[0:00] I'm going to ask you a question.
[0:11] You don't have to answer it out loud, but I wonder, you can just think it to yourself and also think of what the majority of people you know or Christians would answer this, how they would answer this.
[0:22] The question is, what is God interested in? What is He, God of all, creator of all, what is He interested in? What are His interests?
[0:35] And a lot of people, just because they're selfish and self-centered, they say, me. He loves me. And they think, for God so loved the world, me, that He gave His only begotten Son for me.
[0:47] And even Sunday, I remember saying something about folks have trouble seeing past their nose because they're so consumed with themselves. God's helping me and God cares for me.
[0:58] And yes, yes, yes, and it's true. And He knows you by name. And He knows your thoughts. And He knows your heart. And He knows you inside and out for sure. But if we were to read the Word of God and what He says about Himself, what He cares about, what His desires are, we'd probably find out that we or several that we know are very closed-minded about what God is interested in and very temporal and very just kind of, you know, thinking and living in the present and for today.
[1:29] And even in our prayers, it's very selfish. It's very much about us. And I know that He is concerned about us. And the Bible says in Romans 8, His Spirit maketh intercession for us.
[1:40] And so, yes, God is concerned with us. But when we read that book and we really get into what He put out there for us, we're forced to see things the way He sees them.
[1:53] And we're forced to see and understand what interests Him. And I want us just to, by way of introduction, it's far beyond just our existence, my existence, what interests God.
[2:05] He displayed it in the past and He promised into the future. and it's far beyond just me and this life and how I feel this morning and how I'm going to react to things and how it's going to be in the future.
[2:18] It's so much more than that. Think of a man, just an imaginary man that has a family. And you know he loves his children. But does each child think, oh, my dad loves me the most.
[2:33] All he cares about is me. But from the father's point of view, all of his children he loves and cares for each one individually. But that one child, that selfish child might think, me, it's all about me.
[2:45] Now imagine that that man is a businessman, has a business, has employees under him in his business. He cares for them, doesn't he? He cares for their well-being, cares for their health, cares for their families, and cares that they're able to perform their job and have a good relationship with him.
[3:02] But he doesn't care for those employees as much as he cares for his children, right? Surely he'd put his children above his employees. But above all that, that man is going to care and should care for his spouse above the children.
[3:16] Amen, just in case you need to know that. Care for your spouse, your wife, over the children, all day, every day. And then others, the acquaintances, the extended family, the employees, whatever.
[3:30] But the man can care for all of these people. But if there was one that has his attention, it would be the wife. And that's just a little illustration here to kind of get us thinking on God. Because while we may be the children of God, we're just one of God's children, but we're not his wife.
[3:47] His wife in that Bible is Israel. And he's got some things that he had with Israel that he had with nobody else. And some things, some unfinished business, you might say.
[3:57] And that's putting it very lightly. Very lightly. So let's consider that and read in Romans chapter 11 something Paul writes to the body of Christ, to us, and references God's plan for Israel.
[4:15] Romans 11, and we're just gonna, in verse number 7, you can see he's talking about Israel. He says, What then? Israel hath not obtained that what you seeketh for. And so as he's speaking on Israel, we come down to verse number 11.
[4:31] I say then, have they, the nation of Israel, have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid. But rather, through their fall, salvation has come unto the Gentiles for to provoke them to jealousy.
[4:49] To provoke them, that is Israel, to jealousy. So it's in essence that God has put away his wife, and we can study that in the Old Testament if we need to. He was married to her, he put her away, divorced her, and now he's flirting with the Gentiles.
[5:04] And I don't mean that disrespectful in any way, but he's doing that, he's doing something with the Gentiles to, as Paul says, to provoke them, the Jews, to jealousy.
[5:16] And that's a natural reaction if your spouse were to do that. And that's what God's doing. We're just kind of, we're getting in on what God has promised to them and on some, the blessings of God.
[5:30] We're getting in because of their fall. Paul says, rather, through their fall, salvation is coming to the Gentiles for to provoke them to jealousy. Now, verse 12, Now, if the fall of them, Israel, be the riches of the world and the diminishing of them, the riches of the Gentiles, question how much more their fullness.
[5:56] Now, understand, he's saying they've fallen away, God's placed them on a shelf. In verse 15, they were cast aside or cast away. If God treated them like that and they fell and God set them aside and then opened up his grace and mercy to the Gentiles and what he calls it is the riches of the world, how much more is it going to be when he brings them back?
[6:24] Now, look, continue reading. Verse 13, For I speak to you Gentiles inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office. If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, Jews, and might save some of them.
[6:37] For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be? But life from the dead.
[6:49] Now, Paul, I think there's so much in these words of verse 15, life from the dead. He's not just talking about God marrying Israel and them being happy again and them kind of getting reconciled.
[7:03] I mean, it goes far beyond that. It's speaking of creation and we'll study all things in it. Life from the dead, not just for the nation but for the world. The creation.
[7:15] In verse 12, this is the title here. It's something that we, there's a lot to it. He says, and at the end of the verse, how much more their fullness.
[7:28] Their fullness. Speaking of the nation of Israel, there is so much that has not yet been accomplished or fulfilled that God has stated and he has pledged and promised and it's not yet been accomplished in that nation.
[7:43] And he fully intends on finishing what he started. Fully intends. And that's their fullness. And I'm going to do over next, I don't know how many Wednesdays, I have a pretty extensive outline here of the nation of Israel and what that is in the scripture, the fullness, their fullness.
[8:06] And there's one thing that I anticipate and I, this is just me in my mind as I read the scriptures and I think on these things, I anticipate the fulfillment of the word of God toward Israel.
[8:20] And it's not because I think it's something so neat that I'm interested in, it's because God puts so much emphasis on it that it has to be where his heart is.
[8:30] I mean, it is. And to consider if that's where your heart is and this is what your intentions are and all of that, then I want to see this. I want to be part of it.
[8:41] I want to know about it. And it's not like, what about me, God? Don't you have a blessing for me? No, this is, this is what you want and I want to see you get what you want and I want to envision and just watch it take place.
[8:56] That's something I want to witness and I can't wait too is to witness their fullness. This is the nation, think back, this is the nation that departed Egypt without lifting a weapon, just walked out of there and the king came after him with his armies.
[9:15] They didn't, they didn't do a thing to him. They didn't have to turn around and square off with him at all. They just kept on going forward. The Lord opened up a sea in front of them and caused it to be dry land and they just went across.
[9:29] I mean, this is the nation, this is unheard of stuff. This is a nation that God miraculously, of course, nourished them out of a rock.
[9:41] Millions of them just had the water flowing out of a rock. You look around here and this area is dry. You can drive and drive until you find some running water or some real, real flowing water that could sustain millions of people.
[9:58] Now, you know what they did? They went up and stole it from somewhere else and ran it down here through an aqueduct. God just blew it out of the rock. Just, here it comes, get out of the way.
[10:12] This is the nation that God fed manna in the wilderness. Angel's food, it's called. I don't even understand fully what that is. I'm interested in finding out or studying it, but I haven't gotten very far.
[10:25] Angel's food, and if you remember, I don't want to talk about it. There's some weird stuff with that. There was a cloud, a literal visible cloud that led them during the day and no doubt shaded them from an environment similar to this one.
[10:44] And a hot sun in a wilderness, dry area. And at night it was, you know how it gets cold at night, outside, and it was a fire, a pillar of fire. The Lord took care of them in this way.
[10:59] I mean, you could see it. You could see His presence with them. They came up, years later, after some wandering around, they came up to this huge, fortified city with enormous walls.
[11:13] Walls that were, to them, just impregnable. And God just, you guys shout, and it just toppled and fell to the ground.
[11:24] I mean, it sounds like an earthquake. Whatever it was, that thing came down. This is that nation that when they shouted, nobody could stand before them, Bible says, and it even describes the people of the land, the inhabitants of the land that God told them to go into, that their hearts melted.
[11:41] They were so afraid. They knew this people's coming and their God is with them and we can't stand before them. Now, I'm not going to make a whole lot of comment about this, their fullness, except to just allow a multitude of Scripture to do the speaking here and let the Scripture reveal God's desire and God's plans toward His people, toward His wife.
[12:06] Now, in the Bible, there's several phrases or designations to this future time period and we often call it the millennium or the millennial kingdom of that nature, but it's called the kingdom of heaven in Matthew as we're studying.
[12:19] In Matthew chapter 19, Christ refers to it as the regeneration when He comes back, the regeneration. When Israel gets theirs, He also calls, or Peter calls it in Acts chapter 3, verse 19, the times of refreshing.
[12:35] He also, two verses later, calls it the restitution of all things. And then in Hebrews, it's called the world to come. The time when Israel gets all of these promises fulfilled to them all of this unfinished business with God, the world to come.
[12:54] Now, tonight I'm going to take point number one and try to expound upon their fullness. And to do this, let's go back to the book of Isaiah. And we're going to stay, if not completely, in this book.
[13:08] I may comment or reference a verse or so here and there, but for the most part, I'll try to keep you right in this book of Isaiah. 66 chapters and the majority of this prophecy points to one thing.
[13:23] It points to their fullness, to their fullness. It is the, the, the second coming of Christ being the most popular theme of prophecy, the day of the Lord.
[13:36] And what follows it is the kingdom established, the fullness of Israel. And there's some big parts of this that will kind of break this down. and first of all, their fullness is going to start or spark, be sparked by the return of the Lord.
[13:54] And so point number one that tonight we're going to cover in four ways is the return of the Lord. Now, in Isaiah chapter 9, in verse 6 and 7 is a prophecy that we're very familiar with.
[14:07] Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder. And his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.
[14:19] Now, the child was born, the son was given, but the government never made it upon his shoulder. Verse 7 says, of the increase of his government and peace, there shall be no end.
[14:34] Upon the throne of David, upon his kingdom, to order it and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forevermore, if you don't believe it, the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.
[14:50] Now, this is some unfinished business, as I said, and it's going to start with the return of the Lord. There's some things here we just saw a peek at that have not been fulfilled. Look at chapter 19 of Isaiah.
[15:04] Chapter 19, and in the middle of a section of God pronouncing some judgment on different nations, whether it's Babylon and Moab and Damascus, he comes in here and talks about Israel.
[15:19] And I just want you to see verse 1 because he's coming back. Chapter 19, verse 1, the burden of Egypt. Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud and shall come into Egypt.
[15:33] Who's coming into Egypt? Egypt. The Lord is coming into Egypt. He's coming back. And the idols of Egypt shall be moved in his presence and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst thereof.
[15:45] And he's going to, through this whole chapter, describe how he's going to put them down and he's going to lay them low and they're going to be afraid. And in verse 16, in that day, shall Egypt be like unto women?
[15:58] It shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord of hosts which he shaketh over it. And he goes on to describe then how he's going to bless them. He's going to put them down and he's going to pick them up because he's interested in his nations, in Gentile nations.
[16:14] He's going to smite them in verse 22. The Lord shall smite Egypt, he shall smite and heal it. And they shall return even to the Lord. He shall be entreated to them and he shall heal them.
[16:25] They're going to get right. In verse 25, whom the Lord of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt, my people, and Assyria, the work of my hands, and Israel mine in the air.
[16:36] So there's some stuff going to go on not just with Israel, with the world. But what I'm showing you is he's returning. The return of the Lord. Come to chapter 66. Be ready to hop around in Isaiah 66.
[16:48] And verse number 5.
[17:05] He's coming back. Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at his word. Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said the Lord, or let the Lord be glorified, but he shall appear to your joy.
[17:19] And they shall be ashamed. He, the Lord, shall appear. He shall appear. He's coming back. So, the return of the Lord, point number 1 here.
[17:32] I'm going to give you this in 4 different points or 4 different categories. This is going to spark their fullness, I should say. The first point here about the return of the Lord is the return of the Lord is going to be the revelation, as in the revealing, display, of the glory of God.
[17:51] Look at chapter 40. Isaiah chapter 40. When the Lord comes back and begins working what he has yet to fulfill and finish with Israel, it's going to be the revelation of the glory of God.
[18:06] I've got about 100 R words tonight, so don't try to keep up. I don't know. Isaiah 40, verse number 5.
[18:19] And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed. The revelation of the glory of God and all flesh shall see it together.
[18:32] How do you know? For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. That's how you know. Now, interestingly, this happens all the time in this book, in this Old Testament. Verse number 3, he's talking about John the Baptist and the first coming of Christ.
[18:47] And just a pinch later, he's talking about the second coming of Christ. And at the writing, it didn't have to be 2,000 years in between them, but that's the way it is.
[19:01] That's the way things played out with the Lord and he had it set up that it can go any way he wanted it to go. The glory of the Lord shall be revealed.
[19:12] It's the revelation of the glory of God. Look at chapter 60. The return of the Lord is going to be the glory of God being revealed. Chapter 60. Look at the first three verses.
[19:29] Remember on Sunday when we were in Matthew and we commented on the righteous shining forth in the kingdom. I showed you, or I think, I don't know if we turned to it or I just mentioned it, that on the Mount of Transfiguration, that Jesus Christ, it was a, yeah, we looked at it, there's a picture of his second coming and his face shined as the sun and his raiment was white as the light.
[19:52] That's a picture or the image that he's coming back in his glory and power. Here it is in Isaiah 60, prophesied of the return of the Lord, a revelation of the glory of God.
[20:02] Verse 1, He's going to shine forth elsewhere.
[20:27] We might find that tonight. I'm not sure if we will about the no need for the sun. Come back to chapter 2. I'm going to hop you around a little bit more. Chapter 2.
[20:40] Isaiah 2 and verses 10 through 12. Isaiah 2 verse 10.
[20:55] Look down later to verse 17.
[21:22] Verse 17.
[21:52] Remember that, Ben, from the beast's feast? Verse 21. To go into the clefts of the rocks, into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord and for the glory of his majesty when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
[22:07] And look at the last verse. Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils, for wherein is he to be accounted of? He's hiding. He's gone. He's running for cover. When the Lord, and the glory of the Lord.
[22:18] That's going to be the return of the Lord, the revelation of the glory of God. One more place and that's a verse you may know, chapter 33 and verse 17.
[22:31] Isaiah 33 verse 17. When he's here, things are going to change. And when he's here, thine eyes, the Bible says, verse 17, thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty.
[22:52] So the glory of the Lord will be revealed in the return of the Lord. And so that's the first thought here. When Christ comes back, you don't want to be on the wrong side of him.
[23:03] In Malachi chapter 4, he's described as the son of righteousness that's going to arise with healing in his wings, just like chapter 60 with that light as it describes. Now, for, if we, this is really just a, a naked skeleton of an outline of this fullness staying in Isaiah, just giving you a point with scripture.
[23:23] But if we wanted to run some references, folks, we could be all over this Old Testament. All of these minor prophets, I mean, we could, we could exhaust the time quickly by hopping from minor prophet to minor prophet and just comparing the same details of that day of the Lord.
[23:40] The return of the Lord, the revelation of the glory of God, even connected back with the book of Revelation itself. All right, point, secondly, the return of the Lord is going to be the revelation of the glory of God. It's going to be the recompensing, or we could say the repayment of the wicked.
[23:56] Somebody's going to get it. When he shows up, it's not just smiley faces for the righteous. It's paying the wicked back. Look at chapter 3. And this one will go in order here.
[24:07] Chapter 3, verse 11. The recompense or the reward of the wicked.
[24:21] Chapter 3, verse 11. Woe unto the wicked. It shall be ill with him, for the reward of his hands shall be given him.
[24:35] The Lord's not going to mess around. He's got some blessing to give to Israel with their fullness, but part of that blessing is going to be stomping out their enemies.
[24:45] His enemies. And they're going to rejoice when they see that. You ever read back through the Psalms and read some of those prayers that David has for his enemies, for the wicked?
[24:56] He's praying that God just destroy them, make them desolate. I mean, what kind of prayer is that? Do you pray that against your enemy? Against somebody who does you wrong?
[25:07] Do you just pray, God, destroy them. Just take them to hell. We don't pray that way, but that's an Old Testament prayer, and it's in connection with this day. With Christ coming back and doing and serving Israel right by destroying the enemies of God.
[25:23] That's chapter 3. Look at chapter 13. And we'll read a few here. Chapter 13. Yeah, I really messed up my...
[25:46] I have no idea what that says. I didn't type the verses in there, so it goes right to the next chapter. But let me catch a part that I want here if I can.
[25:57] It's the burden of Babylon. I don't want to read the whole thing, but... Yeah, I think I was going to do the whole thing, but we won't.
[26:15] So that's a good place. Verse 9. The day of the Lord cometh both cruel, both with wrath and fierce anger to lay the land desolate.
[26:25] He shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. Out of where? Out of the land. Let's get them out. They might be firing missiles right now, but that's going to be... That's going to come to a close when he comes back.
[26:38] They're going to get theirs. There's Israel going to be rejoicing one day over their enemies. Yeah, verse 11. I will punish the world for their evil, the wicked for their iniquities. I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
[26:56] You can read the whole chapter. It's just judgment upon the heathen. Let me see if I have my next one right because now I feel like I inserted a reference and the numbers are all messed up.
[27:11] Yeah, come to 26. 26, 21. These are just drops in the bucket. We could be reading chapters here, but I try to narrow it down.
[27:23] 26, 21. For behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also shall disclose her blood and shall no more cover her slain.
[27:37] The Lord's coming out of his place to do something, to destroy, to punish, to judge. This is going to be the recompense or the reward for the wicked. Let's go to chapter 34.
[27:49] Keep moving to your right. 34. Let's take a look here at the first eight verses. Come near ye nations to hear and hearken ye people.
[28:02] Let the earth hear and all that is therein, the world and all things that come forth of it. For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations and his fury upon all their armies.
[28:13] He hath utterly destroyed them. He hath delivered them to the slaughter. Their slain also shall be cast out and their stink shall come up out of their carcasses and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
[28:25] And all the hosts of heaven shall be dissolved and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll and all their hosts shall fall down as a leaf falleth off from the vine and a falling fig from a fig tree. For my sword shall be bathed in heaven.
[28:37] Behold, it shall come down upon Edimaeah and upon the people of my curse to judgment. The sword of the Lord is filled with blood. It is made fat with fatness and with the blood of lambs and goats with the fat of the kidneys of rams.
[28:50] For the Lord hath a sacrifice in Bozrah and a great slaughter in the land of Edimaeah and the unicorns shall come down with them and the bullocks with the bulls and their land shall be soaked with blood and their dust made fat with fatness for it is the day of the Lord's vengeance.
[29:07] And here's the word, the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion. Well, their controversy, the controversy of Zion is going on today.
[29:19] Like today, it's happening. They're fighting over that hill. And God's one day, He's going to put an end to it. He's going to wipe them out. He's going to pay them back, the recompense.
[29:31] Alright, come to 59. Isaiah 59. And verses 17 through 19.
[29:47] Isaiah 59, verse 17. For He put on righteousness as a breastplate and a helmet of salvation upon His head. And He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing and was clad with zeal as a cloak according to their deeds.
[30:04] Accordingly, He will repay fury to His adversaries, recompense to His enemies. To the islands, He will repay recompense. So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west and His glory from the rising of the sun.
[30:17] When the enemies shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against Him. One more, two more places. 63. 63, the first six verses.
[30:30] Who is this that cometh from Edom with dyed garments from Bozerah? There, that is again, this is on the southeast side of the land. He comes down, He's wrapping around, coming back up and just destroying.
[30:45] This, that is glorious in His apparel, traveling in the greatness of His strength. Answer is, I that speak in righteousness. Mighty to save. The question comes up, Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, in thine garments like him that treadeth in the wine fat?
[30:57] Answer, verse 3, I have trodden the winepress alone and of the people there was none with me for I will tread them in mine anger and trample them in my fury and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments and I will stain all my raiment for the day of vengeance is in mine heart.
[31:13] And the year of my redeemed has come and I looked and there was none to help and I wondered that there was none to uphold therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me and my fury it upheld me and I will tread down the people in mine anger and make them drunk in my fury and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
[31:31] Chapter 66, last one. This is the payback, the recompense or payback of the wicked. Chapter 66 and earlier we read verse 5 that he's going to appear and verse number 6 says a voice of noise from the city a voice from the temple a voice of the Lord that rendereth recompense to his enemies.
[31:55] So the return of the Lord in the first part it's the revelation of the glory of God second is the recompensing to the wicked and then thirdly with this in the return of the Lord is going to be the removal of the man of sin.
[32:10] There's a man that's been sitting in the temple in Jerusalem claiming, proclaiming to the world I'm God, I'm the Christ and he's got miracles and he's got plenty of things to back it up and deceive the world.
[32:26] Look at chapter 14, Isaiah 14. So when the Lord comes back he reveals his glory he pays back the wicked as he's stomping them out making his way into Jerusalem and comes in there and has to get somebody out.
[32:50] Verse number 9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming it stirreth up the dead for thee here he comes even all the chief ones of the earth that hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations all they shall speak and say unto thee aren't thou also become weak as we?
[33:11] Aren't thou become like unto us? Thy pomp is brought down to the grave and the noise of thy vials and the worm is spread unto thee and the worms cover thee. In the future notice verse number 16 they that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee and consider thee saying is this the man that made the earth to tremble and did shake the kingdoms that's the devil in a man call him the antichrist I'll just read this one to you so I can be true to my word I'll keep you in Isaiah but in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 Paul reveals that is when Christ comes back in verse 7 it says the mystery of iniquity doth already worked he's called the son of perdition the man of sin and it says the mystery of iniquity doth already work only he who now let it will let till he be taken out of the way and then shall that wicked be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders the man of sin the son of perdition is going to have to be removed in Revelation 20 he's cast into the bottomless pit like Isaiah says that he's brought down to the sides of the pit in verse 15 brought down to hell to the sides of the pit and for a thousand years he's going to stay there until he's loosed for a season but that's something in the return of the Lord this is about Israel's fullness and before all the blessing there's got to be a start the start is the revelation of God's glory as we read and the wicked getting stomped out and then the man of sin being removed and I'll come back to chapter 2 and we'll finish here tonight in chapter 2 and let's get chapter 11 and the final the fourth point here on the return of the Lord is that it's going to be the rebuke of the nations he's going to sit down and have a talk in chapter 2 in verse number 1 the word that Isaiah the son of Amos saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem it shall come to pass in the last days that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hills and all nations shall flow unto it and many people shall go and say come ye and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord to the house of the God of Jacob and he will teach us of his ways and we will walk in his paths for out of Zion shall go forth the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem and he shall judge among the nations and shall rebuke many people and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks nations shall not lift up sword against nation neither shall they learn war anymore in chapter 11 in verse number 9 he says they shall not hurt nor destroy and all my holy mountain for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea so no more war violence over
[36:39] Christ finishes it and he's going to run things a little bit differently when he's here to say it to put it mildly their fullness as Paul said life from the dead when Israel gets placed into their kingdom and exalted again their fullness is sparked by the return of the Lord and here it is tonight in four parts the revelation of the glory of God the recompensing of the wicked the removal of the man of sin and the rebuke of the nations and Jesus Christ is going to take over by force and institute some things it's going to be my way or the highway and nobody's going to mess with them or else and I'll even show you in the weeks to come that anybody that does try to open their mouth against him they're going to get it and so this is the fullness that Paul writes of about Israel this is what God's desire is for that nation something that he started way way back with Abram made a covenant with that man to give him land and to give him a seed as the stars of heaven as the sand of the seashore as what's the other one the dust of the earth and that's not yet been fulfilled
[37:56] Israel is not as the dust of the earth sand of the seashore that's still yet to come and it's coming their fullness is coming and it's something that God intends to do and thankfully for us thankfully we're in church on Wednesday night and we're studying from our Bibles we have some knowledge and some light about this because we know the Savior and we've been able to get into this God is provoking them to jealousy in his own way so we do understand however where his heart is where his desire is is toward fulfilling something that he established a long time ago and put his word out there which will not return to him void and God that cannot lie promised and so when these things come to pass he'll get the glory for it and we'll be happy that he does nobody's gonna be like well what about us we're good we're good we're not in hell we're good God take what you want do what you want bless who you want I'm happy
[38:57] I'm satisfied he's been good to me amen alright next week we're gonna look at the Lord Will and at the next point here and see how far we get with that and like I said there's so much scripture and we're trying to just isolate it to this one book when really we could just go this is what this book's about so let's close in prayer and then we'll be dismissed thank you for being here and may God bless as you consider where God's heart is tonight Father thank you for the word of God thank you for giving us some understanding in this book and Lord truly we don't know it all we surely don't have all the answers and uncovered all the mysteries and unraveled all the teachings for the future but Lord what we do read what we do try to piece together it's just it's a blessing to have some understanding of the things in this book sometimes I know it's over our heads sometimes reading through that Old Testament and all these lands and nations and promises of judgment and threats and desolation and things of those nature they just we can't really relate to them and I understand it's not for us it's not really about us so but God as we do study them just help us to increase our understanding in these things and greater appreciate the salvation that we have in Christ Jesus thank you for giving us an understanding it may not be that long until you come back it could be even in the generation of in the lives of people that are living right here in this land walking beside us that we see each day they might see some of this stuff come to pass and so Lord as that happens
[40:30] I pray that we be diligent to spread the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ we pray these things in his precious name Amen Amen you are dismissed