Sevens for the Church of God

This is a beautiful observance in both sight and sound and spirit of the observance of the seventh-day Holy Day of the seven days of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

The number seven in Scripture appears many times and is associated with the holy things of God. Let's recall some of them. In the first chapter of Genesis, God hallowed the seventh-day Sabbath. Each seven-day week has a holy day. Each seven-day week reminds us of God's six thousand years that man is allotted to live his life doing his will being led by Satan, but there's a holy seventh day that reminds us of God and Christ's reign when righteousness will rule.

God saved righteous Noah from the flood. He took on the ark seven of each kind of clean animal.

Seven days after he entered the flood, the waters began. In the seventh month, the ark rested on the mountains. Seven days later, a dove was sent out and returned. Another seven days, the dove was sent out and returned, this time with a leaf in her mouth. Another seven days, the dove was sent out and it did not return. In Egypt, Joseph was used by God to house and acquire food during seven years of plenty, and then God used Joseph to help feed everyone during the seven years of famine. For seven days, God turned the great God of Egypt, the Nile River, into blood so that they couldn't partake or use any of it. In fact, it became a stench in their nostrils. God established seven annual festivals. Those festivals are timed and spaced with sevens, the last four feasts occurring in the seventh month. During the feast, every seven years, God's holy law was read to all Israel.

The law of Moses you'll find is filled with sevens, sevens for the sanctifications, for the consecrations, for the various cleansings. You'll find as you go through the Bible, people who requested healings often were required to perform certain things in sevens.

After completing seven times seven Sabbaths, we will have the feast of the harvest of the firstfruits, or Pentecost. And after completing seven years, seven years, God institutes a year of release. And then after seven times seven years, or forty-nine years, God institutes the Jubilee, the releasing of all and the returning of individuals. We find in the tabernacle there were seven candlesticks burning before God. We find before the throne of God, there are seven lamps burning and the seven spirits of God. So we can see a lot of holy things, a lot of things initiated by God contain the number seven. Among the many sevens that exist is this day, the seventh day of the feast of seventh days. This feast has us looking at unleavened bread for seven days, but there's a holy day on the first day, and there's a holy day on day seven. The meanings of the Feast of Unleavened Bread relate to Jesus Christ and His Church, to those in the New Covenant who are coming out of sin. And we have today a unique special seven of God. It's the only holy day that falls on the seventh day of a feast in God's annual holy day plan. This is a unique day. It speaks to you and to me. It speaks to Jesus Christ, to the Bride of Christ, to His body. It's one that as we look at, we will find an answer to a meaning that this day holds for you and to me, to His end-time Church, especially to those who will be the Bride of Christ at His return. The title of the sermon today is God's Sevens for His Church. God's Sevens for His Church. Now, we know that God's festivals are commanded in Scripture. You can read of these all together in Leviticus chapter 23. The law directed that they be kept by the physical house of Israel in their original context. But physical Israel also is a type of the spiritual Israel of God. Let's go to Galatians chapter 6 and verse 15. Galatians chapter 6 and verse 15. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything but a new creation. There's something spiritual going on. In verse 16, and as many as walk according to this rule. Now, here we are coming out of our Egypt, following Jesus Christ. He is our light. He is our way. He is our path. As many as walk according to this rule, peace and mercy be upon them and upon the Israel of God. We are the spiritual Israel of God, not from any physical lineage, but from the spiritual lineage of those whom God is calling from every nation, tribe, and tongue.

There is spiritual symbolism in each of the seven festivals. They reveal to us that God is rolling out a plan that will ultimately embrace and encompass all mankind who receive Jesus Christ and are forgiven and walk with God and journey to a future with Him forever.

The first feast, the Passover, now relates to God's church, who will become first fruits following the route that Jesus Christ took and His conquering Satan. When we follow that same route, we also then will partake in what the Passover represents. We find, for instance, in Luke chapter 2 and verse 20, Jesus in taking and initiating the New Covenant Passover said these words, This cup is the new covenant in my blood which is shed for you.

It was shed for the new covenant church in His blood. This is the new covenant in my blood which is shed for you. In the UCG booklet, God's Holy Day Plan, it says, repentance, baptism, and the acceptance of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ constitutes a covenant with God. Through this covenant, God grants us eternal life. We are reminded of this covenant every year when we partake of the Passover. Passover, it continues, concerns the redemption of the firstborn, those who will be firstborn like Jesus Christ and thus applies most directly to whom God has called in this age.

So here is a special focus for you and me in the new covenant church. Jesus Christ, our Passover, has died for us, and we are to do this in remembrance of Him, as the Scripture says, until He returns. Until He returns. In Hebrews 12, verse 22, we find that this is the church of the firstborn. Hebrews 12, verse 22, But you, you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem.

They went to a physical Mount Zion, but we have come to a spiritual Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, who were registered in heaven. Verse 24, To Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant. So we have this holy day season that we are keeping, and it is rich and full of meaning for the church of God at this time. We go back one chapter to chapter 11, and verse 35, it talks about some of those who, on this journey, had a very difficult path.

And breaking into the middle of the verse, it said, not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection. There is a resurrection for others, but this is a better resurrection. This is a special resurrection that will follow a time of trouble that these individuals must go through like Jesus did under a different God of this age. And these individuals will then have a better resurrection, as Revelation 20 in verse 6 said, blessed are those, supremely blessed are those who have part in the first resurrection.

But they shall be priests of God and Christ and reign with Him for a thousand years. So the faithful of God's church will become firstfruits with Him. Let's go to Revelation chapter 14 and verse 1 and see the dynamic entrance and position that they will have. Revelation chapter 14 and verse 1, then I looked and behold a lamb. He had been the first of the firstfruits to be killed, die, and then make this transition. And so on Mount Zion with Him, 144,000. And I heard voices in heaven. Verse 3, they sang as it were a new song before the throne, before the four living creatures and the elders.

And it says at the end of this verse, the 144,000 were redeemed from the earth. So these are those in verse 4, who were not defiled with false religions, for they are virgins who follow the Lamb wherever He goes. These were redeemed from among men, being firstfruits to God and to the Lamb. So like Jesus is the first fruit, these are first fruits. There's some notable things here associated with the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and Him going through this, sevens in particular.

For instance, in Jesus Christ, He was cut off in the midst of the week. Now you and I are allotted three score and ten, seventy years. Half of that is thirty-five. Jesus died at age thirty-five. Jesus had a ministry of seven years, but He was cut off in the midst of the week. He was killed at year three and a half.

You know, He had an example for us of walking into these sevens of God and doing them right, but at the same time being persecuted by Satan, the God of this world, by society, and by sin itself, and then taking on sin.

There are notable sevens relating to the church, the body of Christ. In Revelation 1 and verse 20, let's just notice in anticipation of our arrival and working with us during this time, let's notice verse 20 of Revelation chapter 1. Jesus says these words, The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, He holds seven stars in His right hand, and the seven gold lampstands. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, working for Christ's church, represented by the number seven, seven churches, a complete holy church. And the seven lampstands which you saw are the seven churches, not to be divided, but rather represented by the holiness of God. And God has made us holy by His Spirit in us, and thus the seven of God, the holiness of God, relates to us. Let's look deeper at God's annual holy days in relation to the church of the firstborn. Just an overview, we see that Passover, Jesus Christ's blood of the new covenant, is observed on the fourteenth, two times seven, the fourteenth of the first month. Feast of Unleavened Bread is seven days long, with holy days on one and seven.

We are to eat this bread and observe these days and are representing our life, our complete life, with the bread of sincerity and truth, eating Jesus Christ, following Him, becoming like Him. During that wave sheaf offering, or during that festival, was the wave sheaf offering, on the day following the weekly Sabbath. You know, Jesus Christ, the first fruit of the barley harvest. The next festival is the Festival of Weeks. Why is it called the Festival of Weeks? Because you count seven complete weeks, seven times seven days, seven weeks. And you come to a special holy day that is called the Festival of Harvest of First Fruits. The Festival of Harvest of First Fruits. What a great day that set aside and hallowed full of sevens of individuals' lives who have journeyed to the end of their life with Jesus Christ and then celebrate a harvest, a special small early harvest to work with Christ.

The Feast of Trumpets, we find, the first fruits are raised at the blowing of the seventh trumpet. If we go to 1 Corinthians 15 verse 51, 1 Corinthians chapter 15 and verse 51, Behold, I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump, the seventh trumpet. For the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. Notice that word changed. It's not something we can do. It's something that is done for us. And we have a holy day that symbolizes that changing, and it's followed by another holy day, the Feast of Trumpets, which shows the timing of that change, the blowing of the seventh trumpet. And only those who are Christ, who sleep in Jesus, will be part of it. So we see over in 2 Thessalonians chapter 4 and verse 14.

2 Thessalonians chapter 4 and verse 14.

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him. He will bring with Him. They don't show up themselves. He will bring with them those who sleep in Jesus. Not everyone, just this first resurrection. Verse 16. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. The Feast of Atonement is linked with Christ's sacrifice from the UCG booklet, God's Holy Day Plan. Atonement now carries universal implications, where the Passover specifically focuses on the church, on the bride of Christ, the first fruits with Christ. Atonement has universal implication. It pictures the reconciliation that all people can have with God through Christ's sacrifice. It also shows that Satan, the author of sin, will be removed so that humanity can attain reconciliation with God on a universal basis. And that's where we find associated with Atonement, the Jubilee. After 7 times 7 years, 49 years, in the seventh month, we find this Jubilee. In Leviticus 25, verse 8, Leviticus 25, verse 8, shows the great blessing that Jesus' death and His reconciling blood will have on all humanity in a future phase, when He is reigning. Leviticus 25, verses 8 through 10.

And you shall count seven sabbaths of years for yourself, seven times seven years, and the time of the seven sabbaths of years shall be to you 49 years. And you shall cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, on the day of Atonement. You shall make the trumpet sound throughout all your land, and you shall consecrate from that day after the 49 years. You shall consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to its inhabitants. So just as Christ will return on trumpets, He has the day of the Lord, and then there will come a time when following that there will be a time of liberty throughout the land for all of its inhabitants. It shall be a Jubilee for you, and each of you shall return to His possession. Each of you shall return to His family. When the millennial period begins with Christ and the firstfruits reigning, we find that a remnant of the twelve tribes of Israel will be brought back, and they will, just as Jubilee says, they will be given back their land. They will come back, and humanity will come back to the God who created them once Satan is removed. The Feast of Tabernacle lasts seven days. It has a Holy Day on the first day, and it pictures the thousand-year reign of Christ and the bride, the millennium, the wonderful world tomorrow. You notice that there's no Holy Day on the seventh day. There's no mention in Scripture of a resurrection or a salvation that takes place at the end of the millennium. Rather, we find that there are sacrifices throughout the millennium, mentioned in several of the prophecies. We also find that there is corporal punishment for sin. We find that the blessings are mainly what God promised Israel of old—rain and dew season, good crops, happy families—for those who follow God, along with some correction and instruction along the way for those who don't. But in Revelation chapter 20 and verse 5, it just says, but the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. Then comes the eighth day, a separate festival, sometimes called the Last Great Day, and it's an opportunity for everyone to transition. And you know the great white throne is there, and the books are open to people's understanding, and people now live and they're judged according to God's law, to His ways. And after that, we find that there is a dissolution of things physical, an end of death, and thus eternal life for those who have lived God's way. If you'd like more information on the feast, read that booklet, God's Holy Day Plan. I'd like to zoom in now on this seventh holy day. Here we are on the most unique day of really, any feast day, and it was very unique historically, and it'll be very unique in the future as well. As we know, God instituted Passover in Exodus chapter 12 and verse 13, and leading up to this day—let's go there—Revelation chapter 12 and verse 13.

Now the blood on the doorposts that they were to put on there and be in their homes that night, the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. And so, this day shall be to you a memorial, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. So here we next come to the institution of the seven days of unleavened bread in verse 15. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. Verse 16, on the first day there will be a whole convocation. So we're going to have a holy convocation. Now on the seventh day there will be a holy convocation. So, verse 17, you shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. Now this is interesting. The Israelites on the night to be much observed after that, after the Passover, at the beginning of the first of unleavened bread, whole festival, they started their journey. It's interesting where they started it from. It's believed that the Pharaoh of the time was in Ramses, so it was like a capital city. That's where the seat of the religion was. That's where the seat of the power was. And they went that day of Passover. They took the possessions and the gifts from the Egyptians, and they journeyed about two million people with their animals to the capital city of that region, of the Goshen region. And they were right there. And then that night, as the holy day began, they began to march. They began to march.

It took them six days to follow God as He led them in various routes to various places, but it took them six days of their working with God, following Him, moving, walking, marching, running, whatever, all the challenges and the details of moving and sleeping and camping and rising. Six days, they moved with God to the edge of Egypt, to the border. The Egyptian border was the Red Sea, and they moved all the way to the edge. In 1 Corinthians chapter 10 and verse 4, it says, for they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ. So we see here a direct application to us as we walk and journey with Christ. Now, at the edge of Egypt, they were shown something that no human could conquer. Have you ever stood on a seashore and looked, and as far as you can see is just ocean and waves? You can't conquer that. You can't go there. You yourself just can't walk down in the water and say, I'm just going to go, you know, through the ocean and through the waves, and I'm going to go away, far away. It can't be done. Also, the ruler of the world showed up, Pharaoh himself. They could not get away from the ruler of their world. And also, the armies of Pharaoh showed up to take them back, and they could not get away. The world's largest army was behind them, but they were following God. They were leaving sin behind them for six days, but they could not of themselves leave Egypt or leave Satan, the influence, the persecution, etc.

And so there's a seventh day of unleavened bread, a holy day. Let's notice why. Verse 17. You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread, for on this same day, what day? Well, when you back up in verse 16, on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation for you. That's the last thing mentioned. This is the seventh day holy convocation. And now in verse 17, and now in verse 17, for on this same day, I will have brought your armies or your group out of the land of Egypt. Notice they couldn't leave the land of Egypt. They could go so far with God's help, but they couldn't leave. God says, I will have brought you out of the land of Egypt. Therefore, you shall observe this day throughout your generations as an everlasting ordinance.

Here we are celebrating something that God and Christ are going to do for us, with us, to us, but something you and I cannot do. You know, we all know that God will help us be perfected and be righteous, and God calls us holy because His Spirit is in us, and we are doing our best to put sin out of our lives with every thought and every moment. But here we are in flesh, and you and I will ultimately die. God's put in our heart eternal life. He's put in our heart the kingdom of God, but we can't go there. He put in their heart a promised land, a land flowing with milk and honey, but they couldn't get there. This is retold by Joshua in Joshua chapter 24, and verses 6 and 7. Joshua chapter 24 and verse 6. God says, Then I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea. And the Egyptian pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea. And there they were. And here we are. And as we go into the end times, there will be Satan, and there will be the beast power, and there will be so many things. And there's this onslaught of temptation and persecution. Yes, we've come spiritually to dipping our toes into the end of our journey, but we of ourselves can't extricate ourselves or move beyond. And verse 7, Just as at the end of their effort to leave a type of Satan in the society, in a culture they on day seven had a miraculous transfer into God's territory, we find also there was a plus to that. God destroyed those who opposed them.

Let's remember that. Day seven accomplishes what no humans can do. It retrieves them to His place, removes them totally from the territory of Satan, plus it destroys those who oppose them. You might remember the second event that was smaller but had similar symbolism. In order to come to Jericho, God had to part the waters of the Jordan. Remember that? So it was like a small red sea for now the children of those who had died in the wilderness, and they came across. Let's go to Joshua 6. Joshua 6 and verse 15. Joshua 6 and verse 15. But it came to pass, this is the days of unleavened bread, it came to pass on the seventh day, the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and they marched around the city seven times in the same manner that they had marched once around the previous days. Now here's the thing. What happened here is you have the oldest fortified city with the false god, the king inside, the armies inside, and Jericho was unique and I believe it had never been conquered before because they had built it a tell or a big huge mound and they had put at the bottom, part way up, a wall. And if you could climb up to the wall, well then you had archers shooting at you. But there's more. Behind that wall was a wall, behind that wall was more hill and another wall. There is a second wall and behind that wall was the great army and the king and their gods and everything else. So they marched around for six days and once a day and they were shown where they could not go and who they could not conquer. No human, no army could conquer that. But the sevens for the church of God, now we are reading of here. The seventh day they marched around the city seven times. On that day only they marched around the city seven times in verse 16. And the seventh time it happened when the priest blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, shout, for the Lord has given you the city. Lead into a thing. Now the city shall be doomed by the Lord to destruction. See, those who oppose them in that false way of life would be taken out.

In the New Covenant, Feast of Unleavened Bread, we are on a spiritual exodus out of Satan's sinful society, his mindset. He is the author. There are deeds. There's a culture that goes along with that. We're told to come out of this world. Where are you and I today on that path? You know, are we on day five? Are we on day six? We don't know. There is a time when God will allow any or all of us to die, and that will complete our day six. But there we will be. We will be in the ground. We will go back to dust. We can see through our mind's eye the throne of God in heaven and desire to be with God in Christ in the spirit realm, but we can't get there. We can't get there, nor can we leave this earth. Jesus said, Father, don't take them out of the world, but just keep them from being in the world. So we fight our fight, and here we are at some point along the trail, along the road, heading towards the edge of society, edge of this sinful life, this sinful culture, and we're striving to come out of it. What lies ahead for the Church of God? Four thousand years or so after Israel observed this day for the first time, we come to Romans 11 and verse 16. Romans 11 and verse 16, For if the first fruit is holy, Jesus Christ, the lump is also holy. We, in a sense, are like the bread that comes from that lump. We are being inspired by Jesus Christ through the Spirit of God. And the kingdom of God in one of Jesus' parables, one of his very short parables, is likened to a lump that was leavened, and it grew, and it grew. And so, in a proper sense, you see, the lump is also holy. If the root is holy, so are the branches. So we can be very appreciative here that, verse 17, if some of the branches were broken off and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them and with them became a partaker of the root and the fatness of the olive tree. Physical non-Israelites have become spiritual Israel of God. In Ephesians 2 and verse 11, therefore, remember that you once Gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcision by what is called a circumcision made by flesh with hands, that at the time you were without Christ being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, verse 13, but now in Christ you who were once afar off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

And so, as it goes on, it says in verse 16 that he might reconcile them both to God in one body. So we, in verse 19, are no longer strangers and citizens, or foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God. This is a beautiful time for us, the Israel of God, as we read before in Galatians chapter 6 and verse 16. The church of God is following Jesus Christ, and in 1 Corinthians 11 verse 26, we are reminded that this sacrifice was for us, 1 Corinthians chapter 11 and verse 26.

For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death till he comes.

In verse 24, the bread was broken for you.

We're to proclaim this until he comes. Why until he comes? Because the second day of unleavened bread, in part, pictures his taking us to be with him, and then it is complete.

Then it is complete, and our journey is complete.

We are being led by him currently out of society in a dark world. And so here we are now on this second holy day of unleavened bread. Our days 1 through 6 are nearing completion.

You are approaching journey's end in coming out of this world, in its society, its system.

But despite all of our efforts, John chapter 3 and verse 13 shows us we can't get out of here. John chapter 13—or John chapter 3 and verse 13. There's no way to fully leave Satan's society to escape what's in the minds of the darkness of this age towards God's people. John chapter 3 and verse 13, at least not on our own. Jesus said these words, No one has ascended to heaven. No one. No one has been transferred except he who came down from heaven. That is the Son of Man who is in heaven. So, in a sense, that's sort of discouraging. But it tells us that no human has yet reached his or her transfer day 7, UB2, second holy day of unleavened bread. Nobody has reached that day yet. It hasn't occurred yet. We're still in days 1 through 6. But we look for that day. We pray for that day. We pray your kingdom come. We have hope in the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

We are, however, led by one who has ascended, one who has been brought up, one who the Father did transfer on his appointed wave-sheaf day during the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Let's continue to verse 14. And as Moses lifted up the servant in the wilderness, even so the Son of Man must be lifted up. Why? Verse 15, so that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. This is never offered by Moses or in the Old Covenant. This is speaking to the church, the body of Christ. Whoever believes in him should not perish eternally but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. Somebody has made that journey, completed the seventh day. Let's go to 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 and verse 14.

1 Thessalonians 4 and verse 14. This is where we get our hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus. It's God who makes that transition. 2 Thessalonians 4 and verse 16. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

Notice the indication of the seventh trumpet here in verse 16.

The trumpet of God, the dead in Christ. The trumpet of God, the dead in Christ. That's the trumpet event that takes place in the day of the Lord in Revelation chapter 11 and verse 15. If we go there, Revelation 11 verse 15.

Then the seventh angel sounded the trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven saying, or the rule of this world has become that of our Lord, His Christ, and He shall reign forever.

Well, that's very encouraging. Now, dropping down to verse 18. The nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time of the dead that they should be judged. Their six days were completed, and now God will judge them that you should reward your servants, the prophets, and the saints, and those who fear your name small and great, plus, and should destroy those who destroy the earth. Those who oppose them will be destroyed as well. So, the seventh trumpet is a Red Sea-type transition for the first fruits of God, for the church on our seventh day. If we go forward to the 14th chapter, let's notice, they are transferred from their graves, or if they're alive, they are transferred into spirit. And I looked, verse 1 of Revelation 14, I looked, and behold, a lamb standing. And as we read before, in verse 4, these are ones who are not defiled with false religion, but virgins, and they follow Him wherever He goes. Where does He go? He goes where God goes. He goes where spirit beings in the Godhead go. And as we read before, they will ever be with the Lord. And here He says, they follow the Lamb wherever He goes, these being first fruits to God. This is very, very encouraging. Plus, plus, those who oppose us and them and kill the saints are destroyed. Verse 8, another angel followed, saying, Babylon has fallen, has fallen, that great city, because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

We need to appreciate the sevens of God. Appreciate that those are holy things that God has made holy, and events, and timings, and they involve His holy people, His church, by which He gave His only begotten Son, and His Son gave His blood, His life, given us everything. We need to especially strive to be present on day seven. That's what it's all about. Day one through six are very important. You can't go across the Red Sea unless you're at the Red Sea. You can't stay back in town or back in the city or the civilization somewhere and have journeyed out of sin, ready to be transferred to where God is. The Israel of God is going to be transferred into the heavenly country for eternal life with Christ as His bride. That is going where no human can go. In 1 Corinthians chapter 15 verse 22, 1 Corinthians 15 verse 22, we don't have too many scriptures that speak to this, so it's good to be reminded here. For as an Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive. But each one in his own order, Christ the first fruits, and afterward those who are Christ at His coming. And He comes at the seventh trumpet.

Then comes the end when He delivers up the kingdom to the Father. But notice this, verse 25, plus He will destroy all those who oppose God's, for He must reign till He has put all enemies under His feet. So in conclusion, we're a special people to God. We're on a special journey, and we're expected to make progress on this journey and come to a certain point throughout our life represented by those six days.

And on the seventh day, we look forward to a gift of God, a blessing, a miracle, God taking us someplace no human can go. In conclusion, let's hear the words that Moses stated on this seventh day, holy day, of the Feast of Unleavened Bread in Exodus chapter 14 and verse 13. Exodus 14 and verse 13, And Moses said to the people, Do not be afraid. Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians, whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever.

Brethren, let's devote ourselves to be moving, moving forward out of sin, following Jesus Christ, doing God's will daily. Anticipate the goal. Look forward at the seventh trumpet, when Jesus Christ will transfer you out of this world to a place where no human can go. Matthew 25 verse 34. Anticipate the day that's coming when Jesus Christ will say these very words to you. These are spoken by Him. He said, I'm going to say these to you. Matthew 25 verse 34, the second half of the verse, Come, that's Him bringing, come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.