Heaven Rules - What To Expect Towards The Finishing Line | Elder Ang Peng Hoe

You're listening to a message to go from axt church. We hope this message

will light up your day. I want to teach on something. It might

be a little bit deep for an afternoon message, but bear with me.

Bear with me because you know there's a portion uh not of scripture, but

there's a portion of our team for this year, which of course is Heaven

Rules. And then a lot of people miss the bottom part of it.

Anyone knows what the bottom part of it says Heaven Rules. And then there's

something that connects and makes it more comprehensible. You don't notice it says towards

the finishing line. I'm not sure if everyone anyone has ever seen that part,

just like yes, yes, yes, it's actually on the stage line

if you are at DVCC uh and there is, like I said, that's

the second part to it, towards the finishing line. And so I want

to share a little bit on what, uh what it really looks like?

What does the finishing line really mean? What does it look like? In

short, I want to teach on end times today, okay, and I'm

going to see if I can do it in one hour. It's possible,

But again, it may not be sufficient or doing justice to it, but

I just want to give your glimpse of what to expect, have a little

bit of knowledge on it, because it's not something that is often taught only

because sometimes different ones have got different ways of looking and how it will all

eventually come to an end. But it's not all doom and gloom. Okay.

I'm not here as a doomsday prepper, but it's good sometimes for us

to be able to have a bit of foresight and to see beyond just our

day today lives. Okay, So everyone, okay, I know, I

know it sounds like, oh man, this guy's going to end times and

you're probably wondering. Man, it's just how how deep basically going to go

about? I hope, I hope it just scratches the surface enough for y'all.

And this is something that I want to remind all of us here.

Please read God's Ward for yourself. Don't take what I have to say as

just the gospel truth alone, because it's not enough. You guys, go

back and read it. You may or may not agree with the different things

that I'll be saying today, it doesn't matter for me. I'm not here

to pick each other's mental curiosity and go into theological debates. That's not what

I hope to do. What I hope to do is I stir it enough

for y'all to want to know it for yourselves, because it's already there.

We have the revealed Word of God. Amen. Okay, So sign of

time suh. Basically I started off with this question, and I've got slights,

and the slides can look deep, but it's to assist us this next

one hour to not be walking through the myri clay. Okay. What does

the Bible have to say about the last days? Okay? And so if

you study the scriptures, you realize that the Bible has already recorded about seven

hundred plasts forecasts that means like prophecies. So if you read the scripture scriptures,

and we all know, the Bible is not a book that was written

at one point of time and then completed in two two and a half hours.

No, it's basically a compendium of books. It's a library of books.

Those of you who like Jazz loves to read will enjoy this so much

because it's not just one whole book. It's sixty six books written through the

duration of about fifteen hundred years. Okay, So we need to have that

in mind as we are reading scripture. And when you read scripture you realize

that a lot of time scripture actually forecasts. That means it prophesized. So

I think someone actually or many people sat down and try to count how many

forecasts there are in the Bible, and they are about seven hundred plus.

Okay. I won't go to the exact figures because I think it may vary

seven hundred plus out of which are about five hundred plus, if not closed,

to six hundred of these forecasts or prophecies have already taken place. That

means it has already happened. I'm not a good math person, but if

you do the math, it will seem like as though the Bible is hence

maybe about eighty percent accurate. Okay, So out of seven hundred plus,

about five hundred plus have come to pass, or maybe about eighty percent.

But you must take notree of this. No, the forecasted events that have

not yet happened, we say eighty percent, right, So there are some

things which have not yet happened. Are those that are mainly concerning the end

of times, which basically is things that have not yet happened. Okay,

So if I were to ask you, how accurate is the Bible, and

if you ask me that question, my answer is it's one hundred percent accurate

because the things that have not yet taken place. It is not that it

didn't happen, because it has not yet happened. And so I take the

scriptures as gospel truth. I take it literally as much as possible. Of

course, not everything can be taken literally from scripture. If you read revelations,

sometimes not all things can be taken literally. But we need to learn

how to understand, interpret, and really read the Bible. Some things literally,

some things that there are figures of speech in it which we need to

clean and try to find the answers there. Okay, cool. So Jesus

has written and the end end of the world. Uh you see, the

end of the world is, and I lose it. I will use it

loosely like, Okay, it's not like it comes to an end with a

full stop and a hall and then everything goes into complete oblivion. Because our

understanding of the end of times is a little bit different. Okay, So

I'll use this term loosely. End of the world. End of the world,

Okay, don't don't have this big armageddon and no apocalypse and shrend everything

is deserted. Then the cydebox walking around. Uh, let's try to take

that out a little bit. But the end of the world is probably one

of the most frequently predicted forecasts in the Bible. Uh, it's not so

much what is the world coming to? Actually, it's more who is coming

to the world. That's a big difference. The emphasis is quite different.

So in theory. In theory, the church gives Jesus written a central place

is a big thing, and you realize it's all the different Christian creeds that

we recite, whether it's the apostles, create the niceen Creed, whatever creed

that you can think of, there is something in there that talks about the

return of Christ on that means that since the early days of the Christian Church,

they were already anticipating his return. It's not something that you know,

sometimes we have this end of the world for tick after two thousand years.

No, we're like, we've been waiting for the flu for two thousand years

and haven't shown up. I don't know whether this end of the world thing

is really going to be happening or not. Is he really coming the second

time? God knows, maybe not. No is founded or I don't know

what's it founded up. But the reality is right from the very start,

they were already anticipating it. And so if you understand how Christian faith,

faith, hope, and love, faith is always built on the things that

have happened. We have seen different ones go through their journey of faith,

and we get encouraged as well when someone stands up on the stage and shares

a testimony, it's so encouraging. That's how we build our faith. That's

why Hebrews Chapter eleven is such a powerful chapter because it tells you of all

the journeys of faith that the different individuals have gone through, and they're all

true stories, and they all stir and promote faith. So faith is always

based, most of the time based on something that we have seen in the

past before. That's how we build our faith as Christians as well. Love

is something that's always in the present present. That means love in action.

You know, you can't talk about love without talking about loving people and loving

one another, and you can only do that in the present. You don't

build it on what has happened? You built it on what are you doing

right now? Faith? Love, hope. You see, it's the weakest

of them all because hope is on something that you can't really see, you

can't really ascertain at this point of time, and hope is really one of

the weakest elements of faith, hope and love, I mean love is the

greatest of them, or I totally agree with it, if they're all important.

But Christian hope has somehow come to this place where sometimes we don't really

have that conviction within us. You know, when you talk about hope,

it's always the hopefully, hopefully it happen. You know, you think your

rain today maybe maybe not hopefully your raine or But that's not what the word

hope means in scripture. When you study the scriptures, the word hope is

actually seen in this Greek word called elp peace. It just it means this

is no absolute certainty. That is the kind of hope that scripture talks about.

But is that the kind of hope that we actually have as believers of

the second Coming of Christ? Do we have the absolute certain thing that He's

going to come in the way he said he is going to come okay,

food for thought, food for thought, But hope must be the anchor for

our souls as believers. It has to be, and we can't anchor it

on anything else. We can't just anchor it on the past. We can't

just fix it in the present. We as Christians, as believers, have

a hope of glory in the future. That is something that is Sometimes we

take it for granted that what is to come I don't know, but it's

really revealed in scripture. And so really, you know, this world is

not going to get any better, and if you read world events and you

study what's happening, it's going to get worse rather than better, until every

single part of the globe is going to be so affected. And so this

is my prayer and my hope, no, that we know the truth and

made the truth anchor us down today so that we remain stayed fast in this

course that is before us. Does that make sense. That's the only reason

why I felt like to teach on this, even though I say I do

it with fear and trembling, because again it's not a topic in which people

like to teach and talk about, only because there are various interpretations of how

some of these things look like it hasn't really happened yet. So everyone's going

to give it a go. But like, please go back and read the

scriptures for yourself even after this. Okay, coola, So let's make sense

of Jesus's written. Let's make some sense out of it. No, it's

over three hundred references to Jesus's return again to Earth. So sometimes you want

to fit it all together. Is like, it's like putting a jigsaw puzzle

together. And if we are able to make sense of Jesus' return by answering

some questions, we may have a clearer idea of what to expect and how

to prepare ourselves. And so I want us to ask some of these questions

very important and we will be answering some of these questions that we ask.

Okay, So the first question is who who is coming back? Okay?

Will he come back as the pre existent son of God or the incarnate son

of Men? I will explain. Okay, we look at me now,

and like won the world is this guy talking about man? Where? Where?

Will will he come back to the whole world? Or or he's going

to come back to one place? Ask ask some of these questions, how,

how is he going to come back? Will the second coming be like

the first coming? Or will we be totally different? You know, first

coming we will celebrate in a week's time, came in a little manger,

unannounced. No one knew, only a few wise men and Mary, who

immaculately became pregnant. Okay, when is he going to be coming back?

Well, technically only God knows. Will he come back soon? Will he

come back suddenly? Will there be clear signals? Let's ask some of these

questions. Let's find the answers to it. Why? Why? What can

he only achieve by coming back here? And how long will we take?

These are some of the questions that I hope we have some answers by the

end of today, so that at least we know that our soul is anchored

on the hope of glory Christ Jesus. Amen. Okay, let's start that.

I'm just scratching the surface. Who who is coming back? So it

has to be emphasized that the divine Christ and the human Jesus are one and

the same person. Okay? Can we accept that because even Christians sometimes assume

that the Son of God was only made flash in Karnate. That means God

became men for the the three years and has now gone back to his former

state. Whatever his former state. Maybe, Okay, that's what's auras assume.

The truth is he became human and he keeps his resurrected body for the

rest of eternity. Do you all know that basically he retained his humanity.

Humanity? Uh, that is what scripture teaches us. That means that the

resurrected Christ that we read about is the same resurrected Christ who would come back.

He's the same guy who was walking with the two two a mouse,

you know, new body with some scars that he could show to them.

But it must be pointed out non that there's one major change in his humanity

even before he left Earth. Is that this We got to remember this.

He was given a new body when he was raised out of the tomb.

New body, but with those scars u but new body nonetheless. And we

also need to remember that Jesus was not always human being. He wasn't always

in the human form. Indeed, he was not always Jesus. That was

a name he acquired when he was embodied, when he was given that body.

I think if you read the scriptures. Next week we'll talk about it

a little bit more. Mary, I think it was Joseph who was actually

told, okay, name this baby Jesus, or in short, is actually

Joshua. I mean in the Hebrew is Joshua, which just means God saves.

That is what Jesus's name meant. But he wasn't always known as Jesus.

I mean, if you read in the beginning and you read Genesis,

he doesn't mention Jesus back then, and so that is something that we need

to take note of and remember this. Jesus was the only person who ever

chose to be born. That's an amazing thing. No one else of us

here can say I chose to be born. He can, and I think

that's what makes him and that's what sets him apart from all of us.

Okay, So he was the eternal son of God, the Lord of Glory.

The Word was another name in which we see the logos. That's why

in John chapter one you read in the beginning was the Word, and the

word was that he was there right present. But he wasn't Jesus. He

was the Word. So he was divine being before he was human. Being

big difference are It is therefore very significant that the angels actually use his human

name when talking about his written here to earth. We must take note of

that. He doesn't say the logos is coming back. He actually says that

Jesus, the Son of Men will appear in the clouds. That's actually recorded

in Daniel chapter seven, verse thirteen, and also Mark chapter fourteen, verse

sixty two. The Son of Men will appear again. And so if that's

the case, we must face this one implication and embody Jesus. Okay,

Jesus with a body, not the Jesus who was hovering at the start in

Genesis with Father and Holy Spirit. But Jesus with a body can only be

in one place on earth at one time. Does that make sense? And

that's why after he was resurrected he was chilling walking with the two disciples,

right, and then after that all the records in which you read prior to

the ascension, he was always at one place at one time, even though

he could move from one place to another place pretty quick. So I think

maybe we got some flashlight kind of abilities when we get our new bodies with

But never does it record and says that he was in multiple places and multiple

times. That is something that is reserved for the Holy Spirit. Okay,

does that make sense? So you know, even with his glorious resurrected body

one place at one time, he never appeared in two places at the same

time. And if that is what we accept and that is what we understand,

therefore, when he returns to this earth, he can only come back

to one geographical local location. Does that make sense? Makes sense? Huh?

So where will that be? Is the next question that we have to

ask. Where where? So, if the return of Jesus is going to

be physical, it must also be localizes. His spirit can be everywhere,

but his body must be somewhere. Before he ascended, Jesus could not be

at two places at one time, and that is why he told his disciples

it was for their good that he was leaving them and then sending another stand

by to take his place. He had promised to be with them always,

even to the end of the age, yet they would be scattered to the

ends of the earth. That is why Jesus had to go, because it

was only then that the promised Holy Spirit could come, and only the promised

Holy Spirit could be at many places at a time. Jesus could not do

that in his embodied state, and that's why if you ask me where is

Jesus now, I will tell you he sitated at the right hand of God

the Father. Then it's like, who do we have with us? We

have the Holy Spirit, because that's what the entire scripture talks about. From

the especially in the Book of John. Jesus kept on saying, I got

to go, I gotta go, I got to go, because only when

I go, then you tarry and wait until the Holy Spirit comes. We

see that eventually materializing in x chapter one, verse eight. Amen. Okay,

So the only way he could do this again was to remove his self

physically and then let his a present spirit, which is unlimited by time and

space, to come and the situation will not be reversed when he returns.

We're thinking, when Jesus comes back, then, how God, you know

they think that we will lose his spirit. No, you will enjoy his

physical presence as well. You will not lose the Holy Spirit. The Holy

Spirit will always be there because the Holy Spirit was also hovering in Genesis chapter

one. You see if you study and I'm not going to go into a

teaching of the Trinity. But you know, one of the amazing things of

the Trinity and scriptures is that when you study Scripture, right in Genesis,

it talks about a plural God. That means that the noun that is used

for God is actually G O, D S. No. A lot of

people don't see it because you don't see it in the English, but you

will see it in the Hebrew, in the original language. That is,

right from the beginning, it was acknowledged that it's not just one person.

It was Father's son and Holy Spirit. In what I know, it's so

mind boggling somehow, but that is the only way in which God can actually

claim that he is love, because one person can love themselves, but the

God hate is love because Father loves the son's son loves the Spirit. The

Spirit loves the Father and son. And you see the dynamics of love in

the plurality of the God hate. Okay, I'm not gonna go so deep

into death, but that's just for your two understand that scripture is so rich.

But here we are here, we are eventually his physical presence will be

here, his Holy Spirit will be here. We will stand to be doubly

blessed. Okay, we're not going to lose one or the other, so

don't worry. But since his body, like ours, must always be at

one point on the surface of the earth, his written means that his disciples

will have to be gathered together from every part of the globe, because it

says that we will know and we will all be gathering to see and witness

this return. And therefore this how how are they going to actually really experience

his bodily presence? Well, this is what the New Testament actually promises will

happen, That they will be cathered, and it will be at the exact

location. And where is this location? While scripture actually says that it is

from this city that he departed to return to his home in heaven, and

it is to this city he will return from heaven, and he called it

the city of the Great King? Where do you think that is? Anyone

wants to take a wild gas anyone, anyone, anyone? Where will Jesus

return to? Which city? Anyone? Wild guess where? No? Jerusalem,

Jerusalem or Zion? Where the Lord will reign again? That's why.

And again I'm not going to go so deep into this, but there's a

reason why, as believers we keep one eye on what is happening in the

Middle East, we keep one eye on what is happening in Jerusalem. As

much as sometimes you're like, oh, man, I don't have anything to

do. You know, right now, the whole world is against against what's

happening against Israel as a political nation, and I have to say this,

No, I may not always agree with political Israel and its choices and its

decisions that is making today. I may not always agree with it, but

I will never deny the fact that Israel as a nation today is where she

is because of God's providence. Remember that, as believers, I think we

cannot turn a blind eye and be ignored about all this because it's significant.

Jerusalem is significant. That's the reason how God's people, somehow scattered all around

the world can come back to a particular place two thousand years later by a

stroke of I don't know again. I can only see it as God's providence.

And that's why I'm careful not to Israel, not to criticize them,

because against scripture tells us those who bless them will be blessed, those who

curse them naturally will be cursed. As well, So let's not be ignorant.

I'm not going to go into a whole teaching on Israel right now,

but suffice to say it was taught before and I believe and the evening Worship

about a couple of years back when passecond. It brought us to ten I

think ten weekends on the teaching on Israel. So maybe your can go back

and refer to that. But one day, one day, maybe I'll teach

you on it, but not not today. So suffice to say, Jerusalem,

Jerusalem came in mind. Okay, that's where he's going to come back

to. How how is he going to come back? His second coming will

be like his first going, but it will be unlike his first coming.

Make sense, make sense. It will be exactly how he ascended, but

technically in the reverse last So if you first, first going, second coming,

okay, Uh, technically something like that, okay, in the reverse.

Uh. Therefore, his written will be visible, it will be audible,

it will be tangible, and thousands of angels will accompany his written It

will be so noisy. Actually, Tesssalonian's records as a noisy time unlike the

first time he came. First time, he came, no noise came in

a little manger. No one knew about his presence except of few. But

this time it will be public and it will be publicized. That is what

the second Coming is about. No Jesus will appear at the scene to be

besides us. These are the different words that actually you see when you study

the scriptures. Epiphonies and Perugia are basically appear at the scene to be beside

us, to bring us comfort and support. That's what the scripture says.

And technically, if you think about it, one will only need comfort and

support if he or she is uncomfortable and going through a trying situation. And

that is the reality of it. That is my belief that when Jesus comes

back, it's going to be one of the most trying times in the world,

and it's going to be probably one of the most trying times in which

believers who are alive then will be facing because he is coming as he really

is. The world will know. The world that last saw him crucified,

now they will see him crown. There's going to be a difference. And

then at last, it says every knee shell bow and every tongue confessed that

Jesus is lord to the glory of God the Father. But when will he

come? And how much longer do we have to wait? Is the next

question that we have to ask, right, So let's go to the when

still with me, and this is the largest part of it. When okay,

because that's what we all want to Noma, and don't tell us just

the house and when you know? When? When I know? Because God

so don't know when? Okay? So basically no one knows, okay except

God himself, Not even Jesus knows his father's calendor. Actually, you see

that record that it Methew. Will his coming be sudden and totally unexpected?

What's your answer to that? Okay? Jess says yes. Then he says

yes. Technically the answer is yes and no, yes and no, because

Jesus could come back and any moment, but there will be events preceding his

written things that have to happen first, which are signs or even signals announcing

that he is at the door. You see that in Matthew about to step

through onto the stage of history. Once again, it's recorded in scripture,

and this is consistent with the frequent reminders in scripture that tells us to watch

as well as pray for his written watch and pray. It doesn't tell us

to hear and pray. It tells us to watch out for what's to come.

That is something that sometimes we take for granted because we keep hearing,

we keep hearing rumors, we keep hearing different things. But no scripture says

watch and pray. And if we look at scripture, we could see that

there will be two groups of people at the one coming. To the unbelievers,

it will be a shock. It'd be so shocking to the believers,

not be a surprise, but some hours will be surprised nonetheless. Okay,

So I'm telling you don't be surprised because it's all in scripture. Okay,

so far, so good. So what are the signs of his coming?

What are the signals? What are we watching for? And there are so

much data actually scattered throughout the New Testament, some in the Gospel, some

in the epistles, a great deal of it in revelations. No where shall

we start, Okay, today, I'm just gonna look at the Book of

Matthew, the Gospel of Matthew. That's why, that's where the main portion

of my scripture is taken from because this is where we find the clearest outline.

Basically, there's a four full framework of future events signaling his written.

Have you ever read Matthew anyone book of Matthew. Yeah, we usually like

to skip these two chapters twenty four and twenty five because it's the Armageddon chapters

and we're like, oh man, let's just get past this and go straight

to twenty eight. Great commission. Okay, Lord, we'll do what what

you asked us to do. But these two chapters are important, Okay.

Basically it's a four full framework. And after adding these four basic signs,

so Jesus is all if you read chapter twenty four, twenty five is all

in rage on. Basically it's Jesus talking, okay, Jesus's own words.

So after introducing the four basic signs in the sequence, Jesus actually adds to

each a warning about its dangers and then advice on what the disciples proper response

should be. So for each sign there is a description there is a danger,

and there is a duty. Stay with mere. There's a description there

is a danger, there is a duty that means we all got something to

do. Okay, something to beware of something to do after that. So

what's the first sign? Okay, let's let's go into the scripture. First

sign, let me read it to your since you'll like to skip it.

Matthew twenty four for the aid. Okay, I'm gonna read the first part

sign Umberwana is this Jesus told them, don't let anyone mislead you, for

many will come in my name claiming I am the Messiah. They will deceive

many, and you will hear of wars and threads of wars. But don't

panic. Yes, these things must take place, but the end won't follow

immediately. Nation will go to war against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.

There will be femines and earthquakes in many parts of the world. But all

this is only the first of the birth pains, with more to come.

Only the first sigence. Its all do mean and gloom really, right,

So threatings are specifically mentioned here, wars, earthquakes, femines, and truth.

Below. We will actually see an exponential increase in all these catastrophes,

which will usually spread alarm and insecurity amongst people. It's a natural thing,

right, this is what happens. People will therefore, when they are alarmed.

When they're insecure, what would happen? They will naturally be looking to

a savior to avert all this tragedy. And this is where people will take

the opportunity to pretend to be christ That's why the warning is, be careful

of false messiahs. Be careful of the false messiahs. Disciples must protect themselves

from such deceptions by not allowing panic to make them vulnerable, because it's panic

that causes us to let our guards down. And they can only do this

by understanding all these painful catastrophes and calamities in the opposite way in which the

world reacts to it. Not the end of all good things. You see

how the world reacts to catastrophes and calamities is this man is the end of

all good things. But Christians and believers must always look at it as the

beginning of much better things. It's all about perception. You know, you

study revelations. You want me to sum up the whole revelations. Things are

going to get worse, that's the that's summary of revelations. But it doesn't

just end there. But things will get better after they get worse. That's

the reality of it, and I can sum up the whole book of Revelations

just by saying that. And that is again how we look at it.

If you look at it as the end of everything good, then it's all

doom and gloom. But if you take the perspective of way, that means

it's going to be the beginning of something better to look forward to. And

that is an appropriate response, not alarm and anxiety and scripture says, but

a sense of anticipation. That's why the parallel that was drawn is child birth,

child b And I know many of us here may not be able to

identify child birth. Okay, those of you just got married and get ready,

get ready for this. The reality is it's painful. No one's going

to tell you that you don't feel a thing unless you're so loaded up with

epidural and whatever stuff. But even then, the reality is it's painful.

But I don't think any mom well, usually those in the right frame of

mind, they're not going to be like, man, it's the worst thing

that's ever Maybe maybe maybe the thought was there it's the worst thing that's ever

had, But there is a sense of looking forward to the delivery of the

child. You don't. You don't like a child go back in and then

you strangle your husband. You don't. You are still going to look forward

to the completion of it, child birth, And that's how we are to

look at it. Uh, it's not all doom and gloom child birth.

It's not all doom and gloom, right, Yes, I'm sure it's not.

It's great joy, right, great joy. I think I just brought

back to the memories of her strangling Daniel, and yeah, I remember asking

my wife, no, how does it feel that She's like, it's like

sitting on duri ends. I'm like, I don't even know how. I

don't even know how do imagine that? But okay, I think it's painful.

Uh. And that's the that's that's really what it is. But so

the response is not alarmed and anxiety, but a sense of anticipation like childbirth.

And this sign that we are talking about is clearly visible. Is visible

in the world that we are living in today because there have been multiple international

conflicts. If you count the number of international conflicts since World War Two,

it's on the increase. If you count the number of earthquakes, and you

do a study on how many earthquakes are actually happening. It's in the increase.

If you look at how many I mean how many places in the world

that is actually undergoing famine. And this is what baffles me the most.

It's on the increase, even though there is more than enough food to go

around. That is the truth if we think that all really there's a shortage

of food and is no, there's actually no shortage of food. That's there

is more than enough. It's just distribution gone wrong. Greed has taken over.

That's the reality of why are we still living in such conditions? Why

are some parts of the world, in fact, not just some, many

parts of the world still having femines. You think about it because God's promise

and after Noah, he promised never to destroy the world again, right,

and then what was the sign that he showed? And you'll remember rainbow?

What are the two elements in a rainbow? What the end? Sun?

Nine? When you have water, end salent, what do you get?

You get growth? You get plants growing. So basically, there will always

be enough food. That is the promise. When God promises that he won't

destroy the earth again, he's essentially saying there will always be enough to go

around, but we have not allowed that enough to reach those who are in

need. And that's the reality of it. So all these things earthquakes,

no famine, walls. It's on the increase. How long this state of

affairs will continue or how much worse can it get, we cannot guess.

But this is the first major sign, and we are already seeing it.

So if you ask me if I'm watching that, I'll take note of the

fact that we are seeing and experiencing this first sign. Okay, Sign number

two is this. Let me read that verses nine to fourteen. It then

goes on to say this, then you will be arrested. Or this one,

lagie, we don't like got talking to us now, then you will

be arrested. And bear in mind when Jesus talked about all this, he's

teaching his disciples. He's actually talking to his disciples. Then you will be

arrested, persecuted, and killed. You will be hated all over the world

because you are my followers. And many will turn away from me and betray

and hate each other. And many false profits were and will deceive many people.

Sin We will be rampant everywhere, and the love of many will grow

cold, but the one who endals to the end will be safe. And

the good news about the kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world, so

that all nations will hear it, and then the end will come. Okay,

So first there will be opposition in that the followers of Jesus will be

hated by all nations, which will bring a corresponding increase of those who will

die for their Christian faith. I know it sounds strong. We may not

see this or we may not experience much of this here in Malaysia yet,

but trust me, is it happening around the world. Yes, it is.

I mean I've read reports on missionaries around the world, and every day

hundreds of people die for their faith in Christ Jesus. We may not see,

we may not hear, it doesn't mean it's not happening. It is

happening. People are dying for their Christian faith all around the world today.

Many are coming under intense and immense pressure for their faith. Churches everywhere therefore

need they need to prepare members for suffering and sacrifice. That is why,

when when I'm given the opportunity to preach, I don't like to preach a

gospel of comfort, because that's not what is promised in scripture. Uh.

You know, Scripture actually tells us that we will see the number of believers

reducing, you get less and less because the pressures will be there, and

when it's full of pressure, it will reveal the difference between those who are

genuine and those who are nominal, and that is the reality of it.

There will be those who will struggle to remain faithful, struggle to persevere true

to the very end. But those who rem faithful and steadfast will also cause

the church to expand because the conviction within them is going to be so real

to hang on regardless. And with that new found conviction, they will go

out. They will be bold, they will be renewed, and they will

be zealous to preach Jesus Christ more confidently. And that's why the task of

world evangelism will one day come to an end, because that's what Scripture says.

Only when the Gospel is preached to the ends of the earth, then

Jesus were written. But what we see before that, we will see a

diminishing numbers in the churches. Because of persecution. People will give up,

many will give up on their faith but those who are bold will take it

out and they will run, and they will run like crazy all the way

to the very end. That is what scripture tells me. And that's why

when I look at the state of the church today, it's it's not far

off no where we are the Malaysians just very comfortable now, really very comfortable.

But with all of that happening, we will see and Scripture tells us

we will see an increase of false profits. That's the warning. And false

prophets wille what would they preach. They will preach peace when there is no

peace. They will also reassure us with false comfort when trouble looms. It's

almost like a a don't worry, bad times will never happen. On when

you give your life to Jesus, everything smooth, flowing now, it's like

easy life, like surfing you right away for me all the way to the

horizon. You do that, we will leave believers unprepared for the challenges that

they may face. In fact, there use this word that they will face

because really some of our teachings can make light of sin in our lives.

Basically, you can do whatever you want if you are God's shosen people know

His forgiveness is everywhere. Nothing to do with your personal choices. Choose whatever

you want. God's love covers and envelops you. I'm careful do not teach

it as how some would be teaching it. So let's also be careful in

who are these teachers that we are following after. But the reality and the

sad thing is many will turn away from the faith. And then it goes

on to say that the love of most will grow cold. Let's continue to

stand firm on our beliefs. I think that's something that is so so important

for us to hang in there to the faith. Amen sign number three.

I'm reading on verses fifteen to twenty eight. The day is coming when you

will see what Daniel the prophet spoke about the sacrilegious object that causes a secration

standing in the Holy place. For reader, pay attention. Okay again,

I'm reading a scripture. Then those in Judaea must flee to the heels.

A person out on the deck of the roof must not go down into the

house to peck. A person out in the field must not return even to

get a code. How terrible it will be for pregnant women and for nursing

mothers in those days, and pray that your flight will not be in winter

or on the sabbath, for there will be greater anguish than at any time

since the world begins, and it will never be so great again. In

fact, unless that time of calamity is shortened, not a single person will

survive, but it will be shortened for the sake of God's chosen ones.

Then if anyone tells you look, here is the Messiah, or there he

is, don't believe it, for false messiahs and false prophets will rise up

and perform great signs and wonders so as to deceive, if possible, even

God's chosen ones. See I have warn you about this ahead of time.

So if someone tells you, look, the Messiah is out in the desert,

don't border to go and look, or look he is hiding there.

Don't believe it. For as the lightning flashes in the east and shines to

the west, so it will be when the sun of men comes. Just

as the gathering of vultures show that there is a carcass nearby. So these

signs will indicate that the end is near. The troubles that have always afflicted

God's people will basically reach a climax in this short, sharp crisis sometimes known

as the Great Tribulation. Okay, we hear of this. You can actually

see in Revelations chapter seven, and Jesus says more about this sign sign number

tree than the other tree, but he says it in a less straightforward way

because now it is like the desolation the abomination. I think the other transition

is the abomination of the desecration. It's like, mainly again you're wondering what

is that, but basically it's a hideous thingler Okay, he based his warning

on that phrase the abomination that causes desolation in Daniel, the Book of Daniel.

The Book of Daniel, he was actually referring to a human conqueror who

in the very city where God had been honored would be uttering blessphemious words and

commit obscene dates, basically provoking mental and physical distress among God's people. So

there's going to be someone who's going to be sitting there on the throne and

causing a lot of distress, to believe us, and the way he's going

to be governing is really is blessphemous. He's going to be against God,

and Daniel realized that there would be such a terrible event at the time of

the end. Okay, he says it in Daniel chapter eleven, Daniel Chapter

twelve, Daniel chapter thirteen. Clearly, when Jesus is speaking about this in

Matthew twenty four, he's also endorsing this as future. That is, it

has not yet taken place, but it will be for the same period of

time. If you study revelations and you study the Great Tribulation, there's actually

a duration which is put to the Great Tribulation. It's a period of about

three and a half years one two hundred and sixty days to be exact,

if you won't calculate it now. Of course, okay, great tribulation.

But different people with different interpretations. Some people believe that the Church will already

be raptured, okay, that we will be taken away and the Christian Church

will not suffer any tribulation. There is a group that believes in that.

Of course, there are those who believe that if you are alive at that

period of time, you will go through the tribulation. I believe in the

letter. I take the letter interpretation, and again I take it because I'm

reading it literally, and I'm okay, if those who say that we will

be raptured before the great tribulation takes place happens, why wouldn't I be okay,

don't have to go to suffering? Right? But when I really literally,

it doesn't tell me that that is definitely going to happen. And I

rather teach that if you are alive during that time, there is a chance

that you may have to be going through that tree and the half years of

tribulation. I rather teach us to be prepared for it. And if it

doesn't happen, like I said, great, we'll party in heaven. Okay,

well, the rest here suffered. But if it does happen, are

we prepared? Because you know it talks. If you read revelations, that's

where you actually are introduced to the Antichrist. I know that's where someone with

you need to have a symbol, the six six six symbol that that's when

you actually will be affected. It actually tells you that trade is the main

thing that will affect you. Basically, if you don't have that sign,

you can buy and sell, and you know, you think about it,

it's not far factional in today's world. For you to have a sign to

trade, you need a special sign to buy and sell. And that's why

it's going to be so trying during that time, because those without that sign

or the mark of the bees will not be allowed to trade. But God

it says that it is only for a period of time. It's not forever.

So scripture says that if it was left for a long time, everyone

will be gone. But because of God's mercy, it's only for a period

of time. I look at it that way. It's not doom and gloom.

You can, I mean, if you want to, if you want

to believe in a rapture that we will all be raptured and living happily ever

after, I'll leave it to you. But like I said, go back

read the scriptures for yourself and understanding the way you want to understand it.

I as a teacher, will teach it literally and prepare us for the worst

that is to come. Amen. And then other passages in the New Testament

speak about this. You can see you all, this dictator, this antichrist

you see in one Johnt chapter two versus one you see in Revelations. Uh.

And then he will have a psidechic, he will have a false prophet

uh. And then together they will set up this very brutal regime UH.

And everyone must submit to their authority. They have to be branded with the

mark to be able to sell and buy food. Okay, I mentioned all

those nothing like it will have been experienced before or will be experienced after.

And that's what Jesus assured the people. It will be the greatest pressure his

followers have ever known, terribly fierce, but mercifully brief. It's going to

be so fierce, but it's not going to be for a long time.

And there will be many rumors that Christ has written and believers will be told

where they can find him. They must not listen to these rumors. They

will see the sign that He has come eventually wherever they are at that time.

And that is the promise of scripture. That means that you will know

it when you see this third sign happening. The thought will follow and will

ensue quite quickly, because it's not for a long period of time. The

only one thing is that those in Judea must travel. That means those living

in the Middle East in Judaea travel not to encounter Christ, but to escape

the Antichrist, because that's where it's going to be the worst. That's why

I say keep our eyes on the Middle East, because a lot of things

are mentioned about what is happening there. The rest of us stay put,

keep our eyes, eyes open, keep our ears shut, because if not,

we will keep hearing. But it says watch, watch, not listen,

Watch and pray. And then once this crisis, which can be measured

in days, comes to an end, there's only one more sign for the

Lord to return, and it's actually from verses twenty nine to thirty one that

just says this. Immediately after the anguish of those days, the sun will

be darkened, the moon will give no light, the stars will fall from

the sky, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. And then

at last, the sign that the Sun of Man is coming will appear in

the heavens, and there will be deep mourning among all the peoples of the

earth. And they will see the Sun of Men coming on the clouds of

heaven with power and great glory. And he will send out his angels with

the mighty blast of a trumpet, and they will gather He's chosen ones from

all over the world from the furthest ends of the Earth and Heaven. So

this will follow immediately after the distress of those days. There will be no

more delay. And this means that if we do leave to go through the

Great Tribulation, the third Sign, the fourth sign will end so quite quickly.

And I pray this will be. This knowledge will help those who are

going through those times to hang in there, keep hanging in there, no

matter how trying the situation is. Because the final sign cannot be mistaken.

On all natural sources of light will dissipate, it will be extinguished, So

whatever time of the day, it will be the darkest night, sun,

moon, stars, and everything will be shaken out of its orbits. Basically

Brah no longer able to shine on planet Earth. And then the nations will

see lightning coming from east and flashing to the west, and they will see

Jesus riding on the clouds, and the believers who have waited so long for

this day to arrive know this was a call to the Lord's people together together.

And then angels will escort us from all four corners of the Earth to

the Holy Land. They will already have their new bodies. This I believe

is the rapture. Okay, again, I leave it to y'all to decide

what you want to believe. But this is my understanding of the rapture,

that we will all be taken to where Jesus is coming back west, Jesus

coming back Jerusalem. So basically you've never been to Jerusalem, this will be

your first time to Jerusalem. Ah. Again, my belief as I read

the scriptures and read it literally, I'll let you decide how you want to

look at it. But if this happens, then we will all begethered,

given new bodies, and we will welcome Jesus. No, so it says

as believers are transported to Israel, there will be unbelievers will be left behind.

Scripture actually says that because Jesus said there will be two men working together

in the same one ticket the other left, the same can happen to two

women working together in the same kitchen. And then it also goes on to

one that even families will be forever divided. Again. Like I said,

we don't like to read this partial in scripture, but that is what it

says, and that's the reality of it. But the faithful followers of Jesus

will forever be united both with each other and with their Lord. So wherever

he is or will be, he has come back so that they can be

with him and see his full glory. Amen, I've done with when watch

and pray. I'll leave it to y'all on how you want to watch and

how you want to interpret the scriptures. But this is how I understand it

to be, and I want to prepare us for the challenges that we will

face again, because ultimately faith is about perseverance. You can't take perseverance out

of faith and faithfulness. It goes together. The last question is is why

why is he returning? And very quickly, okay, very quickly, I

know times almost why. Well, he's coming back to complete the saints,

to complete the believers. He will appear second time, not to bear a

scene, no, because he's already done that the first time. But he's

coming back to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him. He Brews

Chapter nine ers. That means we've got to keep on believing all the way

to the end. At last, Christians will be fully fully saved, as

we all know that salvation. I believe salvation is a continuing process, not

just an instantaneous change when you converted twenty five years ago and then left it.

No, No, it's continuous. We keep on believing up to the

very end. Their Savior on his first visit, completed his work for them

on the cross, and that's why he said it is finished. But now

he will complete his work in them. There's a big difference. Okay.

When he first came, he completed the work for us. Basically he has

overcome the penalty of sin. But when he comes back, he will complete

the work in us. He will help us to overcome the power of sin

in our lives completely, and eventually he will help us to overcome even the

presence of sin all together. Does that make sense amen. The second reason

is to convert the Jews, and that's my belief again. Jesus was and

is Jewish, no matter how we try to turn it around or think that

he's Chinese or think that he's Indian, he's Jewish. He was born and

he died the king of the Jews. God's covenant with Abraham and his descendants

was everlasting and therefore it's unconditional. And then to remove all that God later

spelled out what this would mean no. You read in Leveticus twenty six it

says I will not reject them or abhor them so as to destroy them completely,

breaking my covenant with them. I am Lord, the Lord, dear

God. So many Jews are not safe, and they need to believe in

Jesus. We have a role to play as believers. No, we can't

say that this are God's people. We don't care about them. No,

they're bringing more trouble to me. No, just being associated with them.

So we're like, oh man, this is terrible, and know if they

are God's chosen people, then don't need to do anything to them a safe

really. No, No, we are to even share with them as well

the gospel because God loves his people, and if we love God, that

means that we are to also bring the gospel to them. Amen. The

third thing is this, He's going to come back to conquer the Devil.

Basically, Satan's days are numbered, his dooma is already dated and decided on

when Jesus returns. Basically, Satan must leave once and for all so the

world will at last be liberated from the devil. And that's why I can

say that one day he will come and save us completely, even from the

presence of evil, not just the penalty of sin, we say from,

not just the power of sin, we say from, but eventually even the

presence of sin, Because what's the penalty of sin is death. What's the

power of sin in our lives? It's death. What's the presence of sin

in our life? It all leads to death. But because the tomb is

empty, that means that Jesus has already overcame death. So he's not just

saving us from the penalty of sin. He's saving He will save us inside

the power of sin that's at work, that's constantly will constantly being tempted constantly.

He will save us from that. And one day he will save us

even from the presence of sin all together. Amen. And then he will

come back and he will command world. Jesus told his followers not to pray

every day that God's kingdom his rule will come on earth as it is in

heaven. That is in the Lord's prayer. Our Father, who art in

heaven, Hello, it be thy name, that kingdom come. That will

be done on earth as it is in heaven. So Jesus is coming back

to this earth to reign over it, to rule over it for an extended

period of time. And that's why we pray that prayer and even this,

there are different schools of thoughts. Just to let you know, Okay,

this is called the millennial reign. Again, I can go into it.

People study degrees in all this. It's called eschatology. Your brain will might

explode. Some believe that Jesus will come back and rule and reign for a

thousand years. Some believe that this thousand year reign is already in place and

he's not going to come back and rule and reign a thousand years as what

the different ones are believe in it. But I believe Jesus will come back

and he will show us. And sometimes we think it's impossible that Jesus can't

reign in this world. This world is is so broken. Jesus come down,

so nothing is going to change. I believe he will show us what

it means to rule and reign in his way and his manner, not democracy,

not the way we understand it to be. But he's going to come

back and he's going to rule with him sovereign and supreme. That is my

belief, and I look forward to witnessing it and to experiencing it because he

will do it with his sayings. That's what scripture tells me. Amen.

It's not something that is far fetched. And that's why we pray your kingdom

come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Why

do we pray that? I don't know, But like I said, some

people don't agree with this. I'm old schooled, Okay. The good news

is that this prayer will come to pass and both Jews and gentile believers will

reign on the earth with Christ Jesus. Amen. The next one is this,

he will come back and he will condemn those who are ungodly. We

don't like to hear this, man, mm, but that is the reality

of it. It is necessary for history to conclude with the day of judgment.

The day of judgment must come as well, because Jesus must himself be

publicly vindicated. You know, we put him to death and until today he's

still a convicted criminal in the eyes of many. His execution was basically the

greatest injustice of them all, and basically I can think of it as the

darkest day of human history. But one day human beings will be judged by

a human being. It is Jesus who will sit on the great White throne.

And then it's death as fair as it gets ready because you will get

someone who did not sin to judge you. It's going to be amazing,

I believe, and this is my belief. Amen. So what do we

do with all this knowledge? Is the question that we ask, huh know?

Then? Then what do we do? It says, it's okay,

why are we told so much about the second Coming? There has to be

a reason. The purpose is s practical for me, in my honest opinion,

it is for us to be ready for Christ written ready prepared. It's

like the Scout's motto, be prepared, because revelation for the future is given

to affect the present, not to satisfy our mental curiosity. Somethimess we use

the Book of Revelations like as though we are in this debate and we can

go on arguing, know whether He's going to rain a thousand years or not,

whether we're all going to be raptured before we go to the tribulation again,

like I said, not the most important thing. You can decide how

you want to decide it. I have my ways of understanding it. It's

not so much to satisfy my mental curiosity, but really, how does it

affect our present living? It's not there to stimulate and give us more information,

but really is to stimulate moral consistency so that we walk consistently in the

law. Amen. So the future must influence the present, and only God

knows the future. If the future doesn't influence the present, then really it

counts for nothing. And that's how we've got to look at it. And

that is why I hope for a Christian is always confidence, certainty rather than

wishful longing. No, it's not like I hope for it. I hope

for it. No, it is assurance. I am assured that Jesus will

come back. In whatever signals that have come to pass, I can anticipate

his written and I look forward to it. And because I'm looking forward to

it, I'm ready. See, the only time we have to get ready

for the future is the present, and to delay is to run the risk

of being late. So how can we be ready for his return? Is

the question that we have to ask ourselves. How can we be ready?

Here are seven ways for us to be ready, to be ready for Jesus's

streeten. The first is this faith, individual faith. You say, God

put man on this earth so that they will seek him and perhaps reach out

for him and find him. So it is not enough simply to have become

a believer in God and in Christ. That is certainly the basic requirement.

But Jesus himself made it clear that some will be ready for hist reten and

some will not be ready for his treeten. What else is necessary? So

the first thing is, yes, we all need individual faith. That's why

you can't write on the faith of your parents. When we teach Christianity and

we're teaching relationship with God, we can't say that, oh, okay,

Philip, you are a Christian. Your children are automatically Christians. No,

they to find Christ for themselves. But it doesn't just stop an individual faith.

It goes on to continual service. Faithful service is an essential ingredient in

the readiness of the Lord's treeten. You see a matew twenty four five if

you read it in totality. There are some parables that are actually illustrated in

Matthew twenty five, especially three parables no one about a household, one about

a wedding, and one about commercial trade. Basically, all these three stories

have the same plot and the same point each of it. Someone has gone

away for a long time. You remember those stories, the five Foolish Brides

and the five foolish and the wise rites. The groom has gone away for

a long time, and then it's expected to return, though the exact time

of the return no one knows. And then there are those who are wise

they are ready, and then there are those who are foolish, they are

not ready. It's the same with the parable of the talent as well.

Ten two and ten five and one right even want correct the talent great right,

same thing. What the master went away for a long time? What

did they do with the talent? The last one buried it, the first

two invested and it did something for it. So what the Lord is essentially

looking for is that he wants his servants to be both faithful that makes you

persevere to the very end, and fruitful. Both faithful and fruitful. He

will look for depend dependability, not just ability. He will look for those

in whom he can say, well done, my good and faithful servant,

you have been faithful with a few things. I will put you in charge

of many things, Come and share your Master's happiness. Powerful words. The

next one is this not just continuous service, but personal holiness. You see,

the Gospel is good news about holiness as well as forgiveness. It is

now possible to have sins conquered as well as canceled. You know, we

always we rejoice when our sins are canceled or the penalty of sin has already

been abolished. Yeah, we no longer face the death penalty. But then

daily when we want, we realize, man, I'm still being tempted.

Man is still a struggle somebody is living in this world. Well, don't

just have your sins canceled, realize that you can have your sins conquered.

That's why we need to rely on the Holy Spirit daily to help us overcome

the power of sin that is also still at work in our lives. And

that means personal holiness is as important as seeking God's forgiveness. That makes you

need to make a choice to follow him and to follow him wholeheartedly. You

see, we can all have the ability as well as the appetite to live

right to be righteous. No give such as forgiveness and holiness that must be

applied into our lives, and we will want to be holy here and now

if that is possible. And it is possible, though really it's not something

that can be achieved quickly. It will involve effort. That is a combination

of energy, enthusiasm, and this last word that sometimes we forget as Christians,

endurance. We need that, we need to endal and persevere. The

fourth one is this, we need communal fellowship. We see our believers are

called to be chosen people, royal priesthood, holy nations, people belonging to

God. They are to demonstrate this corporate identity. That's why we are.

We are a church. Sciences, you think, oh, we do church

just for fun. No, there is safety in numbers. As pressures on

God's people will increase. And I'm telling you it will increase if you don't.

If you still don't feel it, follow us out on missions. No.

I just recently came back from rang Usli Mission Strip, and I can

tell you the amount of persecution the believers are facing out in the interiors.

It's tremendous. It's tremendous, and yet we are here enjoying ourselves. No,

remember this, that will come a point in time when you will be

challenged just to say that I believe in Jesus, it will happen. And

so when we are together as a body, And that's why whenever we go

out to the Ornus lead work, it's there to encourage them to keep ongoing,

keep on going. They are they are always so so surprised and so

grateful that someone is actually thinking about them. No, why with someone from

them, from the city, go all the way in just to say that,

hey, carry on, we are praying for you, and we hear

what's happening. We know that the other side is also actively trying to convert

you. We know that they're offering you all sorts of different things just to

change religion. We know, we know, we know that you are deprived

of utilities just because you are Christians. Know all these things are happening.

It's the reality. But yet we go in and we encourage them because fellowship

is powerful. So remember this strength in numbers. We must have a concern

for the unity and the fellowship of the church is important. The next one

is this global evangelism. Say all four Gospels has got the Great commission in

it. This great commission to the apostles are basically go out and complete the

job. Don't stay in. We need to continue doing that. Our readiness

in anticipating Jesus's return is that we go out because missions is worldwide, to

the ends of the earth. Not until every corner of the planet is covered

will Jesus return. So if you're going to sit down and do nothing,

I don't know when Jesus will come back. You'll probably raise someone else to

go out. That's the reality of it. And then we will diminish into

those who really peripheral. We end up being in the periphery of churches.

Don't do that. I pray that we will raidy ourselves for global evangelism.

The next one is this social action. And you know, the entire Bible

sums up all the greatest commandments together and says that you are to love your

neighbor, love God first, and then love your neighbor as yourself. And

the name the word neighbor is interpreted to cover anyone you can help. So

we can't say that we are believers, but we we don't help others,

and that's why we continue to do what we do. That's why you went

yesterday to Good Samaritan Homes to help those who are in need, because we

are safe to serve and to serve indiscriminally whoever who needs us, whatever relationship

is, however they respond to us, it doesn't matter. And that is

the true meaning of what a gape love is, because if God waited on

a respond our response to him before he will love us, we will all

be doing unconditional love. And then, last, but not least, is

this loyal endurance. Because things will get much worse before they get better,

and things will get better only after they get worse. I told you this

is how our summer revelations, and some of us may have to face the

great tribulation. I don't know. Some of us won't face it. Maybe

we will die and we've be in heaven and then when the time comes,

we will be resurrected. But if you are going to have to go through

those trying times, what do you need to do? The scripture says,

carry on believing, carry on believing. What will enable believers to survive this

pressure and help them overcome is the sure hope that Christ will written. You

see, if we ever doubt Jesus' return, it's going to be trouble.

Don't doubt his return, because one day we will receive the reward, and

we will and we will share in his reign in this world. And they

know that he who stands firm in the end will be safe. Amen.

He Brews nine, chapter eight says it's so also, Christ was offered once

and for all as a sacrifice to take away the sins of many people.

He will come again, not to deal with our sins, but to bring

salvation to all who are eagerly waiting for him. See the real test of

our faith downess. And I'm going to end with this. It's not how

we believe. If he's coming is sure and soon. If he's coming sure

and sooner, no, But how we behave if he is long time coming.

I think that's more key, because he's not looking for pending actional he's

actually looking for loyal service. Not so much if he's coming in shore and

soon. But how we behave if God is going to be a long time

coming. It is not what we are doing when he returns that matters,

but more of what we have been doing all the time that he has been

away that is more important. And this is surely why such all these passages

in Matthew twenty four, Matthew twenty five, Revelations six. All the way

you know it's in our New Testament basically is to get us ready for the

worst that can happen. And the shortest prayer and all end with this is

the shortest prayer in the early Church. Was basically composed of two words in

the Arabic language, and he just says this Maranata, which just means Lord

Come, Lord Come, That's what Maranata means. And the earliest Church have

been praying this prayer ever since. We hope you've been blessed by this message.

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