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#76.
#76.
Praise my soul by God I say, stranger hands on the Board in me, 'cause I don't wanna do this and protect me. Strengthen hides the counter free.
There is.
No desert God will teach me what a goddess. Love has come. They shine, gracious, powerful, holy.
All his pray shall hear of the ground.
On your game and rest so landing in my 171 shall reign.
Serve and grace from thy descending thou shalt say some verses spring.
Broadly through.
Shall pray, shots of triumph swelling.
Zion songs in Christ to sing.
There's no stranger. God shall make the stranger.
And stretch shallow breathing things crazy without well known love.
Our God and Father, we thank Thee for how let us love us.
For how that is carry us through this journey down here, waiting to be called to be with thee for all eternity.
We thank thee the most blessed weekend we've had together here.
We thank Thee for my most holy word.
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That has gone forth this afternoon.
Guidance and direction for our lives while we're here.
The Lord.
Recognize this last reading meeting before us now, and pray once again for.
My help.
And does that us lead us, or by thy spirit?
That we would be willing to take heed to these things.
How far, Hertz?
Prepared our ears open or that we might take in all that that all that that was have for us.
To show us the way that we might be like thy son.
And so we just pray that that would help us in this thing and in bringing glory and honor to Thee, thanking thee and praising thee, thy name, Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.
Do your brethren want to learn?
Continuous chapter five of First Thessalonians.
That was the original exercise. I had more than.
Probably chapter 4, but it was good to.
Jacob, chapter four, I think. And is it the mind of the brethren to go on with chapter 5?
I think that would be good, Brother John.
Quite a long chapter for one hour, but.
We just finished chapter four. We did finish chapter 4.
Yeah, First Thessalonians, chapter 5.
But of the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write unto you, for you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord shall come into the thief in the night.
But when they shall say peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them as travail upon a woman with child, and they shall unscathed. But you, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day shall open overtake you, as the here are all the children of life and the children of the day.
We are not of the night nor the darkness. Therefore let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober, for they that sleep, sleep in the night, and they that be drunk in our drunken in the night.
So let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. The God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him. Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also you do. And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labor among them.
And that are over you in the Lord, and admonish you, and to esteem them very highly in love for their work day, and be at peace among yourselves. Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feeble minded, support the weak, be patient towards all men, See that none render evil for evil unto any man, but ever follow that which is good both among yourselves and to all men.
Enjoy sever more play without ceasing.
And everything give thanks, but this is the will of God in Christ Jesus. Concerned with once not the Spirit, despise not prophesying, prove all things, hold fast that which is good, abstain from all appearance of evil. And the very God of peace sanctify you holdings. And I pray God, your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved, blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.
Brethren, pray for us. Greet all the brethren with the holy kiss. I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy bread. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
Get out of here.
Speaking of the rapture, and that's the rapture of God's heavenly people to take them up, but times and seasons have to do with the earth.
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So it's going on to a different subject now. As you said, this is concerning the awards open coming to the Earth to judge the earth.
Because of the time I wanted to get the comments for the right away. I was thinking that.
The Lords coming when it's open up as a thief in the night is never is never the rapture wherever you find the expression.
The Lord's coming as a thief. In the various places where you find it in the Gospels, it's always referring to the Lord's coming as the Son of Man in judgment.
So the apostle here is bringing before them the fact that.
The day of the Lord.
Is something that they're not going to, they're not going to.
Experience the judgments that precede the establishment of the Day of the Lord. They have the Lord begins from the time the Lord appears right through the whole millennial period to the end of the of that of that time. That's all the Day of the Lord.
And it has to do with the Lord as as judge as as establishing his Kingdom in righteousness and judgment. There will be no evil allowed but.
The condition of things when the Lord comes in the night.
Which will be the end of the tribulation?
Things will be.
Will be in a state of apostasy will be the apostasy of Christendom and they'll be the apostasy of of the of the nation of Israel and the Antichrist and the Roman beast will be ruling.
In Jerusalem and.
There'll be no believers.
There will be no gospel of the grace of God going forth at that time. It will be the gospel of the Kingdom that will be preached so.
There will be such a a turmoil that they're going to give their allegiance to the Antichrist and the Roman beast, the little horn of Daniel 7, and they're going to look, they're going to say, now we have.
Peace and safety because we're our confidence is in these men and then the Lord is going to appear and.
And come in judgment upon that whole system of things, because much of the nation of Israel will be in a state of apostasy, and there'll be a godly remnant among the nation that will be looking for the return of the Messiah, and there will be certain signs that will show them.
That the Messiah is coming to set up his Kingdom.
And.
The Spirit of God will no longer be dwelling on the earth as he does now in.
House of God.
The Spirit of God will go with the church, but there will be.
It's all described in Second Thessalonians, chapter two. He that letteth will let until he be taken out of the way. So that refers to the Spirit of God being raptured with the church, and then lawlessness will increase to a tremendous extent in the in the earth. Is that right? Stan? Yes, it is.
This isn't a change of subject when we get to chapter 5.
That began with verse 13 of chapter 4.
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And he speaks in verse 14 that those that sleep in Jesus, God will bring with him when when he comes back to establish his Kingdom, that his coming will introduce the day of the Lord. He's going to come with his Saints in the introduction of that day. And then there's a little parentheses, verse 15 to the end of verse 18 to explain how his Saints will be with him. And then he resumes the subject again.
So this is all.
Still the same subject going on that goes right on down to to.
Verse 11, verse 13 of chapter 4 down to verse 11 of chapter 5 is all one inclusive.
Teaching of the Apostle on this subject.
Just emphasize what you were saying, brother Steve, from verse 15 to the end of verse 18 is really a parenthesis. Is that correct? So as you say, when it talks about the appearing in the 14th verse of the 4th chapter, then he goes right on in the 5th to continue that subject.
He says they're in the second verse for yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord cometh of the season, the night the Old Testament brings out the the day of the Lord, doesn't it? I was thinking of Joel chapter 2 where it says in the first verse below ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound and alarm in my holy mountain, let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord cometh.
For it is nigh at hand, the day of darkness and of gloominess, and of day of clouds and of thick darkness. So it's very plain, isn't it, in the Old Testament, the day of the Lord? But did you say it has to do with the earth, has to do with Israel?
Not with the church at all.
You know we had much before us in the last meeting of the recovery of the truth.
And that work of the Spirit of God.
To bring that which we call false often back back into practice, back amongst, you know, to be rediscovered, so to speak for the New Deal. But as I understand and I if I'm wrong, please correct me, but I understand that one of the first things that surfaced and and became.
A reason why?
Got together to dig into it deeper. Was was a new understanding. Not that the Lord was coming back in judgment that really wasn't lost, but that He was coming back for his own.
And it's coming back to take his church and as they began to.
Dig into the Word. They began to understand again that heavenly calling church.
And.
This teaching is so under attack today, especially, you know, amongst evangelicals as well. And it's so important that we really do understand this and we don't apologize for it. This is the truth of God that God has.
He has his heavenly people. He has his.
He has his his purpose upon votes and that's really what this, this subject is about. God will have His purpose upon earth and His purpose is to reign upon the earth. The first there has to be judgment and you have to be so clear that the Church is not going through that judgment.
Should not be apologetic. It's not something that we have to debate and compromise on. It's the truth of God. Verse 9 brings that up clearly doesn't that.
Also reference to the day of the Lord and Isaiah chapter 2. It speaks here in verse 11 how the lofty looks of man shall be humbled.
And the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.
The day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon everyone that is proud, lofty upon everyone who has lifted up. He shall be brought both and speaks of it again in verse 17. And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down. The haughtiness of men shall be made love. The Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. Well, it certainly isn't what characterizes the present day. This is the day of man, and man exalts himself. But what a contrast.
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When the Lord alone will be absorbed.
The lofty looks of man brought along.
God will punish this world. I'm just noticing one more verse in Isaiah 13 and 11. I will punish the world for their evil and the wicked.
For their iniquity, and I will cause the arrogance here of the crowd deceased and will lay low the haughtiness of the terror, but I will punish the world for their evil. That's what is ahead and.
But he's not going to punish the bride.
What will be the thought that that would ever occur? Brides taken out?
Sorry.
The Day of Christ. Isn't that the time when the heavenly glory of Christ will be revealed?
Through the Church of God in its administrative characters and that the day of Christ isn't the same period as the day of the Lord.
Having somebody said, Brother John, that the Deus place is the heavenly aspect of the day of the Lord, would that be correct? Yes, I will, I will say.
Sorry, was.
Going to say something. I was just going to ask you a question.
So God as a heavenly people and earthly people, we're not heavenly people and we have a heavenly portion. Why is He telling us about this earthly thing? What's his purpose? Why is he telling us? Why is it important to know?
And that is without I would ask why? Why is he Speaking of it? Not if he's speaking to.
The heavenly people in the University of the first part, chapter 5 saying you're not.
The darkness of the day should always take the complete, but they're not going to be.
Why is he saying that?
We're watching and waiting.
In darkness, we have the expectation.
So we don't know. We'll be taken out of here before that. Congress still has been waiting.
Prophecy is always given in a day of failure.
And it's given to God's people to show them what He is going to judge, that they would be separate from it now and walk here in a holy way for Him. And so he brings us in, and there's another reason as well. He brings us in that we might see now what He's going to judge and that we would walk his life in this world and be separate from what He is going to bring under judgment. The second thing is.
The Spirit of Prophecy.
Is the testimony of Jesus. It has to do with his Son. And he confides to us all his purpose and counsel and his Son, and it's his delight to do that. And so there's two reasons, and perhaps the second ones, the best one.
It's that it's about the Lord Jesus Christ and he wants us to know everything connected with him. And so our portion is like Abraham, right when God was going to judge Sodom, he said shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do, he's my friend and he tells it had nothing to do with Abraham. Wasn't judgment that Abraham was going to do? He was up on the mountain, but he unfolded. What was the result? Abraham and her seed.
For those down in that plane.
Beautiful.
A lot was not separated from average dogs.
For the judge, but still taking out before this judge.
So another question in verse 15 of the prior chapter, we which are alive entertainments are coming up over the coming of the Lord.
Is the the secret coming which we call the Rapture that is overcoming bothered in that term becoming a rule?
I think so.
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We don't need to question.
Verse in John 15 and 15 that I appreciate on this subject, says, Henceforth I call you not servants, for the servant knoweth not what his Lord doeth. But I have called you friends, for all things that I have heard of my father I have made known unto you.
There's many things in the Scripture that are not about us, but God has revealed His plans and because we're connected with Him and appreciate Him, we can enter into them as well. I think we experienced that. Maybe our friend here at the conference tells us something about their life. Do we say, well, it's not about me, so I don't care? No, it's about our friends, so we care, right? And so there's many things that are not about us in God's Word, but we can appreciate them because God has taken the time.
Reveal them to us.
It's wonderful that God would communicate with you and me what His future plans are.
And I think of how tells us in Psalm 103 and verse seven, God the Lord made known his ways unto Moses, but his acts under the children of Israel. So that which was outward children of Israel saw. But I believe Moses, he was close to the Lord, and he learned why things were taking place, the ways of the Lord.
And this is our privilege to know what his ways are.
And of course, the thief is that which.
He's unexpected and he's unwanted.
Well, certainly that isn't what characterizes.
The church, we want the Lord to return and we expected how many times we say, you know, the Lord's coming is at hand, you could come today, so.
Don't believe that this refers to his coming.
In the church, some under that impression.
The robbery is a secret removal of the church. It's not a time of judgment, is it? It is the snatching away of of the.
Church of God and that is the believers hope. But there is a word of warning here in verse six. Therefore let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober.
Now sleep is used in probably three different ways in these passages here, but in verse six, it would bring before us the danger of becoming careless, occupied with the world and the cares of this life and the hope of the Lord's coming becomes dim in our souls and we we have it as a doctrine, but we don't practice it.
Mr. Darby mentions the the danger of that you hold the doctrine, but it should be something practical in our lives that we are.
We don't drift into the ways of the world and.
Adopt to their their their whole manner of life. We are children of the day, we belong to the Lord and we are to manifest the life of Christ down here. Is that right?
You see a person that sleep and a person that is dead. How can you tell which which condition they are in? They both look the same.
And so the believer is not looked upon as in the company that we have in verse 7 here.
That is the unbeliever.
He is unawakened to his danger and his need of salvation.
He's sleeping in his sins, but we should not have that character. We should be alert and.
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As we say, tiptoe, tiptoe expectancy for the Lord to come at any moment, is that right?
2nd Thessalonians 2.
That when the Lord comes.
It says that.
Verse 8.
Speaking of Antichrist, that wicked will be revealed when the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth.
It is the power of His word.
And shall destroy with the brightness of his coming.
We're children of life. We're children of that which is going to judge the wicked one in this world.
Because light makes all things matter.
And so in light, he's going to judge this world, and the brightness of that light is going to be the destruction of that wicked one. Well, we're children of light.
For children like.
And so our walk through this world says one thing to the world, if we walk faithfully this world under judgment.
And there's a message to this world. We're not of the night, nor of darkness.
And so that light is going to be our character for all eternities and New Jerusalem that descends out of God from heaven as the light of the glory of God. And we rejoice in hope of the glory of God, looking forward to that day.
Presently were children of life.
So the Lord had delivered us from the power of darkness. We were in darkness, weren't we, immorally and spiritually and.
We've been delivered from that tyranny and that.
Bonding children of sin and sacred serious power.
So verse 11 is different than verse 18, but verse 18 is comfort one another with these words because those words were directly applied to us, right?
And verse 11 is is our chapter here. Comfort yourself together and then as a general.
It's not comfort one another with these.
Telling us about what's going to happen.
It wasn't far the comfort we needed as we see the the what's going on in the world and all the all the disturbing things that happened that are happening around us all the time. Knowing that what's coming, you can comfort one another with the fact that we.
We are not to be concerned about the things that are going on at times and seasons going on around us because we're going to be taken out. We weren't, we're not.
Going to be part of what's going to happen.
There's a comfort and edifier and build one another option. I appreciate how he he absorbs and.
And also commenced at the same time. So he says do this, but you're already doing it, keep doing it. And you know, we need that. We need encouragement and what we do, do the right things that we do.
And we really need it all the time. At least I know I do. I think we're all.
We need, we need that encouragement to go on. We need to do it. And we, we have such an effect on one another, you know.
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Encourage my brother here that I can build them off or I can rip them down at any moment. They need that.
Interact a lot.
Sometimes I'm surprised talking with brothers that get going on so well with no stress. How often?
What's in the game play?
Sometimes you talk to brothers, you hear it going on so well, and they'll tell you how many times they just wanted to throw in the towel and give up.
The breastplate of faith and love was that being before us, protection for our hearts and what what our affections go after and what we think about and pursue after as an object controls our lives.
We know that thing.
Natural things, what we, what we think about is going to affect our conduct. Sooner or later it's going to come out. So we need the helmet of of the helmet, the hope of salvation.
Salvation here I think is referring to the ultimate aspect when.
The Lord returns and we have the salvation of our bodies. It says there in Ephesians 4. Dream not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed until you fail. No, the Spirit of God will not leave you, so don't grieve Him whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. I thought you had your redemption already. But that is the redemption of the body, the culmination when we are.
Body, soul and spirit with the Lord. And that's the hope of salvation, is it not here?
To be glorified with Christ.
Is that right?
Just say the the breastplate covering the breast speaks of the heart and affections. Well, the believer has affections for Christ, doesn't he? But they need to be guarded. They need to be protected as they have before us earlier. If they're not, there's going to be disastrous consequences in our life. So those affections, you know, in Song of Solomon says we have a little sister, she has no breasts. What shall we do?
In other words, her affections weren't developed yet. What shall we do? Well, we're going to enclosure with boards. We're going to protect her.
We're going to protect her while those affections develop, and that's really the breastplate here, protecting affection for Christ.
That couldn't be damaged and so we need that carefully in place. Well, helmets on the head.
So their brother brought out what we think too, you know, and bad doctrine can affect our practice. What is our hope? As he said, it's salvation. It's to be completely delivered from the scene. Completely delivered. What's what would be a wrong hope? All things are going to get better down here. We just got to work hard, pull it together. We'll convert the world and we'll bring in the Kingdom of Christ. That's not the hope of salvation.
That's the wrong hope, and that would leave our thoughts unprotected. If our thoughts are unprotected, those are the kind of thoughts that can get in and that affects our practice and walk here in this world.
Wouldn't you say that?
They lost the helmet, you might say, because in the second, in Second Thessalonians, they had thought they were going to go through the day of the judgment. And so they had. They lost that hope of salvation that they should have had.
The affections for Christ, how important. And the Lord Jesus, I believe, is very sensitive to our affection for him.
Of course, the word to the Ephesians assembly there in Revelation I have against the Dallas left I first loved and I was thinking to it. And the song is solid. There's reference.
To the bride's appreciation.
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Of the affections of the bridegroom.
And she says.
I love is better than wine, but when it comes to.
Bridegroom Speaking of the affections of the bride.
Something is added.
Thy love is much better than one.
So we see how the Lord He looks on the heart.
And we can be doing things right, outwardly speaking. But what about the heart? Is our hearts? Are they really warmed up to Christ? This is what he looks at.
And if there is that heart affection for Christ, it's going to be manifest in doing that, which is pleasing.
To him.
I think Sober is in connection with the fact that he has revealed these things to us. He's revealed what he's going to judge and he wants us to walk separately from it. He wants us to have a sound right moral judgment of this world and all the things around us. And.
So, so that's what sobriety is. Someone's not sober. They're imperceptible of their surroundings. And he goes on to say that they that be drunk and they're drunken in the night, they don't know what's going on. So Brian is the opposite of that. We know what's going on. We see clearly, we understand clearly.
Someone is inebriated does not until it's too late.
So to be sober, would that be to acknowledge those things if we come in contact maybe with somebody in our daily walk with our work or whatever it might be. And, and they have that, that opposite hope what you said a few minutes ago. And they think that the world is going to get better and they're going to pull it all together. And, and we just sort of chuckle with them and go along our merry way and don't set them straight. Is that part of being sober? Show them that.
That part of being a light as opposed to, isn't it?
Yeah, I would say both, but just the whole moral condition of this world we get can easily get dulled to it and have light thoughts about the seriousness of the moral condition of this world. You know, we get we do get dull to it and so we're exorbitant to be sober.
How can we go along with the entertainment world and everything that's safe? You know, it's Satans world really that we are in.
It's it's as old as the days of Cain. That's when the world began. Cain went out from the presence of the Lord. Indeed.
He developed agriculture and science and entertainment and pleasure and built a city and called the city after the name of his son. It was all to make himself comfortable outside of the presence of the Lord.
And he had murdered his brother. Well, this is the character of the world in which we live. So we are here not to isolate ourselves from the world, brethren, No, but to.
To give the message to be reconciled to God, we have that privilege of pointing souls through the way of escape from this rock. I guess this is probably referring to the tribulation period. Like at the chapter one wait for his son from heaven which whom he raised from the dead. Even Jesus which delivered us from the wrath to come, but not the tribulation. Yet I believe it is.
We get a 2IN Romans chapter 5 verse nine. It says much more than being now justified by His blood. We shall be saved from wrath through Him. I think these are good verses to show that the church will not go through the tribulation. We often refer to Revelation chapter 3 verse 10 but these are others that back that up again as you say. So salvation in this ninth verse that you're referring to brother John.
Is really the ultimate salvation like you were saying, Body, soul and spirit.
It's what's mentioned in Romans 13 too. Now is our salvation here.
Thinking about the culmination.
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The Lord Jesus Christ bore the wrath of God for us on Calvary Cross and to say that the church will go through the wrath of God is really casting a slight on the finished work of Christ. There is no there remaineth no more, wrath remaineth no more.
It was all taken care of at the cross. To say the church would pass through is a slight to the work of Christ.
What also changes the Lorde character?
Which is most disturbing?
Right. I mean the apostle spoke of another Jesus. He said, you know, if they preach another Jesus, they come to you Speaking of another Jesus. That means that Jesus that is not the one that is presented to us in the Scripture, but one that they have added attributes or removed after these from a miscarriage. It would not be the Lord's character to punish his bra.
That that doesn't fit his character.
It's another Jesus is what it is.
That's what's most troubling those who believe those things is what do they? What is it saying about him?
That is not the Jesus that's been presented with blessing the script.
There's another doctrine that has come in.
Over the years, but it's gained some traction. I just mentioned it, and that is that yes, the church will be saved from wrath, but the wrath is only the last 3 1/2 years of the tribulation. And there are scriptures that show that that time is specifically called the time of God's wrath, the pouring out of the breath. And they point to those scriptures and say, you see, we're going to go through the 1St 3 1/2 years of the tribulation, but just before the wrath of God is poured out in the last three.
Will be raptured and so they hold what's called a mid tribulation rapture and that may present some difficulty to answer.
Because they point to the very verses we've just taken up. Saved from coming raft, you see. Yes, the last 3 1/2 years of the tribulation.
The Revelation Four and Five hold the key to that. They teach, generally speaking, the church is raptured under the 6th seal just before the last 3 1/2 years unfold. But in Revelation Four and five, who do we see? And I'm not going to. I'm only going to briefly mention it. You can go look yourself. You find in the heavenly company 4 and 20 elders.
They're all complete and they're very well identifiable as you go through Revelation as the as the rapture, Heavenly Saints. They are Saints. There's not one missing. There's 24 Thrones and there's 24 of them. They're all there. They're all complete and they are there worshipping and praising. Before 1 seal is open, that whole company is there.
Before 1 seal is OK, they're all there.
They're not waiting half of them and waiting for the rest to be caught up, you know, under the 6th deal halfway through the Tribulation. I just give you that. But that's the key to that, that doctrine that would take the very verses we're looking at, but twist them and sort of make a difficulty is to know how to answer. While the key is Revelation 4:00 and 5:00.
The 24 elders would be everyone that has pardoned the first resurrection apart from the martyred Saints of the Tribulation.
In chapter 6, is that the 1St 3 1/2 years of the tribulation period? The seals, is that correct? So it mentions about rap there in chapter 6. The left would prove that document is an error too, wouldn't it?
The mid tribulation perhaps? Or is that right to you? Well I think they use that.
I don't want to go too far down that road, but.
In in chapter 6 of Revelation, it's.
Turn to it.
When you get down to the 6th seal, that's when they say we're 17, the great day of His wrath has come. Oh, you see, that's when the wrath comes. So we're raptured under the 6th seal. So they use that. What you're saying not to disprove it, but they use it to prove it. Like I said, the key is not chapter 6. The key is Revelation 4 and five, seeing who the elders are.
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Before 1 seal is open.
There's a little hint, too, of the Lord's coming. When the Lord says come up, hit her.
So really, he's concluding in verse 10.
Difficulty that had come up.
With the Saints in Thessalonica as to those who had died.
And they're concerned that they would miss out.
Have been brought before us, so he says who died for us that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. Whether alive and remaining till is coming or whether asleep in Jesus all are going to be caught up and whether wake or sleep we're going to live with him.
And then he concludes where for comfort yourselves and identify. It is edifying, isn't it, when we bring the whole thing together, not only the the rapture of the Saints to answer that question, but his coming.
And our reigning with him. And it's an edifying subject. And here was this young assembly and they were being taught those things right early on. The prophecy isn't something that, oh, you push off the way down the road, yeah, there may be things that need to be taken up maybe first. And a young believer's life needs to be addressed first. But a prophetic outline, the hope of the Lord's coming and our reigning with him, that's all.
Very important part of of a new believers instruction.
They could give just one comment about Rath again.
Wrath is not so much against sin as it is against the Sinner, It's against the person. And so the Lord Jesus took our sin upon himself. He took the wrath of God against himself. And so the wrath of God will never come against the believer. Wrath is against the person, not against the sin. So we are free from that wrath because the Lord Jesus took that wrath for us. And so we will never experience the wrath of the tribulation.
And the judgments of the tribulation, the first half, second-half is against the Senate.
I know this has been alluded to, but approximate implication of this whole topic is tremendous when you look around it, you live with their whole bin. A few thousand votes being more on one side than the other side is because.
They're hoping that the tide will be reversed. And maybe they're they're hoping for the Kingdom that he's had up down here. Or maybe when you look at what's happening in North America and throughout the whole world, it puts you into a state of panic just considering where's this going to end up for our kids? Where's this going to end up for us? What's it going to mean for jobs?
All of those things, but to realize that the Lord is not appointed this will happen here is a tremendous to realize it doesn't matter.
Whether the Supreme Court overturns the vote in a certain area is a tremendous thing. To realize that we can go to bed at night and know that we're not putting our accounts, our hope on one side versus another side is an incredibly profitable thing.
I think even as we talk to other believers, we're seeing this attack not only.
The truth of this in terms of the rapture and it could be 1000 years from now. He's also attacked getting the rapture mixed up with the the, the coming, the appearing of the Lord and he's attacked has been mentioned. Well, maybe Lord will come halfway through the privilege and we'll go through wrap. All of these things are a tremendous comfort if we consider them in the light of what is happening every single day.
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I know for myself that you've been wonderful just to think about it, because all of these.
Problems that we see as we read and talk to people every day are answering in the very thing that we've been considering everything that this world is struggling with right now. When the Lord comes and is appearing will be when he sets up his opinion will be set right. You'll have perfect government. You'll have perfect rule against the sin in this world. The the environmental issues will be cleared up all of these things and will be with him. And so it is as it says here it says.
Comfort yourself together to edify one another, I think even as leaders.
It's something that we can share not in a we're better than you type of attitude just to consider these things because.
From from the start of the Bible, the end of the Bible, we see that the Lord takes his people out away from that. It's not even just a good one is a tremendous verse than to have in your back up and say what I was going to write a very good verse to learn and to know to answer if somebody says how do you know the word 24 relationship. Having a few of these verses in your back pocket. As you say this is what is giving me peace in this topic.
Is very, very helpful. And so it is it's.
Nice to know these things in theory, but they're possible right now are probably more important than they ever have that. I appreciate what you said, Steve, was the two reasons.
The Lord has given us these things so that we know how to think and act in the very situations we face everywhere.
Just really enjoyed brother Mark. The end of Philippians 3.
Verse 20 for our conversation or the root is of that word the same route as politics and translated, I think Commonwealth citizenship, but our conversation, our citizenship is in heaven from whence also we look for the Savior. We're not looking for any savior in this world don't matter who he is.
We're not looking for any savior in this world.
The Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able to what? Even to subdue all things unto himself. That's the one we're looking for, the one that will subdue all things unto himself, and nobody else is going to.
The first is June of the recently.
I'm thinking of Jonah the man, not the type that we.
We take out in regards to Christ, but he says, When my soul painted within me, I remember the Lord, and my prayer came in unto thee into thine homely council. And here's the verse. They that observed lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
The world is.
Not real.
The world is the enemy's dominion.
He's the father of lies, deception.
He would lead us down past that.
We are full of bread, full of fear, or we buy into what he has to offer, which seems to be wonderful, whatever it might be. He's got a a portion for every heart. He would like to fill every heart with his offers. But they're lying vanities and they that observe blinding vanities for safety and all mercy. So you end up laundering around just like the world is.
Acting the way the ones in darkness act in fear and red.
Like to add one more thought. I know we're right at the end of our time.
Going back to something I've rather mentioned in the open meeting connection with going on in the truth of being gathered to the Lord's name, that this is something the Lord wants to continue.
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And going back to the address to the church in Philadelphia, Revelation 3.
To the Angel of the Church of Philadelphia, right these things say, if he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shut it and shut it, and no man open it. All governmental power in key of David rests on his shoulders. And when he opens the door, you don't have to worry about the politics of this world shutting it.
That we would not be able to go on in the recovered truth. It's not going to happen.
Please open the door and he holds those that key.
We can trust them.
We say #40 in the appendix. 40 in the appendix.
Hail to the Lords. Anointing. Great dangerous, great turn the time of morning.
The rolling years shall come.
He comes straight, no pressure.
To set the counter free.
Take away transgression.
And rolling equity.
The children's here of him getting counseling, and Roy's inquiry shall breathe in.
Anything for him.
Shall be surrender of God.
And righteousness in those days, ground hills to wildly flow.
He shuffle down before again and go again. Sainsbury's.
All the nation shall afford him.
His grace of people saying.
And stretch his wife Dominican over everything.
Father, we thank you so much for this time. Thank you for every answered prayer that we enjoyed sitting in these meetings. Thank you for what has thrilled our hearts over and over again, and each time so freshly as you think of the Lord Jesus, as we think of the promise of being snatched up out of this world.
With to the great surprise of this world.
To be with our Savior, the Lord Jesus, the one who completely.
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For the wrath of God.
And we think of the sweetness of thinking of great David's greater son appearing.
Before all the earth, before all the world.
And for the promise that we will be with him.
And seen with him.
So undeservingly, and yet so fittingly due to his work.
They think of the expectation of two seeing all creation with sin set in.
Proper place, if we could say and.
Seeing all things in in their proper order and.
We look forward to seeing as we just pray that these these truths as we've been encouraged, we would not let go of and not only would we hold on to them, but we would work to understand them and to share them. We give thanks for all these things in Jesus name, Amen.