A part, an enlarged part, of the chart
that we've had before, and it's the sixth
circle, the one down at the bottom on
the right.
And many of you have made a copy
of that one, and now you know what
this belongs to, and that is, it's the
sixth circle.
And so, up in the top here, in
the yellow, we have put the act of
creation in the first of Genesis, light, water,
earth, light, water, earth.
That's how simple it is, it's just a
repetition of those three things, only of course
in the first page, it was the dispersal
by light of the darkness that surrounded and
encompassed the entire creation after it had collapsed
and fallen through, probably through Satan's sin, deflection
from the place of service as Lucifer's son
of the Lord.
Then the waters were separated in the second
day's creation, and the waters above were separated
from the waters beneath, and the atmosphere, as
we call it, or space, between the earth
and the heavens, or the sea and the
heavens, were made real in this area.
Then here the earth was brought into being,
and then in the afternoon of that third
day's creation, there was the vegetation, and a
fruit tree yielding fruit, not a fruit tree,
but a fruit tree yielding fruit who seeded
it himself, and so on.
Then light, that is, he centered the sun
and the moon and the stars over this
earth, fixed their orbit as around and benefiting
this earth, so as to dispel the darkness
every twelve hours, so to speak.
Then the waters were populated in the fifth
day with creatures, and then in the sixth
day the animal creation were brought into being,
and in the afternoon of the sixth day
the Adam and Eve, or rather Adam, was
brought in and Eve was in prospect.
And so we see the divisions of the
third and the sixth days indicated by this
dotted line right down the center, that there
were two creative acts in these two.
And everything is sort of in an orderly
way.
Everything is almost in a military exactness of
order and control.
And so we see now the spiritual aspect
of the thing.
Now notice up here the four.
God starting from eternity, going all the way
around without cessation of activity, all the way
around until he enters into eternity again and
rests forever with an eternal rest.
God's six days of redemption now.
That's what we're considering on the right side
of our original chart.
And so man has fallen, he has been
restored now.
That's it, and this is the program of
restoration.
Man has been put under test.
First, after being expelled from the garden, there's
no really, in my opinion, of course others
disagree, and you have to make your choice
as to which you're going to accept as
your own idea, but some teachers include the
space of time, unknown length of time, in
the Garden of Eden as one of the
ages.
I don't, personally, and this chart doesn't allow
it, because there are certain features of correspondence
which would be thrown out of here.
And some put this period here, which I
call a period and not an age, of
Abram to Moses, a period of promise.
And then they make another age of the
tenth amendment period, the law, under Moses.
And so I make that one age, because
of its character of the two creative acts
in the original scheme of restoring the fallen
earth.
And so that seems to fit perfectly, the
picture given to Abraham of God's promises, and
that through his seed should all nations of
the earth be blessed, and of course referring
to the Lord Jesus, as we get the
development of the thought in the book of
Romans, and in Galatians.
And so it's obvious to my mind that
it's connected with this same age which is
the Israelite age, the age of the people
of Israel and their prominence in the history
of the earth.
And so, life now, for instance, we go
to Genesis 3.10, 1656 years, from Adam
to Noah.
The flood of course is the judgment, the
night time, so to speak, answers to the
night.
And the morning and the evening was the
first day in creation.
So in connection with the change or dealing
with man, he has been put under the
light first of the consciousness of God.
He gained that consciousness in the garden, directly
in the presence of God as they walk
together and talk together in the garden of
Eden.
So they had the consciousness of God, that
was light to the soul, that should control
their behaviour.
Even after the fall, they should be wiser
men, wiser persons.
And so they had the knowledge of good
and evil, Genesis 3.22. Then there's the
creation by God, the light of creation as
we read this in Romans 1, 19 and
20.
You get these references down, you see, it'll
help you in your personal study and you'll
have just a marvellous time.
It's thrilling to see the orderly development of
the moral life of the believer as a
result of God's dealing with us and what
he's given to us that makes us without
excuse, Romans tells us, because the invisible things
from the creation of the world are clearly
seen by the things that are made, even
God's eternal power and deity.
And so that's what we learn, quoting, as
I have, Romans 1 and 20, 19.1
-3 also, the heavens declare the glory of
the Lord and the firmament show it is
handiwork, and so on.
So that's the creation light, the light through
a communication from God, knowledge of God's holiness,
approachable as by blood sacrificed.
Now this isn't complete.
You may think there's plenty in it, but
it isn't by any means complete.
I had an accident when I was pulling
this up and down years ago and broke
my foot and I had to go to
the hospital and have my leg in a
cast.
And so it isn't complete.
That's why these spaces, everything there needs to
be done.
So I've been busy today putting in some
of these parts that I know you'll be
very much more interested in just at present.
And so now we leave the age of
conscience, ages of the flood, and the start
of a new day.
This shaded part means the dusk of early
morning of a new day.
And so now waters.
The waters we're told in the Bible, and
by the way if you remember how we
said that, and pointed out that the Bible
does not call this period the evening and
the morning.
He saw that what he did was good.
He doesn't say it was good.
And I believe the reason is because of
its significance.
If you'll turn with me to the 57th
chapter of Isaiah, you'll be aware of it
too.
Isaiah 57, waters is our subject.
Why didn't God say it was good?
20th verse of the 57th of Isaiah, but
the wicked are like the troubled sea, when
it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire
and dirt.
There is no peace, saith my God, to
the wicked.
Now this is sustained in the New Testament,
so we turn to Revelation 17, and
the 15th verse.
Revelation 17, 15, And he saith unto me,
The waters which thou sawest, where the horse
sitteth, that's Babylon, all evil religions, are peoples,
and multitudes, and nations, and tongues, everything apart
from the people of God, the church.
And so it's something that God can't look
upon with pleasure, because it represents the human
family that had gone out in distant rebellion
and darkness as a result of sin.
So that's this period here.
It ended with the Tower of Babel, and
before that tower, it was built by Nimrod
and his wife Samaritan, and they were the
originators of all global idolatry.
Every aspect of universal idolatry started in Nimrod's
day and by the hand of Nimrod and
his wife Samaritan.
And under Satan's control, they sought to introduce
all the doctrines of the New Testament concerning
the birth, and the death, and the resurrection
of Jesus Christ.
It was in that period back here, not
anything later, when what we call, what is
known these days as the Madonna and the
Child, and projected as a picture of, supposedly
of Mary and Jesus in her arms, it
was introduced by Semiramis and Noah as early
as this, back here, before the Tower of
Babel was erected.
And when it was erected, why, God came
down and confused the tongues.
And that was the judgment, that's the night
time morally on the earth.
God exercising discipline and government over man.
So that was, that period is called the
period of conscience.
This period is called the period of human
government because Noah came out of the ark
on the first earth and began a new
era under a new policy of human kingship.
A sword was placed in his hand, so
to speak, and he said whosoever shedeth man's
blood by man, shall his blood be shed.
I've heard people say that that's the Ten
Commandments, and that's old stuff, therefore we should
abandon capital punishment.
But it is not in the Ten Commandments,
it was a commandment given to Noah back
here in this dispensation before anything of the
law was ever heard of.
And so we find that it was one
of the rules that God put into the
hands of government for the exercise of their
authority over man and for, to create at
least, a deterrent against crime.
And so we find that that was put,
that man was put to the test by
his conscience, and he fell, the flood was
an evidence of it.
He was put to the test under human
government, and man, as Noah, he got drunk,
you remember, couldn't control his own appetite, and
consequently a person who can't control himself is
not eligible to be a ruler over his
fellow men.
If we want to be helpful to others,
we must be able to control ourselves.
And so we find much teaching in the
New Testament with regard to Christians controlling his
tongue, controlling his temper, controlling his conduct, his
appetite, his flesh, and all things of that
type.
They've got to be under strict control, and
then we are the ones to exercise it
over ourselves.
Of course, an assembly of the Lord's people
has also certain authorities, certain powers to deal
with things that are wrong.
But that, of course, is the last resort.
After all, personally, we should, as Christians, deal
with ourselves in private.
Self-judgment is the best soil for Christians
to grow in.
And so that ended with the Tower of
Babel.
That was a period of 412 years.
There's the Scriptures for the passages of Scripture,
the ninth and the tenet of the eleventh
chapter included.
Then the earth.
At once we think it's in any way
familiar with the word of God, of the
earth.
It always makes us think of Israel as
a nation, because they are a God-earthly
people.
All their benefits and blessings are earthly, or
have been, and they will be yet in
the millennial age when God takes up the
nation of Israel again.
To begin with, after the Tower of Babel
incident, God called Abram in his sovereign grace.
There's no reason apart from God acting according
to his own sovereign choice.
Sovereign choice merely meaning that God, being God,
has the right to do as he pleases.
And he exercised that right in calling a
specified man Abram.
And Stephen, in the sentence of the Acts
of the Apostles, said that the God of
glory appeared unto our father Abraham when he
was in Mesopotamia.
And then he called him out from his
kindred and his country, and led him into
the wilderness.
And he lived in a tent with an
altar, and he had possession of all the
land, and yet he never entered into the
inheritance, even for the time he died.
But he had his eyes on these cities
which had foundations whose buildings were made with
God.
Abraham to Moses, that period here, was a
period of promise.
God appeared to Abraham seven times.
It's very interesting to recount, or go over,
those seven appearances of Abraham.
It makes a regular study and a message
for anyone who's interested in studying that line
of things.
And every time God appears to Abram, he
increased the scope of his benefit and his
blessing.
Then after Abraham, or rather after Moses appeared
on the scene, you know the story and
the tabernacle and all the various history, interesting
history in connection with Israel being taken out
of bondage in Egypt.
A picture definitely of the grace of God
operating in the hearts of men, and from
under the blood of the sacrificial lamb in
the land of Egypt.
This world is a picture of Egypt, or
rather Egypt's a picture of this world.
And we've got to come under the blood
of the Lamb of God before we can
escape the slavery of sin and Satan in
which every one of us by nature are
born.
And we are delivered from that slavery of
sin and willfulness and rebellion by the redemptive
work of Christ.
And that's the only remedy that can be
offered to any one of us.
And so God offers that to us tonight.
We can come into the blessed family of
God by simply acknowledging our guilt and sin
beforehand and accept the precious blood of the
Lamb of God as the only way in
which our sins can be dealt with and
put away.
So the other half of this period of
time began with the giving of the Ten
Commandments in Exodus 20.
God did not intend to give the Ten
Commandments, as we may speak.
It was because man demanded it.
Israel said repeatedly, all that the Lord commanded
us to do, that will we do, and
we will be obedient.
They repeated that on various ways of saying
it, different wording, but whatever God tells us
to do, we're going to do it.
Just as sure as sure can be of
their ability to please us, of Christ's holy
God.
That's man's terrible mistake.
When we think that we can do exactly
as God commands us, then God gives us
something to do, or gave man something to
do that proved that he couldn't do what
God wanted him to do.
The law was weak on account of the
flesh.
It was the weakness in the flesh, as
we're told.
And so, as a result of the inability
of man to keep the Ten Commandments, why
he failed in that, and consequently the Lord
Jesus came down into this world to undertake
for us, and now the period of test
and probation is over.
He's tested us with conscience, and we failed.
He's tested us with human government, and we
failed.
He's tested us with unconditional promises, and we
failed.
He's tested man with the Ten Commandments, and
man has failed.
He is absolutely a failure under every faith
and policy of God's government.
All right?
As a consequence, the Lord Jesus comes into
the scene on our behalf, and meets every
one of God's commandments, every one of God's
demands, and honored God in keeping the Ten
Commandments, and then bore the penalty for those
who had broken the Ten Commandments, and he
died on the cross substitutionally.
Now we've got to go slowly.
We're writing here at Nebuchadnezzar's time, in B
.C. 607.
It's recorded in Daniel 1 and chapter 2,
verses 31 to 45.
The time of the Gentiles began under Nebuchadnezzar.
In Daniel 7, 1 to 7, you get
the account of it in another way.
Here, on this side, it was presented to
us in the multi-metalled image.
The Babylonian government, or dynasty, was the head
of gold in that image, you recall.
Then the Medo-Persian was the silver breast,
an arm.
And then the Grecian, following these, was that,
the belly and thighs of grass.
And then the Roman of iron, and the
two legs, the Eastern and Western Roman Empire.
Then the Roman Empire faded out of existence,
but, and is still out of its power
and authority as under the Caesars.
But it's going to be revived again, and
it will go, it will lead and end
in, at the Battle of Armageddon.
And on this side, Daniel 7, 1 to
7, the picture is that of beasts.
You see, the dream about the multi-metalled
image was Nebuchadnezzar's dream.
And man thinks of himself as a mighty
man, a mighty person.
And so he gets an image of this
man with a head of gold, and so
on.
But when Daniel had the dream given him
of God, he had God's viewpoint of man.
And man who lives without God, who casts
God out of his thought, in God's estimate,
is like a beast, like an animal.
Because he does not have God in his
heart, he's not subordinating himself to God, so
he's nothing more than a beast in the
eyes of God in Scripture.
So the Babylonian Empire is likened to a
lion with eagle wings.
The Medo-Persian Empire is likened to a
bear.
And then the Grecian Empire is likened to
a leopard.
And the Roman Empire is likened to all
these three combined, a fierce beast, nondescript composite
of all the horrible characters of these others.
Their cruelty, their brutality, their warlike spirit, their
murdering progress all through the lives of men.
The mere man was but a chapel to
the hierarchy and to the king, and so
on.
By his word men lived or men died.
It's such a difference now and under our
happy situation at the present moment.
And so those are the illustrations of man's
history, the times of the Gentiles.
Now that also conveys the thought of man
desecrating the Holy City, Jerusalem.
As long as the Gentiles I should say,
Gentiles desecrating the Holy City.
As long as Israel has been driven out,
and now although they are returned to their
land, they are not able to enjoy the
complete control over the citadel of their empire,
their country, Jerusalem.
The old part of the city, where all
the relics of the Lord's Day are kind
of tented, is still under the, shall we
say, the feet of the Arab, the Jordan,
the Transjordanian Empire or country.
They are in control of Jerusalem.
And as long as the Gentiles can ride
roughshod over Israel's citadel, it's called the times
of the Gentiles.
And it starts about in here at 6,
at the BC 607, and runs right through
AD, all the way through still at the
present time.
It'll be still after the rapture of the
church, it'll continue under the root revived Roman
Empire, and on to the day of the
great final battle of Armageddon, where the Gentiles
will meet their master in that great battle,
and God himself will deal with them in
their proper Then we have also the 70
weeks of Daniel, in Daniel 9.
If you read it, Daniel 9, verses 24
-27, you read about the vision that God
gave Daniel, the revelation of God dealing with
the people, the people of Israel, that their
history would be composed of a 70 week
period, that is weeks of years.
Seven years to the week.
And so 69 of those weeks of years
lasted from here, that was when Nehemiah returned
to Jerusalem and rebuilt the broken walls and
established worship in the temple again.
That restoration of the city of Jerusalem, that's
when this period began.
And then the 69 weeks lasted until the
Messiah was cut off at Calvary.
And we're told that in this portion of
Scripture, Daniel 9, verses 24-27.
These dotted lines show that this 70 week
period has ceased to be, but you carry
on through here, and there you see it
start again after the rapture, when God takes
off his dealings with the nation of Israel
again.
And then there'll be a period of one
week, or at least seven years, called the
tribulation period.
The period following this one, in which you
will have the honor and privilege to live,
the day of grace.
But after the rapture of the church, when
all the Lord's people, all the saved souls
in the world today, will be caught up
to be with the Lord, all that have
not accepted his grace and being born again
in this period of time, will be left
behind.
And they'll be left for judgment.
And that period, of course, is described for
us so graphically, the terrible period of suffering
and judgment.
21 consecutive judgments were fought.
All this could be added to that picture.
You could take a whole chart of each
of these sections in here, just take a
whole piece on one page, and then take
another one and put that one on it.
And so study and break up the whole
story on your own, shall we say, your
own study paper.
And you'll find plenty of places to put
material.
So here, in this place here, is the
period of time where the light, where the
light in the world, the Christians, Jerusalem has
been destroyed, Israel's been scattered.
And then back here you see, I mean
up in here you see the word, the
letter seven.
There are seven feasts of Jehovah recorded in
Leviticus 23.
Now here's where they are, these arrows point
them out.
The feast of Passover, the feast of unleavened
bread, the feast of first fruits, and the
feast of Pentecost.
That all, not only were feasts of the
Israelitish had it in their yearly calendar, but
also they portrayed, typically, the Passover, the death
of Christ.
The unleavened bread, the newness of life of
a Christian who's just judged sin.
The first fruits, feast of first fruits, resurrection
from the dead.
That is, we share the resurrection life of
the Lord Jesus Christ.
Then Pentecost, the descent of the Holy Spirit
of God upon the church.
And that is followed by a space of
time that flows, goes right over into this
period of the tribulation.
And about halfway or maybe right before that,
we're not sure when, there's the feast of
blowing of trumpets fulfilled in its anti-typical
sense.
When Israel will respond to the proclamation of
the gospel of the kingdom.
Many, many, many thousands of Israels, 144,000,
12,000 of every one of the 12
tribes will respond to that great and clarion
call, the blowing of the trumpets of salvation.
It's called that too in the 52nd chapter
of Isaiah, and other parts of the scripture.
We have it portrayed in the tabernacle with
the priest blowing the trumpet there.
All that is pointed out.
It will take place about somewhere in or
during the period of tribulation.
We've got tribulation written here to cover that
period.
And then at the end of that period,
the day of atonement will take place.
And God will cleanse those who are entrusted
in him, and they will be saved.
Christ won't have to die again.
It's the antitype of the scapegoat in the
16th chapter of Leviticus.
You remember how there was a scapegoat and
there was one who had to be sacrificed.
That one that was sacrificed was called the
Lord's goat.
That is, it was a picture of the
death of Christ at Calvary.
And then the other goat was kept alive,
and by a fifth person, after all the
sins of the people have been confessed upon
his head, he was taken by a fifth
person into a land uninhabited and set free.
It wasn't killed, its blood was not shed,
and it indicates that Christ will cleanse Israel
in a coming day without having to die
for them again.
It's, shall we say, the far flung, distant
result of the death of Christ on Calvary's
cross, the day of atonement.
Then after that, just at the very beginning
of the millennial age, there'll be this period
of the Feast of Tabernacles, when under the
law they could sit under booths and enjoy
a real holiday, and enjoy the comforts and
benefits of God's own provision without having to
work for them for a period of time.
Well that's going to be carried out in
fullness during that last, that sixth period, which
is of course the result of it is
the millennial age, when all will be in
perfect harmony and perfect order all the way
through that thousand years.
Christ will sit on his throne of his
father David, Israel will be the head nation
on the earth, and the Gentiles the tail
instead of the reverse now.
The Gentiles will bring their forces, their riches
to the Jews, and they will be benefited
and enriched as a result of the Lord's
reign for a thousand years of righteousness.
People will live for a thousand years unless
they sin, and then they'll be dealt with
at once in death.
There'll be no quarter, the Lord Jesus will
be the righteous judge, he'll be the dictator,
there's not going to be any opportunity for
sin to crop up until the end time.
At the end of that period, or rather
first of all I should say Satan at
the beginning of the period is put into
the bottomless pit, chained, we read that in
the 19th of Revelation.
And there Satan is put into the bottomless
pit, and there's a chain about him, and
he can't get out, and it's going to
put this whole era to the test.
What will be the result of Satan being
out of the way?
Will man be good?
Will man be able, he won't be able
to say that it's the devil's fault, that
the devil tempted him, the devil did this,
the devil did that, or that man has
gone to the devil.
It's not true now, but it's going to
be true then.
Satan will be absolutely incarcerated and unable to
influence any.
And yet, at the end of that period
of one thousand happy, marvelous, unspeakably beautiful years,
the devil will be released from prison, and
he'll come back on the earth and go
about all over the earth and he'll gather
an innumerable company of people who'll respond to
his rebellious challenge and go and fight, try
to fight the Lamb and his redeemed throng.
And God will blast him with the breath
of his nostrils.
And then the great white throng and the
dead sinners, sinners who were dead in, well
they'll be in the grave.
God will call them back out of the
grave, stand before the great white throng, and
there'll be a period of judgment.
And then the earth and the sea and
all, or we know sea then, but the
earth will be made new.
The heavens will be cleansed of all defilements.
All the results of man's space efforts now
are going to be just as damaging effects
upon all in the space.
God says even the heavens are unclean in
his sight.
And certainly man is doing his best to
make them unclean.
And therefore we'll find that God will change
everything.
This earth is going to be consumed.
Everything is going to be burned up.
And God is going to change the face
of the earth completely.
There'll be no more sea.
And everything will be made much more marvelous
for the eternal state.
And then God will arrest in his eternal
love the people of God will be in
heaven with him of this dispensation.
And all the Old Testament saints and some
out of the company of martyrs of the
period of the tribulation will also be in
heaven.
And so that 144,000 and all those
who will be blessed through their ministry will
share the earth in all its beauty.
A restored beauty to excel even that of
the garden of Eden with the Lord himself
in the seat of power and government.
What a marvelous prospect.
And see how everything's in order.
Beautifully in order all the way through.
Now I was thinking perhaps it would be
nice if someone had a question.
I have you, we have a few minutes
left.
If you have any questions you'd have to
speak out loud.
I'm half deaf and one of you isn't
quite deaf any other.
So if you have a question that you'd
like to, something perhaps to be repeated or
something that you'd like to ask that has
not been covered.
Don't be backwards now, just show your ignorance
if you want to call it that.
Well that's very nice, thank you very much.
There were seven feasts and then the seven
parables of Matthew 13, they all fit into
this period in which we now live, the
period of the church, the church age.
The seven parables of Matthew 13 and the
seven letters to the churches of Revelation 2
and 3, all those fit into this period
here.
So that's why this chart is so accommodating.
You can go and put all your various
teachings into this phase because there's so much
space.
You can do it of course on a
reduced scale with small printings and really get
something that you can look at and love
because you yourself drawn it, you made it
up for yourself and you're covering all the
teachings of the word of God.
It's an amazing thing.
You can just put, place what you're reading
where it really belongs dispensationally.
Nobody can understand the scriptures unless they understand
the dispensational division of the word of God.
You see each day is definitely sectioned.
The morning of the man put out of
the garden, the darkness of the judgment of
the flood, the morning after the first birth
of the menorah resting on Mount Ararat and
that period ending with the Tower of Babel
and the Confusion of Trump, the morning after
that when a new start was promised to
Abraham going on through to the moral judgment
of Christ's crucifixion, man as a rebel proved
beyond a shadow of doubt to take the
holy crown of God and murder him.
It shows what a terrible thing it is
and it's God's way of dealing with us.
It's what sent he of Christ, your attitude
towards him, not your opinion, your attitude.
Your opinion may be orthodox but if your
attitude is that of unbelief and rejection you'll
go to hell with your good orthodoxy.
And so the necessity of the picture here,
in creation we have a fruit tree, in
redemption we have a cross which is a
fruit tree, really we are the fruit of
that tree.
Christ died, we've trusted in him and we're
the fruit of his death.
He speaks of it in that way in
the cross of John, the twenty-third verse,
where he says, except a grain of wheat
fall into the ground and die, abide it
alone, unfruitful, but if it die, bring us
forth much fruit.
His death and resurrection is that of a
tree yielding fruit whose seed is in itself
after his kind.
And so we find that that's the picture
of the, the redemptive picture at least, in
the creation picture you would call the fruit
tree.
That's the spot.
Then of course we, the Pentecost, the Holy
Spirit descends and officially inaugurates this dispensation.
That's the official commencement of the period in
which you and I now live.
So, subsequent to the death of Christ, the
Holy Spirit descends, that arrow really should be
in that side, but it's hard to put
it exactly in the spot, you know better
than to know that it didn't happen in
the old dispensation.
However, the new church began.
The Lord Jesus in the 17th and 16th
of Matthew tells us that upon the rock
of Jesus Christ, he would build his church.
And so, during that period of time, the
Israel crop ceases to pick.
And it's a parasitic period because there's nothing
done by God on the earth.
Nothing.
And therefore, Israel's history ceases here at the
death of Christ.
The Lord Jesus said, your house I leave
unto you desolate.
And he called their feasts the feasts of
Jews instead of the feasts of Jehovah.
And then, after that, why it doesn't, it's
all stopped now.
Now Israel, during this period, Israel is not
God's chosen people, in the official sense of
the word.
No matter what Jewish brethren and friends may
say, the gospel has been given to the
Jew first.
It was presented to them and they rejected
it.
And Paul says, seeing ye count yourselves unworthy
of eternal life, behold, we turn to the
Gentiles.
And now, the Gentiles are And of course,
Jews, if they've got Christ, are called God's
chosen generation.
God's chosen generation.
We're God's chosen people of this age in
which we now live.
And so it begins with the descent of
the Holy Spirit, and the period of the
apostles, the completing of the scriptures, and we
have now the life of the truth of
God bearing down upon our hearts as we
study it, and we become fruitful too.
And thus, in this period, God seems to
be dead.
He seems to be unoperative as far as
the earth is concerned.
He's letting men do as they like.
Because this is man's day.
You see, there are several days spoken of
in scripture.
There's the man's day, that's because man in
that time can do as he likes.
He's given free choice.
He's a free moral agent.
He's allowed to say yes to God, or
he can say no to God.
He can accept Christ as his saviour, and
he can spurn his love and turn his
back on it.
That's man's day.
That's not going to last forever.
It just could during this period.
It'll end at once when the Lord Jesus
comes back to take his children home to
be with himself in a secret, a secret
rapture.
When he comes into mid-air, the world
won't see it, but the church will respond
to the blast of the trumpet, the angel
of God, and will go up to meet
him in the air, and will go with
him into heaven.
And during that period, the church will meet
the Lord at what is known as the
judgment seat of Christ.
And that's now called the day of Christ.
And the Lord's day, of course, is Sunday,
another term for the first day of the
week.
But the day of Christ is not Sunday.
The day of Christ is the judgment seat
of Christ, followed by the marriage supper of
Christ and the Lamb.
The Lamb of God and the people of
the church period who trusted him will be
united in that holy, happy marriage supper of
the Lamb.
Well that's the day of Christ also.
Then there's the day of the Lord.
After that day of Christ has ended, the
day of the Lord will be when he
comes down, because all this will happen during
this period of the tribulation, this judgment seat
of Christ and the marriage supper of the
Lamb.
Then after that, in that it's coming back
to the earth then, he's going to come
back with the church in glory.
Then's where we get the word revealed.
He's going to be revealed with glory and
honor and majesty.
And we're going to be with him in
manifest beauty, his beauty put upon us.
We will reflect his glory.
We will be in places of judgment, that
is judging angels and chiefs of authority according
to service rendered here.
We will be rewarded for judgment seat of
Christ for even a cup of cold water
given in his name.
Every act, every sacrifice, every little thing that
Christians do for the name and the glory
of the Lord Jesus now will find a
full reward in a coming day.
In our giving, we will get our accumulated
interest there.
We only save what we give to him.
The rest we'll leave behind.
And so, what a glorious scene that will
be.
Then the Lord Jesus will come down to
earth.
He'll tread down the winepress of the wrath
of almighty God.
He'll tread his enemies under his feet and
he'll set up his throne in Jerusalem and
there's a glorious millennial age to follow.
Now, I guess if there's no questions, no
questions.
Satisfied?
Fine.
All right then, let's sing that lovely little
chorus again.