Finally World Peace

Brethren, as we read these announcements of people with health issues and problems, how much is it that we actually desire that people, that our children, for instance, are healthy and well, that people are healthy and well and happy? And how much do we desire for our own children as well, for health and well-being and for peace? For peace. You know, we worry about our children when we see things happening around, and we quite justifiably, we are concerned about them.

Because nowadays we look around, there's no peace. There's no peace whether you live in the States, whether you live in England, or you live in South Africa, or Australia, or wherever it is. There's no peace. But we desire for all of them and for all the countries to be in peace, so that our children can play in the streets like we used to be able to do many years ago.

You would dare now to allow in some areas, smaller cities, much less in bigger cities, to have children playing in the streets. But as we look at world events today, brethren, if we only have this hope, the hope of the leaders of this world today, then our hope is surely very faint. Because, as we look at it today, we are various leaders making promises to bring peace. And whatever those promises will be, are they coalitions with different nations, are they whatever it is, for we hear about problems in the Middle East, and air strikes and things like that. But we know, in our heart, yes, something needs to be done. But deep in our heart, we know it's only going to cause more problems.

Whatever we do, we just mess it up. And it's going to cause more problems. And so, we have leaders in the world, and we have people that go to election platforms and say, vote for me, because I'll bring you peace. And I don't bring peace. And that prophetically is the white hopes. Think about it. It's very exciting. They'll bring you peace. They'll come in the name of the Messiah. Messiah is the one who's going to bring peace to the world, but they're not the real Messiah. They don't really bring peace. And then what do we see? We see wars and rumors of wars all over the place, which is the Red Hoops.

And then we see nations because of war or because of illness or because of bad weather. Maybe there's droughts or maybe sudden rain and things like that, or earthquakes or whatever it is. You see illnesses and hunger.

And then, and that's the Black Horse of Apocalypse of the Book of Revelation. And then we see death. Death. But not just death here and death there, but death in massive numbers. Really cataclysmic thought death, massive, hundreds of mass killings and in great quantities of people. And the Bible talks about that a quarter of the earth, of regions in the earth, will be having mass deaths.

And that is the yellow horse of the Bible. Brethren, if we just look at these things, the future can be very bleak. And we obviously are concerned for our children. But brethren, God has a plan for you, for me, and for mankind. And that plan is a plan that He will bring that He will bring world peace to the sword. He will bring world peace to the sword. Man's attempts are futile.

Albeit, many of them are of good intentions. I'm not doubting that. But they don't, in the end, bring the right result. And all of these attempts and all these things that man will do will bring us to a point that will have the greatest crisis in the world ever. So we have these four horsemen of the apocalypse.

But that will culminate and will bring in the first biggest crisis of the world, with the fifth great sealer of the book of Revelation, which is the Great Tribulation, the biggest crisis in the world. And that, if God does not intervene, it will be the end of the world.

You know, when people in the world say, well, the end of the world is coming, well, it would come if there was no God. But there is a God. And He is going to bring peace. And then, to stop that, He is going to intervene. And when He intervenes, that's the fifth seal, and He's going to have heavenly signs that He is intervening on earth.

And He will then fulfill His purpose, that He will then begin the actions that He has in mind to do, so that He can fulfill His purpose for you and I, and for mankind. And what is His purpose? Well, turn with me to Hebrews 2, verse 5-8. Hebrews 2, verse 5-8. Hebrews 2, verse 5-8.

It says, For He has not put the world to come, this new world to come, that wherein we'll have world peace, is not put it in subjection of angels.

But one testified in a certain place, saying, What is man that you are mindful of him, or the Son of man that you take care of him? What are we, as mankind? And what is the Son of man, which is pointing to Christ, that you take care of him? You may deem a little lower than angels. Obviously, talking about Christ, but it's talking about us as well. What is man and what is the Son of man? We are a little lower than angels. But it continues, it says, You have crowned him, that is Christ. You've crowned him with glory and honor. Christ is resurrected, and now there's glory and honor. And you've set him over the works of your hands. Like Christ said, All power and authority is given to me. Go out and preach the gospel and baptize people and teach them to do the things that I've told you to obey. In other words, he has all power, he says, you've put, he says, and set him over the works of your hands, and you put all things in subjection under his feet. He has that power.

Now, obviously, he's going to use that power, and he's going to come and intervene with that power.

And thank God that he's going to come and bring us world peace. Thank God that he's going to come and intervene. And those heavenly signs, the fifth seal represents, I'll be able to call it the sixth seal represents when he's going to intervene. The heavenly signs. When he's going to start intervening. Now, God has tried to work with man throughout the ages. It's nothing new. Since Adam, man has worked with mankind, one way or the other. God put Adam and Eve in the garden and told them to obey him. And they had rejected him, and they walked away, and they turned him back.

Then, look at another example. Look at Noah's children. Noah, Noah, Noah is obedient to God, but not all these children were obedient to him. And subsequently, they turned to the point that they built a tower of Bible, and God had to disperse them. So God has worked with people, with mankind, and continuously mankind has rejected God and walked away from God. And then God worked with Abraham. He was a faithful man. Yes, initially he didn't have full faith. He had some faith, but he had to grow in faith until the last trial he said, God came to him and says, now I know that in your heart, and you absolutely trust me. And he became the father of the faithful, and so on. His son Isaac and Jacob. They were tested, and they were proved faithful.

And then God gave Jacob 12 children, changed his name to Israel, and they the children of Israel. But again, they were supposed to be a model nation, and they failed. Again, they failed. But God has a plan. All God knew that mankind would fail because of our weakness of our flesh.

We all would sin, yeah? Many of us will repent, and over time more will repent. But man would sin. And so he sent Christ, the very creator. He gave up his power of being the creator, the word. Another example how we heard on the sermon is that words are very effective, and they can edify and can build. Well, Christ is the word, and through his words he created, used the power of the word. And so he emptied himself of all those powers as we read in Philippians, and he came to earth, and he died for us, for our sins. Now we know there's many people that sometimes they have big sins, big sins, and people say, how can God forgive me? I have such a big sin, God will never forgive me.

Well, he will, because he gave up his life for you and I for that sin. No sin is big enough compared to God's life.

But because in every sin the Father, which was bigger than Christ, resurrected him. And that's what we read here in verse 10 of 2nd Hebrews, verse 10. For it was fitting in him that's in Christ, I mean the Father, for him the Father, for whom are all things and by whom are all things in bringing many sons to glory.

To make the captain of this salvation perfect through suffering. So the Father wanted many sons to come to glory. And so that's the plan for you and I to be sons of God, to come to glory. And because of that he's prepared to die. And because of that he put together a plan of salvation. And he's revealed to us that plan of salvation through his holidays. And his first three holidays, which you can use our Bible study guide about God's Holy Days. The first three Holy Days represent Passover. Or rather first three feasts. The Passover itself is not a Holy Days, so I apologize for that statement. But the first feast is the Passover, which represents Jesus Christ dying for us. And then we have the Days of Unleavened Bread. And the Days of Unleavened Bread represent us repenting. You see, once Christ dies for us, we have to repent.

You see, that's what we read here in verse 10 and 11 of Hebrews 2. He says, Make the captain of their salvation perfect through suffering. Christ suffered, that represented by the Passover. For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all of one of one family, the family of God, for which reason he is not ashamed to call them brethren. But how can we become one with him? First, we have to acknowledge our sins to be sanctified. We have to repent. And that's the meaning of the Days of Unleavened Bread, part of God's festivals. And then, when we make that commitment, we realize we cannot do it by ourselves.

And that's what we did at baptism. We repented. We believe in Christ, symbolized by the Passover. We repented, symbolized by the Days of Unleavened Bread. But we know we can't do it by ourselves. We need God's Holy Spirit, which is the third step in God's plan of salvation, represented by the Feast and the Holy Day of Pentecost, which is the power for us to overcome. The power of a sound mind. The power of love.

So, brethren, Jesus Christ opened a way of personal salvation. But there alone, it does not complete the plan. The plan continues.

Why? Because God wants us to be His children. Look with me, please, in 1 John chapter 3. 1 John chapter 3. 1 John chapter 3, verse 1 to 3. Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, then we should be called children of God.

We are His children. When we received the Holy Spirit, which comes from the Father, Jesus Christ sent it to us through the Father, according to the promise, the promise of the Father, which is the seed of the Father, in analogy, symbolizing a seed that Germanites, quote-unquote, that generates, which creates a new meaning with the spirit of man in man. And therefore, you have this new spiritual baby. In analogy, think about the human, a begetter. You have a seed that begets a female egg, an egg in the lady, and the two become one.

And then that baby multiplies and grows inside the womb. There's a stage of physical growth and a period of time. Just like symbolically, spiritually speaking, we receive God's Holy Spirit, that seed from the Father joins the spirit of man in man, and a new son of God is begotten in the womb of the mother, which is the church, which Christ founded or built at the diabetic cost. And now the baby grows, physically speaking, for nine months. Physically speaking, for nine months. Spiritually speaking, for how long we need to have that spiritual growth stage. And that is the period from Pentecost to Trumpets. It's that growth stage in the mother.

You see, that's why we are children of God.

We're not adopted by God. I know there's some Bible translations that use the word adopted. That is an incorrect translation. It should be, we are begotten. We are the true children of God, not adopted. We are His children because it's His seed that goes together with the spirit of man in man to become one. Just like physically speaking, the physical father's seed joins the egg of the mother. And that's why the physical father is the dad because he gave the seed.

He's not adopting that child because he generated. He begot that baby. Likewise, spiritually speaking, the father is our father. He is our dad. That's why elsewhere it says, Abba, father, which means daddy, dad.

We're not adopted. We are His children. Now, many of you have children. Many of you will have children one day.

You love your children. You don't want your children hurt. You want all of the best for the children. And if they are obedient, you're going to protect them.

You're going to cherish them. You're going to care for them.

Do you think God is any different?

That's why part of the model pray that Christ gave us, our father of our team heaven, hell, would be done. Part of that says, deliver us from the evil one.

If we are doing all the other things that the prayer implies when you magnify the value of that prayer. In conclusion, concluding word says, deliver us from the evil one.

From the serpent, from Satan. And he will deliver us if we need our obedient children, like a loving father and loving parents, father and mother protect the children. And continue reading in verse 1. He says, therefore the world does not know us because it does not know him. Beloved, we are now children of God.

In other words, we are the begotten children of God, but we're not yet being born again, quote unquote. We're not yet spirit beings. And it has not yet been revealed what we shall be as spirit beings, because we're still in that embryonic stage inside the womb, spiritual womb, which is the church. We shall be like him when your babies are born. What joy it is, isn't it? And you hold that tiny baby and he's crying, and you wash him and you take care of him. What joy! What joy!

They are like us. They're still babies, but they're like us.

They look like us. And they grow. They're still going to grow. Even once we are spirit beings, we'll still grow. We'll still be spiritual babies. He's now spiritually born into the family of God, but spiritually speaking, we'll have a long way to grow still further, spiritually speaking.

He says, But we know that when he's revealed, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. We know more inside the womb where we can't see our parents.

Our little babies, when they... But once they're born, they start opening, they see better and better as the days go on, and see us just like we are. We'll then be able to see God just like he is. And everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself as he's pure. I mean, this hope, it's just so invigorating. It's so strong that says, Hey, I am going to hold on to this. I am going to persevere till the end. So, brethren, that is our individual hope.

But is that all?

Turn with me to Romans chapter 8. Romans chapter 8. There's a wonderful scripture on Romans 8 that I don't think you and I, we don't fully understand what it means. I mean, we can speculate about what it means, but it's a wonderful scripture. Romans 8 verse 18 through 22. It says, For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared. Brethren, we suffer. We have illnesses, we have pains, we have difficulties in our life. We know, brethren, that are suffering with tremendous pain at this very moment.

It's not to be compared with what He's going to give us, which shall be revealed in us. But look at verse 19. For the earnest expectation of the creation. Now, your mind can just meditate on that and say, Well, is it just talking about mankind? Or was it talking about part of the creation is the angels themselves that they are waiting for this earnest expectation? Why not? That's part of the creation.

Even the physical things, the physical things that have been created are eagerly waiting for the revealing of the sons of God. Wow! Wow! I think it's such a powerful scripture. You can just start meditating about the meat in the scripture. It's just mind-boggling. Now continue that thought and look at what it says. For the creation was subject to futility.

Well, what does futility mean? Well, for one, I would think it's kind of divine, but it's kind of, hey, things get old, and they can, yeah, I kind of useless, you know. You know, when things get old, then you don't want to get a new one. And the old one, it's no more useful, and you throw it away.

Now you meditate about what that potentially means.

That God created physical things that can get old. What if God created physical things that would not get old? I mean, I'm speculating about the future, about the new earth, the new heaven, when the revealing of the sons of man, and all this thing happens. The new world. Wow!

I mean, some people love it. And they feel very dearly when a certain pet dies. That's subject to futility. What if? I'm speculating. I don't know. But what if in the new world, what if you'll still be God will create physical things, and they're not subject to futility? You see, it's all part of the DNA, right? I mean, it's just the way DNA works, and then suddenly you get to a point where the DNA kind of starts going backwards instead of going forwards, you know. It keeps going on forwards until for an adult, until an age, whatever, 20, 30, whatever the age is, and then the DNA starts working out. What if it didn't? What if it's programmed not to do that? Is it impossible? Nothing is impossible to God. It says the creation was subject to futility, not willingly. Not because God wanted the creation to be in futility, but because of Him who's subjected in the hope, in the hope of what? That we go through this, and that we overcome, then we learn to be children of God so that we can be sons and daughters. And now once we are, that futility is no longer required.

Wow! Maybe I'm speculating, yeah? But it's interesting to think about it. Look at verse 20-21. Because the creation itself also be delivered from the bondage of corruption. Wow! The creation will be delivered from the bondage of corruption in the words of decay.

And then continuing, if you have, by the way, my Bible has got a little margin there. We've got a little one on that margin. And then I look on the margin there, it says decay, which is interesting. Anyway, into the glorious liberty of the children of God. So even the creation is going to change. Because, you know, there's a new heaven and new earth and things like that. So you look at things there. For we know, verse 22, that the whole creation rounds and labors with birth bangs together until now. The whole creation is in pain. You see, brethren, the whole world is waiting patiently, quote-unquote. I mean, all creation, and I'm not just talking about people, but all creation, all environment, all things that God has created, is waiting patiently for the revealing of sons of God, and then you'll have a new heaven and new earth, and that's what we're looking for.

But when is God going to start doing that?

When he's so mad, what mankind is doing it, and after that tribulation, he's going to say, I better cut it short, otherwise mankind will obliterate themselves from planet earth. I'm going to intervene and bang! And he starts intervening, and the sign of his beginning of his intervention is what? The sixth seal, the heavenly sign.

That's when he's going to intervene on planet earth.

Now, when he's going to intervene, as you read in the Bible, we start the seventh seal, which is the seven trumpets, symbolized by the day of trumpets. So we come back to God's holy days, and God's holy days, the day of trumpets, it's not just the one trumpet, the final trumpet, it's all seven, the day of trumpets, right? All seven symbolized by the meaning of that is going to intervene.

That's the day of God's wrath.

We're going to look at a few scriptures on that in a moment. So he is going to say to the world, that is enough. I am up to you. I've had enough of you people doing and messing this earth, and I'm going to intervene now. Heavenly signs, I'm going to do it, and I'm going to punish you people. But before he does that, remember, there were a number of people that went through the tribulation, which received the Good News magazine, and received our preaching, received our booklets, have studied it, and they put it in a shelf. And it kind of stayed there in the background, because we're preaching it as a witness. So it stays like in the background, and the tribulation goes, and everything just goes mad. What do you think these people are going to do? Let me go on that shelf where I had those little booklets and read. I better repent.

And those people repent.

And those people get baptized, and those people receive the Holy Spirit. And now they are begotten children of God. They've got to still grow and mature, but they're begotten.

And therefore, because of our work, and with the help and the encouragement of the two witnesses, they will repent. Now that they've repented, when you and I repent, we get baptized. Spiritually speaking, our robes are clean. All our sins have been forgiven. Our robes are white. Spiritually speaking, we stand before Christ's throne in our prayers with white robes. And if we don't have, and if we have some sin, we can go and approach Christ, our high priest, confess to him, and he will forgive us. And then, because we're repentant and we got access back to Christ with clean robes, those people repent. They come out of the tribulation. The Bible talks of it as a great multitude. They will be protected.

And so they are sealed. By God, somehow, especially, that they will not be affected by these things that we're going to see in the seven trumpets, or some of the seven trumpets, that will be sun burning and temperatures, etc. They'll not be affected.

They'll not be affected. They'll be protected during that, because it's God's wrath. And God's wrath is not going to punish his children. He's going to punish the wall, but he's going to protect his children, so they're not affected. The sealed are protected. And look at me with me in Revelation chapter 6. Revelation chapter 6.

Revelation chapter 6, verse 12 through 17.

This is talking about the heavenly signs. It says the sixth seal, and there's an earthquake. And it says, and the sun became black, and the moon lacked blood, and the stars of heaven. But look on verse 17. At the end of verse 16 and verse 17, it says, For the wrath of the Lamb, that's Christ, his cross. It is that for the great day of his wrath has come. In other words, when there is that sixth seal of the heavenly signs, Christ says, that is enough. I'm going to start intervening in all the faith.

And so it does. And so it does. Look at Joel chapter 2, verse 31 and 32. Joel chapter 2.

Joel chapter 2, verse 31 and 32. Amazing scripture. Amazing scripture.

It says, The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the morning to blood before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord. We just saw that in Revelation 6. It is the heavenly signs, and then is the day of the Lord has come. The day of his wrath. The day when God says, that is enough. I'm going to punish the earth now, and I'm going to give them punishment. And I'm going to correct. And says, The sun will be turned into darkness, the morning to blood before the coming of the great and awesome day of the Lord. And it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the name of the Lord. In other words, whoever has repented. During the Tribulation, they've repented. And they've received God's Holy Spirit. Shall be saved. They will be delivered. They will be protected. They will be sealed. They will not be punished during that day of the Lord. They'll be delivered.

So brethren, and then we see in Revelation 7, that there is a time of sealing of a defined number of Israelites, and a great multitude of Gentiles. They'll go through the Tribulation, and they'll be protected. They will not suffer Jesus Christ's punishment to the world that is coming.

And therefore, then we have Revelation 8. Revelation 8.

In Revelation 8, we have, then He opened the seventh seal, and it was silencing heaven for about half an hour.

It was so profound, and so significant, and everybody just went quiet. All the angelic holds just went quiet.

Because God is standing up, and He's going to fight for His people, for His nation, for the world, for society, and He's going to punish those that destroy the earth, and He's starting His intervention on planet earth. And everybody just went quiet.

And then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to them were given seven trumpets. And so there were seven trumpets. And then you can read about the seven trumpets, which is the punishment of people on earth. And as you read through the seven trumpets, you read time and time again, and it says, and this was done, and they still did not repent, and this was done, and they still did not repent, and if this was done, and they still did not repent. Because those are the people in the world. The ones that had repented, they repented it through the great revelation, and they were sealed. The others are unrepentant, and they've been punished.

And so you look through the trumpets. The first one is punishment on the actual physical earth. The second one is punishment on the sea. The third one is punishment in the rivers. The fourth one is darkness in the heavenly bodies. And remember, the people that have repented during the great tribulation will be protected from this.

And remember, if you listened to my previous sermon on this, the people in God's Church, some of them would have been protected already into the place of protection somewhere in the wilderness from the face of a serpent.

So God is protecting people, yeah. But He is intervening, but those that are protected by God will not be hurt by all these things.

And there'll be a lot of people, because He talks about a great multitude. Some people translate it as an innumerable multitude. Now, obviously, God probably has a pretty good idea how many that is, but we don't need to know. And that's what it is. And then there's two great wars, even during that period, which is two great wars. One is the beast attacking Gog and Magog, and it talks about torment for five months, which is the first trumpet. And then the sixth trumpet is a counter-attack of Gog and Magog with 200 million people killing, when you read that, a third of mankind.

Killing a third of mankind. Remember, those that have repented are protected from this. They'll not be affected. They'll be there, but they are sealed, and these things do not affect them. God is amazing what He can do. He can do that.

But now, you've had these two. The beast has attacked Gog and Magog. Gog and Magog has counter-attack to for army of 200 million and killed a third of mankind. Now the beast says, this is no way. I am going to stand up against you, and the Gog and Magog says, I'm going to stand up against the beast, and they are going to be ready to press the button and destroy planet Earth.

Jesus Christ has to come. The seventh trumpet. The seventh trumpet blows, and Jesus Christ finally, physically, comes. Revelation 11. Revelation 11.

Verse 15 through 19. Then the seventh angel sounded. That's the seventh trumpet. And they were loud voices in heaven, saying, the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms, our Lord, and of His Christ, and it shall reign forever and ever. So we're talking, yeah, about the meanings during these trumpets, the meaning of the day of trumpets. It's not just the seventh trumpet, but it's all this period represented by the day of trumpets when Christ starts intervening, but it culminates His intervention of His final coming on the last trumpet, the seventh trumpet. And it says, the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms, our Lord, and of His Christ, and it shall reign forever and ever. And the twenty-four elders, those are angelic beings, who sat before God in their thrones, fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying, We give you thanks, our Lord God Almighty, the one who is, who was, and who is to come. Why does it say He was? Because He died. You see, He died. He is, He was, and He's to come. Because you've taken your great power and reign. Christ is coming to reign. And the nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged. And you all know scriptures like Corinthians 15, 15-15-15, 15-15-15, when he talks about the lost Trump, which is the seventh Trump, they will be resurrected. That's the time of, he says, the dead, they should be judged.

You see, the mere fact that you have dead, and some are resurrected on the first resurrection, and some are not, that is the judgment already on the other ones. Think about it. A judgment of the dead. Some were judged dead to be worthy to be in the first resurrection, and some were judged dead not to be worthy in the first resurrection. That is a judgment.

So the beginning of judgment is beginning from that point of, or in other words, is the time of judgment. Even during the world tomorrow, there'll be time of judgment, and then the great white throne is that final judgment. But it's all that judgment has started at Christ's coming. That's why it says, the nation is in angry wrath has come, at the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that you should reward your servants, the prophets, and the saints.

In other words, it's not just the resurrection to life, but it's the reward saying, well done, good and faithful servants, you rule over five servants. Well done, good and faithful servants, you rule over ten. Well done, good and faithful servants, you rule over one.

That's a reward.

And so it'll be the time of basically, not only just the marriage of the bride to Christ, but the time for quote-unquote the coronation.

You know, some will be crowned with ten out of ten cities, it's time only over one city. So it's the reward, the time of the reward in putting in modern-day terms. Coronation is giving the rewards, different rewards of people, different responsibilities and assignments. And that'll be a job for eternity. And then God will probably then over time, maybe as things develop, enhance that job and give you more responsibilities, whatever. I don't know, but that's at least for the first thousand years. And we know, we don't know what goes on. He says you should reward, and you should reward your servants, the prophets and the saints and those who fear your name, small and great. And also it's the time that you should destroy those who destroy the earth. You see, there's three things here. The judgment of the dead, which is the resurrection, first resurrection, giving of life, the reward of the saints, and the destruction of those that destroy the earth. So those three things happen. And brethren, that's what we learn as we observe the Feast of Trumpets. We learn these things. It's that time that Christ is coming and is going to bring things to the wall and is going to bring peace to the wall.

But as it says, he also comes to destroy those that destroy the earth. We'll obviously hear more about this during the Day of Trumpets, but it's going to be the beginning of a time. And then after a thousand years, the rest of the dead will be resurrected. And then it will be the great white Trump judgment, and that will learn war on the eighth day of the Feast. All back to God's plan of salvation. He has a plan for you and I. But you know, when he comes back, look how it is described in Zechariah 14. Zechariah 14, when he comes back. Zechariah 14, when he comes back.

Zechariah 14.

Verse 16.

I beg your pardon? No, Zechariah 14 verse 1. Behold, the Day of the Lord is coming. We know the Day of the Lord is coming. That's when Christ starts intervening, and obviously there's a Day of Trumpets represents that. But there is a time period, the first trumpet, the second trumpet, and all those things. But there is one when it will happen which will culminate to this event, what it says in verse 2, for all gather all nations to battle against Jerusalem.

How will we do that? You see, brethren, in first place, during the trumpets, there is the beast power attacking Gog and Magog with that sort of, the Bible talks about, crosshoppers and creating a torment for five months. Then Gog and Magog counterattacks with 200 million armies, killing a third of the earth. Now, once the beast power kind of recovers from this, it says, no, this is it. We're gonna blow against them, and then the two are ready to blow each other out of planet earth and everything else with them. And then Christ comes. When they see, because it will be like lightning, everybody will see from east to west like lightning, you'll see. Probably what they will think is they're being invaded by aliens. And so they'll gather where, quote unquote, those aliens are coming in Jerusalem, and they'll gather their armies in Jerusalem to fight, quote unquote, these aliens. I'm speculating, yeah, the best way I can explain it. As time goes along, we'll probably see it maybe slightly different, but it's just the way at the moment to be able to make it clear for us to understand. So they say it's all gather all nations to battle against Jerusalem. That's how they will be gathered. They say, because they say, well, we hate each other, but it's like two people fighting one another. You get in there to try and separate, they both turn against you. And it's like two dogs fighting against one another, you throw and separate and they turn against you. It's the same thing, there's these two, the beast and the dog and my dog, trying to kill one another. And you cross comes there to intervene and they turn against trust. That's what happens. And then it says, yeah, what will happen? And then look at in verse 3. Then the Lord shall go forth and fight against those nations as he fights in the day of battle. Who do you think the Lord is? You see, it's Yahweh, it's Y-H-W-H. It's Christ coming to earth. It's the second coming. That's who the Lord is to fight. In the day that his feet of the Lord will stand on a mount of olives, that's Jesus Christ, which faces Jerusalem on the east and the Mount of Olives shall split in two. So, Jesus will stand on the mount of olives. So, Christ is coming and brings this the culmination of this to an end. Look at the end of verse 5. Look at the end of verse 5. It says, Thus the Lord my God will come.

I mean, people that don't believe that Christ is God, they don't believe, I mean, that is so plain that says, the Lord my God will come. That's the second coming of Jesus Christ and all saints with you we resurrected would have been resurrected first and then we come together with him to fight the nations. Let's look at that fight in the book of Revelation 19. Revelation 19. Revelation 19 verse 11.

Revelation 19 verse 11. Through verse 21, then I said, I saw heaven opened and be all the white horse and he was sat on the image of all faithful and true and the righteousness he judges and makes war. That's Christ. And then look in verse 15. Now out of his mouth goes a short sword, then with it you should strike the nations and he himself will rule with a rod of iron. And he says he's the Lord, he's the king of kings and lord of lords. And then you look in verse 18 and 19 when he talks about people being destroyed and he says, and I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and the armies. Verse 19, gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse, which is Christ, against his army and the beast was captured and the false prophet. And then he says, and they were cast into the lake of fire at the end of verse 20.

Reverend, Christ will fight these nations and will destroy them. In Zechariah 14, where we were a moment ago, it leaves a little bit more light onto this. Zechariah 14 verse 9. Zechariah 14 verse 9. He says, and the Lord shall be king over all the earth, that Jesus Christ, in that day it shall be the Lord is one and his name is one. And then look a little bit, verse 12. And this shall be the plague with which the Lord will strike all the people who fought against Jerusalem. Their flesh will dissolve while their feet stand, while they stand on their feet, their eyes will dissolve and their tongues will dissolve. Shall come to pass, that a great panic will start fighting one another. And Judah will be the first nation to repent as a nation, and they'll also get there and say, well, we'll fight in as well. Yeah, we know, we know the Messiah is its Christ. We find, they finally recognize that the Messiah is Christ. And then we know, if you read, continue reading Zechariah 14, we know that they'll keep the Feast of Tabernacles. We know, as you read the Scripture, that then follows the Day of Atonement, Satan is put away, and then the Feast of Tabernacles, and there will be world peace. All nations will keep it. Brethren, there will be finally world peace. Because God loves you and I. He wants you as His children in the kingdom, and it's the Father's good pleasure to give us the kingdom. And He's going to intervene and bring that, and He's going to protect those that are repentant. You and I pray for that when it says, deliver us from the evil one, and He will deliver us. That's why it says, watch and pray that you may be counted worthy to escape. We need to be changing. We need to be repented. We need to change our lives. But He's faithful because He wants children in the kingdom of God. Brethren, you and I desire for our children world peace and happiness and health. And brethren, there will be world peace and happiness and health. We all desire that, and we know we have that hope because we understand God's plan of salvation through His holidays. We are now approaching the last set of holidays which represents not just personal salvation, which was the first three holidays, but the last four holidays represents the salvation of the world and of the church. Brethren, there will be world peace. And indeed, with this knowledge, I think we can pray far more meaningfully when we pray, thy kingdom come, let thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven.