if you would please. Sort of a jumping off verse. And I hope you're ready to write. I got some stuff to add in tonight that God's laid on my heart that we're going to work our way through. We're actually going to finish this message we started three weeks ago, alright? As we deal with what's next. That seems to be the two words on everybody's heart. It was the words that were on the disciples' heart. Look if you would, verse number 3, Matthew chapter 24, And as he, the Lord Jesus, sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came to 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? They were basically saying, Lord, what's Next, let's pray. Lord, thank You for Your Word tonight, the sweet Spirit, the good testimony, the wonderful music. Lord, stir us tonight, speak to our hearts, challenge us from the Word of God. Let our hearts, Lord, to not only understand biblical truth, Father, but allow it to change us. Lord, to bring us into alignment with Your will, to understand something of Your heart, Your will, Your plan for this world, and what we're to be doing in this intervening time. And we're sure to thank You for what You do in our lives. If there's someone here without Christ tonight, I pray they'll come to know You. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen. Well, we know that the rapture is the next event on God's prophetic calendar. The time when God is going to catch away the saints of God during this dispensation, this age of grace. All that have saved, all that have come to Christ from the day of Pentecost until the Lord steps out on a cloud and calls us home. We've learned in our study that the rapture is a signless event. That there's not one prophecy, there's not one event that has to happen prior to the Lord's coming for His own. We know according to I Corinthians 15, 52 that it is imminent. It could happen at any moment. We understand that no prophecy is being fulfilled today. But that does not mean that God is not setting the stage for the end times. It's well been said that end time events cast their shadows before them. There is a sense church in which God has been doing this very thing, setting the stage since the Lord Jesus went back to heaven, preparing the world for His return. Listen, God is not slack concerning His promise. It's not that God is tarrying or delaying or for some reason He's not going to come or cannot come. No, the Bible tells us this, that the reason the Lord has not come is He's long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish. He's giving people time to come to Him. Aren't you glad that God's merciful and long-suffering tonight? But friend, there's going to come a time when we reach the appointed moment in God's redemptive history in which Jesus Christ is going to come again. We know two phases. First of all, the rapture. We talked about that. The catching away of the saints of God. The second aspect, His return. They're separated by at least seven years. I'll talk about that more fully in later messages. All biblical signs point to not the rapture, but His return, that one climactic event when Jesus Christ comes to this earth. Mark Hitchcock, who is a leading prophetic theologian in our day, in his book The End, suggests there are five events or markers that are setting the stage for what's next. I want to share them with you, if I could tonight, very quickly, by way of introduction. You're going to add this into your notes tonight, alright? If you so desire. The first is this, the regathering of the Jewish nation to their ancient homeland. You need to understand that there's one objective truth, an objective truth for the validity of the Scriptures. If there was one overriding proof that the Bible is true, that the Bible is the inspired, inerrant, infallible Word of God, it is the existence of the modern day nation of Israel. No nation on earth, church, has a more storied history than God's earthly people, the Jews. The Jewish people are the only exiled people. That means they've been taken from their land. The only exiled people to remain a people, a distinct people, despite being dispersed into more than 70 countries for more than 20 centuries or 2,000 years. Do you realize tonight that a nation of Israel was 2,000 years without a homeland? They were scattered amongst the Gentile nations. God said that He would regather them. He would bring them back to the land. Israel is God's prophetic timepiece. They're God's program for what He's doing in the world. If there is a sign, Israel is God's super sign. Almost all of the key events of the prophetic end times hinge on the existence of the nation of Israel. That helps you understand why Satan is so bent on the destruction of the Jewish people. If Israel does not exist in their ancient homeland, the Bible cannot be fulfilled. If the Bible can't be fulfilled, Jesus cannot return. And guess who wins the cosmic battle? Instead of God winning in His deluded mind, the devil wins. Now, can I help you understand something tonight? The outcome is already certain. There's no question on who's going to win. God always wins. Satan going up against God is like a rowboat going up against a battleship. You can go up against it, you can start the fight, but the outcome's already decided. Amen? And we need to recognize that. Israel is a battleground for all of the great end-time conflicts. The nation of Israel must be preserved and regathered to their homeland to set the stage for the end-time biblical prophecies to be fulfilled. Turn in your Bibles with me for just a moment to Ezekiel 37. Would you turn there? Ezekiel 37. It's also mentioned in Deuteronomy, in Zechariah, and other places. But this seems to be the most comprehensive passage. We call this the graveyard prophecy. It's Ezekiel's prophecy of the dry bones. Alright? And look, if you would, please, in verse 1 of Ezekiel 37. Ezekiel said, The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the Spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley, which was full of bones, and caused me to pass by them round about. And behold, there were many in the open valley, and lo, they were very dry. And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest. Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones, Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live. And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live. And ye shall know that I am the Lord. Look down if you would in verse number 8. And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh. So there's a shaking, verse 7. The bones begin to come together. Then there's sinews and flesh upon them. Skin covers them, verse 8, but no breath. They're not alive. Then said unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, Prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God, Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. So he prophesied. prophesied as He commenced. Breath came unto them, and they lived, and stood upon their feet an exceeding great army. Now look at verse 11. You see, you don't have to wonder what it's about. God tells you. Look at verse 11. Then said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, our bones are dried, our hope is lost, we are cut off for our parts. Therefore prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God, Behold all my people, I will open your graves." The graves in our text are the Gentile nations, where Israel has been dispersed, and they're like a bunch of dry bones, and they're a dead nation so far as the world's concerned. Alright? And notice what he says, "...and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into what church? The land of Israel. Did you see that? Now look at verse 13. And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, And then he talks about His Spirit entering into them and them living. And so we find that here is a prophecy, a regathering of the nation of Israel, that God is going to physically regather His people to their ancient homeland. This has been going on now for about 130 years. Israel, in 1871, the first Jews began to go back to Israel. The Zionist movement began. 1948, Israel became a sovereign nation again in her homeland. She never ceased to exist. The nation of Israel was always present. It had just been dispersed into the Gentile nations. God said, I'm going to bring you back. You're going to be in your homeland. Do you know, as we sit here tonight, There are now in 2023 more Jews living in the nation of Israel than in any other country in the world. There are approximately 5.6 million Jews living in Israel. There are approximately 5.4 million Jews living in America, the second largest nation that contains Jewish people. Now you say, preacher, is this a fulfillment? Absolutely not. It's not a fulfillment of Ezekiel's prophecy. But it is a pile of bones that are beginning to come together, that are beginning to take shape in the land of Israel so that Ezekiel's prophecy can be fulfilled because the breath and the wind is the rebirth of the nation of Israel that will take place when Jesus comes again. Do you realize, listen church, do you realize that we're living in unprecedented days? That is, we look back for the last 70 or 80 years, Israel has existed as a nation and it has set the stage for end-time prophetic events. So first of all, the first stage to be set is the regathering of the nation of Israel. It will not be completed until Jesus comes. Secondly, there is a growing apostasy. Let's look in the New Testament now. Look at I Timothy chapter 4. Would you do that? If you can't find it, just jot it down. I Timothy chapter 4 and find verse number 1. Now this is going to be a... if a sermon was a house, okay, then we have a long front porch and a small house. Isn't that encouraging tonight? Isn't everybody just blessed with that? Alright, look at 1 Timothy 4 and find verse number 1. 1 Timothy 4 verse 1, Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times... These are the latter times of the church, not the nation of Israel. Remember, we have to make a difference where God makes a difference. These are the end times of the end times. There is a sense, church, in which the end times or the last days began when Jesus went back to heaven. Alright? We are now living in the end times of the end times. And notice he said in the latter times, some shall depart from the faith. We're not talking about just getting a little lukewarm. We're not talking about just getting a little cold. We're not talking about that. We're talking about a departure from the fundamentals of biblical Christianity. The denial of the deity of Jesus Christ. The denial of the Trinity. The denial of the bodily resurrection of the Son of God. A denial of the salvation by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. The embracing of that which is an abomination to the God of heaven. Friend, can I tell you, I never thought I'd see the day that there would be drag shows in Christian churches. I never thought I'd see the day that the Pope would decree that transgender individuals with no repentance could take part in Catholic communion. Baptist churches ordaining LGBTQ plus individuals. I never thought I would see the day, but the day has arrived. We're talking about a departure from the truth. And it's growing. Notice he said, the Bible said in chapter 4, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron. What he's saying is there's absolutely no spiritual feeling. They can do what they do and it fly in the face of Almighty God and they have no remorse, there's no repentance, there's no regret, they're not sorry about it, they are happy about it. It is a growing apostasy that will set the stage for the final falling away, the final time that will precede the revelation of the Antichrist during the tribulation period. Remember what Jesus said to His disciples? He said, Because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold." He's not talking about the church age. He's talking about the nation of Israel. He's talking about that time during the tribulation where there will be a wholesale departure from the truth of God, not just on a local level or a national level, but on a worldwide level that will give rise Listen, what is happening today is setting the stage for the end-time harlot church of Revelation 17, which will be the religious system of the antichrist and the false prophet in which all the religions of the world will come together into one. You see friend, listen, if you believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and that there is an exclusivity to biblical Christianity, that listen, what makes Christianity superior to all other religions is that we have a Savior that lived and died and He lives again. Friend, listen, when you have that, when you stand for that, you can embrace the gods of this world. But friend, when you remove Jesus Christ from Christianity, you have no problem embracing the false gods of this world. And so we find that day coming. So number one, Israel being regathered to her ancient homeland. Number two, we found a growing apostasy. God setting the stage. Coming Middle East peace. We know that there'll be no peace in the Middle East till Jesus comes. We understand that. But yet, do we not understand that throughout my lifetime, the world has been clamoring for peace in that area of the world? Every president since Jimmy Carter. That was the last one I knew about. I mean, the first one I knew about. I was old enough to understand. And by the way, he was the prototype of every The Democrat president since him, I'm just going to go ahead and say it. Sorry if I ruffled your feathers. You'll be okay. You'll be alright. I thought once we got rid of him we'd never go down that road again, but I guess we as America never learned. But anyway, that's beside the point. And this is not a political speech, but ever since him there's always been a president that set a road map for peace. Isn't that true? They've set a road map for peace. They've talked about and made it a part of their administration to bring peace to the Middle East. Even our Republican presidents and every president since that time, maybe even preceding Jimmy Carter, before him, had a plan to bring peace to the Middle East. Do you realize, now watch it church, that there will be a signing of a peace treaty that will mark the beginning of the tribulation period? You can jot that down in Daniel chapter 9 verse number 27. We won't turn there. We'll look at it more in detail in the coming weeks. I Thessalonians chapter 5 verse 1 says that they're going to cry, Peace! Peace! But there's not going to be any peace. You see, there's coming a day when Israel will make a covenant of death with the Antichrist. that will set the stage, and at that moment, the tribulation period, the clock will begin to tick for the next seven years that will culminate in the second coming of Jesus Christ. But the current yearning and desiring for peace is setting the stage for the final covenant of peace between the Antichrist and Israel that's predicted in the Scripture. So, number one, setting the stage, the regathering. Does anybody see this tonight? It's pretty evident, isn't it? The regathering of the Jewish nations to our ancient homeland. The growing apostasy that we see around our world. The coming Middle East peace. Let me give you another one. The rebirth of the Roman Empire. The Bible prophesies a rebirth of the Roman Empire. I've been picking on Brother Delp. I said, Brother Delp, you went into Daniel and sucked the life out of it. Every sweet, wonderful, cute passage that could be preached on that blessed people's hearts, you preached on it and you left me the toes. That's what I got. I got the toes and the beasts and the horns. That's all I had left out of Daniel. But that's okay. That's alright. I still love him. It was good preaching, by the way. I enjoyed it. But you remember Daniel's image, the head of gold on down till you get to the feet of iron and clay? You've got two legs of iron. Do you know that they prophesied four major empires of human history? Beginning with Babylon, then you come to Assyria, then you move to Medo-Persia, the chest area, So, excuse me, not a seer. You go, Babylon, my mind just left me. It's Babylon, and then you have the Medo-Persian Empire, and then you have the Grecian Empire, the belly of brass, and then you have two legs of iron, the Roman Empire. It's not without significance that hundreds of years before the existence of the Roman Empire that Daniel said that it would have two legs. It's the only of the nations, the kingdoms, that are mentioned in that image. It is the only image that divided into two parts. Eastern Roman Empire and a Western Roman Empire. You go down into the feet and you get to the ten toes. That is the last form of Gentile world power or Gentile domination of God's people, the Jews. The Bible, Jesus called it the times of the Gentiles. When you get to the toes, it's talking about the final form of this Gentile nations. We call it the group of ten. Ten regions of nations that make up the kingdom of the Antichrist during the Tribulation period. Turn with me to Revelation 13. I'm setting the stage for future messages. God's setting the stage for the coming of His Son. Revelation chapter 13 and verse number 1. And I stood... Here's John standing upon the sand of the sea. This is the Mediterranean Sea. And saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns. and upon his head is the name of blasphemy." Here is a picture of the coming Antichrist. He's depicted here as a man of beastly character that will have absolutely no regard for God, and all the world will worship this individual. Alright? Now when you come to Revelation chapter 17, we're given more insight into the ten horns and the ten crowns. And here in Revelation 17, it's not so much the Antichrist in view as it is the kingdom of the Antichrist that's in view. Look at verse number 12 of Revelation chapter number 17. and the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet." That means that in John's day and in our day, this kingdom does not exist in its final form as it's depicted in the book of the Revelation. But they will receive What does that mean, preacher? It is a delegated power. It is not an inherent power. It is not a rightful power. It is a power that will be given to them by God for a short period of time to fulfill His purposes. Notice what he goes on to say. One hour. That's a temporary time with the beast, the Antichrist. Look at verse 13. These have one mind, and shall give their power, their authority and strength, the strength of their kingdoms unto the beast. These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings. Who wants to say amen right there? and they that are with Him are called and chosen and faithful." And right now we are seeing a realignment of the nations. We have what's called right now the European Union. It was known as the common market. It's the gathering of Europe, the western nations that made up the old Roman Empire. By the way, guess what America is? We're part of that remnant. We are of a European descent or direction. Alright? And therefore, I personally believe that America will be a part of that region of nations that will be a part of the kingdom of the Antichrist. That's what I personally believe. I believe that through apostasy and the direction that America is going, that at some point America will cease to exist as a world power and will be absorbed into the kingdom of the Antichrist. I believe that. It should not surprise us at the decline of our nation. I don't want us to decline. I pray that we get a reprieve. How many would say amen? But no man, no president is going to change the face of America apart from a spiritual revival. We may get a reprieve, we may get a pause, but there will be no return apart from an awakening in our nation. America's problems are not political, they're spiritual. And the nations are realigning. They're not in their final form as yet, but the stage is being set. Let me give you the fifth one and I'll be done with that and we'll give you the small sermon. How about that? Number five, the rise of globalism. The first global kingdom is found in Genesis 11. Satan ruled the world through one man, a man by the name of Nimrod. They built a tower and a city. by which all the world would be as one. They would be under one ruler, one religion, lest they be scattered on the earth. And God came down in an act of mercy and He confused the languages. It was at that time that God, through Babel, created the parent languages of the world. Alright? And we find that God did that because you know what? The time wasn't right and God had brought His Son into the world. The work of redemption hadn't been complete. And by the way, since Nimrod, Satan has always sought to bring about world dominion through a world ruler who was a wicked man. All you have to do is look at Napoleon. All you have to do is look at Stalin. All you have to do is look at Mao. All you have to do is look at Hitler. There's always been a man that would say, I'll have that kingdom. But one day the Antichrist will rise and he will have the final world power or global power during the time of the tribulation period. We need to recognize that this end time global power is just... Babel was the prototype of what we would understand as a one world government of Revelation and the one world government of religion of the book of Revelation. We're just coming full circle. Nobody thought about globalism in 1940. It actually began its roots with a man by the name of Woodrow Wilson. It flowed out of, who was by the way, he was a socialist. You'll think I'm getting political and I'm not. He was a socialist democrat like Roosevelt. He had flavors of Marxism in him. And he created what was known as the League of Nations. By the way, there are Republican presidents that were globalist as well. So I'm not just making this Democrat-Republican. It's a mindset. It's the idea that the world cannot continue without it becoming one world, one family of nations under one government. Do you know that's what the United Nations wants right now? That's why they despise populist movements in nations like you just saw take place in Italy and like you just saw take place in Great Britain a number of years ago, like happened here in America in 2016. A populist mindset, a nationalist mindset, an America first mindset. The United Nations hates that. We have governmental leaders that hate that because they are bent on a global mindset of bringing the nations into one. The media loves that. You say, preacher, why are they all for that? Because they're controlled by their father the devil. That's why they're for that. You say, preacher, you're getting pretty bold tonight. I'm just being honest. Do you realize that for the first time since the Tower of Babel, Globalization is within reach of men and Satan. Look at Revelation 13 verse 12. You say, Preacher, you're going to have to hurry if that other message is going to be short. Look at Revelation 13, 12. And he, this is the false prophet, he exerciseth all the power of the first beast, which is the Antichrist, before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed. And then He talks about great wonders and they're going to worship His image. And then look at verse 16, And He causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads, that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark or the name of the beast. or the number of His name. Satan, through the Antichrist, will turn the world into one big concentration camp controlled by the Antichrist. The technology is in place. The philosophical mindset is in place. The educational engineering is in place. Satan is right now preparing generations for the reception of the Antichrist. It's unprecedented. The stage, church, is being set for the last act. We just don't know when the last act actually begins. And that last act is the second coming of Jesus Christ. We have no idea when the clock will tick, but we know that God is allowing the stage to be set for that clock to begin ticking again. So preacher, why must Christ return? Because the Scriptures demand His second coming. Secondly, because Jesus Himself declared that He would return. These are the main points. Number three, because our salvation will be consummated at the second coming of Christ. Number four, God's plan for His church is completed by the second coming. We saw that where Jesus said, I go to prepare a place for you and I will come again and receive you unto Myself that where I am, there ye may be also. Number five, God's plan for Israel will be completed at the second coming. Israel presently in her land is in a state of unbelief. There's a day coming when Jesus comes and Israel will receive her Messiah. An entire nation will be reborn in a day. the greater holocaust of the tribulation will bring about the spiritual salvation of the nation of Israel. Remember what was said to Ezekiel? Can these bones live? And God said, prophesy unto the wind, the wind, a picture, a symbol of the Holy Spirit, to breathe on these bones. And the Bible said that the wind blew and it breathed and they lived. What does that mean? It spoke of spiritual rebirth, of salvation. By the way, there is a picture of that in John chapter 3. Jesus said you must be born again. Nicodemus said how? He said the wind bloweth where it listeth, where it desires. You can't tell where it's going. You can't tell where it's come from. So is everyone that is born of the Spirit. It's mysterious. Friend, listen, I don't know how God births us again, but I'm sure glad that He does. Amen? And there's coming a day when He's going to rebirth an entire nation. His chosen people, the Jews. Number six, Satan will meet his destruction at the second coming. Can I tell you, somebody talked about Satan alive and well on planet Earth. Let me just tell you something. He might be alive, but he's not well. He's already defeated. The outcome is already sure. He is the God, little g, of this world. But friend, there's coming a day when He is going to be placed into the bottomless pit only to be let out, to be cast into the lake of fire. Friend, listen, He was judged in the garden. He was bruised at the cross. And friend, one day He's going to be burned forever in the lake of fire. Let's just say hallelujah right there. And you know what? Nowhere in the Bible does it say to rejoice over the eternal destiny of the lost. But friend, I believe we can rejoice at the destiny of the deceiver Satan. As a matter of fact, God commands the earth to rejoice. Number seven, God's purposes in creation will be completed by the second coming. Genesis and Revelation are the bookends of human history. What God started in the garden, He's going to end on a new heaven and new earth. Revelation 21 and 22. In Genesis, you have paradise lost. In Revelation, you have paradise regained. In Genesis, you have a curse. In Revelation, you have no more curse. Isn't that a blessing? You're in the book of the Revelation, aren't you? Let's look at it real quickly. Look at Revelation 21. Look at verse number 1. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth were passed away, and there was no more sea. And I, John, saw the holy city, new Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle, the dwelling of God, is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God. Look at verse 4, And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. Do you know there wasn't any tears before Genesis 3? And ever since Genesis 3, there's been tears and crying and death and sorrow and pain. But notice the Bible said, neither shall there be any more death, no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away. And He that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. Don't you like that? Look over at chapter 22. Chapter 22, 5 verse 3, And there shall be no more curse. Friend, there's coming a day, coming a day, when God's going to set it all right again. And it begins when Jesus comes. Isn't that a blessing? Number eight, God's people long for a second coming. The Bible calls it our blessed hope. Titus 2.13, looking for that blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. That word looking means an eager anticipation or longing for His coming. You say, Preacher, what was God's purpose in allowing COVID? I have no idea. I don't know. I know that we've got the t-shirt, don't we? That we've been through something that nobody else has been through since 1918. A worldwide pandemic that was destructive and left in its wake a changed world. Here's what I do know. During COVID, the world wasn't fun, was it? If anything, after COVID, the world's not fun. If anything, God allowed it. He didn't create it. He didn't cause it. He allowed it to detach us from this world. Because we were looking for somebody to come and take us away, weren't we? We just wanted it all to end, didn't we? Probably more people were looking for Jesus to come during that time and praying for Him to come than any time that I've known. The world's different, isn't it? Sure it is. I believe that the older you get, young adults, young people, the older you get, the more detached you get from the world. I'm not there yet, but I understand. I'm starting to understand it. I'm setting the stage. Let me just put it that way, okay? I'm not there yet. But if you talk to people that are a little further down the road, They're looking more for that world than they are this world. Now that doesn't mean that they're signing up at a list for the next load that's going to glory. But what it does mean is that they're more and more looking for Jesus to come. Because the longer you live, the less the world holds delights for you. When you're younger, it has a greater delight for you. And I think God has a way of detaching His people from a world that we don't need to be sinking our tent pegs too deep in. Because this world's not our home. We're just passing through. My home's way up yonder somewhere beyond the blue. Amen? And there's a longing in the hearts of God's people more than ever before for His coming. Only His glorious triumphant return can fulfill the hope of the saints. God's not in the business, church, of giving false hope. His Word gives us every reason to long, love, and live for the appearing of the Lord Jesus, and God will not disappoint that blessed hope. There's coming a day the trumpet will sound, for in the dead will rise, the living will be changed, and we'll forever be with the Lord. I hate to say this to our Bible college students, but there's going to be a generation of preachers in Bible college when Jesus comes. I remember when I was a young preacher, sitting in Bible college here, sitting in theology class, doctrinal last things, thinking, Lord, just hold on, let me pastor my first church. God, just hold on, let me get married. God, let me have a kid. You know, all of those things. But there comes a point where you just say, Lord, it's okay if you want to come because I really didn't leave anything at the house I've got to go back for. And friend, one day Jesus is going to come. And we'll be out of here. Jesus is coming again. Are you ready? Are you ready? Are you packed up and ready to go? Because the trumpet is going to sound. The stage is being set. I don't know when it comes. It could happen at any moment. And friend, we'll be there. Wow! It ought to excite us just a little bit. I don't know about you, but that's one plane air ride somebody said that I'm not going to be scared of. If you're not ready tonight, it would be a wonderful time to get ready. To know for sure that number one, you're saved. Number two, that your life's in alignment with the will of God, and that there's nothing between you and the Savior, because when He comes, that's how you're going to meet Him. It is. Let's bow our heads in prayer.