Two Roads Two Destinies 13 Ireland st.chapel — Worth Ellis

The Peace and Salvation Found in Jesus Christ

I never cease to be amazed at the fact that, for 27 years, I had no interest in the things of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ meant nothing to me. And I tell you, when you get to know him, and know what he can do for you, and how he can give you peace, as you are, I marvel that you poor sinners can keep putting off your Sabbath.

You stop to think how wonderful the Lord Jesus is, and how he gives you direction in your life, keeps you from wondering aimlessly about in the darkness of this poor world, always exposed to the wrath of God and the possibility of being tested to hell, with your next breath you think that you're so unconcerned with only simply pointing out that truth, talking the word of God, that you are blind.

No, if you believe a lesson, and you see Jesus Christ, you're about to lose the spirit in your eyes. And I plead with you today, stop trying to save yourself, stop trying to figure it out, stop even trying to understand it, and give up, and receive Jesus Christ in the spirit, and you will be saved.

The darkness will be gone, and your heart will be filled with joy. The only good thing you can do is give up. Revelation chapter six, verse 12,. And on the hill when he had opened the thick field, and low there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black, a sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood.

And the stars of heaven fell on the earth, even the fig tree, Jessica, and found the fig in sheer shape of a mighty wind. And the heaven departed as a scroll, and it rolled together, and every mountain and island removed out of their places.

And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, stood themselves in the dams and in the rocks of the mountains.

He said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. For the great day of his wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand?

The Day of the Lord and the Coming Apostasy

2 Thessalonians, please. 2 Thessalonians, chapter 2. After our reading here in this passage, we're going to turn to Romans, chapter 1. I suggest that you hold your place here in 2 Thessalonians, chapter 2, for the major portion of our discourse is centered around this section.

So, when you're reading Romans 1, you can turn readily back to 2 Thessalonians, or 2 chapters. Now, there'll be a slight change of the words here. Don't be alarmed. We're not changing the Bible, but giving you a more correct rendering.

Now, we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our deadening together unto him, that you be not soon shaken in mind, nor be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter, as from us, as that the day of the Lord is present.

That no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come, except as come he falling away of the apostasy. And that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he has God, sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

Remember ye not that when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now you know what is strange, and it might be revealed any time, for the mystery of lawlessness hath already worked. Only he who now restrains will restrain, until he be taken out of the way.

And then shall that wicked one be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his tummy. Even him whose tummy is after the workings of Satan, with all power, and signs, and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness, and men that perish, because they receive not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusions, that they should believe the lie, that they all might be damned who believe not the truth, but have pleasure in unrighteousness.". Now, Romans chapter 1.

Hold your patience, please. Romans chapter 1. We're just going to give you one verse since the 18th verse, in connection with this tremendous statement of the gospel of Christ, which is the power of God unto salvation.

Now, it explains to you that the verb is revealed here in Romans chapter 1, verse 18, is in the present continuous tense, and so correctly reads this way. For the wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness.

Now, the wrath of God is being revealed more before us here in the present continuous tense of this verse as one of the governmental truths of God in relation to the human family, and it's given correctly in this tense by the Spirit of God, because what God is saying in this verse is that the principle given here is that God is displeased with unrighteousness and with ungodliness, and there has been a continuous demonstration of the divinest treasure of God against the sin of man.

The wrath of God is being revealed, and, let's expect, it takes you all the way back to the commencement of creation when God expelled our original parents out of the garden and pulled them out. This is where it began, and there is a demonstration of the proof that God is not pleased with sin and unrighteousness.

For, in fact, many women today are permitted to continue in sin, and unbelief, unrighteousness and ungodliness is by no means an indication that God is pleased with. It simply means that God is patient, not willing that any should perish.

But, if you read the Bible, even carelessly in reading through it, you cannot help but be impressed with the fact that while God tolerates sin, He is not by any means pleased with it. For example, you remember the story of the flood when God and his poor, tired family of Noah's immediate family was brought to terror because of the original creation.

Although far below in the word of God, we have the story of the destruction of the city of Bethlehem following Gomorrah and others, when fire had been spoken, God came down from heaven, and there we have throughout the Bible, all the way through God's history book, this tremendous truth so clearly and distinctly set forth, you cannot possibly fail to see it that God is displeased with sin and unrighteousness.

This constant revelation of God's wrath, I repeat, is seen over and over in the word of God. Now, if there ever was a time when people had a doubt as to this truth and its principle in relation to the government of God, to God and the human family, it was forever expelled at the place called Calvary.

It was forever dispelled, I should say, whenever the Lord Jesus died upon the cross. The Apostle Paul states it this way in 2 Corinthians 5 .21,. Speaking of that time and history when the Lord Jesus went up to the place called Calvary, and there, in love and obedience to the will of the Father, and expressing his genuine love for you and me that we might be saved, he lay down upon the cross, and willingly by the eternal Spirit of himself, as the Lamb of God, the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world.

They nailed him to that stick, that post, and tied him there, and raised him up to see heaven and earth, and brought him down to a hole in the ground. There, the sinners in heaven and earth were the only sinless family that lived.

Meek and lowly demons who were filled with compassion and love and concern for the human family, who always thought about doing good and did nothing except that which pleases the Father. They had the multitude because they were hungry.

He opened the eyes of the blind just because he wanted them to see. Unstop the deaf ears and loose the tongues that could not speak, never expecting anything in return because he, the loved sinner, and he expressed this love by going to the cross, and upon the cross God placed all of our sins upon his only begotten Son.

Now, in the sins of the whole world, and listen carefully, my dear St. Prince, when every one of your sins, in those three dark hours, were placed upon the soul of the Lord Jesus, there were only one or two things God could do.

He could overlook sin, or he must punish sin. Now, of course, the word of God makes it clear. In 2 Corinthians 5, verse 21, speaking of the Lord Jesus Christ dying upon the cross, Paul says that God made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might remain the righteousness of God in him.

And, when the Lord Jesus hung upon the cross, let us never forget this, that the Japanese of Christ and the word of God is viewed as an act of man. They murdered the Son of God, but the Father who truly counseled and foreknowledged the word of God, Jesus said, they are taken by wicked hands and crucified, and slain the just one.

And, but the Son of Christ is not only seen in the word of God as an act of man-like indeterminate counsel and foreknowledge and the commission of God, but we read in the Bible that it was God himself who made the soul of Jesus Christ an offering for our sins.

Do you not understand? When our sins were laid upon him, it became incumbent upon the very justice of God to receive the Lord Jesus as if he had been a common sinner. And, upon the cross, ultimately, it was none other than God the Father who turns the soul of divine judgment into the building of his only begotten Son.

Read the 22nd Psalm. You read very clearly what Jesus said in relation to the suffering that he endured at the hands of men. Strong, bold ovation has come to be round about, for they have found him in a roaring lion.

He tells about the treatment he received at the hands of men, and then he says, But thou, O Lord, hast brought me into the dust of death. Do you not understand, my dear friends? Throughout the word of God.

We have a constant and recurring public demonstration and manifestation of the divine displeasure of God against all sin and ungodliness, and the greatest demonstration of all that I might say in one sense of the word, climactic as it was, but demonstrated in language very clear that you cannot possibly help but understand that God himself slew the Lord Jesus Christ in order to save you and me from hell.

Now, that, I say again, dispels every possible misconception of the character of God. God is holy, and God is not pleased with your sin. God is not pleased with your sin. So, my friends, listen. Above all, God is not pleased with your sin of the rejection of Jesus Christ, because ultimately no one...

Listen... Ultimately, no one will ever stand before the judgment of the great white throne to repent of the lack of fatherhood of Jesus in great and immeasurable peace, except for the specific sin of the rejection of Jesus Christ.

Don't ever forget that. The one great and dear and soul-tearing sin is the sin of the rejection of God's Son. The Bible makes that abundantly clear. So, let's look at something else in connection with this greatest manifestation of the divine displeasure of God against sin, and it is this.

The Cross as the Demonstration of Divine Justice

The infinite value of the sacrifice of Christ upon the cross is seen in this blessed text. Have you ever noticed that, from the cross of Christ until this present time that we have been living under a silent heaven, church revival from the opening of the book of Genesis until the crucifixion of Christ, we have captured two or three minor incidents in the book of Genesis, but the death of Ananias and Sapphira in chapter 5, for lying to the spirit of God, and the blindness of Eleanor, the sorceress, and Paul's trusting blind in the 13th of Acts for resisting the gospel and seeking to keep one from trusting Christ?

Apart from these two or others of similar character and relatively insignificant, that we, for two thousand years, have lived under a silent heaven. Not one time has God directly intervened in the affairs of the human family.

And, you see, men in their ignorance who always like to blame God for all of their troubles when they're only self-conflicted will always bring, you know, why doesn't God do something? Why doesn't he stop the war?

And, I've heard for that for a while. When the world is burning, why should he start it? I thought that he didn't start it. And, people today who want God to interfere in the affairs of the world had better be patient.

He doesn't listen to you, because, you see, my friends, the fact that God doesn't intervene, the fact that you get away with your rejection of Christ, the fact that the nations of the world, including our own blessed United States of America, may God have mercy upon us and our departure from the faith of our fathers, but the fact is that the thought is not there being in the affairs of human government.

This is why, when I was put on the subject of Satan, there was not any apology. I stated this truth, and I was very surprised that, again today, that Satan is a controlling power and authority man that is in the permissive will of God of all the governments of this world.

I wouldn't even need a Bible to tell me that, because it is a thing that God is in control of things. All I've got to say is, he doesn't know what he's doing, and he's making a whale of a mess out of it.

Let's be careful and remember, my friends, that God is absolutely powerful, but the satanic forces that are in the works in the world are being under permissive control of God simply because it's a part of God's divine program.

But, let us remember this, that the silent heaven under which we are living spills salvation. God is not intervening in the affairs of man today. You know why? Because he's not damning man today. He's saving man.

This is the age of the grace of God in which we all live. It's that quiet today, and I hope you won't cry it. But, if you wanted to, you could leave this church service and go uptown and get on the bridge, this corner, or anywhere where the most people pass by.

You can take this up toward heaven in person, fasting, Jesus Christ, and God, and nothing will happen to you. You might get arrested for using profanity in public, or something like that, but no time to vote from heaven will slash your days.

And, which by the cause of Jesus Christ, the man was told that they had to pick up sticks on the Sabbath day. But, you see, my friends, let us learn one thing, and learn as well and as best as we can about this wonderful truth.

The old-age of God makes a difference in the feelings of God's ever-human family, and when Christ died upon the cross, the death of Jesus so vindicated the righteousness of God, so testified the God-designed expression of sin and righteousness in the rebellion of unbelief, and the death of Jesus so perfectly satisfied the judgment of God against the sinners.

The value of the death and resurrection of Christ is seen in this fact, that it is now held back the judgment of God for two thousand years, while God is offering salvation and forgiveness of sins and suffering and sickness and rebellious sinners.

The value of the cross of Jesus Christ is seen in the fact that two thousand years, God has not judged the human family. But then, you will never realize if you live for two forever that yet you owe to the cross of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell in the present day.

And, if you ever say, by the grace of God, and see the third of gates of heaven, it'll be the cross of Jesus Christ, and there Jesus died for your sins and for mine, and wonderful grace of God for two thousand years, the value of the cross is held back the sword of God's judgment.

So, let us never forget that judgment is God's strange work. The judgment of God's slumber, the judgment of God's sleep, and the judgment of God is held in a veil. But remember, then, according to the word of God, there are yet two public manifestations or demonstrations of the wrath of God against sin that shall be revealed that will be nationwide or worldwide in their character.

The Great Tribulation and the Final Judgment

The first one of these is known in your Bible as the Great Tribulation. It takes place immediately following the coming of Jesus Christ. The Lord and Scout shall come to the door to the south of the archangel, the trump of God, for bearing Christ shall arise first.

Those who have touched with him must enter through the door, for the altar shall gather with them in proud to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be in the law. Immediately following the coming of Christ takes its own to be within the shell.

Then will be the Great Tribulation period. This is the next topic, demonstration of God's behind-the-sledger with the Spirit of Man. Then the next will take place after the Millennium, a thousand years' reign which is our subject, for the 630 years in the evening.

Immediately following that will be the Great Tribulation, and at this time you will be if you refuse to receive Christ by any law. At this time, you will be raised, put, and thrown out of hell, body out of the grave, the three-year-eater united, and where it stands, put its soul and body, just like you are now, where the real body is standing with the judgment of the great Christ, though it is cast into the lake of fire.

Now, these two visible manifestations of divine displeasure await the human family. The one we're going to speak about this morning, and you're back to 2 Thessalonians right now, and in chapter 2, is what you see here early on in the title of the Great Tribulation.

You know, Thessalonians calls this time of Jacob's trouble. It is the next event in the second program of God. We said a moment ago that, immediately following the coming of Christ, that every believer that did first the religion for their faith in Christ shall be taken up from this earth.

And, then, the time of Great Tribulation commences to run its course of approximately seven years' duration. Now, there are two things that will make this seven-year period of tribulation a time of unparalleled horror, a time of indescribable agony and suffering that shall be inflicted upon this world.

I'll take them briefly and then show them to you from the word of God. Number one will be the afterthought that is strained on us, and secondly will be the literal tragedy of faith. And, upon this earth, as a consequence of war in heaven, when faith shall be cast down to this earth, then his time then will be short, he realizes it, and then he will begin to let loose all of his fury and wrath against the human family.

It will be shorter, as it were, in fact shall be confined than the bottomless pit for a thousand years in preparation for the reign of one thousand years of peace at which time Jesus shall sit upon the throne of David.

But now, I want you to notice here, in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2, that we change in verse 2 that we do not feel shaken in line of trouble, neither by spirit nor by word or by letter from us, as that the day of the Lord is at hand.

This is a direct rendering because, notice this distinctly if you study the Bible in charge of the Ephesians, that the day of the Lord is always distinguished from the day of Christ in that the day of Christ has to do with blessing for the people of God, and the day of the Lord has to do with judgment for the enemies of God.

So, this is directly translated, the day of the Lord. In the light of the context, it is apparent that someone had forged the letter and signed all the names to it, and God believed the Thessalonian believers on the impression that particulation had come and taught them unexpectedly.

You see, when the apostle preached the gospel in Thessalonica, we read in chapter 1 that the Thessalonian believers turned to God for my host, to serve the living and true God and to wait for his son from heaven.

While they were waiting for his son from heaven, these epistles from time immemorial state that they were going through a time of horrible tribulation and trial and persecution for the faith in Jesus Christ.

They were like that for detection. When someone came along, and that's why it tells us, now do not be deceived, neither by some false spirit or by a letter like it comes from us, as that the day of the Lord is present.

Then he says, this day shall not come, notice verse 3, except there come not a falling away, but he falling away. Apostasy in the Greek means a departure from truth. So, the departure from truth began immediately following the coming of Jesus Christ.

Why, John, in his first epistle and in all three of them, as a matter of fact, mentions that in 90 years after Christ, there was already an anti-Christ in the world, and the world has been given to see a departure from the things that God has done for 2 ,000 years.

And so, a falling away is different from he falling away. What he is talking about here is a time when there should be an absolute and complete departure from all truth, an absolute turning of the tide upon all the truth that God has given to us in this world.

Now, notice he says, don't let anybody deceive you for that day, that is the day of the Lord, the day of judgment, tribulation, shall not come except there come he falling away, and then the man of sin be revealed.

Now, in Apostasy, again, it was very clearly told that at the commencement of the great tribulation period, as a man coming upon the scene, he is going to make a firm covenant with the nation of Israel.

As an example of this, the Jewish nation, for the first half of the tribulation, shall live in a time of relative safety and peace, and twice that. He is that one who shall make his appearance, offering himself as the leader who can solve all of your problems.

The Antichrist and the Restraining Work of the Holy Spirit

The Lord Jesus said in John's Gospel, remember this, speaking to the Jews, he said, I am come in my Father's name, you won't deceive me, but another shall come in his own name, and him you will deceive.

That's why, as we read a moment ago, notice in verse 11 of chapter 2, "...for this cause God shall send in strong delusions, that those who believe beliars from us, that they all might be damned who believe not the truth, yet for that pleasure in unrighteousness.".

And what the Spirit of God is saying here is this, that Jesus said, "...I am the door by which men enter into hell, and say, I am the way, the truth. I am the truth concerning God, and salvation, and the way to be saved.".

Now, says the Word of God here, that God, in the coming days, if you listen carefully and say, man and woman, if you reject God's salvation and do not believe on Christ for any reason, or if Jesus were to come today and you're left to go through the great tribulation, you said this, that because you would not receive the life of a true town, God will make you believe the lie.

In other words, my dear friends, listen, if you will not have God's Christ, you'll have the antichrist. Okay, now look, at the commencement of tribulation, according to the prophecy of Daniel, this man makes the parents from the seed.

Then there's the coming of Israel as their champion. He made even the one who furnishes much of the finances and much of the know-how, and everything for the rebuilding of their temple in Jerusalem. But Daniel said that midway of the seventieth week, this is Daniel, this is the seventieth of tribulation, then this wicked one will turn around and cause the sacrifice and oblation to seed.

In the restored temple during the first half of tribulation, the Jewish nation will be worshiping and offering up sacrifices like they did in the days prior to those of the coming of the Lord Jesus. But midway of this seventieth period, this man will make the covenant for all to sacrifice and oblation to seed.

Notice the striking similarity. It speaks here of someone holding back the progress of evil in the world today. Why? Because God has an appointed time when this man that Daniel mentions in the prophecy is going to make his appearance in the world.

Now, notice very carefully, look in verse 6. What's holding back the progress of evil? What's keeping back the manifestation this man is seeing? What's keeping him from making his appearance right now?

He speaks in verse 6 of that which restrains, and in verse 7 of he who now restrains or hinders. I believe it is the church of God in verse 6, and it is the spirit of God in verse 6. He, beloved friend, has seen the greatest restraining force of evil against evil in the world.

It is the Holy Spirit of God dwelling in the bodies of God's people. The law has a significant effect upon society, because if you don't believe it, notice the next time you're flying down the road at sixty-five, which is perfectly legitimate most anywhere, and if you see a blue light from where you're parked along the road, you automatically have to put off the gas pedal, because the law does have a restraining influence.

But the greatest restraining influence in the world today is the Holy Spirit of God who dwells in the bodies of believers. I've seen it proved. I don't know how many times. You give me a Christian in this place today who has seen six feet of employment, and you go in that place, and you put up your stand and let people know you're safe, and bring it back up with a brighter, consistent light, and it'll begin to clean up the filthy mouths around you.

I've had people apologize to me for churching in my church. You know, the answer I've given you is, don't mind me if you don't mind churching in the presence of God, why should you pay attention to me?

But, you see, the fact remains that the presence of the Holy Spirit of God in the bodies of Christians does have a retarding influence upon evil. But, you see, my friends, before this man here who is called the man of sin can be the hero, notice in verse 4, "...opposing and exalting himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped, so that yet God should live in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.".

This is the full term of Daniel's prophecy. And, midway through the tribulation, the Jews, much to their surprise and as a consequence of the rejection of God's presence in the Messiah, they'll accept the Antichrist, and he'll fool them and deceive them.

Midway through the tribulation, he will go up into the temple and say, "'You Jews, you have no more religious services, no more sacrifices. You've got to fall down and work the faith. Those who refuse will be smoted by the sun.'".

The consequence of the rejection of God's presence is always judgment, whether it be the Jews in the tribulation or Gentiles who die without Christ and are lost forever in hell. But, my friends, when this man takes his place in the temple at the end of the tribulation, this will be because, listen, their extreme influence has been taken out of the way.

Notice verse 7, "'For the mystery of Moloch's death is already brought, only he who now himself will be taken out of the world.'. This spoke of Moloch's spirit of God. Undermine this word, helpfully, and God will say he'll be taken out of the world.

Never make the mistake of saying that when the truth will go up to heaven, the spirit of God will be taken out of the world. The Bible never uses such language. Out of the way! Typically, he'll be out of the world and out of the rest.

Then you're walking today in your favorite pathway through the world. That's meditation. You've been going there for years, enjoying the volatility of taking the walk, and this time you're passing along the pathway and a limb has fallen from off a tree, and your problem of constant progress is hindered.

That limb restrains you and holds you back. You reach down to pick it up from there, and you take it out of the way and you behold it's going to take only about a while. Now, as Jesus Christ stands for his church, every saved person who has been taken off of this path to heaven, the Spirit of God will not be taken away, but his restraining influence will be exercised through the control of all that he likes will be removed.

So much is at this time that God is going to do something for man that man has always wanted Him to do. Really, you just hang in there, and go and rush in, because He's just come, and let me tell you something sinners, God is going to do something for you that you've always, that you've always wanted Him to do.

Leave me alone! Leave me alone! And God's going to leave you alone, then. Do you know, I believe the word of God, Jesus said, you won't even have a presence that's any longer active. There won't be one single more important power on this earth.

Nobody even to slap you on the back of the head and say, Lordy boy, don't you touch that man's head off like that. Nobody to restrain you! Can you imagine what it's like? Think of a typical weekend now, in one of our metropolitan cities, and even in Germany, anywhere.

Think of all of the people with the panic that's in the world today. So, if you have nothing but guilt in the even name, then listen. What may be like when Jesus comes and it will be today? Take all of these believing people home, separating husbands from wives and children, breaking up families, and what a horrible day it will be.

Then comes the great tribulation, and think of it, think of all the evil that's in your heart. Think about the evil between every type of the human body. What will it be like to the great tribulation, period?

When there's no optimal vision against evil, no end of inhibition against evil. Every unsafe goal on this earth will be left perfectly free without any restraint whatsoever to follow every desire of the human heart to its natural conclusion.

And won't you slip away on a determinative night, with the lights turned off, and watch X-rated news on your TV, your magazine, in South Square Mall, or on Main Street. I've been here 2 ,000 years. I don't get it.

I don't get it. Go ahead, sinner. You're living for and rejecting my son for now. You're talking about a time of carnage, and a time of pillage, and a time of destruction. When man shall fall to every pill from his face, his veins will die, and his skin will be cold, and the entire human family will perish from the earth, and in the midst of all of that, God is going to open the windows of heaven and pour out justice upon this world for the retention of Jesus Christ.

This is a great tribulation. Thank God I'm not going to be here. I'm going just before it stops. When Jesus comes, I'm going with. And God, for that promise in the Word, hath in heaven and on earth died, and is now in Christ,.

And I'll be made alive with every man in this whole world. Praise the Lord.

Praise the firstborn, and for the place that is coming. And the only hope I've got, and the only truth I've got, is the blessed assurance that I belong to Jesus Christ. That's all I do. Thank God that's all I need.

Revelation 6 and the Wrath of the Lamb

I'm telling you, my friend, it's going to be a horrible time, a great tribulation. And you see, the thing about this, my dear friend, you don't realize, is that tomorrow, certainly in the book of Revelation, chapter 6, we read a very important passage a moment ago in relation to this terrible judgment.

And here we read about a sick seal associated with earthquakes and so on. And may I suggest in passing, because we must hurry along, that here in this section, in verse 12 -14, there is this phenomenon, which is symbolic.

This is speaking of complete breakdown of all authority and consummate anarchy. And everyone has to do that work of pleasing to himself. And it's going to be a time, I say again, of unparalleled suffering.

And look at the proverb that I would add, that the way of the transgressor is hard, forget it, he makes it harder himself. And the way of the transgressor is hard. And here we find that the typical phenomenon, verse 12, you notice them start from heaven, and heaven departed, and mountains and islands moved out of their place, to speak thus symbolically of a complete breakdown of authority and government, and absolute anarchy and rebellion and murder, and the world pleasing itself in its own blind.

But then notice, you have a striking thing that's going to take place when you have a prayer meeting. And how hard it is to get dear children of God out there and give big prayer meetings. But here, look at the people.

If we had people like this at our prayer meeting, I'd be terribly jealous. In verse 15, it says that kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the cheap men, the maverick captains, and mighty men in every apartment and every streaming.

And look, the saints, they hid themselves in the den and in the rocks of the mountains. And here is your prayer request. They're not praying for God. They're not even praying for the Lord Jesus, Mary, or anybody else.

They're praying for mountains and rocks. I've never heard anybody praying for a mountain or a hill. Never anybody praying for a rock. Look at it, friends. And it says, it says to the mountains and rocks, Wrath of the Lamb?

You ever seen a wrathful lamb? Peaceful goat out of a picture that lays down leavened sniffing strokes of slaughtered Jesus. That just might be the worst for a lamb that ever existed. It just says the Lord Jesus is like a lamb, like a lamb that he's ready to slaughter, like a lamb before he's ready to die.

Who else but not his Lamb? It is so perfectly uncharacteristic of a lamb to be angry. But then, listen, this is the Lamb of God. This is Jesus Christ, now the judge of those who reject him today. And he's been crying to the rocks and the mountains,.

Call upon us, oh, call upon us.