The Rapture Sermon

God created marriage to be a beautiful display of the covenantal love between God and his covenant people. Throughout Scripture and still today we see the attack of Satan to destroy the good gift that God has given.

The second coming of Christ is one of the greatest promises of God ever given to man. There is no greater event on my calendar than meeting Jesus face to face. And yet this is a doctrine that has historically caused great division in the church.

If I’m honest, one of the reasons I stayed away from the book so long is because I was afraid discussion around it might cause division in our church.

Open Handed / Close Fisted

So before we begin today I just wanted to make a couple statements.

First, when it comes to discussing theology, some things are open-handed and others are close fisted.

There're some closed-handed issues we have to hold onto no matter what that we can never waiver upon.

Trinity

Deity of Christ

Original Sin

Authority and inerrenancy of Scripture

On these type of issues we do not wiggle room. They are close-fisted. Settled and clearly defined in Scripture.

Other issues are more open handed.

Baptism (sprinkle or immerse)

Women in ministry (Hard/Soft Complementarian)

Spiritual gifts (Are the sign gifts still operational today?)

I have views (strong views) on each of these issues. Friends of mine will disagree with me. It’s okay for them to be wrong! It doesn’t dampen our fellowship.

Charity on Views of the Rapture

When it comes to the second coming of Jesus some things about it are close-fisted. He will return literally, bodily and establish his kingdom. No real debate there.

The timing of the rapture is an “open handed” issue because the most common views about that discussion can all be supported by Scripture.

Last week I tried to expose you to that “open handed” discussion. I know it was like drinking from a fire hydrant. Some of you loved it others of you didn’t.

Today I’m going to show you where I land on this controversial discussion. If you’re new to Broadview just know most sermons are not like today and next week we’ll get back to normal.

I’ve worked hard over the past several months to finally settle on a view. One of the reasons I avoided this book was because I never could settle on what i thought the timeline of events were.

So if you disagree with me this morning it’s perfectly fine. 2021 Wes disagrees with the Wes of 2020 and both of those Wes disagree with the Wes of 2015 and the 2015 Wes would disagree with the Wes of 2011. CRAZY!

The Four Views - BLOCKS

So what are the views? Before I review these four views you must remember that these are four views are all trying to situate FOUR key events that must take place BEFORE Jesus comes again.

The rise of antichrist and abomination of desolation

The Great Tribulation

The Rapture of the Church

The Day of the Lord

I believe all four of these events will be fulfilled in the 7 years that directly precede the second coming of Jesus (cf Daniel 9:27)

CHART: We don’t have time to go into but there’s a prophecy in Daniel 9:27 that says in the last day the Antichrist will make a covenant with the people of Israel, after 3.5 years he will break that covenant. Great persecution will break out until God pours out his judgment on the antichrist and his forces in the Day of the Lord.

What isn’t settled by Daniel 9:27 is the Rapture of the Church and it’s relationship to the Antichrist, Great Tribulation and the Day of the Lord.

As a result, four main views have been developed over the years to try and situate the rapture of the church on the timeline of the final seven years.

CHART: Pre-trib rapture puts the rapture of the church before the seven years begins. (Church will be with Jesus in heaven for those 7 years then come back with Jesus in judgment on the earth) Most popular view.

CHART: Mid-trib puts the rapture at the mid-point of the final seven years. (simultaneous with the abomination of desolation)

CHART: Post-trib puts the rapture at the end of the seven years (simultaneous with the second coming of Jesus)

CHART: Pre-wrath puts the rapture after the Great Tribulation and before the day of the Lord (second coming of Jesus).

My Goal For Today

Today I want to argue for the “prewrath” view of the rapture because I think it makes the MOST sense of everything Scripture says about the end time.

I know some of you are died in the wool pre-trib. My goal is not necessarily to change your mind this morning. I was pre-tribulational in my understanding for most of my life. Really up until preaching this book I was unsure of where I landed.

I’m holding this position with an open hand but also with real conviction. My goal is not to settle the debate or give an official position for Broadview. I just want to present this view as one that makes sense of Revelation 6-8 and also harmonizes what the rest of the Bible says concerning the second coming of Christ.

Review of Seals & Birth Pains

Before we get to Revelation 7, though, let’s set up the context. For the past four weeks we’ve been working through Revelation 6.

In each message we’ve seen the parallels between Jesus’ teaching on the end times in Matthew 24 and John’s description of the end times in Revelation 6. (6 SLIDES)

Seal One: Antichrist (False Christs - Matthew 24:4-5)

I think seal one represents the rise of the antichrist. He comes on the scene with false promises of peace and prosperity. Instead of that peace and prosperity we see war and great poverty (seals 2-3).

Seal Two: Wars (Rumors of Wars - Matthew 24:6)

Seal Three: Famines (Matthew 24:7)

Like most politicians do when something goes wrong the antichrist is going to point the finger and blame somebody else for the ills that start to plague the earth. That patsy is going to be Christians and Jews in my opinion. That’s leads to seal 4.

Seal Four: Authority to Kill 1/4th (Matthew 24:9)

We said last week that this fourth horsemen who is given authority to kill 1/4 of the earth may not suggest a geographic 1/4 as much as it does a demographic 1/4 of the earth. In my mind it’s demographic.

Seal Five: Cry of the Martyrs (Matthew 24:21-22)

Therefore the authority to kill 1/4 of the earth in seal 4 is authority to kill God’s people. That’s what we see in seal 5. They’re crying out “How long O Lord until you avenge us and end this injustice?” God’s response is to wait until the full number of martyrs come end.

Seal Six: Cosmic Signs and Wonders (Matthew 24:29-30)

When that happens - Jesus opens the 6th seal and cosmic signs and wonders begin to announce the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord.

The Great Tribulation

In Matthew 24 Jesus refers to this time of mass death and persecution of God’s people as “the Great Tribulation.”

Matthew 24:21–22 (CSB)

21 For at that time there will be great distress, the kind that hasn’t taken place from the beginning of the world until now and never will again. 22 Unless those days were cut short, no one would be saved. But those days will be cut short because of the elect.

The “cutting short” of those days is announced by the cosmic signs and wonders. Matthew 24:29

Matthew 24:29 (CSB)

29 “Immediately after the distress of those days, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not shed its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

According to John’s description of this even in Revelation 6:16-17, people KNOW that the wrath of God is coming and they’re in trouble. Even so, the refuse to repent and instead call out for the rocks to fall on them and kill them.

Revelation 6:16–17 (CSB)

16 And they said to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, 17 because the great day of their wrath has come! And who is able to stand?”

WHY I AM PRE-WRATH

According to the pre-wrath position, the rapture of the church happens sometime AFTER the breaking of the sixth seal and BEFORE the outpouring of God’s wrath.

That means that the church

WILL see the rise of the antichrist.

WILL experience the chaos of seals 1-5.

WILL see the abomination of desolation.

WILL go through insane levels of persecution/martyrdom.

WILL see the cosmic signs and wonders that portend the Day of the Lord.

While this is not the most popular view in conservative evangelicalism it is the fastest growing position and I think for good reason.

My reasons for holding this view are partly because of problems I saw with the pretribulation view and partly because of problems I’ve always had with the post-tribulation view.

REASON 1: Spared from Wrath Not Tribulation

The first reason is theological. One of the theological assumptions behind pretribulationism (as I heard it growing up) is that the church won’t suffer tribulation. I don’t think that’s a valid assumption.

I believe from 1 Thess 1:10 that we will be spared from God’s wrath but we will NOT be spared from TRIBULATION.

Jesus told his disciples continually - they hated me, they’ll hate you. Persecuted me they’ll persecute you. In this world you WILL HAVE TROUBLE. But take heart I have overcome the world. ALL who desire to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.

I couldn’t find anywhere in my Bible that Jesus said the church won’t experience tribulation. In fact, it’s the opposite.

I think many pretrib people incorrectly conflate the wrath of God with the Great Tribulation in the first 5 seals. I think seals 1-5 are the wrath of the antichrist/Satan. Seal 6 announces the coming wrath and it’s not until the trumpet/bowl judgments that God’s wrath is poured out.

Because the pretrib positions sees the wrath of God beginning with the first seal they are logically forced to put the rapture of the church before then.

When Does Wrath Begin?

Those who hold to a pre-trib position will say

“Jesus is the one breaking the seals, therefore the seals are judgments from God and therefore the church must be removed from the earth.”

I agree Jesus is breaking the seals and is sovereign over what happens. But if seal one is a reference to the antichrist and seals 2-5 are a description of what happens on the earth as a result of his administration then these seals aren’t a description of God’s wrath.

CHART

As Alan Kushner puts it in his book “Antichrist Before the day of the Lord”

Seal 5 Promises God’s Wrath

Seal 6 Portends God’s Wrath

Interlude Protects from God’s Wrath (Rev 7)

Seal 7 Pronounces God’s Wrath

REASON 2: Martyrs in Seal 5

The second thing that moved me from Pre-trib to Prewrath was the presence of martyrs in the 5th seal.

One of the compelling arguments for the pre-trib position is that the word church gets used repeatedly in Rev 1-3 but then disappears until Revelation 19-20. The assumption is the church must be raptured since it’s not mentioned.

It’s true the word church isn’t mentioned but Christians are! A BUNCH of Christians are on the earth and they’re getting slaughtered in seal 5. The pre-trib position says the saints in seal 5 are “Tribulation saints” because the church has already been removed from the earth.

The thinking is when the church gets raptured there will be a worldwide revival and millions of people will get saved. The problem is the Bible doesn’t say that. It’s an interference that gets made because one assumes the church has already been raptured.

If you don’t assume a pre-tribulation rapture there’s no reason to think these are “tribulation saints.” Even if they WERE tribulation saints, why are they not afforded the same protection from the “wrath of God?”

It seems MORE likely to me that the wrath of God hasn’t yet been poured out in seal 5 and these are just Christians experiencing the wrath of the antichrist.

Support for this is found in the question the martyrs ask.

Revelation 6:10 (CSB)

10 They cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, the one who is holy and true, how long until you judge those who live on the earth and avenge our blood?”

Why are they waiting for the judgment of God to fall if the judgment of God has already fallen in seals 1-4? That questions leads me to believe the wrath of Satan is being poured out in Seals 1-5 and the wrath of God doesn’t happen until all the seals are broken.

This means that the church is still on the earth during the rise of the antichrist and the Great Tribulation.

REASON 3: Not One Verse

The third reason I changed from being pre-trib to prewrath was I could find one single passage where Scripture explicitly taught a pretrib rapture. There are verses that can be used to infer a pre-trib rapture if interpreted a certain way - but none actually teach that explicitly.

It was a big shock to me when I really started studying this topic I couldn’t find ONE single verse that said the church would be raptured before the great tribulation.

I couldn’t find one single early church father who taught that the church would be raptured prior to the Great Tribulation.

Some say Revelation 4:1 is a picture of the church being caught up to heaven but it’s not. It’s just John.

Some say the 24 elders are a picture of the raptured church. Certainly they represent believers but they are not themselves the raptured church. An equally compelling case says they could be angels.

The idea that we are going to be removed from the earth prior to the Great Tribulation I cannot find anywhere in the Scripture.

Even John Walvoord - famous pretrib scholar says

“neither posttribulationalism nor pretribulationism is an explicit teaching of the Scriptures. The Bible does not, in so many words, state either.”

He went on to say it pre-tribulationalism has more to do with how you understand the Church in relationship to the nation of Israel than it does anything else. (The Rapture Question pg 148)

REASON 4: 2 Thessalonians Passage

Reasons 4 -5 are the opposite of reason 3. I DID start to see explicit teachings of Scripture that placed the rapture AFTER the abomination of desolation and the Great Tribulation.

In 2 Thess 2:1-4 Paul says that the rapture happens AFTER the rise of the antichrist/abomination of desolation.

2 Thessalonians 2:1–3 (CSB)

1 Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered to him: We ask you, brothers and sisters, 2 not to be easily upset or troubled, either by a prophecy or by a message or by a letter supposedly from us, alleging that the day of the Lord has come. 3 Don’t let anyone deceive you in any way. For that day will not come unless the apostasy comes first and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the man doomed to destruction.

The pre-trib view has ways of explaining this passage so that it fits within their schematic. I’m not saying that solution isn’t possible. It just seems LESS likely to me than the obvious reading of the text.

If Paul wanted to comfort them that the Day of the Lord hadn’t come why mention the Antichrist and NOT mention the rapture of the church?

REASON 5: Jesus in Matthew 24

The biggest thing for me, though, is Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 24. He gives a clear timeline and he’s the best prophecy teacher who has ever lived!

The timeline by Jesus puts the rapture AFTER the events of the Great Tribulation. And I think Matthew 24 and Revelation 6-7 parallel one another for a reason.

CHART - Parallels

First you have the birth pains of false christs, wars, famines and earthquakes. (24:4-8)

Then there is the abomination of Desolation followed by Great Tribulation, death and mass martyrdom (24:9, 21-22).

AFTER the tribulation of those days we see the cosmic signs and wonders (24:29)

THEN there’s a gathering of God’s people from every corner of the earth. I believe this is a reference to the rapture (24:31)

Finally we have the outpouring of God’s Wrath (24:37-41). Christians are taken to meet the Lord in the air, others are left to experience God’s judgment on the earth.

Nobody Knows Day or Hour?

These events form the context for Jesus’ parable about the fig tree. Matthew 24:32-35

Matthew 24:32–35 (CSB)

32 “Learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its branch becomes tender and sprouts leaves, you know that summer is near. 33 In the same way, when you see all these things, recognize that he is near—at the door. 34 Truly I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things take place. 35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.

In other words, these signs of the times are like ripe figs dropping from a fig tree. You see them happening in and around you and buckle-up buttercup because here comes the SON!

One of the arguments that traditionally supports the Pretrib position focuses on what Jesus says next.

Matthew 24:36 (CSB)

36 “Now concerning that day and hour no one knows—neither the angels of heaven nor the Son—except the Father alone.

Traditionally this has been interpreted as “Jesus could come at any moment. He could come today! Better be ready and stop doing that nonsense you know displeases the Lord.”

But this statement about nobody knowing the day or hour is given in the context of Jesus saying “you should be able to recognize the signs of the time and when the coming of Christ is near.”

Jesus gives a similar parable in Matthew 24:40-42.

He likens the day of the Lord to the days of Noah. People were eating and drinking and doing normal life and then suddenly the flood came and swept them away in judgment.

The same will be true when the Son of Man comes.

Matthew 24:40–42 (CSB)

40 Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left. 41 Two women will be grinding grain with a hand mill; one will be taken and one left. 42 Therefore be alert, since you don’t know what day your Lord is coming.

Expectation not Imminency

A key question is what does Jesus mean “nobody knows the day or the hour?” Does it reference imminency (any moment) or expectation (any generation).

Traditionally this has been interpreted as “Jesus could come at any moment. He could come today! Better be ready and stop doing that nonsense you know displeases the Lord.”

That’ll preach! But given the context I’m not sure that’s the best interpretation of these verses! He’s saying AFTER the tribulation of those days the coming of the Son of Man is going to be like this. The “those days” is the great tribulation. It’s the apostasy, the antichrist, the seals and so on.

When you see the Antichrist, when you see martyrdom, when you see cosmic disturbances, when you see the stars falling from the sky you may not know the day or the hour, but it's close.

Like Pregnancy

It's like pregnancy. When you meet a gal, who's three months pregnant, you don't think, "Oh good, is it today? "Hope not right." You meet a girl who's about nine months along. She's got contractions going on. It's about that time. She's got pain. She's got labor. The water breaks. You may not know the day or the hour, but it's coming soon.

REASON 6: Israel and the Church

The sixth reason is somewhat academic and complicated so I don’t want to spend too much time on it. But there’s an approach to understanding “the big story” of Scripture called “dispensationalism. One of the marks of this theology is a clear distinction between the people of God in the OT (Israel) and the people of God in the NT (the Church).

Classical dispensationalism argued God won’t deal with Israel and the Church at the same time and that’s why the church will be raptured before the last 7 years begin.

As John Walvoord said earlier - it’s not a person’s eschatology that drives pre-tribulationalism as it is their ecclesiology. Many are drawn to the pre-trib view because it neatly distinguishes Israel and the church during the last days.

I agree that God has special plans for Israel and will fulfill those unique and particular OT promises. But I disagree God can’t do that and work with the Church at the same time.

There’s no reason to assume God can’t work with Israel and the Church at the same time.

He did so between Acts 2 and the Fall of Jerusalem in 70AD.

He’s been doing so since 1948 when the nation of Israel was reestablished.

He can continue to do so during the final seven years preceeding the second coming of Christ.

Post-Trib Problems

Those are the reasons I’m no long Pre-trib in my understanding. But why am I not “post-trib?” Why pre-wrath? It’s because I also have some problems with the classical post-tribulation view and the midtrib view.

I think both views create conflicts with Scripture when they don’t have to. Prewrath harmonizes what Scripture says about the end better than mid-trib and post-trib views.

For example, Jesus says nobody knows the day or the hour. With Mid-trib and Post trib you can literally zero in on both the day and the hour. (measure 3.5 years from signing of covenant or breaking of covenant)

How does Post-trib deal with Jesus’ statement that the days of the Great Tribulation are going to be “cut short” for the sake of the Elect?

To me, the classical Post-trib view has trouble dealing with timeline of events that seem to take place in heaven while the judgments of God are being poured out on the earth.

Finally, it's difficult for me to understand the second coming as a one day event. Jesus' first coming, how long did it take? It's 30 to 33 years. It wasn't just that He showed up and left the same day.

The second coming is a complex whole series of events.

He comes on the clouds, he gathers his church and he brings them into heaven.

then begins to pour out his judgments on the earth. (like a scene from brave heart)

Finally he brings his Church back down from heaven to establish an earthly kingdom and reign for 1,000 years.

REVELATION 7 - THE RAPTURED SAINTS

So to review I believe the Bible teaches that the church will experience the Great Tribulation but we will be Raptured before the wrath of God is poured out on the earth.

Are there any passages in Scripture that talk about that time period between the Great Tribulation and the great and terrible day of the Lord? The answer is yet. It’s Revelation 7.

You would expect that right after Jesus opened the sixth seal, that immediately He'd opened the seventh, but we get chapter seven. An interlude. The seventh seal is not open till chapter eight.

There are three important scenes to this great chapter.

The first is in Revelation 7:1-3

Revelation 7:1–3 (CSB)

1 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, restraining the four winds of the earth so that no wind could blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree. 2 Then I saw another angel rising up from the east, who had the seal of the living God. He cried out in a loud voice to the four angels who were allowed to harm the earth and the sea, 3 “Don’t harm the earth or the sea or the trees until we seal the servants of our God on their foreheads.”

So what do we see? We see five angels, four are standing at the four corners of the earth. This means they're holding back the potential harm that was about to be unleashed on the earth.

The fifth angel is an archangel and he says “the earth will be harmed but not until we seal the servants of God.”

144,000 Jews

Revelation 7:4-8 shows a remnant of Israel, sealed and protected. The remant consists of 144,000 Jews from 12 tribes of Israel.

Revelation 7:4 (CSB)

4 And I heard the number of the sealed:

144,000 sealed from every tribe of the Israelites:

You say, “how do you know it's 144,000 Jews?” It’s because my Bible says it's 144,000 from every tribe of the Israelites. I see no reason to take that scripture any differently.

Some have tried to turn the 144,000 into the church. Others have done other things with it. They’re Jews. The Bible says it clearly and plainly.

These 144,000 are sealed. What is a seal? The seal is ownership and protection. They belong to God and He is going to protect them.

How do I know that? Because verses 5-8 describe it in detail.

12,000 from Judah

12,000 from Ruben

12,000 from Gad

12,000 from Asher

12,000 from Naphtali

12,000 from Manasseh

12,000 from Simeon

12,000 from Levi

12,000 from Issachar

12,000 from Zebulun

12,000 from Joseph

12,000 from Benjamin

Why would John write that? So technical. So precise. I think he wants you to know that there’s a remnant in every tribe. They are the sealed. These Jews are going to have a special assignment from God during the Great Tribulation.

This mark on their foreheads is contrasted with the Mark of the Beast given by the Antichrist in Revelation 13.

So get the picture. Antichrist is wreaking havoc on the world. Christians are being persecuted. Then the 6th seal is broken and the cosmic signs and wonders signal the coming of God’s judgement. Everybody can sense it. Even kings and nobles are crying for the rocks to fall on them.

The angels are holding back the calamity and the head angel gives the instruction - before you release the wrath go seal the servants. Make sure they’re protected and don’t get hurt because God's gonna do something special with the Jews.

Great Multitude in Heaven

The final element is in Revelation 7:9-14. After John sees the sealing of the 144,000 Jews that are protected by God during the Great Tribulation he looks and see another group.

Revelation 7:9–10 (CSB)

9 After this I looked, and there was a vast multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language, which no one could number, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed in white robes with palm branches in their hands. 10 And they cried out in a loud voice:

Salvation belongs to our God,

who is seated on the throne,

and to the Lamb!

A vast multitude nobody could number. John’s pretty good at counting things. We’ve seen him use numbers like thousands upon thousands and 10,000 upon 10,000. But now he sees a crowd so big NOBODY could number it.

This is billions. You’ve never seen a group of people this big in your entire life.

Where did they come from? Every nation, every tribe, every people, every language.

What are they doing? Standing before the throne, and before the Lamb clothed in white robes and palm branches were in their hands.

Palm branches are a sign of freedom, security, joy, blessing, honor to the one who has saved them. And they cry out with a loud voice saying salvation to our God who sits on the throne and to the Lamb.

I believe this is a picture of the Church. The body of Christ. Resurrected and raptured. Radiant and ready to give eternal worship to the Lamb who was slain.

Why do I think it’s the church?

First because this group is distinct from the angles and the 24 elders.

Revelation 7:11–12 (CSB)

11 All the angels stood around the throne, and along with the elders and the four living creatures they fell facedown before the throne and worshiped God, 12 saying,

Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom

and thanksgiving and honor

and power and strength

be to our God forever and ever. Amen.

Secondly, because the angel says that this is a group who has come out of the Great Tribulation.

Revelation 7:13–14 (CSB)

13 Then one of the elders asked me, “Who are these people in white robes, and where did they come from?”

14 I said to him, “Sir, you know.”

Then he told me: These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

Every single Christian who has ever been redeemed from every tribe, tongue and nation will be gathered around that throne.

Revelation 7:15–17 (CSB)

15 For this reason they are before the throne of God,

and they serve him day and night in his temple.

The one seated on the throne will shelter them:

16 They will no longer hunger;

they will no longer thirst;

the sun will no longer strike them,

nor will any scorching heat.

17 For the Lamb who is at the center of the throne

will shepherd them;

he will guide them to springs of the waters of life,

and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

Is that awesome or what? This fits everything Jesus says, everything Paul says, John says and harmonizes with every passage in Scripture that teaches a rapture of the church. (John 14:1-3, 1 Thess 4:13-17)

CONCLUSION

Jesus is coming back literally, physically and when he comes he’s staying for good.

When Jesus comes back everybody in heaven and on earth and under the earth is going to know that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.

Those who don’t know him will mourn because it’s too late and those who do know him will rejoice because their blessed hope has arrived.

The generation living on the earth during that day will be the SAME generation that

sees the rise of the antichrist,

the great falling away of believers,

the most intense persecution of Christians that the world has ever seen

and cosmic signs and wonders that make clear Jesus is ON THE WAY.

Jesus says

‘if you are on the earth when these signs start to surface then STAND UP, LIFT YOUR HEADS (with JOY) because your redemption draws near. (Luke 21:28) That is the blessed hope.

That's what the book of Revelation is trying to tell us. Not that we won't go through challenge. Not that we won't go through tribulation, but that when we do, we can look up 'cause our hope is near.

Why It Matters

The reason this is important is because if WE are that generation then we need to be ready. If WE are that generation then it’s important that you be committed to a local body of believers like this local church. We are going to need each other when these times come.

This is important because these days will reveal whether or not you are truly in the faith or just a pretender that’s going to fall away when the going gets tough.

Do you have a saving relationship with Jesus Christ as Lord? Have you fully surrendered to God’s will for you life? Are you able to say with John “even so, Come Lord Jesus?”

Don’t go another day without setting apart Jesus Christ as Lord in your heart. Live with him as the king of your heart NOW as one day he will come and establish himself as King of the universe.

Don’t be among the people who see him and mourn. Rather, kiss the son today and receive eternal life. Wash your robe and make it white in the blood of the lamb.

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