Cloudy With A Chance of Reign - The Return of the King - Part One

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chapter 15, verse three. I'm really excited about this

morning. We had some young adults come

over to the house last night and they were with us for a little

while. And so I'm like not going to

sleep a whole lot tonight because I got to get up early.

But I'm glad that the Lord always knows what his church

needs. And so as I was coming in, I

called our creative director and I said, hey, this is probably

going to go a couple weeks, So I just want you to know ahead of

time. Most of the time they don't ever

know I'm in a series until I start it.

It's technically not assured it'd be two weeks, but we will

continue in this subject matter next week prior to our Christmas

Eve service. Amen.

But in Matthew chapter 15, verse three, it says this and he

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answered and said to them, why do you transgress the

commandment of God for the sake of your tradition.

And we've launched out with this scripture a lot at Anchor Faith

Church because we have found that it's extremely important

for all of us. I'm talking about, me included,

to make sure our belief is in alignment with the word of God

and not just what people say, because there are a lot of

things that are spoken that people say is God.

But when you actually examine scripture, it's technically not

or it definitely doesn't reveal enough.

You know, we've said this before that most people quote, you

know, that God works together for the good, for those who love

him, and that is part of the Scripture, but they kind of

leave it there. And so in any circumstance, they

begin to say, well, you know, the Lord calls all things to

work together for the good, for those who love them.

But you know that Scripture has an and it says for those who

love him, and that's called a conjunction.

That means the next part applies as well.

You can't have the first part and God working it out if you

don't have the latter part. And he says He, He works all

things together for the good for those who love him and are

called according to his purpose. So you can love him and do your

own purpose, and God's not obligated to work things out for

you. Amen.

Now I might question your love for him.

Because again, when God defines love, God defines love.

If you love me again according to Scripture, not according to

our tradition, well, I love the Lord.

He knows I love Him, and I know that he knows whether you love

him or not. I know he knows the difference

because God is not mocked. He's not mocked.

He knows your heart. That is true.

You know what the Lord knows I love him.

Well, He knows if you are loving Him according to his definition

of how you love Him. And Jesus made it very clear.

In John chapter 15 he says if you love me, you'll keep my

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word. So keeping his word is loving

God. Not being born again is loving

God, keeping his word. And we see this in the book of

beginning with Adam Adams, breathed out of God.

God, from his own substance, breathes into this person made

out of dust. You know, when I was talking,

we're working on a book right now called Dominionaire Man.

We're close to having it done. And when we were going through

it this past week, Daniel and I, I said, you know, I imagine that

when he says he formed man out of the dust of the earth

because, you know, we have the beach.

Although technically I haven't always seen this, I've

definitely never seen a competition.

Maybe there has been, I know there are other beaches, but

where they'll do those sand draw, you know, sculptures and

the detail on those. So I can imagine that God, when

he began to form Adam, right, that he first started with his

skin on the back and the hair, he started pulling out, each

with sand. Then he inlaid where the muscle

tissue would be and then where the vascular system would be.

And then he forms the femur. Oh, get there.

I mean, each detail that if you could go layer by layer, you

know, for most of us, you know, we kind of get down and you pack

yourself with sand, you know, and you're like, oh, you're a

person. No, he was detailed when he

breathed. There was something by which his

breath went into each thing. I mean to the molecular level He

formed out of the dust of the earth.

So if you could peel us back layer by layer skin, then he

would have had that all detailed out in the sand.

That's pretty amazing. And he and he breathed into him

to be a living being, and now he is a son of God.

He's God's son. He's Adam without sin.

Yet God doesn't know he loves him.

That alone is not demonstrating Adam's love.

He says, Adam, you can eat from any tree of the garden, but of

the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat

for the day you eat you'll surely die.

And as long as Adam keeps that word, he demonstrates his love

for his father. But the day he ate the fruit, he

rebelled. He did not demonstrate love.

Amen. So there are a lot of things in

Scripture that will refute tradition, is what I'm saying.

And so, you know, there are some events that are about to come

upon us. And you know, the more I

meditate on these things and where I know the Lord wants us

to go in 22. I mean, honestly, January,

what's the first Sunday in January?

It's 8th, I think 7th. I mean, I almost wish we could

translate to it because what I want to be release to the body

of next year. I'm just so jacked about it, but

we're going to kind of have a teaser in these next two weeks

concerning some things about next year.

All right. And so, you know, as I'm kind of

meditating on some things again, you know me, I'm not going to

believe it, even if I've thought it, because every thought I

have, I've not actually studied out.

And every subject there is in the Bible I've not actually

studied. Now I've already mentioned this,

so I'll mention it again. I've never done a sermon on

angels. Never.

But I will next year. So what I think I know about

them may not be correct, but we'll find out what the Bible

says so we can rightly divide it.

Why? Because we're going to need to

understand a few things. And don't you?

Understanding the Lord is not keeping things from us.

He's keeping things for us. Excuse me?

And there are things he's revealing more so as the time,

you know, Daniel had a revelation of some things and he

said seal it up. But then John pops the top off

and people are still having a problem with that.

But the reality is, is as we get closer to these events, John

spoke of more clarity. And here's the thing.

There are people who assume they knew what that was in the 50s,

but in light of today, they may find out man, they were, they

didn't know, and they only knew based upon what they knew.

But now that God reveals more, guess what?

We can adjust and get more clear.

In essence, you've got to see yourself as an Apollos in some

of these things we're going to discover.

And what do I mean by the Polish?

You remember in Acts that he was preaching, he was eloquent and

he preached the baptism of John. But Priscilla and Aquila was in

one of his meetings, and they took him aside after the

service, and it says they showed him a more clear way, a more

clear way. And in essence they gave him the

revelation they had received from Paul that turned on the

light. It's not that Apollos wasn't

preaching truth, it became more clear.

In essence. He went to the spiritual eye

doctor and what he could see that was a little fuzzy and he

could still read all of a sudden became crystal clear.

The same thing happened to Saulatarsus.

He was ministering truth concerning the God of Israel,

but he didn't have the right context.

And then when Jesus revealed himself, all of the old covenant

and the prophets became crystal clear.

Amen. So the Lord wants, as the time's

drawing near, as we're living in the last last of the last days,

He wants it to become more clear.

And it won't be clear because we're saying we believe the

Spirit says it'll be because we'll be able to go straight to

Scripture and prove it. So the Scripture will confirm

what the Spirit of God is revealing.

Amen. So I want to encourage you, as

we begin to do some things into next year and into today that

don't hold a tradition. Just because a majority of

people believe something doesn't mean it's correct.

That mean it's correct. All right, So with that being

said, the time my message is cloudy with a chance of rain.

Hallelujah. Amen.

Now that's probably not going to get a lot of clicks on YouTube,

but if I put this word out, the Rapture, then they may look it

up. So they'll have to figure out

how to do that on their own. But in Revelations chapter one,

how many you do in your Bible reading?

Then you read this this week. When I read this this week, I'm

like, seriously, seriously, Lord, seriously, Lord.

Hallelujah. Revelation chapter one, Verse

four. Look what it says, John, to the

seven churches that are in Asia. Grace to you and peace from him

who is who was and who is to come.

And from the seven spirits who are before his throne, we'll

find out who they are. Verse 5.

And from Jesus Christ the faithful witness the first born

of the dead, the ruler of the kings of the earth.

Who are those kings? Come on.

Who are those kings? To who To him who loves us and

released us from our sins by His blood, that he made us to be a

Kingdom? Priests to his God and Father to

him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever.

Behold, he is coming. Say he's coming.

Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see

him, even those who pierced him, and all the tribes of the earth

will mourn over him. So it is to be.

Amen. I am the Alpha and the Omega,

says the Lord God who is Who was who?

Who is to come the Almighty. So John the Apostle is the one

whom God loved. He is the Apostle of love, which

means his love walk was tremendous, all right.

And because of that love walk he could not be killed, although

tried. History says that they boiled

him in oil. Now I don't know what his skin

looked like when he came out. All I know is he didn't die.

And because they could not kill him physically because of this

prediction, and I'm not saying that he had any marks on him.

He could have been like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.

Nothing. They're like, I don't even

understand this. And because of that, they were

so intimidated. They exiled him, right?

They exiled him and in his exile he gets a revelation of the

Christ. Revelation is not about the

Antichrist, which is one of the biggest tradition that happens

in the church today. And the reason why revelation is

most of the time people struggle with it is because they're

looking for the Antichrist and not what revelation is about.

It's about the Christ. The Antichrist is a secondary

issue. It's, you know, just something

in the line, but it's not the main character.

You know, when more people are trying to figure out who the

Antichrist is, then they are of just seeking the Lord.

There are many ministers and Saints that posture on Instagram

and YouTube and their podcast because they want to be the one,

hopefully known as the one who rightly got the Antichrist.

Does that make you spiritual? Think about it.

I mean, are you going to be some spiritual giant just because you

named it? You're the one who figured it

out, right? I mean, that's not even the main

character. I mean, the Antichrist is really

no big deal, 'cause even the works that he's doing during

those tides are secondary to the main character.

I say they're secondary to the main character, and everyone on

the planet is going to know the main character.

Everybody. All right, so here it is in

plain sight. Let's go back to verse 7.

Plain sight, verse 7. Behold, he is coming.

How many believe he's coming? I said how many believe he's

coming? I said how many believe he's

coming? How is he coming with clouds?

It's coming with clouds and and how many eyes and and what are

the eyes going to do? So I'm a little tired of the

commercials of us just disappearing.

That's right. Because they're playing them the

social media phenomenon that all of a sudden everyone's going to

boom. People are just disappearing,

disappearing, disappearing. And nobody knows why.

That's not what the scripture says.

Come on, that's not what the Scripture actually says, I said

that's not what the Scripture actually says.

It says Behold, he is coming with the clouds and every eye

will see him. Notice the first group of

people, even those who pierced him.

So the ones who hate Jesus will see Jesus.

So the first group of people that will recognize Jesus in the

cloud is gonna be those that aren't his.

And how much territory would this cover?

All the tribes of the earth? Now, we ain't talking about all

the tribes of Israel. All the tribes of the earth will

mourn over and events going to take place that there.

The world's going to know I'm already hitting traditional

walls right now. This is crazy.

But that's all right. This is my first scripture.

Configs that Jack your mind? Yeah, yeah.

Because we've already dealt with the Love Walk, and we're going

to talk about love again next year because I'm going to preach

that on Sunday and let it go out to everybody.

OK. But here's the thing.

Everybody thinks something's going to take place in the

Scripture Does not support it. Doesn't support it.

I said it doesn't support it. Every eye will see him.

Now think about it. Most of us believe that there's

a great end time revival. I know now without hesitation

that this revival is going to be split.

There's going to be a coming in prior to a trumpet and then

there's going to be a coming in after a catching away.

The revival will crossover. You want to be on the side

before the trumpet. I mean, it has saved you a lot

of grief. It won't keep you out of heaven,

but it will save you a lot of grief.

You can be delivered and we'll take some more time to talk

about that next week. But there's this revival most of

us believe there's this great revival we're going to go.

And really it's left me with this thought that when people

preach it this way is that like all the people are going to get

born again, they're going to be gone and all that's left on the

planet are just non believers. But the scripture doesn't

support that, doesn't support that.

But we see here and think about it.

If Jesus is about to pour out his wrath on the earth during

what we call the tribulation, do you think he wants the devil to

take credit? I mean, do you understand?

I mean, this is scripture. This is why it's so important to

read the Bible, Genesis 11 to Revelations 2221, because it

gives us the nature and context of God.

When you read the book of Jeremiah, do you think that God

wants the nation of Israel to believe that Babylon was just

bigger, stronger and better than him?

That he was more powerful than the God of Israel?

There's no way God's going to let a nation take over his

nation and his nation believe Wow, Babylon was stronger.

No. What did he do?

He sent Jeremiah to say you tell him that because they sinned,

they picked other gods. They did this.

They killed my prophets. They wouldn't do anything.

I am stepping back. That's the only reason this is

taking place. Because this nation is not more

powerful than me. I told you, if you'll obey me,

if you'll keep my. Word if you'll do I'll bless you

coming in and bless you going out.

I'll make you the head and not the tail.

I'll make you above and not beneath your Your enemy will

come before you one way and he'll flee before you seven way.

But I'm telling you right now through my prophet, because you

have not kept my word. This nation is coming against

you, and I'm letting them in, 'cause they are definitely not

better than me. Do you really think that God is

going to have this secret plan to pull this church out of the

earth and all of a sudden everybody don't know it was him?

But tradition will make you believe that.

Because here's the thing, God, when he gets into wrath mode,

when he gets into wrath mode, he's in wrath mode because he's

like my evidence of who I am is irrefutable, and you're still

not yielding to me. It's irrefutable.

He gets into wrath mode. It's because of the revelation

of who he is. So you understand there's a lot

happening right now in the Spirit.

His Spirit's in the earth. His church is in the earth.

His church is moving. And you understand His church

when I say his church because again, if you read the Book of

Revelation and the seven churches, he had some things to

say about him and not all of his comments were encouraging.

Now they were encouraging to all because he's like, hey, this is

pretty cool because you started out like this, but here's my

problem. And he's talking to the Grace

Church, the church under grace. I got a problem with you.

The head of the church is telling the church I got a

problem with you, which means you can't be under grace and

never have a problem with God. You have a problem with God

under grace if you're not doing His Word.

Grace empowers us to do His Word, not to not do His Word and

stay right with God. And so he's got conflict with

his church through John telling them.

And not only is it churches that exist that day, but we also know

that is 4 showers communicating of a distant time of where

churches are functioning in these capacities.

And we can identify ourselves as one of those seven churches.

Amen. And so he's saying, look, at the

end of the day before I, I'm letting you know what I'm going

to do. And so the church at large is

starting to function like Israel, where they are always

hearing about God having his blessing, seeing his miracles is

irrefutable as God. They've given him praise about

stuff he's done. And then they still turn their

back and go back into the world's way.

And how many people have gotten born again?

They've gotten filled with the Holy Ghost.

They have been healed by God. They've seen him, bless them,

and then they go back to the ways of the world.

Well, there comes a time that as that's been happening, you

understand we've got about 2000 years on this deal that God's

like, seriously 'cause this isn't going to be hypothetical

whether Jesus exists, although there's plenty of evidence now

he does, but he's going to come in a cloud and the whole world's

going to know. I said the whole world's going

to know. Now you understand he's not

doing something that hasn't been done.

Acts Chapter One. In Acts chapter one, again it

says this. So when they had come together,

they were asking him, saying, Lord, is it at this time you are

restoring the Kingdom to Israel? Now notice what Jesus says.

He says to them, it is not for you to know the times, OK, which

his father is fixed by his own authority, but you have

received, but you will receive what power when the Holy Spirit

has come upon you. And you shall be my witnesses in

Jerusalem, and in Judea and Samaria, and even to the

remotest parts of the earth. And after he had said these

things, he what? He was what?

He was what? Lifted up.

He was caught up. He was lifted up.

He was caught up. He's the word that describes

what we called the rapture. He was raptured.

He was caught up. He was lifted up while they were

looking on. And a what what happened?

A cloud received him out of their sight.

Notice Jesus is in a cloud and they could see it.

Because what I'm going to show you today is every time Jesus is

in a cloud, you can see it. Now here's the thing, in this

particular moment, there were people that were around him,

right? And so it's not that.

Again, if I was to take a balloon today, right, a helium

balloon, and I was to walk outside, we were all to go

outside and I release it. Could we watch it ascend now?

Could the beach see that balloon?

They could if they knew where it was at in the sky.

Do you not see planes? I mean, we're talking thousands,

10s of thousands, maybe not 32,000 because they typically

are above the clouds, but prior to the you can see those planes,

you can be here and you can watch that thing, just continue

to ascend till it till you can't see it because it's so far away.

So just because Jesus ascended on this day doesn't mean if

anyone had been looking in that location, it wasn't like he was

only seen to those people. My point is he wasn't like

invisible to the world. If someone had been glancing,

they would have watched a person go up.

He was visible to those who are watching, I said.

He's visible to those who are watching because if you're not

watching, you're not looking in the direction you can miss what

is completely visible to everyone.

So it says that they he was lifted up.

He was in the cloud. It received him out of their

sight. And as they were gazing intently

into the sky, what were they doing?

Like you do with the balloons? You still see it.

Yeah, yeah, yes. Right there.

I still see it. There it is.

Is that. No, no.

Yeah, yeah, I see it. Right.

It says while they were gazing intently in the sky while he was

going, behold, 2 men in white clothing stood beside them and

they said men of Galilee. Why do you stand looking in the

sky? This Jesus?

Which Jesus? Now which Jesus is this Jesus?

This is the Jesus that came, born of the virgin, died on the

cross, rose from the dead, walked through walls, performed

miracles, walked on water. Come on.

This Jesus still has holes in his hands and in his feet and in

his side. This Jesus who has been what

raptured, taken up from you in heaven, will will what will come

in just the same way as you watched him go into heaven.

So on the day of Pentecost, they're letting them know.

Did do you believe the Bible? Do you believe that Peter and

all the apostles and whoever else was hanging out with Jesus

that day when he was talking to them and he went up that they

literally saw him? That's not metaphorical.

Well, and the Angel says he's coming back the same way, which

means if you could see him go, you're going to see him come.

If you saw him go, you'll see him come.

You can see him come, you can see him come.

And revelation tells us everybody's going to see it.

I said everybody's going to see it.

Oh, Hallelujah. Say Amen anyway.

He's coming the same way, The same way.

Look what it says in First Thessalonians 413 and 18 says

this. But we do not want you to be

uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that

you will not be grieved, as do the rest who have no hope.

OK, For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, then so

Even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in

Jesus. For this we say to you by the

word of the Lord that we who are alive and remain.

We who are alive and what remain until the coming of the Lord

will not precede those who have fallen asleep.

For the Lord himself will what descend from heaven.

How? With a shout, with the voice of

the Archangel Angel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead

in Christ will rise, Will rise What?

And it's first. First.

So this is where I have a problem with the amplified.

Because the amplified takes the next verse and says

simultaneously. Well then this can't be first.

If there's a simultaneous and, I would conclude that that

interpretation's wrong based upon an event and we're going to

see it here in a minute, then then say, then now again. 1st

and 2nd can be separated by milliseconds, but first is

first. But this 1st and the 2nd may not

be the same as you think, at least not how we see it In all

the stuff that has been shown on TV about left behind and what

happens and all the the churches that put on the little you know

shows you know where people came in.

And the vacuum cleaners are running, clothes are left on the

floor, cars are where they're at.

Come on, is it? Does it not?

Does it not bother anybody that basically we're saying that God

would immediately pull his at the immediate destruction of

others? Because if you're driving 65 and

you're gone, your car doesn't immediately stop #1 airplanes

are crashing. There's a lot going on.

So in essence, we're saying the Lord creates A genocide

immediately by taking his church, although the scripture

doesn't support this. Now there's going to be problems

because of the wrath of God, but it won't be in that particular

moment, 'cause there's letting them know we don't have time to

talk about the three years of peace.

There's going to be some calamity.

Don't get me wrong, 'cause you're going to go and they're

going to know, and a lot are going to exit, and then they're

going to have to figure this out.

But then seals are going to get broken and Ras going to start

showing up. All right, here we go.

It says this. Then we who are alive and remain

will be what caught up. That's what they call the

Rapture. We're caught up together with

them in the air, so they're in the air.

Who's in the air already? The ones who rose first.

OK, we'll be caught up together with them in the in the clouds

to meet the Lord in the air in that.

Interesting. We're going out in clouds, too,

I said. We're going on clouds, too.

I wonder if anyone's going to be able to see that now again.

Why do you forsake the commandment of God for the sake

of your tradition? Is it bothersome to you that you

would change your thinking that people are going to see me go as

opposed to, Is it better that they don't know you disappeared?

And I already know where everyone's going.

We're going to get to that scripture.

But that scripture's been quoted wrong.

And we're going to see that today.

And we're going to go for anyone who's thinking that and think

that's the case because you keep quoting it in your mind, you're

going to be like, ah, I'm wrong. Now many of you are quoting it

now you'll realize, oh, it doesn't say that.

So it says we're going to be caught up together with him in

the clouds to meet him in the air.

Now I'm not saying we're not going to heaven, but I will tell

you this air is not heaven. Air is atmosphere.

I'm not saying we're not going to heaven.

I'm not telling you that. But I can equally say what stops

God from pulling out a table in the upper atmosphere?

You'd be beyond the clouds. They wouldn't see you anymore

anyway. And he could set up his beam a

seat in the atmosphere of Earth, and he's still close to that

which he's about to pour his wrath on.

I'm not telling you that's the case.

I'm not saying that. But I'm going to tell you Heaven

and Earth have a connection that's closer than you think.

They are two separate places. Do not confuse that.

But they are more connected than you think.

OK, so they're caught up in the clouds to meet him in the air.

And so we will shall always be with the Lord.

Notice it says we'll always be with the Lord.

It does not say we'll always be in heaven.

Because is this the last time the Lord will come?

Nope, it's not the last time. So wherever the Lord is, where

are we with Him? So when he comes to a millennial

reign, where will we be and where will he be?

On the earth? So the notion that will live in

heaven forever is actually not biblical.

It's not a biblical principle. It's actually fantasy because

even the Lord is not going to be there forever.

Hallelujah. Now, I'm not telling you won't

have access. I'm not telling you won't get to

go. I'm just saying you'll be on the

earth, too. And for me, I'm going to be with

the Lord. And if the Lord goes to Saturn,

I want to be there. All right.

So it goes on to say, then we'll meet the Lord in the air.

And so we shall be with him. Always be with the Lord.

Therefore, comfort one another with these words.

So I'm here to comfort you with these words that, as Jesus went

up in a cloud, will go up in a cloud.

Now let's get to your scripture. First Corinthians, chapter 15.

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This is what you're thinking of anyway, and this is what

everybody tries to use to prove the point that we're going to

disappear, vanish, go, bam, gone right, says Now, I say to you,

brethren, the flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of

God, nor does perishable inherit the imperishable.

Behold, I will tell you a mystery.

We will not all sleep now. What's he mean by that?

Not everybody's going to die and go into the earth, the grave.

OK, their body. Because again, we know in this

dispensation, if you are absent from your body, what are you

present with? The Lord.

That's why Paul said to be absent from the body now is to

be what present with the Lord. But that wasn't always the case.

There was a case when you were absent from your body.

You were not present with the Lord.

You were in paradise. And Jesus talked about paradise

because he told one of the thieves on the cross, Today you

will be with me in not heaven, but paradise.

So there was a time when people left their body.

Their spirit and soul was in paradise.

Their body was in the grave. The flesh and blood did not go

to that realm. It stayed in the earth, right?

But he's telling us not all of us are going to experience this.

So in today's scenario, our spirit soul, we go, those go to

heaven, but we're not in our glorified bodies, OK?

Because that's why the dead has to rise 1st.

And let me just go ahead and answer the question that is is

wrong because people say, well, you know what, you should never

get cremated. You know, don't do that.

You know what? Everyone's being cremated,

cremate. Cremation is the acceleration of

what's already happening to the body when it gets on the ground.

I mean, do you really think that people that were thousands of

years are still intact, So when God comes and resurrects that

body, he's having to put it all back together anyway, he said

from dust she came now. So cremation is accelerating a

process, and I don't care if they scatter your dust all over

the planet. God has no problem if you were

born again to get all that back together and hook you up with a

glorified suit, right? So don't think cremation is

ungodly. It's the acceleration of dust.

OK, with that being said, he says this.

Behold, I tell you, mystery, will not all sleep, but we will

be. What?

What will we be? What will we be?

What is that word? What is that word and how will

we be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last

trumpet? For the trumpet will sound and

the dead will be what first and then those who remain.

According to first Thessalonians, they are going to

be called up then. But notice when the trumpet

sounds were not caught up, it just says changed, changed and

called up are two different words.

And if Paul, who had revelation of these things, of which he

wrote First Thessalonians and he wrote to the Corinthian church

and he tells the Corinthian church, Now listen, I want you

to know that not all of us are going to sleep, but there'll

come a time when the trumpet blows.

In essence, when we see Jesus come down on the cloud, we're

going to be changed. First, you'll get changed before

you're caught up. And what we've done is we've

concluded that this twinkling of an eye, which they say is half

of a blink. That's why they conclude we poof

disappear. But it doesn't say you'll poof

in 1/2 a blink. It says you'll be changed and

what you'll do is the imperishable will put on or the

perishable will put on the imperishable and the the the

mortal will put on immortality in poof.

So all of a sudden you'll go from this to glorified.

Now that doesn't mean ascension. That is not ascension because

you got to understand, God loves the world.

God loves the world. Here's the problem.

We have reduced church at large, has reduced the message of Jesus

Christ to the door. Ask Jesus into your heart so

you'll be saved. That way when you die, you go to

heaven. And that is not the gospel.

That is the door and part of your existence.

You can be born again and part of your existence will be in

heaven. And we've reduced it to that.

To where then we're only talking escapism.

And in essence, we hate the earth.

I mean, you understand Christians hate earth.

Well, the earth doesn't have the problem.

It's the systems that have the problem.

And the earth doesn't have a problem.

It's the devil who's still working a system on the earth

and the sin of rebellious man that the earth is receiving and

stuck, but the earth itself is crying out for it's actually

redemption. But yet, modern day Christianity

at large hates the earth, doesn't want to do anything with

the earth, wants to leave the earth, can't wait to get out of

here. And so we've created doctrine

that even God doesn't love the earth, is going to abandon it,

and he's going to catch us up out of here.

And for most, that's where their theology stops.

We're caught up and we're in heaven forever, never to see

planet Earth again. And that's not even in

Scripture. So change means changed.

Everybody all right with that? OK, Is this the first

resurrection? Has someone been resurrected

before this? Who was resurrected first?

Well, there was only some people that were resurrected long

before Jesus, just to be honest with you, right?

OK, Lazarus was resurrected before that.

But before Lazarus retrorected, then there was a widow woman who

had a son, he was resurrected, and then God resurrected a

daughter. She was actually resurrected.

And then Elijah, Elijah resurrected somebody and Elijah

resurrected somebody. So there's been resurrections

just to let you know they died and rose back to life.

OK, but in the context that we're talking about,

resurrection or coming to life and no longer having sin

dominate your life, Jesus is the first born from the dead.

Did Jesus leave the grave alone? He did not.

Look at this in Matthew. This is good stuff bro.

Matthew 2752 to 53 and it says in the graves were opened.

Jesus just said it is finished. He said it's finished.

He gave up his spirit. Earthquake takes place.

The veils ripped and Matthew records this and the graves were

opened. And many bodies of the Saints

which slept arose and came out of the graves after his

resurrection. And and what went into the holy

city and appeared Let's read this from the passion

translation. It says it this way and the

graves were open. Then many of the holy ones who

had died were brought back to life and came out of their

graves. And after Jesus resurrection

they were plainly seen by many people walking in Jerusalem,

which means they didn't. I mean think about it, Why does

God bring them out of the grave, reunite their spirit and soul

with their glorified body, and let them walk the streets of

Jerusalem before they leave? You understand God.

His proof of his existence is amazing.

You understand this. Now, even though there's this

proof, it doesn't mean people will believe.

Because what happened, we know. We know.

We have this whole context. A guy by the name of Lazarus

dies. I'm not talking about the one

that was raised from the dead. I'm talking about the one that

died and stayed dead, and that particular one was a beggar at a

rich man's table, and when he dies he goes to Abraham's bosom,

or we call it paradise, and all of a sudden that same rich

ruler, he dies, but he don't go to paradise.

He goes to the other side of the grave where there's torment and

he's being in torment and he looks up to Abraham.

This is not a parable, because when God said parables, he never

used proper names, never. And Abraham was a real man.

So this is not a parable. This is an account of what God

knows is happening in the spirit realm that we don't see.

So he says That rich ruler, excuse me, says to Abraham, he

says, Abraham, he says, look, I'm in torment.

Send Lazarus over so he can like, dip his finger in some

water, put it on my tongue, 'cause I'm in great torment.

I mean, he hasn't changed, even though he's in torment.

And you got to understand, when people are cast into the Lake of

fire, they won't change. They're selfish when they

they're cast in and they stay selfish when they're in.

And that's why they'll be deserving of eternal damnation,

because they'll never change. They will be haters of God,

They'll always hate him, they'll never not hate him.

And they will have proven it out in their lifetime with all the

evidences that he should be submitted to.

And so Abraham says it's not going to happen.

See, there's a a gulf fix. One translation says there's

this great abyss between us. We can't go over to you and you

can't go over to us. Why?

Because that sealed whether you were believing God that the

Messiah would come and you were trusting in the blood to come,

or whether you just didn't love, God discounted him because of

all the evidence and you were never going to serve him.

So you're over there, We're over here.

It's not going to happen. So he says to him, he said,

look, I got five brothers that are worse than I am, Can you

send Lazarus back and go tell them?

And this is what he says? He says, Son, if they don't

believe the prophets and the law, meaning they don't believe

the word, the word is enough, then they will not believe.

Even if a man's raised from the dead.

Yet God gives the evidence of him being raised from the dead

and he gives evidence through Saints who had been dead in that

from Jerusalem, that they walked and talked to people.

Can you imagine what they must have said?

Jesus is the Messiah. Do you understand?

Jesus is it? He's the one.

He's the one you've been looking for.

He's the one. He's the one he's been looking

for. He's the one.

He's it. He's it.

Because here's the thing. How in the world could Peter,

James and John know that was Elijah and Moses?

Nowhere has it indicated that he said their name.

We know what? Because the writings tell us.

But I I suspect that the Holy Ghost revealed to them, you're

standing before Moses and Elijah and they passed away year deck

centuries ago, yet they had the revelation of who they were as

people. So the same thing, these people

are walking and people are having a revelation of who these

individuals were. How can they be walking the

streets? How could they be alive again?

They know an event took place because an earthquake's taking

place. But they're not the only ones

who saw it, because let's look at the 25th verse of Matthew 27.

It says this very powerful, I mean the 54th verse, the 54th

verse of 27. Now when the Roman military

officers and his soldiers witnessed what was happening and

felt the powerful earthquake, now they weren't just witnessing

him on the cross dying, they were witnessing what was going

on in Jerusalem. They're seeing the dead walk,

and look what it says. They were extremely not me.

Seriously, think about this for a moment.

If you were right over here off of US1, you're leaving

Chick-fil-A. You take a right and you decide

you're going to pop over to the cemetery because it's quiet and

you're going to eat your Chick-fil-A sandwich and all of

a sudden a bunch of clouds show up.

Right now a sound happens to you.

It may be Thunder, but we know it's a trumpet.

And then all of a sudden people start coming out of grave.

Now do you understand the world? The devil's already preparing

them for his interpretation. This is why The Walking Dead and

all those are huge deal people. I mean, why do we have so much

messaging about this kind of stuff?

Because the devil's always wanting to try to cloud truth.

Now the difference is, is when they come out, they're not going

to go. It's not going to look like

that. It's going to be like little

light bulbs pop up out of there like, boom, you know, these

shiny beings, right? And all of a sudden now what do

you, I mean, you understand, to a person not born of God, what

do you think's happening right now?

Terrified. Extremely terrified.

So these soldiers are extreme. And look what they said.

There is. Oh, y'all got to hear me.

There is what? No doubt this man was the Son of

God. But you know what?

That does not mean? All of those soldiers submitted

to Jesus doesn't mean that, but it does mean this.

There was no doubt they knew. This is why, I conclude, of the

great revival that's coming. In the end, there's going to be

more on the other side of the trumpet.

And why do I believe this? Well, 'cause the scripture talks

about martyrs under the throne, and there's a lot of them.

I said there's a lot of them because they were in the

tribulation and they didn't die because of the the Antichrist

per SE. I'm talking about his wars

because God's pouring out wrath and messing.

I mean the earthquake and all the stuff that's that's coming

from God, they're not dying from that.

They're dying because they keep an oath to Jesus, and the

Antichrist kills them for that purpose, not because of all the

plagues and different things. That's coming from the Lord, and

the Lord's doing that to try to get the rest of humanity to

repent. In essence, it's a huge layer of

mercy where he's saying to them, do you really want to exist

without me? Because if this seems like a lot

of torment and you're begging to die, this has nothing with a

lake of fire. And even now, you could change.

But you know what? The Bible says they will not

repent. Wow.

Will not. Now let me give you a couple

types and shadows again, just so you understand about this cloud.

All right? And we'll kind of run through

these pretty quick. Exodus 241812 to 18.

A lot of people who are into eschatology, OK And in times

they use these two Old Testament as types of the catching away

and they go in line with what we've already seen from Jesus

himself when he was first died and rose.

We know he goes up in a cloud. We also know that the Angel says

he's coming back the same way we already know in Revelations when

he comes back. Because again, the reason why I

read Revelation. One because don't confuse

yourself with that's probably the second coming.

Because Jesus, obviously in his coming for the church, will

still come in a cloud because we're caught up together in the

cloud in the air with him. He's not in heaven.

We don't poof to heaven, we poof to where he is now.

He can take us on to heaven from there, no problem.

But at the end of the day we don't poof straight to heaven in

the twinkling of an eye. We change in the twinkle up and

eye. And let me tell you, you gonna

have time to park the car, land the plane.

You gonna have time. Cause at this point you

understand the devil ain't got Jack on you.

It ain't like he can keep you in the planet.

And why God have to rush that deal?

You're gonna have time to say, let me tell you, you're gonna

become so obvious that you're not them and you're going to be

able to testify because they then because of a deluding

spirit and deception, because in essence, the church is out in

that which which strains the Antichrist no longer will

restrain him. Then deception will run large,

and even though they have this burn ingrained in their mind,

the devil will be able to convince them that something

else took you. This convincing proof will be so

radical that leaves no doubt. Yet the enemy will deceive and

be able to deceive. And you say, how can this be?

How in the world could he have done it to Adam?

Because here's the deal. Free will always has the power

to rebel. All right, here we go in Exodus

2412 through 18. Now the Lord said to Moses, come

up to me on the mountain and remain there, and I'll give you

the stone tablets and the law and the commandments, which I've

written for instruction. Verse 13 So, OK, Moses arose

with Joshua his servant, and Moses went up to the mountain of

God. But the elders, he said, wait

here for us until we return, and behold, Aaron and her are with

you. Whoever has a legal matter, let

him approach them. Verse 15 Then Moses went up into

the mountain, and the what cloud cover the mountain.

And the glory of the Lord rested on mount Sion, and the cloud

covered it for six days. And on the 7th day he called to

Moses from the midst of the cloud and to the and to the eyes

of the sons of Israel, the appearance of the glory of the

Lord was like a consuming fire on the on the mountain top.

And Moses entered. So do you think they could see

him go up? Could they physically watch him

go up? You bet He entered the midst of

the cloud as he went up the mount and Moses was on the

mountain. 40 days and 40 nights he was in the clouds.

Moses went up into the clouds. All right, let's go over to 2nd

Kings Chapter 2, Second Kings Chapter 2, verse one.

2 Kings 2 · chapter mention

It came about when the Lord was about to take up Elijah by the

whirlwind. Now a whirlwind is a funnel

formation of a cloud. We typically know him as

tornadoes, and it says that Elijah went to Elijah with

Elijah to Gilgal. Now they went to a few other

places. Right now we're to jump down to

verse 9. And when he had crossed over

Elijah because he kept saying just stay here and he goes no

man, wherever you are, I'm going.

So he gets to this place. Elijah knows it's fixing to

happen. So he says what?

Ask what I shall do for you before I'm taken up for I'm

taken from you again called up. Elijah says please let a double

portion of your spirit be upon me.

And he said, You have you have asked a asked a hard thing.

Nevertheless, if that's the condition, if what you see me

when you, if you see me, when I'm taken from you, it shall be

so for you. But if not, it shall not be so.

As they were going along and talking, behold the appearance

of a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, which separated two of

them. And Elijah went up by the

whirlwind of heaven. Elijah what He saw it and cried

out my father, my father, the Chariots of Israel and its

horsemen. And he saw Elijah no more.

And when he took off his own clothes and he tore them into

pieces, did he see Elijah go? So why is it that we have

allowed religious tradition to convince us that it's a

disappearing act? Hallelujah.

We'll close with Luke chapter 21, Luke 21.

Luke 21 · chapter mention

And I'll come back to this next week, because there's some

things if you want to get a sneak peek of next week, just

read Beyond. I'll leave it there said.

There will be signs in the sun and the moons and the stars, and

on the earth, dismay among nations in perplexity, at the

roaring of the sea and the waves, men fainting from fear

and the expectation of things which are coming upon the world,

for the powers of heavens, of the heavens, will be shaken.

Then they will see the Son of Man.

What they will see, they will see the Son of Man coming in a

cloud with power and great glory.

But when these things begin to take place, straighten up, lift

up your head, because your redemption draweth nigh.

Could it be that that verse means that at the first coming

of Jesus in the cloud that catches up the Church as we see

it, we know it's about to come to an end.

The total consummation of what God has ordained is about to

begin. For most, they believe you're

redemption, You're gone, You're in heaven forever.

But that's not the case I see now.

My redemption is close, meaning the full measure of what God's

intended for His earth, for His created heavens, for His created

beings, for us as His children is coming near.

We are closer than ever before, and we're moving into a

seven-year stretch before we come back with Him again and

reign on this earth for a millennial. 1000 years of which

we will then encounter the Devil once more, only to wipe him off

the planet, cast him into the lake of fire forever.

And then judge everyone that wanted to follow him and conceal

that bad boy up. And let God create a new heaven

and a new earth. And we will reign with him in

the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven to the earth.

Man, our redemption will draw nigh.

Let's pray, Father, We love you and we honor you.

Everyone's going to see you. Everyone's going to see you.

When you come, everybody's going to see you.

And the reason why we titled this today, Cloudy with a chance

of rain, meaning to rain, is that will you go in the cloud?

Because if you remain, there's a chance you won't rain.

Because the wrath on the earth during that period is so

terrible. And the deception is so bad that

if the Lord had not shortened it, those who did know him, even

they could denounce him as Lord. They don't.

But there's that much pressure, that much even though there's

irrefutable evidence that he has the power and he has the glory.

Wow, I want to go in the cloud. I want to reign immediately.

I want to reign while I'm here now, but I want to get caught up

in the cloud and reign with him. Because we're going to talk

about next week what happens when we're in the cloud.

Father, we thank you so much that Jesus is irrefutable.

Like the Roman centurion said, there's no doubt he's the son of

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