Stephen Whitehouse – Class 3: Behold he cometh with clouds

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Well we’ve been eyewitnesses of
an incredibly dramatic moment

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where the Angels host of angels
presented, the son of man to the

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Ancient of Days and in that
meeting and in that exchange

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Dominion.
Glory and a kingdom was granted

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the son of man.
And perhaps The Angels watched

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waiting for this private.
This intimate moment to be over

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and then they broke out into
rapturous Applause.

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The celebration not only of what
has been achieved.

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But now, what has been promised,
what has been guaranteed that

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many sons and daughters would be
brought to Glory, you know, this

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is all in the past, isn’t it?
This, this meeting.

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Took place two thousand years
ago.

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And the next installment, the
next episode of the son of man

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that we look in our scriptures,
change his Pace entirely, it’s a

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rather Pacey account because
it’s all about Jesus Christ

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returning to the Earth and
establishing God’s kingdom.

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And we see very quickly in the
work of the son of man that he

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has a lot of work to do.
A lot of work to do.

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And so now the themed the real
thrust of the son of man is

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establishing God’s kingdom upon
the Earth.

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It’s funny that that brother
Johnny look to John chapter 5, I

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can we open our second talk
together in John chapter 5, it

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it’s also funnier that the two
verses he looked at our kind of

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the book ends of the two verses
I’m going to look at and that’s

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sinking for you.
So if you look at John chapter

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5, when we’ve already looked at
the voice and you can see how

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these verses dovetail together,
I want this to look at verse 26

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and the reason why I want us to
go here is that Jesus now

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discloses the role of the son of
man What’s his role?

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So we looked at this voice in
verse 25.

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And then Jesus goes on to say
for as the father hath life in

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himself.
So hath, he given to the son to

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have life in himself.
And I’ve given him authority to

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execute judgment also, because
he is the son of man.

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I want us to notice that he’s
been granted Authority.

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That’s exactly what we’ve seen.
Daniel chapter 7, isn’t it?

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That these are worse.
Confirming, that Daniel chapter

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7 is being fulfilled in him, he
is the voice.

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He is the resurrection and the
life, it is him.

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He’s encouraging us to go back
to Daniel chapter 7.

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And he’s already.
He is already being given the

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kingdom.
Because it’s a reality.

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We don’t think about that.
Do we think that Jesus is got a

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return and establish God’s
kingdom but know the scriptures

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are very clear that he’s been
given Dominion glory and a

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kingdom as far as God’s
concerned, who transcends time.

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It’s a reality.
It’s a reality.

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And so here, then the son of man
has been granted.

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This authority over the kingdom.
He used the been Adam, he is the

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representative.
He is the Victor, he is the

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Glorious one, he is the one.
Who knows the very hearts and

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intense of man’s heart.
This is he and to emphasize that

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point is repeated again in verse
22 for the father judges, no

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man.
But has committed all judgment

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Unto the Sun.
So, having established.

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Now remember this son of man is
is is linked to coming in clouds

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having established.
Now he’s role his role is to

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judge.
He’s role is to judge.

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When he returns his role is to
judge is the judge the household

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of faith.
He used to judge the nation of

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Israel.
He’s to judge the nations of the

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world.
This is his role brothers and

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sisters young people.
So, having established now, The

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purpose of the son of man.
Let’s now bring it back to this

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theme coming in clouds and the
three references.

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I mentioned them yesterday,
three references that we’re

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going to really anchor our
thoughts around.

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So the first one then is the one
we’ve already looked at, in

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Daniel chapter 7, one like the
son of man who came with clouds

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of Heaven, that’s a wonderful
meeting between the father and

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son.
You’ve got another reference

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here in Matthew, chapter 24, and
shall see the son of man coming

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in the Clouds Of Heaven with
power and great Glory.

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We’ll look at that tomorrow in
our final talk and then we’re

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going to pick up this one,
behold.

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He cometh with clouds and every
eye shall see him and they also

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which pierced him and all
kindred’s of the Earth, shall

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wail, because of him, even so
are men.

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So that’s what we’re going to
look at in our session this

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morning.
Now, when you look at those

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verses, what’s the the
overriding message Jesus is

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coming.
Get ready.

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And he happens to be coming in
clouds, but that’s the message.

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He is coming and the clouds.
What’s the significance of

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clouds?
Well, if we were to think about

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clouds the role of clouds,
perhaps then, these are three

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examples that would come to
mind.

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You might think of the pillar of
cloud or the thick Cloud on

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Mount Sinai or the cloud that
covered the Tabernacle.

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And when you look at those roles
of cloud there on your screen,

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you can see strikingly that they
come from the book of Exodus and

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the Book of Exodus is all about
coming out of Egypt to the

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promised land.
So this this this big message

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around gather around All
regathering God’s people.

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And I believe that is something
that is related to the role of

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the son of man, the work of
regathering.

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And we’ve already seen as well.
That the cloud is a symbol of

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God’s glory.
God’s power, God’s presence.

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So in other words, then this
picture of Christ coming in

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clouds, paints a very dramatic
picture, a time of The Exodus, a

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time of regathering of God’s
people.

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In the land of one who is going
to orchestrate this regathering.

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And it’s going to be one who
comes in God’s presence, in

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God’s glory.
Indeed, he is the son of God.

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So there’s two bits then that
override this message in the

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book of Exodus that the work of
regathering and the work of

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God’s revelation.
So having looked at these three

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passages then as I said, we’re
going to pick up Revelation

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chapter 1, we want to try and
deal with these key meetings.

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We said yesterday, these key
meetings of the Lord Jesus

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Christ.
So we’re going to spend time in

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Revelation 1, but before we go
there, can you have a look at

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Revelation, 14?
This is a helpful introduction

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to Revelation 1.
And you might wonder why I say

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that.
Well, there’s something here is

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a feature in Revelation, 14 that
that’s helpful to And really The

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Narrative of the son of man.
So Revelation, then 14, and and

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verse 14.
You’ve got these words, John on

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the Isle of Patmos Envision.
He recalls these words and I

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looked, and behold a white cloud
and upon the cloud once at like

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unto the son of man.
So very similar to the language

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of Daniel 7 that we’ve got on
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You can see the parallels
between the two but there’s some

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additional details here having
on his head, a Golden Crown and

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in his hand, a sharp sickle.
We got one light that the son of

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man here and he’s in a white
cloud is holding this sharp

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sickle and he stands ominously
here, doesn’t he?

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He’s ready to harvest again?
It’s a picture of judgment where

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we started our talk in Matthew
Chapter 5, it’s consistent with

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that.
He’s coming to judge and he’s

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holding the sickle.
But something else.

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We shouldn’t Overlook that
little detail.

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They’re having on his head, a
Golden Crown.

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And this is rather interesting
because the word Crown there.

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I’m sure you know is the words
to finest.

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We’ve all heard of the crown
being the woods to farness.

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It’s the wreath isn’t it?
That was given to the victors of

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the ancient games.
But it’s not the diadem.

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The diadem belongs to the one
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and Lord of lords.
So in other words, then we’re

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looking at Revelation chapter
14, we’re seeing a snapshot of

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what’s going on in an unfolding
episode of the son.

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Of man, it is this ongoing
spectacle that the son of man

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covers so many different
episodes and here in Revelation

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chapter 14.
We’re kind of zooming in into

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one part of that episode that
drama And in this part of the

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drama Revelation 14, he’s not
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not appeared in Jerusalem, he’s
not destroyed the nation’s that

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gather themselves, he’s not
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So, that’s helpful.
When we’re looking at the son of

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man, it is this overarching
theme that runs throughout

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scripture.
It’s a drama.

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It’s a, it’s a, it’s a set of
activities that the Lord Jesus

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Christ is going to do in order
to establish God’s kingdom upon

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the Earth forever.
And that’s really important to

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understand, it’s not a momentary
event, It’s a drama.

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So, with those thoughts, then
let’s go back to Revelation

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chapter 1.
Having established.

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Now that we’re watching an
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before our eyes.
Here, we see these words in 13,

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Revelation 1 verse 13 and we see
a similar picture.

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And in the midst of the seven,
candlesticks or lampstands one

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like unto the son of man.
Okay?

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So the same idea here, clothed
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and Girt about the paps with a
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Verse 16 and he had in his right
hand Seven Stars and out of his

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mouth, went a sharp two-edged
sword, and his countenance was

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the sun shineth in the strength.
So by looking at those two

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verses you can see again, it’s
the role of judgment that’s in

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being impressed Upon Our Minds.
It’s the John chapter 5.

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It is the role of the Lord Jesus
Christ as the son of man coming

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in clouds but then there’s
another feature.

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There’s another detail that’s
expressed to us here in verse

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18.
This little detail is the one.

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Who is this?
Son of?

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Man, he exclaims, I am.
He Liveth and was dead, and

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behold I am alive for Evermore.
So, this little episode here is

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about the Risen.
Lord, the glorified Lord.

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The one that died, but rose
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And that gives us Comfort being
the first being the resurrection

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and the life.
But remember in our first talk,

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we talk about the son of man.
Who would bring many sons and

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daughters unto Glory.
We’ve got the same idea here in

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the end of verse 15.
He’s not alone, is he?

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It says there his voice as the
sound of many Waters.

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He’s there with the Saints.
He’s there with the bride, he’s

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there as a multitudinous Christ.
His he’s there with an

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innumerable Army of men and
women who have been granted

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immortality.
So this is post the Judgment

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seat.
This is God’s revelation through

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his son upon the Earth.
And I wonder when we look at

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these verses together with the
eye of Faith.

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Do you spot yourself there?
And this is what we’ve got to

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try and do as hard as it is to
imagine ourselves.

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This is the description of those
who will inherit immortality and

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they’re going to work with the
Lord Jesus Christ to bring about

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peace and righteousness upon the
Earth.

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And so, when we read these
verses don’t just look at them

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brothers and sisters, young
people as just merely academic

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details.
This is our work and it should

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thrill us.
Absolutely Thrillers.

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And we hope and pray that we
will be there on that day.

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So with those thoughts in mind.
Now let’s look at verse 7 here.

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Revelation, 1, verse 7.
But before we look at Revelation

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1 verse 7, look at the end of
verse 6.

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To him be glory and Dominion
forever and ever.

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To him be glory and Dominion
forever and ever.

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Isn’t that the same picture?
Again of Daniel chapter 7, the

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one in heaven who received
dominion and glory and the

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kingdom.
Can you see this?

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Can you see how intertwined
these Visions are this?

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This, this unfolding drama
that’s being described before

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our eyes here.
But all the language is so

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similar.
He receives all the glory and

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all Dominion Dominion.
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dominion, what would you think
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Doesn’t it shall?
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Genesis and we’re going to have
a short digression you’ll see in

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a moment.
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going back here is to think
about Dominion, he’s given all

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glory.
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chapter 7, but but why Dominion?
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lesson in all of this.
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the beginning as John.
He’s already talked about those

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opening words in Genesis chapter
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account in verse 26 and try and
spot a word that we’ve seen

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there in Revelation.
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and God said.
Let us make man in our image

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after our likeness and let them
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That’s the end of Revelation. 1
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and over the fowl of the air and
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Earth.
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his own image and in His image
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He him male and female created,
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and God said unto them, be
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replenish the Earth, and subdue
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And have dominion over the fish
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the air and over every living
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Earth.
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is granted the Lord Jesus Christ
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highlighted in Revelation.
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Adam should have exercised as
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That was his responsibility to
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dominion over everything.
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did.
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Adam would come and Triumph and
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Now, have a look at Psalm 8,
think about what you just read

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in Genesis, chapter 1 and you
are going to see a flood of

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words that you’ve seen earlier.
And Psalm 8, here is connecting

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Genesis chapter 1.
And the words that we’ve just

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read in Revelation, chapter 1.
And what I saw made it is such a

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lovely chapter.
It’s the very platform that the

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Apostle quotes from and uses as
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Hebrews and chapter 2, which
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them and this song was written
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written soon after vanquishing
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that there are the poignant
aren’t they?

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Psalm 8 and will read these
carefully and you can see all

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the connections here, Psalm 8
verse 4 What is man that thou

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art mindful of him and the son
of man that thou visitest him

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for that was made him a little
lower than the angels and has

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crowned him with glory and honor
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Thou madest him to have
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That’s Genesis 1.
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over the works of thy hands
which thou has put all things

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under his feet.
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This was the duty of Adam all
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Yeah.
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fowl of the air and the fish of
the sea and whatsoever passes

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through the past and see
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The Earth was Adams Kingdom.
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How excellent is thy name in all
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was to have dominion.
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when we look at those words,
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that Jesus Christ receives the
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It’s a company’s this crown with
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And we can understand this crown
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You could see him in Psalm 8 as
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But it’s more than this crown of
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second, Adam And by having all
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He reverses The Curse Of Eden.
He establishes a paradise to the

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ends of the Earth.
He brings about unity and

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fellowship with God.
Can you see this?

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It’s addressing all the evils
that that begin in those opening

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chapters of Genesis.
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sat there as king over the Earth
dominion and all things are

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subject to him.
I am once again, we see

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ourselves in all of this doesn’t
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Because this will be the
responsibility of those who are

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granted.
Immortality we are told in

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Revelation chapter 1, that we
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will reign with the Lord Jesus
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They’re marvelous things.
Absolutely wonderful.

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So with that introduction, then
when we think about behold, he

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cometh in clouds in Revelation 1
verse 7, But what do you think

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about those words with, with all
the things that we’ve said so

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far?
Well, if we think about our

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first address, we’ve already
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Jesus Christ went up with a
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And so, then if you come within
clouds, perhaps we would

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conclude that he comes with
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That would be a reasonable
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And perhaps some of us think
that and and there’s nothing

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wrong in thinking that.
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believe that this is something
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because if we can really
understand who these clouds are

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and who Jesus appears with upon
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Who that honor belongs to then
it can be tremendously

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encouraging.
And I what I want to do just

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very quickly.
Now I want to show you That the

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work of the kingdom is not
granted the Angels, its granted,

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the Saints.
And so, Jesus Christ coming in

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clouds, it cannot be angels that
reveal themselves upon the world

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and change the world.
Let’s have a look at Hebrews

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chapter 2.
Let’s go back there.

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Hebrews chapter 2.
So we’ve already looked at that

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discourse, haven’t we?
That that picks up in verse 6

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and goes down, concerning the
son of man, and many sons unto

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glory.
And what I want to do, now I

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want to pick at verse 5.
I purposely admitted it in our

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first tour for this reason.
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for unto the Angels hath, he not
put in subjection, the world to

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come where of we speak.
And it could not be any clearer

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brothers, and Students the work
of establishing God’s kingdom

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upon this Earth is the work of
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It’s the work of us.
Those who will be granted

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immortality.
So who then the right of the

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Apostle, or the writer of
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subjection the world to come in
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Well, we’ve already looked at
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Verse 10, many sons and
daughters unto Glory, can we see

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that?
The work of the kingdom of God

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is Not granted the work that to
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Its granted to the sons and
daughters that are transformed

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to Glory.
That’s really important, isn’t

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it?
So when we come to Hebrews

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chapter 12, which we looked at
earlier, Hebrews chapter 12,

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which really concludes chapter
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Let’s just read Hebrews chapter
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Wherefore seeing we are
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A cloud of witnesses.
Let us lay aside every weight

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and the sin, which doth so
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with patience, the race that is
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What is Paul saying?
He’ll the great Apostle, what is

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simply saying is look back to
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Great catalog are faithful men
and women who are now sleeping

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in the dust of the ground.
In Hebrews chapter 11, And they

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all the cloud of witnesses, they
will be the ones where all

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thority will be granted where
the world will be subject to the

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faithful men and women of old
and sudden the cloud represents

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the faithful in God’s coming
Kingdom and and brothers and

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sisters.
That’s so encouraging.

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It’s so clear.
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And so we ask ourselves, are we
prepared for that work?

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What are we doing?
In our, with our lives to

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prepare ourselves for that?
Great work to come because much

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work is to be done.
But there’s also a spiritual

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reason why the Saints are
described as clouds and the

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picture is a stunning one.
We’ve got the sun of

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righteousness there with healing
in his beams in Malachi chapter

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4.
And I’m sure we’re all familiar

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with this language here which
speaks of the sun s0n of

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righteousness.
This is the Lord Jesus Christ

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and Jesus is referred to as the
light of the world in John

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chapter 8 and John chapter 9.
So it’s very clear that the Lord

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Jesus Christ, depicts the Sun
and and the nations of the Earth

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are representative By the
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And we know the phenomena when
the Sun rises upon the waters

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and it causes evaporation and
the finite my new particles of

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water.
Ascend into heaven and they form

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clouds.
And this amazing process tells

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us that we will be gathered, and
the faithful will be formed into

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clouds.
Have you thought about that that

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that our role will be clouds in
the coming Kingdom that we will

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soar in the political heavens?
And what are we going to do?

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What are we going to pour upon
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Or we might think judgment given
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Let’s have a look at Psalm 72
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In God’s coming Kingdom.
Psalm 72.

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And it’s interesting.
Isn’t it how it starts off this

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song on Psalm 72 and and verse
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Give the king thy judgments o
God and thy righteousness unto

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the King’s son.
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this is the role of the King’s
son.

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And then you look in verse 2, he
shall judge thy people with

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righteousness, and the poor were
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So this theme of judgment is
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It’s spelled had again in verse
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the people, he shall save the
children of needy and shall

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break in pieces the oppressor
and then The all-important Voice

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verse 6, He shall come down like
rain upon the mon grass, the

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showers that water the Earth in
his days shall the righteous

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flourish and abundance of Peace.
So long as the Moon and Earth.

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And if we forget that, this is
part of the theme of the, the

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son of man coming in clouds
verse 8, he shall have dominion

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says the psalmist also from sea
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And from the river unto the ends
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So rain then is a figure of the
word of God.

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That’s a well-known symbol and
the watering of the Earth.

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This is the you’ll all important
point that the watering of the

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Earth in God’s coming Kingdom
will not be the work of the

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Angels.
It will be the work of the

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Saints and let’s just think
about this, our words, have you

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ever thought about this?
Our words in God’s coming

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Kingdom?
You and I granted immortality

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when we speak.
It will come down like rain upon

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the moon grass.
And we know how sweet that smell

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is a showers that water the
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So however low, you may be
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This is the promise God is going
to convert you and Elevate you

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into a magnificent life-giving
Cloud.

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I think about the clouds and how
they saw the Majesty of clouds

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in the presence.
Of the Sun and these clouds are

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going to feel the warmth of the
sun of righteousness.

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Yes.
And the speed and the swiftness,

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we will feel the the wind in our
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And our work.
Here is the work of changing

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this world.
It’s an amazing thing, isn’t it?

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The the water of God’s truth and
we were poor, we were poor.

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Have you ever thought about our
work in God’s coming Kingdom?

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It’s going to be very scriptural
based.

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It’s going to be pouring God’s
truth upon this parched world.

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And it’s lovely, isn’t it?
Because when we think about that

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phrase, kite Christ coming in
clouds, it’s telling us that

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those clouds are always with
Christ.

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If you thought about it, they’re
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The inextricably linked with
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Wherever Christ goes, the cloud
goes with him in God’s coming

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Kingdom, we’re always going to
be in the presence of the Lord.

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Jesus Christ will always going
to be working with him.

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We’re always going to be in
conversation with him.

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It’s going to be a reality.
We will never be away from the

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Lord Christ comes in clouds, and
he’s going to pour His word upon

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the Earth.
Is there more a wonderful

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lifting?
And example, exhilarating Duty

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for any of us, brothers and
sisters in young people if we

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try and imagine the future.
I don’t know, this is a

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wonderful wonderful work.
So we’ve considered then that

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the meaning of the phrase,
behold, he cometh in clouds But

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the other phrase I want to think
about now is the second phrase

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as we try unpick this verse here
in Revelation 1 verse 7.

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So he cometh in clouds and then
the writer says every eye shall

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see him.
Well, what does that mean?

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well, perhaps it means that when
the Lord Jesus Christ leaves,

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the right hand of the father and
he returns to the Earth that he

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ruled turning away, that every
eye will see him Immediately, is

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that what we think?
do we think that Jesus is going

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to return and as soon as he
leaves the father’s presence

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that the world will see him, it
will be an earth stopping moment

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quite literally I think we need
to think about the sequence

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here.
There’s a very important

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sequence.
Have a look at 1, Peter chapter

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4,
One piece of chapter 4.

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Then, just one verse verse 17,
you For the time is come says

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Peter.
That judgment must begin at the

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house of God.
And if it first begin at us,

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what shall the end of them that
obey?

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Not the gospel of God?
So before Jesus can come with a

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cloud of witnesses, those
Witnesses needed to be granted

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immortality.
And before these witnesses can

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be granted immortality, they
have to stand before the judge

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of the Earth. so in other words
and these clouds, in order for

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them to be formed Jesus is got a
return.

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He’s got a raise the dead and
the living are gathered

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together.
The Judgment seat has to take

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place and immortality needs to
be granted to, the faithful.

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Can you see that in order for a
cloud of witnesses to be

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revealed upon the Earth, there’s
a whole series of things that

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need to have taken place in
order for that to happen.

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So judgment begins in the house
of God. now, when we think About

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the glory of God.
Every eye shall see him.

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That’s talking about the world,
isn’t it?

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Every eye?
Shall see him everyone in the

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00:31:06,200 –> 00:31:09,500
world will know that Jesus
Christ has returned and if you

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think about it there’s a there’s
a well-known prophecy isn’t that

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00:31:13,800 –> 00:31:16,000
there’s a vision of Ezekiel and
we’re not going to go into

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detail but just summarize it
really for our purposes.

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Is he was a prophet and nation
of Israel have been Wicked.

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And in Vision Ezekiel sees the
glory of God leave the temple.

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The city it goes east it travels
up the Mount of Olives and then

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ascends to heaven, Think about
the Lord, Jesus Christ ascending

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into heaven.
And then, when you come to the

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end of the book and it’s picked
up in chapter 43, When the new

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Temple has been built in
Jerusalem, that becomes a house

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of prayer for all nations as
Isaiah.

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The glory of God comes down from
the mount into the City and

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fills the house of God.
So just think about that.

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That’s a vision of the glory of
God and we know in the book of

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Hebrews that the Lord Jesus
Christ was the glory of God.

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He was the express image and the
glory of the father. so for

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That, Glory picture to be
reversed the glory has to first

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appear where The Mount of
Olives.

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This is where the world will see
him.

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Now, when we think about the
Mount of Olives, surely our

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minds go to that, well-known
prophecy, shall we?

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Have a look at it now.
Zechariah, Chapter 14, a

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chapter, which I’m sure we all
know.

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Well, But just linking these
verses.

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Now, with this picture that were
trying to paint before you and

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we’re trying to answer the
question, when will the World?

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00:32:55,300 –> 00:33:00,200
See the Lord Jesus Christ.
And it’s interesting here in

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Zechariah Chapter 14 that you’ve
got a picture of the Lord.

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Jesus Christ.
Placing his feet upon the Mount

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of Olives.
This Jesus shall return in like

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manner said the angels to the
disciples in Acts chapter 1.

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So that’s why 14 and verse 3,
then shall the Lord go forth and

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fight against those Nations as
when he fought in the day of

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battle.
So this is the battle of

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Armageddon.
And at the end of this battle,

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he will wear the diadem not the
Stefano’s and verse 4, and his

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feet, the Lord’s feet in the
form of the Lord Jesus Christ,

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and his feet shall stand in that
day upon the Mount of Olives,

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which is before Jerusalem, the
East and the Mount of Olives

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shall cleave in the midst
thereof towards the east and

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towards the west and there shall
be a great value.

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And we got all the details now
with how it will split.

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But what I want to draw your
attention to is the end of verse

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5 and it says there, on that
day, when the Mount of Olives

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splits and the Lord, my God
shall come and all the saints

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with thee.
Can you see that?

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The Saints, the cloud, Jesus
returns in the form of a cloud.

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And when that mountain splits
it’s not Jesus alone that stands

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upon the Mount of Olives.
It is this picture of the son of

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man, with many sons and
daughters that have been brought

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to Glory, And the Mount of
Olives splits.

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And that would Saints, there is
the same idea that we see.

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In Daniel chapter 7, those
saints, that also received

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Dominion glory and the kingdom.
Can we see that?

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I know we’re covering a lot of
ground, but this is really

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important.
Jesus Christ in clouds and there

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00:34:39,500 –> 00:34:44,400
they are This Cloud.
Now comes down and descends and

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stands upon the Mount of Olives
and the Mount of Olives splits

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into.
And that’s very consistent,

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isn’t it?
With ezekiel’s prophecy there?

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Where the glory From the mount
rushes down into Jerusalem and

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00:34:59,400 –> 00:35:04,600
fills the house of God.
Well, if we just take a breather

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00:35:04,600 –> 00:35:08,600
from moment, what we’re saying
here?

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In a way that there are two
distinct Cummings of the Lord

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00:35:14,000 –> 00:35:15,500
Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ is coming in

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clouds.
But what we’ve seen this morning

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that there are two distinct
Cummings.

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That the first coming is in
secret.

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When the voice goes forward, his
brother, John has been talking

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about and when the judgement
seat takes place, When the

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faithful are granted
immortality. and then there’s

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the powerful glorious Revelation
upon the Mount of Olives, where

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the Lord Jesus Christ, is with
those sons and daughters that

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have been brought to glory and
the world shall see and to quote

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00:35:46,600 –> 00:35:51,800
Revelation every eye, shall see
him when he stands upon the

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Mount of Olives, So these all
these two distinct coming

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secret.
Return of the Lord Jesus Christ,

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gathers, the Saints and the
faithful granted immortality.

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They become the clouds of the
future.

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But what then about the other
little bit in the in the verse

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there in Revelation, and they
also, which pierced him, this is

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all part of the drama of the son
of man coming in clouds.

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Well, this speaking about Jesus
is own people, the Jewish

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Nation.
Well, of course, it was the

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Roman’s, wasn’t it?
Who put the nails into Jesus,

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his hand and feet, but it was
the Jews who protested to Pilot

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00:36:35,200 –> 00:36:37,700
that they had no king.
But Caesar and when pilate asked

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them what they should do with
the man, They said crucify him,

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crucify him so effectively then
it was the Jewish nation that

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nailed the Lord Jesus Christ to
the cross.

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So here, then in Revelation 1
verse 7, those who pierced him,

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it’s telling us, when will it be
that the Jewish people in the

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land will see the Lord Jesus
Christ coming in clouds and

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that’s the question that’s being
asked.

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We all know that unspeakable
times are coming once again to

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the nation of Israel unspeakable
times.

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And this is depicted in Ezekiel
38 and 39, but I want it to go

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there.
What I want to do, I want to

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disturb, just think a little bit
about these two chapters Ezekiel

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3839, where we read of go and
the armies of gold coming upon

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the nation of Israel.
Well, what’s interesting, first

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of all, when you look at Ezekiel
38 and 39, you come across the

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phrase, the son of man isn’t
that lovely?

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The son of man coming in clouds
and there it is.

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In the, those two chapters of
Ezekiel, 38 and 39.

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But it’s more than that.
Because the son of man spends

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more time in the Book of Ezekiel
than anywhere else in scripture.

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In fact he’s over 90 times, I’m
sure, you know, that, that

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00:38:00,500 –> 00:38:06,300
phrase, the son of man is found
in the Book of Ezekiel And just

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look on the screen how the son
of man is against go.

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We don’t think about that, we
think about Christ challenging

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00:38:14,000 –> 00:38:16,800
the armies of go.
But really when you look at it

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in Ezekiel 38 verse 2, verse 14
and chapter 13 and verse 1.

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It’s the son of Manning clouds.
That’s the symbology that we’ve

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seen here.
That’s the way we should

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00:38:29,400 –> 00:38:32,700
interpret it.
It’s Christ in clouds.

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It’s not Christ Alone.
Peace with the Saints.

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He’s with the Saints.
And it will be Jesus Christ.

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And the Saints, the save the
nation of Israel from the hand

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00:38:45,500 –> 00:38:51,100
of gold and when Christ stands
upon the Mount of Olives and we

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see there by looking at Zakaria
in the Book of Ezekiel, it will

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utterly overwhelm go and his
allies and he’s Mighty Army, an

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00:38:59,700 –> 00:39:02,900
unprecedented Army there in
Israel.

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And the culmination of all these
things.

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00:39:05,700 –> 00:39:08,900
At the end of the unfolding
drama, God says these words in

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Ezekiel 38.
Thus will, I magnify myself and

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00:39:12,500 –> 00:39:15,700
sanctify myself?
And I will be known in the eyes

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00:39:15,700 –> 00:39:19,300
of many nations, and they shall
know that I am the Lord, and it

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00:39:19,300 –> 00:39:25,700
is then it is then that the
world will know about God about

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00:39:25,700 –> 00:39:27,700
Yahweh.
It’s the Covenant name that is

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00:39:27,700 –> 00:39:30,200
written there and his son, the
Lord Jesus Christ, it will be,

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00:39:30,200 –> 00:39:35,100
then when Jesus Christ stands
upon the Out of Olives, then

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00:39:35,100 –> 00:39:40,300
will be the time when all eyes
of the world will be fixed upon

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the sum.
And this world will never be the

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00:39:45,900 –> 00:39:50,700
same again.
But just thinking about that

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00:39:50,700 –> 00:39:56,300
moment, those that pierced him.
Let’s have a look at Zechariah

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Chapter 12.
We see here that Jesus is going

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to reveal himself in Jerusalem
to those that pierced him and

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00:40:07,400 –> 00:40:11,200
it’s the most moving
reconciliation in history.

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00:40:11,800 –> 00:40:15,200
The one who stands before them
is the one who is just save them

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and their reaction is
overwhelming.

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It is inconceivable that this is
the one that they crucified two

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thousand years ago.
And there we read in verse 2 of

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chapter 12 behold, I will make
Jerusalem a cup of trembling

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00:40:29,500 –> 00:40:32,500
unto all people around about.
I shall be in The Siege both

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against Judah and against
Jerusalem, go down to verse 10.

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And I will pour upon the House
of David and upon the

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inhabitants of Jerusalem, the
spirit of Grace and of

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00:40:41,300 –> 00:40:44,500
supplications and they shall
look upon me whom they have

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00:40:44,500 –> 00:40:48,800
pierced.
And they shall mourn for him as

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00:40:48,800 –> 00:40:52,000
One Mourns for his only son and
shall be in.

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Bitterness for him as one that
is in.

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Bitterness for his firstborn
just turn over to chapter 13 now

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and verse 6 on this question.
And once your say unto him, what

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00:41:02,100 –> 00:41:07,400
are these wounds in thine hands.
Then he shall answer those with

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which I was wounded in the house
of my friend.

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It says there doesn’t it in in
chapter 12 and verse 10 that

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they will look upon Him, whom
they have pierced and the idea

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00:41:22,600 –> 00:41:24,800
of that would look to his to
look intently.

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00:41:24,800 –> 00:41:26,800
They will.
Scrutinize they will examine,

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00:41:26,800 –> 00:41:32,100
they will reflect and they will
weep But it’s also interesting

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00:41:32,100 –> 00:41:35,600
that the same Hebrew word is
used or how the children of

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00:41:35,600 –> 00:41:40,100
Israel were commanded to come
out of their tents and to behold

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00:41:40,500 –> 00:41:43,700
the Brazen serpent.
How do you say?

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00:41:43,700 –> 00:41:48,900
I’ve been bitten by a snake. if
they looked upon the pole in

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00:41:48,900 –> 00:41:53,900
faith, they would be saved.
Well, that’s interesting, isn’t

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00:41:53,900 –> 00:41:56,400
it?
Because it would suggest that

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00:41:56,400 –> 00:42:01,000
when they look upon the Lord
Jesus Christ It’s in faith.

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We’ll look at this in a
discussion of the later.

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This afternoon.
God willing.

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And they are saved.
The whole seam isn’t it is is

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reminiscent of Joseph.
Can we just finish their Genesis

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chapter 45?
Unknown to the man before them

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who was just save them from
certain death, there is none

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other than their brother the one
they thought was long dead.

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Genesis forty five and verse 1.
Then Joseph could not refrain

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himself before all them that
stood by him.

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And he cried cause every man to
go out from me and there stood,

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no man with him while Joseph
made himself known unto his

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Brethren and he wept And he wept
that was the reaction of Joseph.

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Well, that be the reaction of
the Lord Jesus Christ and he

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wept aloud and the Egyptians and
the house of pharaoh hood.

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And Joseph said unto his
Brethren.

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I am Joseph, does my father yet
live and his Brethren could not

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answer him for, they were
troubled at his presence and of

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course they were trouble.
They thought he was dead.

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Have a look in your margin.
It should said they were

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terrified.
Of course, they were.

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He was like a ghost of them,
they thought.

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Was dead.
And now he stands before them.

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And the guilt that they felt
before now becomes overwhelming.

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And they are engulfed in this
guilt of what they had done.

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And Joseph, he intervenes isn’t
he can see that they’re full of

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grief and he breaks the silence
and he does something so

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unexpected.
So unexpected.

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He doesn’t find them guilty but
there’s no tone of anger.

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In his words.
Instead, he does the least

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expected thing.
He forgives them and Comforts

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them and he speaks as Auntie
here with a Regal graciousness.

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Have a look at the end of verse
4.

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I am.
Joseph your brother.

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He says, who he sold unto Egypt,
verse 5.

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Now, therefore be not grieve.
Nor angry with yourselves that

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ye sold me hither for God, did
send me before to preserve life.

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And God sent me before you the
seven to preserve, you a

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posterity in the Earth or a
Remnant, you might have the word

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remnants in the earth and to
save your lives by a great

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deliverance.
And perhaps Jesus will say the

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very same words, I am Jesus,
whom you crucified 2,000 years

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but it was all part of God’s
plan.

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So that we could save you
through a great Deliverance or

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how wonderful those words will
be and what a moving moment.

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And we don’t want to miss this.
Do we want to be there?

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There will not be a dry eye
anywhere.

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When Jesus is finally reconciled
with his Brethren and they

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recognize who he is the Son of
God, the Messiah, it’s an

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extraordinary moment.
So, what a privilege than what a

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privilege that we know these
things that we can open up the

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scripture.
We can try and explain what’s

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going on.
It’s an amazing privilege that

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we have in this time that we’re
waiting for the return of the

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Lord Jesus Christ.
But you know, brothers and

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sisters young people.
Let’s not keep it as a academic

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thing.
These things are recorded to

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transform us.
And we’ve got today.

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Rather than thinking about one
day, we’re going to be a cloud.

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Why don’t we try it now?
Try it out.

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Become a cloud.
And being a cloud.

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What is it?
It’s working with the Lord Jesus

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Christ, it’s working with one
another in sweet harmony.

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00:45:55,700 –> 00:46:00,000
It’s being filled up with the,
the Waters of life and it’s

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looking out and spotting
opportunities where we can pour

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that water into thirsty.
Souls.

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So my question to you is we
finish second talk together.

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How are you would being a cloud?
But one final thing.

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I said there’s two things about
the cloud with the son of man,

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that the first thing is the
glory of God, the presence of

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God, and now we’re finishing up
our second tour with the Lord,

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Jesus Christ, enthroned in
Jerusalem.

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And that is the glory of God and
the world will see it.

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But can you remember the second
means it is a role of

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regathering.
And by this time, when Jesus is

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there with the Saints, he’s
already gathered.

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The Saints, isn’t it?
He’s already had them.

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Who else is there together?
Well to answer that question.

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We’ll look at that tomorrow in
our final tool.

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Thank you.
Well to answer that question.

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We’ll look at that tomorrow in
our final tool.

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Thank you.