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will be our uh concluding lesson on end times. We'll see what how much we can cover. I think last week we finished uh by talking about some of the aspects of the millennial reign of Christ.

And tonight I want to go to Revelation chapter 20. And uh they will put it on the screen. We'll begin with verse seven.

And I think we said that after Satan has been um in his prison for a thousand years, he'll be released. You remember that. And there will be so many who rogue people >> [clears throat] >> during the millennium that he will come and deceive into trying to overthrow the kingdom of Jesus Christ.

We know how that ends. Verse nine says, "Fire came down from God." This is the last half of Is anything up there yet? No?

It is? Behind me? So I got to turn around and look?

Yeah. Oh, we're good. All right, there we go.

Uh and fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. That's the way God is going to deal with the rebels and Satan. Verse 10, "The devil who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are.

And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever." So that's the end of Satan, the beast, and the false prophet. Now, one of the most horrifying scenes in the Bible to me begins with verse 11. Now, I'm a Christian.

And I know that I'm headed to heaven. I know my name is in the Lamb's Book of Life. I also am a minister.

I'm a preacher, so I study all of the aspects of this book, salvation, heaven, and hell. And even though I know that I'm saved, this frightens me. This passage unnerves me because I think of the untold millions of people walking this earth right now.

And [clears throat] those who have already passed from this earth who have no regard for Judgment Day. They are living their lives now for themselves. They disregard God.

They ignore uh gospel preaching and please from pastors and teachers to come to the knowledge of Jesus. They ignore it. They laugh about it.

At some point they will resent it. And as you've heard in the news, in China, they have arrested a good number of Christian pastors. They've started another wave of persecution over there.

And that will one day possibly come to this country. So, when I start reading verse 11, I um I I'm arrested by this. Then I saw a great white throne and him who sat on it.

From whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. That's the Bible's way of saying that this picture is so overwhelmingly horrifying to see that this great God, the creator of all, the God of mercy, love, peace, and justice is now a God that's going to judge and condemn those who have rejected him, and it his very presence frightens even the earth and the heavens, and they try to flee away. And there was found no place for them.

Where you going to go? How do you get away from God? And I saw the dead.

Is that up there? And I saw the dead. Small and great.

Wonder what that means. I think I mentioned it in a message not long ago. When you stand before God, it doesn't matter if you were a president or a pauper.

There is no degree with God, no respecter of persons with God. Everybody stands before God equally. I saw the dead.

Small and great standing before God. And books were opened. Plural, books.

And another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged according to their works by the things which were written in the books. This is not the first time we've covered this together, but you got several books, and then the book.

The books contain all of the deeds that these people will be judged for. Everything we have ever done in our lives did not evaporate. There's a record kept on it.

Thank God all of the works we've confessed before Christ have been forgiven. That were evil, that were ungodly. Confessed sins are forgiven sins and those will never be brought up when we stand before God before the judgment seat.

This is not the same thing. Everybody that's here is going to be condemned. That's why they're called the dead.

They are eternally doomed but God who is a just God is going to give them the reason he is condemning them. And so the books will be opened. And every unsaved individual will see everything they ever did.

And then God will make it completely legal by checking to see if their name was in the book of life. And it will not be. And the dead were judged according to their works by the things which were written in the books.

The sea gave up the dead who were in it and death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged each one according to his works. So everyone who has ever lived is going to come back to life again.

In Christ you'll come back in eternal life. If you've never known Christ and your sins have never been washed away you will come back to life. You will indeed be resurrected.

But you will stand before this great white throne judgment of God and be judged according to your works. The Bible says verse 14 again, death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. And this is the second death.

Anyone not found in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. Now, can you see how solemn everybody is tonight? This is This is serious stuff.

And this is what we preachers uh deal with every time we walk to the pulpit. Every time I look out across that vast audience twice every Sunday and then realize that there are probably a hundred times more watching me on the screen I realize that every word I say is affecting somebody in some way. And my heart pounds inside of me knowing that this is what people are going to face one of these days, the great white throne judgment.

That's why we plead with people to come to Jesus. We cry. Uh every every song we sing is about Jesus.

Every every missionary act we perform is to get people to come to Jesus. So, when this day comes if anyone finds him or herself before the great white throne uh that's doomsday. But no one can say, "I didn't hear it.

I didn't know about it. I didn't have a chance." Because God who is rich in mercy rich in mercy will make sure that everybody will have been given every opportunity that is known to man. And that's what I you know, I my preaching is serious a lot of times.

People want to know Yeah, a lot of times preachers will get up and tell a joke to try to get everybody loose and all that. I can't do that sometimes. It's not a joke to me.

This could be somebody's last message. This could be somebody's last opportunity. And I know that that's what, you know, if you're a good speaker, you kind of do that and you get people in the palm of your hand and then you do what you do, but uh I never really learned that method.

I just went for it every time. And one of these days we're all going to go to our last church service. One of these days I'm going to preach my last message.

And nobody ever knows when that is. So, as I look around the world as I did today and I see it you know, hurricanes and tornadoes and fires and violence and and civil unrest it's just what the Bible said it was going to be like. And the violence, oh, how many times do we have to mention that?

As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the days of the coming of the Son of Man. And we're there. Don't let anybody fool you.

We're there. So, the next verse in chapter 21 is [snorts] going to open up a a whole new understanding here. Now, I saw a new heaven and a new earth.

For the first heaven and the first earth had passed away and there was no more sea. So, after the thousand-year reign of Christ after he has judged Satan and Satan is in uh the lake of fire after he has had the great white throne judgment everything's going to be made new. Every semblance of sin and ungodliness is going to be burned away.

God has chosen this time to burn it away. You see, that's been God has start started in the Garden of Eden. Uh Adam and Eve were innocent and they failed.

Then you go through the conscience era. Then you go through the judges era and the law era. Then you go through the gospel of grace era, which is where we are now.

And it on every level, man has failed to acknowledge God. So, God gave man or has given man a thousand years. That's what the millennium is, of paradise where there is no devil and everything is just right and man has still rebelled against God.

So, God says, "I've done all I can do. Now, I'm just going to deal with it." And the Bible says there's going to be a new heaven and a new earth. The former things are going to pass away, but how is God going to do it?

When I turn over to 2 Peter, you can do that if you want to. 2 Peter, chapter chapter 2 uh 3. I'm going to read several verses there.

Can Can you hear me okay? Somehow I've got a It's just me, I guess. Are you glad to be here?

>> Yes. >> Okay, I I couldn't tell. Am Am I too serious all of a sudden here?

Okay. Beloved, this is 2 Peter chapter 3. Beloved, I now write to you this second epistle, in both of which I stir up your pure minds by way of reminder.

That you may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets and of the commandments of us the apostles of the Lord and Savior. Knowing this first, that scoffers will come in the last days walking according to their own lusts or evil desires. And saying, "Where is the promise of his coming?

For since the fathers fell asleep or died, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation." So, Peter says as a prophet, "In the last days, people are going to mock this thing of Jesus coming back. Question it. And as I said, mock it, make fun of it, and say, 'Listen, everything continues as it always has.

Life is a cycle. And it's going to continue that way.' And it says they willfully, you see that? Next verse.

For this they willfully forget. That's a very important word, ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, because people do things willfully. People sin willfully.

They do it because they choose to do it. Every sin I've ever committed, I chose to do it. Do you agree with that?

Not just mine, how about yours? Yeah. Everything we do, we choose to do it.

And this says that they are choosing to willfully forget that by the word of God the heavens were of old and the earth standing out of water and in the water, by which the world that then existed perished being flooded with water. That's Noah's flood, right? Noah's flood is still an appalling thought to think that a man and his three sons and wife and their their wives spent 100 and 20 years building a boat in a desert.

Not near any bodies of water. And the whole time he's building it, he's saying a flood is coming. It's going to rain.

And the Bible says the entire time he preached righteousness. He was a preacher of righteousness. They walked back and forth.

They went to work. They came home from work. They They went by to see this spectacle, this fool, this bearded idiot uh talking about righteousness and a flood.

Same thing's going on today, essentially. And this says they willfully forget it. They willfully ignore it.

The heavens, verse seven, the heavens and the earth, which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire. So God, the first time, said I'll use water. I'll flood the earth.

I'll wash it clean. He can't do that again because he's told Noah, "I will never again destroy this world by a flood or by water." And that's what the rainbow is all about, to remind us that God keeps his word and another global flood will never take place. But God is going to destroy this present world and remake it.

And this time it's going to be by fire. Let's read it again. The heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

God is a patient God. You know that? I know it because he's been patient with me.

But God has been patient with this wicked world. But beloved, do not forget this one thing. That with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise as some count slackness. But is long-suffering towards us. Patient, kind, long-suffering, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

That's God's desire. I don't need to spend a lot of time there with you because as far as I know everyone here is a believer, but don't ever doubt the fact that God wants people to be saved. That's why he sent his only son.

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night. In which the heavens will pass away with a great noise. What kind of noise could that be?

And the elements will melt with fervent heat. Both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Everything you see now, everything we know about now is going to be burned up.

Melt. Melt down. The the fire of God who says, "I want the old completely gone.

I want no memory, no vestige of the old completely gone. There will be a new heaven and a new earth. Everything in it will be burned up." Therefore, verse 11, "Since all these things will be You notice that word dissolved?

Wow. What manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat. I don't have an imagination big enough for that.

Now, at home, I've got a library just on last day stuff, uh this wide, just books that deal with this very thing. Authors from the se- uh se- 1700s all the way up to uh the- theologians of today. And nobody can adequately explain or imagine what it will be like when this fire melts everything as we know it.

Great noise, fervent heat. Verse 13, "Nevertheless, we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells." And that's the point. A world is coming.

It's not this one. It A world is coming. It won't be during the millennium, but a world is coming where there will be not one taint of sin, rebellion, ungodliness, or a sinner.

Everything will be totally pure and righteous and holy. No, I can't imagine that, nor can you, because I've never seen any I've never even been in anything like that. Even tonight, we are all prepared to meet Christ and we're born again, but but we're all covered in flesh.

That's that's a sign of sin. It we're going to fight it till we die. I I I just cannot imagine a world where there is no flesh, sin, rebellion, devil, temptation, lying, or anything.

Everything will be just like Jesus. Y'all ought to thank him for that. Now, let's go back over to Revelation, if you would, please.

Uh we're Revelation chapter 22. Here we have um uh let's go to verse uh chapter 21 first. I'm not going to read everything that's in it.

Um after verse 20 Now, I saw a new heaven and a new earth. The first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no more sea. Then, I John saw the holy city, the New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.

It's up there. There is a New Jerusalem up there, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men.

He will dwell with them. They shall be his people. God himself will be with them and be their God.

And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. There shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain.

No more pain? For the former things have passed away. Then he who sat on the throne said, "Behold, I make all things new." And he said to me, "Write, for these things are true and faithful." He said to me, "It is done.

I'm the alpha, the omega, the beginning, the end, and I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts." He who overcomes shall inherit all things. All things. That's why I keep saying if if you're claiming Old Testament promises, you're claiming inferior promises.

Because God promised land to Israel. But to the church and the overcomer, he promises all things. Not just a plot of land uh here on earth.

All things. Figure that one out. All things are yours.

Paul said it two or three times. All things are yours already. It's laid up for you in heaven.

Praise God for that. But the cowardly, verse 8, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying, "Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife." That's my watch.

I thought I turned it off. I'm sorry. Please don't do that again.

And in the next verses, which I I won't cover very much, the city is referred to a bride or to her. Here's an amazing thing about that city which has been prepared for us. It's Again, I just can't grasp it.

It's 1,500 miles long, 1,500 miles wide, and this is the one that gets me, 1,500 miles high. It's a cube. It's a city.

Can you even possibly imagine what this thing looks like? 1,500 miles is I guess from Miami to where? New York?

1,500 miles is half of the country, but then 1,500 miles high? Billions upon billions of residents will be in this city. You have a place in the city.

This will be headquarters for God's universe. It will, as the Bible says, hover above Earth. Just hover.

We will be able to transport ourselves back and forth as we carry on the king's business. And that's as far as I want to go with that because it starts sounding really like science fiction. But this is in the Bible.

And this is really going to happen. And we have no idea. Eye Eye has not seen and ear hasn't heard the things that God has prepared for them that love him.

But God has revealed them unto us by his spirit, meaning we're reading this tonight and we understand it the best we can. But there's a whole world out there that has not a clue and no interest. Are you thankful?

I am. I'm thankful that I'm not in darkness. I'm thankful that somehow God in his great grace and mercy opened up my blinded eyes and saved me from my wretched self and my awful sins.

I was a bad guy. Were you? And you were bad women.

Weren't you? Of course you were, even if you were a model citizen. You were a sinner.

And God cannot stand sin. But God Let somebody tell us about Jesus. Thank God for the church.

I don't know if you got saved in church or not. It could have been your grandmother's [clears throat] house or I don't even know where, but thank God the gospel of Jesus Christ was able to take the blinders off and set us free. Praise God.

And all these things are not fictitious to us. These are literally promises that we are going to enjoy one day as reality. I get it.

I mean, 1,500 miles wide, long, and high? Wow. That's in the outer space, isn't it?

Yes, it is. And we're going to inhabit that place? Yes.

I go to prepare a place for you and if I go and prepare prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am there you may be also. Praise God. Hallelujah.

>> [applause] >> So, in this he described he describes it. And I just don't get the construction of it is, you know, it's jasper and 12 foundations of precious stones and 12 gates all made of one pearl. One pearl.

Um the city had no need, verse 23. The the city had no need of the sun or the moon to shine in it for the glory of God illuminated it. The lamb is its light.

Jesus, the lamb of God illuminates the city. And the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light. And the kings of the earth bring their glory and their honor into it.

Yeah, there'll still be kings you know, because he's the king of kings. He is the king of kings, but there will still be governments in this new heaven and new earth. Um that's why uh those who are faithful get rewards.

Some will Jesus said some will get 10 cities. Some will get five cities. People will be given assignments.

They will rule. Some of you may be one of the kings. I don't know what God has in mind for us, but there is a reward waiting on those who are faithful.

That's why I'm I'm I'm just I'm committed to doing everything I can as long as I can with everything I've got. Because I think one day when we stand before him, we will be so thankful that we were persistent and faithful in all that God's called us to do. So, we come now to uh its gates, verse 25.

Its gates shall not be shut at all by day. There shall be no night there. No night.

They shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it. But there shall be uh by no means enter it anything that defiles or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life. Hallelujah.

Let's just take a poll. Is that you? Lamb's Book of Life.

Praise God. If you go to the 22nd chapter, He showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. And we talked about these these trees and this river just a couple of weeks ago, I think.

In the middle of its street and on either side of the river was the tree of life. Oh, here it is again. We saw it in the Book of Genesis.

The book or the tree of life. And here we see it again. Which bore 12 fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month.

The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse. But the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it and his servants shall serve him.

They shall see his face. Wow. Think about it.

Anytime you want an audience with Jesus, you get it. You get to see the Father. They shall see His face.

Unlike any earthly ruler who I guess for security or just because so many people want to see him, you you can't. But Jesus says, "I'm accessible." You can see me anytime. They shall see His face and His name shall be on their foreheads.

That means we belong to Him. They shall There shall be no night there. They need no lamp nor light of the sun for the Lord God gives them light.

And they shall reign forever and ever. It's interesting to me, I can't find where it it ever says forever once. It's always forever and ever.

That's God's way of saying when forever's over, then there's more. Forever and forever. And then, in my Bible, I've got an asterisk by it.

It says the last message of the Bible. Then he said to me, "These words are faithful and true. And the Lord God of the holy prophets sent His angel to show His servants the things which must shortly take place." Remember now, shortly there means quickly there.

Doesn't mean it was going to happen at that moment, but when it does happen, it will be extremely quick. It won't be a long drawn-out affair affair. "Behold, I am coming quickly." There it is.

"Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book." We've said it time and time again, this is the only book in the Bible that has a blessing and a curse in it. You're blessed if you read it and do it, and you're certainly cursed if you ignore it. Not only does it begin with a blessing, it's now ending with a blessing.

I'm coming quickly. Blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book. Now, I John saw and heard these things.

And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things. Then he said to me, "See that you do not do that. For I am your fellow servant and of your brethren the prophets and of those who keep the words of this book.

Worship God. Worship God. Don't get too attached to preachers.

Don't get carried away with visions and angels. Worship God. There's too many spooky stuff going on in uh in some churches these days.

Folks, you you are never to try to contact an angel. You are never to worship angels. You are never try It's never to conjure up visions and stuff.

I I've seen this stuff the whole my whole ministry. Worship God. If you'll worship God, you won't be disappointed when a preacher falls.

If you'll worship God, you'll be stable no matter what happens. Worship God. Let's do that again.

Worship God. And he said to me, "Do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand. He who is unjust, let him be unjust still.

He who is filthy, let him be filthy still." That simply means there's some people they're just going to be filthy the rest of their lives. They're going to be unjust. There's nothing you can do about it.

They've heard the gospel, but their minds are closed. And they they've sealed their doom. They've rejected the truth.

Then he goes on to say, "Who He who is righteous, let him be righteous still. And he who is holy, let him be holy still." Meaning, if you're a child of God, live like it. Live a good life, a righteous life, a holy life.

Always keep in mind at any moment we could hear the trumpet sound. At any moment my heart could stop beating and I would see him face to face. So, be holy.

Be righteous. Keep on doing that. Work at it.

Pursue holiness and righteousness. Verse 12. And behold, I am coming quickly.

Notice how many times he says quickly here. Behold, I'm coming quickly and my reward is with me to give to everyone according to his work. Yeah.

We're all going to stand before the judgment seat of Christ. Let me make sure we understand this now. We believers will never stand at the white throne judgment.

Got it? Say amen. Why?

I don't know what you said, but it sounded all right. We we will never stand before the white throne judgment of God because of the blood of Jesus Christ that we believed in. But we will stand before the bema or the judgment seat of Jesus to receive our rewards and our honors for good works.

So, that's where we're all headed. When you get there, you'll be saved. It's just a matter of finding out the rewards that God has prepared for you.

So, blessed are those who do his commandments, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may enter through the gates of the city. But outside are dogs. Now, some people get confused and say, "Wait, you mean outside the city there are uh dogs and sorcerers and sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters and whoever loves and practices a lie?" No, not literally, not not uh absolutely.

He's just saying, "This will never be in the city. It won't even be outside the city. Who these who do that will be in the lake of fire." He just wants you to see the the line of demarcation.

Everything that is offensive to God will be gone forever. I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you these things in the churches. Let me tell you something that um disturbs me a little bit.

A- And I'm not sure I can give give you as much information as I'd like to. There's a thing called deconstruction. You got to heard of this?

It's kind of a movement and the younger generation has latched onto it, where the church is now being blamed for scarring people and injuring them spiritually and traditions, religious traditions, are considered harmful. So, there's this movement called the deconstruction movement, where believers don't go to church. Uh they live their separate individual lives walking with God.

They don't like any of the traditions of the church, which include uh water baptism, uh the Lord's Supper, etc. And they separate themselves from those who do go to church and do still believe in these things. And I had uh someone tell me yesterday in the office they had a conversation with a mom that goes to our church and she was she was torn all to pieces and said her daughter who grew up in this church has decided that the church has harmed her and scarred her and she's into re uh deconstruction.

She has decided that this that we do is bondage and that it's hurtful and that we are toxic. There's the word. That's That's the word, toxic.

So, they will say to people like you and me and even friends that still believe, "I'm going to unfriend you. I'm going to get you out of my life. You are toxic." My daughter had a friend.

Uh they were friends in this church for many years. And her friend got into this and my daughter got a a text from her one day and said, "This is it. This is the last time you'll hear from me.

You are toxic." And that was it. So, the devil never stops. And the reason I'm bringing that up is because church is of vital importance.

God did not save people to wander alone. He saved us to be a part of a fellowship. In the fellowship, you have you have strength.

And you can develop um How can I say it? Spiritual brotherhood and sisterhood. I need the church.

Jesus ordained the church. He said, "Upon this rock I'll build my church." And the the movement is let's just be done with church. It's divisive, all these denominations, people don't don't know what they believe anyway, they fight amongst each other, we don't need church.

But you do need church, see? And and I hesitate to say this, but one of the negatives of live streaming Yeah. One of the negatives of live streaming is that you miss this.

Now, I praise God that we have live streaming. We have people who are shut-ins and shut-outs. People who can't drive anymore.

Uh people who live long distances away, praise God. That's why we do it. Uh is Greg still here?

Greg, did how many did Bobby say we have but maybe 40,000? Is that right? For about 40,000 that live stream every service.

Did you hear that? 40,000. And for those who are a shut-in and people who can't make it, praise God.

And people who are in the Kingdom and Australia, Praise God, we welcome you. But there's just something missing when you live in Charlotte. Now the rest of us get up and take showers.

Right? And we drive and try to find parking places and try to get our seat before that visitor gets there and takes it. But but something's missing.

You can't tell me it's the same. We have visitors all the time. Here's a couple right here.

Where are you guys coming from tonight? >> From Gaffney. >> Gaffney?

Gaffney, South Carolina. You came up 85, right? To be here tonight.

Well, praise God. And we have >> [applause] >> because it's not the same on the screen. And I'm telling you there is a health a healthiness that goes along with being involved in the church.

Eating together, visiting together, worshipping together. That's vital. And let me tell you, Revelation was not written to an individual.

It was written to the churches. That's what he said. Let me read it again.

I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright and morning star. Here it is.

This is where we are today. And the spirit and the bride say, Who is the bride? That's us.

What are we saying to the world? Come. What's the spirit saying?

Is God good? God is just come, come, come. If you're thirsty, come.

If you're hungry, come. If you're lonely, come. If you're tired, come.

Doesn't matter what you did. Doesn't matter what you're doing. IF YOU COME, you can be saved, gloriously, wondrously saved.

The spirit and the bride say, "Come." And let him who hears say, "Come." And let him who thirsts say, "Come." Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely. For I testify to you, let me say that again. For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book.

Did Did Have you read the plagues that are written in this book? This is a serious matter with God. If you try to add to what God has said, and I know teachers that do it all the time, I will add to you the plagues that are written in this book.

And if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the book of life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. How serious is that? But I think I asked a question one time, maybe 3 years ago when I was teaching this.

It's one thing to to take something away. It's another thing to add something to it. But what if you don't even teach it?

What about those preachers, those teachers that say, "I don't deal with Revelation." I've had them tell me that. "I won't do Revelation. It's confusing.

It's divisive. It's scary." Well, of course it is. It's God trying to get people's attention.

But when a minister tells me that, he's telling me I don't feel like studying it. It you you have to work in this book. But I'm telling you, if God is upset when people add, and if God is upset when he when they take away, what's he going to say to preachers who never preached it?

Who never prepared their people? I would not want to be in their shoes. So, let me go over here to the last verse, last two verses.

He who testifies to these things says, "Surely I'm coming quickly." Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. And then John says, "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all." Amen.

Ladies and gentlemen, that was 4 weeks of um little study. I hope you enjoyed. Probably created a lot of questions for some people.

I can't answer all those questions. I tried to and sometimes I just say I don't know. But I do know this.

I know this. Jesus Christ is coming. And I know that it could be in a moment in the twinkling of an eye.

And I know that the blood of Jesus Christ can cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Do you believe that? Say it with me in less Thank God for His word.

I do. I want to thank Him for His word tonight. Heavenly Father, I thank you that you have blessed us enough to give us your revelation of the last days.

And Heavenly Father, I thank you that you loved us enough to save us from our sins. Lord, the hope that we have is beyond imagination. The joys that await us we have no idea.

Lord, we are the most blessed people on this earth regardless of what we're going through right now, how bleak it seems right now, there is a bright day coming. And there we have a place waiting on us. We've got a new home in heaven.

We're going Everything's going to be new and we're going to be with you. Praise you, Lord. Praise you for the day that there'll be no pain, no sorrow, no heartache, no crying.

Thank you, Jesus, no more death. Thank you, Jesus, that one of these days we get to see you face to face. Now I ask you to give these precious people whether they're in this room or watching online.

A safe trip home, a blessed time at home. May we live for you, Jesus, with joy in our hearts. And everybody said, "Amen." Night.