The Last Trumpet Sounds . . .

Review of events that lead up to the Day of the Lord. Revisit some of the major events that the Day of Trumpets symbolizes, focusing specifically on the last Trumpet. So what? So that we are not deceived, but repent and be motivated to watch and pray to be accounted worthy to stand with Christ at His second coming.

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Brethren, are we ready to meet our Creator? Are we ready to stand at Christ's coming and be within? We know in Luke 21, verse 36, says, watch and pray that you may be counted worthy to escape and to stand with the Son of Man at His coming. Are we ready to meet Christ at His coming? In other words, are we going to be standing as spiritual beings transformed from physical with Christ at that day? Those that will be ready, they will witness a number of details about the greatest event to occur in the entire universe. As spirit beings, those final hours and days as Christ comes and the whole series of events, which we get at a glimpse in the Bible, but quite often we might not be able to place them exactly correctly. But the point is they will be revealed and that mystery will be revealed and clarified. So that will be one of the greatest events in the entire universe when the sons of God will be revealed. That's amazing. And the Father has been waiting for this event since before the creation of the earth, because that's been His plan. And that'll be the first few, the first fruits that will be in His kingdom. What a tremendous event that will be. We pray, Thy kingdom come. But do we understand what has to happen before God's government will be established on earth at those last few years before? And most importantly, and most importantly, are you and I going to be there? Oh, I know we quite often kind of get intellectually excited with technicalities and details. This will happen this and this and this. And yeah, we need to understand some sequence so we are not deceived. And yes, so we can repent now, not later. But the big, important point is that you and I are there. It's not just the technicality about all these things. Yes, it is important. And so today I want to revisit some of those events that the Feast of Trumpets symbolizes and the days afterwards till atonement, but also some of the events before. Look at that.

And we will really be focusing on the last trumpet.

But so what? Why must I listen to George? So what? The real intent, brethren, is to motivate you and I to be ready. That is the intent. That you and I will be there. That you and I will be part of those crowns to rule, to judge, and be priests during the millennium, and of course beyond in the new heavens and new earth. You see, brethren, the world today, religion today, pictures Christ as a quiet, docile, loving being. And so He is. And so He is.

But it's like a swing of the pendulum that it just says, well, God, through Christ is going to give us all eternal life. All we need is to accept Christ. There's more than that, brethren.

We've got to commit to change.

You see, we as mankind have followed the way of doing what seems right to us.

And we as mankind, we end up rejecting God's laws. How many times have you heard? Oh, well, we are under grace, and the law of God is abolished.

That is a satanic lie. Oh, yes, we are under grace, but God's law is not abolished. We are forgiven of our sins, but now that we are forgiven, we've got to commit to obey and live God's way because God's law just tells us what sin is. But God's law is a reflection of God's character.

God's law is love. Love towards God and love towards fellow men. And God is love. So God's law is a reflection of God's character, and you and I need to put on God's character, which is explained to us how God loves, how we should love, through His Ten Commandments and other laws around that.

You see, the wall today, as I mentioned a moment ago, wants to do what it seems right to them, throwing away God's law. And you know what's the end result? Ultimately, unless Christ would intervene, would be total global extinction. Do you know what I mean by that? That means that the whole of mankind will get to a point that it will press buttons on both sides and will completely obliterate all human life on planet Earth. In other words, it would be the end of the world. But a split second before that, Christ will intervene and will stop it. He must return to save mankind. Oh yes, His first coming is to open the way for our personal salvation. But His second coming is to save mankind from extinction because we would kill ourselves.

I was talking to one of the brethren here the other day and showing, well, look at what's happening in Israel. And I just said it reminds me of Proverbs, if I'm not mistaken, it's Proverbs 17-14 that says, when strife starts, it's like letting out water, which means you can't stop it.

And this is not going to stop. This strife that is starting now is going to get worse and worse because we always heard, watch for the Middle East.

Brethren, I know we're going to go through certain technical details that can be quite discouraging, but we have to look beyond because you and I have a date with the future, with destiny. We got a date to be with Christ.

And that date could be a positive occasion or be a negative occasion. A positive if we are taking note and watching what's happening and repent and watch ourselves by repenting and become more and more like God with the nature of God and which is outgoing love and concern. Or it'll be a judgment that will not be pleasant. You see, God is not going to intervene in world affairs until mankind has proven that they cannot solve the world's problems. Oh yeah, there is this party and that party, vote for me, go away, will solve the world's problems. Nobody can solve the world's problems.

Let's not get involved with the politics of this world because they will not solve the world's problems. Things are going to get pretty rough soon.

But mankind has to come to a point of comprehending that if Christ would not intervene, they would have wiped themselves out of the planet. You see, there'll be no excuses saying, oh, if we had implemented this whatever-ism is it, we would have solved the world's problems. No, that's why Christ, that's why God in his great wisdom through Christ, is going to allow it to go till the last split second and then Christ will intervene. And those armies, while they're standing, their eyes and their tongues will melt right there because they'll have no time. The intervention will be so immediate.

You see, we are going to go through a scenario of many terrible things in the dice ahead. In a sense, it's like birth banks, birth banks, but it is the birth of the kingdom of God on earth.

It is sobering that the Bible does say that the love of many will wax cold at this time. When you actually need the most, that the love gets hot. Not lukewarm, but hot.

But, you know, there's all this technology and all the social media and all the stuff on your cell phones. And that becomes more important than God.

You see us, as we heard in the Seminet, you know, trumpets have various meanings. One of them is a warning of godly war. Another one is a warning of the great day of wrath coming.

Now, it's interesting, when you read the book of Revelation, right at the beginning it says, this is a revelation that God the Father gave to Christ to give it to his saints through the angel. And then you read a little later, I think in chapter 1 verse 9 or 10, that it says that he was John was taken in a vision to the day of the Lord.

Many people don't understand what the day of the Lord is. Oh, the day of the Lord is Sunday! No, brethren, the day of the Lord is that last year before Christ's coming, which we are symbolizing by the day of trumpets. You see, the day of trumpets symbolizes those seven trumpets after the Great Tribulation has started.

Great Tribulation has to be cut short from three and a half years to two and a half years, and then that last year is when Christ is going to start intervening. That is the day of the Lord, and that is the symbolism of the day of trumpets, which we are observing today.

And so, as we look at the book of Revelation, it takes the scroll and opens it up. The first four seals are four horsemen, and then the fifth seal is the Great Tribulation. The sixth seal is the heavenly signs, and after that there is a sealing of those people that have repented during those two and a half years of the Great Tribulation. And then we get to the seventh seal, which is when the trumpets are blown, the day of the Lord. The book of Revelation is really focusing on the symbolism of the day of trumpets. It's interesting that in the sermonette we heard that in the Lord not much is mentioned about the day of trumpets. But if you consider the Bible, the book of Revelation, John was taken into the day of the Lord, and all the events building up to it and around, and within in said chapters showing other things that happened, it's all about that period when Christ starts intervening in all the fears.

You see, the world is going its own way, and then Satan is going to be expelled out of heaven, and he's going to come to earth with great wrath, and that's probably when we will have the events, which I'll mention a little later in a little bit more detail, that will trigger the Great Tribulation.

And you and I could call the Great Tribulation the day of Satan's wrath, whilst the day of the Lord is the day of God's wrath.

And we can see that very well described in Joel chapter 2, verse 31 and 32, and let's just turn there very briefly Daniel, Isaiah, Joel chapter 2 verse 31 and 32, and it says, the sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into blood, and that is how the heavenly signs, which is the sixth seal, which is already two and a half years into the Great Tribulation, which is future from today, because you and I are not yet in the Great Tribulation. And it says that will happen, verse 31, 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 shall be saved or shall be delivered, because people have repented during the Great Tribulation, some will die, but some will repent and will survive, and those that repent will then call on the name of the Lord and they shall be saved. We need to have today a heartfelt repentance, but those that don't unfortunately will have to go through the Great Tribulation. But God in His great mercy, when they do repent, and those will be the fruit of God's work today. Oh yeah, you don't see a lot of people dedicating themselves to God today. Why? Oh well, you know, I've got a job, I've got this, and there you are, well, inflation, the prices are going up, and this and that, but you know, it's still okay, and whatever, whatever, whatever. Until boom! Great Tribulation. Wow! I should have repented. I should have listened to it. I should have listened to the Gospel being preached as a witness to the whole world, because that's what we're doing. But then when they repent, God is still merciful. Looking still in Joel chapter 2 verse 12, Now therefore, brethren, says the Lord, turn to me with all your heart, with fasting and with weeping and with mourning. Rain your heart and not your garments. Return to the Lord your God, for He is gracious and merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness, and he relents from doing harm. Who knows if he will turn and relent?

And then in verse 15 says, blow the trumpet, consecrate fast, call the sacred assembly, gather the people, sanctify the congregation, brethren. That's what we're doing today. Yes, it's a warning, and we have to repent. But if we don't repent today, some of us may have to go through the Great Tribulation. And then, bang!

Oh, I should have repented. But even then, God is merciful and will open up a way if you repent.

You see, this day of the Lord, this Great Day of the Lord, as it refers to Yah, the awesome day of the Lord in Joel 2.31, is already after two and a half years into the Great Tribulation.

And that is the focus of most of the Book of Revelation. So let's review some possible world events or scenarios that could have happened before.

In first place, the Church has always said, watch the Middle East.

Are we watching the Middle East? And then we always said, watch religions and false religion. And we know there's going to be a false religion that will be part of the King of the South. Very strong false religion. Probably a Muslim Sunni conglomerate. I'm not talking about Shiite. I'm talking about Sunni.

We also see things like maybe sacrifices will be stopped in Israel. So, it's interesting when you look at Daniel, when he talks about that abomination of isolation, the word sacrifices is in italic. It just says the daily.

So what if we got it wrong? You see, we've got to be careful that we don't tie ourselves with specific things that we say, well, this will definitely happen. Maybe there's something else that is the daily today. A daily prayer that might be happening in Jerusalem, in that area. Maybe there is. And if you look at it, maybe there is. Is that what it's referring to? That'll stop. I don't know. But on the other side, if offerings are started, and by the way, we don't need a temple for offerings. Okay? We don't need a temple. I know some people use Thessalonians and say, well, it means there will be a temple, but it doesn't say that technically that way. So anyway, a temple only came to be well into the days of Solomon. So offerings existed before Solomon, so we don't need a temple. So there are a lot of things that we know they're going to happen, but might be a little bit this way, or might be a bit this way. We don't know. But we have the big sequence of events. That's what we're going to watch. We also always said that watch the loss of power and world dominance of the Israelite-ish countries. I mean, by Israel, I mean the 10 lost tribes of Israel, which includes, basically, the English-speaking nations, namely American England. There's going to be a great loss of respect and loss of power, and that could mean loss of effective leadership and internal division in the country. Oh, isn't that happening? We've got to open our eyes and see. We also see Gentile nations are becoming more powerful economically and militarily. New alliances are being formed. Bubbly, we've got to watch for three. Let's call it the God-axis of evil.

The king of the north, the beast, the king of the south, a religious, as I mentioned, probably Muslim-Sunni combined, and the rulers of the east and north. That's how it's defined at that time in the Bible, those of the east and north. And so we see that. But in parallel, we also see natural disasters like never before. Haven't we just seen things like Hurricane Lenny? And there'll be others. There'll be a crisis of resources. Oh, well, do you know that there is a big strike in the port, in the northeast? Could have serious repercussions, serious financial and inflationary repercussions. And then we have, knowledge shall increase. Oh, yeah, probably at exponential levels, particularly with artificial intelligence and things like that, knowledge is increasing. And so we're going to see this development of New World Orders.

King of the north, with probably a very strong Catholic revival following, watch for things changing in the Catholic Church. Are we watching those things?

There will also be miracles. The beast and the false prophet will rise up.

And there'll be a time when the work of God's church will stop.

In other words, you and I will not be able to gather. We will not be able to preach the gospel. We'll not be able to use the internet. Maybe that will be castled.

And then what?

You see, because that will be when Satan, probably, I speculate here, but probably when Satan will be cast onto the earth. And maybe that ties into Daniel 12, when he talks about from verse 7 through 12, about 335 days, counting down to 1290, counting down to 1260. And during that period, we will see the church, because we can't do the work. The church will then, a portion of the church, will go into what we call a place of safety. And then we'll see, as we read also in Daniel 12, when he talks about, the power of the holy people will be utterly shattered. Utterly shattered. Now, with the holy people, you can look at it both physically and spiritually. And physically, you know, are God's people, the descendants of Ephraim and Manasseh. Their power will be utterly shattered. And so, if we look at scriptures like Psalm 83, 1 through 8, and Isaiah 5, verse 5 through 7, you'll see a destruction of those nations. You go and read at yourself. I've just given you a little bit of Bible study homework.

And then, when they destroy it, it'll be the end of democracy. And it'll be the Great Tribulation, which will start for three and a half years. And in parallel, because there's no church, there's no organized church, whatever group it is, it'll cease.

So, in parallel, we'll have the two witnesses also for those three and a half years. Then we know the story, then the king of the south will push against the king of the north. And then we know how things will just develop. And then, things will get pretty bad. Some people will be killed, martyred. That's what we read as far as the Great Tribulation.

And then it comes to a point that God says, I'm intervening now. And that's what the heavenly signs are, which are the sixth seal. The fifth seal is the Tribulation. It says the sixth seal.

Look at Matthew 24 verse 29. Matthew 24 verse 29. And I'm just looking at a few scriptures to give you an overall big picture. And again, so we don't get lost, the reason I'm going through this is so that you understand the sequences, the sequence of major events, not all the details, but the major events, so that you are not deceived, and that you and I can repent. The sooner, the better. Change. The sooner, the better. Matthew 24 verse 29. Immediately after the Tribulation of those days, the sun will be darkened, the moon will not give a light, the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. Immediately after the Tribulation, now you go to Revelation chapter 6. Revelation chapter 6. And in Revelation chapter 6 basically has the seals there. All the seals are from, not all the seals, but until the sixth seal, from the first of the six. And then from verse 9 through verse 11, we have the Great Tribulation. And then in verse 12 through verse 17, it says, there's a sixth seal, and there is a great earthquake, the sun became black, a sackcloth of air, the moon became black blood, the stars of heaven fell to the earth, etc. And you can see it's a battle now with what we just read in Matthew 24, which says immediately after the Tribulation, we have the heavenly signs. And we also saw in Joel that immediately after the heavenly signs, we have the Day of the Lord. And so the Tribulation is the first seal, the heavenly signs are the sixth, and the Day of the Lord is the seventh, which is also called trumpets for about a year. And at the end of verse 16 and 17 of Revelation 6, where it says the people get together and they say the wrath of God, it says, hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of his wrath has come. So the heavenly signs, in a way, is like saying God says, that is enough. I'm going to now intervene in all the affairs, and from your own words, I'm going to start punishing those people that have not repented during the Great Tribulation or even before that. Those people have not repented who are going to punish them. And we see in chapter 8 that we have the seventh seal, and there is a little bit of time of wait, and then we have the seven trumpets. So the seventh seal are the seven trumpets for a period of a year, and it's also called the Day of the Lord. Or the great day of his wrath has come for that period. But before that, before that, we have, so between the end of chapter 6 and the beginning of chapter 8, we have the sealing of those people that have repented. The sealing of God's servants. You read that in verse 14, because it says, who are these? In verse 13 and 14 it says, these are the ones who have come out of the Great Tribulation and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of lamb. And it was they have repented and washed their lives, their sons, with Christ's blood. That's what you and I do when we get baptized, and we repent, and we wash ourselves with Christ's blood. All our sins are forgiven.

And we know that those people are physical human beings, because a little later in Revelation 9, verse 4, when it's talking about the fifth trumpet, they are not harmed. They are not harmed. So they are physical human beings. And we can see they basically divided into two groups. One is a group of Israelites, which are numbered, and another one is a great multitude that no one could number of all nations, in other words, of the Gentiles, as we read in verse 9. And so, as we get to Revelation chapter 8, we now have the trumpets, which is the day of the Lord.

So we see a lot of things have happened before, a lot of things that have not happened yet, that are still to happen. The reason why we need to understand the sequence I've mentioned before and reiterating it is so that we are not deceived, because people are going to come back and say, oh well, we already are on the, for instance, on this trumpet or whatever, and they bring things off the trumpet and say, well, it's happening today.

Brethren, that is not the case, because the trumpet is that last year after two and a half years of the great tribulation, just before Christ comes, we need to understand and we need to understand the big picture. Granted, some of the details we might not be very clear, but as time gets nearer, they'll become clear to us. But we have the big picture. And so now let's look at those trumpets. And those trumpets starting in chapter 8, and the first one is the first four trumpets start in verse 7.

And if you look at them, verse 7 and verse 8 and verse 10 and verse 12 describe those four trumpets. And those four trumpets are harming a third of the earth, a third of the sea, a third of clean water, rivers, and affecting the light, a third of the light that comes to planet earth. And so that is real bad news, because God starts to intervene, and those four trumpets are causing great harm to planet earth, to our food supply, all those things. Navy, ships, clean water, etc. Not all of it, a third, but it's pretty bad. Then we read at the end of chapter 8, verse 13, there's three more to come, which is 5, 6, and 7.

And it calls them woes. Woe, woe, woe. And in chapter 9, it's the first one, starts in chapter 9, verse 1 through 12, it's the first one, which is the first trumpet, which is the first woe, which basically means the beast, or king of the north, as we have understood, and as our piece documented in our booklets, attacks the east. And that ties in with Daniel 11, verse 44, where we talk about news from the east and north. So that's the fifth trumpet, and that's what is referred to as those locusts, as you see there.

And they act like horses, and they cause torment for five months. So out of that period over a year, there's five months there, and already the first four have happened. Now it's kind of towards the end, we've got these five months. So let's say it's halfway through it. And then we've got five months. Now after that, those people that have been disabled, because of those diseases, or whatever it is, or those gases, or whatever it is, they will say, aha!

Now it's my day of revenge, the counter-attack. You attacked me, now I'm gonna attack you! You see that today, in the news in the Middle East, you've attacked me, now I'm gonna attack you! And that is the sixth trumpet, from verse 13 to verse 21 of Revelation chapter 9, which basically is the East and the North, which I'll speculate will be nations like China, and Russia, and Iran, and possibly India, and other nations in the Eastern side.

They will turn with an army of 200 million, 200 million people, and you see that will cause a lot of death. You see that in verse 16, the number of the army was 200 million, and they cause great disaster. And a third of mankind will be killed by that. A third of mankind. What is it that could kill such vast populations in the earth? Let's say we have eight billion people on earth. What is the third?

Okay, it's nearly two billion, or more than two billion, yeah. Two billion people. Two billion people killed in one single shot. This is probably no more than nuclear warfare, and Christ has not returned yet.

So it actually is the East and North counterattack the Beast Power. So now six trumpets have blown. And what do you think the Beast Power is going to do? Oh, now you've done this to me? Now I'm going to do that to you. So they both are going to ready now to just blast mankind out of existence of planet earth. Think about it.

And that's when Christ has to intervene finally. Finally. And that's why you read in Revelation 10, verse 5 through 7, and particularly at the end of verse 6, it says, there should be delay no longer. There should be delay no longer. When that gets to that crisis, there is no further delay. That is it. God has to intervene through Christ at that moment. Otherwise, the planet earth will cease to exist as far as having human beings alive. God has to intervene through Christ. And we read in verse 7, but in the days of the sounding of that seventh angel, the mystery of God would be finished as declared to his servants the prophets. What is the mystery of God?

The mystery of God, you and I can read in Romans 8 verses 18 through 19 and 23, is the revealing of the sons of God. It's the redemption of our bodies from physical to becoming spiritual. That is the mystery of God will be finally revealed that human beings now become spirit beings. Are we allowing God's spirit to work in us, to guide us? So it's not just what we know. It's not what's in the eye, in the brain, technical knowledge, arrogance of, I know this better than you, but more important is the how. How we're living. How? It's not just the what, but it's our. That's why in Luke 21, 36, it says, watch and pray. We're going to watch these events, but we're going to watch ourselves and pray that you and I may be accounted worthy to escape these things and, more important, to stand before the Son of Man that is coming.

You see, so there are a number of sequence of events there, and then the lost trumpet sounds, and where do you see the lost trumpet sounding? Revelation 11 verse 15. You see, it all follows a sequence, and now Revelation 11 verse 15 says, then the seventh angel sounded, and by the way, just before that, on verse 14 says, the second well was passed, which was the sixth trumpet, and now the third well comes, which is what's going to happen when the seventh trumpet is blown. He says, the seventh angel sounded, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, the kingdoms of the sword have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ, and it shall reign forever. Did you know that the word the kingdoms of this world in Greek is in the singular?

Which means it's actually talking. Oh yeah, you can apply it to the nations of this world, but it actually is talking about the ruler, the god of this world, is going to cease to be the god of this world, and Christ is now taking the throne as the god of the true god of this world. That's what it means. The kingdoms of the sword, in other words, the king of the sword, the god of this world, is no more going to be the god of this world. It's now going to be Christ, under the father, of course. And then we read in verse 18 a very important chapter which is often neglected, because then it says, it says, number one, that the dead should be judged. What do you mean that dead should be judged? The dead should be judged means that some of the dead will be judged to be resurrected now, and to have eternal life as spread beings, to be in the first resurrection, and some of the dead will have to wait for another thousand years until the second resurrection. That's very probably what it means. Second, that you should reward the servants, the prophets. So those that are in the first resurrection receive the gift of eternal life. Eternal life is a gift. They judged and they received the gift of eternal life. But on top of that, you and I will be rewarded according to our works. And so it says that you should reward. Some will be ruling over 10 cities, some will be ruling over five, some will be ruling over two. To me, I speculate yet, okay? I speculate, but to me, it means that at this moment, different people will know exactly what their roles will be and will be given their various responsibilities. And then the third item on verse 18 says, and that then Christ should destroy those who destroy the earth. And so there are a series of events that will happen at Christ's coming. It will be a few days, of course. Again, I speculate that's probably symbolic of the period between trumpets and atonement. A few days. And then we see that mankind will see what they will perceive as an invasion from outer space.

Will be in the clouds. That is the view from planet earth will be in the clouds. And when mankind sees that, in veins from outer space, then God brings the seven lost plagues, which are in Revelation 16. The first one soars on mankind, those that had a marketer beast. The second one in verse 3, which is on the sea, every living creature on the sea died. Now I want to ask you, how long can mankind live after every single living creature on the sea dies? You see, this is a short period. It's not over six months, like some people say. You can't! Mankind would not survive that period. And then the third plague, rivers and springs of water, will become blood. It doesn't say a third of it. It says all of it. Now that means now you don't have water. How long can you live without water? Okay, you have a few bottles, but how long are they going to last? And then you have the fourth plague, the sun with great heat scorching the earth. I mean, you know what 110 degrees is. I don't know what great heat will be. What if it is 130, 140, 150? I don't know. And then the third is the throne of the beast and his kingdom becomes darkness and pain. So clearly these things are over a short period of time, just days. Humanity could not survive for much longer. So it's a short period. As I said to me, my understanding, I'm speculating, yeah, but it's symbolic of that period between trumpets and a tournament. And then the sixth plague, now understand the sixth plague, where it fits in the sequence of events. The sixth plague is the nations now gathered to Armageddon. So now there is this thing that the earth is seeing invasion from outer space in the clouds.

And let's gather to fight those invaders from outer space. And then the seventh plague is the greatest earthquake ever.

I speculate, there could be an earthquake that will go from south of Jerusalem all the way down into Africa. And there's a huge rift into the northeastern part of Africa. It goes all the way through Lake Tanganyika and all that stuff. It's just an amazing rift. If that breaks out, imagine what havoc it will cause. And it says great hail like never before.

And then in parallel, on the other side of the clouds, we see the wedding ceremony, probably the reward of the saints. And when the nations are gathered, and I speculate, yeah, when we have been with Christ for a few days, and maybe we have learned what our different responsibilities are. We've been rewarded. We know what our jobs are.

Then Christ, with his heavenly army of angels and the saints, destroys those people that destroy the earth, as we saw in verse 18 of Revelation 11. As we also compare that to Revelation 19, verse 14 through 19, the nations are gathered and Christ comes and destroys. And those people will be put or thrown into the lake of fire. Those armies will be destroyed. That ties in Zechariah 14. And then right at the end of that, in Revelation 19, verse 20 and 21, we see the beast and the false prophet are thrown into the lake of fire. And then after that, we got the Day of Atonement, which Satan is put away, and which basically is a day of jubilee. And so, brethren, the Day of Trumpets symbolizes a number of things. A number of things over that one year period at the end of those three and a half years.

And so, brethren, I know it's a lot of technical stuff. I'm glad that this afternoon you're going to hear more detail about some of these things and the powerpoint to explain it and put it clearly, because it will clarify to you. I'm really glad that you're going to learn. And this is what God planned for you. But the point is, you know, we must not get caught up. Where this is, or where that is, what are we going to be at? Are we going to be there? What is this technical detail? What is important is we have the big picture so we can repent and not be deceived. So, exactly which type, it really doesn't matter. But what matters, what it matters, underlines. What it matters is whether you and I are there. That's what matters. Are we going to be there? And so it's a matter of the heart. You see, knowledge is important. And yes, knowledge is important. But above all, we need to change our nature from human nature to divine nature so that we can be accounted worthy to stand with the Son or Man, even more important than just escaping these things.

Therefore, let me conclude with this question.

Are you ready to meet your Creator?

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Jorge and his wife Kathy serve the Dallas, Fort Worth (TX) and the Lawton (OK) congregations. Jorge was born in Portuguese East Africa, now Mozambique, and also lived and served the Church in South Africa. He is also responsible for God’s Work in the Portuguese language, and has been visiting Portugal, Brazil and Angola at least once a year. Kathy was born in Pennsylvania and also served for a number of years in South Africa. They are the proud parents of five children, with 12 grandchildren and live in Allen, north of Dallas (TX).