I want to share a message
that has been on my heart for a long time. It is the closing statements of the book of Revelation. As you all know, it's a very important book. And because it's so important,
it is the most ignored book by Christians by far. And before we start, let's pray. Okay. Father, I thank you so much ...
for this opportunity to be looking into Your Word together and to draw our hope, our joy
and our encouragement from You. So this morning, we pray
that you will encourage all of us through Your Word and that you will cause no one to walk back home
the same way that he came in. We thank You, we bless You. And we asked this in the name of Yeshua, Jesus,
Amen. So the book of Revelation, beautiful book,
one of the most important ... In fact, the only book in the entire Bible that the reader and the teacher were promised great blessings when they study that. It's a wonderful book and it is written to all of us although most of us will not even go through most of that book. So, why was it written to us?
... in order for us to know what God is sparing us from. And it was written to us, not to the world. The world has no clue. The world does not want to know. The world takes pleasure in the things of the world. The world is not the address of this book. This book is for us,
but when we know what's going to happen, we are even more passionate to go
about and do the Father's business. Can I get a tissue, please? thank you ... I am sorry. So, what I love about this book is
that it gives us an interesting beginning and end like a clam ... I'm a Jew,
so I'm not sure about clams ... but ... But a beautiful cover ...
the beginning and the end and these are all wonderful words,
wonderful promises. And in between, it's not anything
but the consequences of the deeds of man. The cover is God's love. The content is a lot of judgment
that the world literally is asking upon itself. But the one thing that is really characterizing
that book is the love of God, is the promises of God
from the very beginning to the very end the portion or the verse I want to concentrate on
this morning is verse 17 of chapter 22. "...The Spirit and the bride say, 'Come.' And let the one who hears say, 'Come.' And let the one who is thirsty come;
let the one who wishes take the water of life without cost." Wow. This is an amazing, amazing portion of Scriptures that raises many questions
and I've read it in the Greek. You can see it in the Greek, if you want. It's a beautiful text in the Greek. I don't know if you have it there. Okay, you can try and read it if you want. But the reason why I read it in the Greek is because there is a very important question
that we need to ask. Okay, is it "come, Jesus" or is it "come to Jesus"? Because we actually, even from the Greek text
can understand both. It's beautiful because you can clearly see
the longing of the church for Him to come. But you also see the longing of the Lord
for the non-believers to come to Him. I'm reminded of John chapter 7, verses 37 to 39. On the last day, that great day of the feast,
Jesus stood and cried out, saying, 'If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.' But this He spoke concerning the Spirit,
whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given,
because Jesus was not yet glorified. So, wait a minute?
I thought the Holy Spirit is always around... Well, it is true, God is always everywhere
and His Spirit is always everywhere. But the church received something that no other person or corporate group of people ever received
in the history of planet earth. And that is ... you will see in a few verses. So which Spirit are we talking about? In John we see - If you love Me, keep My commandments. And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another...
say ''Another'' ... another Helper... Why am I emphasizing the another? Because there are people who teach
that the Holy Spirit is Jesus, Jesus is the Father, the Father is the Holy Spirit,
the Father is Jesus, they're all one - it's called Oneness. It's called teaching that it's all the same.
And no, Jesus is saying, look ... I will pray... I, the Son, am praying
to the Father and He will give you another helper. ...He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you...
What? ... forever. And what is it?
...the Spirit of truth, whom the world...
the world - what? Every time somebody comes to me and says, "Amir, you have to watch this video of this rabbi ... He, you know, he saw Jesus ... he saw this ..."
I'm telling them, stop it right there. He doesn't have the Holy Spirit. He cannot tell me anything about Jesus. That's it, I'm sorry,
you can be rabbi - shmabbai... I don't care! Stop buying those things from the world
and start buying those things from the Word. And he says: ...the world cannot receive,
because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you
and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans... He says, look, I am going to come to you. Jesus basically says, first of all,
God is not going to leave you alone. I am going to prepare a place for you, if it wasn't so I would have told you,
but I want you to know ... I am not asking the Father to take you out of this world, because what is the purpose of the church? - to be what? ... a light, the salt to the world! Watch the point of taking out from the world God wants the world to be saved ...
for God so loved the church? ... the world! So He just says, Father, okay, they can stay,
but just keep them from all evil, from the evil one. He gives us the spirit of truth
so we can understand what's not from the Father. And He is the helper and He's there to assist us. ''Oh, it is so hard..."
You've got the Spirit of God in you. And his name is the helper. ''Oh, I can pray about it.''
Yes you can... Sometimes we try everything and only then we pray. And then He says in John 15:
when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of - what? ... Truth
... who proceeds where from? - from the Father, He will testify of Me. There is no person on planet earth
that has the Holy Spirit and is not testifying of Jesus. So a rabbi that does not accept Jesus
cannot be someone that has the Holy Spirit. It is very simple, he can be the chief rabbi, he can be the greatest scholar,
he can be a professor, a doctor, I don't care what he is. If he cannot testify that
Jesus is God, God in the flesh, the Word that came and became flesh
and dwell amongst us, the One who died for us. He cannot say that Jesus is God in the flesh, that Jesus is part of the God-head,
the deity of Christ. Because all of them say He was a good man. All of them say He was a good teacher. All of them, some religions say He was a prophet like Islam ... No, He's God. And He will testify of Me. And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning. And in Acts chapter 5, verse 32:
And we are His witnesses to these things, and so also is the Holy Spirit whom God has given to those who - want? ... obey Him." Not only that we were given the Holy Spirit, the Greek is saying something even stronger than that. The Bible says that we are sealed in the Spirit. In 2nd Corinthians, 1:21 to 22:
Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us is God, who also -What?
...has sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as - what? ... You know what that Greek word 'guarantee' is? I tell you the Greek word is "arrabōna"
which means a deposit. The Holy Spirit in you is the deposit
that God has given ... is giving for - what?
... for the full payment, once we're out. It is like - Hey take this for now, you'll need it. That's the first payment. This is it - arrabōna. You see the same thing by the way, Ephesians 1,
the first 3 chapters of Ephesians, 6 chapters altogether that epistle ...
the 1st 3 chapters, are about what God has done for us. And in three chapters .. we're only having one commandment,
which is ... Remember who you were before - that's all. But look he says - In Him you also trusted, after - what?
... after what? ... you went to Bible college. No, after you've done seminary? ... No, no! After what - you heard the Word of truth. The gospel of your salvation
in whom also - what? ... Okay, it is not enough to hear ... Having believed... the minute you hear the Word of truth,
the gospel of salvation and you believe - what happens? See, I didn't say that, He said that. You got a problem, go to Paul, talk to him ... Last time I heard he got it from Jesus himself. You were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,
who is - what? ... [Gurantee] ... the Deposit -arrabōna, remember? ... of our inheritance until... The redemption of the purchase possession
to the praise of His glory. Which redemption? ... of what? Romans 8 in verse 23:
Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves,
eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of - what? ... [Our body]
... exactly ... look at you ... You may be a new creation in Christ. You may have new spirit, new heart,
but you don't have a new body. I don't have a new body. We're still in the sinful body. We're still trapped in this flesh. And in order to inherit the kingdom of God .. in order to enter into the presence of the holy God, we must - what? ... change. What are you talking about Willis? Change - look at yourself. Take a picture of you from 20 years ago,
you're dying. We're dying ...
''Well, I am 18?'' ... Wait! ... ... from there it's all downhill. Ladies and gentlemen,
we all must change. So the adoption, the redemption that is in the future is the redemption of the body,
because we are already redeemed. And the interesting thing is
the word "sealed" is to set a seal upon. A seal is it authenticity - ownership. The Greek word is "SPHRAGIZO". Sphragizo. Sphragis is seal,
Sphragizo is to be sealed, amazing. God, put a seal on you. He paid the deposit and He put a seal ... you're authentic - if you indeed believe
and you have the Spirit of promise, the Spirit of truth. So now we understand who is the spirit
in the Spirit and the bride - but who is the bride? Ephesians 5 says:
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her, that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,
that He might present her to ... someone else? No, to Himself -a glorious church,
not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. Revelation 19: I heard as it were a great voice
of a great multitude, as the sound of many waters And as the sound of mighty, thundering saying: Hallelujah, for the Lord God omnipotent reigns. Let us be glad and rejoice and giving glory for the marriage of the Lamb has come
and His wife has made herself ready. And to her, it was granted to be arrayed
in fine linen, clean and bright. For the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. Then he said to me: Write - Blessed are those
who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said to me,
these are the true sayings of God. We are the bride. Some of you say - ''What?'' ... Yes ... We have a wedding to attend
and the wedding is not here - it is up there ... In order to go up there ...
we must be taken to be up there. Last time I checked, we can not fly. We must be changed first, when you're changed, law of gravity does not any more have any power of you. We're gone ... Boom! ... and we're with Him. Then one of the seven angels
who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me, saying, "Come, I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife." ... in heaven ...He's showing him the bride, because we are in heaven, when that horrible tribulation is befalling upon the earth. In fact, it is the Spirit that makes the bride. If we are sitting right here as a group of people
on Sunday morning, and we don't have the Holy Spirit in us,
we are not the bride. What makes us the bride is our faith in Jesus
that gave us as we believed the Holy Spirit. The Spirit of promise - the helper,
the Spirit of truth - the comforter, The one who has to prove to the world for sin ...
to show the world what sin is. But for us, it is the Spirit of truth. Now we are in the truth,
we believe in the way, truth and life. John said in chapter 3, verse 5:
Most assuredly I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit,
he cannot enter the kingdom of God. He's saying that to who? His name is? ... Nicodemus and who was he? A Gentile? ... a Jew ... he is actually a teacher in Israel. And He's telling a teacher of the Jews,
He's telling him: You are a teacher and you don't know that being born from the water - ladies, you know, when the water breaks - being born from the water
... we are all great swimmers, then we forget and then we learn again. But ladies and gentleman having been born in the water
is not enough to enter into the Kingdom. You must be born of the water and the Spirit. In Acts chapter 2, verses 1-4:
When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one... That's not a Honda, you know ... all with one accord in one place.
And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind,
and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then there appeared to them divided tongues,
as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues,
as the Spirit gave them utterance. That's a whole teaching about the tongues, okay,
other tongues. So other people will understand what they say - hello. And then watch this -
1st Corinthians chapter 12, verse 13: For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body —whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—
and have all been made to drink into one Spirit. You understand it's the same Spirit. There is no Holy Spirit for the Jews
and Holy Spirit for the Greek, Holy Spirit for Las Vegas. There's a spirit-fall Las Vegas,
but it's not the Holy Spirit, different story. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ
have put on Christ, the Bible says. Romans 8:9:
But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ,
he is not His. You understand that, very... I know that there are so many different interpretations
to the story of the 10 virgins. But since I'm here, I'll tell you mine ... The Bible is clearly saying:
at midnight a cry was heard: 'Behold, the bridegroom is coming' ... hello? When somebody is called bridegroom,
what is it applying to? ... a wedding! 'go out to meet him!' Now, I'm thinking to myself, bear with me ... I'm the bridegroom... and whom am I going to go to see? Whom? ... other girls, other people, other virgins?
... of course it is the bride! And look what he says:
'go out and meet him!' Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise,
'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.' But the wise answered, saying,
'No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell,
and buy for yourselves.' And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the?
...wedding; and the door was shut. The last time I heard and by the way,
this is few verses after He talked about - One will be taken, one will remained. Last time I heard, the door is shut ... is when those that are ready taken and those not ready, not taken. And what is the readiness meter here? Oil ... and the oil is what? ... is the Holy Spirit. You can run on your own fumes for a short time. You can pretend for a while,
but if you don't have a constant flow of the Holy Spirit, which can only happen if you have it in you, not if you borrow, not if you see someone and you imitate what he does just to appear like you have it. Ladies and gentlemen,
the Spirit and the bride are the Restrainer. Oh ... what does it mean? In order for the restrainer to restraint,
there has to be the presence of the Holy Spirit within the body known as the church and the church is called to be - what?
... Light of the world and the salt of the earth. What is the purpose of the salt? To preserve and to flavor
and to slow down the decay. Did you know that? When... they used to have dead soldiers in the ancient times, they would take the bodies in bags of salt, carry them on so they can bury them
few days later or a few weeks later even. Yes, the salt slows down the decay. You can imagine what this country would have been like
if all Christians would have been gone. If the church did not exist. Matthew 5: "You are the ... [salt] Hello?
...the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be - what? ... ... to be thrown out and trampled underfoot by men. When it loses, by the way,
the Roman soldiers in those days, when salt loss its flavor,
and they were stuck with a lot of that, when rain came and washed the salt, you know what they used to do with it? .. I'll tell you. They used to throw it on the roads,
so the weeds will not grow. That's how they kept the roads clear all the time
and the roads ... What are you doing on the road? [Walk] Exactly, walking on it, trampling on it. If we lose the flavor, we will be worth nothing, but the people will trample over us. And he says: "You are the light of the world.
A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify you ... No! When they see your good works, they need to glorify - who? ... your Father, which is in heaven. That's the work of the believer
to cause someone to run to the Lord when he see how you are - not to glorify you. Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? Paul is urging the Thessalonians - And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed -that man of lawlessness, that Antichrist- that he may be revealed in his own time. For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; When did lawlessness begin? Genesis chapter 3, you're right. And when did lawlessness reached its peak?
... Genesis chapter 6. We humans, we could only do it for 3 chapters. That's how pathetic we are when we are without Him. When we choose it our way - 3 chapters ... In chapter 6, God said I'm done with them,
I'm sorry I made this world. He said that. This is probably the saddest portion of Scriptures ever. He says this: Then the Lord saw
that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. There's no doubt - only He, the Holy Spirit in us, who now restrains, slows down ... He will do so ... until, there is an expiration date - until he is - what? ... he is taken out of the way. And then... let's together say 'and then' "then" means after - hello, good morning church. Only after we are taken out of the way,
the lawless one, the Antichrist will be revealed. That same lawless one
whom the Lord on His second coming will destroy. Jesus returns to the clouds for the bride. For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. For the Lord Himself - say: 'the Lord Himself'
... He's not sending someone. ''Hey, Michael, come over here,
you see these people, can you go and get them for me?" No... For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven Where is He now? ... in heaven... He's the right hand of the Father ... how do I know? Who saw Him? Who saw Him standing at the right hand of the Father? I'm not talking about when John was taken up,
I'm talking about who on earth? Stephen was stoned to death, remember,
He saw Him. For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of?
... it's in heaven, the trumpet is in heaven... It's the trumpet of God, the shout is of an Archangel,
it's up there. Everybody's thinking - Oh, the feast of trumpets ... The feast of trumpets is when He comes back here. When the trumpets will sound here
and He comes back to Israel here because it has to be fulfilled right before
Yom Kippur, which is the atonement, the repentance of Israel and Tabernacles,
which is the Millennial Kingdom. Boom, boom, boom, boom. Just as the spring holidays were all fulfilled in the same time, the fall holidays will. And then we - say that: we - who are ... are you dead right now? No, so we who are alive - that means you ... Last time I checked, you still have a pulse,
you're smiling at me right now. So we who are alive and remain shall be - what?
[Caught Up!] It's Harpazo in the Greek, Harpazo,
and then the Latin translation, Rapturo. And then the English said, no, wait a minute ... The English didn't say rapture, it says "caught up," but the word Rapture comes from Rapturo. "Yeah, but the rapture is not in the Bible." Yes, of course, because you are reading your English Bible. Maybe you should go to the original
and find Harpazo and find the Rapturo And yes, it's a rapture. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds... Where is the meeting point of us with Jesus? That is to weird - no it is not! The parting of the Red Sea is so natural. Come on. People watch Elijah going up, that is okay. Enoch was walking and poof! - he's gone - well it's okay. But us meeting Him in the air - Oh so weird
... come on! And thus we shall what? [Always]
- say the word: 'Always' [Always] Always is always,
the minute you see Jesus in the air, from that moment, you will never, ever be apart from Him. So that means that when He decides to come back to earth ... Guess what - we come back with Him. And when He decides to judge. Guess what - we judge with Him. And when He decides to reign, guess what
- we reign with Him. You can have a little business card: 'Future Judge or ... Governor in potential' ... because it's true, And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore
- what? ... ... comfort one another with these words. Jesus will return again to Jerusalem for Israel. Who is this who comes from Edom,
With dyed garments from Bozrah, This One who is glorious in His apparel,
Traveling in the greatness of His strength?— "I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save." Why is Your apparel red,
And Your garments like one who treads in the winepress? "I have trodden the winepress alone,
And from the peoples no one was with Me." Look, this is like Jesus, really speaking on His second coming. And we see that the Lord indeed will come with us to Jerusalem. The Lord will go forth, in Zechariah 14.
And fight against those nations, As He fights in the day of battle. And in that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives,
Which faces Jerusalem on the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two,
From east to west, Making a very large valley; Half of the mountain shall move toward the north
And half of it toward the south. And the Bible says, and that's the Lord will come and all His saints come with Him. And now we've come to the point in history
where the rapture can happen at any given moment. And we are in the great dilemma. Rapture now means many unsaved and rapture later means much suffering for all of us ... Which one?
... well, let me spare it from you. Okay, He's not asking you when, okay,
God has His timing. Okay? And He is not late. 2nd Peter said; But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all - say: 'all' - [All] ... that's against limited atonement and other things
that Calvinist teaches. He wants all to come to repentance. It's not like He created them already to go to hell ... In Philippians we see - For to you it has been granted on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for His sake, And when we are active about His coming and His kingdom, then He will be active about us going and about our troubled world. We must understand, Ladies and Gentlemen, the times and the seasons. We must understand that everything we studied yesterday must ring in your ears all the time,
see them in Ephesians 5: ... that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are great... No, the days are evil. Christians are so shocked that everything goes wrong in this world. They are shocked, the days are evil. 1st Thessalonians 5:
concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you.
For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes - how? ... as a thief in the night. ... He's going to surprise. And interestingly, it says,
when they say, "Peace and safety!" then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape.
But then he say - But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. We need to not to fight with our own strengths. We need to acknowledge God's sovereignty. Job chapter 42: Then Job answered the Lord and said:
"I know that You can do everything, And that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You. You asked, 'Who is this who hides counsel
without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,
Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
Listen, please, and let me speak; You said, 'I will question you, and you shall answer Me.' "I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear,
But now my eye sees You. Therefore I abhor myself,
And repent in dust and ashes." Wow. We must trust, we must abide, we must pray,
we must seek, ask and watch. For the Gentiles, eagerly seek these things, for you, your heavenly Father knows
that you need all these things. With all the things that, you know, everybody wants to have,
God knows what you need. He says, seek first His kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be added onto you "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find;
knock, and it will be opened to you. there is an active approach here,
He's telling you ask, seek, knock. ''Oh, I'm staying home,
whatever He wants to do, He will do...'' That's not the approach of the believer. Be anxious of nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with - what? ... thanksgiving. Father, we thank you that you are about to do this. What, let your - what?
requests be made known to God; ''I don't want to request anything,
He knows everything.'' No! ... let your requests be known to God - the opposite. The Spirit and the bride say - what? ... Come! Is there anything wrong with it? ... No! The people are waiting His return versus the people who walked in darkness. There is no believer that has the Holy Spirit, that was born from above, that cannot say that he wants Jesus to come. I remember, I landed in Singapore one time and was picked up by a deacon of a church there and he picked me up in a beautiful Mercedes,
I love cars ... and I'm sitting and he's telling me,
'Oh, God has blessed my business so much, you know, and He's blessed financially
and I'm building my dream house right now ... I can't wait to go in' ... and then he said:
'I don't mind if Jesus will not come back.' He wanted an earthly mansion when Jesus for the past 2000 years have been working on a heavenly mansion for him. For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious - what?
... appearing! Appearing is not the 2nd coming, appearing ...
He appears in the clouds, that glorious appearing of our great God -who is He?
... God and Savior. What's His name? Jesus, Yeshua in Hebrew,
which means salvation. You shall name Him - Salvation, because He will save His people ... hello? It's okay, you can call him Jesus, it is fine. He knows ... But I want you to know He gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed
and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for - what?
... good works. And as it is appointed for men to die once... it's appointed for men to die once. Most people on planet earth will die once. Okay. ...but after this the judgment, so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those - and look what?
To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation. Which salvation?
... Romans 8:23, the salvation of your ... body ... He will appear again, appear again
a second time for those who wait for Him - to save our body. "He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is - what? ... Look at this, watch me, okay? ...Okay. All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, We are all condemned
- no one here is a good person, no one on planet earth. Everyone is already condemned
- the minute you believe you are ... out of the condemned already,
and you are not condemned now. So He says: He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, ...he's in this camp,
because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world,
and men - what? ...loved darkness rather than light, I want to run and say to you this,
we know what's going to happen in this world. 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2:
The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And look what the Bible says: They ... also had pleasure in unrighteousness. The times of the Gentiles is concluding. Israel's time will then begin, we know that ... Romans 11 tells us that very clearly. I don't have time to read all of that. I'm running through all the way to tell you ... that in Hosea, "I will return again to My place Till Israel, they acknowledge their offense. Then they will seek My face;
In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me." The Bible says that Jesus will not come back to Jerusalem until Jerusalem will ask Him to come back. Ask! "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets in Matthew, 23:37 to 39, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! See! Your house is left to you desolate; for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till - what? ... until you say - what?
... 'Baruch Haba B'shem Adonai,' 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!' I love the fact that God wants us to ask Him to come. Moses, my favorite, favorite portion,
when I signed books, I always sign Exodus 33 verse 13. And look what he says. Moses said to the Lord: See, You say to me, ... I look at Moses that's a very Jewish editor right now. "See, You say to me, 'Bring up this people.' But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, 'I know you by name,
and you have also found grace in My sight.' Moses is telling God, you tell me that you love me, That I'm okay, but Hey, how do you expect me to move on if you don't tell me who's going with me, I'm not going alone. And then he said, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight.
And consider that this nation is Your people. Moses is saying, Hey, they're not mine. Augh ... they're yours. It's not my problem - it's your problem. And He said... look what God said ... God loved it ... God loved this boldness. Basically Moses said: I'm not moving out of here ... And God said: My presence will go with you
and that will give you rest. And then Moses said to him: If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here. For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, except You go with us? It is not only legitimate to ask and demand that Jesus' return, but it is actually a sweet aroma to Him, The Spirit and the bride indeed say: Come! We must be eagerly waiting for Him to come. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. ... Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit... We read it already. ... even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption... Romans 8: But if we hope for what we do not see,
we eagerly wait for it with perseverance. 1st Corinthians 1:7: so that you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ. Galatians 5:5: For we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. Philippians 3:20: For our citizenship is in heaven,
from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Hebrews 9:28: so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many. To those who eagerly wait for Him He will appear a second time, apart from sin, for salvation. 2nd Timothy 4:6-8: For I am already being
poured out as a drink offering... Paul is about to die. He says, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, - now it's past tense. I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give... he says: Look, there is a crown there,
but I'm not going to get it today. I might die today ... but look, he said:
He will give to me on that day and not to me only but also to - who? [ALL]
all who have loved His appearing. He is patient, Paul - I see it but I'll wait ...
for all of you. Revelation 22:20: He who testifies to these things says,
"Surely I am coming quickly." Amen, even so... let's say together: Come, Lord Jesus! Thank you ... God bless you.
