The Eighth Day Last Judgement

Happy feast, everyone! Always good to see everyone, and this great day that we observed today of the last great day, as we used to call it, and the eighth day, very special. I want to say hello to everybody on the web as well, and we want to say thank you to those who do the special music. You know, I always say I could do that in a million years. It might take me a while to learn how to sing like these people do, but we really do appreciate your talent and what you give to the church and your service for special music.

I want to take you back about 40 years, no more, to Madison, Alabama. I was a fairly young guy then, and I was jogging. That's a sign I was young, right? I was jogging around the neighborhood. I lived in Madison, Alabama, and usually did a mile or mile and a half every day. So I run around the neighborhood, and I was rounding the last curb, heading toward home, maybe three or four houses up. Usually on the jog, you have to fight the dogs off. They're barking at you. Anyway, a man was coming out to the curb, and he seemed pretty urgent, like something was wrong.

Anyway, he signaled me, and he said, say, could I talk to you? I walked over to him, and he said, you live a few houses up, and I've heard you're a minister. Now, I don't know how that got around, how they found out I was a minister. I don't have a sign out that says, Reverend Jim Tuck, out front. Anyway, I said, yes, I am a minister.

He says, I have a question for you. Would you be willing to answer it for me? And I said, sure. And so we walked into his house, and I could see in his eyes the torment this man was going through, because he had just come from a funeral down south that was given by the Church of Christ minister or one of the Protestant ministers. And anyway, you know, he was telling me that the service was about, of course, his uncle, who had died, and the preacher got up, and he preached him to hell.

Now, I don't know if you've ever been to a funeral like that, but I could see in this man's mind, his uncle was down there in hell, and he was sizzling and being tormented and tortured, and it was going to be for all eternity. And you know, that's a common idea, that if you don't accept Jesus as your Savior, and you're not, you know, a person that is a godly kind of a person, you're going to go to hell. Of course, if you accept Christ, then you go to heaven. You know, Ronald Reagan tells the story of when he was over in Ireland, that he had the opportunity to go to the Rock of Castles in Ireland, and they had a small cemetery there.

And I like to see epithets on old tombstones, little things that people write. I remember, I think it was Mel Brooks wrote a book titled, Which Way Did They Go? about people when they die, you know. And it was a book about tombstones and the kind of sage sayings that people etched into their tombstones. Well, Reagan tells this story about the rock at Cashel in Ireland, that there were ancient tombstones there, and etched on one of the tombstones, it says this, Remember me as you pass by.

For as you were, or as you are, so was I. But as I am, you too will be, so be content to follow me. And that was just too much for another Irishman who came afterwards, and he scratched right below, you know, that epithet, he scratched, To follow you, I am content, I wish I knew which way you went. And you know, it is a common belief. You know, if you're good, you go up, and if you're bad, you go down.

And of course, if you're good, you go and you float in a cloud for all eternity, staring at the face of God, and you'll be happy, because you'll have so much love surrounding you. Or if you are a bad dude, you know, you will go down, and you will sizzle and be tormented for all eternity. And of course, that doesn't square with what the Bible says, we know that.

But do we know what this eighth day pictures in God's great master plan? Because it is highly significant. You know, is God judging the whole world now? You know, what about the billions who have died without ever hearing the name Jesus? And yet it says in Luke's writings in the book of Acts, that you can't be saved by any other name but by Jesus' name. You can't have salvation by any other name. You can't do it by Mohammed. You can't do it by Buddha.

You can't do it by any other name. I think Pope Francis actually began to think that you could be saved anyway in any religion.

But, you know, and also the Bible says over in 2 Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 10, it says, For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ. And each one may receive the things done in his body according to what he has done, whether good or bad. So everybody's got to appear before the judgment seat. But what does judgment mean? What does it mean? You know, many people think that God judges like a day in Judge Judy's court. You know who Judge Judy is? A woman makes, I think, $40 million a year doing fake judgments upon people. But anyway, some people think that that's the way it's going to be. Where sentences are quickly given by judge. But we know, or we should know, that God is judging us right now over our lifetime. And only when we know the truth and we can then apply it in our lives. You know, the Bible uses the word judge in two senses. Number one, to judge can mean to sit in judgment of someone who commits a certain act. And number two, the word judge can mean to rule or to govern. So it means those two different things. And if you realize there are three major judgment periods that are expressed in the Bible. And we need to know, again, those three major judgment periods. You know, the question unaddressed is, is there only one big judgment for everyone? That's what most people think. There's one big judgment for everyone. But is that what the Bible says?

You know, does God's plan have phases when judgments take place? God's plan of salvation for humans is outlined by the Holy Days. And think about it. If the world kept God's Holy Days, the eighth day reveals when most are going to be saved. You know, most think, and I find this kind of interesting, most think they're going to go to heaven no matter how bad they've been. Most people think that. Remember the story of a gangster in a town where he was a, you know, everybody knew him as a hootlem. He was the kind of individual that was violent. He was a thief. Everybody knew it. And he was quite intimidating. He was an evil scoundrel. But he asked a preacher who was going to do the funeral, you know, of his brother who was also the same kind of a man, you know, the evil scoundrel. He wanted him to call him a saint during the funeral service. And so that caused quite a bit of consternation for the minister. Now, how do you call somebody a saint if there's someone who is an outlaw, you know, a hootlem? And anyway, he thought about it, thought about it. The day came for him to give the sermon. He got up and started talking about, you know, the man in the casket, and the kind of man and man or man he was. And he said, this man, you know, in this casket here, was an evil scoundrel, and lied all of his life, killed people, and was someone who was a thief, and about everything that is evil could be said about him, but compared to his brother sitting down here on the front row, he was a saint.

You know, everybody wants to be considered righteous, aren't they?

Well, today we need to understand this. God is only offering salvation to the saints.

You know, not the man in this story I was talking about, but the real saints.

Those who are here in this room right now who are striving to live by God's way of life.

You know, God is wanting to save us. He wants us to be a part of his kingdom.

You know, the rest of humanity, Satan has blinded. But why did God allow that? Why did God allow that?

You know, the world doesn't know the true Jesus Christ. They know a false Christ.

And yet Jesus said, I am the door. By me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved. He also said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. And no man comes unto the Father except through me.

And so, Jesus is the only one that can get us to the Father.

Now, every time we kneel down and talk to God in prayer, you know, we have no access to the Father unless we use the name of Jesus Christ. By Jesus Christ, he's our mediator. He's our advocate in heaven. You know, of course, the world, as you know, many of them believe in saints that have been set apart by, you know, the universal church. And they, some people even pray in the names of the saints. And of course, we're forbidden to do that as God's people. We pray in the name of Jesus Christ. But God, again, has allowed the world to be blinded. And man has proven in the last 6,000 years that he cannot rule himself. You know, every time we get close to peace, you know, we snatch it out of the jaws of success. We snatch, you know, war out of that. And we do not have peace. We do not know the way to peace. And we know this world is upside down and topsy turvy because of that as a rule. History has proven that with all the pain and all the suffering, that man, again, cannot rule himself. Now, why has God allowed that? He wants man to see what Proverbs 13 verse 15 says, the way of transgressions is hard. He wants to see that about sin. You know, most don't learn capriciously that unless we hit rock bottom.

You know, unless we hit rock bottom, do we really see ourselves? And God, at that, has to be called in us at the same time. And he can lift us up. He can cause us to see. And our minds can be illuminated with the truth. But salvation, again, is not now available to anyone except the few that God is calling for a special purpose. He wouldn't even be calling us unless we had a special purpose. You know, we're, of course, called to train to be teachers and we'll be kings and priests in the world tomorrow. And we're being called, again, advance of the rest of the world so that we can do that when Jesus Christ returns. You know, God's great master plan ordained three separate judgment periods so he could save the majority of humanity. After Adam and Eve rebelled against God and chose the way of Satan, God drove them out of the garden of Eden. And he cut them off, remember, from the tree of life, which symbolizes revealed knowledge, symbolizes the Holy Spirit as well. So man did not have access to that. And God decreed, and Paul recorded in Hebrews 9 verse 27, and as it had appointed for men to die once, but after this, the judgment. So that is why, you know, God has allowed time to go on. He's going to save the majority of the people. And if he was, in fact, trying to save everyone now, he would have to condemn everyone now, because everyone is walking contrary to the law of God. I mean, look how hard it is for us to obey God with God's Spirit. We have to work at it, don't we? Now, I don't know about you, but I have fallen down so many times I'm developing a flat nose.

No, I think we all have, haven't we? We need, of course, the help of God and Jesus Christ to be able to overcome and to change. And if we've learned anything in God's Church, we should have learned that. Without Christ, we cannot make it. Without the mercy that's extended through his shed blood, you know, and through his sacrifice for us, we could not make it. None of us.

And it expresses that in the Bible, in fact. When Jesus Christ was sent to die for the sins of all humanity, he then raised up the church. You remember Matthew 16, verse 18. He said, I will build my church. He raised up his church, and it was made up of the saints that were called who were given the Holy Spirit. You know the Bible says that you were called to be a saint.

That's in the Bible quite a number of times, as a matter of fact. There were called to be saints.

We're being trained up for a very special purpose. And you know, God gave us the Holy Spirit. We were the first to receive it. And once God opens a person's mind to his truth, and he gives his Holy Spirit, a person is then held accountable. And the judging begins in their life. When you were baptized, and you received the laden of hands, and you understood, and you begin to apply in your life, God began to judge you. He has a notebook in heaven. I don't know. I'm just expressing it in that way that we might understand. He keeps track of our successes in life.

And of course, he helps us along to develop and to grow. He helped us to see the truth, to begin with, and he hasn't deserted us in all the time. Jesus Christ is the author and the finisher of our faith as God's people.

You know, that's why Peter wrote in 1 Peter 4, in verse 17 and 18, if you want to turn there, 1 Peter 4, verses 17 through 18. But here it says, 1 Peter 4, verse 17 and 18, For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God, in other words, within the church. And if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God? Now, if the righteous one is scarcely saved, where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?

You know, judgment in the truest sense did not begin with Adam and Eve.

It began with the church. And what Peter asks here, he says, he said, if the righteous one is scarcely saved, where do the ungodly and the sinner appear?

And Peter asked what the eighth day and what is called the great white throne judgment in the Bible answers. He asked where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?

So God first began his judgment with the church. That's the first judgment of the phases where God is going to judge the entire world. And spiritual salvation, as I said, was not offered to any group, any group in the Old Testament time at all.

Of course, God called a few for special jobs, and they form a part of the foundation of the church that it speaks about in Ephesians 2, verse 20. You know, you could count on your fingers and toes almost the number of people that God called before the church was raised up.

Not very many had that golden opportunity to be called, you know, before the church began. When Jesus returned, saints, both those living and those in their grave, are going to become immortal. And this is the first judgment period.

Let's go to Revelation chapter 20, Revelation 20 and verse 1. Revelation 20 and verse 1. I was looking down here in my notes, and I wrote something that I can't read. So maybe I should have been a doctor.

They say, doctor's writing is not legible.

Well, in Ephesians, I mean, Revelation chapter 20 and verse 1 will begin there. It says that, I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having a key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand. I know we've probably read this before. He laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.

And he cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal on him so that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years were finished.

But after these things, he must be loosed or released a little while. So there'll be a little while at the end of the millennium when he's going to be released, when that thousand years is over.

I went down through here and I saw a throne. So here John, in this vision that he was shown, recorded for us, he saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them.

That, brethren, is in fact the saint's ruling in the world of Aral that he's talking about here.

There will be sitting on thrones, you know, and we'll make judgments during that time.

And it says, then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the word of God, who had not worshipped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands, and they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. But it says, the rest of the dead, what this day is about that we're talking about today, the eighth day, the rest of the dead, the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were ended or finished.

And then this is the first resurrection. He's referring to verse four here of those that are sitting on thrones. But it says, blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection, over which the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and Christ and shall reign with him a thousand years. I remember sitting with numerous people through the years in the ministry reading these verses and talking about the first resurrection and the second resurrection. I remember particularly one gentleman in Phoenix that when I read those verses to him and explained it to him, he's the first man I've ever seen that cried. Tears came down his eyes. He says, I have read those verses dozens and dozens of times and I never understood them. Well, brethren, our eyes have been opened so that we can know God's plan. That there is a first resurrection and a second resurrection, which has already been said by the sermonette and Stephen. But we know that this begins Christ's thousand-year reign when that first resurrection takes place as pictured by the Feast of Tabernacles, which we have observed, all of us. And here we're in the eighth day. I know we talk about maybe a hundred year period for the eighth day, but you know, think about the symbolism of what God talks about.

For the week, a day is equal to a thousand years. And we might very well find that, you know, the eighth day may symbolize much more than just, you know, a hundred years of a period. That it's beyond that is going to take place. What is going to take place? And of course, those things we do not know.

But during the millennium, we will be kings and priests. I'm not going to go to it, but over in Daniel 7, in verse 21 and 22, it talks about how the kingdom will be given to the saints.

Also in verse 27, it says the same thing. The kingdom is going to be turned over to the saints in favor of the saints, as it says, you know, in the new King James Version. So Christ and His saints are going to judge the world. And during the millennium will be the second judgment. That thousand years will be the second judgment period. And people will choose to obey God. They'll receive the Spirit of God during that thousand years, and they will develop godly character, just like we're doing right now. Except we will be immortal. We will be of the god family.

But what again about the billions of the dead who never heard of Jesus, never even seen a Bible for that matter, let alone heard the truth. Are all these people doomed to eternal death? Well, according to the teachings of a lot of people, I remember saying Jerry Falwell on Larry King one time. And Larry King asked him the question that if you have to know the name of Jesus and all these other things, then how are the people in the flood period? Prior to the time of the flood, how are they going to be saved? And you know, all of a sudden, Jerry Falwell just, I mean, he just, he was walking all over himself. He became a kind of a fluttering old man, not knowing what to say. He didn't have an answer. But we have an answer, brother. We know we have an answer. Are all doomed to eternal death? And would God consign all human beings who are blinded and their dumb sheep to everlasting oblivion because they didn't know? What kind of a God would that be? Well, God has had a plan from the foundation of the world, as the first message talked about. And God is going to work that plan out. You know, God wants to save as many people as they can. The fact is, He wants to be merciful to people right now so that He basically, you know, is going to wait to the time of that second resurrection for them to, before they're presented, the truth. It's not been God's purpose to offer salvation to the world right now.

Right now, we are preaching a message which is a witness. You read what Jesus said over in Matthew 24. We're preaching the gospel to the world as a witness. So people will know it was said.

See, God doesn't hold people accountable unless they fully understand. And this world doesn't fully understand. But God will say, look, you can't say, I didn't tell you. Here it was.

You know, over the airways. We, magazines and all the different things. Even churches all over the world. And maybe even some people ran across God's way of life. And they, you know, did not do it. Didn't apply it in their lives. There's a lot of people, brethren, that are out there who were once a part of the church. And I still have hope that in the times ahead, that such momentous things will occur that they will repent. And they may very well be that remnant of her seed that is described over in Revelation 12 verse 17. If those people, when they are really hard pressed by the devil, are going to repent and are going to return to God's church. Maybe some of your children. Maybe some of your relatives and good friends. You know, over the years, Joel and I have had the opportunity to be in several different parts of the country. Even over in Africa and elsewhere. We've made friends about everywhere. I think right now, listening in is Phoenix. We're over there currently. And also, our good friends up in Boise are listening in today. We pastored up there for a while. And maybe others as well that are on.

We want to say hello to all of them. And we love you. But God, you know, is going to give most the opportunity to salvation. Christian missionaries, you know, they think they've got to go out there and they've got to save the heathen. You know, as they often refer to them. You've got to save as many of the heathen as possible before they die. Have them confess Jesus Christ. And of course, we know that is not all that is necessary when God calls us. See, God has a desire to save everyone.

It says in 2 Peter 3 in verse 9. 2 Peter 3 in verse 9, it says, The LORD is not slack concerning his promise. As some men count slackness, but is long suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Now read that again. All come to repentance. Now I don't know how many people are going to be saved in the final analysis, but I would say probably in the 90s percentile when it happens that people are going to repent and they're going to change. 1 Timothy chapter 2. Let's go to 1 Timothy chapter 2. In 1 Timothy chapter 2, it says, For this is good and acceptable. This is verses 3 and 4 of 1 Timothy 2.

It says, In the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved, and to come to the knowledge of the truth. So again, Paul expresses this and Peter expresses this, that this is the desire of God. That's how much God loves humanity when he, you know, like it says in John 3 16, God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son.

So God loves us. He was willing to sacrifice his own Son. And Jesus willingly laid his life down.

For us. The fact that God wants all to be saved means that all will be given the chance to know Jesus Christ and God and the truth. And God will raise up the dead who died in sin.

He's going to reveal Jesus Christ to them. He's going to give to them the Holy Spirit and then grant them true salvation. You know, Paul said there would be a resurrection of the dead. Both of the just and the unjust in Acts 24 verse 15. Daniel recorded, Daniel says, them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some the everlasting life and some the shame and everlasting contempt. That's Daniel 12 verse 2. Let's go to John, John chapter 5.

Over in John chapter 5 and verse 28 we'll begin reading there. Here Jesus says it and he puts it in this way, do not marvel at this. For the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear his voice and come forth.

In fact, you know, that's what resurrection means. No, come forth.

And it says those who have done good to the resurrection of life and those who have done evil to the resurrection of condemnation. So Jesus talked about here that there was going to be a resurrection. Some are going to be to life. You know that when we're raised, it will be a resurrection to life. And as the servant was talking about in the second resurrection, you know, there will be two ways you could go. You could go righteous or you can reject God. Hopefully all will not reject God. The majority will accept God. The Greek word, by the way, for damnation here is judgment.

It's judgment. And what is judgment? When you know the truth, God reveals the truth, and then you live by it. You have a period of time where you live by it. That's how the judgment takes place. You know, God is going to, of course, allow that for every human being.

You know, Jesus mentions one resurrection to life, which is again the first resurrection for sure, and it is included also in the second resurrection. But there are going to be those who are going to be resurrected to condemnation. You know, the other judgment, of course, the second resurrection, is going to be quite an interesting one when we consider that, you know, statisticians say that since the time of Adam that there have been 108 billion people on this planet.

And I, you know, my son was mentioning about how these will be naked people when they are resurrected. It's going to be amazing, though. But you ever thought about the fact that when all these people come up, where will they live? Where will they live? How about the clothes on their back?

What clothing will they have? How about food? How do you feed 108 billion people?

You know, how about like my wife's dad, father, Wally Fegers, said he was a septic tank installer, and he always said that in the world of Marlboro, he'd been in charge of that. Well, you're going to have to have septic systems, right? You're going to have to have water systems. You're going to have all of these systems when you have 108 billion people come up.

And you know, it is my belief that in the thousand years that we're reigning, we're going to start building things. We'll prepare people for those people. We'll have houses for them to live in. We'll have food that will be laid away. We'll have tools and implements and jobs and things that they can do. You know, it's going to be a matter of preparation for that whole thousand year period of time. And I don't know how God will do it, you know, when he resurrects all these people, but he's going to, you know, we'll probably hand them their clothes and say, here, and there's where you put those on over there. You know, it's going to be an incredible time when this happens. I've thought about it quite a bit, and it is going to be, again, a wonderful time where we'll be able to see our families when that resurrection takes place.

Like has already been said, you know, when people are resurrected, you know, it was really good to hear Roy Waterhouse in seeing him after so many years. We remember Roy when he was a teenager, when we first went down to Alabama to pastor. That was my first pastorate, Huntsville and Florence, Alabama. We went down there, I think it was 1976 around there. But it's good to see the young men that are coming up and beginning to be able to be used in the church and that they're there.

It gives a little comfort to some of us that are getting a little bit older, you know, and we realize we're not going to be around forever. Well, let's go over to, now to Ezekiel, the book of Ezekiel. You know, Jesus said, again, quite a bit about the second resurrection. He did great miracles in some cities which refused to repent.

And he said it would be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon and Sodom and Gomorrah, he said, than for you. He spoke to different cities like Capernaum and other cities that he went and he preached and he did all these miracles. But when he was talking about being more tolerable, he was talking about the second resurrection. At that time, you know, it'd be like the cartoon I remember some time ago that I saw, I don't know if any of you have ever seen the Ziggy cartoons.

Well, there was a Ziggy that had a kind of a part of his behind that was cut out, you know, it was a drawing that looked like somebody had cut on his backside of his drawers that he was wearing. And the caption said, I just had a chat with my boss.

Well, you know, I think some of us, when we have a chat with Jesus Christ, you know, he might have to say some biting things to us. But I think in the time ahead that Christ is going to have to talk very sternly to some and maybe I'll be one of those. He'll have to do that too and maybe you will too. But let's go to Ezekiel chapter 37 here. Here, of course, this is the valley of the dry bones that we are all familiar with. But here it says, and then he said to me, son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. So it represented, think about this, all of Jacob's sons, the whole house of Israel. Now that's a lot of people, into the millions of people. When you understand, you know, the United States is the son of Jacob. Britain is the son of Jacob. New Zealand, Australia, some of the European cities or nations are. And of course Scandinavians as well. South Africa.

So we're talking about millions, teeming millions of people. But here, going on, it says that they indeed say our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off. And that because of all the brainwashing people received in their lives, you know, believing that when you die, you either go to heaven or go the other place, people are going to think, I didn't make it to heaven. You know, they're going to, of course, be afraid when that happens. But going on here, it says, therefore prophesy and say to them, thus says the Lord God, behold, O my people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up from your graves and bring you in the land of Israel. And you will know then that I am the eternal when I've opened your graves. O people, O my people, it says, and brought you up from your graves and put my spirit in you and you shall live and I will place you in your land. Then you shall know that I am the eternal. Have spoken it and performed it, says the Lord. You notice here, he says, then you're going to know that I am God. That I am God. There will be no doubt in your mind about who I am. Today, people don't really know the true God, do they? They don't know the true Jesus Christ. So this represents, again, the whole house of Israel. And God will put life into these resurrected people and place them in their own land and they will know God and he's going to work mighty miracles with them. Now notice also over in Romans 11 15, Romans 11 verse 15. So Paul even talks about this same resurrection that's described in Ezekiel 37. Here Paul says in Romans 11 verse 15, for if the cast away of them, that is the blinded Israelites, be the reconciling of the world, what shall be the receive of them but life from the dead. They're talking about that same second resurrection period.

You know when Adam and Eve sinned, turning their backs on God in his way, their creator could sign them and their children to Satan's deceptive sway. And God decided to let man go his own way to suffer and to die. And then eventually God would resurrect them, these deceived billions at the time of the great white throne judgment and reveal his truth to them and then grant them eternal life. And after that they first learned the lesson that sin does not pay. When they learn that lesson, you know, you have to touch a stove sometimes to learn your lesson. How many of us as little kids, you know, mommy or dad said don't touch that, it's too hot and we did anyway.

Well, we have to do that to learn, you know, that mom and dad tell the truth.

And you know, sometimes our parents have told us to not do certain things or to do certain things, and we learned by experience that what they say is true. Like there was an occasion where there was an old man who was a blacksmith and he was trying to hammer out a horseshoe and he, you know, had the thongs and he stuck the horseshoe into the hot coals and he got that horseshoe just as red hot as he could and he took it out and put it on the anvil and it was banging that horseshoe and trying to get it just right the way he wanted it and he kept jamming it back into the hot coals and hammering it and then when he got it the way he wanted it, he took the thongs and he thrust that red hot horseshoe into the water and it sizzled and the bubbles and everything came up and then put the horseshoe on an anvil and meanwhile his grandson came wandering in. He was an 11-year-old grandson and he, you know, how little boys can be, he wanted to examine everything. He walked over and he saw that horseshoe there and by that time it had cooled down significantly but it was still hot but he went over and he took his hand and he picked up that horseshoe and in just a few seconds he looked at it and he slapped that horseshoe right back down on that anvil and the grandpa was a little amused by that and he said, he said, what's the matter grandson? Is that too hot for you?

And he said, no, granddad. He said, it just doesn't take me very long to look at a horseshoe.

Well, you know, God sometimes again lets us learn, you know, that we better listen.

You touch the hot stove, you get burned. Let's go to the resurrection of judgment that is going to come as well over in Revelation chapter 20. Revelation chapter 20 in verse 11.

Here it says, and I saw a great white throne and him who sat on it from whose face the earth and heaven fled away and there was found no place for them. It's like the brilliance of God's face.

You know, a great light coming into a room and a light like this could not be seen because of the brilliance of God's face. How he's describing it here. And it says, and I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God and the books were open. You know, of course, in the Greek the word is biblion, for which we get the word Bible. And the understanding of it being opened is open to understanding. People could understand the Bible. They could grasp the truth. And so it says the books were open. And another book which was open, which is the book of life, and the dead were judged according to their works by the things which are written in the books. So they're going to be judged just like we are judged right now. When we're studying the Bible, we are to be applied everything that we're learning. And God is judging us on how we're applying it in our lives.

And you know, that is the way it's going to be for everybody's brought up in that great white throne judgment or that 100-year period, as was mentioned about Isaiah 65 verse 20. You know, these people, by the way, are not going to have a second chance, as oftentimes people try to say. Oh, you mean they're going to have a second chance. No, they're going to have a first chance for salvation to understand God's truth, to accept God's way of life, and to be saved spiritually. And anyone that does not freely choose God's way of life, but who choose the way of death will be sentenced to death in the Lake of Fire, as the Bible shows. I'm not going to read verses 13 through 15 that are in this very same chapter, but they're going to be cast into Gehenna. And God will mercifully blot them out. It will be, as the Bible someplace says, as though they never were. They never exist.

No, God's not going to sentence people to be tormented, as some have tried to say.

And they're going to do that for people, to give them eternal punishment. No, they're going to be put to death for eternity, and it will be as though they never were. You know, then the new heavens and the new earth will be populated with beings who have freely chosen to live God's way of life.

They're wanting to live God's way of peace, God's way of love and joy and happiness for all eternity.

You know, you'll see that in Revelation 21 and 22. If mankind kept the holy days, if they only kept the holy days, brethren, they would understand this plan. They would see this plan.

Now, what good news God has given us, brethren. How wonderful, how tremendous to know that our all-wise loving God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should have an opportunity to repent and to receive the chance for salvation. The eighth day, brethren, has a tremendous meaning indeed. Let's rejoice and be thankful for this great day of the eighth day of God's feast.