1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:03,800 It certainly is wonderful to be with all of you today. 2 00:00:03,900 --> 00:00:07,000 We appreciate your efforts for being here and we appreciate you 3 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:11,200 and your presence. I do consider it an honor to 4 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:12,800 speak concerning the word of God. 5 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:18,200 And today is no exception, want to talk on a subject that really 6 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:20,700 should be of great interest to everybody. 7 00:00:20,900 --> 00:00:23,700 And I'll tell you why I chose to preach on this subject. 8 00:00:23,700 --> 00:00:27,500 What will Heaven be like, I'm doing so on the heels of the 9 00:00:27,500 --> 00:00:30,900 last lesson that I gave on the Seal of God, And the mark of the 10 00:00:30,900 --> 00:00:33,900 beast and in there. The regarding those that are 11 00:00:33,900 --> 00:00:39,800 sealed by God to Things, We Said the 144,000 and we said also the 12 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:43,900 innumerable multitude, I'm going to sum it up with one statement. 13 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:48,100 The 144,000 and the innumerable multitude, here it is. 14 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:54,700 I believe the 144,000 are the saved on the Earth or the church 15 00:00:54,700 --> 00:00:57,100 militant. And I believe that the 16 00:00:57,100 --> 00:01:00,100 innumerable multitude are the saved in heaven. 17 00:01:00,700 --> 00:01:05,099 Or the church triumphant. So what I want to talk about for 18 00:01:05,099 --> 00:01:08,000 a little while today, is what will Heaven be? 19 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:11,200 Like, it's a great subject is where we all want to go. 20 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:13,400 Now, I know that there are a lot of things that we don't know 21 00:01:13,400 --> 00:01:16,300 about heaven, and I will say this, as we introduce our 22 00:01:16,300 --> 00:01:20,500 remarks John, the Revelator gave a beautiful picture of many 23 00:01:20,500 --> 00:01:24,400 things that are found in the Book of Revelation regarding 24 00:01:24,700 --> 00:01:27,300 heaven. And in that beautiful picture 25 00:01:27,300 --> 00:01:30,100 that he gave, I think it would probably pale in comparison. 26 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:33,700 Listen to How Great and how beautiful, and how awesome it 27 00:01:33,700 --> 00:01:36,700 will be one day. But here we begin. 28 00:01:36,700 --> 00:01:40,500 And we begin with our text in Revelation, chapter 21 and will 29 00:01:40,500 --> 00:01:45,600 begin there in verse 1. Now, I saw a new Heaven and a 30 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:49,500 new Earth for the first Heaven, and the first Earth had passed 31 00:01:49,500 --> 00:01:54,900 away, and there was no more sea. Then I, John saw the holy city, 32 00:01:54,900 --> 00:01:59,100 New Jerusalem, coming down out of Heaven, from God prepared as 33 00:01:59,100 --> 00:02:04,000 a bride adorned for her husband, and I heard a loud voice from 34 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:05,500 Heaven. Saying, behold, the Tabernacle 35 00:02:05,500 --> 00:02:10,400 of God is with men and he will dwell with them, and they shall 36 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:13,800 be his people, God himself will be with them. 37 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:18,400 And be their God and God will wipe away every tear from their 38 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:21,100 eyes. There shall be no more death, 39 00:02:21,100 --> 00:02:25,600 nor sorrow nor crying. There shall be no more pain for 40 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:28,800 the former things have passed away. 41 00:02:29,300 --> 00:02:33,400 First of all the word Heaven and the general, I would say, 42 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:38,000 definition of Heaven, it comes from the word whose root meaning 43 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:42,500 means to cover or Encompass. In fact, is defined as the 44 00:02:42,500 --> 00:02:46,100 vaulted expand. Of the sky with all things 45 00:02:46,100 --> 00:02:51,000 visible in it, we find a passage to and Hebrews chapter 1 and 46 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,700 verse 10. You Lord, in the beginning, 47 00:02:53,700 --> 00:02:57,100 laid, the foundation of the earth and the heavens. 48 00:02:57,100 --> 00:02:58,600 Keep this. In the back of your mind, 49 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:02,500 plural. The heavens are the work of your 50 00:03:02,700 --> 00:03:05,800 hands. Also in second Peter chapter 3 51 00:03:05,800 --> 00:03:10,900 and verse 5 for this, they willfully reject or forget that 52 00:03:10,900 --> 00:03:13,600 by the word of God. The heavens were of old and the 53 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:16,800 Earth. Standing out of water and in the 54 00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:21,800 water, one more passage second, Peter chapter 3 and verse 7, but 55 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:25,200 the heavens and the Earth which are now preserved by the same 56 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:29,400 word are reserved for fire unto the day of judgment and 57 00:03:29,400 --> 00:03:34,300 Perdition of ungodly men. My question is this when it 58 00:03:34,300 --> 00:03:38,500 speaks about Heavens in a plural sense and in a negative sense 59 00:03:38,500 --> 00:03:42,100 when it says, in verse 7, the heavens and the Earth, which are 60 00:03:42,100 --> 00:03:47,100 now preserved by the same. Word are reserved for fire until 61 00:03:47,100 --> 00:03:50,300 the day of judgment and Perdition of ungodly men. 62 00:03:50,700 --> 00:03:54,800 What are the heavens that the Bible is speaking of? 63 00:03:55,200 --> 00:03:58,800 Well, first of all Heavens are described number one. 64 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:01,800 There is one Heaven that we want to notice and that's the aerial 65 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:06,100 Heavens or the sky, it's the region where the clouds and 66 00:04:06,100 --> 00:04:11,500 tipis, gather and where thunder and lightning are produced in 67 00:04:11,500 --> 00:04:16,300 James chapter 5 and verse 18, And he prayed again and the 68 00:04:16,300 --> 00:04:20,800 heaven gave up rain and the Earth produced its fruit also. 69 00:04:21,899 --> 00:04:25,400 You see in Acts chapter 22 and verse number 6. 70 00:04:25,700 --> 00:04:28,400 Now we know what this was. We know, this was Paul's 71 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:34,200 description or pause account of his conversion on the Damascus 72 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:36,500 Road. The Damascus Road experience. 73 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:40,100 He was not saved on the Damascus Road, but he was told to go in 74 00:04:40,100 --> 00:04:43,400 and ananias preaches to him and a nice baptizes him and we know 75 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:47,800 he was saved later on. But in Acts chapter 22 and verse 76 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:50,500 6. This is Paul's account of his 77 00:04:50,500 --> 00:04:56,100 own conversion and he said these words, Paul said as I journeyed 78 00:04:56,100 --> 00:05:00,200 and came near Damascus about noon, suddenly a great light 79 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:04,200 from Heaven, shown around me. What is he talking about? 80 00:05:04,300 --> 00:05:09,000 He's talking about the sky. Now I'm going to mention these 81 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:12,500 things in their terms and then after we get through those 82 00:05:12,500 --> 00:05:15,100 terms, I'm just going to refer to them as this was going to 83 00:05:15,100 --> 00:05:18,200 always refer to as the sky. Not going to keep saying, Ariel, 84 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:22,400 this is the sky and that's what Paul was talking about when that 85 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:25,300 great light, shined around him. But there's another Heaven too, 86 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:29,300 because we read in the Book of Revelation Heavens, plural, and 87 00:05:29,300 --> 00:05:34,200 that's this severe aerial or the starry heavens and in Hebrews 88 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:39,400 chapter 11 and verse 12, It says therefore from one man and him 89 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:45,000 as good as dead were born as many stars of the sky in 90 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:50,100 multitude innumerable as the sand, which is by the seashore 91 00:05:50,100 --> 00:05:53,200 in Mark. Also Mark 13 and 25. 92 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:57,500 It says this, the stars of heaven will fall and the powers 93 00:05:57,500 --> 00:06:01,600 in heaven will be shaken. Verse 26 of Mark chapter 13, 94 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:05,200 says it'll come at the time when he is coming in the clouds. 95 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:10,200 Where Where is the clouds? That's the sky right there. 96 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:12,600 What's going to happen to the Stars? 97 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:16,000 What's going to happen to the Saudi riyal or Starry Heavens? 98 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:20,700 It's going to be destroyed more on that in just a moment. 99 00:06:20,900 --> 00:06:24,800 So, all of that being the case, I'm not really concerned about 100 00:06:24,800 --> 00:06:28,600 the aerial expanse of the sky or the scenario where the stars 101 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:31,400 are. I'm concerned about the third 102 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:35,900 heaven, and the third heaven is where all of us want to get some 103 00:06:35,900 --> 00:06:38,000 day. The third heaven and the 104 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,500 definition of, which is the region above the sodi real 105 00:06:41,500 --> 00:06:44,400 Heavens. It is the seat of Order of 106 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:47,500 Things, Eternal, and consummately perfect. 107 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:52,800 It is the place where God dwells with other Heavenly beings. 108 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:58,700 Now. Second Corinthians chapter 12 109 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:02,600 and verse 2. Now, remember this Peter and 110 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:06,200 John say there's going to Peter and Doug and John also say that 111 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:08,400 this is going to be a new Heavens. 112 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:12,500 But I want to make a point here. When Paul said this, in 2nd 113 00:07:12,500 --> 00:07:16,200 Corinthians chapter 12 and verse two, he was converted. 114 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:19,900 As we know in Acts chapter 9, many years go by. 115 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:23,200 And then at some point in time, this event is going to happen. 116 00:07:23,500 --> 00:07:27,300 14 years later, he says this about him self. 117 00:07:27,500 --> 00:07:32,300 He said, I knew a man in Christ who fourteen years ago, whether 118 00:07:32,300 --> 00:07:34,800 in the body, I do not know whether out of the body, I do 119 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:38,400 not know. God knows such a one was caught 120 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:42,800 up to the third heaven. That's what we want to talk 121 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:45,300 about the third heaven. That's the place that we all 122 00:07:45,400 --> 00:07:47,100 long to be. That's the place that we all 123 00:07:47,100 --> 00:07:51,300 want to go. Now in the inverse Also let's 124 00:07:51,300 --> 00:07:54,600 talk about in Ephesians chapter 4 and verse 10. 125 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:58,900 This speaking of Jesus, he who descended is also the one who 126 00:07:58,900 --> 00:08:02,300 ascended far above all the heavens that he might fill all 127 00:08:02,300 --> 00:08:05,300 things. This is the serial, this is the 128 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:08,100 aerial expanse of the sky as well. 129 00:08:11,500 --> 00:08:16,300 My slides are out of order. Okay. 130 00:08:18,700 --> 00:08:20,500 Let's talk about new Heaven and new earth. 131 00:08:21,700 --> 00:08:23,500 The new Heaven and the new Earth. 132 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:27,000 In Revelation chapter 21 and verse 1. 133 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:32,700 And I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth for the first Heaven, the 134 00:08:32,700 --> 00:08:35,400 aerial and scenario, which by the way that's the sky and the 135 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:39,700 stars and the first Earth had passed away, and there were no 136 00:08:39,700 --> 00:08:42,700 more sea. This is extremely important for 137 00:08:42,700 --> 00:08:46,400 us to understand because Jehovah's Witness Doctrine 138 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:48,900 believes. I'm not making fun. 139 00:08:48,900 --> 00:08:52,000 I'm making a statement of fact, their Doctrine teaches. 140 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:55,900 And they believe that the Earth that we live on today is going 141 00:08:55,900 --> 00:08:59,800 to be refurbished. In other words, they believe the 142 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:04,800 144,000 a symbolic number as we've stated. 143 00:09:04,900 --> 00:09:09,500 They believe that the 144,000 is an exact number and they're in 144 00:09:09,500 --> 00:09:11,900 heaven. Now and Heaven is full. 145 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:15,600 I was once talking to a fellow that came and knocked on my door 146 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:18,000 and really nice fella. He wanted to talk about some of 147 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,000 these things. And I said, I want to go to 148 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:21,400 heaven. He said, I don't want to go to 149 00:09:21,408 --> 00:09:25,000 heaven. I want the new Earth that Jesus 150 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:29,800 is going to refurbish but let's talk about that is Jesus going 151 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:34,200 to refurbish anything. Remember as we stated that Peter 152 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:37,500 and John said it's going to be new. 153 00:09:37,600 --> 00:09:42,100 So in first second, Peter chapter 3, beginning in verse 10 154 00:09:42,500 --> 00:09:45,900 but the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night in 155 00:09:45,900 --> 00:09:48,900 the which Heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the 156 00:09:48,900 --> 00:09:52,600 elements will melt with fervent heat both the earth and the The 157 00:09:52,608 --> 00:09:54,700 Works that are in, it will be burned up. 158 00:09:55,100 --> 00:09:57,900 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what 159 00:09:57,900 --> 00:10:01,400 manner of persons ought you to be in, holy conduct and 160 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:05,100 godliness, looking for, and hastening the coming of the day 161 00:10:05,100 --> 00:10:08,600 of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved being 162 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:11,800 on fire and the elements will melt with fervent heat. 163 00:10:11,900 --> 00:10:14,800 Nevertheless, we according to his promise, look for new 164 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:18,100 heavens and a new Earth in which righteousness. 165 00:10:18,500 --> 00:10:25,600 Dwells so, All we have to do is look at a brief word study and 166 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:29,900 we can know for an absolute fact that the doctrine that teaches 167 00:10:29,900 --> 00:10:31,500 that Jesus is going to refurbish. 168 00:10:31,500 --> 00:10:36,100 This Earth itself is impossible. And that is, we just go to the 169 00:10:36,100 --> 00:10:39,000 passage and we pull out what the exact words are. 170 00:10:39,100 --> 00:10:43,500 And we begin with the word new, this word new comes from a word 171 00:10:43,500 --> 00:10:49,900 that means as respects form recently made fresh recent 172 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:55,200 unused and Warm that which is recently made is superior to 173 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:59,200 what it exceeds and that succeeds and that is according 174 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:02,400 to mr. Thayer in are passages, what 175 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:04,700 else what else is going to happen? 176 00:11:05,100 --> 00:11:08,900 It's going to pass away. That means to perish or pass 177 00:11:08,900 --> 00:11:11,900 away to vanish or to disappear out of sight. 178 00:11:12,900 --> 00:11:16,300 Another word that we look at to is this word, hear the word 179 00:11:16,300 --> 00:11:18,700 melt. And by the way, the word melted 180 00:11:18,700 --> 00:11:21,600 there's two words. One is Mu 0, and 1 is Tico. 181 00:11:21,700 --> 00:11:25,700 Little means this to dissolve, something coherent into Parks, 182 00:11:25,900 --> 00:11:31,300 or destroy according to mr. Thayer Tico means to make liquid 183 00:11:31,300 --> 00:11:35,500 or to become liquid to perish or be destroyed by melting. 184 00:11:35,500 --> 00:11:40,500 Let me ask you this. Does this seem at all, like a 185 00:11:40,508 --> 00:11:45,800 refurbishment? Or a complete destruction, what 186 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:50,500 else? Elements is from which all 187 00:11:50,500 --> 00:11:53,900 things have come, it's the material causes of the universe. 188 00:11:53,900 --> 00:11:58,200 So notice what he's saying here? All of the things that happen, 189 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:01,600 all of the things of the earth and the and the heavens, both 190 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:04,800 the sky and the Stars, it will all be, what it's going to pass 191 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:07,600 away. It's going to melt and even the 192 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:10,700 elements that made up those particulars will be destroyed. 193 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:14,600 Even the elements that made it up. 194 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:18,600 Not a refurbishment, but one more thing. 195 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:24,000 The Earth will be burned up consumed by fire, you know, I 196 00:12:24,008 --> 00:12:26,200 know that the Earth as long as I've been alive. 197 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,100 Especially living in the state of California. 198 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:36,000 I know that there's a big discussion over destroying our 199 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,900 planet. And I do believe that we should 200 00:12:38,900 --> 00:12:43,600 take care of our planet. Certainly so obviously we need 201 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:48,100 take care of that and be good stewards of that intending that. 202 00:12:49,300 --> 00:12:52,400 But all the things that I have ever heard in my life, about man 203 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:57,300 destroying the Earth is false. There's nothing that a man could 204 00:12:57,300 --> 00:13:01,300 ever do to destroy the Earth that Peters referring to. 205 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:05,000 In fact, God said that God said that he was going to be the one 206 00:13:05,100 --> 00:13:09,000 that was going to do that and when he comes back, when the 207 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:12,200 Lord comes back, that's exactly what's going to happen, Okay? 208 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:17,900 So, let's go to the new Heaven and new earth, what is going to 209 00:13:17,900 --> 00:13:20,000 happen at the new Heaven and the new Earth? 210 00:13:20,100 --> 00:13:22,700 Where is that going to be? And what's going to be their? 211 00:13:22,700 --> 00:13:27,500 Number one is the Eternal place. The redeemed, First Peter 212 00:13:27,500 --> 00:13:29,500 chapter 1, verses 3 and 4 blessed. 213 00:13:29,500 --> 00:13:33,500 Be the God, and father of our Lord, Jesus Christ who according 214 00:13:33,500 --> 00:13:36,700 to His, abundant Mercy, has begotten us again to a Living 215 00:13:36,700 --> 00:13:39,900 Hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 216 00:13:39,900 --> 00:13:44,200 From the dead to an inheritance Incorruptible and undefiled. 217 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:49,300 And that does not fade away. Reserved in heaven for you. 218 00:13:49,600 --> 00:13:53,000 It is the Eternal place of the redeemed. 219 00:13:53,100 --> 00:13:55,400 In second Peter, chapter 3, and verse 13. 220 00:13:55,500 --> 00:13:58,700 Mean, nevertheless, we according to his promise, look for new 221 00:13:58,700 --> 00:14:02,900 heavens, and a new Earth in which dwells righteousness, or 222 00:14:02,900 --> 00:14:08,900 where righteousness, dwells Revelation, 21 and 27 says, but 223 00:14:08,900 --> 00:14:11,600 there shall be no means it by no means enter. 224 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:15,600 It anything that defiles or causes an Abomination or Ally 225 00:14:15,900 --> 00:14:20,900 but only those that are written in the Lamb's Book of Life. 226 00:14:21,700 --> 00:14:26,900 Now, I'm going to tell you. There's a lot of folks. 227 00:14:28,700 --> 00:14:32,400 There's a lot of folks. That want to go to heaven. 228 00:14:34,600 --> 00:14:36,400 There's a lot of folks that want to go to heaven. 229 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:40,700 There's a lot of folks that think they're going to have. 230 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:45,200 God wants everyone to go to heaven. 231 00:14:46,700 --> 00:14:50,700 But not everyone is going to go to heaven this passage and 232 00:14:50,700 --> 00:14:55,100 speaking of such a grand place but there shall no means enter. 233 00:14:55,100 --> 00:14:58,700 It anything that defiles or causes an Abomination or alive. 234 00:14:58,700 --> 00:15:03,100 But only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life. 235 00:15:04,300 --> 00:15:06,800 Those are the ones that are going to be saved. 236 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:09,500 All right? What does talk about things that 237 00:15:09,500 --> 00:15:12,900 might be in heaven? What about musical instruments? 238 00:15:13,400 --> 00:15:15,600 Will musical instruments, be in heaven. 239 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:17,800 And the reason that I say this to, and reason I bring this 240 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:20,000 point out is I've actually hurt people. 241 00:15:21,600 --> 00:15:24,900 And as advocates for interment instrumental, music in the 242 00:15:24,900 --> 00:15:27,200 worship. And so forth is because they 243 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:30,200 have said, well, because it's in heaven, if there's musical 244 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:33,600 instruments in heaven, then shouldn't there be musical, 245 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:36,800 instruments on the Earth, but the question is this will there 246 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:40,400 really be literal musical instruments in heaven. 247 00:15:41,500 --> 00:15:43,900 Remembering that the Book of Revelation is a highly 248 00:15:43,900 --> 00:15:46,200 figurative book. Let's talk about some 249 00:15:46,600 --> 00:15:50,200 instruments that the Book of Revelation speaks of number one, 250 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:53,900 trumpets. And this is found in Revelation 251 00:15:53,900 --> 00:15:58,200 chapter 8 and verse 2. And I saw the seven angels, who 252 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:04,700 stand before God and to them were given seven trumpets in 253 00:16:04,700 --> 00:16:06,800 Revelation, chapter 1 in verse 10. 254 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:10,100 I was in the spirit on the Lord's day and I heard Beyond 255 00:16:10,100 --> 00:16:16,400 behind me a loud voice. As of a trumpet, Revelation 256 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:19,100 chapter 4 and verse 1. After these things, I looked and 257 00:16:19,100 --> 00:16:23,300 behold a door standing, open in the heaven and the voice in the 258 00:16:23,300 --> 00:16:28,100 first voice, which I heard was like a Puppet speaking to me. 259 00:16:28,400 --> 00:16:32,400 Now it's true. As one scholar said that the 260 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:36,100 term voices could simply refer to the sound of the trumpets, 261 00:16:36,300 --> 00:16:40,100 but other passages seem to suggest that the voices of some 262 00:16:40,100 --> 00:16:46,100 Heavenly Host, sounded like trumpets and the voices of or 263 00:16:46,100 --> 00:16:49,900 like a trumpet were used as an announcement was being made or a 264 00:16:49,900 --> 00:16:53,100 woe is being pronounced. Not for the melodious sounds of 265 00:16:53,100 --> 00:16:57,700 it. Back to talks about voices. 266 00:16:58,300 --> 00:17:01,000 Here's another one, and this is kind of, I thought about this 267 00:17:01,100 --> 00:17:03,600 this morning actually, you know, they do cartoon. 268 00:17:04,700 --> 00:17:09,599 Somebody dies in a cartoon and then they immediately look like 269 00:17:09,599 --> 00:17:13,099 they're in spirit form and they have wings, you know, in the fly 270 00:17:13,099 --> 00:17:16,400 up and they get a harp. You know, the reason for that is 271 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:19,900 because the mindset or the, the feeling is though, that 272 00:17:19,900 --> 00:17:22,099 everybody that goes to heaven, is going to be an angel with 273 00:17:22,099 --> 00:17:24,099 flapping wings and having a harp. 274 00:17:24,900 --> 00:17:28,600 Because the Book of Revelation talks about Harps, well, let's 275 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:31,200 talk about that. Revelation chapter 5 beginning, 276 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:35,500 in verse 8, 9, now when he was taken the scroll, the four and 277 00:17:35,500 --> 00:17:38,900 living creatures and twenty-four Elders, fell down before the 278 00:17:38,900 --> 00:17:42,900 lamb. Each having a harp and golden 279 00:17:42,900 --> 00:17:46,700 bowls full of incense. Which are the prayers of saints 280 00:17:46,700 --> 00:17:51,600 and they sung a new song wherever Elation 14. 281 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:54,800 And to I heard the voices of Harpers harping with their 282 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:57,900 Harps. Notice I heard the voice of them 283 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:01,600 harping as it were on their Harps. 284 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:09,900 Some translations say sound and not voices, but notice another 285 00:18:09,900 --> 00:18:13,000 passage in the well, the same passage in the American Standard 286 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:16,600 Version says, and the voice which I heard was like the voice 287 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:18,900 of Harpers harping with their Harps. 288 00:18:19,100 --> 00:18:21,500 The revised Standard Version says the voice. 289 00:18:21,500 --> 00:18:26,300 I heard was like the sound of Harper's playing on their Harps. 290 00:18:26,300 --> 00:18:31,500 The very next verse verse 3 and they sang as it were a new song. 291 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:35,600 All right. He doesn't say anything at all. 292 00:18:36,700 --> 00:18:39,800 About literal instruments being played. 293 00:18:40,500 --> 00:18:45,200 It speaks about Harps. It talks about voices and it 294 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:49,300 sounded as though a Harper were harping on their Harps and 295 00:18:49,300 --> 00:18:53,200 that's what John saw and that's what John said. 296 00:18:53,700 --> 00:18:58,400 Now Moving forward. Let's talk about where Heaven is 297 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:01,400 and the Reason by the way that I want to wanted to say this is 298 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,600 because it seems obvious where it is. 299 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:09,200 It seems extremely obvious, but I heard someone not long ago say 300 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:12,300 I heard him say we don't really know where it is. 301 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:15,400 We just know it's some far off place somewhere. 302 00:19:15,500 --> 00:19:18,400 It could be over there. We don't know that it's up but 303 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:22,000 is that really true? Is it really that we can't know 304 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,000 where it is? I think we can know exactly 305 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:27,000 where it is in. 2nd Corinthians chapter 12. 306 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:33,300 This is what Paul said again I Know a Man in Christ who 307 00:19:33,300 --> 00:19:36,100 fourteen years ago, whether out of the body, I do not know. 308 00:19:36,100 --> 00:19:41,600 God knows such a one was caught up to the third heaven. 309 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:45,900 Now in Acts chapter 1 beginning in verse 9. 310 00:19:46,200 --> 00:19:48,800 Now when he had spoken these things while they watched he was 311 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:52,900 taken up and a cloud received him out of their sight and while 312 00:19:52,900 --> 00:19:57,100 they looked steadfastly toward Heaven as he went up behold two 313 00:19:57,100 --> 00:20:01,200 men stood by them and White apparel, who also said, men of 314 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:05,800 Galilee, why do you stand gazing up to heaven in 1st 315 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:08,500 Thessalonians 4:16. Let's do this for the Lord. 316 00:20:08,500 --> 00:20:10,900 Himself, shall descend from heaven. 317 00:20:12,300 --> 00:20:16,900 When God sends Jesus back. The reason he's descending is 318 00:20:16,900 --> 00:20:20,200 because he had ascended, Heaven is up. 319 00:20:20,300 --> 00:20:22,200 I don't mean to insult anybody's intelligence. 320 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:24,500 This is obvious. I get that, but that's where 321 00:20:24,500 --> 00:20:26,100 Heaven is. It is up. 322 00:20:26,300 --> 00:20:28,300 It is through the other two Heavens. 323 00:20:28,500 --> 00:20:33,500 It is far beyond that. Now, What's it going to be like? 324 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:37,600 I know that people have a different kinds of ideas about 325 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:40,900 heaven. One guy said, one time you said 326 00:20:40,900 --> 00:20:43,000 I think Heaven on is heaven on Earth. 327 00:20:43,100 --> 00:20:45,200 I think Heaven is, when you have a good marriage. 328 00:20:46,100 --> 00:20:49,600 One guy said, it's when people aren't nagging me or pressuring 329 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:53,500 me, I actually heard somebody tell me this not long ago, he 330 00:20:53,500 --> 00:21:00,700 said I have a perfect life In other words, in his mindset, 331 00:21:00,900 --> 00:21:03,900 that's heaven to me. And so many times people have a 332 00:21:03,908 --> 00:21:06,800 different concept about heaven, like, anything that I have 333 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:09,300 enjoyed in life. I get to do in heaven. 334 00:21:10,900 --> 00:21:13,400 I went to a funeral. One time of a Rodeo. 335 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:14,500 Cowboy? An old Rodeo? 336 00:21:14,500 --> 00:21:17,000 Cowboy passed away in the preacher. 337 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,200 Got up and he said he's roping in heaven. 338 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:22,800 You know, I don't care if you like golf, you like horses. 339 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:25,300 He like, whatever. It's like football, whatever, 340 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:26,800 none of that stuff is going to be in heaven. 341 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:32,100 Heaven is not a concept of whatever you enjoyed here. 342 00:21:32,100 --> 00:21:37,000 You get to do for eternity Heaven is specific and Heaven is 343 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:38,900 a real place. So what is it? 344 00:21:38,900 --> 00:21:44,600 Like number one as I just stated it is a place in John chapter 14 345 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:48,500 beginning in verse 2. In my father's house are many 346 00:21:48,500 --> 00:21:51,800 mansions. If it were not, so I would have 347 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:56,300 told you I go to prepare a place for you and if I go and prepare 348 00:21:56,300 --> 00:21:57,900 a place for you, I will come again. 349 00:21:58,900 --> 00:22:02,100 And receive you to myself that where I am, there you may be 350 00:22:02,100 --> 00:22:05,300 also, it is a literal real place. 351 00:22:07,100 --> 00:22:12,500 What else? It's a city in Hebrews 11 16 but 352 00:22:12,500 --> 00:22:15,000 now they desire. A better that is a Heavenly 353 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,900 country. Therefore, God is not ashamed to 354 00:22:17,900 --> 00:22:21,700 be called their God for. He has prepared for them a city. 355 00:22:22,900 --> 00:22:26,200 John's description of Heaven to beautiful pictures. 356 00:22:26,500 --> 00:22:30,600 Notice this, as he described it in this Vision, he said the 357 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:34,200 foundations of the walls were massive and the twelve 358 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:38,000 foundations were the names of the Apostles of the Lamb. 359 00:22:40,100 --> 00:22:46,200 Now, I think The 12th name, it can't be Judas. 360 00:22:47,100 --> 00:22:52,000 I think the 12th name has to be Paul instead of Matthias. 361 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:55,900 We don't hear another thing about Matthias, but Paul was a 362 00:22:55,900 --> 00:22:59,000 chosen vessel of Jesus to bear his name to the Gentiles and 363 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:00,900 suffer. Many things for his namesake 364 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:03,200 divinely inspired by the Holy Spirit. 365 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:05,100 He wrote over two-thirds of the New Testament. 366 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:09,200 I believe it has to be Paul. But like I told my dear departed 367 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:12,100 sister in Christ. So long ago, sister Mildred. 368 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:15,800 I'll tell you what we'll do. Let's meet at the wall and we'll 369 00:23:15,800 --> 00:23:19,500 find out I think it's got to be Paul, but this is a brilliant 370 00:23:19,500 --> 00:23:22,300 picture, a beautiful picture, the twelve foundations were 371 00:23:22,300 --> 00:23:25,600 massive and on those foundations, each one was the 372 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:27,700 names of the Apostles of the Lamb. 373 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:31,900 Notice this there were 12. Identical gapes. 374 00:23:34,500 --> 00:23:36,800 You know why? I think that it says identical 375 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:40,000 Gates. John was seeing a picture and by 376 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:43,500 the way, there was an angel standing guard at each gate. 377 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:47,400 Every gate was identical. You know why you can't go in? 378 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,800 Any other way, the same terms for you to get into heaven or 379 00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,900 the same terms for me. The standard is the same. 380 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:57,900 So with the twelve foundations of on the wall of the Apostles 381 00:23:57,900 --> 00:24:01,200 of the lamb and The Twelve Gates with an angel standing in each 382 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:05,100 one, You can't get in on your own way. 383 00:24:06,100 --> 00:24:08,300 You know, sometimes people say, you know, all roads lead to 384 00:24:08,300 --> 00:24:11,200 heaven. I think I tell my dad one time 385 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:12,800 so I'll tell you what, I'll believe the way I want to 386 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:14,200 believe. You believe what you want to 387 00:24:14,208 --> 00:24:15,900 believe a see who gets to Heaven first. 388 00:24:17,100 --> 00:24:19,500 And I've heard people say, well, you know, all roads lead there. 389 00:24:19,500 --> 00:24:24,200 Anyway, not according to this, to get in the Gates of Heaven. 390 00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,600 It has to be the same way. The same standard, but there's 391 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,500 more and the gates are made of pearl. 392 00:24:31,900 --> 00:24:35,200 And by the way, that's where we get Pearly Gates, when I get up 393 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:38,700 there to the Pearly Gates people sometimes say, but he never 394 00:24:38,700 --> 00:24:42,100 stopped to consider why it says Pearl. 395 00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,900 Pearl. I think as one scholar said 396 00:24:46,900 --> 00:24:51,400 represents those who have had to undergo and persevere through 397 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:57,000 great trials in their life. Because a pearl is the oysters 398 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:04,900 response to pain and struggle. So, the gates are made of pearl. 399 00:25:06,700 --> 00:25:08,500 It's going to be sometimes difficult. 400 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:11,800 In some people's lives to persevere. 401 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,700 I get that. But the Pearly these pearls 402 00:25:14,700 --> 00:25:17,500 here, represent those that have overcome trials. 403 00:25:17,500 --> 00:25:20,900 As one scholar said, I read it and Tribune, a tribulations, and 404 00:25:20,900 --> 00:25:24,900 order to reach heaven. One day, it's produced by 405 00:25:24,900 --> 00:25:28,900 suffering of an oyster and sometimes our life is also 406 00:25:28,900 --> 00:25:34,600 produced by suffering. You know, when Paul said my 407 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,900 light afflictions are but for a while he calls them. 408 00:25:37,900 --> 00:25:40,000 Light Affliction, he had terrible things happen to him, 409 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:41,300 he just called him light afflictions. 410 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:44,100 I think what he was saying is he wasn't saying they're not there. 411 00:25:44,100 --> 00:25:45,600 I think he was saying it doesn't matter. 412 00:25:47,100 --> 00:25:48,500 I think that's exactly what he's saying. 413 00:25:48,500 --> 00:25:51,900 It just doesn't matter and sometimes we have to undergo 414 00:25:51,900 --> 00:25:54,500 some tremendous trials and suffering. 415 00:25:54,900 --> 00:25:57,900 But one day, it's not going to matter one day. 416 00:25:57,900 --> 00:26:01,500 We're going to stand triumphantly before that throne. 417 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,900 What else? It's a city, that's 4 square. 418 00:26:04,900 --> 00:26:08,000 That means this the length and the breadth and the height are 419 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,100 all equal. The Bible says that each 420 00:26:11,100 --> 00:26:14,100 measured twelve thousand furlongs. 421 00:26:14,100 --> 00:26:18,800 And by the way, A furlong is 1/8 of a mile. 422 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:23,700 So you got 12,000 of those, okay? 423 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:27,200 Twelve thousand of those, that's the distance between or 1,500 424 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:28,300 miles. That's the distance. 425 00:26:28,300 --> 00:26:32,800 Between Dallas and New York from New York City, to Bismarck North 426 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:34,800 Dakota from Bismarck North Dakota. 427 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:37,700 This San Francisco, California and from San Francisco, 428 00:26:37,700 --> 00:26:42,100 California back to Dallas. That's how big that is 1,500 429 00:26:42,100 --> 00:26:45,100 square miles. But it's a city Foursquare. 430 00:26:45,100 --> 00:26:49,500 So you got to Go back up in the air 1500 and start. 431 00:26:49,500 --> 00:26:53,800 Again a city Foursquare. Don't think the heavens going to 432 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:57,200 be cramped. I think it's plenty big. 433 00:26:59,100 --> 00:27:05,900 Certainly is, by the way. This is 500 quintillion cubic 434 00:27:05,900 --> 00:27:10,200 feet or 500 with 18 zeros after it. 435 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,000 That's how big Heavens going to be incredible. 436 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,500 What else? How about the wall? 437 00:27:18,100 --> 00:27:23,800 Very important here notice the wall is forty-four cubits or it 438 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,200 is two hundred and eighteen feet. 439 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:29,400 Have you ever stopped to consider why the width is not 440 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:34,000 mentioned little history here. You remember Nineveh Nineveh was 441 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,400 a walled City and ancient cities back in those days were either 442 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:41,000 fenced or Walt and here was the purpose, keep the enemy out. 443 00:27:42,100 --> 00:27:43,800 Right. Just keep the enemy out. 444 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:49,700 So when Nineveh was built and the wall was built, I read one 445 00:27:49,700 --> 00:27:51,900 scholar. That said it was so wide. 446 00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,500 That three chariots could be abreast of each other and spread 447 00:27:55,500 --> 00:27:57,500 out and three. Chariots could drive their 448 00:27:57,500 --> 00:28:00,000 chariots side by side, on the top of the wall. 449 00:28:02,500 --> 00:28:06,500 To keep the enemy out. I think there's a picture here, 450 00:28:06,500 --> 00:28:09,600 don't you? We have the length but the width 451 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,000 doesn't matter because the enemy can't get in. 452 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:15,500 There's no reason for it to be thick. 453 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,500 There's no reason for it to keep the enemy out because the enemy 454 00:28:18,500 --> 00:28:21,900 can't get there. I think that's a beautiful 455 00:28:21,900 --> 00:28:25,500 picture. Yes, Heaven is a real place. 456 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,400 What else? What else? 457 00:28:29,900 --> 00:28:34,300 It's a city of pure gold. He calls it transparent glass. 458 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:39,500 He said, a wall of Jasper Gates of Pearl, and a street of gold, 459 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,300 you know. I like that country song says I 460 00:28:42,300 --> 00:28:44,000 wouldn't, I would want to go to heaven. 461 00:28:44,300 --> 00:28:49,300 Even if the streets were paved in dirt, And that's true. 462 00:28:50,100 --> 00:28:53,400 I don't care what heaven is or what would change as long as I 463 00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:54,800 can get there. I just want to get there. 464 00:28:55,700 --> 00:28:57,000 I remember a buddy of mine used to preach. 465 00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,000 He say, you know what, I'd be a Streetsweeper in heaven. 466 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,900 I just want to get in and I think everybody really feels 467 00:29:01,900 --> 00:29:03,000 that way. Everybody believes that. 468 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:06,600 Everybody would like that. Everybody would want that but in 469 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:09,700 this great place that is so Grand that even the street 470 00:29:09,700 --> 00:29:15,200 itself is made of pure gold. So what's going to be there? 471 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,300 What about things in heaven, number one, One God is going to 472 00:29:19,300 --> 00:29:22,900 be on his throne, you know, we studied this last time the 473 00:29:22,900 --> 00:29:25,800 innumerable multitude is before God on his throne. 474 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:29,800 What else also, there is the Lamb of God that takes the sins 475 00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:33,000 away of the world. And as we studied last time 476 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,700 those that are saved in the innumerable multitude of the 477 00:29:36,700 --> 00:29:41,200 redeem before God on the throne and the Lamb of God will be 478 00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:44,100 wearing white robes because those robes are cleansed in the 479 00:29:44,100 --> 00:29:47,200 blood of Jesus. Our sins are washed away, and we 480 00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:49,600 stand there. I am perfectly as it were with a 481 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,700 symbol of palm branches. Meaning Victory. 482 00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:57,700 That's the church Victorious. That's what's going to be some 483 00:29:57,700 --> 00:30:00,600 things in heaven. What else? 484 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:07,400 The Tree of Life. You remember in the garden? 485 00:30:09,100 --> 00:30:14,700 when man sinned and man was cast out of the garden, And God 486 00:30:14,700 --> 00:30:17,400 removed the Tree of Life took the tree of life away from them. 487 00:30:19,500 --> 00:30:22,800 So in one respect that was a punishment and a consequence for 488 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:26,800 their sinful actions. But there's a beautiful picture 489 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:30,700 there though of something else. It shows God's love and God's 490 00:30:30,700 --> 00:30:34,200 mercy. If the Tree of Life After man, 491 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:39,800 sinned would have been in their life, man, would have been an 492 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:43,900 immortal sinner. Unable to die. 493 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:50,000 Eternally, lost and Immortal Center, God took away the tree 494 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:52,400 of life. But guess what? 495 00:30:52,500 --> 00:30:57,000 As my father-in-law used to say but in heaven, guess what? 496 00:30:57,300 --> 00:31:01,000 We get it back. The tree of life will be there 497 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,300 too. What else? 498 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:09,100 A pure River of Water of Life, revelation, 22, and verse 1, 499 00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:12,600 those that hunger and thirst will be satisfied from a 500 00:31:12,608 --> 00:31:17,000 spiritual perspective. Also there in heaven is going to 501 00:31:17,008 --> 00:31:20,000 be our treasure or our inheritance. 502 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,900 Here's something else to the name of every child of God will 503 00:31:24,900 --> 00:31:28,600 be written there in heaven. Be written in heaven. 504 00:31:29,300 --> 00:31:33,800 So in heaven, in this great place that we talked about 505 00:31:34,100 --> 00:31:37,000 symbolic language, that sounds so beautiful, we can't even 506 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,700 fathom it. We know for a fact that one day 507 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:42,600 God's going to be there on the throne and by the way he's going 508 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,500 to be that. Because why in Matthew 28 and 509 00:31:45,500 --> 00:31:49,100 18, Jesus said all power is given unto me in heaven. 510 00:31:49,100 --> 00:31:51,600 And in Earth, the Bible also says Said according to the 511 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:55,100 Apostle, Paul though, is when the Lord comes back, he will 512 00:31:55,100 --> 00:31:58,900 give the throne back over to his father, his father will reign 513 00:31:58,900 --> 00:32:01,700 forever. Jesus was step down from that 514 00:32:01,700 --> 00:32:03,900 rain, that God will be all in all. 515 00:32:04,100 --> 00:32:08,800 So before God before us are is God on his throne, the Tree of 516 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:12,700 Life, Pure River of Water of Life hungry and thirsty will be 517 00:32:12,700 --> 00:32:15,200 satisfied. Our treasure inheritance in the 518 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,200 name of every child of God is written there. 519 00:32:17,900 --> 00:32:20,200 As the Bible says, in Luke chapter 10 and verse 20. 520 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:25,200 Nevertheless, do not rejoice in this that the spirits are 521 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:28,300 subject to you, but rather Rejoice because your names are 522 00:32:28,300 --> 00:32:32,800 written in heaven. There's nothing greater in all 523 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:34,100 the world than making it to heaven. 524 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:37,200 And there's really nothing worse. 525 00:32:37,300 --> 00:32:39,000 As the Bible says, what does it profit a man? 526 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,600 If he would gain the whole world and lose his own soul? 527 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,600 Or what would a man give in exchange for his soul? 528 00:32:45,300 --> 00:32:47,100 There's nothing worse than losing it. 529 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,700 There's nothing greater than gaining it and having it 530 00:32:50,700 --> 00:32:55,400 forever, and never forget this as I close, if you make it to 531 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,300 heaven. If I'm fortunate enough to make 532 00:32:58,300 --> 00:33:01,200 it to Heaven, I will never be kicked out. 533 00:33:01,800 --> 00:33:04,700 The Bible says at that point in time, the righteous will be 534 00:33:04,700 --> 00:33:08,700 righteous still, but it also says the wicked that are lost. 535 00:33:08,700 --> 00:33:11,300 The wicked will be Wicked, still they can't ever get back in. 536 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,400 So if you want to be saved you have to be saved with the 537 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,400 redeemed on Earth. The steps to become savior, very 538 00:33:17,400 --> 00:33:21,800 simple come believing in Jesus, repent of your repent of your 539 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,600 sins confess. His name as the Son of God, I 540 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:28,300 believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God and be buried in 541 00:33:28,300 --> 00:33:30,700 water. Watery grave of baptism 542 00:33:30,700 --> 00:33:34,200 contacting the blood of Jesus having your sins washed away and 543 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:40,200 added to the 144,000. Maybe you've taken those steps 544 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:42,400 of obedience, maybe you've drifted maybe there are things 545 00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:44,000 in your life. You need to correct. 546 00:33:44,500 --> 00:33:47,000 If that's the case, then, repent of those things confess, those 547 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:51,400 things will pray with you and for you and God will forgive we. 548 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:54,300 Thank you for listening to our podcast, put on by the Church of 549 00:33:54,300 --> 00:33:59,600 Christ at 22:15 plans. 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