{"id":18436,"date":"2018-05-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sugar-land-bible-church.local\/sermon\/daniel-061-a-consecrated-temple\/"},"modified":"2018-05-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T05:00:00","slug":"daniel-061-a-consecrated-temple","status":"publish","type":"sermon","link":"https:\/\/slbc.org\/es\/sermon\/daniel-061-a-consecrated-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel 061 – A Consecrated Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","book":[72],"series_event":[467],"sermon_service_type":[472],"speaker":[6],"class_list":["post-18436","sermon","type-sermon","status-publish","hentry","book-daniel","series_event-daniel","sermon_service_type-main-service","speaker-dr-andy-woods","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":{"sermon_title":"Daniel 061 - A Consecrated Temple","sermon_date":"20180506","sermon_month":"5","sermon_year":"2018","sermon_notes":5750,"sermon_slides":5751,"sermon_mp3":5753,"sermon_id":"56181345116","series_or_event":467,"service_type":[472],"speaker":6,"books_of_the_bible":72,"chapter_and_verse":"12:11-12","sermon_transcript":"Andy Woods\n\nA Consecrated Temple\n\n5-6-18\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Daniel 12:11-12\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lesson 61\n\nGood morning everybody.\u00a0 Let\u2019s take our Bibles if we could and open them to the Book of Daniel, chapter 12, looking this morning at verses 11-12 at least, and maybe, just maybe, not promising anything, finishing verse 13 which would take us to the end of the book.\u00a0 Of course this section that we\u2019ve been looking at so carefully is part of Daniel\u2019s final vision that\u00a0 he received in the sixth century.\u00a0 And he went through, chapter 10, a lot of warfare before he received the vision.\u00a0 The vision starts in chapters 11 and 12; the warfare is described in chapter 10.\u00a0 And what a vision this has been as Daniel has spoken of Persia, Greece, the warfare in the Grecian dynasty, Antiochus IV, and then suddenly he leaps into the distant future around verse 36 and he begins to see information prophetically about the coming antichrist, and finally the tribulation period and the millennial kingdom.\n\nWe\u2019ve seen verses 1-4, a description of the end times, what\u2019s coming.\u00a0 And then we get a lot of information which is where we find ourselves, verses\u00a0 5-13 of the duration of the end times.\u00a0 That last section that we\u2019re working through is kind of\u2026 I like to call it a question and answer session.\u00a0 Round one is where an angel asks another angel how long?\u00a0\u00a0 And that answer is given there, primarily in verse 7, it reveals the second half of the tribulation period which is 1,260 days.\u00a0 You should probably remember that number, 1260.\u00a0 And through that process you have a converted Israel and God is going to fulfill His covenants through that converted Israel.\u00a0 That is the purpose of the tribulation period.\n\nAnd then, beginning in verse 8 you have a second round of questions and answers and this time it\u2019s not an angel asking another angel about these things, Daniel asks a question.\u00a0 He wants to know not so much when but he wants to know how and what will be the outcome of these things.\u00a0 And you start seeing the answer given in verses 9-13.\u00a0 Verse 9, as we have talked about, is information about progressive illumination, how Daniel is meant to record it and put it away because it be up to a distant generation to make sense, prophetically, of this information.\u00a0 [Verse<\/a> 9, He said, \u201cGo your way,<\/em> Daniel, for these<\/em> words are concealed and sealed up until the end time.\u201d]\n\nAnd verse 10 describes two kinds of people, the righteous and the wicked.\u00a0 The righteous, with a right\u00a0 heart before God will turn to the pages of God\u2019s Word and will start to understand these things in the distant future but the wicked, they will never understand.\u00a0 [Verse 10, \u201cMany will be purged, purified and refined, but the wicked will act wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand, but those who have insight will understand.\u201d]\u00a0 So our attitude towards the prophetic Word of God determines whether we are righteous or wicked.\u00a0 There\u2019s an awful lot of people that reject prophecy, they won\u2019t teach on prophecy, and yet I would say that puts them in the category of the wicked rather than the righteous.\u00a0 The righteous will long to understand these things.\n\nAnd then you move into verse 11 where we have some information about preparation for the millennial temple.\u00a0 Take a look, if you could, at Daniel chapter 12 and notice if\u00a0 you will verse 11, \u201cFrom the time that the regular sacrifice is abolished and the abomination of desolation is set up, there will be<\/em>\u201d what\u2019s the number there? \u201c1,290 days.\u201d\u00a0 Maybe Daniel got his six and his nine backwards there because I thought the second half of the tribulation period was 1,260 days.\u00a0 In fact, I thought I had this whole thing figured out; there\u2019s a 7 year period, explained in Daniel 9:27, the future tribulation period.\u00a0 There\u2019s an event right in the middle of the tribulation period where the antichrist will desolate or desecrate the temple.\u00a0 He\u2019ll set up a pagan image in the temple, Revelation 13:15 describes that.\u00a0 [Revelation 13:15, \u201cAnd it was given to him to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast would even speak and cause as many as do not worship the image of the beast to be killed.\u201d]\u00a0 And then there\u2019s going to be another 1260 days and at the end of that latter 1,260 days you\u2019ll have the Second Coming of Christ and the Kingdom.\n\nSimple, right?\n\nSeven years, something happens in the middle, so we have the tribulation period divided into two \u00a0\u00a03 \u00bd year \u00a0increments; 42 months and 42 months, 3 \u00bd years and 3 \u00bd\u00a0 years, 1260 days and 1260 days.\u00a0 I mean, I thought I had this thing wired, I thought I had it nailed and then Daniel comes along and he changes the numbers on me.\u00a0 He\u2019s talking here, not about 1,260 days; he\u2019s talking about\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1,290 days,\u00a0 and according to my old math he just added 30 days on.\n\nAnd cheer up, it gets worse.\u00a0 Look at verse 12, \u201cHow blessed is he who keeps waiting and attains to the 1,335 days!\u201d\u00a0 That\u2019s another 45 days beyond the 30 days that he just added.\u00a0 So there is this very interesting set of verses here, verses 11-12, of an additional 75 days.\u00a0 And as I\u2019ve shared with you before I can hear in my ears, still wringing, the voice of my eighth grade English composition teacher, Mrs. Ream who told me over and over again never introduce a brand new thought in your conclusion.\u00a0 I mean, in your conclusion you\u2019re supposed to sort of summarize things and you don\u2019t just pull a whammy out of thin air and introduce something brand new.\u00a0 And apparently Daniel never took Mrs. Ream\u2019s composition class because he completely violates that rule and he throws a curve at you just as the book is ready to end.\n\nNow people say to me all the time, how long are we going to be in the Book of Daniel. Well, it depends on how many curve balls get thrown our direction as we\u2019re trying to wrap up this book. What in the world is going on here with this additional 30 days, verse 11, and this additional 45 days, verse 12?\u00a0 Well, I think verse 11, and by the way, that\u2019s how it looks graphically, you have the tribulation period, 7 years, divided into two halves; the desolation or desecration of the temple happens right in the middle; then you have the Second Coming of Christ, then you have a thirty day period where something is going on.\u00a0 And then you have a forty-five day period where something else is going on.\u00a0 And then finally the kingdom of God arrives on the earth.\n\nAnd it is a perplexing thing to try to figure out what is Daniel doing with these additional seventy-five days.\u00a0 And the thing about it is he doesn\u2019t do a lot of explaining;\u00a0 you have to sort of put the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle together.\u00a0 I think beginning here in verse 11, the additional 30 days beyond the 1,260 days has something to do with the temple.\u00a0 And that\u2019s why I have entitled this message A Consecrated Temple<\/em>.\u00a0 The reason I think that is because if you look very carefully at verse 11 it talks about what the antichrist will do in the middle of this seven year tribulation period.\u00a0 It talks about him abolishing \u201cthe regular sacrifice.\u201d\u00a0 Doesn\u2019t that take place in the temple.\u00a0 And it talks about \u201cthe abomination of desolation\u201d that will be set up.\u00a0 Isn\u2019t that going to happen in the temple.\u00a0\u00a0 So apparently this additional thirty days has something to do with the temple.\n\nNow it is interesting that in Jewish history there are four temples; two past, two future.\u00a0 The first temple was built by\u00a0 Solomon and destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar.\u00a0 The second temple was built by the returnees from the Babylonian exile and was the temple functioning during the life of Christ, and that was destroyed by the Romans, A.D. 70.\u00a0 And yet if you study your Bible very quickly there is a third temple on the horizon, not\u00a0 yet built, perhaps built very soon, which will be what I would call the antichrist\u2019s temple.\u00a0 In order for the antichrist to desecrate this temple midway through the tribulation period you need a Jewish temple in existence.\u00a0 And what the antichrist will do in terms of desolation and putting an end to Jewish sacrifice is something that will take place in that temple.\n\nAnd yet if you study your Bible very carefully\u00a0 you learn that there\u2019s actually going to be a fourth temple.\u00a0 Temple three will give way to temple four, that is the glorious millennial temple described in Ezekiel 40-48.\u00a0 That is the temple in the millennial 1,000 year kingdom that the Shekinah glory of God will enter.\u00a0 Just as the Shekinah glory of God entered and ultimately departed from the Solomonic temple when temple four is functioning during the kingdom age the glory of God will re-enter that temple.\u00a0 You say well, yeah, but what does all that really mean.\u00a0 Well, here\u2019s what it means: the glory of God is going to re-enter the temple.\u00a0 That\u2019s the secret interpretation.\n\nIf all of the other temples were literal, and they are, why wouldn\u2019t temple four be literal as well?\u00a0 But you see, some way, somehow temple three, the desolated desecrated temple must give way to temple four.\u00a0 Temple four, as Ezekiel describes it, it is depicted in the most grandiose of terms.\u00a0 It\u2019ll be a temple much larger than temple two, the Herodian temple that was functioning during the life of Christ.\u00a0 And some way, somehow temple three has to give way to temple number four and you know what?\u00a0 It\u2019s going to take time for God to purify temple three.\u00a0 Temple three will be odious, it will be \u00a0a stench in the nostrils of God being a desecrated temple, and temple three is going to give way to temple four.\u00a0 And I think it\u2019s going to take at least thirty days to fumigate the building\u2026 describing \u00a0\u00a0a process of time.\u00a0 It\u2019s going to take time to purify and refurbish the desecrated third temple into the glorious fourth millennial temple.\n\nNow there is another school of thought which indicates that temple three is going to be destroyed with bowl judgment number seven.\u00a0 In fact, when you read about bowl judgment number seven, Revelation 16:18-20, an earthquake of such a caliber that no earthquake like that has ever existed, and it talks there about every island fled away and the mountains were not found, and it talks about hundred pound hailstones plummeting to the earth and killing people,\u00a0 you can imagine the topographical disaster that would happen.\n\n[Revelation 16:18-20, \u201cAnd there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder; and there was a great earthquake, such as there had not been since man came to be upon the earth, so great an earthquake was it, and<\/em> so mighty. [19] The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0of His fierce wrath. [20] And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.\u201d\u00a0 [21] \u201cAnd huge hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, came down from heaven upon men; and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, because its plague was extremely severe.\u201d]\n\nMany people believe that temple three will be destroyed or perhaps injured or broken with that seventh bowl judgment.\u00a0 So therefore with a destroyed third temple another possibility is it\u2019s going to take some time to reconstruct it into the glorious millennial temple and that process will take thirty days.\u00a0 Either it\u2019s a reconstruction of the temple altogether or it\u2019s cleansing of temple three, some way, somehow in preparation for temple four.\u00a0 These things can\u2019t happen instantaneously; they require time for these things to occur.\u00a0 And that\u2019s what these additional thirty days are four, in my humble opinion.\n\nPeople say well, isn\u2019t that kind of strange, I mean, does God put things on hold?\u00a0 Does He violate His calendar for temple preparation?\u00a0 In fact, God does this all of the time.\u00a0 In the Maccabee\u2019s books, 1 Maccabees, chapter 4, verses 36-51, now you might be looking for Maccabees in your Bible, it\u2019s not there, if we were in the Roman Catholic Church it would be there but it\u2019s not in your Bible; if it is in your Bible you can come talk to me afterwards.\u00a0 But we know about, and we\u2019ve studied it in depth, about this incredible desecration of the temple that took place under Antiochus IV, in the intertestamental period.\u00a0 And 1 Maccabees, chapter 4 tells us that Judas Maccabeus and his army went to great lengths to cleanse the temple in Jerusalem and to cleanse it of the abominations in it that were caused by Antiochus IV.\n\nYou see, Antiochus IV is a prefigurement, if you will, as we have studied, of the coming antichrist.\u00a0 And when Antiochus\u00a0 IV went into that temple and desecrated it, just like the antichrist will do in the future, the Maccabee\u2019s books record how the Jews were so careful to re-consecrate, to rededicate that temple, to put that temple into proper motion following this desolation.\u00a0 And of course, this is the miraculous event of Hanukkah, you want to keep that holiday or that feast day in mind, I\u2019m going to be referring to it again in this message.\u00a0 It was the time where the Jews, to re-dedicate the temple lit the Menorah and there was only enough oil to burn for one day, and according to the traditions of Judaism the lamp has to burn eight days in order for that temple to be properly cleansed and rededicated.\u00a0 And the intertestamental books tell us that the oil miraculously burned, not for one day but for eight days.\u00a0 God did a work to help this temple go through proper rededication and consecration to the Lord.\n\nIn fact, that work of God about a hundred and fifty years before the time of Christ is so profound that the Jews add it to their normal calendar system, Hanukkah, which means dedication or Feast of Lights.\u00a0 So if it took some time to rededicate the temple after Antiochus IV had desecrated it, why does it seem strange to us then, that when the antichrist desecrates the future third temple it\u2019s going to take some time to reconsecrate, to rededicate, in preparation for the coming millennial temple.\n\nIn fact, it\u2019s interesting that over in 2 Chronicles 30:2-4 King Hezekiah postponed the Jewish calendar for one month, thirty days for Jewish months I might add.\u00a0 [1 Chronicles 30:2-4, \u201c\u00a0<\/sup>For the king and his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem had decided to celebrate the Passover in the second month, [3] \u00a0<\/sup>since they could not celebrate it at that time, because the priests had not consecrated themselves in sufficient numbers, nor had the people been gathered to Jerusalem. [4] Thus the thing was right in the sight of the king and all the assembly.\u201d] \u00a0Hezekiah postponed, for one month,\u00a0 the celebration of the Passover because the priests had not consecrated themselves in sufficient numbers.\u00a0 God so values a properly consecrated temple that He postponed Passover for one month, thirty days.\u00a0 Why can\u2019t the same thing happen in the end times, as temple three is being prepared to ultimately become temple number four.\n\n2 Chronicles 30:2-4 says this, \u201c\u00a0<\/sup>For the king and his leaders and all the assembly in Jerusalem had agreed to celebrate the Passover in the second month,\u201d that\u2019s not where they normally keep the Passover, [3] \u00a0\u201c<\/sup>for they could not keep it at the regular time, because a sufficient number of priests had not consecrated themselves, nor had the people gathered together at Jerusalem. [4] And the matter pleased the king and all the assembly.\u201d\u00a0 God so values a cleansed and purified temple that He is in the habit of postponing the regular calendar in Judaism for thirty days or one month.\u00a0 And the kingdom is very important to God but in the kingdom there has to be a proper functioning temple and it\u2019s going to take thirty days to reconsecrate it, rededicate or perhaps rebuild it into the glorious millennial structure that it will be as described in Ezekiel 40-48.\n\nYou say well gee, pastor, this is really interesting information; how does this relate to my life?\u00a0 I mean, this is just a bunch of Jewish stuff yet future, how does this relate to me?\u00a0 Well, here\u2019s the application; apparently God values a consecrated temple.\u00a0 A consecrated clean and pure temple is something that God wants to work in and through.\u00a0 And let me remind\u00a0 you of where the temple is today in the church age.\u00a0 Our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 This becomes the proper injunction or exhortation for living a moral life in Christ.\n\n1 Corinthians 6:16-20 says this:\u00a0 \u201cOr do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her?<\/em> For He says, \u2018THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH.\u2019\u00a0 [17] But the one who joins himself to the Lord is one spirit with Him.<\/em>\u201d\u00a0 So what?\u00a0 Well, here\u2019s the so what, verse 18, \u201cFlee immorality. Every other<\/em> sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body. [19 ] Or do you not know\u201d Paul says, 1 Corinthians 6:19, \u201cthat your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? [20] For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body\u201d and in\u00a0 your spirit, which are God\u2019s.\n\nChristian,\u00a0 your body doesn\u2019t belong to you any more.\u00a0 God has chosen to use your body as a manifestation of the indwelling presence of the Holy Spirit.\u00a0 Therefore, every single sin I ever committed in my body, in this case it\u2019s talking about sexual immorality, but we can put into that equation any other sin, whether it be gossip, or bitterness, or jealousy, or whatever sin we may be drawn to the moment you commit that sin you\u2019re not just affecting yourself, you\u2019re affecting God.\u00a0 You\u2019re affecting the Holy Spirit that is living inside of you because in the age of the church the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and everything we learn about the character of God is that He values a clean consecrated temple.\u00a0 How is your temple doing in that area?\u00a0 That\u2019s the application.\n\nWhat things have you, have we, let into our lives, areas of casual sin, areas of compromise, forgetting the fact that the Holy Spirit lives in each one of us.\u00a0 We have to understand something as church age believers; we are experiencing a privilege today, it\u2019s been going on for the last two thousand years, that was never experienced by any Old Testament saint.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t experienced by anybody that I can tell in the Old Testament, even in the Gospels, until the birthday of the church and the baptizing work of the Holy Spirit began in Acts chapter 2.\u00a0 You see, because in the Old Testament what you\u2019re going to see over and over again is the Spirit came upon certain people to do a work, to rule as king, to function as a judge.\u00a0 It says this over and over again, \u201cthe Spirit of God came upon\u201d\u2026 UPON!\u00a0\u00a0 And then in the Upper Room Jesus says the rules are about to shift; the Holy Spirit will not \u201cupon,\u201d but it will be what? \u201cin!\u201d\u00a0 You see how different we are from God\u2019s working in the past?\u00a0 The Spirit of God is not upon me to do some temporary task, He is in<\/u> me forever.\n\nDaniel himself, Abraham, Noah, Job, all the greats of the past never had what we have today.\u00a0 Jesus said in John 14:16-18, \u201cI will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper,\u201d that\u2019s the Holy Spirit, \u201cthat He may be with you forever; [17] that is<\/em> the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but<\/em> you know Him because He abides with you and will be in you.\u201d\u00a0 If God is putting His kingdom program on hold to purify a Hebrew temple we learn that God apparently values a consecrated temple.\u00a0 And what does that say to us?\u00a0 How much more the warning to us.\u00a0 How much more the exhortation to us to live for God in a pure way practically, letting our practice catch up with our position.\u00a0 Since I am privileged in a way that very few people in redemptive history have been privileged, the Holy Spirit is living inside of\u00a0 us.\u00a0 It\u2019s a different way of looking at sin, isn\u2019t it?\n\nIt\u2019s interesting to me that Paul doesn\u2019t go on a rant about sexual immorality in 1 Corinthians 6, he doesn\u2019t start citing all the venereal disease statistics, he doesn\u2019t walk around trying to shut down all of the pornography places in the first century sense.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t second guess their salvation.\u00a0 A lot of pastors will do that, your salvation is second guessed as you move off into sin.\u00a0 Paul just simply says this: Do you not understand a basic pneumatological truth?\u00a0 Pneumatological means the Spirit.\u00a0 Have you never been told, have you never been taught that the Holy Spirit is inside of you and that you are privileged above and beyond those, even in the Old Testament era.\u00a0 That\u2019s a pretty steep application, wouldn\u2019t you say?\u00a0 So we need this additional thirty days to sort of reconsecrate, rededicate, perhaps even rebuild the temple so that it moves away from the antichrist\u2019s temple, the third temple, into the glorious fourth temple.\n\nNow having said all that, look, if you will, at verse 12, \u201cHow blessed is he who keeps waiting and attains to the 1,335 days!\u201d\u00a0 As I have mentioned before, that\u2019s what your typical prophecy chart looks like, premillennialism.\u00a0 Going to the far right you\u2019ll see the tribulation period, the Second Coming and the kingdom.\u00a0 In fact, in our doctrinal statement here at Sugar Land Bible Church we argue for premillennialism, that Jesus comes back first at the end of the tribulation period and the kingdom follows.\u00a0 And I\u2019m wondering if we need to revise the statement.\u00a0 Maybe it should say we also believe there\u2019s a seventy-five day interval in between the second advent of Christ and the kingdom age\u2026 a seventy-five day delay.\u00a0 Thirty days to fix the temple and an additional forty-five days to do something else.\u00a0 Why the additional forty-five days?\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t explain it but leaning on some great theologians and some great minds I think we can cobble together an explanation.\n\nArnold Fruchtenbaum says this: \u201c\u201cThe Millennium will not begin the day immediately following the last day of the Great Tribulation\u201d why? \u201cbecause there will be a seventy-five day interval. During this time between the Great Tribulation and the start of the Messianic Age, a number of events will occur. The existence of this interval is demonstrated in Daniel 12:11-12.\u201d\u00a0 [Arnold Fruchtenbaum, (2003). The Footsteps of the Messiah: a study of the sequence of prophetic events <\/em>(Rev. ed., p. 367). Tustin, CA: Ariel Ministries.]\n\nWhat event has to happen in that additional forty-five day interval?\u00a0 So we have the tribulation period begins with the peace treaty between the antichrist and Israel, exactly 1260 days later the antichrist will desecrate the temple; exactly 1260 days after that event Jesus will come back.\u00a0 Then there is 30 says reconsecrating, rededicating the temple as we talked about.\u00a0 And then there\u2019s an additional 45 days for something to occur.\u00a0 And it even says there in verse 12, \u201cHow blessed\u201d you should underline that word \u201cblessed\u201d\u00a0 \u201cHow blessed is the one who keeps waiting and attains 1335 days.\u201d [Daniel 12:12]\u00a0 What is going on in these additional days?\u00a0 I can posit a guess; seven things have to happen.\u00a0 The first thing that has to happen is the beast, that\u2019s the antichrist, must be cast into the lake of fire.\u00a0 The antichrist will have run the world prior to this point; Jesus comes back, takes the antichrist and throws him into the lake of fire and then He does that with his sidekick, the false prophet.\n\nNumber one, the beast is throw into the lake of fire.\u00a0 Number two, the false prophet is cast into the lake of fire, in fact, they\u2019re the first two people into the lake of fire.\u00a0 Did you know that no one is in the lake of fire right now?\u00a0 Did you know that the lake of fire was never created for people?\u00a0 It was created for the devil and his angels, Matthew 25:41 reveals that. [Matthew 25:41,\u201cThen He will also say to those on His left, 'Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels.\u201d]\u00a0\u00a0 People today who die without Christ go to a place called Hades (which is not a nice place by the way).\u00a0\u00a0 You\u2019ll see it described in Luke 16:19-31.\u00a0 But no one is in that lake of fire yet, they are in Hades ready to have their venue changed from Hades to the lake of fire.\u00a0 The devil is not even thrown into the lake of fire.\u00a0 A lot of people have this vision of Satan as if he is in hell right now.\u00a0 Now he\u2019s not, he\u2019s running the world.\u00a0 But the day will come when he will be bound for a thousand years, more on that in just a second, but the very first two individuals into the lake of fire are the beast, the antichrist and the false prophet.\n\nYou say well, where are you getting this from?\u00a0 It\u2019s in the Book of Revelation, chapter 19, which describes the return of Christ.\u00a0 \u201cAnd the beast was seized and with him the false prophet who performed the signs in his presence, by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image; these two were thrown alive into the lake of fire which burns with brimstone.\u201d\u00a0 [Revelation 29:20]\u00a0 Is this going to happen in a nanosecond?\u00a0 It could, we\u2019re dealing with God, but apparently this is sort of a process requiring some time; those would be a couple of events taking place in that forty-five day interval.\n\nAnd a third thing has to happen.\u00a0 Satan has to be bound. When is that going to happen?\u00a0 Before the kingdom starts.\u00a0 Revelation 20:1-3 says, \u201cThen I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. [2] And he laid hold of the dragon, the serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; [3] and he threw him into the abyss, and shut it<\/em> and sealed it<\/em> over him, so that he would not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were completed; after these things he must be released for a short time.\u201d\n\nSatan, you\u2019re no longer running the world.\u00a0 So Satan himself must be bound, incarcerated in a place called the abyss.\n\nThat\u2019s why it\u2019s so foolish in your prayer life to bind Satan.\u00a0 Christians do this all of the time, Satan, I bind you, as if I\u2019m sure Satan is real scared of that.\u00a0 Satan is running the world, we\u2019re living in the devil\u2019s world. What we can pray for is protection from Satan but we\u2019re not on offense here; we\u2019re on defense.\u00a0 But when Jesus Christ comes back He goes on offense and takes the unholy trinity, the beast, false prophet, and Satan, the first two into the lake of fire, the third one bound in the abyss because the Book of Revelation tells us, chapter 20 that God has one more purpose for Satan to fulfill.\u00a0 God keeps Satan around long enough to fulfill God\u2019s purpose.\u00a0 This is not the movie Rocky<\/em> folks, this is not two equally suited heavyweights Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed battling this thing out.\u00a0 This is no contest; God Himself created Satan and uses Satan for His own purposes.\u00a0 He\u2019s got one final purpose left; that\u2019s why he goes into the abyss but the other two go into the lake of fire.\n\nAnd then what is going to take place?\u00a0 You have something called the judgment of the Jews.\u00a0 You see that described in Ezekiel 20:33-44, there will be Jews or Hebrews that will survive the great tribulation period.\u00a0 Not everyone is killed.\u00a0 How do I know that?\u00a0 Because Jesus said in Matthew 24:22, \u201cUnless those days had been cut short, no life would have been saved; but for the sake of the elect\u201d that\u2019s the Jews or the Hebrews, \u201cthose days will be cut short.\u201d\n\nI mean, there has to be Hebrews living on the earth so God can fulfill His covenant promises to the nation of Israel.\u00a0 If all the Jews die there\u2019s no one left to fulfill the covenant through.\u00a0 The problem is at the end of the tribulation period you\u2019ve got all these survivors, Jesus is saying some of you are believers, some are unbelievers, so He puts them through a judgment in the wilderness where the believing Jews, you see this all in Ezekiel 20:33-44, pass under the shepherd\u2019s rod.\u00a0 They, in other words, are determined to be believers and they go into the earthly kingdom in their mortal bodies and they begin to repopulate the earth and it\u2019s through that group that God is going to fulfill all of the promises that He has ever made to the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.\n\nWell, what happens to the unbelieving Jews?\u00a0 They\u2019re cut off, cast off the earth into Hades.\u00a0 So what you see being described here is a judgment in the wilderness of the Hebrews that is not going to take place in 30 seconds, it\u2019s a process.\u00a0\u00a0 And Daniel is revealing the length, forty-five days of this process.\n\nNow something else is going to happen during these 45 days.\u00a0 You\u2019re going to have a judgment of the Gentiles.\u00a0 Where is that described?\u00a0 That\u2019s described in Matthew 25:31-46, it\u2019s the famous sheep and goat judgment.\u00a0 And this is very important because social gospel people misrepresent this verse all of the time.\u00a0 You know what \u201csocial gospel\u201d is?\u00a0 Right?\u00a0 You give water bottles out to people while they\u2019re on their way to hell.\u00a0 That\u2019s social gospel.\u00a0 You fill their stomach with food for twenty-four hours but you never give them the gospel which will keep them out of an eternal hell.\u00a0 And there are all kinds of people, I\u2019m sort of shocked that it\u2019s happening today, this is a heresy that a prior generation recognized but it\u2019s back today in rapid form, through religious progressivism, the religious left, this idea that we\u2019re going to build the kingdom of God on the earth without the King.\u00a0 And so the focus of the church becomes putting the kingdom together, humanitarian concerns.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that I\u2019m against humanitarian concerns but let me tell you something; if the church gets involved in humanitarian concerns without using humanitarian needs as the platform to preach the gospel the church is off in some area that God never called the church to.\n\nAnd so these verses are\u00a0 used over and over again, Matthew 25, to teach social gospel.\u00a0 And yet this is not social gospel when you put it in context.\u00a0 Context is king!\u00a0 It\u2019s a description of Jesus returning to the earth at the end of the tribulation period and He takes His seat on David\u2019s throne in Jerusalem and gathered before Him are the nations; that would be the surviving Gentiles.\u00a0 And Jesus is making a determination, those Gentiles who survived the tribulation period, which one of you are believers and which one of\u00a0 you are unbelievers?\u00a0 He calls the believers sheep; He calls the unbelievers goats and He makes that determination by how they treated His brethren.\n\nWell, what\u2019s the brethren?\u00a0 You ask a social gospel opponent they\u2019ll say the brethren is the unmet needs of all of humanity.\u00a0 That is not who the brethren are!\u00a0 The brethren, when you study it out in Matthew\u2019s very Jewish gospel are the Jewish people that are going to be under great persecution by the antichrist, most likely the 144,000 Jews described in Revelation 7.\u00a0 Think about the antichrist persecuting these people and going after them.\u00a0 And you demonstrate that you are a sheep, you demonstrate that you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ during this terrible time period because you\u2019ll have a natural inclination and a desire in your heart to help the Jews.\n\nThat\u2019s very different than the social gospel use of this passage.\u00a0 A few of these verses, I don\u2019t have time to read them all, but you know the passage well, verse 31, it says, \u201cBut when the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels are with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne, [32] All the nations\u201d ethnos<\/em>, Gentiles, \u201cwill be gathered before Him; and He will separate them from one another, as the shepherd separates the sheep from the goats; [33] and He will put the sheep on His right, and the goats on the left.\u00a0 [34] Then the King will say to those on His right, \u2018Come, you who are blessed\u201d\u2019 didn\u2019t I tell you to pay attention to the word \u201cblessed\u201d in Daniel 12:12?\u00a0 Why are they blessed?\u00a0 Because they\u2019ve been determined through this 45 day process to be sheep, believing Gentiles, who can enter the kingdom in their mortal bodies and being to repopulate the earth.\u00a0 They\u2019re not goats, the goats aren\u2019t blessed.\u00a0 The goats are cast off the earth into Hades.\n\n\u201cThen the King will say to those on His right, 'Come, you who are blessed \u00a0of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.\u00a0 [35] For I was hungry, and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger, and you invited Me in; [36] naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me; I was in prison, and you came to Me.\u201d [37] Then the righteous will answer Him, \u2018Lord, when did we see You hungry, and feed You, or thirsty, and give You something to drink?\u2019\u00a0 [38] \u2018And when did we see You a stranger, and invite You in, or naked, and clothe You?\u201d\u00a0 [39] \u2018When did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?\u00a0 [40] The King will answer and say to them, \u2018Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine,\u201d wasn\u2019t Jesus Jewish?\u00a0 Who would His kin be genealogically?\u00a0 It would be the fellow Jews that are being persecuted during the seven year tribulation period.\u00a0 \u201c\u2018Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brother of mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.'\u201d\n\nI can\u2019t tell you how that verse is abused by people today, whether it\u2019s Jim Wallis, Tony Campolo, Ron Sider, or any other advocate of social gospel, they use this verse to teach that we need to be good to all of humanity because after all, all of humanity are Christ\u2019s brothers.\u00a0 That is NOT what the verses are saying.\u00a0 You can believe whatever you want but don\u2019t quote the Bible in the process thank you very much!\u00a0\u00a0 This has a contextual specific meaning to the beginning of the kingdom with Jesus ruling on David\u2019s throne in Jerusalem.\u00a0 He is figuring out here who are sheep and who are goats. \u00a0Sheep enter the kingdom in mortal bodies, goats are cast off the earth into Hades and \u00a0\u00a0the whole determination is made based on how they treated the Jews, His brethren, during the tribulation period, because faith, at least in this time period, demonstrates itself by its works.\u00a0 \u201cFaith without works is dead.\u201d\u00a0 [James 2:26]\n\nAnd this is going to be such a time of great duress and stress and need for the nation of Israel that they\u2019re going to need help and only people that have a relationship with God in the tribulation period will have any understanding of this and any desire to reach out and help the Jews.\u00a0 And by the way, this verse has nothing to do with the United States of America and its refugee border policy.\u00a0 Now you laugh at this but there is now an ad that runs two minutes through the world Relief Fund where they all, Christian leaders, some of them I was surprised to see being sucked into this, names that I\u2019ve respected for a long time, names like even Joni Erickson Tada, and I don\u2019t condemn here, I don\u2019t know how much they told her how they were going to use her name when they asked her to read these verses.\u00a0 But all of these leaders are reading these verses and at the end they\u2019re applying it to the fact that we, as the United States of America, either have our borders open\u2026 the last time I checked God created borders, the nation state\u2026 we need to have our borders open and welcome the refugee amongst us.\n\nI\u2019m all in favor of immigration but let\u2019s make it right here; we\u2019re in favor of LEGAL immigration.\u00a0 When somebody crosses the borders against the laws of the land they are going directly against the Bible which teaches to respect the laws of that land.\u00a0 And if somebody is going to enter the United States of America with no respect for the border laws, how do we expect them to behave properly under the United States government when they can\u2019t even respect the laws coming in?\u00a0 This is how the World Relief Fund, using evangelical Christians to promote this, is misusing this verse.\u00a0 Don\u2019t take my word for it, go home and Google it, you\u2019ll see the whole thing yourself.\n\nThat is not what the verse is saying.\u00a0 This isn\u2019t talking about immigration policy; this is not talking about social gospel.\u00a0 This is talking about a specific judgment in a point in time where Jesus, when He returns is going to separate the sheep from the goats amongst the Gentiles, believing and unbelieving survivors of the tribulation period are going to have to be separated just like Jesus will separate the believing from the unbelieving Jews in the judgment in the wilderness.\u00a0 And isn\u2019t it interesting there in verse 33 or perhaps that\u2019s verse 34, it says those that survive this judgment and enter the kingdom\u2014what kingdom?\u00a0 The thousand year kingdom that He\u2019s about to set up.\u00a0 He calls those that survive this judgment and enter the kingdom \u201cblessed.\u201d\u00a0 That is exactly why Daniel says, \u201cHow blessed is he who keeps waiting and attains to the 1,335 days!\u201d\u00a0 [Daniel 12:12]\u00a0 They\u2019ve survived the 45 day interval, they\u2019re determined sheep, not that they\u2019re saved by their works but they demonstrated their faith with their works by helping the Jews and they go into the kingdom and they\u2019re called \u201cblessed.\u201d\n\nThat\u2019s a problem with coming to a church like this that believe in context; it wrecks everybody\u2019s political philosophy of the day.\u00a0 Folks, I hope we\u2019re mature enough to understand that just because someone quotes the Bible doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re quoting it correctly.\u00a0 Last time I checked Luke 4, the devil quotes the Bible.\u00a0 In fact, Jesus and the devil got into a Scripture quoting contest there in Luke 4.\u00a0 When Jesus quoted it, it was contextual. When the devil quoted it, it was ripped out of context.\u00a0 And we need to grow up to the fact that not everybody who preaches the Bible and quotes the Bible is quoting the Bible accurately.\n\nAnd so this process will take 45 days.\u00a0 And then something else is going to have to happen;\u00a0 you\u2019re going to have to have a resurrection of Old Testament saints and tribulation martyrs.\u00a0 We already learned about the resurrection of Old Testament saints, didn\u2019t we? Daniel 12:2. [Daniel 12:2, \u201c\"Many of those who sleep in the dust of the ground will awake, these to everlasting life, but the others to disgrace and everlasting contempt.\u201d]\n\nAnd when we go to Revelation 20:4-6 we have the resurrection of tribulation martyrs.\u00a0 Revelation 20:4-6, \u201cThen I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them. And I saw<\/em> the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the mark on their forehead and on their hand; and they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. [5] The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0[6, \u201cBlessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years.\u201d]\n\nNow if you\u2019re a member of the church age\u00a0 you don\u2019t have to worry about this stuff too much directly because at the point of the rapture you\u2019re already in your resurrected body.\u00a0 We are with the Lord for seven years, returning with Him to rule and reign under His delegated authority.\u00a0 This is talking about things that are happening to the survivors of the great tribulation period.\u00a0 And God\u2019s program for tribulation martyrs and Old Testament saints.\u00a0 \u00a0[6] \u201cBlessed and holy is the one who has a part in the first resurrection; over these the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years.\u201d\n\nAnd there\u2019s actually a fourth thing that has to happen, the rewarding of Old Testament saints and tribulation martyrs.\u00a0\u00a0 Didn\u2019t we study that already, Daniel 12:3.\u00a0 \u201cThose who have insight will shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.\u201d\u00a0 People begin to illuminate with the glory of God, but not every\u00adbody, only those who have insight and lead many to righteousness during this terrible ordeal called the tribulation period.\n\nJesus, when He was on the earth spoke over and over again about the doctrine of rewards.\u00a0 In Luke 19:17\u00a0 it says this: \u201cAnd he said to him, \u2018Well done, good and faithful servant, because you have been faithful in a very little thing, you are to be in authority over ten cities.'\u201d\u00a0 Verse 19, \u201cAnd he said to him also, \u201c\u2018And you are to be over five cities.'\u201d\u00a0 One guy gets authority over ten, one guy gets authority over five.\u00a0 Why is that? \u00a0Because they treated the Jews with different levels of compassion during the tribulation period.\n\nSo what you can see here in this list of information is the explanation for this additional forty-five days; the first thirty for the temple, the additional forty-five for these seven things: the beast is cast into the lake of fire, the false prophet is cast into the lake of fire, you have the binding of Satan, the judgment of the Jews in the wilderness, the judgment of the Gentiles in what\u2019s called the sheep and goat judgment, the resurrection of Old Testament saints and tribulational martyrs, and then the rewarding of Old Testament saints and tribulational martyrs.\n\nI guess God could do everything lickety-split, in a nanosecond, but these things require a process \u00a0\u00a0of time; maybe just 45 days, maybe if all of this starts at the beginning, 75 days total, and beyond that you\u2019re either going to have to have a rebuilding of the millennial temple or some sort of consecration of it and God is getting the world ready for the earthly reign of Jesus Christ.\u00a0\u00a0 And let me tell you something, as a blood bought saint, the work of God in\u00a0 your life today as I speak, everything He\u2019s doing, is preparing you for that reign as well.\u00a0 It\u2019s training time for reigning time.\n\nCharacter is being developed in you so that you can function\u00a0 under His delegated authority in the earthly reign of Christ.\n\nPaul Benware, a great scholar says, \u201c\u201cTime will be needed to set up the governing administration \u00a0of His kingdom after the rewarding has taken place. Once the judgments determining who can enter the kingdom have been concluded, it may take another forty-five days to form the government structure necessary to operate in the kingdom\u2026 After the saints and unbelievers have been separated, it will take time to appoint saints to different government posts and to inform them of their various responsibilities.\u201d\u00a0 [Paul Benware, Daniel Commentary <\/em>(p. 275)]\n\nThat\u2019s the explanation for the forty-five days and the seventy-five days of the whole.\u00a0 Isn\u2019t it interesting that you don\u2019t have to sit there and panic when you hit a verse like this and you consult the rest of the Bible?\u00a0 The whole Bible just fits together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.\u00a0 And that\u2019s your job as a Bible reader, to make these pieces fit.\u00a0 Are you saying, pastor, that there\u2019s a difference between election day and inauguration day?\u00a0 Of course I\u2019m saying that, we\u2019re used to that, aren\u2019t we?\u00a0 When is election day?\u00a0 November.\u00a0 When is inauguration day?\u00a0\u00a0 January.\u00a0 Why the space?\u00a0 Preparation for the reign.\u00a0 Get the right cabinet, get the right people in place.\u00a0 Presidents, even today, have what is called transition teams functioning between November, election day, and January, inauguration day, to put the right government in place, to prepare for inauguration.\u00a0 That\u2019s essentially what\u2019s going on right here.\n\nNow before we dismiss you, let me confuse\u00a0 you just a little bit more.\u00a0 Can I do that?\u00a0 The nation of Israel has seven feasts; four are spring feasts and three are fall feasts.\u00a0 Four spring feasts related to the first coming of Christ; these feasts are all typological, they fulfill certain things in the earthly ministry of Christ.\u00a0 When you study those first four feasts in the spring you\u2019ll see that Jesus did specific things on each feast day.\u00a0 And then we have three fall feasts related to the Second Coming of Christ.\u00a0 And between the spring and the fall there\u2019s a large gap.\u00a0 And guess what we\u2019re living in right now?\u00a0 The gap, between the spring and the fall.\n\nHere is what the feasts look like on a Jewish calendar.\u00a0 Four spring, three fall; four fulfilled, three yet to be\u00a0 fulfilled.\u00a0 And here is my conviction on atonement\u2014when Jesus Christ comes to rescue a repentant Israel in the tribulation period that will take place on atonement, sometimes called Yom Kippur.\u00a0 And when you look at a Jewish calendar and you start with atonement and\u00a0 you go seventy-five days into the future what does that take you to?\u00a0 Hanukkah, Feast of Lights, Feast of Dedication, the feast that we spoke about a little earlier, the gap of time that will be necessary to either rebuild or reconsecrate or refurbish the millennial temple.\u00a0 Judaism has a feast day for that event, that has to do with the miraculous oil that continued to burn and its [can't understand word] calendar.\u00a0 Isn\u2019t that interesting that that\u2019s 75 days after atonement when the Second Coming of Jesus Christ takes place.\u00a0 Isn\u2019t that astonishing.\n\nI frankly had no idea that this related to the Hebrew calendar until I was speaking at a conference in Germany last summer and guess who was there?\u00a0 The pastor of the First Church in Jerusalem.\u00a0 He introduced himself as the pastor of the Jerusalem church and I said are you serious?\u00a0 You\u2019re like the pastor of the Jerusalem church?\u00a0 His name is Meno<\/em> Kalisher, and he said not only am I the pastor of the first church in Jerusalem or the Jerusalem church, you ought to see my sermon illustrations.\u00a0 When I talk about the Mount of Olives I just tell people to look out the window.\u00a0 I mean, just a fascinating guy.\u00a0 Hebrews Christian, Jewish Christian, he gave me a little book, and in this book he explained to me this missing days.\u00a0 And I said well one of these days I\u2019m going to get to that passage, can you send me that book.\u00a0 It\u2019s been several months, almost a year but we finally made it.\u00a0 And that\u2019s what he explains in this little book.\u00a0 That\u2019s an explanation for the seventy-five days: atonement happens on a calendar in Judaism leading right into Hanukkah, the rededication of the temple, and you can see how significant that it because you\u2019re going to have a fully functioning millennial temple that will have to be purified, consecrated, rededicated, following its desolation by the antichrist.\n\nIt\u2019s astonishing to me how God has everything on such a time table.\u00a0 And if that\u2019s true, why are\u00a0 you so worried about things in your life.\u00a0 Oh, I\u2019m not married yet, I\u2019m really worried.\u00a0 Well, you probably should talk to people that are married.\u00a0 [Laughter]\u00a0 My wife\u2019s in the nursery, right?\u00a0 Okay!\u00a0 [Laughter]\u00a0 You don\u2019t need to sweat it, God is going to bring the right person into your life at the right time.\u00a0 Oh, I\u2019m so nervous, am I going to get this job, am I going to get that job?\u00a0 God is going to bring it into your life for His purpose at the right time.\u00a0 See that?\n\nSee how God is a God of perfect timing, keeping Israel\u2019s feast days right down to the exact day in His end time program?\u00a0 Four feasts fulfilled, three feasts future.\u00a0 And in fact, that atonement is so significant it\u2019s going to [can't understand word] seventy-five days to Hanukkah which is the typification, a prefigurement of a consecrated and functioning millennial temple.\n\nIsn\u2019t God great?\u00a0 I don\u2019t know about you, I just love this stuff, it just interests me.\u00a0 And it looks like our study on Daniel will be postponed\u00a0 yet one more week.\u00a0 Amen.\u00a0 Because we didn\u2019t finish verse 13.\u00a0 Next week we will not only finish verse 13 but we will also be speaking about something very significant, talk about calendar, did you know that next week, Monday, not Sunday when we meet but the following Monday it will be exactly seventy years since the rebirth of the nation of Israel in 1948, one of the greatest sociological national and political miracles in modern history.\u00a0 How could we not comment on that given the precision of this timetable that we\u2019re studying.\n\nDid you know that as I speak Israel is in the news all of the time?\u00a0 Did you know that as I speak the nations of the earth are gathered to divide Israel\u2019s land?\u00a0 Did you know that the President of the United States, not too long ago, moved our embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem?\u00a0 What does all of this mean?\u00a0 What is its significance?\u00a0 How does it relate to us?\u00a0 Well, you\u2019ll have to come back next week to find out.\n\nFor those of you that may be here today having never trusted in Christ our exhortation to you is to believe the gospel.\u00a0 You can sum up the gospel in three words, all beginning with the letter S.\u00a0 Number one, Sin.\u00a0 Sin separates us from a holy God.\u00a0 We\u2019re\u00a0 under His judgment automatically because of sin.\u00a0 Number two, Savior.\u00a0 When Jesus died on that cross two thousand years ago He was thinking about\u00a0 you as an individual.\u00a0 He was thinking about you specifically.\u00a0 He wasn\u2019t thinking about the United States generically, perhaps He was but when He died on that cross He was thinking about you as an individual and the need you would have for salvation.\n\nSin, Savior, and the third S is Salvation. Salvation transpires or occurs when a person trusts exclusively in Jesus Christ.\u00a0 That is the only requirement that must be fulfilled before a person who is lost and dead in their trespasses and sins has the gap bridged and they enter a relationship with the God that made them and the Holy Spirit enters them; that\u2019s what we call salvation, and that\u2019s just one very away, believe or trust.\u00a0 Trust is a synonym for believe.\u00a0 The Spirit convicts us of our need to trust in Christ and we respond the best we know how in the privacy of our own minds, the quietness of our own hearts, we respond the best we know how by way of trust, which is the only way to reach out in God and receive a free gift from Him. Sin, Savior, salvation!\n\nSee, what\u2019s going to happen this week is the Holy Spirit is going to put you in a position, and I\u2019m praying that this will happen, where you\u2019re going to be given an opportunity to share your faith and you\u2019re going to draw a blank, what do I say, what do I say?\u00a0 Just remember the three S\u2019s, get those in in the conversation, Sin, you\u2019re Separated from God, Savior, Jesus died for you as an individual, Salvation, salvation can be gained by faith alone.\u00a0 Try it out this week and watch what the Lord does.\n\nShall we pray.\u00a0 Father, we\u2019re grateful for Your truth,\u00a0 Your timing,\u00a0 Your prophecies, Your end times program. We\u2019re grateful for the communion table.\u00a0 Help us leave here today, Father, with an attitude of gratitude looking at what You have done and what You\u2019re yet to do.\u00a0 We\u2019ll be careful to give You all the praise and the glory. 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