The Word Became Flesh

Perhaps you remember not Jimmy Cliff, but Johnny Nash. Remember Johnny Nash? He had a song in 1972 called what? I can see clear and now the rain is gone. Yes, I'm ready. I can see all of our circles and by our way. Everybody should remember that song. You know, it's nice to have a nice clear day and so forth, but my point today is for those who want to see God, He can be clearly seen. He is seen by many of us. His invisible attributes are clearly seen as Paul makes the note. And we not only have to believe, but we can believe because we do more than see. You can feel it. There's Wi-Fi in this building. Can you see it? Well, it's here. It's here. It's on a different sense than we live. Can hear it? Can you understand it? I don't understand all the microwaves and everything that go about, but I know that it works. And I know that God is here. Hopefully you do. Some of us has to see to believe. I was 12 years old. We had not come into the church yet. We didn't even go to any church, so you can imagine what I was like. And my friend, a very good friend of mine, who later grew up together. His name was Joe Curtis. Joe Curtis found in the back of a comic book or some type of magazine where you could order for $2.00. X-ray glasses. So I wasn't the only one. $2.00! So he said, you'll come up with a dollar, I'll come up with a dollar, and we'll order those glasses. Because he said, look, you can look there and see the bones in person's hands. We believed it. And even worse, you can see behind people's clothing. Young girls were on their mind even at 12. Okay? He ordered the glasses. We were excited.

Got together, pulled them out of the box. They were rather cheap-looking glasses, but didn't matter. We knew they would work. We could see everything we ever wanted to see, except when we put them on.

They were more of a tinted glass. There wasn't anything. I couldn't see bone. I couldn't see anything. But they got there $2.00. So I knew how important it was after that moment that you didn't believe everything you hear.

And that is important to be able to see. See clearly, as Johnny Nash says. It's so important for us to see clearly that God has been, always will be active in people's lives. And especially it should be in ours. I want to talk about today this Bible as your visual tool.

Because you read this, you study this, because just reading it really isn't enough. You need to study it. Many people read the book, but do they really study it and take it down? That's what we're going to look at during our talk today, our Bible study on Jonah. Because I hope you think you know Jonah, because I hope I can show you maybe there's something else.

Maybe I can pull out my glasses that I had for... Wow, I don't even say how many years. 48 years. Whatever.

And look at that. But I want to look at today. We will have time, I feel like, to go through, and I'd like you to follow me.

I'd like you to follow me as we take a journey through the Bible. We take a journey into not only the mind, but the plan of God. And how he has clearly shown himself over the last 6,000 years, if you're willing to look. So I want to look at today a chain of events. A chain of events that so link us to the incredible mind of God that you can only say by following these links in the chain that God has a divine plan.

That no matter what people think, no matter what people say or do, that plan has always been here, always will be here.

Do we really, really appreciate it and want it? That's the thing we have to ask.

So I want to look at first a 4,000 year history through the pages of this Bible. This is not a comprehensive study because I could have made this three sermons.

Today, 55 minutes, we will cover 4,000 years of history. And we will do it rather quickly. We will do it with our ears, with our eyes, and hopefully with our hearts and our spirit as it guides us so that we can understand the chain, the systematic line of events that happen from this date to this date to this date that's laid out before us.

I'd like to go first to Genesis 1. Let's start at the very beginning. Genesis 1, verse 14.

Genesis 1, verse 14 said, Then God said, Let there be lights in the firmament, or expanse of the heavens, to divide the day from the night, and let them be for signs and seasons.

Seasons. Seasons would be moed. Seasons is moedim, moedim, for the days and for the years.

God laid this out for us. Seasons means religious appointments.

So God, in His infinite wisdom, came up with, I'm going to put, I have a planet, I have a sun, I have a moon. Now I'm going to align them so that they give light, day, moon, and dark. And then I'm going to make it so that when they move, I'm going to line them up for religious appointments. And then I'm going to make those appointments with my people, those that want to follow me, which hopefully is us now and the world at another time.

When they come to this understanding that God is who He says He is, and that's why we believe it, as chapter 11 of Hebrews says, we believe He is who He says He is. And He did this. Well, it's amazing because here that sun is right here, and then the earth moves around the sun.

And then we have around the earth, we have a moon that revolves around it. And it's amazing because if this is a sun and I'm earth and the moon is revolving around me, God planned it so that just when I get here, the moon comes around me, and it gets right in line with the sun, and it reflects then to the earth as we will have shortly a full moon. He lined everything up, and He said, I'm going to make these appointments, and I'm going to put such a light up there that you can't miss it. And when the spring equinox comes, guess what? The very first full moon will be my Passover and start the days of Unleavened Bread. He planned that, and He put it right here, right here. When did He do that? Because the 14th day of the first month is Passover, as it says so many times, it will go over as we go through the days of Unleavened Bread. It's there! He made it! He planned it to be that way. He's so powerful! He said, okay, I can put that right there, and I'll do that right there. And guess what? You can look out, and it's time. It's time for my religious appointments. So if there's a chain of events, this is a... He made it so that we understand now. That's a link in the chain, that we can follow this chain. We can follow those links to where we totally understand the mind and the purpose of God. And the mind and the purpose of God for each and every one of us. That's an incredible, incredible, empowering, inspiring set of words that are laid out for us. Then, go down to Genesis. If you're following me, Genesis 1 and verse 26. Genesis 1 and verse 26. Then God said, let us make man in our image according to our likeness.

Wow! Think about that. Did he make us like a goat? Did he make us like an animal? No. As a matter of fact, Steven Spielberg created E.T. Sam. Sam. Sam. God could have made us look like this, couldn't He? Okay. But He didn't. He didn't. He made us look like Him. Of course, He's spirit. We're still flesh. But He gives us just a little bit of spirit so we can kind of know what it feels like. He made us like this. Different races, colors, the beauty that He made of people. He made us because why? Because the title of this sermon is, The Word Became Flesh. The Word Knew. This is what He's going to look like. So He came. So He didn't look like E.T. and people going, ooh. But He looked like one of us. Marvelous as we look at this link through His Word. Go with me now to Genesis 3. Genesis 3, verse 15, and the Lord said to the serpent, after He had beguiled Eve, after He had gotten man to commit sin, and in verse 15 He says, I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your seed and her... What does your Bible say? Seed. Okay? Is your seed capitalized? Why? Because it's talking about the Word. The Word who become flesh. The Word that would become flesh. Jesus Christ in the New Testament. That is a seed. And He said, guess what, Satan? He's going to... Don't crush your head! Is what one translation says. And He did. But not before being bruised. Bruised for what? Our iniquity. But here is that link all the way back. Here we are in Genesis. When Adam and Eve, 4000 years before the Word became flesh, here He is showing that link. I'm coming. For all of us, I'm coming. And this is the first real prophecy in the entire Bible. Think about it. He's predicting a Messiah is coming, a Savior is coming. How that must have empowered them. Let's move on to verse 21. Genesis 3 and verse 21. And also, Adam and his wife, also for Adam and his wife, the Lord God made tunics of skin and clothed them. Where did the skins come from? Animals. These are the same animals that what? That Adam had named. He knew them. He named them. They were pets. You might as well say the whole garden of Eden was pets. And now, because of their sin, because of the sins that they had committed, one of their precious pets had to die. Had to be bled. See this link? It's the link that ties us not only to where we are now, but all the way back. It's the same chain. Blood must be shed for sin. These animals, imagine them. Imagine Adam and Eve seeing their pet dead and skins that they would have to wear. You might even say, if I can say the words, wear their sins on their bodies. The connection. The connection. Go down to Genesis 4. We're going to zip through here, and I could spend more time, but I would like you to think about this and study the other links that are in the rest of the Bible that I don't touch on. As we see this wonderful systematic plan of God coming down from the creation of man to the creation of the Word becoming flesh. Creation of having to give up His divinity. All. He still was God, but He did not use His power. As a matter of fact, what did He say? Of Myself, I can do nothing! It's the Father!

And all He wants us to do is follow the same lead, doesn't He? We can't do it. I have a friend back in Tennessee. Can't do nothing! No, we can't do nothing, but we can do all things through Him. But God, all things are possible. How inspiring is this? Let's jump over to Genesis 4.

Genesis 4 and verse 2. Talking about Eve then. She had given birth to Cain. She bore again. This time it is Brother Abel. Now Abel was keeper of the sheep. But Cain was a tiller of the ground. Here he was keeping sheep, lambs.

Why not cattle? Why not giraffes? Notice it's sheep. It's sheep.

I have a sermon I'll be giving here soon because I did have the opportunity when I was younger to raise sheep.

I want to talk about that. But it's amazing here how Abel was a keeper of sheep. And in the process of time it says, Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the ground to the Lord. Abel, as it says in verse 4, also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat, and the Lord respected Abel in his offering. So he sacrificed a what? A lamb. And God accepted it. The Word knew what it represented. It represented him. Didn't it? It represented that he, at a time in the future, after many other lengths, so that there is no doubt that he was a lamb of God. There is no doubt that he was a word. You remember John 1 verse 1? In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God, and the Word was with God.

A spokesman for God is the Word.

And he tells us this. He reveals this to us so that we can... I mean, can you imagine this?

Him picking any other animal. A sweet little lamb. I mean, we used to raise him in an... I don't want to go too far into it because it takes away from another sermon I'm giving, but... A lamb... You know, they have this song or whatever. Mary had a little lamb. You know, it followed her wherever she went or whatever however the words go. Well, they would follow you anywhere and everywhere, especially if you... A mother rejected them and you had to feed them by the bottle, and they would just follow you, and they were just like... They were so precious, and they would just... Bye, bye, bye. They'd see you. We'd come home from school. Bye, bye. And they would come running at you on the one...

This so... This picture of a lamb so pictures the Lamb of God.

Humble.

Sweet. Carried.

Like wheat. Kind of needs to be a little more... Not about you, but I do.

If Mary had to say, she'd probably say, you're more like a ghost, isn't she? Because I'm hard-headed!

What do we want to be? We want to be Christ-like. Right?

But this sheep, this lamb that he killed, pictured Jesus Christ. Pictured the Word becoming flesh and having to die for all of us.

But then...

Then something even bigger takes place as we follow this in. Genesis, I'd like you to go with me. Genesis 14.

Genesis 14.

Genesis 14 tells the story of how Lot was taken by the three kings and all his family, and Abraham rescued them. All 318 men took on as you can read anywhere between 10,000 and 50,000 men.

Now that makes for an impressive army.

Especially when they were sheepherds.

And they took on warriors. And they got Lot back. And so as they got Lot back, here he had all the stuff with them. And it says in chapter 14, verse 18, Then Melchizedek, remember that name? You don't go to Hebrews. Okay? The one that had no beginning, no end, no father, no mother.

Where was this? Who else could it be? It was the Word. It was the Word. Because the Word became flesh-like. It wasn't totally flesh yet. Because He was still, God's Spirit, you could feel Him, you could touch Him. Just like He told Timothy, or doubting Thomas. I don't believe it. Put your hand right there. Amazing that He shows up here as the King and a priest. And how does that relate to us?

Doesn't it tell us in Revelation what we will be? Kings and priests of the Levitical priesthood? No! Of the Melchizedek priesthood. This is such a link to our future, our destiny. Kings and priests, the Melchizedek priesthood. This is the first sign. This is the first link to telling us what we're going to be. And for us to maybe prepare, maybe with a little more passion and energy than we've done before. Because we find out He isn't plain. The Word isn't plain.

God isn't plain. This is big to Him. This is plain. What does it say? Revelation 13, 8. Jesus Christ said, we're slain from the foundations of the world. Imagine that. Let's look here. Genesis 14, verse 18. Then Melchizedek, king of Salem, so he's not only a king, he was a priest. King of what? Jerusalem. Before it had the Jeru, it was Salem. Jeru-salam in the same territory where David, Siloam built the temple.

This is where they were. And so then Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine, for he was a priest of God's most height. I guess he was. But look at this. It's the very first instance in the entire Bible of what? Bread and wine. What will we do on the Passover night? We're going to partake of what?

Bread and wine. What are the symbols of Jesus Christ's body? The words when he had a body? Bread and wine. Blood and wine. Yeah. This is a tie. Just like the law of first mention, as theologians call it. The law of first mention means the first time something's mentioned in the Bible, it sets a tone for the way that the rest of them will follow along.

This is the first time we see bread and wine tied together. Was it Passover? We don't know. There's no way to tell. I'm not putting conjecture out. I've had enough of that in my lifetime. I want to see what the words is.

I want to see what the word says in the word. Then I can take it to the bank. I'll argue all day long. You give me this. I don't want to hear what people think. I want to hear what this word says. I hope you're the very same way, because that's where we live by.

But it's the very first time bread and wine. Could it have been? It might have been. I don't know. I don't need to know. I just know it is a link. Is it not? It's a link. It tells us the first time, hey, the word is a king and a priest. And he's got bread and wine. And so then he goes from chapter 14 to chapter 15.

And this is where Abraham, he tells Abraham, guess what? I'm your God. And this is what I want you to do. I want you to take these animals and I want you to... I'm going to give you which animals and you're going to kill them and you're going to spread them out. And you're going to make a sacrifice to me. I'm going to tell you when to do it. And he does it. And then what happens to Abraham here?

Remember the story? He does that. And then he falls asleep and has this nightmare. It only can be described as a nightmare. Frightening. And what happens? During that time, the Scripture said that the Spirit of God moved over and through. One translation said passing over the sacrifice. A picture, the very first time it pictures the Passover was with Abraham. It wasn't with Egypt back in Exodus. This happened 430 years to the exact same day. Read it.

It says that. The self same day. 430 years from the time that Abraham did this to the time that the Passover. Incredible. Incredible. Exodus 12. Go to Exodus 12 fast. Do this. I'm sure you got it up there. Don't bother you. Exodus 12. Verse 40. Now the sojourning of the children of Israel who lived in Egypt was 430 years. As a matter of fact, for those of you who might have questions here, wait a minute. I've heard this and I've heard that. And wait a minute. I'm not sure you're right on that.

Wait a minute. It says 400. Is it 430? Is it like blah, blah, blah, blah? Guess what? We're going to have a Bible study on it in the coming weeks. And I will totally convince you. I guarantee you I can convince you from the Word of God. That is 430 years from this night, from when Abraham here, all the way into when they left.

They picked up their toys and some of Egypt's toys, too, and they started their march. 430 years. Because Jacob had entered Egypt 215 years exactly before that time. We'll go through that. I hope you enjoy it. I love it. I love that study.

But it says here, 41, and it came to pass at the end of 430 years on the very same day.

Here's that link, that incredible link, from 430 years before when God showed Abraham the Passover to exactly when it happened with the Pharaoh.

The first time. It was in Genesis 15. And read it. It's such an enjoyable read when you read what he did in Genesis 15. It's so empowered that he tells him, not only he's going to tell him what's going to happen and everything else, and that made me come to believe that what did he see when he had that dream?

That was so frightening.

That was so frightening to him. It says, Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon him, and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him. What was that? Did he see? Did he possibly see as God let him see into the future as a Pharaoh was killing all the male babies of Israel? Or was it, did he actually get to see and hear the crying and the screaming of every household in Egypt of the oldest of dying and people crying out?

Sound possible? Probable? Because nothing else in chapter 15. Read it. Nothing else makes sense? He lays everything out for us in chapter 15.

But so many people just read over it instead of really breaking down and studying.

Now let's go over a couple chapters. Chapter 18.

Chapter 18, because the Word then becomes flesh-like again. Again. The Word shows up in chapter 18, verse 1.

Then the Lord appeared to him by the terebeth tree and mammary as he was sitting in the tent door in the heat of the day.

So he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing by him.

And when he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the ground.

He had no problem dropping to the ground. Why? He knew who the Lord was. He knew who the Word was.

He was awestruck that he would come and join him now and come to his tent.

That amazing!

And then it said, so he lifted up his eyes and he met them and bowed himself to the ground and said, My Lord, if I have now found favor in your sight, do not pass on by your servant.

Please let a little water be brought and wash your feet.

Wash your feet and rest.

We don't know. It doesn't say that Abraham washed his feet, does it?

Would you doubt Abraham? He had no problem bowing before him. He knew who he was. Would you have any problem if Jesus Christ walked in here now?

Would you have any problem on Passover night if he came in and sat and you could wash his feet?

Well, guess what? He did that, except he didn't want his feet washed. He washed others' feet.

Why? He wanted to show. Give us an example. Show us how we need to be in here.

That God, the God, the one that made that moon, made it, made everything, could come and sit down and wash your feet, which was the lowliest of all the servants' jobs. He had to show.

So knowing Abraham, here I could see that he just didn't want to wash his feet.

He didn't let them wash their own feet. I could see him wanting to.

But can you imagine the word sitting there, if Abraham was washing his feet, he had to think back or forward, and if he's thinking forward that night of Passover when he washes, did his mind go back to the time where his own feet were washed by Abraham? And now, now he has the opportunity as the creator to wash someone's feet.

You know what's amazing? It's the first time. First time we see feet being washed in the entire Bible.

Is that by chance? I don't think so. It's another link. It's another link as he tells this incredible story to all of us.

Follow the chain. Look at the links so that you can understand.

And then go over to chapter 22. Chapter 22, you remember what happens in chapter 22? The Word commands the ultimate sacrifice. He says, Abraham, I want you to take your son, your only son, that son of promise, and I want you to take him up, and you're going to sacrifice him to me. Except he's just going to take you three days to get there.

Does Abraham go, wait, wait a minute. The only thing he said, back him up. Pack up the stuff. We're going.

Three days? That's why he ain't on his mind. Did he bring him? No.

As a matter of fact, guess it, I want you to sacrifice him to me.

And, you know, our sacrifice isn't like one of these movies where it shows him stabbing or whatever, but when they kill a lamb or anything else, they held him by his throat and they cut his jugular and cut it across here and they bled to death.

So he would have had, he was laying to his son up there, laid him up there, and had the knife right there. He was as good as dead. The Bible tells us that.

Because the angel had to stop him. He had to stop him because he was going to do it.

And what did the word say? Now I know. Now I know.

You would not even hold back. Your only son. What are we holding back?

What are we holding back? Well, look at that with Jonah.

But this incredible, incredible words, because I'd like to go over to Hebrews.

Hebrews 11, verse 17 through 19. Because this little short passage is here, tell us the mind of Abraham that day.

And verse 17 says, By faith Abraham, when he was tested, Any of you ever had tests this big?

Offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promise offered up his only begotten son. Of whom it is said, In Isaac your seed shall be called, accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him. And I figured it would sense because he was as good as dead.

I like it. I like it in here. Let me read this. Hebrews 11, verse 19. I'll read from the New Living Translation just because I love this. It says, Abraham reasoned that if Isaac died, God was able to bring him back to life again.

That's why he said, Me and the boy will go yonder, and we shall return.

That is incredible faith. Now he got to see Abraham would sacrifice his own son, which makes you go back to the time when Christ was hanging on that piece of wood, and that God was willing to watch his son suffer and die for all humanity.

John 3, 16 says why? Remember what we said? For God so loved the world, he was willing to have his son die. Imagine that thought entering the Word's mind when Abraham was doing that, knowing he was going to do that. He was going to have to die, but God would not call it back and stop it.

That's how great a plan it was.

What a wonderful plan it was. You remember Genesis 32, where Jacob wrestles with God? He wrestles with God?

This isn't WWE. This isn't MMA. This was a man wrestling God, because he said, I want you to bless me. He knew who he was, and the Word wrestled with him all night to see if he had it in.

Has God wrestled with you and tested you on some things? To see if you're going to give up, or whether we will hang on, endure, and overcome.

That's what Jacob did. Imagine, as we look at this incredible link, where the Word became flesh-like again, just to work with his people who were following him. And then you go all the way to Exodus 3. Let's go over to Exodus 3.

Exodus 3. Here we see the bush. The Word put himself in a bush and put himself on fire, just to get Moses' attention, because he had a plan for Moses, rather than he has a plan for all of us. Moses was a link in that incredible chain of events, just as we are a link in that chain. Don't forget that, because we're coming to an end. I want you to see. This is how important that link is. Just see how important it is to God. Every link in that chain. And so he talks with Moses, and Moses is like, hmm, hmm, hmm. Finally he talks to me, and he goes, who do I...

go get him! Go get him, Moses! Look at my people out of there. And he goes, but who do I say that you are? And he said, what? I am. I am. And he knew exactly... He was, he is, he always will be. He turned on one. Isn't that amazing? And Moses is like, okay. Because you haven't realized. This is the first time, first time in this incredible... that God gives His name, that the Word gives His name. It's nowhere else before there. Nowhere else. But now it is. The law of first mention. How important is it? Moses did what he has to do, didn't he?

But what's so important after that is, he says, for the very first time... Moses, take your shoes off. Take your sandals off, for the land in which you stand is holy ground. You've come into the presence of God. Brethren, do we. Symbolically, every week. Take our shoes off. Spiritually take our shoes off. So that we come before God. We ask His presence here. Do you doubt He's here? I don't.

Because we've asked Him. We're a tour of mine, a gathering together in my name. I will be there. Besides, it's His appointment. He made this day as an appointment with us, a religious appointment. Of course He's going to be here. Do we show the proper respect? Well, if you've ever gone to Hawaii, I know you have. Or if you go to Japan, maybe some of you have.

One thing they always do, you always see. You don't enter their house with shoes on. You take them off as a show of respect for not just the house, but who owns the house. The respect that comes there. This is what God is asking us to do each Sabbath and seven times a year. Spiritually. Take our sandals off so we respect that time. We respect Him. The very first time it is mentioned. Go with me to Exodus 12.

Exodus 12, verse 29. It came to pass at midnight that the death angel comes and he strikes all the children. Is that what yours says? Mine doesn't say that. Mine doesn't say a death angel. They're going to have that TV show, The Ten Commandments, going to come up pretty soon. You're going to see Charles and Heston. You know, they've got a tough guy. All of a sudden you see this green fog that comes through and that just kind of wipes out all.

It doesn't say that, does it? Who does it? The Lord! The Word! The Word came and He killed all the firstborn. He didn't even leave it to an angel. Angels could easily have done it. But no, it's Him. It's Him. And then we see in Joshua. Joshua 5, verse 13 through 15. Joshua comes up and he sees a soldier. The Word, flesh-like again, shows up. Moses is dead. Now is Joshua. He's leading the church in the wilderness. And he comes up and he says what?

Are you for us or against us? He's like, oh man. And he tells him who he is. And you remember what he said? Take your shoes off! Second time. Take your sandals off. For the ground in which you walk, the ground in which you stand, the ground in your presence is holy ground. Show respect. That, brethren, is what God wants from us. Not only every seventh day, but seven times a year. Just show respect. There is that incredible link that continues and continues.

Go with me now. As we see this chain, we see this chain, and I could have covered 50 other scriptures where the Word makes its presence all through, whether it's Ezekiel, whether it's Daniel, whether it's all these... I could have covered more and more and more. This... This... This links... are endless in the 4,000-year history that we have called the Old Testament. But then we come to a time. We come to a time in the book of John. I read John... I quoted John 1-1. We should all be able to quote John 1-1. But like you go with me to John 1, verse 14.

John 1 and verse 14. And the Word... And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His... What? Glory. Glory. They saw everything. They saw everything He did. The walking on the water, the healing, the changing... His first public miracle, changing foot-washing water into great-tasting wine. They saw it all. They saw the dead rays. They saw all this.

Because the Word became flesh. Powerful. We beheld His glory. The glory has only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth. Brethren, we are so blessed to be able to understand this chain of events that took place for not only 4,000 years, but it's been 2,000... I'm going to 19,000 and 86 years since the AD 31, when Christ was killed. And that chain continues with just as important lengths as it did in Genesis.

4,000 years in the making up until that time. And not just 4,000 years, but the earth. The earth, 4.5 billion years old, is our estimate. We may be off a couple hundred thousand. Because it says, what? He was slain from the foundations of the world. Is it then 4.5 billion years? No. How about 13.8? We can measure light from light years, and we go back to the universe. And they think it's at least 14 billion years, 13.8 billion years, or 14 billion years if they rounded up.

This plan isn't 4,000 years old, it's not 6,000. Billions of years old, slain from the foundations of the world. And very few people even understand that, or even care enough to read this book to understand that time. He was called Emmanuel, God with us. My question to you today, as I wrap this sermon up, is he? Is he with you?

Do you feel him? Do you know him? Can you see clearly now that God is with us? And he wants us with us. Because here's the thing, he made that religious walk, he put the moon in the right place, and look, two weeks from last night, it's going to happen again.

Another link in the chain. Because it's not going to stop when Jesus Christ returns. This will be taught over and over and over and over again, until the entire world understands that the Word became flesh, and the Lamb of God was killed for them. And we are the link that will teach them. We are the link that holds that chain together right now.

Because how many other people teach this? I wish everybody taught it. It's our link, it's his link to the kingdom of God, that starts with you and starts with me. And it ends in eternity, when everything, when everything continues on, and everybody will know his name. How beautiful is that? And the apex for mankind, the apex for us, very peak, began, taught each and every one of us, when the Word became flesh. Because then, eternal life was a reality, and now it is our destiny.