The Feasts of Jehovah 11 the Reign of Christ — John W. Bramhall

Wonderful 23rd Psalm, the secret of a happy life, the secret of a happy death, and the secret of a happy eternity, all because when one can say, the Lord is my shepherd. I hope that every one of you will be in the house of the Lord forever, in that eternal day.

Zechariah’s Prophecy of the Coming Kingdom

Shall we turn to the prophecy of Zechariah tonight? Reading in chapter 14, the last chapter of this great prophecy of Zechariah, next to the last book in the Old Testament, commencing to read, if I may please, at verse 12.

Reading to the end of the chapter, and this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem. Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongues shall consume away in their mouth, and it shall come to pass in that day that a great tumult from the Lord shall be among them, and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor.

And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem, and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together, gold and silver and apparel in great abundance. And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the calf, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents as this plague.

And it shall come to pass that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.

And it shall be that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain. And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not that have no rain, there shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses holiness unto the Lord, and the pots in the Lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar.

Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts, and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and see therein. And in that day there shall be no more the Canaanite, or the merchant man in the house of the Lord of hosts.

Revelation’s Vision of the Holy City

Revelation please, would you turn me to the book of Revelation chapter 21, reading very briefly in the 21st chapter of the book of Revelation, beginning at verse 9. And there came unto me one of the seven angels, which have the seven vials, full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.

And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God, and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.

Chapter 22 please, very briefly. He showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruit, and yielded her fruit every month, and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and his servants shall serve him, and they shall see his face, and his name shall be in their foreheads, and there shall be no nightmare, and they need no candle, neither light of the sun, for the Lord God giveth them light, and they shall reign forever and ever.

May God bless the reading and the hearing of his precious word. It has been a very great joy personally, and a blessing to be here this past week, and with you enjoy the teaching of God's word in relation to the feast of Jehovah.

I'm sure that we have seen as the chart is presented to us, the primary application of these feasts in relation to Israel of old. Second, we have also enjoyed the dispensational teaching that they have brought to us in relation to God's redemptive purposes in relation to his people Israel.

May I say, do not believe that God is true with his people Israel. He is not, but he will yet fulfill the promises that were given to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the promises that were given to the successive people of God in the days that followed, and yet he will glorify his people Israel in this present scene as we shall see tonight.

We thank God also that we have seen something, not only of his purposes with Israel, but his purposes in relation to the human race. The chart before you in its upper part gives the message of the program of redemption from a past eternity to an eternity that is to come.

Based upon the death of the Lord Jesus Christ, redemption has been provided for the human race. The sacrifices of the Old Testament, the sacrifices of Judaism, they all pointed to the coming of the Son of God, whose death upon Calvary's tree has brought an eternal redemption for every man and woman, boy and girl, who will put his or her trust in the Savior.

God grant that you will know your soul is redeemed. If not, may I exhort you, turn to the Savior before it is too late. Now we have been touching upon the latter part of the chart, and I would like to point out in the concluding message, and for the benefit of friends who may not have been with us, the last three feasts have a particular earthly meaning in relation to the future, but they also have a particular heavenly meaning in their typology in relation to the church.

Israel, the Church, and the Present Age

Now may we make a clear distinction. God's program in the present age is the formation of the church, while Israel as a nation has been scattered. May I quote the words of Paul in 1 Corinthians 10, 32, give none offense, neither to the Jew, nor to the Gentile, nor to the church of God.

And God divides with three classifications the human race in that manner. There is the Jew, one who has not believed on the Lord Jesus. There is a Gentile, one who has not believed on the Lord Jesus. But when a Jew believes upon the Lord Jesus, when a Gentile believes upon the Lord Jesus, he or she is immediately, by divine grace and divine power, through the Spirit of God placed in the testimony that is the present divine testimony of this age, the formation of the church.

O beloved, I ask the question, do you belong to that church which is the body of Christ? For every born again believer, bought with precious blood, immediately is placed into that body of Christ which is the church.

And may I state that the only scriptural membership, member of his body, of his bones, and of his flesh. What a joy to know when a believer trusts Christ, when a sinner trusts Christ, they are joined to the Lord.

May I ask the question, I don't ask what church you joined, I want to ask if you've been joined to the Lord. That's the important question. Do you belong to him? For the moment is coming, and that has been the subject of these past nights and mornings.

The moment is coming, and very near, when the present age of the church will end. May I repeat that to some of you it may be a strange thing, but the church is not going to stay on the earth. No, the age of Christianity will terminate, and its termination is the coming of the Lord.

Pentecost, the Rapture, and the Church’s Hope

Now may I point out, and you have it in the scriptures, when we touched upon the study of the Feast of Week for Pentecost, we found it typifying the great antitype of New Testament truth, the descent of the Holy Spirit.

For it was at Pentecost the church began, when the baptism of the Spirit took those believers and brought them into that living organism, uniting them to the risen head Christ above. The church began with a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, as it descended in that blessed place where the saints were gathered on the day of Pentecost according to Acts 2.

The church commenced with a sound from heaven. Now note, as we have seen in 1 Thessalonians 4, the church will terminate its earthly pilgrimage by a shout from heaven. As we read in 1 Thessalonians 4, for the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first.

Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together in the clouds, with them in the clouds, to beat the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Beloved, may I say, I'm looking forward to going.

Are you? My friend, if you're unsaved, may I state it in these words, the moment is coming when every Christian will be gone, translated in a moment of time, and taken in the twinkling of an eye, to beat the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

And we saw that the feast of trumpets pitified the coming of the Lord and the saints being gathered in the air. We went on to note that the day of atonement, when Israel's national cleansing, when their restoration as we read it in Zechariah chapter 12 and 13, will be effectively accomplished, and when Israel will see him whom they have pierced, and that godly remnant will thus acknowledge with deep mourning, confession, repentance, they pierced the one who was their blessed Messiah.

Again may I repeat, read Isaiah 53, and you have Isaiah 53, the great national confession of Israel in that coming day of repentance. And all the joy it will be when they acknowledge him, for then a fountain will be opened for cleansing, for the nation of Israel to be restored to their Jehovah, and brought under the reign of their Messiah.

And we saw the counterpart of that in New Testament truth, that we believers after the coming of the Lord will stand before the judgment seat of Christ, to be reviewed as well as rewarded for the works that we have done to his glory, or to suffer loss as the case may be.

The Feast of Tabernacles and Israel’s Millennial Glory

Now this morning we touched on the last feast, the Feast of Tabernacles, and may I say this was the greatest feast. The Feast of Tabernacles, the greatest for joy, and festivity, and glory, and honor.

Now may I repeat as we stated frequently, the first Feast of Passover was the foundation of Israel's redemption of the nation. The Feast of Tabernacles typified the glory and the fullness of blessing to which God Jehovah would bring them.

Now may I state, Israel has never yet as a nation enjoyed what God has for them as typified by the Feast of Tabernacles, the glory of their land, the glory of their kingdom, and the greatness of their nation throughout all the world.

Now may I put this thought into your mind, you may not believe it, matters not, for it will not change the truth of it. But Israel, despised by the nation, will someday be the greatest nation in all the world, and reign in glory with their Messiah.

That is what the Feast of Tabernacles pointed to, to a pious Jew, as well as pointed back to the pilgrimage that God brought their ancestors through when they came from Egypt through the wilderness to the land of promise.

Now we have seen that the Feast of Tabernacles will be kept in that coming day when the Savior returns and their Messiah rules over his earthly people. Now we have read in Zechariah, and I want you to see how in that day the Lord comes to deliver his people.

May I read in chapter 14 please, may I begin at verse 1. Behold the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoils shall be divided in the midst of thee, for I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city shall be taken, the houses rifled, the women ravaged, half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.

Then shall the Lord go forth and fight against those nations as when he fought in the day of battle. Now beloved, if you look at these words, they're prophetic. They are the prophetic words of the Spirit of God through his servant Zechariah.

The whole prophecy of Zechariah concerns God's earthly people and Judah and Jerusalem from the beginning to the end, in relation to the nations that are around them. And brings out the coming final conflict between Israel and the nations when they shall be ultimately delivered.

And surrounded by the nations that they will be in that last day at Jerusalem, it will be then when possible. Possible survival seems to be helpless and hopeless. The Lord comes, and will you note these words, verse 3.

Then shall the Lord go forth and fight against those nations as when he fought in the day of battle. God has fought for Israel in the past. God will fight for his earthly people in the future. Now go down to the chapters of verse 14 if you please.

I want you to notice something that's very peculiar to the book of Zechariah. In verse 14 we have these words, and Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem, and the wealth of all the nations round about shall be gathered together and so on.

Now note the words you have in verse 3, the Lord shall fight. You have in verse 14, Judah also shall fight. Go back with me to chapter 12 please. And I want you to note the 8th verse of chapter 12. For if you want to get the vision of a conflict, and the vision of a final stage of battle in that coming day, here it is.

Verse 8 of chapter 12. In that day shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Then read on. And he that is feeble among them, at that day shall be as David, and the house of David shall be as God as the angel of the Lord before them.

Now I want you to notice something. Some of you may have wondered, and some of us have not wondered, at the tremendous victory that was given to Israel in 1967 during the Six Day War, so-called. But here you have an account in the word of God prophetically given, that in that day, not last year or two years ago, but in that day of the coming of Messiah, at the great day of atonement, when thus they will be brought in recognition and acknowledgement of their sin to the Messiah of Israel, and confess in repentance their guilt, and their restoration shall be effective.

In that day of his coming, when their destruction seems imminent, not only will the Lord fight, but the very inhabitants, he that is feeble among them at that day, shall be as David. What an army! David was the greatest warrior in Israel, without question of doubt.

He stands supreme in the history of God's earthly people as a mighty warrior, as he brought the nation back to Jehovah and restored the ark in the center of his people. And in that coming day, not only will God fight, but his earthly people will be given the power and the strengthens of a David to fight in the battle too.

And what's the outcome? We know the outcome. The nations will be cut off, and God will deliver his people. Now I want you to note, in connection with the Feast of Tabernacles, which we stated would be commemorated during the Millennial Kingdom, that that Feast of Tabernacles will thus be maintained every year.

For we have read in this chapter, in verse 16, it shall come to pass that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts, and to keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

And you will find that in that coming Millennial Day, which the Feast of Tabernacles typifies the Millennium when Israel will be in their land, that Feast of Tabernacles will be kept by all the nations coming to share the glory of it with the people of Israel in that coming day.

That Feast of Commemoration, reminding them that God has brought them into the blessing of that land. May I remind you what we said this morning in the 117th Psalm? Well in that 117th Psalm, you have the language of Israel in that day.

Praise the Lord, all ye nations! Praise him, all ye people! For they will call the nations to come up, sharing in the praises of Jehovah. And in that day, with their King and his palace at Jerusalem, they will thus be over the nations in power and glory, and the nations will acknowledge in worship and adoration the glory of their Messiah.

The Messianic King in Psalms 42–48

May I give you something to follow through with? Read sometime at your convenience Psalm 42 all the way through 48. Study it carefully. It's called the second book of the Pentateuch of David. It harmonizes with the book of Exodus.

And in Psalm 42 and 43, you hear Israel crying because of the oppression of the enemy. It's a prophetic psalm, crying because of the oppression of the enemy. In Psalm 44, you hear them cry that God their King may come and deliver them.

They remember what he did for their fathers. They call upon him to come and deliver them in Psalm 44. They acknowledge he is their King, and they call upon him. Read Psalm 45, and they describe the spirit of God through David, describes the glory of that Messianic person.

His heart is filled, and his tongue is as the pen of a ready writer, as he speaks of things pertaining to the King, and he describes the glory of that coming King, as he girds his sword upon him in majesty, and comes.

In Psalm 46, the nation and the city of Jerusalem is surrounded by their enemies, and the mountains, the nations are in upheaval. And, but there is peace and rest for them who know that God is their refuge.

And in Psalm 46, he comes, and he speaks these words to all the world. Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. And he describes the coming of that one, putting the nations down, and thus delivering his people.

Read Psalm 47, and you'll find the psalmist describing the greatness and the glory of the King. Our God is King throughout all the earth, and they describe the majesty and the greatness of their King.

Read Psalm 48, they call the nations to come and see the city of the great King. Mark well a bulwark, see the glory of our King, of his palace, and of his kingdom. And they acknowledge that God is our God forever and ever.

O beloved, they are psalms that describe from the oppression of the enemy in the last days, the ultimate victory and confirmation at the coming of their Messiah, when he will be King over all the earth.

Bless your heart, I wish he were here. Know how the world needs him. And may I say, for the world, for Israel, and for the church, the coming of the Lord is necessary. Thank God for the truth of it. Praise his name for such a truth.

The Feast of Passover and Redemption by Christ’s Blood

Jesus is coming again. And oh what it will bring for the world, for Israel, for the church, for the church to be caught up and united with him in heavenly glory. For Israel to be ultimately restored in the land and under the messianic reign of their Messiah upon this scene.

For the nations to be ruled over for one thousand years under his messianic glory. I wish he were here. My heart sent with John, even so come, Lord Jesus come. Now go to the end of our chapter in Zechariah.

I wanted to know that God insists the nations will gather to worship, commemorating that feast of tabernacles. And we go to verse 18. If the family of Egypt go not up and come not, they have no reign.

There shall be the plague, wherewith the Lord will smite the heathen of the nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. This shall be the punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

Beloved may I make mention of this. I want you to note it. The feast of Passover, the feast of tabernacles are the only two revealed feasts to be kept during the millennial reign of our Lord Jesus. One can recognize why.

This because it is the basis of Israel's redemption and the redemption of any in the human race. That foundation will never be forgotten. And this will be kept because it celebrates the joy of the blessings into which Jehovah brought his people and thus brought blessing to the world.

May I give you this thought. I'd like to read it if you please. I'd like to go back if I may to Ezekiel chapter 45 and bring you the scriptures concerning it. Ezekiel chapter 45. Ezekiel chapter 45 where you have the words of the prophet telling us of these things.

Chapter 45 and verse 21. Note these words. And they're in relation to the coming millennial temple, the institution of that messianic reign of the Lord Jesus and the rebuilding of the temple. And we read in verse 21.

In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days. Unleavened bread shall be eaten. Verse 25. In the seventh month, in the fifteenth day of the month, shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days, which was the feast of tabernacles, according to the sin offering, according to the burnt offering, according to the meal offering, and according to the oil.

Now let me repeat. Please let me repeat it. Oftentimes we wonder what is God going to do with that which he instituted in the nation of Israel as seen by the seven feasts. Well beloved, two only particularly will be kept.

And these are the two. The feast of Passover. I say again, it is the basic foundation of Israel's redemption. They will never forget they have been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. That paschal Lamb, a type of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.

They will never forget they were redeemed by the blood of that Lamb. And beloved, may I remind you that you and I must also be redeemed by the blood of the Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ. There is no redemption except by the blood of Christ.

You remember Paul said, accepted in the beloved, in whom we have redemption, through his blood, the forgiveness of sin, according to the riches of his grace. Beloved, listen please. Whether on the earth, whether in heaven above, in that coming day, all the saints, earthly, heavenly, have been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.

Let me repeat it. You a Gentile, can only be redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. My friend in the meeting, have you been redeemed? Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power? Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?

Are you fully trusting in his grace, his power? Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? And if you are, may I say this, just as in that feast of tabernacles in the millennial kingdom, his earthly people will celebrate with joy forever their redemption and their blessings, so even in heaven above.

The saints in heaven above will likewise celebrate what he has done. Thou hast redeemed us unto God by thy blood, out of every nation and tongue, kindred and tongue in nation, and has made us kings and priests unto our God, and we shall reign on all over the earth.

O beloved, if there's any truth I'd rather emphasize tonight in the closing message, it is the truth, we can only be redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ. Absolutely. Neither is there salvation in any other, for there's none other name of the heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

Holiness in the Millennial Reign

Now go to our chapter in Zechariah, and let's conclude it. And note in that chapter of Zechariah the concluding words, as Zechariah by the Spirit writes of the closing days, when all shall be accomplished, and that all the nations must come to the feast of tabernacles annually.

Now note verse 20 and 21. In that day, and go with me, I remind you, in that day, you have the repetition of this in the last three chapters only, you have it 16 times. May I point out to you, that if you study the last section of Zechariah, from chapter 12 through 14, which is the last great burden of prophecy, as well as in the whole book, you'll find the great subject revolves around the nations, Jerusalem, and the coming of the Messiah.

That day, that day, that day, that day, for every pious Jew knew that the meaning of that expression, in that day, was the coming of the Messiah. And if you read the last three chapters, you'll find the nations mentioned 13 times.

You'll find Jerusalem mentioned 20 times. And you'll find the expression in that day 16 times. O beloved, how near we are to that day. Now note what he says, in that day, that day of Israel's deliverance, that day when the feast of the tabernacles will be fulfilled in its great kind, in the blessing of the millennial reign, in that day, there shall be upon the bells of the horses, holiness unto the Lord.

Beloved, may I remind you, I think I mentioned it this morning, one of the sad facts regarding this feast of tabernacles. It was kept in the book of Joshua. When Israel came into the land of Canaan, they kept it under Joshua.

But we mention, when you read Nehemiah chapter 8, we find it was not kept for 1 ,000 years. But beloved, may I state, the faithfulness of that kingdom, and the faithfulness of that millennial reign, the feast of tabernacles, as well as the feast of Passover, will be faithfully kept, when God will write his laws into the hearts of his redeemed remnant.

And that feast will be kept faithfully, annually, and not only by his earthly people, but responsible to bring the representation of the nations to the feast too. And note what characterizes it. You remember we read this morning in John 7, we read of that feast being kept in the days of Jesus.

It was anything but what we read here in Zechariah. It was not holiness unto the Lord. There was an emptiness, there was a mockery about it. Jesus himself stood there rejected. He himself challenged, if any man first let him come unto me and drink.

And the empty hearts of his people, dissatisfied and needing him, was manifested to his own soul. And there was nothing of holiness unto the Lord. It was a knackered performance that made it what John calls it, nothing but the feast of the Jews, not the feast of Jehovah.

Judgment, Last-Days Sin, and the Nearness of Wrath

But in that coming day, holiness unto the Lord. My, what a world to live in then. Hmm. Beloved, my heart aches when I read, when I see, when I hear of the lawlessness and iniquity that abounds today. Can I give you something in passing?

I want you to note the contrast. Go with me to Revelation chapter 9. I want you to note the contrast between that coming day and the present day, as well as the days which still may yet be, must be fulfilled before our Lord takes the kingdoms of the earth.

Revelation chapter 9. The chapter particularly, as far as I'm concerned, according to the Spirit of God's teaching to my heart, the chapter pertains to the period that will be in the great tribulation, when the judgments of God shall be poured out upon this unsuspecting earth.

But I want you to note, you read at your own convenience the chapter. You have what is called the sixth trumpet judgment. And that sixth trumpet judgment, as you read of it from verse 14 and on, is one of the most terrible judgments upon the earth.

Now if it can be taken literally, there will be the destruction of a third of the population. And may I say that wouldn't surprise me. Beloved, listen. And I say this with earnestness and sadness. There are more people nearer to the wrath of God today than ever before.

The world is rapidly nearing the day of divine visitation, when God's judgments must be poured out, as the book of Revelation indicates. But I want you to see the character of sin in the last days. As you go down the end of the chapter, I'll read verse 21 only.

Neither repented they, even after the judgment, neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. Now these four words describe the predominant moral sins that prevail at the end of this age.

Murder, multiplicity of murders, and your life and mine is not even safe today upon the streets of America. We know that. And then the next description, sorcery. And it's a Greek word, pharmikia. And we derive our name, pharmaceutical, pharmaceutics, pharmacy, from this word.

And the original word means, literally, the administering of drugs. And beloved, you and I are living in such a day, we've never seen such illicit use of drugs. Setting in flame the passions of the heart and the passions of the life.

And this is one of the predominant sins at the end of the age. And it's present. And then follows fornication. And now you and I see the abundance of sexuality. And all of it is but the demon powers of hell letting loose their energy upon the human passion.

And then what follows? Theft. Read Zechariah sometime. I think it's in chapter five. And one of the great sins of the last days is theft, perjury, men seeking to gain by dishonest methods what they can find in the earth.

Dishonest way, dishonest ethics of business. And it's one of the moral sins of the end of the age. Now beloved, look. These four moral sins, you can find them in profusion today. And if that be so, surely we must be near the coming of the Lord.

And coming for his church. And may I say, my fellow friend, if you're not saved, if he comes and takes this church out of this world, you will know the visitation of divine judgment in a manner that has never been known before in human history since the days of Noah.

Oh beloved, look to God we realize the pending judgments that are hanging over this world. And you and I who are saved don't have much time to gather in the lost sins for our savior. For the wrath of God will be let loose upon this guilty sinful world.

Salvation Through Repentance and Faith in Christ

But in contrast, go back to Zechariah 14 and note the character of that messianic reign. Characterized by holiness unto the Lord. Oh Lord Jesus, I wish you'd come. On earth there will be subdued and holiness in character will prevail instead of unholiness.

Holiness unto the Lord, and he goes on to write, the pots in the Lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts.

And all they that sacrifice shall come, take of them and boil or sieve therein. And in that day, now you know, and this is very very unique, in that day there shall be no more the merchant man. That's the proper translation in the house of the Lord of hosts.

When the Lord Jesus was here, what did he say? My father's house is a house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves. But in that day of restoration and glory, wholeness will be manifested. My, how I wish the earth was delivered.

And it will be soon. Oh beloved, I don't know whether you believe it, but I commend to you the study of God's word to real life. There is a kingdom coming, and that kingdom will be reigned over by the Son of God, Jesus Christ himself.

Revelation chapter, chapter 20 of Revelation chapter 19, Robert tells that when he comes from heaven, with the armies of heaven attending, across his vesture is this name, King of kings and Lord of lords.

And well as the poet written, Jesus shall reign wherever some, doth his successive journeys run, his kingdom stretch from shore to shore, till moon shall wax and rain no more. Well will the prayers that we so often call the Lord's prayer, the sword, yet it's ours.

Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. That day is nearing. Then my friend, may I ask a look, did you ever stop and think carefully, the Lord's coming, this world here going to know the return of our Lord Jesus Christ.

May I ask, what will happen to you when he comes? Do you belong to him? I do not believe I would be able to sleep tonight if I were unsane. Realizing the nearness of the return of Christ, my friend in the meeting, why don't you make sure by coming to Christ, that your soul belongs to him.

Let me give you these thoughts quickly. You say, how can I? First, you must acknowledge that you are a lost and guilty, hell deserving sinner in the sight of a holy God. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.