God's Plan and God's Holy Days

Brethren, the feast is a time of excitement and of expectation. We all look forward to the feast.

How many of us are kind of looking forward, counting whatever number of days, looking at things that you are planning and doing, and really looking at it in a way that is very exciting.

My purpose today is to really help us to start putting our minds in and around the feast. So, some of the events, some of the meanings applicable to the feast. So, the title of the sermon today is God's plan and God's holidays. One of the reasons for Christ to come, as we read in Luke chapter 4, verse 43 and 44. So, turn with me when Christ started preaching in Luke chapter 4, verse 43 and 44.

It says, and then He said to them, I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also, because for this purpose I have been sent. Christ was sent by the Father to preach the good news of the kingdom of God. And He was preaching it in the synagogues of Galilee. So, He was preaching the kingdom of God. Why is it particularly pertinent that Christ started preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God at this time? Well, it is because with Christ's coming, He is now making it possible for the kingdom of God to come to earth and fulfill the purpose that God has in mind from mankind for you and I to be sons and daughters of God in His kingdom.

And for that, it required Christ, then the word previously, to become flesh, to become a human being, and to give His life for us. And so now that He is doing this and He has done, He basically opened the doors for the kingdom of God to actually be fulfilled in our lives so that you and I can be spirit beings in His kingdom. You see, it required the Savior to give His life, but now He's given His life. And therefore, the difficult part has been done.

Think about it from it. The difficult part that God had to do, He had to give the Father, had to give His own Son, and the Word had to be willing to give His life and suffer for us.

That's done. Tick. That is the hard part. All the others from Yahweh on words, it's just like putting an expression that we would use today. It's like a piece of cake. It's easier, a lot easier, in that sense, because the part was that Christ had to die and suffer for us. That has been done. Therefore now, the kingdom of God, for us, it's a fact. Well, it's always a fact when God says He's going to do something, He will do it. But it just shows the difficult part is done.

Think about it another way. Christ's suffering represents, as we know, the festival of Passover.

But you and I know that the Passover is not a holy day. So immediately after the Passover, we have the first holy day. It is as if the Passover has to happen, which obviously that's what it is, and immediately after the door is open for us to have the seven holy days. Because understand, the Passover is a festival, but it's not a holy day. But the first day of Unleavened Bread is a part of a festival, but it's also a holy day. So that's an important distinction, and we need to understand in our minds just an interesting point in there. But now we've got the holy days, which point to us God's plan of salvation for us, our steps in that. So Christ preached the kingdom of God, and that is our role as God's people. You don't have to turn there, but you think about Matthew 24. I'll take part of Matthew 24. 14. Matthew 24. 14, he says, Go and preach the gospel unto the whole world as a witness, and then the end will come. That's our role to pray as a witness. Now many people misinterpret the Scripture and think, well, maybe we're not preaching the gospel effectively because we don't have a lot of people in the church. But you know, the Scripture does not say, preach the gospel to the world to have a lot of people in the church. The Scripture says, preach the gospel to the world as a witness. It's a different goal. It's a different goal. The goal is to preach the gospel so that people have a hope. And like we heard in a beautiful song, so that we don't have to fear anymore. Fear no more. Because God is in control. As we heard in the sermon there, God is in control of water, of the seas, of nature. He's in control.

So we should fear no more. We should trust in Him. He's got a plan. He wants you and I in His kingdom. But you and I are preaching the gospel to the world, not to convert to more souls as it is stated in the, let's call it in Protestant world, but we are to preach the gospel as a witness to the whole world. It's different, subtle, but it's a key and important difference. So we know that's what Christ did. We know that's what we've done. And we know that's what Paul did.

Right up to when he was in prison in Rome, if you turn to the last chapter of the book of Acts, that's Acts 28, the last two verses in the book of Acts, Acts 28, we can see that Paul was preaching from home. He was in jail, but in like in home prison. And at verse 30 of 28 of Acts, then Paul dwelt two whole years in his own rented house and received all who came to him, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God.

Note, it does not have a full stop there.

You see, he preached the gospel of the kingdom of God. Full stop? No, no, doesn't have a full stop.

And teaching the things which concern the Lord Jesus with all confidence, no one forbidding him.

It is very important for us, and that's why in our church's mission statement, we have preached the gospel of the kingdom and the gospel of Jesus Christ. It's not two gospels.

Now, think about the gospel of the kingdom is this content, all the way these things. And one of the parts of the kingdom is that Christ will be the king. And Paul was explaining that Jesus Christ, the Messiah, was the king that will be ruling in the kingdom of God. And so he was, think about it, he was taking a magnifying loss and focusing on that section of Christ's role.

So you got the gospel of the kingdom, but then in addition he was narrowing down with a very unique focus on Christ's responsibility as the king of kings and Lord of lords.

You see, the message of the kingdom, the good news of the kingdom of God, obviously means that you and I need to believe, we need to repent, and we need to become disciples of Jesus Christ. Correct. You know, you and I must not stay as we are. Oh yeah, churches in the world says, come as you are and stay as you are. All you need to is accept the Lord Jesus. Hallelujah! You and I must not stay the way you and I are. We must repent and change. Yes, God calls us, as maybe we are, but as he calls us, he breaks our conscience with his spirit for us to change and repent from the old man to the new man, from the old person to the new person.

And that's the commitment you and I make at baptism, right? The symbolic of baptism, the old man dies and the new man symbolically is resurrected. So, the gospel of the kingdom of God includes that. You and I have to change. Now, this is where the world doesn't like it because, well, stay as you are. All you need to do is give your heart to the Lord.

That is a perversion of the gospel of Jesus Christ. You see, what people today are preaching a different Jesus. Think about it. What do you mean preaching a different Jesus?

Because the Jesus that you and I believe in is one that, yes, live the life without sin and we are to imitate Him. We need to change and we need to change from a life of sin to a life of repent and a new life. What people were doing, think about it, what people were doing were preaching a gospel of the kingdom of God, of Jesus Christ, which was not technically a different gospel but was a distorted gospel. You see, Satan is very clever. You know, if you give something like I've mentioned before, you give something that looks like water but it'll just put a little drop of arsenic and it looks like water but it's actually distorted, it's perverted, it's poisoned. And that's what he was already doing in those days. He was giving them a perverted gospel. Turn with me to Galatians chapter 1 to see that exactly. That's what it was already happened at the time of Paul to the church in Galatians. In Galatians chapter 1 verse 6, it says, I marvel that you are turning away brethren. What is happening today is nothing new. Satan's got the same old tricks that he has had right from the beginning. Do you know what Satan has a master degree in? He's got a master degree in the... is the greatest deceiver of the world. And to deceive, you've got to make it look like it's the real thing. You know, if you have a hundred dollar bow and if it's a fake hundred dollar bow, you must make it as near as the real real...

Don't see it's fake. Right? It's the same thing with the gospel. So it's not, quote unquote, technically speaking, a different gospel. It's just, yes, it is a different gospel, but it appears like it's the same gospel, but it's just ever slightly so twisted, distorted, just enough to take you down the wrong path. And if it is distorted a bit, yeah, for one person, distorted a bit there for somebody else, distorted a bit there for somebody else, it doesn't care as much as you don't have the right, the way, the way of Christ. He's okay with that.

So continue reading here at the end of verse 6 and verse 7, to a different gospel which is not another.

But there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. In other words, yeah, it's the gospel of Christ. It's the good news that Christ is the king of the kingdom of God, but it's just that twisted, just subtly enough off the mark to take you, let's call it, put it that way, all the way to a different planet. You know, take you just in the wrong direction. And so that's what he says. Verse 8, but even if we or an angel from heaven preached any other gospel to you, then what we have preached to you, let him be accursed. And then he says that a second time. And so you can see that this distortion was already happening in the first years of the early church. And that's what we have today with Christianity. Let me go back to what we have today.

I'm going to put it in a slightly different way of looking at it. What do we have today?

We have today a gospel that says, when I say today, we have, I mean, in the world, in typical Christianity, that's what I'm talking about, in typical Christianity, what do we have today? We have a gospel that Christ that displays or presents Christ as saying, well, just believe me, accept me, and stay as you are. Now, if that is true, you and I are making Christ a minister of sin.

Right? Yeah, if you can stay as you are, that means to stay as a a person. And if that is what Christ is ministering or teaching, if that's His gospel, then you and I are making Christ a minister of sin. Do you get it? Do you follow that?

Now, let's read Galatians chapter 2 verse 17. Galatians chapter 2 verse 17.

And Paul here writing to the Galatians says, but if while we seek to be justified by Christ, yes, we are justified by Christ, but if while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves are found sinners. In other words, if we don't repent, if we don't change, if we don't change from the old man to the new man, we are then making Christ a minister of sin. And that's why it says, if we remain and we found sinners, if we're not repenting, is therefore Christ a minister of sin?

Of course not. That is not the true gospel of Christ. The true gospel of Christ is you and I have to repent. So Christ is not a minister of lawlessness. Put it another way. In fact, you've heard you hear the man of sin is a minister of lawlessness. That is basically the antichrist, right? So the world think about it is the spirit of antichrist because it's a spirit of lawlessness. When people say, just believe in Christ and come as you are, that in principle is the spirit of antichrist. Yes, we know there will be a man of sin that will be the antichrist, but I'm just talking about a general principle.

What you and I have today in this Christian world is a spirit of antichrist.

And look at Matthew 7 at what Christ said that's in the Seminole and Ammon and starting in verse 21.

Matthew 7 verse 21.

Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven. Yes, it's the kingdom of God. God is in heaven. It's the kingdom that comes from God. It's the kingdom of heaven. If you say, Jesus, Jesus, I love you, and you don't change, he says, just because you say, Jesus, Jesus, Lord, Lord, not everyone will enter the kingdom, but he who does the will of my Father in heaven, but he that obeys God's laws.

I don't think it can be any plainer than that. That is so plain. You and I have to do God's will.

Understand that God's will is more than the Ten Commandments.

You read in another scripture, I think it's 1 John 3 verse 24, or around there, it says, whatever you ask of me, you'll receive, because you keep the commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight. So that's what is important, doing the will of God, which is his commandments and the things that are pleasing in his sight, according to his will. And then Christ goes on in verse 22 and 23 of Matthew 7. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, you know, Jesus, Jesus, didn't I prophesy in your name? I spoke glorious and wonderful things about Christ. Didn't I cast out demons in Jesus' name? Wow! So you could be casting out demons in Jesus' name, but not doing it by Christ's authority, because it's a deception from Satan. And it says, and done many wonders. That's miracles in your name. Didn't we do that? Wow! So that is not the indicator. The indicator that you and I need to look for, look at it in verse 23, and then I'll declare to them, I never knew you, depart from me you who practice lawlessness, that you break God's commandments and you go against God's will. That is the indicator. And so, as true Christians, we need to understand that you and I need to keep God's laws. But that alone is not sufficient, as I explained to you. But let's... God's constitution, quote-unquote, it's the Ten Commandments. Let's just say it that way. There are other laws around that we and other principles that we need to do to please God. Now, the world says, oh, but we obey God's commandments.

Or do you? Do you keep the Sabbath?

Oh, no, but that has changed to Sunday. Well, God is the same today, yesterday, and forever, isn't He?

Oh, but nowhere in the New Testament talks about keeping the Sabbath. Be it false.

In Hebrews chapter 4, it talks that we've got to keep the Sabbath.

Now, I want you to look at this from a very interesting point.

And pay attention to what I'm going to. It's a very interesting point. So, let's go to Hebrews chapter 4. Hebrews chapter 4. And we're going to start reading in verse 4.

And it says, for He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day, and God rested on the seventh day from all His works. Oh, you very well know. That's in the Ten Commandments. Exodus 20, if I remember correctly, verse 4. But anyway, it's somewhere around there.

You'll keep the Sabbath, and God rested. You also read that in Genesis. God rested the seventh day, right at the beginning. Oh, the Sabbath is not part of the law of Moses. It's part of the very creation week. Okay, but anyway, so God rested the seventh day. So, let me ask you a question.

What does the Sabbath symbolize?

Symbolizes God's rest, right?

Correct. Symbolizes God's rest. What was God really tired, like maybe you and I sometimes are, that He had to take a rest? No. But He did it for us, because you and I need a Sabbath, a rest, a weekly Sabbath. But Yah is an interesting point, brethren.

When we read sometimes certain things in the Bible, we gotta look for duality.

Have you thought about that? Quite often you need to look for duality.

So, what do I mean by duality? You see, there is a creation, physical, and a rest, the seventh day, of the week in which mankind was created. God renewed the earth and created man. So, that week, at the end of that week, there was, let's call it, a physical rest from the act of physically creating. Now, what do I mean by duality?

Because you and I are going through a process of creation of the sons of God, which are spiritual beings.

So, there is a duality of a rest, which has a spiritual meaning in this creation week.

What do you mean in this creation week? You and I know there's going to be a rest for a thousand years, and with God the day is a thousand years, and you and I know that we're approaching the end of the six thousand years. So, we're approaching a millennial Sabbath. And during the millennium Sabbath, during the millennium, there'll be a rest, a time of rest for the earth. That's what you and I pray, and that's what we desire, and we look forward when we go to the feast, isn't it?

We look for that rest on planet earth when all this mess that you and I live in, and if you watch the news, you get more and more stressed that you feel just like switching it off, because it just gets your blood pressure going and really doesn't help. So, you sometimes just say, I've had enough. I've had enough, because you see so many things going wrong.

The leaders of this world are immature, right? They say things that are absolutely immature. And doesn't the Bible say, children will rule over you? It doesn't say necessarily they will be 20 years old or 10 years old. They're mentally immature. They're like children. They need to grow up. You know, one of the things that is most missing in the world today is common sense. There's no more common sense. And so, when you and I look at what's happening today, you and I are sick.

You and I sigh and cry for the woes and the things that are happening on the earth today. And we desire and we pray for God's kingdom for the feast, because then we'll have the rest, that spiritual rest that you and I look for.

So, the Sabbath points to the rest. And if you and I continue reading here in Hebrews 4, you will see that's what Paul is hinting at. Let's therefore read now in verse 5. And again in this place, they shall not enter my rest.

Since therefore it reminds, verse 6, that some must enter it, and those to whom it was first preached did not enter because of the obedience. You know, there were 40 years in the desert, and they did not enter the promised land. They died. Again, duality, you see, because now it's playing this with the duality of entering the real rest, which is the kingdom of God, which is the millennium and governed by the kingdom of God. And the real, real ultimate rest is the new heaven and new earth afterwards, that new city, New Jerusalem.

So, you see different layers of duality drawn out in this symbolism of rest. You see, the Bible, as we start peeling a layer, layer is like, in a sense, like an onion, you know, and you get, and you think you've got it, and then you look a bit further, and then there's another layer, you know, and it's just so deep and profound.

I suspect, now I'm speculating, okay, I suspect that in the world tomorrow, when we are spirit beings, we're gonna read the Bible, and it says, I had never seen that, because there's even more layers out there that we've done even today begin to comprehend. It is a masterpiece, God's word. And so, I appreciate the sermon, where it says, God's word is true, is, stands there.

It's so beautiful, it is true. So, and then continue reading. So, those people did not enter the promised land, you know, it was the time of Joshua, they didn't enter it, because of the sobeiges. And verse 7, again, it designates a certain day, saying, in David. Now, David was long after Joshua, you and I know that, right? And he said in David, today, after such a long time after Joshua, as it has been said, today, if you'll hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.

For if Joshua, verse 8, had given them rest, and yes, they did go to the promised land, some of those other people, those the ones that died in the wilderness, didn't, but, you know, he says, he would not afterwards have spoken of another day. Can you see the duality of? Verse 9, there remains, therefore, a rest, or a Sabbath-keeping, Greek, Sabatismus, for the people of God. There remains, therefore, a Sabbath-keeping for the people of God, because the Sabbath symbolizes not only the physical creation, but symbolizes the spiritual creation that you and I look forward to. So, the Sabbath, think about it, it's like the first little nugget for us to understand the real rest, which is the kingdom of God.

But, there are also annual Sabbaths, right? God's annual Holy Days. Those God's annual Holy Days, those God's annual Sabbaths, expound, magnify, give us more detail that the weekly Sabbath gives us about God's plan of salvation, so that we can finally achieve the ultimate rest. And so, we can see, if you keep the Sabbath, but you don't keep the Holy Days, you are not fully keeping the full intent of the Sabbath, because the Sabbath is further expounded through the annual Sabbaths. It's like a magnifying loss to give us further, deeper understanding. Now, it is true that you and I are living in the time of the end. But I'm going to draw now an analogy to you that is, imagine you're living in a situation which, by analogy, is you go and see a movie. I don't know, whatever. You go to the cinema and see a movie. I don't know how people are talking about Top Gun. All right, so you go and see Top Gun, but you walk in there when there's only 10 minutes before the end. You walk in there and you only see the last 10 minutes. I am sure that you're going to be confused. You're not going to understand the story, correct?

And that's true. You turn on the TV, you watch a movie towards the end, and you don't get the story because, hey, hey, hey, maybe I need to rewind and watch it from the beginning, because to get the picture, you've got to get the context. The same thing with our lives today.

You know, we don't understand the context of where do we live. Now, God's Bible explains the context, and you need to search. But you know that when you start and read scriptures, like John chapter 1 verse 1, it says, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And then it says, and He was in the beginning with God, and through Him, Christ, everything was created. Now you start understanding that the Word is eternal because it was there in the beginning when the creation started, and the Word created everything. So the Word is eternal was right there at the beginning. Now you're starting to get a little bit more context.

And then you read scriptures, like in Revelation 13 verse 8. Turn with me to Revelation 13 verse 8.

And it's talking about the beast in Revelation 13 verse 8, and it's talking about those people that worship the beast. But then, towards the end of Revelation 13 verse 8, it says, you know, all the dwell on the earth will worship the beast. Those are the ones that don't have the names written in the book of life. In other words, they will not be in the first resurrection, for sure.

The book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. In other words, those people are worshiping the beast and all that. They'll not be in the first resurrection. Maybe they won't even be in the second resurrection either. I don't want to add more to it than what it says, but could very well mean that. Nonetheless, the point is the Lamb was slain from the foundation of the earth. In other words, the Lamb Christ was condemned to death already when Christ created everything, the world, mankind. He was already condemned. It would already be decided that He would have to die. Simple. So what do we have? It is a plan that everything else is preplanned.

It's preplanned. What is preplanned? It is preplanned that the Father and Christ sat together, talked about it, and decided to add more beings into that kingdom in which they were in.

Yeah, there was a kingdom there. There's the Father, the God, which was of the Godkind, and then there was the Word.

They then became flesh and became Jesus Christ, and He died for us. That was already planned.

And so they had decided from the beginning to expand that family, but they realized that Christ had to die.

Part of the plan already dictated that Christ had to die. Why? Why?

Because God wanted to create beings through what He does, the Father and the Son, for a family. They said, right, for us, we're gonna expand this kingdom of beings of the Godkind through what we call a family. So we're gonna create a family, and it will be a physical family, which will then be a symbol or an analogy or metaphor of a spiritual family. So we're gonna create a spiritual family. So I become your father, and you become my son, and you read that in Hebrews where He says, today I've begotten you, you are my son, and all that. So there was a time when the world became the Son, and a time in which God, the God, became a father when Christ was begotten in the womb of Mary. So they decided they're gonna do it through a family. But yah is the point. They wanted beings in that family that could think and decide for themselves.

You see, it's easy for you to just do a clone, crank, crank, crank, crank, robots, and now you've got more robots. Yeah, yeah, do you want me to do this? Yeah, I'll do that. Yeah, you want, God doesn't want robots. You want people that learned of their own free will to do the right, of their own free will to do the right. And so, probably most of you, maybe 99% of you, that our parents have had children. Okay, the children today have not yet, do not yet have children, but one day you will have. One day you will have children, because there's a will tomorrow, so don't give up, stay, because there's hope. Now, as parents you know that as good as you can teach your children, one day they will disobey you. It's like you say, don't put your hand on top of the fire, because you're going to burn, and you sooner or later know they're going to try it.

So when you have this situation where you have free moral agents, like your children are, they're going to test you. They're going to test the boundaries. Is it really true? Is mom and dad saying the truth? Now, human beings, as adults, will also sometimes test the boundaries.

Is the father really, heavenly father, telling us the truth? Maybe we don't say it that way, but we disobey. Now, the moment you and I disobey, if it's a little child and puts a finger in the arm, maybe you hope that it doesn't get too burned, you put a little cream and whatever it is, and it will heal. But if you disobey God and that is a sin, the wages of sin is death.

Now, God wants to have children. He wants to have a family. He wants to have more beings. He wants them to think for themselves. But the moment they have to think for themselves, they're going to be free moral agents. And when they are free moral agents, they're going to test the boundaries and therefore they're going to die because God doesn't change his law. Therefore, his whole plan of creating mankind is eradicated in one simple step because the free moral agents are going to die. And so you'll never have children. So from the foundation of the world, they decided that Christ had to die for us and buy us back from death.

So then we can repent and change and walk in a new way.

You see, this is a mystery that people don't get it. You know, this mystery is right from the beginning. You read that in Ephesians chapter 3. Ephesians chapter 3. In this case, it's talking about that this mystery of being children of God, being in the kingdom, and it doesn't talk all that, but in this instance, it's talking about that it also applies to the Gentiles. So in Ephesians chapter 3 verse 3 through 6, and he says, and you know that by revelation, he made me known that Christ heard it. I beg your pardon. Paul heard it directly by revelation from Christ, made me known the mystery. And he says, it's the mystery of Christ, and he says, it was revealed to me by the Spirit. And then he says, the Gentiles should be fellow heirs of the same body, partakers of the same promise Christ made through the Gospel. So this applies to also Gentiles. And then you look at it a bit later in verse 11, according to the eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ, Jesus our Lord. You see, so there is a mystery. It's a purpose that God has decided eternally, and this mystery, and you're reading a lot of other scriptures, so I don't have now the time to go through all the scriptures, but I'm just scratching the surface. So you can do a little Bible study on the mystery, and you'll see the mystery is that we are going to be sons of God.

And they decided to do it through a family process. And that is even seen, for instance, if you look at it, in 1 Peter chapter 1, 1 Peter chapter 1 verse 12. And there it shows that even angels want and desire to understand us. How is it possible that God's going to do it? In 1 Peter chapter 1 verse 12, it says, you know, it's talking about, yeah, in verse 12, to them it was revealed not to themselves, but to us. They were ministering, which is the prophets, they were revealed, that have been reported to you through those who have preached the gospel to you of the Bible, the spirit sent from heaven, things which angels desire to look into it. You know, it was such a mystery that even angels didn't fully understand it.

And they didn't see it. How is it possible? And as we in the church are going through these things, they are learning. They are learning. And so brethren, this mystery, this mystery is revealed to us and to mankind through what? Through God's annual holidays, through God's annual holidays.

You see, Christ is going to come back. We are going to be resurrected. We are going to be part of that family, through sons of God. That's going to happen, symbolized by the day of trumpets. Christ is going to rule. Satan is going to be put in jail, symbolized by the day of atonement.

Then you read in Leviticus 25, then there is the day of Jubilee, which is on the day of atonement, and it says, declare peace on all the land. When Christ comes, Satan is put in jail.

There is peace on all earth. It's going to be declared because Christ is ruling. Christ is going to rule. Then we have the millennium. After the millennium, you know, it will be the second resurrection. Then that mankind, those people that never knew the truth, will then learn the truth, symbolic of the last great day, the eighth day, and also symbolize that things will go on beyond that.

God has got a wonderful plan, and God's Holy Days expound that plan in more detail.

Brethren, as we study God's Word and as you and I prepare for God's Holy Days, for the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement, the Feast itself, the last great day, the eighth day, you and I, it's good for you and I to start kind of meditating on these things, reading these scriptures, reading these wonderful examples. Read, for instance, Daniel 7. Read Revelation 11 verse 15 through 18. Read Zechariah 14. Read Revelation 14 verse 15, where it says, the earth is ripe for the sons of God to start resurrecting and over a specific period of time. Brethren, Christ has a wonderful plan. The Father has a wonderful plan. You and I have a wonderful hope. And so, ultimately, what do we see? I want to conclude by reading at the end of the book. And that's Revelation 22. In Revelation 22, write at the end of the book.

In Revelation 22. And we're going to read from verse 12. And behold, I am coming. This is Christ speaking. I am coming quickly. You know, you will suddenly, I'm going to come suddenly. You know, then suddenly the structure. You know, this quickly, I mean, he'll come suddenly when people are not expecting like a thief in the night. I'm coming quickly. And my reward is with me. It's for you and I, that reward, to give to everyone according to his works. How are we doing? How are we doing? Christ says, I'm the Alpha and the Omega. In other words, I'm the first lead of the alphabet and the last lead of the alphabet. In other words, the Father delegated everything to Christ from creation to the conclusion of that mission. When he will then have the mission accomplished in his sake to the Father, yeah, he's the kingdom. It's like saying, you gave me a job to do and say to your boss, mission accomplished. Job done. That's what Christ is going to do. And he says, I'm the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. He started this job as it was delegated to him by the Father to create, sons of God, and you'll complete it. All the way from the physical creation to the final spiritual creation. Verse 14. This is where, as a one specific example, where I don't like these, some of these modern translations because what it says here is, blessed are those who will do his commandments. That is what's written in the original, in a majority text in the rest, blessed are those that do his commandments. That they may have the right to the tree of life. So if your Bible reads something else, that is wrong.

Anyway, and may enter through the gates into the city. Outside are dogs, in other words, people that break God's law and things like that. And look at verse 15 and we'll practice a lie. That's in the context, therefore, you can see it's talking about keeping the God's commandments.

Verse 14 and 15 shows that. And then verse 16 says, I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you these things. You know, is he sent the angel to give us the book of Revelation, to testify these things to you in the churches, in the seven churches, in other words, all the way up to today's era.

I am the root and the offspring of David.

I will basically say, I will take over David's throne, which you and I can see. Now we've got a king out there. I will take over that throne. He says, I am the bride and morning star. I am the one who's going to give mankind a true hope. And so brethren, the spirit and the bride, which is the church, say, come. Let him who years say, come. And let him who firsts, come. And whoever desires, let him take the world of life freely, which is God's only spirit. And then read in verse 20.

And he who testifies to these things, says, surely, that's Christ, I am coming quickly.

Thank God. Amen.