to Matthew chapter 24 and verse number 3, if you would, a passage that we know as the Olivet Discourse. It is the table of contents to end time events. The Lord Jesus in Matthew 24 and 25 gave the most comprehensive chronological outline of end time events found anywhere in the Bible. I call it the blueprint of what's to come. Now we're not going to deal with that in detail. We've already preached messages and preached through that, but we are using Matthew chapter 24 and verse number 3 for a more topical prophetic series dealing with what we're calling what's next. Those are the two words on everybody's lips. What's next? What's on the horizon? as it relates to the future of our world. The disciples had that very same question. You find it, if you would, in Matthew 24 in verse number 3. Notice the Bible says, And as He, talking about the Lord Jesus, sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto 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?" That word coming we know has to do with an arrival. They're asking you the question, what is the sign of your full presence with us? that the disciples were referring to the Lord's second coming, we know is evident by the fact that Jesus was right then present with them. They were asking Him, Lord, when are You going to manifest Yourself to Israel in all of Your glory? When are You going to ascend the rightful throne of David? And when are You going to inaugurate the kingdom that has been promised to our forefathers that fills all of Old Testament prophecy? One of the most important things that you're going to do as a Bible student is to make a difference where God makes a difference. When you talk about the end times, you need to ask, for who? For who? God divides all of the world up into multiple categories. You're going to find in I Corinthians chapter 10, and I believe it is verse number 31 or 32, Paul says this, Give none offense neither to the Jews, nor the Gentiles, nor the church of God. God sees the world as either Jew or Gentile, or a part of His body, the church, which is made up of both Jews and Gentiles that have placed their faith in Jesus Christ. There are the end times of the church. What we know is God's plan as it relates to His saints in this dispensation of grace. Those are a part of His body that make up His church, alright? the end times it relates to the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Then there are the end times as it relates to the nation of Israel. God has a plan for the church. God has a plan for His earthly people, His covenant people, the nation of Israel. And then God has an end time program for the Gentile peoples of this world. And you see that you need to make a difference in those areas. The disciples are not asking about the church at this point. They're still in their minds dealing with Israel and the end times as it relates to the Jewish people. The setting up of the Jewish kingdom, or actually it's a universal kingdom of the Lord at which Israel will be at the head of the nations. When the Lord talks about this word world, or when they ask the question of the word world, they're not talking about the destruction of our planet. They're not talking about destruction because of a nuclear holocaust, or some type of climate destruction, or natural disaster, or a comet colliding with our planet and destroying it. That's not what they're talking about. They're talking about the end of God's program for His chosen people, the nation of Israel, that will culminate in Christ's second coming. Now here's what we've learned in our study thus far. The next event, you say, preacher, what's next? The next event on God's prophetic calendar is the rapture. I'm going to deal with that in one whole message in a couple of weeks. We know this, that it is a signless event. There are no signs, no prophecies that have to be fulfilled. Nothing has to happen for Jesus to translate His saints to glory. How many of us would say amen right there? All right? All signs in the Bible point to Christ's return to this earth. Remember there are two phases to the second coming. The rapture, where the saved go up. All right? We go up to meet the Lord in the air. In a moment, a twinkling of an eye. It's imminent. It could happen at any moment. Church, I'm going to tell you and let you in on something. I think we're closer than we've ever been before. Amen? We know that. You say, preacher, how do you know that? Because we're 2,000 years this side of the promise of the Lord to come for His own. We have to be closer. Amen? I mean, that's just logic. But we also know this, alright? That while there are no signs, because the second phase of the return of Christ or the second coming is His return to the earth at the end of a seven year period of wrath called the tribulation period. He'll come at the end. We go up before that is pre-tribulation. We go up, the rapture takes place before the tribulation, the second coming takes place at the end of the tribulation. All signs, all Bible signs that have to do with the second coming relate to His return to this That doesn't mean that God is not in the process of setting the stage. There are things today that are true of our world that were not true in John's day, or Peter's day, or Paul's day. When John talked about everybody having a mark, and they could not buy or sell without the mark of the Antichrist, alright? And that is not the number 666, by the way, okay? That's not that number, but it is a mark. It is an allegiance and a loyalty to the man of sin, and he's going to turn the world into a concentration camp. You cannot buy nor sell without his mark. Do you realize that is so much easier today than it was in that day? Do you realize today with artificial intelligence, with facial recognition, with just scanning a barcode? Listen, do you realize that what used to be giant computers that filled this room with information, we wear it on our watch? Who would have dreamed that in 2023, when Star Trek come out, that we would be doing this? Beam me up, Scotty. Now for our younger generation, you can Google this after the service, okay? Isn't that fun? Who would have dreamed that? But let me tell you something else that's going on in our world. Zechariah 14 and verse number 2, here's what God said. For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle. We're seeing a turn in our world as we've never seen it before. Even in America. When Israel responded to an attack, a terrorist, murderous, villainous, horrendous, satanic attack upon their nation. where children and people were innocently mutilated and murdered in their homes. Israel defends itself against Hamas. What started out as a trickle of anti-Semitic propaganda on elite college campuses has turned into world demonstrations. Go ahead, guys. You all with me? Washington D.C. just this past week. Next, Paris, France. What was just hundreds is now hundreds of thousands. I was waking up to coffee the other morning. My wife has a little Alexa thing that you can talk to family and friends with and she talks to her sisters and stuff like that through that, listens to music. I'm not even sure what you call that Alexa thing, but it has a little screen on it and all of that. I woke up to this as I looked at the headline on it. Israel IDF bombs and murders Palestinians in a refugee camp. By the way, do you know that is a lie? We learned that the world went crazy that they had bombed a hospital that the Palestinian terrorists themselves had destroyed. There is an anti-Semitic, an anti-Jewish mindset in our nation like we've never seen before. Now, what I am going to tell you is this. This is not all nations gathered against Jerusalem to battle. That is still a prophetic event. But are we already seeing God set the stage as even Israel's dearest friend for the last 80 years, 75 to 80 years in America, the sentiment in our own nation, in our own government is turning against, listen, even in just a political stance, The only free nation in the Middle East who has been our ally and our friend. And now even our current president, for political reasons, is saying, I'm not sure we can support you all the way through. I remember sitting in a Bible college classroom. Dr. Hoyle Bowman. Remember Dr. Bowman, Brother Vernon? I love Dr. Bowman. He was a great teacher. I'll never forget him dealing with prophecy and talking about Russia. And I'm going to preach on this a little bit later on. You all can tell this thing keeps growing, right? I'm going to deal with some major prophetic themes. Russia coming down on the nation of Israel, the invasion of Israel by Russia and her allies. I'll never forget Hoyle Bowman. This is etched in my mind. And he talked about how the nations would come down and everybody would turn against Israel. And I remember him sitting there. Now class, let me tell you how God's going to take care of that. He'll use America. I thought to myself, you're a doctor and you're smarter than I am, but I'm not sure that's what the Bible's saying, Dr. Bowman. But he is a patriotic American who believed that America, Israel's ally, could never even fathom, even during the tribulation period, that our nation would turn against the Jewish people. Because we're a Christian nation, right? But let me remind you that cultural Christianity in America is dead. We're no longer a Christian nation. We're now a secularistic nation who has no thought of God, no thought of the Bible, and therefore no love for God's earthly people, the nation of Israel. And Satan is working his anti-Semitic propaganda through influences on social media, the news media, governments, and through college campuses across our land to turn the mindset of the world against Israel, to set the stage for the end times. We're closer than it's ever been before. I've told you I was going to give you several reasons why Christ must return. Number one, we saw last week that Jesus must return because the Scriptures demand His second coming. We recognize the principle of interpretation called the law of proportion. That if God mentions something one time, it's enough for it to be important in the Scriptures, but yet we find that the more that God gives place or space to a subject in Scripture, the more He gives attention to it, the greater the importance of that subject. We learned of the 333 prophecies relating to the coming of Christ, 109 of them were completely fulfilled to the minutest detail at His first coming. We're going to celebrate Christmas in just a few months. If you live in my house, you do that about 12 months out of the year. But anyway, that's beside the point. And so anyway, we know that if God fulfilled those prophecies about His first coming, do you realize there are 224 prophecies yet to be fulfilled at His second coming? There are over 1,840 five mentions of the second coming of Jesus Christ in your Bible. For every one time that God mentions the Lord's first coming, there are eight times that He mentions His second coming. And you're going to find that to deny the second coming of Jesus Christ is to rip one-fourth of the pages out of our Bible. Friend, may I remind us the Scriptures demand for Jesus to come again. The Bible prophesied it, and God always keeps His Word. Amen? But let me give you a second reason why Jesus must come again, and it's because He Himself declared that He would return. That He would come a second time. There are at least 22 different occasions that Jesus told someone of His second coming. He wanted both His friends and His foes alike to know that He would return. He mentioned it to His friends. This will be a passage we're going to look at in more detail a little bit later on in the message. John chapter 14 verses 2 and 3. Right before Jesus goes back to heaven, He's talking to His disciples. I'm not sure if those verses are in your notes or not. But He was talking to His disciples. He tells them to not let their hearts be troubled. He said, you believe in God, believe also in Me. You trust the Father, trust Me, His Son. You believe in the Father, believe in Me. And then he says these words, "...in my Father's house are many mansions." I like that, don't you? "...If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself." This is a reference to the rapture. that where I am, there ye may be also. Can I tell you, friend, listen, heaven's anywhere Jesus is. Amen? And can I tell you what makes heaven? Heaven for the Lord Jesus are those who belong to Him. Do you know that God desires for His people to be with Him? And listen, one day, one day there's going to be a generation of Christians who are going to vanish from this earth. We're going to cheat death. We're going to escape the undertaker. And we're going to be raptured. Gloriously, instantaneously into the very presence of God. Isn't that wonderful? Translated into heaven. Here's what he said to his disciples, fellows, I'm going away, but I will come again. I'm going to return. What a statement. Can I tell you, his own credibility depends on his second coming. If Jesus does not return as He said He would, then He is a liar and a fraud. He has based the integrity of who He is on His Word and His promise of a second coming. General Douglas MacArthur told the Filipino people during World War II, as he left the shores and got on a submarine because of the Japanese invasion and they had taken over the island, he loved the Filipino people, he said, I shall return. You know what? That was a bold statement. That was a powerful statement. That was a determined statement. I'm sure deep in his heart, General Douglas MacArthur had all the resolve in the world to return, but he could not guarantee and assure that he would return. We know that He did. Thank the Lord. He freed them of the Japanese occupation. We understand that. And we're glad that He was able to keep that promise. But He didn't know that He could keep that promise. But I can tell you this, dear friend, Jesus said, I'm coming again, and there's no doubt He'll keep His promise. Listen, He didn't question it. He didn't wonder about it. I wonder if it's going to happen. Listen, it wasn't just a statement of declaration and resolve. Friend, it was a statement of, fellows, I'm going away, but I will come again. What a blessing that is. But Jesus said, listen, I just don't want you to know. As my friends I'm coming, but those of you that are my enemies, my foes, I want you to know that I'm coming again. In Matthew chapter 26 verse 64, Jesus is sitting before the Sanhedrin. He is there in a monkey trial. He has been falsely accused. They're going to condemn Him to the cross. They have asked Him, and they said, tell us plainly if you're the Christ. He said, I've already told you, and you wouldn't believe. And then one of them said, we adjure you by the living God. Tell us whether or not you're the Christ. Here's what He said, Thou hast said, you are right, I am the Christ. The Son of God. And listen to what He says, Nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter, after this, shall ye see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven. Do you know what Jesus just said to His enemies? He said, after this moment, He said, listen, you're going to condemn Me falsely, you're going to crucify Me, but I want you to know that's not the end of the story. You're going to see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of power. I'm going to be sitting beside the Father. Do you know what that was? That was a statement of co-regency. That He ruled and reigned over the universe with His Father. He was claiming equality with God. And then He made the statement, and I'm going to come and the clouds of heaven, you're going to see me coming in all of my power, in all of my glory, in all of my strength. Hey, you may have your say, but I've got the last say." That's what he said to them. Matthew 24 verse 35, Jesus said, Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My words shall not pass away. Friend, listen, I know I'm preaching passionately tonight, but can I tell you that there is no greater truth in all of the Bible than the fact that Jesus Christ is coming again, and Jesus Himself said, I will come again. Amen? Number three, let me give you a third reason Jesus must come again. Because the Christian's salvation will be consummated at His coming. The Christian's salvation, what God is doing in our hearts, will be consummated at Christ's coming. Listen to Philippians 1.6. He that hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. My grandfather and my grandmother in heaven, they were dear saints of God. I was led to Christ through my granddaddy's preaching, called to preach under his preaching. He mentored me in the Bible. I'm thankful for the influence of my grandfather in my life and my grandmother. She taught me as a little child about the creative power of God, just looking at apple blossoms and apple trees. Those things have been forever etched into my mind. I remember them. But do you realize that my grandmother and grandfather, although they're in heaven, they're not complete yet. Their salvation has not been consummated. You say, wait a minute, preacher, they're in heaven. You're exactly right. But there's a part of our salvation, friend, that the people in heaven that are saved, that are a part of the body of Christ, have not experienced yet, and they cannot and will not experience it until you and I experience it, and it'll all take place at the coming of Jesus Christ for His own. For his own. Let me give you some verses. Romans 13 verse number 11. And that knowing the time. Boy, we ought to know the time, shouldn't we? That now it is high time or past time to awake out of sleep. You know what God is saying to His church? Wake up! Can I tell you the greatest message we can hear tonight as it relates to the coming of Jesus? Wake up! Wake up! That's what he's saying. For now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand. What is he talking about? I Peter chapter 1, is that in your notes? Verses 7 through 9, is that in your notes? Alright, let's look at it. "...that the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory, when, at the appearing of Jesus Christ..." Christian, can I help you understand something tonight? The suffering and the difficulty and the hardships you and I face, we're not going to know and we're not going to understand at all until Jesus comes. We're just not. We're not. I quit trying to figure out everything that God's doing in people's lives. I don't have the answer to everything. But friend, one day, one day, He'll make it all plain. Amen? Listen to what He says. Whom having not seen ye love, in whom though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory, receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. You're saying, wait a minute preacher, I thought I was saved the night that I came to Christ and I believed on the Lord that I asked God to save me. You're exactly right. You're saved as you'll ever be so far as heaven's concerned. But God has a process in salvation. And you're going to see this. Look at that word, end, in your notes. He says, the end of your faith. That is the outcome of your faith. Even the salvation of your souls. You say, Preacher, I thought I saved the day I trusted Christ as Savior. You were. You were. You were saved as you ever will be. However, our faith in Christ was just the beginning of God's work of salvation in our lives. Not the end. It set us on the journey. He that hath begun a good work in us will perform it. God's at work in your life. God's at work in my life. Salvation, dear friend, was the beginning of a process through which God is going to conform me completely and fully to the very image of His Son, Jesus Christ. I can say, dear friend, He is still working on me. I'm not there yet. Amen? But I sure want to be. When God saved you, God set in motion three aspects of salvation. I'm going to give it to you real quickly. There's a sense in which in the past I have been saved from the penalty of sin. The night I asked God to save me, I was saved that night from the very penalty of sin. We call that justification. We were declared righteous. If you trusted Christ, you were declared righteous by God. Alright? I am saved. I have been saved. Judgment is not in your future. Hell is not in your future. Isn't that a blessing tonight? But there's a point now in a present aspect of salvation. I am being saved. I am saved or I have been saved. I am right now being saved. I have been saved from the penalty of sin. All of my sin, past, present, and future as it relates to the penalty. But right now I am being saved from the power and the pollution and the contamination and the domination of sin in my daily life. We call that sanctification. God's sanctifying work where I'm becoming less and less of who I am by nature, more and more of who I ought to be in Him. God at work in my life conforming me to the image of Christ. Christian, let me tell you something. We're going to be like, if you're saved, you're going to be like Jesus, willingly or unwillingly. You say, what do you mean by that? Listen, you can fight the process of sanctification, go your own way, backslid on God, go out in the world and live your own way. Just as God never forces anybody to be saved, God never forces a Christian to live for Him. But friend, you will be made like Jesus Christ. That day is going to come. I like it when we cooperate, don't you? Future. There's a future tense. I will be saved from the very presence of sin. You realize right now, friend, I still break the heart of my God. I still grieve the Holy Spirit with maybe my attitude or maybe something I say or an action. But friend, you know there's a coming of day. We call that glorification. There's coming a day when I'll be glorified. Friend, listen, I've been justified. I am being sanctified. But one day I will be glorified. We're going to be in the very presence of the Savior. Look with me in Romans chapter 8 and verse number 30. Would you do that? I don't think I wrote that in my notes. Romans chapter 8 and verse number 30. Look what the Bible says. Moreover, whom He did predestinate, them He also called. And whom He called, them He also justified. And whom He justified, them He also glorified." Did you see that? That is the future salvation. That is the end of our faith that both Peter and Paul had in mind when they wrote the verses under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. The Bible calls it the redemption of Our bodies. You are a redeemed soul living in an unredeemed body. My body still gets sick. My body's one day going to die if Jesus doesn't come. My body's going to decay if Jesus doesn't come. My body still has disease and still feels pain. The older I get, the more Rice Krispies I have. I just bend down and then I experience snap, crackle, pop. How many want to say amen to that? You all with me? Yeah. Alright? But one day, one day, I'm going to get a new body. Look at Romans chapter 8 verse number 23. Alright? He says at verse 22, For we know that the whole creation, I'm going to come back to that verse in the later point of the message, whole creation groaneth and travaileth. Do you realize that all of the natural disasters, all the things going on in our world that we have to do with nature, it's the birth pains of the world desiring The day when God redeems His people, when Jesus comes, this world is groaning for the Lord to come, together in pain until now. Look at verse 23, And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, Even we ourselves, grown within ourselves, waiting for the adoption to wit, that is the redemption of our body. The day when Jesus comes. And friend, listen, this robe of flesh will drop and rise to seize the everlasting prize. We'll receive a body like His glorious body. We'll have a redeemed soul and a redeemed body. And we'll be saved to sin no more. Isn't that a wonderful day? Friend, Jesus must come to complete the work that He began in our hearts the day He saved us. Jesus doesn't come, salvation won't be complete. Isn't that amazing? Listen to Philippians chapter 3 verses 20 and 21, For our conversation, our citizenship, is in heaven, from whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is able even to subdue all things unto himself." Friend, listen. Jesus must come to complete the work of salvation in our lives. I told you there's reasons why Jesus must come. Number one, the Scriptures demand it. Number two, Jesus declared it. Number three, our salvation, our complete salvation depends on it. the consummation of what God began in our lives the day He saved us. Friend, in heaven they're waiting for the rapture because on that day, and you're going to see that when we get to that message, listen, not only will we be changed, but they'll be changed. When I... Ms. Debbie's here and we had the funeral, the graveside service for Ms. Sandra, for one of the sweetest saints of God that I've ever known. And one of the things we noted that day was that we weren't burying her body. She's with the Lord. We were planting it. Because one day, friend, the graves are going to come open, and the dead in Christ are going to rise, and friend, they're going to be reunited with a glorious body, the living are going to be changed, and we're going to forever be with the Lord. Friend, we ought to be loving and longing His appearance. That will begin the great reunion day on the other side. Amen? Can I give you the last one real quickly? I've got some more points. Alright, next message. I'm going to wrap it up tonight. God's plan for His church is completed by the second coming. Alright? Let's go back to John 14, verses 2 and 3. He said, In my Father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am, Their ye may be also." Do you know when Jesus spoke those words, His disciples immediately, immediately knew exactly the meaning of that promise. You see, the Bible wasn't written with a Western mindset. It was written with an Eastern mindset, a Middle Eastern mindset. It was a Jewish marriage custom that our Lord was talking about. Do you realize that you and I are engaged to the Lord Jesus? The church is the bride of Christ. One day we're going to be married to the Lord, Revelation chapter number 19. Right now we're in the betrothal period. Listen to 2 Corinthians 11 verse 2. Paul said, For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. In the Old Testament, Israel was the wife of Jehovah. God has a plan for Israel. New Testament church, we're the bride of Christ. And one day church, we're going to be presented as a pure bride to God. Hey, listen, one day the wedding bells are going to ring in heaven. And Jesus is going to be married to a perfect bride. All of those saved from the day of Pentecost unto the rapture will make up what we understand as His bride. Friend, can I tell you, one day Jesus as a bridegroom is coming to claim His bride. There are three stages to a Middle Eastern wedding. Alright, I'm going to give them to you real quickly and we're going to close up the service. First of all, there's the bride price. That was what was paid to the bride's father to betroth her. It was like a marriage contract. Gifts were given. It was a dowry. He would purchase his bride. Listen to Ephesians 5.25. The Bible says, Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it. Do you realize that the first time Jesus came, He paid the bride price? That through His own blood, He purchased His bride, the church. You follow me? We've been purchased by the Lord Jesus. After that would be a betrothal period, normally lasted about a year. When Mary and Joseph, when Mary was found with child of the Holy Ghost, they were in the betrothal period. He had already paid the bride price. They were in that engagement period when she was found with child of the Holy Ghost. And Joseph unsure of what to do because he thought that maybe somehow Mary had been unfaithful to him. He realized through the message of the angel that God was at work in her life, and God was at work in his life, and he understood that. That was that engagement period. Church, right now we're in the engagement period. You know what Jesus is saying? I've paid the bride price. In my father's house are many mansions. I go to prepare a place." The mansions were already there. He said, I'm going to prepare a place for you. During the engagement period, the groom, the bridegroom, would go back to his father's house and he would build onto the father's house what was called a bride chamber. Once the bride chamber was complete, the father would say to the son after an inspection, you may now go and get your bride. He would then, at the end of the engagement period, go back, claim his bride, and then a procession take her back to the Father's house, present her to the Father, where they would have a wonderful marriage feast, and then they would consummate that marriage vow. Okay? And the marriage would then be complete. Alright? And so when Jesus came the first time, and He came to claim His bride, He paid for us, He purchased us with His own blood, With this intervening age, this time period from the time Jesus has went back between His first and second comings, that is the betrothal period, the engagement period. That's what we're in right now. But friend, I'm here to tell you, the wedding feast is going to come. One day the Father is going to say to His Son, Son, go get your bride. And friend, Jesus is going to come. And the bride, the Lord Jesus, the ransomed church of God are going to be caught up, we're going to be presented as a gloriously perfect, chaste, pure bride to the Son of God. The wedding bells will ring and we'll be married to the Son of God throughout all eternity. Isn't that an amazing thing? One glorious day, friend, the bridegroom will come for us. He'll take us to the Father's house, forever married to Him, never to be separated again, and then we're going to have a marriage feast that's going to last a thousand years. The Kingdom Age. The Bible talks of the marriage supper of the Lamb. I know there has to be fried chicken, banana pudding. How many will say Amen right there? Friend, can I tell you that the marriage supper of the Lamb and His bride will signal the completion of God's plan for His church. What Jesus initiated at Calvary, He'll consummate and complete at the rapture. And friend, listen, we'll then stand before the Lord, we'll be purified, We'll be completely sanctified and glorified. Friend, we're saved to sin no more. And then we'll be, Revelation 19, married to the Son of God. We'll come back with Jesus who will then rescue the nation of Israel from her enemies. And He'll inaugurate a kingdom that's going to last for a thousand years. Friend, listen. God's plan for His church cannot be completed unless Jesus comes again. Friend, He must. He must return. But there's still other reasons why He must return, and we're going to talk about those in the next message. Friend, listen, we need to quit looking for signs. God's setting the stage, and we need to start looking for the Savior. Amen? And be busy about His business in the meantime. Who do you know needs the Lord tonight? Christian, I'm not preaching just to fill your head. I'm preaching to change our hearts and lives because the Bible said we're to love His appearing. We'll purify ourselves even as He is pure. We need to allow the truths of prophetic truths to make us fall in love with Jesus all over again and to look and long for our Bridegroom to come. For in one day this thing's all going to be over and we're going to be forever with the Lord. Isn't that a blessing? What a day that will be when my Jesus I shall see. Let's bow our heads in prayer. Lord, thank You for the message tonight. Lord, there may be someone here tonight that You're dealing with their heart. Maybe they've never been saved. They've never been born again. I pray God tonight would be the night they'd come to You. Lord, there may be Christians tonight like myself that have loved ones that don't know You, Lord. I don't know when You're going to come, but Lord, I know that time is short. Lord, we need to work for the night is coming. Lord, the day is coming when working time is over. Now is not the time to be idle. Now is not the time to circle the wagons. Now is not the time to hold on to You come. Now is the time for us to be busy about Your business, Lord, till You come. I pray, Lord, that we as a church would heed Your message. We'd love Your appearing. We would purify ourselves even as You're pure. And Lord, we would seek to be about Your business. Lord, help us to be what we ought to be when You come. And I'll sure thank You for what You do in our lives. In Jesus' name I praise You. We stand to our feet tonight.