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I'm radio pastor Ernie Sanders and indeed this is the voice of the Christian Resistance. I'm now on this 27th day, Sunday of March, and we have a lot to talk about tonight. And so the title of the message today was How to Avoid Being Left Behind and What to Do if You Are. And we're going to start today in Luke chapter 21 and with starting with verse 34. Take heed to yourselves lest any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life. And so that day come upon you unawares. For as a snare shall it come upon all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch you therefore and pray always that you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son of Man. And in that day when He was teaching in the temple, and at night I went out in a boat in the mountain and it was called Mount Olives.

And all the people came early in the morning to Him, in the temple, for to hear Him. Now, here in this passage in chapter 21 is referring to the later, the end times and what you can expect in the days just prior for the Lord's return. In fact, in verse 25 He says, There shall be signs in the sun and the moon and the stars and upon the earth the distress of nations, perplexity, sea and waves.

But here He's talking in this passage both current events and then future events are applied here, both. And so He was speaking here as we take a look at verse 36 of future tribulation where now here as He's gathered and the apostles are gathered and people are asking Him, �Tell us about the end times, what are the signs going to be, so on and so forth?� And again He says, �Take heed to yourself, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of this life.� In other words, He's saying, �Listen, keep your eyes on the prize, be looking, make sure that when I come back, when I come back, I come back and I catch you being obedient, I catch you doing the Lord's work, I don't come back and catch you drunkenness and the cares of this life. And so that day come upon you unawares, for as a snare shall they come and upon all them that dwell upon the face of the whole earth.� And He's talking about in the days at the end of the tribulation period. And He says, �Watch you therefore and pray always that you may be accounted worthy to escape all of these things that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son of Man.� Now, what does He mean by being worthy? He's saying, �Make sure that you're saved, make sure you've been born again, make sure that you've called upon the Lord, you've repented of your sin.� And see, that's the point that He's getting across here. And when He says, �Watch therefore and pray always you may be accounted worthy to escape all these things.� Now, He wasn't referring to the apostles there because they knew, He already had told them how they were going to die, they were going to be crucified.

And He told them that, �You're going to have to drink from this cup that I'm drinking from.� And so the message here is an eschatological message for future events. And He says again, �Watch therefore and pray always that you may be accounted worthy to escape all of these things that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son of Man.� Now, you know, for two thousand years, you'll hear He there and Harry out there tell you this all the time, �For two thousand years you Christians have been telling us that your Jesus will come back and take you to heaven.� Well, where you'll have more free stuff than the government can give us here on earth. You see, that's the mindset of the heathens out there, what heaven's all about. Heaven's not about being redeemed, about being there, being in a world where there's no more sin, no more death, no more hatred, they've got, they're clueless.

To them, heaven would be a place where you get more free stuff than you get from the government, right? And so here, now verse 36 again, is one of the most overlooked and yet it is the key that unlocks the mystery of the pre-trib rapture. To be found worthy to escape is referring to those who are truly born again. To stand before the Son of Man means to be in the very presence of God, and you're going to do that when, one, when He comes back, when He raptures the church and they're caught up in the air.

They'll be standing before the Lord and then again later at the Bemisy judgment. Now, today, worldliness has entered into the church to such a degree that as, well, as Mrs. Olsteen said, and I heard her say it, it's not about God, it's about us. Now, in the apostate church, sexual sin, the LGBTQ and abortion rights along with pedophilia and witchcraft, they're desired more than worship and service to God. In the apostate church, those things are desired more than to serve and worship God. In the prosperity church today, well, if the rapture were to take place during an entertainment service, I doubt that the attendance would be diminished enough to even affect the proceedings of the church, even affect the proceedings. The main concern, I think, in the prosperity church would be that the rapture would take place after the offering is taken up.

I know I'm being facetious here, folks, but that's kind of what it's come to nowadays. I want to go over to 1 Thessalonians, chapter 4. In 1 Thessalonians, chapter 4, we read verses 13 through 18, �But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that you sorrow not even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

For the Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout and with a voice of the archangel and with a trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together in them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord, wherefore comfort one another with these words.� Now here, what he's referring to when he's talking about the Thessalonians wondered why so many other fellow believers had died, and what would happen to them when Christ returned. And Paul wanted the Thessalonians to understand that death is not the end of the story. When Christ returns, all believers dead alive will be reunited, never to suffer or die again. So what Paul does mean when he says, �This we say unto you by the word of the Lord.� Here we see that God revealed directly, God had revealed directly to Paul.

Remember, Paul spent three years in the Arabian desert being schooled and tutored by the Lord Jesus Himself. So he was saying, making it very clear, in verse 15, �For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.� And so, because Jesus Christ came back to life, so will all believers, all Christians, including those living when he returns, will live with Jesus forever. Therefore, folks, we need not despair when loved ones die or world events take a tragic turn.

We see that every day now. God will turn our tragedies into triumphs, and poverty to riches, and pain and glory to our, and defeat to victory. Here again when we say we will stand before the Lord, first at the rapture, then at the Bema Seat, and here the coming of the Lord is referring again. Now here he is referring to the day of Christ, and the dead in Christ shall rise first, the dead in Christ.

So, the coming of the Lord is referring to the day of Christ, and the day of Christ always refers to salvation. Christ is the Savior. He is the Messiah. He is the Deliverer.

He is the Redeemer. Now the day of the Lord always refers to both judgment and wrath, and also the day of the Lord is a blessing to save, as they are not subject to the wrath of God. I want to take you over now to chapter five, and we read verses one through eleven. But of the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I write unto you, for yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord shall cometh as a thief in the night.

For when they shall say peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as to bail upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, and that day shall not overtake you as a thief. You are the children of light and the children of the day. We are not of the night, nor of darkness.

Therefore, the day of the Lord shall not overtake you as a thief. You are the children of light and the children of the day. We are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore, let us not sleep as do others, but let us watch and be sober, for they that sleep sleep in the night, and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. But let us who are of the day be sober, put in on the best place of faith and love, and for a helmet of the hope of salvation. For God hath not appointed us by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that whether we are awake or asleep, we should live together with Him.

Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, as also you do. Now, here we've seen over and over that efforts to determine the date of Christ's return are absolutely foolish. And folks, again, don't be misled by those that tell you that they know the date of Christ's return.

Some years ago, all the way back in the 80s, I had a fellow that we call in on the radio program, and he was a great guy. And that's when, you know, computers, everything was really picking up rapidly, not like it is today, but with the computers. And everybody wanted to try to predict the date, the time of Christ's return. And we've had throughout the years people doing that, and the Bible tells you not to do that. Don't do that.

It's foolishness to do that. And here today we still have those that say they know the date of His return. He's telling us that we need to be living in such a way as if we expected the Lord to return at any moment. And he's telling us we must keep encouraging each other to keep the faith and finish our race and support each other is what he's telling you here. So, for God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ. And here, again, as you're near the end of a long race, your legs ache, your throat burns and your whole body cries out, you know, �Stop!

Rest up!� Folks, this is when friends and fans are well needed when you run this race, and this is why we are to encourage each other, because we've got some interesting times, and I mean there's some very tough times heading this way. We are clearly in what the Lord Jesus spoke of as the Day of Sorrows. We're clearly there, clearly there. And so here, but he says, �For God has not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ.� Now, what is he talking about? He's talking about the Tribulation Period, the Great Tribulation Period.

This is the wrath. I mean, here, you know, the Church has always gone through tribulation, but tribulation and the wrath of God are two different things. That's what we refer to today as the Great Tribulation. And you see, there are those out there that keep telling you that the Church is going to go through the tribulation, and here the Bible clearly states that we won't go through.

You see, it would not make sense at all. It would make no sense at all for the Church to go through the tribulation period. The tribulation period was for the purification of the wife of God, which we see in the book of Hosea and others. That's referring to the nation of Israel, the nation of Israel. So the purpose of the tribulation period was to the purification period of Israel and to bring judgment upon the heat of the nations.

And the Church, there's no reason at all for the Church to have to go through that. In fact, again, he says, For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ. So, again, we see one more time he's telling us there that God has not appointed us to wrath, and he's telling us again that we should be ready, we should be looking and prepared for the Lord to come back at any time.

I want to go over to 1 Thessalonians, chapter 1, and just read verses 4-10. We read, Knowing, brother beloved, your election of God, for a gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance that you know what manner of men we were among you for your sake. And you became followers of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction with the joy of the Holy Ghost, so that you were examples to all that believe in Macedonia and Achaia.

For from your sound out the word sounded out the word of the Lord, not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place that your faith to God word is spread abroad, so that we need not speak anything, for they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serving the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. So again, here now, he's referring to being delivered from the wrath to come. Now Paul emphasizes Christ's second coming throughout the Bible, because the Thessalonian church was being persecuted, but encouraged them to look forward to the deliverance Christ would bring, and a believer's hope is in the return of Jesus, the great God and Savior. And so, here, some of those Thessalonian believers thought that, well, they would be protected, many of them actually thought they would be protected from death until Christ returned for them. When some began to die under persecution, they started questioning their faith, and Paul explained to them what happens when you die.

God's wrath, again, applies both to the tribulation and to the lake of fire, and here, again, let me read you here, he says, which even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come, which delivered us from the wrath to come. And then, I want to take you over to Revelation chapter 3, and in Revelation chapter 3, here now, you've got to remember, the seven churches symbolize and represent the seven dispensation periods, and here we're going to go back to the church age, which is the sixth dispensation period, and in that we see here two churches, the Obedient Church, which is the church of Philadelphia, and the Lukeworm Church, which is the church of the Laodiceans. And so, here as we read, and to the angel of the church in Philadelphia, write these things, saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David. Now, the key of David was the authority, the authority here to open the doors of invitation into the future kingdom. After the doors open, no one can close it. Salvation is assured.

Once it's closed, he says, no one can open it. And so here, again, as he's talking about, we have the authority. God gave us the authority to evangelize. Now, ever since Jesus went back to be with the Father, for the last two thousand years, the world has tried to keep us from evangelizing.

They've tried to pass laws, the Muslims slaughtered Christians, they keep trying, and the more they try, the harder it is, the greater, again, the blood of the martyrs, they're the seeds of the church, folks. And so, here, he goes on to say, he that opeth that no man shutteth, and shutteth that no man openeth, I know thy works, and thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie. I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. Now, here, again, when he was talking about Jews that say they are Jews, but are not, but do lie, the Apostle Paul referred to them in Romans chapter 9, when he was referring to those that were the seed of Abraham, but not the sons of Abraham.

They were the seed of Abraham, and then Jesus referred to them, also, in John chapter 8, and he's talking about their, their, their father is Satan, their father is the devil. And he makes it very, very clear in Zechariah that what's going to happen is only two-thirds, two-thirds of those that are professing to be Jews are going to perish, and only one, and that one-third will turn to the Lord. And here, I want to go to Zechariah, in chapter 13, verse 7. Awake, O sword, against my shepherd and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts. Might the shepherd and the sheep shall all be scattered, and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones. And it shall come to pass that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off, but the third shall be left therein.

And I will bring the third part through the fire, and I will refine them as silver is refined, and I will try them as gold is tried, and they shall call my name, and I will hear them. I will say, It is my people, and they shall say, The Lord is my God. And so that's who the Lord is referring to here. And then he goes on, he said again, Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but do lie. Behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. He's talking to the church here. Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, and try them that dwell upon the earth. Here again he's referring to this great tribulation period. Again, there would be no reason at all for the church to go through that.

It would be totally contrary. And then he goes on to say, Behold, I come quickly, hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. Him that overcometh, I will make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out. And I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is New Jerusalem, which cometh down from heaven, from my God. And I will write upon him my new name, and he that hath it here, let him hear what the Spirit saith. And so here now, what he's saying is, I will also keep thee from the hour of temptation.

I will keep thee from failing in that hour of testing of folks. Again, what he will keep thee from us. You see, when he says that, when he refers to those that continue, let me go on here. But hold fast which thou hast, that no man take him, him that overcometh. When he's referring to those that overcometh, he's telling you that saved people, saved people, those that are born again, will overcome. They will overcome, and he will keep them from that hour of temptation, and they will keep them from failing here. And so here, I want to take now, and I want to go to, over to, well, to 2 Peter chapter 1.

So, what do you do here now? How do you keep from going through that tribulation period? How do you keep? How do you keep from being left behind?

How do you keep from being left behind? Well, we go over here to 2 Peter chapter 1 verses 10 and 11. Wherefore, the rather brethren give diligence to make your calling and election sure, or if you do these things you shall never fail, for so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly in the everlasting kingdom of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Now, in other words, Peter was telling them here too that there's going to be false teachers in that day that taught that, like many of those today, that good works was not evidence of salvation.

Therefore, good works was not required. And so what does he say? Well, if you have no desire for the Lord's works, well, there's no indwelling of the Spirit. So Peter was telling them, no, no, no. He was telling them that if you are saved, if you are saved, okay, there will be evidence, and that evidence will be good works. What does James say? Faith without works is what? It's dead being alone. Faith without works is, there is no such thing.

It's dead. And here now, Peter is saying, wherefore, the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure. In other words, make sure. You know, there's going to be a whole lot of people there for an extremely rude, and I mean an extremely rude awakening. The Lord Jesus said that many are called, but few are chosen. Many will come, but few will enter. In other words, he's saying that the vast majority, just like with Israel, two-thirds are going to perish, and the vast majority of people today that have a profession of faith don't have a possession of salvation.

They're not saved. You go to, again, you can sit there, and I watch, especially these mega-churches, and I watch them, and I see, and what are they? They're all about wealth, all about gaining wealth, and their desires are not serving God, but having God serve them. Their desires, you know, it's like Joel has said, live the good life now, live it now, live the good life right now. The Lord Jesus said, don't place up your crowns on earth, place your crowns up in heaven. Joel is saying, no, go for it now, get it right now, here on earth.

T.D. Jakes says, I want my stuff now, I want it now. No, the Lord Jesus again said, place your crowns up in heaven, and he's telling you, you're placing up crowns in heaven by being obedient to the Lord, and by doing the Lord's work. So, again, when the folks out there, God made us to serve him, and the Prosperity Church has got it just backwards.

They've got it all backwards. I want you to go over to Romans chapter 8, Romans chapter 8, here, and I'll get there in a minute. Romans chapter 8, I want to start with verse 28. Now we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are called according to his purpose. See, to those that are called according to his purpose, according to God's purpose, see, for whom he did for know, he also did predestinate, to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them also he called, and whom he called, he also justified, and whom he justified, them he glorified.

What shall we then say to these things? If they are before us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all.

How shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justified. Who is it that condemneth? It is Christ that died.

Yea, rather that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, also maketh intercession for us. Now here, folks, this is, there is so much in this passage right here, there is so much in this passage of scripture right here, when, how often now, you will hear people all the time, there is a lot of sound bites out there, the little sound bites you have today that people repeat, and that are not thought out like the Bible teaches that we are to hate the sin but love the sinner. The Bible doesn't teach that.

The Bible teaches we are to hate what God hates and love what God hates, and love what God loves and hate what God hates. You will hear them say, well sin is missing the mark. No, sin is transgressing God's law.

Sin is transgressing, now that can be applied that by doing that you are missing the mark, that would have an application, alright. But that is what the Bible actually teaches. Now, how many times have you heard people say, well, Jesus died for everyone. Well, no, while it is true that it wasn't God's will that any comes short of the glory, that any comes short of salvation, the fact is, Christ didn't die for everyone. You see, God always gets results. God has never failed at anything, and I know the Pope said that Jesus failed at Calvary.

Well, I got news for the Pope, that Jesus did not fail at Calvary. And what I mean by that, if Christ had died for everyone, everyone would be saved. Now, while the Bible teaches that, again, it wasn't God's will that any should be lost, but here he is making a very, very clear point that even though the Christ shed blood was sufficient to take away the sins of the whole world, his blood was sufficient to take away the blood had to be applied.

It had to be applied. And Christ died for those to whom the blood was applied. And here, how do you know?

Well, let's read it here. He says, and we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are called according to his purpose. To them that are called according to his purpose, for whom he did for no, he also did predestinate. So he died for those that he did that love him, that were called according to his purpose, for whom he did no, he died for those that were predestined, he did predestinate those, he did predestinate those to be conformed to the image of his son, that he might be firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom he did predestinate, then he also called. Okay, so he died for those that he predestinated and he died for those that he called. Then he also justified and whom he justified and then he glorified.

So it's here literally spelled out for you. Okay, and again, God never failed at anything. Now, again, very, very clear that God made it very clear that it wasn't his will, it wasn't his will, but God didn't force his will upon us. He did not force his will upon us.

He did predestinate. He knew, being omniscient, who was going to receive him and who was going to reject him. And so it's just like when Jesus said, In My Father's house are many mansions.

If I go, I'll prepare you a place, I'll come back and take you to Myself. Now, Jesus did not go and prepare a mansion for everybody in the world. His purpose would have been, his will would have been that he could have, but the fact was that he didn't, because he knew that the majority of people were not going to be saved, that the majority of people would reject his offer of eternal life.

They would reject it. They would reject his sacrifice at Calvary. And so, again, so he knew when he hung upon that cross who he was dying for. Well, for example, upon that cross he was between two thieves. The one on the right, the Lord Jesus said, Today you'll be with me in glory. The one on the left didn't fare us too well, because, again, he rejected Christ, that offer of salvation. So Christ's death wasn't for him, because he had rejected that.

Now, I want to, we'll go here. The main thing, though, is to remember you must make your salvation sure. I want to go over to 2 Timothy, chapter 4.

In 2 Timothy, chapter 4, Paul knew that the end of his physical life was very near, so he was affirming in his eternal life of after his death, here, in these passages, verses 7 and 8. Verse 16 through 18. In my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsake me.

I pray, God, that it may not be laid to their charge. Notwithstanding, the Lord stood with me and strengthened me, and that by me the preaching might be fully known, that all the Gentiles might hear. And I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion, and the Lord shall deliver me from every work, and will preserve me into the heavenly place, to whom it be glory forever.

Amen. Now, the word Gentiles there actually meant pagans, and so here Paul was saying that he was set to preach to the Gentiles, to the pagans, to preach the salvation message to them. And here he made it very clear, and the Lord shall deliver me, the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom.

Now, Paul didn't have any doubts about that, or any questions about that. Now, I want to go over to 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, and in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2. Okay, here now. So what do you do if you find out you've been left behind? The rapture has taken place and you're still here.

Well, here, let's just look at a scenario here. The rapture has taken place, the Holy Spirit has been taken out of the way, and let me just read the verses first here. We read, Remember you not that when I was yet with you I told you these things, and now you know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time, for the mystery of iniquity doth already work. Only he who now letteth will let until he be taken out of the way, and then shall the wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming even him who is coming after the working of Satan, with all powers and signs and lying wonders, and with all the deceivableness of unrighteousness, to them that perish because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion that he may believe a lie, that they all might be damned who believe not the truth but have pleasure in unrighteousness. So here the rapture had taken place.

This is a scenario. The Holy Spirit has been taken out of the way. Now here you notice that the many of your acquaintances and your family, people, you know, they are gone, they have disappeared.

But not the mainstream media. All of the mainstream media is still there, and they are telling people that, saying that the Messiah has cleansed the planet of unbelievers before he returns, and you know that they can never be believed, that the mainstream media can never be believed. And so you remember hearing the Christians talking about something called a rapture, the rapture. Now you never really paid any attention to what they were saying, so you never really received or rejected the truth.

No time, there is no time to waste now. You must find the King James Bible and learn the truth. You remember the sign at that church that you never attended down the street?

There was a big sign that said John 3.16. So you go and you find this King James Bible, you read John 3.16, and then you read the whole chapter, and then you end up saying the sinner's prayer. And now you feel a sense of peace and relief.

Things are changing very, very rapidly. You must, with extreme caution, try and find others like yourself. Now you have been in hiding and have read about the rapture and the tribulation of things are now starting to fall into place and make sense. Now you are so very glad that your family has been caught up to be with the Lord, and you want to join Him. So you read about the beast and his number 666. You know that no matter what the cost, you must not take the number. You must resist unto death and witness unto as many others like yourself that have been left behind.

Now here I want to go back and read this. Verse 11, �For this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should believe a lie, that they all might be damned who believe not the truth, but have pleasure and unrighteousness.� Well, you know, what he is referring to, those that heard God's truth and understood God's truth and then rejected it. The Lord Jesus has said to the religious leaders, the Pharisees, �Had you not been shown, had you not seen what I have done, had you not been told, well then you would have no sin. But since you have been told, since you have been shown, you have no cloak for your sin. You are guilty.� And here, in this case, a lot of people, this is why there are going to be so many people saved during that tribulation period, because many, many will hear the gospel for the first time. There is no thirst out there today for the gospel of Christ, folks.

There is just not, you know. People, church, you know, church attendance is way, way off. The ones that have the mega churches are there not by preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ, but by preaching the prosperity message, basically telling people how they can become rich, where the real desire is open.

I want to go to Revelation chapter 7, I read verse 13 through 17. We read this, �And one of the elders answered and said unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? And whence came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of the great tribulation, and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple. And he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and he shall lead them into living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.� Now here, scripture tells us the fact that if we go back a little bit and start at verse 9, we read this, �And after this I beheld in law a great multitude, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongue, still before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes and palms in their hand, and cried out with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God that sitteth on the throne of the Lamb.� Now here, again, there s going to be more people saved, and some actually, some theologians actually believe that there will be more people actually saved during the tribulation period than have been saved all the way up to the tribulation period.

I don t know if that s true, but I can see that it could be. And so here we re going to see when the Lord returns back to earth, and as we see as He is returning back to earth, and we see that over here in the book of Revelation in chapter 19, and we see as the Lord as the rider on the white horse, �And I saw heaven open and behold a white horse, and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he thus judged and made war, and his eyes were a flame of fire, and he had on his head were many crowns, and a name written that no man knew but he himself, and he was clothed with vesture, dipped in blood, and his name was called The Word of God, and the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed with fine linen, white and clean, and out of his mouth went a great sharp sword, that with it should be despite the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, and he treaded a wine press of fearlessness of wrath almighty God, and he hath on his vesture and on the hoth eye a name written King of Kings and Lord of Lords.� So here he is talking about four categories of saints. He is going back to earth and he is going to return with four categories of saints. The first word, the time that the word saints was used, okay, was for the angels. The second was the Old Testament saints. The third was the New Testament saints, and the fourth was the tribulation saints, and so the Lord will be returning back to earth at the end of the tribulation period with four categories of saints. Now, these saints are his army, and they are coming back to make war, and let me just take you very quickly over to Zechariah, and I want to just tell you this very quickly. �Then shall the Lord go forth and fight against those nations as when he fought in the day of battle,� that is when he took his people out of Egypt, �and his feet shall stand in the day upon the Mount of Hollows, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Hollows shall cling in the mist there toward the east and toward all the west, and there shall be a great valley, and half of the mountain shall be removed toward the north and half of it toward the south, and you shall flee to the valley of the mountains, for the valley of the mountains shall reach into Isaiah, and you shall flee like you did, like you fled before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah, the king of Judah, and the Lord my God shall come with all his saints with thee.� Alright, there you go. I am going to stop right there, and we have with us tonight, joining me is Dr. Al Reichman, and Dr. Reichman is with Ahavath Messiah Ministries, and he spoke tonight in our church, and he did an excellent job, very, very enlightened, and I have been preaching for fifty years, and I learned a couple of new things, especially, Al, what you were talking about the Father, and how that associated too with Christ, and so, anyhow, tell the folks, they don't want to miss what we saw tonight, the presentation you put on tonight was just fantastic, tell the folks where you're going to be tomorrow.

Alright, I appreciate that. I'll be in Ravenna at New Testament Baptist Church, and that is 3583 State Road 59 in Ravenna, Ohio, and that starts at 7 p.m. tomorrow night. Alright, and are you going to be doing the same thing as you did tonight at our church? No, I'm going to be doing a message on the Forgotten Mission Field.

Okay, well, some of our folks live out in that way, I wouldn't doubt that they would come again to hear you tomorrow night. Alright, this message really stresses the biblical urgency of taking the Gospel to Jewish people, but how the church really has overlooked them in their outreach. Well, again, we're seeing how, and I was just preaching tonight about, out of Revelation chapter 3, the Church of Philadelphia, and Romans chapter 9, because so many people today, they blame everything that goes bad on the Jews, but who is a Jew? And the Apostle Paul made it pretty clear that those that were the seeds of Abraham weren't the sons, and the Lord Jesus did the very same thing. He said those that say they were Jews were the synagogue of Satan, and he also told them in John chapter 8, the religious leaders who made their profession saying that they were the sons of Abraham, and the Lord Jesus made it very clear, No, you're not, you're the sons of Satan.

So when these people blame all Jews for what some do, isn't it like the same thing here? I would say maybe, maybe a third of all of those that have a profession of faith as Christians are truly Christians, if that many. I would say that would be, you know, a liberal number. Probably more conservatively, maybe 15% of those would have professed faith.

What do you think? Yeah, I think it would surprise most pastors to really know how few members of their churches, and I'm talking about faithful members, how few of them really, truly are born again. I mean, they've got a religion, they've got, they were raised in church, they know the lingo, they know all the hymns, but they don't know Jesus, and they're relying on their tradition and their heritage. And it shocked most pastors to know how, what percentage of their membership is truly like that. Well, you know, I think it would really shock many of the church members to know how many of those in the pulpit aren't saved. I had a friend who was in the United Church of the Antichrist, and I told him years later he would come, and he was the pastor, and I'd say, Bob, come out of there, come out of there, come out, come out, come out. You know what God's word in the Bible says, come out, be you separate. And he was saying, well, no, we're going to change it, we're in there as missionaries, we're going to lead them to the Lord.

And I said, Bob, a fish writes for the head down. The only way you can do that, you've got to come out of there first, and then you can go back as a missionary. Well, one day he came in to our pastor's meeting, he was all excited, he was all excited, and I said, what's up? He said, we just, the magisterium were twelve pastors in the United Church of the Antichrist, and he said, they just had the fifth pastor get saved. They just had, out of the twelve, the fifth, they had five now that were, and he was all excited about that. And, you know, that's an amazing thing.

No kidding. Well, I've gotten to the place, you know, I'm in a hundred churches a year, all across the country, and I've just gotten to the place where I really hate to hate it when a church member pulls me aside and wants to try to give me their testimony. Because these things are scary. There's no Bible in them, they're devoid of anything that has to do with Jesus, or his death on the cross, or them being cleansed by the blood of Jesus and having invested their faith in Jesus as their Savior.

It's all some spooky story of some experience that they had, and they cried out to God, and they got through the experience so they know they're safe. We're just about out of time, Al, so you've got two and a half minutes. Can you give an invitation in two and a half minutes?

I can try. Look, there's only one way to heaven. People are looking for, people want to go to heaven and they're looking for another way.

There is no other way. I mean, we have to remember, heaven is God's home. We've been invited, but on his terms, not ours. And he requires that we come under the blood of Jesus. And if you've never accepted Jesus, if you've never had, pled his blood to cleanse you of your sin, and opened your heart, and invited him in to be your Savior, I beg you, do it tonight.

Amen. Do not put your soul at one more moment of eternal risk of a devil's health. There's no turning back once you stop, once this life is over. You need to make the decision now.

You get no second chance. You've got to do it now. And so I would implore you, stop telling the Holy Spirit no, and allow him to bring you to the foot of the cross. Open your heart and trust Jesus tonight while you have that opportunity.

Amen. You don't want to run out of tomorrows tonight. One more time, tell us where you're going to be tomorrow and give us that address.

New Testament Baptist Church at 3583 State Road 59 in Ravenna, Ohio at 7 o'clock. All right, folks, I encourage you to go on out. He did a very good job, and I just wanted to say, Al, it was just amazing how your message tonight corresponded with what I preached earlier. We covered so much of the very same things, and we didn't discuss that, because you didn't know what I was going to preach on, but it was what an affirmation it was.

Well, I love it when God does that, because that just confirms truth. Amen. I'm out of time. I want to thank you for being here tonight, and folks, come on out and listen to Al Reichman tomorrow night. Until then, we want to say good night, God bless, and always, always, always keep fighting the fight. Amen. God bless. See you tomorrow. Amen.