Five Promises on How God Will Restore the Earth

I'd like to begin this message by sharing a quote. I've used it in the past, but some quotes won't go away, and I think some quotes are important. It was by Oliver Wendell Holmes. For those of you that are familiar with that name, he is at one time a Supreme Court Justice about a hundred years ago.

And Mr. Holmes said this then, and tells us today, What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. I'm going to repeat it just for emphasis. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. In sharing that with all of you, I think we can all agree that that's a thought-worthy ideal. But humanly, we can be pushed to the brink, pushed to our limits every day, to hold on to that, and to make it our reality.

Today, we live, you and I, we live in a very anxious world. We find a world that is changing rapidly. Now, you're going to say, but wait a minute, Robin, the world has always been changing since Eden. It's been changing since I was a kid, whenever you were a kid. I'm not going to age anybody here. But I will share with you, as an observer of history and an observer of humanity, and being in the midst of it, it is changing now at an exponential rate.

What we are experiencing, and how the world is changing and turning. And I dare say, I do say, not for the better. I was thinking about it the other day, what world might our children, Susan's and my children, your children, our grandchildren, and we have seven of them. And they are a blessing, but I woke up the other morning thinking, what is the world going to be like when they reach adulthood?

The world that they are going to inherit. We live in a world that is increasingly being drowned out by a tsunami of humanism, of secularism, of words that are changing meanings and values that we in a Judeo-Christian society have existed with for hundreds of years. When you change words, you change meanings.

And that's why it's always important, even with the scripture, to use the words that are in the Bible. Because it is those words that give us meaning and give us revelation. We live in an incredibly anxious world, and sometimes we say, well, maybe our role today, and yes, it is changing exponentially, but all the saints of God have always had challenges down through the ages. Sometimes you can say, why me and why now? And sometimes like Scotty in Star Trek, we say, you know, be me up, Scotty.

I'm up. I'm out of here. Get me out no more. I'm ready to go. But the saints have always existed in a society like this. Join me if you would in John 17. Sometimes we can say, is there some mistake down here? Did I miss my calling?

Do I have to stay down here longer? But in the prayer that Jesus gave on that last night of his human existence in John 17 and verse 15, cutting right into it, let's notice something. I do not pray that you should take them out of the world. What? He's praying to the Father. Don't take them out. You keep them right there. But that you should keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify.

Set them apart by your truth. And your word is truth. And as you sent me into the world, get ready, seat belts on, airbags deployed. Notice what it says. I have sent them into the world. And for their sake, I sanctify myself that they may be sanctified by the truth. When you think of the covenant people, both in days of yore, back in the Old Testament days, and also then when you think of the apostles, and then later when you hear this prayer, where has God always placed his covenant people?

When you think of ancient Israel, ancient Israel was placed right in what is called historically the way of the sea. That's a terminology, the way of the sea. They were planted right smack dab in the middle, between Egypt on the southwest and the empires of Mesopotamia on the east.

They were not put in the North Pole, and they were not put on the South Pole. They were put in the equator, as it were, of civilization, right in the middle, for a reason and for a purpose, that they might be a light by what God gave them to do, that what they might do might glorify God, and that it might be a witness.

And that's one of the reasons why you and I have been called. We have not just simply been called for personal salvation. We have been called to glorify our Father above by how we handle living in this society today, and therefore then also then to be His witness. To rather than curse, to be angry, Dennis, with the darkness, that is to light a candle, a candle that is measured by our faith and by our hope.

Today, we have our fellow citizens, people looking for somehow somebody to pull a rabbit out of the hat, as it were, and to create a miracle for, let's just say, the United States of America that has now been going for over 200 years, which is basically the length and the life of most empires that have been in history, whether they be military empires or whether they be commercial empires.

And I use that word, recognizing we're a republic and recognizing we're, but we are empirical in a sense with commerce around the world and fleets to protect that commerce, to keep open the seas, etc. So I hope you understand what I'm saying. But most basically run 200 years. That's it. Time's up. We're over that now. And to recognize, then, that people are looking for somehow somebody to come and to have an answer.

And you know what politicians give more than anything else? They give promises. Promises come and promises go and go, okay. But they can't promise what is happening on this earth and the cause, because for every cause there is an effect. I'm just going to give you some verses. And so I'm just going to mention a few verses to begin with.

We're going to anchor in another one in a moment. John, Jeremiah 6, 14 through 16, simply says this, peace, peace, but there is no peace. Everybody comes up thinking that they're going to be Johnny on the spot, and they're going to be different like everybody else, and they're going to provide peace. This goes back in time and memorial. The Roman caesars of old, the old maxim about Roman history is simply this, Rome that could conquer the world could not conquer itself.

Interesting. You think about that for a moment. Rome that could conquer the world could not conquer itself. But every seizure would come up, and they would broadcast out throughout the empire, I've arrived. I have a gospel of good news. I am the one that is going to bring peace. I am going to be the savior of the world of antiquity. And they would put it and mint it on their coins. Isaiah 59 and verse 8 says that Isaiah 59 verse 8, the way of peace they know not.

They don't know how to hold back the tide. Just as much as, remember when you were a kid, maybe you grew up in San Diego, and you went to Coronado like I did in front of the Dell, or maybe you were over by the Cove in La Jolla, and you built a sand castle that was going to last. It was your sand castle. Nobody else's sand castle, but your sand castle that was going to stem the tide.

You and King Canute holding back the tide. You build extra special moats. You had a wall behind. I mean, this thing looked like something like an engineer Mr. Roland Clark would have devised. This was going to hold back the Pacific Ocean. How did that work? No, it melted like the Wicked Witch of the West after the water got to it after a while. And that's what man does. He builds sand castles of supposed peace. And there is an effect now. Let's go to Romans 1 and verse 20. In Romans 1 and verse 20, stay with me, please.

In Romans 1 and verse 20, there is a reason why we don't have peace and deterioration of civilizations, of countries, even countries that have said that in God we trust and men it on our coins. But notice what it says in Romans 1 and verse 21. Since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes were clearly seen being understood by the things that are made, even as eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.

Because although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God. Neither were thankful, but became futile, and their thoughts and their foolish hearts were darkened. And professing to be wise, does that describe society today?

In the world of intellectualism, professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And they changed the, notice what it says, they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made by a corruptible man. They threw out God's rules.

They decided to make their own rules. And that's what we have today. And that's what we're looking at. They didn't desire to retain God in the knowledge. You think back in the 1950s, in America, when we took prayer out of the school, when we've taken sometimes the Ten Commandments off of our buildings. And then you wonder today, you wonder why today a generation has arisen that has no concept of boundaries, has no concept of rules, why we see rioting in the streets.

And not merely by one group, not merely by one race, not by merely one ethnic group, but citizens of our country that have no boundaries. Their truth has got to be everybody's truth based upon violence if by no other means. Isaiah 1, join me if you would there for a second, Isaiah 1.

Sometimes you say, well, you know, if this person changed or that person changed, you know, it would just be really, really good and we could have peace again. But what I want to share with you is simply this. If you'll join me in Isaiah 1 and verse 6, I could read more, but I'm going to focus on one thing. Because sometimes you say, if this just changed, if we could, if we could, you want to stay, this is the power point. If we could just kind of, no, just this little bit, you know, just take this person out, put this person in, maybe at this level, maybe, maybe down here. No, that's not what Isaiah says. For the people that have known God or known about God, at whatever degree that they've known about God, from the soul of the foot, even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but wounds and bruises and petrifying sores, and they have been closed or bound up, or sued with ointment. What it's basically saying here, to bring it down to bottom line, the entire body is putrefied, dying, is apart from God, from the top of their head to the tip of their toe. That's hard for people sometimes to take, because human nature, often by itself, thinks, you know, we're pretty good, we're pretty all right, but that is not what God is saying to the book of Isaiah, for people that knew about him to whatever degree they knew about him.

To whatever degree that they knew about him, there is a cause and there is an effect.

But now, let's take a new and a closer look at Isaiah 40, verse 1. Now, I realize, with all of you, my dear friends, I've become somewhat animated, talking about the challenges that the saints of God face today. But actually, just in case you haven't missed it, I'm going to bring you some good news today, and that's really the goal of this message, which I'll share about in a moment. In Isaiah 40, verse 1, and the reason I'm turning to Isaiah 40, verse 1, is I think more than ever the saints of God, the church of God, those that have faith of Jesus and in Jesus and keep the commandments, are going to need encouragement. They're going to have to hold on to that, which is not before them or behind them, but what is in them, and move beyond our human premises and of what's coming our way, because it is. We, as the ministers of God, are watchmen. It is coming. We are going to be moving into the days of the first century A.D., where Christians are going to be challenged. Christians, more than ever, are going to be confronted. And we have to be careful not to be trapped into the human premise, but hold on to the promises of God. Notice what it says, then. This is beautiful. Comfort you. Verse 1, comfort my people. Speak comfort to Jerusalem and cry to her. Now, you say, but wait a minute. Yes, you are citizens of the heavenly Jerusalem. So there's a typology that is occurring here. Speak comfort to Jerusalem and cry out that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, for she is received from the Lord's hand double all of her sins. The voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare the way of the Lord and make straight in the desert a highway for our God. And it says, in every valley is going to be lifted up and exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be brought down low, and the crooked places shall be made straight, and the rough places smooth. Now, let me ask you a question. Is this like the San Andreas Fault? Are we talking about geography? Are we talking about topography? Or are we talking about jubilee, as we understand in the Bible, that when God comes back that He's going to make everything at an even starting line, an even starting line before Him, and give humanity a do-over, a new opportunity that they've never had before, that those that are pride filled are going to be brought low, those that have been down here are going to be brought up. We're talking about, you want to jot this down, we're talking about a new society, because God now is, quote-unquote, in town. Now, notice verse 5, the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all the flesh shall see it together, and for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it. What does that mean? Here's some question I'd like to ask you. That means you're going to have to come back and create an answer. I'm going to help you with it, okay? The three questions out of this is, what is the glory of the Lord? What is that glory of the Lord? Number two, and that is, what is going to be revealed? How is that glory of the Lord going to be revealed? And then, number three, what has the mouth of the Lord spoken?

So that's what we're going to talk about today, and we're going to talk about that, which lies within us, because I'm going to add one verse, and then we're going to take off here. Proverbs 29, 18. Join me if you would, please. In Proverbs 29, verse 18.

Where there is no vision, the people perish. Where there is no vision, the people perish. In the new King James English, it says this, where there is no revelation. And we are going to share that revelation of what is the glory of the Lord, what has He spoken. It is a revelation, but happy is He who keeps the law. So we're going to go through that. We're going to understand that. So today, what I want to do for the remainder of this message, I want to give you five promises of how God is going to restore this world. Five promises on how God is going to restore this world. That's where we're going to begin. We say, well, why should I hold on to that?

Thank you for asking that. Let's go to Isaiah 46. And Isaiah 46, because this is somebody that knows what He is doing. And Isaiah 46, let's remember our God lives in the world. He lives in the sphere of the uncreated. He has no beginning, and He has no end. And He comes to us in Isaiah 46 in verse 9, and He says, Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is none other, and I am God, and there is none like Me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times the things that are not yet done. So He moves into the future and through the revelation brings that glorious and that good and that worthwhile future to us, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all of my pleasure. At the very end of verse 11, He says this, I will also bring it to pass. I have purposed it, and I will also do it. God is not a politician. God is God. He is sovereign.

He holds this world in His hands, and He is going to bring to fore what we heard in that special music before this message. He is going to bring peace on this earth, and that's what I would like to share with you. So five points. Are you ready? We're going to go through them. Number one, Christ is going to establish one world government. Christ is going to establish one world government. The Bible clearly shows that Jesus Christ is going to be coming back to this earth and bringing the kingdom of heaven, which is also synonymous with the kingdom of God. We're talking about the same thing. It's now in heaven, but it's coming to this earth. And it's how He comes to this earth, because what a paradox! That the Prince of Peace will bring conflict and bring war to this earth, but that is how peace is going to come. Again, let's set the stage for point number one. And here's the stage. The kingdom of God. You remember this, please. The kingdom of God is not going to be voted in by human permission. It's not going to be voted in. This government, this one world government, is not a democracy. It's beautiful, and it's wonderful, and it's going to be holy, and it's going to be glorious. But man has had his time. Join me if you would in Matthew 24.

In Matthew 24 and verse 21.

Setting the stage. We're going to be dealing with prophecy somewhat today, but let's recognize the prophecy that I'm going to share with you as your pastor.

It's not going to be speculation. It's not going to be going down into the weeds. There's not going to be any new truth, but what I hope to do is to pause it in your being and in your heart to give you an anchor to hold on to, no matter what comes our way, no matter what comes in your personal path, that you can hold on to this. Verse 21, for then there will be great tribulation such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time. No, nor ever shall be. Now notice verse 22, and unless those days would be shortened, no flesh would be saved. But for the elect's sake, those days are going to be shortened. Man is not going to shorten them of him by himself. God is going to intervene. He's going to intervene. He's going to shorten them.

Now when he comes, is mankind going to be excited as a whole? No, God, we can really work this out. If you can just go back up, let us have a little bit more time. We'll get it together. We'll go kumbaya. It'll be okay. God's been basically waiting 6,000 years for kumbaya to develop, and nobody's humming the melody yet throughout the globe. See, if God comes too late, he'll have nobody to talk to down here. That's how close it's going to get. We live in an age, not only with what's happening in our nation, but if you've been reading the news, we recognize the superpowers of the nation, those red nations. By red nations, I mean personality-wise, that have been dominant down through the ages. China, Russia, Iran, which goes all the way back to the Persian Empire. We are living in a very challenging neighborhood. It's called planet Earth.

All of these powers have nuclear weapons. Iran is on the threshold of it. Don't think otherwise. No amount of whatever is going to keep them from what they believe is fulfilling their destiny. Okay? Might say, wake up and smell the coffee. That's the world that we live in.

How many of you grew up in San Diego? Can I see a show of hands? Anybody grow up? Jim did. I thought you were still growing up? No, you grew up. Okay, Jim. Just teasing. I remember back in the early 60s, 1962, which for those that are younger here was probably the closest that we've ever come to global nuclear warfare. I'm living in San Diego. I live about nine miles out of town by Federal Way, if you know where that is, where the three television stations, antennas, are up on the hill. We would go through what was called, you'll like this, it was called nuclear alerts. We would practice, just like sometimes you growing up have had fire drills. Am I right? I'm looking over at some fire drills. You ever have a fire drill in school? That's when you're supposed to, you never had that? Oh, I thought you were being deprived in the American education system. Okay. Well, in our nuclear drill, this didn't really change that much. This was it. Please get underneath your desk. Now, a little cute, a little funny, but to a point. The world was holding its breath for three or four days during that time, and it was just at that time that these verses were being made aware to my family.

We realized that this was not going to be it. That man was not going to obliterate himself.

This was 1962, and what I'm sharing with you today was being shared with me as an 11-year-old boy. And I took heart, and I took stock that God through Jesus Christ had made a promise that mankind was not going to wipe itself out. And I came to believe that, and I continue to believe that. And that's incredibly good news. We recognize that Jesus Christ is going to come back to this earth. Revelation 11. Join me if you're with there for a moment. Revelation 11.

And look at verse 15. Then the seventh angel sounded, and there were loud voices in the heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever. And then the 24 elders throw down their crowns, and they worship. And what they are worshiping, if you want to put it this way, is they are interrupting the great interrupter of the universe. God is an interrupter. He's not just simply a first cause. He has not wound up the universe like a top and just let it go, go, go. He is going to interrupt. He's going to interrupt time and space. He's going to interrupt human history. And he has interrupted your lives to be here today, to hear this message, and to recognize that we have a God that has called us, not because of who we are, but because of who he is, to give us this good news, to hold on to, to be his witness, to glorify him, to not give up, to not go down, to not get angry with him, but to recognize that he is the master of timing. Daniel 2 44. Join me if you were there a second. Daniel 2 44, explaining this further back in the Old Testament. Remember that the New Testament is concealed in the Old Testament. In Daniel 2 verse 44. How does this work? And it's important because when we say there's going to be one world government, we say, whoa, I've heard those conspiracies. One world government, no thank you. I'd rather be in the mess of democracy than be in a... And democracy is messy. That's just a historical maxim. I'd rather be loose and fancy free, rather than be under that controlling. One world government behind the curtain. Let's notice how this is going to work. And in the days of these kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom. He's going to set up a kingdom. A kingdom has a ruler. A kingdom has laws. A kingdom has subjects. And that God, those laws, those subjects live in a territory. It's called the kingdom of God. We'll set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, and the king shall not be left to other people. No more politicians, no more human beings are going to be in charge. And it shall break in pieces and consume all of those kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. There's no longer going to be the setup of the different empires. There's no longer going to be from the Assyrians to the Babylonians to the Persians to the Greeks to the Macedonians to the Arabs coming up out of the peninsula to the Franks. And we can go on and on through history, and in our time and age, from the Spanish to the French to the British to what we call Pax Americana today. God is coming to this earth and establishing his kingdom, and that is good news. My question is this. Are you ready for that? Are you preparing for that? Are you ready for that? Are you preparing for that? And do you see that in the eyes of your heart? Is it tucked in there? Do you realize that this society is not only going to go on, God is coming? Now that doesn't mean, well, it'd be Pollyannaish about it. Well, I'll just kind of waltz through this life. And, no, no. But we are what we think about. We are what we focus on. We are what we have faith in. We are what we hope for. And you and I are going to be a part of that family under that government of God, that one world government to teach people the next step. Number two, Jesus Christ is going to establish one world religion. Jesus Christ is going to establish one world religion. And that's important to consider. In Isaiah 11, if you'll join me there for a second, Isaiah 11, in a Messianic prophecy.

Notice what it says. Let's go to verse two. The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, and the Spirit of the knowledge and of the fear or the reverence, the respect, the adherence of the Lord. And his delight is in the fear of the Lord, and he shall not judge by the sight of his eyes, nor decide by the hearing of his ears, but with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and the poor will know that they are judged by his righteousness. And he shall strike the earth with the rot of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall slay the wicked. Righteousness shall be the belt of his loins, and faithfulness the belt of his waist. Wow! Incredible! This is what's coming. It's not yet fulfilled in whole. The Bible from the Old Testament, New Testament, there's always a typology, there's a type and an anti-type. Jesus fulfilled much of this in his first coming, but the rest of the story is going to be coming in his second coming as he establishes one religion on this earth. How's a world without harm or destruction going to come about? Notice verse 9. Again, on this point, the second point of one world religion, notice verse 9. And they shall not hurt nor destroy in all of my holy mountain. Well, how's that going to happen? For every cause there is an effect. For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. That's how pervasive, how intrusive, if you want to use another term, how saturated is it? This earth is going to become. It's not going to be, I'm okay, you're okay. It's not going to be, oh, is that your truth? You ever have a sermon? Well, this is my truth. This is my truth. Everybody today has a truth. A little truth here, a little truth there, there are truth, there are truth. You know, everybody's kind of, this is, well, this is my truth. When I read John 14, verse 6, I notice one says, I am the way and I am the truth and I am the life.

Imagine what that day will be like. For every cause there is an effect, and what was rejected at Eden is going to be pervasive throughout this globe. And we're going to have a bill of righteousness, not just the bill of rights. The bill of rights can, as awesome as that is in a human government, the bill of rights is going to be transposed to something much greater and much grander. It's going to be called a bill of righteousness in the wonderful world tomorrow that teaches how to love God and how to love man. It's called the Ten Commandments. Now, in this one world religion that is coming, a question, have you ever noticed how people are willing to give their all for your cause? That's kind of the definition of a terrorist. They have something on their mind and they want to blow your brain up and your mind up instead. But this one world religion, the question is simply this. Are you with me? Who goes first? Who goes first to make this happen?

Jesus Christ sets the example and God the Father allowed it that His Son gave His life.

And that's the way that we live and the way that we live in today and just to recognize that.

Another thing that's exciting is that the curtain is going to come down on Satan and all of his false religions. There are not a thousand ways to paradise.

Scripture clearly states the way back into Eden, that door that was closed, there is only one gate, there is only one door, and Jesus Himself said, I am the door. Other translation says, I am the gate. And that gate is unlocked from the other side, not our side going in, but from the other side because it becomes a revelation that once you accept Jesus Christ, not some other entity, not some other prophet, not some other philosophy, it is only then that you can become at one with the Creator, the one that is first cause, and allow Him to be every cause inside of you and inside of me.

But another item is needed, and that's point three. God is going to offer humanity a new heart. God is going to offer humanity a new heart.

Are you with me? That's a promise.

This is prophecy.

I will share something with you. I have grown up in this way of life now for nearly 60 years. I've been at the very heart of everything, whether it be Imperial schools, whether it be Ambassador College, having been a pastor for 45 years, an elder longer than that. What I'm sharing with you is something that is not supposition, or maybe, or have you thought, or let's line up this part of Jigsaw puzzle of prophecy. God gives us enough to know, and He gives us these big items to hang, not our coat, not our shirt on, but to hang our lives on. He gives us promises. And here's an incredible promise that I'd like to share with you. We find in Ezekiel 36. Ezekiel 36. And let's pick up the thought. If we could, in verse 23. Now, again, we recognize in the sense that this is written to Israel. Israel was a model nation, but does not have a monopoly on God's attention. And we recognize that God is calling ultimately all of humanity to Him. And so that Exodus story continues to expand to an expand that actually allows it not only Israel of old, not just the Jews of yesteryear, but all of humanity. To be able to come to an understanding that God is saying, I will be your God, and you will be my people. There's a relationship there's a dynamic intertwining of beings, the uncreated being with we that are in flesh and in this blood. And notice what he says here. And I will sanctify my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in their midst, and the nations shall know that I am the Lord, says the Lord God, when I am hallowed in before their eyes. That should take our breath away. When all nations are going to have an opportunity to know their father, to know their elder brother, to know the cause of their being. For I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land. And yes, this was originally written to Israel, but to understand biblical dynamics, type and anti-type. We understand there's always an expanded story. Israel, the first fruit of nations, Jeremiah 2 verse 3, Israel, the first fruit of nations, was to be a model. Are you with me? But it's not a monopoly. God wants every human being to come to that peace which Jesus said he would give. As Dennis ended up with his message, my peace I give unto you. That's good news in a world that is going crazy and throwing out all the rules and saying we're going to love one another, but if this is love, I don't know if I want it.

But there's a cause for every effect. Verse 26, I will give you a new heart. I will put a new spirit within you and I will take the heart of the stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And here's a promise, not a maybe, not a promise like a politician, and I will put my spirit within you. Now, I realize Mr. Clark is out here right now into an operation.

And operations can be complex, and he had some things put inside of him. And I'm glad he did because he's looking at me and I'm looking at him today. And I know we all love Mr. and Mrs. Clark. We'll throw in Craig because he's here. We have to say nice things about Craig. We love Craig.

What the doctors did with Mr. Clark with that aorta replacement or whatever it was, and plus putting stents in, is minuscule in one degree. Didn't want to bring it up because what the master doctor of the universe is going to do, he's going to put a new spirit and he's going to put a new heart in us. No longer just a heart of flesh. For every cause there is an effect. That was pounded in me as a kid growing up in this way of life, and I'm pounding away on this today. For every cause there is an effect. And God, the great surgeon of the universe, is not just simply going to put in stents. He's not just simply going to put in a bypass. He's not going to put in a baboon heart like they did in Loma Linda about 40 years ago for a heart transplant. He's going to put... are you with me, friends? Can we get excited? Can we move beyond the desperation that some of us are going through today? He's going to put his heart and he's going to put his mind and he's going to guide us by his spirit in you and me. What is that worth to hold on and to know that God is God?

Well, that leads us to the fourth point. God is going to bring true healing among the nations. God's going to bring true healing among the nations. I believe that God is not only going to heal politically and spiritually, but I believe he's going to physically heal people more than ever.

Some of us that are in this room today are physically suffering, as well as perhaps emotionally suffering from the loss of a body, function, or family members and friends who are in distress of all times, especially in this age of COVID. What can we hope for? Better still, what can we expect when we believe that God's promises are going to come true because he says, from the beginning to the end, I'm going to declare it and I will do it. I am going to bring it to pass.

Much of Jesus' earthly ministry dealt with healing because at times to function, spiritually, yes, you need your health. And if we're having emotional challenges or mental challenges, God's Spirit can only really function with a functioning human spirit to connect, to spark, and healing as God's calling card. Luke 7 18. Join me if you were there for a second.

This is the time of John the Baptist, and the Baptist was getting a little concerned was, you know, he's human and things are happening. He's in prison. And then the disciples of John reported him concerning all of these things because he sent his disciples to Jesus to figure out if, okay, I said, behold, the Lamb of God is coming, but, but he's human. Just double checking.

And the disciples came back and John, calling two of his disciples, sent them to Jesus. And they asked, are you the coming one? Or do we look for another? And when the men had come to him, they said, John the Baptist has sent us to you. Are you the coming one? Or do we look for another? And that very hour he cured many of affirmities and afflictions and evil spirits. And to many blind, he gave sight. So Jesus answered and said this, go and tell John the things that you have seen and that you have heard, that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have the gospel preached to them.

Jesus came as one in the flesh of son of man to do many signs and wonders. He was the second Moses. Deuteronomy 1815 said there will be one that will come like and unto me. That's Jesus.

Jesus was a deliverer. He was a lawgiver. He was a man that had come into contact with God.

If you tune in on Tuesday night, you're going to hear this again and you're all welcome at our Bible study. Because this is exactly what Peter said as he's testifying and giving evidence that Jesus is Messiah and he is risen because he did many signs. He did many wonders. He did things that were not natural to glorify his father above. And that's going to happen again. Join me if you would, if you would, please. Let's go over to Isaiah one more time. In Isaiah 35.

And let's go right to verse three.

Now, when Jesus came, stay with me, please. Remember, type and typologies, type and anti-type, what Jesus did in his earthly ministry, inaugurating the kingdom of God, as it were, but not yet in its fullness. This is going to be the full deal at the end, strengthening the weak hands and making firm the feeble knees. Say to those who are fearful, hearted, be strong, do not fear. Behold, your God will come with vengeance with the recompense of God and he will come and save you. And then the eyes of the blind shall be opened and the ears of the death shall be unstopped. And then the lame shall leap like a deer in the tongue of the dumb, the mute, are going to sing. I can use one example of what it means to be able to hear, and I think I've shared that before. One of our granddaughters has a hearing issue. There is the possibility, there is the possibility that one day she may not hear, and we pray fervently that she'll be able to hear. But the first time that she had her first set of hearing aids on, and at that time, I think she was probably maybe 11 or 12, cute little girl. And tears came to her eyes.

Do you know why those tears came to her eyes? She heard things that she had never heard before.

Can you imagine what that's going to be like in the whole world, in the millennium, when Christ is enthroned in Jerusalem and you and I are going to be representing him, and that there's going to be healing, and that tears are going to come to people's eyes, they're going to see things that they've never seen, they're going to hear things that they've never heard. There's going to be healings emotionally that have never yet been.

They're going to live, and they're going to know and know that God exists because there is no other way that they might be healed. I believe in divine healing. I know I was healed when I was a teenager. There was no other recourse. I know what it's like to basically, we'll see if he makes it through the night.

But I know I was healed, and I think it was for a purpose. And part of that purpose is for me today to remind you about the promises of God, not only in the future, but now that God is a healer, that God intervenes. He is not restricted, and he's going to bring healing to this entire world. Can you imagine not the tears of sorrow, but the tears of joy that are going to occur when Jesus is enshrined in Jerusalem? And people are going to come up to him and say, teach us your ways. Let us walk in your paths. And a part of that walk is they're going to have eyes to see and ears to hear. And the lame are going to be able to walk so that they can, yes, not only spiritually walk in God's ways, but physically walk towards him and give him a hug. This is the good news. One last point, but before I get there, we're embedding this in your heart. Why? Because Oliver Wendell Holmes said, it's not so much what lies behind us or so much what lies before us, but what lies within us. The promise is God. Point number five, Christ creates a working world with working solutions. Christ is going to work, create a working world with working solutions. Can you imagine what it's going to be like a world when the really big peace dividend comes in? When we recognize that humanity's history basically is logged about 20 trillion dollars in funding for armaments and for war?

What's that brought about? I always think of the comment by Herodotus, the Greek historian back in the fifth century, said, in peace, sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature and fathers bury sons no longer. No, right now in the Congress there's a big discussion about infrastructure. Anybody heard that yet? That big long Latin word, infrastructure, and everybody has a different idea of what infrastructure is. That's what makes America America. We all get to debate and talk, talk, talk. This is going to be the true infrastructure when money is no longer going to be used for war and killing other people and other lives, but it's going to be invested in people. That is going to be so incredible. And to think about that and to recognize that. And you're going to be a part of that. That's what God is bringing. Zechariah 8. Join me if you would there, please. Zechariah 8, verse 21.

You're a part of this picture by witnessing today and glorifying God today by believing who He is and believing what He's doing in your life today and believing more of what He's going to do in everybody's life one day. The inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us continue to go and pray before the Lord and seek the Lord of Hosts. I, myself, will also go.

Yes, many people in a strong nation shall come to seek the Lord of Hosts in Jerusalem and to pray before the Lord. Thus says the Lord of Hosts. This is what He's declaring, In those days ten men from every language of the nation shall grasp the sleeve of a Jewish man, saying, Let us go with you. For you we have heard that God is with you.

Now, Dennis, would you come up here real quickly? Real quickly, this way?

If you will do me a favor, be right here. I've got to be by the microphone.

What's going to happen here? No, you're looking good. So what happens is, what this is saying, and we've got to visualize this. Now, it speaks of the Jew, but we're spiritual Jews. It speaks of Israel, but we are the Israel of God, Galatians 6, 16. We're being trained today, and we've got to believe this with all of our heart. We've got to know in our heart of hearts that this is going to happen more than the sun coming up over the ocean tomorrow. What's going to happen, he's describing in the future what we can get a hold of and recognize the importance because we can't teach what we don't know or have experienced. We're not just simply to know God, but we're supposed to be like Him. But it says that these people in the future, and I'm one of those people, and it's like this, the PowerPoint. Do you know God, sir? Do you know God? Have you been to Jerusalem? Yes. And were you there where Christ is now lodged? Yes. And were you taught by those that are around Him about this way of life that's now come? Yes. And what's going to happen, they're going to grab the sleeve and say, I want to be with you. I want to be like Him. And you're going to be, you're going to be, well, here comes some other people, and they're probably going to want to grab your sleeve too because you've been there. You know that. You've seen it. Don't let go. Don't, don't, don't, you'll hold on. I want, I want to learn more. Will you share that time with me? Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you. See, that's what it's going to be like. That's what it's going to be like.

I want you to see yourself there because God and His Son Jesus already see you there. You're already in that picture. You're already in Zachariah 8 where it says, where it says, you know, I'm going to make you a kingdom of priests. What's a priest do? A priest teaches. Brother, and here in San Diego, get aroused. Think big. Think deeply in the Bible. Understand the calling that God has given us.

And as it says in the book of Philippians, even in this day of darkness, as it says in the book of Philippians, Philippians 4 and verse 4, rejoice. And again, I say rejoice because you know the five promises of what God is going to be bringing to this earth.