1
00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,320
Speaker 1: Well, good morning, faith listeners, and thank you for tuning

2
00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:13,360
Speaker 1: in to the last episode of season nine. So I

3
00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:15,720
Speaker 1: lied to you guys yesterday. I told you all that

4
00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:18,919
Speaker 1: yesterday's episode was the last episode of season nine, but

5
00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:23,920
Speaker 1: technically today's because whenever I start a new season, I

6
00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:26,680
Speaker 1: always started with the Old Testament, not with the New Testament.

7
00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:30,520
Speaker 1: So because we're in the New Testament today, I technically

8
00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:33,600
Speaker 1: can't start season ten yet. So yes today is the

9
00:00:33,680 --> 00:00:36,559
Speaker 1: last episode of season nine, and tomorrow we will move

10
00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:40,480
Speaker 1: into season ten with a brand new book of the Bible, which,

11
00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:43,640
Speaker 1: by the way, if you've been listening to me through

12
00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:47,919
Speaker 1: all nine seasons, that means you will have listened to

13
00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:54,520
Speaker 1: eleven books of the Old Testament. That is fantastic. And

14
00:00:54,640 --> 00:00:58,360
Speaker 1: some of those books are considered to be the hardest

15
00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:03,000
Speaker 1: to understand in the Bible, like Leviticus and Numbers and Deuteronomy,

16
00:01:03,080 --> 00:01:04,840
Speaker 1: and you guys have listened to all of those. So

17
00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:07,319
Speaker 1: that is a huge, huge achievement that a lot of

18
00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:12,240
Speaker 1: people don't meet. So pat yourself on the back. Before today,

19
00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:16,280
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and read first Thessalonians five one through four.

20
00:01:17,280 --> 00:01:21,240
Speaker 1: We're going to be talking about when Jesus is coming back,

21
00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:25,200
Speaker 1: and there are three category of people that Jesus is

22
00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:27,840
Speaker 1: going to meet when he comes back again, and we

23
00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:30,559
Speaker 1: want to make sure that we are in the first category,

24
00:01:30,840 --> 00:01:33,400
Speaker 1: not in the second or third. And we're going to

25
00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:36,200
Speaker 1: talk today how we avoid the second and third category

26
00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:39,240
Speaker 1: and how we get into the first category in light

27
00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:42,800
Speaker 1: of Jesus's coming. And we'll also be discussing a bunch

28
00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:47,000
Speaker 1: of parables that Jesus tells about his second coming as well.

29
00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:50,200
Speaker 1: Everything I read today will be in the web version

30
00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:53,360
Speaker 1: of scripture, but grab your favorite version because you're going

31
00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:55,240
Speaker 1: to need it today. We're going to be jumping around

32
00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:58,240
Speaker 1: in scripture a lot today, but let's start in first

33
00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:03,720
Speaker 1: Thessalonians five one through four. But concerning the times and

34
00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:06,200
Speaker 1: the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be

35
00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:08,960
Speaker 1: written to you, for you yourselves well know that the

36
00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:10,760
Speaker 1: day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night,

37
00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:14,079
Speaker 1: For when they are saying peace and safety, then suddenly

38
00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:16,800
Speaker 1: destruction will come on them like birth pains on a

39
00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:21,000
Speaker 1: pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape. But you, brothers,

40
00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:24,720
Speaker 1: aren't in darkness that the day should overtake you like

41
00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:30,200
Speaker 1: a thief. Last week on the podcast, we talked about

42
00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:33,680
Speaker 1: the rapture. We discussed what the rapture is, what scripture

43
00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:36,680
Speaker 1: has to say about the rapture, is the rapture real?

44
00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:39,920
Speaker 1: And also did the rapture already take place? We discussed

45
00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:42,359
Speaker 1: all of that on Thursday, and so I highly recommend

46
00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:44,800
Speaker 1: listening to that episode if you haven't yet, because I

47
00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:47,079
Speaker 1: answer all of those questions and it will make more

48
00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:50,600
Speaker 1: sense when we talk about today's topic also. But in short,

49
00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:53,640
Speaker 1: to answer all of those questions very briefly, I do

50
00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:55,919
Speaker 1: believe the rapture is real. I think there's enough scriptural

51
00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:59,320
Speaker 1: evidence to prove that the rapture, whatever it's going to

52
00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:02,320
Speaker 1: look like, is real. And lastly, based upon my own

53
00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:05,800
Speaker 1: study of scripture, I do not think the rapture already happened.

54
00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:07,959
Speaker 1: I think it's something that is going to happen in

55
00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:09,880
Speaker 1: the future. And actually we're going to talk about that

56
00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:12,400
Speaker 1: topic a little bit more today as well, but mostly

57
00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:15,800
Speaker 1: for today, we're going to be discussing the parables that

58
00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:20,240
Speaker 1: Jesus gave to the multitudes about when he is going

59
00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:23,280
Speaker 1: to come back, because it turns out there's a lot

60
00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:27,040
Speaker 1: of parables about that topic. So let's see what Jesus

61
00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:29,800
Speaker 1: has to say about when he's going to come back.

62
00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:31,920
Speaker 1: And also let's see what Paul has to say about

63
00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:34,640
Speaker 1: this topic as well, So starting in verse one for

64
00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:38,760
Speaker 1: Sessonians five. But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers,

65
00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:43,880
Speaker 1: you have no need that anything be written to you.

66
00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:47,440
Speaker 1: You know, the Thessalonians, they were very concerned about when

67
00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:49,920
Speaker 1: Jesus was going to come again, as well as I'd

68
00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:53,040
Speaker 1: say pretty much every Christian has been concerned about the

69
00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:56,360
Speaker 1: same thing. We're all wondering when is Jesus going to

70
00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:58,240
Speaker 1: come back? And you can see that so many people,

71
00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:02,280
Speaker 1: you know, especially today's day, are so excited about this.

72
00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:06,160
Speaker 1: Two weeks ago. For any of you who are on

73
00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:10,200
Speaker 1: social media, I'm sure you probably saw something about the

74
00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:13,880
Speaker 1: rapture because there was a huge craze surrounding it. A

75
00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:15,920
Speaker 1: whole bunch of people believed that the rapture was going

76
00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:20,080
Speaker 1: to happen this year on September twenty third. And it

77
00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:22,240
Speaker 1: turns out, of course, that Jesus did not come back

78
00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,680
Speaker 1: September twenty third, So all the people promoting this lie

79
00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:28,960
Speaker 1: moved the date. They were like, oh oops, we miscalculated.

80
00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:32,000
Speaker 1: Jesus isn't coming back September twenty third. He's actually coming

81
00:04:32,040 --> 00:04:37,520
Speaker 1: back today October sixth and seventh, those are the days

82
00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:40,320
Speaker 1: he is coming back. And what's really sad about all

83
00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:43,080
Speaker 1: of this was a lot of people bought in to

84
00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:46,160
Speaker 1: that lie. There are a lot of people so excited

85
00:04:46,200 --> 00:04:50,760
Speaker 1: about Jesus's return, like genuinely, genuinely excited about it. Some

86
00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:53,839
Speaker 1: people went even so far as to sell their homes

87
00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:58,360
Speaker 1: and quit their jobs, and even deplete their entire bank

88
00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:01,280
Speaker 1: account and give all of the money that they had

89
00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:03,800
Speaker 1: to some stranger on the street. There were a lot

90
00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:07,520
Speaker 1: of lives completely ruined because of this deception. And I

91
00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:10,799
Speaker 1: am not blaming the people who fell for the deception.

92
00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:13,960
Speaker 1: I actually feel really sad for them. I'm sad that

93
00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,839
Speaker 1: their lives are ruined because of a stupid lie. But

94
00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:19,400
Speaker 1: who I am angry at are the people who promoted

95
00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:22,000
Speaker 1: this lie, saying like, yeah, we know when Jesus is

96
00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:24,800
Speaker 1: going to come back. Here's all the quote unquote evidence

97
00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:27,600
Speaker 1: I have for this. But they didn't have any evidence.

98
00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:30,239
Speaker 1: They weren't even reading their Bibles, because if they read

99
00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:34,400
Speaker 1: the Bible, they would know that no one knows when

100
00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:36,400
Speaker 1: Jesus is going to come back. And this is repeated

101
00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:39,200
Speaker 1: tons of times, like dozens of times, and we're going

102
00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:41,960
Speaker 1: to go through all of those parables and the times

103
00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:44,719
Speaker 1: that those are repeated today on the podcast. So let's

104
00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:47,440
Speaker 1: start in Acts chapter one, seven and eight. Here's what

105
00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:52,600
Speaker 1: Jesus says to his disciples, literally right before he ascends

106
00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:56,440
Speaker 1: up into heaven. Jesus said to them, it isn't for

107
00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:59,080
Speaker 1: you to know times or seasons which the Father has

108
00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:01,920
Speaker 1: set within his authority, but you will receive power when

109
00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:03,960
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be

110
00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,880
Speaker 1: witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria,

111
00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:09,800
Speaker 1: and to the uttermost parts of the earth. When he

112
00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:12,119
Speaker 1: said these things, as they were looking, he was taken

113
00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:14,240
Speaker 1: up and a cloud received him out of their sight.

114
00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:18,800
Speaker 1: So that was like the last thing that Jesus said

115
00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:20,800
Speaker 1: to his disciples before he has sent it up into heaven.

116
00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:22,599
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, you're not gonna know when I come back,

117
00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:27,080
Speaker 1: see you later. And yet all these people are like, oh,

118
00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:30,560
Speaker 1: we know when Jesus is gonna come back. But then

119
00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:33,320
Speaker 1: that's the last thing that Jesus actually says before he's ascended.

120
00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:37,680
Speaker 1: Crazy crazy stuff. And actually that versus kind of what

121
00:06:37,720 --> 00:06:40,800
Speaker 1: Paul is alluding to. I believe when he is writing

122
00:06:40,839 --> 00:06:44,000
Speaker 1: to the Thessalonians because he's like, we don't know. I'm

123
00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:47,359
Speaker 1: sorry to break that to you. What we just don't know.

124
00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:50,960
Speaker 1: But here's what we do know in verse two of

125
00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:55,160
Speaker 1: first Sessonians five, for you yourselves know well that the

126
00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:58,320
Speaker 1: day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.

127
00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:02,680
Speaker 1: Now that, of course is alluding to the parable that

128
00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:07,440
Speaker 1: Jesus gives in Luke twelve thirty nine and forty. And

129
00:07:07,480 --> 00:07:11,880
Speaker 1: this is Jesus himself again teaching his disciples. But know

130
00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:14,440
Speaker 1: this that if the master of the house had known

131
00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:17,400
Speaker 1: in what hour the thief was coming, he would have

132
00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:20,280
Speaker 1: watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.

133
00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:22,720
Speaker 1: Therefore be ready also, for the son of Man is

134
00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:26,800
Speaker 1: coming in an hour that you don't expect him. So

135
00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,760
Speaker 1: just like how thieves typically break in at night when

136
00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:33,559
Speaker 1: people are asleep, and they are shocked in the morning

137
00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:35,480
Speaker 1: when they wake up and they don't have any of

138
00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:39,080
Speaker 1: their stuff, it's gonna be very similar when Jesus comes back,

139
00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:42,320
Speaker 1: and is he going to catch us sleeping or is

140
00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:44,440
Speaker 1: he going to catch us wide awake waiting for him.

141
00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:46,960
Speaker 1: Because you can imagine that somebody who owns a house,

142
00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:50,440
Speaker 1: if they knew that a thief was coming very soon.

143
00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:53,680
Speaker 1: Would that person not be up and awake, waiting for

144
00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:57,160
Speaker 1: that thief with one hand on his phone ready to

145
00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:00,320
Speaker 1: dial nine to one one, and the other hand, I guess,

146
00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:03,040
Speaker 1: on a shotgun, ready to protect his family and himself

147
00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:06,480
Speaker 1: and all of his stuff from being stolen. Yes, of course,

148
00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:09,040
Speaker 1: if somebody truly knew that his house was going to

149
00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:12,680
Speaker 1: be broken into, you would take steps to protect yourself

150
00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:15,560
Speaker 1: and all of your things and everybody in your house.

151
00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:19,880
Speaker 1: The same way, we should be ready for Jesus. We

152
00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:24,320
Speaker 1: should be watching and waiting for his return. He might

153
00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:26,320
Speaker 1: be like, well, Jen, how can we possibly do that

154
00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:29,520
Speaker 1: if we don't know the times, if we don't know

155
00:08:30,040 --> 00:08:33,400
Speaker 1: when Jesus is coming back. Well, the point is to

156
00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:37,679
Speaker 1: always be ready and waiting, because even if Jesus doesn't

157
00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:41,360
Speaker 1: come back in our lifetime, let's just say that our

158
00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:46,240
Speaker 1: next breath is not guaranteed to us. We don't know

159
00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:47,920
Speaker 1: the day of our death, we don't know when we're

160
00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:51,160
Speaker 1: gonna die. We could see Jesus at this very moment,

161
00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:53,560
Speaker 1: you know, as I'm recording this podcast, I guess like

162
00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,320
Speaker 1: an asteroid could come down and hit my house. Like theoretically,

163
00:08:56,640 --> 00:09:01,479
Speaker 1: that could happen, and I would meet my maker immediately.

164
00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:05,120
Speaker 1: So the point is is to always be ready, always

165
00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:07,320
Speaker 1: be watching out for him. So let's go through some

166
00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:11,000
Speaker 1: of the other parables that Jesus talks about regarding us

167
00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:16,480
Speaker 1: waiting for him. Remaining in Luke chapter twelve, reading verses

168
00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:20,720
Speaker 1: thirty five through forty eight, here's what Jesus says about

169
00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:24,160
Speaker 1: his second coming. Let your waiste be dressed and your

170
00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:27,680
Speaker 1: lamps burning, Be like men watching for their lord when

171
00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:30,400
Speaker 1: he returns from the wedding feast, that when he comes

172
00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:33,520
Speaker 1: and knocks, they may immediately open up to him. Blessed

173
00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:36,240
Speaker 1: are those servants whom the Lord will find watching when

174
00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:38,600
Speaker 1: he comes most certainly. I tell you that he will

175
00:09:38,679 --> 00:09:42,719
Speaker 1: dress himself, make them recline, and will come and serve them.

176
00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:45,120
Speaker 1: They will be blessed if he comes in the second

177
00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:48,160
Speaker 1: or third watch and he finds them. So. But know

178
00:09:48,240 --> 00:09:50,520
Speaker 1: this that if the master of the house had known

179
00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:52,640
Speaker 1: in what hour the thief was coming, he would have

180
00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:55,439
Speaker 1: watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. Therefore,

181
00:09:55,440 --> 00:09:57,520
Speaker 1: be ready also for the sun. A man is coming

182
00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:01,360
Speaker 1: in an hour that you don't expect him, said to him, Lord,

183
00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:04,400
Speaker 1: are you telling this parable to us or to everybody

184
00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:09,440
Speaker 1: the Lord said, Who then is the faithful and wise steward,

185
00:10:09,840 --> 00:10:12,200
Speaker 1: whom his lord will set over his household to give

186
00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:15,600
Speaker 1: them their portion of food at the right times. Blessed

187
00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:18,040
Speaker 1: is that servant whom his lord will find doing so

188
00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:20,760
Speaker 1: when he comes. Truly, I tell you that he will

189
00:10:20,760 --> 00:10:23,200
Speaker 1: set him over all that he has. But if that

190
00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:25,960
Speaker 1: servant says in his heart, my Lord delays his coming

191
00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:28,840
Speaker 1: and begins to beat the men servants and the maid servants,

192
00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:31,280
Speaker 1: and to eat and drink and to be drunken, then

193
00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:33,600
Speaker 1: the lord of that servant will come in the day

194
00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:35,800
Speaker 1: when he isn't expecting him, and in an hour that

195
00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:38,000
Speaker 1: he doesn't know, and will cut him in two and

196
00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:41,600
Speaker 1: place his portion with the unfaithful. That servant, who knew

197
00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:44,840
Speaker 1: his lord's will and didn't prepare nor do what he wanted,

198
00:10:45,080 --> 00:10:48,080
Speaker 1: will be beaten with many stripes. But he who didn't

199
00:10:48,080 --> 00:10:50,520
Speaker 1: know and did things worthy of stripes will be beaten

200
00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:53,760
Speaker 1: with few stripes. To whomever much is given of him,

201
00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:56,560
Speaker 1: much will be required. And to whom much was entrusted

202
00:10:56,800 --> 00:11:00,080
Speaker 1: of him, more will be asked, so that entiere they

203
00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:04,959
Speaker 1: are parable. Is about people being ready for Jesus's return,

204
00:11:05,640 --> 00:11:08,520
Speaker 1: and Jesus says there's a couple categories of people. And

205
00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:12,560
Speaker 1: Jesus basically said that there's three categories of people. The

206
00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:15,720
Speaker 1: first category are the people who are watching and waiting

207
00:11:15,760 --> 00:11:20,160
Speaker 1: for Jesus, you know, diligently doing God's will while we

208
00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:22,720
Speaker 1: have this time on earth, while we're waiting for Jesus,

209
00:11:23,480 --> 00:11:25,920
Speaker 1: diligently doing what we're supposed to be doing. When Jesus

210
00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:28,840
Speaker 1: comes back and he finds those people doing his will

211
00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:31,800
Speaker 1: and waiting for him, they're actually going to be blessed.

212
00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:35,080
Speaker 1: Jesus is as is going to serve them. In verse

213
00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:38,320
Speaker 1: thirty seven, He's gonna make them recline and come and

214
00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:41,360
Speaker 1: serve them. And that's a really beautiful picture because it

215
00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:46,160
Speaker 1: denotes that our work here on earth is done. Like forever,

216
00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:50,520
Speaker 1: we're gonna have eternal peace and rest where we have

217
00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:55,000
Speaker 1: this communion and fellowship with Jesus forever. And I don't

218
00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:56,959
Speaker 1: think that that means that when we're up in heaven,

219
00:11:57,240 --> 00:11:58,959
Speaker 1: Jesus is going to be our servant and we can

220
00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:01,439
Speaker 1: just order him around it and do whatever we want. No,

221
00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:02,840
Speaker 1: I don't believe that at all. I think we're going

222
00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:05,120
Speaker 1: to still serve Jesus when we get to heaven. But

223
00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:09,600
Speaker 1: I think the idea is that our work on earth

224
00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:12,880
Speaker 1: and all of our toil, all the tribulations, all of

225
00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:16,520
Speaker 1: the persecution is going to be done and over with.

226
00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:21,080
Speaker 1: We have eternal comfort and rest where we can just

227
00:12:21,160 --> 00:12:26,000
Speaker 1: sit back and recline and have our needs completely taken

228
00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:30,880
Speaker 1: care of by Jesus's provision. So that's the first category

229
00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:34,200
Speaker 1: of person, and obviously, as Christians, we want to be

230
00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:38,280
Speaker 1: in that category. But there's another category of Christians that

231
00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:41,880
Speaker 1: Jesus talks about here that aren't going to be as successful.

232
00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:46,959
Speaker 1: That category are the people who give up. They get

233
00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:51,160
Speaker 1: overwhelmed and irritated with Jesus not coming back. They think

234
00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:53,839
Speaker 1: it's never going to happen, and they just kind of

235
00:12:53,880 --> 00:12:57,800
Speaker 1: start doing whatever they want to do. That's talked about

236
00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:02,000
Speaker 1: in verse forty seven. The servant who knew his Lord's

237
00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:05,400
Speaker 1: will and didn't prepare nor do what he wanted will

238
00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:08,600
Speaker 1: be beaten with many stripes. So that means there's going

239
00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:12,200
Speaker 1: to be judgment for people who know God's will but

240
00:13:12,280 --> 00:13:16,200
Speaker 1: refuse to do it. These are people, quite honestly, who

241
00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:21,000
Speaker 1: abuse and mistreat other people, who only live for themselves.

242
00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:25,560
Speaker 1: They may cause church hurt, or, in the case of

243
00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:29,880
Speaker 1: this whole rapture craze, lie to people and cause people

244
00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:33,600
Speaker 1: actually suffer because of their lives. They may claim to

245
00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:36,800
Speaker 1: be Christians, they might actually be Christians. They might have

246
00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:39,280
Speaker 1: a belief in Jesus but not live it out correctly.

247
00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:45,040
Speaker 1: But more likely they're claiming Jesus causing suffering and hardships

248
00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:47,960
Speaker 1: for other people, all while saying, yes, I'm living under

249
00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:51,440
Speaker 1: God's will. I am doing this all in Jesus's name.

250
00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:55,920
Speaker 1: These are the people that Jesus is talking about right here,

251
00:13:56,679 --> 00:13:59,880
Speaker 1: the ones that refuse to do what God wants them

252
00:13:59,880 --> 00:14:03,200
Speaker 1: to do and just kind of live out mistreating and

253
00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:08,359
Speaker 1: abusing other people for their own selfish endeavors. Those Christians,

254
00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:11,120
Speaker 1: it says, are going to be judged very harshly because

255
00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:14,520
Speaker 1: they knew the Lord's will and refused to do it.

256
00:14:14,920 --> 00:14:19,880
Speaker 1: And that's why Jesus says, be very watchful because you

257
00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:22,360
Speaker 1: don't know when I'm going to come back. Don't be

258
00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:26,040
Speaker 1: like this second category of person, because it's not going

259
00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:29,200
Speaker 1: to be pretty when Jesus comes back. Now, the last

260
00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:33,120
Speaker 1: category of person is the one who doesn't know Jesus's

261
00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:36,960
Speaker 1: will and does not do good things. Jesus actually says

262
00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,880
Speaker 1: it's going to be easier for those people than for

263
00:14:39,920 --> 00:14:43,520
Speaker 1: the person in the second category, the person who does

264
00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:46,880
Speaker 1: not know Jesus's will, who's never heard the gospel or

265
00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:51,880
Speaker 1: barely heard the gospel, doesn't understand it. Those people are

266
00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:55,000
Speaker 1: going to have an easier time when Jesus comes back

267
00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:58,200
Speaker 1: than the person who knew God's will and refused to

268
00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:01,280
Speaker 1: do it. So now in Luke twelve, jumping down to

269
00:15:01,360 --> 00:15:05,320
Speaker 1: verses fifty four through fifty six, Jesus actually kind of

270
00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:09,440
Speaker 1: yells at the multitude he's preaching to. He says, to

271
00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:12,640
Speaker 1: the multitudes, when you see a cloud rising from the west,

272
00:15:12,720 --> 00:15:16,120
Speaker 1: immediately you say a shower is coming, and so it happens.

273
00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:19,000
Speaker 1: When a south wind blows, you say there's going to

274
00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:23,320
Speaker 1: be a scorching heat, and it happens. You hypocrites, You

275
00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:25,640
Speaker 1: know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and

276
00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:28,680
Speaker 1: the sky, But how is it that you don't interpret

277
00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:32,320
Speaker 1: this time? And this little parable might actually be very

278
00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:35,200
Speaker 1: confusing to you because you're like, wait, Jesus just said

279
00:15:35,240 --> 00:15:38,040
Speaker 1: we don't know when he's coming back. But now right

280
00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:42,160
Speaker 1: here he's saying that we can decipher the times. So

281
00:15:42,280 --> 00:15:44,440
Speaker 1: what is it? Can we decipher the times or not

282
00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:48,680
Speaker 1: decipher the times? I think the answer lies in Matthew

283
00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:53,680
Speaker 1: Chapter twenty four Matthew twenty four, thirty two through thirty five,

284
00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:58,760
Speaker 1: Jesus gives another parable about his coming now from the

285
00:15:58,800 --> 00:16:01,640
Speaker 1: fig tree. Learn this terrible. When the branch has now

286
00:16:01,720 --> 00:16:04,760
Speaker 1: become tender and produces its leaves, you know that summer

287
00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:07,520
Speaker 1: is near. Even so you also, when you see all

288
00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:10,120
Speaker 1: these things, know that He is near, even at the doors.

289
00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:12,960
Speaker 1: Most certainly, I tell you this generation will not pass

290
00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:15,760
Speaker 1: away until all these things are accomplished. Heaven and earth

291
00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:18,880
Speaker 1: will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

292
00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:21,440
Speaker 1: So that's the answer. Just like right now, you know,

293
00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:24,040
Speaker 1: I'm looking out my window. Most of the leaves on

294
00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:28,120
Speaker 1: the trees are still green, but they're certainly starting to

295
00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:31,160
Speaker 1: turn some colors, you know, like the poison ivy going

296
00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:34,400
Speaker 1: up all the trees. That is the first thing to

297
00:16:34,480 --> 00:16:38,520
Speaker 1: turn when fall approaches. So the poison ivy leaves are

298
00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:41,720
Speaker 1: bright red. And then you know, the tulip trees are

299
00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:44,560
Speaker 1: starting to change, and some of the leaves are turning

300
00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:48,200
Speaker 1: bright yellow. So I can tell. Even though it is

301
00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:51,600
Speaker 1: very warm outside today, it is like eighty degrees where

302
00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:54,160
Speaker 1: I'm at, which is absolutely wonderful. Thank God for summer

303
00:16:55,600 --> 00:16:58,640
Speaker 1: continuing a little bit longer, even though it is very

304
00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:03,480
Speaker 1: warm right now. Just based upon what I am seeing outside,

305
00:17:03,520 --> 00:17:07,879
Speaker 1: I know that fall is just around the corner. I

306
00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:11,359
Speaker 1: know that winter weather is coming soon, that colder weather

307
00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:14,440
Speaker 1: is coming, so I have to make preparations for my

308
00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:16,560
Speaker 1: home right now. One of the things my husband and

309
00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:19,280
Speaker 1: I are doing is we are preparing wood for the

310
00:17:19,320 --> 00:17:22,920
Speaker 1: winter months because pretty soon, in just a couple of months,

311
00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:27,080
Speaker 1: it's going to be twenty degrees or lower in my area,

312
00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:29,520
Speaker 1: so we have to prepare a whole bunch of wood

313
00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:34,840
Speaker 1: in order to heat our home for the upcoming winter months.

314
00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:38,000
Speaker 1: And the dead giveaway is the fact that the leaves

315
00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:42,080
Speaker 1: are changing. I know that winter is coming, so you

316
00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:45,160
Speaker 1: can imagine if I'm like ignoring all of these these

317
00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,080
Speaker 1: signs that winter is coming, and my husband and I

318
00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:52,240
Speaker 1: prepared no wood whatsoever, we'd be screwed when the winter

319
00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:55,280
Speaker 1: weather came. We'd have nothing to heat our house. We'd

320
00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:57,919
Speaker 1: be freezing. We'd have to go spend a ton of

321
00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:02,760
Speaker 1: money for someone else to give us wood when we

322
00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:05,160
Speaker 1: could have spent no money and chop down our own

323
00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:09,200
Speaker 1: trees and prepared the wood that we have in our backyard.

324
00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:12,879
Speaker 1: That's what Jesus is talking about here. He's like, just

325
00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:15,520
Speaker 1: like you guys can discern the weather that's coming up

326
00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:19,800
Speaker 1: based upon how a tree looks, can you not discern

327
00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:22,840
Speaker 1: when I Am going to come again? You may not

328
00:18:22,960 --> 00:18:28,760
Speaker 1: know the exact time, day, hour, year, week, whatever month.

329
00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:31,919
Speaker 1: You may not know that, but you do know based

330
00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:35,240
Speaker 1: upon the signs that I've already given you that the

331
00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:39,840
Speaker 1: time is drawing nearer. So watch and be alert and

332
00:18:40,000 --> 00:18:44,120
Speaker 1: be awake. You do not know, but you can kind

333
00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:47,119
Speaker 1: of know. And the one thing I said on the

334
00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:49,760
Speaker 1: episode last week when we talked about the rapture, one

335
00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:52,480
Speaker 1: of the ways you can tell that Jesus's return is

336
00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:58,040
Speaker 1: getting closer is when the prophecies start to make more sense. Yeah,

337
00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:00,639
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of prophecies in Revelation where we

338
00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:03,320
Speaker 1: look at them we're just like, huh, like, what the

339
00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:08,080
Speaker 1: heck does that mean? But as things happen in the

340
00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:11,119
Speaker 1: world and they start to make a little bit more sense,

341
00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:15,240
Speaker 1: we can be like, hmm, Jesus might be getting a

342
00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:18,720
Speaker 1: little bit closer. So that's one way we can tell

343
00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:24,160
Speaker 1: that Jesus's return is growing closer and closer. So let's

344
00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:28,040
Speaker 1: move into one last parable that Jesus gives in Mark

345
00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:32,280
Speaker 1: chapter thirteen, twenty eight through thirty seven. And I really

346
00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:34,600
Speaker 1: like this particular parable. I wanted to make sure I

347
00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:39,520
Speaker 1: included this one in today's episode. Actually, Jesus repeats the

348
00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:42,000
Speaker 1: whole parable of the fig tree in verses twenty eight

349
00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:45,600
Speaker 1: through thirty one. Now from the fig tree, learn this parable.

350
00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:48,359
Speaker 1: When the branch has become tender and produces its leaves,

351
00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:50,960
Speaker 1: you know that summer is near. Even so you also,

352
00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:52,800
Speaker 1: when you see these things coming to pass, know that

353
00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:55,240
Speaker 1: it is near at the doors. Most certainly, I tell

354
00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:58,720
Speaker 1: you this generation will not pass away until all these

355
00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:01,560
Speaker 1: things happen, and earth will pass away, But my words

356
00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,120
Speaker 1: will not pass away. Now. On Thursday, we talked about

357
00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:08,760
Speaker 1: how the word generation, which is genea in Greek, could

358
00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:13,280
Speaker 1: also mean race or family or people, and not necessarily

359
00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:16,919
Speaker 1: Jesus's own generation. There is a niche group of people

360
00:20:16,960 --> 00:20:20,760
Speaker 1: that believe that the rapture already happen based upon this

361
00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:23,240
Speaker 1: verse and also a similar verse in Matthew twenty four,

362
00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,200
Speaker 1: continuing in verse thirty two of the day or the hour,

363
00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:30,080
Speaker 1: no one knows not even the angels in heaven, nor

364
00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:33,840
Speaker 1: the son, but only the Father. Watch, keep alert and pray,

365
00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:37,199
Speaker 1: for you don't know when the time is. It's like

366
00:20:37,240 --> 00:20:40,240
Speaker 1: a man traveling to another country, having left his house

367
00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:43,040
Speaker 1: and given authority to his servants and to each one

368
00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:46,080
Speaker 1: his work, and also commanded the doorkeeper to keep watch.

369
00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:48,439
Speaker 1: Watch therefore, for you don't know when the lord of

370
00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:51,320
Speaker 1: the house is coming, whether at evening or at midnight,

371
00:20:51,560 --> 00:20:54,080
Speaker 1: or when the rooster crows, or in the morning, lest

372
00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:57,520
Speaker 1: coming suddenly he might find you sleeping. What I tell you,

373
00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:03,080
Speaker 1: I tell all watch. And that last verse there is

374
00:21:03,119 --> 00:21:06,160
Speaker 1: why I like this parable so much. Jesus pretty much

375
00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:10,800
Speaker 1: declares that his words are not just for the disciples,

376
00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:14,879
Speaker 1: but for every single person who is going to read

377
00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:19,679
Speaker 1: the scriptures. So, in my personal opinion, that means that

378
00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:23,240
Speaker 1: the rapture has not happened yet, that Jesus is still

379
00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:27,679
Speaker 1: yet to come. Because why would Jesus specifically say he

380
00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:32,760
Speaker 1: is warning everybody, every single person? Because the Greek word

381
00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:44,639
Speaker 1: for all, which is pass, means all everything, everyone, every whole, anyone, anything, full,

382
00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:51,520
Speaker 1: continually and absolute. Jesus himself says that his words regarding

383
00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:57,280
Speaker 1: his second coming are for all every single person who

384
00:21:57,320 --> 00:21:59,960
Speaker 1: is going to read what he says in the future,

385
00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,840
Speaker 1: in the past, his disciples, everybody to come after us.

386
00:22:04,359 --> 00:22:08,639
Speaker 1: Jesus is talking to every single person about this. And

387
00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:12,480
Speaker 1: so that's my main reason why I believe that Jesus's

388
00:22:12,480 --> 00:22:17,040
Speaker 1: second coming is yet to come. It has not happened yet,

389
00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,000
Speaker 1: because why would Jesus say that his words are for

390
00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:23,360
Speaker 1: every single person if they were only for his disciples

391
00:22:23,600 --> 00:22:28,120
Speaker 1: and his generation. But even the entire letter of First Thessalonians,

392
00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:32,400
Speaker 1: going back to our actual reading for today, the book

393
00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:36,080
Speaker 1: of First Thessalonians kind of proves Jesus's words are for

394
00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:43,960
Speaker 1: everyone because the Thessalonians were gentiles who were converts to Christianity.

395
00:22:44,680 --> 00:22:48,000
Speaker 1: If Jesus's words were only for his disciples, only for

396
00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:51,800
Speaker 1: the Jews, the Thessalonians wouldn't have even had these questions,

397
00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:55,680
Speaker 1: wouldn't have needed to know anything about the rapture whatsoever.

398
00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:59,920
Speaker 1: Here's what Paul says in First Thessalonians five three and four.

399
00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:04,640
Speaker 1: When they are saying peace and safety, then sudden destruction

400
00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:07,359
Speaker 1: will come on them like birth pains on a pregnant woman.

401
00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:10,320
Speaker 1: Then they will in no way escape. But you brothers

402
00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:13,840
Speaker 1: aren't in darkness, that the day should overtake you like

403
00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 1: a thief. Now, when Paul talks about that, he's saying

404
00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:21,600
Speaker 1: that those who don't believe in Jesus's return, they're going

405
00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:24,880
Speaker 1: to say, oh, everything is perfect. We are totally fine

406
00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:27,720
Speaker 1: to do whatever we want to do. Jesus is not

407
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:31,479
Speaker 1: going to come back. There is no issue whatsoever. We

408
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 1: are completely safe to do whatever we want to do.

409
00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:39,240
Speaker 1: But here's what Jesus says about that, Luke seventeen twenty

410
00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:43,720
Speaker 1: two through thirty seven. Jesus said to the disciples, the

411
00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:46,600
Speaker 1: days will come when you will desire to see one

412
00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:48,439
Speaker 1: of the days of the Sun of Man, and you

413
00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:51,520
Speaker 1: will not see it. They will tell you look here

414
00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:55,160
Speaker 1: or look there. Don't go away or follow after them.

415
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,640
Speaker 1: For as the lightning when it flashes out from one

416
00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 1: part under the sky and shine to another part under

417
00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:03,720
Speaker 1: the sky, so will the Sun of Man be in

418
00:24:03,800 --> 00:24:06,960
Speaker 1: his day. But first he must suffer many things and

419
00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:10,119
Speaker 1: be rejected by this generation, as it was in the

420
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:12,960
Speaker 1: days of Noah, even so it will be also in

421
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,080
Speaker 1: the days of the Sun of Man. They ate, they drank,

422
00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 1: they married, and they were given in marriage, until the

423
00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,600
Speaker 1: day that Noah entered into the ship, and the flood

424
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:24,600
Speaker 1: came and destroyed them all. Likewise, even as it was

425
00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:27,240
Speaker 1: in the days a lot they ate, they drank, they bought,

426
00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:29,520
Speaker 1: they sold, they planted, they built. But in the day

427
00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:32,159
Speaker 1: that lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and

428
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:34,800
Speaker 1: sulfur from the sky and destroyed them all. It will

429
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:36,800
Speaker 1: be the same way on the day that the Son

430
00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:39,920
Speaker 1: of Man is revealed. This entire parable I just read

431
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:44,679
Speaker 1: is Jesus summarizing his second coming perfectly. First and foremost,

432
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:47,760
Speaker 1: you're not going to know the day when I come back.

433
00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 1: You're not going to know, he says. But a bunch

434
00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:53,920
Speaker 1: of people are going to claim I know exactly when

435
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:58,320
Speaker 1: Jesus is coming back. Jesus says, don't go away or

436
00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:02,600
Speaker 1: follow after them. For as the lightning when it flashes

437
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:06,159
Speaker 1: across the sky, that is how my second coming is

438
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 1: going to be. Like one moment life is as normal.

439
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:13,320
Speaker 1: The next moment Jesus is back, that is how quick

440
00:25:13,640 --> 00:25:17,960
Speaker 1: it's going to be. And when Jesus comes back, he says,

441
00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,679
Speaker 1: everybody who was just living for themselves that day of

442
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:26,040
Speaker 1: my second Coming is going to completely overtake them, and

443
00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 1: things will be like they were in the days of

444
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 1: Noah and also in the Days of Lot, where suddenly

445
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:37,880
Speaker 1: disaster struck because they weren't paying attention to the warning signs.

446
00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:40,600
Speaker 1: You know, in both cases, In the case of Lot

447
00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:44,760
Speaker 1: and also the case of Noah, both Lot and Noah

448
00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:47,639
Speaker 1: were telling the people you got to stop sinning. You

449
00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:50,280
Speaker 1: gotta stop because destruction is going to happen if you

450
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,919
Speaker 1: don't stop. But the people laughed and refused to listen,

451
00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 1: and then suddenly disaster did actually strike them. But you know,

452
00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:01,400
Speaker 1: for the Christian this is nothing to fear because Jesus's

453
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:04,040
Speaker 1: second coming is going to be a very very exciting

454
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:05,840
Speaker 1: thing for us. We don't have to fear about it.

455
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,000
Speaker 1: We can be excited about it. We can watch and

456
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:11,919
Speaker 1: wait and be like yay when Jesus comes back. But

457
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:15,119
Speaker 1: the thing that is very scary about it is how

458
00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:19,000
Speaker 1: final it is. When Jesus comes back. There is no

459
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,919
Speaker 1: turning back. So that's why Jesus tells us to be

460
00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:26,520
Speaker 1: prepared ahead of time and to wait for him. But

461
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 1: how do we wait for Jesus. Well, Jesus gave us

462
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,600
Speaker 1: the answer. We live in his will. That is what

463
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:34,399
Speaker 1: we do. That does not mean that we live in

464
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 1: sinless perfection, that if we sin once, when Jesus comes back,

465
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:39,760
Speaker 1: he's going to be like, oh, nope, I'm not taking him.

466
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:42,560
Speaker 1: He sinned, so nope, he doesn't get to come up

467
00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:46,000
Speaker 1: to heaven with me, because if that were the case, literally,

468
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:48,120
Speaker 1: none of us would be raptured. It does not mean

469
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 1: sinless perfection. But what it does mean is that we

470
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 1: do our best to live in God's will. That means

471
00:26:56,000 --> 00:27:00,199
Speaker 1: submitting to him. That means not rebelling against him and

472
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:02,960
Speaker 1: the things that he wants for us, but doing our

473
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,960
Speaker 1: best to live out the purpose that he gave us

474
00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:09,680
Speaker 1: and seeking a relationship with him. Those are the two

475
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: ways we wait for Jesus's second coming so that we're

476
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 1: not surprised when one moment we're living out our day

477
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:23,160
Speaker 1: is normal and the next moment Jesus is here. Well,

478
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 1: faithful listeners, we are almost done with First Thessalonians. I

479
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:29,919
Speaker 1: think I'm only going to have two more episodes in

480
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 1: this book and then we will move into Second Thessalonians

481
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:36,920
Speaker 1: next Thursday. So that is something exciting to look forward

482
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:39,040
Speaker 1: to because that will mean that you have another book

483
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,919
Speaker 1: of the Bible that you have read and listened to

484
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:47,120
Speaker 1: in its entirety, and that is such an exciting accomplishment. Well,

485
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 1: faithful listeners, I hope you enjoyed the end of season

486
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 1: nine of this podcast. Tomorrow we start season ten, and

487
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:55,760
Speaker 1: it's going to be good. We're going to be in

488
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 1: second chronicles tomorrow because on Mondays and Wednesdays I go

489
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:02,960
Speaker 1: through the Old Testament, Tuesdays and Thursdays, I go through

490
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 1: the New Testament. So tomorrow we'll be back in the

491
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:08,919
Speaker 1: Old Testament, starting season ten of the podcast with a

492
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:12,360
Speaker 1: brand new book of the Bible. So I'll see all

493
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 1: of you guys tomorrow six am or whenever you choose

494
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:22,879
Speaker 1: to wake up and listen. Happy listening, and God bless