The Day Christ Was Born

I want to thank Chris for the sermon, it's very interesting to get a little bit of a historic background of some individuals, and how they've repented and changed, particularly in the case of Judah. And you know, sometimes when I look at that physical, let's call it facts of his life, I sometimes wonder how dual it is looking at it spiritually.

Because, you know, looking at it spiritually, the Jewish nation has also gone wrong, but they will repent at Christ's coming. And yes, they're resilient, but that stubbornness has to also be repented of, being obstinate, and as part of repentance. Now, the Jewish nation is an interesting one, and as it was mentioned, because through the Jewish nation, Jesus Christ came. And so you think about all that biological background and the incidence of Christ himself. And the day of Christ's birth, obviously, is a day that looks towards joy and peace on earth.

And I want you to look with me, please, to this book of Luke, Luke chapter 2, verses 8 through 14. And it says, now they were in the same country, shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid.

Now, brethren, some of us have come to have a background. Before we came into the church, there was Catholic. And as Catholics, and particularly me, in my case, being Portuguese, we are very ingrained about the vision of Fatima. And the so-called Virgin Mary, Fatima, it appeared to these three little children and became such a big story, and heaped the newspapers, and everybody talks about it. Here is an event that was far bigger than that. And look how it's kind of how Satan has kind of squashed it to the corner and it's forgotten.

But let's go on reading. And then the angels said to them, Don't be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings and good news of great joy, which will be to all people. In other words, joy which will be to all people, ultimately, in the end. For there is born to you this day, in the city of David, a Savior. The Savior. Not just a Savior, it is the Savior we know. And it says, Who is Christ? Now, remember, they were probably talking in Hebrew, which would have said, Who is the Messiah?

Who is the Lord? And if you said the Lord in Hebrew, you would have probably said Yahweh or Jehovah or whatever the word is. So Yah is a very profound witness from God Himself of who Christ was, which should have been proclaimed to the whole world like the little deceptive vision of Fatima is proclaimed to the whole world. Far greater witness is Yah, which was not being proclaimed to the whole world with the same depth.

And then He says, and this will be the sign to you, you'll find a babe wrapped in swaddling cloths lying in a manger, lying in this little room. And in those days, the people out there, they would have a house and like an entrance hall into the house was an area where they could bring in the animals, the sheep and the goats.

So it will be in a sense like a veranda or a little entrance hall, like a little garage type of thing into the house. And there they would have an area where they could feed as well. But it was kind of an adjoining room of the house, so they could look after it comfortably and easily. And as we know, the story is the eams were fooled because for two reasons. One was the sensors, but two, it was approaching the Feast of Tabernacles. Probably run about a period of pilgrimage for the Feast of Tabernacles, and therefore they would come there, and probably this was around trumpets itself.

And because there were so many people in town, for those two reasons, the sensors and the Feast, they all had traveled in. So they did not have enough room in the normal guest rooms or things like that, so they organized, they cleared up this area for the animals, which was in the garage.

They cleaned it up nicely, and there where they had an area where they would feed, they would clean it up. And you know how ladies do, they put nice clean cloths, they put everything nice and neat, and then they put an area there where the baby could be. So it says, and suddenly there was with the angel, so now there were these shepherds, and they don't just see this angel, but it says, this is a multitude of the heavenly hosts.

In other words, they see many angels praising God and saying. So it must have been, in a sense, think of it like a choir, a heavenly choir that came there to sing to the shepherds. And they were saying, glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will towards man. So it must have been an amazing experience of vision that surely they would have spread it out like wildfire.

Now, consider what it means. It says, is the Savior, who is the Messiah, who is the Lord? Now, compare that with Isaiah chapter 9, verse 6 and 7. Isaiah chapter 9, verse 6 and 7. Isaiah chapter 9, verse 6 and 7. Beautiful prophecy, yeah? This is part of a series of three chapters here, which starts in chapter 7, where it talks about, the older virgin will conceive and bear the son. And then it says, that's in chapter 7, and then in chapter 8, where it says, before the child shall have knowledge, and basically it's using an analogy of a king and a prophetess, but it's using words that have double meaning and points to Christ. And then, yeah, is the climate of that prophecy in chapter 9, verse 6, where it says, for unto us a child is born, and to us a son is given. So this prophecy from chapter 7 and chapter 8, now in chapter 9, it elevates this child that was born out of him from a maiden, in verse 7, which could be translated, obviously, as a virgin, and there's nothing wrong with that translation, because it represents in duality to Christ. In chapter 9 it says, for unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon his shoulder. Now this is not any just human man. This is not just a human child, because it says, and his name will be. And I think that first comma there is incorrect. It should not be there, because it says, his name will be Wonderful Counselor. In fact, in Portuguese and other languages, that comma is not there. It just says, Wonderful Counselor. So his name will be a Wonderful Counselor. In other words, it's a counselor that gives great, wonderful wisdom and knowledge. Wonderful Counselor. That will be the name of this child. Now this is not any human being. The name of this child will be Mighty God. Wow! It's not just any human being. It's talking about Jesus Christ, the God, the Creator God that came to earth as a human being. It says, Mighty God. Everlasting Father. Oh, wait, wait! Isn't God the Father? The Father? Yes, but Christ is the Creator. He's the one that created eternity. He's the one that created, in fact, some translations, the Father of Eternity. In fact, that's how it's translated in Portuguese, the Father of Eternity, the Everlasting Father. So He created, He's the one from the beginning to the end. He's the Alpha and the Omega. You read in Revelation 22 very clearly talking about Christ. He's the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. From the beginning of time, He created everything. He created time. What do you mean He created time? How do you and I measure time? Well, today is the clock, but how do we get the clock working? Well, because we look at the sun and moon and we divide that into hours. So how do we create time? Time is a measurement based on the astronomical clock, which is the sun, the moon and the stars, and you work out the years and we get time. Now, before the sun and the moon and the stars, you didn't have that measuring stick. So time was not in days, in years, in months, because that's how we measure. So before time, that does not mean that things did not move on with time, but it was not measured like we measured today. So it's before time as we understand it today, in years and months and hours and seconds and all that. So before it was measured this way. So He's everlasting. Father, Prince of Peace, He's going to bring His peace to this earth.

This is not talking about any child. This is not any child. And it says, of the increase of His government and peace, there'll be no end.

You see, the millennium is just a glimpse of time in God's eyes. A thousand years is the day. So the millennium is not eternity. Millennium is only a glimpse of something even better, which is the new heaven and new earth.

And it says, of the increase of His government and peace will be no end. Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom. So you'll be upon the throne of David? Yes, because He, by His genealogy, was a son of Judah. A son of David, yes, through the mother. But the father, His dad, was God the Father. Begotten through the power of God's Holy Spirit. So upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, that's the kingdom of God reigning on earth, to order it and establish it with judgment and justice. Brethren, there's going to be judgment and justice on this earth. There's none today.

From that time forward, even forever, the seal, the hot seal enthusiasm, motivation, He will do it! Of the Lord of hosts, the Lord of the armies, Christ Himself, He'll make sure that He'll do it. He'll fulfill it. And so brethren, when we look at this, when we consider this birth of this little boy, that it was going to be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace, was such an awesome event.

But today, brethren, I want to look at the result of Christ's birth. In other words, the outcome of His birth, of His first coming. And in fact, I want to look at the outcome of His second coming, and what it means to us and to the world. And how Satan blinds mankind from understanding that supreme meaning.

You see, the first coming of Jesus the Savior was probably during trumpets.

But, you know, the Bible's focus is not about His birth. Yes, it mentions it. But the great focus in the Bible is not about His birth. Why? Why? Think about it. Now we have the God, the Creator, the One that created the angels, the One that created all the planets, the One that created all the animals, the One that created giants that... One of our brethren was showing me some pictures of giants, the One that created everything. He became a human being. He became flesh and blood. He emptied Himself of all His power to become just a man. You know, if you've got computers, it's like you're having the latest, most sophisticated, the fastest singing, dancing computer. And you're downgraded to the original PCO86 or whatever it is with DAS 1. And would you celebrate that? Would you commemorate that? It says, hooray, I've got a PC! You'd probably put it in the museum because it can't do anything. It can't even do your spreadsheet. It can't even go onto the Internet. Would you celebrate that? You see, brethren, Christ's birth was a downgrade, quote-unquote. From being God, downgraded to being a very simple man. Basically nothing. So, His birth, yes, it's an historical fact. Yes, the outcome of His birth would be peace on earth. It's the beginning of something important. But what He achieved with His life is far more important.

What He achieved and fulfilled with His life and dying for us, sinless, is far more important. You see, the wages of sin is death. Yes, and we all died. We all died. And therefore, what is the wages of our life? Death. You and I, we're all going to die. I tell you, none of our parents or grandparents or great-grandparents ever lived a sinless life. And they all died. Look with me to Deuteronomy 19 verse 21. Deuteronomy 19 verse 21.

It says, Your eyes shall not pity. Deuteronomy 19, 21. Your eyes shall not pity. Life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

That's how God told the stubborn, carnal-minded, unrepentant, Israelites to execute justice. And brethren, when you're dealing with the stubborn, unrepentant, walthed, the only way you can deal with them is without pity. Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. It does not mean because you steal a book that you cut his hand, because that's not hand for hand.

You see, if somebody steals and you cut their hand, you're creating more robbers, because it can't work now. See, God's punishment must be just, must be fair, must be equal, hand for hand, foot for foot, eye for eye. But without pity to the unconverted, unrepentant walthed. Now, in brackets, it is interesting for you to see verse 19 and so on, and in that section, in fact, starting from verse 15, the context, well, it says that. Because what it says that, the context, brethren, and I'm just putting it in brackets here, it's saying this. When a woman is pregnant and somebody has a fight or something and injures the pregnant woman and kills the baby in the womb, says, life for life.

Which says, abortion deserves death. Sorry, don't mean to shout, but it's a fact. Now, because you and I have sinned, we deserve death. And the only way your life can be paid for is by another life. So, the only way, because you and I sinned, we're going to die dead. The only way our life can be paid for is by another man that is sinless to die for us. Like we saw in the example of Judah, it says, well, I'll stand in for you. In other words, I'll do it for you. I'm standing in for you. In other words, that is redemption. That is a redeemer. That is one that stands in for me. It's like you in jail and somebody comes to jail and says, I'll stay in jail for you and you go out for free. Life for life.

So, forever, how many people have sinned? I don't know. How many people have lived? It's the same question, really. I don't know. A couple of billion. A couple of billion. So, you need an equal couple of billion of people, sinless, to pay for all these couple of billion people that have died.

So, you need to create a whole new world of people that live without sinning. And they need to all, all these billions of people die, one for one, one for one. Oh, there's one for me. All right. Oh, there's one for you. Oh, there's one for the other person. And now they fight. But now what do you have? You've got the other person there.

Which was sinless.

But Christ paid for our sins. How is that possible? Because it's one life for billions of lives. How is that possible? Because He's the God. He's the mighty God. He's the Creator. He's the Father of eternity, the Father of everything. His life is far more valuable than all our lives. He could recreate us again from beginning if you want to start new ones and build new ones. That's why He paid for all our lives once. Once. So the way to make us just before God, to make us right before God, it's been paid once. Look in Hebrews 10. Hebrews 10.

We'll start in verse 3. Hebrews 10.

Verse 3. But in those sacrifices, there is a reminder of sins every year. In other words, the sacrifices that the Jews were doing and killing the lambs and the bulls and the gods every year, every morning, every evening, every new moon, every month, every week, every Sabbath, every turn of time, they were doing these sacrifices. It says, a reminder of sins every year. Look at it verse 4. For it is not possible, it is not possible that the blood of bulls and goats could take away sins. So the Jews, and these are lights, in the Old Testament, were killing all those bulls and goats. It was a reminder of what they had done, but did not take away their sins. And why were they doing? Because they pointed to Christ. That's why they did it.

Verse 5. Therefore, when he came into the world, when Christ came into the world, he said, sacrifice and offering you the not as I, but a body you've prepared for me. God prepared a body for Christ, a physical human body.

In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin, you had no pleasure. Then I said, Behold, I have come. In the volume of the book, it is written of me, to do your will of God. Christ came to do the Father's will by dying for us. He was given that physical body at his birth, having divested himself of all the godly powers to become just a human being with the only human powers. And all through prayer and absolute trust and faith in God while he lived as a human being. And he did God's will in his life, and he died, and he paid the ultimate price for us. Look at verse 12. But this man, that's Christ, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, one, that's his life, stepped down on the right hand of God, from that time waiting till his enemies are made his footstool. For by one offering, by one offering, which one offering of his body, of his life, he has perfected forever. He has done forever what the others could not do. He has done forever. He has perfected that sacrificial offering forever of paying for our sins. Those who are being sanctified, you and I are being sanctified through the sanctification of the Holy Spirit. We are being made holy. We are being made separate by overcoming, trying to overcome, trying to become better people. We are being sanctified to become like Christ. To become like Christ. The price was paid perfectly once and for all. It does not have to be paid again. But what do we see now? What do we see now? Christ was born, as I said, probably during the Day of Trumpets. The importance of what the Bible emphasized is death because of what he did for us, because of his meaning, because he is our Savior. And through him, you and I can have eternal life.

But why suddenly then not all the world is being converted? Why? Why only a few? Are we better than others? No. I'm not any better than any others that are not called now. I'm only called by God's mercy because he chose me now and he chose you now to be trained now to be the pioneers of the world tomorrow when he comes again as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords to really fulfill the second half of his messianic prophecy of bringing peace on earth. But in the meantime, in this time period, he's trying to train the leaders that are going to work with him, the pioneers that are going to work with him. If you and I respond to that calling, if we respond to that calling, turn with me to Revelation 14 verse 4.

These are the ones who will not be filed with women. And it was talking about us, well, in this specific case, it's talking about 144,000, but it's talking about us, the ones that will be with him. I'm not saying that you and I are going to be part of those 144,000, but I'm just taking the example of those that will be with him at the beginning that will be the first fruits. It's probably that we will be part of those 144,000. Why not? But I'm not going into that speculative portion. I actually believe that that is the case, but I'm not going to go and speculate that. But I want to bring the point. It says that these are the ones who are not be filed with women. What do you mean? They're not be filed. What is woman in the Bible? Spiritual. It's a church. It's a religion. Now, with women, religions of this world, they're not be filed with false churches, with false doctrines, with pagan doctrines. They're not be filed with pagan doctrines. Yes, maybe they were in there, but they came out of it. They were washed clean. They were repented. And now they now will be filed. They're not going back. They're now becoming God's eyes, virgins, pure, because they've been washed. For they are virgins. They are the ones who follow the Lamb whatever it goes. In other words, they are the wife of the Lamb. And whatever the husband goes, the wife goes. Not every time, but generally speaking, whatever the husband goes, the wife goes. So they go with within. They follow the Lamb. Whatever it goes. These were redeemed. In other words, they were brought back from among men, being the first fruits to God and to the Lamb. So brethren, now we have that during this era, during this time, only a few are called to be trained to be the pioneers for the world tomorrow. Only a few are called. Not because we are better, but because God, in His wisdom, chose the weak and the foolish of the world, which is you and I, to confound the wise. And we are not better, just opposite. He has called the weak and the simple and the foolish of the society, which is us. And He is now cleansing us and working with us. And because we're not wise, we make mistakes, we cite things wrong, but He in His mercy keeps working through us and cleansing us and redeeming us and making us clean and white.

And when these clever people see that, they say, wow! And I thought He was done, whatever!

And they'll be confounded, what God has done, with nothing, which is you and I. So, let us not think that we're so important, because we're not. It's just God's mercy that's called you and I. But you and I have to respond. You and I have to do our bit. He calls us, but we have to come.

He says, come, walk, but we have to walk. He says, come, yeah, and we have to go there. We have to do our part. We have to respond. And we have to respond till the end. Because if you respond all the way and you give up 30 seconds before the finish line, it's like that marathon runner is ran for five hours or whatever it is, but 30 seconds before the line, he just stops and says no more. And the line is right there in front of his nose, but it doesn't cross the line. He hasn't completed the marathon.

And you and I have to overcome till the end. Till the end. Look at Revelation 11 verse 15. Just one or two pages back in your Bible. And he says, then the seventh angel sounded. So we're now talking about a prophetic environment where we'd have had tribulation, where we've had the heavenly signs, and then we had the seven trumpets. And then at the end of the seventh trumpet, sounded. And there were loud voices in heaven saying, The kingdoms of the swole that become the kingdoms are Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever. Finally the time has come where the Messiah will come a second time. It came the first time. This is what the Jews did not see.

Because they thought when He would come, you would come as He's coming in the second time. They didn't see the first coming. And so they were expecting the second coming, or the outcome of the second coming, in A.D. 27. And they knew it was at that time, they were all expecting it. There was all this five in the society, because they knew that from Daniel 9, the prophecy of Daniel 9, 24 through about 27. They knew it was that time. They were expecting a ruling super being that would make their nation the supreme nation of the whole world. That's what they were expecting. A Messiah, they will make their Jewish nation take them over away from the Roman Empire and make them hold a super nation again like in the days of Solomon and even greater. And what they got? They were a being which in their mind was saying that it was equal to God, therefore quote-unquote blaspheming, and in the end he died. And so what did you say? He's a fake. That's what those still say to them. He's a fake. And therefore they started twisting Daniel 9 to say, well, he did not mean pointing to Messiah, pointing to something else.

But brethren, they do not see that He's coming on that last week. You'd be cut off in the middle of the week and then after a certain time they will continue the other half of the week, the seventh, seventh-eighth week of Daniel 9. I think 27 or so. So now we see that second half of that second week cross Second Coming at the seventh angel, when it sounds, the seventh trumpet, and the kingdoms of the world have become the kingdoms of the Lord. That's what the Jews were expecting in A.D. 27, but they're only going to get it 2,000 years later.

Now, obviously, when they see this, they will all convert, but then they'll have to repent that they have denied Christ all these years. So they have a little bit of a humbling session to go through. But anyway, it goes on. And the 24 elders, there's angelic beings, 24 elders around God's throne, who sat before God on their thrones, fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying, We give you thanks, O Lord God Almighty, the one who is and who was and who is to come, because you have taken your great power and reign. We give you thanks, Jesus Christ, because now you're going to reign. The nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time of the dead that they should be judged. Now, note there's three things here. The first, the time of the dead that they should be judged. So it's the beginning of judgment. And what do you mean? There's the dead. And are you judging the dead? And some are judged to be resurrected on a first resurrection, and some are judged not to be resurrected on a first resurrection, to stay still dead for another thousand years.

That's a judgment. It's a separation of the dead. So the time has come for the judgment of the dead. Those that are dead, the ones that are judged as first fruits, they'll be resurrected. When they've been resurrected, what happens? Besides being a resurrection, which is given eternal life, which is a gift, besides receiving a gift of eternal life, what happens? And that you should reward your servants, the prophets, and the saints, and those who fear your name small and great.

That's the second thing. They'll be rewarded. Some will rule over ten cities, some will rule over five cities, some will rule over one city. According to all the dead, that's the different rewards. So they will be not only resurrected and given eternal life because they were judged to be the first resurrection, but then they will be rewarded on top of that, saying, you will rule here, you will rule there, you and this will be a responsibility, you will teach this area, you will be a teacher in that area, you will be doing this. So all the tasks and responsibilities, rewards, will be given to the different people. The house, my house, has many mansions, many roles, many responsibilities, and they'll be given these different responsibilities.

And thirdly, and the time that you should destroy doesn't destroy the earth.

So they're resurrected, they're rewarded, put it into their different positions. Obviously, they'll be the marriage of the lamb and then the reward, and then, Christ is right, let's fix up these guys, they're all doing a mess here, and fix them up because they destroy us of the earth, we're going to prevent them from destroying the earth.

You see, this is symbolic of the Day of Trumpets. I'm not saying everything will happen on that day, but I'm just saying that's symbolic when Christ comes and the symbolism of this.

And so, on this day, the Day of Trumpets, it's the beginning of the Sabbath rest.

It's the beginning of the spiritual Sabbath rest. Turn with me to Hebrews chapter 4. Hebrews chapter 4.

Verse 3.

Hebrews chapter 4 verse 3.

In fact, in verse 1 says, Therefore, since the promise remains of entering this rest, this rest, Sabbath rest. What's this rest? The beginning of the Sabbath rest is the rest that they should have had that they never had because they were rebellious, they were disobedient, and they never had that rest. That rest, true rest, will come when Christ comes back to earth and will bring rest to the earth, the real Sabbath rest to the earth, the seventh millennial year, the seventh day in thousands of years of rest. And it will be the Sabbath rest. And it says in verse 3. For we who have believed do enter that rest. We, as true Christians, that believe we will enter that rest when? At the resurrection, at the first resurrection. As it said, So I swore in my wrath, that from Psalm 95, They shall not enter my rest. Those Israelites that rebelled will not enter this beginning of the rest. Right? Yeah! They will not be in the millennium. They'll be resurrected afterwards. After the millennium, the second resurrection, they'll not enter it. Although the works were finished from the foundation of the world, physical works, for He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day. And so He goes on to explain this. But look at in verse 6. Since therefore it remains that some must enter, and those to whom it was preached did not enter because of disobedience. Again, it is ignites a certain day, saying in David, Today, after such a long time, yes, after such a long time, as it has been said, Today, he will hear his voice, Do not harden your hearts. For if Joshua had given them rest, if Joshua, as they came out of the wilderness for forty years, and Joshua, the leader of the Moses, had given them rest, then he would have not afterwards have spoken of another day. Verse 9, Therefore, there remains therefore a rest. There was a Sabbath rest in Greek, a sabatismus, a keeping of the Sabbath for the people of God.

There remains a sabatismus, a Sabbath rest for the people of God.

Brethren, an interesting thing in Leviticus 23 is that the day of trumpets is the first holy day of the seven holy days that is referred to as a Sabbath rest.

The others are called, you will not do the normal work and things like that, but they are not referred as Sabbath rest, sabatismus. Trumpets is the first one, which means we're looking towards the millennium rule when there will be that Sabbath rest on earth. Brethren, why is all this so important? Because God has a plan. You see, God has a plan for many children, in fact, for all mankind to be saved. Now, this is a big concept. People don't understand. And we've got a whole study book about that, which is, what is your destiny? So that we, you and I, and all mankind, one day, will be children of God. How wonderful that plan is! Look in Romans 11. It's a beautiful chapter, Romans 11. Beautiful chapter. But looking in verse 25, it says, For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery. This is a mystery to the world. It's a mystery. They don't understand it. They don't understand what's our destiny, what is that we're going for. It says, Lest you should be wise, in your own opinion, that blindness, in part, has happened to the Israelites and to the Jews, therefore, because they're part of Israel. Until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, God is now calling Gentiles, like you and I, into His Church.

But then He says, verse 26, And so all Israel will be saved. All Israel will be saved. All Israel means those rebels in the wilderness will be saved.

And God is not a discriminator of people. So if He's going to do that to the Israelites, He's going to do that to all mankind. So, well, all mankind will have their opportunity. And look in verse 33 of the same chapter. Oh, the depth of the reaches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God. How unsearchable are His judgment and His ways for finding out? It was people don't understand this. This is a big concept, that God induced time as a plan to save all humanity.

All humanity! Except, yes, those that actually don't want to. People actually outrightly say, no, I don't want it. I rebel, I don't want it.

All mankind will have that glory that God wants to give them in His kingdom. Ultimately. Ultimately. That's His great plan. That is our destiny as human beings. That's why you and I were born.

Look in Hebrews chapter 2 verse 10. Hebrews chapter 2 verse 10.

Hebrews chapter 2 verse 10 says, For it was fitting for Him, for whom all things, and by whom all are all things, in which it was fitting for Him, that by whom all things, and for whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory.

He wants many sons to come to glory. What is many to God? Is not two or three? Is not ten or twelve? Many is the whole mankind. Many. Except, obviously, a few that will outrightly to reject, to make the captain of their salvation perfect for suffering. And that's what Christ is, the captain of our salvation, perfect for suffering. Without come, the end result of this is that many would come to glory.

Look in Romans chapter 8. It's another chapter I love. It's so encouraging, brethren. Romans chapter 8. But look at it starting in verse 18. Romans 8 verse 18. For I consider that the sufferings of this present time, brethren, what Paul is saying here is the little aches and pains, and sometimes they're very big. They're not just little. The big aches and pains we have. The big emotional terminus. The big migraines that we have. I mean, this week, I think it was Thursday, or Wednesday, I had such a migraine that it just suddenly came on at 3 o'clock that I just, you know, in half an hour, reached such a peak. I couldn't see, I couldn't do anything. It was just unbelievable. It says, I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. So, some of us go through such profound pain, much bigger than what I go through. Some of you have enormous pain. And it says, you can't even compare it to the glory that is going to be given to us. And that's the whole mankind! And it says, verse 19, for the earnest expectation of the creation, of the whole creation. What the whole creation is eagerly waiting is the revealing of the sons of God. The whole creation! It's like saying, even the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees, they're all waiting for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subject to futility. It was a subject to corruption, was subject to decay. Not because God wanted it that way, not willingly, but because of Him who's subjected in hope. In hope of what? In hope of making more sons and daughters of God. Because all earth is temporary, is corruptible. Because the new earth and new heaven will not be like that, will be permanent, will be beautiful, eternal. And it's only like this, in hope, so that He would have more sons and daughters in His family. What a plan! What a plan! Verse 21, because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of corruption. The earth, the creation, the flowers, the trees, the birds, all that will be delivered from this into the glorious liberty of the children of God. The new heaven and the new earth will be such things so glorious, so beautiful, that will be the liberty of the children of God. You and I cannot imagine it. We just have a little glimpse in Revelation 22, I think 21 and 22, and that is it. A glimpse!

Brethren, what encouraging words these are. For we know that all creation groans and labors with birth pangs until now. Not only that, but we also, who have the first fruits of the Holy Spirit, of the Spirit, even we groan, ourselves groan, within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the sonship, in other words, to really become sons and daughters, the redemption of our body. When our body will be brought back, and we'll have a new body, an eternal body. We wait for that. Brethren, what else can be more important to you and I than this? What else?

What is it that we're looking for? What are we looking for is Revelation 21. Look at it. Revelation 21 and 22 says, starting in verse 3, it says, And I heard a loud voice from heaven, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men. God's own throne, tabernacle, will be on earth, yea. And He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them, and be they God.

God Himself, the Father, will be on earth. And God will wipe away every tear from our eyes. There shall be no more death, no more sorrow, no more crime, no more pain, for all the former things have passed away. What is more important than that? There is our goal.

There is our destiny. Then He will sat on the throne, said, Behold, I make all things new, and He said to me, Right, for these things are true and faithful. In other words, this is fact. Don't doubt it. Fact! We read that message from Mr. Holiday. Don't doubt God. Fact! This is fact! This is all temporary. Yeah, it's a few years, a couple of thousand years to mankind, but to God it's like a couple of days.

It's nothing. And we get all that. I mean, we were ready in August, and I was just poking the cards, and he said, Well, I can't believe the years have started! We were ready in August! Time flies! And then He continues. Verse 5, Then He will sat on the throne, said, Behold, I make all things new, and He said to me, Right, for these things are true and faithful.

And then He said to me, It is done! It is done! It is good as if done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. In other words, that's Christ talking. He says, I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. And I will give of the fountains of the water of life.

In other words, God's Holy Spirit. I'll give that freely to Him who thirsts. And to Him that overcomes shall inherit all things, and I'll be His God, and He shall be my Son. Brethren, this is what counts. Brethren, we'll be able to enjoy family and friends. There's nothing more important than the foundation of society that's family. And family can only bolt with a father and a mother, and not like the swole is going around being corrupting that.

And we've got a whole study guide, and brethren, it pains me. There are a lot of the brethren don't know they haven't studied their Bible with the aid of our study guides. Because now we have material which is being thoroughly researched, carefully researched, with men full of God's Holy Spirit. They've taken out all the junk, and we can use that to study our Bibles as an aid.

And what people are doing, they're picking up junk off the Internet and using that to study the Bible. And no wonder people are getting confused. Brethren, Christ's first coming came to give us the possibility of salvation at an individual level. But it's only made available to a few initially for those of his training. His second coming will then make that salvation available to all mankind, because you'll have a team of co-workers, let's call it that way, that will work with him of kings and lords, under him of teachers and instructors, that will work with him to make that world possible.

God's plan is for all mankind to be saved. That's what God's plan is there. And that's what the wonderful world tomorrow is all about. And that's where we have a whole study guides about God's holy days and the meaning thereof. And we need to study them, and we need to understand them. Because ultimately, all mankind will be saved.

There'll be a new heaven and a new earth. And brethren will hear a lot more about this during the next Sabbath and holidays and trumpets and atonement and the feast and each day. And it's all only made possible by Jesus Christ. He has bought us and made us kings and priests. And brethren, as we keep God's holy days, we start to have a foretaste of what that wonderful world tomorrow will be like. Brethren, you cannot kind of keep the feast at home.

Okay, some have to because of their health. They're actually physically impossible for them to move. But you cannot fully keep God's feast because God says you go to the place that are chosen. You have to go to the place where God's feasts are being kept. It's a command. And there you will then have a foretaste of the wonderful world tomorrow. And then in the world tomorrow, there is only a foretaste of the true rest of the new heaven and new earth, of the real kingdom of God.

Sure, in the world tomorrow, you'll be governed by beings that are already in the kingdom of God. But the physical beings living on earth, they're still physical. They're still not in the kingdom of God because flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God. So the feast is a foretaste of the wonderful world tomorrow. And the wonderful world tomorrow is a foretaste of the true kingdom of God. God brings all this in different layers of understanding. And brethren, as we keep the feast, we make it exciting.

I know for our children, you know, we made the feast really exciting for our children. You know, one thing we did, for one day they had to plan with us, and things, side trips on the way to the feast or on the way back, and things like that, they would get all excited. And then at the feast they would have eight days to have other brethren and fellowship with other people. But not only that, they knew that we would give them a gift every day. It could be just a little coloring book and a few crayons, whatever we could afford. But every day when they woke up at the foot of their bed, there was a little gift.

And you know, like, six in the morning they were, ah, ah, opening the gift. And they were so excited. Well, maybe one day instead of having a little gift, they had a little envelope with pocket money for the feast and things like that. And they always, for all those days, they would look excited. And then when they went to school, they were beaming with joy. And then soon after that, the other children would come there, oh, we're going to go for Christmas. This is our Christmas. What is that? Oh, we're going to get gifts. Oh, yeah? For how many days? Oh, for one day.

Oh, we had it for eight days. But what's Christmas? It's nothing. And they never looked back. And you know what? Today, they're doing the same thing with their children, our grandchildren. Because there was such a joy for them and they cannot forget it. But you know, we've got an enemy.

And so what an enemy does, it creates an alternative plan to destroy this picture, this hope. And so what he does, oh, well, it creates the idea that you have an immortal soul, that you're going to go to heaven, that this kingdom does not exist. The kingdom is in your heart. And brethren, we have study guides on that that covers it carefully, that we don't go to heaven and all those things. Because those are false doctrines to deceive people so they can't see the kingdom of God. Then they have ideas as well, we don't understand who God is, the nature of God, they get all confused, so they can't see why.

So that they cannot see the family of God. So they limit God to eternity. So you can see this great hope of the family of God. And again, we've got study guides carefully analyzing those themes and those topics. Brethren, if you haven't studied that, use these study guides to study the Bible. It's not this that is important. It's the Bible that is important. But use these as guides because they were written with people full of God's Holy Spirit and they very well researched. And they're good guides for you instead of searching junk from unconverted people in the way.

And then, brethren, people don't understand who is our true Messiah. And we've got a very extensive study guide on that as well. And so people get deceived with all these things and then they get deceived with the wrong Holy Days. Or should we call it holidays? Because they're not Holy Days, they're holidays. They're just deceptions. And you know what they do? Oh, they're so something sentimental and they're so cute. All these colored eggs are so beautiful. Coming from a rabbit.

Oh, it's so cute! And this man in a red suit, they're giving the gifts to the children all at the same time. Think about the logistics of somebody doing that. The traffic jams and I don't know what else. And how many people get stuck in the Germany's? And you know what? It's all a lie. It's all a lie. So what are we teaching our children? Lies! You know, what's teaching our children to break the Ten Commandments? It's a lie! And so if these lies, sentimental stories, people say, Oh, what's wrong with that?

It's a lie! What's wrong with it? It's a lie! And it breaks the vision of this great hope of the kingdom of God to be children of God. I try to go through it in detail so that you can see how beautiful it is. The rest is fake. It's plastic. It's veneer. You know, it's like by this table of wood. It looks so beautiful, but it's just a veneer. Inside it's just chipboard. Brethren, why is Christ's death so important? Because he made this way possible. His birth is not that important because it's just a downgrade.

But his death is so important because he made it possible. He achieved. And his second coming even more important because he will make it happen. He will bring it to fruition. Brethren, Jesus Christ is qualified and competent. He's going to come. He's the only hope we have in the world. Really, he's the only hope. He's the only hope you and I have. That he comes, that he brings peace to this earth. And we've seen this hope is real.

It says, we read it here in Revelation, it says, it is done. I'm the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I'll do it. It is done. It's as good as it's done. Brethren, that is our big hope. That is our big hope. The feast, brethren, is only a glimpse of the wonderful world tomorrow. And the world tomorrow is only a glimpse for a thousand years, for a mere little thousand years, which for God is just a day, of the eternal new earth and new heavens.

So brethren, do you realize there's only seven weeks to the feast? Let's start planning now with our loved ones for the feast of Tabernacles.

Thank you, Mr. Campbell. Well brethren, you'll turn to page 76 and stand by the closing