1 00:00:00,100 --> 00:00:05,300 Scripture reading is found in the prophecy of Isaiah chapter 2 00:00:05,300 --> 00:00:09,000 11. I'm going to read more of 3 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:13,000 chapter 11 than you see in your bulletin and I'm not going to 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:17,300 read The Exodus passage at all so I got permission to do that. 5 00:00:19,200 --> 00:00:21,100 You'll stand now for the reading of the word. 6 00:00:27,900 --> 00:00:31,200 There shall come forth, a shoot from the stump of Jesse and a 7 00:00:31,208 --> 00:00:33,200 branch from the root. Shall bear fruit. 8 00:00:33,900 --> 00:00:37,100 The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of 9 00:00:37,100 --> 00:00:40,400 wisdom and understanding the spirit of counsel and might the 10 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:43,800 spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord and his Delight 11 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:45,300 shall be in the fear of the Lord. 12 00:00:45,300 --> 00:00:49,600 He shall not judge by what his eye sees, nor decide to Spirits, 13 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:53,000 by what his ears hear. But, with righteousness, he 14 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:57,600 shall judge the poor and decide with the equity for the meek of 15 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:00,100 the earth. And he shall strike the Earth 16 00:01:00,100 --> 00:01:02,900 with the rod of his mouth. And with the breath of his lips, 17 00:01:02,900 --> 00:01:06,300 he shall kill the wicked righteousness. 18 00:01:06,300 --> 00:01:09,000 Shall be the belt of his waist and faithfulness. 19 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,300 The belt of his loins. The wolf shall dwell with the 20 00:01:12,300 --> 00:01:15,800 lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat and the 21 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:19,100 calf and The Lion, and the fatted calf together and a 22 00:01:19,107 --> 00:01:22,300 little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall 23 00:01:22,300 --> 00:01:23,900 graze. Their young shall lie down 24 00:01:23,908 --> 00:01:27,300 together and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 25 00:01:27,300 --> 00:01:31,000 Ox, the nursing nursing child shall play over the whole of the 26 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,800 Cobra and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adders Den. 27 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:38,300 They shall not hurt or destroy in. 28 00:01:38,300 --> 00:01:41,800 All my Holy Mountain for the Lord shall be full of the 29 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:44,100 knowledge. The Earth shall be full of the 30 00:01:44,100 --> 00:01:47,600 knowledge of the Lord as the waters, cover the sea. 31 00:01:48,700 --> 00:01:52,300 The word of the Lord, you may be seated. 32 00:02:05,100 --> 00:02:08,199 I just felt I needed to deal with a few things. 33 00:02:08,699 --> 00:02:12,700 Concerning the Advent season that might be helpful to us in 34 00:02:12,700 --> 00:02:15,500 our overall understanding of how to read our Bibles. 35 00:02:17,300 --> 00:02:21,600 When we say Advent, getting back to about as basic as we can get. 36 00:02:22,500 --> 00:02:28,500 It comes from the two Latin words means to come, And to, or 37 00:02:28,500 --> 00:02:33,900 toward the Advent? Is that time in which? 38 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:43,000 Our Lord comes to us. In the parlance of the 39 00:02:43,008 --> 00:02:50,800 scriptures, the father sins the sun, the sun is a missionary. 40 00:02:51,300 --> 00:02:56,100 He is an emissary, he comes from the father to do, the will of 41 00:02:56,100 --> 00:03:01,300 the father, but from our perspective, we see his work as 42 00:03:01,300 --> 00:03:05,900 a coming and Advent. There are several words in the 43 00:03:05,900 --> 00:03:08,300 New Testament that are used to describe this. 44 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:11,800 It's sometimes called a coming sometime. 45 00:03:11,900 --> 00:03:16,400 Times, it's called an appearance a manifestation. 46 00:03:17,100 --> 00:03:21,300 Sometimes it is even called in the Old Testament of visitation 47 00:03:21,900 --> 00:03:25,900 a, visitation of the Lord. So God visits his people. 48 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:30,300 And the way he visits his people is through the Incarnate son 49 00:03:30,900 --> 00:03:34,500 through. Jesus Christ his son, he is the 50 00:03:34,500 --> 00:03:40,800 primary visitor in the Bible, and he comes to visit his 51 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:43,200 people. When he comes to visit his 52 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:48,500 people, he brings both judgment and blessing. 53 00:03:49,500 --> 00:03:52,900 So when you read your Bible, when you look at the old 54 00:03:52,900 --> 00:03:56,100 Covenant, the Hebrew scriptures Genesis to Malachi. 55 00:03:57,100 --> 00:04:00,900 There's often speech in there about the Lord coming and the 56 00:04:00,900 --> 00:04:05,300 Lord has a visitation day. That is an appointed day. 57 00:04:06,100 --> 00:04:09,100 He's going to come on an appointed time. 58 00:04:09,100 --> 00:04:12,300 He comes in the fullness of time, he comes precisely Nicely 59 00:04:12,300 --> 00:04:15,600 would God the father wants him to come. 60 00:04:17,399 --> 00:04:23,600 And his coming to Earth is seen as a visitation whereby, he is 61 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:27,600 accomplishing the things that the father has called upon him 62 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:31,200 to accomplish all through the Old Testament. 63 00:04:31,300 --> 00:04:37,700 There's an anticipation of that day that appointed day that 64 00:04:37,700 --> 00:04:43,000 visitation day when the sun will come to Earth. 65 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:48,000 And principally, he's going to deal with two classes of people. 66 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:51,400 He's going to deal with the righteous. 67 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:56,700 That had been made righteous by his grace, by the way, and he 68 00:04:56,700 --> 00:05:01,600 will deal with the wicked. Who is everybody born in their 69 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:04,900 sin? And he will deal with those. 70 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:10,400 The way in each case, it needs to be dealt with over and over. 71 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:12,900 The emphasis is that he will make a judgment. 72 00:05:13,900 --> 00:05:18,700 He will make a discernment. And when he makes a discernment, 73 00:05:18,700 --> 00:05:23,200 he will judge between the righteous and the wicked, and 74 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:31,400 the righteous will be ushered into his Perpetual Eternal 75 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:37,200 blessing. And the wicked will be consigned 76 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:44,500 to his eternal curse. So, the coming of the Lord is an 77 00:05:44,500 --> 00:05:47,300 important thing. And in the Old Testament, we see 78 00:05:47,300 --> 00:05:52,000 the coming of the Lord, as a dad, a out there in the future, 79 00:05:52,200 --> 00:05:54,600 it's out there. We don't know when it is. 80 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:56,900 We don't know how long it's going to be. 81 00:05:56,900 --> 00:05:59,400 Before he comes the prophets will lament. 82 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:03,600 How long O Lord? Will you not come and save your 83 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:08,200 people and vindicate them and and justify them, and destroy 84 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:11,500 the wicked, and get rid of those people that are harassing us 85 00:06:11,500 --> 00:06:21,100 throughout the And the Lord Waits. and he tells the prophet 86 00:06:21,100 --> 00:06:25,900 to wait for the vision, it's going to come it'll surely come 87 00:06:25,900 --> 00:06:31,300 it's the sure word of Prophecy but you don't know when You 88 00:06:31,300 --> 00:06:34,000 don't know what he's coming. When is this day of visitation? 89 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:37,000 When is it going to happen? The Lord talked to the Ancients 90 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:40,400 about it, he talked to Abraham about it and Isaac, and Jacob. 91 00:06:40,700 --> 00:06:43,600 He talked to Moses about it, he talked to David and have talked 92 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:48,100 to the prophets, giving them all kinds of visions and all kinds 93 00:06:48,100 --> 00:06:51,900 of indications about that coming day the day of the Lord. 94 00:06:54,300 --> 00:06:56,200 When will it come what will it be like? 95 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:01,200 The scripture teaches that, in fact, in the fullness of time, 96 00:07:02,100 --> 00:07:08,600 the visitation took place. God sent his son, born of a 97 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:17,400 woman made under the law, who was here to fulfill all that the 98 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:21,000 father had promised, but the time between the promise of 99 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:25,800 Abraham and the coming of Christ was 2,000 years. 100 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:32,800 Two full Millennia 2000 years. Can you imagine living in about 101 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:37,300 1000 years in the middle of all of that and wondering? 102 00:07:37,500 --> 00:07:40,500 When is it going to happen? When is the Lord going to come? 103 00:07:40,500 --> 00:07:44,900 Lets it go to be, like, come quickly, Lord Jesus, by the way. 104 00:07:44,900 --> 00:07:46,700 King, David lived at about that time. 105 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:50,900 Can you imagine living at the time, 500 years before, 500 106 00:07:50,900 --> 00:07:53,800 years before, say, when is he coming? 107 00:07:54,300 --> 00:07:57,600 What's it coming going to be like we hear about his coming. 108 00:07:59,500 --> 00:08:07,100 And then he came. and when he came, he begin to do the work 109 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:11,200 that his father had given him to do and to accomplish all of 110 00:08:11,200 --> 00:08:15,600 those things, all of those things that had been promised by 111 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:20,000 the prophets, But here's the strange thing. 112 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:25,500 When he came, it was obvious that he had come in the fullness 113 00:08:25,500 --> 00:08:29,000 of time, but it also come at the end of time. 114 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:33,299 It's called the last days in Scripture. 115 00:08:34,500 --> 00:08:37,299 The scriptures are divided between the former days, the 116 00:08:37,299 --> 00:08:40,900 days of Prophecy and the latter days, the days of fulfillment, 117 00:08:41,500 --> 00:08:44,000 and Jesus comes in the latter days. 118 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:48,400 He comes in the last days. It is appointed unto man once to 119 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:53,700 die and after death. He is he has given one 120 00:08:53,700 --> 00:08:59,400 opportunity to believe in his lifetime is the time of Faith. 121 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:04,700 Now is the day of salvation Today is the Day of Reckoning. 122 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:12,300 Jesus Christ came and he began to accomplish all of those 123 00:09:12,300 --> 00:09:16,900 things that the father gave him to accomplish to do two things 124 00:09:17,500 --> 00:09:24,000 to save his people and to condemn and punish and destroy 125 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:27,800 the wicked. It's a pretty simple 126 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:31,700 straightforward job description. But one of the things we learned 127 00:09:31,700 --> 00:09:35,600 when he was here, he said, if I go, I will come again. 128 00:09:37,300 --> 00:09:41,300 That was a real surprise effect Paul refers to it as as one of 129 00:09:41,300 --> 00:09:47,500 the great Mysteries that Christ came with revelation of God 130 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:52,200 manifesting himself. There is a time for his coming 131 00:09:52,700 --> 00:09:57,000 and yet he leaves. He said it's expedient for you. 132 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,600 That I go away. He said I'm going to prepare 133 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:04,400 mansions and but he still continues his work and we are 134 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:08,000 living now in a period of expectation. 135 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:13,200 Again, when is he coming? Why is he going to do? 136 00:10:13,900 --> 00:10:17,400 What will it be? Like what are the indications of 137 00:10:17,408 --> 00:10:20,000 his coming? Why had it been long enough? 138 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:25,500 It's been 2000 years. Same amount of time. 139 00:10:25,500 --> 00:10:29,400 God operated within the old coveted he's operating now with 140 00:10:29,400 --> 00:10:32,600 us Christ. Came, he came as a king. 141 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:36,900 He came as a savior. He comes as a lord. 142 00:10:37,300 --> 00:10:41,100 He comes as the, all the Fulfillment of the expectation 143 00:10:41,100 --> 00:10:44,500 of is Rayul to be their Messiah. And we'll look at those as we go 144 00:10:44,500 --> 00:10:48,100 along through the Advent season this year of the, of the root of 145 00:10:48,100 --> 00:10:50,500 Jesse, and all the things that pertain to Christman. 146 00:10:50,700 --> 00:10:53,500 What I'm giving you now is kind of the big framework. 147 00:10:54,200 --> 00:10:59,500 We are now expecting another visitation, another coming. 148 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:03,600 Another purusa, another appearance, another presence, 149 00:11:03,900 --> 00:11:09,400 we're expecting him to to come and we will see him and he will 150 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:12,700 operate. In such a way that he'll be 151 00:11:12,700 --> 00:11:15,000 accomplishing the purpose that God gave him. 152 00:11:16,300 --> 00:11:21,500 And we are living now in What's called the inter Advent 'l 153 00:11:21,600 --> 00:11:26,100 period to get that the inter Advent. 154 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:28,600 In other words, Advent means the coming of the Lord, the 155 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:32,400 visitation, but we have his visitation to Earth, 2,000 years 156 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:35,700 ago in Bethlehem. And then there is his 157 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:42,000 visitation, his coming, his coming again his return, which 158 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,900 we now anticipate, we're in no different place. 159 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:50,400 Yes. with respect to the expectation than the prophets 160 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:55,000 were The prophets heard the word of the Lord. 161 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:58,600 Believe the word of God. Proclaim the word of God. 162 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:04,100 Faithful to him. Waiting waiting waiting, and he 163 00:12:04,100 --> 00:12:08,900 came He did him what he needed to do, and he's gone. 164 00:12:11,500 --> 00:12:16,600 And he's going to come again. And the accomplishment. 165 00:12:17,900 --> 00:12:22,900 Of what the Messiah is going to do spans that entire range of 166 00:12:22,900 --> 00:12:27,900 time at his first coming. He did some things, he 167 00:12:27,900 --> 00:12:34,000 accomplished some things. At his second coming, or his 168 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:38,800 second Advent, he will accomplish things as well. 169 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:42,800 You'll get some things done, in fact, that second Advent, we 170 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:45,600 anticipate will be the consummation. 171 00:12:46,700 --> 00:12:50,600 He inaugurated a kingdom, he will consummate that Kingdom and 172 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:53,500 bring it into an absolute Eternal reality. 173 00:12:54,500 --> 00:12:57,800 That's what the Lord will do at his second coming. 174 00:12:59,700 --> 00:13:02,400 One of the things that we have difficulty with is we read our 175 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:05,200 Old Testament, is the Old Testament. 176 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:08,300 Prophets didn't see that. Scheme. 177 00:13:08,300 --> 00:13:12,100 Working out like that. They just knew there was a day 178 00:13:12,100 --> 00:13:15,000 when Christ was going to come, and when he did, he was going to 179 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:22,200 take care of all the business. And so when they wrote their 180 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:27,700 prophecies, they mixed and mingled everything that Christ 181 00:13:27,700 --> 00:13:32,600 would do. At his first coming during the 182 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:38,900 inter Adventist period. And the final Advent, the second 183 00:13:38,900 --> 00:13:41,100 coming, put it all in there. Together. 184 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:44,100 This passage we just read as an example of it. 185 00:13:44,100 --> 00:13:46,300 Let me just, and I'll show you a couple of other examples. 186 00:13:46,700 --> 00:13:49,000 So you shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse. 187 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:52,900 That's his birth Branch from his roots, then the spirit of the 188 00:13:52,900 --> 00:13:55,700 Lord, rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding 189 00:13:55,700 --> 00:14:00,200 counsel, and might the spirit of knowledge, the fear of the This 190 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:03,700 was his work and Isaiah 61 prophesied. 191 00:14:03,700 --> 00:14:06,800 The spirit of the Lord would be on him during his entire Earthly 192 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:08,600 Ministry. His Delight shall be the fear of 193 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:10,400 the Lord. He shall not judge by what his 194 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:12,400 eyes. See, these are decide to speech 195 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:15,200 by what his ear hears. But with righteousness, he shall 196 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:18,000 judge. In other words, his first coming 197 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:24,100 had to do with setting forth a judgment and he dealt with 198 00:14:24,100 --> 00:14:29,900 Mankind's singular issue. Sin. 199 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:33,700 It's why the New Testament. Says, the second time, he will 200 00:14:33,700 --> 00:14:40,900 come without regard to sin. But he will come with regard to 201 00:14:40,900 --> 00:14:46,200 Salvation. Finishing his salvific work, 202 00:14:46,500 --> 00:14:51,700 accomplishing his purposes crowning and wrapping up all 203 00:14:51,700 --> 00:14:57,400 that he does asthma and bringing in that Eternal order that has 204 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:00,000 been promised and you see it all mixed in here together. 205 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:04,100 All the sudden in verse 6, the wolf shall dwell with the lamb 206 00:15:04,100 --> 00:15:07,900 and there's this beautiful description of the animals in 207 00:15:07,900 --> 00:15:10,900 the days of the new Heaven. And the new Earth. 208 00:15:10,900 --> 00:15:14,400 It's matched by other passages in Isaiah, And the beautiful 209 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:17,700 thing is they shall not hurt or destroy in all my Holy Mountain 210 00:15:17,700 --> 00:15:20,900 for the Earth, shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as 211 00:15:20,900 --> 00:15:25,300 the waters, cover the sea. We see that in another passage 212 00:15:25,300 --> 00:15:29,700 of scripture, just back up a few verses, a few chapters. 213 00:15:29,700 --> 00:15:34,700 And in Isaiah here, Isaiah chapter 2, the word of the Lord. 214 00:15:34,700 --> 00:15:37,900 That Isaiah, the son of a moth saw concerning Judah and 215 00:15:37,900 --> 00:15:42,700 Jerusalem. He says, 2:2, it shall come to 216 00:15:42,700 --> 00:15:47,000 pass in the the latter days. Okay, that's in the days of 217 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:48,300 fulfillment. That's in the days. 218 00:15:48,300 --> 00:15:51,200 When Christ comes in the mountain of the house of the 219 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:54,500 Lord shall be established at the highest of the mountains and 220 00:15:54,500 --> 00:15:57,800 shall be lifted up above the hills and all the nations shall 221 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:00,200 flow to it. And many people shall come and 222 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:02,700 say let us come up to the mountain of the Lord to the 223 00:16:02,700 --> 00:16:06,200 house of the god of Jacob that he may teach us his ways that we 224 00:16:06,200 --> 00:16:11,900 may walk in his paths and it is out of Zion, shall go the law, 225 00:16:11,900 --> 00:16:16,500 the word of the Lord from Jerusalem, That's what's going 226 00:16:16,500 --> 00:16:19,200 on right now. That's the preaching of the 227 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:21,700 Gospel. That's the going forth from 228 00:16:21,700 --> 00:16:26,200 Jerusalem, the word of the Lord, the Divine Law Goss, that's 229 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:30,300 moving out of God's place in Jerusalem, in God's place of 230 00:16:30,300 --> 00:16:33,400 ancient Capital City to the entire world. 231 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:35,800 Before long. You realize that the whole every 232 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:39,800 nation is included. He's the king of all the nations 233 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:42,600 and he's calling the nation's to himself, that was the nature of 234 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:45,000 commission. He's going to all the I'll all 235 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:49,300 the ethnic groups and disciple them and bring them in. 236 00:16:49,500 --> 00:16:52,500 All true worship of God goes up to Jerusalem. 237 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:54,300 What is the crowning of Jerusalem? 238 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:58,700 It is Christ himself. It is the work that was done 239 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:02,400 inside the Gates of Jerusalem with his, with his arrest, his 240 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:06,000 trial that which was done outside the Gates of Jerusalem, 241 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:10,400 his crucifixion, his burial, his resurrection, all of these 242 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:14,000 things have taken place, he shall judge between the nation's 243 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:17,200 he shall discuss. Decide disputes for the many 244 00:17:17,200 --> 00:17:19,400 peoples. They shall beat their swords 245 00:17:19,400 --> 00:17:22,300 into plowshares and their Spears into pruning. 246 00:17:22,300 --> 00:17:25,000 Hooks Nation shall not lift up sword against Nation. 247 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:27,700 Neither shall they learn War anymore? 248 00:17:27,700 --> 00:17:31,600 This is the Prince of Peace, the king of all the nations, who 249 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:35,900 brings about this. This, this very ideal pacifist 250 00:17:35,900 --> 00:17:40,200 situational House of Jacob. Come let us walk in the light of 251 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:42,600 the Lord and just for the fun of it. 252 00:17:43,900 --> 00:17:48,300 In a few minutes that we have left, I want to just confine 253 00:17:48,300 --> 00:17:53,600 myself to nothing but the Minor Prophets. 254 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:55,000 Now there's nothing minor about him. 255 00:17:55,000 --> 00:18:00,400 That's the last 12 books of Prophecy in the Old Testament 256 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:05,100 and a couple of my won't hit on. I won't mention Obadiah, or 257 00:18:05,300 --> 00:18:11,400 Jonah, perhaps, but, but listen to just a small reading of what, 258 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:19,000 what the what they talk about in in Hosea, let's just start Hosea 259 00:18:19,300 --> 00:18:30,000 Hosea, chapter 2, verse 16, In that day, declares the Lord, you 260 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:39,600 will call me husband. That's Christ, and his bride. 261 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:44,900 In that day, I will answer declares the Lord. 262 00:18:44,900 --> 00:18:47,500 I will answer the heavens and they shall answer the Earth and 263 00:18:47,500 --> 00:18:49,900 the Earth shall answer the green and wine. 264 00:18:52,100 --> 00:19:00,200 That's the Communion. I will have mercy on people that 265 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:02,900 I said, I wouldn't have mercy on that is the Gentiles. 266 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:06,700 I will say to my people. The Gentiles, You Are My People 267 00:19:07,100 --> 00:19:10,300 and he shall say, you are my God. 268 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:15,600 Joel. You're familiar with the 269 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:22,800 passages in Joel. Joel chapter 2, the day of the 270 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:27,000 Lord is coming, it is near. It's a day of darkness and Gloom 271 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:30,000 a day of clouds and thick Darkness like Blackness their 272 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,800 spread upon the mountains of great and powerful people like 273 00:19:32,900 --> 00:19:35,100 there has never been before Northern, will the be again 274 00:19:35,100 --> 00:19:39,500 through the years of all generations, fire devours before 275 00:19:39,500 --> 00:19:45,400 them and a flame Burns. And yet it turns out that 276 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:49,700 there's like a Garden of Eden before them and behind them is a 277 00:19:49,700 --> 00:19:55,400 desolate wilderness. That's what the Lord's going to 278 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:58,200 do. He's going to turn this earth 279 00:19:58,700 --> 00:20:05,300 into a Garden of Eden after he has burned it and purged it with 280 00:20:05,300 --> 00:20:10,200 fire thoroughly, once. He purged it with water, Next 281 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:18,900 time, he purges it with fire. Joel chapter 3. 282 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,800 It will come to pass afterward that I will pour out my spirit 283 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:27,400 on All Flesh, your sons and your daughter's shall prophesy, your 284 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:30,900 old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see Visions even 285 00:20:30,900 --> 00:20:34,000 on the male and female servants in those days, I will pour out 286 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,900 my spirit. It shall come to pass that. 287 00:20:36,900 --> 00:20:40,900 Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved for 288 00:20:40,900 --> 00:20:42,700 in Mount, Zion. And in Jerusalem. 289 00:20:42,700 --> 00:20:45,900 There should be those who've escaped as the Lord has said in 290 00:20:45,900 --> 00:20:50,000 among the survivors shall be Those whom the Lord calls 291 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:55,900 Pentecost. Accomplished as it was given in 292 00:20:55,900 --> 00:20:58,800 those days. And at that time, chapter 3 in 293 00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:02,700 the at that day, I don't have time to go into every one of 294 00:21:02,700 --> 00:21:04,600 these, but they're really interesting. 295 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:07,300 Here's Amos. I've got a passage out of Amos 296 00:21:07,300 --> 00:21:11,500 chapter 9. In that day, I will raise up the 297 00:21:11,500 --> 00:21:14,500 booth of David that has fallen repair. 298 00:21:14,500 --> 00:21:17,600 Its branches and raise up its ruins and rebuilt it as in the 299 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:20,600 days of old. And all the nations who are 300 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:25,200 called by my name shall possess Remnant, declares the Lord, who 301 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:29,800 does this? That's Acts chapter 15, that's 302 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:32,900 the Jerusalem Council, that's the passage that's quoted. 303 00:21:32,900 --> 00:21:35,300 When they were trying to decide what to do with all these 304 00:21:35,300 --> 00:21:38,600 Gentiles that had believed into the Jesus Messiah as the 305 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:41,500 Messiah, the Jewish Messiah. And that's the passage that's 306 00:21:41,500 --> 00:21:42,900 quoting. They were enlarging the 307 00:21:42,900 --> 00:21:47,500 Tabernacle of David. The Lord is raising up that 308 00:21:47,500 --> 00:21:51,300 Fallen Kingdom that Fallen booth that Fallen Dynasty and 309 00:21:51,300 --> 00:21:56,800 restoring it to its full meaning and that's what is happening. 310 00:21:56,900 --> 00:22:01,000 In the church, all my life. Just see all these. 311 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:04,100 I got I got to mention a couple of more for behold. 312 00:22:04,100 --> 00:22:06,200 The Lord is coming out of his place. 313 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:09,800 He will come down and tread upon the high places of the Earth. 314 00:22:11,500 --> 00:22:15,100 That's that's Micah chapter one, chapter two force. 315 00:22:15,100 --> 00:22:17,700 In that day, they shall take up a taught in a song. 316 00:22:17,700 --> 00:22:20,500 And moan says, we were utterly ruined. 317 00:22:20,500 --> 00:22:24,200 He changes the portion of my people and he removes it from me 318 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:27,300 to the apostate helots our Fields. 319 00:22:27,500 --> 00:22:30,900 This is the Judgment. This kind of preaching had this 320 00:22:30,900 --> 00:22:34,500 kind of effect in its day. Listen to what happened in Micah 321 00:22:34,500 --> 00:22:41,200 chapter 2, Do not preach. One should not preach of these 322 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:44,800 things. Disgrace will not overtake us. 323 00:22:45,300 --> 00:22:48,100 Should these be said, or House of Jacob, has the Lord grown 324 00:22:48,100 --> 00:22:50,400 impatient. And these Deeds, not my words, 325 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:52,300 do good by him who walk uprightly. 326 00:22:52,500 --> 00:22:56,600 But lately, my people have risen up as an enemy. 327 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:03,500 God's Own people. Have forsaken him and are 328 00:23:03,500 --> 00:23:08,000 denying his word and his law that's taking place in our 329 00:23:08,000 --> 00:23:14,600 denominational churches to day. All these things in that day, 330 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:20,200 these things, they're being fulfilled now, In that day, 331 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:22,600 declares the Lord. I will assemble the lame and 332 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:24,800 gather this and he goes on about the lane. 333 00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:29,900 That's what happened in Acts chapter 3 when when Peter and 334 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:35,500 John healed the lame man. All the healing of the lame was 335 00:23:35,500 --> 00:23:40,400 a vivid sign that the era of the Fulfillment of the Messiah had 336 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:42,500 come. And then the passage we just 337 00:23:42,500 --> 00:23:47,000 read a little while ago in Micah 5:2 To You O Bethlehem. 338 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,500 Shall come forth one, who is the ruler in Israel? 339 00:23:54,300 --> 00:23:57,100 Oh, I love this passage here in the rest of his brothers shall 340 00:23:57,100 --> 00:24:01,400 return to the people of Israel. He shall stand and Shepherd his 341 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,800 flock. In the Majesty of the name of 342 00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:06,100 the Lord. They shall dwell secure and 343 00:24:06,100 --> 00:24:10,300 shall be great to the ends of the Earth and he shall be their 344 00:24:10,300 --> 00:24:13,000 peace. Well, this intensifies and you 345 00:24:13,008 --> 00:24:21,400 can see it really as it gets into the latter Prophecies of 346 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:25,400 the of the Old Testament. In the book of Zephaniah over 347 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:28,400 and over and over, it talks about the coming of the Lord in 348 00:24:28,408 --> 00:24:31,700 the Judgment that will take place as well as the salvation 349 00:24:31,900 --> 00:24:37,100 of Israel ended in Zachariah. You see the things that are said 350 00:24:37,100 --> 00:24:41,700 there. Some of these passages were 351 00:24:41,700 --> 00:24:43,500 going to run a cover later. A listen to this. 352 00:24:43,900 --> 00:24:46,000 The Lord will give salvation on that day. 353 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:48,200 I will make Jerusalem on that day. 354 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,600 Declares the Lord, I will strike every horse with panic and every 355 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:54,500 writer with Madness, on that day, I will make the clans of 356 00:24:54,500 --> 00:24:57,700 Judah like a blazing pot. In the midst of the word. 357 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,000 The Lord will give salvation to the tents of Judah, and the 358 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:03,500 glory of the House of David. And the glory of the inhabitants 359 00:25:03,500 --> 00:25:06,700 of Jerusalem, may not pass that of Jerusalem. 360 00:25:06,700 --> 00:25:08,400 On that day. The Lord will protect the 361 00:25:08,408 --> 00:25:12,400 inhabitants of Jerusalem. you realize that Jerusalem is the 362 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:17,500 church if you don't realize it, read the book of Revelation It 363 00:25:17,500 --> 00:25:22,000 is God's accomplishment, what he did in his first coming with, 364 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:24,400 respect to sin and salvation, what he's doing? 365 00:25:24,400 --> 00:25:27,700 Now in terms of calling the nation's and what he will do, 366 00:25:28,100 --> 00:25:32,500 when he returns in terms of separating judging, we're out of 367 00:25:32,500 --> 00:25:34,100 time. But if you would read over in 368 00:25:34,100 --> 00:25:37,500 this, this book again, you'd find the one of the things that 369 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,900 the Lord does is he brings everybody into a great valley. 370 00:25:40,900 --> 00:25:44,700 It's the valley of Jehoshaphat it means the valley of judgement 371 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,900 judgement awaits. Everyone. 372 00:25:48,300 --> 00:25:50,000 It is appointed unto man once to die. 373 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:54,500 And after that the Judgment, he will appear a second time 374 00:25:54,500 --> 00:25:59,700 without sin. But unto salvation Tommy, I'm 375 00:25:59,700 --> 00:26:03,400 way over you made to be real brief with this with this 376 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:06,300 communion. Not too brief.