Gospel—Bob Thonney
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For one thing, everybody's like four days run from the Matrix. It has made me crazy drinking behind the feeling. Once Upon a time, there was a bit.
However, lighting my.
Wherever it is, anywhere.
I say unto you.
Maryland is implication that I've heard.
Of us on the sun is true.
And I've never heard the last day of life.
In my life, I'd like to sing.
Shall we gathered at his time?
Understand.
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That there can be him. That's just now I'm not getting it for my name's.
Yes, you have to go back to the rocking.
OK, the Gloria, the glory of God.
The rest of his life is coming.
And watching the same girls love.
When you plants they're at the squad of them shall not get one to cluttering bridge and everything when I don't know if you're taking some money, but not one person when I'm due to take and pregnant. I'm saying anything. You know what I mean you know what I mean you know that's what I'm aware of the reality of God.
It's glory and it's Gloria's coming.
You have your wisdom saying that it's gone.
You don't understand, let's say I saw her, but if you call the Lord, she can do why it has no.
Hell of a God. You've got a lot of things and it's gone and it's laundry us. It's glory of God.
For the Word of God is living and operative and sharper than any two edged sword.
Dividing between the dividing asunder between the soul and spirit and the joints in Morrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest before him, but all things.
Our naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
That's great, gracious God our Father.
What is solemn moment? This is when we deal with the question.
Of time and eternity, of the salvation of lost souls, Father.
We don't know how many might be here in this room and still not ready to meet Thee. We pray, Father, for help tonight as we open Thy word and speak from it. Thy Spirit may be at liberty to press home Thy precious word to the heart and conscience.
There would be lasting blessing. We pray and give thanks, Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus, Amen.
Let's turn to 2nd Corinthians chapter 5.
2nd Corinthians 5.
Verse 19.
God was in Christ.
Reconciling the world.
Unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them.
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And hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech.
You buy us, we pray you in Christ dead be ye reconciled to God, for he that's God hath made him that's Jesus to be sin for us who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God.
In him.
We have in these versus the story of the gospel. God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself.
God did not need to be reconciled to the world. It was we who were sinners that needed to be reconciled to God.
But we have done absolutely nothing to be reconciled to God. It was God that.
Acted on his own behalf that to lay the groundwork so that we could be reconciled to God. Wonderful story of God's grace story I'm sure everyone of us has heard.
Again and again. But you know what I find? There is power in simplicity of the message of the cross of Christ simply to present it.
Nothing new, but always true. Wonderful message of the cross of Christ. God was in Christ the Lord Jesus.
Is the Son of God He always?
Was the Son of God. He never became at any point in time the Son of God.
Is the eternal Son in the bosom of the Father?
There was a point of time in which he became a man. He became Incarnate. It was necessary because God, as such cannot die. He is immortal. And so to be able to reconcile this world to himself, it was necessary that death should take place. And so God sent his only Son.
And he came into this world as a little baby boy.
Oh, the marvel of it, the glorious Son of God born in Bethlehem.
You know, it must have been a wonder to the angels as they came down and viewed their Creator for the first time.
God in his essence is invisible to any creature.
And so the angels had never seen their Creator before Jesus came into this world.
But when he came into this world, nobody seemed to know what had happened.
The tremendous event that had taken place.
They were totally ignorant. There were people that had the Bible in their hands, at least the Old Testament scriptures. They could answer the questions as to where he was to be born. They had no clue that the creator.
Of the universe that entered into his own creation in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ.
A little baby.
And they told his poor mother that she could go out into the stable.
Where the animals were, and there she gave birth to the Lord Jesus Christ. The angels came down and I'm sure they must have wondered, where are these people?
Don't they have a clue as to this tremendous fact? And they go out to try to find somebody to give the news to. And the only ones they could find that were out and about were some poor shepherds up in the countryside. And they came and gave them the news. Wonderful news that this day has been born unto you, a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. Oh, what a wonderful story it is.
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But what a tremendous thing it is when the Creator of the universe came into this world, there he was in a stable, and his mother wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in the Manger.
Oh, the story. What a story. And so the Lord Jesus passed through this world relatively unknown. There were a few who recognized him.
I think we have the names of six people who were waiting for him, of course, Joseph and Mary. And then there was Zacharias and Elizabeth, the parents of John the Baptist. And then there was a Simeon, and there was an Anna, and it says that Anna spoke to him of all those that looked for salvation in Jerusalem. So there were a few, but the vast majority were totally asleep.
You know, I just wonder if that's what it's gonna be like on the Lord's second coming.
You believe in the Lord's second coming.
Do you really believe it? Does it show in your life that you believe it?
Oh, the Lord grant that these things may not be simply so much knowledge stored up in the head. They may be a real, practical, living reality to us. God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. The Lord Jesus went through the paths of this world.
Showing that God is light and that God is love people didn't appreciate.
The light that showed them their condition.
I get all muddy.
And I'm out in the dark. I might not appreciate somebody coming up to me and say, hey, man, you're all muddy.
But that's the truth of the matter and the more I get into the light, the more it's going to become evident that I'm Almighty. The life light shows that which is our condition and that's what people did not appreciate about the Lord Jesus. The religious people were the 1St that were at enmity with Him. They were the ones that arrested him, had him arrested and took him to Pontius Pilate to condemn Him to the death of the cross.
Pilot recognized that there was a man that was totally innocent of all the charges they brought against him, and yet because he was a real politician, he accepted the will of the people and condemned the Lord Jesus to the death of the cross, the most awful death. If you study the history of this world, the different forms of capital punishment that were executed on people.
Almost the worst type of execution was.
Crucifixion. And so the glorious Son of God was taken and condemned to the death of the cross. It was delivered to the soldiers, and the soldiers beat him with their fists. They crowned him with thorns.
Pilot had him scourged even though he knew he was innocent.
Read a book about Roman scourging and they called it The Living.
Criminals often did not survive scourging. They scourged Jesus, and then they laid the cross on him to take it outside the city of Jerusalem.
He was replaced by another man, Simon the Cyrenian. But when they got to Calvary, there they took the Lord's blessed hands that it extended such mercy and blessing to mankind.
Nailed them to the cross and his feet.
There he hung between heaven and earth, the glorious Son of God, the Creator of the universe.
What a story, what a story.
There he hung from 9:00 in the morning. We calculate time till 3:00 in the afternoon.
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When he died, he hung in life. The first three hours he was object of the ridicule and scorn of the people around.
He said prophetically in the Psalms, Reproach has broken my heart, and I'm full of heaviness, and I look for some to take pity. And there was none and for comforters, but I found none.
They said he if he's the Son of God, let God deliver him. Did God deliver him?
Now it broke his heart.
You know, these are not the atoning sufferings that we're talking about, but they are very real and they show how much He loved us. Nothing could staunch the fountain of love in his heart.
Then came.
The noon time and the Scripture tells us that for three hours it was dark and there was silence on that center cross for three solid hours. But we're not for the testimony of Scripture. We wouldn't know what happened. But Isaiah the prophet tells us very clearly.
He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities.
The chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripes we are healed.
In our verse here it says, He hath made him to be sin for us.
Who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
You know, we get kind of used to sin in our lives. We see it so much on every side and we kind of get used to it. But here was a one who was intrinsically holy, the glorious, spotless, sinless Son of God.
When the Angel Angel announced to the Virgin Mary that she was to be the mother of the Son of God, he said.
That holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.
He was holy, sinless, spotless, not only.
Did he not sin? But he could not sin, not only because.
He was God in the flesh, but because He was holy humanity, he could not sin.
There he hung.
The holy sin bearer. And in those three hours God laid on him.
The inequity.
Of us all.
And that storm of divine judgment broke in all its fury on his head.
For three hours there were billows and waves and billows of God's judgment passed over him.
God takes sin seriously. Maybe you laugh at it.
God does not laugh at sin. Sin wrecks people, Sin ruins people. And if you choose to go on in your sin, it will wreck you, and if you don't face the issue, it will wreck you forever.
God doesn't want that, and that's why he's calling you to repentance.
The large Asus at the end of those three hours cries out. My God, my God.
Why hast thou forsaken me?
In the moment of his most awful need.
God forsook His Son because He was resolving the issue of sins.
Have you faced the question of your sins? You may say, well, I've never done that much that's that bad.
Did you know that one little lie will keep you out of heaven forever?
It tells us very clearly in the Book of Revelation that no lie will ever enter there, and if you do not face and deal with that question of your sins, you will never enter that holy city. It won't happen. God has told us very clear. God takes sin seriously sometimes when we preach the gospel in the prison where we go.
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I say to the men, remember how old Adam lived to be when he.
Was created and put in this world. Some of them remember that he was 930 years old when he died. I say, hey, what happened to us? How come we can't hardly get up to a hundred, 930 years?
Sin has wreaked havoc on the human race and some people that get into sin in a major way look.
Old beyond their years, because sin degenerates.
Synrex havoc on people. That's why God hates it. Yes, He hates your sin and he wants you to repent and realize how serious the question of sin is.
God took it seriously. He sent his only son and the Lord Jesus his Son.
Took on him the question of our sins before a holy God.
I don't think we grasp sufficiently.
How holy God is, He cannot stand sin in his presence, and that's why when his own beloved Son was hanging there.
In that awful agony.
God had to turn his face from him.
Because sin had to be put away, and the only way to do it was by the sacrifice.
Of his own beloved son. And that's what took place on the Cross of Calvary.
Another moment later, the Lord Jesus Christ it is finished.
He pronounced as God. He pronounced the conclusion of a finished work.
All the judgment that was against us as guilty sinners was.
Gone. It's done. It's forever gone.
Thank God we can say there's a way back to God. There is a groundwork now to be reconciled to God.
Oh, what a wonderful story God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and has committed unto us the Word.
Of reconciliation he hath made him to be sin for.
US who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Isn't that wonderful?
We were the sinners, but if you simply repent of your sins.
And believe in the Lord Jesus. You will be made the righteousness of God.
In him, in other words, God shows his righteousness in bringing guilty sinners into the very presence of God for all eternity. How in the world could God do that if God is righteous?
Because of what Jesus paid on the cross of Calvary.
Oh, how important it is to be clear about these matters.
Dear young people, do you have settled peace in your soul? We're getting close to the judgment of this world. It's getting close. And I want to use the last part of this meeting to talk about the Lord's coming. We sang that last hymn about that. The Lord is coming back again, and He's coming soon.
Are you ready? Do you have peace in your soul about it? I'd like to invite you, if you don't have peace about it, to come and talk to me or somebody else after the meeting, because it is very important that you understand that Christ has made.
Expiation through his precious blood. He has put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. You know there's a word used in the Old Testament again and again.
Atonement and atonement means a covering in the Old Testament times.
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Sin was covered by the blood of a God ordained sacrifice.
But when we come to the New Testament, we find it's really not used that word.
It is in the King James translation in one place, but it really should be a different word there.
Christ has put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. It's not merely covered, it's completely put away. Oh, the wonderful sacrifice of the Lord Jesus. Jesus bowed his head and died, and he was taken down and buried, and the third day he rose again. It was just as if God could not wait until that moment came when three days.
Three nights ago, and he lifted him out of that grave. The Lord Jesus is a living man. God accepted the sacrifice that he made, and the testimony to the fact that that sacrifice was accepted is the presence of the Lord Jesus at the right hand of God. Thank God for that.
But the Lord Jesus is coming back again, and that's what we want to talk about. Our brother last night talked about briefly Matthew 24, and I'd like to go back, go to that chapter again and go over it briefly to talk about.
Things that we are seeing in our world take place that make us realize that we're getting close to the time when Jesus is going to come back again to this world.
Things are not going to continue the way they are going today.
God is going to intervene directly.
You know, people think that we're in a crisis, an economic crisis now. Yeah, we are. But just like all the other economic crisis, we'll pass through it and we'll keep on going.
That's not exactly the picture that Scripture paints, and I want you to just look at this chapter as we read through it.
Want to make a statement before we get into reading it that what we are talking about in this chapter is something that will take place after the rapture of the church. Every true believer in the Lord Jesus that is here and God only knows if you're real. I just want to stop and say if you have not got it straight with God yet, please don't delay tonight. Take care of the matter. Get.
Right with God.
Make sure you're right. Make sure it's way too important to fool around with.
But at that moment of the rapture, the Lord Jesus is going to descend out of heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of God.
And the dead in Christ will rise 1St, and we which are alive and remain are going to be caught up together to meet the Lord in the air. And so shall we ever be with the Lord. That is what we wait for momentarily.
No date setting here. People like to set dates.
And they show their folly when they do that. What was set the other day has now been readjusted to October 21St I understand.
I don't get it how people are not grounded in the word of God and they keep on being deceived.
No, it could happen at any moment. I wonder if it's gonna happen before October 21St. Very well could happen at any moment. Only God knows that moment. But the Lord is gonna take his people out, and then what? You know, I've often commented I think the United States of America is gonna be one of the most awful places to have to live after the rapture of the Church.
I'm not planning to be around.
I hope nobody else here is either.
But if that happens, it's gonna be awful, awful, awful.
Let's just read this chapter in brief.
Jesus went out this is Matthew 24 verse one and departed from the temple and his disciples came to him for to show him the buildings of the temple.
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Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? Verily I say unto you, There shall not.
Be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
Now the temple that existed when the Lord Jesus spoke these words was Herod's temple.
Herod had evidently built a temple that was very much appreciated by the Jews of that time. And Jesus said, not one stone of these stones will be left upon another. This these first 2 verses have already been fulfilled in human history. In 8070, about 40 years after the Lord Jesus was crucified, Titus, the Roman general came into Jerusalem.
And destroyed the city. He gave commandments, according to the historical account, that they should preserve the tempo. But some soldier threw a torch through a window of the temple, and it set it ablaze inside. And so hot was the fire, according to the record, that the gold melted and ran down in between the rocks of the temple. So that the word of the Lord Jesus was literally.
Fulfilled. Not one stone was left upon another to get.
The goal that was in between those rocks, they actually threw down every single one of them. This is a good point to realize. Now what we have from verse three on is future. But remember when God says something that's going to happen. So now verse three, it says as he sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came into him privately saying.
Tell us when shall these things be, and what shall be the sign of thy coming?
And of the end of the world. Or it could be the end of the age.
And I suggest that perhaps that refers to the times of the Gentiles. The times of the Gentiles was a period of time that began when Nebuchadnezzar, the first king of the Babylonian Empire, came into Jerusalem and took the authority of government away from the Jewish people.
God had allowed His people to reign until that time, but they were so unfaithful that He took it away from them from and gave it to the Gentile powers and the times of the Gentiles extends from Nebuchadnezzar right down to the time at the end of the tribulation period when Jesus is going to come back and take the kingdoms as his own.
That's the times of the Gentiles.
I suppose that that might be what is said here. I'm open to correction on that, but uh, we'll leave it there. And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take he that no man deceive you, for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ and shall deceive many.
And you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that ye be not troubled, for all these things must come to pass.
But the end is not yet.
For a nation shall rise against nation, and Kingdom against Kingdom, and there shall be famines.
And pestilences and earthquakes in diverse places. All these are the beginnings of sorrows.
Notice anything that relates today's world? I think you can.
Remember, we're not talking about today's world. We're talking about what's going to happen after the rapture of the church. But somebody has said coming events cast their shadows. Do you see a black cloud with Thunder and lightning in the distance? You say the storm is coming. And when we see these things happening that relate to what we've been talking about.
In the world, we say the storm is coming.
Most awful time of the history of this world.
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The 1St 3 1/2 years of the tribulation period, which is a period of seven years.
Like to ask sometimes, what is it that signals the beginning of those seven years of tribulation?
Sometimes people say the rapture of the church. No, it's not the rapture of the church. What is it?
It is a pact that will be signed between the Roman Prince, the head of Western Europe, and the people of Israel. When that fact is signed, there will be seven years that pass in this world and Jesus will set his feet down.
On the Mount of Olives.
Oh, hyperlink it is to see some of these things starting to take place. Are we asleep? Are we awake as to how when we're living here in this world?
The beginning of sorrows that mentions in verse eight is the first generally thought to be the first 3 1/2 years.
Of the seven-year period.
Says verse 9. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated of all names nations, for my name's sake. He's talking to these Jewish disciples.
This is going to be the truth of the matter for the Jewish people in the coming day. We can already see it happening over there.
In Israel. Seems like Israel's predicament in the world gets more impossible every day.
I don't know how in the world are able to deal with it. I suppose that the problems that Syria has is having in their own country deflects from attention to Israel, and perhaps that is a temporary mercy from that sector. But Israel is going to be hated of all nations. It already is.
And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many, let me tell you.
If you do not read and base your faith on the precious word of God.
You will be deceived.
Terrible to think about it, and it's scary when I see people who call themselves Christians who don't read their Bibles and don't have no clue what's going on in the world around. God has put these things here so that we have our eyes open and understand what's going on.
Because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
We heard about being lukewarm today.
Verse 13 But he that shall endure unto the end.
The same shall be saved.
Now it's not saved in the sense that we are talking about for a Christian in this time period.
Saved here is for those Jewish people who will be passing through the Great Tribulation period, and if they endure to the end, they will be saved to enter the Millennial day.
Under the reign of Christ.
This gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness, and to all nations. And then.
Shall the end come? Gospel of the Kingdom is not exactly the same gospel that we preach today. We preach today that if you have faith in Christ, if you repent of your sins, have faith in the Lord Jesus, you will have forgiveness of sins, you'll have eternal life, and you'll have a home in heaven. But the gospel of the Kingdom was the gospel that the Lord Jesus preached at the beginning of his ministry. It's the same gospel that John the Baptist preached. Repent.
Straighten out your ways. The King is coming and he's not going to put up with those sins of yours.
The axis led to the root of the trees.
God takes sin seriously, and if you don't take sin seriously, you're going to suffer the consequences.
Now we come to verse 15.
And just like to say there is verses that we could read but for times sake we're not going to read tonight. The verse 15 really takes place at the middle of the tribulation week after the 1St 3 1/2 years.
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And you if you read in Daniel chapter 20, Chapter 9 and verse 27, that's where you'll find it. When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet.
Stand in the holy place. Whoso readeth, let him understand.
I believe this to be the.
When the Antichrist goes into the temple that will be built in Jerusalem and declares himself to be God.
It is what is called in Scripture, the apostasy. We have apostasy today.
But the apostasy is when they turn from even the outward form of the worship of God in heaven.
And worship a man on the earth as if he were God. And the Antichrist is a man that perhaps is living in the world today.
And he's going to go into the temple and he's going to say enough, no more sacrifices here to a God in heaven. I'm God you worship me under pain of death.
These things are in the works.
That's the abomination of desolations. And so the Lord Jesus is saying to these Jewish believers.
And I suppose they'll read these verses. Then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains. Let him that is on the housetop not come down to take anything out of his house, neither let him that is in the field return back to take his clothes. And woe unto them which are which child, and to them that give suck in those days. But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day. It shows that it's Jewish.
For then notice verse 21.
Shall be.
Great tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world.
To this time.
No, nor ever shall be.
The most awful time of judgment in the history of their world is just ahead, and most people don't have a clue.
Many Christians so call Christians God knows.
Don't know it either.
Oh, the awfulness of what's just ahead for this poor world. Except those days should be shortened. There should be no flesh saved, But for the elect's sake, those days shall be shortened.
Then if any man say unto you, lo, here is Christ, or there believe it not.
For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets shall show great signs and wonders.
Have a lot of people talk about signs and wonders today. They like to talk about signs and wonders. Be careful.
Insomuch that if it were possible, it's not possible to deceive the elect, but if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I have told you before. Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert, go not forth. The holy is in the secret chambers. Believe it not. For as the lightning cometh out of the east and shineth even into the West, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.
You know, when it talks about the Lord Jesus coming as the Son of man, it's not the rapture, it's the appearing when He comes, because as a man He's coming to judge this world in righteousness. Verse 28 For wheresoever the carcass is, there will be Eagles be gathered together, all the Jewish people that fear the Lord and that respect his precious word.
Are going to get out of Jerusalem.
And what will be left?
The dead profession of those Jews that stayed behind.
Wheresoever the carcass is there, will the Eagles be gathered together?
Rather strange that the symbol of the United States of America is an eagle. I suppose the Eagles would mean the different nations. They're all interested in that little piece of real estate in the Middle East.
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Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light.
And the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heaven shall be shaken.
The sun, the moon, the stars, figurative of this earthly system of government that we are used to. President of the United States is the number one man of authority in this country.
He has other authorities that are derived from him, Vice president. There are lesser authorities. The stars, it's gonna all be replaced. The Lord Jesus is coming back to set up his Kingdom.
And then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven, and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn.
And they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power.
And great glory. Oh, the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ. You know what?
We talk about the rapture. They're relatively few scriptures that talk about the rapture. But when we talk about the glorious superior of the great God and our Savior Jesus Christ, Scripture is full of it. I suppose the end of the Tribulation period, when God introduces his man into power in this world, when he vindicates his own Son who hung on that cross as a condemned criminal, he's going to vindicate him.
It's gonna be the most glorious display of power at this world has ever seen or ever will see. Oh, I'm looking forward to that day. I don't know. There's many others that are looking forward to it.
Sorry.
Verse 31 And he shall send his angels with a great sign of a trumpet.
Great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together. His elect from.
The four winds from one end of the heaven to the other. This is not the rapture. We want to make clear this.
Sometimes people think that it's re the rapture and they say that's why they think that the rapture will be after the tribulation. But this is not talking about the rapture of the church. This is talking about the regathering of these scattered, of the 12, the 10 tribes that are scattered in the earth.
Notice, when He comes to receive us to Himself, the Lord Himself shall come with a shout here. It's not the Lord Himself. He's going to send His angels out and gather His elect, those elect of the nation of Israel, from one end of heaven to the other. Now learn a parable of the fig tree. When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, you know that summer is 9. Victory is one of the figures of the nation of Israel.
In 1948.
After almost 2000 years of non existence, the nation of Israel reappeared.
When ye see the fig tree putting forth its leaves, know that summer is nigh. So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.
Verily I say unto you, this generation shall not pass till all these things be fulfilled.
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
But of that day and hour, no man.
No, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
And as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.
For, as in the days that were before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying, giving and marriage.
Until the day that Noah entered into the ark and knew not until the flood came and took the mall away.
So shall also the coming of the Son of Man be. Then shall two be taken, be in the field, the one shall be taken and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill, and one shall be taken in the other left.
Again, this is not the rapture. We wanna clarify it. It's what takes place when the Lord Jesus establishes His Kingdom in this world. He's gonna send forth His angels, according to Matthew 13, and gather out of His Kingdom all things that offend. The one that's taken is cut off from the earth. The one that is left is left to go into the millennial day under the reign of Christ.
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Watch therefore, for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. Know this, that if the Goodman of the house had known and what watch the thief would come, he would have watched and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of Man cometh. I want you to jump over to chapter 25, verse 31 now.
The verses in between are rather a parentheses. And here we pick up on the coming of the Son of Man. Again, verse 31. When the Son of Man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then he shall sit upon the throne of his glory, and before him shall be gathered all nations, and he shall separate them from one another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats.
He shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
Here is the Lord Jesus setting on the throne of His glory, and this is what is called a sessional judgment.
And all the nations that are not dispatched by the war of Armageddon are going to be gathered before the throne of His glory here in this world. This is what is called the judgment of the living.
There will be a judgment of the dead as well, but this is the judgment of the living, and all the nations that are alive are going to be gathered and he's going to separate them and divide between them. I want to make clear here that.
This is not we're, we're not in this picture either of the sheep or the goats. We're not in this picture. We are with the Lord at this time when he judges, perhaps we will have something to do with the judgment. But he divides between the sheep and the goats. And verse 34 says, When then shall the king say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Here is the sheep on his right hand.
And it's a Kingdom they're going to inherit that was prepared from the foundation of the world. Those of us who are believers in the Lord Jesus were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world because the Church is a heavenly body. But here it is those who will inherit earthly blessing under the reign of Christ. There are those that have heard the gospel of the Kingdom.
And have shown kindness to the messengers of the Kingdom. And what follows, we're not going to have time to read it all, is that they gave one of those messengers a drink of water. They took them in, they showed kindness. They were naked and they clothed them. And in that way, they show they have faith and they're going to go into the millennial Kingdom on the earth. But then we come down to verse 40.
And he addresses the goats on his left hand. King shall answer and say unto them, I'm sorry. Verse 41 Then shall he say also unto them on his on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. Oh, how awful.
Those goats, those that heard the message of the Kingdom, perhaps someone who?
Perhaps is sat in a gospel meeting like we are in tonight and did not deal with the question of their sins and they kept refusing.
In the Great Tribulation period, if you are one of those persons, you will be deceived.
And you will face the Lord Jesus. Notice very clearly in verse 41, He did not prepare everlasting fire for the human race. He prepared it for the devil and his angels. God doesn't want anybody to go to this place.
And that's why he sends forth the message of the Gospel, pleading with souls to be reconciled to God.
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The way it is prepared, what he wants from you is repentance of your sins.
And faith in the Lord Jesus.
But those that do not do that.
Will go to have.
Their company with the devil and his angels in everlasting fire.
These are the words of the Son of God who could not lie. Please take it seriously PE please get right with God. If you haven't done it, do it right now. Again, I say, if there's any questions or doubts that you have, we are being more than willing to talk to you afterwards. To get clarity in your soul is very important, especially in view of the.
Momentous times that are just ahead for the history of this world.
Let's just close in prayer.
Gracious Father, thanks for thy precious word.