to look this morning at another overview. If you were with us in the Sunday school hour, we did what I referred to as kind of a flyover of the book of Revelation from about 30,000 feet. And when you're flying over, you go by things pretty quickly. We did pretty quickly. I wanted to give an overview. of the book of Revelation and understanding it as birth pains, labor pains of the Messiah, which we did. Well, we're gonna do the same type of thing this morning with, at this hour, with Isaiah and four chapters in Isaiah, Isaiah and the Apocalypse. And perhaps you're not aware, But Isaiah 24-27 is really a mini book of Revelation. It's a mini apocalypse. So we're not going to look at every verse in these four chapters. That's certainly beyond the scope of the time that we have. If we would do verse by verse of those, we would be here until Tuesday. So we're not going to, but we're going to do maybe another flyover, I guess you could say. But I think you'll find it instructive, informative, challenging, and interesting as well. Now, Isaiah 24 through 27 deals with God's final judgments against all of humanity and the universe. Isaiah, I love Isaiah. Isaiah is such a very logically laid out book. And I know when you have 66 chapters, it may be difficult to find the logic in that long of a book. but it is really laid out very, very logically with the first 12 chapters. I don't wanna go too much in detail. Anyway, it's dealing with Israel, but chapter 13 picks up through chapter 39 as a parenthesis. with chapters one through 12 and 40 to the end of the book. And the emphasis of 13 through 39, with some exceptions, are the nations of the world. 11 and 12 of Isaiah deals with the coming millennial kingdom and Israel being exalted among the nations of the world. Well, the logical then question is, what about the rest of the nations? And so it starts with chapter 13 and 14, Babylon, and it has a lot of woes. Woe unto Babylon, woe unto Damascus, woe unto this nation and that nation. And when it comes to 24 through 27, it's God's final judgment against all of humanity and the universe. You know, it's echoes of revelation if you were with us earlier. In the midst of this universal judgment are prayers and praises to a glorious and great God. And these are some prayers and praises that certainly could be woven into the fabric of our being and our worship and our understanding because we do worship a great and awesome God. These chapters focus mainly on the final days of the tribulation period in God's vindication, where God's gonna be glorified. Chapter 24 is as sobering a prophecy as any you'll find in the word of God until you come to the book of Revelation. Massive destruction, massive judgment, are promised not only on the inhabitants of the earth, but the earth itself. The transition from the woes of chapters 13 through 23 on specific nations, oftentimes speaking of end time judgment, to these four chapters of universal judgment is logical. as God will ultimately judge all nations, not just the individual woes on individual nations of 13 through 23. God will ultimately judge all nations for their rebellion, not just a few, which is the focus of Isaiah chapter 24 through 27. We're not gonna look again at all the verses, just too many. And we're not gonna look at all of them in detail. Verses one through four of chapter 24. Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants thereof. Now, if you were with us in the earlier hour, you can see very clearly how that's gonna be done through the different judgments of the tribulation period, the seal and the trumpet and the bowl judgments. But he is literally gonna turn the earth, as it were, upside down. And I shall be as with the people, so with the priest, as with the servant, so with his master, as with the maid, so with her mistress, as with the buyer, so with the seller, as with the lender, so with the borrower, as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him. What that is basically saying is nobody is excluded. The judgments of the tribulation period, this is what this is referring to, will touch every single man and woman on planet Earth. Without exception, you can be the wealthiest person around or the poorest person, it matters not. You will be judged if you go into the tribulation period. The land shall be utterly emptied utterly spoiled, for the Lord has spoken this word. The earth mourns and fades away. The world languisheth and fades away. The haughty, prideful, arrogant people of the earth do languish. This is a period of judgment that is just in totality. upon the people of the earth for what they will do. So the first four verses just open up with just the extent of God's judgment on planet earth. Verse five, I find very interesting. The earth is defiled under the inhabitants thereof. because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant. Now the earth is defiled because of the inhabitants of the earth. There are three reasons or causes for the defilement of the earth and what brings about from this perspective, what brings about God's judgment the tribulational judgments on the earth. It is caused by the people. It is God's response to them, the inhabitants of planet Earth, transgressing the laws, changing the ordinance, and breaking the everlasting covenant. What has transgressed the laws? Changing the ordinance. Transgressing the laws, and let me back up before I move on to that, is just the basic laws of God. When you transgress a law, you're a sinner, you go across the boundary. God has put established boundaries or laws. We think of the 10 commandments, those are laws. When you don't honor your father and mother, children, You transgress the law. You break the law. You sin. When you murder, when you steal, when you commit adultery, 10 commandments. But there are many more commandments that God gives to us. To transgress the law is to break God's commandments. Now, how does the world do in living up to those requirements? Not very, not very good. We regularly transgress the laws of God. And because of that, God is going to have to judge the world. But what is interesting, I think, is that they have changed the ordinance. Ordinance is chokh, and it means, literally, a statute or an ordinance or a limit, something prescribed, at the very end in that dark, I'm not sure is that brown or red or whatever, the civil enactments prescribed by God. In other words, there are ordinances that God has given in governments to rule, that there would be peace among the nations. There are those prescribed limits or boundaries, enactment decrees, ordinances, specific decrees, laws in general, and conditions that God has given that we can live in peace. Think of Romans chapter 13, just generally to obey the laws of government. Governments, though, change the ordinance. They change the laws of God. Think about marriage. The law of God is marriage, clearly, is between a man and a woman. Anything else is an abomination. And it's changing the ordinance, changing the law of God. It is inviting God's judgment upon yourself. It's happening in the United States. It's happened in the United States. It's happening throughout the world. Changing the ordinance of God, making that which is wrong, right. At least in the eyes of the government. And that which is right, wrong. It's turning things upside down. Not only do the inhabitants of the earth break the laws of God, even worse, they change the laws of God. Homosexual legalization of marriage, legalized abortion, euthanasia, not just in our country, but throughout the world. And when you change the ordinances of God, you invite God's judgment upon the inhabitants of the earth. And for the first time in the history of the world, homosexual marriage is now legalized. We've invited the ordinance, the judgment of God because we've changed the ordinances of God. But they've broken the everlasting covenant too. Now, what is the everlasting covenant? The term everlasting covenant is mentioned 15 times in the Bible. Here's where it's mentioned. It's mentioned with a rainbow in Genesis 9, 16. Remember after the flood, God gave the rainbow? And the everlasting covenant was what? Never again would we see the earth covered with water. Now, those on the coast of North Carolina last week, You know, but that was just a localized flood. I mean, it was terrible, horrible. And thank God we were not, my wife and I, and we were in Raleigh area, we were really not affected at all by that. And the providence of God, it was supposed to come right over us. When it hit Wilmington, initially they said it was going to go straight through and it would have been right over Raleigh, but ultimately it hit Wilmington and took a very sharply, like a 90-degree turn to the south and then went west and went around. I don't know, five to seven inches of rain. Where the office is, I think we got nine to 11 inches of rain. But we didn't get anything like what they had at the coast. Because God gave an everlasting covenant, the rainbow, he will never destroy the earth again by water. By fire, but not by water. It's used of the Abrahamic covenant a number of times. Genesis 17, seven and 19, 1 Chronicles 16, 17, and so on. And the Abrahamic Covenant is such an important covenant. It is the covenant, I believe, in the word of God. Everything else flows out of it, and it ultimately, the Abrahamic Covenant comes down to the provision of God through Jesus, the Savior, the Messiah of Israel, that all families of the earth would be blessed, in other words, salvation. It's used in circumcision as a token of the Abrahamic covenant. In Genesis 17 verse 13, speaking of circumcision, it's a sign of that everlasting covenant, circumcision, that God has made with Israel and by extension to the world. It's used of tabernacle worship in Leviticus 24.8. It's used of the Davidic covenant, 2 Samuel 23.5. Interestingly, it's used of the resurrection promise. In Isaiah 55, verse three, and I will make, I will give you the sure mercies of David, even an everlasting covenant. resurrection according to Acts chapter 13. And then it's used of the new covenant which is a relationship individuals. Now what does all this mean? Bringing it down to the basics, what is the everlasting covenant the inhabitants of the earth, of the world have broken? Except for the rainbow. Every reference has to do with the ultimate promise of Messiah, Jesus, salvation, resurrection, and worship through him. Essentially what it's saying is the world has rejected Jesus. They have broken the everlasting covenant. God wants all to worship him and accept him. The world rejects him. And finally God's gonna say it's enough, You've broken my laws, you've changed my laws, you've rejected my son, so I'm gonna pour out judgment upon the earth. Therefore have the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned and few men left. Now, again, how many men are left? Therefore, there's a cause and effect. God is not mocked. As sure as night follows day, judgment will come on those who transgress God's law, change His ordinances, break the everlasting covenant. In other words, reject Jesus as the Savior, as God's Son. The nations, Revelation 11, 18, were angry. and thy wrath is come in the time of the dead, that they should be judged, that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants, the prophets, to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great, and should destroy them which destroy the earth. The one to blame, I mean, you could always blame Satan, but the ones to blame for the coming tribulation period judgments, and they're awful, is not God. It's the inhabitants of the earth. It's our neighbors. It's our relatives. It's those who have rejected Jesus. God is not to be blamed for what's coming. He's got to destroy them because of what they have done. They destroy the earth. Here's the reality of it. Liberals. If you're a liberal here today, talk to Pastor later. I don't question the sincerity of liberal belief and thought and desire. I think they're very sincere. I think they're sincerely wrong. But I don't question their sincerity. And ultimately, liberals, are some of the worst destroyers of the earth. Though they purport to want to protect the earth, the worst thing mankind can do to the earth are the three causes above. Whether it's PETA or the environmentalists or any extension of liberalism, and there are a lot of them, they want to protect the earth, they want to protect the environment, they are actually doing the exact opposite. by what they do. And they are ultimately bringing upon not only the inhabitants of the world, but Earth itself, the destruction coming. They say they want to protect it. They are the destroyers of planet Earth. You know I'm not liberal now, I guess, but anyway. That's what the verse says. That's what it's teaching. The inhabitants of the earth are burned. Men were scorched with great heat, blaspheme the name of God, which have power over these plagues. They repented not to give him glory. Zechariah 14, 12, this shall be the plague, wherewith the Lord shall smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem. Their flesh shall consume away, while they stand upon their feet, their eyes shall consume away, and their tongues shall consume away in their mouth. The inhabitants of the earth are gonna be burned up. They're gonna be destroyed. The destruction is so complete, there will be very few people left when it is over. Now, I mentioned this earlier, I put the numbers down here. Jewish people, we know there'll be about four to five million that will survive the tribulation period judgments. Because Zechariah chapter 13, verse eight says, two thirds will perish. One third will come through and survive. With about 14, 15 million Jewish people in the world, that means five million survive the tribulation period judgments. shall come to pass that on all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die, but the third shall be left therein. Gentile people, I speculate about 99%, again, I mentioned this earlier, will die. Revelation 6, 8 is that one seal judgment where 25% of the earth die, the inhabitants. The Revelation 918 is the trumpet judgment where one third of the earth die. That means in those two judgments alone, 50% of humanity. And again, I mentioned this in Sunday school. I tend to think it's about 99%, maybe more, of humanity that dies in the tribulation period because of God's judgment. Few, now we don't know how many are few, but there'll be very few people left, the scriptures tell us. If seven billion people in the earth today, roughly, that means 70 million at best, if I'm correct in that percentage. We know it's a lot. That's one of the trumpet judgments. Look at verses 17 through 20. This is Isaiah 24. Fear in the pit and the snare were upon the old inhabitant of the earth. She'll come to pass that he who flees from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit. He that comes up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare. For the windows from on high are open and the foundations of the earth do shake. The earth is utterly broken down. The earth is clean dissolved. The earth is moved exceedingly. Think of the earthquakes, the seal earthquake, the bowl earthquake at the end. The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage, and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall and not rise again. The earth will be destroyed. It will not rise again in its same condition. Judgment. Amos 5, 18 through 20. If you look back at verse 18 up there in Isaiah 24, those who flee from the noise of the fair shall fall into the pit, but you come up out of the mist pit, you're taken in the snare. You can't get away from it. And Amos puts it this way. Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord. See, there are people who look for the day of the Lord. They shouldn't be looking for the day of the Lord because it's a time of judgment. To what end is it for you? The day of the Lord is darkness, it's not light. As if a man did flee from a lion and a bear met him, or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall and a serpent bit him. Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness and not light, even very dark and no brightness in it? And the picture is, think if you're in the forest. and you are confronted with a lion and you turn and you flee from the lion and you think you have escaped the jaws of that lion and you turn around and right in front of you is this big grizzly. You can't outrun a grizzly. You can't outrun a bear. Now, if you have someone with you, you just have to outrun that person with you and you're okay. But the point is, you can't escape. Or you flee, and you finally get into the cabin, you get into the house, and oh, now I'm safe, and you lean on the wall, and you get bit by a serpent, a snake, a poisonous snake. There is no place of safety in the tribulation period. No place. Verse 21 of Isaiah 24, and it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high and the kings of the earth upon the earth. The high ones that are on high, that's the demonic world, Ephesians 6. God will judge the fallen angels, ultimately Satan himself. Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and the power of his might, put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. See, our battle is a spiritual battle. And liberals are well-meaning, but they're wrong. And a lot of conservatives we can throw in the same, politically speaking. We have a spiritual battle. And in the tribulation period, the Lord's gonna punish the host of the high ones that are on high. That's the demonic world. That is Satan. And when we go into the millennial kingdom, Satan is bound for a thousand years. The demons are bound for a thousand years or more for eternity. There may be a few let loose at the end of the tribulation when Satan is, but the beginning of the millennial kingdom and for almost all that thousand years, it's a perfect environment, as perfect as it's been since the Garden of Eden. The kings of the earth, unsaved humanity represented by the kings. The whole point of this is all the world's gonna be judged, including the spiritual world. Before him shall be gathered all nations, and these shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal, Matthew 25. The separating of the sheep and the goats at the end of the tribulation period. Look at verses 22 and 23. And they shall be gathered together as prisoners are gathered in the pit and shall be shut up in the prison. And after many days shall they be visited. Then the moon shall be confounded, the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in Mount Zion in Jerusalem and before his ancients gloriously. The earth is gonna be destroyed, but Jesus is returning and gonna rule in Jerusalem and changed things back to like they were in the Garden of Eden. The beast was taken with him, the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire, burning with brimstone. And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth, and all the fowls were filled with their flesh. This is the end of the tribulation period. Jesus comes, the kings and the nations of the world are destroyed. Satan is cast into hell for a thousand years before he's released for a short period of time. And Jesus now reigns from Jerusalem. Isaiah 25 and 26. They're hymns of praise. To the greatness of God, he is to be exalted and to be praised, and the context of this praise is the coming tribulation period and the ultimate victorious reign of Jesus. Look at what it says. O Lord, Thou art my God, I will exalt Thee, I will praise Thy name, for Thou has done many wonderful things. Thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth. Mark it down. The Old Testament, what we call the Old Testament, the counsels of old are true and faithful. God will bring to pass what he has promised. There's a whole subset of Christendom, the majority of Christendom, probably 85% or more of Christendom, that will tell you that the promises of God from the prophets of old are not true. That all those promises to Israel are not true. They're fulfilled they will say in the church. That is wrong. God is faithful. His word is true. It will come to pass. Prophecy verifies the Bible is God's word. Here's what Isaiah 34, 16 says. Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, that's the Bible, and read. Did you read your Bible? But here's a specific challenge. Seek ye out of the book of the Lord and read. No one of these shall fail. Now, what he's given prior to this in chapter 34 is prophecy. Not one of those prophecies will fail. Why? None shall want her mate. None will lack its fulfillment. Remember when God created Adam and Adam, he was lacking something, right? So God gave him a helpmate, a mate to fulfill him. Not one of these prophecies will fail. Not one will lack its fulfillment. Why? For my mouth, God's mouth, hath commanded, and His Spirit it hath gathered them. That's why every prophecy will be fulfilled. It's God that's gonna bring it to pass. He's spoken it, He's commanded it, and His Spirit will bring it to pass. Prophecy, more than any thing else proves the Bible to be the Word of God. No other book does that. Jean Dixon, this, what was she, a soothsayer, whatever she was, six percent of her prophecies came true. The mark of a prophet of God is a hundred percent. Six percent. I can guess and probably get ten percent. Nostradamus So general it meant nothing. You could read anything into his prophecies. A lot of them didn't come to pass. Prophecy is the foundational apologetic that the Bible is the word of God. So you should know some of the prophecies. Seek ye out of the book of the Lord and read. Not one will fail. Israel is God's apologetic. In Isaiah 41, eight through 23, you have an overview of the history of Israel. And then in verses eight, nine, they're the chosen of God, chosen people of God. We're not gonna read all of these verses, but Israel is God's chosen people, the Jewish people. In verses 10, 13, and 14, God is going to preserve the Jewish people. He's done that. I am with thee, be not dismayed, for I am thy God. I will help thee, yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. I, the Lord thy God, will hold thy right hand. Fear not, fear not thou worm Jacob, ye men of Israel. He will preserve Israel. And then you have the conflict of Israel, verses 11 and 12, where it says, behold, all they that were incensed, they that strive with thee, them that contended with thee, they that war against thee. That's the history of the Jewish people. People striving against them, contending with them, fighting against them. They're gonna have a history of conflict. That's been the history of Israel. And then you have the consummation of God's plan, verses 15 through 19 of Isaiah chapter 41, when he will bring to pass, and it's talking about the tribulation period, the consummation of God's plan. We don't have time to read it all. Now, why does he do this, though? In verses 8 through 19, he gives an overview of the history of Israel. they're gonna have conflict, God will preserve them, and God will bring to fruition, fulfillment, all that He's promised. Why? That's verse 20. That they, unbelievers, for things, may see, know, consider, and understand that the hand of the Lord had done this. When you look at the history of Israel, there's no rhyme or reason, there's no explanation for their history outside of the God of the Bible, the God of Israel. And then, interestingly, in verses 21 through 23, God challenges all the other gods of the world, all the other religions of the world, all the people who follow those gods and religions Here's what he says. Produce your cause, saith the Lord. Bring forth your strong reason, saith the King of Jacob. Let them bring them forth. Show us what shall happen. Let them show the former things what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them, or declare us things for to come. Show the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods. Yea, do good or do evil, do whatever you have to do to bring it to pass, that we may be dismayed and beholden together. See, prophecy is God's apologetic argument, why he's the one true God. And any other God, any other religion, any people, Produce your argument, how? Pre-write history. The only one that has done that and can do that is the God of Israel, the God of the Bible. If you wanna argue with a skeptic, an atheist, don't argue, I wouldn't argue evolution. I would argue prophecy. How do you answer that? They don't have an answer. except to deny it ever took place. Isaiah 25, nine, and it shall be said in that day, lo, this is our God, we have waited for him, he will save us, this is the Lord, we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation. See, at the end of the tribulation period, the Jewish people will come to the Lord. through the tribulation, through all these judgments, but we have waited for him and we have come to him and they will receive him as Zechariah 12, 10 says, when they shall look upon me whom they have pierced. When the Jewish people will look upon me, the God of Israel, Jesus whom they have pierced. Isaiah 26 says this, in that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah. We have a strong city. Salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. Open ye the gates that the righteous nation which keeps the truth may enter in. That's the saved remnant of Israel. And that day, the end of the tribulation period, Jesus will reign and the righteous nation, the Jews who have come to the Lord, will enter into that It's language, this and that day, regularly used by Isaiah to speak of end time events. Then this very well known verse. How many of you know this verse? Thou will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusteth in thee. Trust ye in the Lord forever, for in the Lord Jehovah's everlasting strength. Perfect peace is actually shalom, shalom. Shalom, shalom. It's the peace of all peace. Perfect peace. You know, we have peace when there's absence of war. We have peace when you're not fighting with your spouse. We have peace when your children are obedient. But there's only one shalom, shalom. There's only one perfect peace. That's in Jesus. And if you trust in him, focus on him, you will have peace that passeth all understanding. Trust in the Lord. Shalom, shalom is only found in Jesus. Let favor be showed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, will not behold the majesty of the Lord. This is Isaiah 26. We should put this on a placard and give it to every politician. If you show favor to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness. You don't coddle evil. You don't show favor to wicked. They never learn. It'll turn and bite you. He will not learn righteousness. In the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly and will not behold the majesty of the Lord. It has happened all the way through history. You try to appease the evil and the wicked, it turns around and bites you. We cannot appease our enemies. It's a fruitless objective. How's God going to deal with the enemies? In judgment. When wicked people are coddled, this emboldens their evil and does not change their desires. Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler, remember? Appeasement, Wikipedia, is a diplomatic policy aimed at avoiding war by making concessions to an aggressor. The word appeasement has been used as a synonym for weakness and even cowardice since the late 1930s. It's still used in that sense to denounce policies and behaviors that conflict with firm, often armed action to violent threats in international relations. What about the present desire to appease Iran on the part of liberals? It's going to end in disaster. What about the capitulation to bad policy and the hope of working together to solve problems? It always ends in disaster. That's what that verse is saying. You know, at one time our country was founded on biblical principles and to some degree was practice. No more. Perhaps we need to get back to some of these principles that you can't show favor to the wicked. You can't coddle the wicked and the evil. They will turn on you. Then it goes on, Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see, but they shall see and be ashamed for their envy at the people. Yea, the fire of thine enemy shall devour them. Remember the revelation judgments when they're poured out? What do the people do? They curse God. They blaspheme God. They don't learn. But ultimately they will see when Jesus appears. And the fire of thine enemy shall devour them. They refuse to see God's hand at work. Ultimately, well, they'll see that he is Lord and they will be ashamed. Then it says this. Come, my people, enter into thy chambers, shut thy doors about thee, hide thyself as it were for a little moment until the indignation be overpassed. For behold, the Lord comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also shall disclose her blood and shall no more cover her slain. Verse 20. where it says, come my people, enter thou into thy chamber, shut thy doors, hide thyself for a little moment, until the indignation, the wrath, the fury of God be over. Likely is that admonition for Jewish people to flee to safety. I believe that's in Petra at the middle of the tribulation period. Verse 21 is the final climactic judgment of the nations. When God will come, the Lord comes out of His place, heaven, and punishes the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. And then as we close, Isaiah 27. This chapter closes these four chapters that focus on the tribulation period, on God's judgment on his enemies, on the regathering and the blessing upon Jewish people. These are often neglected chapters on Bible prophecy, but chapters that have main and time themes. In that day, The Lord with a sore and great and strong sword shall punish Leviathan the piercing serpent, even Leviathan that crooked serpent, and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. What does Revelation 12 call Satan? The dragon. You know who this is speaking of most likely? Satan. When Jesus returns, he is going to destroy Satan at the end of the tribulation period. He takes him and he casts him for a thousand years into that bottomless pit. He shall cause them that come out of Jacob to take root. Israel shall blossom and bud and fill the face of the world with fruit. The end result of the tribulation period, all Israel is saved, the world will be blessed, there'll be righteousness, there'll be peace, there'll be justice throughout the earth with Jesus reigning in Jerusalem over the Jewish people and all the inhabitants of the world. And Israel restored brings blessing to the world. Verses 12 and 13, it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall beat off from the channel of the river onto the stream of Egypt shall be gathered one by one, O you children of Israel. And it shall come to pass in that day that the great trumpet shall be blown and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem. I look forward to that day. It is coming soon. Jewish people return to the land and their Lord. God is exalted and worshiped throughout the earth. Just an overview. 24 through 27 of Isaiah horrendously speaks of God shaking the earth. Very few of the inhabitants of the earth survive. Only Revelation gives us more detail. But God will ultimately be exalted. Come back, set up his kingdom with a renovated earth like it was in the Garden of Eden, ruling over the nation of Israel and all the inhabitants who have come to know the Lord, who are saved. Matthew 25, the judgment of the sheep and the goats. The sheep are the picture of the saved people. The goats, the unsaved people. The goats, he casts into hell. The sheep go into the kingdom. We, if you're saved, we come back in glorified bodies. Everybody initially in the millennium is a saved person. I cannot implore you enough. If you don't know Jesus as your Savior and Lord, come to him. If the tribulation period were to happen next week, you would go into it. You're not going to survive. And what's the chances of you surviving are almost nil. You need to come to the Lord. As bad as the tribulation is, hell is a lot worse. And it's forever. Wouldn't you rather be in the kingdom of righteousness and peace and with Jesus and ultimately heaven? But you've got to be saved. You know, we're going to have an invitation. It's going to be short, very simple. If you don't know the Lord, I want you to come and get your counselor. I want you to accept the Lord today. You're a sinner. You need the Savior. And if you're saved, tell your neighbor, tell your loved one, Tell those around you who don't know the Lord of their great need for Jesus. Covenant, not with me, covenant with God. He's the one that said, go ye into all the world, preach the gospel. So would you covenant with God this week? At least tell one person, talk to one person about Jesus being the Savior. Maybe just give them a track. Would you do that? And if you need Him, come. Let's pray.