WEBVTT 00:00:06.330 --> 00:00:07.969 Father, I want to thank you so much for your 00:00:07.969 --> 00:00:09.869 goodness and faithfulness, Lord, as we open up 00:00:09.869 --> 00:00:13.050 your word and we finish 2 Peter 3. I pray that 00:00:13.050 --> 00:00:15.710 we would honor and glorify you. Help us to understand 00:00:15.710 --> 00:00:19.469 about this great day. Help us to understand what 00:00:19.469 --> 00:00:24.050 it means, why you're coming. how it impacts us, 00:00:24.109 --> 00:00:27.530 and how we should be impacted today. I pray that 00:00:27.530 --> 00:00:29.510 you are honored and glorified in all things and 00:00:29.510 --> 00:00:33.049 help us to rightly divide your word as your people. 00:00:33.149 --> 00:00:34.789 And may the full counsel of your word be taught 00:00:34.789 --> 00:00:37.469 and spoken. So there's some things I think we 00:00:37.469 --> 00:00:39.149 need to address as we're going to be dealing 00:00:39.149 --> 00:00:45.630 with 2 Peter 3, verse 11 to 18. Chapter 3, verse 00:00:45.630 --> 00:00:48.590 11 to 18. And this is what it says. Since all 00:00:48.590 --> 00:00:51.899 these things are thus to be dissolved, What sort 00:00:51.899 --> 00:00:54.759 of people ought you to be in lives of holiness 00:00:54.759 --> 00:00:58.539 and godliness waiting for and hastening the coming 00:00:58.539 --> 00:01:02.619 of the day of God? Because of which the heavens 00:01:02.619 --> 00:01:05.739 will be set on fire and dissolved and the heavenly 00:01:05.739 --> 00:01:09.359 bodies will melt as they burn. But according 00:01:09.359 --> 00:01:13.200 to his promise, we are waiting for new heavens 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:16.019 and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. 00:01:16.040 --> 00:01:19.319 Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:22.579 these, be diligent to be found by him without 00:01:22.579 --> 00:01:27.780 spot or blemish and at peace. And count the patience 00:01:27.780 --> 00:01:32.120 of the Lord as salvation, just as your beloved 00:01:32.120 --> 00:01:35.260 brother Paul also wrote to you according to the 00:01:35.260 --> 00:01:39.530 wisdom given him. as he does in all his letters 00:01:39.530 --> 00:01:43.629 when he speaks in them of these matters. There 00:01:43.629 --> 00:01:46.810 are some things in them that are hard to understand, 00:01:47.129 --> 00:01:52.250 but which the ignorant and unstable twist to 00:01:52.250 --> 00:01:55.409 their own destruction as they do the other scriptures. 00:01:55.510 --> 00:01:58.530 You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, 00:01:58.769 --> 00:02:02.849 take care that you are not carried away with 00:02:02.849 --> 00:02:06.510 the error of lawless people. and lose your own 00:02:06.510 --> 00:02:10.569 stability, but grow in the grace and knowledge 00:02:10.569 --> 00:02:13.310 of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be 00:02:13.310 --> 00:02:17.849 glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen. 00:02:18.250 --> 00:02:23.710 So I will tell you, this group of scriptures 00:02:23.710 --> 00:02:28.770 is specifically focusing on how you should be, 00:02:28.969 --> 00:02:33.270 what you should expect, and specifically what 00:02:33.270 --> 00:02:38.879 is the day. Okay, so we will address that. It's 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:42.900 a little longer. It took me 50 minutes to get 00:02:42.900 --> 00:02:45.259 through this message in first service, and I 00:02:45.259 --> 00:02:48.919 pray that we would get done sooner, but let's 00:02:48.919 --> 00:02:53.539 see. So principle number one, to know Christ 00:02:53.539 --> 00:02:56.979 is returning, what kind of people should you 00:02:56.979 --> 00:03:01.860 be? If you know Christ is returning, what kind 00:03:01.860 --> 00:03:06.539 of people should you be? 1 John 3, 2 and 3. Beloved, 00:03:06.539 --> 00:03:10.800 we are God's children now. And what we will be 00:03:10.800 --> 00:03:14.759 has not yet appeared. But we know that when he 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:18.020 appears, we shall be like him. So what we are 00:03:18.020 --> 00:03:23.280 to be is like Christ. And we haven't seen his 00:03:23.280 --> 00:03:27.699 appearing yet. And that's what we will be. So 00:03:27.699 --> 00:03:30.960 the important part is what is Paul telling us 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:35.400 to focus on? What's going to happen? Or who the 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:38.219 person? The person of Christ. He's telling us 00:03:38.219 --> 00:03:41.620 we should be focused on Christ. That's important 00:03:41.620 --> 00:03:44.379 as we deal with the issue of the day of God. 00:03:44.620 --> 00:03:48.599 Okay? Because we shall see him as he is. And 00:03:48.599 --> 00:03:53.250 as he is. we will be. And everyone who thus hopes 00:03:53.250 --> 00:03:57.129 in him purifies himself as he is pure. What should 00:03:57.129 --> 00:04:00.490 you be doing until he returns? What should you 00:04:00.490 --> 00:04:04.349 be doing until you become like him completely? 00:04:04.750 --> 00:04:08.669 You should be living holy, obedient. That's the 00:04:08.669 --> 00:04:12.650 idea here. So in 2 Peter 3, 11 through 13, some 00:04:12.650 --> 00:04:15.689 very important things we need to see. Since all 00:04:15.689 --> 00:04:20.769 these, these, Peter's specifically talking about, 00:04:20.870 --> 00:04:24.769 this thing's going to drive me nuts. I don't 00:04:24.769 --> 00:04:27.149 know why it keeps falling off my ear, but it 00:04:27.149 --> 00:04:32.149 is. So hold on. All right. The other one doesn't 00:04:32.149 --> 00:04:35.009 give me a hard time. Since all these, verse 10. 00:04:35.470 --> 00:04:37.829 So I want you to see what it says in verse 10 00:04:37.829 --> 00:04:39.750 because you'll know what Peter is talking about. 00:04:39.930 --> 00:04:42.790 In verse 10, he says, but the day of the Lord 00:04:42.790 --> 00:04:44.529 will come like a thief. So we know he's talking 00:04:44.529 --> 00:04:47.269 about the day and the heavens will pass away 00:04:47.269 --> 00:04:50.089 with a roar and the heavenly bodies will be burned 00:04:50.089 --> 00:04:52.810 up and dissolved and the earth and the works 00:04:52.810 --> 00:04:56.899 that are done. on it will be exposed. Since all 00:04:56.899 --> 00:04:59.980 these, since all this list that we just got done 00:04:59.980 --> 00:05:04.019 will be dissolved, destroyed into parts, what 00:05:04.019 --> 00:05:07.819 sort of people ought you to be? What manner of 00:05:07.819 --> 00:05:09.939 people ought you to be? How should you be living? 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:12.220 And that's really what he's trying to get to. 00:05:12.579 --> 00:05:16.000 What happens in today's society, especially among 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:20.000 the churches that are dispensational in their 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:23.639 teaching, everybody's focused on what's going 00:05:23.639 --> 00:05:29.680 to happen. Not taking the mark. Being taken out 00:05:29.680 --> 00:05:34.399 of the world before the seven -year tribulation 00:05:34.399 --> 00:05:37.399 happens. But I want you to notice what Peter's 00:05:37.399 --> 00:05:41.079 focus is. Peter's focus isn't what's going to 00:05:41.079 --> 00:05:43.920 happen. Peter's focus is what should you be doing 00:05:43.920 --> 00:05:46.300 and how should you be living. You should be holy. 00:05:47.370 --> 00:05:49.430 If we're focused on events, we're not focused 00:05:49.430 --> 00:05:51.629 on Christ. And if we're not focused on Christ, 00:05:51.790 --> 00:05:55.430 we're not focused on his work in our lives. We 00:05:55.430 --> 00:05:58.850 get too wrapped up in the nonsense. And that's 00:05:58.850 --> 00:06:01.490 really what he's dealing with here. So this word 00:06:01.490 --> 00:06:06.449 holiness means to live holy. Are you living holy? 00:06:06.730 --> 00:06:10.850 Is Christ your focus in these last days? And 00:06:10.850 --> 00:06:14.230 then the second is godliness. Godliness is aims 00:06:14.230 --> 00:06:19.670 and acts of devotion. Are you devoted to the 00:06:19.670 --> 00:06:23.230 word and the ways of God? Is that your life? 00:06:23.870 --> 00:06:26.910 And that's important. So he's saying that if 00:06:26.910 --> 00:06:29.750 you are going to be a godly people, a people 00:06:29.750 --> 00:06:33.290 who knows Christ is returning, then you should 00:06:33.290 --> 00:06:36.829 be living holy lives, obediently according to 00:06:36.829 --> 00:06:40.069 his word, doing and being found to do what he's 00:06:40.069 --> 00:06:43.310 commanded you to do, and living in such a way 00:06:43.310 --> 00:06:47.290 that your life is devoted. to that purpose. Now, 00:06:47.329 --> 00:06:51.569 look what it says in verse 12, waiting for and 00:06:51.569 --> 00:06:54.449 hastening the coming of the day of God. This 00:06:54.449 --> 00:06:59.370 word waiting for literally translates as expect 00:06:59.370 --> 00:07:04.490 or look forward to. Do you genuinely look forward 00:07:04.490 --> 00:07:10.149 to the appearing of Christ? Are you eagerly desiring 00:07:10.149 --> 00:07:15.110 Jesus's return? Okay, so that is what we are 00:07:15.110 --> 00:07:17.970 focused on. We are looking forward and we are 00:07:17.970 --> 00:07:22.009 earnestly desiring, eagerly desiring Jesus's 00:07:22.009 --> 00:07:26.230 return. Then it should spur you on to live a 00:07:26.230 --> 00:07:29.129 life that reflects him and you should be busy 00:07:29.129 --> 00:07:32.790 doing what he's asked you to do. The question 00:07:32.790 --> 00:07:35.370 is, are we? And then the big question is, what 00:07:35.370 --> 00:07:38.430 is the coming of the day of God? It's interesting 00:07:38.430 --> 00:07:42.199 that he doesn't use the word Christos here. The 00:07:42.199 --> 00:07:45.620 coming of the day of Christ or the great day 00:07:45.620 --> 00:07:48.360 of the Lord. He doesn't even use the word Lord 00:07:48.360 --> 00:07:51.639 here. He's saying the coming of the day of God. 00:07:52.779 --> 00:07:56.519 Theos. So we're going to go down below in a minute 00:07:56.519 --> 00:08:00.519 to clarify what this day looks like. And why 00:08:00.519 --> 00:08:03.560 we should be eagerly awaiting and seeking and 00:08:03.560 --> 00:08:07.339 desiring and looking forward to this day. That 00:08:07.339 --> 00:08:12.319 day is the clarification as what's stated. in 00:08:12.319 --> 00:08:15.660 the verse that I read previously, that we are 00:08:15.660 --> 00:08:20.579 going to be like him. I want to see him because 00:08:20.579 --> 00:08:23.480 I know when I see him, I will be transformed 00:08:23.480 --> 00:08:27.019 and like him in my physical body. My physical 00:08:27.019 --> 00:08:30.000 body will be like his body. And then the work 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:32.340 and the fulfillment of what was promised is complete. 00:08:32.700 --> 00:08:36.340 Now look what it says here. This coming day of 00:08:36.340 --> 00:08:41.019 God, because of which the heavens The heavens 00:08:41.019 --> 00:08:45.220 is all that is seen in the universe. So I want 00:08:45.220 --> 00:08:47.820 you to get that. So when you look up in the sky 00:08:47.820 --> 00:08:51.320 at night and you see the beauty of the stars, 00:08:51.519 --> 00:08:56.840 that's going to go away. You're like, but that's 00:08:56.840 --> 00:08:58.559 beautiful. I mean, it's perfect. I mean, God 00:08:58.559 --> 00:09:03.210 has. So. He says something here that's shocking. 00:09:03.470 --> 00:09:06.610 So everything that you see, all the stars in 00:09:06.610 --> 00:09:09.570 the heavens, all the trees, everything will be 00:09:09.570 --> 00:09:13.970 set on fire. The word is puroo. Puroo. And this 00:09:13.970 --> 00:09:15.809 word means to burn. It's where we get the word, 00:09:15.909 --> 00:09:23.590 what? Yes, I was, thank you. Pyro, right? To 00:09:23.590 --> 00:09:27.529 burn. And the word dissolve, luo, means to destroy 00:09:27.529 --> 00:09:31.080 into parts. So I want you to get this. When God 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:33.360 created and he spoke into existence to creation, 00:09:33.679 --> 00:09:38.200 he created ex nihilo, out of nothing, and all 00:09:38.200 --> 00:09:40.179 the things that he had created out of nothing, 00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:43.820 he spoke into existence the smallest particles 00:09:43.820 --> 00:09:46.960 and the smallest parts that you can't see in 00:09:46.960 --> 00:09:52.019 order to create it. What God is going to do is 00:09:52.019 --> 00:09:57.539 destroy down to the smallest particle. He's going 00:09:57.539 --> 00:10:00.580 to destroy it all. You're like, well, why would 00:10:00.580 --> 00:10:02.980 he do that? That's not, doesn't sound, I'm not 00:10:02.980 --> 00:10:07.559 very happy. I mean, I like, it's like, why would 00:10:07.559 --> 00:10:11.740 God do that? Because sin has corrupted everything 00:10:11.740 --> 00:10:17.200 to the smallest particle. Sin is a disease and 00:10:17.200 --> 00:10:21.519 a cancer that you cannot see and has corrupted 00:10:21.519 --> 00:10:25.500 everything, even the universe and its beauty. 00:10:27.460 --> 00:10:30.639 But like, well, how is that possible? Do you 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:33.080 ever see a tree fall to the ground? We have a 00:10:33.080 --> 00:10:34.840 bunch of trees that dried up and are gray now. 00:10:35.639 --> 00:10:39.639 God never intended trees to dry up and die. Why 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:42.980 do they die? Because of sin. How about stars? 00:10:43.100 --> 00:10:45.419 You ever seen a star fall from the sky and you 00:10:45.419 --> 00:10:47.519 go, oh, that's beautiful. You know, that star 00:10:47.519 --> 00:10:50.919 was never supposed to fall from the sky. God 00:10:50.919 --> 00:10:53.039 never intended the star to fall from the sky. 00:10:53.159 --> 00:10:56.139 The stars are to sing of the beauty and the glory 00:10:56.139 --> 00:10:59.879 of God. You're like, but it is beautiful. But 00:10:59.879 --> 00:11:04.220 that's not what it was created for. Now what's 00:11:04.220 --> 00:11:06.700 interesting is what happens to these heavenly 00:11:06.700 --> 00:11:10.299 bodies. These elements from which all things 00:11:10.299 --> 00:11:15.460 come. They will melt. They will liquefy. They 00:11:15.460 --> 00:11:19.419 will liquefy. They will become liquid as they 00:11:19.419 --> 00:11:24.879 burn. He's going to liquefy it. And this word 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:30.419 burn means burned up by fire. Intense heat. But, 00:11:30.500 --> 00:11:32.919 according to his promise, we are waiting for 00:11:32.919 --> 00:11:42.340 new. Keinas. Means a new or a superior to the 00:11:42.340 --> 00:11:48.179 old. So, how many guys like, I don't know if 00:11:48.179 --> 00:11:50.139 you guys, do any of you guys live in log cabins? 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:52.720 Right? A log cabin is beautiful to live in a 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:56.519 log cabin. Love log cabins. Well, when God comes, 00:11:56.519 --> 00:11:59.500 it's not going to be a log cabin anymore. You're 00:11:59.500 --> 00:12:03.179 like, oh, that's my house. Not going to exist. 00:12:04.080 --> 00:12:07.299 Why? Because of this term right here, new. This 00:12:07.299 --> 00:12:11.379 term right here means superior to the old. Now, 00:12:11.379 --> 00:12:13.980 I want you to get this. I want you to look at 00:12:13.980 --> 00:12:18.059 the beauty of the universe now. The new universe 00:12:18.059 --> 00:12:23.110 beyond your imagination. Beyond your imagination. 00:12:23.169 --> 00:12:26.690 Look at the flowers that you see. Beautiful. 00:12:27.110 --> 00:12:30.730 The new flowers, beyond your imagination. You 00:12:30.730 --> 00:12:35.370 can't even fathom the reality of the beauty that 00:12:35.370 --> 00:12:39.169 God is going to create when he makes a new heaven. 00:12:39.690 --> 00:12:42.049 Because that's what this means. It is superior 00:12:42.049 --> 00:12:47.830 to the old. This is old. This is going to be 00:12:47.830 --> 00:12:51.360 nothing. But the new heaven and the new earth, 00:12:51.460 --> 00:12:54.980 superior. Far superior than you can imagine. 00:12:55.659 --> 00:13:00.080 I was watching golf. I love golf. Thank you, 00:13:00.080 --> 00:13:04.940 John. Right? And I'm watching this nine -hole. 00:13:04.940 --> 00:13:07.899 It's a public course. And I'm watching the golfers 00:13:07.899 --> 00:13:13.860 play. And they're playing on a nine -hole public 00:13:13.860 --> 00:13:19.009 course in the middle of... of the largest redwoods 00:13:19.009 --> 00:13:26.490 in the world. Beautiful. But I looked. And I'm 00:13:26.490 --> 00:13:29.970 looking at the beauty of these trees. And the 00:13:29.970 --> 00:13:34.850 reality is, the new earth will have trees far 00:13:34.850 --> 00:13:39.309 superior than those. And you look at those trees 00:13:39.309 --> 00:13:41.450 and you go, God created them. They're beautiful. 00:13:41.990 --> 00:13:47.600 But yet they still fall. They die. But the new 00:13:47.600 --> 00:13:50.399 heavens, new earth, what scripture says that 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:53.220 when we go, there will be no more tears and no 00:13:53.220 --> 00:13:56.860 more pain and no more sickness. There'll be nothing. 00:13:57.039 --> 00:13:59.259 We won't need that. Sin will not be present. 00:13:59.460 --> 00:14:04.799 Sin will be eradicated down to the smallest minute 00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:10.279 element. Wherever sin has infiltrated, It will 00:14:10.279 --> 00:14:13.700 not exist. And that's why he says that he will 00:14:13.700 --> 00:14:17.600 give a new heavens and a new earth, which righteousness 00:14:17.600 --> 00:14:21.379 dwells. Because where righteousness dwells, there 00:14:21.379 --> 00:14:26.059 is no sin. So when the scripture says the meek 00:14:26.059 --> 00:14:28.759 will inherit the earth, what Jesus is talking 00:14:28.759 --> 00:14:31.200 about there is the meek will inherit the new 00:14:31.200 --> 00:14:37.000 earth. The superior earth. Think about that. 00:14:37.840 --> 00:14:42.360 The earth made new. It's an amazing thing. Turn 00:14:42.360 --> 00:14:48.080 to Isaiah chapter 65. Isaiah chapter 65. See 00:14:48.080 --> 00:14:55.279 what it says here, chapter 65, verse 17. Beautiful 00:14:55.279 --> 00:14:58.759 statement here. Even Isaiah talks about this 00:14:58.759 --> 00:15:02.960 amazing, beautiful new heaven and new earth. 00:15:03.299 --> 00:15:08.549 It says this, for behold, I create new heavens 00:15:08.549 --> 00:15:12.350 and a new earth and the former things shall not 00:15:12.350 --> 00:15:15.389 be remembered or come to mind. Remember your 00:15:15.389 --> 00:15:17.529 little log cabin house and the house you live 00:15:17.529 --> 00:15:19.730 in, the thing you love and all the memories you 00:15:19.730 --> 00:15:23.750 think you're going to have? It's all gone. All 00:15:23.750 --> 00:15:28.289 gone. Why? Because we get the splendor and the 00:15:28.289 --> 00:15:31.470 glory of a mighty God in the new of all that 00:15:31.470 --> 00:15:37.799 he has to offer. A more superior. Now, turn to 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:45.139 chapter 66, verse 22. 66, verse 22. For as the 00:15:45.139 --> 00:15:48.700 new heavens and the new earth that I make shall 00:15:48.700 --> 00:15:51.700 remain before me, says the Lord, so shall your 00:15:51.700 --> 00:15:56.779 offspring and your name remain. God makes the 00:15:56.779 --> 00:16:00.299 new heaven and the new earth. So what is the 00:16:00.299 --> 00:16:04.480 purpose of the day of God? In John 14, one through 00:16:04.480 --> 00:16:07.919 three, you know what he says. I go to prepare 00:16:07.919 --> 00:16:10.879 a place for you. If I did not go and prepare 00:16:10.879 --> 00:16:16.220 a place for you, right? I would come and take 00:16:16.220 --> 00:16:18.259 you to myself and you will be with me. For where 00:16:18.259 --> 00:16:21.779 I am, you shall be also. And the reality is that 00:16:21.779 --> 00:16:23.700 the whole point of the new heavens and the new 00:16:23.700 --> 00:16:27.259 earth is that we will dwell tabernacle with God. 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:34.600 So why do we hold on to the old so tightly? To 00:16:34.600 --> 00:16:39.179 memories that are fading. So in Matthew 24, 29 00:16:39.179 --> 00:16:41.779 through 31, we're now going to talk about what 00:16:41.779 --> 00:16:52.960 is this day of God? The scripture clarifies clearly 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:57.100 what the day of God is. The day of the Lord. 00:16:57.240 --> 00:17:01.409 The great day of the Lord. It is the day, the 00:17:01.409 --> 00:17:05.069 last day, the day, day. Can't get any more day 00:17:05.069 --> 00:17:08.109 than that day. There's not a day before or a 00:17:08.109 --> 00:17:10.730 day three and a half years or seven years before. 00:17:10.829 --> 00:17:14.009 It's not a day that happens. Then we wait for 00:17:14.009 --> 00:17:20.910 the day. It's the day. One day. It's a day of 00:17:20.910 --> 00:17:27.779 glory and joy and awe of God and his power. But 00:17:27.779 --> 00:17:33.960 it's also a day of great wrath. For us, it's 00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:38.799 being in Christ. For the world, it's destruction. 00:17:39.740 --> 00:17:42.440 There is no other way to say it. And the scripture 00:17:42.440 --> 00:17:45.779 clearly teaches this. As a matter of fact, I 00:17:45.779 --> 00:17:48.700 was doing a study. I was able to find through 00:17:48.700 --> 00:17:53.900 a source 68 times the word the day of the Lord 00:17:53.900 --> 00:17:57.539 or the day of God is mentioned. 68. I'm sure 00:17:57.539 --> 00:18:00.259 there's more. But let's talk about this day. 00:18:00.319 --> 00:18:01.740 I'm only going to give you a few and I'm going 00:18:01.740 --> 00:18:04.099 to give you some from the Apostle Paul since 00:18:04.099 --> 00:18:06.920 Peter alludes to him. But we're also going to 00:18:06.920 --> 00:18:10.000 give you some from Jesus. And this is what I 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:14.319 need these preachers and teachers and these men 00:18:14.319 --> 00:18:16.380 that are on pulpits or teaching their Bible studies 00:18:16.380 --> 00:18:19.900 to hear. Because we need to be biblically right. 00:18:21.500 --> 00:18:24.380 Not for the sake of my own narrative or how I 00:18:24.380 --> 00:18:28.450 feel. We need to settle on the truth of the scripture. 00:18:28.849 --> 00:18:32.769 And Jesus says it clearly. There's no mincing 00:18:32.769 --> 00:18:35.430 words here. There's no adding here and flipping 00:18:35.430 --> 00:18:38.130 here and pulling something from over there. It 00:18:38.130 --> 00:18:42.490 is simple. And it's meant to be. Matthew 24, 00:18:42.650 --> 00:18:47.769 29 through 31. Immediately after the tribulation 00:18:47.769 --> 00:18:51.950 of those days, the sun will be darkened and the 00:18:51.950 --> 00:18:55.720 moon not give its light. And the stars will fall 00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:59.440 from heaven. Sounds like what he said here, right? 00:18:59.579 --> 00:19:06.140 In chapter 3, that the universe will melt. The 00:19:06.140 --> 00:19:08.400 stars will fall from heaven and the powers of 00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:12.819 the heavens will be shaken. Sounds the same, 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:16.750 doesn't it? Then will appear in heaven the sign 00:19:16.750 --> 00:19:20.190 of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of 00:19:20.190 --> 00:19:22.789 the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son 00:19:22.789 --> 00:19:26.730 of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power 00:19:26.730 --> 00:19:33.029 and great glory. And he will send out his angels 00:19:33.029 --> 00:19:35.970 with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather 00:19:35.970 --> 00:19:39.950 his elect from the four winds from one end of 00:19:39.950 --> 00:19:47.289 heaven to the other. When? On that day. So what 00:19:47.289 --> 00:19:50.450 is that day for? The day is for your gathering. 00:19:50.970 --> 00:19:54.769 The day is for your removal from the wrath of 00:19:54.769 --> 00:19:59.450 God. The day is for your being in Christ who 00:19:59.450 --> 00:20:04.750 is your ark. That's what the day is for. Mark 00:20:04.750 --> 00:20:08.950 13. Says it this way, but in those days after 00:20:08.950 --> 00:20:11.809 the tribulation, the sun will be darkened and 00:20:11.809 --> 00:20:14.069 the moon will not give its light and the stars 00:20:14.069 --> 00:20:17.569 will be falling from heaven and the powers in 00:20:17.569 --> 00:20:20.509 the heavens will be shaken and then they will 00:20:20.509 --> 00:20:22.509 see the son of man coming in the clouds with 00:20:22.509 --> 00:20:25.250 great power and glory and then he will send out 00:20:25.250 --> 00:20:27.710 his angels to gather his elect from the four 00:20:27.710 --> 00:20:30.250 winds from the ends of the earth to the ends 00:20:30.250 --> 00:20:34.000 of the heavens. So what do we know? The day of 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:36.900 the Lord is for the gathering of his people because 00:20:36.900 --> 00:20:40.880 something is going to happen. What is that something? 00:20:41.579 --> 00:20:45.279 Well, in 1 Thessalonians 5 .2, Paul says it this 00:20:45.279 --> 00:20:48.940 way. So those are Jesus' words. And there are 00:20:48.940 --> 00:20:51.980 more, but didn't want to do that because this 00:20:51.980 --> 00:20:54.970 is long enough. 1 Thessalonians 5, 2. For you 00:20:54.970 --> 00:20:57.490 yourselves are fully aware that the day of the 00:20:57.490 --> 00:20:59.349 Lord will come like a thief in the night. What 00:20:59.349 --> 00:21:01.250 do we know about the day? Not only is the day 00:21:01.250 --> 00:21:03.390 for our gathering and for our removal from the 00:21:03.390 --> 00:21:06.890 wrath of God, because that's clearly why he quotes 00:21:06.890 --> 00:21:09.890 that in Mark and Matthew. It is also for, it's 00:21:09.890 --> 00:21:11.789 also to know that you're not going to know when 00:21:11.789 --> 00:21:18.930 it's going to come. You have no clue. It's going 00:21:18.930 --> 00:21:23.279 to come when no one expects. Why? Because he 00:21:23.279 --> 00:21:26.079 promised he's going to come. For who? For his 00:21:26.079 --> 00:21:30.180 people. And to deal with what? Sin. To eradicate 00:21:30.180 --> 00:21:36.259 it completely. 2 Thessalonians 2, 1 through 3. 00:21:36.579 --> 00:21:39.740 Now here's the hard part. This is going to wreck 00:21:39.740 --> 00:21:43.059 you. So if you're a dispensationalist, I'm warning 00:21:43.059 --> 00:21:45.940 you up front. It's going to challenge you in 00:21:45.940 --> 00:21:48.500 ways that it's going to challenge you. And this 00:21:48.500 --> 00:21:51.079 is the word of God. Don't get mad at me. Deal 00:21:51.079 --> 00:21:53.789 with the word. But I'm going to tell you exactly 00:21:53.789 --> 00:21:57.470 what it says. And so far, we know what the day 00:21:57.470 --> 00:22:00.130 of the Lord is for, right? Now concerning the 00:22:00.130 --> 00:22:03.210 coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being 00:22:03.210 --> 00:22:05.970 gathered together to him, which I just read to 00:22:05.970 --> 00:22:08.789 you in Matthew and Mark. The whole point is that 00:22:08.789 --> 00:22:10.769 the day is going to come. Jesus is going to gather 00:22:10.769 --> 00:22:13.769 his people out from the four winds of the earth 00:22:13.769 --> 00:22:18.269 and heavens so that we will be with him. Look 00:22:18.269 --> 00:22:20.970 what he says here. When would that happen? When 00:22:20.970 --> 00:22:24.430 would this gathering happen? We ask you, brothers, 00:22:24.470 --> 00:22:26.990 not to be quickly shaken in mind. In other words, 00:22:27.009 --> 00:22:30.609 don't let your mind be stable in your thinking, 00:22:30.650 --> 00:22:33.009 be stable in your mind, which Peter mentions 00:22:33.009 --> 00:22:39.210 in the verses to come. Or alarmed, shocked. Don't 00:22:39.210 --> 00:22:41.809 be shocked. He's already told you he's going 00:22:41.809 --> 00:22:43.930 to come like a thief, so it shouldn't, like, 00:22:43.950 --> 00:22:48.130 shock you. Either by spirit, this means by this 00:22:48.130 --> 00:22:53.230 attitude or pervasive overwhelming sense because 00:22:53.230 --> 00:22:55.890 of what's being said around you and the effects 00:22:55.890 --> 00:22:59.970 of what's being said around you. Or as someone 00:22:59.970 --> 00:23:02.470 spoke it, someone has been preaching and teaching. 00:23:03.750 --> 00:23:05.890 And this is one of the things why I hate the 00:23:05.890 --> 00:23:09.410 seven mountain mandate. Any church that teaches 00:23:09.410 --> 00:23:12.269 that we need to get the earth ready for Jesus 00:23:12.269 --> 00:23:17.210 by... Bringing the kingdom here doesn't understand 00:23:17.210 --> 00:23:20.029 biblically what's happening here. Because God 00:23:20.029 --> 00:23:23.450 is going to destroy this earth and everything 00:23:23.450 --> 00:23:25.930 that's left. So there is a seven mountain mandate 00:23:25.930 --> 00:23:29.349 teaching. I'm telling you scripturally. The word 00:23:29.349 --> 00:23:35.569 of God warns you, stay away. Look what he says. 00:23:35.910 --> 00:23:39.430 Or a letter seeming to be from us. To the effect 00:23:39.430 --> 00:23:44.099 that the day of the Lord has come. I want you 00:23:44.099 --> 00:23:48.039 to see that. In the Greek, it's the day. And 00:23:48.039 --> 00:23:51.319 what is the day? The last day. What is the last 00:23:51.319 --> 00:23:54.279 day? The day of God. What is the day of God? 00:23:54.680 --> 00:23:57.779 When Jesus returns and he gathers his people 00:23:57.779 --> 00:24:00.500 to himself. That's the day. What happens on that 00:24:00.500 --> 00:24:04.640 day? Well, when is that day going to come? Verse 00:24:04.640 --> 00:24:09.579 3. And this is important. Let no one deceive 00:24:09.579 --> 00:24:14.930 you in any way. For that day will not come. Let's 00:24:14.930 --> 00:24:19.650 stop there. So listen to me. The day will not 00:24:19.650 --> 00:24:25.569 come until Jesus says he's coming. When's that? 00:24:25.789 --> 00:24:31.289 Like a thief. You don't know the day. And he's 00:24:31.289 --> 00:24:35.450 telling you that day will not come until. What's 00:24:35.450 --> 00:24:39.009 that day? Our gathering together to him. He hasn't 00:24:39.009 --> 00:24:40.849 left you behind because that's exactly what he's 00:24:40.849 --> 00:24:43.190 saying to the Thessalonians. The Thessalonians 00:24:43.190 --> 00:24:48.130 felt that Jesus had come and left them. That's 00:24:48.130 --> 00:24:51.569 the point of the letter. But, you know, we got 00:24:51.569 --> 00:24:53.529 to avoid that because that doesn't fit the narrative. 00:24:54.069 --> 00:24:57.750 That doesn't fit the deception. Because we love 00:24:57.750 --> 00:24:59.970 the seven -year tribulation nonsense. We got 00:24:59.970 --> 00:25:02.950 to have that. We got to be out of the way so 00:25:02.950 --> 00:25:07.859 that we don't get hurt. And that's why he does 00:25:07.859 --> 00:25:10.960 this. That's why Paul clarifies this. He says, 00:25:10.980 --> 00:25:14.539 let no one deceive you in any way for that day 00:25:14.539 --> 00:25:20.039 will not come unless two things happen. So I 00:25:20.039 --> 00:25:21.799 know because in the seven -year tribulation, 00:25:21.799 --> 00:25:26.740 it says we won't see the Antichrist because that's 00:25:26.740 --> 00:25:29.000 what they teach. We're not going to see him because 00:25:29.000 --> 00:25:30.299 we're going to be removed because once we're 00:25:30.299 --> 00:25:34.220 removed, then he can come in. But that's not 00:25:34.220 --> 00:25:37.759 what it teaches here. Because Paul says it this 00:25:37.759 --> 00:25:43.539 way, unless the rebellion comes first. What rebellion? 00:25:43.839 --> 00:25:48.660 The turning away of the gospel. The false gospels. 00:25:50.660 --> 00:25:54.859 And how much of false gospel has been preached? 00:25:57.279 --> 00:26:00.599 Especially the prosperity gospel, which John 00:26:00.599 --> 00:26:06.640 Piper says he hates. And I hate it too. These 00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:11.500 are gospels with no promise. Gospels for only 00:26:11.500 --> 00:26:16.619 gain. Which we've been talking about. So what 00:26:16.619 --> 00:26:19.440 has to happen? The rebellion comes first. I'm 00:26:19.440 --> 00:26:25.259 pretty close we're there. They're not preaching 00:26:25.259 --> 00:26:28.759 the gospel of Jesus. What's the second? And, 00:26:28.859 --> 00:26:31.400 I want you to notice that word and in the Greek 00:26:31.400 --> 00:26:37.150 is and. Meaning also. So the rebellion comes 00:26:37.150 --> 00:26:41.150 first and the man of lawlessness is revealed, 00:26:41.369 --> 00:26:46.650 the son of destruction. Do you hear that? So 00:26:46.650 --> 00:26:49.089 what's that mean? We won't be gathered to him 00:26:49.089 --> 00:26:54.730 until the Antichrist is revealed. I'm going to 00:26:54.730 --> 00:27:00.609 see him? Yes. I'm going to be here? Yes. Well, 00:27:00.650 --> 00:27:03.049 when am I going to be removed? When God destroys 00:27:03.049 --> 00:27:07.049 the earth. He promises he will gather you away. 00:27:07.769 --> 00:27:11.609 How do we know that? Because the Bible says that 00:27:11.609 --> 00:27:18.049 we are not children of wrath. Ephesians. He hasn't 00:27:18.049 --> 00:27:22.130 destined us for wrath. Not destined us to avoid 00:27:22.130 --> 00:27:26.230 the mark and all the other things that go along 00:27:26.230 --> 00:27:31.210 with the seven year tribulation teaching. He 00:27:31.210 --> 00:27:35.690 says we will not experience his wrath. So what 00:27:35.690 --> 00:27:43.029 does that mean for us? What Paul and Peter are 00:27:43.029 --> 00:27:45.650 doing is they're telling you stop focusing on 00:27:45.650 --> 00:27:51.609 the stuff and focus on the who. Expect the who. 00:27:53.789 --> 00:27:56.750 Stop expecting to get out of a situation and 00:27:56.750 --> 00:28:02.579 expect eagerly to see him. That's the one deception 00:28:02.579 --> 00:28:04.259 that most people don't understand when it comes 00:28:04.259 --> 00:28:08.099 to dispensational theology. Or dispensational 00:28:08.099 --> 00:28:15.400 eschatology. Is the avoidance of suffering. I 00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:19.039 really believe that. They just want to get out. 00:28:20.319 --> 00:28:23.319 I want to get out too. But I want to get out 00:28:23.319 --> 00:28:27.099 being found busy working. Being found busy serving. 00:28:27.849 --> 00:28:34.009 So what two things are holding Jesus back? Why 00:28:34.009 --> 00:28:37.549 hasn't he entered yet? Because the rebellion 00:28:37.549 --> 00:28:40.529 has to happen and then the Antichrist must be 00:28:40.529 --> 00:28:43.470 revealed. And this word revealed means the unveiling. 00:28:44.470 --> 00:28:52.240 You will see him. Romans 2. Next verse. So we 00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:54.140 know that the day of the Lord is for the gathering 00:28:54.140 --> 00:28:57.259 of his people and the revealing of the evil one 00:28:57.259 --> 00:29:00.220 and the culmination of the false gospel being 00:29:00.220 --> 00:29:07.079 preached and taught globally. Romans 2, 5. Because 00:29:07.079 --> 00:29:11.039 of your hard and impotent heart, you are storing 00:29:11.039 --> 00:29:15.880 up wrath for yourselves on the day of wrath when 00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:19.460 God's righteous judgment will be revealed. So 00:29:19.460 --> 00:29:22.980 what's the day for? Wrath. So not only is the 00:29:22.980 --> 00:29:28.700 day for gathering, not only is it a day for the 00:29:28.700 --> 00:29:32.960 revealing of the evil one, not only is it the 00:29:32.960 --> 00:29:36.339 day for the appearing of the glorious one for 00:29:36.339 --> 00:29:41.380 his people, it's also the day of wrath, the scripture 00:29:41.380 --> 00:29:47.339 says. On the day of wrath, the day. Then look 00:29:47.339 --> 00:29:50.200 what it says in Philippians 1 .6. And I am sure 00:29:50.200 --> 00:29:53.079 of this, that he who began a good work in you 00:29:53.079 --> 00:29:56.960 will bring into completion on the day of Jesus 00:29:56.960 --> 00:30:01.880 Christ. So what is the day for? Your completion. 00:30:04.380 --> 00:30:10.079 Let's go. Like, no more old wrinkles, back pain, 00:30:10.279 --> 00:30:17.289 all that gone. 30, 33, let's go all day. Yes. 00:30:18.789 --> 00:30:22.089 But what's the most important thing we get in 00:30:22.089 --> 00:30:27.509 the completion? Jesus. That's what we get. The 00:30:27.509 --> 00:30:34.369 completion is to be like him. John 38 through 00:30:34.369 --> 00:30:37.970 40. For I have come down from heaven, not to 00:30:37.970 --> 00:30:43.089 do my own will, but the will of him who sent 00:30:43.089 --> 00:30:47.210 me. And this is the will of him who sent me, 00:30:47.309 --> 00:30:51.869 that I should lose nothing of all that he has 00:30:51.869 --> 00:30:58.650 given me. Do you hear that? But raise it up on 00:30:58.650 --> 00:31:06.009 the last day. So what is the day for? The resurrection 00:31:06.009 --> 00:31:09.769 of the dead and the taking up of the saints. 00:31:11.250 --> 00:31:16.160 Because why? On that day is the declaration and 00:31:16.160 --> 00:31:19.500 the fulfillment of the promise that he will not 00:31:19.500 --> 00:31:24.160 lose any that the father has given him. Not one. 00:31:25.339 --> 00:31:29.339 What a glorious day. For this is the will of 00:31:29.339 --> 00:31:32.140 my father that everyone who looks to the son 00:31:32.140 --> 00:31:35.319 and believes in him should have eternal life. 00:31:35.400 --> 00:31:41.400 And I will raise him up on the last day. Do you 00:31:41.400 --> 00:31:45.099 hear that? What is the will of the father? To 00:31:45.099 --> 00:31:51.680 raise up his people on the last day. Can't avoid 00:31:51.680 --> 00:31:56.140 that. So what do dispensationalists teach? There's 00:31:56.140 --> 00:31:59.640 another last day. It's not the last day. The 00:31:59.640 --> 00:32:01.960 last day is the actual last day after the first 00:32:01.960 --> 00:32:06.440 last day. Two last days, sort of, kind of. The 00:32:06.440 --> 00:32:08.500 first one is really not a last day, though. It's 00:32:08.500 --> 00:32:10.819 a last day because Jesus doesn't put his foot 00:32:10.819 --> 00:32:14.880 on the earth and as a result, crack the Mount 00:32:14.880 --> 00:32:16.859 of Olives in half. Because of that, it's only 00:32:16.859 --> 00:32:22.740 half a last day. Really. John Darby, please give 00:32:22.740 --> 00:32:26.480 me a break. Okay? Give me a break. Now, I will 00:32:26.480 --> 00:32:34.079 tell you. Chapter 11, verse 24 of John is what 00:32:34.079 --> 00:32:37.109 I'm looking for. I actually copied the same verses 00:32:37.109 --> 00:32:42.509 twice. So if you would turn to John 11, 24. And 00:32:42.509 --> 00:32:49.329 this is what Martha says to Jesus. And so Lazarus 00:32:49.329 --> 00:32:53.150 has died. And Jesus comes to Martha. And he says 00:32:53.150 --> 00:33:02.289 to Martha, I'm here. I'm here to take care, to 00:33:02.289 --> 00:33:07.259 deal with your brother. And she says, he says 00:33:07.259 --> 00:33:14.359 to her, verse 23, and Jesus said to her, your 00:33:14.359 --> 00:33:18.779 brother will rise again. What? Yeah, I know. 00:33:18.880 --> 00:33:21.579 That's exactly what she said. Yeah, I know. Martha 00:33:21.579 --> 00:33:24.559 said to him, I know that he will rise again in 00:33:24.559 --> 00:33:32.880 the resurrection on the last day. So if the dead 00:33:32.880 --> 00:33:43.059 in Christ rise, Before the tribulation, let's 00:33:43.059 --> 00:33:47.700 just deal with the basic language here. If the 00:33:47.700 --> 00:33:52.200 dead rise at the tribulation, at the rapture 00:33:52.200 --> 00:33:56.400 of God's people and the resurrection of the dead, 00:33:56.640 --> 00:34:01.119 why in the world would Martha say it's on the 00:34:01.119 --> 00:34:03.619 last day? Because it should have been on the 00:34:03.619 --> 00:34:06.059 half a day or the day of the last day or the 00:34:06.059 --> 00:34:07.980 other first last day, but not the second last 00:34:07.980 --> 00:34:16.780 day. I love Bible, man. The Bible, God's word 00:34:16.780 --> 00:34:21.539 always takes care of itself. You can't argue 00:34:21.539 --> 00:34:23.780 with that. Well, that's not what Martha meant. 00:34:24.039 --> 00:34:26.260 So then Jesus was a liar because he's the author 00:34:26.260 --> 00:34:31.119 of the scripture. Can't do that either, can we? 00:34:31.819 --> 00:34:35.000 No, because Martha believed that her brother 00:34:35.000 --> 00:34:38.039 will rise on the last day. And Jesus said to 00:34:38.039 --> 00:34:40.659 her, I am the resurrection and life. And whoever 00:34:40.659 --> 00:34:43.199 believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live. 00:34:45.019 --> 00:34:47.440 And everyone who lives and believes in me shall 00:34:47.440 --> 00:34:51.780 never die. Do you believe this? Yes. And that's 00:34:51.780 --> 00:34:54.880 exactly what he said previously. That all that 00:34:54.880 --> 00:34:57.280 the father has given him, he will raise up on 00:34:57.280 --> 00:35:02.440 the last day. So even Martha. believed in the 00:35:02.440 --> 00:35:07.639 resurrection. Second Timothy 4 .8, Paul continues, 00:35:07.940 --> 00:35:12.239 hence therefore there is laid up for me the crown 00:35:12.239 --> 00:35:14.659 of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous 00:35:14.659 --> 00:35:19.480 judge, will reward me on that day. And not only 00:35:19.480 --> 00:35:23.159 to me, but also to all who have loved his appearing. 00:35:23.340 --> 00:35:25.599 So how do we know what day it is? The appearing 00:35:25.599 --> 00:35:28.000 day. You're going to get rewarded on that day. 00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:30.539 Really excited. So what else is about this day? 00:35:30.619 --> 00:35:34.539 Not only do we get rewarded, but anyone who has 00:35:34.539 --> 00:35:36.920 loved his appearing, who's earnestly desired 00:35:36.920 --> 00:35:40.860 his appearing, will be rewarded on that day. 00:35:41.139 --> 00:35:46.239 I like that. So what else is the day for? God's 00:35:46.239 --> 00:35:54.340 rewards. So we've learned quite a bit about this 00:35:54.340 --> 00:35:58.280 day, haven't we? How do you feel about the day? 00:35:59.539 --> 00:36:02.440 Was it the day that you thought was the day that 00:36:02.440 --> 00:36:05.500 actually wasn't the day because it's not the 00:36:05.500 --> 00:36:09.199 last day? It was the fake day. It was the day 00:36:09.199 --> 00:36:13.179 that the deceivers were teaching deception. It's 00:36:13.179 --> 00:36:15.699 not the day because the last day is the resurrection 00:36:15.699 --> 00:36:18.059 of the dead. That's what Martha just said and 00:36:18.059 --> 00:36:21.380 Jesus agreed with her. So he can't be lying because 00:36:21.380 --> 00:36:25.360 he wouldn't be God. So we know what the day is. 00:36:27.719 --> 00:36:34.179 So what should we do? And what has he done for 00:36:34.179 --> 00:36:38.099 us? We are continually reminded of Christ's return. 00:36:38.300 --> 00:36:42.199 The New Testament, every letter of Paul, every 00:36:42.199 --> 00:36:49.480 epistle, Paul mentions the return of Jesus. It 00:36:49.480 --> 00:36:53.179 is amazing. We are continually reminded of Christ's 00:36:53.179 --> 00:36:55.679 return and that there will continue to be those 00:36:55.679 --> 00:36:58.559 who reject. the truth of his return until that 00:36:58.559 --> 00:37:01.440 day. And it's not just those who make fun of, 00:37:01.679 --> 00:37:03.739 you know, where you said the Lord was coming 00:37:03.739 --> 00:37:05.980 and you've been saying this since the fathers 00:37:05.980 --> 00:37:08.039 and nothing's really changed. It's not just those. 00:37:08.099 --> 00:37:10.360 It's also the false teachers telling you there's 00:37:10.360 --> 00:37:12.340 a day outside of the day that actually is the 00:37:12.340 --> 00:37:18.659 day. I love it. All kinds of crazy happening. 00:37:19.940 --> 00:37:23.739 But if we just read the scripture and stop just 00:37:23.739 --> 00:37:31.570 listening, what we read, we study, we are good 00:37:31.570 --> 00:37:34.389 Bereans and we are fleshing out the reality and 00:37:34.389 --> 00:37:37.769 the truth of that last day, we would find out 00:37:37.769 --> 00:37:42.050 there's a much more glorious day being removed 00:37:42.050 --> 00:37:44.889 from the wrath of God given the promise that 00:37:44.889 --> 00:37:49.929 he's promised us to complete our total transformation 00:37:49.929 --> 00:37:54.280 into Christ's likeness. To enjoy him forever 00:37:54.280 --> 00:37:57.219 and tabernacle with him. Watching him justly 00:37:57.219 --> 00:38:00.460 and rightly deal with the issue of evil and sin 00:38:00.460 --> 00:38:03.460 on the earth. And then he hands us a brand new 00:38:03.460 --> 00:38:08.920 superior than the old earth and heaven. Are you 00:38:08.920 --> 00:38:12.820 kidding me? I don't know about you. You can't 00:38:12.820 --> 00:38:17.400 even create a movie that's that good. That is 00:38:17.400 --> 00:38:20.559 some amazing stuff. All happening on a day. In 00:38:20.559 --> 00:38:25.099 24 hours. That's kind of exciting. I don't even 00:38:25.099 --> 00:38:26.539 know if it's going to be 24 hours because where 00:38:26.539 --> 00:38:29.460 God is, there's no time. I'm really curious. 00:38:29.500 --> 00:38:31.519 Are we going to have time? Is it going to be 00:38:31.519 --> 00:38:35.460 sunset, sunrise? I mean, sorry, not sunset, sunrise. 00:38:36.019 --> 00:38:39.039 Sunset, sunrise. I don't know about you, but 00:38:39.039 --> 00:38:41.039 I'm really curious, right? It's going to be rain 00:38:41.039 --> 00:38:44.239 and snow, thunder and lightning. I love all that 00:38:44.239 --> 00:38:49.699 stuff. I don't know. Look what it says in 2 Peter 00:38:49.699 --> 00:38:53.820 3. Through four, knowing this, first of all, 00:38:53.820 --> 00:38:56.559 that scoffers will come in the last days with 00:38:56.559 --> 00:38:58.420 scoffing, following their own sinful desires. 00:38:58.599 --> 00:39:02.199 They will say, where is this promise of his coming? 00:39:02.360 --> 00:39:04.739 For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things 00:39:04.739 --> 00:39:06.800 are continuing as they were from the beginning 00:39:06.800 --> 00:39:11.500 of creation. Are you getting ready for the rapture? 00:39:12.099 --> 00:39:15.039 When the Holy Spirit's removed? That's another 00:39:15.039 --> 00:39:17.119 whole argument. I don't even know where that, 00:39:17.219 --> 00:39:19.400 how do people get saved if the Holy Spirit's 00:39:19.400 --> 00:39:23.409 not present? Because John 3 tells us how people 00:39:23.409 --> 00:39:26.949 are converted. He says the wind blows and no 00:39:26.949 --> 00:39:29.730 one knows where the wind comes or goes. But we 00:39:29.730 --> 00:39:31.289 see the effects of the wind. We see the reality 00:39:31.289 --> 00:39:34.650 of the work of the wind. So it is with the Spirit. 00:39:36.510 --> 00:39:40.630 So how can someone get saved in Christ, in Revelation, 00:39:40.750 --> 00:39:43.050 if the Holy Spirit's not present because he's 00:39:43.050 --> 00:39:48.530 been removed according to the teaching? Because 00:39:48.530 --> 00:39:52.929 salvation is... All the work of salvation, not 00:39:52.929 --> 00:39:57.030 just not taking the mark and just getting in 00:39:57.030 --> 00:40:01.170 on my own work. Look what it says here in 14 00:40:01.170 --> 00:40:05.050 and 16, 2 Peter 3. Therefore, beloved, since 00:40:05.050 --> 00:40:13.170 you are waiting, since you are looking, since 00:40:13.170 --> 00:40:16.889 you look and wait for Christ's return is exactly 00:40:16.889 --> 00:40:23.789 what this means. Since you are waiting for these, 00:40:24.070 --> 00:40:26.809 what are these? The these are what's mentioned 00:40:26.809 --> 00:40:30.110 previously, meaning Christ is coming and he is 00:40:30.110 --> 00:40:32.210 going to give us a new heavens and a new earth. 00:40:32.969 --> 00:40:36.230 Since we are waiting for these, be diligent. 00:40:36.989 --> 00:40:43.090 Make every effort to be found by him, to be discovered, 00:40:43.210 --> 00:40:47.630 recognized with the same character, without spot, 00:40:47.789 --> 00:40:50.829 pure, free from wickedness or blemish, meaning 00:40:50.829 --> 00:40:58.360 blameless. How do we live blameless and without 00:40:58.360 --> 00:41:02.780 spot or wrinkle? Christ. How can we be found 00:41:02.780 --> 00:41:05.820 by him? By being in the same character of Christ. 00:41:05.880 --> 00:41:07.800 What was Christ's character? What did Christ 00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:11.860 do on the earth for you? What did he do perfectly? 00:41:12.079 --> 00:41:17.239 He lived obediently. How should we be found by 00:41:17.239 --> 00:41:20.760 him? By being obedient, doing what he has commanded 00:41:20.760 --> 00:41:23.920 us to do. What has he commanded us to do? Go 00:41:23.920 --> 00:41:28.159 therefore, go therefore and baptize, and go therefore, 00:41:28.480 --> 00:41:34.300 Matthew 28, 19 to 20, and baptize, you know, 00:41:34.340 --> 00:41:37.139 I forgot the scripture already. Let's go ahead 00:41:37.139 --> 00:41:41.510 and quote it. into all the nation, baptizing 00:41:41.510 --> 00:41:42.730 in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy 00:41:42.730 --> 00:41:45.590 Spirit. Go and therefore make disciples of all 00:41:45.590 --> 00:41:47.429 nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, 00:41:47.429 --> 00:41:49.269 Son, and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe 00:41:49.269 --> 00:41:50.989 all that I've commanded you. Thank you, Lord, 00:41:51.070 --> 00:41:52.829 for bringing that back. I don't even know why 00:41:52.829 --> 00:41:56.750 I forgot that. It's part of my vernacular. What 00:41:56.750 --> 00:41:59.570 else should we be doing? If I love God, I'll 00:41:59.570 --> 00:42:02.510 be obedient. What else should I be doing? Living 00:42:02.510 --> 00:42:08.030 holy, holiness, and godliness. That's what I 00:42:08.030 --> 00:42:11.159 should be doing. And if I'm doing that, then 00:42:11.159 --> 00:42:16.760 I am filled in his character. I am free from 00:42:16.760 --> 00:42:19.920 wickedness and I walk blameless and I am at peace 00:42:19.920 --> 00:42:24.800 with him. I have assurance of salvation and reconciled 00:42:24.800 --> 00:42:30.559 with God. That's what peace means. Verse 15. 00:42:30.880 --> 00:42:34.519 And count the patience of our Lord as salvation. 00:42:34.719 --> 00:42:36.860 In 2 Peter 3, 8, and 9, we know what he says 00:42:36.860 --> 00:42:40.280 here. He says a day is as a thousand years and 00:42:40.280 --> 00:42:43.940 a thousand years is as a day. But do not overlook 00:42:43.940 --> 00:42:46.519 this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one 00:42:46.519 --> 00:42:48.559 day is as a thousand years and a thousand years 00:42:48.559 --> 00:42:51.239 as a day. For the Lord is not slow to fulfill 00:42:51.239 --> 00:42:54.840 his promises. Some count slowness, but is patient 00:42:54.840 --> 00:42:57.800 toward you, not wishing that any should perish, 00:42:57.920 --> 00:43:03.159 but that all should reach repentance. Now look 00:43:03.159 --> 00:43:06.929 at that. And count the patience of the Lord as 00:43:06.929 --> 00:43:10.849 salvation. Why? Because he is patient, God saves 00:43:10.849 --> 00:43:14.730 his people. Because when that day comes, there's 00:43:14.730 --> 00:43:20.050 no more saving. Do you get that? When Christ 00:43:20.050 --> 00:43:24.949 returns, no more saving. Only those who are in 00:43:24.949 --> 00:43:28.230 Christ, he removes. Everyone else is destroyed. 00:43:28.949 --> 00:43:31.590 Well, that's kind of harsh. No, that's justice. 00:43:32.880 --> 00:43:36.920 just as our brother Paul, our beloved brother 00:43:36.920 --> 00:43:39.340 Paul, also wrote to you according to the wisdom 00:43:39.340 --> 00:43:41.659 given him, which I just mentioned that's above, 00:43:41.900 --> 00:43:48.659 as he does in all his letters. Epistole is the 00:43:48.659 --> 00:43:52.400 word here. It means epistles. When he speaks 00:43:52.400 --> 00:43:56.699 in them of these matters, all his letters speaks 00:43:56.699 --> 00:44:00.059 of them in these matters. Isn't that amazing? 00:44:01.420 --> 00:44:05.159 That tells you what Paul was eagerly desiring. 00:44:05.199 --> 00:44:08.760 What did he want? He wants Jesus' return. That's 00:44:08.760 --> 00:44:10.559 what he wanted. And now he's with him face to 00:44:10.559 --> 00:44:13.179 face. And one day his body will be resurrected. 00:44:13.840 --> 00:44:18.119 And his body and his spirit will be united. There 00:44:18.119 --> 00:44:21.000 are some things in them that are hard to understand. 00:44:21.039 --> 00:44:23.980 Which the ignorant, the untaught, and unstable. 00:44:24.300 --> 00:44:31.099 The word unstable is unstable. You can't. So 00:44:31.099 --> 00:44:34.239 the untaught and the unstable, they turn awry, 00:44:34.239 --> 00:44:37.579 they pervert, or they distort the limbs on a 00:44:37.579 --> 00:44:40.320 rack. This idea, distorting the limbs on a rack, 00:44:40.380 --> 00:44:42.960 is taking a person, sticking them on a table, 00:44:43.079 --> 00:44:46.500 putting two ropes or chains around each ankle 00:44:46.500 --> 00:44:49.380 and each wrist, and you start to crank that wheel. 00:44:51.360 --> 00:44:55.480 You know, just keep going. That distorts the 00:44:55.480 --> 00:45:01.250 limbs. That's what it's talking about here. That 00:45:01.250 --> 00:45:05.949 the ignorant, the untaught, they twist to their 00:45:05.949 --> 00:45:10.010 own destruction as they do the other scriptures. 00:45:13.250 --> 00:45:15.409 In other words, they're twisted out of form. 00:45:16.929 --> 00:45:19.510 But you are to grow in the knowledge of Christ, 00:45:19.730 --> 00:45:23.869 firm in the faith, settled in your minds of the 00:45:23.869 --> 00:45:28.449 truth of Christ and his gospel. And I'll add, 00:45:28.590 --> 00:45:34.000 and his return. Ephesians 4, 13 and 14. Why? 00:45:34.300 --> 00:45:36.960 What is the purpose? Why should we be settled 00:45:36.960 --> 00:45:39.760 in our minds for this reason? Until we attain, 00:45:40.159 --> 00:45:42.760 until we all attain the unity of the faith and 00:45:42.760 --> 00:45:45.980 the knowledge of the Son of God to mature manhood 00:45:45.980 --> 00:45:48.360 to the measure of the stature of the fullness 00:45:48.360 --> 00:45:50.840 of Christ so that you may no longer be children 00:45:50.840 --> 00:45:55.199 tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about 00:45:55.199 --> 00:45:58.800 by every wind of doctrine. By human cunning and 00:45:58.800 --> 00:46:01.099 craftiness and deceitful schemes. I'm going to 00:46:01.099 --> 00:46:05.400 say this. Okay. And there are many reformed brothers 00:46:05.400 --> 00:46:13.019 that I love dearly. Genuinely. But they have 00:46:13.019 --> 00:46:17.579 decided to settle on a doctrine that is crazy 00:46:17.579 --> 00:46:21.460 off of scripture. If they just took the decent 00:46:21.460 --> 00:46:27.829 time to spend time. Dismissationalism is. evil. 00:46:28.829 --> 00:46:34.210 It feeds a people a false narrative for a false 00:46:34.210 --> 00:46:36.550 hope, and they're hoping they're avoiding the 00:46:36.550 --> 00:46:39.530 issue of the seven -year tribulation, and they're 00:46:39.530 --> 00:46:43.610 not looking for the return of Jesus. And the 00:46:43.610 --> 00:46:48.949 reality of that day, the glory of that day, that 00:46:48.949 --> 00:46:53.449 day you get a new heaven and a new earth. That 00:46:53.449 --> 00:46:57.400 day, the last day. And we know that the last 00:46:57.400 --> 00:47:00.400 day is also the day that the last trumpet sounds. 00:47:01.980 --> 00:47:05.539 2 Peter 3, 17 and 18. You therefore beloved. 00:47:07.579 --> 00:47:11.219 Agapitas means dearly loved one. I love that. 00:47:13.079 --> 00:47:16.260 Knowing this beforehand. In other words, knowing 00:47:16.260 --> 00:47:20.320 this before it happens. You know. I'm telling 00:47:20.320 --> 00:47:23.820 you before. This is going to happen. You should. 00:47:24.510 --> 00:47:27.769 You should know with the foreknowledge that this 00:47:27.769 --> 00:47:29.849 is going to happen. That's the idea here. Take 00:47:29.849 --> 00:47:39.150 care. Philoso. Guard. Protect. Protect what? 00:47:40.329 --> 00:47:44.510 Take care of yourself, of your mind, of the truth. 00:47:45.179 --> 00:47:47.239 That you are not carried away, that you're not 00:47:47.239 --> 00:47:51.719 led away and seduced with the delusion, the error, 00:47:51.800 --> 00:47:58.039 or deceived into wandering of lawless people. 00:48:00.900 --> 00:48:03.360 Guard yourself against these people. They will 00:48:03.360 --> 00:48:06.360 deceive you into wandering and they will pull 00:48:06.360 --> 00:48:09.960 you into a delusion. Why? What is a lawless person? 00:48:10.059 --> 00:48:12.900 Someone who is licentious, unrestrained, and 00:48:12.900 --> 00:48:19.360 unprincipled. What happens? If you get in that, 00:48:19.400 --> 00:48:22.760 you will lose your own stability. You will lose 00:48:22.760 --> 00:48:26.219 the firmness of belief and settled in the frame 00:48:26.219 --> 00:48:29.679 of mind of the truth of Jesus' coming. Understand, 00:48:29.940 --> 00:48:34.300 Jesus' coming is a day of great power and great 00:48:34.300 --> 00:48:38.639 glory. It is our salvation and joy, but it is 00:48:38.639 --> 00:48:41.900 also the condemnation and the wrath poured out 00:48:41.900 --> 00:48:46.579 on everything else. What a great day that will 00:48:46.579 --> 00:48:50.719 be. That's what he means here. So please settle 00:48:50.719 --> 00:48:56.079 on Christ. Settle on the reality of living holy 00:48:56.079 --> 00:48:59.820 and godly until his return so that he finds you 00:48:59.820 --> 00:49:04.880 busy doing the work, being obedient. Settle on 00:49:04.880 --> 00:49:08.139 the reality of his coming to judge and deal with 00:49:08.139 --> 00:49:10.940 the... sin and the evil of the world. Settle 00:49:10.940 --> 00:49:13.179 on that truth. That's a reality that is there. 00:49:13.320 --> 00:49:15.599 You can go into Revelation and you can go into 00:49:15.599 --> 00:49:18.320 all the epistles and you can go into the gospels. 00:49:18.360 --> 00:49:25.400 It all says the same thing. But grow, increase 00:49:25.400 --> 00:49:29.239 in the grace, in the divine favor and kindness 00:49:29.239 --> 00:49:32.099 and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 00:49:32.960 --> 00:49:36.480 Grow in the knowledge of the truth of the word. 00:49:38.519 --> 00:49:41.820 Study it. Prove the teaching that I'm preaching 00:49:41.820 --> 00:49:45.860 to you today as being false or accurate. If it's 00:49:45.860 --> 00:49:49.320 accurate, settle on it. Stand on it. Stand on 00:49:49.320 --> 00:49:58.340 it like a firm rock. To him be the glory both 00:49:58.340 --> 00:50:03.320 now and to the day of eternity. What is the day? 00:50:03.559 --> 00:50:06.860 Final part of the day. Here's the final description 00:50:06.860 --> 00:50:12.400 of the day. It's the day of eternity. It's the 00:50:12.400 --> 00:50:20.159 day when death is gone. Sin is gone. Christ has 00:50:20.159 --> 00:50:22.619 already did it in the victory of the cross and 00:50:22.619 --> 00:50:25.179 the resurrection. Yes, for his people. But there 00:50:25.179 --> 00:50:28.079 will be a day when death will no longer exist. 00:50:28.139 --> 00:50:30.980 No one will die anymore. No one will get sick 00:50:30.980 --> 00:50:34.739 anymore. Sin will not exist anymore. It will 00:50:34.739 --> 00:50:39.340 be eradicated. That day of eternity. The new 00:50:39.340 --> 00:50:42.119 heavens and the new earth. The superior ones. 00:50:43.119 --> 00:50:47.320 That's what you're looking forward to. That day 00:50:47.320 --> 00:50:53.679 seems a lot more realistic to me. That makes 00:50:53.679 --> 00:50:58.019 a lot more sense to me. Because I'm tired of 00:50:58.019 --> 00:51:01.949 the lies. I'm tired of the dishonesty. I'm tired 00:51:01.949 --> 00:51:04.710 of these men preaching and teaching, and they're 00:51:04.710 --> 00:51:08.130 being lazy. I'm sorry. It sounds condemning, 00:51:08.130 --> 00:51:10.570 but I'm not. It's do your work. It's not hard. 00:51:10.849 --> 00:51:14.469 I did it. It's just fine. Verse after verse after 00:51:14.469 --> 00:51:16.269 verse, you can see what the day is. It says the 00:51:16.269 --> 00:51:18.070 day, the day, the day. It doesn't matter. It's 00:51:18.070 --> 00:51:20.889 the same day. He says it. He makes it very clear. 00:51:21.750 --> 00:51:23.289 And you can't take Martha. You've got to take 00:51:23.289 --> 00:51:26.730 Martha at her word, I think. Right? I'm being 00:51:26.730 --> 00:51:32.650 facetious. Yes. For I know he will resurrect 00:51:32.650 --> 00:51:36.269 on the last day. Yeah. So that's my encouragement 00:51:36.269 --> 00:51:41.090 to you. And to that I say, amen. Father, I want 00:51:41.090 --> 00:51:42.869 to thank you so much for your goodness and faithfulness. 00:51:42.909 --> 00:51:45.750 Thank you, Lord, for your word. Help us, Lord, 00:51:45.809 --> 00:51:49.369 to settle in our mind, in the state of our mind, 00:51:49.369 --> 00:51:52.050 the reality and the truth of that great day. 00:51:52.289 --> 00:51:56.329 The day of our great salvation, our transformation, 00:51:56.389 --> 00:52:00.320 the final work completed. in us and for us because 00:52:00.320 --> 00:52:04.699 of you. And also the great day of the eradication 00:52:04.699 --> 00:52:08.539 of all things that are antithetical to you. We 00:52:08.539 --> 00:52:09.960 praise you and we thank you in Jesus' name.