Stephen Whitehouse – Class 1: A cloud received hime

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Well, good morning brothers and
sisters young people.

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I am so excited to be talking
about this subject Christ coming

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in clouds but it begins.
It begins with the resurrection

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of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I want you just to imagine the

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time that Jesus had risen from
the tomb had been many weeks.

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Now, many things that pass by
and for the Pools.

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It was no longer daring to
believe that Jesus would rise.

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But now, they firmly knew that
he had risen from the dead.

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And it was one Sabbath that that
Jesus led his 12 disciples out

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from Jerusalem.
Down into the kedron valley,

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past the Garden of Gethsemane
up, the slopes of the Mount of

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Olives and there they were.
They stood there listening to

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the Lord Jesus Christ.
As he has, he gave them words of

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instruction.
His last words before he

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departed.
And can you imagine that scene

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and that scene is so
reminiscent, isn’t it of Elijah?

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And Elijah?
Elijah, the pupil of Elijah and

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Elijah told Elijah that if
Elijah saw him go up into

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heaven, then he would receive
the double portion Under the Sun

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ship. and here, now, these 12
They too would watch their

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Master.
Go up into heaven.

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And they too would receive
sonship, they would become heirs

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the apostles and their mission
would be to take the still small

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voice of calm to the four
corners of the earth.

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So let’s just open up our Bibles
this morning, brothers, and

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sisters.
And let’s have a look at Acts

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chapter 1.
Under this special day had

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arrived.
Jesus would have sent to his

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father and their Jesus, stood
with the 12.

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And I want you just to notice a
little details, always in the

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little details, isn’t it?
At the end of verse 12, it says

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that Jerusalem where they stood
on the Mount of Olives was a

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Sabbath Day’s Journey.
Want you to notice that Sabbath

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Day’s Journey, that’s really,
really important.

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According to tradition a Sabbath
Day’s Journey was 2,000.

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Cubic he’s so Luke is
deliberately drawing our

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attention to the fact that where
Jesus, stood moments before he

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ascended into heaven and a city
of the king, the city of the

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promises, the city that had
rejected, the Messiah, what’s

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2,000 cubits away, I’m surely
then with this deliberate

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drawing of our attention.
Bye bye.

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Luke.
Surely this.

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There’s something being hinted
here and there is just remember,

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just remember how there were
2,000 cubits between the Ark of

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the Covenant and the people of
God as they made their way, into

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the promised land and you can
read it that if you’re making

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notes, Joshua 3 verse 4, we know
in symbol that this Arc spoke of

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the Lord Jesus Christ and
they’ll be In unit two thousand

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years, he would be the first and
then many others would be

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ushered into Glory.
And so in other words, then I

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believe, I personally believe
that what we’re seeing here in

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Acts chapter 1 is a, is a
kingdom seen.

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It’s a kingdom.
Seen 2000 cubits between the Ark

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of the Covenant of the people of
God, 2,000 cubits between where

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Jesus, stood with his 12
disciples and the City of

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Jerusalem that was in darkness.
and they were the first to see

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Jesus ascending to heaven and
surely the excitation is that in

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two thousand years later,
Jerusalem would see that Glory

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Jerusalem would see that Glory,
as brother Johnny mentioned,

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isn’t it an amazing privilege
that here?

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We have this Kingdom seeing
these two thousand cubits and we

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happen to be the generation
living in the 2000 cubits.

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We are the ones brothers and
sisters are young people who are

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on the threshold of the Kingdom.
What a privilege, what an honor.

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What an opportunity we have.
Let’s seize that opportunity.

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well, it’s also quite
interesting to observe the way

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that Luke Mentoring these two
thousand cubits.

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The way that Luke highlights the
way that Jesus ascended into

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heaven.
We’ve got the, the phrases here

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on the screen, but they’re
interesting to notice at the end

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of Luke and Luke 24:51, it says
that Jesus was carried up into

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heaven.
Very, very simple language.

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In Acts chapter 1 verse 9, it
says he was taken up in the

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chapter which were looking at
now acts 1 verse 9.

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He was taken up and that means
to lift up to razor and in Acts

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1 verse 10, he went up Which
means to go to depart.

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So if you look at those words, I
know it’s early in the morning

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to be doing this, but if you
look at those words, it’s

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telling you from acts that Jesus
physically went away up into

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heaven, there’s a physical
movement that’s going on, but in

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Luke under the spirit, Luke
choose is a very different word

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and there’s a message, being
conveyed here and that word

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brothers and sisters, young
people is really interesting

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because when we look at that,
Word it relates to sacrifice.

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An acceptable sacrifice, I’m
going to show you a verse here.

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You’ll all know it, but this is
the way that this word is used

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who needeth, not daily, as those
High, priests to offer up

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sacrifice first for his own
sins.

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And then for the people’s for
their he did once when he

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offered up himself for the that
phrase their offer up and

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offered up himself is the same
were there, he went up or he was

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carried her in Luke 24.
And verse 51.

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So what’s the message there?
What it’s telling us that

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something momentous happened
upon this land.

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It wasn’t just simply that the
Lord Jesus Christ ascended from

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this mount.
Something was finished.

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It was completed and it Rose as
a sweet smelling Savor.

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I want you to imagine it as the
Lord Jesus Christ ascended into

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heaven.
It was as if it were a

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sweet-smelling savour rising up
into the nostrils of almighty

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God.
But it also tells us that a

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journey at finished Fitness
journey that the ministrations

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of the Lord, Jesus Christ, the
word that he had upon the Earth

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was now finished upon this
Mount, and it’s telling us that

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a the commencement of a New
Journey began, and I want you

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just to plan those ideas in your
mind.

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That as he leaves the Mount of
Olives, of course, he ascends

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into heaven, but it’s a New
Journey.

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And you live for the Lord.
Jesus Christ, and he was

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accepted by God.
Now, today, even the most

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powerful telescopes in space,
like the Hubble telescope

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nothing has discovered heaven.
And if you look at what gone a

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screen here, the Andromeda
galaxy, which is the the

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farthest object, which is
visible to the naked.

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I’m sure you’ve all seen
pictures like that, you Actually

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see it on a clear starry night,
that’s two and a half million

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light-years away.
So you have to travel for two

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and a half million years at the
speed of light to get to our

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nearest galaxy.
If you look at space, A

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scientist talk about observable
universe.

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So if you look at the center of
the earth to the Outer Perimeter

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of the observable universe, it’s
46 billion light years.

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So the circumference of space
everything that we can see in a

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circle is between 92 and 93
billion light years away.

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So you might be asking which
really intelligent all.

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This is, what is beyond the
observable universe.

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I don’t know, nobody knows
scientist owner because the

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galaxies and the stars are so
far away that the light will

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never reach us.
Now, let’s think about God.

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Where does he abide?
Surely by by, just simply

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thinking about these things.
He lives.

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He dwells beyond the observable
universe.

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Surely that’s a reasonable thing
to think that that he’s Beyond

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his own creation, that he
transcends the world’s that he

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built.
This is almighty God and Jesus

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is now he’s on his way to be
with him.

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Just think of that.
Just think of that.

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And so, then surely we can only
conclude one thing that when the

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disciples there on the mountain,
they see the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Now, their Master ascending into
heaven, who is it for?

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It’s not for Jesus, he’s got a
long way to go.

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It’s for them.
To make an impression upon them

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to change their lives.
But surely when the Lord Jesus

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Christ is out of sight.
He was teleported to a fourth

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dimension.
Now you might be thinking fourth

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dimension, its 9:30 on a
Saturday morning, that’s too

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much.
Is it brothers?

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And sisters is not at all.
All, it’s not at all think of

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Jacob’s Ladder.
The angels that ascended and

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descended from Earth to heaven
with God at the top.

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And surely then the Lord Jesus
Christ was transported to heaven

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in a similar way.
There are the Angels and they

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abide with almighty God beyond
all time in the eternity of God

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and they have the ability to
return to this earth in any

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point in the human timeline.
It’s extraordinary, it’s beyond

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certainly a Saturday morning to
think about So, I want you to

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imagine then Jesus being lifted
up into the clouds.

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Yes and there the disciples are
seeing him higher and higher

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until he’s finally out decide.
And then we read these.

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Well-known versus, let’s have a
look at verse 10 of Acts chapter

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one.
And while they looked

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steadfastly towards heaven, as
Jesus went up, behold two, men,

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stood by them in white apparel,
which also said ye men of

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Galilee, Why stand ye gazing up
into heaven, this same Jesus,

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which is taken up from you into
heaven, shall so come in like

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manner.
As we have, as you have seen him

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go into heaven.
I’m surely we’ve all got a vivid

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picture of that, but I want to
draw your attention to a word

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here.
It says that Jesus was received

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into this plan.
I want just to look at that,

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please.
It says that he was received.

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I believe this a little clue
here that that something’s going

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on, that’s possibly behind or
beyond our imagination here.

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That that would receive means to
Pick up from below to carry

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upward and and so, then it’s
quite natural, isn’t it?

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That this Cloud came down and,
and, and, and gathered up Jesus

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and picked him up and took him
on his way.

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But he’d also means to receive
hospitably to welcome.

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So the Something About This
Cloud that welcomes the Lord

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Jesus Christ.
The welcomes him do clouds, do

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that and escorting him on his
way.

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Well, what is this Cloud?
Well perhaps it is the Shekinah

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Glory that the symbol of of
God’s presence.

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His power, his glory.
That the very thing that covered

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the Tabernacle the temple.
When we look at the

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Transfiguration it engulf the
Lord Jesus Christ.

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But I believe that this Cloud
was a cloud of angel.

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And think about this.
If a multitude of the Heavenly

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Host sound glory to God at the
birth of the Lord, Jesus Christ,

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what would they do?
When one who has overcome the

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world, when his work is now
finished?

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He’s now to ascend the Father in
Heaven, he’s journey is over and

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a New Journey Begins.
Surely they would shout for joy.

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And I believe this is the
welcoming of the angels that we

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have here.
So we have two magnificent book

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ends, just imagine that we’ve
got two magnificent book ends at

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the beginning of the life of the
Lord Jesus Christ.

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And at the conclusion of his
life on Earth you what do you

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have?
You’ve got something very

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similar.
Having you, you’ve got an angel

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or Angels narrating to Shepherds
and disciples and then you’ve

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got a spectacular Heavenly
display or Angels, praising God.

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Have you ever thought about that
brothers and sisters young

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people?
It’s absolutely marvelous.

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And these two angels, these two
angels that stayed behind that

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didn’t ascore.
Jesus Christ to Heaven, who were

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they were surely.
We don’t have to exercise our

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imaginations too much.
Surely, they were Gabriel and

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Michael Gabriel the one that
spoke to Mary about the begotten

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son.
The one who had taken on the

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role to preserve the seed.
And Michael.

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The angel of God’s people, the
angel of his presence.

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Now I want to add some more
picture, a color, and and drama

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to this climactic picture that
we’re looking at.

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I want to have a look at an Old
Testament prophecy.

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Can we have a look at Daniel
chapter 7?

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You might be thinking, it’s not
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but it is,
Daniel chapter 7 and as we go

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here, that the connections with
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in your minds, will just jump
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Let’s have a look at verse 13.
I’ve Daniel chapter 7.

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So here then that the drama of
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visions and behold, one like the
son of man, we’re going to look

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at this thing all the way
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When you think about clouds, you
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man one.
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the clouds of heaven and came to
the Ancient of Days and they

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brought him near before him.
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that we’ve got one like notice
that one like the son of man,

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and if you know anything about
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whole list of beasts.
Terrifying beasts there.

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And it’s interesting.
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describes these beasts have a
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lion like a bear like a leopard.
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one like the Son of Man 1 like a
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So these three animals that
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the attributes and
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but we have a fourth piece and
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Is absolutely terrifying and you
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It’s unlike any other of the
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witnessed.
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like it in the animal kingdom,
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different.
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Heaven.
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It’s a picture that is
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It’s one that Thrills.
Daniel and brothers and sisters

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young people.
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and there’s so much units.
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just want to notice some of the
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man there in verse 13.
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doesn’t it?
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something that I’m sure we’ve
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Let’s have a quick look at
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the fiery.
Furnace, a well-known story and

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you’ve got Nebuchadnezzar and he
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He’s got handed.
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there in the fire and he notices
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So Daniel 3 then and verse 25
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just notice the similarity in
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words of King, Nebuchadnezzar
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of the fire and they have no
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And the form of the fourth is
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So the one in the fiery furnace
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And here, the one in heaven is
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So there’s a beautiful contrast
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hananiah, mishael and Azariah
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Nebuchadnezzar sees the
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And this man is Entirely Divine,
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But Daniel having this Vision in
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of a man also that this man is
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Human and this son of man here
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here in this chapter, if we look
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the son of man that the Hebrew
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And in the very name it’s taking
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first born of God.
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away that this son of, man, the
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Adam is a representative of
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He is of the line of Adam.
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A human nature tempted in all
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without sin.
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looking at and it’s really
important to kind of fuse those

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thoughts in our minds, as we
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This glorious man, but he’s a
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If you think about the Southern
and I wonder what kind of things

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pop into your head.
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What I want to do I just want to
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Want to look at Mark’s gospel.
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gospel is a gospel that really
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the Lord Jesus Christ as a
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characteristics of the son of
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We don’t need to turn them.
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the screen and what you need to
remember as we go through these

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verses, is that all these
qualities are sealed up their

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bound up in this?
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of God in heaven and it’s
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He’s there. so, the son of man
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power on Earth to forgive sins,
the son of man must suffer, many

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things and be rejected at the
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scribes and be killed and after
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Rise again, that’s, that’s Mark
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not to be ministered unto but to
minister and to give his life a

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ransom for many years.
Something we’d all understand

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that more 10 verse 45, that the
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clouds with power and great
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That’s what we’re talking about
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That’s Mark 13 verse 26.
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is sitting, we’re now seeing him
standing Mark, says he goes

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beyond that point.
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power and he’s going to come in
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Mark, 13, verse 26, Mark, 14 and
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So what we have here is an
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man, a beautiful man, a great
man, a powerful man and brothers

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our sisters in young people, a
Man Who Loved A man who died for

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us yet without sin.
A man who was slain from the

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foundation of the world and his
love was so great that he

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receives now, honor and praise
and acclimation from God in

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heaven.
That’s the picture.

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That’s being painted brothers
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We have to be moved by that.
It’s amazing.

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It’s amazing that this meeting
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I want to think a little more
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because we could think about
Jesus here standing alone and he

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was in a certain sense, he was
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something else that’s going on.
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have a look at Hebrews chapter
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Hebrews chapter 2 and the point
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Hebrews chapter 2 quotes from
psalm eight and we going to be

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looking at Psalm 8 a few times
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It’s a real launching pad in
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So Hebrews 2 the Apostle here
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pick up.
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sense right away, why we’ve gone
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Hebrews 2 Verse 6, but one in a
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what is man that thou art
mindful of him or the son of

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man.
Notice that thou visitest him

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And think about Jesus in heaven.
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what the Apostle writes, thou
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the Angels.
Our Crown has him with glory and

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honor and did set him over.
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That was put all things in
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For in that, he put all in
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nothing.
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now we see not yet all things
put under him, but we see Jesus

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who was made a little lower than
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death.
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That he by the grace of God,
should taste death for every

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man.
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that the kind of the climax here
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Became him for whom are all
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things in bringing many sons
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At least underlying those words
in your mind, many sons unto

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glory to make the captain of
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Perfect through sufferings.
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the purpose?
What is the All of the son of

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man.
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Hebrews 2 verse 10 that it was
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He’s purpose in the role of the
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Of man was to bring many sons
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We need to really remember that
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to bring many sons and daughters
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And so then in a way that the
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men, doesn’t it that this man,
the Lord Jesus Christ represents

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our host.
Who’s the host?

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The host of Adam.
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to redeem our host and he’s
going to change them and they’re

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going to become Sons and
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The one will become a multitude
that the singularity will become

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the multitudinously.
We know this language And here

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we have it.
Brothers and sisters, and this

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all happened.
Then the son of man or happened

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for you.
And for me, there he is standing

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as a representative for a hidden
multitude, for men, past

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present, and future, and he’s
going to redeem all of them.

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By God’s grace brothers and
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This is amazing what he did.
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Is that a few other little
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I want to highlight here.
I’m sure we’ve all got our

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thoughts about the captain of
their salvation there, in verse

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10.
But what I want to just draw

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your attention to is is Vines
dictionary.

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It’s a good dictionary.
I think you can buy from the

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christadelphians office.
It’s a good dictionary and the

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translation there on the captain
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First, I want you to think about
that one who goes first, just

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reflect upon that for a moment.
What went first?

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Where did we start today?
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early.
What else went first?

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Well the Lord Jesus Christ
ascended from the Mount of

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Olives, 2,000 years later to
when he’s going to return to

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Jerusalem.
And here we have the Lord Jesus

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Christ going first.
Being the firstfruits of them

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that slept and a harvest Sons
and Daughters would be brought

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to Glory would follow.
Can you see that this idea of

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the first?
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ushering in a multitude.
So in other words and this is

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all about us brothers and
sisters young people, this is

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all about us and it’s consistent
language.

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To Daniel said, let’s go back to
Daniel chapter 7 and you can see

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this That the vision is so
encompassing that we see here,

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the many sons and daughters
being brought to Glory.

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Look at Verse 18 of Daniel
chapter 7, But the Saints of the

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most high shall take the kingdom
and possess the kingdom forever

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even forever and ever, they’re
not the sons and daughters

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brought to Glory.
That the writer of the Hebrews

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talks about that the Saints, but
that the same things that the

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glorified ones, these are the
sons and daughters to Glory but

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who are these Saints?
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Well, when we look at that that
that don’t just read and

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accepted who are these Saints?
These are the men and women who

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have been terrorized tormented
and in many cases killed by The

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Lion and the bear and the
leopard.

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And as Jesus stood in heaven,
what was prevailing at the time,

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the menacing fourth Beast, the
Roman beast and think about the

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Christians under Nero that died.
And so Jesus, as he stood there

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in heaven, he thought about all
these past present and future

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and they were all bound up with
him.

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These are the sons and daughters
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And it’s so dramatic.
It’s so beautiful.

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I just want to try and
illustrate this.

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That the son of man now reaches
heaven.

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I’ve sat in his throne room.
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And he’s described here as the
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I want you to look at verse 14
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And there was given him dominion
and glory and a kingdom that all

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people Nations and languages
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His Dominion is an everlasting
Dominion which shall not pass

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away and his kingdom that will
not be destroyed.

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And so picturing here is that
the son of man and he comes now

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to the Ancient of Days and
something is going to be

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transferred from the Ancient of
Days to the son of man.

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And what is it?
It’s a little phrase here and

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it’s something we should just
Overlook look at it.

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It says their Dominion.
Glory and a kingdom.

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We’re going to come across that
phrase repeatedly through this

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weekend to try and plant that in
your head Dominion.

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Glory and a kingdom.
It’s a triplet.

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As you can see on the screen
it’s a triplet that runs all the

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way through the Book of Daniel
and in every reference that

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we’ve got on the screen at least
two of the Dominion glory and

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kingdom are mentioned in those
verses.

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And so a rhetorical questions
being asked is the reader reads

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the Book of Daniel and it’s like
who is going to have dominion

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glory and kingdom?
Is it going to be the kingdom

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man?
Or is it going to be the king?

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Of God and here in Daniel
chapter 7, a resounding answer

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Goes Forth.
The kingdom of God.

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The kingdom of God.
Through the Lord, Jesus Christ,

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that’s how dramatic it is.
And it’s handed over to the Lord

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Jesus Christ.
And just notice here carefully

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how this Authority is granted.
You can look at verse 13.

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It’s kind of an exercise of
filling in the gaps.

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Daniel 7 verse 13.
It says they and the word.

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They there is referring to the
clouds.

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The clouds brought him.
Who the son?

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Of man near before him who The
Ancient of Days.

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So the clouds, brought the son
of man near the Ancient of Days

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and you can see in verse 13,
that it was the clouds that took

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the son of man to the Ancient of
Days.

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And look at the phrase that use
their brought him near before

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him.
You might have other

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translations, they could go
something like this, he was led

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into his presence or he was
escorting.

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Just think about that that the
cloud.

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Here were leading and a scoring,
but natural clouds.

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Don’t do that.
Do they let they don’t welcome

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someone in Acts chapter 1 and
they certainly don’t ask or

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someone who sat upon the throne
this is talking about something

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else, isn’t it?
This is the cloud of angels,

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it’s the very same, kind of
angels, that took Jesus up into

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heaven.
In Acts chapter 1, And it’s

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breathtaking.
It is so moving, isn’t it?

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But what’s missing in all of
this Teeter?

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You would imagine with this
build up that we’d have a lovely

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seeing that’s described for us.
If what almighty God said to his

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son?
The Lord Jesus Christ, but

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nothing why it was a private
moment.

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It was an intimate moment
between the Father and Son.

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Cast your minds back to the
resurrection morning.

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What was said between the father
and son, we can only allude to

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from the on the Psalms can’t
lie.

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It was between the father and
son and them alone, isn’t it?

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Lovely.
And what a moment, it was.

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But why is it?
That.

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The Angels, a host of angels
took the Lord Jesus Christ into

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heaven just just ask yourselves
that question.

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Why didn’t the Lord Jesus Christ
ascend on his own?

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Why did it need a host of
angels?

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Well, these angels live in the
presence of God, don’t they?

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They live in heaven and just as
Jacob’s Ladder describes them

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ascending and descending.
So do these angel. and Jesus

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never been to Heaven before had
he He didn’t know the ruins.

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And so the gypsies Angels, they
celebrated the fact that wanted

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overcome and for the first time
ever they were taking someone

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home with them.
They were taking the Lord.

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Jesus Christ.
God’s only begotten son and they

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could not be happier.
Could though.

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I want to have a look at Psalm
104.

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Let’s have a quick look at Psalm
104.

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It’s going to be our last
reference here.

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And the reason why we’re going
here is that this style I

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believe Builds on the picture of
Christ.

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Going in clouds to his Heavenly
Father picture of Acts chapter

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1.
A picture of Daniel chapter 7

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let’s just see what we find
here.

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Just going to read the words
carefully.

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It’s lovely poetic language
that’s expressed in the psalm

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Psalm 104.
Then in verse 1 bless the Lord O

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my God.
Oh my soul O Lord my God Thou

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Art, very great.
Thou are clothed with honor and

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Majesty who covers thyself with
light as with a garment who

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stretches out the heavens like a
curtain who latest the beams of

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his Chambers.
In the waters, who make us the

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clouds, his cherish who walketh
upon the wings of the Wind.

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Who maketh his angels Spirits.
His ministers, a flaming fire.

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Lovely.
Words, are they look at verse 3,

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the clouds there they are
associated with God’s chariots.

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And so Jesus was brought to
heaven in God’s Own per store

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Chariot.
Jesus, traveled in God’s special

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vehicle with God’s angels and
look at verse 4 who maketh his

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angels spirits, You may have
something slightly different in

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your Bible.
The revised version margin,

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certainly says these words he’s
Angel winds.

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So in other words, saying God
made the Angels like wind Mighty

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and Swift and invisible in doing
God’s work and fulfilling God’s

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purpose.
So, we then have the clouds as

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God’s chariots.
The angels as his wind and we

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have the figure of angels
powering the cloud Chariot of

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God, which is exactly what we
see in.

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Daniel chapter 7, Like a turbine
driving the Cheerios.

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The cloud Chariot to Heaven.
Brothers and sisters, isn’t that

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just lovely?
So moving, isn’t it?

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So, can you imagine?
Such a moment.

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The Father and Son, laying Eyes,
Upon each other, in the flesh,

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for the first time.
No father has ever loved a son

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like God loved his.
And no son has earned the love

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and the respect of a father,
like the Lord Jesus Christ.

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And now in this eternal State
they stand there in the

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courtroom led by a great host of
angels.

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This is utterly amazing, isn’t
it?

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And just cast your eyes around
that room and you can see a host

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of angels and they’re all,
they’re all smiling, aren’t

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they?
They are all savoring the

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moment.
This is a moment that they have

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waited for Fraternity.
And now it has arrived and the

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room is filled with with
excitement of what is about to

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take place.
And as the Angels now, present

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the Lord, Jesus Christ.
Almighty God, Did Jesus bow in

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reverence of the sovereignty of
the one who sat upon the throne.

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And then did he rush over and
embrace his father as a father

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and son?
Or was it that as soon as Jesus

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was presented by the Angels?
The father got up from his

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throne.
And race to his son.

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For many of us, we have families
this weekend and this is an

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emotional moment between the
father and son.

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And it would have moved effort.
and brothers and sisters in

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young people, if there is
rejoicing in heaven, over one

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sinner that repents What kind of
rejoicing took place?

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This day?
It must have been wild

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celebration as the Angels
applauded after the private

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moment between the father and
son.

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But what are they celebrating?
They weren’t merely celebrating.

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What had been done?
What had been achieved?

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What had been accomplished?
They rejoiced.

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In a sure future.
Because this son of man would

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become a multitude of men and
women redeem from atoms line and

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they rejoiced in that knowledge.
As soon as it happened, the

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kingdom of God was guaranteed,
it was a surety Jesus Christ,

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enthroned in.
Jerusalem was sure.

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Many sons.
Would be brought to Glory.

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But there’s assistance young
people.

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What a privilege.
We have to come here this

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weekend and whatever problems
concerns and anxieties

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difficulties that you’re facing
in life.

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However, low and broken and
shattered and you might even be

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feeling it so difficult to even
continue and you brought

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yourself here just so that our
spark possibly could happen.

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Please, please.
Think about that, Heavenly

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meeting.
And what it meant to God, his

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son and a host of angels.
And the plans now are prepared.

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Jesus now is ready and he’s
coming.

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He’s coming in clouds to
establish God’s kingdom and he

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wants on that day, many sons and
many daughters.

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And he promises us that we will
be brought to Glory.

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What a conference.
This is

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a