like to say that the premillennial position is relatively new, except if they would do a little bit of historical checking they would find that the New Testament talks about it first. But also about the first 300 years of Christianity just about every Bible scholar really held to the same position. In It wasn't until about the 300s that the post-millennial position took place. That would say that we will, all this that we're studying now, we're right in the midst of it. And then too, the amillennial position takes more of a spiritual kind of outlook upon the book of Revelation that we are studying. And so we take a pre-trib, pre-millennial position, meaning when we say pre-tribulation, that means that we're gonna be taken out before the tribulation takes place. One of the keys to learning, I say one of them, is what we call repetition. And I know through this series, you've heard me go back and reiterate things time and time again, and that really is purposeful. I'm not saying that someone is ignorant and they're not catching it. I'm not saying that, hey, you know, somehow I'm forgetting where I am, and so I have to go back and repeat myself. There are times when that might take place, but when I'm up here, it's on purpose. And so the older we get, you know, we sort of forget where we are. So at least I do at times. But I just want to reiterate some things in regards to this millennial reign that we're looking at here in chapter 20 of the book of Revelation. And we've got to remember that we right now are living in what is referred to as the Age of Grace. And one of the things that troubles many Bible scholars today, as well as people, those of us in general, is the fact that so much of the Bible that we read about really talks about this period of time. They talk about the Davidic kingdom and Jesus reestablishing that kingdom and so on. And so we don't really see that much really evidenced face value some of those Old Testament prophecies talking about the rapture of the Church, the catching away of the Church some call it. We call it the rapture. The rapture, the word rapture you don't find it in the Scriptures. So some people try to take you know a different position because we may use a word or two that's not found in the Scriptures to really take the same view of what we believe in the position we hold from our scriptural position. So there's a reason why we believe what we believe, but yet you can't say, well, the pastor says this. I mean, you can, but, and I understand the teaching aspect and say, this is what we're taught in church, but yet you're taught these things so that you can search the scriptures as well. And so that you can see that what we're doing here is seeking to be biblical. Sure, we have faults. Sure, we have problems and things of that nature that we're working through. We have sin natures like everyone else, but at the same time, that doesn't negate the truth that we hold to, which is the Word of God. And so that's why Paul said, follow me as I follow Christ. Well, how do you know if someone's following Christ or not? You go to the Word of God, and that is what we call our plumb line for life. That keeps us on what we would say is a straight and narrow. And so I go to Revelation chapter one and verse 19, and that's what gives us the outline for the book of Revelation. And of course, John is exiled on the Isle of Patmos, and he has been standing for his faith. He's hated by the authorities. He actually is tortured by being dipped into a vat of boiling oil. He's taken out. He's exiled to Patmos that's known for salt mines, which I can't imagine what he must have gone through at that time. There he is allowed in that isolation. The Holy Spirit of God moves him to pen these 22 chapters. And so he starts off right away giving us the outline for this entire book. God does not want us ignorant about future things and he's not trying to make things difficult. Now we do know the scripture says that his truth is unsearchable. What that means is You're never going to plumb the depths of all that God has for us. By the time you think you've got something figured out, He's going to open up a new vista of the Christian life for you. And so you will spend your entire life getting to know Him. and finding out what He has for us, the riches of His glory. But at the same time, we do study to show ourselves approved unto God, workmen that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. So it's important for us to divide the truth properly. So you go to the word of God and you allow the word of God to actually outline itself as well. And so in chapter one in verse 19, John is encouraged to write and really tell us what he has seen. And that takes in chapter one. Now, I just have memorized verses 10 to 18 is the exact passage of scripture there, where John saw this vision of God and some of these future events that he is gonna be writing about. But if you just in simplicity wanna say chapter one talks about that which John has seen, and then it says the things which are, and that takes in chapters two and three. Chapters two and three deal with the letters to the seven churches. There were seven churches in John's day that are being addressed. And if you notice, there's a messenger that's sent to each one of those churches. And there's a special message that God has for each and every one of them. That ought to let us know that, you know, churches have strengths and weaknesses. We have strengths and we have weaknesses. We're happy about our strengths. We ought not be happy about our weaknesses and we ought to work on those. And that's where God was writing to these seven churches, pointing out these various areas of weakness so that they could get things right. It's not so that he could beat them over the head and say, you're no good. He's just saying, look, you need to work on these. Like at the church at Ephesus, they had lost their first love. They were doing all the right things, but they had lost their first love for the Lord Jesus Christ. And he said, you need to get that back. And on and on it goes. So that is in chapter one, verse 19. That particular part of the outline is the middle part of that verse of scripture. At the very end, it says, and the things which shall be hereafter. And that takes in chapters four all the way to chapter 22. When you get to chapter four, verse one, that talks about where it says, come up hither. That's where the rapture takes place. That's where the catching away takes place that we refer to in the scriptures. Then from chapter four and five, from chapter four, verse one on down through chapter four and all chapter five, we have what's taking place in heaven. And that's where we will be because we will ever be with the Lord. And we'll see that in a moment by way of review of some of these passages, because I want us to really get it nailed down because there's so much consternation today in regards to whether we're going through the tribulation, where we're going, if we're gonna go through half of it and get raptured midway, or whether right at the end at the battle of Armageddon, just before the battle of Armageddon, we go up and then we come right back down again. There's all kinds of various views in regards to these events that we've been studying. And so you get to chapters four and five and you have the throne room of heaven from chapter six to chapter 19, you have the tribulation time. All those chapters are dealing with that seven year that would be Daniel's 70th week that is referred to in the book of Daniel, chapter three, chapter nine, and so on. And we looked at that early on in our series. And so we see that the 70th week takes in those seven years. You have three and a half years of what they call tribulation. And then you have three and a half years of what they call the great tribulation. And so that seven years, it culminates at the end, as we studied last week, with the battle of Armageddon in chapter 19. When you get to chapter 20, then you deal with the millennial reign of Christ. You also have here listed the great white throne judgment. We're gonna spend a little time on these because it's very interesting as we talk about ruling and reigning with Christ for a thousand years. What does that mean? What does that mean? What's the whole aspect of the rewards or the loss of rewards for we believers? Why are we doing what we're doing? What's the value of standing there at the judgment seat of Christ after the rapture and having God weigh what we've been doing in our bodies, whether the deeds have been good or bad? You see, Christians can be good Christians or we can be bad Christians. We can put ourselves in a place of blessing or the loss of reward as mentioned in 1 Corinthians 3, there around chapter 3, verses 11 to 15. And so we see here that takes in chapter 20. Then you have chapter 21 that actually talks about the new Jerusalem that comes down from God out of heaven. And so that's something that we wanna look at as well. And then chapter 22, we deal with the subject of eternity and what I like to refer to as the last invitation. And so we see how this book is laid out, but all that, the little bit that I told you about chapter 20, 21 and 22, that also deals with the things which shall be hereafter that John writes about, but the outline you find really really well for us is chapter one in verse 19. So if you don't mind making a note in your Bible, I would encourage you to do that. That way you don't get flustered or you don't listen to somebody who tries to undermine the biblical position. And then you get swayed because I tell you what, when you get into some of these passages of scripture, you know, people know how to talk. I know how to talk. You know, and they know how to talk and they know how to present themselves in their position. And you wanna make sure that in the course of all their graphs and all this kind of stuff that they put out, that it is biblical in their outline. And so that's why we're taking the time that we take in times like this so that we can clearly understand. Some of this may be old news to you and you may say, I've heard this before, but just praise the Lord that you can have it cemented even a little bit more in your mind, amen? And so upon death, we need to understand at this particular time that we go to be with Jesus. There's not a purgatory that we have to be concerned about as some denominations teach. There's not some soul sleep that we go through as some may teach. It says absent from the body present with the Lord and I want to take some time this morning to just Reiterate some of these passages of Scripture for us if you'll take your Bible. I had you turn to Revelation chapter 20 we will get there eventually I promise but let's go to 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 if you would 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 if you wonder where that is It's after 1st Corinthians All right. That's a preacher joke to be sure. Pass the water. I know it's dry. Okay. Second Corinthians chapter five, we'll begin reading here in verse one. I love the definitive terms that the apostle Paul uses. And of course, he's not coming up with these on his own. He's not just saying, I think I'll phrase it this way. The Holy Spirit of God told him to write this way. He says, for we know. So there's no doubt about this. It's not left up to question. It's not left up to interpretation. He just says, for we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle, that's our bodies, were dissolved, we have a building of God and house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house, which is from heaven. Now, you know, some of the terminology is very, very graphic. And when you think about groaning, you know, when you're not used to doing something for a while and then you go and do it, you get sore. I was out in the pasture last night, and I've got this bush hog that I've rented, and I'm out there just sucking air and giving her. Well, this morning, as I was rolling out of bed, I was groaning. because I'm a bit stiff and sore because I'm using muscles and it's been a long time since I've used them. So in this tabernacle of times, we do groan. And we have aches and pains and things of that nature that we go through. And that's what he's talking about. There's troubles and our bodies are wearing out and so on and so forth. And it says here, for this we groan, but then in verse three, if so be that we being clothed, we shall not be found naked. For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened, not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the spirit." That's the down payment. salvation. When you trusted Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, this is brought out in the book of Ephesians chapter 1, other portions of Scripture. But you notice how the Scripture is the best commentary on itself? And he says, this is the earnest of our inheritance. That's the down payment. When you buy a house, many times they want you to write that check to make a down payment. If you go garage selling and they have an item there that is a little bit more than what you were planning on, and you give that person a $20 bill and say, hold this for me, I'll be back in a little bit with the rest, that's a down payment. And God says, you're saved, and to prove that, I'm going to give you a down payment, and so I'm gonna send the Holy Spirit. So when you trusted Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, the Holy Spirit of God came to indwell your life. He doesn't visit like he used to do in the Old Testament. In the Old Testament, you read and it says that he would come upon people. In Psalm 51, David's Psalm there of forgiveness, he says, take not thy Holy Spirit from me, is one of the verses of Scripture. Sometimes that troubles us when we read a passage like that, because we say, how does that work? Can I lose my salvation? No, no, no. If you study the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit would come upon people for tasks, and then He would leave. And so we, in this period of time, in our age of grace, we are indwelt by the Holy Spirit of God. So the moment you get saved, the Holy Spirit comes in. And that's a wonderful truth. And he says, given unto us the earnest of the Spirit, therefore, because we have the Holy Spirit of God in us at salvation, verse six, we are always confident. So never let anyone undermine your salvation. If you have received Jesus Christ, you are a child of God. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. Amen. He says, therefore, we are always confident knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight. That's what really we see here we're involved in now. It's a walk of faith. We will not understand a lot of the stuff that we go through in life. We'll have a lot of questions, and you and I both know that at this stage of our lives, but we walk by faith. That's trust, that's reliance, and faith is important to make sure that the object of your faith is right. Everybody lives by faith. But it's so important for us to have our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, because He is true, amen? He says, for we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident. Notice how many times he says, we know. And it talks about, we are confident, verse six. And now it says in verse eight, we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. He says, of course we'd rather be in heaven. Have you ever uttered the words, even so come Lord Jesus, or I wish I could just go right now, you know, kind of stuff. He says, therefore we labor, verse nine, that whether present or absent, we may be accepted of Him. He's not talking about salvation. He's talking about living for Him because if you just don't get hung up on one verse, take the verses in its context. Verse 10 says, for we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ. Now, when it says, for we must all, who's he writing to? He's writing to a local church. He's not writing to everybody in the world. We're not talking about universal salvation. He's talking about, hey, you Christians meeting in a local church. So it's like if he was writing this to the Pima Valley Baptist Church, he would say, hey, Christians, because those who qualify for membership in the local New Testament church know Jesus Christ as their personal savior. They have been involved in a believer's baptism. They've been baptized, and that's after salvation. And then they have, because of their baptism, that's the door of the local church. They then qualify to be a member of the local church. It says, for we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ. That judgment is is for we save people. Now that's not to determine heaven or hell. That's the determining place for our rewards or loss of rewards. First Corinthians chapter three bears that out as well as others that we'll look at when we get to that point in the book of Revelation. but we see here that we will also have that determination made at the judgment seat about our place of ruling and reigning with the Lord Jesus Christ for that thousand years. You have a parable in the scriptures that talks about, hey, I'll have you rule over a city, five cities, 10 cities, so on and so forth. And so every one of us will have a place of ruling and reigning. Where that's gonna be, I always say I'll probably be a street sweeper, but something like that, I don't know. I don't know what that will be, but I know one thing, it's being determined now by the way I live the Christian life now. And that's a serious thing. So Christians who go about the Christian life thinking, well, I've got my fire insurance, I'm going to heaven, that's all I need, you're in for a rude awakening. I think we're all gonna be shocked when we get there. But he says, we must all appear, verse 10, before the judgment seat of Christ, that everyone may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad." Very clear there. And so it says, in this body. Remember, it started out by talking about this earthly tabernacle, there in verse one. Well, now it's saying, hey, in this body, this earthly tabernacle, we're gonna be judged as believers on how we're living the Christian life. So that behooves us not to cop attitudes. It behooves us really to find out what the scripture has to say and say, well, you know what? I need to seek to follow God in all my life. not just knowing that I'm going to heaven. I want to live for him. And so that's one passage of scripture that we see that, hey, we're all going to be caught up at the rapture and we're going to be standing before him at the judgment seat. This has to take place. This judgment has to take place before the millennial reign of Christ. Because when he sets up, Christ sets up his earthly kingdom in chapter 20 of the book of Revelation, that millennial reign, then we will rule and reign with him. So those kinds of issues have to be settled already. So let's go to 1 Corinthians, if you would, just a couple pages over, chapter 15. Chapter 15. And let's drop on down here. This is the great resurrection chapter because he is the first fruits, meaning he was resurrected. God raised Jesus from the dead, amen. And because he's alive, then he will also raise us up there in the last day as well, praise the Lord. If you drop down to verse 51, he writes these words, behold. Now Paul's writing once again to the church at Corinth, and he says this, he says, behold, I show you a mystery. A mystery, scripturally speaking, is a truth not declared before. And so this is where you need to see where the rapture takes place. And even though it wasn't mentioned in the Old Testament as such, we see that this is a New Testament doctrine because we have this parentheses of time here that's given to us what we call the Age of Grace. What is the Age of Grace? It's a period of undeserved kindness for mankind. and we happen to live at this particular point in time. We also, during this time, make up the bride of Christ. When the church is assembled, the church is not assembled yet, okay? When I'm talking, well, I'll get into that later. Okay, verse 51 says, behold, I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, that's talking about being dead, but we shall all be changed in a moment. in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump, for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be changed." A reference to the rapture. And it says, for this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality. If the end time was coming and it would not be in a moment in the twinkling of an eye if we study the book of Revelation and believe that we're not taken out before that time, because we can see the events of Revelation opening up for us. Those in the tribulation time will be able to see what's coming down the pike if they just look and study their Bibles. But we believe in the imminency of the return of Christ. And when we talk about return, we're not talking about that he sets his feet down on the Mount of Olives at the rapture. No, he comes in the clouds. And we'll see that in a moment. His first coming was his birth. His second coming will be there at the battle of Armageddon. But here we're waiting now, in this age of grace, before the tribulation takes place, that seven-year time, we're waiting for the rapture of the church. When is that going to happen? We don't know. It could happen at any time. And that ought to spur us, too, to be prepared for that judgment seat of Christ, because we never know when it's coming. And so we need to always be living right. You know, it's like, I know sometimes my folks, when I was growing up, they'd give my sisters and I chores to do, and they'd say, we're going out, and we're gonna come back around a certain time, and you need to have these done. Well, you know, if there was hours in between, we'd sort of analyze things, and we'd say, you know, I think I can get this done in 30 minutes. And they're gonna be gone for four hours. And so we start playing. You know, and what happens is then we're breaking our necks, so to speak, trying to get everything done before they come in. And oh no, if they come in early, we're really sunk. And so, you know what he's telling us, he's saying, look, you don't know when I'm coming, so you need to be ready. And he tells us believers that we need to be ready. So no matter where we are, what time it is, we need to be ready. And that's what he's referencing here. He says these words, he says in verse 53, for this corruptible must put on incorruption and this mortal must put on immortality. And he's talking about either in this life versus eternal life. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law, but thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, because we are gonna live for all eternity, and we have victory in Jesus, therefore, my beloved brethren, he's not saying this in a mean tone, He's not trying to make anybody feel guilty here. He's just trying to let them know what's around the bend, what could happen at any time. And he says, my beloved brethren, that's what I call a term of endearment. He says, be steadfast. This is for us folks. Be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord. In other words, moving forward, not regressing, Not quitting, not holding back, but moving forward, abounding in the work of the Lord for as much as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. Whatever you do for God, you will experience the results of that at the judgment seat of Christ. And we need to understand that. Let's go to 1 Corinthians, excuse me, 1 Thessalonians. 1 Thessalonians. If you head towards, it's just before 2 Thessalonians. First Thessalonians and let's look at chapter four. And it's amazing how some of these verses we use at funerals. I like using this passage of scripture when we're at a graveside because this is such a comforting passage of scripture. for those who've had to say goodbye to a loved one who knows Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. And in chapter four, in verse 13, Paul writes, he says here to this local church again, but I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren. He says, I don't want you to be ignorant or not informed about this truth. He wants us to know these things. And that's to calm us down. That's to comfort us, that's to help us. He says, but I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep. And it's interesting, at one point, you know, in the life of the ministry of Jesus Christ, there was a girl who had passed away. She was dead, and they came to Jesus, and Jesus said, oh, she's sleeping. Well, finally, because they didn't understand the terminology, he finally said to the disciples, she's dead, you know, so that they would understand it. But what that tells us is he's essentially telling us that, hey, someone who passes away in the Lord, they're going to heaven, they're in heaven, absent from the body, present with the Lord. But as far as we're concerned, this is just like a sleep. It's just a sleep for them. We will see them again. You know, sometimes you go to bed, sometimes you go to bed at 10, and you wake up whenever that time is, you sleep through the night, but you wake up, and that's what's gonna happen. We will see our loved one again. You close your eyes, you go to sleep at night, you wake up, and you see the family again the next morning. And so he says, concerning them which are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. Now, he's not saying that you can't sorrow. He's not saying you're a weak Christian if you sorrow. It's understandable that you would sorrow because we are human, right? He understands our frame. But we don't sorrow as those that have no hope. We sorrow, yes, that parting, it's hard. In a couple's life, there's a tearing from the cleaving that takes place. That's sorrowful. But he says here, but we have hope. Look at verse 14. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. So what's he saying? He's saying, look, any loved one that's gone on to glory that knows Jesus Christ as their personal savior, he's gonna come. He's gonna come one day and we're gonna have that grand reunion. We call that the family circle, so to speak. And it says, notice he brings the gospel in, verse 14, for if we believe, so how are you saved? You believe. You're born again. And he says in verse 15, he says, for this we say unto you by the word of the Lord. I like that. It's not the Word of some preacher. It's not the Word of a theologian. It's not the Word of this, that, or the other. It's the Word of the Lord. In other words, you can believe it, because He keeps His promises. He keeps His Word. For this we say unto you by the Word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain, that would be those who've passed away from this time, if we're still here. and the rapture takes place, that trump of sounds, boom. It says here, then we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 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. Their souls and their bodies will meet, it says here. And it says, for the Lord himself shall descend. It says the dead in Christ will rise first, verse 17. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore, comfort one another with these words. You know, all throughout the Bible, when he wants to talk to somebody, God wants to talk to somebody, many times he sends an angel. He sends a messenger. We see that taking place in the book of Revelation, where he sends an angel to do this, that, or the other. And here it says, at the rapture, he's not just sending an angel, he's coming himself. He's gonna welcome us, amen. So praise the Lord for that. And he says, wherefore comfort one another with these words. Don't let anybody shake your faith in these things. Let's go to Revelation chapter four in verse one. Revelation chapter four in verse one. Revelation chapter four, verse one. Now notice he's written to the seven churches and he closes out here in chapter three and verse 22, he's addressing the church of Laodicea. And then he comes to chapter four, verse one. After this, I looked and behold, a door was opened in heaven and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me, which said, come up hither. and I will show thee things which must be hereafter. And according to the book of Revelation, that's the rapture, the catching away of the church. And then from that moment on, we see the future events, because look what it says in verse two, and immediately, I was in the spirit, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and so on. So there begins that trek through the book of Revelation. Now, when you go to chapter 20, And I'm sorry, folks, I'm gonna just barely just give you the outline and we're gonna draw things to a close, but we will pick up from this. But I just really felt like I needed to lay this foundation as we're moving into these passages of Scripture, because all the various teachings out there, but I also want us to be solid in what we believe is the Bible position here. And so chapter 20 is outlined in this way, if you're taking notes. I see here the last binding that takes place in verses one, two, and three. And of course, this is when Satan is bound and thrown into the bottomless pit for a thousand years. Look what it says, and I saw an angel come down from heaven. having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that 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 the thousand years should be fulfilled. And after that, he must be loosed a little season. We don't hear a lot of teaching and preaching really about the millennial reign of Christ onto the end of the book of Revelation. And everybody's just so concerned about this aspect here, but we're gonna learn some things in these final three chapters of the book of Revelation that maybe we haven't been made aware of to this particular point in time. But here we see Satan bound for a thousand years, but then he's loosed. There's gonna be another battle after the thousand year reign. What we're gonna see evident here when Jesus is sitting on the throne of David there in Jerusalem, we're gonna see the devil's ban. Like a lot of times people are trying to blame everything on the devil today. But during the thousand-year reign, there's still gonna be people born. There's still gonna be people that pass away during that time. And we're gonna see where mankind, because of the wickedness and depravity of their own heart, will refuse to accept Jesus Christ as their personal Savior, even during that time. He's gonna rule with what the Bible says is a rod of iron. We're going to understand that as we move through these particular chapters. So the last binding takes place in chapter 20 verses 1 to 3. We have, I say here, just to stick with a shortened outline, the last first. The last first. And that's from verses four to six. We have the last battle, which is the battle of Gog and Magog. The battle of Gog and Magog is not the battle of Armageddon. It's the final battle mentioned in this particular passage of scripture, chapter 20. And then that takes in verses seven to 10. And then we have the last judgment, which is known as the great white throne judgment. And that takes in verses 11 to 15. And so we'll look at that more in detail as well. I trust this helps solidify our faith. We just give you a cursory view of chapter 20 as we move on. But one thing I'm trusting it will do, it will make us really serious about living the Christian life now. There's much to live for. It's not just to say I'm saved and that's the end of it. We have much to look forward to, to meet the Lord in the air. If we are still alive when he comes, we'll meet the Lord in the air. Of course, the dead in Christ arrives first, but we don't need to worry about chapter six to 19, the tribulation time, because we're gonna be in heaven during all that time that's taken place. So praise the Lord for that, amen.