22. When Will Jesus Return? (End-Times Series Part 3)

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Welcome to the podcast where we prod the sheep and beat the wolf. This is episode 22.

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When will Jesus return? If the topic of eschatology is fraught with endless amounts of speculation and uncertainty and it is

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Then trying to understand when Jesus is going to return Seems about like the lookout point atop obfuscation mountain

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For any brave soul who'd venture up there tens of thousands of absurd and foolish

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Predictions are lying there greeting you doubly dead in the frozen tundra atop that silly peak but if you look closely enough metaphorically speaking

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Just ahead of the outlandish pile of prophetic bodies You'll see a humble little plaque that reads no man knoweth the day or the hour

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Which seems like an appropriate moniker to eulogize such a spectacle now, obviously, this is a fictional picture but it gets at a point and If a scene like that seems comical to you and it is

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Perhaps you're not aware of the litany of false predictions that litter the landscape of church history.

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There are thousands upon thousands upon thousands of False predictions on when

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Christ is going to return these rabid Staggering ruminations that are based on a flawed hermeneutic are replete in our past these unbridled

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Fomentations that not only bring unrest among the body of Christ in every single era of church history

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But they prove themselves to be nothing more than the blind opinions of irresponsible churchmen

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Based entirely upon a love of speculation and world events that have done

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Nothing for the building up of Jesus's kingdom or the credibility of the gospel

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If anything these vainglorious attempts have made a pure Mockery of both common -sense reason and Christian prudence in one fell swoop from the earliest

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Postulations of a man named Hippolytus that Christ is going to return in AD 500 because of the dimensions of Noah's Ark to the very most recent predictions that Jesus was going to rapture the church away in 2021, you know because of kovat or something the last two thousand years have been filled with Doomsday duds in the same way that a gas station trash can is filled with lottery losers today

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Enough is truly enough today It's it's not my intention to jump headlong into the madness with the rest of the end time speculators.

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There's enough of that My goal is not to offer up some new hot take on when the end of the world is going to happen

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My goal is to show how we have entirely Misunderstood the language of Jesus's return and if we'll simply look at the topic with sobriety and with vigor

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Then I believe that the confusion will actually abate So let us begin with second coming confusion for what it's worth the vast majority of eschatological buffoonery could be settled by Understanding one critical issue and that is that Jesus does not return just once in the

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New Testament he actually returns twice and Assuming that I've not lost you at that point.

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Let me explain in The New Testament there are two in time comings of Jesus there is his final coming at the end of human history where he's gonna separate the sheep from the goats and he's gonna separate the wheat from the tares that coming is still in our future and no one knows when that coming is going to occur, but there's also a collection of Bible passages and I would actually argue the majority of the end time passages that talk about a different kind of coming that Jesus participates in They talk about a different kind of coming.

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It's not a coming that happens at the very end of human history, but it's already happened It's not a bodily coming

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But a spiritual coming and it's not the kind of Joyful coming where Jesus delivers the elect from all of the fallen people in this world.

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It's actually a coming that causes ferocious Calamity and God's fury to fall upon God's enemies

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So with this assertion It's my humble contention that if we will understand the difference between these two comings

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Then we will alleviate almost all of our confusion, but if we continue to mix up these two comings of Christ Then we will continue to replicate the same level of pollution that has sickened

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Evangelicalism into an evangelical or to an eschatological stupor My opinion is that there is no more need for any of that So we need to press on to what the

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Bible says and that's why we're even doing this series Now the validity of two comings

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While we will deal with this in Future oriented end of world history at some point in the future

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No pun intended the vast majority of biblical second coming language actually refers to a near time

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Event that happened in the life of the people who lived in the Bible That event is the downfall of Jerusalem in the year

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AD 70 just 40 years after Jesus rose from the dead Now let me say it this way the

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Overwhelming majority of biblical passages the ones that you and I growing up were taught that are still to happen in the future.

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In fact Have already occurred in the past, which is not an easy pill to swallow.

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I get that But since I've promised to be both rational and biblical in this series

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We must go through these passages one by one and I'm gonna take all the necessary Time and care to prove these things are true because my goal is that you would not only see the validity of the position

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But you would have confidence in a more hopeful and accurate eschatology,

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I don't want you to sit down in front of a newspaper or in front of a CNN or MSNBC or Fox News or OAN or any of those networks and say oh my goodness

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This is the sign of the end times. No, I want you to understand what the end times mean from the Bible So that you can have confidence and hope in your eschatology and in your faith so for today the only thing that I want us to see is that there are two kinds of second comings in the

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New Testament in the weeks that follow we're gonna look at the relevant passages about each kind of coming and we'll and we'll talk about what the

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AD 70 coming looks like in the Bible and we'll talk about the end of human history coming and what that looks like in the

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Bible, but today our goal is more modest than that today I just want us to see that there's two kinds of comings in the

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Bible and we'll build upon that foundation in the weeks to come So first the end of human history coming

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When we think of Jesus's second coming we often think about the end of history Where Jesus comes back and he claims his elect bride and he takes her home to be with him for eternity

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When that coming happens the world ends Which I must certainly agree with and so does the

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Bible for instance when Paul is talking about this kind of coming He's talking about in 1st

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Corinthians 15. He's talking about the resurrection He's talking about Jesus's final end of world history.

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This is what he says for in Adam all die So also in Christ all the elect will be made alive

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But each in his own order that word is important there Christ the firstfruits after after that those who are

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Christ that is coming then comes the end When he hands over his kingdom to the

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God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ When he has abolished all rule and authority and power for he must reign until he has made all of his enemies under his feet

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The last enemy that will be abolished is death 1st Corinthians 15 22 through 26

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Paul is telling us that there's an order to the events of world history and understanding that order.

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It's gonna help us know When the very end of time is and what that event will look like first We have to get the order correctly and Paul lays out the order in this passage

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He says first all human beings who will ever live at any time or in any place have all equally fallen under Adam Adam became the federal head of humanity for all people past present and future when he rebelled against God That means that his fall not only affected him

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But it affected everyone after him, which of course includes everyone who's ever lived That means

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Cain's firstborn son to the very last person who will ever be born on planet Earth every single human being who will ever live even those who have not yet been born will be

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Covenantally born into the family of Adam and they will become recipients of Adams fallen nature that is the first thing we must understand because that is how the story begins and Paul alludes to it when he says all in Adam die

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The second part of the story that Paul picks up on here is that after Adam sinned God set about a plan of redemption for a specific group of people called the elect a

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Group that the Old Testament era of types and shadows alludes to but that group doesn't really come into full picture perfect clarity until the incarnation of Christ when

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Jesus came He revealed his primary mission was to purchase and secure all of God's Pre -chosen people

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Ephesians 1 4 by transferring them out of the headship of Adam and into the family of God That's first Corinthians 15 22 that we just read and also first Romans 5 12 through 19

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That's the middle part of the story. So when Paul says for in Adam all die, that's the beginning of the story

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We all have a sin nature but so also in Christ the one who came the one who redeemed us the one who purchased us the one who died on the cross for her sins all

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The elect will be made alive. That's the middle part of the story but now

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Paul is gonna endeavor to teach us about the end because we know the beginning in Adam We all die and as Christians we know in Christ will be made alive

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What about the end and that's what Paul is getting at? So the third thing we must understand is that Jesus did that work?

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To transfer us out of Adam's family and into his family this end time work

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He did it in two stages and that's gonna lead us to the very end of time this two stages of Christ redemptive plan

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Jesus established an era where men and women would be saved by faith in Christ that era is the era we live in right now but he also established a future era where we would be transformed into the image of Christ he gave us a present time period where we would be given new hearts by the indwelling of the

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Holy Spirit and a future era when we would be given new glorified bodies a

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Current epoch Where God's people would get their citizenship papers and then a future era where we would populate the celestial city

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Do you see what I'm saying? There's two eras of redemption that are going on right now as we as we're leading towards the end times

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There's a spiritual era where we're saved and then there's a physical era in the future where we get new bodies

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This is so important for us to understand because it lets us know exactly When Jesus has returned is going to happen without an ounce of speculation

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Jesus will return when the last and final member of God's family is saved

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That's the end whenever the last Christian comes to Christ whenever that final person hears the gospel and is converted when the

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Final Christian is made the final heart and dwelt the final passport to his kingdom stamped then the end will come and we know that because because Paul says that Jesus in redeeming his people will hand a completed kingdom to God and that kingdom is not completed until every single member of Jesus's elect bride has come to him and That will happen

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Across every era that God has predestined among every people group tribe and nation that God created and out of Every nation that God has chosen and it's not gonna happen a moment sooner

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It's been happening for 2 ,000 years and it will continue to happen until the final

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Christian is saved Then the end will come and that's what Paul gets at This according to him is when physical death is defeated that's that's it right at the very end

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Because all the spiritual work has been done after the final salvation occurs

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Then physical death will be thrown into the lake of fire and then every believer catch this

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Past present and future will be given a new glorified imperishable body that Signals the very end of the

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Redemption story at that time All of God's people will be set back right again

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Will be like Adam and Eve were in the very beginning before the fall living as redeemed spiritual physical beings in perfect integrated harmony in the glorious Presence of God.

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We will not just be Disembodied souls who are living with God in some way in heaven.

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We will be spirit and body flesh and soul

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Living to the glory of God in the presence of God in the face of Christ Jesus.

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That's verse 42 Those who died This is what

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Paul was trying to get to now in first Corinthians 15 those who died before That new

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Eden era before the last Christian is saved Those who died who were truly saved and they're waiting on the

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Lord's return will be bodily raised from their graves verse 53 through 57 and They will be presented before King Jesus with new radiant bodies that match his

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What Paul's saying is that every single human being who dies before Jesus returns?

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Will be given a new physical body They will be raised from their grave if they were cremated all of their atoms will be put back together

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If they drown in the bottom of the ocean and they were eaten by sharks somehow some way I don't know

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God's in control. All of our bodies will be put back together in a new perfected glorified body

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We will raised we will be raised up to him and that will begin the era of eternity with God And all of those who are

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Alive when Jesus returns are the same reality happens to them as well. They will likewise be caught up in the air with him

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That's 1st Thessalonians 4 13 through 18 and in some way or another All of us whether we died before Jesus returned or whether we were alive when

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Jesus returned all of us will be given new Imperishable bodies that is the point

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Paul is getting at in 1st Corinthians 15. He starts with the beginning of the story He moves to the middle part of the story and he shows how

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Christ is working to present a completed kingdom to God and when That kingdom is completed then

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Jesus returns then he gives us new bodies. That is the story of Christ and his bride the church

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But as I've alluded to before Every passage in the New Testament that talks about the second coming of Christ Doesn't refer to the event that Paul is referring to in 1st

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Corinthians 15 Which means that every second coming passage in the New Testament is not

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About the final end time coming where Christ returns and gives us new bodies and we go with him to live with him forever in heaven that is not what all of the coming passages refer to in the

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New Testament and To force those passages into that mold

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Causes awful head -scratching confusion, which we've seen for the last 2 ,000 years when it comes to eschatology that we would like to avoid moving forward

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So let's look at the second kind of coming now that happens in the New Testament, and that's the AD 70 judgment coming

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The second kind of coming in the New Testament does not occur at the end of the world but when Jesus comes in judgment against Jerusalem in AD 70 and This will be made abundantly clear over many weeks as we go verse by verse through the mound of Biblical data the

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New Testament provides on this topic before we're finished You may have AD 70 references coming out of your ears.

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You may know passages by Josephus in heart by heart But as I've mentioned

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Today, I just simply want you to see that there's a different kind of coming that exists in the text And I'm gonna call it a judgment coming and to do that We're gonna go to one passage today and that's in Matthew 24 verses 1 through 3 the text says

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Jesus came out of the temple and was going away when his disciples came up to point out the temple buildings to him and he

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Said to them Do you not see all of these things? Truly I say to you no one stone here will be left upon another

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Which will not be torn down And as he was sitting on the Mount of Olives the disciples came to him privately saying tell us when will these things happen and What will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age

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Matthew 24 1 through 3? Now in the moments immediately preceding

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Matthew 24 aka Matthew 23 Jesus pronounced a sevenfold

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Covenantal curse of woes upon the city of Jerusalem and its leadership He reminded them that he as God had sent them prophets throughout every

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Old Testament generation and soon Jesus as God would be sending his own disciples over the next 40 years to call the city to repentance

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Look in Acts 1 8 for a reference to that But Jesus tells them that they would not only persist in their disobedience to him

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But the city of Jerusalem would invoke the fury of God for killing the ones that God himself had sent that's

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Matthew 23 34 The final straw for the wicked rebellious

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Jerusalem was coming. This is what Jesus's point is at the end of Matthew 23 Now as a punishment for killing

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God's messengers, even killing God's one and only Son All of God's Covenantal fury would be poured out on that specific generation read

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Matthew 23 35 through 36 Which meant that the city and its house, which is a reference to its temple would be left totally desolate

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Matthew 23 38 So as we turn over to Matthew 24 a passage that many people claim is talking about the end time end of human history second coming of Jesus Then what we have to understand is that in the context?

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Jesus is giving an extended commentary to his disciples about when Jerusalem Judea and its wicked house is going to be left in utter shambles this passage as I'm going to show you

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Cannot be talking about a way off future event Because the context determines that it has to be talking about the event

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That was on all of their minds that Jesus was referring to and that the disciples were asking questions about which is the fall of Jerusalem if We get this we can understand why

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Jesus wasn't impressed in the slightest With all of the buildings in the Herodian temple complex

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Even as his disciples were fawning and slobbering over them themselves Matthew 24 1

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We can also see why the disciples who were ethnic Judeans who loved their temple

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It was a symbol of national pride for these people it we can see why they were

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Distressed at Jesus's prophecy that that this temple would be torn apart brick by brick Matthew 24 2 through 3

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But what most people have not yet seen clearly in this passage is how Jesus limits the entire prophecy to a near -term specific

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Fulfillment, let me explain by highlighting the three questions that the disciples are asking to Jesus They come up to him and I asked the first question when will these things happen?

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So I want you to imagine the scene here as the disciples walked in silence after what Jesus just said that the temple is going to be

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Destroyed and ripped apart brick by brick the disciples are walking in silence with Jerusalem at their back

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Coming up the Mount of Olives Clearly shaken by what Jesus has just told them and they wait long enough for Jesus to take a break and sit down in one

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Of his favorite places, which is the Mount of Olives before bombarding him with these three specific questions

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Now, I think it's interesting with Jerusalem with the Jerusalem temple as a as a backdrop upon the horizon

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I'm assuming that they figured that this was a good time for them to ask him what he meant by his cryptic statements

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They asked him Jesus when were these things happen? Which clearly when they said these things?

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Meant the things that Jesus had just spoken about When they said when will these things happen?

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They're not talking about the end of human history They're talking about the dot the destruction of the temple

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Jesus said I tell you the truth not one stone will be left upon another that's the these things that they're talking about For the disciples.

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They just wanted to know when the temple was gonna be destroyed I mean it seemed clear to them that a brick -by -brick

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Demolition job was on Jesus's mind. So they wanted to know when it was gonna happen. I mean and if you think about it seeing that a completely leveled temple would

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Absolutely and certifiably end the Old Testament It would in the priesthood it would in the sacrificial system and it would in the entire

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Old Covenant era because there's no Longer a temple where Jews can worship God it would in Judaism This was not an insignificant

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Event and their question was not an insignificant or foolish question It's not like today when when you see in seminary

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We're a budding theological student who has no problems in life except for maybe that they don't eat enough food because they're poor but other than that, they go up to a

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Theologian they say hey, when's the end of time gonna happen? That's not what's happening here The downfall of Jerusalem has just been pronounced by the

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Lord Christ and they are Up in arms about it and wanting to have some answers

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If you want to say this a modern way They were picking up what Jesus was promising to tear down now in Answering these specific questions.

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Jesus does not give them insignificant answers as well He looks them right in the face in verse 34 and he tells them truly

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I Say to you That this generation will not pass away until all these things take place

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Again, he uses the phrase these things He tells them that as a matter of truth staking his own credibility that the temple

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Would not stand in a span of 40 years and unsurprisingly because Jesus is

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God and he knows all things in a single biblical Generation which is 40 years the Romans invaded

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Judea and Systematically leveled the Jerusalem temple to the ground leaving it as a pile of ruins and ashes

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Jesus's prediction not only proved to be true But the timing of its occurrence showed such divine precision and clarity

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That it in Christ cannot be questioned What we have to be comfortable with as Christians is that the word coming quote -unquote in this passage does not mean a future bodily coming of Jesus but a coming whereby

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Christ will use the Romans to execute justice against rebel Judah if That understanding of coming is difficult for you

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I can understand because that's not the typical way that we have been taught to think about coming But if it is difficult for you

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I want you to consider how God the Father also speaks this way in Isaiah 13 and in other places that we'll talk about later when he raises up a nation to Destroy Babylon and he is talking about it as if he is coming with the power of the median

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Empire These are common ways that God often speaks of judgment that he's coming in judgment against the nation by using another nation to destroy

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Another nation. This is common language for coming in the Old Testament and Jesus is picking up on it and using it here in Matthew 24 so the question

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When will these things happen Jesus says one generation? 40 years these things that I'm talking about in this chapter.

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All of them are gonna happen in 40 years all of them Second question the disciples asked is what is the sign of Jesus is coming and we're gonna deal with that a little bit more in the future but for now

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I want to just show you the startling and terrifying sign that Jesus gives them that it's gonna unambiguously point to the fact that this kind of quote -unquote coming in Matthew 24 is

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Not an end of human history world event, but it is something that occurred within their lifetime so I've already shown you that how from Isaiah 13 and some other places in the

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Old Testament that this language of coming is common in Judgment language that God uses to destroy a nation

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But I want you to notice the sign that he gives them in verses 37 through 39 He says for the coming of the

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Son of Man will be just like Not a little like not mostly like it will be just like the days of Noah For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage

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Until the day that Noah entered the ark and they did not understand until the flood came and took them all away

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So will the coming of the Son of Man be now? Many unstable interpreters have made this out to be an end time rapture where God is gonna take us all away

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Two men are walking up a hill one is left standing. The other one's gone There's two women who are grinding at the mill one's gone.

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The other one remains. That's not what this passage is about The logic of the passage renders that view completely untenable for starters

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Jesus has already told them that these events are Concerning the

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Jerusalem Temple. He's already told them when they were gonna occur within a single generation He's told them where they were gonna occur in Jerusalem, so when

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Jesus Speaks here. He's not wildly jolting off -topic like a street raving lunatic after a few stiff drinks

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This passage can't refer to a future 21st century plus event.

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I want you to think about it Do we really believe that Jesus would stop mid -sentence look at Peter James and John and basically say to them, you know guys

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I Know you really want to know when all of these things are gonna happen. Don't you trust me?

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I can see you're all jazzed up about it But instead of staying on topic and addressing the actual questions that you're asking me about let me instead

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Tell you about something completely irrelevant to your existence that won't affect any aspect of your life or the life of your children sound good

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That just simply can't be what Jesus is doing here It would not only be strange for Jesus to answer them that way

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But it would be very unloving for him to completely bypass the things that they were wanting to understand

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So that he could opine about the end of the world that would make no sense of the context The second problem that this passage with this passage is about the end time future rapture is found in the analogy itself

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Jesus says that his coming will be just like the days of Noah Which did not carry away the righteous

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But captured a world full of wicked people in a cascading waters of a global flood if Jesus were trying to talk about an end time world event

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Where all of the righteous were going to be? Caught away into the clouds and delivered from the wicked world and he would not have used the example of Noah in Those days it was the wicked who were taken away not the righteous

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The context matters when we're trying to understand scripture this passage is not about a rapture

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Because if it was it would be a rapture of the wicked and you will hear no one Making that absurd and foolish claim

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You will hear them making the absurd and foolish claim that this is a rapture of the righteous Jesus says no this event is just like the days of Noah Jesus is telling them that his coming against rebellious

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Jerusalem is going to be just like the time when God came against the world with a flood Jesus his fury is going to overtake

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Jerusalem flooding it with God's Covenantal fury that he already promised in Matthew 23

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Just as it was in the days of Noah. No wicked person is going to survive in The original flood the wicked descended into a watery grave where the fish and the sea creatures consumed them in Jesus's judgment upon Jerusalem their dead bodies would lie baking in the open street

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So that the birds of heaven will peck at their corpses Matthew 24 28 This is what his coming against Jerusalem would look like and that's exactly how it was recorded in history when

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Rome sacked Jerusalem in 80 70 and This passage is a perfect parallel to the flood of Noah's day

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This most certainly cannot be about a future rapture, but about a present judgment coming on Jerusalem So then the next question the final question that they ask is what about the end of the age?

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Now we'll dive further into this point in the weeks ahead But if you if you really sit down and think about it given what we've just learned that it's happening in Jerusalem That it's a near time event that's going to happen in their generation against their temple

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Then the answer if we think about it in context is not that difficult to discern now if we bring in all of our end times books and all of our charts and all of our tinfoil hats and everything else then

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Of course, this is going to be very difficult to understand and we're gonna probably punt it out to the end of human history

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But when the disciples heard Jesus say your temple will be totally destroyed

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They understood what that meant and it gives us two options for interpreting this passage that I want to put before you

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The first option is the way that the modern eschatological fools

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Have tried to offer us and I'm gonna read it to you like this if the end of the age means the end of time

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Then you would have to imagine the disciples coming to Jesus and basically saying something like this

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Lord How could you say that this particular temple will be destroyed in our particular lifetime

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When exactly is it gonna happen Jesus? What are some of the telltale signs that are gonna let us know so that we can make sure that we leave the city with Plenty of time to spare so that we don't get caught up in the judgment that you're talking about And oh, yeah, by the way while you're at it

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Peter has some in time questions that we've all been debating could you tell us the answers to those two I Mean clearly

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My sarcasm is bleeding through here But is that really is that really what the disciples were trying to understand given the context in?

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lieu of the immediate and cataclysmic event that they were about to be Thrust that it was about to be thrust upon their nation.

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Were they really asking theological questions about the end of human history? Really? I Mean, I find that almost impossible to believe

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Now on the other hand, this is the more rational and reasonable approach if the end of the age means the end of the

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Jewish age which is a common understanding of that time that there was a Jewish age and that there was a

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Gentile age a lot of the Jewish rabbis and first century second temple

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Jewish Mishneic rabbis, they were saying things like there was a

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Jewish age. So this is a common phrase at that time If that end of the age means end of the

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Jewish age Then things begin to make sense about what Jesus is saying in his response

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We know that the Jewish age Was an era in redemptive history where God?

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Covenanted to live with his people in Temples where they're where he was served by Levites and priests where the people were represented by those and Where their sins the people's sins could be covered by the sacrifices of an animal if Jesus is talking about the downfall of the

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Jerusalem temple He is assuredly talking about the end of the

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Jewish age Which is why the disciples asked the question Again they knew exactly what his comments meant and their questions were rational and focused they knew that if the temple was destroyed

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Judaism was over if the temple was destroyed the Old Testament was over if Jerusalem was destroyed the temple the priest the sacrifices the

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The Holy of Holies all of it. All of it was done And it would be replaced by Christ.

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They understood that And that made them good Bible exegetes.

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Whereas most of the end times crowd today could learn from the disciples questions This reading that I'm putting forward to you and we're gonna go much more in depth as we go

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Not only makes more sense of the context of Matthew 24, which is not an end of human history passage

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No matter how many people say it is But it also proves that the coming that Jesus is talking about in Matthew 24 because he does say that he's coming

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We can know that that coming is not an end of human history event, but it's a judgment coming of Jesus against Jerusalem who had become his sworn enemy

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Jerusalem was the city that said we have no King but Caesar they had turned their back on God They had crucified

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God's one and only Son and now God and his fury was going to destroy them. That is the coming the coming of God's judgment

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Against this city not the end of human history rapture. That's not what this passage means

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Now again in the weeks ahead I'm gonna do my very best to show you with the mound of biblical evidence

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What this passage and what other passages like it are actually trying to get us to see

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I'm gonna show you how there's some passages that were at that are still actually future oriented and there's some passages that are talking about the

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Devastating destruction that's going to happen to Jerusalem and they're not the same The coming that happens in the future is not the same as the coming that happened in the past And I'm going to show you

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How when we understand the difference between these two kinds of comings

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That all the future passages that are left after we've removed the ones that are not about the future

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When we get to the place where all only the future passages are left Then we're not gonna have doom and gloom over the end times anymore

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We're not gonna have dread and we're not gonna have paralyzing fear Because the passages that actually talk about the end of time

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Give us joy, hope and courage to continue building God's kingdom while we wait on the resurrection

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Until next time it may be the end of the world, but I feel fine and I hope you do too

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If you liked this episode, I pray that you would share it with as many people as you can you can you can like it You can share it.

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You can post it. You can do whatever you want. I don't care Let's just get the message out there to as many people as we can Eschatology is about hope it's about future.

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Hope in a future coming of Christ. It's not about doom and gloom It's not about oh my goodness.

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Did I take the mark of the beast and or oh my goodness Am I getting ready to end up in Antichrist Empire or oh my goodness

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Be worried about this or fearful of that that's not what end times theology is meant to engender inside of you a

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Theology of the end is supposed to be a theology of victory It's the finish line that's at the end of the race the end of the

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Bible is hope and joy and glory with God and I think that when we've gotten all of these passages mixed up and confused and turned into something that they're not the end times by Satan's design

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Has become not a doctrine of hope but a doctrine of confusion and frustration So share this with as many people as you can because I want to end that I want this doctrine to be hopeful

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And I want this doctrine to be biblical for all who believe it and hear it until next time.