September 22, 2025 • 42 mins
In this sermon, Pastor Vlad unpacks Jesus’ return, the signs of the end times, and the promise of a restored earth with God.
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This is Hungry Gen Podcast, and I just want to
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Us today here at HG.
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Our vision is to see thousands saved locally and millions globally.
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We hope you enjoyed this week's message.
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Now it's the time that I want to speak to
you about the second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now,
last week I've talked about the end times.
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I've talked also about the.
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End times being like the birthing pains. They're not like
passing a kidney stone, but more of like us going
through the birthing pains with the anticipation of what is coming.
And today I'm gonna talk about what is coming. I
am so excited for this. I've been carrying this for
a few years already, So please excuse me if the
Pentecostal in me is gonna come out full swing, because
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this is an event that is gonna be the life
changing event for the whole world and the history of
the world. In just two hundred and sixty chapters of
the New Testament, there is over three hundred references to
Jesus's second Coming, which pretty much means one in every
twenty five to thirty verses. There's a reference to Jesus's
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second coming. Twenty three out of twenty seven New Testament.
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Books talk about it. The Old Testament.
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Mentions the coming of the Messiah about one thousand, eight hundred.
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And forty five times. That's amazing.
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That's why some scholars and teachers would say that for
every time Jesus's first coming is mentioned, there is eight
times more mentioned about.
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His second coming.
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We have to learn about it, and not only learn
about it, we also have to get excited about it
because the second coming of Jesus is not the end,
it is just the beginning. In the next few moments,
I want to share with you five truths about the
second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. I want to
remind you that anodes to the message is on your
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U Version Bible app for the week, and after that
they will be on our sermon page on our website.
First point, Jesus's first coming was in humility to save,
but his second coming will be in glory, to judge
and to reign. For the next few moments, I want
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to share with you the difference between how he came
first time and how it's going to be different than
the second time. Because we know so much about his
first coming, we celebrate it as a holiday. We hear
stories about it every year from different angles. His second
coming will be absolutely different. First time he came as
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a lamb. He's coming back as a lion. First time,
he came riding on the donkey. He's coming back riding
on the white horse. First time, he came as a
humble servant. He is coming back as a sovereign king.
He came first time to suffer. He is coming back
in glory. He first came in a manger. He is
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coming back to a throne. He first came and he
was seen by a few. He is coming back, and
the Bible says every eye will see him. He came
to save first time, but he's coming back to judge
and to bring every word. The scripture teaches us that
he wore a crown of thorns when he came at first,
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But when he's coming back, he is gonna come with
many crowns, the crowns of glory. He came first time,
and he stood silent before his accusers. But he's coming
back with the shout of a trumpet. When he came
first time, he wept over Jerusalem. But he is coming back,
he will reign in Jerusalem. When he came first time,
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his hands were pierced. When he's coming back, he will
come back to rule with the rod of iron. When
he came first time, he came in weakness. When he's
coming back, he's coming back in power. When he came
first time, he came like a seed that fell into
the ground. He's coming back to harvest the planet. When
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he came first time, he offered mercy. When he's coming back,
he is coming to execute judgment. When he came first time,
he carried across. When he's coming back, he will carry
a sword. When he came first time, he came because
the Word was made flesh. But when he's coming back,
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he's coming back as the faithful, true, the Word of God.
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When he came.
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First time, he came to cut the new Covenant. But
when he's coming back, he's coming back to.
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Consummate the kingdom.
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When he came first time, he washed the feet of
the disciples. But when he's coming back, he will shread
the wine press of the wrath of God with his feet.
When he came first time, he prayed Father forgive. When
he's coming back, he will bring the vengeance on his enemies.
First time he came, his glory was veiled. When he
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comes back, his glory will be revealed. Come on, somebody,
give God some praise right now, because the King is
coming back and we need to get ready. We need
to anticipate his return. The second truth about Jesus's second
coming is that while his return will be preceded by
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many signs, it will really be marked by one sign,
which is his public appearing in the sky. Let's take
a reading from the Gospel of Matthew, chapter twenty four,
verse twenty seven. For as the lightning comes from the
east and flashes to the west, so also will be
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the coming of the Son of Man. And then verse
twenty nine, immediately after the tribulation of those days, the
sun will be darkened and the moon will not give
its light. The stars will fall from heaven, and the
powers of the.
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Heavens will be shaken.
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Then the sign of the Son of Men will appear
in heaven. Watch this, The sign singular of the Son
of Men will appear in heaven. So we know there
are many signs of the end times, and their goingness
follows the rise of false messiahs, the wars in this world,
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increase in hunger and famine, earthquakes, incurable diseases, persecution of Christians,
a huge surge of wickedness, loss of love of believers
for Christ, world evangelism, and return of Israel back to
the land are the common signs of the end times.
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So the signs of the end days are many. The
sign of the coming of the Lord is what what
is that sign? His public glorious triumphant appearing in heaven
where every eye will see him. And these are simple
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eleven facts in your notes about that second coming. We
see it will be seen by all sign in heaven
like lightning. When you see a lightning, everybody sees it.
So the Bible says his coming will be visible. That
sign is visible, glorious, loud appearing of Jesus Christ in heaven.
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We see his second coming will be after tribulation.
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We see his.
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Second coming will be coming on the clouds with power
and glory. We see his second coming will be at
the sound of a trumpet, meaning angels will gather God's
people as the trumpet is going to sound, which means
it's going to be very loud.
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Earplugs won't help.
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Resurrection of the dead will take place at the same time.
All the righteous people from the Old Covenant the New Covenant.
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Who died will rise again at.
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The same time, and we who are living will be
instantly changed to meet the Lord in the air. We
also see that Mount of Olives where the feet of
this risen glorious, majestic king will land.
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The Mount of.
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Olive, according to the Kara, will split in the half
because of the glory and the power that this king
is going to bring. The second Coming will happen at
the same time as Israel is going to be a war,
and his second coming will defend Israel from invading nations.
Jerusalem will be rescued, living waters will flow from Jerusalem.
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Nations will be judged, and that the coalition of the
nations coming against Israel will be automatically destroyed.
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And at the same time there will be a national.
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And global mourning and crying and repentance as they see
this king coming on the clouds.
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So think of this. I just summarized to.
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You these bits and pieces that the Bible tells us
about this coming. Israel is a war coalition of nations
gathered against it. The Son of God is arriving on
the clouds. A loudshrumpet is sounding that everybody can hear.
Somehow everyone is able to see it, whether it's through livestream,
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whether it's that it's gonna be in such a supernatural way,
but some way, every eye will see Jesus.
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Coming at this time.
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Not only as we look to the sky and we
see his glorious coming, the dead are coming out of
the graves. The dirt is being pushed out, and their
dead bodies from the oceans, from the lots where people
bought land are beginning to come out, and their souls
are being reunited with those resurrected bodies, and they're going
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straight into the sky to meet this King of glory.
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The believers in the.
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Messiah get quickly transformed supernaturally to meet this king. The
nations gathered against the King of Israel, Jesus against Israel,
get automatically destroyed.
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What are crazy, powerful, mighty event.
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This will be that the nations, the tribes of the
earth will weep at that sound, at that scene of
this king coming, and they will repent, They will mourn,
they will grieve because they didn't recognize him as that
Messiah because they were wrong about him. And now they're saying,
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I want to worship that king. I want to repent
before that king. That is the picture of the second coming.
One sign, major sign, public, glorious, loud appearance of the
Son of God is see how different that is from
his first arrival, quiet, private, few shepherds, few wise men,
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in humility, being born as a baby. Herod tried to
kill the babies to get to Jesus. A total different
scene is going to be taking place at his second coming.
Now we get to the part three of the second
coming of the Lord. The second coming of the Lord
and our gathering to him is the same event and
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it will not.
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Be in secret.
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Now, before I talk about the rapture and the coming
of the Lord, I want to give you a Jewish backdrop,
a prophetic Jewish backdrop for the Messiah's coming, and how
Paul is using the language about Jesus's public appearing, and
how they actually match. You see the commonality between the
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Jewish prophets and how Apostle Paul adds pretty much fills
that back drop with more details about Jesus's second coming.
So we see that Jewish prophets predicted that God will
summon his people home with the great sound of a trumpet.
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He will bring them back from the nations.
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Also that the Son of Men will arrive, the Messiah
will come on the clouds to receive eternal dominion. So
Jesus and Paul echo that same prophetic backdrop. Jesus is
talking about a trumpet sound, Paul is talking about a
trumpet sound. Jesus also says he's coming back on the clouds.
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When he went to Heaven from the mount of olives
on the cloud, the angels came and said, the same
way he went up is the same way he's coming down,
is coming back on this mountain. So the New Testament
echoes what the Old Testament paints us as a back drop. Now,
what I want to highlight also is in Isaiah sixty
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verses eight or nine. It talks about the swift but
massive return of the exiles like clouds and like doves,
and then it talks about ships bringing back the exiles
to the land. I've read in one Jewish literature where
some people would even argue that God's angels will pick
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up Jewish people from all around the world and carry
them on the clouds to meet their Messiah in Jerusalem
for his inauguration.
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How true that is or not, we don't know.
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But one thing we do know is that Paul uses
this language of clouds trumpets gathering off believers to the Messiah.
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But the backdrop of.
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That is actually Old Testament prophets. So Jesus talks about
his return in the form of allow trumpet after tribulation,
gathering of the elect, Angels go into four corners of
the earth and gathering the elect.
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Whether those elect are.
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Jewish people that are in the covenant with God or
believers in the Messiah, one thing is certain. There will
be some kind of a gathering taking place to the
Messiah as he is coming from heaven to inaugurate to
start his kingdom on this earth. Now, let's dive into
few verses from the New Testament to look at this event.
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The Bible talks so much about it in Second Thessalonians,
chapter two, verse one. Now, brethren, concerning the coming of
the Lord Jesus Christ, and I want you to notice
how he combines another event and our gathering to him.
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We ask you, if you're taking notes, write this down.
The coming of the Lord and gathering to him is
one event. It's one event that has two sides of
that one coin, the coming of the Lord and our
gathering to him. Paul doesn't divide these events. He puts
them as one. Now sec first to Salonians, chapter four,
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verse fifteen and seventeen. For this we say to you
by the word of the Lord, that we who are
alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will
by no means precede those who are asleep. So Paul
is talking about those of us who are going to
be alive before the coming of the Lord.
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We're not gonna.
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Precede those who are dead asleep, for the Lord himself
will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice
of an archangel, with the trumpet of God. You see
how Paul is echoing the same thing. Old Testament prophets
talked about the sound of a trumpet where the Jews
will be gathered back the coming of that Messiah. Jesus
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talked about that there will be a loud trumpet sound
before his coming as a sign of his public glorious appearing.
Paul is saying, we're gonna be alive before the coming
of the Messiah before the coming of King Jesus. And
he says, then there's gonna be this loud shout from heaven,
a voice of archangel with the trumpet of God. And
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then he says this, the dead in Christ will rise first,
meaning all the dead are gonna rise first.
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Then we who are alive and remain shall be cut.
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Up together with those who are being raised on the dead,
with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in
the air. And thus now most people read this like this,
and thus we shall be in heaven forever.
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That's not what it says.
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It says, thus we shall always be with the Lord.
So a few things I want to break down about
this verse, these verses, the Bible is very clear that
the Church is not escaping with Christ, but escorting Christ.
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Paul describes the coming.
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The word he uses for the coming is paracea, with
the trumpet resurrection and gathering to Christ, matching Jesus's words
about his glorious appearing.
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Now, this verse many times.
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Is used to prove a secret rapture.
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But the secret.
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Rapture happens quietly, nobody knows when it's happening. The cars
no longer have drivers, the people that are operating machinery.
Machines are no longer having operators and boom. Everybody just
secretly is gone, and Jesus takes them from the air
into heaven. But we don't see it here a quiet secret.
We see a return of the Lord, which happens one
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second return loud a trumpet happens there a glorious appearing,
and the Bible talks about the rapture as the same
event with the trumpet where the loudest takes place. Glory
comes in resurrection of the dead happens, and Paul is
saying it's the same event. It's not secret, it is
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public now. The word for coming of the Lord. The
word coming is the Greek word paracea, which is a
very important word because it's when an important person would
become meaning the word coming is paracea.
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To a city.
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A delegation from the city would go out to meet
them and then escort them back into the city. Interestingly,
so many references of that word coming in the New
Testament is the word for the return, the coming of
Jesus Christ. The word paracea simply means we are coming
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out of the city to meet the royalty, our king,
and we escort with him back into the city. So
in the Roman times, when a Roman general, when the
great warriors will secure a victory, they will bring the
spoil back to Rome.
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The delegation from.
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Rome will come out of the city, meet them outside
and escort them back into the city. That word is
called paracea. That is the coming of the Lord. We
who are dead, get raised, who are living, gets instantly changed,
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go up to meet the Lord in the air, and
come down, escort him back to this earth as his bride,
as his friends, and ask his church. That is what
Paul meant when he said our gathering to him in
the air at his coming Paracea. Now I want you
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to see why is it in the air? Do you
know that the Prince of the Air is Satan Jesus
disarmed principalities and powers. But he will have his meeting
with the resurrected and the transformed raptured saints in the
air to almost throw the final slap in the devil's
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face and say, Papa's back home, the father's back, the
King is back, the keys of the Prince of the
Air is taken back. I'm the king of the Earth,
I'm the King of the Air.
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I'm the king of above ground, below ground.
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Every sphere of this planet and every dimension of this planet.
Jesus Christ is the king. Somebody give him some praise
right now, hallelujah. The rapture and the meeting of the
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Lord in the air is Jesus's open triumph over the
hostile powers in the air now. In one Corinthians fifteen
fifty one and fifty two, Paul says the following, Behold,
I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep,
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but we shall be changed in the moment. He's talking
about this event, the coming of the Messiah and the rapture,
or the instant transformation of those who remained. The resurrection
of the dead will happen. But us, what's gonna happen
to us? Paul is describing. He said, we shall all
not die at the coming of the Messiah. We shall
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be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.
It's how fast our bodies, all the molecules.
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In our body, all the structure, will be changed.
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When at the last trumpet, loud trumpet is going to blow.
Why because this trumpet is the one that announces the
glorious appearing over Lord Jesus Christ, for the trumpet will sound,
and the dead will be raised, incorruptible, and we shall
be changed. So the resurrection and the rapture happens at
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his coming at the last trumpet, which is the same
picture of the Old.
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Testament prophets, Jesus's declaration.
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And Paul's writings. I want you to notice that the
trumpet never whispers. It blasts loudly. So this idea Paul
is not saying, hey, guys, I'm telling you a secret.
The rapture of the Church is a mystery, but it's
not a secret.
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It will not be in secret. It will be open, public.
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Glorious, loud, triumphant, powerful event at the coming of the
Messiah and the gathering of the saints to meet him
in the air, to establish his final authority, even in
the air as we escort him to come down to
the earth. Now, when I was younger, growing up, especially
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in the United States, you know, I would read verses
like Matthew twenty four, and I'm gonna read that to
you right now, twenty four, verse forty and forty one,
which sometimes is used to justify a secret, instant, immediate rapture,
and it says like this, then two men will be
in the field, one will be taken and the other left.
Two women will be grinding at the mill. One will
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be taken and the other left. And so I would
read that, and I was like, man, so both of
us are going to work, and then one of us
just gets taken, the other one is left behind. Both
of us are sleeping. One is taken and the other
one is behind. And so you don't want to be
the one that's left behind. You want to be the
one that's taken. But this actually speaks about something else,
because if you read the context a few verses before,
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verses thirty seven through thirty nine, Jesus is saying, as
it was in a day of Noah, so it will
be in the days of the Son of God. And
he said that people who are not ready, they need
to get ready. And then he says one will be taken,
one will be left. The context of one taken one
left is actually those who are taken are taken up
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in the judgment, and those.
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Who are left are those who left with Christ.
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A similar approach is in Luke chapter seventeen, verses thirty
four to thirty seven.
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It parallels the same.
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Idea Jesus's idea of vultures gathering pretty much. It talks
about this as it happened in the day of Noah,
where the flood took the wicked away. Quickly flood came
and they were swept away. Jesus is saying, at his
second coming, the wicked will be swept in judgment, they
will be taken in judgment.
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And the righteous will be rescued by him.
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And so this scripture is not talking about a secret rapture.
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It is talking.
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About a judgment at his public appearing on this planet,
where the wickedness and the wicked man will be judged. Now,
let's go to point number four about Jesus's second coming.
Jesus will not return until the great falling away and
the man of lawlessness, Antichrist, is revealed.
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There is a.
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Teaching and especially propagated by people who teach secret rapture,
that the imminence of the Lord's return or the imminence
of the rapture can happen any moment. And I watch
these clips, I've seen these sermons where fear tactic is used.
Any moment you could be driving to work, any moment
you're waking up and then Jesus will come.
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You have to be ready for the rapture.
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You have to be ready for the rapture because if
you are left behind, you know you're going to go
through the tribulation.
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You have to be ready. And there's a lot of emotion.
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That's attached to that, a lot of fear that's attached
to that.
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And I want to share something.
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With you that that view is entirely not biblical. The
Scripture does teach us to be ready.
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Constantly, but it also tells.
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Us there will be two things that have to happen
before the Lord returns. This immediacy, which is propagated by
a lot of teachers, it is not biblical. We have
to be ready, but we also have to be clear.
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The Bible is very clear.
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About things that have to happen before the return of
the Lord. For example, the scripture James five p't eight,
it says, you too, be patient and stand firm, because
the Lord's coming is near Matthew twenty four forty two.
It says, therefore, keep watch because you do not know
on what day your Lord will come. These verses teach watchfulness,
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but not that nothing must happen first. For example, in
tecond the Salonians chapter two, verses one through four. Now
we request you, brethren, regarding the coming of our Lord
and our gathering, so us being gathered and him coming,
you must not be weekly shaken from your composure or
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be disturbed, either by the spirit or by a message.
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Or a letter.
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Added, it's sent from us to affect that the day
of the Lord has come. Let no one in any
way deceive you. And I want you to listen to
the following words, for it will not come unless the
apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness is revealed.
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So Paul is telling to Salonius.
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He sends the first letter talking about the second coming
of Jesus, and some people got freaked out. Some people
thought they missed the coming of the Lord. Some people
start spreading some rumors, and Paul is saying.
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Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, push some brakes.
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As though some of you guys are thinking we send
that letter or this is what we meant. He says, no,
I don't want you to be shaken by this. I
want you to know the coming of the Lord cannot
happen until two things take place. The apostasy meaning the
churning away from believers from Christ. Now most of us
think the coming of Jesus Christ is happening, when the
Great Revival will happen, true one hundred percent, the Gospel
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must be preached.
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And then he will come.
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But Paul is saying something else will be happening at
the same time. A lot of people are gonna apostasize.
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Man, we're seeing that today.
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And then he says another thing must happen before the
coming of the Lord, the revelation of the Antichrist. So
Paul is telling us that this any moment, any time,
live in fear or be ready, because any moment, anytime,
that's not how that works.
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The coming of the Lord.
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Is gonna happen, but first there has to be a
revelation of the Antichrist and the apostasy. And he says,
the son of Destruction who opposes and exalts himself above
every so called God or object of worship, so that
he takes his seat in the Temple of God, displaying himself.
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As being God.
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According to Paul, the apostasy and the unveiling of the
lawless one are the prerequisites. Therefore, rapture and the coming
of the Lord are tied to a known sequence, not
a signless surprise. Does that mean we can relax, Absolutely not.
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We must live watchful. May I submit something to you.
There's a very high chance you will meet the Lord
in death before you meet him at his second coming.
None of us know when we're gonna die, and we
must live not in fear, but in expectation and preparedness
to meet the Lord. But the Bible is clear that
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day is not coming until apostasy and until the coming
of the Antichrist, who will sit at God's Temple. The
temple hasn't been built yet. Now there's a lot of
talks about the third Temple being built. There's studies or
research have been done already where a lot of the
temple is ready to go.
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But in some way, shape and form.
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There has to be a temple, a physical temple built
in Israel, Erusalem, where this bad boy Antichrist will come
and sit and declare himself as God and start.
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Bringing abomination there.
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And Paul is telling us are gathering to Christ him
coming at the last trumpet cannot happen into apostasy and
the unveiling of the Antichrist who will sit at the temple.
When you start seeing the temple being built. We're getting closer.
When you start seeing the Antichrist coming and brokering peace
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in the Middle East and people start worshiping him.
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We're getting close. When you start seeing some shape.
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And form of a ship or some kind of a device,
or some kind of a means by which you can
only purchase and do and accomplish all of your transactions,
and that will be tied.
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To devotion to the Beast.
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We're getting close when you come and see a one
unified world religion and economy. We're getting close to the coming,
not to the coming of Antichrist.
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At that time, he's already here, to the coming of
the King of Kings and Lord of lords.
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Now there's a video that is circulating and the teaching
that is circulating right now is there is a potential
that Jesus will come this week.
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Now when you're.
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Listening to this message, Jewish people have a feast of trumpets,
and this feast of trumpets happens in the beginning of October,
sometimes late of September. As of twenty twenty five, the
feast of trumpets actually starts at sundown Monday through the
nightfall on Wednesday. So the speculation is going on because
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Jesus fulfills all the feasts of Israel.
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The Passover is where he died.
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On the feast of the Pentecost, the Holy Spirit was
poured out. The unleavened bread was Jesus's sinless body.
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In the grave.
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The next feast that has a prophetic picture is the Feast.
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Of the Trumpet.
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You may say why because at the second coming of Jesus,
the trumpet it will sound. So Israel's Feast of Trumpets falls.
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On that time. And many people are speculating.
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Since the rest of the feast that has already happened
and they were in line a shadow of Christ's first coming,
the next three feasts are gonna be exactly at his
second coming. But we don't know that for sure. Christ said,
nobody knows the day. Plus the Bible is clear the
Antichrist must be unveled and apostasy must happen.
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The temple hasn't been built. Antichrist at least has not
been revealed.
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Therefore, I can stand assuredly and tell you that the
rapture and the gathering of us to Jesus and his
coming most likely is not happening this week. We still
have to be watchful, we still have to be ready.
But the Bible tells us there are gonna be sequences
taking place before the Messiah returns, and one of them
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the temple has to be built, unveiling of the Antichrist,
and the great apostasy. This week, as we prepare for
the rapture, I want to tell you something that it's
probably not going to happen, because Jesus clearly stated nobody
knows the day, and Paul tells us few things have
to happen before the rapture of the Church and the
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coming of Jesus Christ. Now let's wrap up this message
and share the last and I believe one of the
most important things that Christians must remember. Jesus's coming is
not the end. It's the beginning of God's renewed rule.
The Old Testament prophets gave us this promise of the
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King and his kingdom. The Messiah will rule from Zion
over the nations. Old Testament prophets painted us the backdrop
that there will be resurrection of the faithful and that
there will be a judgment. They also painted this backdrop
that there will be new heavens and new Earth according
to Isaiah sixty five seventeen Isaiah sixty six, verse twenty two.
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So the King is coming. He will rule from Zion
over the nations. There will be a resurrection of the righteous,
and there will be a judgment on the wicked, and
there will be a new Earth and new heaven. Now
I want you to come to the New Testament, and
I want you to see how the New Testament gives
us a road map of after he returns what will
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take place. And I'll give you just five hours for
that roadmap his return.
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So he will return on.
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Earth for a thousand years, ordinary life will continue. People
will build homes, plant vineyards, have families, live very long life,
and nations will worship Jesus in Israel.
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And people will still die.
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The resurrected people, people who were transformed are not going
to die, but the rest of the life on this
earth will go on. Satan will be bound for a
thousand years. Then the second r of this roadmap is
there will be a revolt.
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After a thousand.
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Years, Satan is released for the final uprising. Then there
comes the reckoning. There comes a final great White Throne
judgment where the rest of the people are gonna be
raised from the dead. Bible calls his second resurrection. The
first resurrection is at the coming of the king. The
second resurrection is after a thousand year reign, after the
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final revolt is being disarmed. Satan is being cast into
the Lake of fire, is being bound. There's a great
white throne judgment. The rest of the dead are being
raised to face God and to give an account for
their life and to face final judgment. And then there's
one more r and that is the renewal. It's when
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new Earth and new Heaven is made. See, Jesus is
not coming to close the story. He is coming to
open the kingdom. We're gonna move from the promise to
the fulfillment, from his return to the whole world being
made the next few moments.
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What I'm gonna share my shock some of you.
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The heaven is real, but it's not the final home
of the Redeemed. The heaven you will go when you
die is not the heaven where you will spend eternity.
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Redeemed will spend eternity with.
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Resurrected Christ on the resurrected planet, in resurrected bodies. God's
original plan to create this planet. His creation is going
to be fulfilled and utilized at the end of his
Jesus' second coming, and this is exciting. The Bible tells
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us that when we die as believers, we go to
be with Christ. But after his return, it says that
God will bring resurrection, final judgment, and the New Earth,
and that becomes our permanent home.
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Now you may say new Earth.
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I remember when first time I got exposed to this
teaching on heaven and I started to learn about heaven.
And what shocked me is the view I had of
heaven is this.
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The Earth was bad.
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It's really bad, which is obviously broken, we know that.
But God is just gonna be done with the Earth
and then he's gonna take us all to Heaven, and
then we're gonna live forever in heaven. And for some
weird reason, Jesus will make a pit stop here for
a thousand years, I don't know, prove the devil something.
And then after that it's gonna wrap all of us
up again and we will go to live in this
beautiful place where just gonna be. We're gonna be spirits
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singing songs forever. It's like eternal worship service is gonna
be to God. But we're gonna love God so much.
Because we will have no flesh, we will have no
problem with that. That was my view of heaven. Biblical
view view of heaven is very different. The Bible tells
us that the meek will inherit the earth. It also
tells us that the righteous will dwell in the earth forever.
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How do you reconcile that.
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With you flying away and being in some state for
eternity there when the Bible.
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Says, Jesus says, we.
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Will inherit the earth and live here forever. The Bible
also tells us we will reign with Christ on this earth.
The scripture tells us the wicked will be cut off
from the earth, and those who don't serve God will
not remain or inherit the earth. And the Bible tells
us that the earth will dwell forever.
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So what do we do with that?
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We have to see God's point of view and God's picture,
and that is this. Why would God resurrect your body?
Why is God going to make a new earth? Because
in the last days, the scripture says, heaven will be
made new, and heaven like a city will come down
to Earth, and God will have his dwelling here on Earth.
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This is what eternity looks like, resurrected people in resurrected bodies,
unresurrected Earth with our resurrected Savior. The Bible doesn't end
with man going up to live with God forever. The
Bible ends with God coming down to dwell with men forever.
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God will make his home his headquarters here.
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On the new Earth. That changes how you view the Earth.
I am not promoting environmentalism. I am not promoting climate change.
What I am promoting is this. You have to look
at this planet as God's creation. It is broken, but
God will come back and fix it and make it new.
You have to look at your body as what God created.
It's gonna get broken, it's gonna turn to dust, and
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God's gonna make it new.
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You have to look at Jesus.
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Coming back to this Earth to reign for a thousand years.
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There will be one more revolt.
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That will happen, a final judgment, and there is gonna
be a total remodel of this planet, a total remodel
of everything, and we will reign with Jesus. We will
live forever with Christ for eternity on this planet. It
won't look the same way. But God said he will
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make a new Earth and new heaven. So the second
coming of Jesus is not the end of the story.
It's the beginning of the new story that God's been
waiting since the fall of Adam to bring back to
this earth.
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And I am so excited for it.
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And so heaven is not just this place we're gonna
fly away and kind of float over there. It's going
to be a place where you will be with Christ
in new body, on the new Earth reigning. You will
have responsibilities, you will have duties, you will have assignments.
It's not just gonna be a worship service. We will
live in a worshipful attitude with our Creator, and God
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will dwell with men. A Jewish holiday is called the Tabernacles.
It's when God will tabernacle with men and we will
have unity, walk with him, be with him forever. As
I wrap up this message, Jesus.
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Is coming is not going to be like.
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The first one. His coming and the gathering of us
to him is one event. While the end times has
many signs, his coming has.
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A one big one.
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A public glorious, loud appearing of the Son of God,
his second coming. While it's a mystery, his second coming
and are gathering. While it's a mystery, it's not going
to be a secret. At least two things have to
happen right before that, the unveiling of the Antichrist and
the great apostasy. And his coming is not the end,
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it's just the beginning of God's renewed rule.
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Now it's the time that I want to speak to
you about the second Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now,
last week I've talked about the end times.
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I've talked also about the.
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End times being like the birthing pains. They're not like
passing a kidney stone, but more of like us going
through the birthing pains with the anticipation of what is coming.
And today I'm gonna talk about what is coming. I
am so excited for this. I've been carrying this for
a few years already, So please excuse me if the
Pentecostal in me is gonna come out full swing, because
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this is an event that is gonna be the life
changing event for the whole world and the history of
the world. In just two hundred and sixty chapters of
the New Testament, there is over three hundred references to
Jesus's second Coming, which pretty much means one in every
twenty five to thirty verses. There's a reference to Jesus's
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second coming. Twenty three out of twenty seven New Testament.
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Books talk about it. The Old Testament.
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Mentions the coming of the Messiah about one thousand, eight hundred.
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And forty five times. That's amazing.
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That's why some scholars and teachers would say that for
every time Jesus's first coming is mentioned, there is eight
times more mentioned about.
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His second coming.
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We have to learn about it, and not only learn
about it, we also have to get excited about it
because the second coming of Jesus is not the end,
it is just the beginning. In the next few moments,
I want to share with you five truths about the
second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. I want to
remind you that anodes to the message is on your
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U Version Bible app for the week, and after that
they will be on our sermon page on our website.
First point, Jesus's first coming was in humility to save,
but his second coming will be in glory, to judge
and to reign. For the next few moments, I want
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to share with you the difference between how he came
first time and how it's going to be different than
the second time. Because we know so much about his
first coming, we celebrate it as a holiday. We hear
stories about it every year from different angles. His second
coming will be absolutely different. First time he came as
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a lamb. He's coming back as a lion. First time,
he came riding on the donkey. He's coming back riding
on the white horse. First time, he came as a
humble servant. He is coming back as a sovereign king.
He came first time to suffer. He is coming back
in glory. He first came in a manger. He is
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coming back to a throne. He first came and he
was seen by a few. He is coming back, and
the Bible says every eye will see him. He came
to save first time, but he's coming back to judge
and to bring every word. The scripture teaches us that
he wore a crown of thorns when he came at first,
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But when he's coming back, he is gonna come with
many crowns, the crowns of glory. He came first time,
and he stood silent before his accusers. But he's coming
back with the shout of a trumpet. When he came
first time, he wept over Jerusalem. But he is coming back,
he will reign in Jerusalem. When he came first time,
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his hands were pierced. When he's coming back, he will
come back to rule with the rod of iron. When
he came first time, he came in weakness. When he's
coming back, he's coming back in power. When he came
first time, he came like a seed that fell into
the ground. He's coming back to harvest the planet. When
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he came first time, he offered mercy. When he's coming back,
he is coming to execute judgment. When he came first time,
he carried across. When he's coming back, he will carry
a sword. When he came first time, he came because
the Word was made flesh. But when he's coming back,
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he's coming back as the faithful, true, the Word of God.
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When he came.
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First time, he came to cut the new Covenant. But
when he's coming back, he's coming back to.
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Consummate the kingdom.
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When he came first time, he washed the feet of
the disciples. But when he's coming back, he will shread
the wine press of the wrath of God with his feet.
When he came first time, he prayed Father forgive. When
he's coming back, he will bring the vengeance on his enemies.
First time he came, his glory was veiled. When he
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comes back, his glory will be revealed. Come on, somebody,
give God some praise right now, because the King is
coming back and we need to get ready. We need
to anticipate his return. The second truth about Jesus's second
coming is that while his return will be preceded by
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many signs, it will really be marked by one sign,
which is his public appearing in the sky. Let's take
a reading from the Gospel of Matthew, chapter twenty four,
verse twenty seven. For as the lightning comes from the
east and flashes to the west, so also will be
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the coming of the Son of Man. And then verse
twenty nine, immediately after the tribulation of those days, the
sun will be darkened and the moon will not give
its light. The stars will fall from heaven, and the
powers of the.
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Heavens will be shaken.
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Then the sign of the Son of Men will appear
in heaven. Watch this, The sign singular of the Son
of Men will appear in heaven. So we know there
are many signs of the end times, and their goingness
follows the rise of false messiahs, the wars in this world,
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increase in hunger and famine, earthquakes, incurable diseases, persecution of Christians,
a huge surge of wickedness, loss of love of believers
for Christ, world evangelism, and return of Israel back to
the land are the common signs of the end times.
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So the signs of the end days are many. The
sign of the coming of the Lord is what what
is that sign? His public glorious triumphant appearing in heaven
where every eye will see him. And these are simple
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eleven facts in your notes about that second coming. We
see it will be seen by all sign in heaven
like lightning. When you see a lightning, everybody sees it.
So the Bible says his coming will be visible. That
sign is visible, glorious, loud appearing of Jesus Christ in heaven.
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We see his second coming will be after tribulation.
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We see his.
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Second coming will be coming on the clouds with power
and glory. We see his second coming will be at
the sound of a trumpet, meaning angels will gather God's
people as the trumpet is going to sound, which means
it's going to be very loud.
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Earplugs won't help.
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Resurrection of the dead will take place at the same time.
All the righteous people from the Old Covenant the New Covenant.
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Who died will rise again at.
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The same time, and we who are living will be
instantly changed to meet the Lord in the air. We
also see that Mount of Olives where the feet of
this risen glorious, majestic king will land.
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The Mount of.
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Olive, according to the Kara, will split in the half
because of the glory and the power that this king
is going to bring. The second Coming will happen at
the same time as Israel is going to be a war,
and his second coming will defend Israel from invading nations.
Jerusalem will be rescued, living waters will flow from Jerusalem.
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Nations will be judged, and that the coalition of the
nations coming against Israel will be automatically destroyed.
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And at the same time there will be a national.
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And global mourning and crying and repentance as they see
this king coming on the clouds.
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So think of this. I just summarized to.
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You these bits and pieces that the Bible tells us
about this coming. Israel is a war coalition of nations
gathered against it. The Son of God is arriving on
the clouds. A loudshrumpet is sounding that everybody can hear.
Somehow everyone is able to see it, whether it's through livestream,
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whether it's that it's gonna be in such a supernatural way,
but some way, every eye will see Jesus.
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Coming at this time.
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Not only as we look to the sky and we
see his glorious coming, the dead are coming out of
the graves. The dirt is being pushed out, and their
dead bodies from the oceans, from the lots where people
bought land are beginning to come out, and their souls
are being reunited with those resurrected bodies, and they're going
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straight into the sky to meet this King of glory.
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The believers in the.
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Messiah get quickly transformed supernaturally to meet this king. The
nations gathered against the King of Israel, Jesus against Israel,
get automatically destroyed.
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What are crazy, powerful, mighty event.
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This will be that the nations, the tribes of the
earth will weep at that sound, at that scene of
this king coming, and they will repent, They will mourn,
they will grieve because they didn't recognize him as that
Messiah because they were wrong about him. And now they're saying,
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I want to worship that king. I want to repent
before that king. That is the picture of the second coming.
One sign, major sign, public, glorious, loud appearance of the
Son of God is see how different that is from
his first arrival, quiet, private, few shepherds, few wise men,
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in humility, being born as a baby. Herod tried to
kill the babies to get to Jesus. A total different
scene is going to be taking place at his second coming.
Now we get to the part three of the second
coming of the Lord. The second coming of the Lord
and our gathering to him is the same event and
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it will not.
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Be in secret.
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Now, before I talk about the rapture and the coming
of the Lord, I want to give you a Jewish backdrop,
a prophetic Jewish backdrop for the Messiah's coming, and how
Paul is using the language about Jesus's public appearing, and
how they actually match. You see the commonality between the
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Jewish prophets and how Apostle Paul adds pretty much fills
that back drop with more details about Jesus's second coming.
So we see that Jewish prophets predicted that God will
summon his people home with the great sound of a trumpet.
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He will bring them back from the nations.
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Also that the Son of Men will arrive, the Messiah
will come on the clouds to receive eternal dominion. So
Jesus and Paul echo that same prophetic backdrop. Jesus is
talking about a trumpet sound, Paul is talking about a
trumpet sound. Jesus also says he's coming back on the clouds.
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When he went to Heaven from the mount of olives
on the cloud, the angels came and said, the same
way he went up is the same way he's coming down,
is coming back on this mountain. So the New Testament
echoes what the Old Testament paints us as a back drop. Now,
what I want to highlight also is in Isaiah sixty
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verses eight or nine. It talks about the swift but
massive return of the exiles like clouds and like doves,
and then it talks about ships bringing back the exiles
to the land. I've read in one Jewish literature where
some people would even argue that God's angels will pick
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up Jewish people from all around the world and carry
them on the clouds to meet their Messiah in Jerusalem
for his inauguration.
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How true that is or not, we don't know.
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But one thing we do know is that Paul uses
this language of clouds trumpets gathering off believers to the Messiah.
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But the backdrop of.
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That is actually Old Testament prophets. So Jesus talks about
his return in the form of allow trumpet after tribulation,
gathering of the elect, Angels go into four corners of
the earth and gathering the elect.
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Whether those elect are.
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Jewish people that are in the covenant with God or
believers in the Messiah, one thing is certain. There will
be some kind of a gathering taking place to the
Messiah as he is coming from heaven to inaugurate to
start his kingdom on this earth. Now, let's dive into
few verses from the New Testament to look at this event.
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The Bible talks so much about it in Second Thessalonians,
chapter two, verse one. Now, brethren, concerning the coming of
the Lord Jesus Christ, and I want you to notice
how he combines another event and our gathering to him.
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We ask you, if you're taking notes, write this down.
The coming of the Lord and gathering to him is
one event. It's one event that has two sides of
that one coin, the coming of the Lord and our
gathering to him. Paul doesn't divide these events. He puts
them as one. Now sec first to Salonians, chapter four,
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verse fifteen and seventeen. For this we say to you
by the word of the Lord, that we who are
alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will
by no means precede those who are asleep. So Paul
is talking about those of us who are going to
be alive before the coming of the Lord.
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We're not gonna.
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Precede those who are dead asleep, for the Lord himself
will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice
of an archangel, with the trumpet of God. You see
how Paul is echoing the same thing. Old Testament prophets
talked about the sound of a trumpet where the Jews
will be gathered back the coming of that Messiah. Jesus
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talked about that there will be a loud trumpet sound
before his coming as a sign of his public glorious appearing.
Paul is saying, we're gonna be alive before the coming
of the Messiah before the coming of King Jesus. And
he says, then there's gonna be this loud shout from heaven,
a voice of archangel with the trumpet of God. And
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then he says this, the dead in Christ will rise first,
meaning all the dead are gonna rise first.
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Then we who are alive and remain shall be cut.
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Up together with those who are being raised on the dead,
with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in
the air. And thus now most people read this like this,
and thus we shall be in heaven forever.
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That's not what it says.
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It says, thus we shall always be with the Lord.
So a few things I want to break down about
this verse, these verses, the Bible is very clear that
the Church is not escaping with Christ, but escorting Christ.
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Paul describes the coming.
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The word he uses for the coming is paracea, with
the trumpet resurrection and gathering to Christ, matching Jesus's words
about his glorious appearing.
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Now, this verse many times.
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Is used to prove a secret rapture.
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But the secret.
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Rapture happens quietly, nobody knows when it's happening. The cars
no longer have drivers, the people that are operating machinery.
Machines are no longer having operators and boom. Everybody just
secretly is gone, and Jesus takes them from the air
into heaven. But we don't see it here a quiet secret.
We see a return of the Lord, which happens one
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second return loud a trumpet happens there a glorious appearing,
and the Bible talks about the rapture as the same
event with the trumpet where the loudest takes place. Glory
comes in resurrection of the dead happens, and Paul is
saying it's the same event. It's not secret, it is
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public now. The word for coming of the Lord. The
word coming is the Greek word paracea, which is a
very important word because it's when an important person would
become meaning the word coming is paracea.
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To a city.
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A delegation from the city would go out to meet
them and then escort them back into the city. Interestingly,
so many references of that word coming in the New
Testament is the word for the return, the coming of
Jesus Christ. The word paracea simply means we are coming
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out of the city to meet the royalty, our king,
and we escort with him back into the city. So
in the Roman times, when a Roman general, when the
great warriors will secure a victory, they will bring the
spoil back to Rome.
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The delegation from.
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Rome will come out of the city, meet them outside
and escort them back into the city. That word is
called paracea. That is the coming of the Lord. We
who are dead, get raised, who are living, gets instantly changed,
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go up to meet the Lord in the air, and
come down, escort him back to this earth as his bride,
as his friends, and ask his church. That is what
Paul meant when he said our gathering to him in
the air at his coming Paracea. Now I want you
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to see why is it in the air? Do you
know that the Prince of the Air is Satan Jesus
disarmed principalities and powers. But he will have his meeting
with the resurrected and the transformed raptured saints in the
air to almost throw the final slap in the devil's
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face and say, Papa's back home, the father's back, the
King is back, the keys of the Prince of the
Air is taken back. I'm the king of the Earth,
I'm the King of the Air.
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I'm the king of above ground, below ground.
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Every sphere of this planet and every dimension of this planet.
Jesus Christ is the king. Somebody give him some praise
right now, hallelujah. The rapture and the meeting of the
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Lord in the air is Jesus's open triumph over the
hostile powers in the air now. In one Corinthians fifteen
fifty one and fifty two, Paul says the following, Behold,
I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep,
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but we shall be changed in the moment. He's talking
about this event, the coming of the Messiah and the rapture,
or the instant transformation of those who remained. The resurrection
of the dead will happen. But us, what's gonna happen
to us? Paul is describing. He said, we shall all
not die at the coming of the Messiah. We shall
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be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.
It's how fast our bodies, all the molecules.
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In our body, all the structure, will be changed.
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When at the last trumpet, loud trumpet is going to blow.
Why because this trumpet is the one that announces the
glorious appearing over Lord Jesus Christ, for the trumpet will sound,
and the dead will be raised, incorruptible, and we shall
be changed. So the resurrection and the rapture happens at
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his coming at the last trumpet, which is the same
picture of the Old.
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Testament prophets, Jesus's declaration.
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And Paul's writings. I want you to notice that the
trumpet never whispers. It blasts loudly. So this idea Paul
is not saying, hey, guys, I'm telling you a secret.
The rapture of the Church is a mystery, but it's
not a secret.
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It will not be in secret. It will be open, public.
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Glorious, loud, triumphant, powerful event at the coming of the
Messiah and the gathering of the saints to meet him
in the air, to establish his final authority, even in
the air as we escort him to come down to
the earth. Now, when I was younger, growing up, especially
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in the United States, you know, I would read verses
like Matthew twenty four, and I'm gonna read that to
you right now, twenty four, verse forty and forty one,
which sometimes is used to justify a secret, instant, immediate rapture,
and it says like this, then two men will be
in the field, one will be taken and the other left.
Two women will be grinding at the mill. One will
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be taken and the other left. And so I would
read that, and I was like, man, so both of
us are going to work, and then one of us
just gets taken, the other one is left behind. Both
of us are sleeping. One is taken and the other
one is behind. And so you don't want to be
the one that's left behind. You want to be the
one that's taken. But this actually speaks about something else,
because if you read the context a few verses before,
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verses thirty seven through thirty nine, Jesus is saying, as
it was in a day of Noah, so it will
be in the days of the Son of God. And
he said that people who are not ready, they need
to get ready. And then he says one will be taken,
one will be left. The context of one taken one
left is actually those who are taken are taken up
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in the judgment, and those.
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Who are left are those who left with Christ.
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A similar approach is in Luke chapter seventeen, verses thirty
four to thirty seven.
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It parallels the same.
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Idea Jesus's idea of vultures gathering pretty much. It talks
about this as it happened in the day of Noah,
where the flood took the wicked away. Quickly flood came
and they were swept away. Jesus is saying, at his
second coming, the wicked will be swept in judgment, they
will be taken in judgment.
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And the righteous will be rescued by him.
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And so this scripture is not talking about a secret rapture.
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It is talking.
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About a judgment at his public appearing on this planet,
where the wickedness and the wicked man will be judged. Now,
let's go to point number four about Jesus's second coming.
Jesus will not return until the great falling away and
the man of lawlessness, Antichrist, is revealed.
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There is a.
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Teaching and especially propagated by people who teach secret rapture,
that the imminence of the Lord's return or the imminence
of the rapture can happen any moment. And I watch
these clips, I've seen these sermons where fear tactic is used.
Any moment you could be driving to work, any moment
you're waking up and then Jesus will come.
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You have to be ready for the rapture.
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You have to be ready for the rapture because if
you are left behind, you know you're going to go
through the tribulation.
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You have to be ready. And there's a lot of emotion.
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That's attached to that, a lot of fear that's attached
to that.
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And I want to share something.
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With you that that view is entirely not biblical. The
Scripture does teach us to be ready.
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Constantly, but it also tells.
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Us there will be two things that have to happen
before the Lord returns. This immediacy, which is propagated by
a lot of teachers, it is not biblical. We have
to be ready, but we also have to be clear.
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The Bible is very clear.
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About things that have to happen before the return of
the Lord. For example, the scripture James five p't eight,
it says, you too, be patient and stand firm, because
the Lord's coming is near Matthew twenty four forty two.
It says, therefore, keep watch because you do not know
on what day your Lord will come. These verses teach watchfulness,
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but not that nothing must happen first. For example, in
tecond the Salonians chapter two, verses one through four. Now
we request you, brethren, regarding the coming of our Lord
and our gathering, so us being gathered and him coming,
you must not be weekly shaken from your composure or
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be disturbed, either by the spirit or by a message.
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Or a letter.
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Added, it's sent from us to affect that the day
of the Lord has come. Let no one in any
way deceive you. And I want you to listen to
the following words, for it will not come unless the
apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness is revealed.
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So Paul is telling to Salonius.
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He sends the first letter talking about the second coming
of Jesus, and some people got freaked out. Some people
thought they missed the coming of the Lord. Some people
start spreading some rumors, and Paul is saying.
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Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa, push some brakes.
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As though some of you guys are thinking we send
that letter or this is what we meant. He says, no,
I don't want you to be shaken by this. I
want you to know the coming of the Lord cannot
happen until two things take place. The apostasy meaning the
churning away from believers from Christ. Now most of us
think the coming of Jesus Christ is happening, when the
Great Revival will happen, true one hundred percent, the Gospel
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must be preached.
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And then he will come.
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But Paul is saying something else will be happening at
the same time. A lot of people are gonna apostasize.
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Man, we're seeing that today.
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And then he says another thing must happen before the
coming of the Lord, the revelation of the Antichrist. So
Paul is telling us that this any moment, any time,
live in fear or be ready, because any moment, anytime,
that's not how that works.
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The coming of the Lord.
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Is gonna happen, but first there has to be a
revelation of the Antichrist and the apostasy. And he says,
the son of Destruction who opposes and exalts himself above
every so called God or object of worship, so that
he takes his seat in the Temple of God, displaying himself.
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As being God.
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According to Paul, the apostasy and the unveiling of the
lawless one are the prerequisites. Therefore, rapture and the coming
of the Lord are tied to a known sequence, not
a signless surprise. Does that mean we can relax, Absolutely not.
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We must live watchful. May I submit something to you.
There's a very high chance you will meet the Lord
in death before you meet him at his second coming.
None of us know when we're gonna die, and we
must live not in fear, but in expectation and preparedness
to meet the Lord. But the Bible is clear that
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day is not coming until apostasy and until the coming
of the Antichrist, who will sit at God's Temple. The
temple hasn't been built yet. Now there's a lot of
talks about the third Temple being built. There's studies or
research have been done already where a lot of the
temple is ready to go.
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But in some way, shape and form.
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There has to be a temple, a physical temple built
in Israel, Erusalem, where this bad boy Antichrist will come
and sit and declare himself as God and start.
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Bringing abomination there.
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And Paul is telling us are gathering to Christ him
coming at the last trumpet cannot happen into apostasy and
the unveiling of the Antichrist who will sit at the temple.
When you start seeing the temple being built. We're getting closer.
When you start seeing the Antichrist coming and brokering peace
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in the Middle East and people start worshiping him.
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We're getting close. When you start seeing some shape.
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And form of a ship or some kind of a device,
or some kind of a means by which you can
only purchase and do and accomplish all of your transactions,
and that will be tied.
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To devotion to the Beast.
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We're getting close when you come and see a one
unified world religion and economy. We're getting close to the coming,
not to the coming of Antichrist.
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At that time, he's already here, to the coming of
the King of Kings and Lord of lords.
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Now there's a video that is circulating and the teaching
that is circulating right now is there is a potential
that Jesus will come this week.
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Now when you're.
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Listening to this message, Jewish people have a feast of trumpets,
and this feast of trumpets happens in the beginning of October,
sometimes late of September. As of twenty twenty five, the
feast of trumpets actually starts at sundown Monday through the
nightfall on Wednesday. So the speculation is going on because
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Jesus fulfills all the feasts of Israel.
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The Passover is where he died.
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On the feast of the Pentecost, the Holy Spirit was
poured out. The unleavened bread was Jesus's sinless body.
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In the grave.
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The next feast that has a prophetic picture is the Feast.
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Of the Trumpet.
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You may say why because at the second coming of Jesus,
the trumpet it will sound. So Israel's Feast of Trumpets falls.
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On that time. And many people are speculating.
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Since the rest of the feast that has already happened
and they were in line a shadow of Christ's first coming,
the next three feasts are gonna be exactly at his
second coming. But we don't know that for sure. Christ said,
nobody knows the day. Plus the Bible is clear the
Antichrist must be unveled and apostasy must happen.
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The temple hasn't been built. Antichrist at least has not
been revealed.
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Therefore, I can stand assuredly and tell you that the
rapture and the gathering of us to Jesus and his
coming most likely is not happening this week. We still
have to be watchful, we still have to be ready.
But the Bible tells us there are gonna be sequences
taking place before the Messiah returns, and one of them
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the temple has to be built, unveiling of the Antichrist,
and the great apostasy. This week, as we prepare for
the rapture, I want to tell you something that it's
probably not going to happen, because Jesus clearly stated nobody
knows the day, and Paul tells us few things have
to happen before the rapture of the Church and the
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coming of Jesus Christ. Now let's wrap up this message
and share the last and I believe one of the
most important things that Christians must remember. Jesus's coming is
not the end. It's the beginning of God's renewed rule.
The Old Testament prophets gave us this promise of the
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King and his kingdom. The Messiah will rule from Zion
over the nations. Old Testament prophets painted us the backdrop
that there will be resurrection of the faithful and that
there will be a judgment. They also painted this backdrop
that there will be new heavens and new Earth according
to Isaiah sixty five seventeen Isaiah sixty six, verse twenty two.
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So the King is coming. He will rule from Zion
over the nations. There will be a resurrection of the righteous,
and there will be a judgment on the wicked, and
there will be a new Earth and new heaven. Now
I want you to come to the New Testament, and
I want you to see how the New Testament gives
us a road map of after he returns what will
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take place. And I'll give you just five hours for
that roadmap his return.
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So he will return on.
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Earth for a thousand years, ordinary life will continue. People
will build homes, plant vineyards, have families, live very long life,
and nations will worship Jesus in Israel.
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And people will still die.
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The resurrected people, people who were transformed are not going
to die, but the rest of the life on this
earth will go on. Satan will be bound for a
thousand years. Then the second r of this roadmap is
there will be a revolt.
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After a thousand.
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Years, Satan is released for the final uprising. Then there
comes the reckoning. There comes a final great White Throne
judgment where the rest of the people are gonna be
raised from the dead. Bible calls his second resurrection. The
first resurrection is at the coming of the king. The
second resurrection is after a thousand year reign, after the
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final revolt is being disarmed. Satan is being cast into
the Lake of fire, is being bound. There's a great
white throne judgment. The rest of the dead are being
raised to face God and to give an account for
their life and to face final judgment. And then there's
one more r and that is the renewal. It's when
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new Earth and new Heaven is made. See, Jesus is
not coming to close the story. He is coming to
open the kingdom. We're gonna move from the promise to
the fulfillment, from his return to the whole world being
made the next few moments.
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What I'm gonna share my shock some of you.
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The heaven is real, but it's not the final home
of the Redeemed. The heaven you will go when you
die is not the heaven where you will spend eternity.
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Redeemed will spend eternity with.
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Resurrected Christ on the resurrected planet, in resurrected bodies. God's
original plan to create this planet. His creation is going
to be fulfilled and utilized at the end of his
Jesus' second coming, and this is exciting. The Bible tells
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us that when we die as believers, we go to
be with Christ. But after his return, it says that
God will bring resurrection, final judgment, and the New Earth,
and that becomes our permanent home.
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Now you may say new Earth.
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I remember when first time I got exposed to this
teaching on heaven and I started to learn about heaven.
And what shocked me is the view I had of
heaven is this.
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The Earth was bad.
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It's really bad, which is obviously broken, we know that.
But God is just gonna be done with the Earth
and then he's gonna take us all to Heaven, and
then we're gonna live forever in heaven. And for some
weird reason, Jesus will make a pit stop here for
a thousand years, I don't know, prove the devil something.
And then after that it's gonna wrap all of us
up again and we will go to live in this
beautiful place where just gonna be. We're gonna be spirits
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singing songs forever. It's like eternal worship service is gonna
be to God. But we're gonna love God so much.
Because we will have no flesh, we will have no
problem with that. That was my view of heaven. Biblical
view view of heaven is very different. The Bible tells
us that the meek will inherit the earth. It also
tells us that the righteous will dwell in the earth forever.
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How do you reconcile that.
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With you flying away and being in some state for
eternity there when the Bible.
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Says, Jesus says, we.
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Will inherit the earth and live here forever. The Bible
also tells us we will reign with Christ on this earth.
The scripture tells us the wicked will be cut off
from the earth, and those who don't serve God will
not remain or inherit the earth. And the Bible tells
us that the earth will dwell forever.
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So what do we do with that?
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We have to see God's point of view and God's picture,
and that is this. Why would God resurrect your body?
Why is God going to make a new earth? Because
in the last days, the scripture says, heaven will be
made new, and heaven like a city will come down
to Earth, and God will have his dwelling here on Earth.
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This is what eternity looks like, resurrected people in resurrected bodies,
unresurrected Earth with our resurrected Savior. The Bible doesn't end
with man going up to live with God forever. The
Bible ends with God coming down to dwell with men forever.
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God will make his home his headquarters here.
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On the new Earth. That changes how you view the Earth.
I am not promoting environmentalism. I am not promoting climate change.
What I am promoting is this. You have to look
at this planet as God's creation. It is broken, but
God will come back and fix it and make it new.
You have to look at your body as what God created.
It's gonna get broken, it's gonna turn to dust, and
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God's gonna make it new.
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You have to look at Jesus.
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Coming back to this Earth to reign for a thousand years.
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There will be one more revolt.
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That will happen, a final judgment, and there is gonna
be a total remodel of this planet, a total remodel
of everything, and we will reign with Jesus. We will
live forever with Christ for eternity on this planet. It
won't look the same way. But God said he will
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make a new Earth and new heaven. So the second
coming of Jesus is not the end of the story.
It's the beginning of the new story that God's been
waiting since the fall of Adam to bring back to
this earth.
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And I am so excited for it.
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And so heaven is not just this place we're gonna
fly away and kind of float over there. It's going
to be a place where you will be with Christ
in new body, on the new Earth reigning. You will
have responsibilities, you will have duties, you will have assignments.
It's not just gonna be a worship service. We will
live in a worshipful attitude with our Creator, and God
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will dwell with men. A Jewish holiday is called the Tabernacles.
It's when God will tabernacle with men and we will
have unity, walk with him, be with him forever. As
I wrap up this message, Jesus.
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Is coming is not going to be like.
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The first one. His coming and the gathering of us
to him is one event. While the end times has
many signs, his coming has.
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A one big one.
Speaker 4 (41:03):
A public glorious, loud appearing of the Son of God,
his second coming. While it's a mystery, his second coming
and are gathering. While it's a mystery, it's not going
to be a secret. At least two things have to
happen right before that, the unveiling of the Antichrist and
the great apostasy. And his coming is not the end,
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it's just the beginning of God's renewed rule.
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