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Pastor David Mitchell
We've taken a journey in recent days through Psalm 22 23 and 24.
We remind ourselves that Psalm 22 speaks of the death of our Lord Jesus Christ.
He says my God my God.
Why have thou forsaken me?
But in this Psalm, he also speaks of his deliverance.
By his father in Psalm 22 14.
He said I am poured out like water.
In verse 16 He says for dogs have compassed me the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me.
They pierced my hands and my feet.
In verse 20 He said deliver my soul from the sword my darling from the
power of the dog.
He's speaking of his soul.
They're not his body.
He asked for the deliverance of his soul in verse 22.
I will declare thy name and to my brethren in the midst of the congregation Will I praise thee.
So Psalm 22? Begins with my God my God Why hast thou
forsaken me.
And it ends with for all of the period of the church age and beyond the Lord Jesus
Christ every time.
There's a congregation with one born -again child of God there.
I Suppose you'd have to have two to have a congregation.
He is there in the midst praising the Lord his father.
Psalm 23 then speaks of Jesus Christ the great shepherd of God's sheep.
And we come into Psalm 24 we start with the first two verses and it announces the
sovereignty of God.
It begins with the sovereignty of God and moves on to speak of the kingship of Jesus Christ.
Gives a foreview of his second coming and earthly kingdom and it shows him as the king of
not only the earth But also the king of glory.
Verse 1.
The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof the world and they that dwell therein.
For he hath founded it upon the seas and established it upon the floods.
Established meaning he erected the worlds and the universe Founded having the sense
of sitting down together and Counseling and settling something once and for all.
So it begins with the first two verses Establishing the sovereignty of God and the great counsel of God that happened
before time began on this earth when all things were established and
then verse 3 Asked the question Who shall ascend?
Into the hill of the Lord or who shall stand in his holy
place.
Kodesh Malkom this holy place
the word place literally means a standing as If to insinuate
Something that always stands for all eternity.
Holy the sacred place of standing this holy place where the father dwells.
Who shall ascend that hill.
Now, there are some commentators who? want to Interpret
interpret this to mean Jerusalem the Holy Hill Jerusalem where Jesus
Christ will come at the second coming and set up his throne during the Millennial Kingdom.
But I don't think that's exactly what this is referring to here because I think it's clear when it says who shall
ascend if you're Looking at this from the point of view of heaven You would not ascend to Jerusalem.
You would descend.
This says who shall ascend?
And so I believe it's a reference of the Lord Jesus Christ after his death and burial and resurrection.
It's a question that's asked now who shall ascend?
Well It gives a description Of who this person
might be.
Look at verse 4.
The One who shall ascend into the very abode of the father verse 4
says is he that has?
Clean hands and A pure heart.
And who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity nor ever sworn
deceitfully Lifted up his soul to vanity.
This word in Hebrew is very much stronger word than the English word vanity because it doesn't just mean
Vain like we've come to use it in modern usage.
But it means something which literally desolates in an evil destructive
sense it makes something totally useless by desolating it and
the question is Who has not lifted up his soul to that kind of vanity that
kind of destruction that would bring destruction to the life?
Nor sworn Deceitfully.
Well, this leaves only one choice for the answer.
Matthew 33.
Matthew verse chapter 3 verse 17 says and lo a voice from heaven saying
This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.
Matthew 11 verse 4 Jesus answered and said of them go and show John again those things which you do hear and
see.
The blind received their sight the lame walk the lepers are cleansed and The deaf here and the dead are raised
up and the poor have the gospel preached to them and blessed is he.
Whosoever shall not be offended in me in 2nd Corinthians 5 21 for he hath made him to
be sin for us who knew no sin.
And first Peter chapter 2 verse 21 for even herein to
we were ye called because Christ also suffered for us leaving us an example
that he should follow his steps.
Who did no sin?
Neither was guile found in his mouth who when he was reviled He reviled not
again when he suffered he threatened not but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously who his
own self Bear our sins in his own body on the tree
that we being dead to sin should live under righteousness.
By whose stripes ye were healed.
For ye were his sheep gone astray.
But are now returned into the shepherd and bishop of your souls.
In John chapter 8 verse 44.
You are of your father the devil in the lust of your father.
Ye will do.
He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him.
When he speaketh a lie He speaketh of his own for he is a liar and the father of it and because
I tell you the truth.
You believe me not.
Which of you?
Convicted me of sin.
He asked.
This one who has clean hands and a pure heart and who has never One time lifted
his soul up to vanity nor sworn deceitfully is none other than the Lord
Jesus Christ.
He is the only qualified person.
Secondly, this is a picture of Jesus Christ as the kingly priest after the order
of Melchizedek in Genesis chapter 14 verse 18 we find this interesting passage and then
it's referred to in the New Testament in Hebrews chapter 5 and other Places it says in Melchizedek king of
Salem brought forth bread and wine.
And he was the priest of the Most High God.
And when we go into the New Testament into the book of Hebrews chapter 5 starting with verse 5
We see a fascinating description of the Lord Jesus Christ not as king only but as the king
priest.
Melchizedek was not in the line of Aaron at all.
He was this pot quite possibly was not even Jewish.
But the point is he was a priest called by God, but he was also a king and
He was a type of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Hebrews chapter 5 verse 5 says so also Christ glorified not himself.
To be made of a high priest.
Jesus never asked to be a priest during his earthly Ministry, he never claimed to be a
He did not look for this office nor aspire to it.
But he that said unto him thou art my son today have I begotten thee as He
saith also in another place thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.
He is the one Who made Jesus Christ to be a priest and that is the father?
Who in the days of his flesh when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears?
And to him that was able to save him from death and was heard in that he feared that goes back to Psalm
22.
Do you see how you're gonna see how Hebrews? chapter 5 and 6 and following where it
speaks of this priestly Type in Melchizedek ties in with the
Psalm 22 passage.
We've just studied Crying and tears and to him that was able to save him
not his body.
Although he was able But not willing but his soul.
Yes.
It was saved from the dogs and from the lion as the passage describes it.
He was heard because he feared God verse 8 though he were a son
yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered and being made perfect he became the
author of Eternal salvation unto all them that obey him or trust him.
Called of God and high priest after the order of Melchizedek so as we go into Psalm
24 and We asked the question who shall ascend into the
hill of the Lord?
We have the answer in these passages.
Hebrews chapter 6 continues in verse 17.
We're in God willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel
confirmed it by an oath that by to Immutable things in which it was impossible
for God to lie.
He might have a strong consolation.
We might have a strong consolation.
Who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us?
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul Both sure and
steadfast and which entereth into that within the veil.
You couldn't have more beautiful language than that.
I don't think the modern versions can even Can even touch the rendition of that?
Verse in the King James Hebrews 619.
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul.
Both sure and steadfast and which entereth into that within the veil whether the forerunner is
for us.
Entered even Jesus made a high priest forever after the order of
Melchizedek.
Chapter 7 verse 1.
I'm sorry.
Chapter 7 verse 14.
For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Judah of which tribe Moses spake nothing concerning
the priesthood.
And it is yet far more evident for that after the similitude of Melchizedek there ariseth
Another priest who is made not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after
the power of an endless life.
For he testifies thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek
down into verse 24.
But this man because he continueth ever Hath an unchangeable priesthood.
Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God
by him.
Seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them this uttermost salvation this
uttermost Eternal security that the children of God have is linked to the ever
liveth part of this one Who forever lives to make intercession for us
our high priest the Lord Jesus Christ?
Verse 26.
For such an high priest became us who is holy.
Harmless undefiled.
Remember the question that is asked in Psalm 24.
Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord he that has clean hands.
Verse 26 says.
For such a high priest became us Who is holy?
Separate from sinners and made higher than the heavens themselves.
Who needeth not daily as those high priests to offer up sacrifice first for his own sins and then for the people's.
For this he did once When he offered up himself.
Chapter 8 verse 1 now of the things which we have spoken.
This is the sum we have such an high priest who is set on the
right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heavens a Minister of the sanctuary
and of the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched and not man.
Chapter 9 verse 24.
For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands which are the figures of the true.
But into heaven itself now to appear in the presence of God for us.
Verse 26 but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away
sin by the sacrifice of himself and As it is appointed unto men once to
die.
But after this the judgment so Christ was once offered To bear the sins of many
and unto them that look for him shall he appear a second time without sin
unto salvation.
So this is the only Qualified one who shall ascend into the hill
of the Lord that one who is both our King and Our
Verse 5 back in Psalm 24 now You go halfway through
the book of Hebrews to cover Psalm 24 verses 3 and 4 it all speaks of it.
Verse 5 it says of this one He shall receive
The blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation now that verse.
It without quite a bit of study sometimes sounds a little strange because it's odd to
think of the one who is righteous as Receiving righteousness from God.
So let's explore this just for a moment.
He shall receive the blessing from the Lord first.
Let's look at this and then we'll look at the righteousness part.
He shall see receive the blessing from the Lord.
I want you to think about this verse.
You don't have to look it up.
Just stay there in Psalm 24, but this verse in Psalm 68 verse 18, you'll remember it.
It's quoted over in the New Testament.
Also.
It says thou hast ascended on high.
Thou hast led captivity captive.
Thou hast received gifts for men.
Yea for the rebellious also that the Lord God might dwell among them.
This is a beautiful thought that's given to us in that one verse.
It says from the vantage point of the psalmist that there will come a time in the future That there
will be one Who will ascend into the hill of the Lord and who will
receive gifts for men?
Even for those of us who are rebellious, which is all of us as Pictured by the nation of Israel as
a as that nation pictures the Christian so many times in so many ways.
It says he will receive gifts for men.
Verse 5 says he shall receive the blessing from the Lord.
This is the giving of those gifts.
I think as we see Jesus receiving these blessings.
The word for blessing here in verse 5 is they're all call which means
Prosperity it comes from a smaller Hebrew
word Barak, which means to kneel and so as you picture the Lord Jesus
Christ as He ascends into the heavenlies, which I believe this whole
passage in Psalm 24 pictures.
In a moment, we'll see how the gates of heaven which we'll look at that for a moment very interesting concept
but we'll see how those gates are opened and He passes from this dimension
Into a timeless dimension where God the Father is Whom no
other man has seen nor shall see the face of the Father and
Yet the Lord Jesus Christ was considered Fit.
He was considered meat for this.
Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord?
The one with clean hands.
The one with the pure heart.
The one who never one time lifted up his soul and to Vein destructive things
nor ever swore deceitfully.
The gates were open for this one and he walked in.
He triumphantly entered the heavenlies after having destroyed the enemy in battle.
Becoming and providing for the perfect sacrifice and then presenting the blood and
applying it to the mercy seat.
I Believe this passage in verse 5 where it says he shall Receive the blessing which comes from the root
Hebrew word which means to kneel.
Pictures Jesus Christ kneeling before the father as a knight before his king and
Receiving the blessing from the sword of the father as he blesses him on both shoulders.
And the marvelous thing that we know from Scripture is that when he received that blessing?
We received it because we resurrected in Christ.
We ascended in Christ.
We entered this portal in Christ we knelt before the father in Christ
and This blessing was given as we were in Christ.
Psalm 45 to pictures it as well.
Verse 6.
It says thy throne.
I'm sorry verse 40.
Chapter 45 verse 6 says thy throne.
Oh God is forever and ever a scepter of thy kingdom is a right scepter.
Thou lovest righteousness and hatest wickedness therefore God.
Thy God hath anointed thee with oil of gladness.
Listen to this above thy fellows.
You take all of the creation of God you take all of the angelic beings.
You take all of the humans.
That he created in Adam in his own image.
You take all of those and this one this one of whom it asked who shall
ascend into the hill.
This Lord Jesus Christ was anointed above all others.
Why?
Because it says thou lovest righteousness and hatest wickedness above all others.
So he received this blessing.
All thy garments smell of myrrh and aloe and acacia.
Wonder why.
Those are the herbs that are placed upon the body at death.
At this time out of the ivory palaces whereby they hath
made thee glad.
So he kneels before the father and receives this blessing.
And as he received these blessings for himself He received them for us as well.
His deliverer became our deliverer.
His salvation became our salvation.
His Blessing from the father has become our blessing.
His birthright has become our birthright.
So he shall receive the blessing from the Lord.
Now verse 5 in Psalm 24 goes on and it says there's another thing He will receive from the Lord as he
receives these gifts for men.
Yay.
For the rebellious also and the next thing he received was righteousness.
From the God of his salvation or you could say the God of his deliverance.
It's kind of interesting that when we look at the word God in this verse every other place in this
psalm.
You'll see the word Lord.
Used capital L capital O capital R capital D.
All of the letters are all caps and that always is a reference to Jehovah.
But when you see this where it says the righteousness from the God of his salvation.
The word God there is not Jehovah.
It is Elohim.
Which is the same word for God that's used in Genesis 1 1 many of the verses in the very
first early portions of Genesis it is the unit
plurality of God.
It describes the supreme one, but the triune God.
One and yet plural this Elohim this
supreme Godhead was Jesus Christ's
deliverer and the one who gave him the gifts of these blessings and
this righteousness it was the very righteousness of
Elohim.
Now look at verse 6.
We have thus far gone with Jesus.
We can picture it in our minds now.
We can picture a little bit of what it was like as he entered the heavenlies triumphantly.
I Believe he had already presented his blood because I believe that he did that before the actual
Ascension or the one that we read about at the end end of Acts and
I should say at the beginning of Acts and at the end of the Gospels He had already presented his blood and
so this pictures his triumphal entry into the heavenlies as the king
priest and we see him Come towards these portals or
openings or gates that are between time and
non -time and They are opened and he passes through and he approaches and
climbs ascends.
I should say the hill of the Lord and He stands before him and is blessed.
He is blessed because he loved righteousness and hated evil above all of his fellows.
And so therefore he was blessed above all of his fellows.
After all of that it brings us to verse 6 now, let's read it together carefully.
This is the generation of them that seek him.
That seek thy face.
Oh Jacob say law now some commentators Might lead us to believe that this
changes the subject away from Jesus and to those who are saved which would be us
and I do not believe after studying the Hebrew in this verse that that's what it's doing.
I don't believe the attention is moving away from Jesus for one moment.
I believe all of the attention of the universe is placed upon Jesus as he is knighted
so to speak at this time and I believe where it says this is the
generation.
It is the Hebrew word door which means Posterity it
can mean an age.
It can mean a generation but it can also mean unto posterity which carries the same sense
as In the New Testament in first Peter 123 where it says being born again.
Not a corruptible seed this phrase born again in the Greek language Means to beget
but it comes from the word ah, nah, which means above with the word
Again, oh, which means to procreate and the English word
gene comes from this word.
So it's interesting in the New Testament where it says we are born again.
It literally says we are gened from above.
We are given the genes of God so to speak we are his genetic material so to
speak in a spiritual sense and this word generation back in Psalm
24 verse 6 carries the same meaning when it says this is the generation of them
That seek him it means Jesus Christ is The one
who jeaned us he is the one who?
Allowed us to be the posterity he is the one who we come from.
He is the one that all the spiritual children of God came forth and sprang
from Spiritually and this was the generation of all of us.
This is where we Received the gene of life.
The genetic code of God this is where we had the first ability that later on in
time God could give us the very nature of himself.
You see those who Can't get it straight on eternal security.
Those who think you could sin in such a way as to lose your salvation.
They don't understand the genetic code that we've been given.
It's salvation.
We don't understand.
They don't understand that this Jeaning began back long time
before they were born into the world.
Some 2 ,000 years ago in our time, but with God it didn't happen in time.
It happened outside of time.
We're going to see that in a moment when we get to these verses about these portals opening but as Jesus stepped out of
time and was found worthy.
The only worthy one of all the creation of God to step into this place and to step before the
Father and to Receive these blessings and this righteousness to give forth to all of us
God's children.
We see that this seed which we have
is pointed out that's who Jesus is.
You might as well say in verse 6 he is the generation of them.
Jesus Christ is the generation the one who Procreated
Them that seek the Father.
That seek God's face and he's speaking to Israel.
So he says Oh Jacob say la Jacob you need to learn something Israel.
You need to learn That you are not saved by works of righteousness.
You're not saved by religiosity and all of the legal trappings that
you surround yourself with.
The only way you can be saved is by this one who entered in To the hill of God
and who was given this blessing and received this righteousness to give gifts to men.
Yay, even to those who are rebellious.
The only way you can be saved is to be re jean born again.
Born as it says from above.
Why does it say from above because it's pointing to this place.
It's not 24 has taken us this morning.
It is not an earthly place.
Salvation is not of the earth.
It is of God and it is found in Jesus Christ Standing at the throne of
God at the moment.
He received this blessing.
He was the beginning of the generation of all those who would seek him.
Both from Earth time before that in the Old Testament Saints and from Earth time
beyond that covering the entire church.
He is the first and He is the last.
He is the first born from the dead.
He is the first of many sons.
He is the beginning of prosperity of all the children of God as distinguished from
Satan's seed.
Being born again, not a corruptible seed but of incorruptible by the Word.
Who is the Word?
Which liveth and abideth forever born again
gene from above.
It shows us His triumphal entry in verse 7 lift up
your heads O ye gates and Be ye lift up ye everlasting doors
and the king of glory shall come in.
Everlasting is this word we've studied so many times in the last few years.
Oh long.
Which means a concealed thing or the vanishing point?
It comes to mean time out of mind it means both eternity past from
our vantage point and Eternity future from our vantage point you go out as far as you can see and you
drop off into this place and so this these doors are
From that place.
They are not earthly doors.
They are not universal Physical doors, these are doors that
separate time and space and matter from the
place where God dwells outside of time these everlasting doors
Olam and the word door.
Hey talk Literally means the entrance way.
This was the very entrance way from where we are to the place where the father dwells.
God the father obviously these gates cannot open themselves.
God the father is now speaking them open.
In verse 7 the father says to these Olam
had talks these Vanishing point eternal
Openings entrance ways into the place where the father is God himself speaks them open.
Lift up your heads.
Oh ye gates and be ye lift up as if they were persons who
could rejoice and Glorify and praise the king as he walks through them
the everlasting doors and the king of glory Shall Come in.
This is the Lord Jesus entering the heavenly portal the dimension where God dwells.
The place where God himself exists and he looked into the face of him whom we shall never see
the creator of all that is the I am.
Verse 8 who is this king of glory?
Who is this one who is fit to ascend into this place?
The Lord Jehovah is the name that's given to him here.
Isn't it interesting that Jesus Christ is called Jehovah many places in the Old Testament.
The Lord strong and mighty the Lord mighty in battle.
Oh ye gates even lift them up ye everlasting doors and the king of glory Shall
come in.
Who is this king of glory?
Well, he's known as the Lord of hosts he is the king of glory say lot.
Anytime you see in the English the word Lord where they're all caps.
The next little phrase that comes after it oftentimes.
There's a phrase like the Lord of this the Lord of that.
Actually that little phrase has become a part of the name of God.
Jehovah Jireh Jehovah Rapha all of these names of God as God revealed
himself.
Little by little line by line through time He gives us more of his name because his name reveals
himself to us and here he is revealed as Jehovah Saba
which means Jehovah the Lord of hosts and the word
host in the Hebrew is an Organization of men for the purpose of
going to war.
That's all it ever means.
So who is this one who?
Walks through these everlasting doors into the presence of God and receives gifts for men and
Righteousness for men.
For those who are the Lord's his name is Jehovah
the God of war.
Revelation 17 14 says that's exactly how he will return.
These shall make war with the Lamb and the Lamb shall overcome them.
For he is Lord of lords and King of Kings.
He is the king priest and They that are with him.
That's us are called and chosen and faithful.
Revelation 1911.
And I saw heaven open behold a white horse and he that sat upon him was called
Faithful and true with a capital F and a capital T and in righteousness He doth
judge and make war.
His eyes were as a flame of fire.
And on his head were many crowns and he had a name written that no man knew but
himself and he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood and his name was called the
Word of God.
And The armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, you know, you're gonna get one of those
Clothed in fine linen.
Do you know that you have that now?
That's the righteousness of Jesus Christ white and clean and out of his mouth
goeth a sharp Sword that with it He shall smite the nations and he shall
rule them with a rod of iron.
And he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath Of Almighty God.
And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written king of kings and lord of lords.
Who is this one who can ascend into the hill of God?
And I saw an angel standing in the Sun and He cried with a loud voice saying to
all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven Come and gather yourselves together into the supper
of the great God that ye may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of captains in
the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of Horses and of them that sit on them in the flesh of all men
both free and bond both small and great.
You don't have to worry too much about what Saddam Hussein is going to do.
You don't have to worry too much about what mr. Bush is going to do.
Because there's going to be a great supper that's going to feast upon the flesh of these mighty men of the earth who
hate the Lord Jesus Christ so much.
And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make
war against him that sat on the horse and against his army.
That's us and The beast was taken and with him the false prophet that wrought
miracles before him.
There are already many Antichrist on the earth doing false miracles.
But he took these two these the beast and the false
prophet with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast and then that Worshipped his
image these both were cast alive into a lake of fire
Burning with brimstone.
Does that sound like?
Some place that might be literal.
Does that description sound to you that when the lost die they just go into oblivion and don't exist anymore.
Does it sound like there is an everlasting? eternal place.
This described as a lake of fire burning with brimstone that was created for Satan
created for this Antichrist this beast and this false prophet and they are indeed
cast here alive Into this lake of fire burning with brimstone and the
remnant were slain with the sword by him.
That sat upon the white horse which sword proceeded out of his mouth and all of the
fowls were filled with their flesh.
And I saw an angel come down from heaven having the key of the bottomless pit and the
great chain in his hand and he laid hold on the dragon.
That old serpent, which is the devil and Satan and bound him a thousand years.
And cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal upon him that he should
deceive the nation's No more till a thousand years should be fulfilled and after that he
must be loosed for a season.
This Lord Jesus Christ of ours Ascended into heaven as
the priest King.
He was given the blessings.
He was given the gifts as Our priest as that one who stands as the days men
between us and the father whom we cannot look upon without perishing.
He is the intercessor between us and him.
He is the true high priest that stands and takes the hand of God's people in
the hand of God and brings us together.
And he entered into heaven in that form and he was given the blessing and the righteousness and
he was Proclaimed to be that one because he loved righteousness and hated evil more than any of
his brothers.
And He then stood after that knighting experience and he now Perhaps
stands at the very threshold of that same portal.
He perhaps is standing today at the very
threshold of the everlasting doors waiting to hear the voice of the father say
Open the everlasting doors that the
King of Glory may pass through and descend to the heavenly
hills.
And when he comes We will meet him in the air.
And we will come back with him.
We'll all be on white horses.
And he will come as the king.
Not so much as the priest But as the king and he will make right everything
that was wrong done wrong to God's people on this earth.
Every Christian child and Mother who was slaughtered by the Roman Catholics
and Fox's Book of Martyrs as it describes it so vividly.
Every child of God who was destroyed by Any nation that hates God.
Every Christian person who is ever killed by the Islamics who would blow themselves up?
Thinking they're going to go see Allah who is the devil and they will go see him.
But they think they're doing it for God and Satan tells them and whispers in their ear kill any Christian any
Caucasian American Christian that you can find or any black American Christian or any color for that matter.
Just kill them For me and they go about to do it.
All of that will be righted when he comes.
All of it will be righted when this great Last Supper of the Good old Texas
buzzards who are all going to head east.
And be at this place.
And feast on the flesh of these great leaders who would wreak havoc in our world.
This is the Lord of Glory this one who is coming again.
Let's stand with our heads bowed for a moment and our eyes closed.
And let's have a few moments of quiet praise for this one.
He's going to burst on the scene and surprise the lost someday as
lightning from the east to the west in power and he will
speak with his voice and destroy them and The blood will be as
high as the bridles on the horses in the valley of Gehenna.
The valley of Megiddo and it will all be done in righteousness.
It'll be the first battle perhaps that was ever fought in true complete pureness For
the exact right reason and for the right end.
Let's praise him for a few moments.
Lord when we think that you went from the cross to the grave
before you made this triumphal entry.
And you did that for the father, but you did that for us as well.
We can only praise you.
We cannot imagine what you were experiencing when you said my god my god.
Why have you forsaken me?
We cannot comprehend the darkness that you were in and Yet even in that
darkness you alone had the faith to know that God would
deliver the darling of your soul and Because of that great
faith and your great righteousness.
When you ascended you received this blessing at the very hand of the father himself
and this great Righteousness, which you have bestowed upon us
because it was the father's will.
Praise you bless you and we thank you and we watch for you.
Because we know you're coming again.
Lord help us.
Remember these passages help us.
Remember Psalm 24 when we enter persecution when we enter tribulation when we enter
Horrible things that we may begin to see on the face of this earth.
Father take the little children From Ben's age on up to the college age
young people.
Help them remember this passage and go back to it because Their life on this earth will be
very different than ours has been.
As they see terrible Fierce things happening all around as they
see murderous things happening.
As they see abominable things.
As they see Satan himself
unleashed his fury Upon this earth.
May you help them know who the king is and may you help them watch
for his coming Father.
Would you bless our fellowship together in a few moments in the meal?
We're about to have in Jesus name.
Amen.