1 00:00:00,100 --> 00:00:02,800 Few every Bible Hebrews chapter 12. 2 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:06,600 This our last sermon in the 12th chapter and next week will begin 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:11,300 chapter 13 and finish this long journey through the book of 4 00:00:11,308 --> 00:00:13,700 Hebrews. And today we're going to look 5 00:00:13,700 --> 00:00:17,700 one more time at that Fifth and final warning that the writer of 6 00:00:17,700 --> 00:00:22,300 Hebrews gives to the audience. And whom he is writing. 7 00:00:22,300 --> 00:00:24,800 And so, we need to understand that. 8 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:28,700 As he writes this letter, he does not know who in the 9 00:00:28,708 --> 00:00:34,200 congregation truly is a possessor of the Messiah, or 10 00:00:34,200 --> 00:00:39,900 just one who professes his commitment to the Messiah, he 11 00:00:39,900 --> 00:00:43,000 doesn't know that. And so all throughout the book, 12 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,900 he gives these different warnings five of them in 13 00:00:45,900 --> 00:00:48,300 particular in this is the fifth one. 14 00:00:48,300 --> 00:00:52,100 And with each warning grow with each, Each warning comes a 15 00:00:52,100 --> 00:00:56,000 growing intensity about what's going to happen to those who 16 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:00,500 refuse to follow. What the Lord God says. 17 00:01:01,300 --> 00:01:04,900 And in this warning, he wants them to understand that they 18 00:01:04,900 --> 00:01:09,800 need to come to the all sufficient all Supreme King of 19 00:01:09,800 --> 00:01:14,500 the universe because everything about the book of Hebrews said, 20 00:01:14,500 --> 00:01:19,300 us around the supremacy and the sufficiency of Jesus Christ, Our 21 00:01:19,300 --> 00:01:23,900 Lord And so because he is so Supreme and so sufficient, you 22 00:01:23,900 --> 00:01:27,200 need to give your life to him and follow him. 23 00:01:27,900 --> 00:01:32,600 In fact, he says, in verse number 25, see to it that you do 24 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:38,900 not refuse him, who is speaking. And so all throughout the book 25 00:01:38,900 --> 00:01:44,500 he wants the hearers to examine their lives examinations very 26 00:01:44,500 --> 00:01:48,000 important. He wants them to examine whether 27 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,100 or not. They truly are followers of 28 00:01:51,100 --> 00:01:55,900 Christ, if not, they need to come and follow him. 29 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,700 And in this last warning he makes a contrast between two 30 00:01:59,700 --> 00:02:03,600 mountains. One is Sion, I in one is Zion 31 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:10,100 Sion, I represents human achievement, Zion represents 32 00:02:10,699 --> 00:02:17,500 Divine accomplishment Sian, I represents man's work, Zion 33 00:02:17,500 --> 00:02:21,600 represents God's work. Sinai is all about the law. 34 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:29,500 Zion is all about Grace and so he compels them to come to leave 35 00:02:29,600 --> 00:02:34,900 the old Covenant and embrace the New Covenant do not refuse. 36 00:02:34,900 --> 00:02:39,500 The one who is speaking and as he gives These Warnings all 37 00:02:39,500 --> 00:02:42,700 throughout the book, he also helps them understand. 38 00:02:42,700 --> 00:02:45,600 Not just that they need to examine their lives, but their 39 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:49,100 lives need to be lived in expectation of what's going to 40 00:02:49,100 --> 00:02:52,600 happen. Next, that is so important. 41 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:56,900 In fact, in chapter 1 of Hebrews, the second verse he 42 00:02:56,900 --> 00:03:04,300 says, Christ is the air of all things because we are joint 43 00:03:04,300 --> 00:03:08,800 heirs with Christ. We then become Heirs of all 44 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:13,700 things of his. He also says, in chapter 2, 45 00:03:13,900 --> 00:03:18,600 verse number 5, that there is a world that's going to come, what 46 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:22,200 world is that? And then he says, in chapter 9 47 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:25,400 verse number 15 that there's a promise of an eternal 48 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:29,000 inheritance to get the listeners to realize that there's an 49 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:32,300 inheritance that's going to come in at lasts forever. 50 00:03:32,700 --> 00:03:39,600 But what is that inheritance? And then in chapter 11, he talks 51 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:44,700 about Abraham, how he was looking for a city whose Builder 52 00:03:44,700 --> 00:03:50,600 and maker is god with city. Is that, And then a Chapter 13 53 00:03:50,600 --> 00:03:55,700 and verse number 14. He says we are seeking the city, 54 00:03:55,900 --> 00:04:01,800 which is To come. so the book of Hebrews is not just about 55 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,700 examination, it's about expectation, living in 56 00:04:05,700 --> 00:04:12,000 expectation of what God's going to do next, This is absolutely 57 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:18,700 incredibly important. And so the writer of Hebrews 58 00:04:18,899 --> 00:04:24,500 says, very clearly these words see to it that you do not refuse 59 00:04:24,500 --> 00:04:27,800 him. Who is speaking for those who 60 00:04:28,100 --> 00:04:31,500 those did not Escape, when they refused him who warned them on 61 00:04:31,500 --> 00:04:34,300 Earth, much less, will we escape? 62 00:04:34,300 --> 00:04:37,000 Who turn away from him, who warns from heaven? 63 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:40,500 And his voice shook the Earth then. 64 00:04:41,200 --> 00:04:45,600 But now he promised saying, yet once more, I will shake, not 65 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:46,600 only the Earth. Earth. 66 00:04:47,300 --> 00:04:51,400 But also the heaven. This expression, yet once more 67 00:04:51,400 --> 00:04:55,100 denotes, the removing of those things which can be shaken. 68 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:58,800 As of creative things, said those things which cannot be 69 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:02,300 shaken May remain. Therefore since we receive a 70 00:05:02,300 --> 00:05:06,900 kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude by which 71 00:05:06,900 --> 00:05:12,300 we may offer scuse me to God and acceptable service with 72 00:05:12,300 --> 00:05:17,100 reverence at all. For our God is a consuming. 73 00:05:17,900 --> 00:05:23,500 Fire. He warns them of the Judgment of 74 00:05:23,500 --> 00:05:26,600 God. That that judgments going to 75 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:30,600 come. And therefore they need to be 76 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:35,700 able to embrace that, which is unshakable versus that, which is 77 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:43,500 shakeable. Now all of us know about the 78 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,800 earthquake. The 7.8 earthquake in turkey and 79 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:49,600 Syria. That as of this morning has 80 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:55,800 killed over 29,000 people, And probably, it will grow even 81 00:05:55,800 --> 00:06:01,400 larger as the day's progress. Almost 100,000 people have been 82 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:08,600 injured. and I thought about that, and I thought about, The 83 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:11,700 number of earthquakes that happen around the world every 84 00:06:11,700 --> 00:06:16,300 year. And there are 500,000 85 00:06:16,300 --> 00:06:18,800 earthquakes that happen every year. 86 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:27,800 On the planet. 100,000 of them can be felt quite readily. there 87 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:31,800 are 10,000 earthquakes in Southern California, every 88 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:36,300 single year. Some of them. 89 00:06:36,300 --> 00:06:38,700 We feel others. We don't. 90 00:06:40,500 --> 00:06:44,100 But isn't it interesting that as the Earth? 91 00:06:45,300 --> 00:06:50,100 Orbits around the sun, it's spinning on its axis. 92 00:06:51,300 --> 00:06:57,800 And as it spins, it always is trembling and shaking. 93 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:03,600 The second law of Thermodynamics is very important because it 94 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:07,100 tells us that everything is degrading. 95 00:07:07,500 --> 00:07:11,400 Everything is getting worse, it's not getting any better. 96 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:17,100 And it's leading to something that's very, very significant as 97 00:07:17,100 --> 00:07:20,300 it comes to our text and Hebrews chapter 12. 98 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:28,200 And you think of the earthquake in turkey and Syria in realize 99 00:07:28,700 --> 00:07:33,400 how severe it was. And people, always ask the 100 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:35,600 question. Well, where was God? 101 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:39,200 When that happened? How come those kind of things 102 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:42,600 take place? Whether there's an answer in the 103 00:07:42,600 --> 00:07:45,200 scriptures to that that's very very important. 104 00:07:46,500 --> 00:07:49,000 Is found in the 13th, chapter of Luke. 105 00:07:50,700 --> 00:07:56,100 And the Lord says these words in Luke Chapter 13, He says, now on 106 00:07:56,100 --> 00:07:59,000 the same occasion, there were some president who reported to 107 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:03,800 him about the galileans. Whose blood pilate had mixed 108 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:08,400 with their sacrifices. That's a question. 109 00:08:10,100 --> 00:08:14,000 That arose that says, why is it these galileans were going to 110 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:21,000 worship and pilot would would cut them up and offer them along 111 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:26,500 with their sacrifices? Why was something like that 112 00:08:26,500 --> 00:08:30,700 happened? And Jesus said to them, do you 113 00:08:30,700 --> 00:08:35,100 suppose that these galileans were greater Sinners than all 114 00:08:35,100 --> 00:08:38,600 other galileans? Because they suffered this fate, 115 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:45,900 they were sinners. With either worst of any kind of 116 00:08:45,900 --> 00:08:48,400 Sinner that's ever lived as to why they would suffer this fate 117 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:54,000 while going to worship. He says, I tell you know, but 118 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,900 unless you repent, you will likewise perish. 119 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:03,400 This is this. What do you suppose that those 120 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:09,500 eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them were 121 00:09:09,500 --> 00:09:13,100 worst culprits than all the men who live in Jerusalem. 122 00:09:14,100 --> 00:09:20,100 I tell, you know, but unless you repent, You will all likewise. 123 00:09:21,500 --> 00:09:25,800 Parrish. The Lord takes two specific 124 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:28,500 examples that everyone would know. 125 00:09:29,700 --> 00:09:36,200 One was a natural disaster. a Tower falling over killing 18, 126 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:41,400 people who just happened to be walking by The other was a plan 127 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:45,600 to Massacre of those who went to worship. 128 00:09:47,600 --> 00:09:49,400 In the Lord's, answer is quite remarkable. 129 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:54,500 He never says, you know, you probably need to pray for those 130 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:58,400 who lost their loved ones. Because I'm sure they're really 131 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:04,300 suffering right now. Or maybe we should gather some 132 00:10:04,300 --> 00:10:06,200 money together to help those who are suffering. 133 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:10,000 Is it mean that we should do? Those things understand? 134 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:11,600 It's very interesting how he answers it. 135 00:10:13,100 --> 00:10:15,100 He answers it from an eternal perspective. 136 00:10:16,100 --> 00:10:20,500 Not he's physical perspective. You see, we look at things on a 137 00:10:20,500 --> 00:10:24,100 natural plane on a temporal plane. 138 00:10:25,400 --> 00:10:27,700 God looks at them from Eternal plane. 139 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:32,900 We look at physical suffering, he looks at Eternal suffering, 140 00:10:33,100 --> 00:10:38,200 we look at physical pain, he looks at Eternal pain, he weighs 141 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:42,100 everything in light of Eternity, we weigh everything in light of 142 00:10:42,100 --> 00:10:49,900 what's going to happen to be physically, my loss, my pain. in 143 00:10:49,900 --> 00:10:55,800 Christ, directs them above to help them understand that when 144 00:10:55,800 --> 00:11:00,100 judgment comes. When Calamity comes when 145 00:11:00,100 --> 00:11:06,900 disaster comes as Isaiah 26. Verse number 9 says, God is 146 00:11:06,900 --> 00:11:10,500 known. In his righteousness. 147 00:11:11,800 --> 00:11:15,300 The only way to know the righteousness of God is within 148 00:11:15,300 --> 00:11:19,600 the framework of his judgments. We forget that. 149 00:11:20,900 --> 00:11:25,500 We must understand that. It's a, what the warning is 150 00:11:25,500 --> 00:11:28,200 about, is very significant to us today. 151 00:11:29,100 --> 00:11:32,700 When we look at Hebrews chapter 12 because he says in Hebrews 152 00:11:32,700 --> 00:11:38,200 chapter 12, the expression, yet once more denotes, the removing 153 00:11:38,200 --> 00:11:40,100 of those things, which can be shaken. 154 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:44,100 As of creative things, said those things which cannot be 155 00:11:44,100 --> 00:11:47,700 shaken May remain. In other words, there's going to 156 00:11:47,700 --> 00:11:52,600 be a shaking There's going to be a shaking unlike the world has 157 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:57,700 ever seen. And you need to be aware that 158 00:11:57,700 --> 00:12:02,700 the shaking is going to come. Now he quotes from the book of 159 00:12:02,700 --> 00:12:07,600 haggai, that's very important. Remember, he's writing to a 160 00:12:07,608 --> 00:12:12,700 Jewish audience. Very familiar with the Old 161 00:12:12,700 --> 00:12:15,000 Testament. That's why he doesn't say. 162 00:12:15,100 --> 00:12:20,600 Remember the prophet haggai or remember when the psalmist said 163 00:12:20,900 --> 00:12:24,000 didn't say that. All throughout Hebrew Jesus 164 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:25,800 quotes. The verse why? 165 00:12:25,900 --> 00:12:28,200 Because they're well-versed in the Old Testament. 166 00:12:28,500 --> 00:12:33,300 They know what it says. And they would know about the 167 00:12:33,300 --> 00:12:36,700 shaking of the earth, that's going to come. 168 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:44,300 They would know that. and so, in the book of haggai, The second 169 00:12:44,300 --> 00:12:51,500 chapter the sixth verse haggai. Along with Zachariah. 170 00:12:53,900 --> 00:12:59,400 Is encouraging the Jews. To begin to rebuild the Temple. 171 00:13:00,800 --> 00:13:03,800 The first temple as you recall was destroyed, when 172 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:06,600 Nebuchadnezzar came in and 586 BC. 173 00:13:08,100 --> 00:13:11,600 And so he's encouraging them to rebuild that Temple. 174 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:17,800 As he does verse 6, says, chapter 2 for thus, says the 175 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:21,400 Lord of hosts. Once more in a little while, I 176 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:24,800 am going to shake the heavens and the Earth. 177 00:13:24,900 --> 00:13:29,500 That's where the writer of Hebrews gets it the see also in 178 00:13:29,500 --> 00:13:34,300 the dry land. I will shake all the nations. 179 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:41,800 And they will come. To the desire of the Nations, 180 00:13:42,700 --> 00:13:49,100 and I will fill the house with Glory says, the Lord of hosts. 181 00:13:50,300 --> 00:13:52,000 Who's the desire of the nation's? 182 00:13:52,500 --> 00:13:57,000 Well, that's the Messiah. Malachi 3:1 calls him the 183 00:13:57,000 --> 00:14:01,000 messenger in whom the Nations Delight. 184 00:14:03,100 --> 00:14:09,500 It's so the prophet haggai is prophesying about this great 185 00:14:09,500 --> 00:14:11,100 shaking, that's going to take place. 186 00:14:12,300 --> 00:14:17,600 When it does, it says, I will fill this house with Glory. 187 00:14:18,700 --> 00:14:21,700 Now, that's very important. Why? 188 00:14:22,900 --> 00:14:29,600 The Book of Ezekiel chapter 43, Ezekiel says the spirit and the 189 00:14:29,608 --> 00:14:33,400 spirit lifted me up, and brought me into the inner court and 190 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:38,400 behold the glory of the Lord filled the house very important. 191 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:43,100 Because earlier, in Ezekiel, 8 to 11, he saw the glory of the 192 00:14:43,100 --> 00:14:46,000 Lord. Depart, he saw the glory of the 193 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:49,800 Lord rise up, move outside the Eastern Gate. 194 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:55,400 Cross over the Kidron Brook, rise and rise up the Mount of 195 00:14:55,400 --> 00:15:00,600 Olives go over toward Bethany. And depart. 196 00:15:03,100 --> 00:15:08,400 Interesting, quite ironic. That when our Lord came. 197 00:15:09,900 --> 00:15:14,300 And the glory of the Lord dwelt among us, he would leave 198 00:15:14,300 --> 00:15:17,900 Bethany. Descend, the Mount of Olives. 199 00:15:19,100 --> 00:15:23,400 Crossover the Kidron book. Enter the Eastern Gate. 200 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:26,000 For the king of glory had arrived. 201 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:33,100 But they didn't recognize the king of glory. and because the 202 00:15:33,100 --> 00:15:36,600 recognizing, the crucified him, Which, of course was a part of 203 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:42,400 the plan of God anyway. But Ezekiel sees the glory of 204 00:15:42,408 --> 00:15:44,300 the Lord filling the house of the Lord. 205 00:15:46,300 --> 00:15:49,000 It says in verse number 7 of his equal 43. 206 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:54,700 He said to me, son of man, this is the place of my throne and 207 00:15:54,700 --> 00:15:58,100 the place of the soles of my feet were. 208 00:15:58,100 --> 00:16:00,800 I will dwell among the sons of Israel. 209 00:16:01,900 --> 00:16:07,600 Forever. So Ezekiel knows about the glory 210 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:11,100 of the Lord returning to the temple. 211 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:17,000 Haggai is encouraging them to build the second temple so that 212 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:20,100 the glory of the Lord will fill the house. 213 00:16:21,500 --> 00:16:27,500 And God's presence will be there. but he says, I'm going to 214 00:16:27,500 --> 00:16:33,700 shake the heavens and I'm going to shake the Earth, but what is 215 00:16:33,700 --> 00:16:36,400 that? When does that happen? 216 00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:42,300 How do we know about this? well, the Book of Joel teaches 217 00:16:42,300 --> 00:16:51,500 us, Joel chapter Two. Joel chapter 2. 218 00:16:52,900 --> 00:16:57,100 Says verse number one blow a trumpet in Zion and sound an 219 00:16:57,100 --> 00:17:01,100 alarm on my Holy Mountain that the inhabitants of the land 220 00:17:01,100 --> 00:17:04,900 tremble for the day of the Lord is coming. 221 00:17:05,300 --> 00:17:10,400 Surely it is near. What is the day of the Lord. 222 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:13,900 It's a phrase. Use 19 times in the Old 223 00:17:13,900 --> 00:17:17,099 Testament, six times in the New Testament. 224 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:24,200 It's an eschatological term and in X term referring to a 225 00:17:24,200 --> 00:17:29,800 specific time in which God intervenes in human history. 226 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,400 For judgment. And Joe tells us. 227 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:38,900 Today of darkness and Gloom a day of clouds and thick darkness 228 00:17:38,900 --> 00:17:43,300 and verse 10. He says the earth quakes and the 229 00:17:43,300 --> 00:17:48,700 heavens tremble, the Sun and the Moon grow dark and the Stars 230 00:17:48,700 --> 00:17:51,300 lose their brightness, the Lord utters his voice. 231 00:17:51,300 --> 00:17:55,400 Before his army, surely is Camp, is very great for strong. 232 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:59,700 Is he who carries out his word? The day of the Lord is indeed 233 00:17:59,700 --> 00:18:04,800 great and very awesome who can endure it and other words. 234 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:10,200 It's a rhetorical question, answer, no one. but it's coming 235 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:17,000 the day of the Lord when the Lord himself will shake the 236 00:18:17,000 --> 00:18:21,200 Earth, The writer of Hebrews is referring to the book of haggai, 237 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:25,100 knowing that there's going to come this shaking of just not 238 00:18:25,300 --> 00:18:27,700 the Earth, but the heavens as well. 239 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:31,900 The prophet Isaiah would speak about this. 240 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:40,800 Isaiah chapter 13. Isaiah Chapter 13. 241 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:47,500 Verse number 6, whale for the day of the Lord is near the day 242 00:18:47,500 --> 00:18:51,900 of the Lord. Time to which God intervenes in 243 00:18:51,900 --> 00:18:55,500 human history for judgment. It's different than the day of 244 00:18:55,500 --> 00:18:58,100 God. It's different than the day of 245 00:18:58,100 --> 00:19:02,900 Christ. It's the day of the Lord. 246 00:19:04,500 --> 00:19:08,400 He says you will come as destruction from the almighty. 247 00:19:09,300 --> 00:19:13,000 Therefore, all hands will fall limp in every man's heart will 248 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:15,400 melt. They will be terrified. 249 00:19:15,900 --> 00:19:18,200 Pains that anguish will take hold of them. 250 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:20,700 They will rise, like, a woman in labor. 251 00:19:20,900 --> 00:19:23,400 They will look at one another in astonishment, their faces, the 252 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:28,300 flame, behold, the day of the Lord is coming cruel with Fury 253 00:19:28,300 --> 00:19:33,500 and Burning Anger to make the land a desolation and he will 254 00:19:33,500 --> 00:19:36,600 exterminate it. Sinners from it for the stars of 255 00:19:36,600 --> 00:19:40,000 heaven and their constellations will not flash. 256 00:19:40,000 --> 00:19:44,600 Fourth, their light, the sun will be dark when it rises in 257 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:46,400 the moon, will not shed, its light. 258 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:50,900 Thus, I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for 259 00:19:50,900 --> 00:19:54,000 their iniquity. I will also put an end to the 260 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:57,700 arrogance of the proud and The Bays, the haughtiness of the 261 00:19:57,700 --> 00:20:00,400 ruthless. I will make Mortal man. 262 00:20:00,400 --> 00:20:05,200 Scare sir than pure gold and Mankind and the go The fear. 263 00:20:05,900 --> 00:20:09,700 Therefore I will make the heavens tremble and the Earth 264 00:20:09,700 --> 00:20:15,400 will be shaken from its place at the fury of the Lord of hosts in 265 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:19,800 the day of his Burning Anger. Just coming today. 266 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,100 In which the writer of Hebrews refers. 267 00:20:24,300 --> 00:20:27,000 There's coming a day in which the heavens and the Earth are 268 00:20:27,000 --> 00:20:31,100 going to shake. Because God's judgment is going 269 00:20:31,100 --> 00:20:33,800 to come and be poured out on mankind. 270 00:20:35,700 --> 00:20:39,000 And all throughout the Old Testament, God gives warning 271 00:20:39,100 --> 00:20:45,700 after warning after warning. Now, the listeners in the book 272 00:20:45,700 --> 00:20:50,600 of Hebrews. would understand These Warnings, they would 273 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:57,800 understand Isaiah chapter, 23 when it says, Verse number one, 274 00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:01,200 I'm sorry as he had 24 verse. Number 1, behold, the Lord lays 275 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:06,000 the Earth, waste devastates, it distorts, it, it surfaced and 276 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:10,700 scatters, its inhabitants verse 19, the Earth is broken asunder. 277 00:21:10,700 --> 00:21:14,400 The Earth is split through. The Earth is shaken, violently 278 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:18,700 the Earth reels to, and fro like a drunkard, and it tatars, like 279 00:21:18,700 --> 00:21:23,300 a shack for his transgression is heavy upon it and it will fall 280 00:21:23,300 --> 00:21:26,800 never to rise again. So what happened in that day? 281 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:29,400 The day of the Lord, that the Lord will punish the host of 282 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:31,400 heaven. And I, and the kings of the 283 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:35,000 Earth on the earth, they will be gathered together like prisoners 284 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:38,100 in the dungeon and will be confined in prison. 285 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:40,900 And after many days, they will be punished. 286 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:45,000 Then the moon will be abashed in the sun ashamed. 287 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:49,600 For the Lord of hosts will rain on Mount Zion in Jerusalem and 288 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:56,400 His glory will be before his elders. so, all throughout the 289 00:21:56,400 --> 00:22:02,900 Old Testament because Zechariah haggai Joel. 290 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:09,700 Isaiah. Jeremiah the prophet sworn 291 00:22:10,100 --> 00:22:13,700 concerning the day of the Lord. It's also called the day of 292 00:22:13,700 --> 00:22:18,400 vengeance. To call the day of Wrath, that's 293 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:24,700 going to come upon the nation. I'll go up on the world upon the 294 00:22:24,700 --> 00:22:27,500 heavens. And so when the writer of 295 00:22:27,508 --> 00:22:30,700 Hebrews says there's coming a time, if you think the shaking 296 00:22:30,700 --> 00:22:34,600 at Mount Sinai was bad, that caused everybody to tremble and 297 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:40,100 to live in fear, you just wait there's coming a shaking that is 298 00:22:40,100 --> 00:22:45,200 so severe it shakes both the heavens and the Earth. 299 00:22:46,300 --> 00:22:50,600 Now, it's important to realize that when before that happens, 300 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:55,400 there is a progression of shaking on the planet. 301 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:59,500 Revelation chapter 6, says it this way. 302 00:23:00,900 --> 00:23:05,200 Verse number 12. Remember there are six seals 303 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:10,100 that span The Book of Revelation or the day of the Lord or the 304 00:23:10,100 --> 00:23:14,900 tribulation. Those Seven Seals span the 305 00:23:14,900 --> 00:23:21,800 entire time when the 7th seal is broken, seven, trumpets, blow 306 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:26,300 when the seventh trumpet, blows seven bowls are poured out upon 307 00:23:26,300 --> 00:23:29,100 the Earth. They happen in Rapid succession 308 00:23:29,300 --> 00:23:35,700 at the end. but the seventh seal spanned, the tribulation period, 309 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:42,100 very important to realize that it says that in verse 12 of 310 00:23:42,108 --> 00:23:46,300 chapter 6, I look when he broke the Sixth Seal and there was a 311 00:23:46,300 --> 00:23:52,300 great earthquake and the sun became black, as sackcloth made 312 00:23:52,300 --> 00:23:57,000 of hair in the whole Moon became like blood and the stars of the 313 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,200 sky fell to the Earth as a fig tree casts. 314 00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:04,500 Its unripe figs when shaken by a great win the sky, it was split 315 00:24:04,500 --> 00:24:09,000 apart like a scroll when it is rolled up and every mountain and 316 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:13,300 Island. Moved out of its place. 317 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:20,600 Every island Every Mountain. Is moved out of its place. 318 00:24:22,300 --> 00:24:24,600 Then the kings of the earth and the great men, and the 319 00:24:24,600 --> 00:24:27,600 commanders, and the rich, and the strong, and every slave and 320 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:31,900 free man, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks. 321 00:24:31,900 --> 00:24:35,000 The mountains. And they said to the mountains 322 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:39,400 and to the Rocks, fall on us and hide us from the presence of him 323 00:24:39,900 --> 00:24:44,400 who sits on the throne and from the Wrath of the Lamb. 324 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:49,600 For the great day of their wrath is come, and who is able to 325 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:56,200 stand quite interesting that they know The kings of the 326 00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:58,400 world. Every slave, man. 327 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:03,600 Every free man. Everyone who exists knows it's 328 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:06,700 the Wrath. Of the Lamb. 329 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:13,200 How do they know that? Simply because there are no 330 00:25:13,200 --> 00:25:18,400 atheists have ever existed. They don't exist. 331 00:25:18,500 --> 00:25:20,800 Everybody knows. There's a God. 332 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:28,700 And they live in fear. you go over to Revelation chapter 8, it 333 00:25:28,700 --> 00:25:33,700 says When the lamb broke the seventh seal, verse number one, 334 00:25:33,700 --> 00:25:35,900 there was silence in heaven, for about a half an hour. 335 00:25:36,700 --> 00:25:40,400 And I saw the seven angels who stand before God and seven 336 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,900 trumpets were given to them. Why was the silence in heaven 337 00:25:42,900 --> 00:25:46,700 for about a half hour? Because nobody could believe 338 00:25:46,700 --> 00:25:51,700 what was about to happen next. Another angel came and stood at 339 00:25:51,700 --> 00:25:56,100 the altar holding a golden censer and much incense was 340 00:25:56,100 --> 00:25:59,100 given to him that he might add to it. 341 00:25:59,100 --> 00:26:02,500 The prayers of all the Saints on the golden altar, which was 342 00:26:02,500 --> 00:26:06,600 before the throne. the smoke of the incense with the prayers of 343 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:10,400 the saints went up before God, out of the Angels hand, then the 344 00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:14,400 angel took the censer and filled it with the fire of the Altar 345 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:18,700 and true it to the Earth and there followed peals of thunder 346 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:27,000 sounds and flashes of lightning and A shaking, an earthquake. 347 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:33,500 When you come to chapter, 16. Chapter 8. 348 00:26:33,500 --> 00:26:36,400 You have the 7 trumpets that blow and when you come to 349 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:40,600 chapter 16, you have the bowls that are poured out upon the 350 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:44,600 Earth. It says these words. 351 00:26:47,700 --> 00:26:50,600 In verse number 8, the fourth, Angel poured out his bowl upon 352 00:26:50,600 --> 00:26:54,800 the sun and it was given to it to Scorch men with fire men were 353 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:58,200 scorched with Fierce heat and they blaspheme the name of God, 354 00:26:58,900 --> 00:27:02,800 who has the power over these plagues and they did not repent. 355 00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:06,800 So, as to give him glory, then the fifth, angel poured out, his 356 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:10,200 bowl on the throne of the Beast and his kingdom became darkened 357 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,700 and they gnawed their tongues because of pain and blasphemed 358 00:27:13,700 --> 00:27:17,700 the god of Heaven because of their pains and their sores And 359 00:27:17,700 --> 00:27:20,900 they did not repent of their deeds. 360 00:27:21,900 --> 00:27:27,900 Play psalmist said that. God is known by the Judgment. 361 00:27:27,900 --> 00:27:32,200 He executes. God is best known in his 362 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:36,200 judgments. And so sure enough they 363 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,100 blaspheme the name of God. Why? 364 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:41,700 Because he recognized? Who it is? 365 00:27:41,900 --> 00:27:45,900 Who's doing this? Says in verse number 18, and 366 00:27:45,900 --> 00:27:49,200 there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder 367 00:27:49,300 --> 00:27:52,600 and there was a great earthquake such as there. 368 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:57,100 Had not been since man came to be upon the Earth so great an 369 00:27:57,100 --> 00:28:00,500 earthquake was it. And so mighty that the great 370 00:28:00,500 --> 00:28:04,200 city which is Jerusalem was split into three parts and the 371 00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,600 cities of the nation's fell Babylon. 372 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,400 The great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the 373 00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:13,200 wine of his Fierce wrath and every island fled away. 374 00:28:13,300 --> 00:28:20,500 We're in the mountains were not found. in Revelation 6 every 375 00:28:20,500 --> 00:28:28,900 island moved every Mountain, moved In Revelation 16 every 376 00:28:28,900 --> 00:28:31,800 Island. Fleas away. 377 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:35,800 That means, it's out of existence and not one mountain. 378 00:28:37,100 --> 00:28:40,600 Was left to be found. A great shaking. 379 00:28:42,400 --> 00:28:45,800 Huge hailstones about 100 pounds each came down from heaven upon 380 00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:49,300 men and men, blasphemed God, because of the plague of the 381 00:28:49,300 --> 00:28:53,000 hail because it's plague was extremely severe. 382 00:28:54,700 --> 00:28:58,100 God is warning, man. About the ultimate shaking. 383 00:28:59,500 --> 00:29:02,700 That has yet to happen, but it's coming. 384 00:29:04,300 --> 00:29:07,400 And he does it through series of earthquakes and trembling and 385 00:29:07,700 --> 00:29:11,700 shaking upon the Earth. Helping them realize that 386 00:29:11,700 --> 00:29:14,100 judgment is going to come like Christ in. 387 00:29:14,100 --> 00:29:17,700 Luke 13, unless you repent you will all likewise perish. 388 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,300 You see, it's God's grace that gives us warnings about his 389 00:29:22,300 --> 00:29:25,900 impending judgment. He didn't have to give us a 390 00:29:25,900 --> 00:29:29,500 warning. He had to give 120 years warning 391 00:29:29,500 --> 00:29:35,200 to the citizens of Noah's day. But it gave him 120 years of 392 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:42,100 warning before the floods came. and so, when you come to Peter's 393 00:29:42,100 --> 00:29:48,000 epistle, second Peter chapter 3, he's talks about. 394 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,700 The day of the Lord again. Oh, by the way, did you know 395 00:29:53,300 --> 00:29:55,400 that there are 27 New Testament books? 396 00:29:55,600 --> 00:30:00,600 I'm sure you knew that, right? Of the 27, New Testament books. 397 00:30:01,700 --> 00:30:10,500 23 emphatic, Lee speak about the return of the Messiah. 23:27. 398 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:19,000 Two of the remaining four. Speak about it in directly. 399 00:30:20,700 --> 00:30:23,200 The only two books in the New Testament that don't speak about 400 00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:28,600 the return of Christ, Philemon. And second John R, CB third job. 401 00:30:29,900 --> 00:30:39,200 Way to books. Now, think about that. 25 of 27, 402 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,800 New Testament books, speak about the second coming and people say 403 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:44,700 that eschatology is not that important. 404 00:30:46,900 --> 00:30:48,400 It's all going to end the way God wants the. 405 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:53,300 It's not that important. If it wasn't that important. 25 406 00:30:53,300 --> 00:30:55,200 of the 27, New Testament books would have said anything about 407 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:57,300 it. Oh, by the way, just for 408 00:30:57,500 --> 00:31:02,000 reference sake of all the questions asked of Jesus, of all 409 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,700 the questions asked of Jesus that are recorded in the Bible. 410 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:10,100 There is one. That has the longest answer. 411 00:31:13,100 --> 00:31:15,000 And that one that has the longest answer. 412 00:31:16,700 --> 00:31:21,200 Deals with the second coming. You tell me the second time he's 413 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:25,300 not important. Of all the answers you could 414 00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:26,800 give. He could say it very quickly 415 00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:28,900 just run right through it but no. 416 00:31:30,100 --> 00:31:33,800 The Olivet discourse is the longest answer given to any 417 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:38,400 question asked by the Lord because the end is as important 418 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:42,700 as the beginning. In Genesis 1 is important. 419 00:31:42,900 --> 00:31:44,700 The Book of Revelations important. 420 00:31:44,700 --> 00:31:48,500 If Revelations not important, Genesis 1 is not important. 421 00:31:48,600 --> 00:31:52,400 You can't see what is important. In one's is not or you can't say 422 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:56,700 one is literal and one is not. You can't do that. 423 00:31:57,700 --> 00:32:01,300 Because that means you're inconsistent and you've got to 424 00:32:01,300 --> 00:32:04,900 be consistent throughout your biblical hermeneutic in terms of 425 00:32:04,900 --> 00:32:09,400 how you interpret scripture. If there are 24 literal days in 426 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:17,100 the Book of Genesis, which there are not 24, six periods of Ages, 427 00:32:17,900 --> 00:32:24,400 there are six literal days. so, to the Book of Revelation is 428 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:30,100 literal, meaning that all 254 usages of numbers in the Book of 429 00:32:30,100 --> 00:32:35,100 Revelation are all literal, none of them are symbolic. 430 00:32:36,300 --> 00:32:39,900 Very important why? Because Jesus wants you to know 431 00:32:39,900 --> 00:32:43,000 he's coming again and he wants you to know the events 432 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:45,500 surrounding his return. And all that's going to take 433 00:32:45,500 --> 00:32:48,200 place, why? Because it's all about the 434 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:51,700 warning of impending judgment. Because unless you repent, you 435 00:32:51,700 --> 00:32:55,200 will all likewise perish. You need to know he's coming 436 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:59,600 again. And so Peter says that this way. 437 00:33:01,700 --> 00:33:03,200 The day of the Lord verse 10 is second. 438 00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:06,600 Peter 3 will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass 439 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:10,700 away with a roar in the elements will be destroyed with intense 440 00:33:10,700 --> 00:33:14,100 Heat and the earth and its works. 441 00:33:15,300 --> 00:33:19,900 Will be burned up since all these things are to be destroyed 442 00:33:19,900 --> 00:33:22,000 in this way. What sort of people ought you to 443 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:26,400 be in holy conduct and godliness looking for, and hastening the 444 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:30,000 coming of the day of God's different than the day of the 445 00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,900 Lord? Man has his day. 446 00:33:33,700 --> 00:33:38,200 Satan has had his day. Now, God will have his day. 447 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:43,300 In the Eternal state. Looking for, and hastening the 448 00:33:43,300 --> 00:33:45,800 coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens 449 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:49,000 will be destroyed by burning. And the elements will melt with 450 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:52,900 intense heat. But according to his promise, we 451 00:33:52,900 --> 00:33:56,200 are looking for a new Heaven and a new Earth in which 452 00:33:56,200 --> 00:34:06,100 righteousness dwells Matthew chapter 24. which is that long 453 00:34:06,500 --> 00:34:12,300 answer to the one question asked by our Lord He says immediately 454 00:34:12,300 --> 00:34:16,400 after the tribulation of those days, Matthew 24 do not happen 455 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:19,800 in 70 AD, it's impossible for that to take place. 456 00:34:21,100 --> 00:34:24,800 How do we know that? Because the events parallel with 457 00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:28,600 Revelation chapter 6 and following throughout the Book of 458 00:34:28,607 --> 00:34:32,900 Revelation, And because Revelation was written in 96 459 00:34:32,900 --> 00:34:36,800 a.d., not before 70 AD, how do we know that? 460 00:34:38,500 --> 00:34:40,300 This is where my replacement theology, guys. 461 00:34:40,300 --> 00:34:43,300 Get it all wrong. You don't know the history. 462 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:48,800 Very important. John was exiled under the reign 463 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:52,900 of domitian. He ruled between 81. 464 00:34:54,199 --> 00:35:01,600 In 98 ad. It was Vespasian who ruled 465 00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:05,400 before 70 AD. So you have to understand the 466 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,700 history of when John was exiled to Patmos to realize that 467 00:35:08,700 --> 00:35:13,800 Revelation is a leader writing. Not an earlier writing so, 468 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:18,300 Revelation, Matthew 24 could not have taken place before 70 AD 469 00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:21,900 because all that parallels with the events of Revelation 6 470 00:35:21,900 --> 00:35:26,800 through 19, So says the first number 29, but immediately after 471 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:29,700 the tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened, and 472 00:35:29,707 --> 00:35:32,500 the moon will not give its light and the Stars will fall from the 473 00:35:32,500 --> 00:35:33,900 sky. The powers of the heavens will 474 00:35:33,900 --> 00:35:36,700 be shaken and then the sign of the son of man will appear in 475 00:35:36,707 --> 00:35:40,900 the sky and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn. 476 00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,700 And they will see the son of man coming on the clouds of the sky 477 00:35:44,700 --> 00:35:48,000 with power and great glory. And he will send forth his 478 00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,500 angels with a great trumpet. And they will gather together 479 00:35:51,500 --> 00:35:54,400 his elect from the Four Winds from one end of the sky. 480 00:35:54,500 --> 00:35:59,100 By to the other. Here is coming is shaking. 481 00:36:00,700 --> 00:36:03,500 In which the writer of Hebrews. So eloquently States. 482 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:11,100 Yet once more, I will shake, not only the Earth, but also the 483 00:36:11,100 --> 00:36:14,200 heaven. This expression yet once more 484 00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,000 denotes, the removing of those things, which can be shaken. 485 00:36:17,700 --> 00:36:21,400 As of creative things, said those things which cannot be 486 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:27,900 shaken May remain. In other words, there's coming 487 00:36:27,900 --> 00:36:30,800 today. It's called the day of the Lord. 488 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,000 In which there will be many shakings that take place. 489 00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:39,400 Could include the islands, being removed, the mountains being 490 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:45,800 removed and people dying. Indeed, there's coming one great 491 00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:49,800 shaking at the end of that time at the end of the tribulation, 492 00:36:50,300 --> 00:36:52,700 at the end when Christ comes in all of his glory. 493 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:55,700 And by the way, the glory of the Lord will fill the house. 494 00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:58,600 And the glory of the Lord will reign on top of Mount Zion. 495 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,800 Why? Because Zacharias, 6, 12 or 13, 496 00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:05,800 says that the Messiah will build his Temple? 497 00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:09,300 Messiah is going to build this Temple. 498 00:37:10,900 --> 00:37:13,100 The Jews believe today that they're going to build the tent, 499 00:37:13,100 --> 00:37:18,200 the Third Temple, right? And they are but then I going to 500 00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:19,700 build it for the Messiah, they're going to go there for 501 00:37:19,700 --> 00:37:24,400 the antenna sign. Zacharias, sixth is the fourth 502 00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:28,800 temple, verses 12 to 13, which the Lord himself will build, and 503 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,100 His glory, would dwell in that Temple. 504 00:37:31,300 --> 00:37:35,000 And his feet as he says, in the book of Isaiah, will dwell, the 505 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:40,300 soles of his feet will. I'm sorry, Ezekiel 43, the soles 506 00:37:40,300 --> 00:37:45,400 of his feet will stand on top of Mount, Zion in Rule and Reign 507 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:52,700 Over His People Israel. it's a promise that God has given and 508 00:37:52,700 --> 00:37:56,200 after he does that, after the millennial reign of Christ will 509 00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:59,800 come and shaking that will destroy all heaven and all 510 00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:04,600 Earth, and they'll be a new Kevin and a new Earth. 511 00:38:05,100 --> 00:38:09,500 Where righteousness dwells But it's interesting to note. 512 00:38:11,300 --> 00:38:17,500 That part of Israel's worship centered around the belief. 513 00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:23,600 In the god of the universe. Which establishes their 514 00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:28,400 well-being. So they will never be shaken. it 515 00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:33,000 says, in Psalm 16 these words, I Will Bless The Lord who has 516 00:38:33,000 --> 00:38:36,300 consoled me and deed my mind instructs me in the night. 517 00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:39,900 I have set the Lord continually before me because he is at my 518 00:38:39,900 --> 00:38:44,900 right hand I will not be shaken. I will not be shaken. 519 00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,600 Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices, My Flesh. 520 00:38:48,900 --> 00:38:56,200 Also will dwell securely. And then over in chapter 55, 521 00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:58,900 verse number 22, cast, your burden upon the Lord. 522 00:38:58,900 --> 00:39:02,400 He will sustain you, he will never allow the righteous to be 523 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:10,100 shaken. Over in chapter 62 it says my 524 00:39:10,100 --> 00:39:13,800 soul waits in silence for God Only from him is my salvation. 525 00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:15,600 He only is my rock and my salvation. 526 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:19,900 My stronghold. I shall not be greatly shaken. 527 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:24,300 He repeated again down in verse number 6, he only is my rock and 528 00:39:24,300 --> 00:39:28,000 my salvation, my stronghold. I shall not be shaken. 529 00:39:28,700 --> 00:39:30,700 I'm gone. My salvation and my glory rests, 530 00:39:30,700 --> 00:39:36,400 the rock of my strength, my refuge is in In God. 531 00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:42,000 So important. Psalm 1 says in Psalm 112, 532 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:43,800 praise the Lord. How blessed is the man who 533 00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:45,200 fears? The Lord who greatly Delights in 534 00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:49,400 his commandment 46? He will never be shaken. 535 00:39:49,700 --> 00:39:52,500 The righteous will be remembered forever. 536 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,900 Proverbs chapter 10 verse number 28, the hope of the righteous is 537 00:39:55,900 --> 00:39:59,600 gladness, but the expectation of the wicked perish has the way of 538 00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:03,000 the Lord is a stronghold to the upright, but ruined to the 539 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:07,500 workers of iniquity. The righteous Will Never Be 540 00:40:07,700 --> 00:40:12,900 Shaken. So the Hebrew audience, reading 541 00:40:12,900 --> 00:40:17,400 the letter, written to them by the writer of Hebrews. 542 00:40:18,500 --> 00:40:22,200 Understands what it means to Never Be Shaken. 543 00:40:23,700 --> 00:40:27,600 Because of the Old Testament. They understand of a great 544 00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:30,300 shaking that's going to come because the profits that 545 00:40:30,300 --> 00:40:33,400 prophesied about that. So they would know these things 546 00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:36,900 you see. So, it's important for us to 547 00:40:36,900 --> 00:40:41,300 realize that that God has a progressive amount of judgments 548 00:40:41,300 --> 00:40:43,300 that will come. They happen today. 549 00:40:43,500 --> 00:40:46,200 Sporadically, there are hurricanes. 550 00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:49,400 There are tornadoes, there are earthquakes. 551 00:40:49,500 --> 00:40:54,000 There are fires and their judgments that come from God to 552 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,000 warn you of the impending judgment. 553 00:40:56,000 --> 00:40:59,000 That's going to come to help you understand that the physical 554 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:02,600 suffering is not near what you need to worry about, but the 555 00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:07,000 Eternal suffering of Lost Souls. To get you to think about your 556 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:11,400 Eternal Destiny. Not be preoccupied with your 557 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:17,200 physical opportunities. And as a day, the Lord draws 558 00:41:17,500 --> 00:41:22,600 they will be Progressive shaking and fire and earthquakes the 559 00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:25,700 judgments of God upon the Earth, why? 560 00:41:25,900 --> 00:41:29,300 So man will begin to realize the Indus coming. 561 00:41:30,500 --> 00:41:34,900 We read in Revelation 6 as well as Revelation chapter 16 that 562 00:41:34,900 --> 00:41:36,700 they would blaspheme the name of the Lord. 563 00:41:36,700 --> 00:41:40,900 They would not repent even though they knew it was the god 564 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:46,800 of the universe, the lamb in his wrath, they knew that But it 565 00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:51,100 would not repent. But the king is going to come. 566 00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:54,200 Instead of his kingdom, and they will be shaking. 567 00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:57,300 So he says, the writer of Hebrews. 568 00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:02,700 Since we receive a kingdom, which cannot be shaken which is 569 00:42:02,700 --> 00:42:08,000 Mount Zion, it cannot be shaken. It's a study of the of the great 570 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:11,200 king. Zion represents that we told you 571 00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:14,400 the authority in glory of the Messiah. 572 00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:18,100 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom, which 573 00:42:18,100 --> 00:42:19,300 cannot be shaken. Let us show. 574 00:42:19,300 --> 00:42:23,000 Gratitude, let's be thankful that were part of an unshakable 575 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:27,700 Kingdom, by which we may offer to God, acceptable worship with 576 00:42:27,700 --> 00:42:33,900 reverence and awe for our God is a consuming Fire. 577 00:42:35,700 --> 00:42:39,100 What he is? A consuming fire. 578 00:42:40,700 --> 00:42:46,800 And that's how he ends his Fifth and final warning to his 579 00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:50,200 audience. He wants them to know that this 580 00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:54,100 is going to happen. They would know because they 581 00:42:54,100 --> 00:42:57,500 read the Old Testament. We know because we can go back 582 00:42:57,500 --> 00:43:00,200 and read the Old Testament and we have the Book of Revelation 583 00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:04,700 that explains to us the coming in and how it all unfolds before 584 00:43:04,700 --> 00:43:08,300 us, we can see those things we can read about them. 585 00:43:10,500 --> 00:43:12,300 Somebody might say, but I don't want to be a part of the 586 00:43:12,500 --> 00:43:14,300 shakeable Kingdom. I want to be a part of the 587 00:43:14,300 --> 00:43:18,100 unshakable Kingdom. How do I do that? 588 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:25,300 You can't stay at Sinai. Can't climb the mountain on 589 00:43:25,300 --> 00:43:29,200 human achievement. You got to go to Mount, Zion. 590 00:43:30,900 --> 00:43:37,000 Mount Calvary Mount Moriah. The mount where Christ's work 591 00:43:37,300 --> 00:43:41,000 was accomplished for you that you might Embrace what he did 592 00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:43,000 his finished work on Calvary cross. 593 00:43:44,100 --> 00:43:47,000 And come to him and balance the mission to his lordship. 594 00:43:48,300 --> 00:43:52,600 We follow him. Because our God is a consuming 595 00:43:52,600 --> 00:43:56,600 fire. Let's pray. 596 00:43:57,500 --> 00:43:59,700 Father, we thank you for today and the opportunity to give us a 597 00:43:59,700 --> 00:44:03,300 study your word. How great it is to know. 598 00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:08,600 That you so clearly. Map out the future. 599 00:44:10,300 --> 00:44:14,700 It's not ambiguous. It's very clear. 600 00:44:16,100 --> 00:44:20,100 It's very concise. You wanted to make sure we 601 00:44:20,100 --> 00:44:25,200 understood it. Because Lord, at the Apostle, 602 00:44:25,200 --> 00:44:28,900 Paul said, knowing the terror of the lord we persuade men. 603 00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:34,800 He knew. He knew the fierce anger of his 604 00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:38,200 God. He knew the coming wrath of God. 605 00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:44,200 He did all he could to persuade men to give their life to Christ 606 00:44:44,300 --> 00:44:46,700 today. They're beating one Among Us. 607 00:44:46,700 --> 00:44:50,100 Lord. We persuade them, come to come 608 00:44:50,100 --> 00:44:56,000 today to the king. Come to Mount, Zion the city of 609 00:44:56,000 --> 00:45:02,600 the Living. God the place where Jesus is for 610 00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:06,600 God. The judge is that will forgive 611 00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:10,900 you of your sins. And take you into his kingdom. 612 00:45:10,900 --> 00:45:16,300 The unshakable kingdom of God. Pray this in Jesus name. 613 00:45:17,100 --> 00:45:17,300 Amen.