Judgment of the Ungodly — Robert B. Thompson

Revelation 11 and the Two Comings of the Lord

We're in Revelation chapter 11, we're reading verses 18 and 19, in Revelation, Revelation 11 verses 18 and 19. And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great, and shouldst destroy them which destroy the earth.

And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament, and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail. Now it will be helpful if you've heard the prior tapes, because we're talking about the coming of the Lord.

And the coming of the Lord involves two comings. It involves two comings at the beginning of the thousand year period here. And whether this is a literal or figurative thousand years, I do not know. But anyway, one at the beginning and one at the end.

And this is called the day of the Lord. Now how many know the day of the Lord is as a thousand years? Day of the Lord. Now, as far as the coming of the Lord is concerned, all of us are familiar with that.

We say, you know, what's new? Why don't you talk about something new? We all know about the coming of the Lord. But it was not until the last century... Now, you want to realize that the church went into just about total darkness for several hundred years.

From around 400 A .D. until just before the Protestant Reformation, when there became an interest in translating the Bible into the language of the people. Prior to that, it had been in Latin and was the possession of scholars, monks and priests.

And so those are called the Dark Ages because they were dark in terms of religion and they were dark in terms of learning in general. And then came the Renaissance, which was a resurgence of interest in education and also the Protestant Reformation.

And there were precursors, but the one we know best is Martin Luther and the work that he did. Though there were others, translators. Tyndale was one. Huss was another one that labored in the gospel. There were outstanding scholars, martyrs and Christians.

And so the darkness that had prevailed for many hundreds of years began to lift and little by little information was added to the church. Well, the coming of the Lord, that aspect of the revival of truth happened in the last century.

It doesn't go back beyond the 18th century. That's when people began to talk about the coming of the Lord. And as usually happens, when God moves, Satan moves. In the middle of the last century, Mormonism was born.

And there was a great revival in the British Isles. And out of that revival came the teaching of the rapture in the middle of the last century. But there was also prophecy and the outpouring of God's spirit and wonderful things took place.

So immediately there was put into people's consciousness the idea that the Lord was coming. And then was loaded onto that this idea that of the rapture, which started off, not as we know it today, but it started off that there would be 144 ,000 people who would be lifted from the earth to avoid the tribulation period.

That's how it started, with 144 ,000. That came out of, I think, the Apostolic Church, if I'm not mistaken. And then Darby wrote his concept of dispensations, that God moved in dispensations, which has been one of the greatest hindrances to straight thinking that has ever appeared in the planet Earth.

And then came the Sculpio Bible, which is still going strong. Oh, Albert, I tell you, I saw something today coming out of a group of Messianic Jews sending out their stuff for a Christmas present. You can buy the Sculpio Bible.

If they only knew it's the worst enemy they have. It is this whole thing that's so anti-Semitic that it's pathetic. May God hear me and save Israel from Western Christianity. Oh, dear God, you know, the kingdom is for the Jew first.

And it's my hope and prayer to God, Earl, that we will be able to bypass Western theology altogether, Western Christian theology and traditions altogether, and go straight to the Jews with the gospel of the kingdom.

Because all this junk is just anti-Semitic as it can be. That there's a Gentile church which God loves. They're going up to heaven. They have no problems. They are going to dwell in mansions. They are going to be with the lame.

They are in the Garden of Eden. They have everything you could ever imagine, think or hope for, for the lazy carnal flesh. Like a horse going to a horse heaven which he feeds on clover. That's about what it is.

But the Jews, they're down here with an earthly kingdom. The Holy Spirit's gone back to heaven. The Jews are going to preach. 144 ,000 Jewish evangelists are going to preach the kingdom on earth and the teeth of Antichrist without the Holy Spirit.

Now, don't ever get in that group. That's bad news. So, my question to those guys is, on which side is the Apostle Paul? That's the $64 billion question. Is he in the Gentile church up in heaven? Where is he going to be in this thing?

Or Peter? Or James? Or John? They'll all be down here without the Holy Spirit. Sands, the Ruach HaKodesh, trying to preach the gospel which can't be preached without the Spirit. So, they're going to have to kind of gum it.

That's Schofield. And here's this Jewish group sending out... One of the things you can get for Christmas to buy is a Schofield Bible if they have a nice edition of the Schofield Bible. They're cutting their throat out.

You know, the interesting part is that the Messianic Jewish community has brought the faith message and they've brought the whole message of faith and prosperity generally. Well, I expect to see them next in replacement theology.

And then I don't know where they'll be. I sometimes think the Jews are their own worst enemy now. I don't know why it is. But they argue among themselves. They've got half of them over there supporting Perez trying to give away their land.

Now, figure that out. There's the Gentiles. So mad they can't digest their food. And the Jews are over there saying, well, peace, peace, peace. Well, if you can figure it out, I can't figure it out. And you want to get somebody else to really send you into orbit, it's Frank Rollins back there on this question.

So, and my hope is that the bridegroom of Israel, a vision in Gentile, straight to the Jews. God can do it through his Holy Spirit. So he can do that. And that's my prayer. So, this was restored in the middle of the last century.

The Judgment of the Dead in Revelation 11 and Revelation 20

And it was immediately laden with this concept, which is almost totally taught in evangelical circles, that at the next coming of Jesus, that all the believers are going to go to heaven. And then at the end of the thousand year period, everybody else, whether they've ever heard the gospel, or who they are, or what they are, go into the lake of fire for eternity.

And brother, sister, if that isn't cockeyed, nothing I've ever heard is. But that is the uniform teaching of the evangelical churches. Everybody comes up here. Well, then the raster was loaded on top of that.

So whether or not you believe mid-trib, post-trib, pre-rast, post-rast, pre-trib, post-trib, whenever you believe, when it all boils down to, is here, everybody that's saved goes to heaven. There's a shred of Bible for that.

The Bible speaks clearly against that. Much less sending all the rest of the world into a punishment that the human mind can't even comprehend, that they will burn in hell forever with no hope of reprieve.

Ten billion years from now, they'll still be tormented in hell. Whether or not they ever heard the gospel, it doesn't matter, because, you know, it's not true. So in the gospel of the kingdom, you want to pay attention, because this is where we are now, in Revelation 11, 18, and with your scriptures, and you can judge for yourself whether everybody's going up when the Lord comes.

Okay? All the faith. The nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged. Now, if he said the time of the living should be judged, then we would have Matthew 25, wouldn't we?

Where the nations are gathered before Jesus, the sheep and the goat nation. But he says the time of the dead, that they should be judged. How many see that? Do you see that? You came on Tuesday night to sit back and get away from the kids, and look what you're facing.

All right. Now, according to the Bible, the time of the dead, that they should be judged, is here, at the end of the thousand year period. Not at the beginning. That's not the time of the judgment of the dead.

It's the time when the Lord comes and divides the nations, but it's not the time of the judgment of the dead. Yet, here we have it presented as though it's happening immediately. But if you'll turn to Revelation 20, you'll see, Revelation 20, verse 12, you see the time of the judgment of the dead.

Okay? So, everybody turn to that. And it says, Revelation 20, and I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God. Now, is that or is that not the time of the judgment of the dead? All right. So, what we're seeing then is that there's the raising of the witness, which we saw in Revelation.

Some of you haven't been there, so, you know, it's like the fellow said one time, keep one eye on your Bible and one eye on the chart. You know, that's interesting. All right. Now, Revelation 11 is the raising of the witness.

Revelation 11, 12 is the raising of the witness, isn't it?

How many see that? But Revelation 20, 12, way over there, is the time of the dead. Do you see that? So, the whole thing is being treated as the day of the Lord. A thousand years is as a day. All right.

The Day of Judgment and the Call to Godly Living

Now, we can't build anything on one scripture. So, let's go over to 2 Peter, the third chapter, and start with verse 7. I wonder why I'm yelling. You know why I'm yelling? It's because you sit so far back.

If you want me to quit yelling, sit up toward the front. I'm afraid there'll be somebody back there that I won't persuade beyond all reasonable doubt. All right. I can't even hardly see Rosemary. She's all sunk down in the corner.

I don't know whether I'm persuading her or not. All right. Now, 2 Peter 3, verse 7. But the heavens and the earth, which are now, it's talking about the space and the earth, are kept in store, reserved unto fire.

What do you think about that? Against the day of judgment. They now talk about the judgment of the dead and perdition of ungodly men. You know, we divide the world into Christian and non-Christian. But the Bible divides the world into the godly and the ungodly.

And it's dispensational teaching that has perverted our reasoning and has made the church and its doctrine of grace an alternative to godly living. The grace of God in Jesus Christ is supposed to promote godliness.

But instead, it's been warned by Western tradition to be that you don't have to live godly. It's a magic that God has given to save ungodly people. And that is as wrong as anything ever was. Now, Al, here's where it comes in for the Jews.

Jewish Righteousness and the Torah Written on the Heart

All right. Dr. Vishni. You remember Dr. Vishni? All right. Dr. Vishni was a seeker. He was a seeker. Now, he was raised in a godly home because the Jewish people, I don't know about those that are way off in liberal movements, but the orthodox, the ultra-orthodox, the conservative, and so on, have a strong bent for godliness.

Okay? Is that right, Al? And Miriam, you know that. They have a strong thing about godliness. I mean, it's little things, but it shows their reverence. They won't read the Bible in the bathroom, for example.

I mean, this kind of thing. I mean, their life is keyed to a desire. And that's why Paul was having the stress he was because if you notice, Paul, the apostle, was never seeking to go to heaven. He was seeking righteousness.

See, O wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from the body of this death? See? Oh, I thank God. You know, the redemption of the body. He was a Jew. See, we don't understand it. We Gentiles have absolutely gone nuts in this room.

But if you'll study the Baal poem, if you'll study the Jewish reformers, and the real dedicated Jews, I mean, their whole thing is righteousness. True, they have it in terms of the law, and some of it gets extreme.

Nonetheless, that's where the pressure is. Is to live a godly life. To live a righteous life. All right, now, Dr. Vishni had that thought in his mind. And he was seeking, and he was reaching out to different Christian groups, but they weren't making any sense to him because he couldn't equate it with his upbringing.

Nobody was talking about righteousness. And then when he heard the tapes that were coming from here, it hit his Jewish soul. And he said, well, that's what my training is. It's righteousness. Righteous behavior.

That's what my training is. That's what my upbringing is. So they used to commute down to church from Mission Viejo. Because, and Dr. Barry told me this. He said because he could relate to it because we were teaching righteousness.

And he couldn't relate to the church when he was talking about the rapture. It didn't make any sense. Because his whole upbringing. Now, that's why I scream and cry and weep.

And everything else at the thought.

Of Western theology going into Israel. Because if the Jew ever hears the gospel as it's supposed to be preached, he'll recognize that what it is is the Torah moved from the book to the heart. See? What we've said is the law's done away.

But that's incorrect. The law has been moved from the page to the heart. The Torah. So it says in Jeremiah, I was not pleased with the people. He doesn't say anything about not being pleased with the law.

He's not pleased with the people. I was not pleased with them. So a new covenant will I make with the house of Israel and the house of Judah after those days. You cannot make the New Testament with a Gentile.

You have to become a Jew through marriage to Christ because it doesn't apply to a Gentile. There's no such thing as a Gentile church. There's no such thing as a Gentile covenant. It doesn't exist. Does yelling help?

Does it help? I get excited. I mean, I get excited about these things. I mean, the blindness is colossal.

The things that are taught are abominable.

And they produce abominable fruit. There's no such thing as a Gentile church. It's not scriptural. There's no such thing as a Gentile covenant. It's not scriptural. It shall come to pass at these days.

Jeremiah 33. That I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel. Say of the Lord, I will write my Torah. The Hebrew is Torah. I will write the Torah in their hearts and their minds where I put them.

That's repeated in Hebrews, the eighth and ninth chapters. It says nothing about Gentiles. It says it shall come to pass at these days. I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.

Look it up now. Maybe you didn't realize that. It never says to the Gentiles. It's always to the house of Israel. It's always to the house of Judah. Well, then how do we get in? Through marriage to Jesus.

There's one seed. Who's the seed? Jesus. There's no other seed. It's just Jesus. And in Jesus, there's neither Jew nor Greek. There's only the one olive tree. There are not two. So, God comes to a people who have been trained for thousands of years.

The Lord thy God is holy. Be holy for I am holy. I am a righteous God. Keep my righteous ways. Keep my righteous laws. Which they tried to do without faith. And that was the problem. They tried to do it without faith.

But, you know, dispensational teaching teaches that there's never been a righteous man. That's a lie if there ever was. You can go through your Bible and find instance after instance where God declared people righteous.

So, they talk it through their hat. The mother and father, the mother and father of John the Baptist that says they were walking in all the ordinances of the law, blindness. So, it says in Luke. And this crazy teaching comes.

You know, which is a silly little syllogism. Everybody's a wretched sinner. Nobody's done anything. All our righteousness is filthy rags. It's taken out of context. It's from the first chapter of Isaiah.

And it's taken out of context. God was speaking to the Jews and reproving them at that time. He says all tables are full of vomit. You're not serving me. All your righteousness is filthy rags. And the evangelicals have taken that out.

You know, say every word is as true as every other word. And they take it out and make an equation out of it. And every person in the world has never been a righteous person. The Lord would talk about Noah, Daniel, and Job.

So, Noah, Daniel, and Job stood before me. Well, what he was saying was they were righteous. He said to Noah, you're the only righteous man I've found. Then we say there's nobody's righteous. It's crazy.

That's just crazy. It's a warp. It's a lie. Well, the evil that it's done is that you can't relate to it. Because here you bring them to something that is against everything that he's been taught. That man has to live righteously.

Now we say not to live righteously. This is confusing. It doesn't matter whether you live righteously or not. The truth of the matter is Paul must have turned over in his grave 500 ,000 times at the way his teaching has been perverted to mean that now we don't have the Torah.

We have the Torah 10 million times stricter than the Torah ever was on paper. On paper you could serve God one day of the week. And under the Torah on the heart you have to serve God at all times when the rest of God you never speak your own way or speak your own words.

And not just on Sunday or Saturday I should say not just on Saturday but God never said to any Jew present your body a living sacrifice. He says to every Christian present your body a living sacrifice.

It's a Torah it's written in the heart. So we got a job on our hands. I mean we got a job on our hands and I think when by the help of the Holy Spirit we're able to present the kingdom. Now the Jewish that's what the Jews asked Jesus are you going to restore the kingdom?

The Gospel of the Kingdom and the Remnant of Israel

Well see the church doesn't preach the kingdom anymore. They don't know what they're talking about pie in the sky. Well the gospel of the kingdom of God on the earth where the lion lays down the lamb and all that stuff and Jerusalem is filled with children and old people and all the wonderful things that is dear to the Jewish heart that God said would come to pass the new heaven and the new earth prophesied in Isaiah 65 is the message of the kingdom and it's the thing that Paul preached.

And if you look at the last chapter of Acts Paul was sitting in a room had a bunch of Jews and he's reasoning with them about the kingdom. And about the kingdom not about grace anything about the kingdom the last chapter of Acts.

And he finally shook his apron and he says you have judged yourselves unworthy of the kingdom. And then the book of Acts stops but it's never been finished. If you look at the end of Acts it doesn't come to any conclusion it doesn't say amen God bless you or anything else it just stops.

You know? I'm going to tell you why. It's going to be open again and you know what it's going to be? People reasoning with the Jews concerning the kingdom. The kingdom. It's to the Jew time they will not judge themselves unworthy.

I believe their time has come. When the time Israel shall be led away captive into all nations until the Gentiles no replacement and then God's going to come to Israel not with Scofield not with dispensational not with this junk righteous kingdom of God.

A righteousness that is both imputed and wrought out in us through the imbibing of the life of Jesus into our personality until we become a new creature until we become the law manifest nothing that we do it's of Jesus.

It is his life day by day writing line upon line commandment upon commandment in our heart! Covenant! There is no other new covenant! And it's to the Jew first. By the grace of God who are a while out of a wild stock were brought into the house of Israel by the calling of God by the promise of God in Hosea I will call them my people which are not my people and so the promise has passed upon a remnant of Gentiles you can see in Acts it's a remnant several places you know it says such things I have many people in this city and as many as were ordained to eternal life and so on it's a remnant.

I mean we here right now right now at this moment represent a remnant. It's a remnant taken out of a wild tree and drafted on Messiah. The Messiah is the olive tree the word Messiah means anointed with olive oil and the olive tree is Messiah.

And by the promise of God in the first century it passed from the whole house of Israel to a remnant of Jews and a remnant of Gentiles which it's been to this day. But when this remnant of Gentiles has all come in the full number of Gentiles the full number of Gentiles that God has ordained and the foundation of the world has come in God shall turn again to Israel and all Israel shall be saved.

So we're in wonderful days. We're at the winding up winding down I should say to use a legal term incorporation. We're at the winding down this Gentile remnant that God has called to be part of the priesthood.

I'm not talking about salvation. I'm talking about the priesthood. Israel is the priesthood of God. The peculiar people the Jews are a peculiar people to this day. See you could tell they're separate.

They're different. There's something different about the Jews. The blessing of God is on him. You put him in any country and he'll rise to the top. It happens throughout history. That's why Hitler tried to murder them all because he recognized that no matter what he did they're going to rise to the top.

They're peculiar. God's hand is on them and on no other race in that way only the Jews. But when we come in and are married to Jesus the Jewish Messiah of Jesus by marriage exactly as happened with Asenath the wife of Joseph who was an Egyptian she became part of Joseph and the first two children born to them Ephraim and Manasseh.

Jacob blessed them and made them part of Israel. So they were no longer half Egyptian and half Jewish but totally Jewish. Jacob said to Joseph you have the rest of your kids. But Ephraim and Manasseh are mine.

They're mine as Simeon and Levi are mine. Ephraim and Manasseh are mine. And from that that was by prophecies and by that point then the old man died. Yaakov died then. But by that word from God Ephraim and Manasseh became 100

Who have been grafted into the Messiah are not half Gentile and half Jewish. We are the seed of Abraham and the promise to the seed of Abraham is the Ruach HaKodesh the Holy Spirit. And that's why we have the Holy Spirit.

And the Holy Spirit is attractive to the Jewish people as the celebrants of the Feast of Tabernacles have reported on many occasions when the Jews hear the life and the light and the Spirit of God because that is their bread.

That's the children's bread. And then we come on with all this crazy anti-Semitic dispensationalism and grace without works and all this other stuff that has nothing to do with the Torah in the heart or anything else.

It's just a bunch of freeloading Gentiles who are not righteous at all and care nothing about the way of righteousness or anything to do with it just talking about they can't ever be lost because now they're saved in all this junk that has no strength and God knows what He's doing.

And it's time now God is bringing all the people back and He'll feed those Jews. And He'll give them water. He'll send rain. The sea of Galilee is very low. God's going to send rain. We're just seeing the beginning and before God is finished in the nation.

Before God is finished all will come forth from Zion or all. Alleluia. Oh thank you Jesus. How Jesus. You know He was cast off by His brethren and says in Zechariah they shall look upon Him whom they have pierced.

You know what a thing it must be to the heart of Jesus. He wept. He wept. And you talk about patience. He's had to wait for 2 ,000 years. Can you imagine the tension that's in the life of the Lord as it draws close to the day mourns for Him as for an only Son.

Oh it's coming people. The Bible promises it. We see that in the coming of the Lord that there's this 1 ,000 years. And as we are looking in 2 Peter if you look at it 2 Peter 3 verse 7 heavens and the earth are kept reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

Paul, Peter, and the Resurrection of the Dead

See what God is after is ungodliness. The division is not between Christian and non-Christian. It's between godly and ungodly. That's how God divides the world. God is a respecter of righteousness. In fact the Bible says He that works righteousness is accepted of Him.

Speaking of all men everywhere He that works righteousness is accepted of Him. See our minds have been warped. Oh but they don't know Jesus. Well Jesus has come to make us godly. And if we reject Him then we're under judgment.

If we reject Him then we're under judgment. But that has nothing to do with the fact that God respects honesty truthfulness uprightness loyalty. The Spirit of God creates that in us. If we're living right love, joy, peace, longsuffering.

That is what God is looking for. That's the fruit of the earth. All right now. 2 Peter 3 verse 8. But beloved be not ignorant of this one thing. How many want to be ignorant? Well who is the person that said he hated education.

He wanted to be ignorant. He was glad he was ignorant. And someone said Lord bless and answer his prayer. Well we don't want to be ignorant. Beloved be not ignorant of this one thing that one day see as soon as Peter now.

I don't think now. This is my thinking. But I don't think Paul or Peter were into this thousand year period. It doesn't sound like it from their writings. I think both Paul and Peter and John and the rest of them saw the coming they were.

You can tell from their writings that they believed the Lord was coming in their lifetime. Be an instance. How many would like an instance? You'd rather have that than half a pizza. All right. It's in 2 Thessalonians.

I'm going to give you a 2 Thessalonians. I'm going to show you that Paul brother Paul thought the Lord was coming in his lifetime. They don't know anything about a thousand years. See all right now. Look here.

2 Thessalonians 1 verse 7. You who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven. Doesn't that sound like he expected the Lord in his lifetime? You're reading the verse I just read.

See what I'm saying? He's talking to people that were being persecuted and he's saying just take it easy. The Lord's going to come put an end to this. He didn't talk to them about dying and going to heaven.

Dying martyrs death. Do you see that? He didn't say don't worry. You'll have a crown in heaven. He said the Lord is going to come put an end to this. So take it easy. Is that what he said? You are not very convinced.

But that's all right. I'm not going to prove anything here all right now. 1 Thessalonians 4. This so-called rapture business. Which no more rapture you know than a frog has whiskers. It's just not rapture country.

1 Thessalonians 4. You see what he's saying in verse 13. But I would not have you to be ignorant brethren concerning them which are asleep. What's he talking about? Christians that are dying. Well what do you think his concern was?

If the object was to go to heaven why would they be worried about those that died? Certainly they're better off because these people were under persecution. He said I don't want you to be sorry about those that died.

Why? Come on use your brain. Why? Because he was because the whole teaching had to do with people on the earth. And he thought well they're dead. And the people that were alive would be thinking well the Lord's going to come and they're dead.

They won't get in on it. This is the opposite from the way we think. It's hard to get into it because it's been slanted for so long. What did he say? For if you believe that Jesus died and rose again even so that them also asleep in Jesus imagine this is preached as an evacuation.

Can you believe that? Will God bring? That's the message of 1 Thessalonians 4. God's going to bring somebody. Who's he going to bring? The dead relative. The dead Christians. They're afraid they're going to miss out on the kingdom.

They had no confidence about where they went after they died. All they knew was the Jewish scriptures. The Jewish scripture says when you die that's the worst thing that can happen to. You says a living dog's better than a dead lion.

That's how much. That's from the Bible. Believe it or not that's the Old Testament. The worst thing that could happen to them was to go down into a shell into the grave. So obviously these people they died.

Well that's all over for them. They won't be here for the kingdom. See that? So Paul's not going to worry about that. God's going to bring them back. They're going to be here. They're going to get in on it.

And for this we say unto you by the word of the Lord that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent or go before them which are asleep notice that it's talking about the coming of the Lord.

He's going to bring these Christians with him. And that's our hope. Because our hope is the kingdom that's going to be on this world. Well you say we're going to rise up into heaven. The Bible doesn't say that.

Meeting the Lord in the Air as an Honor Guard

Look what it says. It says we should caught up to meet the Lord in the air people. The air doesn't go up very high. You know you go up on a real high mountain. You begin to pinch. You know why? The air's thinning out.

And you don't have to go very high to run out of oxygen. You fly in a jet. You have a pressurized cabin and anything happens to it. An oxygen mass comes down. It doesn't go up very high. How many see the word it says.

And the dead in Christ shall go straight up to heaven. How many see that? See where it says to go with the Lord to heaven. See that? How many see that? That term meet. They tell me I wasn't there at the time.

But they say that that term was used. It was an occasion. It was a tradition in a village that when a dignitary a Roman dignitary came uh with soldiers and so on that the elders would go outside the village to meet him.

The word that you not to go backward into Rome but to welcome him to the village as they come in. It's just like you go out on the front step and down the walk and out into the driveway to meet your relatives.

Which you probably do. You don't sit up in your house. Wait till they knock on the door. If you know they're out there. You go out to meet them. Don't you? Blake goes out to meet them. The dog and everybody else runs out to meet the people.

So that's the term that's used there doesn't mean anything about going anywhere with the Lord. That's all imaginary. This is the coming of the Lord people not the going of the church. We rise up to meet him.

Why do we rise up to meet him? Because it is his witnesses going up to be an honor guard when his glory appears in the heavens. We shall rise up where the carcass is. Where shall the eagles be gathered together.

We who feed on the body and blood of the lamb shall rise up be one with him. That's why it says so shall we be ever with the Lord. Because it is by the way the thing that raises you in that day is not doctrine not your acceptance of the Lord but his body and blood.

Body and blood that raises you. It's a love story people. It's a love story. The son of God loves his bride so much that the way he could express it best and how could you express it more was to give her to eat his flesh and to drink his blood thus making himself incomplete.