nothing to what's going to be. That sound of that trumpet will be heard in every part of the world. And every person that belongs to Jesus will disappear. The ones who are in the graves, the ones who are alive, everyone will meet the Lord in the air. If you could stand please. 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 and verse 16. Today is Prophecy Sunday, so I'm going to give you a run of what's going to happen in the last days. according to the Bible. 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 in verse 16. In your Bibles, if you have it on a paper or on your phone or iPad, however you have it, in 2 Thessalonians, it's 1 Thessalonians. Okay, look what it says. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout. with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we, we, present tense, which are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with them, them we will, dead in Christ, in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so shall we ever be with the Lord. Verse 18, wherefore, Comfort one another with these words. Let's pray heavily, Father. Thank you, Lord, for your promise. Lord, we fail our promises all the time, but you don't. You are perfect, God, and we trust your word. Everything you say comes to pass, and your coming will come. Lord, we don't know when it is, but we are looking for our blessed hope that someday will come. And we will be forever with you. So come Lord Jesus. In Jesus name I pray. Amen. You may be seated. So this morning Jesus is coming again. That's the mockery that the world makes you. Jesus is going to come again. Really? How long you guys been waiting? And I promptly say 2024 years. They're like, wow. And it might be another 2,024 years, but I tell you what, he is going to come. Oh really? Where you base your faith on? In the pages of the Bible and in the lips of Jesus because he spoke it. You know what? He is coming again. You know before that, when the promise was made that Jesus would be born in Tuwa, Bethlehem of Judea, people didn't believe. Not even the same, the Jewish people, the doctors of the law, when they were asked, they said, yeah, in Bethlehem of Judea, they knew exactly. But you know what? They didn't went and go and find out if it was true. Magi's or astrologists when and found the baby Jesus worship him give him presents But he says the same Jesus that we went up is gonna come down again And you know what? That's the hope of the Christian Church. Our Jesus is not in the grave Our Jesus rose from the grave our Jesus is alive forevermore he went up to heaven to be with the father sits at the right hand of the father and he says he will come down again those who died in their faith their spirit will be reunited with their body not corpse full of bones a resurrected body and those who are alive and remain may be in our generation will be transformed in a blink of an eye Look, one of the most cold subjects or toked subjects in the Bible is prophecy. People are fascinated by prophecy. Actually, when I first got saved, I went through a discipleship program. I remember the pastor said to me, what did you like, what else you like to know about the Bible? I said, about the future. And he gave me a round down about the future. And I said, really, is this true? He goes, that's the Bible. And I look at him, I said, you believe that? And I said, he goes, I do believe that. You know what? I believe the same. There will come a day where time be no more. All records of all man history, even the Patriot's record, will be gone forever. Who cares about, you know, the seven or six Super Bowl titles that they have? It will be gone. Only one history will remain available. It will be God's history. This world is not looking, folks, for the coming of Jesus, neither for any Bible prophecy to be fulfilled. The world is going on. The world keeps on going. Remember the days of Noah? What happened in the days of Noah? It was a time when the world was desperately wicked, the Bible says. God says I'm going to flood the earth. People say oh it's just local. No folks it was the whole world was on the water and you know what and it when God promised when God shot the door of the ark guess what happened he flooded the earth and for many years 120 years talking about not having one person believing him he preached the gospel nobody believed but when God shot the door everything came to pass When he said he was coming to battle him of Judea, it happened. And now we, people mocked him. Oh, your Jesus is coming? Yes, my Jesus is coming. Yes, he is. So let me give you a rundown this morning about what's going to happen in the days ahead as the future rolls. Maybe in our generation, maybe not in our generation, but let me give you two. The next event on God's calendar is the rapture of the church. is the rapture of the church you see folks i say pastor where's the rapture of the church all right okay so the bible says that jesus came for his own and his own receive him not that moment when the jewish people reject jesus g reject the messiahs god put the jewish people aside as a nation not individuals okay and god turned to the gentile world us and god they would start at the age of the church what we call the church age so Jewish people is put aside we live in the church age when that church age is going to end don't listen to people out there that put dates no one knows it can be today it can be tomorrow it can be a thousand years from now we do not know God the father knows so in this time we live in the church age and one day church age will end at the rapture of the church the bride of christ will be will meet the groom up in the air not jesus is not coming to earth it will meet the savior in the air those who died in their faith and those who are alive at that time those who believe you see in the video many people went some stay behind they were sitting in the bible believing church and they were left behind you know what because we're not believers Because we carry a Bible doesn't mean we are saved. Because we might read a verse doesn't mean we are saved. No, we are saved when we put our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and receive Him as our Savior. We don't rely on religions, on good works. We rely on the promise of God and what he said for us. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish but have everlasting life. That's the promise of God. So what's the next event on God's calendar? The rapture of the church. When it's going to happen? We don't know. Well look what it says in John chapter 14 verse 2. In my father's house are many mentions. and if it was not so I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you and while I go to prepare a place for you look what it says I will come again and receive you into myself that way I am that ye present tense may be also when this moment will take place we don't know nobody knows but God knows there's one thing East Bay Baptist Church, we believe the Church, the Bride of Christ will be raptured before the tribulation times like many think is the other way. We believe the next event in God's calendar is the rapture of the Church. Okay? Look what it says, you might have point number one, God has not appointed his church to wrath. Look what it says in 1 Thessalonians 1.10, Listen, the church is not going through the tribulation like many claim to be. The church, the next event is God taking the church out of the earth. And let me tell you this, the earth is going to have what the earth always wanted, no God. Oh, you guys right here, you guys are, you know, you guys should disappear out of this earth, live somewhere else. You know what? If they're going to have what they always wanted, no God. God takes us right out of the earth and for seven years, they're going to have everything they always desire, total chaos. Oh, no, we can take care of ourselves. We will see about that. The Bible says we're not. Praise the Lord, I won't be here. So God is not appointed as church to wrath. God is not going to die as bride to go through that seven-year tribulation. Number two, the rapture could happen at any moment. Look what it says in Titus chapter 2 verse 13, looking. Who should be looking? us looking for to that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the great god and our savior jesus christ i like the way paul puts it said out the great god who jesus christ and our savior jesus christ look at the tense of the verb the words looking and appearing describes to us that jesus can come at any moment. There is nothing that prevent Jesus from coming. His return can happen any day at any moment. We don't have to say oh but this or but that or but this no no no. He can come in a scene at any given moment. Here's the question are you ready? Number three the church is nowhere mentioned in tribulation. Or in the tribulation, Revelation chapter 6 and verse 19. To better understand the book of Revelation, you must, you need the key of the book. Okay? There is a key that is hanging right at the front door of that book. In chapter 1, the Apostle Paul was in prayer when he heard a voice behind him. A voice that identifies himself as the Alpha and Omega. The first letter of the Greek, Korni Greek alphabet. The last letter of the Korni Greek alphabet. so the resurrected christ instruct john actually go to if you have a bible go to john chap i mean i'm sorry revelation chapter 1 verse 19 i want you to see something there that's the key of the book of revelation if you miss that verse you miss the whole book okay now look at the key in there on revelation chapter 1 verse 19 to write these things which what? Look what it says, which you have seen the things which are and the things which shall be hereafter. You see the key? There's the key. Now, if you don't understand this one verse, you will not understand the book of Revelation that is divided into three sections, past, present and future. If you read the book of Revelation, it is there in three sections, past, present and future. Okay? is John seeing in here? John had a vision of Jesus coming in power and in great glory and he wrote for the so the first division is complete the chapter two and three John moves to the second division which are John bringing seven messengers to the seven churches now some people believe those seven churches who have a revelation are future churches they are not there were churches at the time in Asia minor And those letters ought to be delivered to those churches. And those letters is literally, what happened there, Jesus walked in the church. And Jesus saw the condition of the church. And Jesus described, if you read about these seven churches in the book of Revelation, you could see that Jesus describes literally what's going on in those churches. I wonder how Jesus view our church. So the second division is the church age. We are living in the church age. Now notice something remarkable beginning in Revelation chapter 4 verse 1. If you go there, and after this, behold the door is open in heaven and the first which I heard was as a word of a trump talking with me which said come up hither and I will show thee the great, I'm sorry, I'll show thee the things which must be hereafter. You see the past, the first chapter, then we move to the church age, the present time, the church is there, then we move to the future. So after that chapter, right there, chapter four, you're talking about the church is gone, out of the earth now, it's tribulation time. I mean, the book of Revelation can be a scary book for a lot of people. Yes, it can be a scary book. There's a lot of graphic things there, but I mean, you have to look at Ezekiel, a book of Daniel as well, that just kind of goes with it. But the book of Revelation, we have to be careful that you don't put things that are not there, but it can be a scary book. So what's the next event on God's calendar? The rapture of the church. What is the rapture of the church? God is coming to grab his bride out of the earth. Those who died in the faith and those who are alive and remain. They will be caught up together and it'll be the Lord in the air. Number two, what's in God's next calendar? I believe this is going to happen at the same time. It's going to happen the judgment seat of Christ. People are scared of that. Don't be scared of the word judgment. All right. The judgment seat of Christ is literally God's people. Listen, there's no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. You follow that? You can be a rebellious Christian or a good Christian. or you can be a carnal minded Christian you can be a spiritual filled Christian that is given that's Bible okay but once you saved you saved at the judgment seat of Christ or the behemoth seat of Christ as a place for reward not for what about what you did okay because our sin is nailed at the cross God saved us all right now when we meet there it's called family business It's called from the moment you got saved to the moment you died, God is going to look, everybody's going to look how your good works, how you did it for the Lord and when you did what was the intentions how the way you did it. So those good works will go through the fire. Anybody have a working jewelry? Have anybody ever worked with gold? What we do? We melt gold and we refine gold and that's why we have different qualities of gold. Right? Some gold are more pure, some gold have some impurities and that's what we're going to do there. We're going to be refined to the fires of heaven. You're not going to the fire, don't get scared, okay? We're going to refine and what we do there, we're going to do business. All the good works will survive and all the bad works will be burned, the Bible says, because we did it with the wrong intentions. Okay? So it's family business. Now, the rapture of the church, no God on earth, we go into heaven, the judgment seat of Christ. What's happened on earth? A peace treaty with the Jewish people by the Antichrist. I believe when that peace treaty starts, it starts a seven-year tribulation. I'm going ahead of myself but let's go. Okay, what happened in that judgment seat of Christ? You know what? There is gifts, crowns that would be given to those who work for the Lord. I'm going to quick to give you the gifts. Letter A, the incorruptible crown. Also as the runner's crown for self-control and discipline. Okay? Letter B, the crown of rejoicing. Okay, the crown of rejoice is a crown for soul winning, those who tell others about Jesus. The, let us see, the crown of life. Okay, trials and persecutions have been part of the Christian life since Christianity began. Those who are persecuted for Christ, you know, because you live what you believe and you're persecuted because of that, there's a crown of life given. Let it be the crown of glory. This can be called so the shepherds of the pastor's crown. you know that if the intentions of the pastor of the right whether he does you be you be rewarded with the crown of glory and letter e we see the crown of righteousness The crown of righteousness is also known as the watcher's crown. Those you are looking for is coming. So that's what's going to be given at the judgment seat of Christ or the behemoth seat of Christ. All right. Rewards will be given for the works that we did for the Lord. If our works had bad intentions on, if we don't do it with the right heart, right attitude, more than likely we're just going to see others having the gifts. And I believe in those days will be tears because we miss it out. Number three we see the marriage supper of the lamb. We see this in Revelation chapter 19 verse 7 it says let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to him for the marriage of the lamb is come and his wife had made herself ready to her and to her was granted that she should be arrayed with fine linen clean as white for the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints and he said unto me write write it down for john blessed are they which are called into the marriage supper of the lamb and he said unto me these are true sayings of god so okay get this the rapture of the church the behemoth seat of christ business are done in the family we're going to celebrate the marriage supper of the lamb my thing is how big is that table How long is that table? He's talking about thousands of saints sitting there celebrating that great marriage supper of the Lamb. He said that's amazing. It is. I'm looking forward to that. So that's in heaven, folks. All right. Number four, we see the tribulation. look in Daniel chapter 9 verse 24 says 70 weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city to finish the transgression and to make at the end of saints and to make reconciliation for iniquity and to bring an everlasting righteous and to the seal upon the vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy and says in verse 25 of Daniel 9 it says now therefore and understand that from the the goings forth to the commandments to restore and to build Jerusalem and to the Messiah the prince shall be 70 weeks and three score and two weeks I'll get you calculators and begin to do your math there this tree shall be built again and the wall even the troubles time we're not going to deal with all this but I want to tell you something here okay just simplify this whole thing Daniel prophesied about 70 weeks that we have as a human race and if you look into it 69 weeks have been fulfilled one week is left all right you say pastor but one week no it's coming on years that's what i'm mentioning there okay but it's one thing so pastor why we don't have the 70th week because we live in the church age and stopped when the church age is over the 70th week starts right after that's a seven year of tribulation You follow that? 69 weeks, all the way back from Nehemiah, all the way back to Calvary. It's been fulfilled. Church age started, parentheses, that 69 weeks stopped. When the church age is over, the 70th week is going to start. And I believe when the rapture of the church occurs, the world is going to chaos. What's going to happen? There's going to be a peace treaty by the Antichrist. A man is going to show up on the scene and say, I can fix this mess. I can fix this trouble. And like, you know what, many religions, people are going to listen to his smooth words and going to follow him. They're even going to think that he is the Christ. Many of them. I tell you what, three and a half years of peace on earth, he's going to do exactly what he says. And three and a half years of total chaos. So, we see the 70 week start, but what's going to happen? We in heaven, the beaming seat of Christ, the marriage supper of the Lamb, the seven years we in heaven, seven years on earth. They go in parallel with each other like that. Okay? So, let's look at point number five, the second coming of Christ. The first commie, he didn't come to earth like the Bible says, we met him in the air, he came to get his bride. But the second commie, look at Matthew 24-29. Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall be falling from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken." You can see this? This is like a horror movie right here, folks. Okay? And it said, "...and there shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven." God is going to show the human race how powerful He really is. Everything that exists will shake at His presence. Okay, and it says right there, verse 38 it says, with power and great glory. Verse 31, So the second coming is that event when Jesus visibly, literally, physically and gloriously returned to earth as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Christi was singing, there will be no more Calvary when He comes. Listen, Jesus came the first time as the poor servant. He came to die for me and you. The second time he's coming, he's not going to come to die again. He's coming to conquer. He will conquer Satan. The second coming of Jesus is the hope of believers that God is in control of all things and is faithful to his promise and prophecies and it will come to pass. You know why? That's why Christianity is the greatest religion in the world. Because what we believe is a living God that says I will do that for you. Listen, we say we don't really, the people of this world say we really don't need God. Yes they do. Isn't it amazing when they don't care about God until it hurts? And when it hurts, they say, oh, oh, Jesus, help me. What Jesus are you talking about? They say that because as soon as they don't hurt anymore, Jesus is out the door. In his first coming, Jesus came as a baby to a manger. In the second coming, he's coming as the King of kings and the Lord of lords. In His first coming, Jesus came as a suffering servant. In the second coming, Jesus will come as a conquering king. In the first coming, Jesus arrived in the most humble circumstances. In the second coming, Jesus will arrive with the armies of heaven at His side. He is the King of kings and He will show the world that nobody can battle Him. Nobody can dethrone our King. Number six, the battle of Megiddo. Revelation chapter 16 verse 12 you have a Bible you can go there and it says in the sixth angel poured out is vital upon the great river Euphrates and the water therefore was dry up and the way of the kings of the east might be prepared and I saw three unclean spirit like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the frost prophet prophet And verse 14 says, and they are the spirits of devils working miracles which go forth unto the kings of the earth and the whole earth to gather them to the battle of the great day of God Almighty. You see what the devil does? He goes from mouth to mouth bringing those people to Megiddo, to that great battle. They wanted the devil or Satan. Satan, no, he's doomed. But Satan says, I can defeat you. and he gathered all these armies of the earth to bring him to that great valley of Megiddo and to defeat Jesus. And look what it says in verse 15, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Megiddo. The word Megiddo comes from the Hebrew, I mean Megiddo, we say English, from the Hebrew word Megiddo. But let me tell you, that is the next event. In the end of the seven year tribulation, what's going to happen? Jesus is coming with his bride in the armies of heaven to that great valley and he's going to battle the armies of the world. The world is going to get together and it's going to try to fight the Creator. Imagine that. The world is going to try to get together to try to beat down and to dethrone the Creator. When the Bible says with his mouth He speaks and boom, they're gone. Now after the Valley of Megiddo, what's going to happen next? Number seven, the Millennium reign of Christ. Look at Revelation chapter 20 verse 1. And I saw an angel, he came down from heaven having the keys of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid down, hold on the dragon or Satan and the old serpent which is the devil and Satan and bound him a thousand years. and cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal upon him that he should deceive the nations no more till a thousand years shall be fulfilled. Okay folks, a lot of questions. Why the Millennium reign of Christ on earth? Remember in the beginning what I said? He came to his own and his own received him not. God put the Jewish people aside to a point they don't even know what tribe they come from. He went to the Gentile world. All right. So the age of the church is gone. Tribulation starts. Armageddon happened. And now he comes and he fulfills the promise that he made to King David. To sit on the throne of David and he sits there in Jerusalem for 1,000 years. We're going to have on earth the best government that the earth will ever see. Because the one ruling the earth with the rod of iron will be King Jesus. Now, Satan will be in the bottomless pit. Where's the bottomless pit? In the valley of the earth for a thousand years with all of his demons. And a thousand years later, he's going to let loose. You say, Pastor, why? Good question. You want the answer? All right. Mankind is going to actually show that in the most perfect environment he still can rebel against God. And once Satan is put loose, those who were born in that thousand year millennium reign will rebel against God with Satan. That's what's going to happen. And you know what? He's going to lose again. He's going to lose again. So number seven or number eight. The final revolt of Satan, I just explained it to you. And number nine, the great white throne judgment. Revelation 20, 11 says, and I saw a great white throne and him that sat on it. And from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was no place for them. It means there was no place to hide. I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God. And the books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged out of these things which were written in the books according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it. And death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them. And they were judged, every man according to their works. And again, and death and hell were cast in the lake of fire. This is the second death. They say, Pastor, what in the world is written here? In verse 15 it says, and whosoever was not found writ in the book of life was cast in a lake of fire. Let me explain this to you. Death and hell, and it says, and hell was cast into hell. How you do this? Okay. Every person that dies without Jesus as their Savior, they go into the belly of the earth, a waiting place. is called Hades in a Hebrew tongue. It's like you commit a crime, you're not judged yet according to your crime, you're in prison waiting, then before you go to the bigger prison. Here is the belly, you go to the belly of the earth until the thousand years until the great white throne judgment and the great white throne judgment those who are in Hades translated English hell those who are in Hades were put out to be in front of God and they will be judged according to their works what they have done against God and they'll be cast in the lake of fire which is Gehenna in a Hebrew tongue forever together with Satan the false prophet the Antichrist so we see this the great white throne judgment listen folks I don't want my worst enemy to be in this place right here. Because this is for those who reject God. God's people won't be there. But this is for those who reject God continually. You spit in the face of God. You mock God. You don't want nothing to do with God. Those are the people. Listen folks, let me put it this way. Hades, or hell, is full of people with great intentions. It's full of people who did so much good for humanity, but they missed one point. They missed God. The Bible says, what accomplishes a man to conquer the whole world and lose his own soul? How much money can I accumulate if in the end I lose it all? How much things I can have if in the end I lose it all? Well, what can I accomplish in this world if in the end, you know what? I got nothing. I came with nothing. I leave with nothing. But you know what? What great accomplishment is that if I broke every record, if I get more money than anybody else can get, and in the end, end up in hell? Listen but we go there because we want to. Not because of God. God don't want anyone to go there. God says whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. That means anyone. God says for God so loves you that he gave us only begotten son. See we have a way to escape the fires of hell. The problem is we don't want to. We look at God and we go, I don't want your salvation. I can do this myself. You see the heart of man? See, we don't want our worst enemy to be in that judgment. See, to be in the seat of Christ, you want to be there. You know why? Because family business, wonderful place to be. Great white throne judgment, you don't want your worst enemy to be there. Number 10. This is the reward of God's people. A new heaven and a new earth. Revelation 21.1 says, 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, the new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of the heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of the heavens, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and there shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And it says in verse 4, And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, there shall be any more pain for the former things are passed away and I say hallelujah to that and he that is set upon the throne says behold I make all things new and he said unto me write write it down John for these words are true and faithful and he said unto me it is done I am the offer and omega the beginning and the end I will give unto him that is a thirst of a fountain of water of life freely and he that overcometh shall inherit all things And I will be his God and he shall be my son. You follow that here? What a great promise for God's people. What a great promise to the human race. Listen, God did it all for me and you. God does have no secret. People say, oh this thing about heaven, no one knows. This is a big secret. That's baloney folks. It is revealed in the pages of the Bible. The revelation is a revelation of Jesus Christ. It is there for us to see and to take it and say, I believe in the words of God. I do. I don't know about you, but I do believe in the words of God. You know what? God is truthful. You know what? We say God doesn't, listen, it's right here folks. Read it. show it to people they say well but they don't want to hear show it to people listen when jesus came in the year they didn't tell anybody do you want to hear what i have to say right then jesus said that he said you know he said it with the pharisees and the shepherds or do you guys want to hear what i have to say no he went and preached he went and told oh but people persecute me yeah you know what they spit on jesus they crucified him what do you think they're going to do to me and you But let me tell you this, I prefer somebody spit in my face and in the end lead him to Christ because I know it's a soul that's not going to hell. You follow that? You don't want to wish hell on your worst enemy because it's a place where people are going. Folks, there is no purgatory. There is no middle ground. A person dies, a person goes to the presence of the Lord, or a person goes right to the belly of the earth, to Gehenna, I mean to Hades, and will stay there until the great white throne judgment. That's God's calendar right here. One of our prophecies, the rapture of the church, all these events. And in the end, a new heaven and a new earth. Here's the thing about a new heaven and a new earth, no more pain, no sorrow. No sin. No Satan. The world influence is not there. You know what? Here's the great thing, the great hope. Jesus will never leave us again. When his bride is with the groom, it's for all eternity. Right now is a separation. He's in heaven, we're here. We will come a day, No more separation. In a new heaven, in a new earth. Can you imagine? The one that I worship, the one that I sing, the one I talk about, I will see him face to face and walk with him for all years of eternity, whatever it is. I don't even know what I just said. But for all eternity with my Savior, with the King of kings and Lord of lords. I tell you what, don't tell me that Christianity is not a religion of hope. Not just hope, as a living hope. I'm not afraid of anyone. I fear my Lord. Not a fear that I'm running from Him. It's a reverence, a respect for who He is. He's my King. He's my Lord. He's my Savior. He's my Captain. The Captain of my ship. Don't you love Jesus? I will preach to you the rest of the day, but I'm going to stop. All right, let me conclude with this. As we wait for the soon return of the Lord, the Lord Jesus Christ, look up for our blessed hope because he is coming as he promised. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank you, Lord, for the living hope of Christianity. It's not a religion, it's a relationship with you. And I pray, Lord, this morning, if there's someone here, someone online watching us, I truly never received Jesus Christ as personal Savior. May today they take you serious, Lord. Lord, it's not my words that I preached, it was right out of the Bible. It's what you say, that's the future, that's what's going to happen. Lord, the victory is ours. A new heaven and a new earth with you for all eternity. Lord, for God's people, I pray this morning that we live in such a way that when you come, we will not be ashamed the way you found us. Help us, Lord, to be people of dignity, righteous people, to be lights in this world. I pray for every person here this morning as they walk with you. Lord, may we look up to you each and every day. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen. If you could stand, please. We have a song of invitation this morning. I think this is a great song. Goes right with the message. Face to face. Page 417. Face to face. Can you imagine that day? Face to face with Christ my Savior. Face to face. Face to face with Christ my Savior. Face to face what will it be? When we're prepped for it I behold Him, Jesus Christ, who died for me. Face to face I shall behold Him, far beyond the starry sky. Face to face in all His glory, I shall see Him riding by. Can you imagine the day when we meet our Savior for the first time? Face to face. I think our knees would tremble and fall to the ground. I think our big tongues would get shrinked in our mouths. I think we will lay flat on the earth like many have and worship our Savior. Some people say when I see Jesus, I'm going to tell him what he needs to hear. Oh no, no, no, no. It's the opposite. When they see Jesus, their knees are going to bow down and they're going to acknowledge that He's Lord of all. You see, we think we are everything in a bag of chips. We really think so. We think we're invincible. We're fragile. We break. We crack down. We hurt. We're not that strong. You ever see a dozen eggs in a bag that you drop down to the ground? That's us. You're so strong until you hit your toe on the table or on the chair somewhere, and your tears are coming out of your eyes, no matter how big you are. And you see like a big man or a big lady, whatever, and everything goes down. That's how we are. Praise the Lord, one day I'm gonna see my Savior, the one I sing, the one I worship. The one I, people think that I'm wasting my time. No, no, no. I'm gonna see the one who year after year after year I have worshiped face to face. One more verse as our last verse. With the darkness filled between But a blessed day is coming When His glory shall be seen Face to face I shall behold Him, far beyond the starry sky. face to face in all his glory I shall see him by and by amen thank you so much for being with us this morning what a blessing to see with our future holes you know people are consumed and worried about the economy and everything again so expensive and everything yes listen we cannot be ignorant to the fact what's going on I understand that but ultimately think about where we going we have a great Savior a great King who will come one of these days you know I look up because he can come in any moment face to face I encourage you if you need to leave I understand nobody's gonna look down on you because of that but we have a great amount of food over there. And we need some people to eat it. There's quite a bit of food in there. So I encourage you to stay with us. I want to see if I can taste everything. Anyway, there's desserts in the back. There's entrees in there. It's a blessing. Let's break bread together. What I would say is that door over there, we're going to open that door. You can, you by yourself or your family, however you want to do it, just walk there. There's a line. And just keep going down. Think about it. If you miss something you can always go back. All right? Okay? All right. So with that said, we're going to pray for the food, pray for the fellowship, and if you need to leave, we understand. Okay? Let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank you, Lord, for this special day, Prophecy Sunday. It's always wonderful to talk about your coming again, Lord. Just give a rundown what's going to happen in the days ahead in God's economy. Lord, I just pray for those in this world, Lord, who continue to reject you, who are steeped into religions, Lord, they will look up to you and see the blessed hope and what they're missing. I pray for God's people this morning. Lord, bless our walk with you. Help us to be a lighthouse, a testimony to those who don't know you. Lord, go with us. I pray for the food. Bless the food as nourishment for our bodies. I pray, Father, that you bless the fellowship. May everything we do, say, that time together bring honor and glory to your name. Bless the rest of our Sunday. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.