Ath of God against sin in his body 2 diametrically what we would think are opposed things yet they are both happening there on the day that he is true surviving and prophetically I see this playing out in reverse when we get to the Great White Throne Judgment and I'm I know you have good educated listeners out there the Great White Throne Judgment comes at the very end of time where he pulls all the last people out of hell to send them off to the lake of fire and one final judgment there are no save people with the white throne judgment and I see things that went on at the cross going on at the White Throne Judgment at the cross they ignored they didn't want to anything to do where they may just didn't want anybody to pay any attention to Jesus don't say he's the king of the Jews say he said he was the king of the Jews but after their judgment he's going to ignore them when it comes to their cries and screams for mercy then he's going to say no way Depart from Me I never knew you at the cross they denied him and he's going to NY them and then I will prove fasten to them I knew you not depart from me that ye that work in a quickie. And at the cross they wanted his destruction and at the judgment he's going to pronounce their destruction for all eternity they hated him at the cross Psalm $25.00 says consider mine him and me for they are many and they hate me with cruelty Dritte Can you imagine Jesus reading those scriptures before the day of his crucifixion saying that they hated me they hated me without a cause and then in some 261 Psalm later it says I have hated the congregation of evil doers and will not sit with the wicked so he's going to banish them and this awful judgment that none of us want to see anybody go through I keep trying to make that clear crystal clear Jesus was innocent but at this judgement the great white throne judgment he's going to declare them guilty they were trying to say he was guilty of blasphemy and so on and so forth the Bible says in a Exodus keeping mercy for thousands forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin but by he will by no means clear the guilty I think some people have the idea especially with the way the Gospel being presented today that God is so much love that really he's got some contingency plan b. In the back of his head that nobody knows about yet and really when it's all said and done he's just not going to send anybody to hell well that is a bold faced lie and I would want to serve a God like that if he was willing to send his Son to do something that meant nothing. His son as you were saying the other program his son's death was a pro p.c.h. And for our sins there had to be a payment for that stand any put the payment on him at the cross they gnashed their teeth at him you know imagine that just think you get a picture of that he's hanging there the Son of God He never he never did a single thing wrong he healed people effed people he raised them from the dead he healed the blind he opened ears with their hands all of the things that he did wonderful things and here they are gritting their teeth their Him just gnashing their teeth there they are so hateful and so angry and yet at the Great White Throne Judgment says he show cast them into a furnace of fire and there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth they will be gnashing their teeth for all eternity. And then finally at the cross there were 3 hours of darkness. I believe this was God made darkness I heard people say Well I think there was a an eclipse back then you know about that time there may have been an eclipse back then but an eclipse doesn't last but a few minutes in full darkness this was 3 hours or God darkness is as I believe and I think you do too they got I didn't reduce it away a long time of the year for an eclipse there's no way in fact I know Julius offer Qantas who said it was an eclipse because he was Roman and he saw the darkness so it's almost been a cliff well he was wrong about what it was but he was right he recorded the darkness did not amazing Yeah I don't here's a nonbeliever who was wrong about what caused that but there was darkness and him well the prophetic implication in implication is that Jesus is going to banish them into an eternal darkness for ever and forever and forever so I see the love of God was offered there but the very things that they did to Jesus if you don't accept what he did for you in for your forgiveness of your sins you are going to get what you gave Jesus at the cross Well his cry of dereliction of from the Cross My God my God why has now forsaken me he was receiving the Forsaken mist of God that we would receive Ok the abandonment get that God actually for 3 hours abandon him now you know I've often said a lot of people think the nails were painful they really were but I think the really painful thing for Jesus I mean for all eternity a Father Son and Holy Spirit were together and love and you know we can kind of speculate about that but they were one Father Son and Holy Spirit but now because he was covered with the sins of the world he was experiencing for us if we will receive His love and grace what people will have to endure. Or for all eternity the Forsaken ist of God letters that are so painful but and that is exactly what what this book is trying to say we know what you just said is the terror of the Lord and knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we're trying to persuade people you don't want to go down that road without him put your faith and trust in the Lord and you don't want to be there because he is an awesome awesome God and He is not going to clear the guilty and a man a man will talk to us a little bit about wickedness and then I know that you also get into the area about beastie ality you just talk about wickedness and beastly ality and we've got so many perversions today and we certainly don't hate people who are under the dominion of these what should I say these godless or are godly emotions but it is something that is real is a talk about wickedness and beastie alley and maybe homosexuality as well and and also bringing Kenna homosexuals be saved Oh Ok Well yes a homosexual can be saved homosexuality is not the young forgivable Sam right and I think we need to we need to state them out front because it's such a hot topic and a hot button topic but by the same token the wicked that word wicked the 1st time that it shows up in the Bible the very 1st time it's mentioned and you know about how interesting it is do to get the full definition of a word by their law 1st mention in the Bible is when in Sodom and Gomorra they are called Wicked and they are called Wicked exceedingly. Wicked it sounds bad enough to me but it goes on to say wicked exceedingly Nowadays nobody seems to care they don't see it nobody seems to see it as Wake it anymore we have homosexual marriages within the church. I just saw last week where a church goes up and he's somewhere I had a transgender player of whatever it is in their sanctuary on a Saturday night as a way of trying to get the community to better accept the transgender lifestyle we have really gone off the rails and we're not helping the homosexual and we're not helping the trans gender person when we say you're Ok And it's been our fault not for loving you and understanding you're different the Bible is still the Bible the real the whole reason I put beast yalla t. In my book is The 2 scriptures lays side by side in Leviticus man will not lay with another man as he does with a woman and so on and will not lay with the beast it's an abomination it's confusion and I think in our day and age we still have really and I have them out to b.c. Ality at least I hope we do although I in my research and I write about it in the book they have beastie ality farms where people can go over in Europe and Germany and what have you and and do these horrid things believe about it it's happening it is happening I mean it's real in one of the farmers over there notice that his sheep were all of a sudden become a really sketchy and out of sorts so he put a camera in this barn and found out the men of the town were coming in every night this is horrible things and I think that most people still think that it's a horrible thing. But most people don't think homosexuality is a horrible thing and yet the Bible says verse side by side the 2 of them are an abomination in the confusion and neither want to be to be done but going back to what you asked homosexuals can be saved but he's got to admit that what God says about his actions is true and not what he says about his act. Sins are true and the offer is always there when the angels came to Sodom and Gomorrah and they came to a lot had there been 10 righteous Mihm they would've brought that judgement God is doing everything he can to bend over backwards to try to get people to understand what his laws are and they're not to defraud us of something good there to keep us from something evil that will destroy us a man well I think one of the unfortunate things about the l g b t lobby and the l g b t agenda is that they want people to believe that they are wired that way I beg to differ no one has found a gay gene and what I really love about the Lord's work and about the love of Jesus is that even though the mantra of the gay community is that well we can change the fact is that some of them are changing and you may remember the polls nightclub in Orlando Florida couple years ago and this guy by the name all Mormon McCain won him with I guess it was a or 15 or whatever and actually kill 50 of them and I think he wanted 53 Ok was he was the most learned member of that right he could just wipe them out was unbelievable However there were 2 of them that night I'm sure there are many more but there were 2 men in particular one man was Angel cologne and the other bands Dame was Luis Roux is and what happened to them was something that the homosexuals they can happen they got saved they changed and now in May I think it's called the day of freedom there are a large number of ex homosexuals who are now showing that yes Jesus can change us Jesus had change us and yet unbelievably there are some states like California where if if a homosexual comes to you. And you're a pastor I'm a pastor say hey Ben you know I'm suffering from a same sex attraction and I don't think that's right can you help me get out of it where you can't even give a person who wants help you can't give them counseling now that that is you know the gay lobby the liberals they're supposed to be loving sweet and kind Well they're really not they're very intolerant this is bigotry we're friends we are having a wonderful wonderful time with Pastor Mark Sheldon and myself He's the author of the book the terror of the Lord expanding our understanding of the character of God This is so important this is material that you don't hear much about you need to because then the Bible is by and is that just in the Old Testament the New Testament so you're the in 511 so this is a part that you'll want to get it will fire you up if you are a Christian who's kind of slouching a little bit and not really on fire for the Lord you date to be on fire for the Lord because there is a day of fire retribution judgment and vengeance is coming it's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Lord the terror of the Lord by Pastor Mark Sheldon 106521144 What are some of the blessings mark of living in the fear of the Lord was spoken about what it is we've described it and we've mentioned Scripture verses and so forth but how about some of the blessings for that person who lives in the fear of the Lord Well the fear the Lord 1st and foremost and probably when everybody knows is is the beginning of wisdom and the beginning of knowledge according to Proverbs I when I 1st got say 40 years ago the pastor that I was being mentored under at the time after a few months I was telling him I was kind of bemoaning Sam I just can't believe I live my life and I was 31 years old when I got saved I was. The moaning the fact that I I can't believe I have lived for 31 years and haven't done a single thing for the Lord and now it's just been a few months and I'm just learning and I just I've got so much I want to do but I know I've got to learn and he said you know you said Mark you and every Christian like you are better off than 95 percent of the people in the face of the earth because you know God and that puts you in a category to know what's really going on the fear of the Lord the blessing that comes is the wisdom and knowledge begins there doesn't matter how good you are making money doesn't matter how good you are some technology it means nothing and it will mean nothing in eternity the fear the Lord is an incredible blessing the fear the Lord will tend to toward life the Bible says you're going to live a much better life under the fear of the war than you'll ever to live apart from the Lord but people don't believe that you know there were 2 there were 2 people that lived that make a prime example of this I think Larry and that is they were both me and you'll know the names both men were born in this country both men rose to quite popular status both men were born in Christian families both men lived in their ninety's before they died both men died in the same year one man affected men in the kingdom of God and one man affected me in the kingdom of Satan and I'm talking about Billy Graham and here after one man led people toward heaven and one man led people toward hell the wickedness that we have though the wickedness that we see we were talking about the word wicked being with this was more mention the 1st time and wickedness that word mentioned the 1st time just when it's mentioned it's mentioned in the in the days of Noah when the wickedness of minimum. Magination their heart were evil continually that's where that word 1st comes out so prophetically speaking what do we got here we got Sodom and Gomorrah and we've got the wickedness of minute as they were in the days of Noah and didn't Jesus say as it was in the days of Noah as it was in the days of Sodom and Gomorra so show it be in the days of the coming of the Son of Man So this onslaught of homosexual agenda and this onslaught of the technology and the imaginations of men with the Internet and the panache graffiti and all of those kinds of things that that onslaught is coming so hard and so fast that we can see what Jesus meant exactly so you have your wake and you have your wickedness you have your prophetic implication as it was in those days so it was going to be and it looks like we're there well society thinks if we live a godly life life will be boring it's really not worth it there is no benefits there's no blessings I often think of aphasia in 6 words as children obey your parents of the Lord for this is right on with my father and mother which is the 1st commandment with promise that it may be well with a and them is to live long on the earth but a beautiful structure him a long life but a question mark that often comes up well if the fear of the Lord pongs life what about Abel and Stephen and I think especially godly Stephen he looked up and it's got that unusual passage where he says he saw Jesus standing we see Jesus sitting at the right hand of God But Stephen looks up what about Stephen especially obviously his life was cut short I know that question often comes up and I think you've got a good answer Well the point is this you live more in one day with a lower than you live an entire lifetime way man. Beautiful but somehow we make stuff the ballot somehow the world thinks that all this that you can grab the gusto and all of that is a big thing it's not a big thing. The Christian who knows the Lord for the 1st time in his life he knows how to love for the 1st time in his life because he never knew before because he never knew love before because the Bible says God is love and as much is this book is talking about the terror of the Lord is trying to get across is the very love of God to want you to know the terror of God so that you don't have to face the terror of God Well you know the folks at your church are really blessed I believe that in fact what's the name of your church and where as in case somebody is in time to say they want to go and visit you thank your brother that's kind of it's Westview Baptist Church in Kingston Springs Tennessee it's right next to the high school there and the Lord has seen fit to keep me there for about I think about 23 years now a full order and it's a great congregation everybody loves everybody and it's a good you know it's funny I said I was coming to a home I told a couple on last Sunday and they said Oh really what for why well I'm going to do some interviews and they said oh no you're not no you're not they thought I was going or viewing for another church they want you to stay we have a good relationship fair and in everybody's invited Well that's wonderful because I know I think of a Southern Baptist Convention the average is like 3 years for you know the honeymoon is over then you either get kicked out or you're divorced from the church so I think it takes a great deal of but purity and I think you know to be a pastor you know you don't go there well a couple years I'll leave I know a lot of pastors do and some denominations actually move the man to another church but I think God's ideal is you grow and the church grows with you and together you become a beautiful company of godliness on this earth lifting up the name of Jesus you get to see kids born get saved get baptized as believers then some of the older folks pass on there's there's a beauty. Follow what should I say it's kind of like a residence between a true pastor someone has a pastor's heart and a congregation that's a wonderful wonderful thing how many in the church like on a good morning Sunday morning oh we run an average of $70.00 to $75.00 and on a special day I think on Easter we had a $110.00 to wow doesn't sound like a lot to a lot of folks I mean especially in this day and age where they're taught to be seminaries how to build a church how you know big numbers we're supposed to preach the gospel you know my God and those to the Church such as are being saved right I think one of the real keys if I can use the word success and it's only God success right now is that we've just tried to do that and so as that as people join the church they're really believe are here not just getting a lot of folks in there and you're getting a whole lot of the tears in with the wheat we've got mostly wheat and it keeps it strong and it's been it's been a wonderful time well that's wonderful because and I was and said you know God must love all the churches eventually many of them but I think some of the small churches are some of the better churches and I've read a statistic I think that said something like 90 percent of churches have 200 or less members even today so even though we see these big churches on the t.v. M. 16000 people in these big arenas and all I believe the message is getting out and people are living godly lives under the radar Well I know there are a few mega churches like 1st Baptist Church of Dallas Robert Jeffress I mean he preaches the truth he's got the a.c.l.u. Listening to him he's got the Council on American Islamic Relations if he says anything wrong and so forth is just a great pastor but there are some big churches that are great and some little churches that are great Well Mark we are just about out of time Brother I've really enjoyed you know if I come to town. Say I want to say hello come down I really has come by one for what we have been speaking to Pastor Mark Sheldon He's the author of the terror of the Lord expanding or understanding of the character of God really a great book to bring to the fore an aspect of the character of God that sometimes is ignored for God nor just downplayed because it's not politically correct to speak on these topics but it is a great book it speaks about the truth about the holy dust the righteous as of course you have a chapter on the love of God and the Lord for that So Matthew please come to the mike and tell our listeners how they can get the terror of the Lord Thank you Pastor Larry our special offer today is the fascinating new book titled The terror of the Lord you can have a copy for a gift of 17 dollars if you live in the United States and $31.00 if you live in Canada to order your copy just give our call center call at 180-652-1144 if you'd rather write and place your order just address that letter to post office box 76834 Oklahoma City Oklahoma 73147 and you can order any time online on our website at s w r c dot com a great addition to that book is the bestseller by Ron Pratt titled navigate your faith could the little decisions you make every day actually be leading you away from God Get your copy of navigate your faith for a gift of $1000.00 better yet get both books the terror of the Lord and navigate your faith for a gift of $25.00 the number to call is 180-652-1144 The address to write is post office by. 76834 Oklahoma City Oklahoma 73147 and the website is s w r c dot com We invite you to join us this November as we take a tour to Israel and Petra that's November 1st through the 12th this year visit all the places you have read about in the Bible Jerusalem McGuinn the future battleground of Armageddon the garden of God so many notes on the Upper Room and so much more seats are filling up fast so reserve your spot now call today 180-652-1144 or check out our special tour page on our website at w.r.c. Dot com Thank you for tuning in today be sure to tune in Monday when we begin a new series here on the watchman on the wall program from Southwest Radio Church. Southwest radio. The prophecies 953 people this continuous friction. And you can hear it became mornings at 930 right here on the 9670 k l c. God's word. At 670 Caleb t.-t. Dot com and all over Colorado in digital age d. On a m 670 calle t.t. Cover City Denver is more night the 200-1000 William Wilberforce Award will be presented to a woman who's given 3 decades of her life to meeting the needs of Egypt's most vulnerable for the call center on Johnstone Strait this is breaking. As Christians in. Age of skepticism we often talk about making the case that Christianity is true but more often than not the question of our culture today is whether Christianity is good does it make the world a better place or a worse place was the question will be wrestling with this weekend from a variety of angles our annual Wilberforce weekend conference taking place across the river from Washington d.c. Starts today helping us think through the goodness of Christianity for the world is an amazing lineup including John Lennox Starr Parker Rick Warren Calvin Cochran Jeremiah Johnston and more still the definitive answer will come tomorrow night this year's Wilberforce Award ceremony will honor a Coptic Christian woman known around the world as Mama Maggie 30 years ago Maggie Gober and was a well to do it Gyptian woman who loved traveling from Cairo to Europe with her husband for parties and shopping that all changed when she and some of her friends from church visited one of Cairo's garbage slums some 60000 people live there most of them Christians and they gather and sort garbage in appalling conditions for just a few coins a day barely enough to live on as she spoke with the parents and hugged the kids Maggie's life was transformed so she began visiting the slums every day and eventually founded a ministry called Stephen's children named for the 1st Christian martyr Well 3 decades later Stephens children now helps 33000 children through home visits camps for occasional training schools and medical care just this fact alone is staggering mama Maggie started over 100 schools a few years ago mama Maggie hugged a little boy named Karim as she placed her hand over his heart she knew at once something was wrong Karim had a hole in his heart needed surgery but his desperately poor family couldn't afford to pay for it so Stephen's children paid for the entire cost of the operation once Karim recovered ministry volunteers visited him regularly brought the family food and invited cream to take part in a Stevens children camp and then there's the story of Sharif another boy who attended the. Even children can't just before Mother's Day one year Stephen's children volunteers visited his home to give him a little money to buy his mother a gift but no $1.00 was home so the leaders went back several times although they normally didn't do this on their 5th visit they found Sharif with a baby girl in his arms the baby girl was sick but her father had no money to pay for the medicine she needed Stephen's children volunteers gave Sharif the money who immediately then handed it to his father by Baby Sarah whatever she needs he told him when stories father discovered how many times the leaders had come back to his house he began to cry for 10 years he said I never set foot in a church I believe God had forgotten me but because of what happened I will go back to church there are thousands and thousands of other stories like this but here's just one more you might remember those 21 Coptic Christians that were beheaded by ISIS terrorist on that the each back in 2015 each one refused to renounce their faith and at least 7 of those martyrs attended mama Maggie schools for her 30 years of serving others in the Cairo slums the coals and centers awarding mama Maggie the 2001000 will force a war her life and work echoes that of the great British parliamentarian William Wilberforce who labor for 40 years to banish the slave trade in Britain and reform a broken society it will be my distinct privilege to present the Wilberforce Award to Mama Maggie tomorrow night and remember if you can join us in person will be live streaming the conference and the Awards Banquet on breakpoint dot org Again you can get free access by going to breakpoint dot org slash live stream for breakpoint on Johnstone street. Salt and light light love my He's 670 k. L. D. . As we nearly anticipate the 2nd coming of Christ someday does that future event have any practical application for us here and now. Today on turning point Dr David Jeremiah says absolutely that he will share 6 have as we should put into practice in our daily lives as we look forward to Christ's return this is now is David introducing the conclusion of his message the return of the King Well today we're going to finish up what we started yesterday and conclude this week on a high note as we talk about the return of King Jesus Now remember the Bible teaches us that there's an event that is on the horizon for which there are no signs and that is called the Rapture when Christ will return to take out of this world all of those who have put their trust in him they will be raptured to heaven where they will remain for eternity but at the end of the tribulation period which is 7 years later all of the saints along with King Jesus and His holy angels will return to this earth to conclude the battle of Armageddon and wrap things up for judgment on this earth and that return of the king is what we're talking about today and we are taking this material from the book the book of science which came out the 1st of March and the you will find all of this book of science material and it is Chapter 27 in the new book page 351 several pages to give you all the material listening to on the radio today and much more you can get this book at David you're my dot org You can get this book at all of a big big box bookstores and the Christian book stores that are still around there's not too many of them left unfortunately but this book is available and it's available to you and I hope you will get a copy of it and you will not only have everything we're talking about now we're going to talk about in the next few days but everything we've talked about from the very beginning well I have another resource to tell you about but I want to. The end of the message let's get into this last edition of The Return Of The King as we close out our week together. Did you know that in the 19th chapter of Revelation there are 2 different suppers in the early part of the 19th chapter there is what is called the Marriage Supper of the lane the Marriage Supper of the Lamb is the celebration of the wedding between Christ the bridegroom and his bride which is the church I have made a reservation for the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. And ladies and gentlemen if you're going to choose one of the 2 suppers in the 19th of Revelation I suggest you choose the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in the marriage supper of the Lamb there is rejoicing and fellowship and a great meal in the supper of God You are the meal you don't want to be there. The Bible gives us the option. And he tells us in His word that his judgment will be great and severe and then we notice at the end of the section not only the fowls of heaven the birds but the foes of heaven and I have to tell you men and women this is one of the most unbelievable sections in the Book of Revelation in my estimation. For the Bible tells us in Revelation Chapter 19 that when Jesus and the armies of heaven come back through the open door and down to this earth to execute judgment on all the rebellious Nations that the end of Christ and his cohorts decide they will fight against him. Notice what it says in verse 19 and I saw the beast and the Canes of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against Him who sat on the horse and against his army. Now I have to tell you. Up until this point even though you totally disagree with everything the end of Christ has stood for you had to admire some of his charismatic personality and his ability to sway the masses but this is the dumbest thing you will ever read about in the Bible. This creature of God who was created out of God's hands Satan is a creation did you know that Satan is not the opposite of God God created him and gave him the freedom to rebel This created being has decided that he will fight against Almighty God. And he gathers his armies together they no longer are worried about Israel they are no longer worried about the other nations the word is out that the King of Glory is returning to Earth he's on his way with his armies and so the anti-Christ decides let's go after him let's put him down. This is the culmination of all of the rebellion which men have leveled against Almighty God from the very beginning of time how ludicrous is it for the creation to rebel against the creator. And in this moment in this moment at the end of time that rebellion will be quelled and it will be over. And in this time we see the futility of fighting against God and the fatality of the beast and the false prophet notice verses 20 and 21 then the beast was captured who is the beast the anti-Christ and with him befalls prophet who works signs in his presence by which he deceive those who receive the mark of the beast and those who worship his image these 2 were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone. When the end of Christ and the false prophet and the armies that have been gathered together to fight against God and against. Christ one of the 1st things the Lord Jesus will do is to cast the end of Christ and the false prophet into the lake of fire which is hail. These 2 say tiny creatures go to hell before Satan does because the Bible tells us look with me if you have your Bibles at Revelation 20 in verse 10 the devil who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever Now listen here's how this works at the end of the tribulation period the beast and the false prophet are cast into hell by Jesus Christ they are confined to hell because of the rebellion against God And after that the Lord sets up His Kingdom on this earth how long does that last 1000 years and clear at the end of the 1000 years Satan is judged and he is cast into the lake of fire and the Bible says when he gets there he looks around and the Beast and the false prophet are still there they've been there for a 1000 years they're still there they're still suffering nothing has changed and what this says for whatever it's worth is that Hell is not the in Iowa of the spirit or the body. We talk a lot about getting eternal life and in some respects I need to tell you that everybody here has eternal life. Some people have eternal life under heaven and some people have eternal life on the Hill but let me say this to you you will always ever be alive somewhere either in heaven or in hell there's a doctrine out there today that says when you die you are annihilated but I'm here to tell you that the false beat and the Prophet were still alive a 1000 years later when Satan was cast into hell where they had been placed so you see hell is not the annihilation nor is it purgatory in this place you don't ever get out. There's no back door to hell hell is the final consignment for wickedness. And in hell are the beast the false prophet insane Now if there were any fire which there is if there weren't any brimstone which there is if it was an eternal suffering which it is how would you like to spend eternity with Satan the beast and the false prophet they're the heroes of hell. No one talks about hell much anymore Have you noticed I mean they say it in swear words but they don't say it in church the preacher never talks about it. Martin Marty said Hell disappeared a few years ago and nobody noticed. But hell is hell and it's in the Bible in fact there's more about hell in the Bible than there is about heaven and somebody said Well Pastor you shouldn't talk about hell that's not positive let me tell you it's positive not to go there amen. And if nobody ever talks about it if nobody ever says it's real if nobody ever says this is the place of final abode for those who reject Jesus Christ it is not fair to those who come to a church to hear the truth and part of the truth is carved out because it's hard to talk about I don't want to preach on Hell every week and as you know I don't but when I come to it I want you to know I believe it I believe it's an actual place I believe it is fire and brimstone and that a person who ultimately rejects Jesus Christ as their Savior will spend eternity in hell. Now whether we like it or not that's what the Bible says somebody said well I don't believe that. That doesn't change anything. You can't make something untrue because you decide not to believe it. You say well that's not my doctrine Well I'm sorry it's God's doctrine. And if you want to know the truth the truth will set you free and the truth is that you don't have to go there. The truth is that Christ came into this world to keep you from ever having to feel one single burn from hell he came to save you so you can go to heaven and if you go to hell it won't be anybody else's fault but your own because you will have had opportunity to receive the Gospel and if you don't receive it that's not the fault of Almighty God He made it available. But he will judge sin and that's what we need to understand that's what the 2nd Coming will do it will initiate the judgment of this world and a part of that is hell. Well that's where we are Christ has come back at the end of the tribulation he's going to set up His Kingdom and in his kingdom he will rule in righteousness he will rule with a rod of iron uprisings do. During the millennium the Lord God Himself will be king Jesus will sit on the throne and the Bible says that Lions will lay down with lambs and men will take their implements of war and they will destroy them and out of them create implements of Agriculture. And the Bible says that nations will study war no more and for a 1000 years the Lord will demonstrate what happens when a righteous king rules over this earth. That's what the future is all about. And we come to the end of this series and we've been asking what is going on in this world. And I want to leave you with a couple of thoughts about today. You see the Bible is very clear that when we get a picture of the future it is so that we can understand how to live today better studying prophecy is not just so that you're smarter about what's going to happen some day studying prophecy it should fill your heart and your soul with and the new urgency to serve God and what I'd like to do today as we close is something I think is very practical. Over and over and over in the Bible especially in the New Testament pistils whenever the 2nd coming of Christ is mentioned. There is a personal current application that is made and I've chosen 7 of them from the Epistles and I just want to show them to you and I think you'll understand where I'm going with this as you get these 1st of all because of the 2nd Coming of Christ we should refrain from judging others notice what it says in 1st Corinthians 45 therefore judge nothing before the time until the Lord comes. Who will bring both to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the counsels of hearts then each one's praise will come from God. The Bible says that one day the Lord God Himself is going to come back and then he will set everything straight so don't spend your life while you're here on this earth trying to judge the motives of other people or judge what you think is right about them or rug now doesn't mean you shouldn't confront evil doesn't mean you shouldn't go to somebody who's not living right if the Lord lays it upon your heart and tell them because it's evident an obvious but you know what that one of the favorite indoor sports of Christians is to walk around making assumptions judgments about other Christians let me ask you this question and I think you'll understand what I mean how many of you have met somebody maybe even a Shadow Mountain you met them and you didn't have a very good impression about them I mean they didn't really do much for you but over a period of time if you got a small group with them or you're in a Sunday school class are you saying the core of them and you got to know them and you found out and these are really some great people and you realize you made the wrong judgment the 1st time around. I would ask you to raise your hands because I know it's just about unanimous. The Bible says Go easy on the judgment because you don't know everything but there is come a day when the one who doesn't know everything who even knows the heart will come he'll make the judgment leave it to him how many of you say I'm willing to do that I'm willing to leave the judgment to the Lord because when he comes back he'll make it right that's a good point to make at the end of a series of prophecy messages Number 2 we should remember the Lord's table and in the book of Corinthians it says as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup you proclaim the Lord's death till he comes and so when we have communion as you know we look backward at the cross we look inward at our hearts and we look forward to his coming so by having communion we are being obedient to the really true statement that Jesus Christ is coming back and we're doing this until he comes thirdly we can relate to one another in love. It says in verse testimonials 3 May the Lord make you increase in a bound in love to one another and to all just as we do to you so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints the Bible says that because he's coming again and because we're all going to be together for eternity and we're all going to be in that grand army that comes back to this earth the Lord willing why don't we just learn to get along with each other now why don't we just learn to love one another now we're all a part of God's family let's realize that since we're going to spend eternity together we might as well start working on the relationship while we're here in this place Amen I mean you say well yeah I know he's a Christian by don't like him well learn to like him. Because my friend you're going to spend forever with him you might as well start working on it now Amen. Number 4 we can begin to commit ourselves to ministry and if you pause for just a moment I'm going to preach a little sermon to myself. This is directed to the preacher to the pastor Listen to this if you will I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom preach the Word be ready in season and out of season convince rebuke exhort with all longsuffering and teaching Almighty God through Paul writing to Timothy has exhorted the preachers has exhorted your preacher that one day he's coming back and he's coming back it says to judge the living and the dead at his appearing and in His kingdom and as you wait for that preacher Jeremiah preach the word and do it in season and out of season whether it's popular or not whether it's a season of popularity or a season of unpopularity rebuke it says and convince and exhort these are all incredibly intensive statements and do it with long suffering because they're not going to get what you're saying sometimes and teaching ladies and gentlemen that's my commission from God. I am to preach the Word of God whether it's politically correct whether it's positive whether it makes you feel better when you walk out of here than you did when you came in whether it is something that is going to be judged as good and positive or whether it's going to. Get under your skin whatever it is just preach the word that's why my commission is simply to say what do I preach next I preach what is next in the Bible. That's the application to me now here's one for you since you enjoyed the one to me that me just tell you the one for you. I heard my sermon Now you listen to yours this one is really practical listen to what it says. We must refuse to neglect the church notice Hebrews Chapter 10 and verse $25.00 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some but exhorting one another and so much the more as you see the day approaching what day we're talking about the day of the Lord the day of his coming here's what it says that as the day of the Lord draws near we're to encourage one another more and more and we're to assemble ourselves together more and more we're to come together as God's people more and more as we see the day approaching I don't know how you apply this across the board to churches that used to have Wednesday night services and then they were gone then they had Sunday night services and then they were gone but let's just leave all those gone and not even talk about a bit you know that the average person at Shadow Mountain even comes to church 3 out of 5 Sundays that's what we study. Is that wrong I'm not saying it's wrong if you think that's what God wants you to do that means you miss 2 out of 5 Sundays and when a preacher comes along and he says I'm going to teach a series and I want you to hear every word how are you going to figure that out if you missed the 2 important ones in the middle you say Well Pastor we have to get away some time oh I know. I know. And I'm not telling you not ever to get away I'm just saying Listen to this the Bible says that as the coming of the Lord draws near we should be involved with one another in our assembling in our encouraging more and more and let me ask you that question is that what is. Really Happening today almost the exact opposite of that is happening and perhaps that's one of the reasons why the church in many respects seems to have lost its way we don't even follow the practical admonitions in the Word of God and I know that's making some of you uncomfortable because this is the 1st time you've been here for 6 weeks and you didn't come here for this you just came here to show up you know understand that. All the point I'm trying to make is this when you understand what the future is all about you begin to get a little better perspective on the present it was c.s. Lewis who said this he said if you get heaven right you get not only heaven but the earth as well but if you miss Heaven you don't get either one because without a full understanding of the future and heaven you will never know how to live your life on this earth. And that's an absolute truth and one of the things we ought to be looking forward in small groups is another way to do that Sunday school class is finding ways to encourage one another why do you suppose the Lord said that well if you go and look at the other prophecies do you know what the Bible says it's going to be like just before he returns it says people are going to be disobedient to their parents and you look through that whole list in Timothy we need one another as the time approaches for the 2nd coming because the world around us is coming unglued and we need each other can I get a witness we need each other in our small groups in our church services in our choirs in our Sunday schools we need one another I need you and you need me and if we don't understand that we will be discouraged most of the time by what's going on in the world I don't know about you when I leave here on Sunday morning I'm tired as I can be hungry as a bear. But flying high because I've been with the people of God and I just been so filled with encouragement to see you and be with you I hope that's the way you feel that's the way we ought to feel and that's why as the day approaches we need to work harder at our relationships and in our ministries and that are coming together let me just come to the last word quickly we must reach the lost for Jesus Christ. It says in Jude and on some have compassion making a distinction but others save with fear pulling them out of the fire. As we begin to realize and some of you have come to me and I've been so encouraged by your e-mails and by your personal conversations during this series some of you have said and I've heard this probably at least a half a dozen times so it's made an impression on me some of you said you know Pastor Jeremiah. I've always believed these prophetic things you've been talking about. I've always known they were true and I knew they were going to happen some time. But I had no reason to believe that I might be alive when they happen. And now as I read the phase that you have been telling us about as I study the scriptures as I read the newspapers. My goodness pastor these things are happening right now I could be alive when Jesus comes back how many of you believe that we could be alive when Jesus comes back all right now that we believe it now we all believe it. How many of us know people that aren't ready to go to heaven. What should our goal be class it should be to take as many people to heaven with us as we can let's don't go there by ourselves let's reach out and embrace as many folks as we can let's tell them of the love of Christ for them of his death upon the cross of his willingness to receive anyone no matter what we've done if we'll just come and ask for forgiveness and let's tell him that the way to heaven is through Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ himself has said no man comes to the Father except through him. Lays in job we don't have forever to go out and reach the last the opportunity to do that is now. Well you know seems to me every day when I get up. I feel. The presence of the Lord and His return a little more than the day before I don't think it's an age issue at all I just think it's a cultural issue that when you look and see what's happening even the good things are corrupted even the things that should be positive are made negative we live in a very sick and sinful world and I'm not just saying that because I think I'm more righteous than anyone else because I don't feel that way I just know that there's never been quite a time like there is right now in our country in the political environment in the ideological environment in the educational environment in the physical environment everywhere you look there's just this evidence of. Degradation of things going backward going in the wrong direction the things we believe that we've always held dear are now no longer accept that and Christian organisations abandoning their stand on things that have long banned cardinal values so yes I'm concerned about all that you should be too but what that means is and those are just reminders that the coming of the Lord draws an eye and we need to be over vailable to the Lord to share the Good News of the Gospel every opportunity that we have here is an opportunity for you to share something with a friend it's a book called the rapture or a brand new little booklet that we did just for our listeners and just for the its twists and turns turning point to mornings at 730 on the mighty 670 k. L.t. You're tuned to am 670 calle t.t. Commerce City Denver h.d. And streaming worldwide at 670 k l t t dot com. It's broken now how are we going to listen the 670 dot com what 678 dot com We can tune in anytime from any computer with internet access worldwide Really then what are we waiting for the show starts in 5 minutes tune in for your favorite Christian talk station on line 24 hours a day 670 k.l. T.t. Dot com. Infusing your morning with the light of God's word your 2 am 67. Calle t.v. 8 Homer city dim and f l at 95 point one and streaming worldwide 670 calle t t v dot com. In Revelation Chapter 7 that. Is missing in the list number one. Number 2 we have a son of Joseph listed. But his other son is free. Instead you got Joseph's name verse 8 you get it by Colt is this and you also get hit by those who don't. Believe the Bible is reliable and accurate and trustworthy they use this to show the contradictions in the Bible is the standard old argument to prove the Bible is not the Word of God because it's mixed up even in listing the 12 tribes which have been easy for any scribe to have remembered or looked up and written down in another book so the bible obviously cannot be relied on in their view. Welcome to hold for today the Bible teaching ministry David hockey is here you get the Bible the whole Bible and nothing but the Bible. We're continuing to our series in the Book of Revelation and it's here in Revelation specifically where we're looking today Chapter 7 that details are given about the tribulation Saints otherwise known as the believers who will be on Earth during the tribulation period now should we interpret this passage literally symbolically or both what about the 144000 believers mentioned here who are they Let's find out they've it's taking us into day 2 of his message tribulation Saints stick around 1st David's in studio with details about a must have resource. We have a brand new booklet that just finished I think you're going to really like it's only $5.00 but wow what a booklet called what happened to repentance boy don't miss getting this one. It's a really great need in evangelicalism today where there's a lot of prosperity gospel stuff and we need to get back to the Bible the whole Bible and nothing but the Bible. Teaching the Book of Revelation that we're in chapter 7 on the subject of those who are going to be saved during the tribulation how the Bible tells us very clearly that some of the servants of God in that period of time are going to be sealed by God protected and is going to be 144000 from the 12 tribes of the children of Israel Wow that's amazing Yes they're going to be people saved Jewish people who are from the 12 tribes and God is going to say.