The Blessed Dead (Revelation 14:6-13)

WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.199 --> 00:00:26.239 Revelation, chapter of fourteen and verses six through thirteen, hear God's word to 2 00:00:26.359 --> 00:00:35.479 us. Then I saw another angel flying directly overhead with an Eternal Gospel to 3 00:00:35.520 --> 00:00:41.159 proclaim to those who dwell on earth, to every nation and tribe and language 4 00:00:41.240 --> 00:00:47.840 and people, and he said with a loud voice, fear God and give 5 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:52.960 him glory, because the hour of his judgment has come, and worship him 6 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:58.640 who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water. Another 7 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:04.959 Angel, a second, followed saying falling, falling his babyl on, the 8 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:10.599 great she who made all the nations drink the wine of the passion of her 9 00:01:10.719 --> 00:01:18.640 sexual immorality. And another angel, a third, followed them, saying with 10 00:01:18.719 --> 00:01:25.159 a loud voice, if anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a 11 00:01:25.239 --> 00:01:30.799 mark on his forehead or on his hand, he also will drink the wine 12 00:01:30.840 --> 00:01:36.000 of God's wrath, poured full strength into the cup of his anger, and 13 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:41.519 he will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the Holy Angels 14 00:01:41.560 --> 00:01:45.840 and in the presence of the lamb, and the smoke of their torment goes 15 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:52.640 up forever and ever, and they have no rest day or night, these 16 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:57.239 worshippers of the beast and its image and whoever receives the mark of its name. 17 00:02:00.319 --> 00:02:06.840 Here is a call for endurance of the saints, those who keep the 18 00:02:06.879 --> 00:02:13.080 commandments of God and their faith in Jesus. And I heard a voice from 19 00:02:13.080 --> 00:02:21.080 heaven saying right this blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now 20 00:02:21.199 --> 00:02:25.759 on, blessed indeed, says the spirit, that they may rest from their 21 00:02:25.840 --> 00:02:53.599 labors for their deeds follow them. Please be seated. Back home in Kansas 22 00:02:53.680 --> 00:02:59.039 there's a lady in the congregation that I have become close to in terms of 23 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:05.680 she and her husband, and on the Lord's Day in the afternoon, after 24 00:03:05.840 --> 00:03:08.800 our afternoon service that we have, I dropped by their home my visit with 25 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:13.800 her. I visit her with her many times and she shared a lot about 26 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:17.960 how she came to know the Lord and she told me that she had been 27 00:03:19.080 --> 00:03:24.080 raised seventh day adventist and this, this church building, is a seventh day 28 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:34.120 adventist church building. They built it and so I was wondering, what is 29 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:42.520 the significance of this window? Have you wondered about that? In the book 30 00:03:42.520 --> 00:03:49.039 of revelation there are seven angels and seven trumpets, but that's not what's here. 31 00:03:49.080 --> 00:03:53.479 There are three and when I told her, described it to her and 32 00:03:53.520 --> 00:04:00.800 told her that there were three angels, one, two, three, she 33 00:04:00.879 --> 00:04:03.800 immediately said revelation, Chapter Fourteen, and I said, are you sure, 34 00:04:03.879 --> 00:04:08.560 and she said yes, I'm sure. As a child I had to memorize 35 00:04:08.639 --> 00:04:18.040 that because this very passage is kind of the which we say the the basis 36 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:29.160 of the seventh day adventist view of their job in the world today, that 37 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:34.160 they are called to share the Gospel, but they're also called to warn everyone 38 00:04:35.879 --> 00:04:54.199 about Babylon and about the mark of the beast. I realize that the book 39 00:04:54.240 --> 00:05:00.879 of revelation seems strange to a lot of believers. I think in reform circles 40 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:08.639 it's probably one of the more neglected books. I preached through this book and 41 00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:12.680 when I get back to Kansas one of my duties will be to teach the 42 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:21.439 adult class there at Church the book of revelation and one of the things I 43 00:05:21.480 --> 00:05:26.720 always do when I start with looking at the book of revelation is to go 44 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:41.800 there, go to the first chapter and the first verse, and the first 45 00:05:41.800 --> 00:05:53.720 first begins the revelation of Jesus Christ. A lot of people think of the 46 00:05:53.720 --> 00:06:00.839 book of revelation is the future for told, and I'm not denying that that's 47 00:06:00.879 --> 00:06:05.160 here in the book. But you need to realize that the things that are 48 00:06:05.199 --> 00:06:10.839 accounted are given in this book. Some of them, at the time of 49 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:19.199 this writing, had been fulfilled. The letters to the seven churches were delivered 50 00:06:19.240 --> 00:06:30.839 to them with the warnings right there. There were things that were soon to 51 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:42.519 be fulfilled and there were things that were in the long distance. And is 52 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:46.759 people approached the book. I think often what they do with it is that 53 00:06:46.800 --> 00:06:51.519 they have a system that there are some people who believe that most everything in 54 00:06:51.560 --> 00:06:59.600 the book was fulfilled there in the first century, and there's some people that 55 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:11.079 believe there's very little in the book that has been fulfilled. And personally I 56 00:07:11.160 --> 00:07:15.879 like to stay out of those arguments. I like to approach the way the 57 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:21.199 book the way my professor told this in seminary. He said, if you 58 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:27.519 want to understand the book of revelation, first of all you need to understand 59 00:07:27.560 --> 00:07:30.680 the symbolism of the Old Testament. If you don't have a clear view of 60 00:07:30.720 --> 00:07:41.199 that, then this stuff gets crazy and fantasy notions about things. As a 61 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:47.759 matter of fact, as a young man confession here I had hair cleared down 62 00:07:47.800 --> 00:07:51.120 to here. I show you a picture of it. The graduate of college 63 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:59.920 and I worked out at a Bible camp in the summer there in Kansas and 64 00:08:00.079 --> 00:08:03.879 the director of the camp, his sister in law, was really hung up 65 00:08:03.959 --> 00:08:07.639 on the book of revelation. In fact I think she called it the book 66 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:11.399 of revelations plural, but she was really hung up on that. And one 67 00:08:11.480 --> 00:08:16.759 day we went on a car ride and I was sitting in the front with 68 00:08:16.839 --> 00:08:20.399 him, his wife was sitting in the back with her sister and we got 69 00:08:20.439 --> 00:08:24.399 to the end of the car ride and we were getting out. We'd gotten 70 00:08:24.439 --> 00:08:30.279 home on seeing some things come back. Just before we were getting out she 71 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:41.039 started reading from the book of revelation. It was about these terrible creatures that 72 00:08:41.200 --> 00:08:50.559 had the hair of the woman and a face of a man, and I 73 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:56.159 didn't think anything of it until Richard said to me after she got out of 74 00:08:56.159 --> 00:09:00.320 ear sight, he came over to me and he tugged on my hair and 75 00:09:00.360 --> 00:09:03.240 then he pointed to my nose and he said the hair of a woman in 76 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:11.360 the faith of a man, that she was talking about you. He said 77 00:09:11.559 --> 00:09:16.279 she thinks you're part of the locust plague, and so he said something about 78 00:09:16.320 --> 00:09:20.080 calling me locust and I said, well, that's not nice. You know 79 00:09:20.159 --> 00:09:22.279 that I'm a brother in Christi says, okay, we're going to call you 80 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:28.960 brother locust, and so that became my nickname. Their camp was brother locust. 81 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:35.879 So Anyway, I've had a interesting relationship with this book and the things 82 00:09:35.960 --> 00:09:39.960 that are spoken of in here, but I'd like to draw attention to some 83 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:50.960 things. First of all, it's very clear what the first angel is all 84 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:58.919 about. The Gospel, and we've seen the Gospel go out into the world. 85 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:03.440 This isn't something that happens at the end of the age. This is 86 00:10:03.480 --> 00:10:11.440 something that has been going on since God made that promise in Eden, and 87 00:10:11.679 --> 00:10:22.919 the Church has been proclaiming the Gospel since the day of Pentecost. The second 88 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:39.360 angel comes with judgment on Babbel, in the great judgment on those who have 89 00:10:39.519 --> 00:10:46.159 made the nations drink the wine of the passions of sexual immorality. Now again, 90 00:10:46.200 --> 00:10:52.639 you might have some footnotes in your Bible at that point that suggests that 91 00:10:52.639 --> 00:10:56.360 that it's that it's not talk about sexual immorality, it's talking about idolatry or 92 00:10:56.399 --> 00:11:03.679 something like that. I've seen that. No, I've lived long enough that 93 00:11:03.759 --> 00:11:07.879 I realize that this is the thing that the world today is really pushing and 94 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:26.159 is always push and what we have here is that clear promise that ultimately that 95 00:11:26.799 --> 00:11:35.720 will fall, no matter how successful evil may seems to be in our age 96 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:48.960 and how prominent it becomes, God has pronounced judgment on it. And then 97 00:11:48.000 --> 00:12:00.759 the third angel is the warning about those who worship the beast. Who is 98 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:05.039 the beast? What it is? His Mark? I'm not willing to speculate 99 00:12:05.159 --> 00:12:11.600 on that one, but I know something for sure. If you are a 100 00:12:11.639 --> 00:12:18.879 believer in Jesus Christ, you've been marked by him and set apart, and 101 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:24.360 you don't need to fear ever being tricked into following the beast. Those who 102 00:12:24.440 --> 00:12:37.559 follow the beast are those who receive this and those on whom God's anger and 103 00:12:37.679 --> 00:12:50.799 wrath will be poured out. But this section ends with something, something wonderful, 104 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:58.519 something encouraging, a call for endurance. We believe in the perseverance of 105 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:03.080 the saints. God encourages us in there to stick with it, to not 106 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:11.320 give up. There are times that we may be tempted, there are times 107 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:24.240 that we fail, but we are to endure and to keep God's commandments and 108 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:35.200 to keep trusting in Jesus. And so we get to the verse that mentions 109 00:13:35.279 --> 00:13:39.399 the basis of my title of my sermon this evening, and that is verse 110 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:46.879 thirteen. And I whrror heard a voice from heaven saying write this. Blessed 111 00:13:46.960 --> 00:13:52.960 are the dead who die in the Lord. From now on, blessed indeed, 112 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:58.200 says the spirit, that they may wrest from their labors, for their 113 00:13:58.279 --> 00:14:09.759 deeds will follow them. There's a rock group that went by the grateful dead, 114 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:22.519 but we will be the blessed dead. There's a difference. Blessed are 115 00:14:22.559 --> 00:14:30.159 those who die in the Lord. What is this special blessing that we have? 116 00:14:30.320 --> 00:14:35.840 If you'll, if you'll turn to the back of your Hymn Books, 117 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:52.840 the Westminster Confession, the the the shorter catechism, question number thirty seven. 118 00:14:54.559 --> 00:15:00.360 Someone had the page on that. What that is? Nine hundred and seventy 119 00:15:00.600 --> 00:15:26.879 n seventy. I'll ask the question. I'll read that and I'd like for 120 00:15:26.960 --> 00:15:31.399 all of you to read the answer that we have here. What benefits do 121 00:15:31.600 --> 00:16:07.639 believers receive from Christ at death? It's a beautiful promise. Remember the first 122 00:16:07.679 --> 00:16:11.840 time that I read that I didn't find the first part strange, but I 123 00:16:11.919 --> 00:16:17.559 found a second part. Do you find it that way a bit, that 124 00:16:17.720 --> 00:16:27.120 your body is united with Christ? You See, the scriptures and the confession, 125 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:33.600 reflecting the teaching of the Scriptures, do not teach the notion that what 126 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:42.000 we achieve in death is to get rid of our bodies. And it doesn't 127 00:16:42.039 --> 00:16:49.039 matter what happens to your body, if you're cremated, you're buried, if 128 00:16:49.080 --> 00:16:56.919 you're blown up, if there's no nothing that anyone can retrieve, none of 129 00:16:56.960 --> 00:17:03.559 that will stop God from accomplishing his purpose in bringing you back, raising you 130 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:15.200 physically from the dead, just as Jesus was raised from the dead. Turn 131 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:19.039 to Hebrews Chapter Twelve, in Verse Twenty three, just couple of proof texts. 132 00:17:41.319 --> 00:17:45.039 I'm going to read Verse Twenty Two and Twenty Three there. But you 133 00:17:45.160 --> 00:17:48.519 have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the Living God, the 134 00:17:48.680 --> 00:17:56.359 heavenly Jerusalem, and too innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly 135 00:17:56.480 --> 00:18:00.480 of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge 136 00:18:00.519 --> 00:18:11.559 of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect. No purgatory 137 00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:29.240 there is there, not even limbo. Second I'd like to have you turned 138 00:18:29.279 --> 00:19:00.960 to John Chapter Five, versus Twenty eight and twenty nine, where we are 139 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:08.920 informed. Do Not Marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all 140 00:19:08.920 --> 00:19:15.519 who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who 141 00:19:15.519 --> 00:19:21.359 have done good to the resurrection of life and those who have done evil to 142 00:19:21.480 --> 00:19:30.680 the resurrection of Judgment. This was some thing too, that became a surprise 143 00:19:30.799 --> 00:19:37.079 to me as a young person, when I was quite young, the idea 144 00:19:37.200 --> 00:19:42.839 that the wickeder race from the dead. I believe that believers were because we're 145 00:19:42.880 --> 00:19:48.839 going to spend eternity in a perfect body as well as having a perfect sinless 146 00:19:48.880 --> 00:19:57.119 soul, and that's why when people ask me now if I believe in a 147 00:19:57.200 --> 00:20:06.160 literal hell, well, I believe in a literal resurrection, and the physical 148 00:20:06.200 --> 00:20:22.480 body has to have some place to be, and there's only two options. 149 00:20:22.559 --> 00:20:33.319 This is our real hope, the resurrection from the dead. Remember speaking one 150 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:41.079 time, to call him a skeptic, about his plans for the future. 151 00:20:41.119 --> 00:20:48.400 Young Man. Well, he was finishing high school. I said, well, 152 00:20:48.440 --> 00:20:51.480 what are you gonna do then? Go to college, and what are 153 00:20:51.480 --> 00:20:53.759 you gonna do after that? Get a good job, and what are your 154 00:20:53.759 --> 00:21:00.160 plans after that? Will Helpe to get married and after that have children and 155 00:21:00.279 --> 00:21:03.559 after that work until I retire, maybe have grandchildren. I don't know whether 156 00:21:03.559 --> 00:21:07.200 he mentioned grandchildren or not. Some younger people don't think so much in those 157 00:21:07.240 --> 00:21:11.039 categories, but you know it's grandchildren. And and then I said, and 158 00:21:11.079 --> 00:21:15.640 then what? And eventually got the point. He says, well, then 159 00:21:15.640 --> 00:21:22.799 I'll die. And then I said and then what? He was shocked. 160 00:21:22.799 --> 00:21:25.960 He said, what do you mean when you're dead? You're dead. I 161 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:30.920 says, oh no, I have something to look forward to when I'm dead, 162 00:21:33.200 --> 00:21:38.200 and that is the resurrection. It's a hope, and hope is not 163 00:21:38.279 --> 00:21:42.680 something that you know means I hope it happens. No, it's something that 164 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:51.000 I'm confident in. It hasn't happened yet. I haven't seen it, but 165 00:21:51.079 --> 00:22:03.839 I believe it because God tells us that, and they'll just briefly. I'd 166 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:07.799 love to look at another issue, and that is I have a real top 167 00:22:07.920 --> 00:22:12.359 problem with the apostles creed in that line where it says that Jesus descended into 168 00:22:12.359 --> 00:22:18.480 hell. Now I realize in the original, in the Latin, it's Hades 169 00:22:18.839 --> 00:22:22.039 is the place that's identified. It's the place of the dead. It's not 170 00:22:23.039 --> 00:22:32.519 the place of eternal torment and torture. But if you'll turn again to the 171 00:22:32.559 --> 00:22:48.039 back here and this time to the larger catechism, question number fifty, I 172 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:51.279 don't know whether you've noticed it or not, but I find the catechism quite 173 00:22:51.279 --> 00:22:56.440 helpful. I'm not equating the catechism with the scriptures, don't get me wrong, 174 00:22:57.960 --> 00:23:02.640 but I do believe that the men who wrote these things down for our 175 00:23:02.680 --> 00:23:12.839 benefit point us to the scriptures in understanding these things. And again I'll read 176 00:23:12.880 --> 00:23:17.240 the question. Have you read the answer here to number fifty? It's on 177 00:23:17.359 --> 00:23:52.839 page nine forty five, wherein consisteth Christ's humiliation after his death. Christ suffered 178 00:23:52.960 --> 00:24:00.920 all the punishment due to sin on that cross and before he died he said 179 00:24:02.079 --> 00:24:10.039 it is finished. So the the teaching is not that Christ went to punishment 180 00:24:10.200 --> 00:24:18.519 after his death, but the teaching is that Christ his humiliation continued even after 181 00:24:18.559 --> 00:24:26.440 he had died, and we understand his humiliation in that, being the second 182 00:24:26.519 --> 00:24:30.759 person of the Trinity, the Eternal Word of God, he came to this 183 00:24:30.880 --> 00:24:41.440 earth and was born of a woman of Virgin and he suffered in this life 184 00:24:41.680 --> 00:24:47.799 and he died on that cross. But when he died on the cross he 185 00:24:47.920 --> 00:25:02.799 did not immediately go to glory, he remained with those who were dead. 186 00:25:02.839 --> 00:25:14.799 He wasn't living on the earth. His body was lying there in that grave, 187 00:25:15.640 --> 00:25:32.160 dead and cold, but his spirit, or his soul was in paradise. 188 00:25:33.400 --> 00:26:00.880 Luke twenty three, verse forty three, Jesus is speaking to the penitent 189 00:26:00.960 --> 00:26:12.000 thief, the one who confessed that he deserved that death on the cross, 190 00:26:12.039 --> 00:26:22.200 and that thief simply says in Verse Forty Two, Jesus, remember me when 191 00:26:22.240 --> 00:26:32.359 you come into your kingdom. And he said to him. Truly, I 192 00:26:32.400 --> 00:26:38.799 say to you today, you will be with me in paradise. I read 193 00:26:38.839 --> 00:26:41.559 a tract one time that I picked up some place. I don't think I 194 00:26:41.640 --> 00:26:45.000 burned it, I probably have it at home somewhere. But then this tract 195 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:48.640 that was written by someone who believed you had to be baptized to be saved, 196 00:26:48.680 --> 00:26:52.599 that you had to have water baptism to be saved. There was no 197 00:26:52.640 --> 00:26:59.240 way around it. And so what he interpreted here was that Jesus told the 198 00:26:59.319 --> 00:27:03.920 thief, sorry, Buddy, but to day you'll be in hell with me. 199 00:27:06.440 --> 00:27:08.799 Now that's not the way I read it and I hope you don't read 200 00:27:08.839 --> 00:27:19.359 it that way. Paradise, Paradise, Abraham's Bosom in the story that Jesus 201 00:27:19.400 --> 00:27:26.279 tells about Lazarus and the rich man. They both are in the place of 202 00:27:26.279 --> 00:27:37.279 the dead, but Lazarus is in the bosom of Abraham being comforted there. 203 00:27:40.759 --> 00:27:52.319 That's where the saints went under the Old Covenant, and when Jesus, after 204 00:27:52.480 --> 00:28:00.400 his death, went to that place, when he left it, he took 205 00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:07.839 all those saints with him into the Glory of Heaven, the glory that spoken 206 00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:12.440 of here in the book of revelation, and that's why it says blessed are 207 00:28:12.559 --> 00:28:19.240 the dead who die in the Lord from now on, now that there wasn't 208 00:28:19.279 --> 00:28:26.720 some blessing before and that it was a good place, but to see God's 209 00:28:26.759 --> 00:28:36.640 glory. It took the death of Christ to accomplish that, and now when 210 00:28:36.680 --> 00:28:48.279 we die, we go there immediately. We are blessed indeed. The spirit 211 00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:56.839 says that they may rest from their labors. I don't know about you, 212 00:28:56.960 --> 00:29:03.480 but the older I get, it seems, the more rest I need. 213 00:29:06.240 --> 00:29:10.200 There's a lot of things to be done and there's much that we can accomplish 214 00:29:10.200 --> 00:29:19.519 here, but we are promised rest. It's things like that that convinced me 215 00:29:19.559 --> 00:29:27.960 beyond any doubt that there is no such place as purgatory. There is no 216 00:29:29.079 --> 00:29:38.240 halfway place. When a believer in Jesus Christ dies, he rests from the 217 00:29:38.319 --> 00:29:49.400 Labors here and is blest in the presence of Christ. And he comments that 218 00:29:51.920 --> 00:29:57.240 their deeds follow them. You ever heard somebody say you can't take it to 219 00:29:57.240 --> 00:30:07.119 heaven? They never saw a hearse with a you haul behind it. I 220 00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:10.839 think somebody's got to have done that as a joke at some time or another. 221 00:30:11.119 --> 00:30:15.440 The physical things of this world, know, none of those things will 222 00:30:15.519 --> 00:30:26.000 we take with us, but the good that God accomplishes in and through US 223 00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:30.559 stands even when we die. There are many people in this world that are 224 00:30:30.640 --> 00:30:38.119 very rich and have all kinds of possessions and when they die, well, 225 00:30:38.200 --> 00:30:45.559 it's like Rockefeller, John D Rockefeller's pastor was asked his funeral. So the 226 00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:51.079 reporter said how much did he leave behind? And the pastor looked at the 227 00:30:51.119 --> 00:30:57.359 reporter and said, young man, all of it, that wealth, he 228 00:30:57.400 --> 00:31:07.160 could not take with him. But the good that we accomplish and our children, 229 00:31:08.279 --> 00:31:18.079 as we share the Gospel with them and as God moves in their hearts 230 00:31:18.079 --> 00:31:23.200 and works with them, the ones who are elect and draws them to himself, 231 00:31:23.519 --> 00:31:33.039 those children will one day be in heaven with us. These are the 232 00:31:33.079 --> 00:31:41.599 things that count in life. The world seems powerful, the world seems to 233 00:31:41.640 --> 00:31:49.440 succeed so many times, but in the end everybody's going to die. I 234 00:31:49.480 --> 00:31:59.559 realize there's an exception. Got To make this ex exception. When Jesus returns, 235 00:31:59.599 --> 00:32:02.440 those who are alive at that time will be transformed. They won't have 236 00:32:02.519 --> 00:32:07.559 to go through death. But other than that we're all going to die. 237 00:32:09.839 --> 00:32:21.480 What will it mean? My mother had a plaque on the wall and I'm 238 00:32:21.519 --> 00:32:29.079 trying to remember the way it went. It said something about it closed with 239 00:32:29.119 --> 00:32:37.359 the words only what's done for Christ will last. My resister remembered it. 240 00:32:37.480 --> 00:32:44.240 She's younger and I she's got a younger memory. Only what's let something about 241 00:32:44.279 --> 00:32:52.640 this life will soon be passed. Only what's done for Christ will last, 242 00:32:52.759 --> 00:32:59.440 and my mom sought to live that. When they were singing that Psalm earlier 243 00:32:59.480 --> 00:33:04.039 that we open and with it had that line in there that the psalmist says 244 00:33:04.079 --> 00:33:10.079 that he was the son of the Lord's handmade. I think he's talking about 245 00:33:10.119 --> 00:33:15.400 his mom. My mom was a believer as it was growing up as a 246 00:33:15.480 --> 00:33:21.680 child. My father wasn't, but she encouraged me and prayed for me and 247 00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:28.799 with me, and I'm looking forward to being reunited with her one day. 248 00:33:29.920 --> 00:33:32.839 But the most important thing that will happen to those who have put their faith 249 00:33:32.880 --> 00:33:42.759 in Christ is to see Jesus, and when we see him, we will 250 00:33:42.799 --> 00:33:49.279 be like him. Doesn't mean identical to him, like him, like him 251 00:33:49.319 --> 00:33:57.000 in holiness, like him in the resurrection of his body, the last born 252 00:33:57.039 --> 00:34:04.759 eternity, in the joy of God's presence. So every time you see these 253 00:34:04.799 --> 00:34:08.320 three angels up there, remember what they stand for. I think it's good, 254 00:34:08.360 --> 00:34:15.320 good symbolism the Gospel, the judgment that is going to become this is 255 00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:22.679 going to come on sexual immorality and the judgment that is going to come on 256 00:34:22.760 --> 00:34:30.199 those who worship the false the beast. Two