I don't know about you, but our Christmas trees are still up. I still press the little button that turns them on. I like Christmas. I like celebrating it. That's not the reason why we're still in Christmas today. On occasion, somebody will suggest something to preach on, and frankly, it's difficult sometimes to accommodate that, and I never promise that I'm going to follow through on what someone might request, but this particular time, I gave it some thought, and I thought, well, this is a really good idea, and there's certainly a lot of good and better ideas than I have many times. And so I thought I would fit this in. And so we're going to talk about Christmas in one sense, but really we're going to be talking about the return of the gift. Now, as we think about gifts and returns, of those who receive Christmas presents in 2023, because they don't have the stats yet for this year, 28% either planned to or returned a gift. 28%. Now that only represented 18% of the gifts, because obviously people get more than one gift at times, right? But listen to this. And this is not poking a shot here. It's just talking about generations. But for those 18 to 45 years of age, the rate was 55%. So if you were to give a college student or a younger adult a gift, chances are they would be returning it, which I think is pretty funny. For many, the biggest reason they returned their gift was brand-based. Not the cost or the quality of the gift, but the brand. For example, they wanted a Nike hoodie, but instead they got an Under Armour hoodie. It's got to go back. Or they wanted a Beats noise canceling headphones, but they got Sony instead, even though it's probably superior. All right. So you get the idea. But before we consider the returning of the gift, and obviously it's going to be a little bit different gift, I think it would be spiritually healthy for us to be reminded of another Christmas tradition that mirrors what Christ did for us. And that Christmas tradition is the exchange of gifts. The greatest gift exchange took place when Christ gave himself for us. A gift exchange is different than when families get together and give gifts, and this is my opinion, okay? We don't call that a gift exchange when we get together as Kigers and Murrays and give each other gifts. It's not like, here's one for you, and okay, now where's mine, right? A gift exchange is usually more structured or formal. There's a set dollar amount and you choose a name for someone that you're going to buy for and you might not even hardly know that person. It's a little different with the Lord and us. Out of pure grace, God chose to give every one of his followers the gift of life. Purely out of grace. His Word tells us that this took place before the foundations of the world. 2 Corinthians 5.21 tells us this. For He made Him, God the Father, made the Son, who knew no sin, to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. Christ had never sinned and committed no sin as the God-man. It was God who made this exchange for us. And how was that exchange made? He gave us the righteousness of Christ and gave all of our sin and offenses and wickedness to his Son that he would then bear for us. Galatians 3. Chapter 3, verses 13 and 14 kind of continue this thought. Christ has redeemed us, purchased us back from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, curse is everyone who hangs on a tree, that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. So verse 13 of that passage tells us that Christ became a curse for us by paying for our own rightful curse of offending God. We were cursed, rightfully so, because of what we had done, and yet Jesus paid that. The phrase, cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree, comes from Deuteronomy 21, verses 22 and 23, instructing that anyone who commits an offense worthy of the death penalty is to be hanged on a tree, and this person is cursed or despised by God. Peter gave his own description of this great exchange. 1 Peter 2.24, he says, who himself bore our sins in his own body, where? On the tree, on the cross. that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness, by whose stripes you were healed." That whole idea of those stripes, the punishment, the utter destruction of his body that he took on for us, that goes back to Isaiah 53. And so in all these different things, what we see here is an amazing, glorious exchange of our filthiness, of our sinfulness, of the curse and punishment that was upon us, exchanged for the righteousness that only Christ could give us, exchanged for sinlessness as God sees us because of what Jesus has done. Man, isn't that amazing? And here's the whole thing of it. We don't bring any gift to the party. What's taken away from us and given to Jesus, frankly, we don't even want to get rid of to begin with. But God does that work in us. He exchanges that for us. So now let's transition over then into the return of the gift. The gift is Christ and the salvation God provided through him. Without Christ, there is no hope of eternal life. The Son of God came as a gift from God packaged in the form of a newborn baby. Now that was foretold, but it still blew people's minds. God's gift then went back to heaven with the promise he would return. So Christ is very different than how we picture returning a gift. When we usually return a gift, we're getting rid of something or replacing something, okay? And that's not what we're talking about when we're talking about the return of Christ. Christ is coming back to make his gift of eternal life complete. He came as a servant, but he will return with the glory and power and majesty that he chose to set aside in his first coming. They're going to be very, very different. And so, as we kind of work through that, I want us to look at the return of Christ. We're going to look at two events that mark the return of Christ. These are some of the doctrines or teachings of future events. And since they haven't happened yet, there are differing views on what the Bible is describing and when they will take place. My purpose today is not to try to prove a certain position. In reality, I'm going to assume a certain position based upon what we believe as a church. And so that's where I'm coming from for the purpose of helping us understand the return of Christ. So we first have the rapture, as it's called. Paul wrote a very comforting and encouraging letter to the church in Thessalonica. He commended this local group of Christians for their faithfulness and great love that they had for one another. It had to have been something that was very evident as Paul was there with them at one point, or as he even heard about their testimony, which we see in his letter to them, that he keeps on hearing these things. It must have been a wonderful church to be a part of. But there was a critical truth that they were not yet informed about. Paul decided to change that. He hints about it in chapter 1 when he says in verse 10, So who are we waiting for? We're waiting for God's Son to come from heaven. Folks, we're in the same position today. were waiting for the Savior's return. And Paul encouraged them and shared what he and his companions had been through as he then began to address their needs. So he's relating to them. He's talking about, I've heard your reputation and your testimony. And by the way, here's some things that we've been going through and you have encouraged us even by how you have been following the Lord. But there's this one thing that I don't want you to be ignorant of. And so in 1 Thessalonians 4, verses 16 and 18, he says this, With a great shout and the blaring trumpet of God, Christ will raise both the dead and the living who are in him to meet Christ in the clouds. What an amazing, incredible event that we are looking forward to. Now in keeping with the context, the last phrase of verse 18 is the message for the Thessalonians and for us. It says, those who place their faith in Christ but have died will bodily rise from the dead. This was their concern. They're going through life and some who have trusted in Christ, they begin to pass away. And I don't know if it was something that came from the outside or if it was just ignorance or what, but the bottom line is they were thinking, what's happened to them? And so Paul corrects that, but Paul corrects that not just, oh, no, no, no, they have eternal life. He corrects that by also adding that there is going to be this glorious resurrection when Christ comes back for his church. And there's another aspect to this which is the second coming. I want us to look at Revelation chapter 19. Read for you verses 11 through 21. Now we're jumping in in the kind of sort of the middle of what's been going on here but for several chapters we're looking at in the book of Revelation here the tribulation period, both the events and the characters involved in the tribulation period. And that's what John does, he kind of goes back and forth between characters, it could be a group of people, it could be an individual, whatever, and then also events. And so sometimes that pinballing back and forth gets a little confusing, but the bottom line is we're now toward the end of that scenario that he's talking about, toward the end of the tribulation, and it is the end when Christ comes back. And so verse 11 of Revelation 19 says this, And now I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And he who sat on him was called Faithful and True. And in righteousness he judges and makes war. His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except himself. He was clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed him on white horses. Now out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should strike the nations, and he himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God, and he has on his robe and on his thigh a name written, King of Kings and Lord of Lords. And then I saw an angel standing in the sun and he cried with a loud voice saying to all the birds that fly in the midst of the heaven, come and gather together for the supper of the great God that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them and the flesh of all people free and slave, both small and great. And I saw the beast. the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse and against his army." Now let me pause here for just a minute. In all of this amazing scene that's going on, what we suddenly realize is this. The ultimate war that's taking place, and by the way, they've first gone up against Israel, right, is not against flesh and blood. It's not against people. Their ultimate enemy is God. And that's who they turn and go against in the very end. Verse 20. Then the beast was captured and with him the false prophet who worked signs in his presence by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone and the rest were killed with the sword which proceeded from the mouth of him who sat on the horse and all the birds were filled with their flesh. Again, there's a lot there, there's much we will not get into, but what I want us to see here is that as we're looking at Christ's second coming, this could not be more different than his first coming. As a helpless baby the first time, right? Coming from a poor family, and on and on we could go. He had to be rescued because soon after his birth, Herod was going after him, right? That's what we talked about recently. So now instead, what we see is him coming in full force. He will not bring salvation at his second coming, but he will bring judgment instead. He will destroy those who are gathered against him by simply speaking. The same power with which creation came into existence. This completes the return of Christ when he physically returns to rule over his earthly kingdom for a thousand years. We call that the millennial kingdom, and that's described in Revelation 20. In Matthew 24, Jesus described the tribulation period and his return, and Jesus said he would return in Luke chapter 12, in Matthew 16, in John 14, and in Luke 21. He further explained the kingdom in Matthew 25. So there's all of this explanation that Jesus gives and of course a lot of that is coming back even some quotes coming back from the Old Testament when there is a foretelling of the kingdom. So what I want us to do this morning as we think of the rapture and the second coming, we're not going to look so much at the seven years in between, but I want us to consider something by looking at Jesus' first coming. We're going to make a comparison. I apologize, I'm a little behind on my notes here. We're going to make a comparison to Christ's first coming. But what I want us to do is kind of put ourselves in the place of someone who is looking ahead to Jesus coming, not looking back. Right? So it's going to take a little bit of a difference of thinking. And we're just going to look at a few events, but I think that they're going to help us understand this whole idea of what God is going to be accomplishing or how he's going to accomplish it as he returns. First, we have that Jesus' birth was foretold, right? It was foretold in Bethlehem. We know that comes from Micah 5 too. And that is just packed with meaning. We've looked at that recently, but it goes back to and correlates with many other prophecies about the Messiah who was to come. And we see here that you also, we can't miss the fact that Jesus is God in relation to this, right? Whose goings farther from old from everlasting. There's only one person that that can be, that can be God who is coming if he's from everlasting, alright? So his birth was foretold, but then we also saw recently in some of our Christmas study that he was prophesied to be a Nazarene. Now again, we're looking forward now, not back. We're an Old Testament person, maybe even living just before the time of Christ, and we're looking ahead, waiting for the Messiah to come. And what does the passage say here in Isaiah 9, 1 and 2? Nevertheless, the gloom will not be upon her who was distressed, as when at first he lightly esteemed the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward more heavily oppressed her by the way of the sea beyond the Jordan and Galilee of the Gentiles. The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. Those who dwelled in the land of the shadow of death, upon them a light has shined." This light, and we talked about light, right? This light was Christ. This light was the Messiah that was to come. So this is what's wild, okay? Because if you remember, Joseph was warned in a dream, right? Go to Egypt, and then he was then to come back, and then they settled in Nazareth, which is in Galilee. So here's what's crazy about this, and I got a map up here, and if you can just find that yellow dot on the lower left, that's Nazareth in Galilee. Right? Now, this is prophecy we're looking forward. We're going to go a little bit farther in history, and we're going to be talking about now the Assyrians and how they had a series of attacks. We're not going to talk about that, but what we're going to do is we're going to look at this particular region when that took place. So here's another map for you. These lines are all incursions by the Assyrians to the northern kingdom. If you remember the passage, what he was talking about was God was going to particularly be hard on this area. Well, look at the pathways. Look at where the war machine went through. And so what does he say? He says, even though I, my words, even though I roughed you up, right, and you are really not respected, I am going to bring someone out of you. I'm going to bring the Messiah out of you. That's pretty wild, isn't it? Detail to the point where we have the exact region that's going to take place. Now, what would you be thinking if you're an Old Testament saint looking ahead to the Messiah coming and you're being told he's going to be born in Bethlehem? But he's also going to be in Nazarene. How is that possible? You see where I'm going? But we're not done there. We are told that he was going to have an everlasting kingdom. Going back to Isaiah 9, verses 6 and 7, for unto us a child is born. We're still in the Christmas story, right? Unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace, there will be no end. Okay, keeping that in mind, upon the throne of David and over his kingdom to order it and establish it with judgment and justice from that time forward, even forever. And look at this, the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this. Again, I read this passage recently as we're going through different aspects of Christmas. But look what's embedded here. What's embedded here is a second coming and his reign. But what does it say? It says it's going to be an eternal reign. Well, then we see in the scriptures that the Messiah is going to be cut off. Daniel 9, 26, and after the 62 weeks, Messiah will be cut off, and not by himself and of the people. The prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be with a flood. Until the end of the war, desolations are determined. Messiah is going to be cut off. Isaiah 53, 8 and 9, he was taken from prison and from judgment. And who will declare his generation? For he was cut off from the land of the living. For the transgressions of my people he was stricken, and they made his grave with the wicked, but with the rich at his death, because he has done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth." So again, I'm just this Old Testament guy who has faith in the Lord, and I'm looking ahead. He's going to be born in Bethlehem, and he's going to be a Nazarite. Okay? He's going to have an everlasting kingdom, but he's going to die. how we can understand, right? How they can maybe be confused a little bit. We know from the time of Christ, there were well-established opinions of who Messiah would be and what he would do. We know that. That was where a lot of the rub came in with the Pharisees, etc., but it didn't stop with them. Let's not forget that in John 1.46, Nathanael asked, can anything good come out of Nazareth? What about Peter's reaction to Jesus when Jesus declared that he was going to Jerusalem to die? We had that reaction in Matthew 16, 21 and 22. From that time, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem. Now, from that time is when he shifted really a lot of his public ministry to his more private ministry with his disciples, right? And he says, and suffer many things from elders and chief priests and scribes and be killed and be raised the third day. Listen to this. Then Peter took him, God the son, Right? Aside. And began to rebuke him, saying, Far be it from you, Lord, this shall not happen to you. Now, let me loosely translate that. Come here. This is not the plan. This is not how we're executing things. You're going to be the king. Not yet. Not yet. Don't get me wrong, he never stopped being king. I'm talking about his actual reign. What we need to understand is their understanding of prophecy wasn't complete. Is it going to be any surprise to us that maybe our understanding of prophecy isn't complete? Now, I'm going to give you, in just a brief overview of this, a timeline that has what we view as the end times taking place. We are in what is called now the present church age. This is the age or time span of the church where that was established, and the church time span will end at the point of Christ's return regarding the rapture, the rapture of the church. Then there's going to be the seven-year tribulation period, which is kind of that lower part there that you see the years of tribulation. It's not chronologically correct. Seven years compared to the church age, etc. But then we go into the millennial reign of Christ after Christ returns to the earth, not just in the clouds to take the church. And then, as you can see, the final judgment and then the eternal state. I believe that we should look at the rapture and the second coming and the future events that surround them in a similar way. A similar way to what? A similar way to how someone would be looking ahead to the coming of Christ and what he would accomplish. I see the rapture and the second coming as parts or stages to God's plan for Christ's return. Jesus comes back for his church and catches them up before God's time of wrath, fulfilling his promise to keep us from the wrath, his judgment to come. That's promised multiple times that we will not experience the wrath that is coming. Both the Old and New Testament prophecies about the tribulation or time of trouble are allowed to be fulfilled without the church going through this time of judgment. Now, there are those who say, you're just trying to bail on some really hard and bad times. No, it's what the purpose of those times is for. The purpose is to judge the earth. And what the Lord said is, we're not going to be a part of that. I truly believe that. Jesus Christ will then return with his saints, defeat his enemies, and establish his kingdom on the earth. This fulfills the covenants or promises God made to Abraham and to David, as well as the new covenant God made through Christ. Because ultimately, he is working with Israel at that time. God has given us as much information as he has chosen about these future events. Some parts may seem to conflict or we may struggle with their timing or their sequence. The birth of Christ and his relocation to Galilee were years apart, but they both correctly identified where he would come from. They were not Contradictory. They did not conflict with one another. They complemented one another. They fulfilled multiple prophecies. In the same way, it is very probable the rapture and the establishing of the kingdom are both part of the same event to fulfill more than one purpose." Now, I'm not saying that – I'm not conflating the two and saying that they all have the same purpose. What I'm saying is it's all about the return of Christ. It's all about the return of Christ. So why are we talking about this? What are we tying all this together into? I believe that what we need to understand is that we are to prepare for Christ's return. We're talking about, we've been talking about the gift, the gift that was given to us in the person of Jesus Christ. And a lot of what we talked about was the light, the light that shines in the darkness and the light that brings life and all of those other things. But ultimately, He was the gift of God to us. God the Father giving us the Son. So the first and eternal question is, as we think about this, if Christ returned today, would you meet him as your savior or as your judge? Those who have trusted in Christ are to be looking for his return, not as judge. but as the one who is going to come and establish his kingdom. Jesus concluded his explanation of his kingdom with a warning and that warning comes to us from Mark chapter 13. So we're going to go back to the same context that Jesus was speaking about earlier. That's partly why I wanted you to see that earlier part but let's jump ahead to verse 32. Verse 32 to the end of the chapter, Mark chapter 13. But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven nor the Son, but only the Father." Now there's been a lot of haymaid regarding the Son knowing and not knowing and other things and this isn't necessarily easy to explain but it's consistent and it goes back to Jesus voluntarily non-using his glory. It's not like Jesus is still in heaven sitting at the right hand of God and saying, is it time yet? Is it time yet? That's not happening. But here he says, that is not even made known to me yet. Right? So then it goes on. Take heed, right? Pay attention, watch and pray for you do not know when the time is. And now he gives an example of it. It is like a man going to a far country who left his house and gave authority to his servants. Who might this master of the house servants be in this picture? Yeah, us. And to each his work, to each his work, to each his work. I don't know how I can, you know, let's just emphasize all of them. and commanded the doorkeeper to watch. Watch, therefore, for you do not know when the master of the house is coming, in the evening, at midnight, at the crowing of the rooster, or in the morning, lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say to you, I say to all, watch." Remember, this was more of a private conversation. But what Jesus is saying, and I believe he knew these words were going to be recorded, he's saying this is a message to everybody. Going back to the context of 1 Thessalonians 5, chapter 5, verse 6 says this, Therefore, let us not sleep as others do, but let us watch and be sober. That idea of sober is not non-drunk, it means to be alert. Okay? So here's the point. If we look at this context, Jesus will find some drowsy, sleeping, sleeping on the job. Let me say it again. Jesus will find some of his servants, some of us, sleeping on the job. Because the warning is, don't do that. But the instruction is to be watchful. To be watchful and to be about the work that God has for us. So we're just going to slide right over here into our takeaways this morning as we conclude. Why do we add this return of Christ to our Christmas series? Because God gave the Son because of his love for the world. And that very same gift, the person of Jesus Christ, will come again and make the gift of salvation complete. Remember, when he died and rose again, we were told in the scriptures that he was a first fruits. He was the first of the same kind of thing that was going to happen. So as he rose again, it was showing that we would all rise again. And we just saw from scripture how that's going to take place. So let's remind ourselves again of Christ's words back in Mark 13 verses 34 and 35 and then we're going to sneak in 37. It is like a man going to a far country who left his house and gave authority to his servants and to each his work and commanded the doorkeeper to watch. Watch therefore for you do not know when the master of the house is coming. And what I say to you, I say to all, watch. Folks, this is now, based upon what Jesus said, a personal message to all believers to be working and to be watching for the Master's return. As followers of Christ, the coming of Christ isn't supposed to create unhealthy, anxious fears. Our present watchfulness shouldn't be like, just as he talked about the master of the house coming, oh no, mom and dad might come home any minute and none of our chores are done. That never happened in the Kiger household, never. Now some of you who are a lot younger than me, you know the fear that can be struck in your heart. when you're doing whatever you're not supposed to be doing. Actually, it's not so much that, it's that you're not doing what you were supposed to be doing, and then, all of a sudden, the car drives up. Right? That's what happens. I'm having flashbacks. That's not what Jesus is telling us to do. But now, by the way, there is a warning there, don't get me wrong. Don't get caught. That's there. But what is he encouraging? What is he telling us to do? Instead, his ever possible return should motivate us to actively and faithfully serve him. It's to be more like, I want to always be ready to show the one who has gifted me spiritual eternal life that I am faithfully serving him with a devoted life. Paul calls this our reasonable service. It's what's expected. Does the Lord have the right to expect this from us? Does he have the right to say, listen, when I get back, This is what I want you to be working on. This is what I want you to be doing. Does he have that right? Absolutely. What did Jesus himself say, right? Actually, I think John said it, but if you love me, you will keep my commandments. It was in both passages. So then we come down to the question for each of us. What if Christ returned today? What if he returned today? Because it's an ever present possibility. Folks there's a warning here. Do you want in a sense Jesus to come back? and start nudging you and saying, hey, wake up. I'm back for you. Or do you want him to walk in on you and look and see? You're about my work. Now, there's other passages, other parables we could look at that relate to this. But I want to take just a couple of minutes to put this in perspective, folks. This is not a call to live the life of a monk or a recluse, right? Well, it's said, watch and pray. So that's what I should be doing all the time. I should be on my knees praying and then glancing up constantly. Anybody here still in school? Still getting an education? Okay. Anybody here still have a career? Other responsibilities? Raising children? Taking care of your home? All those other things? This is where we have this amazing truth of being about the father's business But then understanding that that coincides with whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all of the glory of God. It's not, you know, when Jesus comes back, he's got to see me handing out a tract. Right? It's not going to be this immediate, singular second in time when he comes. It's what has your lifestyle been about? Now, yes, it does include the present when he comes, but it's what has your lifestyle been about? I mean, there's going to be millions and millions of Christians. Not all of us are even going to be awake at that time when he comes. So he's not talking about that very second in time. What it's going to be is, are you living your life for me? Whatever you are doing, Even in your refreshment, even in your recreating, that can and should happen sometimes. Is it something that's violating my standard? Or is it something that would bring glory to me? So you see where I'm going? Sometimes I think, again, if we don't look at it right, we're putting so much pressure on ourself. It's unrealistic. Are we just going to kind of be snoozing on the job or are we going to be actively serving him when he comes back and finds us? I want to be clear, in this particular context they're all believers. But I just, I can't imagine any of us thinking to ourselves, boy, you know what? What I aspire to do, what I really want to do is to have my master, my Lord, right? The one who is in control of all things and who has given me life. I want him to walk in on me when I am doing nothing at all related to him. I don't think that's what we want. So let's flip that switch, right, if we haven't already, or at least consider ourselves as we're looking at this new year and just being one day closer, one year closer to his coming, as we can consider, okay, what can, what should I be doing? Is there something that is getting in the way of me glorifying God with my life? Now again, I've already established, we're not talking about some kind of recluse. We're not talking about, you know, going off of all grids, so to speak, right? And just, you know, sitting and praying and frankly being of no earthly value to anybody else. What we're talking about doing is, as we are living our lives, It's living it for the Lord, is doing all of those things for his glory, even the homework, even the job, even all of those responsibilities, even coming up doing our taxes and on and on we can go. It's all to be reflective of doing his work and yes, praying, serving others, giving of ourselves, both financially and with our time, and on and on we can go. But it really comes back to, how's he gonna find us? How do you want him to find you? Because he is going to return. I don't know when, you don't know when, he does. And he has an expectation of how he's going to find us. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, even as we consider what your word has to say about your return, if we are alive, there is still going to be the judgment to come for believers. Where our works are put through your test. And so maybe there will be a point in time before you come when it could be that everyone in this room has actually passed and is with you prior to the resurrection of our bodies. We don't understand all that, but that's just what you say. There will still be a point in time, Lord, when we will stand before you and we will give an account of how we have lived our lives for you. Heavenly Father I pray that we will invest now in what are eternal and immeasurable things of worth. That we won't trade what is cheap and paltry and frankly in the scope of things worthless for what truly matters not just most but will last for eternity. And in all of this Lord we ask that you will come quickly, in Jesus name, amen.