I do not know whether or not you
all have your Bibles with you tonight, but
if you do have your Bibles, I wish
you would turn to the 14th chapter of
the book of Zechariah.
Now, in order to find Zechariah, all you
have to do is to turn to the
last book in the Old Testament.
And when you have found the last book
in the Old Testament, which is Malachi, then
go back one book, and you'll be right
in the midst of Zechariah.
Zechariah is the second-to-last book in
the Old Testament Scriptures.
So turn to the end of the Old
Testament, find yourself in Malachi, turn back one
book, and you'll be in the midst of
Zechariah.
And I want you to get it ready
so that you can listen as I speak
tonight and follow me as I read from
the 14th chapter, and turn, if you will,
at once to the 14th chapter of the
book of Zechariah.
Then we'll be ready for our study.
Now, let me say before I speak tonight
that this message that I'm going to give
this evening is in this book that God
gave me many years ago, Prophecy, What Lies
Ahead.
It's the ninth chapter in the book.
Many many years ago, I was tremendously interested
in Zechariah 14, and after preaching again and
again the prophetic message that I want to
use tonight, it was published in this book
in chapter 9, Prophecy, What Lies Ahead.
And if you want to get this message
tonight, you may get it at the close
of the service.
If you'll get a copy of my book,
Prophecy, What Lies Ahead, and then after having
heard it, you can read it word for
word, and I'm sure it will be a
blessing to you.
Now, let me just begin with some kind
of an introduction as I speak on the
drama of the end time, the drama of
the end time.
There are four great sections in this chapter.
Chapter 14 of Zechariah, four great sections.
Let me give you their names first of
all.
The first section is called The Capture of
the City, The Capture of the City, and
I'm referring now to the capture of the
city of Jerusalem.
Jerusalem has fallen again and again and again,
many many times it has been captured in
years gone by.
It is going to be captured once again.
After that, it will never again be captured.
The word of God makes it perfectly clear
that the city of Jerusalem will be captured
once more, and after that final capture, it
will never again be captured, at least not
for a thousand years.
That's going to happen so far as the
city of Jerusalem is concerned.
So the first section has to do with
the capture of the city, and you'll find
that in verse 2.
I'll come back to it in a few
moments.
The second section of this chapter is called
The Lord's Intervention, The Lord's Intervention.
If you'd like to keep these headings or
these divisions in your mind, just take note
if you will as I give them one
by one.
Now, The Lord's Intervention is found in verse
3, and when you get to verse 3,
you'll be dealing with The Lord's Intervention.
So first, the capture of the city, verse
2, second, The Lord's Intervention, verse 3.
Now the third division is called The Physical
Changes, in other words, the physical changes in
Jerusalem and in Palestine that are to take
place in the future, the physical changes.
And then last of all, the final division,
The New Order of Things, The New Order
of Things.
Now those are the four sections that I
have found in this chapter, which I've studied
for many, many years.
Those are the four sections that I've found
in the 14th chapter of Zechariah.
Now here's a very striking thing.
Under each of these headings that I've already
given you, there are four subdivisions or four
things that take place, four things that happen
in connection with each one of these four
headings that I've given you tonight.
First, for instance, the capture of the city.
There are four things that take place in
connection with the capture of the city of
Jerusalem.
Second, The Lord's Intervention.
There are four things that happen when the
Lord intervenes.
Third, The Physical Changes.
There are four great physical changes that will
take place.
And last of all, The New Order of
Things, and there are four new orders that
will be inaugurated in connection with the city
of Jerusalem after it has been captured and
after Jesus Christ has taken over the reins
of government.
So this chapter is a very logical chapter,
and that's the way the various divisions are
set forth in Zechariah chapter 14.
Now the first division, as I've already stated,
is the capture of the city.
Jerusalem is going to fall once again.
Not perhaps in our lifetime, I do not
know.
It may be within the next few months,
it may be within the next few years.
I do not know when Jerusalem is going
to fall again, but I'm certain as I'm
standing here, I'm certain of the fact that
Jerusalem is going to fall again, as I
am that I'm speaking to you tonight.
So I say the first division is the
capture of the city.
Now, here are the four things that take
place in connection with the capture of the
city.
They're all found in verse 2.
Verse 2 reads like this, I will gather
all nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the
city shall be taken.
Well, I've just said that, that Jerusalem will
be captured once again.
That hasn't happened yet.
I know Jerusalem has been captured many, many
times, but this captivity of the city has
not yet taken place.
I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to
battle.
That has never happened.
All nations have never yet been gathered together
against the city of Jerusalem, and the city
shall be taken.
Now, this is still future.
As a matter of fact, everything in this
chapter is future.
Everything in this chapter has yet to be
fulfilled.
It is still in the future.
It never has been fulfilled.
And I can for the life of me
understand how those who believe that all prophecy
for the most part has already been fulfilled,
how they can read the 14th chapter of
Zechariah and still maintain that all prophecy has
already been fulfilled.
This prophecy has never yet been fulfilled.
Here are the four things that are going
to happen, and I want you to look
at verse 2 as I mention them.
First of all, the houses are going to
be rifled.
In other words, the houses are going to
be looted.
That always happens when an army, if it's
a heathen army, when it conquers the city,
it loots the city, and that's exactly what
is going to happen to the city of
Jerusalem.
The city of Jerusalem is going to be
looted.
In the second place, the women will be
ravaged, and that has always happened.
When heathen armies have captured a city, they
have ravaged or raped the women of the
city.
And then in the third place, one half
of the population of the city will be
taken into captivity and led out of the
city.
One half of the entire population will be
conquered and taken away from the city.
And last of all, the other half will
be left in the city.
Now look at verse 2 as we read
it together.
I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to
battle, and the city shall be taken.
There's the capture of the city.
Here are the four things that are going
to happen.
First, and the houses rifled.
They'll be looted, the houses in Jerusalem.
Second, and the women ravaged.
And that'll take place in the city of
Jerusalem.
The women will be ravaged.
Third, half of the city shall go forth
into captivity.
One half of the population will be led
away captives, slaves, servants.
Fourth, and the residue, the rest of the
people, shall not be cut off from the
city.
Now there are the four things that will
take place in connection with the capture of
the city of Jerusalem when it falls for
the last time.
And this will be the last time that
Jerusalem will ever be captured, the last time
it will fall.
Now the second statement that I made was
the Lord's intervention.
What's going to happen?
What's the Lord going to have to say
about it?
Is he going to allow the city to
be captured?
Is he going to allow the houses to
be rifled, the women to be ravaged, half
of the city to go into captivity?
Is he going to permit all that permanently?
Is it going to continue?
The Lord's intervention.
Well there are four things in connection with
the Lord's intervention.
The first is found in verse 5.
When he intervenes, he returns with his saints.
Look at verse 5 if you will.
The last part of the verse, the very
last statement in the verse, and the Lord
my God shall come and all the saints
with thee.
Now this doesn't refer to God the Father,
even though it says the Lord my God,
because we know that God the Father is
not going to come at any time.
We know the Lord Jesus Christ, the second
person in the Trinity, who was here upon
earth nineteen hundred years ago is the one
who is to return again.
And the Lord my God shall come and
all the saints with thee.
Now I do not know just what saints
will come back with him.
I could not say this group of saints
or that group of saints, but a great
multitude of saints will come back with the
Lord Jesus Christ when he comes.
And so when the Lord intervenes, he'll first
of all come back to this earth with
his saints.
In the second place, he will stand, first
of all, as his feet touch the earth
on the Mount of Olives.
Look at verse 4 if you will.
And his feet shall stand in that day
upon the Mount of Olives, which is before
Jerusalem on the east.
Now there's no misunderstanding that statement.
You can't spiritualize it.
There's no way to spiritualize it.
It tells us that the feet of the
Lord Jesus Christ will stand or rest on
the Mount of Olives.
That's where he will arrive when he comes
back to this earth.
The first spot on this earth where the
feet of Jesus Christ will rest will be
the spot where they rested when he left
nineteen hundred years ago, the Mount of Olives.
His feet shall stand in that day upon
the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem.
There's no mistaking it now.
It's the Mount of Olives before Jerusalem on
the east.
There's no doubt about that at all.
And so that's where he's going to come
when he returns.
He'll come first of all to the Mount
of Olives.
Now in the third place, what will he
do when he gets back?
Well, first of all, he'll punish the nations.
He'll punish the nations.
That's how he'll begin his reign.
That's the first thing he'll do when he
gets back to this world, after his feet
have touched the Mount of Olives.
Now we have to turn to verse twelve
to get that statement clear.
And here it is very, very plainly.
In the last half of the verse it
says, this is the plague, commencing at the
beginning, this is the plague, wherewith the Lord
will smite all the people that have fought
against Jerusalem.
Now the armies of the Antichrist will fight
against Jerusalem.
And as I've already stated, they'll capture the
city of Jerusalem.
And the houses will be rifled, the women
will be ravaged, half of the city will
be let out into captivity, the rest will
be left.
So that the Antichrist, with his armies, will
capture the city of Jerusalem.
And it says here, and this shall be
the plague, wherewith the Lord will smite all
the people, the armies of the Antichrist, that
have fought against Jerusalem.
Now the only armies that will have fought
against Jerusalem will be the armies of the
Antichrist.
There are no other armies that will fight
Jerusalem at this time.
That's made clear in other scriptures.
The armies of the Antichrist will fight against
Jerusalem and will capture the city.
But then, when Jesus Christ comes back, he'll
smite the people that have fought against Jerusalem,
the armies of the Antichrist.
How will they be smitten as he comes
back?
Their flesh shall consume away while they stand
upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume
away in their holes, and their tongues shall
consume away in their mouth.
Now visualize it, if you will.
Here are the vast armies of the Antichrist.
They are gathered all around Jerusalem.
They haven't left the city yet.
They have surrounded the city.
The captives are in their hands.
And there they stand, the great, vast army,
and Jesus Christ breaks the clouds asunder and
comes back through the sky, ready to stand
upon the Mount of Olives.
What happens as they gaze at that wonderful
spectacle, as they watch the Lord Jesus Christ
returning to the Mount of Olives?
Well, these three things mentioned in verse 12
will happen.
As they stand there, gazing up into the
heavens, watching the Lord Jesus Christ as he
descends to the earth, it says, first of
all, their eyes shall consume away in their
holes.
Now please do not ask me to interpret
this statement spiritually.
I wouldn't for the world take a statement
like this and interpret it spiritually.
I believe it's going to happen exactly as
stated.
As they gaze at the Lord Jesus Christ
coming back in his glory, their eyes will
consume away in their holes.
Then they'll be instantly blinded, hundreds of thousands
of them, the armies watching Jesus Christ return.
Their eyes will consume away in their holes.
Second, their tongue shall consume away in their
mouth.
That's going to happen.
Their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
Now whatever that means, something's going to happen
to the tongues of those comprising the armies
of the Antichrist as they gaze at Jesus
Christ as he returns to earth.
Their flesh will consume away while they stand
upon their feet.
Their eyes shall consume away in their holes,
and their tongue shall consume away in their
mouth.
Now after that, there'll be nothing on the
ground for miles around except heaps of bones.
Heaps of bones.
The eyes will have consumed away, the tongue
will have consumed away as they stand there
on their feet, gazing at that sublime spectacle
while the Lord Jesus Christ returns in great
glory.
And that's the way he's going to punish
the armies of the Antichrist.
If they knew that, they wouldn't follow him.
But they don't know it.
They do not believe God's word.
And that'll be their punishment.
And the fourth statement, just as there were
four statements on the capture of the city,
so there are four statements under the Lord's
intervention.
He reigns as King for the first time
in the history of the world.
Jesus Christ takes over the reins of government
and reigns as Lord of Lords and King
of Kings.
Where do I get that?
In verse 9.
Are you going to believe verse 9?
What can you say about it unless you
do believe it?
And the Lord shall be King over all
the earth.
His reign is going to be universal.
He'll not reign over just one nation on
the earth.
He'll reign over the entire earth.
This earth will be subdued by Jesus Christ,
who will become its King.
The Lord shall be King over all the
earth.
In that day there shall be one Lord
and his name one.
Do you believe that?
Do you believe that Jesus Christ is going
to take over the reins of government and
reign?
I do not know of anything else that
I more firmly believe than the fact that
the day will come, in spite of what
the Antichrist will do, in spite of what
the world is experiencing today, in spite of
what is happening to the nations today, the
day will come when Jesus Christ, who died
on Calvary's cross, will reign as Lord of
Lords and King of Kings.
He'll take over the reins of government and
he'll govern the entire world.
That's why I'm glad I'm on his side
now, because I want to reign with him
when he reigns.
And that'll be the last thing that will
take place under the Lord's intervention.
That's in verse 9.
Now we come to the third great division,
the physical changes.
What physical changes will take place when Jesus
Christ comes back to the Mount of Olives,
when he reigns as Lord of Lords and
King of Kings?
What physical changes will take place?
Four of them.
First, the Mount of Olives will be cleft
by an earthquake.
That's in verse 4.
Now look at verse 4, if you will.
And this is the way it reads.
I've already read the first part.
His speech shall stand in that day upon
the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem
on the east.
Now listen.
And the Mount of Olives shall cleave in
the midst thereof toward the east and toward
the west.
Am I going to spiritualize a statement like
that?
If you want to see the Mount of
Olives as it was in the days of
Jesus, you will have to go soon, because
the day will come when Jesus Christ will
have returned, and when his feet stand again
on the Mount of Olives, the Mount of
Olives will be cleft by a great earthquake.
And this is what it says in verse
4.
The Mount of Olives shall cleave in the
midst thereof toward the east and toward the
west, and there shall be a great valley,
and half of the mountain shall be removed
toward the north and half of it toward
the south.
Now that's one of the greatest changes that
will ever take place physically in this world
of ours.
A mountain, the Mount of Olives, cleft in
the midst until there's a great valley from
one side of it to the other.
Half of it moves in one direction, half
of it in the other direction.
The Mount of Olives cleft in the midst
and moved from the west to the east
so that there'd be a great valley from
one side of it to the other, half
of it toward the north and half of
it toward the south.
That's the first thing that will take place
after the armies of the Antichrist are overcome
and conquered.
The Mount of Olives will cleave in the
midst.
It will never be the same again.
Complete change in the Mount of Olives.
Now in the second place, the day when
these things happen will be prolonged.
Now there was a day in Joshua's time
when the day was prolonged.
It was prolonged until the Israelites had won
the victory.
That never happened again, and it never will
happen again until Jesus Christ returns.
When he returns, in order for all these
things to be accomplished, it's going to happen
once again.
The day will be prolonged.
We get that in verses 6 and 7.
Notice what it says.
And it shall come to pass in that
day that the light shall not be clear
nor dark, but it shall be one day
which shall be known to the Lord, not
day nor night.
It will not be dark, it will not
be light, but it shall come to pass
that at evening time it shall be light.
There will be time for the Lord Jesus
Christ to do all that will have to
be done by a prolonged day.
And only twice in the word of God
is it ever stated that the day would
be prolonged.
It was prolonged in Joshua's day, it will
be prolonged when Jesus Christ comes back again
until all that has been prophesied for that
day will have been fulfilled.
Now what's the third great event or change?
What physical change will take place?
Here it is.
There will be a new river flowing from
the city of Jerusalem.
Now I do not know where the source
of that river is.
All I know is this, that somewhere down
underneath the city of Jerusalem there is a
great river, and as a result of an
earthquake, the earth will open up.
That river will burst forth and will flow,
and that will be the next great transaction
in connection with the physical changes in Palestine.
There will be a new river.
Now Palestine has been a dry land.
There's a lot of sand in Palestine, a
lot of rock.
I would never want to go back to
Palestine again.
I was there in 1932.
I saw so much sand, so many miles
of sand, so much rock, that I said
to myself when I was there, I never
want to see this country again until Jesus
Christ gets back, and all the sand turns
green, and the rainfall comes again, and the
whole country becomes a Garden of Eden, as
it will when Jesus Christ comes back, as
it is today, unless it's been cultivated by
human hands and irrigated, it's dry, it's thirsty,
it's sand, it's rock.
I'll never forget going from Jerusalem to Jericho.
I could not bear to sight hardly as
I saw the sand to my left and
the sand to my right everywhere, all the
way down from Jerusalem to Jericho, miles upon
miles of sand, and it's still that way,
except where individuals have irrigated it and have
brought in water.
Water can change the land of Palestine into
a Garden of Eden.
Today, it's still a desert, but someday it
will become a Garden of Eden when Jesus
Christ comes back again.
And so there's going to be a great
river flowing out from Jerusalem, its source will
be in Jerusalem.
Where is it going to flow to?
It will flow in two directions.
Half of the river will flow to the
Mediterranean and empty into the Mediterranean.
The other half will flow to the Dead
Sea and enter into the Dead Sea.
Jerusalem will be the source of the river
and the river from the city of Jerusalem
will flow to the Dead Sea and will
at the same time flow to the Mediterranean
from the city of Jerusalem.
That's exactly what it says in verse 8.
Look at verse 8, if you will, of
this chapter, and it shall be in that
day, it shall be in that day, not
before, that living waters, living waters, shall go
out from Jerusalem, there's their source, Jerusalem, half
of them toward the former sea and half
of them toward the hinder sea, half to
the Mediterranean, half to the Dead Sea.
In summer and in winter shall it be.
Now, no one knows where that river is
today, it's never been discovered, its source has
never been discovered.
But as the result of an earthquake, that
river will burst forth from the heart of
the city of Jerusalem.
It will break into two rivers.
One river will flow to the Mediterranean, the
other river will flow to the Dead Sea,
and there will be abundance of life-giving
water in that day so that Palestine, instead
of being a desert, will become a garden
of Eden.
Now, in the fourth place, the entire land
will be made into a plain.
Look at verse 10, if you will.
Have you ever been to Palestine?
Do you remember how hilly it is, how
rough it is?
I'll never forget it.
But look what it says is going to
happen when Jesus Christ comes back in verse
10.
And the land shall be turned as a
plain.
It shall be lifted up.
It shall be inhabited from Benjamin's gate unto
the place of the first gate, unto the
corner gate, unto the king's wine presses.
The entire land surrounding the city of Jerusalem
will be leveled as a result of an
earthquake and become flat, a plain.
What is it today?
Valleys and hills, hills and valleys, everywhere you
go in Palestine, hills and valleys.
But in that day, all around about the
city of Jerusalem, there will be a vast
plain, and the entire plain will be cultivated
and will produce a hundredfold.
What a day that will be.
What a change will take place when Jesus
Christ comes back.
For the remaining portion of this prophetic message,
please turn this tape over.
Now we come to the new order of
things.
We've already looked at the capture of the
city.
We've looked at the Lord's intervention.
We've looked at the physical changes.
Now the new order of things.
What is going to take place after these
changes have appeared?
What will take place in the land of
Palestine after that?
Well, four things again, just as there have
been four things as I've already revealed.
First, Palestine and Jerusalem will be safely inhabited.
There never has been a time in the
history of Palestine or of Jerusalem when it
has been safely inhabited.
War after war has broken out.
Army after army has marched across Palestine.
There has never been such a thing as
safety anywhere in Palestine.
There is nothing like safety there today.
All you have to do is to read
your newspapers and listen to the radio or
watch the television, and you'll realize that a
great army has to be maintained in Palestine
because there is no safety anywhere in the
country today.
There is danger on every side today, and
lives are being snuffed out time after time,
week after week, month after month.
Palestine is anything but safe today.
It never has been safe.
Lives have been lost for centuries, but in
that day, after Jesus Christ takes over the
reins of government, Palestine will be safely inhabited.
Look at verse 11, if you will.
And men shall dwell in it, and there
shall be no more utter destruction.
Never, never again, never again will Jerusalem be
destroyed.
There shall no more be utter destruction, but
Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
For the first time in the history of
the city, it will be safe to live
in Jerusalem.
It never has been safe.
It's not safe today, and it will not
be safe until the Lord gets back.
And then one of the safest places on
the face of the earth will be the
city of Jerusalem.
Men shall dwell in it.
There shall be no more utter destruction, but
Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.
Now the second of these four things, under
the new order, Jerusalem will become wealthy.
Now as you think of the wealthy cities
of the world today, you think of New
York, you think of Chicago, you think of
Paris, you think of London, you think of
Berlin, you think of some of the cities
with which you're more or less familiar.
But let me say tonight without any fear
of contradiction, the wealthiest city the world has
ever known will be the city of Jerusalem.
There will be more wealth in that city
than in any other city on the face
of the earth.
If you know anything about the surrounding country,
you know that there's a vast wealth in
Palestine buried in the earth and around the
Dead Sea that will be found, that will
be recovered, and that will make Jerusalem the
wealthiest city on the face of the earth.
You get that in verse 14, Jerusalem made
wealthy, and Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem.
Now listen, and the wealth, and the wealth
of all the heathen, the Gentiles, round about
shall be gathered together, gold and silver and
apparel in great abundance.
And again and again in God's word we
are told that Jerusalem is to become the
wealthiest city on the face of the earth.
Now the third thing, an annual convocation, or
an annual gathering of the people.
And what will be the penalty if the
nations refuse to send their representatives to Jerusalem
to this convocation?
The penalty according to the word of God
will be no rain.
What happens when there's no rain?
Famine.
And therefore the punishment will be famine.
You say, where do you find that in
this chapter?
Look at verses 16 and 17, if you
will, and see what it says about this.
And it shall come to pass that every
one that is left of all the nations
which came against Jerusalem, every one that is
left, now remember, the nations out of which
the armies of the Antichrist came are not
to be destroyed.
You must differentiate.
It's the armies that are to be destroyed,
not the nations that produced the armies.
The nations will still be intact, but the
armies will be destroyed.
Now what about these nations that will be
left?
And it shall come to pass that every
one that is left of all the nations
which came against Jerusalem shall even go up
from year to year to worship the King,
the Lord of Hosts, and to keep the
Feast of Tabernacles.
Think of it, if you will.
What a tremendous change.
The very nations that produced the armies of
the Antichrist will be subject to the reign
of Jesus Christ, and they'll send their delegates
and their representatives every year to the great
annual convocation.
You remember the Passover was held every year
in Jerusalem, and the Jews from all over
Palestine went to the Passover at Jerusalem every
year.
That was when Jesus Christ was born.
That's when Joseph and Mary went.
Now there's going to be that kind of
a convocation for a thousand years, and every
year the nations of the world will send
their delegates to that convocation.
And it shall be that whosoever, that whoso
will not come up of all the families
of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the
King, the Lord of Hosts, even upon them
shall be no reign.
That's the punishment.
If a nation anywhere in the world refuses
to send its delegates to the great annual
convocation, God will withhold the rainfall.
The result will be famine.
Now in the last place, what will characterize
this new order of things?
Holiness will be the special characteristic of the
kingdom age.
There will be a complete separation from all
defilement.
Notice if you will, verses 20 and 21.
Look the way it reads.
In that day shall there be upon the
bells of the horses holiness unto the Lord.
Now in my Bible, those words are printed
in capital letters.
Holiness unto the Lord.
Those words will be upon the bells of
the horses.
Holiness unto the Lord.
And the pots in the Lord's house shall
be like the bowls before the altar.
Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah
shall be holiness unto the Lord of Hosts.
And all they that sacrifice shall come and
take of them and sieve therein.
And in that day there shall be no
more the Canaanite in the house of the
Lord of Hosts.
The Canaanites always represent defilement.
There will be no defilement of any kind
for a thousand years in the courts of
the house of the Lord.
And there you have the four things that
happen under the new order of things.
And so as we look at the dram
of the end time, there is first the
capture of the city, there is second the
Lord's intervention, there is the third the reign
of the King, the Lord Jesus, and last
of all the new order of things.
And thus Jesus Christ, who will have returned
to reign in millennial splendor, power and glory,
will continue his reign over this earth of
ours for one thousand years.
And the nations will be subject to his
reign.
And whether you and I will be reigning
with him, or whether we'll be above some
place, I do not know.
I do not know exactly who will reign
with him at that time, except that God
says if we suffer we shall also reign
with him.
And those of us who are willing to
bear his reproach and to go without the
city into his camp and suffer with him
in this day of his rejection and humiliation,
this I know, those will reign with him
when he returns in his glory.
Now if you want to reign with the
Lord Jesus Christ, if you want to be
among the millions who will come back with
him, if you want to be one of
his saints who will return with him when
he comes, then suffer with him now.
Go without the camp, bear his reproach, don't
go with the majority, go with the minority,
be with Christ, be on his side, serve
him faithfully, live for him completely, renounce the
world and all its attractions, and plead to
the Lord Jesus Christ.
Because God has promised that if you are
willing to suffer with him now, you will
reign with him then.
That's the drama of the end time.