What Will Jesus Christ's Return Mean to This World?

Thank you very much, Mr. DeCapis. Nice to be here with you. First time since Passover time. If you were here at Passover, I was here to do the Passover. I think you were down in Brazil at that time, right? So, anyway, it's nice to be back with you down here. We always like coming back to Kentucky. I used to go a lot to Louisville in the early years when they needed help of Mr. Winter, but asked me to come down and speak over in Louisville from time to time. So, I haven't done that so much of recent times, but it's nice to be back here with you.

I wanted to just make a comment about ABC. ABC used to be called Ambassador Bible Center. We have to try to get used to calling it Ambassador Bible College. We did the change for a very good reason, and that is, we'd like to be able to have international students at least be given a fair chance when they apply to come to ABC. When they submit their application to come for a visa, and they have to do that. They have to get a visa. We don't just give student visas. They have to get a visa to come.

But when they put their going to Ambassador Bible Center, the person looking at it, the immigration person, just throws a discount right away. Because they say, Center? There could be anything. It could be coming to work. It could be coming to do work in the United States. It could be coming to an Islamic type center. Whatever it is, they don't know what a center is. They have college and university, and they allow people to come in to train here, and to get education. But as soon as they see that, they are out of hand, basically rejected. So we were advised by some who are working with the immigration officials as to how we can be better suited to accept students from international areas.

So they said, if you change your name, it will have a much better effect when students say they're going to Ambassador Bible College. So that was approved by the Council, and so we're in the process of making changes involved. We have a logo, the Ambassador Bible Center, my ring says Ambassador Bible Center. We're not going to change. We have about a hundred pins, and we're not going to change those. It costs too much. But we will finish giving those out, and we will start changing all the logos at ABC. We're not going to pull anything over.

We will probably have a visit from the people from the Immigration Department. After we make the final application, they'll come and visit us to make sure we're legit. We're not going to say, well, we've always been Ambassador Bible College, because we haven't. But we've always been teaching God's Word. We've always been teaching students how to lead, to serve. That's all part of the process that they can come in.

So we'll just explain to them. We change the name to more reflect what we actually do. We do teach the Bible, and it is in a collegiate-like atmosphere with several of us credentialed to teach in any college in the United States. So we are Ambassador Bible College. So I thought I would share that with you. It doesn't mean we're going to start spending all kinds of money on a college. It means we've changed the name to be descriptive of what we're doing and to aid international students who might want to come.

And we've had to turn on many students. This year we turned on five Filipinos. All of them were very, very adequate to come. Except they weren't accepted. They didn't even make it past the immigration person. So we feel we can give them a much better opportunity, a much better chance, I think. That's the only reason the name has changed.

How many of you like seeing fireworks? You don't have to raise your hand. Come July 4th, I love to put on our TV at night and watch the fireworks being shot off in Boston to the Boston Pops Orchestra or to Macy's in New York City or out west in Chicago or out in LA. I like to see the fireworks, but even more spectacular for me was actually being in the midst of a fireworks display down at Epcot Center in Disney World in Florida.

And when you see those laser beams going all over, it is absolutely astounding and fascinating. But there's coming of fireworks that the whole world is going to see. And that's called the heavenly signs. And those heavenly signs will introduce the return of Jesus Christ to this earth. Let's take a look. Matthew 24, verse 27. Matthew 24, verse 27. Those heavenly signs will get man's attention. Verse 27. For as the lightning comes out of the east and shines to the west, even so also shall be the coming of the Son of Man. For wheresoever the carcass is, that's where the eagles will be gathered.

So here's what he says in verse 29. Immediately after the tribulation of those days, and in prophecy, remember, the tribulation is man's wrath upon man and Satan's wrath upon man. That's tribulation. God is just keeping hands off, letting the world get its lickens, letting it pay the penalty for the things it does to itself.

But immediately after that, those days, shall the sun be darkened, the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven. Now, many will say it's not stars, but astral bodies, whatever portions of them will be falling out comets or whatever else, will be shrieking through the heavens. And the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. Now, on an earthquake in California, it was about a 7.2, and we were just getting ready to go to the feast.

And it shook. I was lying in bed. Our kids were getting up to go to school, and I was lying in bed. My wife was downstairs already, and I heard this boom. I thought she fell going down the steps. And then I looked up above me. We had a fan, one of these ceiling fans. It was dancing. I had the ceiling. I jumped out of the bed, supposed to go under an archway or under a door jam, under the door pit area. So I went underneath that, stood there for a while, and called on to make sure everybody was okay. Everybody was okay. They were on. And then we had a few more aftershocks. We dived under the table.

We opened our medicine cabinet. It had already been opened. Everything off. Toothbrushes, toothpaste, whatever else. All in the sink. And things had been disrupted. Some of the dishes had been jarred in the room. But thankfully, nothing more. We were so excited to leave for the feast that year, because we had several aftershocks. Get us in the air, Father. We'll be okay up here. But this says the heavens will be shaken too. It's not going to be so safe! Heavens are shaking too. So he says, And there shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven.

And then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and with great glory. And verse 31, He shall send His angels with the great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. This is going to be an awesome time. But just prior to Christ's return, you have this great introduction.

But it does introduce the return of Jesus Christ. If you check Revelation, you'll see in Revelation 6, end of chapter 6, beginning chapter 7, you'll see similar heavenly signs. Revelation chapter 6. And we read in verse 12, And I beheld when He had opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black, the sackcloth as hair, and the moon became His blood, and the stars of heaven shall fall from heaven even as a fig tree cast her untimely figs, when shaken in the midst of a wind.

And then He talks about people saying, fall on us, fall on us, to what's happening in our world. Verse 17, For the great day of His wrath has come, and who shall be able to stand? So the Feast of Trumpets is more than just the last trump when we're resurrected. The Feast of Trumpets is more than just the regathering of Israel. The Feast of Trumpets is more than just the return of Jesus Christ.

The Feast of Trumpets is going to be a time of warfare, a time of difficulties, a time that this world has never seen before. And they're going to mourn when they see it happening. Revelation 11, verse 17, during this time, after the seventh trumpet sounds, Revelation 11, verse 17, verse 15 says, And the seventh angel sounded, there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His price shall reign forever, and ever so day.

Today is a day of proclaiming the end of this world and the beginning of the world tomorrow. But hasn't started yet, because that's the millennium. Hasn't started yet till everybody has been wounded and hurt, and is gathered, gathered back, can lick their wounds, and start to become at one with God, the day of atonement. The day of atonement for the world will be like Passover is to us. It will be a time of reconciliation, a time of getting in step with God.

God gives them a little period of time, just like there's a period of time between trumpets and atonement. He gives them a little period of time for them to lick their wounds, like a little child that's been punished for doing something wrong.

And they're crying, we moved. And then you say, okay, come on, come over here, sit down with me, and sit down and talk, and let Daddy want you to know that he loves you. They're trying to suck it up and feel better again. It's a time, day of atonement, is a time where there's a reconciliation taking place. It's a time when the world gets in step with God.

You as a spirit being will already be in step with God because the Feast of Trumpets, which I'm not going to go that direction, pictures the time of the resurrection. The time when you will be joining Jesus Christ to help him bring about that better world. But notice what it says, that they proclaim the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever. And notice the twenty-four elders which sat before God on their seats.

Who are these? Probably twenty-four angels who had gray hair, sitting around the throne of God. Did God know what a man looked like? Could he have made twenty-four elders? Are these human beings up there? Are these souls? No. No. Did God know what a man's face looked like?

I would suppose so because each one of the carapim has four faces. One of them is a man's face, and that's an angel. And seraphim could have a single face. Some of them look like an eagle, and some of them look like a lion, and some of them look like an ox, and some of them look like a man's face. Did God know what a man looked like? Didn't he say he made us in his image? Did he know what a man looked like? Yes, he did. So he has twenty-four elders. Notice what they do. These twenty-four elders, which sat before God on their seats, they fell on their faces and worshiped God. Notice what they say in verse 17.

We give thanks, O Lord God Almighty, we give you thanks, which are and was articom. What does it mean to be are, was and are to come? He always is. He's today, yesterday and tomorrow, because you have taken to you your great power and have reign. He'll be proclaimed as King of kings and Lord of lords. Will the world like it? No. The world won't like it. The world won't like his return. Just like the Japanese, I don't think, liked the return of Douglas MacArthur, when he said, I shall return. He came back. I've been there till late day.

I've seen the statues. They loved Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines. They have streets named after him. They have statues of him and some of his men in the water, in stone. Just like MacArthur, like he's walking back to late day, the island of late day in the Philippines. He said, I'll return, and he did.

Jesus Christ is coming back a second time, not to just be a kind, meek, humble man as a servant. Coming back as King of kings, Lord of lords. As the D'Ave Sabaoth, Sabeoth, you know, the S-A-B-O-A-T-H, Sabeoth. What's that mean? The commander of the armies. He's coming back, King of kings, Lord of lords. Today they proclaim it. But what will Christ's return mean to this world?

What will it do to this world? This Feast of Trumpets, I'm going to focus on that theme. What will Christ's return mean to this world? Number one, it will mean Jesus Christ's return will mean a change in leadership. Jesus Christ is coming back to get rid of the leadership that's on this earth. Primary one who is the God of this world, who is, 2 Corinthians 4-4. Satan the devil is the God of this world. He's coming back to depose him. We read about the gospel being hidden. It's hidden from those who are being lost. Verse 4, In whom the God of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, whose the image of God should shine to them.

Satan the devil does not want people to hear good news. Satan the devil does not want people to see the light. He wants them to be in darkness and not understand and not hear. Satan the devil is going to be removed. He's going to be deposed. He was a deceiver, that dragon, that serpent, the most subtle of all beings. He was called more subtle than any other being.

He could figure out every which way to trap you, to trick you, to entrap you, to trip you up. That was Satan's way. God's going to remove him and depose him.

Revelation 19, verses 11-20. Jesus Christ is coming back as king and leader, and not afraid to use his power, by the way, which sometimes it seems like our current resident has difficulty doing. Revelation 19, verses 11-20.

And I saw heaven open, behold a white horse, not like the white horse of the first seal. First seal he went out to conquer. This one's coming back, as king of kings. He that sat on him was called faithful and true. You can't call human beings faithful and true. They might sometimes be faithful and occasionally be true. They are not faithful and true as a normal being. And in righteousness he judges and makes sure he's totally fair.

Totally fair. His eyes were as a flame of fire. When he looked out, it was like beaming. And on his head were many crowns. Why does he have many crowns? No, it's not unusual. Why does he have many crowns? Because he's king of kings. So as many crowns indicated, he's over lots of kings.

He has many crowns. King of kings. And he had a name written that no man knew but he himself, we don't know what that name is. And he was dipped. He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood and his name is called the Word of God. John uses the logos quite a bit in his writings.

He was called the Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen and white and clean. God must have stables in heaven. Spiritual stables? Where do you keep the spiritual horses? Do they need spiritual hay? Probably not.

But the point being, he's coming back. Who are these armies? Initially angels. Who else? Who's going to rise to meet him in the air and come back with him? Maybe they'll be bringing some spare horses along and you can get one. As he comes back, it says, Armies followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen and white and clean.

What does he say about the church? The church, the woman who was given to her, that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white. So, fine linen. So, you have the same angels are perfect, too. They're perfect as angels. We'll be perfected as human beings, made into the children of God. Verse 15, Out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations. He shall rule them with the rod of iron. And doesn't he need to smite the nations? Look what a mess this world is in now. From China to the Middle East, to India, to Pakistan, look what a mess this world is in.

To Syria, as was mentioned, exploding all of his toxins and poisons to the world. Where you have, probably, eventually, Islam against Christianity. Islam against Christianity, probably. You saw what they said. You know, because America is attacking us, it's fair game now. So, anybody who has a wrong spirit and belongs to those who are radicalized Islam, they can kill any American. Just kill them. Doesn't matter. Just kill them. And that's the world we live in now. How much worse is it going to be?

He said, Out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, with it he should smite the nations. He ruled them with the rod of iron. He treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. There's going to be a bloodbath when Jesus Christ comes back. He's going to have to spank the world really good for them to come to submit to him. In verse 16, He has on His vesture and on His thigh a name written, King of Kings, Lord of Lords.

So, Jesus Christ is coming back. There's going to be a change in rulership. As we already saw, read Zechariah 14 verse 9. He's going to be King over all the earth. Daniel 2 verse 44. Turn there with me, please. Daniel 2 and verse 44. We find this wonderful prophecy in the book of Daniel. Then, Yekanezra wanted to know about this image of gold and have it interpreted.

Daniel stepped up and said, Yes, I can do that. He asked God for the help and the inspiration. Verse 44 is the summation of it. He says, In the days of these kings, shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.

And who's going to be ruling? For as much as you saw that stone that was cut out of the mountain without hands, that it broke in pieces, the iron, the grass, the clay, the silver, the gold, the great God has made note to the king, what shall come to pass hereafter, the dream is certain, and the interpretation is sure. This is no guesswork. There's coming a kingdom that's going to replace the kingdoms of this world, and that includes the leaders of this world.

Let's look at the second reason. The second reason Jesus Christ is coming back and what it'll mean to the world. There has to be a change in attitude. There has to be a change in attitude.

Genesis 6 and verse 5. Genesis chapter 6 and verse 5 is a very interesting scripture. Notice what the state of affairs was before the blood. Genesis 6-5, and God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth. Man had become so vile, so wicked, so bloodthirsty, that you can cut off somebody's head while they're gurgling. That's bloodthirsty. I was told by people who had a part in World War II.

I didn't. I was just born before that, but people, soldiers, veterans. A lot of the Germans had to go perpetrate these atrocities on nations. They had to get drunk to go do it. They had to be drugged to go do it. Because what they did to people, ripping them up and all the rest, was unheard of. God's coming back. He said the wickedness he saw was great. Notice the last part of this verse. And that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Now, you've known evil people before. I've known of evil people before. But all the time, that's all they think about is how they can do evil? That's what he said the world had devolved to before he decided to intervene.

And he said, I repent. I'm so sorry I made human beings. I didn't realize how low they could sink. I'm so sorry I made them. But there's Noah and his family, who's an example of righteousness. He held on to the faith. Not very many people did back then, did they?

Interestingly, what's going to happen in the future? Remember Matthew 24? Hmm. Matthew 24 and verses 37-39.

Here's what Jesus Christ said in letting his disciples know what it would be like in the end time.

But as the days of Noah were, so also shall be the coming of the Son of Man. How was it? For as in the days of Noah that were before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying, and giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and he didn't know, they didn't know until the flood came and took them all away. So shall the coming of the Son of Man be. How was it in the days of Noah? Only evil continually. Now it's okay to smoke marijuana. Hey, that doesn't hurt you. Oh, yeah? I had a guy who worked for me at Ambassador College before he came to the church years ago. He smoked marijuana. That didn't bother me. I could think rings around him. And he was my assistant. He was like 20 years younger than me. He couldn't remember this, and he couldn't remember that. He couldn't remember this. Never affected me. And we're saying, legalize it. If you can't stop it, let him have it. That's our world. Our world says, let's quit fighting people who want to disobey and want to be unusual. Now, let's legalize what they want to do. Let's legalize same-sex marriages. Let's make it okay. They don't think beyond their nose. If that's all you had were same-sex marriages and people were true to each other, you would die after one generation. There would be no children. A woman and a woman are not going to have a child, and a man and a man are not going to have a child. They're faithful to each other. They die after 70 years. And the world dies. Is that God's way? That's not God's way. There's a lot of evil thinking. God says, just like it was, Noah's day. That's the way it's going to be. There has to be a change in attitude. The world's attitude, we saw it read, I think it was Mr. Cliff Adams read this in Romans 8. Talks about how the flesh thinks. Those that are in the flesh, they can't please God. It takes God's Spirit in that person to help them. Philippians 2, verses 5 to 8. It takes the mind of Jesus Christ to have the right attitude. Philippians 2, verses 5 to 8. Philippians 2, verses 5 to 8. And God promises to give His Holy Spirit to His people once they're converted. Philippians 2, verses 5 to 8. Let this mind be in you. Think this way. Does it mean you have the same intellect as Jesus Christ? Give me 165 IQ, God. Genius. Give me a genius IQ like Christ had, or more. I'm not saying you have 165, probably greater than that. Give me a genius IQ like Christ. It's not about IQ, but it is the attitude and approach to life. Let this attitude be in you. Some translations even put it that way. Which was also in Christ Jesus. He humbled Himself. He could have power and might, and yet He humbled Himself. That's what Jesus Christ did.

And it says in verse 8, being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself. He became obedient to death, even the death of the cross. Jesus Christ obeyed. Jesus Christ had an attitude. Hey, what do you want me to do? Sure, I'll do that. Did He have initiative? Of course. Obedience doesn't break clues. You're just going to be there. Tell me what to do. Turn left. Yeah. Very right. Bobface, is that all you do? Just have to wait for somebody to tell you what to do? Or do you have some sense of initiative? But when the chips are done, if you need to obey, you obey. You obey God. God's people have a heart and an attitude. Galatians 5, 22 talks about what that's produced, right? The fruits of the Holy Spirit. Love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, meekness, self-control, patience.

God talks about an attitude. And this world needs a godly attitude, for sure. They need a change in attitude. Ezekiel 36, He promises to give it to them. Ezekiel 36, again, this day is a great day. It's a great day because this world needs it. This world needs a change. But they don't realize that Jesus Christ is going to come back and bring about that change. They don't know. And they'll fight Him when He comes back. They're not going to welcome Him. In fact, Hippolytus, I did a whole study on him. Hippolytus was one of their prognosticators, one of their church statesmen, and one of their prophets. And he basically took what described Christ's coming and applied it to Antichrist. So they're going to fight Jesus Christ. Alright, here he comes. This person saves His righteous. This person who wants me to follow Him. This person who's going to try to save the Jews. Yes, he's going to save the Jews and the Israelites when he comes back. They are His chosen people. He's going to save them. In Ezekiel 36, verse 26, here's what God says. A new heart also will I give to you, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will take away that stony heart out of your flesh, and I'll give you a heart of flesh. If you have a stone cold heart, you can't change. But if you have a fleshly heart, you can change. I'm going to give you a heart that can change. I'll give you a heart of flesh, and I will put my spirit within you. That brings that new attitude.

It will cause you to walk in my statutes, keep my judgments, and do them. And you shall dwell in the land that I will give to your fathers, and you shall be my people, and I will be your God. And it will start with Israel, but God doesn't distinguish. God's not a respecter of persons. He says He'll also be the banner to the Gentiles. He says that the Assyrians and the Egyptians and the Israelites will all serve together in the kingdom of God. So God's going to come back. There has to be a change in attitude. Let's see if I'm going to share. I have a couple of quotes. I have one quote I could share with you on attitude.

In the book we call The Americans, published by the National Geographic Society, has depicted a family of eight early settlers, four of whom are holding Bibles in their hands. The caption opens with the words, Book of Books, the Bible, was the end and the means of the education of early Americans. Here's what it says. The evidence is abundant that our revolutionary forefathers were, as a whole, God-fearing men who were raised up on the precepts of the Bible. Those individuals had an attitude, an attitude that was wonderful, an attitude that looked to God. They valued God. They valued the Word of God. In the world tomorrow, they will, too. Jesus Christ's return, number three, will mean a legislative change.

Let me read to you how many laws there are. I was stunned when I read this one. Number 6503 from 15,000 quotes says, The making of laws. There are two million laws in the United States. If a man could familiarize himself with them at a rate of two a day, he could be qualified to act as a law-abiding citizen in the space of 6,000 years. If you could learn just two of those laws every day, you'd have to live to 6,000 years in order to be able to live them all. All the laws of ancient Rome were ordered by the Emperor Justinian to be compiled during the sixth century AD With 16 assistants, Tribonian came up with 2,000 volumes after three years of work. Two thousand volumes for the laws of Rome. According to Robert Ripley, the French statesman Ferdinand Leucon was the only man who succeeded in making a poem out of the law. He took the whole French Civil Code with its 2,281 articles, statutes, annotations and amendments and converted them into an immaculate poem of 120,000 words, perfect in rhyme and meter. He did it ostensibly to make the law more palatable.

But he died in exile in Switzerland and left his widow in abject poverty, from having to work on it for so long. Man has lots of laws, but they're not the laws of God. They're not the laws of righteousness. Doesn't Proverbs 14, 12 tell us that? Who do they induct him? What do they bring man? Proverbs 14 and verse 12.

There's a way that seems right to a man, but the end thereof the ways of death. Man can make lots of laws. They seemingly leave them to give order. And I'm not against order, but I am against making a law for everything you do. I knocked out, oh, no more flowers on here. Oh, he touched, oh, don't leave your songs up here. Oh, don't put this on here. I haven't moved this. Oh, don't put that over there, schoolboy. Don't have any water up here. You make a rule every time somebody makes a mistake. Pretty soon you feel like you're in a straitjacket.

I can't move without making a mistake. That isn't the way God is. This is the way God would have it. What has man done, though, with the laws of God? Jude verses 3 and 4. Jude verses 3 and 4. What does man think of the laws of God? As we read Romans 8 and 7, Carl Mein is enmity against God is not subject to the laws of God. Neither, indeed, can be. So man makes all kinds of laws, but they're not worth very much, because they aren't laws of life.

They're laws for an Asian. They're laws for a county. They're laws for a city. There are some laws that are silly. If you happen to spit outside, you could be put in jail. There are all kinds of laws. You have no idea. I have no idea what they are. That you could be charged with for doing it or not doing it. Jude verses 3 and 4. Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write to you of the common salvation between Jews and Gentiles, that is, it was needful for me to write to you and exhort you. You should earnestly contend for the faith. By their faith means the body of beliefs, which was once delivered to the saints.

For their certain men crept in unawares, who before of old were ordained to this condemnation. I'm godly men. What do they do? They turn the grace of our God, which is mercy, forgiveness, and strength, into what? License, lasciviousness, means to do as you please, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. There has to come a legislative change.

The laws have to be instituted God's law, God's way. Will that happen? Yeah, Hebrew, habakkuk. Or some pronounce it habakuk. That's in the minor prophets. Jonah's mother's neighbor's house. Lasciv? After name. Chapter 2 and verse 14. For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea. There used to be a book one of my associates or assistants used to have. He used it occasionally just to introduce a sermonette.

It was entitled, How to Know More and More about Less and Less. It was all these little facts about things that you could care less about, but it was interesting. It was funny. It was humorous. A whole book on how to know more and more about less and less. The Bible says they're ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. One of the signs of the end time, it says, men will run to and fro.

And what, Daniel? Knowledge shall be increased. There's a lot of knowledge out here in the world, but not godly knowledge. Not right knowledge. And what will human beings come to think of God's law? Romans 7 and verse 12. Romans 7 and verse 12. You know how come to think of it? Same thing the Apostle Paul thought of it when he was converted. Romans 7 and verse 12. He said this, wherefore the law, that's the law of God, the Ten Commandments, and as the Ten Commandments are expounded throughout Scripture, wherefore the law is holy, the Commandment holy, just, and good. Which one of the Ten Commandments would you want your neighbors next door to you to be breaking?

I know well, Sabbath would. No, they do Sabbath anyway. They would have to stay inside of them. They may build their lawn. They may do their lawnwork. They may make a little bit of racket in the neighborhood. But on Friday nights, they might have parties and make some racket.

Would you like them to be thieves? Would you like them to be adulterers? Would you like them to be lusting after your wife or your husband? Would you like them to be murderers? Would you like them to have idols set up in their lawn? I don't think you would. You know which one man doesn't really like?

No. 4. That's the one they don't like. Now, of course, if you don't like one, you're guilty of all. You've broken the law. You're a lawbreaker. You don't like one. But Paul said the law is holy, just and good.

There has to be a change in attitude, a change in approach, toward the laws that are words of life. Words of life. So that return will mean a Jesus Christ return will mean a legislative change. Jesus Christ's return will mean an educational change. There has to be a change in education. Humans have to be taught the right way. Here's one of the students tested on biblical knowledge. A few years ago, a test on biblical knowledge, number 701, by the way, was given to five classes of high school seniors. Most of them failed the exam completely. Some were so confused that they thought Sodom and Gomorrah were lovers.

Who were... Oh, they were two lovers! Romeo and Juliet. Or that the Gospels were written by Matthew, Mark, Luther, and John. Others said that Eve was created from an apple, and that the stories Jesus used in teaching were called parodies. Not prayerables. More than 80% of the pupils could not complete such familiar quotations as, Many are called, but few are... Couldn't complete it. Chosen. Another one, a soft answer turns away. Couldn't complete it. Wrath. So, our world has put knowledge aside, and yet, Dr.

William Lyons Phelps, I'm sure, Mandy will remember this one. I quoted it several times in class. He said this, It's better to have a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures. Dr. William Lyons Phelps, one of Yale University's most distinguished professors, Ivy League, who said, I would rather have a thorough knowledge of the Scriptures than a college education.

His knowledge of the Scripture enhanced his view of God, and thus influenced his life. This man, who was a professor, a distinguished professor, said, I would rather have a thorough knowledge... Does that mean you poo-poo college? No. College is good. It teaches you things you learn. What is essential knowledge that you need to have delivered is God's Word, the Bible.

Romans 1. What happens without that? Romans 1. Here's what happens to human beings without that. Romans 1 and verse 21. And by the way, secularism is growing by leaps and bounds. Many churches are afraid of it. Of secularism, you know what secularism means? It means, of the world. That's exactly what it means. Of the world. And secularism says there's no absolute truth, that your opinion is just as good as somebody else's opinion. And if somebody reads something, you plain black and white, with every word being able to be understood, you can say, that's your perspective. That's your perspective. Well, God says, you shouldn't do this.

That's your perspective. It's not my perspective. God's word says it. In my perspective, I tell you what I thought about it. Not my perspective. Here's what God's word says. They're taught that at school. What is your perspective? Do you ever notice how many programs, even nice news programs, they have the left and the right, and the left and right sit there and they argue with each other.

Well, that's a nice debate. What did you accomplish? Filoni. Nothing. Zip. And each one is saying its own point, making no sense at all to prove their point, or to try to stand for their point. Well, he wanted to do this because of this, he wanted to do that because of that. How do you know he did that? Do you know him? How do you know he did that? How do you know that's what he was thinking? You don't know. Give it up. Put your arguing. Look for truth. They don't. Education of system has to be changed, because, verse 21, Romans 1, because when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God.

Neither were thankful. When man knew God, you imagine Adam and Eve knew God. He walked with Him in the garden. He talked Him. And what did they do? They disobeyed Him. God had to just kick them out of the garden. But God still, from time to time, appeared to people like Abraham, like Isaac and Jacob. He appeared. He wrestled with Jacob, became flesh and wrestled with Him. They knew Him. But it came time to give the Ten Commandments?

What did the Israelites say to Moses? You go get a Moses. You're a good guy. We don't want to be around them. They did not want God's presence with them. He says, when they knew God, they didn't glorify Him as God. Neither were thankful, but became vain in their own imaginations. Their foolish heart was darkened. Why was their heart darkened? Because they didn't see any light. Where do you get the light? From God. Professing themselves to be wise.

We're wise. You know what secularists say? Who should you follow if you're a secularist? What the greatest minds say today. Because what they might say tomorrow might be different. And their view? There's no absolute truth. What's true today? Might not be true tomorrow. God says this is truth. The Apostle John wrote 88 times. No, more than that. He wrote more times than all the other, I think, 92. The rest of the New Testament? 88 times. John was the last of the living apostles. You know what he wrote about?

Mostly in that truth, true, truly. Hold on to it. I'm so glad to see your children holding on to the truth, walking in the truth, living the truth. Jesus Christ is the truth in the life. He brought truth into the world. He was all for truth. You better be, too. But anyway, he goes on to say, professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like a corruptible man.

What do they do? They make totem poles. What do they do? They make images to gods. Egypt has gods that have the body of a man in the face of a falcon or whatever else, and four-footed beasts and creeping things, wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts to dishonor their own bodies between themselves.

Verse 25, who changed the truth of God into a lie and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. There has to be a change in the educational system. And thank God there will be. Thank God there will be. There will be a time when men are going to come and say, show me your ways, O Lord. Teach me your paths. We sing that, don't we, Psalm 25. In Micah chapter 4, as Mr. Adam said, we're looking ahead to the kingdom of God too.

Micah chapter 4, Christ is coming back to set it up. What is going to happen? What about these nations don't know anything that have come back wounded somewhat, limping? And chapter 4 verse 1, Micah 4 verse 1, But in the last days it shall come to best, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established, the top of the mountains. God's kingdom is going to be number one. And it shall be exalted above the hills. And notice, people shall flow into it. Verse 2, what are they going to say? Is there going to be a new educational system?

Many nations shall come and say, come, let's go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us of His ways. And we will walk in His paths, when the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. Zechariah 8, 22 and 23, He said they're going to come to the Israelites, to the Jews.

They're going to grab ahold of Him. Zechariah 8, 22 and 23, they're going to say, teach us about God, because we have heard that God is with you. Teach us. Help us. We've had all this learning, all these degrees that you can get after your name. But it isn't God-centered. It's not God-centered. By the way, the colleges used to be God-centered. Most of the universities were established as religious institutions, to carry on God's way of life that they thought they had.

But they've devolved into hateful. If you saw anything on Kellyphile, Megan Kelly interviewed this ward Churchill from out in Colorado, who hates his country, hates America, teaches people, teaches students to hate America, teaches students to do what you want to do, and not follow laws, be disobedient, do what you want to do.

She interviewed Bill Ayers, who's a professor, and his wife, who blew up buildings in their rebellious ways. And they're both professors. Let's hire them! They can teach us how to make bombs! What a great thing! Our world is wacko! Our educational system is going down the drain, and Megan Kelly, she says, What's going on here? These are the kind of professors that you have in many institutions. These are the kind of professors you have in many. And in many institutions, those professors are liberal to the nth degree.

And they try to spout that to their students. Jesus Christ was a teacher. Come from God, remember Nicodemus? Remember when he said, we know that you are a teacher. Come from God. And in the world tomorrow, Jesus Christ is going to be the head teacher. And we're going to be helping to teach people God's way. In fact, Isaiah says, your teachers are not going to be removed into a corner anymore.

But you'll see them, and they'll be there to tell you, No, no, don't go that way. This is the way. Walk you in. If it's Isaiah 30, verse 19, I give you that verse. If you want to... You're going to be teaching them. See, the 19, verse 30, is that the word? That's what it is. It's every year, 30. It's not in my notes. I know where it is on my page. If I did. We've got 30 and verse 19. And 20, verse 20. Isaiah 30 and verse 20. You'll be there to teach and help. So, you have to be an educational change.

And finally, Christ's return will mean a religious change. A religious change. There are over 1,000 different, quote, Christian organizations, and that does not count those who are, what do I want to say, independent groups. So, they're going to be a little independent here, a little independent. But major groupings, over 1,000. Quote, claim to be Christian. There has to be a change.

There has to be a change in the religious system. Matthew 24. But before that time, our world will have this to confront them. Matthew 24 and verse 4. Jesus answered and said, when he was asked by his disciples, what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age? And he said to them, Take heed that no man deceive you. There are going to be religious people out there trying to deceive.

Take heed that no one's deceiving you. Many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ, and shall deceive many. Many are going to come, and they're going to deceive the many, not the few. And in verse 11, he says this, Many false prophets shall rise, shall deceive many. And you can read in Zechariah what he says will be done to those who arrogate to themselves a ministry in the world tomorrow. Their own parents will say, You are not a prophet, and they will stone them.

And someone who used to be in this world, they say, Didn't you used to be a prophet? No, I'm a farmer. I'm a farmer. My dad's been teaching me how to do farming. I'm a farmer. I'm not a prophet.

It's very dangerous to be teaching people everywhere. Very serious to be teaching people that, which is untrue. Revelation 12, verse 9, of course, the one who spawned all these deceptions is Satan the devil. Revelation 12, verse 9, And the dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil and Satan, which deceives the whole world. He was cast out into the earth. His angels were cast out with him. And in 2 Corinthians 11, he talks about having ministers. It's no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of light. They appear to be good. They appear to be nice. The one lady that I...

sisters, two sisters up in their sixties when I was in my thirties. I met them on their farm, which was in the middle of Toronto. And they still kept this little bit of farm land. It used to be a milk farm, a big farm. All around them was businesses and so on. They kept this one little entrance where you went into it and you went down. You were like on a little farm. They kept it. They were two ladies, sixty years old.

And the first time I visited them, they were sitting, talking to them, and they were telling me how wonderful it was that they'd been going to church for how many years, whatever, all their lives, until they were about sixty years old. And they were saying, yeah, we go to this church. The ministers wanted to say, let me ask you a question. Can you tell me what the gospel is? Alright, let's try this one. Have you learned at that church what sin is? Can you tell me what the sermon was last week that you thought was so good? After I explained a lot of those things to them, they started coming to our church.

They knew they'd be getting answers and being taught. And those ladies were wonderful, and they came faithfully to our church. And every time there'd be an offering, there'd be several hundred dollars in each of the offering envelopes from them. They weren't working anymore, but they sure gave nice offerings to the church. They were faithful, they were converted, and they stuck it out as far as I know before I left the area many years ago, and I'm sure they're deceased now.

I hope they stayed faithful to the end. But you see, they had been taught by nice ministers, but they hadn't been taught even what the God... they couldn't even tell me what the gospel was about. They couldn't tell me what sin was. They couldn't tell me what the plan of God was for them. They didn't know. They hadn't been taught. So in Matthew 16 and verse 18, Jesus Christ is going to institute His church.

Matthew 16 and verse 18, all other churches, they will be banned. We will not be so broad... Oh, come on in! Bring your corrupt religion into our country. We're broad-minded. We accept everybody. Oh, yeah? Not in the world tomorrow. Not in the world tomorrow, Matthew 16, 18. Jesus Christ said, verse 17, you're Simon Barjona. He said in verse 18, and I say to you that you are Peter, you are a Petros, you are a smaller rock, and upon this rock, Petra, the word Petra means a big rock formation, I will build my church in the gates of hell and never prevail against it.

What church is going to be in the world tomorrow? God's church. God's church, the church of God. That's what's going to be there. That's the only one that's going to be there. Ephesians 4, verses 3 to 6, who will be the head? Jesus Christ. Ephesians 4, verses 3 to 6. He tells us this. Endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body, one Spirit, even as you are called in, one hope of your calling. That's what the world will experience, too. One Lord, one faith, one baptism. And he covers, after that verse, one God and Father of all, who's above all, through all, and in you all.

Timothy, in Paul's writings to Timothy in 1 Timothy 3, 15, calls the church the pillar and ground of truth. God's church has to preserve the truth. God's church has to teach the truth. God's church has to follow the truth. God's church has to live the truth. One day, the whole world will be living God's way, following God's commandments, meeting on the Sabbath day, and keeping the holy days.

That's a beautiful time ahead. So, Christ's return. What will it mean? It'll mean wonderful, godly changes in leadership, in attitudes, in laws, in education, in religion, all those necessary fibers for a happy, decent, godly world. Let's read Revelation 11, verses 15 to 17, one more time. Revelation 11, verses 15 to 17, and the seventh trumpet sounded. There were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever. Verse 16, and the twenty-four elders which sat before God on their seats fell down on their faces and worshiped God, and they said, saying, We give you thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which are and was and are to come, because you have taken to you your great power and have reign.

That's one meaning on this day, the Feast of Trumpets. And may we look forward to the time it's pictured that Jesus Christ initiates on the Day of Trumpets when we go to the Feast of Tabernacles, and even before that, the Day of Atonement, when the world gets closer to God so that they can also be at God's Kingdom. Have a great rest of the day, and it's nice seeing you all being with you. God, here, thank you, Mr. DeCampus, for allowing me to come, and I appreciate the opportunity to be with you.