individual who is no longer in that state of condition. When you accept Jesus Christ as your Savior, you are taken from a flesh birth and you are put into a new birth. This one is born of God, born from above. See that’s been placed in Christ. For example, when Jesus Christ was on the cross, He was in your place. He died for your sins. So in God’s eyes when you believe He did that for you, that substitution, He did it in my place.

So in God’s eyes, it’s like you went to the cross. died on the cross and paid for your sins and you come back from the dead and you go to heaven because see it’s like you paid for your sins. You did it. But see somebody did it for you though and it’s put to your account as though you did it. So you see there’s nothing that he can charge you with. See there isn’t anything that can send me to hell.

I don’t have anything to go to hell for because I’ve already paid for my sins. I paid for all of my sins when I died. I died in Christ because He did it for me in my place. I didn’t really do it, but in God’s eyes He considers the payment that He made the propitiation for my sin, the payment for my sin. God was satisfied with that payment and I go scot free. So when believe that I am delivered from my sins.

I am now a child of God and I’m going to heaven whenever I die. When you die, keep this in mind. And be found in sin. Is that what your Bible says? No. You are born in sin, you’ve lived in sin, but don’t you die being found in sin. He says and be found in Him not having my own righteousness which is of the law but that which is through the faith of Christ the righteousness which is of God by faith be found where in him.

Now you will die in this world you will either die in sin or you will die in Christ. You’ll die in sin or you’ll die in Christ. That’s why Paul says for me to live is Christ and to die is gain because I was born in Christ I live in Christ I die in Christ when you’re a child of God. You see, that’s why it’s so important for you to understand that it’s not based upon our good works. It is based only upon Christ and He says, unless you believe you shall die in your sin.

The only way you can get out of this condition is to believe that He did this payment for you. So when you believe on it, this payment that He made is put to your account as though you did it and you go scot-free. You do not deserve that. I don’t deserve that. That’s why it says for by grace or you say through faith that not of yourself, it is the gift of God, not at works lest any man should boast.

Tremendous. Take your Bible out there in the book of John in chapter 3. And here in the book of John, it makes the statement. In verse 36, he that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life. He that believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him.” Now look up here. Here is the lost man and his bowl is full and all these sins that he’s committed, the wrath of God abides on him.

And you never know when the day of execution will be. But it’s a point in that every man wants to die because of sin, every man wants to die after this, the judgment. And so the Bible says the wrath of God’s abides upon every person that’s lost. See what he says? He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life. He that believeth not the Son shall not see life cannot come. Will never see eternal life, never see heaven, never get to go.

He says, you cannot come because you will not believe. We need to understand that there’s a lot of religions in this world. A lot of religions talk about God. But Christ says, if you don’t know me, you don’t know God. So every religion in this world is wrong if they think they can get to God without Christ. There is no other name given among men whereby we must be saved. And that’s through Jesus Christ and Him alone. In John chapter 14 and verse 6, he says, I am the way, the truth and the life.

No man comes unto the Father except through Me. You don’t go through Christ. You do not go. And Christ is the one that knows whether you have or you have not believed in Him. It’s not important for everybody else to think that you are a believer. God’s the one that made heaven. He’s the one that made hell. And He’s the one that made heaven. whether you have or you have not believed or trusted him and him alone is your only hope to get to heaven.

Won’t it be a shame and a shock for a lot of people one day to find out they died in their sins and did not die in Christ? When I trusted Christ as my Savior, I was placed in Christ, I am in Christ, and I will die in Christ. You said, do you still do anything wrong? Oh, ever once in a while. But those sins have been paid for once and for all, all the sins of the world, all of mine, because I believe he did it for me.

And you say, well, you don’t deserve that. You got that right? That’s what salvation is, and that’s what grace is. So when the Bible tells us this, Jesus Christ took my wrath. I am free from this condition, but every person that’s still lost is still in their sins. The wrath of God abides on them because they have not believed. Now look at one of the verse before we close. Look there in verse 18. Verse 18 of John chapter three.

He that believeth on him is not condemned. Get that. He was condemned. But when he believed on Christ, now he is not condemned and can never go to hell. He is not condemned. There’s no condemnation to those that are in Christ, that are in him. And he found in him not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith. So he says here, but he that believeth not is condemned when.

Alright, here’s the man born in sin, lives in sin, and he will die in sin. When is he condemned? He’s always been condemned. You see, you don’t wait till you die to find out where you’re going. You don’t have to wait. lost man who is in his sins, who has not trusted Christ, is going to hell. They’re all going to hell unless somebody reaches them, explains it to them, and get them to get in Christ before they die. They will go to hell.

You will never be a good servant of the Lord. You will never be a good soul winner for the Lord if you don’t believe this. There has to be something that you see and you understand that motivates you all the days of your life to keep giving the gospel that keep trying to get people to trust the Lord as their Savior. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold.

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Look in verse 24. Well this is why I say there’s certain things that we have not yet been told. He said, and the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it. So I believe that there’s a holy city and it says it comes down from God out of heaven, but I haven’t found where it actually rests upon the earth. So maybe it hovers above the earth and the nations of the earth walk in the light of the holy city.

I haven’t found anybody who really knows. We can have our opinions and I can have mine. You can have yours but can we prove the position and Some things are just difficult to prove But it’s not going to matter to me one. Iota whether it happens above the earth or if it sets on the earth True, it’s not going to matter The greatest thing of all is we’re going to be there and you know what’s neat about all of this is there isn’t anything between now and the time we leave this world that can change that.

I like that. Nothing can change it. God can’t change it and I can’t change it. God can’t alter it. It’s a done deal. I know I’m going to be there. Well God tells us we’re going to be there but He also talks about us serving Him and ruling and reigning with Christ. And here’s nations that are going to be there. Now are there going to be lost people in eternity? I don’t know. But in verse 24 and the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it.

Are there nations that are not saved and they won’t get to walk in the light of it? I don’t know. See it doesn’t answer that. But it says everything to us has not been revealed. And I haven’t figured out all of the right sequence of when everything happens. It appears, and some people believe that the Holy Shit is going to come down and hover above the earth during the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom upon the earth, and it’s going to be there.

And that’s where we’re going to be doing the kingdom upon the earth, and there’s still going to be nations here. And blah, blah, blah. Well, I don’t know, but it appears as it’s written here that after the the millennial reign of Christ upon the earth, that then there is the great white-thrown judgment. And then after that, then a new heavens and a new earth, and then the holy city coming down. It seems like that is the proper order. And so what is all going to be taken place for all eternity?

What are we going to do? And I’m sure that when we get to heaven. Whatever it is that God has for us to do, this is going to be wonderful. We’re talking about paradise. We’re talking about where there is no such thing as any more pain or any more sufferance or anything like that. There will be no more curse. Look in verse 3 of chapter 22, look in verse 3. And there shall be, in your other underlying, those three words.

No more curse. No more. You see, that’s what you find there in chapter 21 when it talks about no more sorrow, no more pain, no more death. Why? Because there’s no more sin. You and I can’t imagine a world without sin. You can’t do it. It’s all we know. we’ve been used to as people being born and living a wicked, sinful life and pain and sorrow and destruction and death, disease, wars, that’s our life. I wonder what it would be like with none of that stuff.

You see, in this life, we’ll probably never know that. But look what he says here. In verse 25, and the gate of it shall not be shut at all by day, for there shall be no night there. Have you ever heard me make the statement that we all get to heaven on the same day, because there is no night there? So if there’s no night there, it’s just one long eternal day. And so what time of the day do we get there?

If there’s no time? That’s hard to figure out. It’s hard to put God in a little box of time. That’s why he says, when Moses says, who do I say sent me? He says, I am, that I am. That’s eternal presence. You see, in God, there’s no past. There’s no, it’s all eternal presence. We can’t understand that. You can’t sit here and really fathom in your little brain how God could have always been. And when did God start thinking about me?

He says in the book of 139th Psalm, His thoughts are always about me. How numerous they are. Well, when did He start thinking about me? When did He make me special? Have I always existed in the mind of God? If that’s true, am I as old as God? And how old is God? You can’t fathom the idea that with God, he can’t change. That’s why he says, I change not. That’s why it’s impossible for God to repent, as it says, because he’s not like man.

God can’t change his mind. You say, well, in the Bible talks about how he repented. I know, but he didn’t change his mind. God only has circumstances that change, so that it is consistent for him to do what he needs, because a circumstances change. See, God may say, I’m going to do this. But because the people did this, then God changed his mind. God is doing what is conditioned upon the circumstances of what goes on. So God may be going to say, chasing me.

But if I correct the problem and confess the sin and do right, God may bless me. But it’s not God’s mind has not been changed because God cannot change. Change cannot take place unless it changes for the better or for the worse. Now which way did God go when He’s perfect? Did He change for the worse? Did He change for the better? If He changed for the better, are you saying He wasn’t better before? That God was less. God can’t change the same yesterday, today, forever.

God can’t change. You and I can do certain things that will bring you to the blessings of God upon us or the chaste in hand of God upon us. So that is consistent with God to do whatever God does because God does not change. And you and I ought to be very thankful that God cannot change. He’s made a promise in this word, he cannot change, he cannot lie. So anyway, here in Revelation, he mentions now in verse 20, he said, And they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.

And there shall in no wise enter into it anything they defile of neither whatsoever work at the Bominations or make of the lie, but they which are written the Lamb’s book of life. So there’s a lot of things that’s not said, but there sure is a lot of things that is said. And whether or not we can grasp all of them, I doubt it if we ever will, this side of eternity. Now remember whenever we see the Lord, we will be like Him.

Turning your Bible I’m up to the book of 1 John, 1 John and 3. 1 John, 3, somebody called me up just this week and asked me the question, what are we going to look like when we get to heaven? I said, well, you’re going to have blonde hair, blue eyes. They didn’t think that was funny either. I said, how do I know what you’re going to look like? I do know that God says this, well are we all going to be about 30 years of age?

I said, that sounds good to me. But there’s the, you got a brand new body. It doesn’t have age. I mean, are you going to have crow’s feet? You can get bad eyesight up there. I mean, what are you going to look like? Are we really going to be that concerned about how we look when we get to heaven? Do you really believe that every morning in heaven, the women have to get up and put on makeup? Wouldn’t that be bad?

eternity. Well, I guess when they put it on once, he could stay there forever, couldn’t it? I should not have said that. Have you ever said something and wish you could bring that back? You’re like, I went too far. Okay. First John chapter 3, I want you to look there in verse 2, Beloved, now are we the sons of God? And it doth not yet appear what we shall be. It has not yet been shown to you. What we shall be.

You don’t know how you’re going to look. I don’t know how you’re going to look. It has not yet been revealed. But I do know that Moses and Elijah, when they appeared on the amount of transfiguration, they were recognizable. When Christ come back from the dead, they recognize him. They didn’t say, oh boy, you look young. Oh, they looked at Christ. He got gray hair and wrinkles. Maybe he looked like he was 30 years old. I don’t know. Look at the next part of the verse.

But we know that when He shall appear, we shall be like Him. For we shall see Him as He is. And we’re going to be like Him. Now, what does that mean? Now, we know there’s not male and female in heaven. From what I understand. So there’s no marriage in heaven. So who wants, hello, this is David, and there’s Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, but they’re not male anymore. That’s what made them what they are. Now, there may not be marriage in heaven, but I still believe in yankiology thinking.

I’m still going to be a guy. I don’t want to get to heaven and find out God made me a girl. I don’t want to be an angel with wings. Because I used to always hear, you know, when you die, you’re going to get your wings. word doesn’t teach anything like that. That when you get to heaven, God’s going to give you some wings. Like I can’t get around without wings. Whenever they saw Jesus come back from the gate, hey, look at those pretty wings he has.

It doesn’t say he had wings. It doesn’t say anything about us having wings. I’m not sure if all the angels had wings, but anyway, bypass that. But he said, when he shall appear, we shall be like him. We shall see him as he is. Jesus, I venture to say, probably looked a lot like He did because they were able to recognize Him. Now, there was a time when He came back from the dead and He was walking along and they didn’t recognize Him.

It wasn’t until He had prayer and He break the bread and gave things and then all of a sudden their eyes were open and they knew who it was. Now, what did He do? I don’t know. But whatever kind of body He had, He was able to walk through walls, he could appear and disappear at will. I like that part. And whatever kind of body head I’m going to have a body like that and I’m going to be able to do that.

I believe and I don’t know all the rest of it. There’s something that God has not seen fit to tell us. And as I’ve gone through the Scriptures and I’m always looking with a blank glass, I’m looking for every hint I can always find. And some things I can’t find. There’s something God doesn’t, He doesn’t speak on it. It doesn’t tell us everything. But I’m not the smartest man in the world either. You might find something that I don’t know anything about.

Go back here to Revelation in chapter 21. In chapter 21, he’s finished up saying about the holy city, describing it. Christ says I go to prepare a place, Not a state of mind, place for you, that where I am there you may be also. And this is where he’s going to be because he says right there in verse 22, the lamb is going to be there. And then he makes the statement in the book of 1 Thessalonians in chapter four, verses 13 down to verse 18, and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

So wherever the Lord is, we’re gonna be with him. So when he comes down, he rules and reigns, we’ll be with him. Wherever he is, we’re gonna be there with him. Now, look in chapter 22. I just want to try to see if I can get to the first six verses here. Because this kind of goes together. And verse one, he said, and he showed me a pure river of water of life. You know that little song we sing?

I haven’t got a river of life flowing out of me. That also comes from John chapter seven, where it talks about the river of life and they’re supposed to be in you a well of water, springing up in their everlasting life. But this is the way of the Spirit, which they don’t believe on him, should receive. But here it talks about, and he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and on the Lamb.

Now how can you and I picture that? Draw a real picture of what we see. It’s impossible. So everybody is free to imagine it, I guess, as much as you want to. And you can read it a hundred times and try to visualize what must be like. All that God tells us of this, in the book of Genesis, everything became cursed. And now we sin, there’s no more curse. Everything is going to be perfect for all eternity. No more sin, no more death.

Everything’s going to be changed. So it starts off in the Bible with how everything fell and how everything now is restored and the way that God wanted it to be. what he says. And this is why sometime we talk about, you know, the shade of the tree. Meant Betty just sung it’s your song where it’s all about. I’ll rest underneath the Evergreen tree. It talks about a tree that’s evergreen, always producing, has different kinds of fruit on it and it yields fruit every month.

Look what it says. In the mist of the street of it, and on either side of the river, there was the tree of life, which bared twelve men are of fruit and yielded her fruit every month. Now that’s a pretty good fruit. a tree that yields different kinds of fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. Now how do you explain that? What’s going on? See, when we get there, everything will be clear.

Now you can try to figure out what does this mean. Now we know that in the book of Genesis, there was a tree of life. True? And that God, after Adam and Edith had sinned, had to put an angel there and guard the tree of life, lest they eat of the fruit of the tree and stay forever in that condition. What it appears. So there’s more to this than what we’ll ever understand. And there’s things that God has done and it didn’t explain.

I’ve often wondered, whatever happened to that tree, even the one that Adam and Eve ate of, the tree of life where the angel had to guard. Well, what happened to that tree? The baby grew across, the little girl. That’s what some people say, but we don’t know whatever happened to that tree. But we know that Jesus is the tree that was cursed and then becomes a tree of life. So it starts off with the tree, it ends up with the tree.

And he is, as it says, by his stripes we are healed. Now, whether that we, you can make sermons out of all the stuff that refers to Christ. But whether not that’s the primary meaning or when that time comes, we’ll see this is what God meant, and the Word of God will become so alive to us. We’re going to see things that we never saw, and we will see visual pictures of what God actually meant. And until then, we just got to walk by faith, taking God at his word, because we can’t see it with a naked eye.

It’s hard for us to fathom and to explain it. And though then he says here in verse three, And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the lamb shall be in it, and his servant shall serve him. And whatever it is that we’re supposed to do, whether or not it’s looking us as the bride of price, as servants, usually don’t look at your wife as a servant, or whether or not this is a reference to someone else, or to the people that are still up on the earth and other nations and so forth.

God talks about us ruling in rain with him, but whether or not we’ll be eternal servants of God. I don’t know, it doesn’t seem to fit as a wife, but then what do I know? I don’t have all the answers to this. And a preacher who tells you he knows the answer all of this here? Probably lying, making it up. Now you can make up a lot of things, but I try to go by, do I have any evidence to back up what I’m saying?

And when I don’t, when the scriptures are silent, it’s best to be silent. the scripture speak, speak, say what it says. But it’s not good to say that God said and God didn’t say. That’s not very wise. But look what he says here in verse 4. He said, and they shall see his face, and his name shall be in their foreheads. And there shall be no night there, no night. They need no candle, neither light of the sun, for the Lord God giveth them light, and they shall reign, and here’s forever and ever.

Now we know the kingdom of heaven is at thousand year rain, but that’s temporary. That’s just for a thousand years. This here, rainin, is for how long? Forever, forever. No end to this. And then he says in verse eight, and he said unto me, these sayings are faithful and true. The Lord God of the Holy prophets in his angel to show unto his servants the things which must shortly be done, shortly be done. That was 2000 years ago. But with God, what’s time?

Time to us seemed like a mighty long period of time. But when you compare this little bit of time to eternity, there is no time. You can’t compare it. And then he says in verse seven, Behold, I come quickly. Blessed is he that keepeth or guard of these things. Remember these things, the sayings of the prophecy of this book. So that’s why we’re supposed to read it, Study it, believe it, and be challenged and motivated by it so that we can continue to do the thing that God wants us to do.

To me, as I study these things, it kind of refreshes my mind. Helps me remember what I’m supposed to be doing, the priorities of life, because you and I know that the things of this world are gonna all pass away. I want you to look at the two verses before we close. Look here in the book of 2 Corinthians in chapter 5. 2 Corinthians 5. Now the Bible also says that While we’re in this world, we may be considered or looked upon as being poor, not having much.

But I guess that could be relative based upon who you compare yourself with. I met a lot of people in India that would love to have our poverty stricken life. In 2 Corinthians and chapter 4, look there in verse 16, for which cause we faint none. In the words we don’t stop, we don’t quit. But though our outward man perish, this old body that you and I have. We’re getting older, we’re going to have old age problems. Unless the Lord just takes you out of here.

Since I hit 60 years of age, you’d be surprised what my body has gone through. It seems like I got away with it for about 50 years. It seemed like nothing happen to me. I’m invincible. I’m Superman.” And then I hit 60. Buddy, I find out how frail and fragile I am. And it doesn’t matter about the will that you have. Have you ever seen this? You know, some people are, they’re under death bed. And the person can be in the coma.

And people will talk about how, well, this person is a fighter. This person is a real fighter. You know, it doesn’t have anything to do with how much that person wants to fight. If God’s going to die, that person’s going to die. I haven’t seen any person who has enjoyed life don’t want to live. But when that time comes, the body naturally fights to live. You want to live. Most of us really don’t want to physically die. But we know that we’re going to someday.

And one person who came in this bed and one person in this bed, and they both are fighting for their life, but it’s not going to be so much because of the will of the person. Now sometimes yes, the attitude and so forth that you have and the will to live, but you can’t make the body heal itself as much as we’d like to. And sometimes regardless of how desirous you want to live, you’re going to die. And I’ve been into enough hospitals and I’ve done enough funerals.

I’ve watched enough. And I’ve been with people when they have drawn their last bread and James was talking about He’d done the same thing. And so I’ve seen it and it doesn’t matter. Well, I’m gonna live because I have the will to live. No, the outward man will perish. Yet the inward man is renewed day by night. \/ Spiritually speaking, you can become stronger every day. But get what he says in verse 17, For our light affliction, what light affliction?

This time that you and I live, God calls it also a time of sorrow. for the sufferings of this time, just to be out of heaven, not to be there. In this world, the time you live, this is the time of suffering. When you realize where you’re going, this is a time of suffering. But God says, this time of suffering cannot be compared with the glory you’re going to get. And this is just a light moment in comparison to eternity.

What do you say? Light offlation, which is but for a moment, work it for us a far more exceeding any turn on, weight of glory. While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen, God’s asking us to see things that you can’t see. And that means taking God at His word that all of it’s true. And that pulls you through all the heart, it can all the sorrow. And some, listen, just think for a moment.

Let’s suppose you were married and you got a, you know, three or four kids, And they’ve taken everything that you have away from you, and you’re facing lions, hungry lions, and the Colosseum in Rome. And they’re going to either feed your kids or your wife to those lions if you don’t recant and say you do not know Christ, or Caesar is king, then not Christ is king. What would you do? Did you know there’s people who actually had that happen?

And literally, watch their families eating alive. Or watch their wives as they would take, put sharp stakes into the ground. And then they would take their wife, and it set them down on that sharp stake and run it all the way up through them. And then put pitch on them. And Nero would light his lights around his palace with people’s bodies burning alive. That’s what they’d do to him. And you would watch that happen. But if your faith isn’t strong in the Lord, what no, where would you do?

And that’s why you can’t look at the things of this language are temporal. But how strong would your faith be to really believe? It would be worth it all. There are a lot of people who have suffered greatly over the years. There’s a book that we had to read when I was in Florida Bible College called Fox’s Book of Martyrs. Anybody ever heard of it? Fox’s Book of Martyrs. Get the book and read it and see if you don’t get close to be nauseated.

It’ll make you sick, realizing what they did, and persecuting God’s people. But he says, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. And that’s a good thing to keep in mind. Look up here, this hand represents you and me. The wall represents sin. We all have sin. And God says that he loves us, but he hates our sin.

And just like we know that you’ve got to be perfect to go to heaven, it says, the holy city It’s a perfect place and no sin can enter therein. Not a lie, not whatsoever, or make of the abomination, but they whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. So that means that to go to heaven, you have to have your name written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. And the only way you can get your names written in the Lamb’s Book of Life is to believe on the Lamb.

It means that trust Christ is your Savior and your name will be written in the Lamb’s Book of Life. When I was 18 years old and I believed that Christ died on that cross and paid for my sins He came back from the dead. My name was written down. And there’s no eraser on his pen because he didn’t make a mistake and did it at all. Now, God says that we cannot earn eternal life, but we need a Savior.

This hand represents Jesus Christ, God in the flesh. He came into the world because He loved us, hates our sin because it separates us from Him. So Christ took the sin, paid for it on the cross, and came back from the dead. And said, if we would believe that He did it for us, it put this payment to our account, we get to go to heaven on what Christ did. That’s a gift, that’s free. That’s the best news in the world.

Let’s pray, shall we? With every head bowed and every eye closed and no one looking around, if you never trusted Christ as your Savior, then you will not get to go to heaven. You will not live in this holy city. Why not right now in the quietness of this moment? Just talk to the Lord and say something like this, Lord, I know I’m a sinner. I have questions, I got doubts. But friend, you don’t have to know everything in the world.

All you need to know is a few basic things. You have sinned. You’re condemned to a literal fire burning hell. And the only way you can keep from going to hell is to accept the payment Christ made on the cross for your sins. He died for you so that you don’t have to pay for your sins. Will you trust Him? Depend upon Him to take you to heaven when you die. And God promises in His word that if you’ll believe it, He’ll save you.

Our Father, we thank You so much for all You’ve done for us. We’re thankful for the free gift of eternal life. And I pray, Lord, Your will, to be done in the lines of each person here. And those that listen by internet, that they would be blessed by the teaching of Your Word. And that if they’ve never trusted, just say that they would do so. Even now, in Christ and then we pray, Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr.

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We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s first part of this two-part message will be a blessing to you and your family. in your Bible to the book of Revelation, the book of Revelation and chapter 21, chapter 21. We’re getting close to the end here, ain’t we? But they say that a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, that’s good, but you know, I don’t know if I would trade a picture for the 23rd Psalm or the Bill of Rights.

Not even a thousand words. But you know, I wondered why God never put pictures in the Bible. I mean, He could have. He could have gave us a picture. I wouldn’t mind seeing a few pictures. But sometimes it’s left up to an artist’s rendition of what they think something looks like. And as you read the Bible, you know the importance of trying to visualize it in your mind. And that’s one of the joys of reading a book. Anybody who reads, you can see pictures and stories that really make things come alive.

And so when it comes to the Bible, God says, I have not seen, ear have not heard, neither has entered into the heart of men, the things which God has prepared for them that love them. Now there’s some things, yes, God says, by His Spirit, He had to reveal to us and those are the deep things of God. But He also says the secret things belong unto the Lord. But there’s something that He kind of gives us a glimpse of.

I don’t know how in the Word you could have taken one picture of the Holy City and says this is what it’s all like without the description that God gives in His Word. So as we read about this Holy City, you try to figure out what you think it looks like. How do you think it’s going to be? And I believe that you’re not even going to be able to come close. Have you ever thought about something and you imagine it a certain way and then you see it and it’s not that way at all?

What is heaven going to be like? If it says that the glory in heaven is going to be so big and vast and different than any amount of suffering that we go through down here. The way you word the sufferings of this person time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that we’re going to have. So it means you can’t even compare it. Can’t compare. What is there in this world that we can compare this holy city to?

We cannot imagine what it’s going to be like. So here in Revelation chapter 21 it says, and I saw a new heavens and a new earth coming down from God out of heaven prepared as a bride of doing for her husband. And it says, then I John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem. And to think that they actually saw it coming down from God out of heaven. And I’d try to picture that in my mind. To go up on a high mountain.

So how would you be up on a high mountain? Well, you see there in verse 10, he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, showed me that great city. the Holy Jerusalem descending. That means it hasn’t arrived yet, but they can see it on its way. I’ve often wondered what in the world are people on the earth going to think when they see something from coming from out of space? But what I want you to see is the curse is now removed.

God wipes away all tears from everybody’s eyes. And then in verse 90 says, and there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues. talk with me saying, come hither, I will show thee the bride, the lamb’s wife. Now so that you know the lamb’s wife, now who is the lamb? Well that’s Christ. Well who’s the bride? Well that’s us. From Pentecost to the Rapture we are Foreman. The bride.

And we are going to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And we are going to be married to Christ. And so we are the bride. And where are we going to live? Remember in John chapter 14, he says, I go to prepare a place for you. That where I am there, you may be also. And this is typical of the Jewish tradition that the sun would go and prepare a place. And the Father, that’s why Jesus Christ made this statement.

He says, all that the Father, giveth me, shall come to me. So it’s kind of like, you know, God is calling out of people for His name and there’s this perfect bride for the perfect son and they’re going to get married. And so one of the days He’s going to come, but wouldn’t it be great if we could see something happening even before the rapture? Now we don’t know with the exact day or the hour, but I don’t know if there’s anything that says they wouldn’t be able to see.

If they can see them coming in at the end of the tribulation period, and it says, every eye will see them coming in clouds of glory. That’s coming from out of space with the cloud of glory, like the Chicano glory in the Old Testament, talking about the Holy Spirit. You’re talking about they’re being able to detect something coming from out there. I think it’d be wonderful. But I always wondered, God didn’t give us pictures, but He gave us word pictures, so that you can try to imagine what this must be like.

You see, remember the other day I told you about trying to paint a picture of what hell is like, so that people would know what they need to flee from, why they need to trust Christ as their savior. Well, it’s not only that we need to fear what could happen to us if we reject Christ, But what we’re going to get, because we did trust Christ. So one is like fear and the other one is like love. So we’re going to be, I guess, looking forward to the place where we’re going to go.

We’re going to go to a literal place called heaven. And that we’re going to live in the Holy City. So if you’ll notice here in verse 9, I will show thee the bride, the lamb’s wife. So he carried me away and he showed me that great city, the Holy Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God. So they will see it coming. I believe this is where the bride of Christ, the wife of the son, is we’re going to live.

I will go and prepare a place for you and in my father’s house are many mansions or many rooms or. Now how big is this holy city? What does it look like? Look at some of the descriptions of this holy city. This is where you’re going to go. I can’t explain all of it. No preacher can. It’s too deep. There’s too many things that we cannot visualize when it says about certain foundations in a wall or a gate, a pearl.

Have you ever figured out how much pearls are worth? I don’t even know if I’ve ever seen a real one. I may have, I don’t know. I have. My wife says I’ve seen a real one. I don’t know if I’ve ever bought her a real one, but I don’t know. I shouldn’t have said that. And you’re one of us, the biggest pearl that could ever be. Well, how big do you think the pearl is that forms the gate and there’s 12 of them?

How rich, how valuable is it? If people down here kill themselves for a few little pearls, and we’re gonna have a gate of pearl and how big this gate is, I haven’t got a clue. But now look what he says. He says here in verse 11, the last part of it, he said, having the glory of God. Now that’s the perfection of God. This is a perfect city for perfect people. And you look over there in verse 27, and there shall in no wise enter into it, anything that they follow, neither whatsoever work of the domination or make of the life, but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

That’s the only one who gets to go into this holy city. But now get this. He says, her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like under a Jasper stone, clearest crystal. Now you can try to explain all you want to, you can get all the commentary, but nobody, you can’t really tell what that looks like. There are word and there’s descriptive, but it kinda leaves you hanging. God dangles truth out. Doesn’t totally satisfy in everything. But knowing that there is a place, that’s the most beautiful place, most wonderful place in all the world.

Whatever heaven is, whatever this holy city is, it’s gonna be worth everything. It will be worth the payment that Christ made on the cross because we are the trophies of His grace. He did all of this for us. He made this world originally for us. Put that garden and put people for us. And he did all of that for us because he loves us. And so he says here in verse 12, and he had a great wall and high.

He had 12 gates at the gate, 12 angels, names written upon, which are the names of the 12 tribes of the children of Israel. So we got the 12 tribes of Israel covered. In verse 13, and on the east, three gates, on the north, three gates, on the south, three gates, on the west, three gates. And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. So we got the twelve apostles covered.

And God says that the time is coming when all of us doing that thousand year reign upon the earth will all be together. But it does describe about God given the earth to the nation of Israel, and they will rule, and God is promised. So all those promises to Israel are real and they’re literal and they will be fulfilled. But God has promised certain things to the church and that’s why He had blessed us in heavenly places. So that is ours and this is theirs.

And it says that I believe the holy city will hover above the earth and the nations of the earth and there will still be nations, there will still be kings, throughout eternity. they will walk in the light of the Holy City. Look what he says here. In verse 15, and he talked with me, I had a golden reed to measure the city, which is about 10 feet. And the gates thereof and the wall thereof, and the city lie up four square.

So many times you’ll see drawings and it’ll have a square and then on the top of it, like a pyramid. Now, I don’t know if it has a pyramid like on the top of it or not. The Bible described it as a square, square. And it says that the height and the breadth and the length is all the same size. It’s about 1500 miles long, high and wide. That’s a pretty good size city. That is over half the size of the United States, a city.

And look what he says in verse 16, and the city life four square And the length is as large as the breadth. And he measured the city with the reed 12,000 furlum, the length and the breadth and the height are all equal. And he measured the wall thereof, 140 and 4 cubics, according to the measure of a man. That is of the angel or the messenger. They usually kind of a standard. They would say it was between the elbow and the tip of the fingers.

But I don’t know if that would work too good it was a small man or if he was a large man or if that’s just an average man, I don’t know. And then he makes a statement. And the building of the wall of it was of Jasper. And the city was pure gold, like in the clear glass. Now think about this, people down here will kill each other for gold, for treasures, riches. If you want to know how wicked people are really, Maybe they don’t go in and rob banks like they used to and everybody’s on their, you know, they jump on their horses and they ride into this place and they, you know, kill a bunch of people and rob a bank and they ride off into the sunset.

But we have people a day that are dressed in three-piece suits and some of them become politicians, some of them are in stocks and bonds and up there for Wall Street. But we have thieves everywhere that are robbing people blind. Don’t you get tired of every time you turn on the news? Some body is ripped off somebody. They’re ripping off Medicare. They’re ripping off this person. They’re ripping off this. Everybody, ripping off everybody. Everybody’s trying to make as much money as they can.

And it’s like nobody has any decency as far as any character. This is a virtue. It’s like it’s a virtue to be a good thief. Just don’t get caught. And so everybody is so wicked. And that’s the world which we live in. God said, none of that will be in heaven. There won’t be anybody trying to do anybody wrong anymore. Down here you have to watch everything you do because nobody trusts anybody. We’re so untrustworthy. We’re just not trustworthy, not all.

But look what he says. He makes a statement in verse 19, and the foundation of the wall of the city garnish with all men are precious stones. Now some of these various kinds of stone, I ain’t got to clue what they look like. You can look up in a dictionary and see all the things and they got stone. I’ve seen all of that, but I can’t remember that. I cannot imagine what this foundation looks like. I’ve tried to picture all these different kinds of stone.

Is it going to be one layer of this, one layer of that? All I know is it. God is describing it, and John saw it. He’s trying to put it down. No, world is going to look like one city. And then the city is like pure gold, transparent glass. You see what it says here? In verse 21, and the 12 gates were 12 pearls. Every individual gate was one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold as it were transparent glass.

Now God says that there won’t be no temple in it. Looking for 22, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. So it shows you that they are God the Father and God the Son. And that they’re both there. Now are we going to see students always? Am I going to see three of them up there? Or am I going to see just one of them up there? I don’t know and I don’t care.

God is God, and He reveals Himself in three persons. And each one is equally God. And you and I will never this side of eternity ever be able to truly explain it. I try to tell kids. Oh, it’s kind of like you got water, H2O. It can come in solid, liquid, or gas. In regards to the form, it’s still water. But each one of them is not the same at the same time. They’re not all exactly gas at the same time.

The water that’s liquid is not gas. So maybe it can still break down. So I can’t find that perfect illustration. Now I know I’ve sometime referred to here I am. I am my mother’s son. That’s who I am. I am my mother’s son. And I am my wife’s husband. I am my children’s dad. So to them I am different, but I am still only one person. So I guess I could say in all of that, I am still just human, but we can’t come up with a perfect illustration that doesn’t break down somewhere.

I don’t know if you can truly define God until we see Him, and we will see Him as He is. That day is coming. And the Bible says, we shall see Him face to face. God says so far, nobody’s seen Him. But one day, face to face, and we are going to literally see the Lord. And that day is coming. See, look in verse 4 of chapter 22. In verse 4, it says, and they, and you ought to underline this, they shall see his face.

They shall see his face. Now, back to the Revelation in chapter 21. It says there in verse 23, and the city had no need of the Son, Neither of the moon to shine in it for the glory of God did lighten it and the lamb is the light thereof So we don’t have to worry about turn on electricity Now try to picture up how everybody can see everything and there’s no source of light except God is the light He is the light now whether or not we are going to be shining as lights because it talks about that in the book of Daniel in chapter 12 that you know lights and deferment and so forth and Christ says that ye are the lights of the world, so we will be little light bulbs all of them, heaven I don’t know, but I know that we’re going to shine for the

Lord and we’ll be dressed in the perfection of Christ. Will there be any glow about us? I don’t know. It’ll be interesting. But what do you imagine? In your mind as you read this and you think about this, are you trying to picture it what it looks like? Try to put it together. And then I’ll bet you that each person in here has a different view. Oh, that’s not how I see it. That’s not how I see it. Draw the holy city.

Get your piece of paper and a pencil and draw what you imagine if you can. And it’s indescribable. Looking in verse 24. Well, this is why I say there’s certain things that we have not yet been told. and the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it. So I believe that there’s a holy city and it says it comes down from God out of heaven, but I haven’t found where it actually rests upon the earth.

So maybe it hovers above the earth and the nations of the earth walk in the light of the holy city. I don’t know. I haven’t found anybody who really knows. We can have our opinions and I can have mine, you can have yours. But can we prove the position? Some things are just difficult to prove. But it’s not going to matter to me. One, Iota, whether it’s above the earth or if it sets on the earth. True? It’s not going to matter.

The greatest thing of all is we’re going to be there. And you You know what’s neat about all of this? Is there isn’t anything between now and the time we leave this world that can change that? I like that. Nothing can change it. God can’t change it, and I can’t change it. God can’t alter it. It’s a done deal. I know I’m going to be there. Well, God tells us we’re going to be there, but He also talks about us serving Him and ruling and reigning with Christ.

And here’s nations that are going to be there. Now, are there going to be lost people? I don’t know, but in verse 24, and the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it. Are there nations that are not saved and they won’t get to walk in the light of it? I don’t know. See, it doesn’t answer that. But it says everything to us has not been revealed. And I haven’t figured out all of the right sequence of when everything happens.

It appears, and some people believe that the Holy Shit is going to come down and hover above the earth during the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom upon the earth, and it’s going to be there. And that’s where we’re going to be doing the kingdom upon the earth. And there’s still going to be nations here. And blah, blah, blah. Well, I don’t know, but it appears as it’s written here that after the millennial reign of Christ upon the earth, that then there’s the great white throne judgment.

And then after that, then a new heavens and on New Earth and then the Holy City coming down. It seems like that is the proper order. And so what is all going to be taken place for all eternity? What are we going to do? And I’m sure that when we get to heaven, whatever it is that God has for us to do, this is going to be wonderful. We’re talking about paradise. We’re talking about where there is no such thing is any more pain or any more suffrage or anything like that.

There will be no more curse. Look in verse 3 of chapter 22. Look in verse 3. And there shall be, in your underlying, those three words, no more curse. No more. You see, that’s what you find there in chapter 21, when it talks about no more sorrow, no more pain, no more death. Why? Because there’s no more sin. And you and I can’t imagine a world without sin. You can’t do it. It’s all we know. All we’ve been used to as people being born and living a wicked, sinful life and pain and sorrow and destruction and death, disease, wars, that’s our life.

I wonder what it would be like with none of that stuff. You see, in this life, we’ll probably never know that. But look what he says here. In verse 25, And the gate of it shall not be shut at all by day, for there shall be no night there. Have you ever heard me make the statement that we all get to heaven on the same day because there is no night there? So if there’s no night there, it’s just one long eternal day.

And so what time of the day do we get there? If there’s no time? That’s hard to figure out. It’s hard to put God in a little box of time. That’s why he says, when Moses said, well, who do I say sent me? He says, I am that I am. That’s eternal presence. You see, with God, there’s no past, there’s no, it’s all eternal presence. We can’t understand that. You can’t sit here and really fathom in your little brain how God could have always been.

And when did God start thinking about me? He says in the book of 139th Psalm, his thoughts are always about me. How numerous they are. Well, when did he start thinking about me? When did he make me special? Have I always existed in the mind of God? If that’s true, am I as old as God? And how old is God? You can’t fathom the idea that with God, he can’t change. That’s why he says, I changed none. That’s why it’s impossible for God to repent as it says, because he’s not like man.

God can’t change his mind. You say, well, in the Bible talks about how he repented. I know, but he didn’t change his mind. God only has circumstances that change so that it is consistent for him to do what he needs because of circumstances change. See, God may say, I’m going to do this, but because the people did this, then God did that. Not God changed his mind. God is doing what is conditioned upon the circumstances of what goes on.

So God may be going to say, chasing me, but if I correct the problem and confess the sin and do right, God may bless me. But God’s mind has not been changed because God cannot change. Change cannot take place unless it changes for the better or for the worse. Now which way did God go when He’s perfect? Did he change for the worse? It changed for the better. If he changed for the better, are you saying he wasn’t better before?

That God was less, God can’t change the same yesterday, today, forever. God can’t change. You and I can do certain things that will bring you to the blessings of God upon us or the chasing hand of God upon us. So that is consistent with God to do whatever God does because God does not change and you and I ought to be very thankful that God cannot Change He’s made a promise in his word. He cannot change. He cannot lie So anyway here in Revelation He mentions now in verse 20 said and they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it and and there shall in no wise enter into it anything day to be followed, neither whatsoever work at the Bominations or make of the life, but they which are written the Lamb’s book of life.

So there’s a lot of things that’s not said, but there sure is a lot of things that is said. And whether or not we can grasp all of them, I doubt it if we ever will, this side of eternity. Now remember whenever we see the Lord, we will be like Him. Turn your Bible to the book of 1 John, 1 John, and 3. 1 John 3, somebody called me up just this week and asked me the question, what are we going to look like when we get to heaven?

I said, well, you’re going to have blond hair, blue eyes. They didn’t think I was funny either. I said, how do I know what you’re going to look like? But I do know that God says this, well are we all gonna be about 30 years of age? I said, that sounds good to me. But there’s see, you got a brand new body. It doesn’t have age. I mean, are you gonna have crow’s feet? You gonna get bad eyesight up there?

I mean, what are you gonna look like? Are we really gonna be that concerned about how we look when we get to heaven? Do you really believe that every morning in heaven, the women have to get up and put on makeup? Wouldn’t that be bad? for eternity. Well, I guess when he put it on once, he could stay there forever, couldn’t it? I should not have said that. Have you ever said something and wish you could bring it back?

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Now you’ve heard me say this before. In the book of Genesis, which is the first book, in the Bible. And chapter 5 and verse 1 where it says, and this is the book of the generation of Adam in the day that God created Adam. And it says Adam lived so long and he died. And then he lived so long and he died. And Lamac lived so long and they died. But regardless of how long they lived they all died.

Because you see, that’s the book of the living. Everybody born into the world. It’s like your name’s in the book of the living, but you can also die. But your name’s in the book of the living. And everything you said thought did, God says every idle word is all recorded because God says he’s going to bring everything back. And so the people who reject Christ as Savior, when they stand at the great white throne judgment, they’re going to be judged out of the book according to their works.

See what it says verse 13 and the sea and gave up the dead which were in it. Death, that’s the body. Hell, that’s the soul. So for example, if you were to die right now, your body would be here, but you’re not there. If you’re a believer absent from the body, present with the Lord. But if you’re an unbeliever absent from the body, present in hell, that’s a temporary hell, place called shield, the Old Testament, Hades in the New Testament, but it’s the place of the departed dead.

So that means that that’s where a person will go, and their soul is in hell. Now that’s only a temporary hell. Nobody right now see is in the final hell, which is called Gehenna, the final lake of fire. So if a lost man dies, body goes through the grave, soul goes into the place of torment. At the Great White Throne Judgment, death, the bodies, and held the soul, are going to stand at the Great White Throne Judgment and be judged out of the books according to their works.

So these are already lost people. These not saved people to see which way they go. These are already going to the same place, which is the place called Jahina, the final fire. But they’re judged out of their work. This determines not only the justness of God that He has a right to cast them into hell, but determines the punishment they receive in hell, which there being judged according to the light that they have received. See God knows what every person knows, the possibilities, the limitation.

God knows everything, every fact, in every case concerning every individual and God will be justified whatever he does and God will prove that. So I guess you could say God has a video camera and he’s videoing you everything, even your thoughts, your motives so that whenever God judges that lost man at the Great White Throne judgment, God will be just. God has to do right. He has to be fair and God’s going to show you what he’s doing. And he says that God is not a respecter of persons.

I believe his word is true. But you see the last part of verse 13, death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them. So these are people who were in hell, hell, now are standing at the Grey White Throne judgment, and they were judged every man according to their works.” You see, the saved man isn’t judged according to his works. Because his work has nothing to do with where he goes to heaven or hell. A say man’s going to heaven because of the work of Christ, not his.

His sins have been forgiven. They’re not to be brought up anymore. But the lost man who refused has got to answer. And I believe we’ll be there at this judgment. And I believe everything in everybody, in every angel. Because the Bible says shall not even the saint judge the angels. And how and what way? I do. I don’t know. That’s in 1 Corinthians 6, but I believe the Word of God is true, and so God says it, I believe it.

And it says, every man according to their worth, and get verse 14, and death and hell were cast into the every one of those that came from there are cast into the lake of fire. Get this. This is the, what? Second death. Same as you find over there in verse 8. second death. These are those who have not accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior. Now those who have God says they’ll never sin again. There’ll be no more death, no more pain.

But what about the people who don’t trust the Lord? The Bible says there, and if you look there in verse 10 of chapter 20, and the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and Brenstone were the beast and the false prophet are and shall be tormented day and night for how long? Ever and ever. Now either that means what it says or it doesn’t mean what it says. I noticed something I did it over there in India, when we had over a thousand or so that one night on a Thursday night, I not only just said, you know, Christ died on the cross and He paid for our sins.

I realize that they can’t truly understand a need for a Savior if there’s nothing to be saved from. Everybody’s gonna die. Okay, big deal about that. So come on a I’m going to die. Everybody’s going to die. But I wanted them to see what they needed to be saved from. So I spent a little time describing hell. And there were a lot of kids, a lot of teenagers, a lot of adults. And they sat there and they listened like this.

They didn’t move. And kids sat there for over two hours. I mean hundreds of little kids. And they didn’t have to have Mom and Daddy sitting with them, all the little kids were sitting together, and they all sat there, and they all listened. And there was not one time to have to discipline anybody. But when I gave the gospel, after explaining hell, I had more trust, Christ, as Savior, because the Sunday before that, I simply gave the gospel, I explained it clearly, but I didn’t hit hell like I think if I could do it over again.

I would definitely hit hell a lot harder. Because you see, they gotta know what do they need a savior for. See, if there is no real hell, and there is no eternity to it, and it’s just over like that, or after a period of time, God’s Word doesn’t say, they said it’s forever and ever and ever. And there is no escape, there is no end to it. And so, I believe more people today don’t trust the Lord because they don’t believe there’s a hell.

It’s don’t believe it’s a hell. Well, what am I need Christ for? Well, Christ is a Savior, save me from hell. But there’s a lot of preachers, they know that teaching on hell makes people feel uncomfortable, and they don’t want to have that uncomfortable experience. So they don’t talk about heaven, they don’t talk about hell, just everybody just loved one another and be kind one to another and it’s a social gospel. Well, in my mind, people are going to die, And it doesn’t matter how well they lived here.

It’s where they go and when they die. And I believe they need to understand there’s something to be saved from. And there is a literal hell. And it’s amazing at the, after all these books, here in the last book, right before God says there’ll be a new heavens and a new earth, there’s this great white throne judgment. And it’s just something that seems like in our own mind, There ought to be one. There ought to be a judgment. Has there been in your time in your life when you felt like somebody’s done you’re wrong and you didn’t get even with them?

You let them get away with it. But you knew down deep in your heart, I hope they get theirs. Somewhere along the line, it’s just not right for them to get away with murder. And some people commit murder and in this life, get away with it. In life, I remember years ago, There’s always on a program on TV, crime doesn’t pay. It most certainly does. Look at Washington. Most people are thieves. And they’re corrupt, and people are in it for whatever they can get out of it.

Yes, there is a judgment, and it should be a judgment. And it should be according to what’s right. And if you don’t take vengeance upon somebody, it’s because we believe that God will get him eventually. We always believe that you’re going to get yours. And that’s so true. day is coming. Just trust the Lord and let it alone and God will take care of it. Now, I want you to take your Bible and look there in the book of Exodus.

Chapter 32, on page 114 in your Bible, Exodus chapter 32, and look down there in verse 30, verse 30. It says, and it came to pass on the moral that Moses said unto the people, you have Send a great sin. Now I will go up unto the Lord. Perdventure I shall make an atonement for your sins. Mosers, if we turned unto the Lord and says, O this people, have sinned the great sinned and have made them gods of gold.

Yet now if thou wilt forgive their sin, and if not, blot me I pray the out of thy book which thou has written. Now it seemed like automatically as he send me to hell if you’re not going to forgive these people. I guess you can read it in there but it really didn’t say all of that but you also have to understand there is the book of living. Every person born to the world, there’s the books the Bible says that and described there is the books and in those books is your works but that’s only those from the first birth because the second birth doesn’t have to worry about being judged by your works to determine the amount of punishment you receive in hell because that’s all those people who are come from Hades or shield and then are cast into the place called Gahina.

So that’s the books. He He says, you can’t have your name blooded out of the book of life, but you can have your name blooded out of the book of the living. It’s fine. When you die, when you die, nothing else is added to that book. But literally says in verse 33, and the Lord said unto Moses, who so ever have sinned against me, him will I blood out of my book? Now if he’s talking about salvation, who hasn’t sinned against him?

everybody’s sinned against God. So then that means everybody is going to hell if that’s what it’s referring to. But we know that can’t be true. So sometimes you use the a little logic. But God did say that he was going to do this to them. See there in verse 34. Therefore now go and lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken to them. Behold mine angel shall go before them. Nevertheless in the day when I visit, I will visit their sin upon them and the Lord plagued the people.

And many people died because of the plague. So God brought them out because of their sin they ceased to live. Moses could have died, but he didn’t die. The people who committed the sin against God. They died. But I don’t believe you can say, well, most of the sin brought my name out of the book of life. It’s impossible. But out of the book of living, yes, you can die because everybody sins. Everybody will die. And so yes, that’s going to take place.

Look in Luke in chapter 10. Look in the Gospel of Luke, chapter 10. Matthew, Mark, and Luke, book of Luke and chapter 10. You see, Jesus had sent out His disciples. There were 70 of them, they went out by twos, and they came back. And He says they’re in verse 17. And the 70 returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name. And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.” Now see, this is what he promised to these 70 and they went and they did and they came back and they gave their report. But look what he says in verse 20. Notwithstanding in this rejoiced not that the spirits are subject unto you, but you ought to underline this part of the verse, but rather rejoice because your names will one day at the end of your life if you’ve been good enough and after the judgment are going to be written in the book of life.

Or was their names already written in the book of life? He says rejoiced because your names are written in heaven. So you see, when you trusted Christ as your Savior, you’re born into God’s family and that is the book of life. You became a child of God. You had a new birth, a new child, a new birth, a new name. That’s why when you studied the seven churches in Revelation in chapter two, and it says to him that overcomeeth, I will give him a new name.

Why a new name? Because of a new birth. You’re now God’s ch- God has a name for you. And I don’t know what my new name is gonna be yet. Maybe he likes yanking, he just leave it with yanking. You know, he never know. But I’m gonna get a new name. But as he says here, but read just because your names are written in heaven, are, it’s there. And remember, he says, and whosoever names was not found written in the Lamb’s Book of Life was cast into the Lake of Fire.

So there’s a different book. And that’s why when you studied the book of Matthew, the first book in the New Testament where it says, and this is the book of the generation of Jesus Christ. And it lists the genealogy there. There’s no deaths recorded in the region because see this is the second book. Genesis chapter 5, the book of the generation of Adam. There’s only two people in the world, Adam and Christ. is the second Adam. When you’re born to this world, you’re of the first Adam, the book of the living, and you’re all going to die.

But when you trust Christ as your Savior, you’re born into God’s family, named written in the book of life. Now, your name can be blotted out of the one because you’re going to die, but your name cannot be blotted out of the other one. And see, the day will come when in the book of the living that’s going to be totally done away with and won’t need to worry about their names anymore, won’t need to worry about their works anymore because they will be in eternity in hell.

But you and I, as he says, the former things will be remembered no more. Only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life and that’s the difference. And that’s why it’s such a good thing to know that you have eternal life that you’re going to heaven when you die. You’ll also find, just look at this right quick, we have a few minutes, look in the book of Matthew 25, Matthew chapter 25. I have just a little bit of time, not a lot.

But Matthew chapter 25, I want you to see something here. I’ve mentioned to you before, Matthew always pictures Jesus Christ as the king and as the king of Israel, the king came to set up his kingdom. And so you will find this phrase mentioned over and over and over again, the kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of heaven. So especially when you read chapter 13 is talking about the kingdom of heaven is as blah blah blah. The kingdom of heaven is as and it has all these things.

Look there in verse 1 of Matthew chapter 25. See there in verse 1, then shall the kingdom of heaven. Look up here just for a moment. The kingdom of heaven is when the king comes from heaven and sets up his kingdom upon the earth. Now see that’s a different period of time. There’s seven years between the kingdom of heaven and the church age where we are. So there’s things that God talks to us about and there’s things that God talks to them about.

So when you read the book of Matthew you see, he was going to set up the kingdom, but they rejected him. So everything he said about the kingdom is moved over here. And so the things that are talking about the kingdom of heaven, see, belongs to the kingdom. But there’s people who don’t rightly divide the Word of God, and so they try to take all these things that God says to the kingdom and put it over here to us.

It won’t work. Because then you’ve got to take verses that seems to say about your works. And put it over here to us that’s supposed to be by grace. Now how do you explain that? Well, leave it where it belongs. And then he talks about the 10 virgins, five wise, five foolish, us all talking about their sum who were not prepared. And so it says, like down there, for example, I’ll cover this at another time a little bit more.

You see there in verse 11, afterwards came also the other virgins and Lord, Lord, opened to us. Remember in Matthew chapter 7 when it says, Lord, Lord, open unto us? Those are the ones in Matthew chapter 7 that says, they will say in the me, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? Cast out devils, then many wonderful works. They’re referring to their works. And he says, you can’t come in. So there’s believers and there’s unbelievers. Those those who are ready and there’s those who are not ready.

But this is really doing the kingdom upon the earth. It’s not talking about us. You see that in verse 14, for the kingdom of heaven is as a man traveling and blah, blah, blah, blah. It’s talking about this period of time, the thousand year reign upon the earth, when the king comes to the earth. And the Bible talks about he’s going to take things out of the kingdom that defile or that are the tears and so forth. God’s going to do this and cast them in the Bible, says they’re going to be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth.

That’s those that were born into the kingdom, but after a hundred years they’re cast out of the kingdom and to outer darkness because they got a hundred years. And the person who lived to be a thousand years old, well if they lived to be a hundred, it’s like a child in comparison to how long they can live. we consider a man is an old man, he’s an old man. But there’s a time coming when a man lives to be a thousand years old, a hundred years isn’t so old.

But you see, if you take those verses out of that context and you move them over here and try to make it fit here, it just won’t fit. It changes everything. And many people who do not rightly divide the word of God have got troubles and problems. Because all the verses that seems to say this, or seem to say that, is always a problem. Look there in chapter 25 very quickly. Let me show you this. See there in verse 31, verse 31, when the son of man shall come in his, what?

Glory. And all the holy angels with him, then shall he set upon the throne of his glory. This is when he comes back as the king at the end of the tribulation period and sets up his throne upon the earth and he’s going to judge the Gentiles, the Gentown nations, and get what he says here in verse 33, and he shall set the sheep on the right hand, goats on the left. So one is the sheep and one is the goat.

This is even before the judgment. And what it means is there’s the saved, there’s the lost. We’re not having the judgment to see if they’re saved are lost. No, the goats are lost and the sheep are saved. And the sheep are put on the right hand and the goats are put on the other side. And look what he says there in verse 34, then shall the head of the church say, no, then shall the king say to them, come and blessed of my Father inherit the kingdom, the kingdom.

But see if you take that out of its context and you try to plan it to the church, it’s a totally different message. It doesn’t even fit, doesn’t even belong. And that is done all the time because there’s people who write their common terries and they don’t know what the book says. And they’re trying to remember, I showed you in chapter 24 where it says, in one shall be in the bed and one shall be taken and one left, two grind into meal, one taken and one left and people say, oh, that’s the rapture.

That’s the rapture. But if you read a little bit further, it says, and where were they taken? To the battle of Armageddon, I think the rapture. But see, they take it and try to apply this. That’s not where it belongs. See, no man has a right to mutilate the Bible by making it say whatever they wanted to say. Let the word say what it says. Don’t try to twist it. Don’t try to make it say something it doesn’t say.

And as he said here, there’s those that were on the right, going to the kingdom and there’s other ones who don’t get to go into the kingdom. Look there in verse 30, verse 30, and cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. So you see, whenever you read that, okay, that means that you could be saved and And you’re lost it because you didn’t serve a Lord. Yeah, that’s what it’s talking about, but you have to understand the point of it.

What’s he really talking about? Well there were three men and he gave different ones talents and abilities, but where was this done? In the Kingdom of Heaven, not during the church age, and in the Kingdom of Heaven, when a person is born into the Kingdom, see they still have to trust Christ as their Savior. And if they don’t trust the Lord by the time they’re 100 years old, then they’re cast out of the Kingdom. So whenever you read the book of Matthew in chapter 13, when it talks about over and over again about the things that are going to happen in the Kingdom of Heaven, look at it real quick.

just in the time, just look in chapter 13. Chapter 13. And look there in verse 11, real quick, verse 11 of Matthew chapter 13. He answered, said unto them, because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the what? Kingdom of heaven, kingdom of heaven. Look what he says there in verse 24. Another parable put He forth unto them, saying, the kingdom of heaven is like unto this. And then when you look over there in verse 31, another parable put He forth unto them, saying, the kingdom of heaven is like this, the kingdom of heaven.

It’s always the kingdom of heaven as He goes back and forth, back and forth. See verse 44 says the very same thing, the kingdom of heaven. You see there in verse 42? Just look at verse 41. Verse 41, the son of man shall sin forth his angels and they shall gather out of his kingdom. All things that offend and them which do iniquity. That day will come because of the people that are born to the kingdom and if they don’t trust the Lord then they will be gathered out of the kingdom.

the church, not out of heaven, not out of a body of Christ. And then look up here very quickly in verse 38. The field is the world. The good seed are the children of the what? Of the kingdom. But the tears are the children of the wicked one, but they’re in the kingdom. It’s during the kingdom of heaven. And so like it says there in verse 42, and shall cast them into a furnace of fire, there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.”

See, you take these verses out of its context and you put it someplace, you’ll mutilate the Bible not talking about what it does to your mind and confusion. You can’t do that. And so it says in verse 44 about the kingdom of heaven, verse 45 about the kingdom of heaven. But look at the last one, look in verse 87, again the kingdom of heaven is likened to a net and so forth when it’s full. But look what he says there in the last part of verse 49.

And shall it be at the end of the world and the angel shall come forth and sever the wicked from among the just. Where? In the kingdom. And give birth to verse 50. And shall cast them into the furnace of fire. They shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. This is the kingdom. Can you see this? I hope that you can see this and understand this. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr.

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I want to talk on the book of Revelation because that’s where we are and that’s where we’re going to teach. So take your Bible and turn to the book of Revelation, the book of Revelation. There’s interesting things in the book of Revelation. You know it’s the last book in the Bible. If you read the first book in the Bible, it talks about how God created everything and then it got worse and worse and worse. It was downhill after that, all because of sin.

And that’s what brought in all the devastation that’s happened ever since. And because of sin, there’s death. And we’ve got disease and all the things that produces death. And so the things in the world, God cursed the whole earth. So when He cursed the earth, that means that we’re going to have to put up with things like hurricanes and tornadoes and tsunamis and nerve quakes and all the things that are going on around the world, all because of sin.

You see, well, why is it all happening because of sin? If there was no sin, we wouldn’t have none of that. We’d still be in that perfect environment in the Garden of Eden, eating strawberries. But no, we messed up. And so because of that, everything fell apart. But in the book of Revelation, everything coming together. Like I said before, the Old Testament prophecies, all like little streams coming down out of amount and they start forming into a mighty current.

As you get to the book of Revelation, all prophecies being fulfilled just like God said it would. And now in the book of Revelation, we have it to where there’s not going to be any of those things anymore. And God’s going to solve everything. So look there in Revelation in chapter 21. Revelation 21. I want to read this to you and then I want to backtrack a little bit. But Revelation chapter 21, he says, and in verse 1, I saw a new heaven and a new earth.

For the first heaven, the first earth was passed away and there’s no more sea. So you see God in the first book in the Bible tells about the end of beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And because of that then sin and God put a curse upon the earth, upon the fruit of the ground, everything that happens upon mankind, the man, the woman, the devil, the serpent. Everything has been cursed. That’s why even whenever we eat our food, we ask the Lord to bless this food because it’s been cursed.

And because of the curse, we all die. And so God says when He makes a new heaven and a new earth, there won’t be a curse upon the new heavens and new earth. For example, if we had not had Adam and Eve sin, then they would still be alive today. But there would be a lot of things they wouldn’t know about God. And if they had the possibility of sinning, which they did, see God made them with the capacity to sin.

God didn’t make them a sinner, but they had the capacity to do so. they had a free will they could choose. What would be the difference in you and I today if we were still like that, every one of us would still have the possibilities of messing up just like Adam and Eve did, because you would still be able to sin. Well that would be no fun. So sooner or later everybody’s going to mess up. Because we have in us the possibilities of yielding to the old temptations of the devil.

It’s like having a glass there and it’s empty. But it has the capacity to hold water. Along comes the devil and says, you want some water? Yeah, you got it. And so God did not make us sinners or create us sinners. But God permitted us to choose whether to be like we were or choose to rebel. And so mankind has chosen to be sinner. That’s why we often say you’re sinner’s by nature and you’re sinner’s by choice. We chose to sin.

And even today when you know what to do that’s right, we still choose to sin. We still choose to be rebellious. But in the end time God says, I’ll make a new heaven and a new earth and then look what he says. In verse 2, and I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. Now later on, after verse 9, he joined and described this holy city that has gates of pearls and walls of Jasper and streets of gold and all those wonderful things.

always hear Bob 1500 miles high 1500 miles wide 1500 miles long a beautiful city coming down from God out of heaven. Well he says that they will be able to see it come and see their inverse too coming down from God out of heaven. So this is where it’s coming from. It’s not something that’s already here on the earth and he prepared us a bride adorned for her husband. In other words the The holy city looks like a bride, adorn for her husband.

This is where the bride, that’s you and I, this is where we’re going to live. We’re really going to be treated right. And then he says in verse 3, and I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men. He will dwell with them, they shall be his people, God himself shall be with them and be their God. And verse 4 shows you that there’s no more curse. There’s no more curse upon mankind.

You see, the difference between being a creation of God was that Adam and Eve had the capacity to sin. But whenever you are born into God’s family and as a child of God, because God is your father, he cannot sin. He has no sinful nature. He doesn’t have the capacity to sin. You and I, when we trust the Lord, now are different. We are children of God and we won’t be able to sin. But see, as long as we had stayed like Adam and Eve, we all had that possibility of failing down the road.

But being a child of God, you cannot today or in the future ever sin. That’s the new birth. How many do I have? Two. So whenever I sin, which one did it? my first birth, when I was born with the first time. When I was born in the God’s family, my second birth, it does not sin, cannot sin. That’s why it lives forever. And so that’s why it says the former things will be remembered no more because that’s the first birth that will be done away with.

So look there in verse 4, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. There shall be no more death. Why? Because there’ll be no more sin. If it was possible for man to sin in the future after we get to heaven, then there would be death. But when he says there will be no more death, that means there will be no more sin. It will be totally impossible for a child of God in the future, in eternity, to ever sin.

So we never have to worry about that again. Because if there was sin, there will be death. And If there was death, there’ll be sorrow. And none of that will exist in the new heaven and the new earth. So he says there’ll be no more death, no sorrow, nor crying. Neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away. So in the meantime, from Genesis to Revelation, everything in between, there’s all of those things. And whenever you hear about what’s going on around the world with hurricanes and tsunamis and nerve quakes all these things?”

You say, well, if God is in control and God is all powerful, then and God really cares for us. What does God let things like that happen? Well, because of sin. There has to be the natural consequences of sin. It’s like jumping off the Empire State building. So far so good. But you know you have an appointment with the country and it’s only a matter of time. You may enjoy the ride, but you know how it’s going to end up.

And so there’s people who naturally rebel against God, and so there’s consequences to live it in this world. We live in a wicked, sinful world, and because of sin there’s consequences, and we’re all going to does it matter really how we die? Not so much. It’s just where are you going when you die? Because we might say, look how terrible it is for all those people to die in a nerve quake or into a tsunami. Well, it’s also terrible for a person who lay in a hospital in the die.

A person that get killed in the car wreck. So that doesn’t mean that’s, look how wicked and bad that really is. No, there’s just as many people dying every day from what ever causes, but we’re all going to die. And would some people, Well, that was mercy because it was over like this. Some people, they are in pain and sorrow and they linger on for months and sometimes years and they suffer and they hurt. What God says there’s a time coming, there’ll be no more pain.

I want you to look in verse 8. Verse 8, but those who do not get to go into this new heavens and new earth, where will they go? Well, because, see, that’s where some are going to be, no more pain. That’s important. We’ll look down in verse 8, but the fearful, the unbelieving, that means they’re still around. They’re not annihilated, and they have not believed, and they’re not going to enjoy this. So he says, and the abominable, murders, hormones, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

burneth with fire. Why would God allow these people to burn with fire? Because the purpose of the fire is to inflict pain. There is no other reason for it. It’s to inflict pain. But for those in the new heavens and the new earth, there will be no more pain. So some will have no pain and some will have pain. For all eternity, we will not have it, and for all eternity, some will have it.” Now, God’s the one that writes the book.

All I try to do is just teach and explain what it says. I don’t try to twist anything or put a spin on it. I just want to say, this is what it says. Now, the second death is those who have already died once and stood before the Great White Throne judgment and then their judged again and then eternally separated the second time. First time was separation from their body, the second time when they’re separated from God forever. So those who know Christ is Savior will never be hurt of the second death.

Now I want you to take your Bible and look very quickly in the book of 1 John in chapter 5. 1 John chapter 5. First John and chapter 5 and look there in verse 4. Now this is a very important verse, two verses, verse 4 and verse 5. Remember you and I were condemned because we failed the test. You see there was a test. God gave a standard of righteousness required perfection. We all failed. The devil tempted us, we fail there.

And there’s trials and so forth in life and we fail there. In other words, we are total failures. We haven’t done everything we’re supposed to do. So we are totally defeated. We didn’t win at all against the devil, against the sin, against the world, the lust of the flesh. We lost. But Jesus was born and he lived, he fulfilled the righteous demands of the law, so he was victorious. The devil tried to tempt him and couldn’t succeed. So Jesus was victorious.

So whenever I understand that what He did was for me. His victory is put to my account as though I did it. I’m a total failure. He is a total victor. And He puts His victory to my account. And He overcame sin, the death, the grave. He overcame everything and was victorious. So when I trust Him as my Savior, His success, His victory is put to my account as though I did it. But I really didn’t do it. But look what He says here in verse 4, for whosoever or whatsoever is born of God over come of the world.

This is the victory that over come of the world, our faith. In other words, not because I really lived it and I really did it, it’s because I trusted in the one who did. And that is put to my account as though I did. When Christ died on that cross and paid for all the sins of the world, it was like I died and paid for all of my sins, but I really didn’t do it. I didn’t pay for anything.

Do I deserve to go to heaven? No, I don’t deserve to go to heaven. Am I going to go to heaven? Yes, I’m going to go to heaven. All because of what he did. Now, look in verse 5. Who is he that overcometh the world? But he that keeps the tank of mammoths and obey the gold and rule goes to church and changes his life and does right, no, no, no. Who’s he that overcometh the world? He that believeth.

That Jesus is the Son of God. When you believe he is who he claims to be and you trust him as your Savior. So how do you know you got to do that? Well, look at the rest of the verse, look in verse 10, where he says, He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself. He that believeth not God hath made him a liar because he believeth not the record that God gave of his son.

This is the record that God hath given, not going to have given past tense to us. eternal life. And this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son, hath life, he that hath not the Son of God, hath not life. So he says, these things have a written unto you that believe that you may know that you have eternal life. So this is written to believers, those who trust Christ is Savior that you can know that you have have eternal life.

And I am an overcomer. There’s nothing to keep me from going to heaven because I was victorious in every trial, tribulation, testing, the devil. You name it because Christ was. I overcame because I am in Him that overcame. So His victory is put to our account. You are and overcomer, not because of how good you are because you personally had victory in your Christian life. Now, there is a place for God’s going to reward you when you get to heaven with certain things because after you trust Christ’s Savior, there’s trials and tests and so forth and you have to personally have victory in your Christian life.

And that’s because you allow the Lord to live through you. But see that’s after salvation. Getting saved is because of what Christ did. And after you’re saved is what Christ does through you. Now just take your Bible look in Revelation in chapter 2 and you’ll notice that many of these same things are true of those who simply trust Christ as their Savior. You are an overcomer. look there in Revelation chapter two and looking verse seven or seven. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

Now the churches is those who are believers, we’re talking about believers in their church. To him that overcometh, see that verse? Him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life which is in the midst of the paradise of God. Now is he talking here about the Christian who overcame by his works or simply at the end of each one of letting you know that regardless of how God chastens you or disciplines you or turns out the light out of that church or whatever happens, once you trust the Christ is your Savior you are an overcomer because of his victory put to your account and you will get the eat of the tree of life which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

Or look there in chapter, same chapter, but look in verse 11, he that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit says unto the church of he that overcoming shall not be hurt of the second death. Well the only ones who can be hurt of the second death are unbelievers. So no believer can be hurt of the second death because everyone who is an unbeliever they will experience that second death. Hold your place right there and look here again in Revelation in chapter 21 and it says in the last part of verse 8 which is the second death.

What’s the second death? Those that go into the lake of fire that burns with fire and brimstone. That’s those who will suffer the second death. But the believer can’t go to hell. He can’t suffer that because he has overcome simply by trusting Christ as his Savior. But see, if you don’t keep salvation separate from service, then multitudes of preachers are always taking all the verses. It seems to say and make an implied to a person that’s well, you got to earn it.

See there? It says right there, you got to earn it. You got to be an overcomer. If you don’t overcome, then you’re not going to make it. Always keep salvation free. Service is your works. So you always try to understand the Complex verses by the simple verses. For example, look there in Revelation in chapter 2. But look down here in verse 26. He that overcometh, keep of my works unto the end to the hymn, will I give power over the nation.

Now this is to rule and reign with him. So it’s not only to the believer, but it’s to the believer and his service. So it’s not only that I’m a believer, but I also, I did something, something and I get rewarded for that. And you’ll notice there in chapter 3 and look there in verse 5, look in verse 5, he that overcometh the same shall be clothed in white rain and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my father and before his angels.

So it looks like, okay, so if he says he will not blot my name out of the book of life, it looks like there’s a possibility. He could block my name out of the book of life. Take your Bible and look there in the book of Revelation in chapter 20. I want you to look there now in verse 12. Revelation chapter 20 verse 12, and I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God. And the books were open and another book was open, which is the book of life.

And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to the works. So there’s the books and there’s the book of life. And the dead were judged out of the books, not the book of life, the books. And then in verse 15, and whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. So there’s those who have their names in the books and their works are in the books.

But there’s another book called the book of life. Now you’ve heard me say this before. In the book of Genesis, which is the first book in the Bible, and chapter 5 and verse 1 where it says, and this is the book of the generation of Adam in the day that God created Adam. And it says Adam lived so long and he died. And then the evil of so long and he died. Analytically lived so long and they died. But regardless of how long they lived, they all died.

Because you see, that’s the book of the living. Everybody born into the world, it’s like your name’s in the book of the living, but you can also die. But your name is in the book of the living. And everything you said thought did, God says every idle word is all recorded because God says he’s going to bring everything back. And so the people who reject Christ as Savior, when they stand into great white throne judgment, they’re going to be judged out of the book according to their works.

See what it says there in verse 13 and the sea and gave up the dead which were in it. Death, that’s the body. Hell, that’s the soul. So, for example, if you were to die right now, your body would be here, but you’re not there. If you’re a believer absent from the body, present with the Lord. But if you’re an unbeliever absent from the body, present in hell, that’s a temporary hell, a place called Shiel, the Old Testament, Hades in the the New Testament, but it’s the place of the departed dead.

So that means that that’s where a person will go, and their soul is in hell. Now that’s only a temporary hell. Nobody right now sees is in the final hell, which is called Gahanna, the final lake of fire. So if a lost man dies, body goes through the grave, soul goes into the place of torment. At the great white throne judgment, death, the bodies, and held the soul are going to stand at the great white throne judgment and be judged out of the books according to their works.

So these are already lost people. These not saved people to see which way they go. These are already going to the same place, which is the place called Jahana, the final fire. But they’re judged out of their work. This determines not only the justness of God that he has a right to cast them into hell but determines the punishment they receive in hell which there being judged according to the light that they have received. See God knows what every person knows the possibilities, the limitations.

God knows everything, every fact, in every case concerning every individual and God. Will be justified whatever he does and God will prove that. So I guess you could say God has a video camera and he’s videoing you everything. Even your thoughts, your motives. So that whenever God judges that lost man at the Great Whad Throne judgment, God will be just. God has to do right. He has to be fair. show you what he’s doing. And he says that God is not a respecter of persons.

I believe his word is true. But you see the last part of verse 13, death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them. So these are people who were in hell, now are standing at the Grey White Throne judgment and they were judged every man according to their works. You see, The saved man isn’t judged according to his works, because his works has nothing to do with where he goes to heaven or hell. A saved man is going to heaven because of the work of Christ, not his.

His sins have been forgiven. They’re not to be brought up anymore. But the lost man who refused has got to answer. And I believe we’ll be there at this judgment. I believe everything and everybody and every angel. Because the Bible says shall not even the saint judge the angels. And how and what way? I don’t know. That’s in 1 Corinthians chapter 6, but I believe the Word of God is true. And so God says it, I believe it. And it says, every man according to their worth, and get verse 14 of, and death and hell were cast into the every one of those that came from there are cast into the lake of fire.

Get this. This is the what? Second death. Same as you find over there in verse 8. The second death. These are those who have not accepted Jesus Christ as their Savior. Now those who have, God says they’ll never sin again. There’ll be no more death, no more pain. But what about the people who don’t trust the Lord? The Bible says there, and if you look there in verse 10 of chapter 20, and the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and Brenstone were the beast and the false prophet arm and and shall be tormented day and night for how long?

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This is called the overview that’s overlooked. In other words, an overview is stepping back and looking at the total picture, trying to see it all. If you get too close to something, you can see one thing, but you can’t see how it relates to everything else because you’re too close. Step back and look at your life that you’ve already lived and see what God’s done for you and you’ll be amazed. Every book in the Bible has a main theme.

There is a purpose of that book. Different people who study the Bible, they may be impressed with this. theme and somebody else, well I think it’s this and something else this. But the theme of the whole Bible is Christ and the theme of every book was going to be Christ or something that deals with Jesus Christ and every book in the Old Testament, New Testament always comes back to that. But this book, the book of Romans I believe is a picture of a duplicating machine.

I’ll show you what I mean by that in just a moment. First of all, look there in Philippians in chapter 2 and look in verse 13. Once you have trusted Christ as your Savior, understand that God not only indwells in you, but He is to work in you to perform, to perform something. For it is God which works in you. All the problems and heartaches and and the trials and tribulations, all that is God’s way of working in me.

And sometimes to work in you, he has to work on you. And he uses those things to get you where he wants you to be and to get you to search, because if you really want God’s will, that’s what makes you struggle, but it makes you stronger in the process. And it’s the struggling that strengthens you. It’s the conflict. It is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. In other words, God has a purpose.

It’s for his pleasure. You are here to please God. So he’s going to work on you in a way that pleases him, not you, not me. Do all things without murmuring and what? Dispute and arguing. Don’t always murmur and always argue about everything. God says, don’t do that because you’re supposed to believe that God is working in you and he He uses people’s opposition to you. Look at Elsek in verse 15, that ye may be blameless and harmless the sons of God without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.

Every problem that people have is your opportunity to shine. People’s problems is to get them to the Lord. So therefore, don’t mind it when people have problems and come to you with problems. problem solver, always try to help people get to the Lord. That’s what it’s all about. So the Lord tells us that we’re here and He wants us as a coffee machine to reproduce others just like us. Now take your Bible and turn to the book of Romans, the book of Romans and chapter one.

It’s that God desires to create a righteous man to produce righteous deeds in a wicked, crooked, and perverse world. So God wants to create a machine. Now I don’t want to use this as a machine like you’re just a machine mechanical, no you’re a person. But like as a machine, it’s only an example please understand that. Create a machine that can produce righteous deeds. God created a man and a woman but the man and the woman got marred. So those were the original people that God had to work with.

So all the copies that came from them because they were marred, all the copies were marred also. In other words, have you ever taken a piece of paper and you can put a number on it or an X or anything on it and put it on a copper machine and make copies and it’s going to… Had the same marks just like the original did. And the copy can never improve itself. The copy is only a copy. It’s not the original.

So we had an original in the very beginning. And the copy was marked, and so all the copies, all the people on the earth have all got scars. Sin. We have a sinful nature. Because the original copy, Adam, was bad. So in Romans chapter 5 and verse 12, wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world, death by sin, so death passed upon all men for that all have sinned. And then verse 14, nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similatehood of Adam’s transgression, who is a figure of him that was to come.

So there is an original Adam and he sinned for by one man sin entered into the world and therefore all have sinned because of the original. So everybody has sinned. So out of all of these copies, God could not find one that could produce righteousness. They all produced sins. So God worked with all these copies and try to make some of the copies different from the other copies, pull them aside from all the other copies and say, I’m going to make you something special.

But the copies were still just copies. So God gave them the law and did they have an advantage? Yes, they did. Look in chapter 3. Chapter 3 verse 1, What advantage then half the Jew. Or what prophet is there of circumcision, much every way, chiefly because that unto them were committed the oracles of God or the Word of God. So when God took these special individuals, these copies and separated them from the other copies and was going to reveal things to them that was not revealed to the other copies, will God work with these copies for 1500 years and the conclusion was at the end of 1500 years all the copies were just as bad as the original and God, God, could not change the copies.

God couldn’t change the copies. God and His Word couldn’t change the copies. The copies were still copies and the copy cannot improve itself and God couldn’t change the copies. When you look in chapter one, chapter two, chapter three, he is laying a foundation to show that everybody in the world is in the same boat and that they have all sinned and nobody could produce the righteousness that God wanted. So once you have got a bad copy, all the copies will be bad.

Chapter three through chapter five shows that the copies cannot improve themselves, but the only cure is to replace the marred original with another perfect original, which is Christ. And do what? Make more copies. This is why Christ came into the world. Jesus Christ, He was perfect. And so if He was put onto the coffee machine and you made copies from a perfect original, then we could have some perfect copies. So He gave birth to a person. So every one of us that are born again, born by the Spirit of God, have a perfect birth.

That when you trusted Christ as your Savior and were born into God’s family, you were made a perfect copy. You’re perfect. They don’t believe you are created perfect. As you go through the book, you find out that God is revealed certain things and it’s all by faith. It’s not by your works. So salvation is the gift of God. But now that’s why you need to understand that when you go from chapter three, parts of chapter three, therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

See the first three chapters to an half chapter, they will show you that a man cannot save himself. That a man is a bad copy and he cannot improve his condition. No man can. So only through Christ is there a perfect cure. It’s kind of like having something that’s all written over and it’s all marred and you didn’t try everything and you can’t get the stain out and yet Christ comes along and says, here’s my blood and you are dipped into his blood and when it comes out it’s perfectly pure and the The only thing left is the image of Christ.

Your second birth, born of God, is the perfect image of the Son of God. You and I, we will reach a certain level in our walk with God, and that new birth is a perfect Son of God. Within you, there is a little child that was born. That’s your second birth. It’s born of God. It’s a perfect copy. And you are going to go through various levels of the Word. and your Christian walk and you maturing in the Lord.

To where one day you ought to be able to take a ministry just like Christ took a ministry. You go through chapter two, you go through chapter three, you go through chapter four and chapter five and about Christ dying, paying for sins, and we can therefore be justified by faith. Chapter five verse one, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. So we have a new machine. This new machine can make new copies. Now everyone that trusts Christ is Savior, you’re like a little individual copy machine, and you can make copies.

That’s why you are supposed to win others to Christ. And so by you winning someone else to Christ, then they become a child of God, created in His image, created in righteousness, just like the original. And so we all are to become copy machines, creating otherslivious in His image. When we trust Christ as our Savior, that’s just beginning of the work. The Lord says that when we are saved, it says that He in dwells us. So the Bible tells us that he which hath begun a good work in you will accomplish that work.

That’s the job. So the Holy Spirit lives within us. He’s working on us in order to work in us that he might work through us in building us. And it’s the problems of life. It’s all the conflicts that you have that works against you that makes you struggle and fight in order to build your faith strong in the Lord. So don’t despise life, realize the purpose of it. It’s to build us to develop that character, that good qualities that the world needs to see.

Because he says, in a crooked and perverse generation, it means God didn’t straighten out the world and solve all the world’s problems for you and me to live here. He let the world be as bad as it wants to be and puts you right in the middle of it. Now I think I would have preferred if he’d have just straightened out everything and I could have just enjoyed it. But that’s not the way God wants to do it. He wants us to be a light in a dark world.

Means the world don’t have the answers. You do live like it, act like it, think like it, pray like it, walk like it. Because you’re different from the world. In other words don’t you live like a copy from the old machine. Romans 6 shows that the new copies are not to run on the old machine, the old man. Look in chapter 6 and verse 11, likewise, reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin. That means the old copy machine is broke, you don’t need it and you don’t run on it and you don’t produce those copies no more.

In other words, when you had nothing but the old machine, you produce sins all the time. And the Bible says, shall we that know the truth? Now live in sin, walk in sin? Shall we continue in sin? Look in chapter 6 and verse 1. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin? That grace may abound. How shall we then, or dead to sin, live any longer than in? God says, no. Because he, consider the old machine is dead.

It don’t work no more. So if it’s dead and doesn’t work anymore, you don’t have to produce no more copies from it. You were supposed to live according to the new machine. And now you let Christ duplicate Himself in you. When Christ was here, goaltender, did Christ have any troubles? Any problems? Just like you and I. And yet He says in all points tempted just like we are, and yet without sin. Now it would be great if we didn’t have to worry about this old machine and this old nature that we have, but we do and He follows us all the days of our life, but your new birth is totally perfect.

It cannot sin. It cannot produce one bad copy. Anything that comes out wrong is coming from the other machine and you’re the one that cranked it up and you produced it. Don’t blame somebody else for running your old machine. You made me sin and everybody blames everybody else without taking personal responsibility for their own actions. You are responsible. Let not send, therefore, rain in your mortal body. In other words, don’t let this old coffee machine keep producing those old bad copies.

Don’t keep producing the same anger, the bitterness, the hatred, all those things that God says, I don’t like those results. So God, in order to build a machine that could produce righteousness, had to start all over again. Well the total new birth and Now by you trusting Christ as your Savior born of God created in righteousness Now God says I want you to produce others just like you and so that’s why he says so Love kindness and so forth if you sow bitterness you sow anger you whatever you sow you what?

you read and so many people are adding to their burdened by becoming, you can be a gossiper. Do you know if you gossip to somebody about somebody, those people that will listen to your gossip will also spread gossip about you because they know that person gossips. And they’ll tell a lot of people about you, God don’t do it. Keep control. Look what else it says here in verse 13, neither yeo ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness understand. In other words, don’t let this one body that you’ve only got one body.

Don’t let this one body that you have be an instrument that produces unrighteousness. Now you have something new. You have another original, a new man. But you’ve only got one body produced righteousness. No, you not. that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey his servants, he art to whom you obey.” In other words, you’re the one that determines whether or not what kind of copies do you reproduce? What are you producing in your life? Show why the new copies are not to run on the old machine.

You say, well why? Because you get a conflict of interest. You’ll get double vision, double image. It won’t be clear. This is the battle of the two, what? The two natures. Romans chapter seven is the battle of the two natures. It means you cannot try to produce the righteousness on the old machine. In other words, you cannot serve God in the flesh, in your own energy. Have you ever heard about people who get in? I just getting so burned out.

Well, it’s because you’re trying to produce righteousness on a bad machine and it won’t work. But if you’ll try to produce the righteousness just by letting the new machine run, it won’t wear you out. I have never yet, I’ve never come close to burnout. Well, I’m not going to serve the Lord. I’m just tired of serving God. I’m going to quit. And so as you read down through Romans chapter seven, well, look in verse 18, for I know that in me that is in my flesh, developed no good thing.

In other words, there’s an old bad coffee machine inside of me that wants to produce some bad copies. And every time I want to make good copies, the old bad machines cranks up and starts producing bad copies. That’s what he’s talking about. When I want to do that which is good, I want to end up doing that which is wrong. And when I sometime want to do that which is wrong, I find it good as with me. He said, oh, I get so confused in verse 15, for that which I do, I allow not for what I would that do I not, but what I hate that do I.

Yet then I do that which I would not, considering to the law that it is good, not that it is no more either do it, but send it to all of me. old machine inside of me that wants to keep producing bad copies. For I know that in me, that is in my flesh, dwellef no good thing, but how to perform that which is good, I find not how do I perform just the good copies. Don’t you struggle in your Christian life trying to produce just good copies?

Isn’t the old copies easier to reproduce? And it’s so easy to get mad and angry and bitter and not the trust to be disobedient. So easy to do that. Well that comes from the old sinful nature. That’s that old machine that lives inside of you. But so how can I perform? In other words, where does the power come to run on? The flesh cannot perform. The flesh is work, but then Christ says, come into me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.

Take my yoke upon you and learn of me for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Then why should it be hard to serve the Lord? Because how to perform has not been found. See, what is this new power? So you don’t even until you get to the eighth chapter, find out what is the new power that this new machine is supposed to run on. It doesn’t run on the flesh. It doesn’t run off that bad machine that you had.

God says you consider that one dead. It doesn’t work. All you get is bad copies. If you live in the flesh and you walk in the flesh, you’re producing bad copies. That doesn’t produce the righteousness of God. That’s not why God left you here. So here in chapter eight of Romans, you’ll notice there in the last part of it after the spirit. And verse one verse two, for the law of the spirit of life in Christ, it hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

And then he talks about that in verse 4, that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, but not by us, who walked on after the flesh, but after the flesh. In other words, if you walk after the Spirit, the Spirit that lives within you will give power to produce the righteousness. Now if you don’t allow the Holy Spirit that lives within you to control you, you cannot produce the copies of righteousness that God intended. So therefore you cannot walk in the flesh.

It’s the flesh that wears you out that makes you tired and miserable and all those things that just drag you down. It’s not the power of God that does that to you. The work of the Lord will not kill you. The work of the Lord is not where, what wears you out. It’s when you’re trying to do the work of the Lord in the power of the flesh, it will not work. When you don’t depend upon God and you worry about things and you think it all depends upon your talent and your power, your ability, your intellect, your, your, you, you, then you, you don’t miss the whole picture.

It won’t work that way. And that love, that’s power, that desire that comes from God, that’s power. It means it gives you that which you need to faithfully keep serving God when it seems like everybody else seems to stop in the quit. You’d be surprised how many of you probably sitting right here, but had it up to here, was serving God and going to church and doing right. You just get tired and worn out. Be to a frazzle. Don’t want to do it no more.

And the flesh is where you are. You have gotten away from the power of the Holy Spirit. and the Bible says in verse 5, look in verse 5, you need to see that. Well, they that are after the flesh, that means that you’re going to run this old machine after the flesh and produce some bad copies, but they that are after the Spirit, are going to have some good copies. And so as you go through life, whenever we get to heaven, God’s the one that separates the bad copies from the good copies.

So when we’re in heaven at the Judson City of Christ, guess which ones are burned up? All the what? All the bad copies. The wood, the hay, the stubble. All that is going to be burned. So if you spend your life producing bad copies, you’re wasting your life. You understand what I’m saying? It’s simply an illustration, but I believe it bears with them. Now chapter 9, chapter 10 and chapter 11 is simply the past, the present, in the future of the nation of Israel.

Shows an example of someone who tried to produce better copies on an old machine. Israel promised that they would, chapter 9, but they failed. Israel showed that they could not, chapter 10, that’s the present and they’ve been set aside. Israel will eventually submit to their new original, which is Christ, the Messiah, when he returns as their only hope, and that’s the future. And the Bible says Israel become the greatest nation on the face of the year. Now look in Romans chapter 12.

Romans 12 to 14 shows the products to be produced for God and for others as a result of chapter 8. In other words, if the Holy Spirit controls your life to produce the works of righteousness in your life, you should be able to expect something from your life. Because it is God that workers in you that is to produce something from you, the righteous knees among whom you shine in this world that is crooked and wicked and perverse. And you’ll shine as the lights.

See in verse 1 of chapter 12, I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, wholly acceptable unto God which is a reasonable service. conform to this world but be it transformed by the renewing of your mind. And then he goes down here and talks about all the things about service in a verse 6, having then gifts different according to the grace. In other words, if the Holy Spirit lives in you and if you listen to what the Word of God tells you that the Holy Spirit teaches him and as he guides you and directs you, you will find out what God wants you as an individual to do with your life.

And then he talks about all the various gifts. In verse 7, or ministry, or he that exhorted in verse 8, and verse 9, let love be without the simulation or hypocrisy. It talks about in verse 10 being kindly, affection, and want to know those are the outflow that have been produced by this new power that lives within you on this new coffee machine that can be some coffees made that God’s been looking for. But that’s the product. That’s the end result.

This is what God wants to come forth from your life. So when you get a chance, chapter 12, verses 9 through, especially 16, read that and see what God wants to produce from your life. It’ll help you tremendously. Now in chapter 15 and 16, it shows the glory, the patience, the hope, the love, appreciation for what God is doing in bringing forth righteousness from the righteous people. In other words, if I serve God, if I do, God promises these are going to be the things that comes from me, but that might come from me.

But what does it do for me? Well, this is what God says it does for you as an individual. God becomes a God of patience for you and a God of hope for you and a God of love for Look what he says there. This is in chapter 15. Chapter 15, looking verse five. Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be like-minded one toward another according to Christ Jesus. In other words, you become a copy like the original.

And that pleases God. And remember, serving God is for the purpose of pleasing Him. Look what he says there in verse one. We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the week and not to please ourselves. If you’re always the kind that sit back and what can people do for me, you missed it. Because then you want people to please you. Make me happy. Make me happy. No. Do it for others. You reach out. You want to try to win them.

You want them to go to heaven. You want this person to serve God because you want God to bless them. you want all of God’s people that when they get to heaven to be rewarded, wouldn’t that be great? Or do you just want it for yourself but you don’t want nobody else to be happy. You don’t want nobody else to have joy and all those thrills that when they get to heaven they want people to cry. That’s why I try to challenge people to serve the Lord and win people to Christ because when you get to heaven the Bible says the ones you want in the Christ those are going to be your joy in the the Lord.

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But look what he says here in verse 1. The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose.” This is during the Kingdom time. Now we’re seeing a little bit of that even in our time, but it’s not the fulfillment of these scriptures, even though there’s a lot of similarities and history repeats itself, but there is a lot of good stuff that’s happening over there in Israel, but it’s not the end of it yet.

look down there in verse five. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, the ears of the death shall be unstopped. Then shall Peter Amaro leap as a heart as a deer, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing, for in the wilderness and shall waters break out in streams in the desert. Parts, grounds shall become a pull, thirsty land springs of water, inhabitants of dragons, where each day shall be grasped with reeds and rushes. They will be a highway from Egypt all the way through.

So there’ll be the King’s highway. But there’s a lot of things going to happen during this period of time that has been prophesied for so long. This is the kingdom of heaven. Christ will be here. Abraham, Isaac, Jake, the alt gonna be here. This is going to be one joyous time. We just came through, or somebody did, this worst period of time on the face of the earth. We were up in heaven, we come back down. And And now this is the best time of all human history for people to really enjoy this wonderful place, this wonderful land.

Now take your Bible look in the 65th chapter of the book of Isaiah. Isaiah chapter 65. Isaiah 65 and look there in verse 17. Verse 17. He says, For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth in the former shall not be remembered nor come into mind. But be a glattering joys forever and that which I create. For behold, I create Jerusalem, a rejoicing, and are people a joy. Boy, they have been through nothing but misery for over almost 3,000 years.

But the time has come in where God is going to fulfill His promise that He made to Israel. You see, there can’t be peace on earth without the Prince of Peace. Well, He’s going to be here. He’s going to be here and there’s going to be peace. But look what he says in verse 19. He says, and I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people, and the voice of weep and shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

There shall be no more thence and infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days. For the child shall die a hundred years old, but the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed. In other words, if a person, a child that lived He lived to be a hundred years old in comparison to living to be a thousand years old, and you lived to be a hundred, you’re just a child. You know, like I’ve said before, you know, here’s Al back there.

He’s 80 something years old, right? All right, I’m 69, I’m just a pup. I’m just a child. But he’s talking about if you live to be a hundred, you’re just a child in comparison 11 to be a thousand years old. But if you haven’t trust the Lord, I believe by the time that hundred years, I think you’ve got troubles. That God put the curse and you probably will be dead or you’re going to die at that period of time.

So this is why our soul winning days may not be over. You still may be able to win people to Christ you because there’s going to be a lot of people being born into the world and it says the increase of his kingdom, there you know in how many people, I don’t know, but remember it says there is as many as the sands of the sea when the devil comes out at the end and that’s just those people that has to be within the hundred years at the end.

That he’s able to take those because I believe up to that point. No, there was to us and Dori didn’t die. Now, there’s not a lot of details given about all of this stuff, so I’m just kind of hitting generically a little bit. But I believe the truth there, I still haven’t figured out all the little stuff and how God does everything. But I do know this, he compares a man’s life to the age of a tree. Now there’s trees that lived to be 500 or 1000 years old.

especially some good old trees. But look what he says there. In this verse 21, and they shall build houses and inhabit them. They shall plant vineyards, eat the fruit of them. In the word this will not be in vain. You’ll be able to eat the fruit of your labor. And every man will have his own fig tree. And this is where the women go get these strawberries and they feed them to us as we lay under the shade of the fruit tree.

Amen. I knew you’d like I figured you wouldn’t. Verse 22, they shall not build in another inhabit. They shall not plant in another eat, whereas the days of a tree are the days of my people. And mine elects out long enjoy the work of their hand, long enjoy, see back before the flood, they lived almost a thousand years. Have you ever heard of a guy named Maphosula? Now he lived 969 years now. I’ve already got the 69 years taken care of.

But can you imagine living another 900 years? Well, the way things are in the world, and the way that all these problems and sicknesses, all that kind of, I don’t know if I’d wanna live another 900 years. I’m not even sure of another 100 years. I would not give it a whirl. I’ve never died before, I just don’t wanna hurt. But this is where you hear about, you know, sometimes people talk about this, but this is where you see it.

See there in verse 20, they shall not labor in vain, nor brain forth for trouble, for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord and they’re offspring with the offspring. So that is going to have to be offspring during this period of time. There’s kids going to be born. They’re going to live. They’re going to grow up. Did you know it will probably just as difficult, trying to convince a kid here about the things that have already happened as it is now?

Because you can say, you know, we just came through seven-year tribulation period, yeah, yeah, yeah. You’re just like my mom scared me to death. At what age is it easier to win somebody to the Lord? Well, it seemed like this ought to be the easiest one. I mean, here’s Abraham and Isaac. There’s Jacob. There’s King David. They probably will not be any easier to convince of all of this than we are. Isn’t it true that in spite of everything God has revealed, and this is where we are right now, people still don’t believe it.

I don’t know how much you tell them. You can tell them what’s going to take place in the future. Still won’t believe it. Well anyway, look what he says there in verse 24. He said, and it shall come to pass it before they call. I will answer. while they’re yet speaking, I will hear. I mean, the Lord’s gonna be right here. He knows your thoughts. And while you’re praying, God already knows what you’re thinking and can be on its way.

I think it’s gonna be awesome. And then look at verse 25. Now you’ve heard about this here, all your life just about. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together. Now you may not know this, some of you city slickers. A wolf likes to eat lamb. Now lamb don’t eat wolf, wolf eats the lamb. It is unnatural for a wolf and a lamb to feed together. But during this period of time, it will be. Did you know if they hadn’t been for the curse upon the earth that they probably wouldn’t eat each other back then?

It was only afterwards after the curse upon the earth. And get this, the lion shall eat straw. The servant will still eat his dust and no change there. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountains, saith the Lord. Because God sees you going to send a pick in the word mountains converted to a kingdom. He called that refers to that in the book of Daniel in reference to the kingdom upon the earth. So take your Bible and go all the way back there to the book of Revelation and chapter 20.

Revelation chapter 20. And you’ll notice that in Revelation chapter 20, in verse 4, He said, and I saw thrones and they sat upon them. Judgment was given unto them. I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, for the word of God, which had not worshiped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their forehead or in their hand, and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. When it talks about these people here, these are those that were killed during the tribulation period, because this is where the beast and the false prophet were, that you had to have the mark of the beast and worship his name and so forth.

So these are the people who came from here that were killed, and now they’re going to rule and reign with Christ for a thousand years. Now we talk about the first resurrection. The first resurrection is the resurrection with power. The second resurrection, there is no power. In other words, there’s no eternal life. It’s the lost people. So the first resurrection, Christ the first fruit, then we have some more, and then we have some more. But it’s all part of the first resurrection.

These that have trusted Christ as their savior, and even though they have died, there’s been a resurrection. Now, for you and I that are alive when Christ comes back, we don’t have to worry about a resurrection. Why? Our bodies will be changed in a moment in the twin color, but I, and we’ll be caught up to meet the Lord in the air. And we will not die. So there is a generation living that will physically never see death. So if Christ came today, tonight, you that have trusted Christ as your Savior, you’ll be changed, caught up to meet the Lord in the air.

That’s called the rapture. So we will be caught up to meet with the Lord in the air. There’s others that will be resurrected. And he says here in verse five, but the rest of the dead. lived not again until the thousand years were finished. Now this is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that had part in the first resurrection on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be preached of God and of Christ. They shall reign with Him a thousand years.

So there’s those that have died and they will be resurrected. They will have a glorified body and they will go into the millennium upon the earth. Now these are not part of the body of Christ. They’re not part of this period of time. The body of Christ is made up from those believers using Gentiles from Pentecost to the Rapture. Here we’re talking about those coming from the tribulation period. So they’re going to go into the millennial reign upon the earth.

Now in verse 11 and I saw a great white throne. Now this takes place at the end of the thousand year reign upon the earth. And I saw a great white throne and him that Saturnate from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God. And the books were open and another book was open which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of those things which were written the books according to their works.

So there’s going to be the great white throne judgment. This judgment is for those who have never trusted Christ as their Savior. So from the beginning of man all the way down through time, every lost person, the Bible says death and hell, death the bodies, hell the souls, and they will stand at the great quite-thrown judgment and they will be judged according to their works. This doesn’t determine whether they get to go to heaven or hell. They’re already lost and they’re already going to hell.

This is to show them that God is just in his decision and there’s people that think that they’re not that bad and God’s going to show them that they are and God will use of their works. Things that they have said, done, thought as justification to be cast into the final lake of fire. So that day is coming. Now look what he says here. In verse 13, and the sea gave up the dead which were in it, death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them.

And they were judged every man according to their works. Now as we study the book of Romans in chapter 2, where it talks about God will judge every man according to his works. And God is righteous and he’s not a respecter of persons. Oh, this is what those scriptures is talking about. And God is going to judge. So people who don’t trust Christ as their Savior, then God will judge them by their works and prove by their works that not one man was justified.

Not one man can say he doesn’t deserve to go to hell. God will judge. And this is what the judgment of the great white throne judgment is about. So look what he says in verse 14, and death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. Now the second death, many people put it this way, if you’re born once, you’re going to die twice. But if you’re born twice, you only die once. So I have been born twice, so I will only die once, and I might not have that one.

But if you haven’t trusted Christ as your Savior, you’re going to die twice. It means you’re separated from your body once. Then you’ll be eternally separated from God for all eternity. That’s the second death. So the second death is eternal separation from God. And if you look here, it says, this is the second of whosoever was not found written in the book of life. See, this is the Lamb’s book of life. Say, when you trust Christ as your Savior, your name is written in the Lamb’s book of life.

That’s His book. That’s the book in which there is no sin recorded, no death recorded. There’s these two main books. If you go all the way back to the book of Genesis in chapter five, it says in verse one, this is the book of the generation of Adam in the day that God created him. And as you go down through it, it says, and he lived so long and he died, and somebody that’s so long and he died and so long and he died and so long as the…

But there’s deaths recorded in the book of the generation of Adam. That’s the first man. But whenever you go to the book of Matthew, the very first book in the New Testament, in the very first verse it says, this is the book of the generation of Jesus Christ. And in this book, there is no deaths recorded because that is the Lamb’s book of life. So there’s the book of the living, when you’re born into the world, then there’s the book of life for eternal life, when you trust Christ as your Savior.

So it says, and the books were open, and they were judged out of those books, so they weren’t judged out of the book of life. And whosoever, and since none of these were judged out of that book, then they were all lost. And so those who have accepted Christ as their Savior, we’ve already been judged. We don’t have to worry about that. You see, Christ took our judgment. We don’t go to hell and pay for anything but the lost because they rejected the payment Christ made.

Yes, for all eternity. So, who soon was not found written the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. Now, I just want to cover the couple of verses of the following chapter. I want to because I think it’s kind of connected to all of this together. Then he says, and I saw in verse 1 of chapter 21, a new heaven and a new earth. The first heaven, the first earth were passed away, no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Now, sometimes there’s it’s hard to figure out exactly when this happened, but it seemed like it’s taking place after the Great White Throne Judgment. Whether it does or not, I don’t know or if it’s just in sequence, it’s the next thing to take place. Or it goes all the way back and it hovers above the earth when we’re ruling and reigning with Christ during the thousand years. I don’t really know. I know where we’re gonna be. And this is what he says, I John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven prepared as a bride and don’t for her husband.

Then in verse three, and I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them and be their God. God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain. The former things are passed away. Now we know the former earth, the world is passed away.

How much people are going to remember it for how long I don’t know. It seems like there is a good possibility for there to be tears shed at the Jud been see the Christ. When we see what we could have done, that’s why he made the statement. He says, knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men. Because in 2 Corinthians 5 and verse 10, he says, but we must all appear all appear before the judgments of Christ that every one of us may give a count of himself according to things done in the body whether it be good or bad.

So we got to give an account. And that’s a good place, probably for some tears to be shed, but I can’t prove it. There’s a good possibility that when we stand here at the Great White Throne Judgment, though we will not be judged. This is the judgment upon the lost. But for us to be there, I believe there’s going to be a certain amount of recognition of our life and their life of opportunities we had, but maybe didn’t take advantage of, seeing people that we could have perhaps made a difference.

And you’ll read the book of Judas says, having compassion. Making a difference. The reason we live our lives for the Lord in this life, in this world, is so that we can make a difference. Having compassion. He talks about pulling them out of the fire. But there is a good possibility that there will be tears shed here. We know that we’ll be probably from the lost people because it talks about in every case weeping and wailing and gnashing of peace.

So that is going to take place. But when God wipes away all tears from their eyes, see the verse 4, God will wipe away all tears from their eyes. Who is the there? Is it us? Is it them? There will be no more death, neither sorrow, it can’t be referring to them, it must be referring to us. Neither shall there be any more pain. Well, it can’t be referring to them, it must be referring to us. So I believe that God’s going to wipe away all tears from our eyes.

It means there must be be some tears to be wiped away. And God says, the former things will be remembered no more. And how God’s going to do all of that are wipe our minds or the slate clean. And we’re not going to remember certain things. I don’t know. Remember in heaven, it’s those who have the second birth. The first birth doesn’t count there. The first birth is what we live in down here, but heaven is only those in the second birth.

And how much will know and remember and all that I have no clue. But look in verse 5, and he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. He said unto me right for these words are true in faithful. And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is a thirst of the fountain of the water of life in the Here’s that word again.

Freely, freely. So regardless of who happens to be breeding the book of Revelation, they don’t understand all of that. They might understand, you know, I don’t get it all, but I know I don’t want to go to the lake of fire. And the Lord still throws it in here. I will give unto him that is a thirst of the fountain of the water of life. freely, freely, no charge. He that overcome him shall inherit all things, and I will be his God, he shall be my son.

But the fearful and the unbelievable and the murderers and whore-mongers and sources and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in a lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. This is those that are lost. This is a description of all the various names mentioned here, but whether it’s a liar or an unbeliever, it’s the same person. They have never trusted Christ as Savior. So that’s why when you read the other scriptures and you understand that, yes, salvation is the gift of God.

It’s not a works list. Any man should boast. It’s the greatest thing that you and I can ever know. Look up here just a moment. Letting this hand represent you and me. And the wallet represents sin. Belgians, we all have sin. sin on us. It means that we do all the bad things because we have an owe sin for nature. And because of these sins, it’s got to be paid. God gave His righteous law that says, the soul that sins, He has to die because the wages of sin is death.

So since we’ve all sinned, we all die. Everybody has to die. And God says that when we die, if we die without trusting Christ as our Savior, we will be eternally separated from God in a literal fire burning hell. But God says He loves us and He hates our sin. But for us to pay for it is death and hell. So God loves us and wants us to go to heaven and to go to heaven we have to be perfect as righteous as God and none of of us are perfect, none of us are righteous.

See, there’s going to be a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness. And to be there and to live forever, you can’t have any sin. Jesus Christ was God in the flesh. He came into the world because He loves us, hates our sin because it separates us from them. So Jesus Christ who had no sin didn’t have to die. So He took all of our sins and when he took all of our sins upon him, the Bible says he was smitten of God.

And he paid for our sins. If he paid for my sins, then I don’t have to. Why? He paid for them. You see, I don’t have to go to hell and pay for one sin. What? He paid for them. But the payment is not put to my account until I believe he did it for me. So when I believe he did it for me, he puts that payment to my account. I get to go to heaven of what Christ did.

I didn’t earn it. It didn’t work for it. I don’t deserve it, but God loves me and loves me that much. That He would give me as a free gift everlasting life and I can know positively be unashivate. I can know that I’m going to heaven whenever I die. I know right now I am going to be able to rule and reign with Christ for a thousand years like the Garden of Eden. And what I do today and tomorrow and for the rest of my life is going to pay off there, will be worth it.

If you don’t think it’s worth it, you do whatever you want to do. No skin off my nose. You can live like the devil if you want to, waste your life if you want to, but this day is coming, and when this day shows up, you’ll wish you had of it. And it won’t matter what anybody else thinks. So I would recommend that if you trust the Christ as your Savior, realize that this is true. This day, one day will arrive and we’re going to be out of here.

And one day when you and I leave this world, however we leave this world, by death or the rapture, we’ll wish we had given him more. You don’t want to have years of regret, serve the Lord now. Nobody can make you. Nobody can make you discipline your life, stop things in your life, witness. Nobody can make you do that. There’s got to be something on the inside of you, says, I believe this. I believe this. And I’m going to do what I can while I can.

Let’s pray, show it. If you’re here tonight and you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior. Oh, our friend, I wish you would. There’s no tricks to it, no gimmicks. You don’t have to join this church. You don’t have to give any money. You don’t have to promise anything, stop anything, join anything. All you have to do is be honest and say, Lord, I’m a sinner. Because friends, you are. God knows that anyway, you might as well own up to it.

You’ll say, Lord, you’re right. I’m not perfect. I don’t deserve to go to heaven. And I believe Jesus Christ died on that cross and paid for my sins. And I’m going to trust Him as my Savior, as my only hope of going to heaven. And when God said that you would do that, He would save you, give eternal life. Would you do it? Would you trust Him? Right where you are, friend. God knows who you are, knows what you’ve done, knows what you’re going to do, still loves you.

You want to go to heaven? There is no other way except through Christ. Will you trust Him and Him alone as your only hope of going to heaven? If you believe He died and paid for your sins, and you just talked to the Lord, say, Lord, I don’t understand at all, but I believe He did it for me. And I’m going to trust Him to take me to heaven whenever I die. And, Frank, you can know upon the authority of the Word of God, God says that He would give you as a free gift, the eternal life, and it never cast you out and never lose you.

And that you can know that you have eternal life. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. If you wish to hear today’s program again or would like to download a free MP3 of today’s or any previous Bibleline program go to BibleLineMinistries.org and click on the spinning globe in the upper right corner of our home page.

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Friend, one day it will happen. The trumpet will sound. We will be changed. Caught up to meet the Lord in the air. So live today and every day, believing that the Lord is coming soon and just keep looking up.

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Bibleline Bibleline, here God’s word on Bibleline, everywhere, every time. Here God’s truth on Bibleline. Welcome to Bibleline with Dr. Ralph Yankee Arnold, pastor of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida. Clearly declaring the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the radio and the internet. Your regular prayers and monthly support make it possible for Bibleline to continue on the air. You can reach us toll free at 1-800-576-3771. One Line donations may be made through the Bibleline website at calvaryoftampa.org. We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s first part of this two-part message Will be a blessing to you and your family Turn in your Bible to the book of Revelation the book of Revelation We are in the 20th chapter of the book of Revelation.

I Love prophecy I I enjoy the book of Revelation. We have talked about a time upon the year called the Tribulation Period. But anyway, let me explain something to you. We often talk about the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Heaven. They’re not exactly the same thing. The Kingdom of God is like Jesus said, told Nicodemus, unless a man is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God. you’re born again, you cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

So the kingdom of God is that spiritual realm by which anyone who trusts Christ is Savior from beginning to end is in the kingdom of God. We were in the kingdom of darkness, but when you trust the Lord you’re in the kingdom of light, so you’re in the kingdom of God. The period of time that we’re going to talk about tonight is known as the millennial reign upon the earth, this Davidic millennial kingdom. This is what was promised to the Old Testament nation of Israel about the kingdom that’s going to come.

So Christ, when he came, is the king of a kingdom. That’s also comes from the statements in the book of Daniel in chapter two and verse 43 and 44 where it talks about in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom upon the earth. So it’s the kingdom of heaven. So this period of time right here is the kingdom of heaven. So whenever you study the book of Matthew, you will find almost exclusively that title, kingdom of heaven.

And Behold is born unto you this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord, but He’s also referred to as the King, whereas He did His born King of Israel. So Jesus Christ is the King of Israel. He presented Himself as the only one who legitimately has the right to claim the throne of Israel. And so John the Baptist came in chapter 3 preaching the Kingdom of Heaven. In chapter 4 it talks about the Kingdom of Heaven and throughout the book, the Kingdom of Heaven.

So we know that the Kingdom of Heaven is because this should have been back here and they would have accepted the King and they would have had the Kingdom and so he is telling them how he’s going to rule the Kingdom and he will rule with a rod of iron. It means that he will be law, he will be King and he rules over all the other kings. That’s why it’s called the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

So he’s over everything and everyone during this year, thousand year reign upon the earth. Now look there in Revelation in chapter 20. Revelation chapter 20. We just came through the worst period of time upon the face of the earth. What is that called? The tribulation period upon the earth. The worst period of time known to man, which is right ahead of us. And if you look at the situation in the world, It doesn’t look very pretty. It’s gonna get worse and worse and worse.

And we are entering into a period of time where they will make a treaty with Israel. Of course, they will not keep their treaty because they do not keep their word. And in the middle of it, they’re going to break this peace treaty. And the last three and a half years is where the devil pours out his wrath. God is pouring out his wrath. So you don’t wanna be here. This is the bad time to be upon the planet Earth.

But at the end of that, the head of the last world government religion. The beast and the false prophet are going to be cast into the lake of fire. That’s chapter 19. That’s when Christ comes back at the end of the tribulation period and takes care of the situation at the Battle of Armageddon, where all nations will come against Israel against Jerusalem. And so he will set up his kingdom upon the year. Well, what happens to the devil at this point?

You see there in verse one, and I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit. and a great chain in his hand. And he lay hold on the dragon that old serpent which is the devil and Satan, all those names let you know who it is and bound him a thousand years. So you see, during this thousand years, that’s what the word millennial means, this thousand years, Satan is going to be passed into the bottomless pit where he will be for one thousand years.

You and I are going to be upon this kingdom for 1,000 years. It’s going to be just like the Garden of Eden. You’ve always wanted to be there, but we didn’t get a chance to enjoy that. So the day is coming when we’re going to be upon the earth for this 1,000 years. And then you’ll notice there in verse 3, and cast him into the bottomless pit. Shut him up, set a seal upon him that he should deceive the nations no more.

Till the thousand years should be fulfilled. After that he must be loosed a little season. So this is what’s going to happen to the devil. And so he will be there for 1000 years now looking verse 7. Verse 7 says, And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth. Gog and Magog, Gog refers to the Prince in land of refers to Magog, and to gather them, to gather to battle the number of whom is at the sand of the sea, and they went up on the breath of the earth encompassed the camp of the saints of Bob and the beloved city, which I believe is Jerusalem.

And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them, so much for this great big battle at the end of the millennial reign. Not much at all. the Lord takes care of that. So you not don’t have to worry about that. But what happens to the devil? He would put into a bottomless pit, thousand years later, he comes out, deceives those people that are still in the millennial reign and leads a rebellion at the very end against the Lord.

And then the Bible says in verse 10, and the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are shall be tormented day and night forever and ever. Now the beast and the false prophet see what’s put in there at the beginning of the thousand years. They’re still there at the end of the thousand years. So it’s not like, well, we get there, but after a while, God’s gonna forgive us all and we’re gonna get out.

No, no, no, no, they’re still there. And the devil goes there and what happens to the devil? Well, they take up an offer in an air conditioned to place. No, look in the last part of verse 10. It says, and shall be tormented day and night forever and ever. So the devil and his angels, the beast, the false prophet, all in the same place, and they will be tormented forever and ever and ever. He will be in the lake of fire.

Now, because that is true, and I believe that it’s true, take your Bible and turn all the way back to the book of Matthew chapter 3. Matthew chapter 3. And just look at a few of these verses with me. You’ll notice there in chapter 3 where he talks about John the Baptist in verse 1. And verse 2 he says, saying, repent ye for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. The kingdom of heaven is this period of time. Christ came and it was a legitimate offer, but He was rejected, remember, but that was the message at the beginning of Christ’s ministry, the beginning of John the Baptist ministry, to preach the gospel of the kingdom, and to the gospel of the kingdom is the same gospel that we preached because John 3 16 was at the beginning of Christ’s ministry and so that’s the same message

that John the Baptist was preaching that they should believe on him who came after him that they would believe on Christ. So this is mentioned about the kingdom of heaven. Look there in chapter 4. You’ll see there in chapter 4 and verse 17, from that time Jesus began to preach and to save repent for the Kingdom of Heaven. Is it hand? So they both, John the Baptist and Jesus were preaching the kingdom of heaven. Because they were going to set up the kingdom upon the earth.

So in the book of Matthew, which pictures Jesus Christ as the lion of the tribe of Judah, which pictures Jesus Christ as the king. He chooses his cabinet. He lays out his constitution of how he’s going to rule the kingdom. And so you find that, especially tart knocking chapter five, which is where I want you to look next. Look here in chapter five in verse three. When you talk about the beatitudes on the Mount, he says in verse three, blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the, and here’s that phrase again, kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of heaven.

So the kingdom of heaven is a period of time. It’s when the king from heaven sets up his kingdom. Now he was rejected, and so the kingdom was postponed and moved out into the future. But now look there in chapter 5 of the book of Matthew, and you’ll notice there are several places like in verse 19 where he says, Whosoever, therefore shall break one of these least commandments, shall teach men so, he shall be called the least where? In the kingdom of heaven.

But whosoever shall do and teach them the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. See, this is not talking about the church. The church hasn’t been mentioned. That was mainly revealed by the apostle Paul later in other scriptures, though he did talk about upon this rock, I will build my church. But that doesn’t mean he has started it yet. But look there in verse 20. In verse 20, we’ll let you see about this kingdom. He says, for I say unto you that, except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees, you shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven.”

All right, look up here. Those people who come out of the tribulation period, they’re those who have believed on the Lord. So when Christ comes back, there is going to be the judgment of the nations, judgment of the Gentiles. Israel will believe on the Lord when they see him and will be saved doesn’t it? So Israel will be the little seed like as a mustard seed that goes into the kingdom and becomes a great kingdom and all the birds and so forth coming rest underneath the branches of this great kingdom which is going to take place during this period of time.

Now there’s Gentiles who have trusted Christ as their Savior and they will go into the millennial reign upon the earth. Now they have regular bodies, they will still be able to have children, and so they will go into the kingdom. You and I, we went up here, we went to the marriage of the Lamb. Now we’re coming back with Christ, and we will rule and reign with Christ upon the earth for the thousand years. We will have glorified bodies.

You’ll see we’re not going to have that same body upon the earth that I have right now. I’m going to get another when you’re going to get another one, all of us are going to get another body and we will have a glorified body. We’ll have a perfect body. We will not have a sinful nature. We will never be able to see in ever anymore. And we’re going to be in positions of leadership, but the position of leadership that you have depends upon your service to the Lord now.

You mess up your life now. Now you’ll still get to heaven because you trust Christ as Savior. You’ll get into the kingdom because you trust the Christ is Savior. We will always be with the Lord. But how you rule with the Lord depends upon what you have done for Him. So that’s why we have been taken to the Jabbie and the Christ where we will be dressed in the righteous acts of the saints. We’ve gone to the Maryself of the Lamb and now we’re coming back to rule and reign with Christ.

But there are people who are going to be upon the earth and they will still have children. And I’ll show you something to buy that in just a second. But as you go down through here it talks an awful lot about the kingdom upon the earth, the kingdom upon the earth. Look there in chapter seven, looking verse 21. This is mainly where this verse is and what it’s referring to. Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven.

Now we talk sometime we think about going to heaven. Now this is talking about the kingdom of heaven here. Not everybody gets into the kingdom of heaven. So that’s why you have to trust Christ as your Savior. When He made the statement, except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness described in the Pharisee, you shall know wise, enter into the kingdom of heaven. So you still have to have eternal life and go into the kingdom unless you’re one of those that were born into the kingdom.

And we’ll take a look at that in just a second. But now Now look in chapter 8 of Matthew. And you notice in chapter 8 it makes a statement here. In verse 11, and I say unto you that many shall come from the east from the west. So we know we’re on the earth, we’re not in heaven, we’re on the earth. Shall come from the east and shall sit down with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob where? In the kingdom of heaven.

But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Now, that’s children that will be in the millennium that they have up to 100 years to accept Christ as their Savior. If they don’t trust the Lord by the time they’re 100 years of age, they are considered a sinner and they’re cast out, and that’s why there’s verses that talks about they’re cast into outer darkness or cast out of the kingdom.

That’s those that are born into the kingdom and never trusted the Lord. see those are the same ones at the end of the millennium, Satan is going to be able to deceive. So there’s going to be lost people here in the millennium. Now, I want you to look there as you go down through the book of Matthew. It’s mentioned in chapter 13, look in chapter 13 real quick, chapter 13, it will refer to the period of time upon the earth, special like verse 11.

Look in verse 11, Matthew 13. He says in verse 11, He answered and sinned them because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the, and here’s that phrase, kingdom of heaven. Kingdom of heaven. It’s also mentioned there in verse 24, verse 24. Another parable put he forth unto them, saying the kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which soeth is good seed and so forth. Now you could apply many of the parables to the church age and where we live because some of the same principles are found to be true.

But the primary application is to the kingdom of heaven. It says the kingdom of heaven is like this. This is like this. This is like this. And it says it over and over and over again. Look there in chapter 13 and verse 31. Another parable put he forth in the kingdom of heaven is like unto a grain of mustard seed. In verse 33, the kingdom of heaven is like this. And as you go down through here, it keeps saying that verse 44, the kingdom of heaven.

Verse 45, the kingdom of heaven. Verse 47, the kingdom of heaven. And it’s all the way through, and you’ll see there in verse 50, and it says, shall cast them into the furnace of fire. there shall be wailing the nation of teeth. That’s because after a certain age, they are cast out of the kingdom. You see, you can’t be cast out of the kingdom if you’re not in the kingdom. But now this is not say people being cast out of the kingdom, which I’ve heard a lot of people teach that is, this is those who have not trusted the Lord, and therefore they are cast out of the kingdom.

When you get to Matthew in chapter 25, it talks about the 10 virgins. The kingdom of heaven is like this. When it talks about those three that had so many talents given to them and they doubled their money and so about the kingdom of heaven is like this. So if you take those and put it someplace else here, it doesn’t fit too good, but they will fit perfectly in the kingdom of heaven. Now, Take your Bible and turn very quickly to the 35th chapter of the book of Isaiah, 35th chapter of the book of Isaiah.

Now I’ve been to Israel enough to know that when I’ve been upon the the Golan Heights and you can see a long ways. There’s also places in Jerusalem on the eastern side of Jerusalem you can stand upon the hill and you can see down where the river Jordan flows down through there. On Jordan’s side it is death. Nothing grows. On Israel’s side, everything grows. It’s beautiful. Lot of fruit, grass, greenery, you name it, Israel’s got it and be. But on the other side of the river, just across the river, it’s nothing.

It’s like a desert. But look what he says here in verse 1, the wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose. This is during the kingdom time. Now we’re seeing a little bit of that even in our time, but it’s not the fulfillment of these scriptures, even though there’s a lot of similarities and history repeats itself, But there is a lot of good stuff that’s happening over there in Israel.

But it’s not the end of it yet. You look down there in verse 5, then the eyes of the blind shall be opened. The ears of the death shall be unstopped. Then shall Peter Amato leap as a heart, as a deer, and the tongue of the dumb shall sing for in the wilderness and shall waters break out in streams in the desert. Parts, grounds shall become a pool, thirsty land springs of water, inhabitants of dragons, where each day shall be grasped with reeds and rushes.

And they could be a highway from Egypt all the way through. So there’ll be the King’s highway. But there’s a lot of things that are going to happen during this period of time that has been prophesied for so long. This is the kingdom of heaven. Christ will be here. Abraham, Isaac, Jake, the alt gonna be here. This is going to be one joyous time. We just came through, or somebody did, this worst period of time on the face of the earth.

We were up in heaven, we come back down, and now this is the best time of all human history for people to really enjoy this wonderful place, this wonderful land. Now take your Bible and look into 65th chapter of the book of Isaiah. Isaiah chapter 65, Isaiah 65 and look there in verse 17. Verse 17, he says, For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth in the former shall not be remembered. nor come into mind. But be a glattering joys forever and that which I create.

For behold, I create Jerusalem, a rejoicing, and her people a joy. Boy, they have been through nothing but misery for over almost 3,000 years. But the time has come in where God is going to fulfill His promise that He made to Israel. You see, there can’t be peace on earth without the Prince of Peace. Well, he’s going to be here. He’s going to be here and there’s going to be peace. But look what he says in verse 19. He says, and I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people, and the voice of weep and shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

There shall be no more thence and infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days. For the child shall die a hundred years old, but the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed. In other words, if a person, a child that lived to be 100 years old in comparison to living to be 1000 years old, and you lived to be 100, you’re just a child. You know, like I’ve said before, you know, here’s Al back there.

He’s 80 something years old, right? All right. I’m 69. I’m just a pup. I’m just a child. But he’s talking about if you live to be a hundred, you’re just a child in comparison to a living to be a thousand years old. But if you haven’t trusted the Lord, I believe by the time that hundred years I think you’ve got troubles. That God put the curse and you probably will be dead or you’re going to die at that period of time.

So this is why our soul-winning days may not be over. You still may be able to win people to Christ you because there’s going to be a lot of people being born into the world and it says the increase of his kingdom, there’ll be no end. How many people, I don’t know, but remember, it says there is as many as the sands of the sea when the devil comes out at the end and that’s just those people that has to be within the hundred years at the end that he’s able to take those because I believe up to that point.

Now there was,num darit then died. Now there’s not a lot of details given about all of this stuff. So I’m just kind of hitting generically a little bit, but I believe the truth there, I still haven’t figured out all the little stuff on how God does everything. But I do know this, he compares a man’s life to the age of a tree. Now there’s trees that lived to be 500 or a thousand years old, especially some good old trees, but look what he says there, in this verse 21, and they shall build houses and and inhabit them.

They shall plant vineyards, eat the fruit of them. In the word, this will not be in vain. You’ll be able to eat the fruit of your labor. Never man will have his own fig tree. And this is where the women go get these strawberries and they feed them to us as we lay under the shade of the tree tree.

Amen. I knew you’d like that. I figured you would. Verse 22, they shall not build an another inhabit. They shall not plant in another eat, for as the days of a tree are the days of my people. And mine elects out long enjoy the work of their hands, long enjoy, see back before the flood, they lived almost a thousand years. Have you ever heard of a guy named Mafuzala? Now he lived 969 years now, I’ve already got the 69 years taken care of.

But can you imagine living another 900 years? Well, the way things are in the world, and the way that all of these problems and sicknesses, all that kind of, I don’t know if I’d want to live another 900 years. I’m not even sure of another 100 years. I wouldn’t mind giving a whirl. I’ve never died before. I just don’t want to hurt. But this is where you hear about, you know, sometimes people talk about this, but this is where you see it.

See there in verse 20, they shall not labor in vain, nor brain forth for trouble, for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and they’re offspring with the offspring. So that is gonna have to be offspring during this period of time. There’s kids gonna be born, they’re gonna live, they’re gonna grow up. Did you know it will probably just as difficult, trying to convince a kid here about the things that have already happened as it is now?

Because you can say, you know, we just came through seven-year tribulation period, yeah, yeah, yeah. Years like my mom scared me to death. At what age is it easier to win somebody to the Lord? Well, it seemed like this ought to be the easiest one. I mean, here’s Abraham and Isaac. There’s Jacob. There’s King David. They probably will not be any easier to convince of all of this than we are. Isn’t it true that in spite of everything God has revealed and this is where we are right now people still don’t believe it I don’t care how much you tell them You can tell them what’s gonna take place in the future Still won’t believe it well anyway Look what he says there in verse 24.

He said and it shall come to pass it before they call I will answer While they’re yet speaking I will hear I mean the Lord’s gonna be right here. He knows your thoughts And while you’re praying God already knows what you’re thinking and can be I mean it can be on its way. I Think it’s gonna be awesome And then look at verse 25 now you’ve heard about this here all your life just about the wolf and the lamb shall feed together Now you may don’t know this some of you city stickers a wolf likes to eat lamb Now lamb don’t eat wolf wolf eats the lamb it is unnatural natural for a wolf and a lamb to feed together.

But during this period of time, it will be. Did you know if they hadn’t been for the curse upon the earth that they probably wouldn’t hate each other back then? It was only afterwards after the curse upon the earth. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. Our two of this teaching will conclude with tomorrow’s broadcast. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the Clear Gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll-free 1-800-576-3771.

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God must be just when He judges because people are always sitting in judgment on God. So he says, which did corrupt, he judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. And again they said, praise the Lord, and her smoke rose up forever and ever. Not just a word about that verse. You say, that means that if it happens in New York City, smoke will go up forever and never, never, never, never.

Or if it was wrong, wrong will burn forever and never, never, never, never. Or if it is Jerusalem, we’re burning forever and ever and ever and ever. Well, I don’t think it’s talking about the land. Look there in chapter 14 in verse 11. Chapter 14 verse 11. And you’ll notice something else here. And the smoke of their torment, I’ll send it up for ever and ever. It’s the smoke of their torment. It’s not the ashes from the rubble that go up forever and ever and ever.

It’s the people that God has judged. It’s the people that are dead. It’s the people that are in the lake of fire. And the smoke of their torment ascended up forever, never. So go back here to chapter 19. In verse 4 and the 4 and 20 elders, and the four beasts fell down and worshiped God. That said of the throne saying, Amen, praise the Lord, hallelujah. And a voice came out of the throne saying, praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him both small and great, the moment has arrived.

And he said, I heard a great voice in heaven, and you thought of picture all these people that are in heaven from Adam all the way down that are in heaven. All these angels and all this hollering, shouting, probably sounds like thunder. Ted, you always wanted to hear this thunder. It’s coming bud, just hanging there, just a little bit longer, you’ll hear it. He always wants to have an audio of the greatest thunder that’s ever hit up on planet earth.

Well, I think what’s going to happen when we get to heaven is going to be some of the loudest thunder you’ve ever heard in your life of people praising the Lord and their voices sound like thundering. But get what he says here. He says in the last part of it, verse 6, the Lord God, omnipotent reign it. You ever heard that phrase before like in Hand of the Messiah? That’s where it comes from. That phrase is used several times in that song.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. A thousand ways of saying, Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Now verse 7, to verse 10 talks about another issue, something that’s going to take place in heaven. There’s going to be the marriage of the Lamb, the marriage of the Lamb. You heard me say before the next time I get married I’ll be the bride. First time I was I was the groom. Next time I won’t be the bride. Whenever you trusted Christ as your Savior you were born and placed into the body of Christ and all believers from Pentecost to the rapture are the bride of Christ.

You see, and I mentioned to you before, he was God, Jehovah. And God took this little old nation that started because of a miracle birth by two old folks. They were Ham and Surah and they had a son. And from that son, a son. And from that son, twelve sons. And from those twelve, twelve tribes. They’re down in Egypt and they kind of incubated there for 400 years. And God brought them out and he had a great nation. And God wanted to get married.

And he marries the nation’s name. of Israel and he brings her to his holy mountain scared of the death and he proposed to her and she says all that you have commanded me we will do. We will do it. I do, you do, we do, we’re married. So Jehovah took Israel to be his wife. So God has a wife. Nah, I know it sounds strange, but follow the illustration. Don’t get in out of shape. God’s one of the sun.

God’s one of the sun that would be just like him. He wanted to have a perfect son. It took a while, but lo and behold, there was this virgin. The Holy Spirit came and placed the seed inside of that woman. And it says, that holy thing shall be called the son of the highest. So Israel is the wife and God, the Father and the wife, they have a son. But the woman doesn’t want her son. It’s cast him out.

So he was taken up to be with the Lord. God has allowed all those who believe in His Son to be made perfect. God, see, is looking for a perfect bride for His perfect son. And His Son is perfect, has no sin. So He has to have a perfect bride. But you and I, well, there is nobody perfect. So He said, He’ll make us perfect. So by the new birth, you are given the divine nature of God. So every one of us who are born into God’s family have been made pure and holy and set apart.

And so all of these from Pentecost to the Raptor are set apart and we form the bride of Christ. And so God says at the marriage supper of the Lamb, see we’re the one that’s going to be there, but But before we get to the marriage, we have to have a wedding dress. Now you and I know that we’re dressed in the righteousness of Christ when we trust Christ as Savior. But these verses are talking about a little bit more than just the righteousness of Christ.

Look there in verse 7, let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to Him for the marriage of the Lamb is come and his wife has made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be a raid in fine linen, clean and white, but fine linen is the righteousness of saints of the rights acts of the saints. So where did we just go right before the Mary of the Lamb? We just went to the judgment seat of Christ.

At the judgment seat of Christ, who and I are going to be judged or rewarded for what we’ve done for the Lord to decipher whether or not your works go, silver, and precious stone door, hey, wouldn’t stubble. So you’ve got to find out what sort it is. The hay, wood, and stubble, that’s the wasted life. And this is what you did for Christ that will last. And God is going to, I guess, in some way, see everybody has to have a, or should have a, you know, a dowry.

we get? So we’re going to have our crowns or our certain dress is going to have something that distinguishes and it says like we shall all shine as the brightness of the firmness and the stars and so forth in the book of Daniel in chapter 12. But whatever it is, your service to the Lord now, I believe, depending on what you wear to the wedding. And when you go to the wedding, we’re addressing the righteous acts of the saints.

There’s going to be the banquet hall. If you listen real quietly, you can hear him rattling the Civil War if you’re getting ready. It’s going to take place any day now. And we’re going to be at this big wedding. And then we’re coming to the earth with the Lord. Now you don’t have to worry about it. Is he going to take us on our honeymoon to the Battle of Armageddon?

I mean, is that a place to take your wife? But we know that he is coming back, power and great glory, and he’s going to get everything set up by him. Remember whenever he left, he said, I go to prepare a place for you. Now remember, in Jewish custom, it was generally the father that tried to find the right bride for the son. And then she was to get ready because she didn’t know exactly when he was going to show up.

Well see, the whole principle is based upon this story. It’s a truth. I mean, it’s unreal. So we don’t know exactly when he’s going to show up, but we’re supposed to be ready and be looking for him. Now that’s true for the rapture, but we don’t know when it’s going to happen. But this is also talking about when Christ comes back in power and great glory to the year for the nation of Israel. And he says, they’re supposed to be looking because he, when he comes back, he’s going to set up his kingdom upon the earth.

And this time when he shows up, they will as a people, as a nation, accept Jesus Christ as the king. And he will set up his kingdom upon this earth. But look what he says here. In verse 9, and he said to them, right, blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. Now I believe the guest of the Old Testament saints. I believe they’ll be there. told their dead and I believe they’ve gone to heaven, but they’re not part of the church.

In verse 11, he said, I saw heaven open, behold a white horse and he that said unto him was called faithful and true and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. Now where is he headed right now? Well let me show you this, see they’re in verse 19? Verse 19, so you can see it. And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against him that set on the horse and against his army.

So the beast and the kings of the earth are all coming together to make war on him that set on the horse. So somehow those that are on the earth will be able to see him coming before he gets here. So they’re looking through some telescope. Can they see something coming from out of space? I mean, if they see Him coming before He gets here, that’s awesome. Wouldn’t that scare you to death? Somebody’s coming. They’re getting closer. That’s Donald Asteroid.

Hold your place and look here in Matthew chapter 24, Matthew and chapter 24. This is an interesting verse. Matthew chapter 24. And look there in verse, oh, we’ll just start there in verse 27. Because this is pretty much the same place that we’re reading over there in the book of Revelation, chapter 19, where it says in verse 27, for as the lightning comeeth out of the east, shining even into the west, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.

Now, this is not the rapture. This is not when he comes for you and I, seven years before. He came right now, we would best disappear out of this room and we’re with the Lord. This is talking about at the end of the tribulation period, that seven years. Christ comes back. And so he then he says there in verse 28, for where silver the carcasses there where the eagles be gathered together. That’s the battle of Armageddon when all the birds come to eat and the feast upon all the bodies that are in the plains of Jezreo.

Now look at verse 29, immediately after the tribulation of those days, shall the sun be dark and the most should not give our life, stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of the heaven shall be shaken. And get this word, then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven. Now Jesus Christ appearing, that is the sign. Because he talks about this is the sign of his coming. They want to win the sign of Yucatan when I appear.

And the light will shine as far as the east is to the west. Imagine what it’s going to look like. But they’ll see him coming before he actually gets to the earth. And give what else he says. He says, and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man, heaven already arrived. No, coming in the clouds. See him coming in the clouds of him with power and great glory. So they will see him coming before he ever gets here.

Just don’t like oh he must have come last night. No, no, he’s coming they seem coming Now go back here to the book of Revelation They will literally see it happening and look in Revelation chapter 16 Revelation chapter 16 And look down in verse 13. Here you have a picture of the unholy Trinity The Holy Trinity, the God, the Father, God, the Son, God, the Holy Spirit. This is the unholy Trinity where you got the devil, the beast of the false prophet.

And it says there in verse 14, and they are the spirits of devils working miracles which go forth unto the getth kings of the earth, and of the whole world to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief, blessed is he that watch it and keep it his garment, lest he should make it, and they shall see a shame. And he gathered them together in the place called in the Hebrew tongue.

Armageddon. So this is when they are going to gather themselves together for this great battle and they’re going to take on God. They see him coming. You know, I may not be the smartest guy in the world, but if I knew this is what’s going on and I know it’s right right here in the Bible and I don’t believe it but it says so this is what’s going to happen. I was like, hey, we lose. I’m out of here.

Why would you want to go through it? I’m so stupid. But they do it because they’re blind. And there’s people that are living today that haven’t got a clue at what in the world is going on in the world. Reading the Bible is like reading tomorrow’s newspaper. It’s more of the date than the world. And it doesn’t have to be changed and doesn’t have to be edited and there’s no apologies printed the next day we made a mistake. I don’t know if you ever seen that in some of the papers, you know, we made a mistake.

No mistakes here. All right, look back there now in the Revelation chapter 19. So we know the Lord is coming back in power, great glory. Every eye will see Him, those that are on the earth, and He says in verse 13, and He was clothed with a vestre dipped in blood in his name is called the word of God. So we know who it is. This is the Lord. And in verse 40, and the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine land, white and clean.

And out of his mouth go of a sharp sword that way that he should smite the nations. And he will rule them with a rod of iron. See when Christ comes back now, he comes back as the king that Israel thought he would show up the first time. They were looking for somebody that could deliver them from the iron heel of Rome. And here comes this lamb riding on a doggy. That’s not really what they were looking for. You see the first time he came he came as the lamb the next time he comes as a lion of the tribe of Judah.

So the Bible says that the prophets of old had a little trouble trying to understand and to discern the difference between the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow. No they look here in the book of Jude the book of Jude right before the book of Revelation, but look there in the book of Jude and you’ll find out way back there before the flood, before the flood, before the flood. Think about this. There was a preacher back there before the flood that told about this.

You see there in verse 14 of the book of Jude and And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold the Lord, cometh with ten thousands of his saints. Who preached that? Enoch? Remember Enoch was the one who had the testimony that he walked with God and he was not for God. Took him. He preached that before the flood. Hey, Jesus is coming, coming with 10,000 of us. But where does it say that in all those?

But see, they knew things that we’d say, well, they couldn’t have known that. They didn’t know that. Yet they understood a lot more than you think they knew. Bobble says that Noah was a preacher of righteousness. You think it was a preacher of man’s righteousness or Christ’s righteousness. They understood. They knew more than we think they knew. But he says, the whole, the Lord, come with ten thousands of his saints. And after all these years, here he comes, ready or not, your play hide and seek.

I used to love to play hide and seek. I could hide and never find me. But anyway, Revelation chapter 19. And he says in verse 15, and out of his mouth, go up the sharp, throw it with it. He should smite the nations and he will rule them with the rod of iron. See, he’s coming back now as the king. He’s going to set up his kingdom upon the earth and he’s going to rule the nations with the rod of iron.

This kingdom upon the earth is why when you study the book of Matthew, it picture Jesus Christ as the king of the line of the tribe of Judah. And that’s where he says, if a man slap you on cheek, you turn the other cheek. Because he’s here. You see, I don’t care if you smack me on my cheek. As long as I know Jesus is here and he’s gonna get you. But he ain’t here yet. Don’t try it. And if I sue you, give me another coat too.

Go with me one mile. No two miles. No matter what. Because there’s somebody here that’s a righteous judge and this the Lord he sees no jiveth, he rules with a rod of iron. You can’t put it with anything. He’s here. Throw all of them. But then he says in verse 16 and he hath on his vestra on his thy name written king of kings Lord of lords This is who he is And so there’s all these kings have all gotten together the greatest king they’ve ever had rules the whole world Well, how did he do how did he do boy?

He brought in a Everything everybody needed probably brought in Obamacare everybody had health insurance Taking care from the cradle to the grave. Everybody got everything you ever wanted. What was a wonderful world wasn’t it? As long as this anti-Christ was in power, wasn’t it? Worst part of time the world’s ever known. Now he’s coming back and he’s going to set up his and it’s going to be like the Garden of Eden. You ever wish you could have lived in the Garden of Eden?

Lay around all day, Eden’s strawberries. I’m glad God made women. So they can pick the strawberries. I mean, you might not want to get up and go pick those strawberries. Just lay there and just… Honey. That’s another sermon. Okay, I’ve deviated just a tad. She was the only one that could actually say, and tell the truth. You know what an angel is? It was just like it. Always up in the air, nothing to wear, and always harping on something.

She was probably the only one that could say, I don’t have anything to wear. and be telling the truth. And our first close with the fig leaves. I’ll leave it along with just a bit of this. And the angel in verse 17 standing in the sun cry with a loud voice to all the fouls of the air to come and eat and feast upon the bodies of horses and the flesh of mighty men and captains and sheepmen princes all these people all get hey time to eat and all the birds are coming to feast.

There were the bodies, there were the eagles, be gathered together, which is also that verse mentioned there in the Book of Matthew, we read just a while ago that when he appears as the light and shed from the east to the west, that’s all going to happen. Now see how it’s in order? It just flows all together. And then he says there in verse 19, and I saw the beast, I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together make war against him that set of the horse and against his armies.

And this is what happened. So the beast the false prophet are people. They’re people and they’re going to suffer. In verse 20 and the beast was taken and with him the false prophet that worked miracles before him with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and then that worshiped his name. These both were cast alive into a state of mind. Oh, it’s just a state of mind. No, it’s a place, a real place. And they cast alive into the lake of fire burning with fire and brimstone.

And look what happens a thousand years later in verse 10, thousand years later. You see, well, what happened to the devil? Angel came down and got a hold of the old devil that old serpent, passed him to a bottomless pit and bound them there for a thousand years. So the thousand years upon the earth now is going to be without the devil and it’s going to be a wonderful time and the lion and the lamb will lay down together and the little children will have to worry about the snakes.

I doubt if there will even be one single mosquito there. In Minnesota and they told me there’s not one single mosquito in Minnesota. They were all Mary and had large families. Verse 10, and the devil that deceived with them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. This is a thousand years later, the beast and the false prophet are still there. They weren’t burned up, still there. And shall be tormented day and night for how long?

That’s the devil. I also always told you know the devil is running around in some red union suit with pitch, fork, and fork at tail, and little horns, you know. That’s when the pot would meet cans. And the devil’s down there, ruling down here in hell, you know, and you got to keep shelling that coal in there and so forth. And he’s in charge of hell. He ain’t in charge of nothing. He’s in the flames of fire for all eternity.

But anyway, kind of makes a man want to make sure he doesn’t go there. to make sure that you’re going to heaven when you die. Look up here. This is you and me. This hand represents you and me and everybody in the whole world. And all of the represent all the bad things that we do. God says He loves us, but He hates the whole bad thing that we do. But He says the pay for what we do wrong is eternal separation from God in a literal fire burning hell.

But He loves us and wants us to go to heaven. And to go to heaven, we have to be perfect as righteous as God. and none of us are perfect, none of us are righteous. So God says you can’t save yourself, you cannot earn your way to heaven. Heaven is not a reward that God gives to you because you deserve it. It’s not a reward. Heaven is a place, it’s where God lives, and he’s perfect, and you gotta be perfect to go there and because of sin, we can’t get in.

So the Bible says you cannot save yourself by your good deeds. We need a savior and you can’t save yourself. This hand represents Jesus Christ, He’s the Lord God and the flesh came into the world because He loves us, but He hates what we do wrong because it separates us from the Lord. So Jesus Christ who had no sin did not have to die, He came into the world, took our sins, paid for them on the cross, came back from the dead.

And He said if we would believe that He did it for us, He would put the payment to our account when you believe it and you get to go to heaven because He paid for all the sins. You don’t have to pay for any sin because He paid for it. You and I, we get to go to heaven because of what he did for us. God, God, so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. Now, who’s so ever?

Open invitation, you want who’s so ever? Believe it, if you’ll believe he did it for you. You would not perish means you will not go to hell. But have, present tense, right now, have everlasting life. We have eternal life and we get to go to heaven whenever we die, all because of what he did for us. We don’t go to heaven because of what we did for Him. But what He did for us. Let’s pray, shall we? If you hear it tonight and you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, why not just talk to the Lord and say something simple like this?

Lord, I’m a sinner. And that’s just being honest. Is He God already knows it anyway? But you have to admit it. By admitting you’re a sinner, you’re admitting you can’t save yourself. Because you have to be perfect to go to heaven. And by saying, I’m a sinner means you’re admitting I’m not perfect. All of us are in the same boat. But will you believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross, paid for all of your sins? Paid for mine, paid for yours?

If you’ll believe He did it for you, He said, He would put that payment He made to your account, and you get to go to heaven on what He did for you. So would you right now say, yes, that made sense to me, and I’m going to trust Christ as my Savior and preach out like Peter, pray for me, and close in. Then would you just slip you in it very quickly, and put it up in and with all?

In and with all. If you’ve already trusted Christ to save you, you don’t have to do it again. But if you haven’t, would you do it now? I pray that you would. I plead with you. Just by faith alone, in Christ alone, would you trust Him? God knows you, He sees you, and He loves you. And He said, if you’ll trust Him, He will save you. Father, we thank you so much for this time together. Bless each one here.

We thank you for the study of your word in Christ and we pray. Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll-free 1-800-576-3771. 1-800-576-3771. If you wish to hear today’s program again or would like to download a free MP3 of today’s or any previous Bibleline program, go to BibleLineMinistries.org and click on the spinning globe at the upper right corner of our homepage.

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up to meet the Lord in the air. So live today and every day, believing that the Lord is coming soon, just keep looking up.

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Revelation chapter 18, Babylon is fallen, is fallen. Whoever Babylon is, it fell. Some say Babylon is Babylon. say Babylon is Jerusalem and some say that Babylon is Rome. Some even say it’s New York City but wherever it is it fell. It will be the center of wherever the last world government will have its headquarters by which it controls the world and I I believe that’s from Jerusalem, but there’s always that little possibility that I may be wrong. But I want you to see something here in Revelation chapter 18 verse 2.

And it cried mightily with a strong voice in Babylon, the great is fallen is fallen. Become the habitation of devils and demons, the whole of every foul spirit in the cage of every unclean and hateful bird. in the north part there is going to be a whole bunch of them show up because there’s going to be a great supper. And he says, where the body is, there were the eagles be gathered together. And he says in verse 3, for all nations have drunk of the wind of the wrath of her fornication.

There’s one thing that Israel was supposed to do, and that was to be the light to the Gentiles, the light to the world. And Israel failed in their responsibility. So God has used the church, but God is not through with Israel. He would only be set aside temporarily until the fullness of the times of the Gentiles become in and God will deal with Israel. So the tribulation period that’s seven years, it’s right out here after us, God is going to provide His judgment upon the nation of Israel and the rest of the world.

will be a world judgment. God will do this. But it says that in verse 4, and I heard another voice from heaven saying, come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sin, that you read that same thing worded a couple times like in Matthew in chapter 24 verse 15, where it says, when you shall see the abomination of desolation, stand in the holy place, then ye which are in Judea flee out of the country, leave, get out of there, come out of her.

Now he also makes this decision because there’s going to be a great judgment. I believe God is going to allow a bomb or something to hit because he says in one day, in one hour, she falls. Not over a long period of time. this place is wiped out and nothing flat. Whoever this place is, and you’ll see there in verse 8, therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and morning famine she shall be utterly burned with fire, for its strong is the Lord God who judges her.

So it’s going to be a very quick judgment upon this place. And many believe that because there’s the woman and the woman rides the beast and that this could be the area of the the beast itself. And the beast which has seven heads and ten horns turned upon the woman. So we know from the study of God’s word that in the last days there’s going to be a beast make a peace tree with Israel. And she is going to ride the beast.

Her protection is the beast. But the The base is going to throw her off. And as you’ll look there in Revelation chapter 17, look in verse 16, and the tin horns that thou sought upon the beast, they shall hate the whore. Shall make her desolate naked and shall eat her flesh, burn her with fire. For God had put in his hearts to fulfill his will and to agree and give their kingdom unto the beast until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

And the woman, which thou saw is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the year. So wherever these kings are going to rule from, they’re headquarters. And he says he’ll plant the palace between the seas and the glorious holy mountain. But anyway, all we have to understand is not all the little details of it, but sometimes just the major points and know that it’s going to take place and then now what? What happens now? So you look there in verse 11 and the first word it says here in verse 11 and the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her.

For no man buy up their merchandise in the world. So wherever it is, it’s going to be the center of economic collapse. As you read this, you’ll find out all the nations of the earth. This is going to be the biggest calamity that’s ever happened monetary-wise because it will destroy all their purchasing power. You ever think what would happen if China would just nuke our satellite system in America, which I believe they’ve already tested it personally, but it could happen and what would happen in America?

It would be very interesting. We can’t hardly function now without our cell phones. What about all the banks, all the grocery stores, everything that’s on computers? All the businesses, even trucks, even cars, everything runs off computers anymore. You ever have a computer chip go out in a car and the car won’t even start? You can pay two or three hundred dollars just for the chip to go in there to make it run again. And it runs everything on your car.

It wouldn’t take much to paralyze the rest of the world, just with something so simple. Because before you remember any man could get out there under a shade tree and fix his car. With a screwdriver, purpliers and some bailing wire and some tape. Try that today. They used to call them shade tree mechanics. I have overhauled a motor before. Did you believe that? It didn’t run when I got done, but I mean I did it. I’ve taken a carburetor completely apart.

part. I didn’t have a gasket so I got a Cheerios box and cut out a pattern and I used the Cheerios box and cut my own pattern put it on there and it worked. I happened to have dropped the bolt down into the the head and it landed on top of the piston and when I got ready to start it and it locked it down. What’s the smartest to see? My mother said I was smart but the time is coming.

Now Now look in verse 12, the merchandise of gold and silver, precious stones, all the pearls, everything you mentioned down through here. Now there’s two things to look at this. One is this is the judgment upon things that God was going to do 2,000 years ago, or it also could be because of history, repeat this up in relationship to something that’s going to happen yet in the future. I want you to see this because it’s talk about all the silver and all the gold.

Look at verse 16 and say, And alas, alas, that great city that was clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet and deck with gold and precious stones and pearls and all that in one hour. So great riches has come to nothing to not. You see, I don’t know if you’ve heard, you know, Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh or any of those guys, lady telling, by gold, by gold, by gold. When the bottom falls up, it don’t matter if you’ve got gold or not.

If nobody got you in change for you and there’s no food, we go eat gold, they’ll come a time when maybe even silver and gold be cast into the streets, we won’t have no need of it. I ain’t got nothing now, so I don’t know if I have any. I’m just glad that when this happens, I won’t be here. Now, I might wish I had a little set silver and gold before the rapture. But I guess if everybody else is going to be poor, we just all we can pour together.

We just call it Althouse. I would recommend this, and this is no joke. I believe you would be wise to store up at least a month of some good canned foods that doesn’t have to be cooked, don’t have to be mixed with water. You can open it up and eat it right out of the can. Food of all kinds, because I believe the time will come when you’ll wish you had it. It wouldn’t hurt to have a lot of water in containers that you can get your hands on if something happens to the water supply.

All of it’s temporary. It all is gonna get you by for a little bit of time. But you might wish you had that little bit of time. I believe that the Bible talks about in the book of Coronicals that they were men who understood the times and what they ought to do. We’re living in a time where most people are just plain ignorant. They don’t know what’s going on. Don’t know what to do anyway. But there’s nothing wrong in preparation.

As you study the Scriptures, even in Egypt, God knew there was a famine coming, but they They had seven years to get ready before the famine and told Joseph what to do. They planned. And God, I believe is going to let a few people see what’s coming. They’re worn, but whether or not anybody does anything about it or not, I don’t know. But it’s a personal thing, but I think that you ought to prepare that, Ken, you have enough to eat on and get by with what you have.

don’t trust it. Don’t worry Yankee. There’s a safe way story right down the street from me. Not too smart. But you need to just know that and be prepared and do what you can for you and your family. But anyway, as you look right here, it says here in verse 17, and every ship mass it all the company and ships and sailors as many as trade by sea stood afar off. Well, just about every nation in the world. And then He talks about here in verse 19, and they cast dust on their heads and cried weeping and wailing in the last, the last, that great city wherein we’re made rich.

We’re made rich. All the headships in the sea by reason of her causes. For in one hour she is made desolate. Now the people in heaven says rejoice, but the people on the earth, no, you’re not going to be rejoicing. And so He says, great judgment is coming. It will affect the whole Now let’s just pretend the place where this power is coordinated is obliterated. And now what’s going to happen? Look there in chapter 19. Chapter 19. Now as I already talked about in the last two verses of the previous chapter, chapter 18, about the merchants.

This is your stockbrokers. It’s all the merchants, people to buy and sell. Remember they can’t buy and sell unless they had the number of this world and world government. God’s going to take care of this world and world government. He’s going to deal with it. And after that’s done, then there is the battle of Armageddon that hasn’t took place yet. That’s the way it happens yet. You see that happens a little bit later when Christ comes back and power in great glory.

Then there’s the battle of Armageddon. So this precedes this. So in chapter 19 and verse 1, after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven saying, Hallelujah means praise the Lord. Salvation and glory and honor and power unto the Lord our God. In other words, those in heaven though, hey, we’re at the end, we’re almost there. This is going to be a one great glorious one. See they rejoiced up there. The people are living there.

They’re not rejoicing. Because they’re here. They’re going through all of this. We’re living at a time in this world where people are going to start losing it everywhere. Let me give you a little rough example. Let’s say for example you have the NEA. You might know what NEA stands for? National Education Association. Very good. Yeah. Now there you have all these teachers and all these unions all over the United States. And so even in every county here, everywhere, it is huge.

But you realize that over the years a lot of people and teachers and principals and all those that have worked, they have some have put into pension funds and some have been guaranteed certain things and there’s tenure that they’ve got and all this money. Well, money’s been invested. Money’s been lost. Now there’s people that they want and they believe they have a right to their money. So the state owes them, but states are broke. They don’t got no money.

So the only way they can pay these people, they got to get it from someplace. They got to get it from the people they don’t, they don’t know. They got to get it from the people by taxes. So we got to raise the taxes and get the money so they can pay the people that they owe. I see a problem. There’s people who say, wait a minute, wait a minute. Why should I take my money and bail them out?

And then there’s people who say, well, we have a right because you owe us. And if they don’t come through, do you understand we can have what happened in Egypt happen right here in our own streets? We could have them all over this country. And when people can’t find solutions, can’t get answered. Remember, people wanted to pay all these taxes to the governments, so the government can take care of us. Well when daddy can’t take care of us, they’re going to rebel and they’re going to try to use force.

And you’d be surprised, we can turn ugly very, very quick. This is going on right now in Mexico. Anybody been listening to the news? You said, well, man, I’m glad it’ll never happen in America. We’re sitting on a powder cake right here in America. And it could happen very, very quickly. I’m not saying who’s right, who wrong? I don’t really care about that. I’m just talking about the situation. How explosive it is. We’re sitting on a cake of dynamite.

And we don’t know how it’s going to end up. We don’t know what’s going to end up over there. But we know where we’re headed. And after a while, when it happens in America and it happens in the South, it happens in the that’s country and that country and all over the world is going to be ready for a Superman. A man to come on the scene that’s got the answers and people are gonna… but you see the reason people are looking to government for the answer is It’s because they have paid government their money and they want this guarantee Now this is why we should never have Given them that responsibility People should have kept the responsibility to take care of themselves and not giving it to government You see government didn’t take it from us.

We gave the government the right to do all of this stuff to us They don’t have the power to do it We gave it to them They didn’t have the right. We see we vote for people who will promise to give us something to protect us from the cradle to the grave. Alright, now when they can’t deliver, we’re gonna look to the government and then we’re gonna have people who will overthrow our government. And when that starts, then they’ll have to declare martial law.

And then our military will take over. Same thing that’s happened over there in Egypt. If I was the head of the military in Egypt, You think God’s gonna turn it over to anybody? Not if I’m already. What you gonna do? I got the military. Do you realize how strong our military is here in this country? What the right men at the right place could do if he wanted to? I don’t even want to think about it. Look here. He says here in verse 2 True and righteous are his judgment.

Now, would you just come through a time of judgment on the earth? where God has judged the earth, He’s judged the people. It affected everybody. But God must be just when He judges. Because people are always sitting in judgment on God. So He says, which did corrupt, but He judged the great horse, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication and have avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. And again they said praise the Lord, and her smoke rose up forever and ever.

Not just a word about that verse. You say, that means that if it happens in New York City, smoke will go up forever and ever and ever and ever and ever. Or if it was wrong, wrong will burn forever and ever and ever and ever and ever. Or if it is Jerusalem will burn forever and ever and ever and ever. Well, I don’t think is talking about the land. Look there in chapter 14 in verse 11, chapter 14 verse 11.

And you’ll notice something else here. And the smoke of their torment, ascended up forth ever and ever. It’s the smoke of their torment. It’s not the ashes from the rubble that go up forever and ever and ever. It’s the people that God has judged. It’s the people. That are dead. It’s the people that are in the lake of fire. And the smoke of their torment ascended up forever and ever. So go back here to chapter 19. In verse 4 and the 4 and 20 elders, and the 4 beasts fell down and worshiped God.

That said on the throne saying, Amen, praise the Lord. Hallelujah. And a voice came out of the throne saying, praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him both small and great, the moment has arrived. And he said, I heard a great voice in heaven, and he thought a picture of all these people that are in heaven from Adam all the way down that are in heaven, all these angels, and all this hollering, shouting, probably sounds like thunder.

Ted, you always wanted to hear this thunder? It’s coming bud, just hanging there, just a little bit longer and you’ll hear it. He always wants to have an audio of the greatest thunder that’s ever hit up on planet earth. Well, I think what’s going to happen when we get to heaven is going to be some of the lot of thunder you’ve ever heard in your life of people praising the Lord and their voice just sounds like thundering. But get what he says here.

He says, in the last part of it, verse 6, the Lord God omnipotent, re’eneth. You ever heard that phrase before, like in Hand of the Messiah? That’s where it comes from. That phrase is used several times in that song. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Now, verse 7, to verse 10 talks about another issue, something that’s going to take place in heaven. There’s going to be the marriage of the Lamb, the marriage of the Lamb. You heard me say before the next time I get married I’ll be the bride.

First time I was the groom. Next time I won’t be the bride. Whenever you trusted Christ as your Savior you were born and placed into the body of Christ. And all believers from Pentecost to the rapture are the bride of Christ. You see, and I mentioned to you before, he was God, Jehovah. And God took this little old nation that started because of a miracle birthed by two old folks, Abraham and Sarah, and they had a son. And from that son, a son.

And from that son, twelve sons. And from those twelve tribes, they’re down in Egypt and they kind of incubated there for 400 years. And God brought them out and he had a great nation. And God wanted to get married and he marries the nation of Israel and he brings her to his Holy mountain scared of the death.

And he proposed to her and she says, all that you have commanded me him, we will do. We’ll do it. I do, you do, we do, we’re married. So Jehovah took Israel to be his wife. So God as a wife, no, I know it sounds strange, but I mean, you don’t follow the illustration. Don’t get bent out of shape. God wanted a son. God wanted a son that would be just like him. He wanted to have a perfect son.

It took a while, but lo and behold there was this virgin and the Holy Spirit came and placed the seed inside of that woman. And he says, that holy thing shall be called the son of the highest. So Israel is the wife and God, the father and the wife, they have a son. But the woman doesn’t want her son, she cast him out. So he was taken up to be with the Lord and God has allowed all of those all those who believe in his son to be made perfect.

God sees looking for a perfect bride for his perfect son and his son is perfect has no sin so he has to have a perfect bride but you and I well there is nobody perfect so he said he’ll make us perfect so by the new birth you are given The divine nature of God. So every one of us who are born into God’s family have been made pure and holy and set apart. And so all of these from Pentecost to the Raptor are set apart.

And we form the bride of Christ. And so God says at the marriage supper of the Lamb, see we’re the one that’s going to be there, but before we get to the marriage, we have to have the wedding dress. Now you and I know that we’re dressed in the righteousness of Christ when we trust Christ the Savior, but these verses are talking about a little bit more than just the righteousness of Christ. Look there in verse 7, let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to him for the marriage of the Lamb is come and his wife hath made herself ready.

And to her was granted that she should be a raid in fine linen, clean and white. But fine linen is the righteousness of saints, of the rights acts of the saints. So where did we just go right before the marriage of the Lamb? We just went to the judgment seat of Christ. At the judgment seat of Christ, you and I are going to be judged or rewarded for what we’ve done for the Lord. To decipher whether not are your works, go silver and precious stone to her, hey, wouldn’t stubble.

So you’ve got to find out what sort it is. The hay, wooden stubble, that’s the wasted life. And this is what you did for Christ that will last. And God is going to, I guess, in some way, see everybody has to have a, or should have a, you know, a dowry. What do we get? So we’re going to have our crowns or our certain dress is going to have something that distinguishes and it says like we shall all shine as the brightness of the firmness and the stars and so forth in the book of Daniel in chapter 12.

But whatever it is, your service to the Lord now, I believe it depends on what you wear to the wedding. And when you go to the wedding, we’re addressing the righteous acts of the saints. There’s going to be the banquet hall. And if you listen real quietly, you can hear them rattling the civil words and getting ready. ready. It’s going to take place any day now. And we’re going to be at this big wedding. And then we’re coming to the earth with the Lord.

Now you don’t have to worry about it. Is he going to take us on our honeymoon to the Battle of Armageddon? I mean, is that a place to take your wife? But we know that he is coming back, power and great glory, and He’s going to get everything set up by him. Remember whenever he left, he said, I go to prepare a place for you. Now remember, in Jewish custom, it was generally the father that tried to find the right bride for the son.

And then she was to get ready because she didn’t know exactly when he was going to show up. Well, see, the whole principle is based upon the story. It’s a truth. I mean, it’s unreal. So we don’t know exactly when he’s gonna show up, but we’re supposed to be ready and be looking for him. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message.

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One of the most difficult things that preachers have is trying to use the physical, the material that people do see and understand in order to teach the spiritual things which they cannot see nor understand. Christ went through this all the time, trying to get people to understand spiritual truths. Take your Bible and turn to the Gospel of John, chapter 6 and verse 63. In verse 63, it is the spirit that quickeneth or makes alive. The flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life.

But some of you, there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believe not and who should betray him. And he says, therefore said I unto you that no man can come unto me except that we’re given him and my father. From that time many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him. It’s easy to get crowds. It’s easy to get people, but it’s not that easy to get people to walk with the Lord.

You see anybody, if they can get people to come out, they look like a very successful pastor or preacher because they can get crowds. But without that person’s personality, generally amounts to nothing. Will you walk with God because of who God is? And if somebody asked you, what do you believe? What do you believe? Well, I believe the whole Bible. What does the Bible say? I don’t know what it says, but whatever it says, I believe it. And I believe every word of it.

But many people don’t know the Bible. I believe what my preacher tells me, but they don’t know what the book says. Your faith is not anchored in the rock. Unless you know what the rock says and what he teaches and hang on to that and believe that. Take your Bible and turn to the Gospel of John chapter 1, the Gospel of John 1. I want you to notice some of the simplicity that Christ spoke concerning the most difficult thing in all the world for people to understand.

What’s the most difficult thing in all the world for people to understand? How to go to heaven. How to go to heaven. It’s the simplest, most complicated and most difficult for most people. People believe that you have to do many things in order to go to heaven. But Jesus Christ, who was the Lord, who came here into this world, said how to get to heaven and how to keep from going to hell. Every Christian needs to understand this so that you can share the gospel with people.

Just recently, I’ve had several people that I’ve had the privilege of leading to Christ that not long afterwards have passed away. Sometimes I think, what am I glad that I did witness when I did? I was a confess of sin to you. I said, already if I confess one of my sins to you. Yesterday morning I got a phone call and says, Yankee, got a lot of things to do, but I got time for about nine holes of golf.

He said, you want to go walk nine holes of golf? I said, I walk nine holes of golf. I need to get up and do a little walking. So I went and played nine holes of God. After the first two holes, this man caught up to us and was going to join in with us so now we have threesome. And we was hitting along and doing all right but I noticed that every time that man hit his golf ball Milton hit his golf ball right where that man hit his.

I don’t think he planned it that way, but whatever that man hid his golf ball, that’s where Milton hid his golf ball. I would be completely on the different side, wherever they went, I went the other way. After about four holes of this, I realized that that man went out of bounds. Milton hid his ball and came probably within a few feet of going out of bounds. Right? That’s where that man was. Mine went the other direction. And so all the time in my mind, I’m trying to figure out whenever I can get time, we walk together, like you always ask a person this question.

Do you know where you’re going when you die? That’s wonderful. I asked a guy right before his to the golf ball. So I was starting over to my golf ball and I was getting further away, but I heard somebody say to this man, do you know where you’re going when you die? And I thought, Milton Hale, I was going to get him. And so the guy answered back, I hope so. Milton always likes to use this 100%. I don’t worry, he got 100%.

He always likes to use 100%. Do you know 100% that you’re going to heaven when he died? The guy says, I hope so. He said, that don’t sound like 100% to me, does it? And so I went on to my golf ball and I’m trying to hear, and Milton’s out there explaining the gospel to the man, man, trust the Lord. Do you realize that man may die tomorrow or the next day? We never know when. When you explain the gospel to somebody, it may be the last opportunity they’ll ever have to hear the gospel and trust Christ as their Savior.

But if that’s one guy can do that and Milton’s not a preacher, but he can preach the gospel, you don’t have to be behind the pulpit to preach the gospel. You can give theoubted people the gospel on a golf course where you work in a nursing home or a hospital or anywhere. Everybody that knows Christ as their Savior can explain to somebody how to be saved. Did you know that that’s one of the things that God wants every one of us to do?

In our midst of serving the Lord to give out tracts and talk to people about where they’re going to spend eternity? Because you see, every man’s going to die. the thing is is where they’re going to go when they die. That will help you as a Christian to grow stronger and faster than anything else is your concern or compassion for lost folks. Now look there in John chapter 1. Look how simple this statement is in verse 12. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, specifically or even to them that believe on his name.

He came unto his own, his own, received him not but as many as received him. Now that means the very moment that you trust Christ as your Savior, you become God’s child. And if you’re God’s child, God says you have eternal life and he’ll never cast you out, never lose you. Look there in John chapter one and look in verse 29. Verse 29, the next day John see if Jesus coming into him and say it behold the Lamb of God which take it the way the sin of the world.

The sin of the world. Now when he makes this statement he’s also giving the gospel that there’s somebody that’s going to take away the sin of the world. That means everybody in the world. Everybody that’s here, everybody listen to the radio, everybody in the world, Christ came to die to take away the sins of the whole world. All that you have to do is to believe that He did it for you. Look there in John chapter 3. John chapter 3, here is a simple story about a man named Nicodemus.

The Bible says in verse 1, Nicodemus was a ruler of the Jews. The same came to Jesus by night and said to Him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God, for no man can do these miracles that thou doeth except God be with him and Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I, send to thee, except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus was offended by that statement. He didn’t know what Christ meant by that statement.

To tell a grown man you’ve got to be born again. You know what he thought? He asked, how can a man, when he is old, enter into his mother’s womb and be born again? So now Christ is having to use something that’s physical to explain something that’s spiritual. So he made the statement here in verse 5, Verily, Verily, I send to you, except a man be born of water and of the Spirit. He cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

So a man must be born again by the Holy Spirit of God. And the water of the washing of the water by the word itself. Believing that the words that Christ spoke. And when you hear the words and believe it the words, the words give to you eternal life. He says, the words that I speak are eternal life. And when you hear the words and believe it, the words give to you eternal life. That’s why it’s always, he that believe it, he that believe it.

Believing the words that he spoke, those are eternal life. life. And so he made the statement here in verse six that which is born of the flesh is flesh. Your first birth, your flesh birth is born of the flesh. You live, you die. And then he says that which is born of the spirit is spirit. That means whenever you trust Christ as your Savior the Holy Spirit of God takes the words that Christ speaks. And when you believe that the Holy Spirit plants those into your heart and you are born again a new birth born into God’s family.

The very moment that you believe that Christ died and paid for your sins and you’re trusting Him as your Savior, you’re born into God’s family. Look how simple He tries to make it. Christ, God Himself, trying to help a person to understand a simple truth in verse 14. And as Moses lifted up the servant in the wilderness, even so must the son of man be lifted up that whosoever believe it in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Everybody has heard of John 3 16. You’ll notice in verse 16, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believe it in him should not perish but have everlasting life. Now look up here. You’ll notice every once in a while I’ll always have nothing but a gospel sermon. I like to read the gospel through every message, but sometimes just on the gospel because I don’t want people to forget the most important thing of all.

Christians need to hear over and over again so that they’ll reminded that they’re supposed to be telling people this most wonderful news. This hand represents you and me, this represents sin, and this represents Jesus Christ. The Bible says for God, so loved the world, that’s you that He gave His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, that whosoever anybody, open invitation or whosoever, believe it in Him. That means you believe that He died paid for all of your sins. He says, you shall not perish.

That means you will not in the future, you cannot go to hell. But half everlasting life means that you will go to heaven whenever you die. John 3, 16, so simple. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believe it in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. Notice what He says in verse 18. Verse 18 is very important for every Christian to understand so that you can explain it to the people that don’t know it.

Now look what He says in verse 18, He that believeth on Him is not condemned but He that believeth not is condemned when? Already, and why is he condemned already? Because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. When you believe on Jesus Christ, when you believe that he did this for you, the Bible says you are not condemned. But those that do not believe this, they’re already condemned. They’re just waiting for the day of execution.

The wrath of God already abides upon them. And that’s why those who believe on Christ are delivered from that condemnation. See there in verse 36, He that believeth on the Son hath present tense, hath right now what ever lasting life. And He that believeth not the Son see the world is divided into two groups. And it’s not rich and poor. It’s the saints and the aunts. It’s those who believe and those who do not believe. He that believeth hath everlasting life.

He that believeth not the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. And you’re only waiting for that day when you leave this world and you’re open your eyes in eternity in hell. That is what is clearly taught in the word of God. And so the Bible says Christ uses all the illustrations, trying to help a person to understand these spiritual truths. Now look there in chapter four. He comes to a woman. The person was a man.

A man that was a very religious man. And this very religious man, what did Christ tell him? You need to be born again. Well, how do you get born again? Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. He quotes John 3 16, was talked to Nicodemus. Now he comes to a woman. But what about this woman? Oh, this wasn’t a religious woman. This was not the godly woman like Nicodemus was. This was a woman that nobody wanted anything to do with.

This woman was a heartache. She had been married five times and was now living with a man. that wasn’t her husband. So what’s wrong with that? Everybody does that today. If it was wrong then, is it still wrong today? Yes, it’s still wrong. You’d be surprised how many people are living together and are not married. It is a sin, it is wicked, it’s ungodly, and it’s not based on love but lust. It’s not based upon responsibility, God says that this woman had been married five times and was living with a man that was not her husband.

So how do you know that? It was just a guess. Look in verse 18 of chapter 4. Christ talking to the woman says, for bow has had five husbands and he whom thou now hath is not thy husband and that sayest thou truly? So that means a woman wouldn’t live in with a man, and weren’t married. You’re not going to believe this, but I know Christian men living with women that are not their wives, living together outside of wedlock.

Is it wrong? It is wrong. Wicked. And it’s not right. So the people, what do they need to do? Can they be cast into hell? No, no. Because once they’ve trusted Christ if they’re saviour, then God’s child forever. But God will chasten them, God will discipline them, and perhaps even take them home before their time. But whatever the Bible says that a Christian will be judged according to their works, and they will suffer the loss of what they could have had.

And yes, it will be softer, it will be hurt, it will be pain, there will be tears, there will be anguish and weeping and gnashing of teeth. When a Christian finds out what he has cost himself in eternity. Going to heaven, oh, that’s free, because that’s based upon what Christ did for you. But every Christian should live as godly as they possibly can. Now, notice, he says there in verse 10 when he came to this woman, Jesus answered and said to her, if thou knewest the gift of God and whom it is, that say it to thee, give me to drink, thou wouldeth of ask of him, and He would have given the living water.

He said, if you only knew who I was and what I have, I’m God and I have the gift of eternal life to give to anybody who will believe on me. And this woman says, give to me this water that you’re talking about. So he says there in verse 13, Jesus answered and said unto her, whose silver drinketh of this water shall thirst again, But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst. He made salvation so simple that this woman who was living in sin could understand.

Yes, even Christ can forgive her of all that she’s done. He still loves her and he would give her eternal life and he used the object of water. Just like you drink the water to refresh your body. He said, I’ve got some water that when you take it, you’ll never have to drink again, because one little drink will do you. You know that commercial, you take and eat one potato chip, and you just can’t eat just when you’ve got to have another one.

Well this is one swallow of water that will satisfy. I was saved, and guess what? I’ve never had to get saved again, and I’ll never have to get saved again in the future, Because one drink was sufficient for the rest of my life because he gave me eternal life. In the last part of verse 14, but the water that I give him shall be in him a will of water springing up and the everlasting life. Turn in your Bible there to the Gospel of John chapter 5, chapter 5.

And notice there in verse 24, verily, verily means truthfully, truthfully. I say unto you, he that hearth my word and believeth on him that sent me hath present tense right now hath everlasting life. If you will hear the words and his words are eternal life. And when you hear his words and believe on his word, what he said about how you are to get to heaven, then God said he will give you eternal life and get the rest of this verse.

And believe it on him that sent me hath everlasting life, that means you have it now, and shall not, that means in the future, tomorrow the rest of your life, in the future, shall not be condemned, never be condemned. But it’s passed from death unto life. That means that when I trusted Christ as my Savior, God saved me, gave me eternal life, and He promises in His Word, I can never be condemned in the future. No condemnation, never to be condemned, means I can never be lost in the future.

Any preacher, any preacher who teaches that you can lose your salvation, believes in words for salvation. And if they believe you can lose your salvation, they don’t understand the gospel. that man is a false teacher. Christ is the one, he says, I forgive you of all your sins. I give to you eternal life and you shall never perish, never perish. You can never be condemned again. Look in verse 39. As he talks to these first, he says, search the scriptures for in them.

You think you have eternal life and they are they which testify of me and ye will not come to me that you might have what? Life. Search the scriptures. You can search that Bible all your life and read that book. And you can study this book and quote the whole Bible. But if you don’t go to Christ and trust Him for eternal life, you don’t have eternal life. Because He says the scriptures talks about me. You can’t have eternal life without Christ.

Christ. And if you’ve never trusted Jesus Christ as your Savior, then you’re not saved. It is so simple. Take your Bible and turn there to the Gospel of John in chapter 6. And verse 37, Jesus Christ made this statement, all that the Father giveth me shall come to me and him that come up to me, I will know wise cast out. Now look up here, a simple illustration. I’ve showed you before, but one more time. This is the Lord.

This is you and me. A lot of people believe that they must hang on to God in order to go to heaven. If they get a good grip on God, they went forward in the church, they prayed through, hung on, let go and hang on to God, and they’re going to go to heaven as long as they hang on. And if they start slipping away and now they’re lost, and gotta get saved again. Now they’re saved again. And then if they do something wrong, then they lose their salvation, now they’re lost again and gotta get saved again.

You see, this is not the Bible. This is a person trying to save themselves by their own strength. And so they think as long as they do all these good deeds and they go to church and they live right pray through and all these good deeds, they’re going to be saved. But if they do anything wrong, if they start sinning in their life, then they lose their salvation. That’s not the Bible. That’s religion and religion will not work. I’m against religion.

Christ teaches He will save me. Now I am in His hands. Heh said He will never cast me out for no reason. He said He will never lose me. He says that I am in His hands and no man can pluck you out of His hand. Now if I cannot be cast out, I cannot be lost in any way and I can’t get out of His hand, how can I ever be lost again? I can’t for no reason because my security is based upon his strength.

He’s the Savior. He is taking me to heaven. I’m not taking me there. He’s taking me there. He’s the Savior, not me. I’m trusting Him. And He said, if I trust Him, He will guarantee me eternal life now because it depends upon His promise, His work, and He’s got and He can’t lie. That’s why once you trust Christ is your Savior, you’re saved for how long? You’re saved forever and He’ll never cast you out. look there in verse 39.

And this is the Father’s will, which you have sent me that of all which you have given me, I should lose how many? Nothing. Never lose you. Now look in verse 48. Verily, verily, I send you, he that believeth on me, believeth on me, hath everlasting life. The very moment you believe on Jesus Christ, God gives to you eternal life and you become his child for all eternity. These great truths that we have just covered. After he said all of this, they couldn’t understand what he’s talking about.

When Christ says that I am the bread of heaven, it means all the world is hungry and needs to be fed, but not just with physical food. There’s an emptiness in every person. There’s a vacuum in every individual that can only be satisfied with the bread from heaven. else is a substitute. You can try everything you want to chase all your little dreams and all of them end up with nothing but soap bubbles. They pop in your hand, they leave you empty.

Christ is the only thing that will truly satisfy. That’s why he says in verse 48, I am that bread of life. I’m that bread of life. Taste and see that the Lord is good, but they couldn’t understand something so complicated. So he says, all right, if you eat my flesh and drink my blood, do you understand that? They got offended at that. Does somebody would say something so gross like that? What do you mean? He says, the words that I speak are life.

The Spirit gives them life. When you hear the word and believe it on him that sent you, send him, God says that you are saved that very moment and shall not come into condemnation. The greatest truth in all the world. This truth that we’re talking about right now, there is no message, no story, so great as this one. Nothing in the world is as important as this story. It’s called the gospel of Jesus Christ. The good news on how a man can be saved and be sure of going to heaven when every dies.

One more time, you and me, sin, we’ve all sinned. The Bible says that we committed it and we ought to pay for it and that means eternal separation from God in hell. Now God loves you. He wants you to go to heaven. And to go to heaven, you have to be perfect. Just as righteous as God and none of us are. That’s why we all come short of perfection. We need to be saved because you can’t save yourself. If you don’t get a savior before you die, you go to hell.

Hope I’m making it clear. That’s why you need a savior and there’s only one. No man comes unto the Father except through him. You reject him. You can’t go. You reject Christ. You can’t have eternal life. You reject Him and you’ll spend eternity in hell. But He came because He loves you. He hates your sin so He took it and paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead, and said, if you’ll believe that He did that for you, He’ll give you as a free gift everlasting life, and you’ll go to heaven on what Christ did for you.

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And when I passed by in verse six, I saw the included in dinoan blood. I said unto thee, when thou wuss in thy blood, live. Yea, I said unto thee, when thou wuss in thy blood, live. I have caused thee to multiply as the butt of the field. Thou hast increased in wax and great. And thou art come to excellent ornaments and thy breast or fashion. And thy hair is grown, whereas thou was naked. And bear, in other words, you were a little child.

Now you’ve grown into a full-blown woman. You’re a woman, you’re a beautiful woman. And when I passed by the inversate and looked upon thee, behold thy time was the time of love. And I spread my skirt over thee and covered thy neckiness. Yay, I swear unto thee and entered into a covenant with thee, said the Lord of God, and thou became mine. Then washed thy thee with water. Yay, I thoroughly washed away thy blood from thee. I had known thee with oil.

I clothed thee with brodery work and shot thee with badger skin. And I girded thee about with fine linen. I covered thee with silk. In other words, you’re good out there again. You see all these things. Now, these things you’re reading right here is exactly what you’ll read when you read the 18th chapter of the book of Revelation. How that she said, look what I’ve got. And she went a whoring after other gods. a nation depends upon another nation they have forgotten their God.

See, America is supposed to be one nation under God, not one nation under the United Nations, not one nation under China, which is where we’re headed, because we’re borrowing and you are a servant to the lender. and they become the head and we become the tail. But he goes down through here and he talks about in verse 13, Dao was decked with gold and silver. The arraignment was a fine-linned silver, broadened work, without his fine flour and honey and oil, and Dao was exceeding beautiful and Dao is prospened into a kingdom.

God took them and raised them up and brought them into their own land. The establish them as a nation, and she was a beautiful woman. She was the wife of Jehovah. The wife of Jehovah. Well, verse 26, thy has also committed fornication with the Egyptians, thy neighbors. Great inflation hath increased thy hoardom to provoke me to anger. Then he says up there in verse 28, Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou hast a was insatiable appetite, yet you could not be satisfied.

Remember whenever I mentioned some of these nations, I always start off with the no first of all you go back to the Egyptians and then the Assyrians and then into the Babylonians, the Medians, the Persians, the Alexander Empire, the Greek Empire, the Roman Empire and then down to where we are. But it’s laid out in the scriptures, and I believe it’s for a reason. Book number 32. He said, but as a wife that committed adultery, which take of strangers instead of her husband, they give gifts to all whores, but thou give us thy gifts to all thy lovers, and howress them that they may come unto thee on every side for thy hoardom.

You see, Israel has one God. And that one God is Jehovah. Israel was never to look to any other God, any other nation. Israel would have been the supreme premier nation on the face of this earth. If Israel had have been a good wife. But she went on a horn after other nations. She wanted to be like other nations. She accepted other gods and all the wickedness that took place. And so there was a price to pay. You see that in verse 36, well, excuse me, verse 35, wherefore O harlot, hear the word of the Lord.

So whenever we go to the 17th chapter and it talks about this woman who was a great whore, who siteth upon many waters because she’s gone a horn after other nations, the only reason that there is this peace treaty made is because Israel has forgotten her God. should look to Jehovah and not have to make a peace treaty with anybody and trust God to deliver them, but Israel is not going to do that. So you have all these nations who come together and she will ride the beast and they will support her all temporarily.

These are her lovers. They love her because of what they’re going to get from her. They really don’t care about her. You ever seen people do that in real life? They don’t care about them, they just do that. So in verse 38, I will judge thee as women that break wedlock. See the first part of verse 37, you got to see that. Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers with whom thou hast taken place in and all them that thou hast loved and all them that thou hast hated.

I will even gather them round about against thee and will discover thy nakedness unto them and they shall see all thy nakedness.” So this is what God’s going to do, but God says that when He does this, the last part of verse 39 says, they shall strip thee also of thy clothes and shall take thy fair jewels and leave thee naked and there. So this is what’s coming, but now look there in Ezekiel 16 and just look over very quickly in verse 48.

Because you see as Jerusalem goes, so did Samaria go and it’s just like Sodom and Gomorrah and he talked to them of though they are like sisters Sodom and Gomorrah. Verse 48 and as I live saith the Lord God Sodom thy sister have not done. She know her daughters as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters. Behold this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom pride, fullness of bread, abundance of of idleness was in her and in her daughter.

Neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and the needy. And they were haughty and committed abominations before me. Therefore I took them away as I saw good. So this is what God is going to do. Now, in verse 59 of that chapter talks about a covenant, but I don’t want to take time to look at that at this point. Go back now to the book of Revelation chapter 17. Revelation chapter 17. There’s no doubt that in chapter 17, this woman, whoever she is, is a great whore.

She has committed a lot of spiritual adultery. And that she has worshiped other gods and worshiped other nations and submitted herself. See, when one nation submits herself to another nation, it’s fornication. It’s adultery. Whenever they are dependent upon that, which they submitted themselves to him. God never meant for Israel to submit themselves to anyone or anybody. So here in Revelation in chapter 18, looking verse 2, and he cried mightily with a strong voice saying, Babylon, the greatest fallen has fallen.

Now is it not only the nation of Israel of its fallen, but the world empire that’s also over the nation of Israel in Jerusalem. And because they rule from Jerusalem, they are the head of this last world government. And therefore you have the fall of the nation of Israel, but also the fall of the nation of the kingdoms, the beast itself. God is going to judge the beast because the beast judged the woman. You see there in Revelation chapter 17 just to look at it very quickly.

When he makes the statement in verse 12, and the ten horns which thou sought are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet but receive power as kings win the hour with the beast. And these have one mind shall give their power and strength unto this beast. And then down there in verse 16, look what this beast does to this woman. And the ten horns were sawed upon the beast. These y’all hate the whore shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire.

That’s exactly what we just read just a minute ago in the book of Jeremiah. I mean, true? Now, whether or not that refers to this, but if it’s not them, it’s got to happen again. If it’s not talking about Jerusalem here, it’s got to talk about Jerusalem somewhere because the same thing happens to Jerusalem. And so, chapter 18. And you’ll notice in verse 3 now, for all nations have drunk of the wind of the wrath of her fornication. Kings of the earth have committed for nication with her.

Merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. It’s not just that you project into the future and see whether or not does Israel or Jerusalem meet the criteria that’s mentioned here, but this This is a judgment upon the way Israel was, more so than what I believe Israel will be. You see, Israel had already been blessed by God. They already had this beautiful Solomon’s temple. They were as rich as any nation could ever be.

People came from all over the world because of the riches of Israel. And of course, of Sullivan messed up. The kingdom was divided. Ten nations to the north, to the south. The ten nations north, Israel, capital in Samaria. Two nations south, Judean Benjamin, capital in Jerusalem. So you have the Israelites and the Jews, but there are still twelve tribes. Syria came in and took the northern tribes, and then Babylon came in and took the southern and so God has fulfilled his word just like he said that he would do.

Now, is it possible that all of us could be referring? Not just to the way Israel will be, but the way God saw his wife, the way he saw her in her youth, when he saw her beauty. And he says, this is what’s cost you, this is what it costs you. But the judgment is still there, the judgment is still coming. I mean, I’ll be right. I don’t have to be right every time. This one’s in a while. Verse four, and I heard another voice from heaven saying, come out of her by people, that you be not partakers of her sin, that you receive not other plagues.

For her sins have reached into heaven, and God had to remember her iniquities. So if God had to remember it, and it has to be something that’s recorded in the Old Testament, and God remembered. And see, there’s some of these cities and nations today in religion, they didn’t exist back then. They weren’t part of this judgment that God had already planned this judgment before the two thousand years that we have of the church age. So I don’t take anything in the church age as part of the fulfillment of Scripture because it wasn’t recorded.

Old Testament, New Testament. So look what he says there in verse 7. How much he hath glorified her some lived religiously so much torment and sorrow give her. For she said in her heart, I said a queen. I’m no widow and shall see no sorrow. Therefore, shall her plagues come in one day, death and mourning and famine. She shall be utterly burned with fire, but God is the Lord God who judges her. So if God’s going to judge this woman, and as you said to the Old Testament, the 70 weeks to Daniel, what people do you think he’s going to judge?

What woman do you think he’s talking about? Some other strange woman we know nothing about, never heard about, but came into being because of the church age. I have questions and problems with that. I’m not saying that I’m totally right. I’m just saying that I don’t have all the answers to put it on to somebody else. I will still just rather just put it back to where I think it goes that’s on the nation of Israel. Now, there’s a lot of scriptures mentioned down through here that we will not have time, but if you read some of these, You’ll find that a lot of these things are mentioned in the Old Testament, in the book of Jeremiah, in the book of Isaiah, and talk about some of these same things that’s going to take place.

How they got it made a promise. And I could say that this is a chapter of no more, no more, no more, no more, no more, no more, no more, no more, no more. No more what? We’ll see it here in verse 14. The fruits that I sold lusted after are departed from thee. All things which were dainty and goodly are departed from thee. Thou shalt find them. No more at all. Now, whatever God’s going to do the Jerusalem, remember there’s going to be a new heavens and a new earth.

They’re going to be a new Jerusalem, a new holy city, a new temple that’s going to be built. How God’s going to do all this and work it all out? I don’t know. But there’s always that possibility that Babylon could be Babylon. And when he talks about Babylon, the cradle of civilization, The place where Nimrod was and how that the religions of the world have sprung so wickedly, and whether or not in the last days they go back because remember one of the chief things of Nimrod was to keep everybody together so they could have a one-world government and a one-world religion.

That was back at the Tower of Babel. And so what did God do to solve that problem? He just gave everybody different languages and scattered them on the face of the earth, and that kind of took care of the one world religion and one world government, and God had all these different nations, now with different languages. Have you ever thought about languages, how difficult it is to learn a language? What if you had to develop the language? Where do you think languages came from?

Do you think those nations developed those languages on their own? They made up their own. They learned how to talk. Or is it possible that God gave them various languages? Just take the nation of Europe and look at all the places. You know, you got Spain. You got the French. You got English. You got German. All those languages right there. And they had to form nations because everybody spoke the same language. Do you think that some blah, blah, blah without a brain that developed the language?

We’re going to learn how to talk. Oh, groovy. We’re going to learn how to talk. And yet, languages are so delicate in the language of Greek or Hebrew and Arabic, all these languages, there’s thousands of languages, and they just did it themselves. I believe that back there, God is the one that gave them languages. And God is the one who set them out. And God is the one who divided the earth. And it says in chapter 10 of the book of Genesis in Days of P.

Lake, God divided the land, God had divided the earth and moved them all around. There they are. I believe God’s way and God’s word is better than me trying to guess of how they could have done something or how they could have got to the far corners of the earth. I think they got there before God split up the earth. Is that how simple that was? Isn’t that simple? That’s so simple. But it says this is coming and look there in verse 17.

In one hour, so great riches has come to none. Shipmasters and all the company and ships and sailors, as many as trade by sea, stood afar off. You see, when you read verse nine and you read over there, that verse that we just read, 17th. But you know, you’re talking about an economic collapse. You’re talking about the fall of the stock market. When all the merchants of the world are moaning and groaning because everything’s gone. So evidently, there’s coming a time when they’re going to put all their hopes and dreams into this one world government.

And they’re going to be in charge of all the stock markets and all that, you know, and it’s all going to crash. all coming down in one hour. Boom, it’s all over with. And whoever the city is, on some table, it could be New York. Okay, well, let’s say it’s New York. Because that’s where you have a lot of the stop markets and the firms and things like that. And you’re out there in the ships, and you can see all that.

And wouldn’t it be something? They could see the smoke coming up from the destruction of America. Or the destruction of Iraq, totally. unless he rebuild Babylon. See, there’s always these other things that could happen and could be possibilities. But I have a tendency to always restrain myself and go back to something that doesn’t seem like it can be that. Maybe he’s just talking about Israel and this last world government. Just a good possibility. Because look what he says down here.

There’s going to be a great earthquake also. You see there in verse 21, oh, excuse me, verse 20, who rejoiced over her, thou heavens and ye holy apostles and prophets, for God hath avenged you on earth. So this has to be somebody that did wrong to the nation of Israel and killed the prophets. And isn’t that what was read while ago when Jesus says you have killed the the prophets and the apostles. From the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, he says, you’ve done all of this and upon you is going to come all of this blood and you’re going to be judged for it.

And so he says, a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, cast it into the seaside, thus with violent shelf and here’s that phrase, that great city Babylon be thrown down and shall be found no more at all. And you’ll see that great city is mentioned in verse 10. It’s mentioned in verse 18. It’s mentioned in verse 19. It’s mentioned in verse 18 of chapter 17. That great city, that great city, whoever that great city might be.

Look there in chapter 11. And here in chapter 11, as a review, we have the nation of Israel, who makes a peace treaty with the Antichrist and for three and a half years they have the protection of the first doing a half years and then it’s under Gentile rule the last three and a half years for 42 months see there in verse two. Of course which is without the temple Levi to measure it not going to give it into the Gentiles the holy city they shall trade it 40 in two months doing a half year in verse three the two witnesses three and a half years and then when you go down there to verse seven when these guys are killed and when they have finished their testimony, the beast that ascended out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them and shall overcome them and

kill them and their dead bodies shall lie in the streets of Rome. I mean the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt which we just read about. We’re also what? Our Lord was crucified. Now I wonder if that great city and where our Lord was crucified is the same one. And whenever you read it and follow all the way through, the tribulation period remember is upon thai holy people and thai holy city. And therefore I put it there until I know differently.

But I’m always open. I’m always looking. I’m always studying because I love the study of God’s Word. I told Betty the other day, I said, honey, I said, can you believe that years ago, I mean years ago. I used to stay up all night long and I studied the book of Revelation and Daniel and go through it, seek you, and Jeremiah, studying all these things. And I couldn’t go to sleep because I just get so entrenched and I just had to read it and I’d read it and I’d read it again and read it and I couldn’t remember hardly any of it.

I’d study it but then I couldn’t remember what it is. You ever done that? And then sometimes the more you study the less I understood. And now, 20 and 30 years later, those scriptures are coming to my mind, richer than ever before. And I can recall them because I studied them so many years ago. And as I read them and I studied them, I think one of the day the Lord’s going to give me that one of the clue, that one of the key, that click that’s going to help you to understand.

So whatever it is, you need to believe this is the Word of God. This is truth. word will be fulfilled. God is going to do exactly what He says He’s going to do. So believe it, though you may not understand all of it and how it’s all going to work out. Just keep believing it and trusting it. And maybe the Lord takes us a little bit as we go and who knows what we’ll know before the raptor takes place.

Look up here. This hand represents, you’re in me and the wallet represents sin. Now we We all have sin on us. You see, we have all done things that we shouldn’t do. We call them sins, bad things, mistakes, whatever it is, we’ve done it. Whatever sin is, we did it, but God loves us. And He hates for us to pay for sin, but it’s eternal separation from God in hell. And God wants us to go to heaven. You see, God’s going to judge this world, and we better get off of it.

I just want to get out of here before He does. Lord, will and that’ll take place. But to go to heaven, you have to be as perfect as righteous as God. See, there’s the problem. No one’s perfect and righteous like God. We’ve all come short of God’s perfection. Because of this sin, see, we can’t get in. So we need a Savior and we can’t save ourselves. I can’t save you, so I can’t be a Savior. You can’t save me, so you can’t be a Savior.

You can’t even save yourself. So that’s why you and I need a Savior. And there’s only one. And the person who saves us has to be someone who’s perfect, who’s innocent, who doesn’t have any sin to pay for. Cause if he has a sin to pay for, well then he can’t save anybody. Cause he has to save himself from his own sin. So the Bible says you and I Can’t save ourselves. It’s not by our works that we do.

This end represents Jesus Christ. He’s the Lord God in the flesh. Came into the world because He loves His hate, our sin, because it separates us from Him. So Jesus Christ who had no sin did not have to die. He took hours because He loved us, but He loved His Father. And He says that the world may know that I love my Father, this is what I’m going to do. I’m going to do the will of my Father. So He took our sins, paid for them on the cross, come back from the dead.

And God said, if you and I would believe that He did it for us, He would put this payment to our account, and we get to go to heaven on what Jesus Christ did for us. There’s no tricks to it, no gimmicks. It’s truly a gift of God. If offered you my wallet and you accept you would have an empty wallet, well, I got a dollar sticking up there. It’s not quite empty. And if offered you my Bible and you accept it, you would have a Bible.

Well, the point of this stupid little illustration is, is if Christ walked in here and offered you eternal life and you accepted you would have eternal life. And people ought to be able to see that. It’s called so simple, so easy. All they have to do is admit, I’m a sinner. Christ paid for my sins. I believe he did it for me. And because of my belief in it, he’s free to put it to my account. He can’t put it to my account until I believe he He did it for me.

But once I believe it, that’s why He says, for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that hosts whoever, if you believe, you won’t perish. But if you don’t believe, you will perish. But if you do believe, you will have everlasting life. And you get to go to heaven on what Jesus Christ did on the cross for you. It’s a free gift, best news in all the world. Let’s pray, shall we? Let me encourage you right now.

We can’t stop what’s going to happen upon this earth. Sometimes I wish they had the power to do that. But we do know what the Word of God says, where to be found faithful, where to do right. We’re supposed to raise up a standard in order to stop the flood of filth and violence in this world. God’s people are not floor mats to be walked on. We’re supposed to take strong stands and do right. But going to heaven, going to heaven.

You see, that’s not according to your works. It’s not because you’re very patriotic. God bless all the patriots in this land. It’s not because you’re religious, even though there’s nothing wrong with being religious as long as you trust some Christ as your Savior. Sometimes religion gets a bad name, but it’s just talking about how you’re living between you and God. It can be a good thing. But see, that won’t get you to heaven how you live. Christ died for you.

He paid for your sins. Will you trust Him as your Savior? And God said if you’ll trust Him as your Savior, He would give you eternal life as a freak gift and you could get to go to heaven on what He did for you. There’s no tricks to that, no gimmicks. If you have trust that Christ is your Savior, you’re God’s child. Sir the Lord, not to get to heaven, but because you’re going there. You’re God’s child. God wants to bless you.

Our Father, we thank you so much for this time together. Bless each one for being here. We thank you for your word that you’ve given us. Christ and we pray. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771.

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Turn in your Bible to the book of Revelation and chapter 17. Revelation chapter 17. You know and I know that there’s a good possibility that I’ll never finish the chapter tonight. You also know that this is a very interesting chapter. We’ve hit parts of it before. the question on interpretation because of trying to figure out who is the woman. Who is this woman? Well, I believe you tie chapter 17, chapter 18, together. One the woman, one the beast. And we know that the woman is going to ride the beast.

We also know that if we didn’t look at all of us other little stuff in here that you can’t quite figure out some time and we only heard that much. We would probably think that during the tribulation period that there is going to be this peace treaty made with Israel and it’ll last a one world government. So Israel would be the woman and this last one world government would be the beast. So the woman arrives the beast. Now, they make a commitment to each other for the sake of peace, but with the beast, it’s temporary because he has an agenda.

And after a while, the beast throws the woman off and tried to destroy the woman. So when you read this, look at it from that point of view. It is easy to look at the 17th chapter and think that, well, maybe this is talking about the Roman Catholic Church. Many people have taken the Pope and said that the Pope must be the beast. And maybe down in the road I’ll find out that they were right all along and I was wrong.

But it really doesn’t matter because I’m going to teach the Scriptures from the viewpoint of Old Testament looking into the future. Instead of taking things that are present and trying to interpret the scriptures according to what we see in the world because the world can change and Though you may pick that religion or that man or that that city well Things changing it may not be them a hundred years later So that’s what they’ve done for the last 500 years and They’re still wrong But people are still guessing But the word of God in the Old Testament in the prophecies, it has not changed.

So look there very quickly in verse 1, and there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials and talked with me saying unto me, come hither, I will show unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sit at the fond many waters, with whom the kings of the earth had committed fornication and the inhabitants of the earth had been made drunk with the wind of a fornication. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness, and I saw a woman set up on a scarlet colored beast full of names of blasphemy and having seven heads and ten horns.

To me, this woman has been around for a while. If those seven heads represent seven kings or seven kingdoms in different periods of time, then that woman was there at that time because every one of these kingdoms that have come and gone had to deal with the nation of Israel. They didn’t have to deal with The Roman Catholic Church or the Pope, but they had to deal with Israel. And it’s because of Israel that we see these nations that have come against Israel to chase in Israel because of Israel’s rebellion.

And God had promised in the book of Deuteronomy that if Israel would not obey the Lord, God would use He the nations who speak another language to come against His people, which He has done. Also, if you look at verse 15 where it says, and he said unto me, the waters which thou sought, where the horse siteth, are people, the multitudes, and nations, and tongues. So we know about the woman that she scattered around the world. In verse 16, and the 10 horns which thou sought upon the beast, that the beast is comprised of the seven beasts, the 10 kings that comes on at the end.

And so this is happening all there in the tribulation period the last time. So there’s a woman and there’s the beast. The beast it does describe as the one that is going to be existing upon the earth when Jesus Christ comes back again. You see there verse 14, the shall war with the lamb and the lamb shall overcome them and he is the Lord of Lord and King of kings. So these are the ones that tend hard that comes against the the lamb.

Remember the lamb Him in the book of Daniel in chapter 2, verse 43, 44, says that, He is the stone cut out of a mountain without hands, and He smites the tin toes. This is the Lamb who destroys the Gentile rule upon the earth. And right now, it’s the Gentile rules that have had their way with the nation of Israel. Even though Israel is in the land, she’s in unbelief, and it’s still existing only because of the United Nations and a couple of nations like maybe Britain and America.

Not much security in this world, especially the way America is going. If I was Israel, I would be scared to death today. If I didn’t know the Lord and I see what course America is taking and how little by little people are turning against the nation of Israel and how they’re backing the Palestinians and so forth in the West Main, I would be concerned because I would know that even though they said, never again, never again, the Holocaust, never again.

Yes, it will. It will happen again. And it’s going to be worse than it was before. And you think, well, people will not be that way. Yes, they will. Yes, they will. The hatred that put them in those ovens is people that exist today and they hate just as much and they’ll do just the same thing. And there’s people that will do that to you and me only because we’re Christians, just because we’re Christians. So yeah, there’s a lot of things that can happen, but it described it here and it mentions that this great city in verse 18, the woman know which thou sought that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

So whenever the antichrist sets up his kingdom and rules from Jerusalem, it is the city that reigns over the kings of the earth. So it can still fulfill that scripture. But that kind of help understand a little bit, take your Bible and turn over the back. I want to take a look at two major scriptures. But first of all, look there in the book of Matthew chapter 23. Matthew and chapter 23. Remember when Jesus Christ was here, he made a statement to the Jews to the Jews because of their rejection of Him.

In chapter 23, look down in verse 34. Verse 34, make sure you’re looking at your Bible. Now this is when Christ was here, and this is what He said. Remember the 70th week of Daniel, which is the tribulation period, follows the 69th week of Daniel, which happened at the time of the cross. So what Christ was saying here was like, it’s going to happen real soon. And yet we know it was moved out in the future for 2000 years.

So in verse 34, wherefore behold, I sinned and used prophets and wise men, scribes, some of them you shall kill and crucify, and some of them you shall scourge in your synagogues and persecute them from city to city, that upon you, upon you may come all the righteous blood, shed from the earth, upon the earth, from the blood of righteous able, unto the blood of Zechariah, son of Barakiah, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar, and verily us, and ye all these things shall come upon this generation.

Of the generation when God pours out his judgment upon this earth is that period of time in Matthew chapter 24 and verse 15 where he says, when ye shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the Prophet, to sit in the holy place when you shall see. And then when he says down here in chapter 24, down in verse 32, down he makes a statement, so likewise, when ye shall see in verse 33, all these things know that it is near even at the doors.

And this generation shall not pass away. During that period of time, during the tribulation period, those people that will be here are going to see all these things come to pass. And it’s upon Israel and upon Thy holy city. Now in chapter 23, look there in verse 37. In verse 37, verse says Jerusalem, Jerusalem. A vow that kill us the prophets. Who? O Babylon, O Babylon. O Rome, O Rome. Well I just take it for what it says. And I know when it’s going to happen.

So is it possible that when I go over the biblical revelation, instead of trying to attack it on to somebody else, I attack it on to the one that God meant, but it’s in a mystery form so that you don’t see it. It’s not just written to satisfy curiosity seekers, but somebody who that believes the Old Testament prophets also, and he makes a statement, he says, and stoned it then better send it to thee. How often would I have gathered thy children together, even as they hen gathered their chickens under a wing, and you would not behold your house is left unto your desolate?

But I say unto you, he said, ye shall not see me henceforth. You won’t see me anymore till ye shall say, blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. That’s when he comes back the second time at the end of the tribulation period. So Christ is coming back. Now take your Bible and turn over there to the book of Isaiah. The book of Isaiah in chapter 13. Isaiah chapter 13. on page 724. And you’ll see the words as it refers to a country, a nation, and this was before the actual battle itself.

But he makes the statement here in verse 1, the message or the burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amos didigmatic. Lift Yippee banner upon the high mountain. Exalt the voice unto them, shake the hand that they may go into the gates of the nobles. I have commanded my sanctified ones. I have also called my mighty ones for my anger, even them that rejoice in my highness. The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people.

A tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations. Now that phrase, kingdom of nations, you ought to underline it because you’re talking about not just one king, not just one nation, and a kingdom of nations. This is projected not only as a near prophecy from the time it was given, but into the future of a big judgment that is going to take place. And he says, the kingdoms of nations gathered together. The Lord of hosts mustered the host of the battle.

So we’re talking about something in the future. Now remember this, there is a phrase that’s used many times in the Old Testament, especially in the book of Isaiah called day of the Lord, the day of the Lord. The day of the Lord refers to that tribulation period of time upon the earth and sometimes runs out into the millennium. The specific day of the Lord is when the Lord comes back at the end of the tribulation period. But look what he says in verse 6, he says, how ye for that day of the Lord is at hand.

So I believe that what I’m going to read now must be doing that period of time called the tribulation period. He says, the day of the Lord is the hand. It shall come as a destruction and get this from the Almighty. It comes from God. So the tribulation period, the judgment where God will judge the world, it’s from God. God is going to do this. Now all these things that are happening right now in the Middle East, I don’t worry about none of it, I know that eventually sooner or later, somehow along the way, they’re going to have to make a peace treaty with Israel.

Initundai, I don Kislyak76561, I don’t care how they do it. I don’t care what brings them to their knees. Why would fifty-some Muslim nations wantFirstly want to make a peace tree where this road gets me? Especially when you’ve got fifty-some nations and there’s only this little old place over there. Why can’t they just go ahead and wipe them off the mat? That’s what they want to do. Well you and I know it seemed like God always intervenes and protects them.

I don’t care what they try, what they do, it don’t work. They even had to put back up lights on their tanks when they were trying to come from Egypt. You know how they lost their war? They didn’t know how to get it in reverse. The driver, they didn’t know how to go backward. They didn’t know how to put it in reverse.

I think it’s a riot. You don’t know how to go forward, but not how to go in the middle of the world. But anyway, look in verse 7. Therefore shout, get this. All hand. And every man’s heart shall melt. Remember in the book of chapter 17 also, where it makes a statement about Israel is going to be encompassed about by all the nations and so forth. And look down in verse 9, he said, Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel, both with wrath and fierce anger to lay the land desolate, and he shall destroy the sinners out of it.

And he says in verse 10, the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof, that really the twelve signs of the zodiac, believe it or not. There’s nothing wrong with the twelve signs of the zodiac. It’s astrology is wrong. of shall not give their light, the sun shall be darkened, the moon shall lose her light.” In verse 4, I will punish the, and you are on the line that we’re punish the world. Because not just on Israel, it’s not just that one nation.

The whole world is going to be punished. Now we’ve already looked at some of the things that are happening during the tribulation period to believe and understand, especially the 16th chapter about the seven plates and the seven of all the judgment that are poured out that are going to happen upon the earth. Now look there in verse 13, therefore I will shake the heavens and the earth shall remove out of its place. In the wrath of the Lord of hosts and in the day of his fears anger.

Verse 15, every one that is found shall be thrust through. Now I believe this thrust through is similar to what is happening at the Mount when Moses was there in the smoke and the fire and the Lord and he says, don’t touch the mount of coming through let you be shot through and so forth. I believe there’s more to it than we just we think and it could be because of radiation that Tommy called I don’t know. There’s a there’s a whole world out there that I don’t have to understand.

I just I just believe whatever God says I believe it. And then he says in verse 16, their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes. Houses shall be spoiled their houses or wives are This is also mentioned in the book of Zechariah chapter 14 and verse 1 and 2 Where says the Lord will go forth and fight against those nations It’s when he fought in the day of battle and the city shall be taken the house right on all this stuff all of it is exactly the same So Scripture has to be fulfilled so God made these prophecies We know it has to be done doing that seven-year tribulation period.

So why not when we go there and read that Maybe this is what God is going to do. This is who He is talking about. There is a possibility. While we are right here, look in the book of Ezekiel. Ezekiel chapter 15. I think I have Ezekiel chapter 16. First mistake I have ever made. Ezekiel chapter 16. Now, this is an important chapter. It shows you the heart, the broken heart of Jehovah over his children Israel, over that nation.

You see, God looked upon Israel as somebody that came into being as a miracle. And it was because of him, and he brought her forth, and he loved her. And it’s like a man who loves a woman and he talks about Israel as this beautiful woman and all that he’s done for this woman and how that God said how he has been faithful to this woman. But the woman has not been faithful to him and it’ll break your heart.

When you read this, just try to enter and see how God might be feeling as he tells it from the point of a man with a broken heart for a wife who has betrayed him.” See the verse 1, again, the word of the Lord came unto me saying, Son of man caused Jerusalem to know her abomination and say, Thus saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem, thy birth, thy night nativity is of the land of Canaan. Thy father was an amber-eye.

mother was a head tight. In other words, this is where you came from. We’re going to be all the way back to the very beginning. Verse 4, “…and as for thy nativity, in the day that thou was born, thy neighbor was not cut. Neither was thou washed in water to several the thy was, had not salted at all, nor waddled at all. None I pitied thee to do any of these to have compassion that thou was cast out in the open field.”

And he says, in that date that you were born. And when I pass by in verse 6, I saw the polluted, endign, own blood. I said unto thee, when thou was in thy blood, live. Yeah, I said unto thee, when thou was in thy blood, live. I have caused thee to multiply as the butt of the field. Thou hast increased in wax and great. And thou art come to excellent ornaments and thy breast or fashion. And thy hair is grown whereas thou was naked.

In other words, you were a little child. Now you’ve grown into a full-blown woman. You’re a woman. You’re a beautiful woman. And when I passed by the inversate and looked upon thee, behold thy time was the time of love. And I spread my skirt over thee and covered thy making. It’s, hey, I swear unto thee and entered into a covenant with thee, said the Lord of God, and thy became mine. Then washed thy thee with water. Yeah, I thoroughly washed away thy blood from thee.

I had known thee with oil. I clothed thee with brodery work and shot thee with badger skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk. In other words, you’re good out there here, and you see all these things. Now, these things you’re reading right here is exactly what you’ll read when you read the 18 chapter of the book of Revelation. She said, look what I’ve got, and she went a whoring after other gods.

In other words, when a nation depends upon another nation, they have forgotten their God. See America is supposed to be one nation under God, not one nation under the United Nations, not one nation under China, which is where we’re headed, because we’re borrowing, and You are a servant to the lender. And they become the head and we become the teo. But he goes down through here and he talks about in verse 13, Dao was decked with gold and silver.

Virement was a fine-lend silver, brought it worth without his fine flour and honey and oil. And Dao was exceeding beautiful and daoists prospering to a kingdom. God took them and raised them up and brought them into their own land. The establish them as a nation, and she was a beautiful woman. She was the wife of Jehovah. Wife of Jehovah. Well, verse 26, thy has also committed fornication with the Egyptians, thy neighbors. Great of flesh and hath increased thy hoardom to provoke me to anger.

And he says up there in verse 28, Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians because Thou hast a was unsatiable appetite. Yet you could not be satisfied. Remember whenever I mentioned some of these nations, I always start off with the no, first of all, you go back to the Egyptians and then the Assyrians and then into the Babylonians, the Medians, the Persians, the Alexander and the Empire, the Greek Empire, and the Roman Empire and then down to where we are.

But it’s laid out in the Scriptures, and I believe it’s for a reason. But look at verse 32. He said, but as a wife that committed adultery, which take of strangers instead of her husband, they give gifts to all whores, but thou give us thy gifts to all thy lovers, and howst them that they may come unto thee on every side for thy Hordam’s. You see, Israel had one God and that one God is Jehovah. Israel was never to look to any other God, any other nation.

Israel would have been the supreme premier nation on the face of this earth if Israel had been a good wife. But she went to Horan after other nations. She wanted to be like other nations. She accepted other gods and all the wickedness that took place. And so there was a price to pay. You see that in verse 36, well, excuse me, verse 35, wherefore O harlot, hear the word of the Lord. So whenever we go to the 17th chapter and it talks about this woman who was a great whore, who siteth upon many waters because she’s gone a horn after other nations.

The only reason that there is this peace treaty made is because Israel has forgotten her God. Israel should look to Jehovah and not have to make a peace treaty with anybody and trust God to deliver them, but Israel is not going to do that. So you have all these nations who come together and she will ride the beast and they will support her. All temporary. These are her lovers. They love her because of what they’re going to get from her.

They really don’t care about her. You ever seen people do that in real life? They don’t care about them. They just do that. So in verse 38, I will judge thee as women that break wedlock. See the first part of verse 37, you got to see that. Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers with whom thou hast taken place in and all them that thou hast to live. love. And all them that thou hast hated, I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, and they shall see all thy nakedness.”

So this is what God’s going to do. But God says that when He does this, the last part of verse 39 says, they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bear. So this is what’s coming. But Now look there in Ezekiel 16 and just look over very quickly in verse 48. Because you see as Jerusalem goes, so did Samaria go. And it’s just like Sodom and Gomorrah. And he talked to them of though they are like sisters.

Sodom and Gomorrah. Verse 48, and as I live, sayeth the Lord God, Sodom, thy sister have not done. She know her daughters as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters. Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fullness of bread, abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughter. Neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and the needy and they were haughty and committed abominations before me. Therefore I took them away as I saw good.”

So this is what God is going to do. Now in verse 59 of that chapter talks about a covenant but I I don’t want to take time to look at that at this point. Go back now to the book of Revelation, Chapter 17. Revelation, Chapter 17. There’s no doubt that in Chapter 17, this woman, whoever she is, is a great whore. She has committed a lot of spiritual adultery. And that she has worshipped other gods and worshiped other nations and submitted herself.

See, when one nation submits herself who another nation, its fornication, its adultery. Whenever they are dependent upon that, which they submitted themselves to them, God never meant for Israel to submit themselves to anyone or anybody. So here in Revelation in chapter 18, looking verse 2, and he cried mightily with a strong voice saying, Babylon the greatest fallen is fallen. Now is it not only the nation of Israel that’s fallen, but the world empire that’s also over the nation of Israel in Jerusalem.

And because they rule from Jerusalem, they are the head of this last world government. And therefore you have the fall of of the nation of Israel, but also the fall of the nation of the kingdom, the beast itself. Because God is going to judge the beast, because the beast judged the woman. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. Part two of this teaching will conclude with tomorrow’s broadcast.

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You’re not going to be, I don’t believe, punished when you get to heaven. I believe God can chase in you while you’re here. God may cut your life short. There’s all kind of things that can happen in our lives. And so God is going to complete the chastening process. And cure the rebellious nature of Israel. This is why at the end, when you read the 11th chapter of the book of Romans, when it says that Israel was the real olive tree.

But they were broken off because of unbelief and the Gentiles were grafted in because of belief. But he says not to get too high minded because of the same God that did that can also remove the Gentile and put in the true olive vine again. And he says that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles become in. And then in verse 26 and chapter 11 of Romans, it says that when they see Him, Israel will be saved as in a day.

In other words, at one moment when they see Him, and this is mentioned in chapter 12 of the book of Zachariah, chapter 13 of Zachariah, and when they see Him, they willorage about the scars in his hands and his feet. So it shows that if it’s mentioned in about the scars in his hands and feet, he had already come before this moment. when he comes to great power and great glory at the end of the seven years. And so Israel will see and believe and God will take that little remnant of believe in Israel and they will start their kingdom upon the earth.

Remember this is a story in the book of Ezekiel about the valley of the dry bones. And so the dry bones is coming to move and they come together and the senior and so forth and the flesh came on the bottom, but they don’t have a new heart. It’s Israel in the land and unbelief, but God, one day when they trust Christ, it’s saved that they will have a new birth and Israel will be a believing people and he will use them to start the kingdom, which was like a seed of a mustard seed and do great thing.

The government covering the payment for sins when Christ came to make reconciliation for iniquity. This is what’s going to take place. And He’s going to set up the kingdom upon the earth. Worship God for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. Christ is the predictor and the fulfillment of all prophecy. All of prophecy deals with the Son of God and what He is doing and what he wants and his will. And it’s all about him, that’s for sure.

So it’s going to set up the kingdom, the kingdom is going to be here. So that you do not think that the church is supposed to supplant the kingdom of Israel, it is not. Promises made to Israel are still in effect. Israel will be given the land just like God promised them. And so we’re only a time period in here called the grace age for about 2,000 years. And God’s going to take us out of here. That time is coming.

He says, know therefore and understand that from, here’s your from, from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem. On to the Messiah, the Prince, shall be seven weeks, three score, and two weeks. The streets shall be built again and the walls, even in trouble as time. And when Ezra and Neeriah went back, they did have a lot of trouble. There was people who didn’t want them to build. But build that they did and the wall was finally done.

And then notice the from and the on to. These are started in stopping points from the going forth of the commandment to restoring to build Jerusalem onto the Messiah the Prince. Now, seven weeks, 49 years. One score is 20 years. 60 and two weeks would be 62 weeks. Well, 70 weeks or 490 years that ends when the kingdom begins. Now, I always like to draw. I don’t know about you, but I love to put little things in there and try to figure all the stuff out.

So you have 70 weeks, it’s 490 years, but that was from the time they go back and rebuild all the way until the kingdom. That’s the total 70. But something happened. There’s 69 weeks or 483 years, but that was only for a period of time up until the cross. So when Christ was to be crucified, He died right on the very year. And according to the Scriptures, we know the very month and the very day. And that’s all told way back there in the book of Daniel.

Coincidence? I don’t think so. I think there’s a God in heaven that knows what He’s doing. And He is right, dead on schedule. So the last week up there after the cross is what we call the 70th week of Daniel. Because 69 was up until the cross. So this is why 62 weeks, 434 years, well that’s because after 3 score and 2 weeks shall the Messiah be cut up but not for Himself. But why didn’t it mention the other 7 years?

Why just 62 weeks? What happened? Well, this is because there is another issue here. The temple in Jerusalem was going to be built, and the time to build that seven years was allotted for that. And so that’s the first period of time from here to here. That period of time right there was seven years or seven weeks, which was 49 years. So when you go to the New Testament and the gospel of John, Jesus answered and said unto them, destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up.

They said, then said the Jews, forty and six years was this temple and building and we’ll thou rear it up in three days, but he spoke of the temple of his body. But the temple itself, yes, it was and there was 49 years, a lot of that. And so after that you have 62 weeks left, 134 years. So everything is right on schedule and this period of time right here Christ came and Christ died. And this is where the seventh, the eighth week of Daniel is and then there’s the kingdom.

See there’s no church age in here. When you study the Old Testament you do not see the stuff about, you know, the There’s hints about it and types about it and Enoch and the rapture and things like that. But the information about the church is in the New Testament given to the Apostle Paul. So that’s the 46 years. And so we have where they said 46 years and we’ll, that’s why they couldn’t understand what Jesus says. You know, you destroy this temple and three days raise it again.

He said, took 46 years to build, but He was talking about His body. See, they didn’t always understand what He was talking about. But whenever they say that, see, but they’re giving information that helps you to understand the Scriptures. So this is why all this is so important. And after three score and two weeks, shall Messiah be cut off, but not for Himself and the people of the Prince that shall come. Now this is after the cross. So Rome was already there.

But we’re talking about after the cross, after Christ has been crucified, they’re going to destroy the city and the sanctuary, which they did. So there’s like a dual prophecy, a near prophecy and a far prophecy. You ever hear about history repeating itself? It does and over and over. It’s called people never learn and they just keep repeating the same dumb stupid things. You don’t do that in your life, do you? We’re glad of that. Because I mean, if something goes wrong, you learn from that and you go ahead and you don’t keep making the same mistake over and over and over again.

I know that. Now, the prince is the anti-Christ that shall come his future, and after the Messiah’s cut off, he will destroy the city and the temple after it has been rebuilt until the end of the 70th week, wars are determined. So the last seven years, if everything had just stayed right where it was, there would have been this judgment and so forth and all that. And then Christ, well, He would have come and never been Elijah come on the scene and preach in.

And he says, if you had accepted Jesus, then John the baddest, well, He would have been Elijah. But since you didn’t, then He’s not. Then it means Elijah still got to come yet in my way of thinking, which I believe most people hold that view. So this is as Daniel prophesied, you have the 69 weeks up to the cross. You have the 70th week, then you have the kingdom age. It’s how easy it is. It’s all laid out. Now, this is how Daniel’s prophecy was enlarged.

What we have now is this. The king was rejected and crucified. So now we have this little time limit in here, the church age, the grace age, the body age. This is where we are. And we’re in here because they rejected the king. And we have accepted the king. So he’s called the head of the church, but he’s still the king of Israel. But the kingdom has been moved out into the future. So this could be looked upon as a gap in here, but whatever, it’s a period of time that God deals with us.

Now, the seven years is out here and the kingdom is out here. Now we know this is a thousand years, a thousand in rain. And we know the seven years is the 70th week of Daniel. So this is why most Bible teachers teach it, the tribulation period is seven years long. There’s some who think it’s 40 years and all these things. And I believe that Christ is gonna come back for us right before the seven-year starts. And you’re going to come back with us to the earth at the end of the seven-year tribulation period.

But this period of time right here, see it’s unknown. We don’t know how long this is going to last. We often say about 2,000 years. But remember, the seven years right here is part of the 2,000 years. But be it as it may, I don’t really know the day nor the hour. I’m not saying you can’t know. I’m just saying I don’t know. Now you may know the kingdom was postponed and the 70th week was postponed. The church age began.

Three and a half years in the midst of the week, in the midst of the week, he will cause the sacrifice, the oblation, to cease. That means that during the tribulation period, that the temple has to be rebuilt and they must have the temple sacrifices again because he’s going to cause him to stop. Now the peace covenant must include Israel’s right to exist and this is why you’ll find in several places I’m at the Holy Covenant, the Holy Covenant, especially chapter 11 and another chapter.

There’s talked about the Holy Covenant, the Holy Covenant and Israel’s right to the land, is right to build the temple on the temple mound. Is right to sacrifice on the altar. So this has got to take place in order for there to be this peace treaty. Now how all of it’s going to come about? I don’t know, but I look for it any day now. Something to happen that’ll make it all come together. Anyway, that’s the material that I wanted to give you on that.

And next Wednesday tonight I will give you the other section of that. You’re going to like the other part that I did. I spent a lot of hours drawing up his stuff and because I just love it. I love the Word of God. I love teaching it, love studying. Now take your note there and look at the Daniel’s image, Daniel’s image. And you’ll notice on the left, on the very left of the page talks about the times of the Gentiles.

That is from Babylon all the way down to the end of the tribulation period. That’s called the times of the Gentiles. And you’ll notice on the right hand side of the page, number one, there’s a two, three, four, five, those are the kingdoms that are going to rule and have dominion over the nation of Israel, which is what has taken place. And before Babylon came along, there was the . A Syrian army that took the northern ten tribes right at the top of the page there, about 722 BC.

And then Judah, which is made of a Benjamin and Judah, went into Bible-owning captivity. So remember the guy named Nebuchadnezzar had a nightmare and had this dream of this wild image of this beast. But the beast was these nations. And you’ll notice that when he saw this, he says, the image of the beast, image of the beast. Well, the beast is made up of many different nations. And in the New Testament, in the book of Revelation, it talked about the beast, the beast.

But the beast is not just one nation, it’s accumulation of many nations. And he talks about the head of gold, and then he talks about the breast and arms of silver, the meats and the Persian Empire, the Alexander Empire, the Roman Empire. And then you have the last one, I believe, down there, number five, the feet and toes, iron and clay. So I separated the feet from the ankles because I believe that the last world power is going to be the 10 toes.

I don’t believe that I should have had the feet, the 10 toes at the cross, and then do it again because these are all different nations, a different period of time. It says the last one is worse than all the ones before it. You say, well, it’s put me at the revival of the Roman Empire. one of the reasons that that is taught and it could be. It may be. I believe it’ll include it, but it’s not going to be exclusive Roman.

It is because if you take out the mystery of the church age and slide defeat right up against it, then it would appear that they all just flow and it was the Roman Empire then, so it’ll have to be the Roman Empire at that time. Now there’s a possibility that can be true. But all of this is because God says that He’s going to judge the nation of Israel and He says, if you don’t obey me, I’m going to put you under Gentile dominion.

And this is why almost every one of these kingdoms have just about tried to do away with the Jews. And they were scattered upon the face the years and go back to the land and now they’re back in unbelief. If we are living in this little gap period down here, then if we know what’s supposed to happen during that seven-year period, then many of the things that are going to happen then must be getting ready in our time. So as you look around the world today, it’s amazing how you can see so many things happening and things getting worse and worse and worse.

And because we’re Christians, that’s why we can have the freedoms that we have in America, I believe, is the last greatest hope in this world for any nation to have freedom. And when we lose it, and if we go down and we go dark, there won’t be no more. I believe we are the last one. There’s no other nation where it’s going to come on the scene that’s going to be able to, I believe, be the testimony like America was at one time.

because we had looked to the Lord, but we were getting to where we’re slowly seeing change in our values. People want, they want to live in sin and they want to be able to have the freedom. They don’t want the guilt. They don’t want the condemnation. And so therefore they want to be free of the, I guess you could say the Christian ideology. So that’s why there’s such a move on to do away with anything that deals with decency, but what we would consider having values in your life.

Well, you know what’s right and know what’s wrong and you want to do right. You want to please God. When God is at the core and the center of everything that you are and everything that you want to do, it kind of has a restraint upon you. Truth is a restraint. Then there’s nothing left but the old sinful nature and there’s no control for that outside of truth. And so we’re living at a time where I guess a lot of people just really don’t care.

There’s such complacency that people don’t take a stand and believe something that’s rock solid and will in the suffer the consequences, whatever they may be. But I think that we should. If we don’t preserve the education of the kids, then you can’t change America. It’s not going to be done. There has to be something that will shock this country or adults get back to the Lord. And some people would call that a revival. We don’t let it be. But it’s got to start somewhere with somebody.

And maybe it’ll be somebody in this room that starts such a great change or sacrifice of some kind that just starts catching fire. And who knows how far it’ll go. But I remember the guy that ran for governor in Colorado, he came to my house one night and he wanted to talk with me because I had a huge Christian school to a lot of people that in our ministry. And he was looking at those as votes. Thought he could get me on his side.

He would get all those votes. And so we went out to a restaurant, we sat down and we talked. And it didn’t take long for him to understand that I believed in the rapture. And he slammed the table. I mean, he hit it hard. He said, I can’t stand these people, these Christians. that keep talking about Christ is coming back and getting him out of here and the rest of the people are going to have to, he says, and they’re lazy, they won’t do anything, they won’t take a stand and our country is going to the devil and get him to do anything.

Now he might be talking about a lot of those people, but that’s not me. But he put us all in the same boat and then talking to him I found out that he was Christian science. He didn’t He didn’t believe in sin. He didn’t believe in death. He didn’t believe in getting sick. Well, it wasn’t long after this. He was in the hospital and I went to see him. When I walked into his room to see him, he kind of looked up at me and I said, are you sick or you just think you’re sick?

He said, I’m not really sick. So I said, why are you here? He says, I’m having some mental problems, and that I think that I am. It wasn’t long before he thought he was dead. He died. He was dying of cancer. But he was in denial. Denial. He wrote a huge article against me and put it in the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post. He did not want anything to associate with that Ralph Yankee Arnold fellow. There’s been a price over the years that I have paid for putting my nose out there, putting my views out, letting people know what I believe.

And I don’t care. If I believe it’s right, I’ll stand on it. I’m not sure I back off a little bit But I’ve known the Lord too long to be a coward now If I was going to compromise I Should have started years and years ago. I Think on too many years. I’m too close now. I have no intentions of changing and turning tail Dip in my flag No, I know who I am. I know what I believe believe.

And I believe, yes, Jesus could come back at any moment and I want to be found faithful. And if he doesn’t come for a hundred years, I still want to work and build and plan. And so he won’t come back in my lifetime. Now people can take out how he really wants, but I don’t know no other way to put it. Why in the world would we plan on having a summer camp if I believe the Lord’s coming back today?

Why go to work tomorrow? Go home tonight and let the the Lord come back and get you. But you don’t believe the Lord could comevg back today? But are you going to still go to work tomorrow? You know why? Because if you don’t, you still might want to eat. You still got life to go on. So the second coming of Christ should not destroy our will to be found faithful in doing something and planning and having a vision in a long range goals.

It should motivate us and challenge us. That realize we ain’t got much time, and I want to do all that I can while I can for as long as I can. But if you’re here and you’re not sure of going to heaven, all this about Christ coming back again, well, it’s true. The prophecy in God’s Word, the timing, everything right on schedule. If a man really wants to know the truth, it’s all in the book. This is you and me.

And the wall represents sin. We all have sin on us. Now God says that He loves us. And I hate our sin, but He loves us. And for us to go to heaven, we have to be perfect as righteous as God. And none of us are perfect. None of us are righteous. We’ve all done things wrong. And God says to pay for it, He’s eternal death and hell. And so God says, you can’t save yourself. You can’t work your way to heaven.

God said, it is not by works of righteousness which we have done. Not of works, lest any man should boast. So a man doesn’t get to heaven because of how good he is by his good deeds. So we need a Savior. This hand represents Jesus Christ, he’s God in the flesh. Came into the world because he loves us, hates our sin, because it separates us from the Lord. So Jesus Christ took all the sin, paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead.

And God said that if you and I, if we would believe that He did it for us, it put that payment He made to our account and we get to go to heaven on what Jesus Christ did. It’s a gift. It’s totally free. If I offered you this mouse, you could take it home to your cat. I offered you my wallet and you accepted you’d have a wallet. I offered you my Bible and you accepted you’d have a Bible.

Well if Jesus Christ walks in here and offers you eternal life and you accepted you would have eternal life. And if it’s eternal life, it lasts forever. And if it lasts forever, and all your sins are paid, then where would you go when you die? To heaven. So can you know you’re going to heaven before you die? Yes, you can. You can know that you have eternal life. And I’m glad of that. But serving the Lord, winning people, training people, that’s such a great thing.

It’s a joyous thing. the best thing anybody can ever do in this world. So glad I know the Lord. Let’s pray, shall we? Our Father, we thank you so much for your blessings to us. And Father, we know that there’s many here that are hurting. They’ve got various problems. In other words, there’s people of all kinds that need help. We ask your blessings upon each person here. And Father, we have many things that we seek to do. But Father, without you, we can do nothing.

all of our labors in vain without your hand upon us. We just want to get people under the sounds of the Gospel. We want Christian to be challenged to serve you. We thank you for the radio ministry, the internet ministry, and Father, His person in their room tonight, bless each one. And Father, no doubt, there’s many people that watch by internet. And Lord, as they sit there and they watch, we pray that they’ll enjoy it and they’ll be blessed.

But follow more than anything we want to trust your Savior. We also want them to draw close to you and to them to realize the importance of them serving and doing right. Help us to be found faithful until you come. In Christ and every prayer, amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771.

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We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s first part of this two part message will be a blessing to you and your family. I got a few things I want to talk to you about. Because we’re talking in the book of Revelation, the book of Revelation, and we finally got to the 17th chapter, but we will probably not get to the 17th chapter tonight because I got to give you a little background so that you’ll understand it better, or maybe understand a little bit better why I have the view that I do.

So anyway, first of all, I’m going to Show you a few things on the screen, and then after that, we’ll look at the little chart. I’ve never seen anybody draw the chart like this, but it’s because at the feet down there, you notice I cut the feet off and separated them and put a gap in there. And if you’ll study the scriptures with that little gap in there, everything will fit. Because one day the rapture will take place and those ten toes are going to come up against the ankle joints and everything is going to be fine.

And God is going to do his thing. It’s going to work a miracle. But anyway, the Bible says in the book of Daniel chapter 9. I wish we had time to read the whole chapter, but we don’t. where Daniel has got out the book of Jeremiah and began to read and he saw some things and realized that he needed to prepare the people. Now we’re going to get to go home. And so here in Daniel 9 and 22 it says, and he informed me and talked with me and said, oh Daniel I am now come forth to give skill and understanding.

Don’t you think that would be neat that the Lord would shower upon you the skill, the wisdom, the understanding and you wouldn’t have to study the Bible at all? But remember Jeremiah where he was reading, he was reading and he was studying. So God blessed this man and he started off as a a very young man and took a stand for the Lord and determined he would not defile himself with the King’s meat. He was just a godly individual and God blessed him over the years.

Now we’re talking about toward the end of his life because it had been there almost 70 years in captivity and he was probably a teenager when he went so you know that he was hitting up close to 90 years of age. He says, at the beginning of thy supplication, the commandment came forth, and I am come to show thee for thy work greatly beloved. Therefore, understand the matter and consider the vision. So God was going to give him a vision of what was going to take place.

You hear me talk a lot about about the 70 weeks of Daniel and the tribulation period is one week of the 70 weeks. That means that 69 of those weeks has already come and gone. But this is what he says, 70 weeks are determined upon, and these are very important words, thy people, which would be Israel, and upon thy holy city, which would be Jerusalem, to finish the transgressions and to make an end of sins and to make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring an everlasting righteousness and to seal up the vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy.

So this takes us right up to the millennium, right up to the doors of the millennium when Christ will be anointed, takes the king, the king that God had promised. . . . . . . . . . So all these things are important to note that go back and get just a little bit of the prophecy of what he’s talking about. And this is where he was reading in the book of Jeremiah. He says, And this whole land shall be a desolation and astonishment.

And these nations shall serve the king of Babylon 70 years. So before they were ever taken into captivity, God had already through the Prophet Jeremiah told them that they were going to be taken into captivity and even told them how long it would be for 70 years. In Jeremiah 25 and verse 12 it says, and it shall come to pass when 70 years are accomplished that I will punish the king of Babylon. 70 years. And then I’m going to punish the king of Babylon.

So God is going to use the king of Babylon to accomplish his purpose to whip Israel, and then he’s going to whip Babylon for whoop in Israel. Isn’t that something? God is able to take any person or thing or nation to whoop another, and then God can deal with them. But remember, you and I do not have the liberty to just live as we please. However we want and try to get away with it. There is a price to pay for rebellion.

Israel had disobeyed God for a long time. And God says it’s now time to pay up. And so for the years that they were supposed to let the land rest, well, they wouldn’t do it. The Sabbath that they were supposed to let it rest, they wouldn’t do it. And so God says because of that, I’m going to take a year for every one of those that you didn’t do, I’m on the collect. So 70 years God collected and made Israel pay the price for it.

So God does that. Now in Jeremiah 29 and verse 10, he says, for thus saith the Lord that after 70 years be accomplished. At Babylon, I will visit you and perform my good word towards you in causing you to return to this place. See, God is able to, in His sovereignty, work out His will in the lives of people. Many times we call it the providence of God, how God works behind the scene to accomplish His will. And if you know how He works with nations, how He works especially with Israel, then you’ll understand that a lot of times the same principles, He applies to you and me.

God can be working behind the scenes and he allows things to happen for a reason. You and I had just supposed to trust them and keep getting up. Just keep doing right. Now in Daniel chapter 9 and verse 2, it says, in the first year of his reign, I Daniel understood by books the number of the years where of the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet that he would accomplish seven years in the desolation of Jerusalem.

As Daniel reads the book of Jeremiah, and then whenever the ninth chapter is written, Daniel begins to call upon the Lord and confesses the sins of the people to the Lord, and how wicked they had been and how good God had been. And so he submits himself to the Lord in prayer and humbles himself. And it’s like Daniel has taken the faults of all the people of Israel upon himself and is like he’s interceding for us. And God says that he would cause his people to go back and miraculously to have a king that would allow them to go back and then give them money to go back, give them protection to go back, and yet only a remnant went back after seven years.

So evidently there was a lot of those people that had been taken into captivity that just kind of says you know we’re old now and there’s no sense us going back. So a lot of them stayed there in Persia over in the Babylon area. But anyway, Jeremiah gave this prophecy right at 70 years before Daniel understood the meaning. So he read it and then God calls him to understand it and isn’t it amazing that it was right there toward the 70th year that he began to see it.

That’s when God allows your understanding to be enlightened at the right time. As you read the Scriptures, there’s many things you do not see and understand at the moment. And then sometimes just out of the clear blue sky it seemed like. Now I know what that means. God will let you understand and he’ll let you understand. But if he let you see and understand everything in his word all at one time, it would blind you. It’s so much truth you couldn’t handle it.

That’s why God says, here a little and there a little. Line upon line. Precept upon precept. Lord, building. In other words, you don’t take a little baby and think, well, if I could shove all this food into them all at one time, you know, for 10 years, just think how fast this great baby is going to grow. No, you’re going to kill the kid. I watched a mother one day and she was feeding her kid a bowl of oatmeal, the little tike sitting there in the little hicha.

And I mean, it was a huge bowl of oatmeal. And the kid didn’t know when to stop. So she just kept feeding it to him. And I said, and I watched him and his stomach would just grow, grow. And she just, and I said, don’t you think that kids had enough? She says, oh no, I gave him the whole bowl. The whole bowl. She says, I don’t have to feed him for the rest of the day. The stomach is out there like this and the little babies got a smile on his face.

The baby didn’t care. But the baby lived. A kid’s grown up today. I could not believe it, but when it comes to truth, you have to learn a little bit and get a little bit more. That’s why we don’t have Bible classes where you go 24 hours a day. You have to have some time to adjust, to build, to apply, and then add a little bit more, bit more and then apply that. See wisdom is taking knowledge and applying it to experiences in life and it takes time to build.

That’s why God doesn’t build you overnight. God will take 10, 15, 20, 30 years to get you to be a strong Christian. It don’t happen like that. You’re gonna learn a little bit and fall. Learn a little bit and fall and some of you still crawling. Some of you never get to stand up and walk. But it don’t happen overnight. It doesn’t do that with little children. And it’s the same thing with the truth of God’s Word. So God says, here a little, they’re a little, not here a lot and there a lot, a little, learn a little truth.

Now God will teach you something during the week. Come back on Sunday and learn a little bit more. Or you learn a little bit in the mornings, a little bit at night. So God does this and it’s for reason. Now, if Daniel believed the 70 years were literal, why not the 70 weeks? Both are in the same chapter. So if the years were literal, then why not believe the 70 weeks would be literal as a God applies it in his word?

So it’s better to use scripture to understand Scripture. God’s Word will teach you what God’s Word means. In Genesis 29 and verse 17, you remember a guy named Jacob who fell in love with a beauty by the name of Rachel? Well, there was Leah and Rachel. Leah was the oldest one. And I guess they had a custom that, you know, the oldest one had to get married first. Well, evidently Jacob didn’t know that. And he only worked for seven years in order to get this beauty.

And lo and behold, and into the tent, and they went, and he found out this is the wrong one. So he says, Leah was tender-eyed, but Rachel was beautiful and well-favored. Jacob loved Rachel and said, I will serve the seven years for Rachel, thy younger daughter. And Laban says, it is better that I give her to thee than that I should give heard to another man abide with me. Jacob served seven years for Rachel and they seemed unto him but a few days for the love he had to her.

Isn’t that romantic? Aww. That means to work seven years for a woman. Some of y’all wouldn’t do that to keep a woman let alone to get her. Verse 21, And Jacob said unto Laban, give me my wife for my days are fulfilled that I might go in under her. So he had worked for seven years to get this little beauty and surprise surprise. And Laban gathered together all the men of the place and made a feast. Came to pass in the evening that he took Leah, his daughter, and brought her to him and he went in under her.

And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zuppa his maid for a handmade. And it came to pass that in the morning, behold it was Leah. the light hath dawn.” Well, they say, love is blind, but marriage will help you to see better in the morning. What is this that thou hast done unto me? Did not I serve with thee for Rachel? Wherefore then hast thou begowed me? You have tricked me.” Laban says, it must not be so done in our country to give the younger before the first He outsmarted the old boy, didn’t he?

Now smart him. In verse 27, fulfill her week. So this is where we know that a week can refer to a period of seven years. He worked for seven years, and he says, now you work for her another seven years for the other one. And we will give thee this also for the service which thou shalt serve with me, yet seven other years. So this is why whenever you go over there to the book of Daniel and you see it 70 weeks, can it be that the weeks is talking about years?

And one week would be seven years. So 70 of those would be seven times seven would be 49, 490 years. That’s where you get your 490 years. So you see, God does give us a way of telling, well, what does that mean without just guessing? It’s already in the scriptures. So he says here in verse Leviticus 25, 8, and thou shalt number seven Sabbaths of years under thee, seven times seven years, and the space of the seven saith of years shall be under thee, 40 and nine years.

God’s word teaches God’s word, and it helps us to understand. So 70 weeks are determined upon by people and upon by holy city. So you’ve got a total of 490 years to finish the transgression and to make an end of sins and to make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring in everlasting righteousness. So the complete the judgment that God started upon the nation of Israel and when they would issue to the decree to go back to Jerusalem and to rebuild the temple until the Messiah was going to be so long, so many weeks which boiled down to so many years.

And so God’s Word is right on the money. Points to consider. One week, seven years, seven weeks, 49 years, 70 weeks, 490 years. See how easy it is? Things you must know to whom is it written? Remember it was thy people and thy holy city. So this is about Israel, this is about Jerusalem. And so therefore when I go to the book of Revelation that deals with this 70th week, I believe that it’s the key issue in the book of Revelation concerning the time of the seven-year tribulation paired upon the year.

And why was it written? Because God is going to judge his people. And there was a time of when he would make a payment for the sins for the people. And then there would be an ultimatum there about like will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel? They still would not accept the Messiah. So the kingdom was postponed and so now it’s going to be another judgment during that seven-year tribulation period. And then to bring in the everlasting righteousness and so forth upon the year.

So there has to be a time when it starts and a time when it ends. So but does God’s word say when did this start and when does it end? Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city to finish the transgression. Things are determined upon thy people Israel as a nation, upon thy holy city Jerusalem to to finish the transgressions, to make an end of sins, make reconciliation for iniquity, bring an everlasting righteousness, seal up the vision and prophecy, and anoint the most holy.

Now, this is what God says that this 70 years is supposed to accomplish. Complete the chastening of Israel, which is called Jacob’s sorrows. So, there is a Bye. Let me say, you’re not going to be, I don’t believe punished when you get to heaven. I believe God can chasten you while you’re here. God may cut your life short. There’s all kinds of things that can happen in our lives. And so God is going to complete the chastening process. And cure the rebellious nature of Israel.

This is why at the end, when you read the 11th chapter of the book of Romans, when it says that Israel was the real olive tree. But they were broken off because of unbelief and the Gentiles were grafted in because of belief. But he says not to get too high-minded because the same God that did that can also remove the Gentile and put in the true olive vine again. And he says that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles become in.

And And then in verse 26 and chapter 11 of Romans, it says that when they see Him, Israel will be saved as in a day. In the words, at one moment when they see Him, and this is mentioned in chapter 12 of the book of Zachariah, chapter 13 of Zachariah, and when they see Him, they will ask about the scars in His hands and His feet. So it shows that if it’s mentioned in about the scars in His hands and the feet He had have already come before this moment.

When he comes in great power and great glory at the end of the seven years and so Israel will see and believe and God will take that little remnant of believing Israel and they will start their kingdom upon the earth. Remember this is a story in the book of Ezekiel about the valley of the dry bones and so the dry bones is coming to move and they come together and the sinew and so forth and the flesh came on the bond but they don’t have a new heart.

It’s Israel in the land in unbelief but God one day when they trust Christ is saved that they will have a new birth and Israel will be a believing people and he will use them to start the kingdom which was like a seed of a mustard seed and do great thing. The government covering the payment for sins when Christ came to make reconciliation for iniquities is what’s going to take place. And He’s going to set up the kingdom upon the earth.

Worship God for the testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy. Christ is the predictor and the fulfillment of all prophecy. All of the prophecy deals with the Son of God and what He is doing and what He wants and His will and it’s all about Him, that’s for sure. So it’s going to set up the kingdom, the kingdom is going to be here so that you do not think that the church is supposed to supplant the kingdom of Israel, it is not.

Promises made to Israel are still in effect. Israel will be given the land just like God promised them. And so we’re only a time period in here called the grace age for about 2,000 years. And God’s going to take us out of here. That time is coming. He says, know therefore and understand that from, here’s your from, from, from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince. She’ll be seven weeks, three score and two weeks.

The streets shall be built again and the walls even in trouble is time. And when Ezra and Neir, Maya went back, they did have a lot of trouble. There was people who didn’t want them to build. But build that they did and no wall was finally done. And then notice the from and the unto. These are started in stopping points from the going forth of the commandment to restoring to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah, the Prince. Now seven weeks, 49 years.

One score is 20 years. 60 and two weeks would be 62 weeks. Well, 70 weeks or 490 years that ends when the kingdom begins. Now, I always like to draw. I don’t know about you, but I love to put little things in there and try to figure all the stuff out. So you have 70 weeks, it’s 490 years. But that was from the time they go back and rebuild. All the way until the kingdom. That’s the total 70. But something happened.

There’s 69 weeks or 483 years, but that was only for a period of time up until the cross. So when Christ was to be crucified, He died right on the very year. And according to the Scriptures, we know the very month and the very day. And that’s all told way back there in the book of Daniel. Coincidence? I don’t think so. I think there’s a God in heaven that knows what He’s doing. And He is right dead on schedule.

So, the last week up there after the cross is what we call the 70th week of Daniel. Because 69 was up until the cross. So this is why 62 weeks, 434 years, well that’s because after 3 score and 2 weeks, shall the Messiah be cut up but not for Himself. But why didn’t it mention the other seven years? Why just 62 weeks? What happened? Well, this is because there is another issue here. The temple in Jerusalem was going to be built and the time to build that seven years was allotted for that.

until that’s the first period of time from here to here. That period of time right there was seven years or seven weeks, which was 49 years. So when you go to the New Testament and the Gospel of John, Jesus answered and said unto them, destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up. They said, then said the Jews, forty and six years was this temple and building and we’ll thou rear it up in three days, but he spoke of the the temple of his body.

But the temple itself, yes, it was. And there was 49 years, a lot of that. And so after that, you have 62 weeks left, 134 years. So everything is right on schedule. And this period of time right here, Christ came and Christ died. And this is where the seventh, the eighth week of Daniel is, and then there’s the kingdom. See, there’s There’s no church age in here. When you study the Old Testament, you do not see the stuff about the church.

There’s hints about it and types about it and Enoch and the rapture and things like that. But the information about the church is in the New Testament given to the Apostle Paul. So that’s the 46 years. And so we have where they said, forty and six years, and that’s why they couldn’t understand what Jesus says. You know, you destroyed this temple and three days raised it again. He said, took forty-six years to build, but he was talking about his body.

See, they didn’t always understand what he was talking about. But whenever they say that, see, but they’re giving information that helps you to understand the scriptures. So this is why all this is so important here. We’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. Our two of this teaching will conclude with tomorrow’s broadcast. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll-free 1-800-576-3771.

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In the book of Romans, turn there, chapter two. page, love 193 in an old Scoville reference Bible. But I hope that whatever you have in your hands is an old King James Version. And if you will, they’re in the book of Romans in chapter two, verse 11, it says, “‘For there is no respect of persons with God. “‘There is none. “‘God so loved the world. “‘He loves everyone in the world. “‘But everyone in the world needs to understand “‘that it is appointed unto every man wants to die “‘and after this the judgment.

When God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to, and in He says these words, my gospel. I like to believe that I have a gospel. My gospel. It’s not one that I devise, but it’s one that’s been given to me to give to other people. The Lord says that we have the gospel committed to our trust. Therefore, we speak not as pleasing men, but God would strive at the heart. So I have a gospel that there’s a lot of preacher, there are a lot of churches, and everybody claims to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ.

You heard even on radio and TV, they’ll have, we’re going to have a gospel singing or a gospel song and many of the songs may not have a thing to do with the gospel. It’s a word, a term that we use that means good news. The gospel is good news. And I like to believe that the gospel that we preach here, the good news, have you ever compared the gospel that one man preaches with the gospel that someone else preaches?

They’re They’re not all the same. I like to believe that the gospel, but I preach is not only good news, it’s better news. I wrote down seven things on why I believe that the message that we preach is better. If you ever wanted to have fun, if you go and visit other churches, or maybe some of you come from another church, and you just visit with us today, or if you hear of anybody you ever go into some other church and you visit, Never be afraid of asking the preacher questions.

Find out what he believes. Where does he stand on various things? Never be afraid of putting a preacher on the spot. Don’t be afraid of embarrassing the preacher. If he doesn’t know what he believes and doesn’t know how to defend what he believes, he ought not be doing what he’s telling. He ought to go find them something else to do. But a preacher’s supposed to know what he believes and he’s supposed to know why he believes what he believes and should want other people to believe what he believes So he shouldn’t be afraid of people asking him what he believes.

Should he? So you ought to be bold enough to ask a person, what do you believe? I would like to believe that whenever you come here, it won’t take you long to find out what I believe. I try to make it very simple, very clear. My message is not general. I have very specific points that I say, this is where we stand here and this is where we stand here. This is what we believe. This is what we don’t believe.

you know what I teach. One of the statements that I have wrote down, and I’m going to your Bible I chapter 5 and verse 13, simply ask yourself this question, which is better news to think, hope, or guess you’re going to heaven or know you’re going to heaven. Now which would be better? Would it be better to know you’re going to heaven or to hope that you’re going to heaven? Which would best to know that you’re going to heaven.

I’m glad you said that. Why? Because, see, that’s what I preach. Not everybody preaches that, but I preach that and it is better. So, evidently, I might have a better message. I’m not just the typical Joe Blow in the pulpit who wants to just spout off and waste this time. Maybe I have a message worth hearing, preaching, supporting, and encouraging others to hear. Here in 1 John chapter 5, look in verse 13, This is what I believe. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God that you may think that you have eternal life.

Is that what it says? Does it say hope? Does it say guess? What does it say? That you can know that you have eternal life? Well, see, I believe that it’s better to know that you’re going to heaven, that it is for somebody to hope that they’re going to heaven. And many preachers, all they can do is give you hope. I can help you to know that you have eternal life and that you’re going to heaven. Let me ask you another question.

Which is better news, to have a payment for most of your sins, or all of your sins? Is it better to know that Christ died for some of your sins, or to believe that He died for all of your sins? Well, of course it’s better to know that He paid for all of your sins, because if there’s one sin that He didn’t pay for, that one sin could continue to help. And any preacher that believes you can lose your salvation, it’s because there’s a sin that you committed that wasn’t paid.

Isn’t that terrible? Well, see, I don’t believe that you can lose your salvation. I believe that when Christ died, He paid for all the sins of all the world. I believe that. I believe that the message that we preach here is a little bit better. Well, it’s not a little bit better. It’s a whole lot better. And I think you should believe that. Let me ask you another question. Take your Bible and turn to John 3 16. I know that most of y’all have heard this verse, but I want to show you one thing there in John chapter 3 in verse 16.

Is it better to be saved for a day, for a month, for a year? Or would it be better to be saved forever? Which would be the best?mble If you could get saved, if any man could get saved, would it be better to be saved for a day? Would it be better to be saved for a month? Would it be better to be saved for a year? Or would it be better to be saved forever? Which we would rather have?

If you had a choice, which would you ever have? You’d rather be saved for how long? Forever. Well, lo and behold, slap my mouth. That’s what I believe. Now, a lot of preachers do not teach that. If they don’t teach that, not only is our message better than their message, their message is dead wrong. It’s a dead message, a wrong message. It’s in here. If the Bible had said in John 3 16, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him shall be saved for a day.

Now that might be good for a day. It might be good if you could be saved for a month or save for a year, but that’s the way it is with a lot of people. They don’t believe that whenever you get saved, you are saved forever. Well, I wonder what the Bible says in John 3 16. Let’s just read what he says here. See there in verse 16, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, be shall not go to hell in the future, but have what kind of life, everlasting life.

Now if God had said that if you believed on him you would be saved full of day. Would you be guaranteed that you would at least be saved for the day. True? Yeah. If God had said you’d be saved for a month, then at least you would be guaranteed to be saved during that month. If God had said I guarantee you you’ll be saved for a year. At least you know during that year you couldn’t go to hell because you’d be saved for a year.

But what if God said forever? Everlasting. It lasts forever. It means that I am guaranteed that I have eternal life forever. Now a lot of people don’t believe that. People need to check the gospel that some preachers say they believe and walk up and say do you believe that once you’re saved you’re always saved. If they say oh no get out of there don’t give them a dime. Anybody on radio or TV they are false teachers, false preachers have nothing to do with them.

They’re not good men. Well, they’re good people. They’re just doing their job a different way. No, they’re not. They’re not good men. They’re wicked men. I don’t care how well they dress, how sweet they may be. They are wicked men preaching a wicked message. Now, I have a better message. I have a gospel that not only can save for a day or a month or a year, but he says forever. Let me ask you another question. Is it better to have a salvation?

You can lose or a salvation you can’t lose. Just listen to the words. Is it better to have a salvation that you can lose or to have a salvation you can’t lose? Which would be the best? To have a salvation you can’t lose what slapped my mouth. I got a better one again because a lot of people believe you can lose your salvation after you are saved. I believe you can’t. Well it doesn’t matter will if I think mine is better.

What does the book say? I’m glad you asked. Now look there in the book of John Chapter 6. Look in John chapter 6, two verses that are very important. In verse 37 he says, all that the Father giveth me, shall come to me and Him that come up to me, I will in no wise cast out unless He sins again. Is that what your Bible said? Your Bible didn’t say that. It says, I will in no wise cast out.

That means that once you come to Christ and you trust Him, He will come to me. never cast you out. Look what he says in verse 39. Verse 39 says, and this is the Father’s will, which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me, I should lose nothing. If he saves me, he’s taken me to heaven. He will never cast me out for any reason. You mean, Regor to what I do, regor to what I do.

I can never be cast out. He will not lose me. He’s saving me. He’s taking me to heaven and He will not lose me. Some people believe that you can get lost. You can lose your salvation. He will cast you out. What the Bible don’t teach them. So if I teach what Jesus teaches, then my message must be better. I must have a better gospel than someone else who says they got the gospel. But their good news is not even as good as my good news.

Listen to it. Is it better to have a salvation you can lose or a salvation you can’t lose? It’s better to have one you can’t lose. That’s what I got. That’s better than one that you can’t lose. And that’s not the Bible. That’s why the Bible said this is good news to go into all the world and preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. I think if he wanted us to preach the gospel to every person in the world, he ought to give us the best message possible.

And that’s what we have. But there’s a lot of people that don’t believe that God loves people that much that He would give me eternal life and never cast them out and never lose them. But I believe that He will. Another question. Is it better to receive eternal life that is temporary or eternal life that is eternal? Now that’s all paradox. If God was to give me eternal life as a gift, is it better to have this gift temporary or eternal?

Which would be the best? Eternal would be the best. Well that’s what I got. That’s what I preach. I must have a superior message than any preacher that teaches it you can lose it. Now don’t you dare think for among all all preachers are the same. They are not the same. All churches are not the same. I believe what it teaches right here in this book, that He would give us as a free gift ever lasting life. Let me ask you another question.

Is it better to receive eternal life as a free gift or by living a perfect life? Many preachers teach you have to live a good life in order to get it. Now if you had God had eternal life and here it is, what would be the best way for you to be sure of getting it? Him giving it to you as a free gift or you deserve it. Which would be the best? Which would probably be secure? Which would probably mean you’d really get it if it was free.

But if you had to earn it, you wouldn’t earn it. You couldn’t earn it because you see you don’t have to be good to go to heaven. You have to be perfect. And you cannot bring forth good works unless you’re good. You can’t bring forth perfect works unless you’re perfect. And the Bible says there is none good, no not one. We’re all sinners and so sinners bring forth sins. We bring forth imperfection. No lost man in a sinful nature can bring forth good works that’ll get him to heaven.

That’s why salvation is the gift of God not of works lest any man should boast. Isn’t that clear? So if it’s better to receive eternal life as a gift than working for it, then evidently the gospel that I preach here is superior to anyone who teaches any other gospel. And there’s a lot of people who teach of the gospel. Christ says, or I should say the apostle Paul in the book of Corinthians in chapter 11 says, I am fearful because I fear that the devil who will beguile you shall corrupt your minds from the simplicity that is in Christ.

And many will bear with a false gospel, a false Christ and a false Holy Spirit. They bear with it. They don’t see anything that wrong with it. Listen, truth is truth. Truth is truth. A lie is not the truth. And while sometimes truth is putting on its shoes, a lie can go halfway around the world. Is it better to receive the Holy Spirit the moment you’re saved or at some arbitrary date? Thank you. If I was going to receive the Holy Spirit, when would it be best to receive the Holy Spirit?

The moment you’re saved or some on arbitrary date out there in the future somewhere, it’d be better to receive the Holy Spirit when you get saved. Well, slap my mouth. That’s what I believe. It’s better. And as you go through and you study the Bible, you find out the Bible is very clear and the message is very good, it’s better than any message ever devised by any man. Man cannot compete with the clearness and the purity of the gospel of the Jesus Christ itself.

Man has always won the add something to it, but all they do is delude the gospel of Jesus Christ. Paul says I’m rebuking Peter even because he says that the truth of the gospel might remain with you. The truth of the gospel might remain with you. Now, I want to give you a couple of the strong points of believing what saved always saved. Why I’m not afraid of those words and very thankful for those words that once a man is saved, he is always saved.

I wrote seven things down. You know, as you know, most preachers have to have a seven point outline. Well, I happen to come up with just seven. I don’t know why it just works that way. But number one, one of the strong points is that once saved, always saved. Once you’re saved, you’re always saved. Now think about it, isn’t that a good thing to know? That once you’re saved, you are always saved. A lot of people don’t have that confidence and that assurance that you have.

I have it because I understood this when I trusted Christ is my Savior. The man who won me to Christ helped me to see and understand that God meant exactly what he said. So I knew that once I trust the Lord I had eternal life that I will saved forever. The second point, once his child always his child. You see I meet people once in a while and I’ll either pull out a track and give it to them or talk to them about the Lord.

And sometimes people say you You mean you believe in that damn nable doctrine of once saved, always saved? I had a preacher tell me that. And that’s exactly what they called it. You’re wrong on the gospel. Everything else doesn’t matter because, see, if you don’t get to heaven, who cares about all the other great teaching? What’s the gospel? It doesn’t matter what church you go to when you go in there and you try to compare this and compare that.

What’s the message the man is preaching in the pulpit? That’s what’s important. It’s the gospel being preached. That’s why I want people to support our radio and our TV minutes, right? Because we have a gospel, we believe it’s worth putting on the air, trying to reach people with it. Not just one of many, not filtered with a lot of man-made opinions in it, but the pure gospel of Jesus Christ. And we believe that once a man is saved, he is a child, and once a child of God, always a child of God.

Why should that be so hard for people to believe in once saved, always saved? We believe a lot of other things. Do you believe a man once in hell is always in hell? You believe that? I do. I believe once a man’s in hell is always in hell. I believe once a man has gone to heaven to be with the Lord. He’s always with the Lord. Well, I can believe that. Well, why can’t I believe things that he says down here?

better off believing that my security is better off if I was in heaven with Christ than on earth with His Word. His Word here is just as good as His presence there. I don’t have to be in heaven to feel more secure. I am just as secure right here on this in this world in this so sinful body knowing the Word of God I I am just as secure. I have disasminning guarantees and I have no fear of ever losing my salvation.

All my sins are paid. This is a great thing to know and to believe. Once you’re his child, how long will you his child forever? Only God’s children go to heaven, but everybody in the world are not God’s children. That is they which are the children of the flesh. They shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But once you are born into God’s family, you have eternal life. God’s child. Once you’re a child of God, you’re always a child of God.

Number three, once forgiven, always forgiven. I’m glad to know that once I have been forgiven of all my sins, the penalty paid for all my sins. They never have to be done again. They are placed in the depths of the sea as removed as far as the east is from the west. I’ll never have to confront them again. They’re all gone. And the Bible says that once forgiven, they’re always forgiven. They’ll never be brought up again. That’s a good thing to know.

A lot of people don’t have that comment. They don’t have that assurance. But I do. You see, well, why do you have to confess your sins? Now, I don’t confess any sin to go to heaven. I have never confessed one sin to go to heaven. But if I want to have fellowship between me and God, if I want to have fellowship between me and my wife or my kids or other people that I wrong, yes, I need to confess that.

But not one of those sins that I have ever committed since the time I was born. I’ve been saved can ever condemn me to hell. The penalty has been forever paid, never has to be done again. But if you want to keep a clean slate between you and the Lord, yes, you own up to it and you admit it and call it what it is. And if we as God’s children, if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us of our sin, that’s not for salvation.

That’s for fellowship. And if you read the first chapter of John there in 1 John, you’ll see that and understand that. And many people take verses out of context and apply incharacters, and it will not help them grow spiritually. Number four, once a saint always a saint. You want to know what a saint looks like? Look up here. I’m a saint. Not Bernard. I am a saint. You are a saint. If you have trusted Jesus Christ as your Savior, you are a saint.

You see that word comes from a Greek word, Haggioso meaning to be made pure and holy. The moment you trusted Christ as your Savior, you are made pure and holy and set apart for the Lord. Once you are a saint, you are always a saint and no saint goes to hell. You are God’s child forever. Once a saint always a saint. See, whenever you can believe, once saved, always saved, you can believe the rest. But if you don’t believe, once saved, always saved, you can’t believe that once a child always a child of God.

You can’t believe that once forgiven, always forgiven, you can’t believe that either because you still believe that there’s a sin that will continue to help because you weren’t forgiven for it. You see, the key is you have to believe that once you’re saved, you’re always saved for all the rest of the greatest promises in the Word of God to mean anything to you. And if you don’t believe that one point, you can’t believe the rest. You can’t believe that once you’re a saint, you’re always a saint.

Why? Because if you believe you can lose your salvation, you can’t always be a saint. Number five, once glorified, always glorified. I’m not glorified yet. One of these days, the Lord’s going to come back and those that are alive will be changed in a moment. The twinkle of an eye will have a glorified body. It means a body that’s perfect. Remember the Bible says that all have sin and come short of the glory of God or short of God’s perfection.

So these bodies are going to be made perfect. My body isn’t perfect right now. It’s got a lot of flaws. So does yours. Well one day we’re going to get a brand new body, a glorified body. But once I get a glorified body, it’ll always be a glorified body. It can never be undone. It from now on, all eternity. That’s a great thing to know. But a lot of people don’t believe that. But I believe that. But all these great truths hinges upon one thing.

one thing, the truth of the gospel, or you say forever, if you’re safe forever, then all the rest of the things, you can see it. But if you don’t believe that, you won’t see this other. And that’s the problem that 99% of all these preachers are having, and they’re confusing the people that sat in the pew. I had a preacher tell me one time, he says, you mean you believe in that damn the old doctrine of once saved, always saved?

There is no other salvation, and you’re either eternally saved or you’re not saved at all. Number six, once with the Lord, always with the Lord. Once you’re with the Lord, always with the Lord. He said, he’ll never cast you out, never lose you, never forsake you. He will never forsake you. Even when you leave this world and you’re in heaven and you’re at the Lord, how long you going to be with the Lord? Forever with the Lord. Once with the Lord forever with the Lord.

It will never be changed. You’ll always be with them. Can you find in the Bible the saved man Christ ever lost? If you opened your Bible and read it from the beginning to end, can you find in there one man God ever saved and lost? Can you find one? Where does it say anywhere and there one man, one man, and yet how many people teach it? They can’t find one man. One example is none. Can you find the man that Christ ever saved twice?

Can you find one man in the Bible or a woman that he ever saved twice? Because see, if a man can get saved and then he gets lost, can he get saved again? Well, a lot of people preach us teach that. That’s what they call being backslidden. Oh, I believe a Christian can backslide in the sense that has ever gone far enough forward in their walk with the Lord, but no Christian can ever lose their salvation. You see, that is a heretical teaching.

That’s slamming the gospel of Jesus Christ. Hebrews 10 and look in verse 10. By the which will we are sanctified, that word mean to be made pure and holy and set apart. Through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ was the next three words. Once for all, once you believe that He did that for you, He puts that payment He made on the cross to your account and you are washed pure and clean as though you’ve never sinned in your whole life.

By grace are you saying through faith that not of yourself, it is the gift of God and not of works lest any man should boast. Now look in verse 14. Hebrews chapter 10 verse 14 says, for by one offering he hath perfected forever them that are sanctified, perfected forever. I wonder what those words mean. Remember this, if you’re depending upon your good works to get you to heaven, you’re lost. salvation had to be purchased with something that was incorruptible with the precious blood of Jesus Christ.

Look up here. Letting this hand represent you and me and this wallet represents sin. We all have sin upon us. Now God says He loves us. He hates our sin. And our sins separates us from God. The Bible says we’ve all sinned and the pain of that sin is eternal separation from God in hell. And that’s why everybody’s condemned because everybody sins. We need a Savior. This hand represents Jesus Christ, God in the flesh. He came into the world because He loves us.

Now He hates our sin because it separates us from Him. So Christ took the sin, paid for it and the cross, came back from the dead. God said if we’ll believe that He did it for us, He’d put this payment that He already made to our account, and we would go to heaven on what Jesus Christ did for us. That is applying the blood with a soul. And it washes you white as snow. Nothing else will do. There is no other detergent in the world.

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Why did he taste death for every man so that he could bring many sons into glory, into perfection, so that you and I could be made perfect, have eternal life and get to go to be with the Lord in heaven. And then he became the author of eternal salvation and made the captain of our salvation perfect through suffering so that we have someone who knows what we have gone through. Christ lived in this world. He knows what rejection is about.

He knows what it’s like to be poor. He knows what it’s like to have people call them a hypocrite, lie about them, slander them. You name it and they accused him of it. And they even said that we know who your mother and father are. I mean, we know about you. We’re not born a fornication like you. He went through all kinds of stuff and he endured all of the shame. For the joy that was set before him. In other words, he knew what this would accomplish and it was worth it all.

He was looking down the road and he looked way down the road 2000 years and lo and behold, there was an 18 year old boy named Yankee Arnold and God said, I’m doing this for that kid. I don’t know about y’all. He probably didn’t even see y’all. Y’all just got in on a friend’s stuff. Just joking. But look what he says now in verse 11. For both he, that sanctifyeth and they who are sanctified are one. this now, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren.

I am a child of God because he hath made me perfect. He has saved me. He justified me. So he’s not ashamed of me in that sense. Now the Bible says that we do not serve him. We can bring shame to him. Now get what else he says here. In verse 12, saying, now this is a quote from the Old Testament. I will declare thy name unto my brother.” Now this is the verses that we read just a moment ago in the 22nd Psalm in verse 22.

I will declare thy name unto my brother in the midst of the in the Old Testament is the congregation. Here it’s church. Will I and what’s that word? Well I sing praises unto thee. Now when you read the Old Testament you might not have seen that and I might not have seen that, but I’m supposed to believe that that he’s going to sing. He’s sung. So I believe that, yes, Jesus Christ did sing, and I have no problems with that.

Because he’s talking about here, and you see it, talking about the praise and talking about the glorifying. So when we praise the Lord, that’s music to his ears. Remember whenever he went into Jerusalem, and they were putting on the palm leaves and so forth in front of them. And they were crying out, you know, Hosanna and so forth, King of the High. And he said, you shouldn’t say that. Jesus says, if you forbid them to speak, he said, these stones can cry out.

So if stones can speak, it might even be possible for an angel to sing. I don’t see no problem with it. It doesn’t bother me one way or the other. But let me just show you this. Look in the book of Luke in chapter two. the book of Luke and chapter 2. Luke chapter 2 is what we had known as the genealogy concerning Jesus Christ and how he was born by Dr. Luke who tells us a little bit more about some of these things than some of the other books do.

But it talks about here an angel appeared. See, they’re in verse 9 and low. The angel of the Lord came upon them. The glory of the Lord shone round about them and they were so afraid. And the angel said unto them, fear you not, for behold I bring you good titans a great joy which I’ll beat you all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David, a Savior which is Christ the Lord. This shall be a sign unto you shall find the baby wrapped in swelling clothes, lying in a manger.

And suddenly, get this. Suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly hosts. Praising God. Now from the Old Testament of Exodus chapter 15, praising God was singing. In Psalms 22, praising God was singing. Is it possible that when you get all these angels all together in unison and they all said verse 14, glory to God in the highest. And on earth peace, good will toward men. Do you think it might be possible that the angels could have sung?

I don’t see no problem with it. I don’t doubt it one bit. I believe that they can talk, they can sing. And I believe God loves music. And I believe God wants everybody to sing. Everything that hath a voice, let them sing. And I believe one day in eternity everybody will be praising the Lord and singing and because of the victory that we have. You see, there was a great problem and God worked a great miracle and Israel came out of Egypt.

the Red Sea kicked up dust on the dry ground as they went across. And then God flooded that place and they were all drowned. And so they sing a victory song. When you talk about Christ and what happened, He says, and I will sing. I believe He’ll sing. And He went out that night and He sung a hymn. Now just one little verse look at look there in the book of Job chapter 38. Job chapter 38. Job chapter 38, the time had come when Job had asked the Lord over and over again.

Lord, answer me. Why am I suffering like this? See Job could not put his finger upon the reason why he was suffering. It had nothing to do with what Job had done. God wanted to see Job how far he had to go. Have you ever reach the place in your life where you think I don’t learn all I need to know now. I mean I have I’ve graduated. I’m as smart as I need to be. I can coast from here on in.

Lord I don’t need any more testing. No more lessons. Just give me an A and let’s just call it even okay. You’re going to be tested for how long? As long as you draw breath in this life. Your schooling is not over. all the lessons have not been learned. God still has a few things that He can teach us. Job wasn’t out of school yet. God was going to teach him some mighty lessons. Of course, in the teaching Him we’re learning from Him.

But He kept saying, I want an appointment with God. I want to talk with Him and get this thing settled because you see His friends, or all telling them, the reason you’re suffering, Joby, is because you’ve got sin in your life. If you would only serve the Lord, then God would bless you. And we know, and everybody knows, the reason you’re having all these problems is because you’re not right with God. He says, that isn’t true. He says, I am right with God.

It’s not because they’re sin in my life. And so he argued with his three friends. Everybody needs a few friends like that. I told you one time I said, those three friends that he had, they got married and had kids, a whole bunch of them around today. Some of them even come to church and in time something happens to you, they know why it happened. It’s because they’re sin in your life. You know, if you were holy and godly, that wouldn’t happen to you.

Everyone would just give him a knuckle sandwich in Christian love, of course. But God says, I’ve got a question for you. The day came when God says, okay, you wanted to meet with me. You wanted to ask me questions. All right, let me ask you some questions. So the 38th chapter is God asking a few questions and buddy can he ask questions. Job didn’t have any answers. Job didn’t even answer any of the questions. what I want you to see is there in verse one, then the Lord answered Job out of the world, went and said, who is this, that darkened of counsel by words without knowledge?

Is it you, Job? You’re always asking the question, don’t you don’t even know what you’re talking about, Job? You got words, but no knowledge. In verse three, good up now the loins like a man, for I will demand of thee and you answered thou me. Where was thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Where were you at when I did all of this? When I created the heavens on the earth, where were you? And he says in verse five, who hath laid the measures thereof if thou knowest?

Verse 7, when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy, I believe this is a reference to angels. And whenever God at the very beginning, I believe the angels could sing. So I have no problem with the singing, whether it’s of angels or anything else that wants to sing. Take your Bible and go all the way back now to the book of Revelation. So he says there’s going to be a whole bunch of people and they’re all going to be singing these songs, the songs of victory.

And then he says in verse 4, Who shall not fear the O Lord and glorify thy name? See that word? The glorify? And he’s talking about the glorify the Lord and appraise the Lord. the last part of verse 3, great and marvelous are thy words, Lord God Almighty, talking about what God has done, what God is going to do. So right now God’s fiction done, he’s got the barrels loaded, he’s fixing to pull the trigger. It’s like this Quaker, he got up in the middle of the night and in the lonely hole there was a burger in this house and you know their peacefulness can be, They don’t want to harm anybody.

But he aimed his gun at him and he says, I mean if they know harm, but they’ll stand right where I’m about to shoot. God says, no, I mean you know harm, but I’m fixing to unload both barrels and but he does. But you and I know on the other side of the battle, there’s going to be this victory. You see, a lot of Christians, they want to wear the medals as though they’ve been a great soldier. but they don’t want to fight any battles.

The Bible tells us in 2nd Timothy says that you and I are supposed to be good soldiers, that we may please him, that has called us to be a soldier. So that means not to be entangled with the affairs of this life. And as things happen to us in life, you’ve got to have the battles if you want to have the medals. And sometimes we want them without the battle. You want to make a six foot splash in the six inch mud puddle, it will not work that way.

So God has blessed us in this life with all the battles you can handle. Aren’t you glad? All these battles are nothing more than opportunities. It’s all they are. Every problem you have is an opportunity for you to be faithful to the Lord and have a victory and get rewarded for it. And the reward that God’s going to give you is going to be an everlasting reward. That’s why he says in this word, the sufferings of this present time because of all the battle you’ve got to face are not worthy to be compared with the glory that you’re going to have.

So you’re not supposed to know this, we’re supposed to believe this, supposed to change the way we live. So go there to chapter 15. And he says in verse 5, and after that, I look and behold the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was open. Seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothing, pure and white linen, having their breast girded with a golden girdle, and one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels, seven golden biles, full of the wrath of God.

Where has the wrath of God gonna line that if in verse one on the wrath of God over in chapter 14 in verse 10 The wrath of God. It’s see the wrath of God. That’s the tribulation here. This is what it’s about and God’s gonna pour out his wrath upon the earth Haven’t you seen all the wickedness? It goes on as you watch the news and you wonder Lord how long before you get mad Why don’t you do something God?

God? Well, be patient. He will when he’s ready. And it’s going to be in his timing. You and I can’t force God. God’s going to do what He wants to do when He wants to do it. And he says, and there’s this temple. See there in verse 8, the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God. Where was this temple here? Well, I believe this is a temple that the salt in heaven. It’s also mentioned in verse 7 and the seven angels came out of the temple.

Well, this is in heaven. You see, the pattern I call upon the earth that God gave to Moses and gave them the dimensions of it and how to build it. Well, it’s a pattern of one that’s in heaven. Take your Bible and turn to the book of Hebrews in chapter 9. Hebrews in chapter 9 and see that real quick. Once you see it, you’ll remember it all the days of your life. Hebrews and chapter 9. And look there in verse 23.

Verse 23. It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these, but the heavenly things themselves would better sacrifices than these. For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figure of the true, but into heaven itself. So there is a temple in heaven. There is the tabernacle there and there is the, as the Baba called, the Ark of the Covenant. The one on the earth was only made after the pattern, the one that Moses saw in heaven.

And so the temple that was built, Solomon’s temple was after the one that they saw. And when you get to the book of Ezekiel, Ezekiel is building and describing and measuring the tabernacle or the temple that’s going to be the millennial temple. The one that’s going to be built when David is here and Christ is here. That’s a whole different set of blueprints for a new one that’s going to be made. Did you realize the land that God granted to the nation of Israel?

It’s the the good sized chunk of land goes all the way from the Nile River, all the way over to the Euphrates River, all the way over to Babylon, all of Jordan and Syria, all that. That’s Israel’s land. Now I’m not making it up. I’ve read the book and God has told what he’s going to do. Now that’s a pretty good chunk, but the time has come in when all this is going to all fit together. Now God says that the bowls are full.

He’s fixing the Lord of the boom. Look there in Revelation chapter 16. Verse 1, and I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angel, go your ways, pour out the bowls of judgment, the wrath of God upon the earth. So now they’re going to do it. They’ve talked about it. Now it’s going to be fulfilled. And remember this is God’s judgment not upon just man alone, not just upon the nation of Israel, not just upon the seat of this last world government and those nations, it’s also upon the earth itself.

There’s judgment concerning the sun and the moon, the stars. I mean it’s everything. The trees, the green grass, the fish, everything. If on the earth judgment. And God is going to judge everything upon the earth. You see there in verse 2, the first one went, poured out his vial upon the earth. Telling of noisim and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast and upon them which worship his image. This is a mark that goes upon all the unbelievers.

See, God protects his believers and these are those that are the unbelievers. So God knows who believes and who does not believe, but this is going to be a judgment poured out upon the unbelievers upon the earth because they would not believe the truth and that’s why they believed the lie. Now look what he says in verse 3, and the second angel poured out his val upon in here’s the sea. So ones upon the land, well the people are, one is upon the sea and it became as the blood of a dead man and every living thing in the sea died.

Now how would you like to live upon the earth when everything in the water is dead and it looks like blood? Now I don’t know how God’s going to do all this, I really don’t care but I believe He will. I believe that there could be a nuclear war upon the earth in which they will cause such mushroom clouds that could darken to where the sun cannot shine up on the earth. It can create such heat. And as you read in the book of Zechariah in chapter 14 verse 12, it says, And this shall be the play where would God will smite all those nations that came against Israel.

And while they stand upon their feet, their eyes consume away out of their holes and their flesh off of their bones. And you can figure out for yourself. But why would it say all the green grass was burnt? What kind of a the battle of the way ever fought, the green grass, and the trees all burn up. Anyway, see, whenever you read the scriptures, you believe you can just sit there and close your eyes and try to picture, try to imagine what’s going on.

And some of them can scare you to death. Don’t do it too long. Look where in verse 4, and the third angel poured out his valop on the rivers. And the fountains of water, and they became blood. And I heard the angel of the water say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art was and shall be because thou have judged us. In other words, everybody’s always wondering, When’s God going to have enough and he’s going to judge the world?

Well, that day is coming and God’s going to judge this earth. And he’s these angels are pouring out now. The thing is the people upon the earth, they don’t see angels. All they see in these consequences of fame and it’s just a natural disaster. Just like things that happen in the world today, people don’t associate anything with the Lord. All they know is that these things are happening. And you know there’s a lot of weird things happening in the soul world.

But look at verse 6, For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou have given them blood to drink, for they are worthy. In other words, they’re getting what they deserve. Because they shed the blood of God’s people. As he says right there, the saints in the prophet, see, they’re going to die. The multitude of God’s people, the believers are going to die, and God’s going to pour out His judgment on the unbelievers. Look in verse 8.

And the fourth angel poured out his val upon the sun. Power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. And when you read in Isaiah where it says, in the earth shall rock to and fro like a drunk man upon his axis. So maybe with these nuclear warheads that they’ve got and who knows what it’s going to do to this earth. Remember, this isn’t something that takes place over a hundred and hundred of years. This takes place in just a few short hours, a few short hours, not long periods of time.

As it says concerning those beasts in the book of Revelation chapter 17, for in one hour, In chapter 18 talking about the Babylon, that city, in one hour she is destroyed. And it says in the nations of the earth when they saw that Babylon is destroyed and the smoke’s sending up and all that, and they wondered after the beast how it could happen so fast. And the scripture talks about onto my people that get out of her. And this is when I believe in the book of Matthew 24 and verse 15 when it says, when thou shalt see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the Prophet, sent in the whole place, then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains.

That’s when they’re supposed to flee into the mountains. They get out of her because judgment is coming upon the nation. God has told us all the things it’s going to take place. It’s going to happen just like He said. Believe it very quickly. Remember in the midst of all of this, the purpose behind it is so that these unbelievers would still believe to correct it, to see why God is doing what He’s doing. But instead of realizing this and repenting, changing their mind, reconsidering, thinking differently, they don’t.

So He says here in verse 9, men were scorched with great heat, blasphemed the name of God, which had power over these plagues, and they repented not to give Him glory. They still would not do it. And in verse 10, and the fifth angel poured out his val upon the seat of the beast. All right, this is where I believe his palace is set in the midst of the seas. As is mentioned in the book of Daniel in chapter 11, but where you’re talking about, he sets up his seat of authority and rules from Jerusalem and the temple.

And I believe it’s destroyed and God’s going to prod his judgment upon him. And he says, and his kingdom was full of darkness and they gnawed their tongues for pain. Now I’ve never been in a nuclear war. I’ve seen pictures of when they dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I’ve seen all of that. And I’ve seen where there were over 200,000 people in just one place totally destroyed. It could be a wicked thing. But the Bible does describe this.

Read the 2nd Peter in chapter 3 and it’s enough to scare you about what God says. He’s just reserving this earth to be destroyed by fire the next time. And in verse 11, and blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their source and repented not of their deeds. They still would not wake up and realize God is judging. And there’s people the day they can go through all these things that happen and it doesn’t make them wake up.

It doesn’t help them to see, to understand that, you know, I’m gonna die soon. I need to get right with God. You wonder what could happen in this nation to wake people up, to bring them to the Lord. What do they need? What will work? Well, the tribulation period doesn’t seem to work too good. Now, there’s going to be a lot of people that will trust the Lord, but there’s a lot of people that will not. So he says there in verse 12, and the sixth angel poured out his valop on the Great River Euphrates, and the water thereof was dried up that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

And the reason is because they’re headed to a place in verse 16 called Armageddon. Now, this is what is going to take place, but we’ve already seen there’s going to be a great victory for the Lord. God’s going to win, but He’s going to prod His judgment upon this earth. But looking beyond it, you can picture all of the things and see not there on that sea of glass, a new temple, and the people singing victory songs. So that’s where we’re headed.

I think it’s great. Look up here. This is you and me. This is sin. The Bible says we’ve all sinned, but God loves us. And to pay for that sin is eternal separation from the Lord in a place called hell, but God doesn’t want us to go to hell. He wants us to go to heaven. To go to heaven you have to be perfect as righteous as God. Nobody’s perfect. We’re all sinned. We’re all sinned. And God says you cannot save yourself, so your good works cannot get you to heaven.

Nobody goes to heaven because they live good enough to get there. Everybody who gets to heaven is only by the grace of God. And that means this. It means that God had to give it to you, and it’s free, because you can’t earn it. This end represents Jesus Christ. He’s the Lord God in the flesh. He came into the world because He loves us. Hates our sin because our sin separates us from Him. So Christ took the sin, paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead, and said, if we believe He did it for us, it put that payment on account and we get to go to heaven.

Oh, what Jesus Christ did for us. I’ve trusted Christ as my Savior, and I’m going to heaven. Sure hope you are. If you want to see me in heaven, you don’t have to do what I did to get there. You’re going to have to trust Christ’s Savior. Now, isn’t that enough to cause you don’t want to trust the Lord? I mean, if hell don’t motivate you, missing me ought to do it. You know I’m joking with you. So you know you’re not.

Yes, I am. But eternal life is a gift. It’s free. God loves us so much. And isn’t it wonderful to know that not only do you have eternal life, We know how everything is going to end, and we’re going to be victorious. Let’s pray, Shavim. My Father, we do thank you so much for the opportunity you’ve given us as your children to come together and study your Word. And we’re thankful for the study in the book of Revelation. And Lord, we don’t claim to be able to understand everything it says.

And Lord, there’s a lot that we maybe can’t put together, but there’s enough there for us to chew on. And we want to understand as much as we can so that we can be as faithful and to challenge other people to study a word and to be found faithful. Help us to not be forgetful to share the gospel with as many people as we can regardless of what they believe in or that we might reach them because you died for them also.

And Father, we just want your protection upon us as a church. That was the do right in Christ and then we pray. Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold We pray that you were blessed by today’s message If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ You can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771.

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It’s that time where we’re gonna go into the book of Revelation. You got a Bible? I want you to use it or unless you’ve got it committed to memory, but I doubt it. So in the book of Revelation, I looked there in chapter 15, Revelation chapter 15, chapter 15, chapter 16, run together. Chapter 15 is simply an introduction to the seven last plagues that will be poured out up on the earth, the seven bowls of judgment. The word bile is the same as bowl.

And God is given to them the final charge. But as everything is prepared and getting ready to blow these trumpets, remember John saw all of this 2,000 years ago. And if he knew it was going to be that long, I wish he’d have seen a little notes hidden in here some places. It’s going 2000 years y’all. But we don’t have that little note. So we don’t know how long it’s going to be before the Lord comes back. I wished it was today.

I keep thinking how wonderful it’s going to be to be in heaven, or upon the year for a thousand years, and be like the Garden of Eden. Want to be awesome? I mean, and it’s not that far away. The Bible talks about, you know, a death like a sleep, you know, like you go to bed at night and all of a sudden the alarm clock’s going off. You ever hit the alarm clock off and get 10 more minutes of snooze?

You hit it again and get 10 more minutes of snooze. And how many times have you done that? I’ve done a lot of time. I just wasn’t ready to get up yet. But this is something we’re going to be ready to get up for. When we hear the trumpet and all of a sudden we’ll be changing a moment, the twinkling of the night, and caught up to meet the Lord in the air. How wonderful it’s going to be. Now, looking verse one, John has seen many signs and wonders, and he gives us one more.

I was telling a few today that I loved to have seen a few signs and miracles in my life. life. Lord, just do this for me or do this for me, as though that would really strengthen my faith. Lord, if you just give me a sign and I’ve lived long enough to realize that, you know, so far God hasn’t really given me a lot of signs in life. All He did was give me His word and says, there it is.

The Bible says that an evil and adulterate generation seeketh after a sign, but He said that to the Jewish people that were not believing what he had already said and done. And one of the greatest signs of all time was Christ Himself coming into the world. And there He is. He says, I’m greater than the temple. They didn’t care. He says, Solomon, the wisest men in the world. He says, and a greater than Solomon is here. They weren’t impressed.

It didn’t matter what He said about Himself or what He was able to do, they just wouldn’t believe Him. And yet, there stood in front of them the greatest sign of all. Do you recall that in the Old Testament in the book of Isaiah chapter seven verse 14, therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign, a virgin shall conceive and bear, a son shall call his name Emmanuel? I mean, was Jesus Christ himself a sign? I think so.

And this miracle man was able to do a lot of miracles. You could walk on water. I can’t, if it’s frozen. He was able to make the blind to see in the deaf day here in the dumb to speak. Raised the dead. But he says, all these things were going to be done in advance. He says, because you’re hard headed and you’re stiff necked. So God says in Isaiah chapter 48 verse 3 and 4, he says, I’m going to tell you what’s going to happen before it takes place so that when it happens, you know, I told you so.

So we have a lot of wonderful signs that God’s given us in his word. And now here’s John, 90 something years old and God gets to show him all these things. How would you like to be a 90 year old? man and write the book of Revelation. And here he’s had people have studied this book for two thousand years and it’s so deep that everybody hasn’t figured all the stuff out of it yet. And God used John to write all of that.

You know, whenever the disciples were here, at one time John was the youngest. Now he’s the oldest. All the rest of them were gone. But But he was the one that the Bible says that he referred to over and over again is him who Jesus loved, who laid his head upon his brassin. He must have been pretty young, probably teenager. You know, Jesus was a youth worker. He was a ranch director. And these disciples, they were probably the oldest one was Peter, but they had the young guys, challenged them and turned the world upside down in their time.

But anyway, here in verse one he talks about, now the seven angels have these seven plagues and it says, for in them is filled up the wrath of God. In other words, God has had enough and the world is set and God’s going to deliver. He has promised Jerusalem the nation of Israel The Jewish people, a great woman, gonna beat the tar out of them, because they had rejected him and he sent him into all the world, destroyed their temple, destroyed their nation, gave it to the Gentiles.

And now after all these years, they come back to the land. But when they come back to the land, they come back in unbelief. Because God has promised not only to chase in Israel with the Gentile nations of the earth, but then He’s going to turn around and whoop the nations, but what they did to Israel. Pretty good. God has a ways and means committee. He knows what He’s doing. And now it’s culminating toward the end. And then right in the middle of all of this He says, and I looked and I saw this sea of glass.

A sea of glass and I saw these people on it, and they were singing. And it says, they sung the song of Moses. You might not have known it, Moses sung the song, but he did. And the song of the Lamb. So if Moses sung that song, then I believe Jesus sung the other song. The Bible also says in the day of the Last Supper that that night they sung a hymn and then went out. Jesus did sing. I know there’s a time time to question about whether or not did the angels ever sing.

That is an interesting question. Because sometimes there’s a problem about singing certain songs, especially Christmas time, or how the angels sang. Somebody said they didn’t sing. They didn’t sing. Well, not so fast, Charlie. Why don’t you take your Bible in? Look there in verse two, and I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire in them that had gotten the victory over the beast, over his image, and over his mark and over the number of his name stand on the sea of glass having the harps of God.

Now this is either as he looks down through time, a scene that takes place in heaven or takes place out into the kingdom, but it didn’t happen upon the earth. There’s not not this sea of glass here. This is not the perfection here. Because, you see, the beast hasn’t been dealt with yet. He’s going to be. It’s pretty soon. God’s fiction to unload and his fury is going to be felt. But he says in verse 3, And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvelous are thy works, God Almighty just and true are thy ways thou king of saints, because this is a victory song.

And the two songs that it mentions here is wonderful. I mean as you read the scriptures, two great events of all time is whenever God took the nation of Israel out of Egypt across the Red Sea and brought him into the Promised Land, and they were boxed in. And the Pharaoh’s Army was coming up behind him, and all Moses had was a machine gun. No, he had a staff. And so with this staff, he’s going to like the enemy.

They were trained army, they were the Pharaoh’s Army. And they were boxed in. The Bible says that God told Moses, said, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. And God’s people walked across on dry ground. Now some people say that it was really the sea of reeds. And it was only about six inches deep. Can you imagine an army drowned in six inches of water? That’s even a big miracle. I can understand them drowning if it was really over their head, but for them all to drown and their horses and totally be covered by six inches of water blows my mind.

I think they better just let it alone and let God’s Word say what it says. Now take your Bible look in the book of Exodus in chapter 15. Exodus and chapter 15, way over there in the Old Testament, I’ve covered these scriptures many times, but especially chapter 13, 14 and 15 to kind of go together. But in chapter 15, the book of Exodus, and look there in verse 1, then saying Moses and the children of Israel, this song unto the Lord, because why?

Because they had just crossed the rich. They just had a big miracle. God had done a wonderful thing for them. There was victory. Enemy was defeated. And that’s why it says in the book of Revelation chapter 15 that they sung this song of Moses. And there was a victory song because there was like a victory march. There’s something that they needed to see and there’s a song they needed to sing. You see we sing songs. Songs are wonderful. I love singing.

I don’t worry about whether it sounds good or not. It’s just that I love to sing. And some people sing in the shower and some they just need more showers. Well anyway, but you want to sing and love to sing, but you got to be careful what to sing about. Now there’s two things that they always son about and one was praise and the one was glory. So it was to praise the Lord in order to give Him glory.

God gets glory out of the praise and the praise is the singing. So God wants us to sing praises to him. And he’s glorified in that. And that’s sweet, beautiful music to the Lord. So look what he says. He says, saying, I was sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea, six inches of water. No, then look in verse three. The Lord is a man of war. The Lord is his name.

in all capitals means it’s a reference toward Jehovah, God himself. And he says they’re in verse 4, Pharaoh’s chariots and his hoes have he cast into the seed. His chosen captains also are drowned in six inches of water. You see how ridiculous that is whenever you start putting all that into it because that’s what they say. Let me tell you what God said. God says they drowned in the Red Sea. Get this in verse 5, the debts have covered them.

Hmm. Well, that’s because they were all laying down. No, it says, and they sank into the bottom as a stone. It means they weren’t touching the bottom when the waters covered them. I don’t know how come people can’t see that. It’s right there. Then look down in verse 10, Thou disblow with thy wind, the sea covered them. They sink as a lid in the mighty waters. Mighty waters. So all this is down through here and it talks about what God did, the honor that belongs to the Lord, and they sung this 15th chapter here over to verse 21.

They sung this, this was a song, the song of Moses. Look there in verse 19. For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariot and with his horsemen into the sea. And the Lord brought again the waters of the sea upon them, but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea. And verse 21 then Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously. This is a victory song. And this amazing in the 15th chapter is talking about the victory song that was sung by Moses.

I think it’s awesome. Now he also referred to the song of the Lamb. So take your Bible and turn to the book of Psalms 22, the 22nd Psalm. Now, you know that the 22nd Psalm deals with the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. It tells you how he thought his feelings, his emotions, what he was going through in the crucifixion. So you have in chapter 22, it deals with Mount Calvary and chapter 24, it deals with Mount Zion. One is where he dies and the other one is where he rules.

And what usually lies between two mountains of valley. So the Psalms 23 is the aid though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death. So you have the valley and you and I when we have communion, we are always supposed to while we’re in the shadow of death. look back to Mount Calvary and forward to Mount Zion. So that’s what we’re supposed to be doing. But in the 22nd chapter, as he goes through it and he lists the things that are happening, how he thinks and how he feels, you’ll notice it, he’s crying out to the Lord.

My God, my God, why hast I forsaken me? And goes on down through and tells all the things that they had done to him. And then look what he says in verse 22. Verse 22, I believe is a song. I believe that it was something that he sang, and I’ll show you why in just a minute. In verse 22 he says, I will declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the congregation, will I praise thee? Now the word praise thee, I want you to underline that or circle it.

And then when you see there in verse 23, ye that fear the Lord praise him, all ye the seed of Jacob, and there’s that word glorify him. So the word praise and glorify also mentioned here. It was mentioned over there in Exodus. Now it’s talking about the Son of God saying pretty much the same thing. Where you see the word there called congregation. These verses are quoted in the New Testament and there the Holy Spirit guided them to use the words that deals with the situation.

It’s a victory song. Here you have Christ going down in death but singing victoriously because He knows what’s going to happen because of the payment that he made. And so the Bible tells us that nobody can save his own soul. See the last part of verse 29? None can save his own soul. Up there in verse 26 when he talks about your heart shall live forever. Let’s talk about you can have eternal life because of the payment Christ made on the cross for you.

And in verse 31 where he says, there they shall come and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born.” Well, isn’t that what we are doing today with declaring his righteousness? I used to think, you know, how many years I’ve worked with teenagers and realize that I will say myself, 15 years from now I’m going to have a youth group of people who at this moment don’t exist because kids are being born and 15 years later I’m going to be ministering to people that at this moment don’t exist.

Now I’ve been around for a while, but they’re just being born. And in a few years from now, they’ll be old enough to come to the Son’s School, they’ll be old enough to come to Wanna, they’ll be old enough to come to the ranch, or be old enough to go to camp. So we’ll have a ministry of people that right now don’t exist. Isn’t that mind bawgou? But it says, we’re going to declare that He hath done this, and He hath done this.

Now take your Bible and turn over there to the book of Hebrews and chapter 2. Hebrews and chapter 2. Hebrews chapter 2 has a wonderful portion of the scripture here that gives a lot of insight. The whole book of Hebrews does, but here’s something special. Look in verse 9. He says, but we see Jesus who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.

So this is what Jesus Christ came into the world for. That’s why he was made as the Son of Man, a little lower than the angels so that he could die. And that he tasted death for every man, and then it says in verse 10, for it became him not for whom are all things and by whom we’re all thing and get this. Now you ought to underline this part of the verse and bringing many sons unto glory. In other words, why did he taste death for every man so that he could bring many sons into glory into perfection so that you and I could be made perfect, have eternal life and get to go to be with the Lord in heaven.

And then he became the author of eternal salvation and made the captain of our salvation perfect through suffering so that we have someone who knows what we have gone through. Christ lived in this world. He knows what rejection is about. He knows what it’s like to be poor. He knows what it’s like to have people call them a hypocrite, lie about them, slander them. You name it and they accused him of it. And they even said that we know who your mother and father are.

I mean we know about you. We’re not born a fornication like you. He went to all kinds of stuff and he endured all all of the shame for the joy that was set before him. In other words, he knew what this would accomplish and it was worth it all. He was looking down the road and he way down the road 2,000 years. And lo and behold, there was an 18 year old boy named Yankee Yarn on God said, I’m doing this for that kid.

Now I don’t know about y’all, he probably didn’t even see y’all. Y’all just got in on a friend’s stuff. Just joking. But look what he says now in verse 11. For both he that sanctifyeth and they who are sanctified are one. Get this now, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren. I am a child of God because he has made me perfect. He has saved me. He justified me. So he’s not ashamed of me in that sense.

Now the Bible says if we do not serve him, we can bring shame to him. Now get what else he says here. In verse 12, saying, now this is a quote from the Old Testament, I will declare thy name unto my brother. Now this is the verses that we read just a moment ago in the 22nd Psalm in verse 22. I will declare thy name unto my brother in the midst of the, in the Old Testament, it’s a congregation.

Here it’s church. Will I and what’s that word? Well, I sing praises unto thee. Now, when you read the Old Testament, you might not have seen that, and I might not have seen that, but I’m supposed to believe that he’s gonna sing. He’s sung. So I believe that, yes, Jesus Christ did sing, and I have no problems with that, because he’s talking about here, and you see it, talks about the praise and talking about the glorifying. So when we praise the Lord, That’s music to his ears.

Remember whenever he went into Jerusalem and they were putting on the pomblies and so forth in the front of them? And they were crying out, you know, Hosanna and so forth, king of the highest. And he said, you shouldn’t say that. And Jesus says, if you forbid them to speak, he said, these stones can cry out. So if stones can speak, it might even be possible for an angel to sing. I don’t see no problem with it. It doesn’t bother me one way or the other.

But let me just show you that. Look out in the book of Luke in chapter two. The book of Luke and chapter two. Luke chapter two is what we know as the genealogy concerning Jesus Christ and how he was born by Dr. Luke who tells us a little bit more about some of these things and some of the other books do. But it talks about here on angel appeared. see there in verse nine and lo the angel of the Lord came upon them.

The glory of the Lord shone round about them and they were so afraid. And the angel said unto them, fear you not, for behold I bring you good titans a great joy which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior which is Christ the Lord. This shall be a sign unto you shall find the babe wrapped in swelling clothes lying in a manger and suddenly get this. Suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God.

Now from the Old Testament of Exodus chapter 15 praising God was singing. In Psalms 22 praising God was singing. Is it possible that when you get all these angels all together in unison and they all said verse 14, glory to God in the highest. And on earth peace, good will toward men. Do you think it might be possible that the angels could have sung? I don’t see no problem with it. I don’t doubt it one bit. I believe that they can talk, they can sing.

And I believe God loves music. And I believe God wants everybody to sing. Everything that hath a voice. Let them sing. And I believe one day in eternity everybody will be praising the Lord and singing and because of the victory that we have. You see, there was a great problem and God worked a great miracle. And Israel came out of Egypt. Cross the Red Sea, kicked up dust on the dry ground as they went across. And then God flooded that place and they were all drowned.

And so they sing a victory song. When you talk about Christ and what happened, He says, and I will sing. I believe He’ll sing. And He went out that night and He sung a hymn. Now just one little verse of look at, look there in the book of Job chapter 38. Job, Chapter 38, Job, Chapter 38, the time had come when Job had asked the Lord over and over again. Lord, answer me. Why am I suffering like this? See, Job could not put his finger upon the reason why he was suffering.

It had nothing to do with what Job had done. God wanted to see Job, how far he had to go. If you ever reached a place in your life where you think, I don’t learn all I need to know now. I mean, I have, I’ve graduated. I’m as smart as I need to be. I can coast from here on in Lord. I don’t need any more testing. No more lessons. Just give me an A and let’s just call it even.

Okay? You’re going to be tested for how long? As long as you draw breath in this life. Your schooling is not over. the lessons have not been learned. God still has a few things that He can teach us. Job wasn’t out of school yet. God was going to teach him some mighty lessons. Of course, in the teaching Him, we’re learning from Him. But He kept saying, I want an appointment with God. I want to talk with Him and get this thing settled because you see His friends, all telling them the reason you’re suffering, Joby, is because you’ve got sin in your life.

If you would only serve the Lord, then God would bless you. And we know, and everybody knows, the reason you’re having all these problems is because you’re not right with God. He says, that isn’t true. He says, I am right with God. It’s not because they’re sin in my life. And so he argued with his three friends. Everybody needs a few friends like that. I told you one time I said, those three friends that he had, they got married and had kids.

A whole bunch of them around today. Some of them even come to church. And in time something happens to you, they know why it happened. It’s because they’re sin in your life. You know, if you were holy and godly, that wouldn’t happen to you. Everyone would just give them a knuckle sandwich in Christian love, of course. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message.

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See, at the end of the tribulation period, there is going to be this judgment of the nations where the sheep on one side and the goats on the other side. So there’s two things here. You’ll notice that the second one says, and the angel thrust in his sickle in verse 19 and gathered the vine to the earth and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. So the believers are separated from the others. And the other ones are gonna be put in this winepress and they’re killed.

And the blood is going to flow. It didn’t say, great juice is going to flow. I believe it’s, and the last he’s going to pull all these people into this place and God’s going to fulfill his will. And to see a little bit of that, while you’re right there in chapter 14, if you look across the page to chapter 16 and look there in verse 13, 14, and 15 and you’ll see something it’s good because it leads right up to verse 16 where there’s an uninteresting word.

13 and I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet. So there is the devil, the beast, the antichrist and the false prophet, the unholy trinity, and their ministry will go about three and a half years. Kind of mocking somebody else that went into the place in Jerusalem and claimed that he was God. Jesus did it. He was rejected and crucified when this nut does it.

All of the world is Yay! They’re all excited. They are glad to deceived and they all fall for it. But notice what he says in verse 14, and they are the spirit of devils working miracles which go forth, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. This is what you see with the naked eye upon the earth, but what people can’t see behind the scenes is that the Lord is allowing all this activity in the angelic world to accomplish His will.

And the Bible says in the book of Revelation in chapter 17, for God hath put it into their hearts to fulfill His will. So So God is working and the devil is working. And he says in verse 15, Behold, I come as a thief. When he says here is I come as a thief. Remember we talked about the thief in the night. A lot of time people put it over here. This is the thief in the night. No, no, no, thief in the nights over here.

It’s not talking about the rapture, but anyway. He says blessed did he that watch it and keep it his garment, lest he walk naked and they see a shame and he gathered them together in a place called in the Hebrew tongue, Armageddon. Now this is what they place called Megiddo and there’s a big plane up there and it goes for miles. I was standing on the hill, they called it a tail and I saw the ground open up and plane go shooting up out of the ground and it’s hard to believe that they’ve got defense all over the place.

And Israel doesn’t have much time to respond to the enemy because it’s such a narrow country. And like we said the other night, you could take about seven of them and put them in the state of Florida. So that’s, they’re not a very big country. And it’s so narrow that you can fly over the whole country in just a matter of a couple minutes. But this is what’s going to take place. Now go back there to chapter 14. So here He’s talking about in verse 15, the harvest.

There’s the first root. The Jewish and the harvest, the Gentiles. And so this is I believe is a reference toward at that period of time, the judgment of the nations. And this will follow right in line according to the 25th chapter of the book of Matthew when Jesus was here and according to what he had promised was going to take place. So the book of Revelation is laid out very well. And sometimes it says it’s hard to understand the book of Revelation.

Yeah, there’s a few little. places in a hiccan gag you. There’s no doubt about that. And no, I haven’t got it all figured out, but I love studying it and looking at it. Now, the other thing I wanted you to see was this. It means that if there’s going to be this harvest of Jewish evangelists, there has to be a soul-inner. And if there’s going to be a harvest of these Gentiles, and in chapter 7 it talks about that very well in all the nations of the earth that multitudes are going to believe on the Lord.

I used to always wondered, well if I was God I just I just used an angel. Just let angels do it. I mean what would you do if you went outside tomorrow and you looked up in the sky and there’s this big old beautiful angel and he’s preaching. Not just about anything but he’s preaching the gospel. If he was to preach the gospel, it would probably be the everlasting gospel. And if it was the everlasting gospel, it would probably be good news.

And if it was good news, I mean it would probably be salvation by grace. And if it’s salvation by grace, do you think it’d be clear? Maybe God will let Hank come back and be that angel. I mean we want somebody to really know what they’re doing to really be super clear. So look what he says here in Revelation in chapter 14, looking verse 6. And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people to everybody.

Now there wouldn’t be any use in preaching the gospel to everybody if everybody can’t be saved. So I believe that everybody can be saved. And yet you run into some problems, especially toward the end of the book of Revelation. So there’s a good possibility that a lot of this preaching by this ancient could be the first part of the tribulation period where a lot of people will hear and understand and trust Christ as their Savior. that’s where the 144,000 come from.

I don’t know. Good possibility. Maybe that’s where multitudes of these Gentiles and all these nations upon the earth and all these various languages, everything. You read the seventh chapter in Taddian with the 14th chapter and it’s talking about this same thing. And it says, where did these come from? Just sir, thou know it. He says, these came out of the great tribulation and have washed and made their garments white and the blood of the lamb.

So they says that there were multitudes of every nation that believe in the Lord. So God is going to have his witness here and there’s going to be testimonies given and people are going to respond and so there’s going to be a region of the Jewish evangelist and then the multitudes of the Gentiles. So here in this one little chapter stuck in here between the midst of all of this stuff is like a triumphant chapter that lets you see a little bit by how it’s going to play out at the end.

We are eventually, we’re going to be out here in this kingdom in this wonderful, wonderful place. And as he looks out a little bit into the future, he says, and I saw Lamb stand up on Mount Zion, and I saw all of this, and I saw the 144,000, and they’re all singing and then all they should that are going to be redeemed and they’re going to be there Because he says when the judgment of the nations takes place those that are on the right hand are the sheep he says enter thou into the kingdom upon the earth So this is how God is going to deal with those people during this period of time There’s going to be Jews and Gentiles that will be saved.

They’re not part of the church. They will go into the millennial reign upon this earth. Now we know when the Bible says, go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. That’s what they’re going to do. And an angel is going to be preaching the everlasting gospel. Now I believe that if he preaches the everlasting gospel and he’s talking about being redeemed, the only way a man can be redeemed is understanding that a payment was made for their sins.

So I believe that the gospel is the same gospel that we preach. Now, he did make a statement in the book of Matthew where he says, except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the stripes and the Pharisees. He shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven. Now, the kingdom of heaven is a title that’s used exclusively, well not exclusively, but mainly in the book of Matthew which deals with Christ as the king of Israel. And it shows him drawing up his cabinet and then his constitution of how he’s going to rule with a rod of iron during this period of time.

So the king is coming to set up his kingdom. And you and I are going to be able to rule and to reign with him. The gospel is going to be preached and multitudes are going to be saved and going to the kingdom. So they are redeemed. Now look what I want you to see this. Look there in verse 7 and he says, saying with a loud voice, fear God. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

And you can’t really fear the Lord and have a holy reverent to respect for God unless you know who he is and what he can do. And maybe they’ll be here to see what he is doing. And when he makes the statement and give glory to him, and then it says, and worship him, God God says, God is a spirit and must be worshiped in spirit and in truth. So they’ll have to know the truth. It’s not just talking about some scatter brain person that doesn’t understand what’s going on.

This is not talking about worship in some false God or any God that they have. This is talking about the true and living God and people knowing who he is and what he is done and putting their complete confidence and trust in him. Now during this period of time there’s something else going to be going on pretty bad. Look there in verse 8. They’re following another angel saying, Babylon is following this, following that great city because she made all nations drink of the wind of the wrath of her fornication.

So I believe that there’s a good possibility of this Babylon. It might be Jerusalem because it will be the center of the political ruling power upon this earth. And the head will be in Jerusalem, and he will have power from all nations given to him, and therefore they will rule. That is going to take place at the end of the tribulation period, and the city will fall. But there’s something that’s mentioned here that let you know right before this harvest takes place.

See verse 9 down to verse 12 is written before 13 and down to verse 19. This is deep stuff, you know, those verses were written first before the other verses. And he says, and the third angel followed them sin with a loud voice, if any man worshiped the beast in his image. Now up in verse 7, it’s talking about those that are worshiping the Lord. So there’s an angel preaching and also I believe warning and letting the people around the world know worship God be faithful even unto death.

And that’s why he says in another scripture, this is the faith in the patience of the saints. I’ll see you up there in verse 12, it’s right here. Here is the patience of the saints. So the word saints shows you that they are believers during this period of time, during the last part of the tribulation period, when they have to receive the mark of the beast or worship the beast or the number of his name. And this is this last world government.

And so it will demand you worship this last government. Now how do you worship a government? about when it becomes your God and you fear that God and you will worship and obey whatever that God tells you to do. So in verse nine he says, If any man worshiped the beast and his image and received his mark in his forehead or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is the cup of his engdict nation and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.

And the smoke of their torment ascended up forever and ever, and they have no rest day nor night who worship the beast and his image and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name. So those people during this period of time, if they do receive the mark, if they Or the name, or the number, are going to be in a heap of trouble, boy. Now, I don’t know. Some people say, well, can a Christian receive the mark of the beast?

Well, it says here that anyone who receives the mark of the beast goes to the lake of fire. So I believe that there’s a good possibility that this angel flying around is warning to fear God to worship God So whether or not they do or they don’t I’m gonna let God worry about all of that. He’ll take care of all these details I’ll bet you God will not let one of his children go to hell Anyway, you cut it So there might be a possibility that no believer Will receive the mark of the beast.

I I don’t know. I’d like to believe that. But I just know this. It’s going to be one wicked time upon the face of this earth. It’s going to be a scary time to live. It’s where you will not be able to trust anybody. See, in the book of Luke, it also makes a statement that brother will turn on brother. Children will turn on their parents. Everybody will squeal on everybody. You won’t know who to trust. That’s going to be a bad time to live.

Peter don’t know whether or not to trust this one over here. And we’re not even in the tribulation yet. But it’s going to be a bad time. Now I’ve had in talking to Jehovah’s Witnesses, which are not witnesses for Jehovah. If you get it right down to it, I am a real Jehovah Witness. But I’d rather not say that that way. I could be misunderstood. But look what he says concerning when a man dies. And look what he says there in verse 10.

He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone. In verse 11, and the smoke of their torment ascended up for how long? For ever and ever. I read that to him. He says, yeah, it says the smoke. Not the person. The smoke ascended up. That doesn’t mean the person is going to be hurt. I said, let’s just read the rest of it. and they, and they have no rest day, nor night, who worshiped the beast and his image, and who shall receive it, the mark of his name.

They have no rest day nor night.” So then I took him over to Revelation 19 and showed him what happened to the beast in the false prophet, how they were cast into the lake of fire. And then a thousand years later at the end of the millennium, it says that that the devil was cast into the lake of fire where the beast and the false prophet are still there. So, uh, not the kind of scared person a little bit.

But don’t forget, as you look down to the telescope of time, you can see out into the kingdom and I saw a lamb on Mount Zion and I saw 144,000 And I saw all these sheep, according to Matthew 25, as they enter into the joy of the Lord. It can be a great time. Did you realize that there are many things that happens in the course of human history that have been on the, I guess you say, unusual side?

We go along and year after year, year after year and it seemed like nothing exciting is happening. Well, how would you have liked to have been in the very beginning and actually have been in the garden and you saw what took place? That would have been interesting. Just look at your wife and realize she ain’t got no, I don’t have no mother-in-law. Oh, happy day. Anyway, you know where she was created, special just for you. That was a miracle, a miracle.

You stop and think, here you are and you go all the way down here and you have before the flood and lo and behold, there’s a man that’s been approaching because in the book of Jude it talks about him being a preacher and his name is Enoch. And he had a testimony that he pleased God. And the Bible says he was and he was not. I mean, all of a sudden, here’s a guy. And then he’s gone. What would I do to you?

You saw that. I’m here. We all sit in here and all of a sudden, Peter and Motto just disappears out of the room. Oh, happy day. But that happened. Do you know if you’re trying to convince somebody to believe the Bible? You don’t want to be careful that you didn’t put stuff like that in the Bible. Who’s gonna believe that? Who’s gonna believe that? going to believe the story of Jonah and the whale. Who would believe the flood? I mean did this guy build the boat and gets two animals of all kinds and gets them on that boat and then God floods the whole earth.

Who’s going to believe this stuff? But if it’s truth, it’s truth. And God put it in the word and if you choose not to believe it, tah, it don’t change the book. You know, I saw a good statement the other day. God said that he doesn’t believe in atheists, therefore, atheists do not exist. Because you hear atheists say, you know, I don’t believe in God, therefore God doesn’t exist. the, how would you have liked to have been with Elijah?

And here’s Elisha saying, I want a double portion. And he says, when you see me go up, if you see it happen, you got your wish. And he walks along, he says, now you stay here and I’m going to go to the next city. He says, no, I’m not. I’m going with you. He went to the next city. He says, now Now you stay here. No, I’m not. I’m going with you. Elisha was going to make sure of one thing.

I’m going to see this happen. And he saw it happen. And all of a sudden, he’s taken up in a whirlwind and a chariot, and disappears. Now, would you believe that? You know, everything is just rocking along. Nothing interesting exciting. Nothing happening. Just one old dog boring life and all of a sudden something wonderful is going to take place. You know, one of the greatest miracles was when Moses was used by God and come to the waters parted, walk across on drag.

You believe that story. God put it in his word. You talk about some of the things that will happen. And the resurrection, Christ coming back from the dead. What a miracle. And yet it happened. People were there and they saw him before and they saw him afterwards. And they literally were able to stand there and watch a man without a spacesuit rise up off the earth and go up through the clouds and then disappear. They’ll see it actually happen.

Now if this Bible was just written by men and you just wanted this, you wouldn’t even put that in there. That would cause people not to believe this thing. But see, God is a God of miracles. Like we say, the next great thing to happen is called the Rapture. And just what is that? And one of these days it’s going to take place. One of these days we’re just going to be doing our normal thing. We’re going to get up and we’re going to get something to eat.

We’re going to get ready to go to work. And all of a sudden we’re taking out of here. It’s going to happen. One of these days it’s not going to be as usual. It’s going to be an unusual day. going to see that there’s a supernatural God that’s going to do a supernatural thing. And we’re going to be changed in a moment, the twinkling of an eye, and caught up to meet the Lord. And everything God says is going to happen is going to happen just like He said.

All that you and I have to worry about is just be faithful until that day. But we do it. We’re looking for that moment. Any day now. Any day now. it’ll take place. But if you’re here tonight and you have never trusted Christ as your Savior, there’s not a soul that can make you trust the Lord. Nobody. That’s a choice that you have to make on your own. Nobody can make you believe it. But look right here. Letting this hand represent you and me, this wallet represents sin.

We all have sin on us. That means we are all sinners. Everybody does things wrong. And God says the pay for what we do is death and hell. So we’re all condemned and we can’t save ourselves. To go to heaven you have to be perfect as righteous is God and none of us are perfect, none of us are righteous. We’ve all sinned and come short of God’s perfection. And God says you cannot improve your situation. You can’t live good enough for God to save you.

God can’t even save a good man. Why? Because there aren’t any. He can only save sinners. This in represent Jesus Christ, the Lord, God, and the flesh. He came into this world because He loves us, hates our sin, because it separates us from Him. So Jesus Christ who had no sin did not have to die. But He came into the world because He loves us. He loves you. He took your sin, paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead.

And And he said that if you would believe he did it for you, he would put this payment he made to your account. And if he paid for all of your sins, there’s none for you to pay for. But this payment’s not put to your account until you believe he did it for you. And there’s a God in heaven that knows whether you believe him or not. But if you believe it, it’s a done deal. That payments put to your account and God gives you as a free gift everlasting life and he will never cast you out and never lose you.

All this that we’ve talked about is going to happen. One day there’s a peace treaty gonna be made with Israel. One day there’s a man gonna come on the scene and can completely, I guess you could call, just sweep the world and convince them that he is the answer to their problems and they’re gonna just sweep him into power and it’s gonna be a utopia, they think. the first three and a half years, a time of so-called peace, but it’s everybody losing their rights.

And then the hammer falls and the worst period of time the world’s ever known. And it’s right ahead of us. There’s people in this country right now that would love to take away all of our freedoms. They want to do that now. And if they could get away with it, they would do so. Let’s pray, I wish I would. If you’re here tonight and you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, would you right now just the best you know how I’ll just talk to the Lord and say something simple like this, Lord I know I’m a sinner.

I don’t understand it all. But I believe Jesus Christ died on that cross and paid for my sins. And right now I will trust Him. In Him alone is my only hope of going to heaven. And when God said if you trust Him, He would save you and give you eternal life. Would you do that? I pray that what I’ve said made sense to you. I want you to know that God loves you. He paid for your sins. He said, if you would believe He did it for you, that He would give you eternal life as a gift and it never cast you out and never lose you.

And you can know that you’re going to heaven whenever you die. Our Father, we thank You so much for all that You’ve done for us. We thank You for Your word that You’ve given us. And we pray, Lord, that we would try to tell as many as we can in whatever way we can for as long as we can. And Father, help us to preach as a dying man, to dying people. Bless each one here. Bless the ministries that we have here and all the workers.

And those that support them, we ask to bless them in Christ’s name. Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771. If you wish to hear today’s program again or would like to download a free MP3 of today’s or any previous Bibleline program, Go to BibleLineMinistries.org and click on the spinning globe in the upper right corner of our homepage.

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So live today and every day, believing that the Lord is coming soon. Just keep looking up.

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So take your Bible and turn to the book of Revelation chapter 14. Revelation chapter 14. The whole book of Revelation deals with one main subject, the wrath of God. The cross 2,000 years ago, then we have the church age in this period of time, this is where we are. We are right now according to God’s timetable living right here at the end of this church age. The next thing to happen according to God’s timetable is the rapture where we’ll be caught up to meet the Lord in the air.

That’s the rapture. The revelation is when Christ is revealed in power and great glory and comes back to the earth in glory revealed. Every I see Him. Now in between these two coming where He comes for us and where He comes with us is called a seven-year tribulation period upon the earth. And during that period of time, it’s going to be the worst period of time that the world has ever known. Now last week, we just talked about the 13th chapter.

The 13th chapter dealt with the two beasts, one coming up out of the sea, political, one coming up out of the land, religious. And the second beast tries to get everybody to worship the first beast. the words, it’s going to be a union of religion and politics coming together to control the world. And neither one of them likes the other, but the beast, the second beast, wants to get everybody to worship the first beast. Now, God tells us in His word what’s going to take place.

Chapter 13 ends with the mark of the beast, the domination, the control that He will have over the nations of the earth. It looks pretty dark, pretty bleak. And then you have chapter 14. So turn in your Bible to the 14th chapter of the book of Revelation. You and I know that in the book of Matthew, when he says, go into all the world and preach the gospel. It also makes the statement of Mark chapter 16 verse 15. It says, going to all the way and preach the gospel to every creature.

So that command has been given. That is what was to be done during this church age, to every person in the whole world. So So then during this 14th chapter, to me it looks like a reprieve, a chance for to catch your breath after reading how bad everything’s going to be. And then try to take people on a journey into the future to see how it all comes out. And there’s several things mentioned here. starts off with that he says, and we’re talking about the great apostle John, who God used to write this book on the Alapatmas.

And the Bible says that he was caught up and he saw these things and God told him what to write. And as he writes, he says, and I looked upon Mount Zion and I saw a lamb. A lamb. And he had there 144,000. These are Jewish evangelists. So we start off in the chapter with the Jews. God using 12,000 from 12 tribes to preach to the world. Because see, if the rapture takes place, all the believers are gone. So who is God going to use?

Well, I believe he’s going to use these Jewish evangelists. And he says here in verse 1, and I look and lo a lamb Stood upon Mount Zion and with him a hundred and forty and four thousand Having his father’s name written in their forehead. Now the question comes up is this Where is this Mount Zion? Is it on the earth or is it in heaven? Well, there’s a possibility that both could be true, but it’s almost like he’s now looking all the way through this terrible, terrible time and looking out here into the kingdom.

And he says, look, I can see the lamb. I can see the 144,000. And he says also, he says, I can see the 24 elders that he talks about in the first part of the book of Revelation. And then he talks about seeing multitudes of people. Now when he refers to the Jewish evangelist, it says they were virgins. Now in most people’s mind they think of a virgin as a woman. Well this isn’t talking about the sex of the individual, but it’s talking about the purity of the individuals.

These men were virgins in that they were pure and the Bible says there that they had not known women. They hadn’t been with women. See they’re in verse 4. These are they which were not defined with women. They are virgins and they follow the lamb with us so ever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, been the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb. Now there’s several things to look at here concerning this. The 144,000 as it says there in verse three says they were redeemed from the earth and then there in verse four it says they were redeemed from among men.

So whether or not concerning during this tribulation period upon the earth God had taken to himself 144,000 that were redeemed and if If they’re redeemed, it means they had to accept Jesus Christ as their Savior. And if they trusted Christ as their Savior, they were redeemed among men. But did they die during this period of time and they’re seen in heaven around the throne of God? Or is it seen into the future? I’ll let you study it on your own.

But I believe it is a good possibility that it’s looking into the future, into the thousand reign upon the earth. And what he sees is the combination of all this that’s going to be taken place. See, this is the wrath of God. When you read in the Bible, Romans chapter 9, it makes this statement that God uses those that are vessels of wrath in order to bestow his wrath upon. And God takes vessels of mercy in order to bestow his mercy upon.

But you and I are the one that decide whether or not what kind of a vessel we will be. Will I be a vessel of wrath or a vessel of mercy? So we want to be able to see these two things as God deals with them. So the book of Revelation, God is pouring out his wrath upon those that are vessels of wrath. They refuse to accept Jesus Christ of their Savior, so there’s judgment to fall upon them. Now I want you to take your Bible and turn all the way over there to the book of Matthew in chapter 25.

Matthew and chapter 25. At the end of the tribulation period, the Bible says that when Jesus Christ comes back, He is going to have what we call judgment of the nations. The nations refers to the Gentiles and those that are saved are called sheep, those that are lost are called goats. So be careful in calling your husband an old goat. He may be saved, call him an old sheep. But notice where he says in verse 31, when the Son of Man shall come in his glory and all the holy angels with him, then shall he set upon the throne of his glory.

Look up here. When the Son of Man comes back here. And he’s revealed and comes back in his glory. This is at the end of the tribulation period. When he comes back, there is going to be this judgment of the nations, of the Gentiles. And look what he says in verse 32. And before him shall he gather or be gathered all nations, and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divided his sheep from the goats. So we believe that the sheep are the believers and the goats are the unbelievers.

He’s already dealt and is dealing with the nation of Israel. Beside the 144,000 Jewish believers, there is a remnant of the nation of Israel that will be hiding, I believe, in a place called Petra, which is in Jordan. also what we call Moab. And so Jordan probably will escape some of the trouble that’s going to come on this one world government. But now notice, then he makes a statement in verse 33, and he shall set the sheep on the right hand, that’s the Republicans, but they, no, no, that’s not too answer.

But the goats on the left, see the Bible even talks about the right and the left, So you got to be on the right side. Somebody says, are you a right winger? Yes, I am. See, you got to be right. Because if you’re not right, you’re wrong. Right? As we’re moving right along. So he says in verse 34, then shall the king say unto them. Now you notice it’s not talking about the head of the church. It’s talking about the king of the nation of Israel.

Because when we leave this, we go into this. This, this is the Davidic Millennial Kingdom. This is 1,000 years long, and it’s going to be just like the Garden of Eden. Have you ever wanted to live in the Garden of Eden? Don’t you feel kind of jipped because you missed out on all of that? Lay around here and eat strawberries all day? Of course, you’ve got to have your wife go pick them for you. You don’t want to have to do too much work.

Sit around and fish all day. Well, we’re gonna have a thousand year reign up on the earth. That’s called the kingdom and the kingdom is gonna have its king. So the king is going to come back and power and great glory. And he says here in verse 34, “‘Come ye blessed of my father, inherit the kingdom, “‘the kingdom, prepare for you from the foundation the world. God has told about setting up this kingdom all the way from back in the beginning, when he was talking about the king, when King Saul became their first king, and then the promises are made to King David, and so on.

And especially to Solomon. God made some mighty good promises that he would have set upon the throne, a king that would reign forever. So this is what’s going to take place. Now the sheep on the right, he says, enter out into the kingdom and the goats on the left, up here in verse 41, then shall he say unto them on the left him, depart from me, he cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angel. This is the judgment of the nations that takes place when Christ comes back to the earth.

This is the judgment that takes place on those who come out of this period of time. So there is this judgment and the believers will go into the kingdom and the others that do not will be cast into the lake of fire. So you don’t want to reject Christ as your Savior. You want to believe that He is who He claims to be, that He did die on the cross and pay for the sins of the world and you do want to trust Him as your Savior.

Now go back back there to the book of Revelation chapter 14. Revelation chapter 14. You’ll notice there in verse 4 where it says, these were redeemed from among men, being the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb. Now we know that during this period of time when Christ came back from the dead. It says, He is the first fruits among them that slip. 1 Corinthians 15. And then it talks about there’s going to be this harvest. Well, if the Lord came back right now for us, if He came back here for us, there is going to be a harvest of souls.

So it’s like we’re being harvested and we’re taken to heaven. But He was the first… And then there’s been a few little along the years, but there’s going to be a harvest. And they made the statement in John chapter 4, he says, think not that there are yet four months and then comeeth harvest. He says, behold, I see and you lift up your eyes, behold, he says, it is already, it is here, it is now. We are supposed to be winning souls now and realizing that we can have a lot of people We can be reaping a harvest as we go, but there’s going to be one main harvest during here So that takes care of the people in the church age But what about the people during the tribulation period?

We know that a multitude of people are going to be killed and it says they are in heaven asking the Lord how long before you judge them because they shed our blood upon the earth. So there’s two things to realize here in the 14th chapter. One where he makes the statement, they were the first fruits unto God into the Lamb. Now whether or not it means that they died and were taken to heaven, I don’t know, could be, or that they were just redeemed from among men and these are the first fruits during this period of time.

So there’s a good possibility that they will be doing the first part of the tribulation period. Now I want you to take and look there in Revelation chapter 14 and go down to verse 14. Chapter 14 and verse 14. Now Schofel has this as a header visions of Armageddon. But as I read this and I study this, I saw two things and it appears that He only sees one thing. So let me explain to you what I see. I saw two angels and two harvest, two reepees.

In verse 14, and I look and behold a white cloud. And upon the cloud one set light unto the Son of man. I wonder who that is. ever Christ comes back. He’s coming back in clouds of glory, and it is the Son of Man. He’s coming back to the earth right after the tribulation period. So we know that we’re talking right here during the last part of this tribulation period, and this is what He said. He’s a heaven on His head, a golden crown, and in His hand a sharp sickle.

And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to Him that sat on the cloud, the rust in thy sickle and reap, for the time has come, for they to reap, for the harvest of the earth is ripe.” So he’s gonna do a little reaping here on the earth. Well, it says there that it’s time to reap the harvest.

In verse 16, and he that sat on the cloud, thrust in his sickle on the earth, and the earth was reaped. Well, reaped is past tense. like the job is done. It’s over with. And then lo and behold, you have it happening again.” In verse 17, and another angel came out of the temple, which is in heaven. He also had a sharp sickle. And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire and cried with a loud voice to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, thrust in thy sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the year for her grapes are fully right.

Well, man, how can you do it twice? He just told him to do it in verse 15. Now he’s doing it again. But remember on the second one it talks about fire and it talks about grace. Well there is a little difference here. I believe in the first part of verse 14 and 15 and 16 is talking about where he gathers the believers and then the The second one is the unbelievers. See, at the end of the tribulation period, there is going to be this judgment of the nations where the sheep on one side and the goats on the other side.

So there’s two things here. You’ll notice that the second one says, and the angel thrust in his sickle in verse 19 and gathered the vine of the earth and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God. So the believers are separated from the others. And the other ones are going to be put in this winepress and they’re killed. And the blood. It’s going to flow. It didn’t say, great Jesus is going to flow. I believe it’s, and the last he’s going to pull all these people into this place and God’s going to fulfill his will.

And to see a little bit of that, while you’re right there in chapter 14, if you look across the page to chapter 16, and look there in verse 13, 14, and 15, and you’ll see something that’s good because it leads right up to verse 16 where there’s an uninteresting word. Verse 13, and I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

So there is the devil, the beast, the antichrist, and the false prophet, the unholy trinity, and their ministry will go about three and a half years. Kind of mocking somebody else that went into the place in Jerusalem and claimed that he was God. when Jesus did it, He was rejected and crucified when this nut does it. All of the world is yay! They’re all excited. They are glad to deceived and they all fall for it. But notice what He says in verse 14, and they are the spirit of devils, working miracles which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

This is what you see with the naked eye upon the earth, but what people can’t see behind the scenes is that the Lord is allowing all this activity in the angelic world to accomplish His will. And the Bible says in the book of Revelation in chapter 17, for God has put it into their hearts to fulfill His will. So God is working, the devil is working. And he says in verse 15, Behold, I come as a thief. When he says here is I come as a thief.

Remember we talk about the thief in the night. A lot of time people put it over here. This is the thief in the night. No, no, no, no. Thief in the nights over here. It’s not talking about the rapture, But anyway, he says, blessed did he that watch it and keep his garment lest he walk naked and they see ashamed. And he gathered them together in a place called in the Hebrew tongue, Armageddon. Now this is what they place called Megiddo.

And there’s a big plane up there and it goes for miles. I was standing on the heel because of the tail. And I saw the ground open up and a plane go shooting up out of the ground. And it’s hard to believe that they’ve got defense all over the place. And Israel doesn’t have much time to respond to the enemy because it’s such a narrow country. And like we said the other night, you could take about seven of them and put them in the state of Florida.

So that’s, they’re not a very big country. And it’s so narrow that you can fly over the whole country in just a matter of a couple minutes. But this is what’s going to take place. Now, go back there to chapter 14. So here he’s talking about in verse 15, the harvest. There’s the first root, the Jewish. And the harvest, the Gentiles. And so this is I believe is a reference to it at that period of time, the judgment of the nations.

And this will follow right in line according to the 25th chapter of the book of Matthew when Jesus was here and according to what he had promised was going to take place. So the book of Revelation is laid out very well. And sometimes it’s hard to understand the book of Revelation. Yeah, there’s a few little places in a hiccan gag you There’s no doubt about that and no I haven’t got it all figured out But I love studying it and looking at it now the other thing I wanted you to see was this it means that if there’s going to be this harvest of Jewish evangelists there has to be a soul winner and if they’re going to be a harvest of these Gentiles and In chapter 7 it talks about that very well in all the nations of the earth that multitudes are going to believe on the

Lord. I used to always wondered, well, if I was God, I just used an angel. Let angels do it. What would you do if you went outside tomorrow? You looked up in the sky and there’s this big old beautiful angel. And he’s preaching, not just about anything, but he’s preaching the gospel. If he was to preach the gospel, it would probably be the everlasting gospel. And if it was the everlasting gospel, it would probably be good news. And if it was good news, I mean, it would probably be salvation by grace.

And if it’s salvation by grace, do you think it’d be clear? Maybe God will let Hank come back and be that angel. I mean, we want somebody who really knows what they’re doing to really be super clear. So look what he says here in Revelation in chapter 14. Look in verse 6, And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people, to everybody.

Now, there wouldn’t be any use in preaching the gospel to everybody if everybody can’t be saved. So I believe that everybody can be saved. And yet you run into some problems, especially toward the end of the book of Revelation. So there’s a good possibility that a lot of this preaching by this thing could be the first part of the tribulation period, where a lot of people will hear and understand and trust Christ as their Savior. Maybe that’s where the 144,000 come from.

I don’t know. Good possibility. Maybe that’s where multitudes of these Gentiles and all these nations upon the earth and all these various languages, everything. You read the seventh chapter in Taddian with the 14th chapter and it’s talking about the same thing. And it says, where did these come from? He says, sir, thou knoweth, he says, these came out of the great tribulation and have washed and made their garments white in the blood of the lamb. So they said that there were multitudes of every nation that believe in the Lord.

So God is going to have his witness here and there’s going to be testimonies given and people are going to respond. And so there’s going to be a region of the Jewish evangelist and then the multitudes of the Gentiles. So here in this one little chapter stuck in here between the midst of all of this stuff is like a triumphant chapter that lets you see a little bit about how it’s going to play out at the end. We are eventually, we’re going to be out here in this kingdom in this wonderful, wonderful place.

And as he looks out a little bit into the future, he says, and I saw Lamb stand upon Mount Zion, And I saw all of this, and I saw the 144,000, and they were all singing. And then all they should that are going to be redeemed, and they’re going to be there because it says when the judgment of the nations takes place, those that are on the right hand are the sheep. He says, enter thou into the kingdom upon the earth.

this is how God is going to deal with those people during this period of time. There’s going to be Jews and Gentiles that will be saved. They’re not part of the church. They will go into the millennial reign upon this earth. Now we know when the Bible says, going all the world and preached the gospel to every creature. That’s what they’re going to do. You’ve been listening to To Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr.

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We pray that you will enjoy our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ and that today’s message will be a blessing to you and your family. Let me try to paint a little picture. I believe that when the freedom was won from England, we had the people that had bonded together. And as everybody knows that they decided that in forming a union from the various colonies, they were very concerned about their freedoms. The last thing they wanted to do was to have a federal government that could take away their rights.

So some were not even willing to ratify the Constitution unless they had the Bill of Rights in there. They would guarantee them the freedom of religion and so on, the freedom to speak, the right to bear arms. So there were just ten things that they listed. were the change upon Congress about what they could not do. They’re not the change upon American people. It was to keep them in check. You can’t pass a law concerning this or this or this.

They really have no authority to establish a religion, a national religion, in the sense that we have to worship a particular way. They could not pass laws that infringe upon our right to have guns. And along with that would be, of course, the right to make guns, to have ammunition, because what good is a gun without it. But in our country now, they’re getting to where they do not even want you to have a gun. And there’s a reason why there is a move on to confiscate all weapons.

Here we are as America. So we agree that we’re going to abide by this Constitution. And so we will solve our differences by the ballot, not the bullet. So when we have disagreements, we don’t have to kill one another. We agree to govern ourselves by this Constitution. And when we have a disagreement, we can just the majority vote under the Constitution. But whatever the majority vote will be cannot violate this. It cannot take away the right of one person.

And so we agree to that. And so after a while, of course, there’s people that think it ought to be this way and somebody thinks it ought to be another way. So over here we have the Republicans, over here we got the Democrats, okay, for the sake of illustration. I don’t mean to insult anybody here, but I want you to follow me as close as you can. Now the Republican form of government is supposed to be that we believe in protecting the rights of every individual under this Constitution.

And we’re supposed to be willing to fight and to die for other people’s rights without persecution and for each other. But as time goes on, every man wants to get his own person that they like in office because, and remember, when we elect them to office, they’re not our rulers. They are our servants. We in America don’t have a king. We don’t have a Caesar. We’re free men. We are the boss. They only work for us. We tell them what to do.

They don’t tell us what to do. We tell them. Somewhere along the line, they have forgotten how this works. Now, as we go down the line and we try to teach and to educate, we have some people who believe that we ought to have a very small federal government, limited government. and it already is limited by the 18 things listed in the Constitution. That’s all that they can do. If it’s not found there, they have no right to it.

And anything that’s not in there is reserved for the state and for the individual in the country. So therefore, federal government is not unlimited in what it can do. It has stringent guidelines. Now, the 18 things listed about what they can do is for the general welfare of the country. It is to provide, or I should say it says in the preamble, to promote general welfare, not provide general welfare. Now there is a lot of difference. There are people who believe that we’re better off having a strong government, big government, that’s big enough to take care of all of us from the cradle to the grave.

So let’s just pretend that over here we have Democrat and over here we have Republicans. And they’re supposed to believe in lower taxes, less government, greater freedom, you know, the believing in the free enterprise system. And so you have a set of belief. But today the Republicans are about 10 years away from the Democrats going in the same direction. The Constitution is way over there someplace. They’ve all forsaken the Constitution, all of Congress. If Congress did not want us to be in a war, we would be in a war.

They’re the one that did it. If they don’t want deficit spending, we wouldn’t have it. We have what we have because they want us to have it. We’re in a mess because that’s what they want us to have, a mess. There is a plan to all of this. Now, sometimes the will of the majority is hampered by the Constitution, because it says you can’t and they want to. So you can ignore the Constitution and hope that y’all don’t say anything and hold our feet to the fire because they want a government that can give more.

And of course, it can’t give more unless it takes more. Now, when you are leaving your foundational principles, then you are left to do whatever you desire in your own mind. This is one of the reasons. Now, if I make somebody mad, it’s okay. I don’t care, I can live with it. I got broad shoulders, I can handle it. When you have 20 to 30 million illegal aliens in this country, if you want power, you get that power from the people by the vote.

So then since the, say, the Democratic Party over here want so bad for these votes because they can retain power. If they were to give them amnesty, they would also be able to vote. And I would venture to say, if you have any thinking power whatsoever, you know how they’re going to vote. For whoever can give them the most. So there is a portion of society that believes in getting from the government. In the economic crisis that we’ve been going through for several years now.

The only thing that’s been growing is government. Government is growing by leaps and bounds and they’re printing money like it’s going out of style and they’re willing to give that money to pursue their cause. In doing this we have been going to the polls and we are trying to vote for the best man or woman that will represent us. Yes I have problem with those 500 and something people up there in Washington, but they’re only the consequences or the results of the ignorance of the people.

We are putting people in place that are like us. If we are thieves, we’ll put thieves up there. If we were men of character, we would want men of character, but that doesn’t seem to matter anymore. Over the years, they got control of our schools. In getting control of our schools, you put your kids in those schools, but they get to teach your kids. I’m not lying, I’m telling you the truth. I get it off. And they are teaching our kids every public school in America is a little seedbed for turning out little Democrats.

And that’s why eventually we have to lose by the ballot. We will simply be outnumbered. This is why we’re going in the direction that we’re going. Now, you can’t totally be conquered in that sense as long as you have the ability to resist. And at this point, we have the ability to resist. The power to say no. But I believe very strongly the day is coming when we won’t be able to say no. There is a line that we will cross and it will be the line of no return.

You can’t go back. We are allowing little by little the majority of the people to vote away our freedoms. We made an agreement. You over here? We made an agreement. All of us agreed. We will settle all of our differences by the ballot and not the bullet, and we will put in place of leadership those that represent us. But they all agree to abide by this document. What happens when they no longer agree in what this document says? That’s why we keep our guns.

And if we are not willing to one day, if need be, use those weapons to preserve this country, you’re not much of a patriot. We’ll have to say to those that died for this country and for that flag and for our freedoms, we’re ashamed of what they did. Now if it’s wrong for us, it was wrong for them. And they fought and died to give us the freedom that we just so easily will hand over without firing a shot.

listen to me. I don’t want nobody running off hatcock, but we need to understand that there’s coming a time in this country where we know that we are going to be outnumbered. There’s going to be more of them than there is a bus. We wouldn’t have to worry about it if everybody played by the same rules. But how would you like to play a football game where the opposing team has the right to change the rules as they play the game.

But you’re still playing by the rules, but they’re no longer playing by the rules. You can never win. They can’t lose. That’s why America lost in Vietnam because they have some hierarchy making stupid laws and rules. If they’re going to fight, fight to win. If we wanted to win a war in Afghanistan, we can. You trying to tell meRB that America can’t take up whatever they’re doing over there? It’ll fatter. I’d love to be president just for a little while.

I don’t think it would take too long to do what I wanted to get done. I’m not running for all the food in there. But the day is coming here in America and I believe this. If we do not take this country back this coming election and we don’t get it back by the ballot. We’re going to be forced to use the bullet. That’s my prediction that I’m the road. And I don’t like that. I have no desire for anything.

I’m a peaceful man. All I want’s peace, but I’m not for peace at any cost. I can see what is slowly being done and see now that they’re slowly starting to outnumber. See, that wasn’t an issue before. The guns was not an issue. But they know they can’t totally conquer a people that’s got guns. And remember, this is not just between the Democrat and the Republican, this is between truth and error, between right and wrong, between freedom and slavery, because people can see what Hitler was doing in Germany.

We’re headed toward the very same type of of government when they’re slowly little by little dismantling our freedoms, our Constitution. Look what we pay today in taxes. And they founded this country because they taxed their tea. Something’s wrong. But we have raised up generations of people without an education. They don’t know where we came from, so they don’t know where we’re going. They don’t see the battle. To me in my mind, it’s clear as a bell of what’s right and what’s wrong.

I can see the humanistic educators that have infiltrated all of the institutions of learning in this country and have twisted the minds of our young people. They wouldn’t dare want to fight for this country, but I believe there’s still in the heart of a lot of patriots in this country that don’t want to lose it yet. And they can see what’s coming down the road. Somewhere along the line, there needs to raise up a magistrate, somebody that represents the people in some state somewhere that they’re going to have to be a rallying point.

And you say, that’s enough. I believe, myself, I believe. The whole administration up there, and everybody in Washington, and everybody in America ought to know you’re not taking this country without a fight. Because if we don’t do it, we’re going to lose, and we’re going to be slaves, just like in Germany. We’re headed for a dictatorship in this country. And I’m not ready for that yet. I only got maybe a few good years left. But I’m not about to be silent.

I will say whatever I believe is the right thing to say, I die so be it, let me die, but I am not going to shut my mouth. I’m going to say what I believe needs to be said. So when will the day come? You realize how it like now. You don’t even own your own home. You owe property taxes, probably 80% of it, that go to the public schools that teaches kids not to believe what you believe. It’s not about teaching kids to read and to write.

It’s teaching them about philosophy. The government owes you. You have a right, and we’re not teaching kids responsibility. Adults don’t want responsibility. But sooner or later, there’s gonna be a price to pay. or our lack of physical attitudes. They’ve already got it to where you can’t hardly buy ammunition for a lot of guns. They’re cutting that off. Up here in Chicago, banning it in the whole city. You can’t take your gun on your porch. You can’t carry your gun out in your yard.

And if you have one in the house, it’s got to be locked. Somebody breaking in your house. Wait just a minute, got to get the key. Wait honey, you weren’t worth that key. Now if Congress shall make no law respecting the free exercise of religion and you cannot make a law restricting our right to bear arms, then why are they making a law? Where did they get the power because the states have to agree to the federal Constitution? They don’t have the right, but they’re going to do it anyway.

And now they’re telling but you can’t do that, you can’t, you can’t, you can’t, you can’t. Well, that’s, that’s not freedom. I say a man takes a man’s life, take his life. Swift justice. I wouldn’t even be opposed to taking them outside in public hanging them. The Lord had them stung them public. Today is everything’s behind saying nobody knows what goes on. They don’t see the consequences of their sin. I think you You ought to see the consequences of it.

I believe that all our politicians ought to know. Go ahead. You pass any law you want, but we’re not going to obey it. It causes an unjust law, it’s an unconstitutional law. And we can challenge the constitutionality of every piece of legislation they ever pass. You see, they never took away our right to pray in schools. We surrendered. They didn’t kick the Bible out of the school. We surrendered. We still had the right to do it. We gave it because they said we had to.

We said with a supreme law of the land, the supreme law of the land is you and me, not supreme court. And we’re supposed to fight for crisis, stand faster for in the liberty where you have and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. And I believe that can apply to you spiritually as an individual, as a husband and a wife, and in a country, stand fast therefore in the liberty. And it says, when the enemy comes in like a flood, raise up a standard against it, resist the devil, resist the evil, stand against it.

We have people in there so pacifist, well you know Jesus wouldn’t do that. You don’t know the book. I have read the Bible, believe it or not. I’ve read it from beginning to end. And I believe that God established governments. And God permitted war. And God brought nations against nations. And I believe that God can raise us up. Remember in the book of Revelation in chapter 2, verse 5 he says, from whence thou art fallen. Do you understand and know from whence thou hast risen?

Could we rise to such a great nation without the knowledge, the help, the providence of God himself? And can we fall from whence art thou fallen? And it says in chronicle that says, How are the mighty fallen? How are the mighty fallen? If we take our eyes off God, it’s kind of hard for us to say God bless America. I want America to bless God, to be a blessing to God so that God can bless America. But it’s almost getting to be hypocritical, asking God to bless this wicked country.

I’d love to see America bow to the Lord so that we can stand on our feet. But if we don’t bow to Him, we’re going to be bound to man. And we’re not going to have their freedom. Then he gave you this simple little illustration The guy out there in the swamp’s wanted to catch some pigs So they hired this guy to come in tell him how to catch pigs. He was a professional pig catcher So he says just give me some corn The game corn he went out there where from track for an ethos and corn down there Next day you go down there and you see where some hogs have been internet eating some of that corn He put some more corn down there and he left Came back next day corn was gone Next day he went down there and gave him corn and he waited

the halls coming out. They saw the corn that they saw him, but he backed up the lawn and they come up here and got the corn anyway. Well he stood there. He got that corn. After a while he gave him some more corn. They come up there while he’s standing. So one day he goes down there and he had a pole and a post-hoe digger. He just began to dig a hole. They were eating the corn. So he dug a a bunch of holes and made a whole circle right in the field.

Went down there and they’d hop some corn and they’re just eating that corn. Put a post in there and packed it. When I went down there and had some fence. Hogs in there eating that corn and he just put that fence up. That’s what they’re doing to us. And one day they’re going to close the gate. And you’re not going to go, how did this happen? Don’t you dare say how this happened because this preacher told you it was going to happen.

And there’s a lot of people across this country that are sick and tired of what’s going on. And you know, and I know somewhere along the line, either we have to win by the ballot, are we going to wind up with the bullet sooner or later? You said that doesn’t sound very Christian-like. Well, I’m sorry. But that’s the way it is. And that’s the truth. of people can see that we are going downhill. And there’s those who are deliberately taking this downhill and destroying this country.

They’re not trying to rebuild. They’re trying to destroy it so that the people have lost their will and you watch. You can’t declare martial law until we have civil unrest in this country and people are going to be fighting one another. And a good place to start would probably be down here, maybe by the Mexican border and people will take things into their own hands and we have a few little vigilante style people to say and I’ve had enough and boom boom all over the country you watch and see you remember I told you and then you got to declare martial law and that’s to spend all of your constitutional rights that’s a complete takeover of everything in the country they’re already predicting that there’s are gonna be a mass swarm of locus that’s gonna come eat up a lot of food.

Do you realize that all of our food is not produced by the little farm but by just a few big conglomerates and it wouldn’t take much for this country to be starving and we’ll do whatever it takes to live? Anyway that’s another sermon I got coming up down the road. I wish I wish to have had to lost my notes. Anyway, it’s later than usual, but let me just explain in case somebody’s watching by the internet. I sometimes forget about that thing.

Let me explain two verses to you. You know them. You don’t even have to turn there. You know the verses. Ephesians 2, 8, and 9, two of my favorite verses in the whole Bible. I believe the key is still to try to get America saved. Myself personally, see, I can’t, I can’t waste my time trying to straighten out the world. I just wanna teach this, and hopefully, the challenge and motivate somebody to be the leaders in this country that they ought to be.

I never know how far and wide what I say is how far it’s gonna go and who’s gonna be listening, never know. But I do know according to our website. There’s an awful lot of military ears on our site. I got a little thing that slows that. If you get a chance till you show the man. Or by grace are you saved through faith in that, not of yourselves. It’s the gift of God and not of works lest any man should boast.

Have you ever heard that before? Isn’t it good news? By grace are you saved. Grace, that’s unmerited favor. Something that God does for us because of his life. love for us. You see, if it was by our works, it wouldn’t be by grace. But if it was by works, then I could brag about how good I am. I’m not good. I’m a bad man. But God loved bad men, bad women too. And He died on the cross to pay for the sins of the world.

And all we have to do is believe He did it for us. And God said He would give us as a free gift everlasting life. Let me just show you something. This Bible is Christ. This is you and me. The Lord says, and be found in Him. Not having my own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ. The righteousness which is of God by faith. So when God comes looking for me, I’m hid.

Where did I hide? I hid in Christ. And so whenever God looks for me, He sees His Son. I go to heaven because I am in Him. I am in His Son. So when you trust Christ as your Savior, the Bible says, the Holy Spirit places you into Christ. and God sees you in the sun. Let’s pray, shall we? With heads bowed nice, closed, no one looking around. If you have never trusted Christ as your Savior, I pray that you will.

There’s no tricks to it, no gimmicks to it. Right where you are. Didn’t know God loves you so much. Dye don’t that cross and paid for your sins. Said if you’ll believe he died for you and paid for your sins that he would give He gives a free gift of our lasting life. He said, he’d never cast you, I’d never lose you. He loves you that much. We’re living in some very difficult times. We may never solve any of the problems in this country, but friend, if you never trusted Christ, your problem is greater than anything else you can mention.

But you can solve that one. Would you trust him if you will? God said he would save you and give you eternal life as a gift. You can know that you’re going to heaven whenever you die. Our Father we thank is so much for loving us, allowing us to live in such a great country. We’re so thankful for all the veterans, the military, the seeks to keep us free from harm. But I pray, Lord, each one here would know and understand and appreciate what you’ve given us, and that it is our responsibility to stand fast in the liberty we’re with Christ has made us free.

We thank you for this time together. We ask your blessing on each one. Christ and we pray. Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771. That’s 1-800-576-3771.

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You’ve heard of a guy named Daniel Webster, also, no Webster, but what is that? But there is anything in my thoughts or style to recommend. The credit is due to my parents for instilling in me an early love of the scriptures. If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper, but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how certain a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory and profound obscurity.

We have allowed our children to be educated by humanist educators, for the most part. Now there’s some good teachers here and principals there now, but for the overall, most part, our children are being educated in a humanistic philosophy. By the very fact that in majority of schools, we have the teaching of evolution. Evolution is a religion of the atheist. An atheist can’t believe in creation because that requires a creator. So the only other alternative is we got here by a lot of little accidents, mutations.

You know, gases coming together, pfft, now. Next thing you know, you got some blob floating around in the ooze of the Nile. And so from a one cell to me, but we have developed into what we are today. And they don’t believe in a God. They’re humanistic. Everything revolves around man. And they have taken our children. And it doesn’t matter. You can take them to church on Sunday and they will get maybe an hour of Bible teaching and five days of humanistic philosophy.

And you think that it’s not going to make a difference in our country, how they think and how they feel and what they want to accomplish with their life? No Webster said this, the principle of all genuine liberty and of wise laws and administrations are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority. The man, therefore who weakens or destroys the divine authority of that book, may be acessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer.

And the people that have not the Bible and not Christianity and don’t want God or the Bible in our schools have nothing to do with it. Rewrite history, change everything. This accessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer. Because, see, it’s not in man that walk up to direct his steps. That’s why we need a Savior. That’s why we need the indwelling of the Holy Spirit to help us to do the things that God wants us to do, in order to love like we ought to.

And so because they don’t have the spirit of the Lord, they have to pass more laws, and more laws means more freedoms that you and I are going to lose. And so every time the Congress gets together, they are passing some law that takes away some of your rights and your freedoms. I don’t like what I see coming in America.

Let me read this to you because this is so good. Some of you know all this stuff, but there’s probably some of you that never get this. You see, what’s this got to do with the Bible? If you read this Bible, you’ll find out the Bible talks an awful lot about government. All the way through it’s about government, government, government, government. And the role that we’re supposed to play in government and how government affects our life. It was Paul who knew and understood the law that said, says, I appeal unto Caesar.

Why did he do that? Because he knew the law. He said, I’m freeborn. I’ve got rights. That’s why he wound up in Rome. You ever heard of a guy named Paul Harvey? He said this. A Reverend Joe Wright, pastor of the Central Christian Church in Wichita, before the Kansas state legislature. Now this guy had some gall. He had some intestinal four to two that we call it. Anyway, he had to pray. And in his prayer did he unload? And when he did, people got up and says that when he finished three members jumped to their feet and indignantly shouted, he can’t talk like that.

Another one says that it was gross and divisive, sanctimonious, overbearing. Then another guy named Daley called it blasphemous, ignorant, and others in the chamber agreed, and were very upset because of what this pastor had to say. Even though it was almost twenty years ago, listen to what he said. He prayed, Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your directions and guidance. Having problem with that so far, they did. We know your word says woe to those who call evil good, but that’s exactly what we have done.

We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and inverted our values. We confess that we have ridiculed the absolute truth of your word in the name of moral pluralism. We have worshipped other gods and called it multiculturalism. We have endorsed perversion and called it alternative lifestyle. We have exploited the poor and called it a lottery. We have neglected the needy and called itself preservation. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. In the name of choice, we have killed our unborn.

In the name of right to life we have killed abortionists. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building esteem. We have abused power and called it political savvy. We have coveted our neighbors’ possessions and called it taxes. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored vaguars of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. O God, and know our hearts today. Try us and show us any wicked way in us.

Cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Guide and bless these men and women who have been sent here by the people of Kansas and who have been ordained by you to govern this great state. Grant them your wisdom to rule and made their decisions. Direct us to the center of your will. I asked in the name of your son living Savior Jesus Christ a man. Now he got raked over the cold for such a… But did you know in the founding of this country and all the colonies they all believed this?

Almost every one of the states, I should say all of the states in America give recognitions to the Lord God Almighty about what this country is is founded for and of individual states. But lo and behold, we’ve had something taking change in our country little by little. That is a shame. I had an incident that took place up in Georgia. Any of y’all here ever heard of the CLA Christian Law Association from y’all head? Years ago I came down here and I had the opportunity of giving devotion for them.

And so I got a chance to meet a few of them. And I became the pastor up there in Atte’s, Georgia. Well, there just happens to be a guy that was up there, James Hunter, who was on the Oconee County School Board. And him and a lady named Kay Shepherd was on the board. And they didn’t like the idea of evolution being taught in the county. So they wanted an alternative. And they want to have something about creation. They’re on the board.

It their opinion You think well everybody ought to have the freedom of education. Let them hear both sides No, when you’re an evolution, so you don’t want those kids to hear the other side You don’t want to hear that? so anyway this guy contacted me and he asked me he says Would you be interested in in helping me? I said I’ll do anything I possibly can so anyway, I was contacted by CLA and You ever heard of a guy named Ken ham Ken ham has the creation thing that’s up there a big museum and so on and Anyway, they wanted to come to our church and so they needed a place I didn’t find But what I did is I got very interested A few years back, Michael Adams, who is the president of the University of Georgia, he threw this office.

They asked me if I would go to the University of Georgia. They were having this great big dinner, and they had a lot of legislators there. So I got a chance to sit up on the platform, know with all these big shots, you know, and I’m sitting down here on this end. I didn’t even know who was sitting on the side to me. I didn’t know some of these people. But anyway, there were politicians and all that and so I enjoyed my meal got a chance to shake hand with you the important people and I Gave a prayer.

I felt ashamed of myself. I didn’t pray like this guy did. I Just gave a little prayer for the food Anyway, I got a nice little letter from Michael Adams and I Started doing some digging So I went down to the law library and I Ask them, I want to see the original charter of the University of Georgia. So they says we don’t know where it is. I says the original charter, you know, when the founding fathers got together and they made this document, it had to go through the legislature in Atlanta.

I says there’s got to be an original document. Lo and behold, they kept searching and it was upstairs in an attic, some back papers, and they finally found a copy of it. There was nowhere anybody could find it, but I found one. And I got it and I even made a copy of it. And it just blew my mind to know how these guys were thinking. Because this was one of the first universities in the country, especially in Georgia.

It was a first. So I read it and I made some copies. And this is what it, listen to this, as it is the distinguishing happiness of free governments, that civil order should be the result of choice, not necessity. And the common wishes of the people become the laws of the land, their public prosperity and even existence very much depends upon suitably forming the minds and morals of their citizens. In other words, you want to have a good country, you got to educate the people, and they got to know what standards to have, what to believe, understanding our founding documents, to be able to think and the reason to relate, to record, to understand how to make wise decisions.

Then it says, when the mind of people in general are viciously disposed and unprincipled, and Their conduct disorderly, a free government, will be attended with greater confusion and with evils more horrid than the wild uncultivated state of nature. It can only be happy when the public principles and opinions are properly directed and their manners regulated. This is an influence beyond the stretch of laws and punishment. In other words, laws can’t make people like this. This is what I was talking about in Sunday school.

And what they had is similar to all the universities and colleges that were founded at the beginning of this country. And get what he said. This is an influence beyond the stretch of laws and punishment and can be claimed only. And they use the word religion, but I believe that the word religion is not necessarily a bad word if we can refer to it as true Christianity. But it says only by religion and education, it should therefore be among the first objects of those who wish well to the national prosperity to encourage and support the principles of religion and morality and early to place the youth under the forming hand of society that by instructing instructions, they may be molded to the love of virtue and good order.

Now they that started this country and was instrumental and started many of the universes in colleges and some of these great men served on the Supreme Court. They served in the legislature. They were men of character and they establish these books and it was for the purpose of educating them concerning Christianity. So how do you know it was Christianity? I knew you was going to say that. So I want to show you. It makes this statement. This country and the times of our common danger and distress found such security and the principles and abilities which wise regulations has long or before established in the mind of our countrymen.

So what was in the mind of our countrymen that started the country, they wanted to take that and put it into the minds of the next generation in order to secure the country. And then he says that our present happiness joined to pleasing prospect should conspire to make us feel ourselves under the strongest obligation to form the youth, the rising hope of our land to render the like glorious and essential service to our country. And this is what he says in the ninth thing on page 10 of the Georgia Review.

All officers, all officers, appointed to the instruction and the government of the university to all officers, people to teach and those that rule The trustees, all the shall be of the Christian religion, not any religion, the Christian religion. And then they state this, the trustee shall not exclude any person of any religious denomination whatsoever from free and equal liberty and advantages of education or from any of the liberties, privileges and immunities of the university in his education. In other words, all the board members and all the instructors had to be of the Christian religion, but anybody from anywhere could come and be educated by those who believe in Christianity.

Now if it is unconstitutional today, blessed be God, why wasn’t it unconstitutional at the founding of these universities, because it was not unconstitutional. It is not wrong to teach about Christ. That’s how they plan to preserve this country. And we have a loud, people to come along and tell them, you can’t do that. But you, you can’t do that. And why not? That’s why it was founded so that we could. Anyway, I wanted to read this one statement to you.

There was to be no religious test of any sort imposed upon prospective students. Indeed, one of the paragraphs of the charter provided them, the trustee shall not exclude any person. Then he says, at the same time, it was provided in another section of the charter that all officers of instruction or administration of the university should be of the Christian religion. That’s in the fountain. I wonder why it was hid back in some documents and nobody can find a copy of it Because see they don’t want these things out Just like they don’t want to teach the kids today are true understanding and the intent of the Constitution because They might lose the control of the kids And that’s what they consider to be their voting power their blocks coming up that gives them power because see they’ll be like little animals They can’t think they can’t raise them most adults today can’t

All they look at is the government owes me give me give me give me give me English Patrick in says give me liberty or give me debt Next generation says give me liberty next generation just says give me When they had asked me about holding the meeting up there with the CLA, they’re on radio all over the United States. There was a guy that works for the University of Georgia. When they made a statement on the board about what they wanted to do, what they had some people that were very upset that teach at the University of Georgia.

This is what he says. Enough is enough. A County County school board member, James Hunter and James K. Shepherd, or an embarrassment to the school system and to Oconee County as again has been demonstrated by their recent efforts to require the teach in so-called creation science. Neither appear to have the slightest notion of what evolution a biology is all about. Having studied, taught, and researched evolutionary biology for over Over 30 years at the University of Lebanon, I can at least claim some knowledge of the field.

Teachers have enough problems in today’s school environment without having the stress and pressures placed upon them by poorly informed school board members. Both should resign immediately. Anyway he goes on down here and says a few things. So I wrote him a letter to the editor. Can I read it to you? This is what I wrote. I remember I’m a nice guy. Samuel B. Jones that wrote that letter asked for a responsible clergy to comment on decisions of the Aconi County School Board members concerning the creation magazine being placed in the library.

My comments are in response to your article on the editorial page. First of all, I was there. I thought all the board members were very kind, gracious and informative in their remarks. I believe it is a shame to intimidate or humiliate 100K Shephram just because their views are different from yours. Has it become a requirement for all board members to adhere to the theory of evolution? Secondly, your article assumes that only people holding the view of evolution are dedicated, intelligent, and educated.

And that all others are self-serving, insulting, uneducated, embarrassing, and have no intestinal fortitude to speak out or to take a stand like you. Since you are an instructor in evolution at the University of Georgia, perhaps you should get a copy of the founding charter of the UGA. It was written by the representatives of the state of Georgia in General Assembly. I quote all officers appoint to the instruction and government of the University of Shelby of the Christian religion. Would you have recommended that these founders immediately resign for believing the same thing that James Hunter and K.

in case Shepherd believe? Didn’t you know that the president who took office on June the 15th, 1819 was a preacher of the Christian faith named Reverend Modell Moses Modell? This charter also states that the UGA was for the purpose of forming the mind and morals of their citizens and that this was possible only by religion in education. Doesn’t seem like our founding fathers ever intended for there to be a separation of God, morality or the Christian religion from education does it.

Since I accepted your challenge, I would like to challenge you to get a copy of the original chart of the UGA. If you cannot agree with that and uphold it, you should do as you have recommended to James Hunter and K. Shepherd by resigning immediately. So, some things just makes my blood boil. And, uh, not the way if you’re here this morning and you believe in evolution. It ain’t true. And I will be speaking on that coming up very soon because I believe the Bible and I believe in creation.

And this country that we say we so love was done by those who believed in this book. And they say the only way you can preserve this country is by teaching people this book. And that’s why the colleges and universities were started to educate the people and the the people that came out of those places, they were preachers of the Christian faith. Now I believe we ought to get back to it. If we want a revival in this country, it’s going to be happened because we went back to this.

We’ve lost our direction. How do we straight away from our source? And that happens in people’s lives. A man and a woman get married and then they start directing away. And it happens in churches. You can come here this morning and say, no, he’s the greatest preacher in the world. Now I’m not going to argue with him. But you know in about a week or two, if I say something that offends you, all it takes is one thing. You’ll forget about those 99 good things that I say.

Well, he said And I’ll never forgive him for that. And got a chance. So thanks for being here today. But before you leave, I got just one little huddle of height of my one of mentioned to you. Look up here. You said, we didn’t teach nothing much about the Bible. Everything I talked about was about the Bible. It’s because of my knowledge in the Bible, I can read different articles and pull things together. And if you listen to what I’m saying, they’ll make sense.

It’s to help our people. I don’t want us to become slaves down the road. But look up here, this is you and me. This wall represents sin. We all have sin on it. Now God, He says He loves us. I hate our sin, but he loves us. But since we’ve all sinned, we’re all condemned. And everybody does things wrong. I remember one day I did something wrong. But God says he loves us and doesn’t want us to go to hell.

He wants us to go to heaven. To go to heaven, you have to be perfect as righteous as God. None of us are perfect. We’ve all sinned. We’ve all come short of God’s perfection. So the Bible says that you and I, we need a Savior. And God says you can’t save yourself. It’s not your good works that get you to heaven. Go into church and give money and all those things won’t get you to heaven. This hand represents Jesus Christ.

He’s the Lord. God in the flesh came into the world because he loves us. He hates our sin because it separates us from him. So Christ took the sin, paid for them to cross, came back again from the dead. Said it will believe that he did it for us. It put that payment to our account and we get to go to heaven on what Jesus Christ did. That’s good news. God so loved the world. They gave His only begotten Son.

The whosoever believed it in Him should not perish, won’t go to hell, but have everlasting life. He said, if you believe this, these things have already written unto you that believe that you may know that you have eternal life. I know I have eternal life. He said, he that believeth on me, hath, present and hath, right now, hath everlasting life. If you believe it, you have something. What do you have everlasting life? You say, well, I believe it. Do you have eternal life?

Well, I don’t know. Then you don’t believe it. If you believe it, you got it. And she how do I know when I really believe when you can say you got it you can’t say you got it you don’t believe it You know, that’s how simple the Bible is the best news in the world. Let’s pray shall we? But every head bow in every eye closed and no one looking around If you hear this morning and you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, I can’t save you North can the church But Jesus Christ can he is the Lord.

He’s God in the flesh You can’t make a mistake this way only the true and living God knows who you are knows what you’ve done He’s the one that sent his son to pay for everything you’ve ever done. And if you’ll trust him, he’ll save you and give you eternal life as a gift. I pray that you’ll trust him. It’s a sign of good judgment. A person has to be a fool to turn down a free gift. And I pray you’ll be wise.

So it is by a nice close and no one looking around. If you will trust Christ as your Savior this morning, I’d like to know it. I’d like to have prayer for you. So I’m going to ask you to let me know by simply slipping you in a real quick and put it right back down. And we’ll also say, yes, I will trust Christ as my Savior. And I’d like you to pray for me. Our Father, we do thank you so much for the privilege we have to live here.

And Father, we pray you’re here to be up on those that are in Washington that make decisions that affect all of our lives. We say for us to pray for all leaders, and that they’ll be wise and do right so that we can live a quiet and peaceful life. And that’s what we want. We ask now your blessings upon these persons here. Christ and we pray. Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr.

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So live today and every day, believing that the Lord is coming soon, and just keep looking up.

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The day’s message is a little difficult for me Because I feel like the guy that gets off the horse goes in ten different directions. So many things I want to say, and sometimes you’re not sure exactly how to say it. Anybody that knows me at all knows that I wouldn’t purposely offend anybody. And that’s the truth. I’m really a nice guy. But I have mixed emotions because I don’t like what I see coming in this country. I sometimes wish I didn’t see anything coming, that I would just focus upon now and nothing else mattered.

But the Bible says it means hearts failing them for fear, seeing those things that are coming. And if they can see them, I can see them. If you listen to a lot of the news today and commentators and everybody is like they’re warning about something terrible going to happen. Many people don’t believe the country is going to get turned around. A lot don’t believe that the economy is going to be revived again. Some don’t believe the stop marks are going to go back again.

I don’t really know. I’ve got my opinion on a few things. But I do thank the Lord for allowing me the privilege of 68 years to live in a wonderful country where I can freely serve the Lord. But I do have a fear for my kids and my grandkids. I don’t think they’re going to have the freedoms that I’ve had. I think it’s going to get worse. And I want you to take your Bible and turn to the book of Colossians in chapter 2.

We’ll start there and see where we end up. I want you to stay with me. Follow my ramblings. Now you know it. Sometimes I use some notes. Sometimes I don’t use any notes at all. He said, I’ve noticed that. Sometimes I haven’t got a clue how long my sermon’s going to be or how short it’s going to be. I just talk until I get through. Today I might talk for two or three hours. And yes, I’ve got a few notes here.

I want to read to you a few things that I think it’s important for us to know. Hearing Colossians in chapter two, I want you to look there at what Paul says as he writes to the Christians are at class. In chapter two, in verse six, as you have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him. Well, how did you receive him? By faith. Faith alone in the payment that Christ made on the cross for you, you trusted him as your Savior, and God gave you eternal life.

You were born into his family. Well, he says you’re the walk the way you were saved. By faith. taking God at his word, believe in that what he says is true, seeing life through the word of God, seeing the future through the word of God. I try not to let the world interpret the Bible, I try to use the Bible to interpret what’s going on. And he made the statement here in verse 7 that when you’re talking about as you have received the Lord, so walk in him, and this is what he means, rooted and built up in him, established in the faith as you have been taught abounding therein with thanksgiving.

So God wants us to be rooted in the Word of God, built up in what he says, so we’ll go deep and go high, God’s Word so that we can live the way God wants us to live. Now, I actually believe that if God wanted us to win everybody in the world to the Lord, then this would be the will of God for everybody in the world. But we haven’t reached everybody in the world. But if we could just get God’s people to be rooted in the Word of God and built up in the Word of God, we could win the world.

We could reach the world. We could change things. He also gives us a positive and a negative. Beware, lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. So you and I are supposed to be aware there’s a lot of false teaching, humanistic philosophy in this world to get you and I not to follow Christ not to follow Christ, so that we don’t do what God wants us to do.

So we’re not as strong as we ought to be. I believe in the founding of this country that people that God used knew the book. And they happen to be the ones that God was able to use to bring this nation together and did a great work. Let me read this to you. On January the 13th, 1947, U.S. Senate, Chaplain Peter Marshall. Anybody ever heard of Peter Marshall? A lot of you have. He says, the choice before us is plain.

Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing about our rights. The time has come to hear about responsibilities.” He said this to Congress. And that was in 47. I think they might need another dose. He said this to them. He says, America’s future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God’s government. Then he made this statement on July the 3rd, 1947, to the 8th Congress. God of our fathers may it be ever understood that our liberty is under God and to the extent that America honors thee, will vow bless America.

We just finished singing God Bless America. But I believe God’s blessing on America is going to be on direct ratio to America’s blessing on God. And we’ve got to where we don’t bless God anymore. And the people in place of leadership are not doing what they do in order to honor God. So it might be a little difficult for God to bless America. So I crave it and I desire and I want it. But it’s almost like asking God to bless a rebellious child.

But I do want God blessing. So when I pray that God bless America, I’m praying also that God will turn America around because God does something in this country that drives people to their knees. Life is going to be over soon. I’m already getting up there where I’m getting close to that 70 mark. I know I don’t have probably a lot of good years left. So I don’t want to live in fear of saying or doing what I should do as a Christian.

I realize that time is short and we need to be diligent about doing the things that God wants us to do. I had read this, and especially as we’re celebrating our anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. These words were uttered by the father of the American Revolution named Samuel Adams. He says, we have this day restored the sovereign to whom all men ought to be obedient. He arranged in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let his kingdom come.

In other words, when we established this country, he made the statement that we have just formed a government to be under God. This nation was under God. So we often hear about the democratic way, you know, to the people, for the people, by the people, under God. To be just for the people and of the people and by the people is democratic and that’s a democracy and that’s not what we have. We have a republic. I’m not talking about the Republican Party or the Democratic Party.

I’m talking about the form of government that we have that was established. Benjamin Franklin says, we have given to you a republic if you can keep it. But the only way you can keep it the way God gave it is that the generations afterwards must be taught the scriptures. And without the scriptures you cannot maintain our form of government. You cannot maintain the freedom of this country without the Bible as the basis of education own this country. He said, well, I don’t like that.

I don’t care. Later on, he made this statement. He says, I conceive. We cannot better express ourselves than by humblies supplicating the supreme ruler of the world, that the confusions that are and have been among the nations may be overruled by the promoting and speedily bringing in the holy and happy period when the kingdoms of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ may be everywhere established and the people bow to the scepter of Him who is the Prince of Peace.

Any question about who He’s talking about? Talking about Jesus Christ. I know that historically 104 of the first 119 colleges and universities in America were founded by Christians. 104 of the 119 colleges and universities in America founded by Christians. Harvard was 100 years old before it had any professors who were not ordained ministers of the gospel. Dartmouth was started as a missionary outreach to Indians. was the first Baptist college in America and the first 40,000 graduates in America. Prior to the Civil War, 10,000 entered the gospel ministry.

You see, our founding fathers got this understanding. We can’t preserve this nation if we can’t preserve the education and the people so that they will think the way the founding fathers fought. So they established universities and colleges in order to teach the students How they think that established this nation That’s pretty clear to me Woodrow Wilson made this statement He says a nation which does not rememberClark it was yesterday Does not know what it is today? Nor what it is trying to do We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.

The Bible is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life. That’s the president saying this. And he says, the meaning of life, the nature of God and nature and needs of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the Spirit and the way of peace and salvation. You know, we could use a little bit more of that. You’ve heard of a guy named Daniel Webster, also Noah Webster, but this is what he said.

If there is anything in my thoughts or style to recommend, the credit is due to my parents for instilling in me an early love of the Scriptures. If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper. But if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound obscurity. We have allowed our children to be educated by humanist educators, for the most part.

Now there’s some good teachers here and principals there, but for the overall most part, our children are being educated in a humanistic philosophy. By the very fact that in majority of schools we have the teaching of evolution. Evolution is a religion of the atheist. An atheist can’t believe in creation because that requires a creator. So the only other alternative is we got here by aHelper of accidents and mutations. You know, gases coming together, pfft, y’know. Next thing you know, you got some blob floating around in the ooze of the Nile.

And so from a one-celled amoeba, we have developed into what we are today. And they don’t believe in a God. They’re humanistic. Everything revolves around man. And they have taken our children. And that doesn’t matter. You can take them to church on Sunday, and they will get maybe an hour. a Bible teaching and five days of humanistic philosophy. And you think that it’s not going to make a difference in our country, how they think and how they feel and what they want to accomplish with their life?

No, Webster said this, the principle of all genuine liberty and of wise laws and administrations are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority. The man, therefore who weakens or destroys the divine authority of that book, may be a cessary to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer. and the people that have not the Bible and not Christianity and don’t want God or the Bible in our schools have nothing to do with it, rewrite history, change everything, is accessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer.

Because see it’s not in man that walk up to direct his steps. That’s why we need a a Savior. That’s why we need the indwelling of the Holy Spirit to help us to do the things that God wants us to do in order to love like we ought to. And so because they don’t have the spirit of the Lord, they have to pass more laws. And more laws means more freedoms that you and I are going to lose. And so every time the Congress gets together, they are passing some law that takes away some of your rights and your freedoms.

I don’t like what I see coming in America. Let me read this to you because this is so good. Some of you know all this stuff, but there are probably some of you that never get this. You say, what’s this got to do with the Bible? If you read this Bible, you’ll find out the Bible talks an awful lot about government, all the way through it’s about government government government and the role that we’re supposed to play in government and how government affects our life.

It was Paul who knew and understood the law that says I appeal on the Caesar why did he do that because he knew the law he said I’m free-born I’ve got rights that’s why he wound up in Rome. You ever heard of a guy named Paul Harvey? He said this, a Reverend Joe Wright, pastor of the Central Christian Church in Wichita, before the Kansas State Legislature. Now this guy had some gall, he had some intestinal fortitude, if we call it.

Anyway, he had to pray and in his prayer, there. Did he unload? And when he did, people got up and said that when he finished three members jumped to their feet and indignantly shouted, he can’t talk like that. Another one says that it was gross and divisive, sanctimonious, overbearing. Another guy named Daly in the Senate called it blasphemous, ignorant, and others in the chamber agreed. And we’re very upset because of what this pastor had to say. Even though it was almost 20 years ago, listen to what he said.

He prayed, Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your directions and guidance. having problem with that so far? They did. We know your word says woe to those who call evil good, but that’s exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and inverted our values. We confess that we have ridiculed the absolute truth of your word in the name of moral pluralism. We have worshipped other God and called it multiculturalism.

We have endorsed perversion and called it alternative lifestyle. We have exploited the poor and called it a lottery. We have neglected the needy and called it self-preservation. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. In the name of choice, we have killed our unborn. In the name of right to life, we have killed abortionists. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it built and esteem. We have abused power and called it political savvy. We have coveted our neighbors’ possessions and called it taxes.

We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored baggues of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, O God, and know our hearts today. Try us and show us any wicked way in us. Cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Guide and bless these men and women who have been sent here by the people of Kansas and who have been ordained by you to govern this great state.

Grant them your wisdom to rule and made their decisions. Direct us to the center of your will. I asked in the name of your son the living Savior Jesus Christ a man. Now he got raked over the cold for such. But did you know in the founding of this country and all the colonies, they all believed this. Almost every one of the states, I should say all of the states in America, give recognitions to the Lord God Almighty about what this country is founded for and of individual states but lo and behold, we’ve had something taking change in our country little by little.

That is a shame. I had an incident that took place up in Georgia. Any of y’all here ever heard of the CLA Christian Law Association? From y’all had it. Years ago I came down here and I had the opportunity of given devotion for them. And so I got a chance to meet a few of them. And I became the pastor up there in Athes, Georgia. Well, there just happens to be a guy that was up there, James Hunter, who was on the Oconee County School Board.

And him, a lady named Kay Shepherd, was on the board and they didn’t like the idea of evolution being taught in the county. So they wanted an alternative and they want to have something about creation. They’re on the board, their opinion. You think, well everybody ought to have the freedom of education. Let them hear both sides. No, when you’re an evolutionist you don’t want those kids to hear the other side. You don’t want to hear that. So anyway, this guy contacted me and he asked me.

He says, would you be interested in helping me? I said, I’ll do anything I possibly can. So anyway, I was contacted by CLA and you ever heard of a guy named Ken Ham? Ken Ham has the creation thing that’s up there, a big museum and so on. And anyway, they wanted to come to our church and so they needed a place I didn’t find. But what I did is I got very interested. A few years back, Michael Adams, who is the president of the University of Georgia, he, through his office, they asked me if I would go to the University of Georgia.

They were having this great big dinner and they had a lot of legislators there and So I got a chance to sit up on the platform and know with all these big shots, you know, and I’m sitting down here on this end. I didn’t even know who was sitting on the side to me. I didn’t know some of these people. But anyway, there were politicians and all that. And so I enjoyed my meal. Got a chance to shake hand with a few of the important people.

And I gave a prayer. I felt ashamed of myself. I didn’t pray like this guy did. I just gave a little prayer for the food. But anyway, I got a nice little letter from Michael Adams. I started doing some digging. So I went down to the law library and I… I asked him, I said, I want to see it, the original charter of the University of Georgia. So they, says, we don’t know where it is. I says, the original charter, you know, when the founding fathers got together and they made this document, it had to go through the legislature in Atlanta.

I says, there’s got to be an original document. Lo and behold, they kept searching and it was upstairs in an attic, some back papers, and they finally found a copy of it. It was nowhere anybody could find it, but I found one. And I got it and I even made a copy of it. And it just blew my mind to know how these guys were thinking. Because this is one of the first universities in the country, especially in Georgia.

It was a first. So I read it and I made some copies. And this is what it listens to this. As it is the distinguishing happiness of free governments, that civil order should be the result of choice, not necessity. And the common wishes of the people become the laws of the land. Their public prosperity and even existence very much depends upon suitably forming the minds and morals of their citizens. In other words, you want to have a good country, you’ve got to educate the people, and they’ve got to know what standards to have, what to believe, understanding our founding documents, to be able to think and the reason to relate, to record, to understand how to make wise decisions.

Then it says, when the mind of people in general are viciously disposed and unprincipled, and their conduct disorderly, a free government will be attended with greater confusion and with evils more horrid than the wild uncultivated state of nature. It can only be happy when the public principles and opinions are properly directed and their manners regulated. This is an influence beyond the stretch of laws and punishment. In other words, laws can’t make people like this. This is what I was talking about in Sunday school.

And what they had is similar to all the universities and colleges that were founded at the beginning of this country. And get what he said. This is an influence beyond the stretch of laws and punishment and can be claimed only. And they use the word religion, but I believe that the word religion is not necessarily a bad word if we can refer to it as true Christianity. But it says only by religion and education, it should therefore be among the first objects of those who wish well to the national prosperity to encourage and support the principles of religion and morality and early to place the youth under the forming hand of society that by instructing instructions, they may be molded to the love of virtue and good order.

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If you’ll notice there in verse 11, and the beast ahead of this last world government, that was, is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seventh, and goes into perdition, says that twice. So remember, the head of all these nations that at one time or other has had dominance over the nation of Israel, because Israel was promised that if it served the Lord, they’d be the head, not the tail. So their rebellion caused them to be the tail, and there’s seven heads under which they have fallen under.

But it says that this one is going to be a beast and something strange that happens to them. And when John wrote the book of Revelation, he says in verse 10, there are seven kings, five fallen, one is the other is not yet come. So whenever you had the five that existed before and then doing the Roman Empire, that’s number six. And then the last one is going to call down the last two thousand, see Israel’s been out of the land.

And then you have the last world power that’s going to exist, but it’s going to be ten nations that are going to come together and give their power to the beast. So this last one is of the seventh because they will give their power to this beast, but he’s of this group. So the question is, are we living at a time when we’re talking about a beast that has this head and he’s going to die now or is he someone who has died before?

So I had that question. So, but when I read this here in the book of Revelation, it seemed like he’s somebody, if it’s possible, that has already lived and died, but he had to have a head wound and comes back from the dead. So it do get interesting trying to put it all together. Now I want you to take your Bible and look there in the book of, well look at this here, while we’re out here in Revelation chapter 13.

Because whoever he is, this is what he does. In verse 7, it was given unto him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. was given him over all kindreds and tongues and nations. So this is the last power and whenever you read in the Old Testament, the book of Daniel, it says that he will destroy the saints. And then it says later on they will possess the kingdom. So there’s going to be a lot of people that are going to die during this period of time.

So take your Bible and look here in book of John in chapter 17, the Gospel of John in chapter 17. John chapter 17 is the prayer that Jesus Christ makes. This is the real Lord’s prayer. And you’ll notice in the midst of his prayer, he makes a statement that’s not said about anybody else. Never said about anybody else. We know that he says that he made the statement to a guy named Judas. He says that he, the devil entered into Judas and that he was of the devil.

But look what he says here in chapter 17 and verse 12, while I was with them in the world, Now he’s talking to his Father, Christ’s. I kept them in thy name. Those that thou gave us me, I have kept. None of them is lost, but the Son of Perdition that the Scripture might be fulfilled. In other words, while he was there, not that he was saved and then he got lost. No, he was never saved to begin with.

But Judas betrayed the Lord, and he did so because Satan entered into him. Judas, the Bible says, went out and hanged himself. And it says that he burst headlong and burst his bowels all over the place. And then it talks about, they had to get somebody else to take his place. and it talks about him going to his own place, not like you and I or somebody else who lost, but going to another place. Now take your Bible and turn there to the book of 2 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians and chapter 2.

You’re noticed in chapter 2 and in verse 3, It says, let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come except there come a fallen away first, which I believe is a reference to the rapture, and that man of sin be revealed the son of perdition. There’s only one that’s ever been called that. Somebody’s supposed to have died and had a head wound and come back to life, so to speak. Now he didn’t go to heaven and he didn’t go to paradise in the heart of the earth.

But there’s a good possibility he did go because he was lost to a place of destruction which we call the place or the pit of hell, which is the abyss. It also says here that this son of perdition is mentioned here and then talking about who who in verse four opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped so that he as God said it in the temple of God showing himself that he is God.

Now whether or not that’s any connection, I don’t really know. Only that the scriptures point this out and if there is a connection, so be it. But it’s not going to cause me to stay awake at night. I’m not going to lose any sleep over it. It won’t matter. It’s not going to mount the Hellebenes. But only that I believe God’s word will be fulfilled and that during that period of time people will know they will have knowledge, they will be able to count the number of this last beast and the mark of the name and so forth.

All this stuff will be understood. And he says that these two, the beast and the false prophet, are going to do everything in their power to deceive the whole world. Now in Book of Luke in chapter 21, it talks about keeping yourselves from the snare that will come upon the whole earth, because right before that it talks about for fear of those things are coming upon the earth, men’s hearts failing them. And then it talks about then shall they lift up their eyes and their redemption, draweth nigh, talking about when Christ comes back to the earth at the end of the tribulation period.

Now the reason is because all of the truth that God has given, he’s going to have 144,000 Jewish evangelists that perhaps could have been one to the Lord because of the two lampstands, the two olive trees that were mentioned in the chapter 11 of the book of Revelation. But there’s a lot of people that are going to trust Christ as their Savior. A lot of people are going to die. Now look what he says here. Down here in verse 9, he says, even him, who’s coming, talking about Christ, who’s coming is after the working of Satan.

So the tribulation period, the last half of it, which is the great tribulation period, is the working of Satan. Satan is at work with all of his wrath that he can, pour out upon God’s people. And the Bible says that he will destroy God’s people. And I’ll show you that in a little bit if I can remember to go back to it. But look what he says now in verse 9, he says, after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish because why why is he able to deceive them because they would not believe the truth.

If you don’t believe the truth you will believe a lie. Now let me just kind of break in here just a little bit. You trust it Christ is your Savior. You have eternal life. You’re going to heaven when you die. Did you know that the rest of your life you’re either going to believe truth or you’re going to believe a lie? And if you believe the truth you’ll serve the Lord and if you don’t You’re going to believe a lie.

It’s either you’re believing truth or you’re believing a lie. You can’t be neutral You’re either going to serve a Lord or you’re not going to serve a Lord You say well, I don’t want to do what God wants and I don’t want to do what the devil wants. I’m gonna do what I want And you don’t get it. There’s only two main forces in this world. There’s God and there’s a devil. And you either walking with God or you’re working with the devil.

So look what he says in verse 10, and with all the civilfulness of unrighteousness in them that perish because get there because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved. So why does God let all this happen? Why does he let the devil have such power to him? deceive the world because they wouldn’t believe the truth. God said, I’ll give you something you can believe. He allows the devil to do all these wonders, these miracles, these signs.

But remember, Satan is always limited. He can’t do everything he wants to do. There’s a time limit on this fellow. He can only do so much. The Bible talks about in the book of Daniel, the anti-Christ will do a a couple of things. One will be the change times and laws, the change time and laws. And the chapter 7 can be just about lined up with chapter 13, the way that everything falls together there. But you’ll find out that the time will come when this individual, the change laws means to change God’s laws.

That God’s law don’t work anymore and nobody believes thou shalt not lie, thou shalt not steal because they’re the masters at it. And about creeping yourself clean and pure and holy and all that stuff, that’s not going to be the characteristics of this last world government is holiness, it’s not going to be there. It’s going to be every form of wickedness that man in his wicked mind can ever think of. And man is going do is wicked as he possibly can and get what he says here in verse 11 for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie.

Now God doesn’t make people believe the lie but because you harden yourself from believing truth you will believe a lie and so doing the tribulation period, the master deceiver, the liar himself, the lie. That’s him. That’s the devil. And he will have his little army of individuals, and they’re going to deceive the world. Now go back to the book of Revelation chapter 13.

And you’ll notice there in verse four, and they worshiped the dragon, which gave power under the beast. And they worship the beast saying, Who is like unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him? So Abedin know that whoever this is, nobody will be able to make war with him. Now, we’re living in a time right now, people can make war with America. Whoever starts it, well, we just annihilate each other. I mean, Russia’s got all kinds of missiles, And China’s got all kinds of missiles and we got all kinds of missiles.

And so this is all farm at the same time and see who comes out. Well, I don’t think that’s too good of a deal. You might annihilate them, but they might annihilate us. So this last one, he says, who can whoop this last one? So it’s going to be interesting how all of this plays out. But look what he says. In verse 7, and it was given unto him to make war with this saints and to overcome them. Power was given him over all kindreds and nations or tongues and nations.

So you know that the Christians are going to be destroyed. They’re going to be killed. In the book of Revelation chapter 20 says they’re going to be beheaded. Now remember I mentioned this the other day. The The woman of Revelation chapter 17, I believe, is the nation of Israel. And the beast is this last world government. And you don’t make a peace treaty with your friends. Don’t need to. They will make a peace treaty with their enemies. And so you have all these Arab countries, and all these Arab countries are going to make a peace treaty with this one little bitty nation, don’t seem fair, but they will have their own agenda.

Israel will do anything for the sake of peace because they know they’re alive only by the grace of God. Did you know that the nation of Israel can be put into the panhandle of Florida. Did you know that Florida can hold seven countries of Israel? Florida, the Lulu state of Florida, and it can hold seven countries of Israel.

And that one little bitty country is nothing but a headache to the whole world. Israel is a headache to the world. And it says that in the last days, Jerusalem will be a troublesome stone to all the nations of the world. It is. Just like God said. So God is going to bring judgment upon this woman, this nation. So the beast is going to allow the woman to ride the beast. But the beast hates the woman. The woman hates the beast.

But for mutual existence for right now, the beast will tolerate it. But then the beast, the Bible says in Revelation 17, cast off the woman, burned her with fire and eats her flesh. It means the beast is going to do everything possible to destroy, devour the woman. In chapters 12 of the book of Revelation, says that the beast, which is the devil, knows that he has by the short time and goes after the woman to devour the remnant, the seed, whatever is left to totally annihilate the nation of Israel.

And this is why only if God comes to the rescue, the night in shining armor, and really is, a night upon a white horse comes back and saves the day. It kind of gets exciting, don’t it? So as you go down through here and you look at this and looking for a say, and all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.

If any man have ears, let him hear. He that leads into captivity goes into captivity and he that killed with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saint. So God’s people will be living a lot different than the people of the world. And because of that, they’re going to be killed for it. Now, aren’t you glad that you and I live in America where we can pretty much worship God the way we want to without persecution?

I believe there’s a good possibility that could change very quickly. You take, for example, right now, local governments are hurting all over and they’re trying to find every way possible to get enough money to keep their other pensions and all this stuff alive. They got to try to find out a way to make money. Do you realize they’re talking right now about all the churches in America that are tax exempt? They ought to be paying taxes. And they don’t like the idea of people even donating money to a church and then being taxed and don’t have the church don’t have to pay taxes off the money that comes in.

all the property that’s owned by all the churches, think of how many places that is. And how much money they’re losing, and they’re going to try to do away with the tax exempt status of all churches. And you watch, because there’s, they’re like lions, they’re hungry, and all they eat is green stuff. Not grass either. It’s green money, and they’re vicious. And you’d be surprised at the persecution that can come down the road and I have a personal view that I don’t believe that the church itself should collect taxes for anybody.

I don’t believe that we are a tax collecting agency for the federal government. I believe you will pay your taxes. I got taxes to pay. I pay my taxes. But I don’t believe that’s the church’s responsibility. That’s my humble opinion. But look in verse 12, the second beast is just like the first beast. It’s just like the Holy Spirit is just like Christ. And then you got God the Father. So you have the Holy Trinity, the unholy Trinity taking place in Israel, coming to rule the world, just like what Christ was going to do.

He’s a copycat, but he’s a liar and a deceiver and Israel probably no doubt thinks and they’re my, the Messiah is here. Because Christ says somebody else comes in their own name, Him they will believe. And He, the false prophet, will do everything possible to get the people to worship them, or have the people killed it, they won’t do it. So, He does all kinds of wonders and signs, miracles, and so forth. And get them to worship the first beast.

Now look down there in verse 16. And he causes both small and great rich and free and bond to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads. Now in the Old Testament, you’ll find where the Bible talks about the phylacteries, talks about the Word of God upon their foreheads, talks about the borders of the garments and so forth, it talks about the Word of God been upon the doorposts and all over the house so that you see it, and you’re always thinking about it, because God wants it in your mind.

So in your forehead could be a reference to what a man really thinks and what he really believes, what’s in here. God says until I seal my people and the other people, the… Lost people are going to have a seal whether or not it’s a what God knows these are mine because of what they believe and these are not mine because of what they believe these believe the truth those believe alike God knows the difference but whether or not it’s a literal sign or mark that’s put up on your head.

I don’t know or like some said said whenever you have somebody haul off in and hit you. And the next day you got a black eye. You could say, you know, somebody really left their mark on you. I’ve had people take their fist and hit me in the face as hard as they can. It hurts. It really does. But I’ve had it. Paul says, I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus. Now what these marks are going to be or the sign that somebody is yielding themselves to this last world government, in connection with you can’t buy or sell without having the mark of this last world government, could be a literal card, a number, some kind of you know, embedded chip into your body, a verichip or whatever.

living in a time when it is possible. And wouldn’t that help solve some of the problem in America? We would not have to worry about those illegal aliens. We would know who everybody is and where everybody is yet. Except them. We would know where everybody else is. But that would be the citizens because they’re the only ones that would do it. I’m glad that I know the Lord and that I’m going to heaven when I die. I enjoy studying and reading this stuff, but I’ll have to admit, there’s so much of it we don’t understand the side of eternity.

So that’s why he says, I believe, here is wisdom. Let him that hath understand count the number of the beast. That means you might have to be here when the beast is here. I’m not there. But I got news, if the rapture took place. We still got seven years to go. Then we still got another thousand years to go. So just hang on for a little while longer. I do believe the Lord could come back at any time. And I’m looking for that.

Look up here, just a minute. This is the best way to get ready. The best way to say I’m good to go. I’m not a person to the Lord out in how why you think it was. And that’s the first time I’ve ever heard somebody say that. I’m good to go. Anyway, this is you and me. This is sin. We all have sin on us. God loves us, hates our sin. And for us to pay for sin is eternal separation from the Lord in a place called hell.

But God loves us, wants us to go to heaven. To go to heaven, you have to be perfect as righteous as God. None of us are perfect. None of us are righteous. We’re all sinners and we’ve come short of God’s perfection. And to pay for sin, death, in hell. So it’s everybody’s sense, everybody’s condemned. We’re all in the same boat. God says that you and I, we cannot save ourselves. We cannot earn our way to heaven. I was talking to them at the Bible, said it today.

And I told them, and I’d mentioned this a little bit last week, that a lot of us, we do all these bad things in life. And so we have all this indebtedness. You know, I got 20,000 points against me. But if I go to church, oh, that’ll be worth a thousand so I get to deduct a thousand. And then if I you know if I read my Bible that I’ll be worth 500 points I get to deduct another 500 points.

So my goal is is to try to pay down my debt before I die. So I’m hoping that I live long enough to do enough good to pay down my debt and try to do the best I can so that whenever I die I get to go to heaven because my debt’s paid. You said people don’t believe stuff like that. Yes they do because they think they’re being good is going to get them to heaven. Same thing. They think they’re going there is a result of being good here.

It won’t work that way. You see, I have this debt and it grows every day. I can’t pay down on the debt. I guess this must be one of these interest things that just keeps multiplying and it just gets bigger and bigger and bigger. It must be like the federal deficit. It just gets worse and worse and worse. And it’s growing and growing and growing. But see Jesus Christ, He came and He paid my whole sin debt. So He paid for it in full.

So all I had to do was believe He did it for me and trust Him as my Savior, I get to go to heaven, got no debt to pay. When you accepted Christ as your Savior, He was your payment for sin. He was your payment. The debt is paid and therefore I get to go free. My debt paid in full. He had good news when he was really stopping to think about his best in the world. This hand represents Jesus Christ.

He’s the Lord, God in the flesh. He came into the world because he loves us, hates our sin, because it separates us from took the sin, paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead. He said if I would believe it, or you would believe it, anybody who’s so ever believe it in him. If you believe he did it for you, should not perish. That means you will not go to hell but have everlasting life. You get to go to heaven on what Jesus Christ did for you.

Good news. Let’s pray, shall we? If you’re here tonight and you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, I would do so. I really would. I think it’s the most intelligent thing to do. I think it’s a sign of a wise individual. Only a fool would turn down a free gift. So a friend right now in the quietness of this moment, just between you and the Lord, why don’t you just talk to him and say something like this, Lord, I don’t understand at all.

But I know I’m a sinner. I know I’ve done things wrong. I believe that Jesus Christ died on that cross for me, that He paid for my sins. And right now, I accept Him as my Savior. Now friend, if you trust Him right now as your Savior, that means He saves you from hell. He gives you eternal life. And so when you get up to leave, you could say, I know I’m going to heaven because today I trust that Christ is my Savior.

I know I have eternal life. And God said, He never cast you out and never lose you. You can know that you’re going to heaven whenever you die. Is there anyone at all before we close? So yes, that made sense to me and I will trust Christ as my Savior and preach out life for you to pray for me. We’ll just slip you hand it very quickly and put it right back down, anywhere at all. If you’re watching by internet and you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, friend I heard you right now, the best you know how.

Accept Jesus Christ as your Savior. God said he would save you and give eternal life and you get to go to heaven on what Christ did for you. You cannot earn it, you can’t work for it, you cannot buy it. It is the gift of God, not a works list, He may and should boast. Our Father, we thank You so much for this time together, for the study of Your Word, and we pray that as we do so, we know that there’s a lot of things that will never grasp, we’ll never understand it all.

The Father, we do pray that because of it, it challenges and motivates us to be found faithful with the time that we have, knowing that one day it’s all gonna come to pass just like You promised. So bless each one here. In Christ name we pray, Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771.

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Praise the Lord. We’re in the book of Revelation and we’re moving along. We’re all the way up to chapter 13. 13 of the book of Revelation. This is a very interesting chapter. It’s one that, well, you can go in a lot of different directions on, and I hope that I can share with you a few of my ideas that I have on this interesting book. Revelation is a book you have to really study and study and study and study and study, and then you still may not get it.

Let me give you two verses that I think will help you as we start into the 13th chapter. This is the chapter C that talks about two beasts, one coming up out of the water, the sea, and one coming up out of the land. And of course everybody has an enquiring mind and want to know who they are. But to start with, look there in chapter 13 and verse 18, verse 18. Verse 18 says, here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast, for it is the number of the man and his number is 603 score and 6.

Now is anybody in here wise? Says here is wisdom and here you are and you’re supposed to figure it out. When you can’t figure it out, does it make you feel a little dumb? I mean, he says, here is wisdom and blah, blah, blah. He gives you like this, you know, a little puzzle to put together. And then you’re supposed to come up with the answer. Also look over there in Revelation chapter 17, Revelation 17, and look there in verse 9.

Here it says, and here is the mind which half wisdom. You think, well, okay, if I have wisdom, I’m supposed to understand this. And if I don’t understand it, does that mean I’m a dumb, dumb? not so fast. Don’t be too hard on yourself. Go back there to chapter 13. When he says, here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast for it is the number of the man and his number is 603 score and sixth.

That’s during that period of time. You see, that’s not for us now. We’re not there. Now, if I was in the tribulation period And I saw all these things coming to pass and he says, when ye shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel, probably know this and all these things will come to pass doing that period of time. So there’s a lot of knowledge that will be greatly understood when the time comes. But we’re not going to be here doing this period of time.

Have you ever heard somebody say, you know, it’s only if you have a right to know or a need to know. Do I need to know what that really means? Do I really need to know who the anti-Christ is? You know for me to serve the Lord for me to be faithful. Do I really have to know do I have to really be able to nail down? What is the 666? Some people say it’s that little very chiptic gonna put inside of you know and I’m in your hand or your forehead.

Well, it might be I don’t know I really don’t care It’s not going to affect me one eye-o-da because of all the things that are going to happen upon the earth, I will give you the general idea. So when he says here’s the mind that hath wisdom, it’s the number of the man, the number of the beast, blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, I’m not there to know who that person is. When they give everybody a number, is it because they lined everybody up and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and whoever number has 666, that’s the one.

How do I know? I don’t really care. I don’t care about taking his name and making the letters come out and say, oh, there’s the Antichrist, because you had them all together and they come out to 666. I’ll never forget when they had a Henry Kissinger, and his name came out to that. They’ve had some folks that come out with 666. So I mean, there’s only supposed to be one guy, but they had a whole bunch of names that would fit.

You can make anybody’s name fit. You might even be able to make James Taylor, you know what, fit. Put it in the Greek or something like that in each Greek letter, so many… You can have a ball, but you can’t dogmatically say what it is or what it is not. better of us the stick was what we do understand. So there’s enough in this chapter that we can understand. So look there in Revelation chapter 13 verse 1.

In verse 1 he says, and as I stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of the sea having seven heads and ten horns and upon his horns ten crowns and upon his head the names of blasphemy. Well who is this? This beast that comes up out of the sea. Well if you look right there in chapter 12, where he makes the statement in verse 3, and there appeared another wonder in heaven, and behold a great red dragon, heaven seven heads and ten horns, seven crowns upon his heads.

So here’s a reference toward the devil. Now we know that during this period of time, the devil is going to be manifested through his man of sin. He’s got a guide that’s going to be his his little protege and he’s going to do everything that whatever the devil wants. So what I want you to see is that this beast at the end, this false prophet, what I want you to see there in chapter 13, looked down to in verse 11.

And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, spaked like a dragon. So they both have something In common, they have the devil behind them. And the devil is gonna give them great power. As you see up there in verse, you see there in the last part of verse two, it says, and the dragon, which is the devil, gave him his power and his throne and great authority. So the devil is behind the scenes manipulating things, deceiving the world, and he’s got his two men.

Now remember we covered a couple weeks ago about the Lord who has his two men and they were called to have it upon the earth. Well these two are the devils and so buddy this ought to be one showdown. I almost wish I could be here. You know of course I’d like to be like Superman invincible and all that great power and to do it but I didn’t want to be here and get hurt. So I don’t think I’m going to be able to make it here.

But when you talk about this beast that comes up out of the sea, which we believe is the political head, and then we have one that comes up out of the land, and he has two horns, but he speaks like the devil, and it’s a lamb. In other words, I believe that that is the head of the religious system. So you got political and you got religious, and they’re going to work together. Now this is not Israel, has nothing to do with Israel.

But so that you see this and understand, I think a little bit more about the beast. I want you to go all the way over to the 19th chapter, the 19th chapter of Revelation. And look in verse 20, in verse 20, it says, and the beast was taken and with him the false prophet. So these are the two, that’s mentioned in Revelation chapter 13. That worked miracles before him with which he deceived then that had received the mark of the beast.

And then that worshiped his image, these both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. So these two are able to suffer, and these two will be cast into the lake of fire. Now look there in chapter 20, chapter 20 and verse 10. and the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone were the beast and the false prophet are and shall be tormented day and night forever and ever. So you know how they’re going to end up.

Here you have the unholy trinity. You’ve got the dragon, the devil, and you’ve got the beast, the antichrist, and you’ve got the false prophet. All three in the lake of fire. So you know how they’re gonna end up. See that’s good news already That’s why I like to cheat and go a little bit further and find out. Well what happens to them now go back to Revelation and chapter In chapter 13, there are three things that are mentioned here.

In verse 2, it says, and the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard. So there’s three things mentioned here, the leopard, the bear, and the lion. Andavoid the leopard and the lion is also representative of three nations that were way back there in the book of Daniel. and chapter seven, there were four beasts mentioned, but the last beast had ten horns. Now in chapter two, that last beast had ten toes, but there were three things that described the three nations before them.

And then we had the Roman Empire, called there was four mentioned there in the seventh chapter, but the first three is represented right here. That this last world power will be a lot in similarity to all the beasts that were before it. In other words, the way Babylon was and the way the Medes and the Persians was and the way the Alexandian Empire was, the way the Roman Empire, the last world power will be like all of those powers.

It says there’s never been a government like this government that will be able to control the world like this nation or this government will be able to do. And that’s why he says, who can make war with this last beast? So we study it, we look at it of what’s going to take place, and knowing that we’re living at the doorway of some of these things going to be fulfilled very soon. Now look what he says there in verse 3.

And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death, and his deadly wound was healed, and all the world wondered after the beast. Now, it’s very interesting trying to figure out now, what in the world is it talking about? And I’ll have to admit, I have to guess at some of the stuff, because I’m not sure I have all the knowledge that I need. But as I look at it and I read it, I come up with a few ideas, and I’m not sure that they’re, you know, can put it in concrete.

So that’s why whenever I’m not dead set on that particular view, I say, this is a little yank eology. And that means that this is my opinion based upon my understanding as I understand it this time. But there could be something else that could change my mind. Now when I talk to you about the gospel, the two natures and all that stuff, I’m rock solid on that. I don’t change, I don’t move, I know what I believe, I have eternal security, I don’t discuss it, don’t have to debate it, I’m there.

But when it comes to prophecy, you’re always trying to figure out all the pieces of the puzzle and there’s some pieces to it I haven’t figured out yet and may not be able to because I believe some of these things will be revealed after the rapture takes place. But what I want you to look at when he makes a statement in all the world wondered after the beast. Now there’s something to remember about this last world government. There were seven of ), and we usually refer to them as the Egyptian Empire, the Nazarian, and then you’ve got the Babylon and the other ones on down the line, them each in the Persians, the Alexander Empire, the Roman Empire.

And so that’s six of them. Well the seventh one is this last one. The Bible says in the book of Deuteronomy it mentions about Israel being the head and not the tail. But it says if you don’t obey me you will be the tail and not the head. So whenever Israel is in disobedience she is placed under the head of a Gentile power. And so as you count them that’s what’s happened. So there have been seven heads over the nation of Israel.

But he says now one of these heads of the head of this last government has something happened to him. And it makes a statement that he’s like wounded with a deadly wound or a mortal wound. And so there’s a question about whether did he really die or not and he came back to life and so there’s a question about them. I don’t know if he really died and came back or if he just had a mortal womb but he didn’t die.

I don’t care. It don’t matter to me. Now it might matter to you but it don’t matter to me. And so he makes the statement there. This second man that comes on the scene. Now he is trying to get everybody to worship the first man. And remember, you have Jesus Christ when he came into the world. Now, the purpose of the Holy Spirit is to get the world to accept Christ. To worship him. So the Holy Spirit is not designed in such a way that he wants everybody to talk about the Holy Spirit.

Everybody always talks about the Holy Spirit. Didn’t get that from the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit magnifies Christ points to Christ. So always remember that. This false prophet is going to do everything he possibly can to get people to worship the anti-Christ. So if you look there in verse 12. He exercises all the power of the first beast before him, which causes the earth and them that dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. Now, there’s a lot of imitation that goes on.

A lot of similarities where it looks like this is the real Messiah because he comes and he dies and comes back to life and now you have the Holy Spirit trying to get everybody to worship the… Well, remember, that’s what happened to Christ. Christ was here for three and a half years, and he was killed and come back to life, and he’s an imitator. He’s a copycat, and trying to get people to worship him. Christ went into the temple, he goes into the temple.

Jesus said he was God, well, he says he’s God. It seemed like somebody’s lying. Somebody’s lying here. And then in verse 14, it talks about, and deceive of them. deceive of them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast. Say unto them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast which had the wound by sword and did live. So you have this false prophet trying to get everybody to worship this beast, the head of this last world government.

And then to be able to make an image of the beast and then cause people to want to bow down or worshiping. Remember this, we’re living at a time where cloning is possible. Now whether or not that’s what’s going to happen, I don’t know. And once again, I don’t care. All I know is that when it happens, God said so and it’ll happen like God says. So instead of trying to manipulate scriptures and try to figure out everything, just believe that what God says will happen, it will happen.

And we don’t have to understand at all only to know and to believe that during this period of time This is a general idea of what’s going to take place Now this one that got this wound by head. Well, where did he come from? Where did he come from? I? Wish I had all the answers, but I don’t looking revelation and Chapter 17 and looking verse 8 Revelation chapter 17 verse 8 Now this beast that’s going to be the head of this beast that’s going to be passed into the lake of fire, the head of this last one-world government.

What kind of a person is this? It looks like he could be a hybrid. I don’t know. But he looks like he’s half-devil. But the Bible says he’ll be able to be cast into the lake of fire and he’s going to be punished. Verse 8 says, the beast that thou saw us was, I mean existed before, is not, not right now, shall ascend out of the bottomless pit and go into perdition. Now that word perdition you ought to underline it because I want to show you something about that in just a minute.

And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world. He says when they behold the beast that it was and is not and yet is. Kind of a beast that he’s talking about. Where did he come from? Comes out of a bottomless pit. So this is evidently somebody that’s maybe lived at one time, cast into a pit and going to come back. I don’t know but it’s something to think about.

And then if you’ll notice there in verse 11 and the beast, the head of this last world government that was, is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seventh, and goes into a tradition. Says that twice. So remember, the head of all these nations that at one time or other has had dominance over the nation of Israel, because Israel was promised that if it served the Lord, they’d be the head, not the tail. So their rebellion caused them to be the tail, and there’s seven heads under which they have fallen under.

But it says that this one is going to be a beast and something strange that happens to them. And when John wrote the book of Revelation, he says in verse 10, there are seven kings, five fallen, one is the other is not yet come. So whenever you had the five that existed before and then doing the Roman Empire, that’s number six, and then the last one is going to call down the last two thousand and see Israel’s been out of the land.

And then you have the last world power that’s going to exist, but it’s going to be ten nations that are going to come together and give their power to the beast. So this last one is of the seventh because they will give their power to this beast, but he’s of this group. So the question is, are we living at a time when we’re talking about a beast that has this head and he’s going to die now? Or is he someone who has died before?

So I had that question. So, but when I read this year in the book of Revelation, it seemed like he’s somebody, if it’s possible, that has already lived and died, but he had to have a head wound and comes back from the dead. So, it do get interesting, trying to put it all together. Now, I want you to take your Bible and look there in the book of, well, look at this here, while we’re out here in Revelation chapter 13.

Because whoever he is, this is what he does, In verse 7, it was given unto him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. Power was given him over all kindreds and tongues and nations. So this is the last power. And whenever you read in the Old Testament, the book of Daniel, it says that he will destroy the saints. And then it says later on, they will possess the kingdom. So there’s going to be a lot of people that are going to die during this period of time.

So take your Bible and look here in the book of John in chapter 17, the Gospel of John in chapter 17. John chapter 17 is the prayer that Jesus Christ makes. This is the real Lord’s prayer. you’ll notice in the midst of his prayer, he makes a statement that’s not said about anybody else. Never said about anybody else. We know that he says that he made the statement to a guy named Judas. He says that he, the devil entered into Judas and that he was of the devil.

Look what he says here in chapter 17 and verse 12, while I was with them in the world, now he’s talking to his father, Christ’s, I kept them in thy name. Those that thou gave us me, I have kept. None of them is lost, but the son of perdition that the scripture might be fulfilled. In other words, while he was there, not that he was saved and then he got lost, no, he was never saved to begin with. But Judas betrayed the Lord.

And he did so because Satan entered into him. Judas, the Bible says, went out and hanged himself. And it says that he burst headlong and burst his bowels all over the place. And then it talks about, they had to get somebody else to take his place. and it talks about him going to his own place, not like you and I or somebody else who lost, but going to another place. Now take your Bible and turn there to the book of 2 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians and chapter two.

You’ll notice in chapter two and in verse three, it says, let no man deceive you by any means For that day shall not come, except there come a fallen away first, which I believe is a reference to the rapture. And that man of sin be revealed the son of perdition. There’s only one that’s ever been called that. Somebody’s supposed to have died and had a head wound and come back to life, so to speak. Now he didn’t go to heaven, and he didn’t go to paradise in the heart of the earth.

But there’s a good possibility he did go because he was lost to a place of destruction, which we call the place or the pit of hell, which is the abyss. It also says here that this son of perdition is mentioned here and then talking about who in verse four opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped so that he has God said it in the temple of God showing himself that he is God.

Now whether or not that’s any connection, I don’t really know. Only that the scriptures point this out, and if there is a connection, so be it. But it’s not going to cause me to stay awake at night. I’m not going to lose any sleep over. It won’t matter. It’s not going to mount a hill of ends. But only that, I believe God’s Word will be fulfilled, and that during that period of time, people will know, they will have knowledge.

They will be able to count the number of this last beast and the mark of the name and so for all of this stuff will be understood. And he says that these two, the beast and the false prophet, are going to do everything in their power to deceive the whole world. Now in Book of Luke in chapter 21, it talks about keeping yourselves from the snare that will come upon the whole earth. because right before that it talks about for fear of those things are coming upon the earth means hearts failing them and then he talks about then shall they lift up their eyes and their redemption draweth night talking about when Christ comes back to the earth at the end of the tribulation period.

Now the reason is because all of the truth that God has given, and He’s going to have 144,000 Jewish evangelists that perhaps could have been one to the Lord because of the two lamps, stands the two olive trees that were mentioned in the chapter 11 of the book of Revelation. But there’s a lot of people that are going to trust Christ as their Savior. A lot of people are going to die. Now look what he says here, down here in verse 9, he says, even him, who’s coming, talking about Christ, whose coming is after the working of Satan.

So the tribulation period, the last half of it, which is the great tribulation period, is the working of Satan. Satan is at work with all of his wrath that he can pour out upon God’s people. And the Bible says that He will destroy God’s people. And I’ll show you that in a little bit if I can remember to go back to it. But look what He says now in verse 9. He says, after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish.

Because why? Why is He able to deceive them because they would not believe the truth. If you don’t believe the truth, you will believe a lie. Now let me just kind of break in here just a little bit. You trusted Christ as your Savior. You’re having eternal life. You’re going to heaven when you die. Did you know that the rest of your life, you’re either going to believe truth or you’re going to believe a lie. And if you believe the truth, you’ll serve the Lord.

And if you don’t, You’re going to believe a lie. It’s either you’re believing truth or you’re believing a lie. You can’t be neutral. You’re either going to serve a Lord or you’re not going to serve a Lord. You say, well, I don’t want to do what God wants and I don’t want to do what the devil wants. I’m going to do what I want. And you don’t get it. There’s only two main forces in this world. There’s God and there’s a devil.

And you’re either walking with God or you’re working with the devil. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida, with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. Part two of this teaching will conclude with tomorrow’s broadcast. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, you can reach Bible Line and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll-free 1-800-576-3771.

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