Amazing Facts with Doug Batchelor

Coronation of the King, Part 1 of 2

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00:02 male announcer: This presentation is brought to you
00:03 by the friends of the Amazing Facts Ministry.
00:10 Doug Batchelor: The Great Basin bristle cone pine is one of the
00:13 longest-living organisms on earth.
00:15 Incredibly, it can live more than 4,000 years.
00:19 In fact, one specimen called the Methuselah tree in the White
00:23 Mountains of California is believed to be over 4,700 years
00:27 old, and it's among the oldest living trees on the planet.
00:31 This tree was around when the Egyptians were building
00:34 the pyramids.
00:35 Some of these ancient evergreens found on lonely mountaintops
00:39 have weathered thousands of years of intense freezing wind,
00:42 pounding rain, scorching sun, and violent electrical storms.
00:47 How have they managed to survive for millennia of such harsh
00:51 weather and adverse conditions?
00:53 They do it by sending their roots deep, and wrapping them
00:56 tenaciously around the solid rock, and hanging on.
00:59 You know, friends, Jesus tells us that there's a time of
01:02 tribulation coming just before His return, an intense,
01:05 frightful storm of trouble unlike anything we've ever seen.
01:10 Is your life anchored on the solid rock of Christ?
01:13 Let's explore together from the Bible just what will
01:16 happen in the last days.
01:22 Doug: The lesson tonight dealing with "The Coronation of the
01:24 King" is based on a story that you're gonna find in your Bible
01:27 in 2 Kings chapter 11.
01:30 And just to give you the background, there was a king
01:33 named Jehu, King of Israel.
01:35 He came into power, and one day he killed two other kings.
01:39 He killed the King of Judea, the Southern Kingdom, and he killed
01:42 his rival in the Northern Kingdom.
01:44 When Ahaziah died, his mother, who was the daughter of Jezebel,
01:49 her name was Athaliah, was a wicked queen.
01:52 She did not want one of her grandchildren to rule in
01:55 her place.
01:56 Normally, it would have been one of the sons of David that would
01:59 be ruling in the place, but she was so bloodthirsty and
02:03 ruthless, she killed her grandchildren, slaughtered her
02:07 grandchildren so none of them would be king, and she ruled
02:11 over the land for six years as a tyrant.
02:15 Well, this reminds us of something that's happened
02:18 several times in the Bible where the devil has made an effort to
02:22 eliminate the royal seed.
02:24 See, the devil knew that the Son of God was gonna come into the
02:27 world to save humanity, and back in the days of Moses, Satan was
02:31 worried that the Savior was gonna come, so he got the King
02:35 of Egypt to kill all the baby boys.
02:38 And then during this story, Queen Athaliah, she killed all
02:41 the descendants of David, 'cause God said the Messiah would come
02:44 through the house of David.
02:46 And then, King Herod, he went into Bethlehem, he killed all
02:48 the baby boys in Bethlehem, because, why?
02:51 Trying to destroy that Savior child.
02:54 Then you go to Revelation and you read where the dragon tried
02:57 to destroy the man-child, and all of it starts to come
03:01 together when you see the stories in the history in
03:04 the Bible.
03:05 You see what I'm saying?
03:07 So, Athaliah was not able to get all of the grandchildren
03:11 of David.
03:13 Actually, the aunt of a baby boy, one years old, by the name
03:18 of Jehoash, she scooped him up when they were annihilating all
03:22 the other children, took him off to the temple.
03:26 Athaliah was a pagan queen, she didn't spend much time
03:28 in God's temple.
03:30 And he was hidden there for six years.
03:32 How long did I say?
03:33 Six years.
03:35 Well, it's kinda hard for a seven-year-old boy to stay quiet
03:39 for very long.
03:40 The high priest, Jehoiadah, he loved him like his own son.
03:44 He knew he was the last surviving heir of David's
03:47 throne, and Athaliah was making things worse and worse, and he
03:51 said we can't wait forever.
03:52 So when Jehoash turned seven, after six years of being in
03:56 captivity, the high priest said, "Now's the time."
04:01 And then one preparation afternoon he got the guard
04:05 together, he said I've got something special to show you.
04:07 He got 300 of the secure guard, and he said, "The son of David
04:11 is still alive, one survived.
04:13 He is the rightful king, we need to coronate him."
04:16 And in one day, the Bible says, he brought out Jehoash, the
04:19 young boy, the people came to the temple to worship, they said
04:23 the son of David still lives.
04:25 Everyone was wondering where that missing boy was.
04:29 And the people shouted, they blew the trumpets, they put
04:32 a little crown on his head, they gave him the royal scroll of
04:36 the covenant, and they proclaimed him king.
04:38 Well, wicked Queen Athaliah heard all the commotion, she
04:40 came running into the temple and she said, "Treason, treason,"
04:43 and the high priests said take her out and kill her and all
04:47 that follow her.
04:48 And in one day, the son of David came out of the temple, they
04:52 blew the trumpets, the people rejoiced, he received the
04:55 kingdom, and all the enemies were slain.
04:59 That is an allegory for what is coming, friends.
05:02 Jesus is our Savior.
05:03 He's our high priest.
05:05 He's by the throne of God and the heavenly temple.
05:07 He's going to come out of that temple, and He's going to rescue
05:11 His people.
05:12 Now, there's something that you find in the Bible, a lot of
05:15 scholars have looked at this, they call it the
05:16 millennial week.
05:18 If you look at Bible history, you can see that you just add up
05:22 the ages in the Bible, we know how long Adam lived and how long
05:25 Abraham lived, it gives a very detailed chronology.
05:28 Notice this, it's very interesting.
05:31 Adam was created somewhere around 4,000 years B.C., we
05:35 don't know the exact date, and I'm not gonna try and give
05:37 that to you.
05:39 For 2,000 years, God preaches the gospel through what we call
05:42 the patriarchs, that'd be Adam, Seth, Noah, Enoch, Methuselah.
05:51 By the way, who's the oldest man that ever lived?
05:57 Some of you have heard this before, yeah.
05:59 People say Methuselah.
06:01 Methuselah lived 969 years, he's actually the oldest man
06:04 that ever died, it's a trick question.
06:07 His father, Enoch, was taken to heaven, he's still alive.
06:09 He's the oldest man that ever lived.
06:12 But then Abraham was born about 2,004 B.C.
06:19 For the next 2,000 years, God works in a special way through
06:22 the Hebrew people, then Jesus comes along.
06:27 Jesus is born, believe it or not, 4 B.C.
06:29 I know that sounds confusing.
06:31 How could Jesus be born four years before Christ?
06:34 But when they set up the A.D./B.C.
06:36 dating method, they just took their best stab at the date they
06:40 thought Jesus was born, and then later they found out that they
06:43 were off several years, because they know King Herod the Great
06:47 died about 2 B.C.
06:48 He was still alive when Jesus was born.
06:50 Jesus was baptized in 27 A.D.
06:53 The Bible says it was as He began to be 30 years of age, so
06:57 you just count back and they say, "Oh, they were off
06:59 a little bit."
07:00 Anyway, so Jesus was born about 4 B.C.
07:03 And now, here we are 2,000 years later, so you've got three
07:06 stages you see, three phases.
07:09 You've got the age of the patriarchs, 2,000 years, age of
07:12 the Jews, 2,000 years, the age of the church, 2,000 years, and
07:15 then you get to Revelation, it says we live and reign with
07:18 Christ during the thousand years when Satan is bound.
07:21 That'll be nice when Satan is bound, right?
07:24 The Bible always seems to work through a pattern of six and
07:28 one, six and one, six and one.
07:31 Moses stayed at the foot of the mountain for six days, and then
07:35 God called him up into the clouds on the seventh day.
07:39 The Bible tells us that the Jews would farm their land for six
07:42 years, but the seventh year they let it rest.
07:46 You can read where you can have a Hebrew slave for six years,
07:49 but the seventh year he would go free.
07:52 How many times did Joshua march around the city of Jericho?
07:56 Seven times, it's actually 13 times, another trick question.
08:00 He marched around the city one time for six days, then on the
08:04 seventh day he marched around the city seven times, and they
08:07 blew the trumpets, and the city fell.
08:10 Our Joshua is comin' soon, there's gonna be a shout,
08:12 trumpets are gonna blow, and Jesus is gonna come.
08:15 You know, Jesus's name in Hebrew is Yeshua, same name.
08:20 So it's interesting in the story I read about King Jehoash, it
08:23 says that for six years Athaliah ruled over the land.
08:26 How many days in a week?
08:28 Something interesting.
08:32 I can see why we've got a 24-hour day, it's 'cause that's
08:35 how long it takes the earth to rotate on its axis.
08:38 And while most of the civilizations have a month with
08:40 30 days, that's the lunar cycle, and we got a year with about 365
08:45 days, because that's how long it takes the earth to go around in
08:49 its circuit, but all the world celebrates a seven-day week.
08:53 It's not mathematically practical.
08:55 The only place the world can trace it to is Genesis.
09:00 The Bible tells us a day with the Lord is like a thousand
09:03 years, and a thousand years like a day, 2 Peter chapter 3
09:06 verse 8.
09:08 For 6,000 years, Jesus has been sowing the seed of the gospel.
09:14 That's His own parable.
09:16 He's coming in Revelation to harvest the earth.
09:20 And I guess I'm saying all of these things just to let you
09:23 know, friends, that I believe we're living at the sunset of
09:26 this world's history.
09:27 In our study tonight, I'm going to go through a few things
09:30 with you.
09:31 We're gonna be talking about Jesus coming again, something
09:34 about how He's coming again, because one of the main things
09:38 Jesus tells us is do not be deceived, and then we're gonna
09:41 talk a little bit about the eminence or the nearness of
09:44 His coming.
09:46 First question, who is the king who will soon emerge from this
09:49 temple in heaven that we just described?
09:53 You can read in Revelation 14:14, "Then I looked, and
09:56 behold, a white cloud, and on the cloud sat one like unto the
10:00 Son of Man, having on His head a golden crown."
10:04 Jesus, the King of kings, is going to be coming again.
10:07 Now, it seems like everybody's talking about how we can create
10:12 a civilization out in space.
10:14 I don't know if you've been watching the news, but just this
10:15 week, Captain Kirk had an out-of-this-world experience.
10:21 You saw that?
10:22 I mean, you gotta admire that.
10:23 Ninety years old, and he went up in this largely-experimental
10:26 rocket ship that Jeff Bezos built.
10:28 I was a little jealous.
10:30 I'd do it if I was given half a chance.
10:32 And everybody's thinking, you know, how can we get out of
10:37 this world?
10:38 You've not only got Jeff Bezos, the owner of Amazon, you've got
10:40 Richard Branson, Elon Musk, all of these private entrepreneurial
10:45 billionaires are working on space programs.
10:49 Musk said he wants to die on Mars.
10:52 And these guys are doing some amazing things.
10:54 They're talkin' about how we can move civilization out, because
10:58 there's so much fear, thinking people are saying the world is
11:01 just not gonna last.
11:03 There's so many problems that are growing exponentially that
11:06 people need to be now thinking about how to get out of here.
11:09 Well, Jesus has planned a way for you to get out of
11:12 here alive.
11:13 I want you to know that.
11:14 Matter of fact, commenting on William Shatner going to space,
11:18 Prince William said, "Repair this planet, not find the
11:22 next one."
11:23 The Duke of Cambridge has suggested wealthy entrepreneurs
11:26 should focus their resources on solving problems on earth rather
11:30 than engaging in a new space race.
11:33 So, these wealthy, thinking people realize that there are
11:36 serious problems in the world unlike anything any other
11:39 generation has ever faced before.
11:42 Now, we're gonna talk in the next few minutes about how Jesus
11:45 is coming, because I'm gonna take my Bible real quick, we've
11:49 been giving a lot of Scripture, but I like to hold the book.
11:51 I want to read something to you, Matthew 24.
11:54 If you have your Bibles, Matthew chapter 24.
11:56 Some of you have a Bible on a device, and look at the first
12:00 verse there.
12:02 "Then Jesus went out and He departed from the temple, and
12:05 His disciples came to Him to show Him the buildings of
12:08 the temple.
12:09 And Jesus said, 'Do you not see all these things?
12:12 Assuredly, I say to you not one stone upon another will be here
12:16 that will not be thrown down.'"
12:18 We went to Israel a couple of years ago, I've been there
12:21 three times now, and they took us on a private tour to show us
12:24 the foundational stones that Solomon used in his temple.
12:28 They've got one stone that is bigger than a fully-loaded 747.
12:33 It's heavier, I should say.
12:35 It's huge, and we don't even know how they cut or moved it.
12:38 So, when Jesus--they looked at these stones, He says, there
12:41 will not be one stone left upon another, the disciples
12:43 were thunderstruck.
12:45 They were horrified.
12:47 And when they got Him alone upon the Mount of Olives, they said,
12:50 "Lord, tell us, when will these things be?"
12:54 This is verse 3, "What will be the signs of Your coming, sign
12:58 of Your coming, and the end of the age?"
13:00 Notice the first thing Jesus tells them when He begins to
13:03 talk about His return, "Take heed that no man deceive you."
13:07 Now, why would Christ say that?
13:09 Except that there's going to be a lot of deception connected
13:11 with His return.
13:13 "Take heed that no one deceives you.
13:15 For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am Christ,' and will
13:18 deceive many.
13:19 And you'll hear of wars and rumors of wars.
13:21 See that you're not troubled."
13:22 There have been wars through history.
13:24 "For all these things need to come to pass, the end is
13:26 not yet.
13:28 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against
13:31 kingdom, and there'll be famines, and pestilence."
13:36 We've got a pestilence in the world right now.
13:38 "And earthquakes in various places.
13:41 All these are the beginning of sorrows."
13:44 Global pestilence, beginning of sorrows, "Then they'll deliver
13:49 you up to tribulation to kill you, and you will be hated of
13:52 all nations for My name's sake.
13:54 Then many will be offended and betray one another and will hate
13:58 one another."
13:59 Many false prophets, notice again, "Don't be deceived, many
14:02 false prophets will arise and deceive many."
14:05 The word "many" is contrasted with the word "few."
14:08 It's like the majority are gonna be false prophets.
14:12 It's gonna be a lot of deception regarding his return.
14:15 "Because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will
14:18 grow cold.
14:20 But he that endures to the end will be saved."
14:23 And I want you to be one of those.
14:25 I want to be one of those. What do you say?
14:27 Doug: Friends, in just a moment we're gonna continue with
14:29 today's presentation, but before we do, you know, a lot of folks
14:33 misunderstand how Jesus is coming again.
14:36 There's a lot of confusion about will His return be a secret?
14:39 When is the tribulation taking place?
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15:11 But let's get back now to today's presentation and learn
15:14 some more amazing facts from the Word of God.
15:18 Doug: When it comes to the return of Christ, there are
15:20 three views in interpreting prophecy.
15:24 One view is called preterism, that basically says that
15:27 everything you read in Revelation basically came to an
15:30 end by 100 A.D.
15:32 The Antichrist was Nero, and they put it all in the past,
15:35 it's all pre.
15:37 Then you've got a historicism, which is that the book of
15:41 Revelation and prophecy covers the panorama of history.
15:44 That's largely our approach, it's actually the most universal
15:48 approach through Christian history.
15:50 Then you've got something called futurism.
15:52 Futurism basically says that everything from Revelation 4
15:56 when the trumpet blows is still future.
16:02 Now, when it comes to the Tribulation, historically
16:06 Christians believed he that endures to the end,
16:08 endures what?
16:09 That there's gonna be time of trouble such as there never
16:11 has been.
16:12 We're here, but God saves us out of that.
16:14 Let's find out what the Bible says about how He's coming.
16:17 Because when Jesus came the first time, did His own people,
16:23 with the Scriptures, have the right interpretation?
16:28 Did they recognize Jesus when He came?
16:30 Now, I mentioned I'm Jewish, so I'm not tryin' to disparage my
16:34 Jewish family at all, but the Jews who had the Bible, they
16:37 were looking for the Messiah to come as a conquering king, wipe
16:40 out the Romans, make them a world empire again.
16:43 And when Jesus came as a lamb, they said, "We don't want that,
16:47 we want someone who's gonna come in and give us world power and
16:50 get rid of our oppressors," and they had misunderstood
16:53 the prophecies.
16:54 They switched the prophecies of Christ's coming quietly as a
16:59 lamb, meekly, with the ones of His coming like a lion in the
17:02 second coming, and they weren't ready.
17:05 Now the devil is doing the same thing.
17:08 He's got Jesus coming quietly when He's coming like a lion.
17:13 Let's find out what the Bible says.
17:14 Now, if we disagree, there's still a lot of things in the
17:17 program I think you're gonna find beneficial, but you owe it
17:19 to yourself to at least study these things.
17:22 Let's find out why historically Christians believe Christ's
17:24 coming was gonna be a loud event, and that He's gonna
17:28 deliver us through tribulation.
17:30 Will Jesus come quietly when He returns?
17:33 "For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a
17:35 shout, with a voice of the archangel, with a trumpet
17:39 of God."
17:40 These are loud things.
17:42 Again, Jeremiah 25:30, "The Lord will roar from on high.
17:46 He will utter his voice from His holy habitation.
17:48 He will roar mightily against His fold.
17:51 He will give a shout."
17:52 The Bible says a trumpet, a roar, a shout, it's audible.
17:57 What else do we learn?
17:58 "Our God shall come and shall not keep silent."
18:01 Now, we all agree saints are gonna be caught up, but I don't
18:04 believe it's a secret.
18:05 "He shall not keep silent.
18:07 Behold, it will be very tempestuous all around Him,"
18:10 Psalm 50 verse 3.
18:12 Pastor Doug, what about that verse where it
18:14 says Jesus comes like a thief?
18:16 Absolutely, let's read it together.
18:18 Some people quote part of it, they don't read the whole thing.
18:21 "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night."
18:25 What happens on that day when he comes like a thief?
18:27 Is it quiet?
18:28 "In which the heavens pass away with a great noise and the
18:32 elements melt with fervent heat, both the earth and the works
18:36 that are in it are burned up."
18:37 So, when Jesus comes like a thief, does it sound like
18:40 there's still life going on here on earth?
18:43 If you read that, it says the earth and the things in it are
18:45 burned up.
18:47 What other physical evidence will accompany Jesus's return?
18:51 Well, things are not only happening audibly, but it's
18:54 gonna be tactile.
18:55 You can read, it says, "And there was a great earthquake,
18:58 such a mighty earthquake and a great earthquake as had not
19:01 occurred since men were upon the earth."
19:04 It's something where the whole world is shaking when Jesus
19:06 comes, that's Revelation 16, verse 18.
19:09 There was an earthquake we felt in Sacramento a couple
19:13 months ago.
19:15 Yeah, some people--I was out of town when it happened, and some
19:18 of my friends, and we had an earthquake.
19:21 I remember I was giving a Bible study up in the Redwoods at a
19:25 Christian camp, and all of a sudden, I heard the teenagers
19:30 screaming, they were on the volleyball court, and I looked
19:33 out, and all the cars in the parking lot were bouncing, and
19:35 then I realized my feet, rolling under my feet, and the trailers
19:39 were all bouncing.
19:40 They had a pretty significant earthquake.
19:42 And I thought, "Oh, Lord, is this it?"
19:47 You know, when the ground starts moving under your feet, and I
19:51 thought, "Well, if it is, I'm glad I'm giving a Bible study
19:53 right now."
19:55 Hope that happens when it does.
19:58 So, we're used to earthquakes in California.
20:00 Our friends that are watching, not so much maybe.
20:05 Who will see Jesus when He returns?
20:08 Is it gonna be just a couple of people?
20:09 What's the Bible say?
20:10 Matthew 24, Jesus tells us, "Then the sign of the Son of Man
20:14 will appear in the heavens, and then all the tribes of the earth
20:19 will mourn and they will see the Son of Man coming in the clouds
20:22 of heaven with power and great glory."
20:26 It says he's coming in the clouds.
20:27 We'll talk about what those clouds are in a minute.
20:29 "Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will
20:33 see Him."
20:34 Now, someone's gonna ask the question, "Pastor Doug, if
20:39 Jesus's coming is gonna be, you know, we've got a round world,
20:44 how is every eye gonna see Him on a round world?"
20:47 Well, it doesn't say they see Him simultaneously.
20:49 You know, as He comes, the Bible says we're caught up to meet Him
20:52 in the air as He sweeps around the circle of the earth.
20:55 The saints are caught up, everybody alive will see Him
20:57 that day.
20:59 That's all that's saying.
21:00 It's not gonna be an event where someone says, "Did you catch it?
21:02 Jesus came last night.
21:04 I got it, yeah, I made a Facebook live of the whole thing
21:06 and you missed it."
21:07 Everybody's gonna know when Jesus comes.
21:09 Every eye will see Him.
21:11 Who will be with Jesus when He returns?
21:13 This further emphasizes that it's going to be a
21:16 vivacious event.
21:19 "When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the,"
21:22 how many?
21:23 "All the holy angels."
21:26 Well, if everybody's got a guardian angel, and now there
21:28 are nearly 8 billion people in the world, the Bible tells us
21:31 that one angel rolled away the stone at the tomb when Jesus
21:35 rose, and so scared the Roman guard they fell down as though
21:38 they were dead, one angel came from the Lord and 185,000
21:43 Syrians were killed in one night.
21:45 Can you imagine the heavens being filled with the glory of
21:47 all the holy angels, and God, the Son himself, and Christ said
21:51 He's coming in the glory of the Father?
21:54 That's gonna be an event that is going to be very visual.
21:58 What will the brightness of Jesus's coming do to the
22:01 living wicked?
22:02 Now, we got people who are lost, we got people who are saved,
22:04 there's no third category, you know that.
22:06 I hope you're in the right category.
22:08 What happens to the wicked when Jesus comes?
22:11 "When the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty
22:15 angels in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who know
22:20 not God."
22:21 That's 2 Thessalonians chapter 1 verse 7 and 8, He's coming with
22:25 His mighty angels, and the wicked are destroyed by the
22:28 brightness of His coming.
22:30 This is the verse I just gave you, 2 Thessalonians 2 verse 8,
22:34 "Then that lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will
22:37 consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the
22:40 brightness of His coming."
22:41 It's gonna be so bright.
22:44 You know, you've probably gone on a date, and you've tipped
22:51 over a stone or log, and you see all the little bugs that were
22:53 kinda hiding.
22:54 As soon as they see the light, they crawl away.
22:58 And then you've got a moth on dark night, the moth comes to
23:02 the light.
23:04 You've got both categories when it comes to the second coming.
23:06 You've got one group that's going to say, "This is our God.
23:08 We've waited for Him and He will save us."
23:11 They come to the light, and the others are gonna run from the
23:14 light, so you just need to decide if you're a cockroach or
23:17 a butterfly.
23:18 But everybody's gonna do one of the two things when Jesus comes.
23:22 What will happen to the righteous who are dead at
23:24 Jesus's coming?
23:26 So, we've got righteous who are alive, but then there's saved
23:28 people who are dead.
23:30 Listen to what it says.
23:31 "The dead in Christ rise first," 1 Thessalonians 4:6.
23:35 There's a resurrection that takes place, another
23:38 stupendous event.
23:39 At this point, what will happen to the living and the
23:43 resurrected saints?
23:44 So, those who are saved, that have been resurrected, then
23:46 those who are alive, and you know, wouldn't it be wonderful
23:49 to be in that group when Jesus comes where you don't ever have
23:51 to die?
23:53 Now, as long as I'm saved, whatever the Lord wants is okay,
23:56 but it's like Woody Allen said, "I'm not afraid of death, I just
23:59 don't wanna be there when it happens."
24:02 But you know, I think I'd prefer to skip it and just ask someone
24:06 else what it was like.
24:08 But you know, God wires us to live.
24:10 What's gonna happen?
24:11 The good news in the Bible, "The dead will be raised
24:14 incorruptible, and we who are alive will be changed,"
24:17 or transformed.
24:18 "For this corruptible," these bodies that get old and die,
24:22 "Must put on incorruption."
24:23 We get glorified bodies in a moment, in the twinkling of
24:25 an eye.
24:27 "This mortal puts on immortality," and that's
24:29 1 Corinthians 15 verse 52 and 53.
24:33 After being changed, what happens to the righteous?
24:37 So, this is the good news, 1 Thessalonians 4:17.
24:42 "Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up
24:45 together with them," who's the them?
24:47 The dead who are resurrected.
24:49 "Will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the
24:52 Lord in the air, and thus we will always be with the Lord."
24:55 By the way, those clouds are clouds of angels.
25:00 In Acts chapter 1, when Jesus ascended to heaven, the
25:03 disciples stood there looking, gazing up into the heavens.
25:06 It says He was received up into the clouds, and suddenly, they
25:09 look and there's two men standing there, and they said to
25:11 them, "Men of Galilee, why do you stand here gazing into
25:14 the heavens?
25:15 This same Jesus that you have seen go from you into heaven
25:18 will come in the same way that He was gone."
25:21 When He came, He was real, when He ascended, He was real, when
25:25 He comes back, He's going to be real.
25:27 He was visible, He will be visible again.
25:29 And He left with the angels, He's coming with the angels.
25:34 So, as we're talking about these verses, and there's many more
25:38 you'll see in your lesson, we've seen that the coming of Christ
25:42 is a literal event.
25:44 It's personal, it's visible, it's audible, it's physical,
25:50 it's vitalizing, it's glorious, it's climatic.
25:53 It's like the crescendo of history is when Jesus comes.
25:57 And so, I don't think you're gonna have to flip through the
26:00 channels and find out if He came yesterday.
26:03 So, it's gonna be a very real event.
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