S2E50 Prodigal 3

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to the program. We are your host, Jose and Matthew.

Tonight we're settling in for the procal Part three, so

I will appropriately hand it over to Jose. Jose, you

got the mic.

All right, Matthew. So this is our third installment here

of the Prodigal Son. Been trying to focus on what

I don't know. I don't know how how to explain it,

but more of the mindset, Matthew, of this individual, what

he was going through, what strings were pulling on him,

and eventually when he came to his senses, he came

to himself, he remembered the way in which he was

brought up, and he sought to return to the Father.

So we can all, we can all use this parable,

Matthew to to to learn something about our own journey,

our own process in coming to the Father and understanding

that we need to follow his commandments and all the

blessings that come from doing that and all the curses

that happened to us, and we don't, Matthew. And and

I think that was important to stress because we all,

we all, whether it's ourselves, Matthew, or whether we know

people that are this prodigal son. And I mean, you know,

they're in our prayers daily. We encounter them every day.

You know, you're you're at work and you talk to somebody, Oh,

I used to go to church, but not anymore because

this that or the other, right, And eventually it, you know,

it comes down that that they prefer their sin to

following the commandments of the Father, following the beattitudes that

the Son laid out to us in the gospels. Matthew,

that's the root of it, all right. But you know

they they have all these other excuses for why why

they have they have stepped away. So but Matthew, you

just can't avoid speaking prophetically about this this about any

any chapter in the Bible, but let alone this parable

And so that's the point where I'm at right now

in this study of Matthew, where one particular word that

I want to address that's going to lead us prophetically

what God was talking about here in the parable of

the Prodigal Son. So if you want to add something

before we jump in.

Now, I'm I'm pretty I'm pretty okay with what you've

said so far, and I appreciate that you're boiling down

this installment to single word. I think that's a pretty

amazing thing in and of itself, so please continue.

Yeah, So the particular word that I'm looking at, Matthew

is in verse twenty, and I'll read that verse for

us that says, let me jump let me pull up

the new King James here so I can do it

right now. This is G four It's listed is G

four fifty in the strongs, Matthew. But when you look

at that particular spelling, you're going to see that it's

not really that Greek word that's listening strongs, which you know,

of course is it's disturbing when you see that, Matthew.

But that's that's what they've done. So if you look

into a strong so it'll say G four fifty and

it's DEMI to stand up. But let me read this

verse for you before we get into the actual Greek

word that's that's listed there. So it's in verse twenty fifteen,

verse twenty, and he arose and came to his father.

But when he was still a great way off, his

father saw him and had compassion and ran and fell

on his neck and kissed him. So, Matthew, that Greek

spelling is not does not match the strongs. From what

I see. It's a it's a particular Greek spelling, and

what we'll look we'll find where it's where it's used

in other verses in the Bible, and three verses in

particularly that I'm looking at. But when we read this verse, Matthew,

we consider who the father is. We consider that he

had compassion on this person and essentially forgiven him for

what he's done, and that particular phraseology that he fell

on his neck and kissed him. Boy, Matthew, if you

haven't read, if you if this doesn't bring remembrances to

to you, Matthew, we're way late in the game for

that right now. So that's that's the word that I'm

looking at G. Four fifty as this li in the strongs.

But what we can get into you know what the

actual strong number is and all that one as we continue.

But anything in particular you want to say about that

verse Matthew.

I absolutely agree with you. When you understand on the surface,

what's what's going on here? He arose and that is

a well, that's a people that don't take the time

to get their hands into what the Greek is saying

is where they're they're very short sighted. They can't see

very far with what God is actually doing with these words.

So I absolutely agree with you that this is pretty

pretty uh prophetic, this this verse, just in just this

standalone verse, just the standalone verse, because it's it's it's

really saying something else, So I appreciate it. So, yeah,

I'm not gonna I'm not gonna steal your fire there,

but yeah, that's that's a pretty prophetic verse all in itself.

What's actually being said in Greek?

Correct? Correct. So, Matthew, when I started looking up the

Greek of this of this word, of course it shows

up in a lot of verses, but there was three

particular verses that I keep in on that that I

want to focus on for the study. The first and

we'll just go right to it. We'll just go right

to the to the Big Banger Revelation twenty verse five,

and I'll read the verse for us. But the rest

of the dead did not live again until the thousand

years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Now, that

word resurrection, Matthew, is G three eighty six, and it's

pretty much the exact same spelling except for a suffix

there at the end, anastasius, right anastasis, which which we

should all know that that word is resurrection. And when

we look back in Luke fifteen at that word for

a Rose's I believe it's anastas So it's missing the

suffix on there. But to me, Matthew, it's the same

spelling as what we see here in Revelation twenty, verse five.

So when you see the when you see the father's

reaction to what's going on, Matthew, you understand the immensity

of what he's saying, of what he's doing when he

sees his son literally raised from the dead and come

back to him, Matthew, and we think about prophetically what

that means him in Revelation verse twenty, and the reason

that these individuals are part of the First Resurrection because

they had to lose their head, Matthew for following the

ten Commandments and following the beatitudes during the reign of

the beast and his false prophet, Matthew. So, I mean,

I don't know. I know, those are those individuals that

have been following this ministry. There should be no surprise

to us. But you know, if this is your first

time hearing it may be it may be a lot

to take in. But you know, I can't help but match, Matthew.

What the Parable of the Prodigal Son says about these

individuals that are part of the First Resurrection and what they're,

what they're what they're going to have to do? What

what what? What their blessing is for returning to the Father,

for sticking to the commandments and the beatitude, Matthew, and

and you know what they had to endure to do that.

So that's that's the that's the key focus for me, Matthew.

When when I'm looking at this word here, you.

Know we have to agree if you keep reading. I

mean we we haven't read it in this session, but

when you read this whole parable, well that's exactly what

is stated. I mean, this isn't behind the scene. His

dad is acting like this son was dead and has

been brought back to life. That's exactly what I mean.

Verse thirty two. It was right that we should make

marry and be glad for your brother was what he

was neck cross. He was dead and is alive again,

and what was lost is found. So so literally, the

prodigal son is being prophetic in verse twenty and it's

and it's almost like he knows that right now, I'm

as good as dead. So I mean, it's not the Greek.

Here's not beaten around the bush. The father does come

right out and say that. He comes right out and

says it, and he makes it perfect clear that there is.

This this situation between the brother that is alive right

right and the brother that is lost or dead.

There is this well there's there's this interaction between them

that they're not they're not on equal footing, are they. No,

this is a harbinger for the chapter you just read

out of Revelation, chapter Coin, because these things will really happen.

These things are really going to happen. And this is

what got a lot of people, well, how much should

I say, Maybe I should just hand it back to

you whose.

Well, Matthew, I want to ken on what the Sun

says in verse twenty one and Luke fifteen, he says,

I have sinned against heaven and in thy and am

no more worthy to be called thy son. So this

is someone Matthew who is I mean, you have true

repentance here, true understanding of how far he's falling and

what he needs to do to where he's telling the father,

I will be your servant. I'm not worthy to be

your son. I will be your servant. I will do

whatever the servants do. But please, I need to please

accept me back into your house. Please accept me back

into the kingdom.

I am sorry, I can't help myself. Okay, that's exactly

what you read about. Revelation chapter twenty. I'm sorry man.

Amen, Amen, Okay.

I'm sorry, but that's literally I'm sorry, Jose. I shouldn't

have interrupted you. But ladies and gentlemen, I just yeah,

I need to keep my mouth shut. This is this

is your show. Hose back to you.

Well, let me just read here. Let me go over

to Revelation chapter twelve, which is the individuals that we're

talking about, and it says, you know, in verse seventeen,

the dragon was enraged with the woman and they went

to make war with the rest of her offspring, who

keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of

Jesus Christ. And these are the ones in chapter thirteen,

Matthew that have to stand in front of the false

prophet and be forced to worship the beast or the

image of the beast, And of course they don't do that,

and as a result they lose their heads. They're beheaded

for that, and that's how they are a part of

the First Resurrection, Matthew.

So that's right.

Well, you know that's directly correlating to this parable Hoseac.

Can I ask you something? Yes, okay, I'm going to

be very pointed with you, so let me make sure

I have permission to do so. Can I ask you

very pointed personal question? Yes, he loved your grandfather, right?

Yes?

Has he or has he not entered his rest?

Yes? He has?

Okay, So Jose, let's be very clear. You will see him.

You will see him at the First Resurrection. Amen.

Amen.

But Jose, Jose, he's not going to be a part

of this group, right, No, but Jose, I am going

to see my mother that day.

Amen.

So you need to understand, ladies and gentlemen, what the

scripture is talking about. Okay, everybody is coming to the

first resident direction that are asleep in Jesus. So your

grandmother if she was a Christian, okay, you're great great

great great great grandpa if he was a Christian. But

Revelation chapter twenty is very clear as in as in

Luke chapter fifteen, and it is almost like that's why

this is this is being written because you need to

make sure that you understand my mother and Jose's grandpa

is not is not going to be doing what those

people do. So you need to understand that Luke chapter

fifteen is trying to I tell you that the biggest

group are the group that is stayed with the Father.

But this group is something different and they have a job.

It is they who will rule and reign with Christ Amen,

Jose Amen Matthew. Revelation chapter twenty explicitly says that, so

you can see from this parable, ladies and gentlemen, that

those who are sleep in Jesus right now before this

tribulatory time, they are the first son that always stayed

with the Father. They lived as Christians, they died even

as Jose's grandpa died and entered their rest in Jesus.

But this second group danced with the devil, so to speak.

So this this creates a huge well, it creates a

huge conundrum for most ministries, that's for sure, because if

you don't have all the answers, you create confusion because,

believe me, knowing the timing of the rapture is not enough.

It's not enough because many people have stumbled and fell

right where Jose is in Revelation chapter twenty. Because many

people will tell you, well, yeah, bloody dottie, everybody is

part of the First Resurrection and we all get to

rule and reign with Christ. No, no, that's not what

Revelation chapter twenty says. Revelation chapter twenty. Never stay that

those who are sleeping Jesus were ruling when with Christ

only this group does that is resurrected from having been

behaded by the beast. So I'll just stop that right there,

because many of you are just waking up to the

simple fact. Oh my goodness, you mean that's why Jesus

told this parable Well, yeah, and if you look at

the Greek you can see that that that's why he's

doing it. He's letting you know that there's a big differentiation. Now,

no one understands this, that yes, ruling and reigning with

Jesus is going to be a really good job, right Jose, yep.

But you basically got choice. Do you want to do

that or do you want to be on vacation for

a thousand years? Which one do you want? Because I

assure you if you think, ladies and gentlemen, that the

bride of Christ is going to have a job and

she's going to have duties and the millennial reign with

her husband, you don't know what you're saying. I can

only give you the answer that Jesus gave to the

sons of Thunder. You don't know what you're saying. You

don't know what you're asking. What Jesus was saying to

them is those that are at my right and at

my left in my kingdom and my glory, that is

those of the First Resurrection. There's only one way to

do that. You have to face the beast, correct, Hose Correct?

Grandfather faced the beast. No, sir, would you have wanted

him to do that? Jose?

No?

No, do you think I would have wanted my mother

to do it? Of course not. So understand, ladies and gentlemen,

that this parable is about prophecy. It is, and if

you didn't understand what it was saying, Well, you got

lost like most other ministries do in Revelation chapter twenty.

Because Revelation chapter twenty is the dividing line between most ministries.

How you address Revelation chapter twenty either makes you a

dispensationalist or a preyerist. It's it's one of the others. Jose,

sorry for that long dive, tried back to you.

Sure, no, that's that's that's important to put in a perspective.

I just want to put one more caveat to connecting

that connecting the doctor to these two chapters. Matthew, if

we read verse twenty two of Luke fifteen, it says

the father said to his servants, bring forth the best

robe and put it on him, and put a ring

on his hand, and choes on his feet. And the

corresponding verse in Revelation twenty is verse six, where it's said,

blessed and holy is he who has part in the

first resurrection over such the second death has no power,

but they shall be peasts of God and of Christ,

and shall reign with him a thousand years. So, Matthew,

I see those parallels there, because even though this son

was dead, his father is obviously has a greater role

than just a normal servant, whether he you know, he

joins the servants or the father accepts him as the son.

You know, we're not told the what happens after this parable, Matthew,

but we're told in Revelation chapter twenty what happened to

those that are part of the First Resurrection, the court,

the corresponding individual from this parable. They are blessed, they

are given the best robe, and now they have a

job to do, Matthew, and they're gonna do that with

Christ and they're gonna rule and reign with them for

a thousand years. But like you said, they have a

job to do, and they're gonna do that because they

forfeited their inheritance or they took their inheritance early like

this son did. And so as a result, they're not

they're not the bride, Matthew, like you've explained. And I think,

like you said, this is a big hang up for

a lot of Christians because you read different chapters of

the Bible and some say that, well, this group of

Christians is going to rule and reign, this group of

Christians is going to be a priest. You know, this

group of Christians is the bride of Christ. You know,

what does that mean? It's a bride? We have a

job to do. You know, you have all these questions,

But I think this parable is a great example by

showing the two sons and their relation to the father, Matthew,

of these two different types of Christians. Well, you have

the woman on one hand, who's going to enter her rest,

and then you have the rest of her children who

are going to have a job to do for those

thousand years. And you know this, uh, this parable, to

me is a great way to explain that to us, Matthew,

of what God's plan is. Because this father and this

parable obviously loves both of his sons, and he's obviously

did not want to discard the other one just because

he's you know, been in his sin and been worldly

and and you know, cobarding with Harlot's like like the

other brother accused him of. He wants him back. But

things have changed now that he did all those things right,

things have changed, and so you know, he's he has

a different job to do than the other son, Matthew.

The father makes that pretty clear in this parable.

Well, and everybody should should understand this ladies and gentlemen,

that this parable never states that that the faithful brother

has his inheritance divided in half and half given to

his prodigal brother. I'm sorry to shock you. Yeah, you

need to know and understand. This parable is saying that

the prodigal son his inheritance is spent. It's done. He

is no longer the inheritor of the estate. This parable

never says that his half that he's spent is ever

restored to him, does it. No, Yes, he's daddled over.

Yes he's brought back into the kingdom, but his inheritance

was already spent. So that's a pretty interesting aspect to

look at there. So it's amazing, Jose that a lot

of people they don't know these things because they don't

know to ask the question to do that, right. And

that's what a really good teacher is, Jose. A good

teacher is a teacher that knows which questions to ask.

And if you've never been a part of a Bible

study or a sermon where the person that was giving

the lesson, okay, because that's what this is, it's a

Bible lesson. I know that this new fancy generation tries

to call it a teaching, it's not. It's a Bible lesson.

We do Bible lessons here. You will never hear us

cover something that's not in the Bible. We are Biblicists,

that's what we are. So if you've never had anyone

in that situation that was presenting to you a Bible

lesson and they never pointed that out, thata hey, during

the rapture, everyone that died in Christ they get risen

up right, Yeah, well, where's that group in Revelation chapter

twenty because it never mentions them. It only mentions those

that danced with the devil and lost. Because you need

to read the chapter before it, because you need to

understand this. The Bible is very clear that as soon

as the Lord Jesus Christ enters our upper atmosphere at

that very second, is when the marriage supper of the

Lamb happens. Wig it, Yes it does. Do We need

to go to Revelation chapter nineteen and read it. I

don't know why all of your psyches have rejected it,

but the marriage supper of the Lamb happens first before

he wipes everybody out. Yes it is, and there, okay, there,

plain as day. You can go read it if you

want to. Revelation chapter nineteen, verse fourteen that says when

Foy's grand Paul gets his anastasis anatomy, I don't think

I know. I don't rely on the creeds or knachisms

of men. I don't know what the Bible says. So

maybe I'll just stop right there, because I'm probably giving

information overload at this point. I need to let Jose

take us back to the Prodigal Sun in Luke chapter fifteen.

Jose, Yeah, Matthew, just to add on there a little

bit more of what you were saying. You know, before

joining this ministry, if you would have asked me, you

know what I thought about about being this group here

that gets to rule and reign with Christ. If you

would have asked me, do you want to be a

part of this group that rules and reigns with Christ?

Or be a part of the bride? Honestly, what it

would I would have confused me, I said, I would

have thought, there's the same group, you know, because you

don't realize what it means to the for these individuals

to take on that role, how far they had to

fall actually to the depths of shield before they're resurrected, uh,

you know, and and then ruling and reigning with Christ.

Right.

I don't think a lot of Christians, Matthew, understand what

they're saying when they say that they're that they're going

to be a part of this group, that they're going

to be the part that our priests and get to

reign with Christ for a thousand years. So it's real

important that we pull these apart and and and and

and study it. You know, it's in there plainly for us, Matthew.

But again, you get so many different teachers and so

many different denominations that we get into that twist the

word and and you know, the normal parishioner gets lost.

So I'm really glad that that we're investigating this for

for everyone.

So you're saying the same thing I referenced earlier. Not

James and John confused.

About it, Amen.

More importantly, their mother was confused about it. Amen.

Amen.

And you know I'm trying to hesitate, Jose, but now

you're pushing the envelope. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm not gonna

leave you confused, Okay, So you need to hearken to

my voice and right now, and I need dead bang.

Right now, you need to get something to write with

and something to write on, because I'm gonna lay it

out to you, crystal clear. I'm going to prove to

you that I don't need no catechism, I don't need

no I don't need no creeds. I need the Bible,

God's Holy Word inspired, in errant and infallible. Oh my goodness.

They hate that. They hate it. But right now, you're

right where James and John and their mother was. You're

right there. You don't realize there's there's two different groups. Okay,

So we are going to go and lay it out

for you because it is not hard, it is not difficult.

I need you to write these things down as I

say them, Okay, it's important that you do so. First

Thessalonians chapter four, verses thirteen through eighteen. Now before I

read it, write this downright, those who sleep in Jesus.

Then go down another line and write this the dead

in Christ. This passage is plainly going to relate to

you that those things are quite simply the fact of

the matter. That's how it is. So I'm not going

to talk about the Greek. I'm not gonna, you know,

give you information overload, because I understand where you're at,

because Jose admitted it just minutes ago. Jose admitted that

he was right where you were at. He was right

there is right where you were at, right where everybody

else is at. But now you've got it written down.

You've got first Thessalonians four thirteen through eighteen written down,

and you've got the two key phrases, those who sleep

in Jesus and the dead in Christ. Those are two

different groups. And believe me, in the Greek those are

completely different phrases. Do you have asleep and dead and

then you have Jesus's proper name and Christ, two completely

different groups. This is how it happens, and I will

lay it out to you. But I do not want

you to be ignorant, brethren concerning those who have fallen asleep,

lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For

if we believe that Jesus died and rosea again, even

so God will bring with him those who are asleep

in Jesus. That's the first group they will return with

Jesus Verse fifteen. For this we say to you by

the word of the Lord, that we who are alive

and remain until the coming of the Lord, will by

no means precede those who are asleep, for the Lord

himself will descend with Heaven with a shout, with the

voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God,

and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we

who are alive and remain will be caught up together

with them in the clouds to meet the Lord, the Heir.

And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore,

comfort one another with these words. Okay, hearken to my voice.

When is my mother and pose's grandpa going to get back?

Revelation Chapter nineteen, verse fourteen, and the armies of Heaven,

gold and fine, living, white and clean followed him on whyrses.

I'm gonna read it again. This verse is telling you

that those the other group, those who are asleep in Jesus,

because there is a terminus between these two groups. Now

write this down exactly as I say it. The terminus

between those who sleep in Jesus and the dead in

Christ is the great Day of the Lord known as

the six Seal Event. So let's do what I said.

Go back to that verse you read. I can't remember.

This is those who sleep in Jesus. Verse fourteen was

very clear. It says, for we believe that Jesus died

and rose again. Even so God will bring with him

those who sleep in Jesus Revelation, Chapter nineteen, verse fourteen.

And the armies of Heaven, clothed and fine linen, white

and clean, followed him on white horses. Once you know

these things, you understand that there's a terminus. It is

the start of the tribulation. Once the tribulation starts, something

must happen, because it creates a terminus between these two groups.

Because we who are alive and remain, something has to

happen to us. We have to go someplace where he

can't die. God calls this place his barn. Yes he does.

I'm not lying to you. God calls this place his barn.

He calls the place that are kicked out of this place.

He says, they're kicked down into the outer darkness, doesn't

he jose? Yes, Yes he does, Yes he does. What

this means is, ladies and gentlemen, write this down. It's

not a rapture, it's a great gathering. That's what happens

to those who are alive and remain. They are gathered

to a place. That great gathering is told to you

in great detail in Revelation chapter seven. The Greek says

that God will tabernacle over you, and once you're there,

you're like superman. You can't die. And everybody that is

not in that segregated place of protection will have to

dance with the devil and his beast. That's what the

Bible always says. Hosea, am I telling the truth.

Yes you are, Matthew.

So now, ladies and gentlemen, you can understand why things

are the way they are. This is why the dead

in Christ. In one Thessalonians, chapter four, verses thirteen through eighteen,

the dead in Christ are those that's been beheaded by

the beast for not taking his mark, because they were

cast into the outer darkness. After the great day of

the Lord and before the return of Christ. You won't

be able to die. If you're a Christian that's been

gathered together to the Tabernacle of David, please write that

down too. You can look it up later. Tabernacle of David.

I mean, just for clarity, make sure you've written down

everything I said. Write this down. The great gathering, okay,

is in Revelation chapter seven, verses nineteen through seventeen. That's

where you're going. And if you're not there, you're in

the outer darkness, and there you will have a choice

take the mark of the beast or be beheaded. Correct,

Jose correct? Is that not what Revelation chapter twenty said. Yes,

that is what it said. So God is very clear

with you. I mean, I just don't understand why people

will read first Thessalonians chapter four, and it's like they

can't say, okay, well, it says here that God will

send with Jesus at his return those that are asleep

in Jesus. Why on earth have you never looked for

that in the book of Revelation. Why why when it

is quite clear when it happens. I read it to you.

It's in the chapter before, it's in Revelation chapter nineteen,

and it says those who return with Jesus are riding

white horses, doesn't it Jose.

Yes. I am pleading with you to believe the Bible.

I am pleading with you to believe it and reject

the doctrines of devils as taught by Satan shepherds levity.

I could say so much about the priesthood right now

from numbers chapters, well, the first numbers one, two, and

three concerning the priesthood, I just I don't have time

to do that. And you know what, you really don't

need to know that that's information overlooked, but you need

to know prophetically, this is what the parable of the

prodigal Son is about. The first son represents those who

are sleeping Jesus, and the prodigal son represents the dead

in Christ. Because you need to understand something. The Bible

calls Jesus the first born from the dead for a

reason because his cadre is comprised of people that was

risen from the dead, so he is the first born

among them. He is pro tota coast necros in Greek.

And all these people, the dead in Christ that are

beheaded by the beast, they are his cadre. You are

his bride. There's a big difference between that, isn't there

Jose Yes, Matthew, there's a there's a there's a world

of difference between us two things. And First Thesalonians chapter

four was very clear, and if you would just keep

reading to First Thesalonians chapter five, he tells you what

the terminus is it is the great day of the Lord.

It's the terminus. And in First Thesalonians chapter five, he

even says what happens to you at the Tabernacle of David.

It says that the God of Peace will preserve your what,

your body, mind, and spirit. In the Greek it says

som psyche numah, doesn't it?

Jose, Yes, absolutely, amen.

So what we're trying to say is is that First Thesalonians,

chapter four and chapter five, we'll tell you everything, but

it's very important that you understand that God's word is

a polysemic. It can mean more than one thing, because

when God opens his mouth, he can say everything. And

you need to know that He told the parable of

the prodigal Son for prophetic reasons for you, just like

he gave the parable of the wedding banquet. He tells you,

point blank, if you haven't made your garments white, he'll

field punch you out of the wedding banquet. That is

what he said, right, Jose, Yes, it is. That's exactly

what happens. Guess what happens in the outer darkness. There

is a wheeping and a gnashing of peith, because once

you're there. You're going to dance with the devil, aren't you, Jose, Yes,

you are, and the devil's going to lead. She'll lead

that dance right to your death. So, boy, I've rambled

on quite some time. But all of you have this

paper in front of you. Write or whatever it is

you wrote on. I don't know. Maybe it's a piece

of cardboard you grabbed out of the trash. But you

concentrate on these things because the doctrines of devils and

not to overthrow the Bible, God's holy word. If you

wrote down those verses and wrote down those key phrases,

you look them up in Greek later, I'm not lying

to you. Those who sleep in Jesus is a completely

different Greek phrase, then those who are dead in Christ

a completely different phrase. And he tells you that those

who sleep in Jesus will return with Jesus. And Revelation

chapter nineteen plainly tells you they return on white horses.

Yes they do, Yes they do. You cannot lie to me.

You can't lie to me. So I hope everybody's excited

about this Chronicle Sun series that Jose has presented for us,

because it is good news to my ears, knowing that

one Thesalonians chapter four was telling the truth in verse fourteen.

God will bring with him those who sleep in Jesus.

That's where my mother's going to be. She's gonna punch

through the upper app with atmosphere with the Lord Jesus Christ.

Yes she is. And you can't take it from me.

I don't care how much you hate God and hate

his word and try to twist it with the doctrines

of demons. You can't take it from me. You can't

take it from Jose. Some of you are just stunned

to silence. I know this because I've done this in

classroom before. Yes, this verse first Thessalonians chapter four, verse

fourteen is answered in Revelation chapter nineteen, verse fourteen, and

the armies of Heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean,

followed him on white horses. Two groups. Knowing the timing

of the rapture is not enough. You have to know

the five ws, Who, what, where, when? Why? Most people

in the church don't even know the where they think

they're going to be taken to Heaven, don't they, Jose, correct, No, No,

you're not. You're going to enter the millennial reign of

Christ on Earth. So most people don't even know the

where concerning the rapture. But knowing the timing of the rapture,

knowing it's at the end of the tribulation is not enough.

You have to know who, what, where when. Why does

Marinatha ministries teach the five ws for this situation? Jose Yes,

So what you're trying to say is that you came

here with a ton of questions, didn't you. Jose Amen, Yes,

we could say literally hundreds of questions. Right, yes, and

now you know the five Ws. You know exactly what

is to come.

It's back to you, Jse Matthew. So, so the next

one that I want to address is in Matthew chapter nine,

verse nine. It reads, and Jesus passed on from there

he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office,

and he said to me, follow me. So he arose

and followed him. Now, when we keep reading this Matthew,

we see how the Pharisees associate the tax collectors with

the sinners, almost as if they're the same group. Right,

that's right. So the reason that this struck me, Matthew again,

that word arose there's G four fifty, but it's that

same spelling that we see in Revelation chapter twenty. But Matthew,

what what is those that are part of the First Resurrection?

Why are they there? It's because they had what they

had to face in Revelation chapter thirteen and being forced

to take the mark why so they could buy or

sell and obviously they refused that mark. And this buying

and selling, Matthew, is exactly what's related to the to

the tax collecting that Matthew is doing here in this chapter.

But the tax that's collected, Matthew and Revelation chare chapter thirteen,

in Revelation chapter nineteen where it tells us what happens

to those that are that take the mark. It is

like you said, there's there's Psyche, Soma and Numa. That's

the tax that's collected. So that's what struck me, Matthew,

when I saw this word here in reference to when

Matthew was called to follow Jesus, right, and we know

prophetically what that means. He's calling him to be a

part of the First Resurrection, right, So that's everything, Matthew.

Every time I find this word, it points me straight

back to those chapters in Revelation that talk explicitly about

those in the Fresh Resurrection and what they have to

go to. It's just giving me more detail of what's

going to happen. So the very fact that the tax

collector here is the one that Jesus chose to tell

to rise and follow him. Boy, Matthew, that's just bringing

in my ears, you know what I mean?

And it should be amen. You know it's amazing that well,

we don't need to give people information over low dooing.

Amen, Amen, because.

I could literally start here from the tax collector's booth G.

Fifty fifty eight and give you a whole other sermon.

I could go in for another hour and preach to

you the Kingdom of Heaven from this one word. We

obviously don't have time to do that.

Amen.

It's not beautiful that we do so, right, right, But

you're right, it's almost like this place is a casket.

I mean, we call it a tax collector's booth, but

prophetically you can see what he's talking about. He's talking

about a casket. He called Matthew. Of course, the other

chapters say this is Levi, the son of Alpheus, so

his name gets changed uh, oh, did I catch everybody's attention?

I got everybody's attention, didn't I? Yeah, Well, let me

read to you the other verses. Okay, so the one

that Jose just read Matthew nine nine. As Jesus passed

on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting

in the tax office, and he said to him, follow me.

So heroes and followed him. Mark chapter two, verse fourteen said,

as he passed by, he saw Levi, the son of Alpheus,

sitting in the tax office, and he said to him,

follow him. And he rose and following Luke five twenty seven.

After these things, he went out and saw a tax

collector named Levi setting at the tax office, and said

to him, follow me. So Matthew's name was changed to Levi.

And after his name was changed to Levi, he was

given a father. He was given genealogy, the son of Alfeus.

I mean, God is trying to show you that. Yeah,

the tax booth is like a casket. And Matthew got

called out of it. But once again, I need I

need to slow down. Only got five minutes left. So

ladies and gentlemen, you need to accept the simple fact

that you cannot rely on the creeds of men or

the catechisms of men. You only need the inspired, in arrant,

infallible Word of God. And when you go against its grain,

you're only fighting your own casket. I mean, I've just

Jose's only scratched the surface. I mean, as far as

I'm concerned, we're just getting started. I mean, ladies and gentlemen,

I could do a whole semester on the parable of

the Prodigal Son. I could do a whole semester on it.

So when I say we're just getting started, I mean

we're literally just getting started with all the information that

God has for us here. But if you're busy caught

up in what, well, let me say it again, if

you're busy caught up in the creeds and the catechisms

of men, You're just never going to see it. You

will never know what is to come. You will stay

eternally confused. And I know that you think I did

something special with Jose over the past decade actually now

it's fifteen years, But that's a lie. Ask Jose and

he'll tell you. The only thing Matthew did was give

me God's word. That's all I did.

Amen.

And now he's giving it to his sons. Amen. Amen,

And now they shall know what is to come. When

they read Revelation chapter nineteen. They'll know where their Grandpa is,

and they will know that if they are alive and

remain where they are, and they will know what comes

after them if they are alive and remain It's those

in Revelation chapter twenty, so they will know to teach

their sons. You need to cling to Christ now, because

I'm telling you right now, the world is the devil's playground,

and he certainly does roam to and fro as a lion,

seeking whom he wills to devour. And though the world

is his playground, he does the most killing in the

cow fines of a building, doesn't he, Jose Amen, I

am not afraid to say it, ladies and gentlemen, I

no longer go to a full walled church. I am

that time has passed. God has proven to me time

and time and again that's no place for the righteous.

I was saying back to you, Yeah, Matthew, I think

I think you covered pretty much what what I was

gonna be my closing remarks, because there's there's no way

to cover everywhere that this that that this word took me.

And again, like I said before, every time it relates

back to that first resurrection, and it gives me more

data and more input to understand what's going on, because

you know, there's there's only so much information that God

can put in a single chapter, in a single verse,

at least plainly. We know prophetically there's tons there, but

plainly there's only so much he can do. But by

planting this word throughout the rest of the Bible, Matthew,

I can, I can explore forever. I just get more

information on what is to come. And that's that's the

beautiful thing about God's word. That's why He's left it

for us. That's why He's told us if we follow

his commandments and followed the testimony of his son, he

will show us what is to come. He will send

his Holy Spirit to teach us. And we need to

believe that and we need to follow it. Matthew. That's

still in a way to even get a glimpse of

the amazing things that that God shares with us in

his work. So that that's all, that's all that I

encourage people to do, because every time me and Matthew

do these studies. I can sit for hours studying everything,

but when we get on here, I'm learning new things.

You know, as I'm reading through the very same chapters

and verses Matthew, that I already read through. I'm sitting here,

we're talking together, and boom, God's showing showing me more

things that that that connect the dots. So that's why

we do this, Matthew, to share with everyone, because the

time is short.

We know that the time is very short. Jose, take

us out of here in prayer.

Dear heavenly Father, whom we love and serve, I thank

you for gathering us together as your congregation, as your body.

I thank you for sharing us your word. I thank

you for giving us your son so that we may

have hope for what is to come. I thank you

for giving us your Holy Spirit so we may understand

what is to come. And Lord, I asked that in

giving us these gifts, all I ask is that through

this ministry we find the prodigal son, we find the

lost sheet, and we bring them to you, Father, We

bring them to your son.

Lord.

We don't do these things to puff ourselves up. We

don't do these things to beat other Christians.

Down.

We do these things to bring them to you, Father,

through your son, with the help of your holy Spirit. Father.

So I just asked that you give us strength to continue.

I asked that this program and the other ones that

we've done, that this ministry reaches as many people as possible,

those that are in need of hearing this Father, and

I pray for those listening. I pray for their family,

that those that are lost, those that are the prodigal sons,

that they may return to You Lord. And we ask

all this in the name of our Lord and Savior

of Jesus Christ. Amen, Amen and Amen.

Until next time, ladies and gentlemen, God bless God speed.

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