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I want to begin with a verse, Job
19th chapter of Job.
That's just before the book of Psalms for
our new converts.
And go to the 19th chapter of Job,
if you will, please.
And I want to read verses 25 and
27.
Verse 25 of Job 19.
For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and
that he shall stand at the latter day
upon the earth.
Verse 27.
Whom I shall see for myself.
Hallelujah.
Say it.
Whom I shall see for myself, and my
eyes shall behold, and not another.
Though my reins be consumed within me.
Hallelujah.
Whom I shall see for myself, and my
eyes shall behold.
He's going to come down to the earth
and stand in the latter day.
Hallelujah.
Now, who is there among us who has
not heard of the second coming of Jesus?
Those of us who believe His word expect
Him to come back to this earth just
as He said He left.
He's coming back in the clouds just as
He left.
The Scripture makes that very clear.
He's coming one last time.
His second coming and last coming.
He's coming to catch away His bride.
Hallelujah.
But few Christians understand the chain of events
that are going to happen just prior, during,
and after the coming of the Lord.
In fact, most of my preaching is focused
either on the signs of His coming or
the event of His coming.
I've preached very little.
I called Brother Bob last night, and I
said, I'm in new territory.
I don't think I've ever preached on some
of these subjects.
We were commenting how many Bible teachers and
prophecy teachers seem to have it all figured
out, and they're trying to put everything in
place.
I'm not trying to figure it all out.
I'm just going to share with you some
of the sequential events that I think, that
I believe from seeing in the Scripture are
going to happen.
And what I'm sharing with you, the outline
I share is really not original with me.
I've been looking for years for an outline
of end-time events.
What's going to happen just prior to His
coming, during His coming, and after His coming?
What happens to the saint and the sinner?
And I found it in an old book
given to me by a great old prophet
of God.
It was written in 1855 by Isaac Ambrose,
and it's called Looking Unto Jesus.
And it was a simple outline, and I'm
using his outline tonight.
Let me take you right into these events,
and I'm going to list about five or
six of these end-time events.
I don't know how far I'm going to
get, because it's just been blessing me just
studying it.
I feel elevated in my spirit just studying
it and thinking about it, and I hope
you'll be elevated by the Holy Spirit tonight.
I'm going to share with you this outline
of what I believe is going to happen.
The first thing that's going to happen, one
of these days soon, our Lord is going
to put a sudden end to time.
Time shall be no more.
You'll find it in Revelation.
Don't turn it, but the tenth chapter in
the first seven verses of Revelation.
An angel's going to be sent from Christ,
going to center this earth.
He's going to put his foot on the
sea and then the land, and he's going
to announce and proclaim that time is ending.
Time shall be no more.
That the mysterious plan of God is completed.
The salvation of mankind is completed.
The last prophecy has been given.
The last church service has been held.
The last soul has been saved that's going
to be saved, and he's going to plant
his foot on the sea and the earth
and announce time shall be no more.
And I saw another angel come down from
heaven, and he set his right foot upon
the sea, his left foot on the earth,
and he cried with a loud voice, and
he lifted up his hand to heaven and
swore by him that liveth forever and ever
that there shall be time no longer, and
the mystery or the secret plan of God
is finished, and as he has declared to
his servants, the prophets.
Now Jesus can say to his Father, my
days of priesthood are over.
I'm going to put on my judgment robes.
I'm going to gather the host of heaven
and earth, and I'm going to the judgment.
And folks, when the angels of the Lord
hear the sound that he's going back to
earth to redeem mankind, when it suddenly dawns
on angelic hosts that man, this great creation
of God, who is so loved, this Christ
who has given his very life for mankind,
are coming home, and they're going to be
one with us.
What a shout there's going to be in
glory.
What a shout there's going to be.
The seventh angel is going to make a
mighty shout, and he's going to cry, the
kingdoms of the world are become the kingdoms
of our Lord and his Christ, and he
shall reign forever and ever.
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven
with a shout, with the voice of the
archangel and with the trumpet of God.
Now imagine the shouting in heaven.
In fact, the scripture says, when the seventh
angel sounded, and what he's saying, times will
be no more, salvation is finished, the work
of God is done, and now Jesus is
beginning to leave the portals of glory, and
he's coming down to the earth.
And when this movement is made, and the
Father said, it's time to go, there's going
to be a great shout in heaven.
The scripture says, when the seventh angel sounded,
and there were great voices in heaven.
Great voices in heaven.
This is the day that they've longed for,
the day that they've imagined, the day the
martyrs will be vindicated, when the saints are
going to get new bodies, and the bride
is going to meet the Lamb of God,
and the angels and the redeemed of all
ages are going to meet together around the
throne of God.
No wonder there's a shout in glory.
This is the day.
We sing it.
This is the day the Lord has made.
One day soon it's going to ring all
through heaven.
This is the day.
What a host is coming.
Now, not only is it going to be
the end of time, it's going to be
the end of all power and authority of
the enemies of Jesus Christ.
Now, beloved, God's been warning me not to
get riled up anymore.
Now, I'm going to have to bite the
bullet on this, but the Lord's been telling
me not to get riled up anymore about
the powers and the authority of the devil,
of atheistic forces, of the media that's taking
power, of homosexual power that's gaining authority here
in America.
And the Lord says, Don't get riled up
because it's not going to last much longer.
It's all destined for the fires.
It's not going to be forever.
Let them have their day.
Don't get worked up about it because you
know how the story ends.
All things are going to be put under
the rule of Jesus Christ.
Those that have this growing power are not
going to prevail.
It's all suddenly going to end in a
moment of time.
The Father will say to His Son Jesus,
Go now, put on your robes and appear
in glory.
Empty the heavens of all the angels and
the glorious spirits.
Set on your judgment seat.
Call the world to judgment.
Judge and seal the reprobates to hell.
And bring your bride and the redeemed of
the earth into glory.
Hallelujah.
So the first thing on the agenda is
the announcement that it's all over.
Time shall be no more.
Now, that doesn't mean at that moment time
will end, but it means that the announcement
has been made and it sets in motion
a series of events that will not take
long.
This could be hours.
I don't know, but it's going to be
swift-moving events.
Jesus is going to come with His great
host.
He's going to come, descend out of the
heaven of heavens.
He's going to descend toward the earth.
And He's going to take His imperial throne.
And when the world first sees Him, they're
going to see Him on His judgment throne.
That's why they're going to cry for the
rocks and the mountains to fall and hide
them from His very face.
He's going to come in judgment.
He's not coming as the Lamb now.
He's coming clothed in fire, the Scripture says.
It's amazing when you get into it.
A mighty heavenly host is going to descend
with Him.
All the royal attendants of glory.
Heaven is going to be emptied of every
angel, every cherubim, every seraphim, all the four
-and-twenty elders, all of the hosts of
heaven are going to come with Him.
A great retinue.
Behold, the Lord comes with His mighty angels.
2 Thessalonians 1-7.
Behold, the Lord will come with thousands of
His saints to execute judgment upon all.
A thousand thousands will minister unto Him, and
ten thousand times ten thousands shall stand before
Him.
Daniel 7-10.
Then the Son of Man shall come in
His glory, and all the holy angels with
Him.
He's not coming alone.
He's coming with all the hosts of heaven.
And they're going to appear in the heavens.
And He's going to sit on His throne
in a cloud of glory and fire.
And the Bible said the sun and the
moon will refuse to shine, and what that
means is that the brightness of His coming
is so bright that the sun will seem
darkness in comparison.
It will be darkness in comparison.
Folks, one of these days there's going to
be a bright light.
You'll be in a building like this.
You could be in a building with no
lights, and it will light up inside.
A transparent light.
I've heard people say, Well, when Jesus comes,
how is the whole world going to see
Him?
Because there's 24 hours on the other side.
When it's night here, it's day there.
And how does everybody?
You'd have to see through the earth on
the night side.
If He's coming in the day, if He's
coming in the night, you'd have this great
time difference, all these time zones.
Well, listen.
Jesus in His glorified body walked right through
walls.
You think the earth is going to not
be penetrated?
It's going to be transparent when He comes.
Every man on the face of the earth,
every child, the islands of the sea are
going to see Him.
The Bible said He's going to come clothed
with fire.
A fire shall devour before Him when He
comes, and it shall be very tempestuous round
about Him.
Behold, the Lord will come with fire in
His chariots like a whirlwind.
And the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from
heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire.
Oh, hallelujah.
He's coming in flaming fire.
That's the very fire that's going to consume
the heavens and the earth.
He's going to come in a brightness, in
a cloud of fire.
Mankind's first view of Him will be this
cloud of fire, a glory cloud, ablaze with
fire.
Then shall appear the sight of the Son
of Man in heaven.
They shall see the Son of Man coming
in the clouds of heaven with power and
great glory.
Oh, with great glory, all the glory of
His created beings in heaven.
Behold, He comes with clouds, and every eye
shall see Him, and all they also which
pierced Him.
Then shall they see the Son of Man
coming in the clouds.
And then shall all the tribes of the
earth mourn.
The homosexual tribe will mourn.
The atheistic tribe will mourn.
The Calvinistic tribe will mourn.
All the tribes, the sinful tribe, because sin
always gathers together tribes.
And all these tribes are going to mourn.
The Broadway tribe will mourn.
Folks, we're not here to integrate with Broadway.
We're here to proclaim this gospel that it's
all going to end.
Right across the street, listen to me, right
across the street tonight at 9 o'clock
at the Tony Awards.
They have been living for the day they
can carry this little Tony and put him
on the mantle.
One of these days it melts like butter
in the fiery presence of God.
What a emptiness.
We're here to combat that.
We're not here as enemies.
We're here as friends of Jesus Christ to
proclaim that that world is dying and decaying.
It's all over.
There's only one thing that counts now is
where you are with the Lamb of God.
Hallelujah.
The sun and the moon will refuse to
shine, the scripture says.
Christ, you know, when he appears, every time
he's appeared, it's been in brightness.
You remember he appeared on the Mount of
Transfiguration and the brightness was so bright the
disciples fell on their face.
Do you remember when Jesus appeared to Saul?
It was so bright he fell on his
face and he was blinded.
In fact, he had to have hands laid
on, he had to be healed, and scales
fell off his eyes just at the sight
of the brightness of Jesus Christ.
He's going to have to give us special
eyes to see.
We'll not be able to even gaze at
that with our human bodies.
He's going to have the angel that's going
to come and collect us.
Now talk about the minute.
We're going to have to shield our eyes
until we get our new bodies.
Hallelujah.
The sinners are going to cry for the
rocks and the mountains to fall on them,
to hide them.
Demons are going to flee in terror.
The mockers and scoffers are going to fall
as dead men before his vision.
Those who forsook him and turned their back
and rejected his mercy.
There are no words to describe the terror
of those who knew and rejected the Lord
Jesus Christ.
Alright, the third event.
First of all, he's going to send an
angel.
The seventh angel is going to announce the
end of time.
And he's going to come and appear in
his great retinue in glory.
He's going to appear in the heavens in
every eye.
Everyone is going to see.
They're going to hide themselves.
They're going to mourn.
They're going to...
The Bible said they're going to try to
kill themselves and will not be able to.
Just at the awesome terror of his appearing.
And then, as he appears, he's going to
send his angels.
First, he's going to roar.
He's going to thunder.
Remember, at the tomb of Lazarus, the scripture
said he cried with a what?
Loud voice.
Lazarus!
It wasn't a mousy voice.
He cried with a loud voice.
Lazarus!
Come forth!
Can you imagine when he stands in the
heavens?
Above this earth, he shall send his angels
with the great sound of a trumpet.
They shall gather together his elect from the
four winds from one end of heaven to
the other.
The hour is coming and now is when
the dead shall hear the voice of the
Son of God and they that hear shall
live.
And now he's going to say, Saints!
Arise!
What a thundering in every grave in the
history of this earth.
What a thunder all over the world from
Moscow to London, all through America.
All the graves of all of our great
servants of God in New England.
They're going to rise.
Going to shake the graves.
And the Lord is going to say to
the angels, Go now and gather my elect.
Go to the bottom of the sea where
every man has ever drowned who loved me.
Go down to the depths of the pits
of the earth and I won't lose one
atom.
I want every atom brought to me.
Have every one of my children.
Not one grain of dust will be lost.
The Bible said, Those of us who are
alive and remain.
The dead are raised first, then we alive
and remain are going to be caught up
to meet him in the air.
Folks, do you get that picture?
The angels are awaiting that scene.
If you could call them breathless, they would
be breathless.
Anticipating this resurrection.
What a resurrection day.
When every dead saint of all time is
called home.
A host of angels are gathering from the
four winds and they're gathering them home.
We're going first.
Hallelujah.
The saints go first because we're going to
be there to judge the world with him.
I'm going to show it to you very
clearly.
We're going to judge the world.
We're going to judge fallen angels.
We're going to judge the devil.
I'm going to show you something just a
little bit.
It's going to make you shout.
Brother Bob gave me a hint on it
and I looked into it and it's just
powerful.
How we're going to sit there and judge
the devil.
He's going to gather the elect.
Can you imagine what it's like when suddenly
there is Abraham, there's Isaac, there is Jacob,
there's Peter, there's Paul.
They're all the saints of all times.
And we're there and we're all discovering our
new bodies.
We're looking at these new bodies because they're
in the image of the Son of God.
And I think the first thing is going
to be this sudden realization this is a
new body.
Something's happening.
The moment of time.
The Bible said in the twinkling of an
eye.
That's your eye.
That's how quick it's going to happen.
In the twinkling of an eye.
We are going to be transported into new
bodies.
In his own images.
In his own image.
Hallelujah.
We'll recognize one another because the Bible said
we're going to remember one another.
How can we give an account if we
don't remember?
You know, we're going to remember.
We're going to see.
We're going to know one another.
We're going to know as we are known,
the Scripture says.
Somehow we're going to know Abraham.
Somehow we're going to know everybody.
Even though there's a name to have it,
only the Lord knows.
We're going to know.
He's going to have that wonderful fellowship of
the saints.
We're going to know.
If we're going to know him, we're going
to know his saints.
Hallelujah.
Some of you, I don't know by name.
The pastor don't know.
We know you by your face.
And we love you by your face and
by your spirit.
Then we're going to know your name and
your spirit.
Hallelujah.
What a resurrection that is going to be.
Christ has made a shout.
He's awakened his saints.
The dead for the hour is coming in
which all that are in the grave shall
hear his voice and they shall come forth.
Then we which shall have remains shall be
caught up together with them to meet in
the clouds.
Hallelujah.
Folks, first we get acquainted with this new
body.
And then suddenly, suddenly, there he is.
The one we have sung about.
And he's sitting on his throne of judgment.
To us, it's a throne of glory.
But to the world, to the ungodly, it's
the judgment.
It's the throne of judgment.
And folks, we're going to stand before his
brilliance, but we're going to reflect that glory.
Because my Bible said he shall be glorified
in his saints.
He's going to be glorified in his saints.
You and I are going to reflect the
very glory and the brilliance of the Lord
Jesus Christ.
You talk about a praise meeting.
What's it going to be like when we
all get your first glimpse of Jesus?
Have you ever thought about that?
Your first glimpse.
This is not, it's not now worshiping in
whom we've not seen.
Now, all the years that we've anticipated.
All the praises that have gone up from
our very first time we learned to love
him.
It's all pointing to this one moment of
discovery.
When we see him, and when we see
him, he's going to be a man.
He's going to be a man.
He's God and he's man.
He's going to have hands and feet.
You're going to have the same body, the
same kind of body as he has made
in his own image.
But there he is.
Folks, can you imagine?
Well, John tried to describe what it's going
to be like.
As we, the scripture said, we're going to
all fall down before his throne.
I beheld and lo a great multitude which
no man could number of all nations and
kindred and people and tongues.
No man could number this host.
And folks, we're standing on nothing.
We're supported by his glory.
Nothing else.
We're in the heavens.
You talk about walking on water, we're going
to walk on air.
We're going to walk on nothing.
He's going to suspend us in his glory.
Amazing.
And people and tongues stood before the throne
and before the Lamb and cried with a
loud voice saying salvation to our God, which
sits upon the throne and unto the Lamb.
And all the angels stood round the throne
and about the elders and the four beasts.
And they all fell before the throne on
their faces and worshiped God saying, Amen, blessing
and glory and wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, might be
to our God forever and ever.
All he has to do is stand or
stretch out his arms and say, welcome.
Welcome.
Something you don't believe is going to happen
just like that.
And I heard, as it were, the voice
of a great multitude and as the voice
of many waters and the voice of mighty
thundering saying, Alleluia, alleluia, for the Lord God
omnipotent reigneth.
Alleluia.
Listen, if the prodigal son was welcomed home
in all of his filth and all of
his squalor, if he's welcomed home with hugs
and kisses, what will be like when Jesus
welcomes a redeemed?
If he hugs and kisses a reprobate coming
home, what is he going to do to
his children who love him?
Oh, glory be to God.
What a day.
Yes, the Bible said we're all going to
stand before him given account.
But I want to tell you something.
When you and I as Christians and believers
stand before his throne, it's not going to
be a day of terror for you and
I.
Because the Bible said in his presence is
fullness of joy and at his right hand,
that's where we're going to be seated at
his right hand are places for evermore.
The scriptures that he that cometh, he that
heareth my word and believeth on him has
everlasting life, shall not come into condemnation.
In fact, the apostle said we're going to
be presented before his throne spotless, faultless with
exceeding great joy.
Now, folks, I don't know how our works
are going to burn, but I know that
whatever happens, we're going to be there with
exceeding great joy, glad to see them burn.
And all of those things that were unlike
Christ, all those things, the hay, wood and
stubble, whatever it may be, somehow God miraculously
dissolves this and we're glad to see it
consumed.
Because, folks, we learned long ago not to
depend on works, but by faith alone in
Jesus Christ.
And what a glorious bonfire.
In other words, to get rid even the
memory of it so that in eternity we're
not even think of it.
It's all burned and gone by the fire
of his presence.
Hallelujah.
I don't, I can't put this in sequence,
but I do know that when you and
I as blood-washed believers stand before the
throne of God to give an account, it's
going to be a glorious experience because he
who sits on the bench, he who sits
on the throne is our Redeemer, kinsman, brother,
friend, lover.
He's all in all to us.
He's going to embrace us.
And then, folks, we are going to be
seated at his right hand on thrones.
Now, thrones, don't picture some big golden ivory
throne.
A throne there means a seat of power,
an authority, a seat of judgment wherever we're
seated, we're seated there as judges, so to
speak.
We're the jury of this great judge.
And I'll show you that very, very clearly
in the Scripture here.
He's going to call us to assist him
in the judgment.
Now that we have been introduced to the
Lamb, now we've met him and we've praised
him and we've fallen to his feet and
we've worshipped and we've had a great time
of praise.
Now we're seated at the right hand of
the judge.
And the judgments begin of the great white
throne judgment.
And we are there as participants in this
great hour of judgment.
And the Lord will say, all of those
who said this man shall not rule over
us, call them.
Every man, every woman, in all time who
said this man shall not rule over us,
I am that man, call them.
And all the wicked of all time.
Man first, I believe.
Mankind, stand before him.
The Scripture says, I will confess his name
before my father and all his holy angels.
In fact, I really believe that before we're
seated, our name is called out of the
book of life.
And Jesus is going to call every name
himself.
And he's going to confess our name before
the Father.
That's what he says.
I will confess his name before my father
and before his angels.
I'm going to introduce you one by one
to all my angels.
Bob Phillips, Don Wilkerson, David Wilkerson, Jimmy, Billy.
I better put a few women in here,
sister.
Gwen.
Every name.
I'm going to call every name out of
the Lamb's book of life.
I'll confess you before the Father.
David Wilkerson, you're mine.
I don't know what the angels are going
to do.
And whether they nod.
I don't think they'll applaud.
But there's going to be an acknowledgment.
Very clearly, there's going to be acknowledgment before
the Father and all the angels.
And to him that overcometh, I will grant
to sit with me in my throne.
And I saw thrones, and they that sat
upon them, and judgment was given unto them.
Jesus told his apostles, you shall also sit
upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of
Israel.
We're going to judge.
We're going to be there as part of
this great judgment scene.
It appears that the entire church of Jesus
Christ will be seated at his right hand.
I don't know.
That scene is so massive.
That scene is so beyond human comprehension, we
can't even imagine it.
It's beyond our comprehension.
Then the ghosts, the sinners, are going to
be brought before the throne.
And Christ is going to say to those
who mocked and ridiculed and persecuted and jailed
and cut asunder the saints of God, martyred
the millions, reproached the name of Jesus Christ.
And he's going to say, you joint heirs
of hell.
There was a time when you hated me
and all my children.
You trod on my word.
You trod underfoot the gospel.
You crucified me afresh daily.
You abused and mocked my ministers and my
prophets.
You had no time for those who loved
me.
You cursed all that was good and holy.
Now look to my right hand.
Look at the faces of all those that
you ridiculed.
They're my witnesses against you.
We are going to be witnesses against all
those who persecuted all time.
Every sinner who's mocked you, every enemy of
Jesus Christ is going to be there.
And you are going to be a witness.
The Bible says even the men of Nineveh
are going to rise up.
Queen of Sheba is going to rise up
at the judgment.
Now many of these are going to be
damned, the men of Nineveh.
We are going to rise up at the
judgment and be witnesses.
Christ and his saints are going to pronounce
sentence upon the wicked, depart ye cursed into
everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his
angels.
The scriptures make it clear.
Do you not know that the saints shall
judge the world, 1 Corinthians 6.2?
And judgment was given to the saints of
the Most High, Daniel 7.22, Jude 14
.15. Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands
of his saints who will execute judgment upon
all.
Know you not that we shall judge the
angels, 1 Corinthians 6.5?
We're going to judge the fallen angels, all
the demon powers who harassed you.
Every lying spirit is going to appear before
the throne.
Every lying spirit, everyone that's been cast out
of you, you're going to stand and you're
going to be there when the judgment is
passed.
Know you not that we shall judge the
angels, not the glorified, but the fallen angels,
the demonic powers.
And then, this is the end of side
one, you may now...
After mankind has been judged, cast into eternal
hell, the angels have been bound in their
chains, eternally damned, cast into hell.
Finally comes Satan.
Now why don't you go to Isaiah 14.
You know what it's going to be like
when the devil himself stands before the throne
of Jesus Christ, and we face the devil
finally?
Think you and I are going to tremble?
Do you think the...
You and I are going to be so
surprised at that moment.
Isaiah 14.
Let's begin with verse 12.
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,
son of the morning?
How art thou cut down to the ground,
which didst weaken the nations?
Thou said in thine heart, I'll ascend into
heaven, I'll exalt my throne above the stars
of God, I'll sit upon the mount of
the congregation in the sides of the north,
I will ascend above the heights of the
clouds, I will be like the Most High,
yet thou shall be brought down to hell
to the sides of the pit.
They that see thee...
Now this is at the judgment.
They that see thee...
That's all the angels.
This is all the redeemed.
There he is, standing before the throne on
his knees, on his face.
They that see shall narrowly...
They're going to study it.
They're going to be amazed.
They're going to look upon thee and consider
thee and say, Is this the man that
made the earth to tremble, that did shake
kingdoms, that made the world as a wilderness?
Is this the man?
There he is, trembling.
Oh, you talk about the Lord being glorified.
You talk about the saints being glorified.
And what a moment when Jesus points to
Lucifer.
He says, Never again.
All the kingdoms of the world are mine.
Be gone in everlasting darkness.
Be gone out of my sight.
And what a day we will stand and
praise him, who finally the heel has been
crossed, or rather the serpent's head has been
crossed, and he who presses his heel finally
on him, ends forever any thought of Satan
taking authority and power.
He'll be cast forever into eternal damnation, and
then we will know never again we'll be
harassed, never again a demon power, never again
a lying spirit, never again.
Never.
Free.
What a praise will glow up to Jesus
Christ.
We're going to fall before him and praise
him.
You talk about a praise meeting.
We don't even know what it's like yet.
When the angels and the saints gather to
praise his holy name.
Now.
Sinners, fallen angels, the devil cast into outer
darkness.
The judgments are finished.
We've met him.
Now, what does he do?
Of course, he's going to lead us home.
We're going to his father's house because the
Bible said he's going to present us to
his father, and he's going to submit himself
and all the kings and everything to the
father.
We're going to be introduced as a terrible
army with banners.
We're going to enter the gates of his
celestial city, and the scripture says that he
might present us without spot unto his father.
Then shall he deliver up the kingdom to
God, even his father.
Then shall the son also himself be subject
unto him that put all things under him,
that God may be all in all.
Folks, get this picture.
It says, come, follow me.
We are going to ascend through the celestial
heavens, through the cosmos, into a city he's
been preparing.
A city, I said, that we can't even
begin to comprehend.
There's no human language can describe that brilliant
city that we're going to.
And behind him are all the angels.
Behind him are the seraphim, the cherubim, and
this is an army awesome with banners, and
we are following him home.
We're going to heaven.
We're going to glory, praises, wonderful name.
Folks, we're not going to be spirits.
We're going to be bodies.
I feel this right now.
We're going to feel it.
We're going to have ecstasy.
We're going to be speaking with voices like
I'm speaking to you now.
We're going to sing the same songs maybe
that we're singing now, and I have a
hit what we're going to sing.
Come and go with me to my father's
house.
Quicker in hell.
That's in outer darkness beyond the universe.
Christians are beyond the universe in glory with
Jesus.
What about the earth and the sun, the
moon, the stars, and this cosmos and universe?
Well, folks, there's no need for it anymore.
It's going to be depopulated.
There'll be no sinners, be no saints.
The sun and the moon and the stars
were made for the glory of Jesus and
for the use of mankind.
There's no need for it anymore.
Now, I know a lot of people talk
about that the earth is just going to
be renovated by fire, but that's not what
the Scripture says at all.
In fact, some of the early church fathers
believed that the fire was just going to
renovate it.
Polanus wrote, for example, these heavens and this
earth, when purified with those fires, will be
superinvested with new endowments, and they shall be
the everlasting habitation of the blessed saints.
In other words, God's just going to kind
of clean up things and then bring us
back to a cleaned up universe.
That's not what the Bible said at all.
My Bible said the heavens shall pass away
with a great noise, and the elements shall
melt with the fervent heat, the earth also,
and the works that are therein shall be
burned up.
Now, folks, scientists are talking about the big
bang, that the earth came to life with
a big bang, that life started with a
big bang.
It's going to end, folks, with a big
bang.
It's going to end with a big bang.
My Bible said the earth and the heavens
are reserved under fire to the day of
judgment.
They're reserved.
Now that we're gone, there's no need for
this anymore.
The Scripture is very, very clear, and most
church fathers believe just exactly what I'm preaching
to you now.
Of old hast thou laid the foundation of
the earth and the heavens of thy hands,
but they shall perish, but you shall endure.
This is Isaiah 34, For all the hosts
of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens
shall be rolled together like a scroll, and
all the hosts shall fall down as a
leaf that falleth from the vine.
Heaven and earth shall pass away, Jesus said,
but my word shall not pass away.
The Scripture here is very clear in 2
Peter 3, 12 and 13, wherein the heavens
being on fire, they shall be dissolved, and
the elements shall melt with fervent heat.
Nevertheless, we, according to His promise, look for
new heavens, and a new earth wherein dwelleth
righteousness.
Hallelujah.
John said, And I saw a new heaven,
and I saw a new earth, for the
first heaven and the first earth were passed
away.
And folks, in the Greek, and it says
there's no more sea, in the Greek that
means it annihilated.
The word is annihilated.
It was gone.
It's passed away.
Not one atom left.
The sun is going to explode into little
atoms.
The moon and the stars are going to
pass away.
God is going to remove it all and
start all over, and He's going to speak
into a being a new earth and a
new heavens.
He's going to speak it into being.
It's not going to be renovated.
It's going to be all new.
He said, Behold, I make all things new.
Glory be to God.
A new heaven and a new earth.
Folks, if this earth, you go to some
of the beauty spots on this earth.
You go to Sequoia National Forest.
You go up into Alaska and look at
some of those huge trees and beauties of
the mountains.
You go to some of those gorgeous places.
If God can do that in 6,000
years, can you imagine what He can do
in eternity?
He's going to keep creating beauty.
It's going to be not a static creation.
It's going to be life that flows, new
discovery.
You're not going to sit around floating on
a cloud playing a harp.
You're going to be busy, busy, busy, ruling
and reigning over His righteous works.
All will be righteousness and peace and glory.
Hallelujah.
There'll be a whole new world where there
is no waste.
There is no decay.
It talks about a sea that is so
quiet it looks like glass.
It talks about mansions.
It talks about trees that there's no waste.
The leaves don't fade.
They never fall.
And 12 kinds of fruit all the time,
12 different kinds of fruit coming at different
times.
There are no seasons in heaven, but there
will be constant birthing of new life at
all times.
Oh, we are going to be so occupied.
He said, occupy till I come.
We're going to be occupied all through eternity.
My wife loves flowers.
I've been praying, Oh, Jesus, give her one
of the biggest gardens you ever had in
glory.
Hallelujah.
She won't have to pluck flowers.
All she has to do is admire them.
All she has to do is walk among
them and praise God for His beauty.
Hallelujah.
What a wonder it would be our minds
if the Lord would suddenly turn on the
lights and just let us, maybe that's why
Paul said he saw things he couldn't utter.
I'm afraid that Paul just couldn't even utter
them because they were unspeakable, he said.
If God opened up our eyes and we
just had three minutes into eternity, we could
just walk a few moments in glory with
Jesus.
First place, we never want to come home.
We never want to come back to life.
But, folks, you would see and hear things.
You would be in a world that you
could not conceive.
Humanly, our finite minds cannot grasp it.
I've had just a little taste, just a
little bit of it that my mind, it
was so beyond my mind.
There may be, I don't know, it's speculation,
there may be planets that we can just
travel through the whole universe because there does
not have to be gravity holding us.
He can create a whole new way of
moving about His glorious new universe.
But most of all, King Jesus will be
there.
You say, well, if He submits to the
Father and God is all in all, where
does the Lamb fit in?
Well, He's going to reveal Himself as God.
We're going to see Him not only as
humanity but as divinity.
We're going to see the glory of Christ
that God has placed upon Him and we're
going to be one as He is with
the Father.
We're all going to, it's going to be
one glorious unit.
Hallelujah.
Oh, praise God.
But the heavens and the earth are kept
in store, reserved for fire against the day
of judgment.
And folks, we're going to watch this.
I really believe we're going to see this
Holocaust when He speaks one word, one commandment,
because it's all been reserved, it's there already,
that fire's reserved.
The Bible says it's already reserved.
And all He has to speak the word
and He just says the word.
Burn!
Suddenly, a Holocaust, sun, moon, stars, earth, exploding
into nothing till there's not an atom left.
Not an atom left.
But then suddenly, in His brightness and His
glory, He spoke the word and created the
heavens and the earth in the first place.
He took dust and made man.
Now He gives us a new body and
a new world, and a new world with
a precious Savior forever and ever.
Now, you know, there was a time I
never wanted to preach about these things because
I thought, well, let's just serve the Lord
with all of our hearts and whatever He
has for us, it'll all be a blessing.
Don't worry about it.
Let's just...
There are preachers even today who say, I
don't want to know anything about that.
But I'm finding, the older I get, the
more I see that's unscriptural.
It's scriptural to think on these things.
In fact, Jesus warned us to carefully consider
these end-time signs.
He said, when you see these things begin
to come to pass, look up.
Lift up your heads for your depths and
draw nigh.
And Peter preached the very things I'm preaching
about, the earth dissolving and the new heavens
and the new earth.
He said, I give this to you to
stir up your mind.
Stir up your mind.
And he said, wherefore, beloved, seeing that you
look for such things, a new heaven, a
new earth, be diligent that you may be
found in peace without spot and blameless.
Seeing then that all these things will be
dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to
be in all holy living and godliness?
He said, I'm telling you these things so
you can be disentangled from the things of
this world, so that you can think on
eternity, so your problems, your conversation will be
heavenly, not earthly.
You can be elevated out of the things
of this world and get your mind on
eternity.
Hallelujah.
Let me tell you something before I close.
It's hard for people under 30 to think
about eternity, unless you really love Jesus.
Because you're just coming into the exuberance of
life and everything else, and your whole life
is ahead of you, and it's hard.
Be careful.
I tell you every day now, I meditate
on what it's going to be like to
be taken into glory and see my Jesus.
I've been meditating on eternity and living eternally
with Christ.
Folks, if he gives me, you know, I'm
blank years old.
And if he gives me another 15, 20
years, what is that?
It's just grass that burns.
It's just vapor that vanishes.
Your whole life, he said, is a vapor.
It's all passing away.
Imagine, your whole lifetime, the Bible says, is
a vapor that appears and is suddenly gone.
Well, folks, the vapor is going to vanish,
and we're going to be eternally secure with
him.
And I don't know about you, but for
me, that puts joy in my soul, and
I rejoice.
And if you can't rejoice about that tonight,
it means that you're tied to this world.
It means that sin has your heart, and
Jesus is not all in all to you.
That needs to be settled tonight.
Will you stand, please?
Will you stand?
You say, Brother Dave, that's anti-climatic.
You should have closed when you were singing
high.
No, folks, this is not just emotion.
You don't wake up and the truth is
gone.
It's still there.
I'm going home tonight, lay down on my
bed, and think all these things are going
to be just as real then as I
preached it tonight.
It's going to be real.
Folks, this is not a mirage.
This is not fantasy.
Jesus is coming.
This world is passing away, and all the
things that are in it are going to
burn.
That's what Jesus said.
It's all passing away.
Only what's done for Christ, in him and
through him, is going to last.
Now, Jesus, there are people standing in this
church tonight that can't think of eternity.
They can't rejoice in thinking about standing before
your judgment seat.
There's fear and anxiety in their heart because
the enemy has made inroach into their heart.
There's been compromise.
There's been a coldness that's slipped in.
Oh, Jesus, heal that tonight.
Remove the coldness, the emptiness, and the worldliness.
Jesus, come in tonight with hope, true hope
that we can rejoice in our redemption.
Up in the balcony, here on the main
floor, I'm not going to whip you up
into some kind of emotional anxiety to try
to get you to walk down this aisle.
Why should anybody be begged to come to
Jesus when you know all this lies ahead
of you?
Just a simple step to give everything to
him and walk with him.
He promises you eternal life.
Everything I've talked about is your...
Folks, if you're going to turn that down,
if you're just going to let sin rule
and reign, and if you think that you'll
trade all that for a few years of
pleasure, as for me, I'll say with Moses,
I would rather suffer with God's people than
enjoy the pleasure of this earth just for
a season.
It's all passing away.
It's all going to burn.
All the gold in Fort Knox is going
to melt like butter.
Tokyo is going to be gone.
London is going to be gone.
New York is going to be gone.
Suddenly, it's all going to be gone.
Everything that man has traded, it's gone.
There'll be absolutely nothing left.
Why hold on to it?
Let it go, folks.
Have it, but enjoy it, but don't abuse
it, and just thank God for your blessings,
but keep your eye on the new Jerusalem.
We're going home, folks.
How many can say you're ready to go?
I'm ready to go.
Well, there are a number of you.
The number of you here tonight.
Now sit, unless I'm closing.
You're not ready.
I'll say it one more time.
You are not ready to meet him face
to face and look him in the eye,
because something else has your heart from this
world, either sin or this world, or bitterness
or confusion.
While they're singing, I want you to get
right out of your seat.
I want you to come up here, and
let me pray for you right now, and
believe the Lord to deliver you, set you
free, and set you on the road to
Father's house.
Father, finish the work right now.
Holy Spirit, go throughout this whole congregation right
now and call us home.
Call every stray home, every lost sheep home.
Holy Spirit, convict.
Grab each hearth and say, Tonight, tonight is
your night.
Come on, get out of your seat right
now and come and meet us right here.
Move up close.
Stand right here in the front.
I'm going to pray for you and ask
God for a miracle in your life.
Don't stand there.
Get out.
You know, the Holy Spirit is talking to
you right now.
You know whether or not you're walking where
you should walk.
You know how close or how far you
strayed from Jesus.
If you've been straying, if you've been cold,
if you've been indifferent, come.
If you don't know him, come.
If you've never known him, come.
If you've known him and walked away from
him, come.
This is the conclusion of the tape.