The Time Is Fulfilled, the Kingdom Is at Hand

The WE They counselling program, which was released, will continue. Well, thank you, Mr. Doss. Good morning to everyone. It's good to see so many here today. You know, we live in a world today that's quite a contrast when you look at it. It's like Charles Dickens described in his novel, The Tale of Two Cities. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. For many people today, and the last few decades have been the best of times.

On one hand, you have globalization taking place, trading among nations, communication among nations today as never before, and it's led to the highest standards of living. You can find in the history of mankind. A lot of people have grown up wealthy. We have generally a prosperous middle class, and yet potentially we see it's also the worst of times.

I'd like for you to notice some of the headlines that have recently been in the news. One talks about the European banks risking new global financial crisis. Another about war, conflict, and the Sudan. We know that the whole region of the Mideast and Africa is very volatile at this time. You have volcanic eruptions taking place all over the world, and specifically some very large potential ones. Actually, we have one of the biggest potential volcanic eruptions, or potential for it in this country, up in Yellowstone.

That whole basin is actually a volcano. If that were to blow up, you can sort of ride off the United States. Iran. You find that Iran has a threat of terrorism, a threat of nuclear terrorism. You have earthquakes taking place everywhere. We find that there is exploitation of youth. One of the sad commentaries on our society today are the sexual trades that go on, where young people are actually captured, sold into slavery as sex slaves.

Then we live in an age where not only is there a lot of wealth, but there is a lot of greed that takes place. Nuclear war, in particular in the Mideast, is a major problem that we're all concerned with. Iran continues to be in the news constantly. They are trying to develop. They say they're not, but everyone knows they are. A nuclear device. If they get one, we know that eventually they will try to use it on Israel.

Israel is not standing back and saying, hey, blow us up, they will try to keep Iran from developing this. A nuclear Middle East is more frightening than the Cold War standoff between Russia and the Soviet Union. I think the Arab Spring, as it was called, shows that many of the Arab nations are very unstable and that terrorism is something that can and will continue to be a problem.

It's a huge threat to the world. The world's economy right now, even though we have been prosperous for many generations, or many decades, maybe it would be the better way of putting it, is going through a crisis. That's because of the dead burden. As we realize in the United States, we have over $14.5 trillion in debt. That's just federal. You begin to look at local, state, individual. It's estimated that it's over $50 trillion in this country alone. You look at Western Europe, you see crisis in places like Spain and Greece, and you realize that the potential is there because of the debt burden for the collapse of our economies.

Debt could create an economic meltdown that will throw the world back into a time that we know as a Great Depression. There's also a realignment of world power blocks that could upset the geopolitical structure. China is beating the drums. India is. A number of nations in the Mideast. There are way over a billion Arab nations that could be aligned together in a power block.

We see the very immoral fabric of society being shredded today. Our own president has come out in favor of homosexual marriages, and that in the last few days. The culture of abortion in this country is something that is pretty well accepted by the majority of people. You've had 70 to 80 million unborn babies killed over the past few decades. There's a continual assault on morality in this country, on decency, especially when it comes to the popular entertainment, movies, television, magazines, things of this nature.

Our courts have stripped away the idea of having prayer out of school, out of public life. We've reached a critical crossroad when it comes to religious and spiritual confusion. It seems like there's a lot of people who claim to be spiritual, but they're very confused about what the Bible says. The world and society is headed for a precipice, like we're about to come to a drop-off into a canyon, a time of world trouble, of unprecedented proportion.

This is something that we are faced with. Jesus Christ himself said that world conditions would become very bad before His coming. The English Standard Version of Matthew 24 and verse 21 says this, For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world till now. No one never will be, and if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved, but for the sake of the elect, those days would be cut short. In the past, we've never lived in a time where all human life could be annihilated off the face of the earth. Yet we live today in a time when there's nuclear warfare, chemical warfare, biological man just simply polluting the planet, that it is possible for human life to be destroyed from the face of the earth.

God says that He will have to come and send Christ back to intervene to cut that time short. Otherwise, no human being would be left alive. There is a solution to all of these problems. I picked up the Chattanooga newspaper this morning. If you read through the front section of the newspaper, there was nothing but bad news. Talking about a young lady getting some of this flesh-eating bacteria.

Another article was about a young girl being raped in middle school. Then a young 14-year-old hanging his 9-year-old sister. It goes on and on. One sad article after another in the newspaper. But even with all of the bad news that's out there and circulating, there is a real hope for the coming Kingdom of God. That is the hope of mankind when you look at it. It is the only realistic solution to all of the problems that we see about us. Man, for 6,000 years, has been grappling with problems.

He is trying to solve his own problems. History has proven that man is incapable of solving his own problems. The prophesied Kingdom of God that is foretold in the Bible is real and it is coming. Notice in Matthew 24, verse 14. Matthew 24, verse 14 says, This Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all nations, and then the end shall come.

Everywhere you find it talks about the Gospel, it's always talking about the Gospel of the Kingdom, the Kingdom of God. Once that Gospel goes to the world, then Christ said, then the end will come. You and I are here today at this seminar to understand how can we prepare in advance for that Kingdom? There is nothing more sure. The old saying, you can take it to the bank and count on it.

The Kingdom of God is going to be on this earth and not too distant future. There is no power that can stop it from being established and set up. The question is, how can we be ready for that Kingdom? The revealed knowledge that we will be covering in this seminar will make a difference in your life if you take what is said and apply it and prepare you for a role, position, responsibilities, duties in that coming Kingdom.

What did Jesus Christ focus on when He was on the earth? You might remember the keynote of what we've been covering in these series of lectures concerning the Kingdom of God as found in Mark 1, 14-15, where Christ said, the time is fulfilled, the Kingdom of God is at hand, repent, and believe the Gospel. He talks about the Kingdom of God is at hand, and then He says, we need to repent. Let's also notice in Luke 12, verse 31, Luke 12, beginning in verse 31, we're told, seek first the Kingdom of God, on all these things shall be added to you.

What He's talking about is food, clothing, and shelter. What's most important to human beings, God said, is important, but our priority, what we should be striving for to begin with, first of all, is the Kingdom of God. And then in verse 32, do not fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom. God wants to give to us the Kingdom of God. Now, you find that that Kingdom of God, what is it?

Do you understand what the Kingdom of God truly is? Do you understand what it will be like, and what we must do? Those are all questions that we are going to take a look at today. In Luke 9, verses 1 and 2, you'll notice, it says He called His twelve disciples together, Luke 9, and He sent them to preach the Kingdom of God.

So what message did Jesus Christ preach? What message did He tell His disciples to preach? Again, we find it is the Kingdom of God. Matthew 24, 14 again, and this Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all nations. Then the end shall come. What end? Well, the end of the world. That's what His disciples ask in Matthew 24.

When will be your Second Coming in the end of the world or the end of the age? And Christ said that the Gospel of the Kingdom of God will continue to be preached. But that illustrates simply this. Christ taught it, as we'll see His disciples taught it, and at the very end of the age, almost 2,000 years later, the Church of God will still be preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom of God.

The message never changes. It's the same message down through the ages.

Was the Kingdom of God the message that the Apostle Paul taught? Did He change it somehow? Did He come up with a new Gospel? Well, if you read here in Acts 19 and verse 8, Paul went into the synagogue and spoke boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading concerning the things of the Kingdom of God. So the Apostle Paul taught the Kingdom of God. He was taught personally by Christ. In chapter 28 and verse 23, we read this.

So again, you find him preaching the Kingdom of God. Paul went to Rome and he was imprisoned for two years, somewhere around 59, 60, 61 AD. He was under house arrest. He was able to have his own house, but he was under arrest. There was always a Roman soldier there with him. I want you to notice that he constantly taught about the Kingdom of God. In verse 30 and 31 of this chapter, chapter 28, it says, Paul dwelt two whole years in his own rented house, and received all who came to him, preaching the Kingdom of God and teaching the things which concerned the Lord Jesus, with all confidence, no one forbidding him. So Paul, like Christ, and like Christ taught the disciples, preached the theme of the Kingdom of God.

What did Jesus Christ say was the goal of every Christian? If we're Christians, what should be our goal? What should we wake up in the morning thinking about? What should we be striving for? Matthew 6, 33 says, So God wants us to seek first his Kingdom and to be righteous, to do what's right. The ultimate goal of followers of Jesus Christ is to share in and enter into the Kingdom of God.

As I stated earlier, we need to find out what is that Kingdom, what will be like, and what will we be doing. Jesus didn't bring a new message. The Kingdom of God has long been prophesied. You go back to the Old Testament, you'll find that the Kingdom of God is mentioned in innumerable places in the Old Testament. And the Jews of the first century were expecting the Messiah to come on the scene. Let's notice in Acts 3, verse 19, Acts 3, verse 19, that Christ's message was long anticipated, as I said, by the prophets.

Acts 3, verse 19 says, Since the world began, so from the very beginning the prophets, the servants of God, have talked about the time of restoration, the time when Christ would come to this earth. Daniel talked about, foretold, the establishment of the Kingdom of God. Notice in Daniel 2, verse 44.

Daniel 2, verse 44, Daniel had seen a vision. God gave him the explanation of it, the summary of it. It says, In the days of these kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed. And the kingdom shall not be left to other people.

It shall break in pieces and consume all of these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. So Daniel prophesied that the kingdom of God is going to be set up, and he said, Once it's set up, once it's established, then it will stand forever. It will go on for all eternity.

Will Jesus Christ literally return to the earth? And when He does, who will come with Him? Well, let's notice another scripture in Zechariah 14, beginning in verse 4. Zechariah 14, verse 4. We read this, that in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall be split in two, from east to west, making a very large valley. And half of the mountain shall move towards the north, and half of it toward the south.

And thus the Lord my God will come, so shows that Jesus Christ is literally going to come. His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, and all the saints with you. So Jesus Christ, when He comes back to the earth to set up His kingdom, is going to bring the resurrected saints with Him. This prophecy describes the literal return of Christ to the earth. It's not talking about all of the churches today setting up the kingdom of God on the earth through their efforts. It's talking about Jesus Christ Himself coming to the earth and establishing His government and His kingdom on this earth.

And He will be accompanied by the resurrected saints. Other prophecies show, though, that there will be enemies when Christ comes back. You would think when Christ comes back to the earth that the people would welcome Him back with open arms. But that's just the exact opposite. The Bible indicates that nations will fight against Christ, and the saints will fight against them, and will have to do so to bring about a change in this world. What role will Jerusalem play after Jesus Christ returns to the Mount of Olives?

We know that right now Jerusalem is the focal point between the Jews and the Arabs. Actually, three major religions have their headquarters in one sense there. In Zechariah 8 and verse 3, we read this.

So, Jerusalem is to be called the City of Truth. John 17 and 17 says, the word is truth. So the Word of God will go out from Jerusalem. It will be a city that will be known for truth and for that truth being taught.

In Jeremiah 3 and verse 17, we read this about Jerusalem. At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the Lord, and all nations shall be gathered to it. So it's going to be where God sets His throne. All nations will come up to Jerusalem, till the name of the Lord to Jerusalem. No more shall they follow the dictates of their evil hearts. So there's coming a time when man isn't going to follow his own vanity, his own dictates, but will follow God.

Isaiah chapter 2 and verse 2 describes this period of time also. Isaiah chapter 2 says, It is now shall come to pass in the latter days, that the mountain of the Lord's house will be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow to it. Now notice we're talking again about the latter days, the days that we live in. Many people shall come and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, and He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths.

For out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. Well, you find that God's way, His path, His law, His word, all of this is going to go out from Jerusalem. That time has not occurred yet, and it will not occur until Jesus Christ is on the earth. Jerusalem, as we know, has been a city that has been fought over. Much blood has been shed throughout the centuries. But Jerusalem is destined to become the governmental and religious center of the whole earth in the future, with Christ ruling in the kingdom of God.

This kingdom is going to be a literal kingdom, and it will replace all of the governments of the world. You stop and think about all of the governments around the world. You can talk about Japan, China, India, all of the African nations, all the Western European nations, the nations and the Americans. They're all going to be ruled by the kingdom of God at that time. As Revelation 11, verse 15, tells us, Revelation 11, 15, But there were loud voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world, so the nations, the kingdoms of this world, have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever.

So again, we see, once the kingdom of God is established, it will reign forever over all nations. So there is the reality of God's kingdom being set up. What will make the kingdom of God so different compared to the nations today? Nations today try to bring peace. They try to solve problems. They try to feed their people.

They try to eliminate crime, but obviously mankind never has. How will the kingdom of God be able to do this? Well, there's one huge factor that most people don't even recognize. People don't recognize and see and understand that behind nearly all of our problems today, there is an unseen force. Jesus called this in John 12, verse 31, this power He called the ruler of this world. No one's going to solve the problems of this world until that ruler, Satan the Devil, is removed.

Now, the ironic thing today is that many people don't even believe there is a devil. Or they think that the devil is simply someone who is a figure, someone who is man-made. So, the Bible is very clear about that. Let's go to Revelation chapter 20, verses 1 through 3.

Revelation chapter 20 says, I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit, and a great chain in his hand. And then he laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him, notice, a thousand years. Cast him into the bottomless pit, shut him up, set a seal on him, so that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years were finished.

Now, I want you to notice the thousand years here. This thousand years is what we call the millennium. The word millennium just means a thousand years. God has given man six days, or six thousand years, to try his own governments, his own economic system, try to solve his own problems. And man is going to come to the point where he would destroy all life off the face of the earth, if God didn't intervene. So, God intervenes, and he's going to rule for a thousand years, what we call the millennium.

And the problems we have today are going to be resolved, but they won't be until the devil is removed. He is a tremendous influence. Now, how will the world be transformed in the future? Let's quickly take a look at some of the scriptures that deal with the way the world is going to be transformed.

Today, much of the earth is barren, wasteland. Sahara Desert is an example of 3,000 miles by 1,000 miles. That's almost the size of the United States. Think about a country that big just simply being sand, and one day becoming like the Garden of Eden. We see that in Isaiah 51, verse 3. There are a lot of the Old Testament scriptures, as I said, that describe the kingdom of God.

The prophets of old talked about it. Isaiah 51, verse 3, says, For the Lord will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places, He will make her wildernesses, like desert, or like Eden, as you should say, and her deserts like the Garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be found in it, thanksgiving in the voice of melody. Now in Isaiah 35, verse 1, we find another prophecy that Isaiah wrote. It says, The wilderness and the waste shall be glad for them, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose. In verse 2, it shall blossom abundantly and rejoice even with joy and singing.

The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it. Then they shall see the glory of the Lord, the excellency of God. In verse 7, the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water, in the habitation of jackals where each lay, and there shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

Isaiah is a prolific writer, one of the prophets of God inspired to especially write about the future. Notice it again in Isaiah 41, beginning in verse 18.

Notice what God says. Humanity is going to come to see. They will see what God has done, and they will know and consider and understand together that the hand of the Lord has done this. This isn't something that we did, but God does it. The Holy One of Israel has created it. So God is going to bring about a time of prosperity, a time when people will be able to have proper agriculture. The planet will be becoming normal, fruitful, and productive. Amos 9.13 is the scripture that talks about this. So you're out there trying to reap your crop, and the plowman is right behind you, trying to plant the next one. The world will see some very astounding things in the future. What would you like to see when it comes to the suffering of human beings? How many of our hospitals are filled with cancer patients, stroke patients, heart attacks, all kinds of difficulties? Well, in the future, Isaiah 35, beginning in verse 5, shows that God is literally going to heal the blind, the deaf, the lame. Let's notice it. Isaiah 35, verse 5.

So at the beginning of the millennium, God will heal many of the sick, the affirmed in this world. They will be able to live a normal life and not have the afflictions that we see today. This is speaking literally of physical healings, but also of spiritual healings. God is going to transform the minds of men. Our minds need to be healed. Our eyes need to be opened. We need to be able to have our understanding revealed to us. Nations will live at peace at this time. There's only been something like 230 odd years of peace in the last 6,000 years a man has been on the earth. Man has either been fighting war somewhere or preparing for wars. Notice in Micah, chapter 4, beginning in verse 3, Micah 4, 3. He shall judge many people and rebuke strong nations afar off, and they shall beat their swords into plowshares. Now, we have this statue in front of the United Nations of a man beating his sword into plowshares, but we don't see any peace in the world. But it's going to literally come at that time. Tanks will become plows. Guns will be melted down and become farm implements. Their spears will be turned into pruning hooks. Nations shall not lift up sword against nation. Neither shall they learn war anymore. No more war colleges. No more Westpoints. None of this will take place. What you do find is that everyone shall sit under his vine, under his fig tree, and no one shall make them afraid, for the mouth of the Lord of Hosts has spoken. If God speaks it, it will happen. And so we discover that there's coming a time when everyone will be able to sit under his own tree, his own vine, symbol of peace, productivity, and not be afraid anymore. This world will be filled with peace. Isaiah 65, beginning in verse 21, from the Reb translation. Isaiah 65 verse 21. My people will build houses and live in them. They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. They will not build for others to live in or plant for others to eat. They will be as long-lived as a tree. My chosen ones will enjoy the fruit of their labor. They will not toil to no purpose or raise children for misfortune. You won't raise your children, send them off to war, and see them killed. No, they will not raise children for misfortune because they and their issue, or they and their descendants, after them, are a race blessed by the Lord. God is going to bless the human race at that time. There will be peace. You'll see your children growing up, your grandchildren, your great-grandchildren growing up before you. Even the nature of animals will be changed. This is one of the most remarkable prophecies in Isaiah 11 and verse 6. Notice the time, and this certainly does not describe our day today. Isaiah 11 verse 6, The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, The leopard shall lie down with the young goat, The calf and the young lion, And fatling together, and a little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall graze, And their young one shall lie down together, And the lion shall eat straw like an ox. The nursing child shall play by the cobra's hole, And the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper's den. The nature of animals will literally be transformed.

This is also figuratively speaking of relationships between nations and people, that nations and people will be able to get along. The lions of the nations will be able to reside with those that are not lions, as far as nations are concerned. They'll be able to work together in peace.

Even today, if you've got a little child, I remember growing up as a child, my parents would say, you know, come back when it got dark. You'd roam the neighborhood, you'd go play, ride your bike all day long, and they knew you'd come back. You weren't afraid. You didn't lock your doors, didn't lock your car doors. Well, there's coming a time when the whole world will be at such peace that you won't have to worry, that everyone will look after your child. Everyone will be concerned for his neighbor. Everyone will love his neighbor as himself. They will not do any harm to them. You find that the world will be filled with the knowledge of God at that time also. And verse 9 of Isaiah 11, Isaiah 11.9, says, That means the earth will be saturated with the knowledge of God. It is not saturated with that knowledge today. Look at all the different religions, all the different philosophies and ideas, but there's coming a time when there will only be one way, the way of God, taught. The kingdom of God under Jesus Christ's supervision will bring the blessing and peace and prosperity to the earth. God will restore the earth to a period of time, such as was in the Garden of Eden, where you had a garden that was absolutely beautiful. Universal peace will break out among the nations.

Now, Christ is not going to come back to the earth alone. He will bring the mountains to the earth. Let me read the scripture again that I read to you earlier in Zechariah 14, verse 4. It says, And then dropping down, it says, And so Christ is going to come back, He's going to bring the saints. Now, when you look at that, you say, what's going on here? How could He be bringing the saints with Him? What is that all about? Well, we have another miraculous, unprecedented event that's facing us here in the short future. 1 Thessalonians 4, verse 15, talks about that major event. People talk about the rapture. They talk about all kinds of ideas. But the Bible talks about there is coming a time of the resurrection at Christ's Second Coming. Verse 15, So notice, we're talking about the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

The Bible compares death to a sleep. So this isn't something done in a corner. It's something that's going to be broadcast to the earth. And notice, So we're going to meet Christ in the air. But where will Christ go? Well, Zachariah 14, we just read, and that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives. He's not just going to float around up in heaven somewhere. He's going to come down to this earth and establish His government on this earth. He's going to take over the nations of the earth.

Does the Bible tell us anything else about the resurrection? Well, notice in 1 Corinthians 15.

Verse 50 here, again, this is the REB translation. What I mean, my friends, is this. Flesh and blood can never possess the Kingdom of God. The perishable, or the corruptible, cannot possess the imperishable, or the incorruption. Listen, I'll unfold a mystery to you. Mystery simply means a hidden truth, something that's hidden from the general public. We shall not all die, but we shall all be changed. In a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet call. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, we shall be changed. This perishable body must be clothed with the imperishable.

And what is mortal with immortality? And when this perishable body has been clothed with the imperishable, and our mortality has been clothed with immortality, then the saying of Scripture shall come true. Death is swallowed up. Victory is ours. We will get victory over death. That is through the resurrection. What will those who are brought up, resurrected to eternal life, what will they do in the kingdom of God? For in the kingdom of God, Christ brings us back to Jerusalem. What are we going to do?

Notice Revelation 20. Revelation 20, verse 6. It says, So the resurrected saints are going to be the mayors, and the governors, and the kings, over cities, over nations. We will be the rulers at that time. The return of Jesus Christ marks not only the beginning of the kingdom of God, but it also marks the time when God will resurrect from the dead the saints and give them eternal life to reign with Jesus Christ forever.

Revelation 3, 21 tells us the same thing. To him who overcomes, the word overcomes means to gain the victory in a struggle. We will gain the victory against sin and Satan. I will grant to sit with me on my throne as I also overcame, and sit down with my Father on His throne. Notice Daniel 7, verse 18. But the saints of the Most High shall receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.

So the saints, the resurrected saints, made immortal, give an eternal life. A spirit body will reign with Christ forever. In Revelation 5, verse 9, there are many scriptures that state this. Revelation 5, verse 9, The ransom for God's saints from every tribe and language, people and nation, you have made them to be a kingdom and priest, serving our God, and they will reign on the earth. We're not going to go off to heaven and sit on clouds and pluck on harps.

We're going to come back to the earth and help Christ to right the wrongs, to bring peace and to set up His government on this earth. Will the saints have special assignments in the kingdom of God? Notice why Christ told His twelve apostles in Luke 22, verse 29. But you are those who have continued with me in my trials, Christ said, And I bestow upon you a kingdom. So again, we're talking about a kingdom. Just as my Father bestowed one upon me, that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

So each one of the apostles will be over one of the tribes of Israel. Jesus Christ is described in the Bible as King of kings and Lord of lords. If He's King of kings, who is He king over? If He's Lord of lords, who is He Lord over? Well, you'll find the saints will be kings and priests. Men and women have been preparing for this role in the kingdom of God from the very beginning.

Each person that God calls and chooses has the responsibility to remain faithful through the end and to prepare for His role that God has called in the kingdom of God. Now, you and I have a special opportunity. We can be a part of that kingdom. That's why we're here today, to hear the advanced news of that kingdom. The vast majority of people on the face of the earth do not hear, do not understand, have not yet had that opportunity to hear the good news of the true gospel of the kingdom of God.

But you and I can have a part in that kingdom. We can have a part in the future. That's what I want to talk about in the second seminar today. The way to be a part of that future. That the Bible specifically tells us what we must do if we want to have a part in that. As Revelation 3, verse 21, tells us, To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with me on my throne, as I have also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his throne. That brings us back to the opening scripture, or the keynote scripture we've been using for all of these lectures in Mark 1.

Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying, The time is fulfilled, the kingdom of God is at hand, repent, and believe the gospel. So the major question is, have you repented? Well, we will take a look at that in the next seminar.