Online Revival with Zach Hammond by Zach Hammond First Apostolic Church of Maryville (Maryville, TN) Kind: teaching Scripture: John 14:2-3, Acts 1:11, Matthew 24:3-13, 2 Timothy 3:1-7, 1 Thessalonians 5:1-3, Luke 17:28-30, Jeremiah 30:3, Amos 9:14-15, Matthew 24:24, 2 Thessalonians 2:3, Joel 2:28-29, Matthew 24:14, 1 Thessalonians 4:15-18, Matthew 24:30-31, Matthew 24:36-39, 1 Corinthians 15:51-54, Luke 17:34-36, Acts 2:38-41, John 3:5, Colossians 1:27, Titus 2:11-13, Matthew 6:33, Matthew 24:21, Revelation 20:15 Source: https://acts238.life/repository/sermons/zach-hammond--online-revival-with-zach-hammond-4 Published by Acts 2:38 Life from the sermon transcript on that page. Free to copy and share with attribution. ------------------------------------------------------------ good evening first Apostolic Church family I pray that all of you are doing well we are going to finish up tonight and tomorrow night unlocking the Bible lessons 11 and 12 pastor Erickson will be coming to you tomorrow evening and we're going to finish up this series and be able to upload it so that you could go through the entire series with video of times throughout the past couple months were pastor carpenter pastor Erickson myself have taught at different times on Wednesday night through the series through the lessons of unlocking the Bible and I hope that you have enjoyed each and every lesson tonight it's lesson number 11 and I want you to take a moment right now and I want you to go find a Bible if you don't have a Bible or you get out your get get out an iPad or something preferably a Bible because it would be less distracting popping up some kind of notifications or you being distracted perhaps to to scroll over to something that would be maybe a little more entertaining than listening to me talk but I pray that this evening that you could go through the scripture and see what God is speaking to us through his word tonight is an interesting subject it's not one that's talked about a lot but I want to bring it to your attention this evening there in your home with your family that there is a generation I believe that it is our generation that will experience the coming of the Lord that is is easy for us to see that through scripture that he is coming back and we believe if we have felt God at any moment of our life if we've experienced repentance baptism in Jesus name the new birth experience being filled with a baptism of the Holy Ghost by evidence of speaking in other tongues if you felt God if you've seen God's promises his hope or his love or his joy come on your life if you've seen the prophecies fulfilled in our lives that were we're told of the Old Testament and New Testament we have to move that if that part of the Bible is true then this part of the Bible were going to discuss tonight is true and that is he is coming back for his church and I know sometimes we don't want to think about it but heaven and hell are real some of the top-selling books out there today are books that have titles such as a racing hell we can't just silence it out of our mind there's so many philosophies and theologies out there different viewpoints of how people now have have come up with all kind of ideologies of this is not a real thing and they don't want to think about it they don't want to confront the obvious and so I want to bring it to your attention tonight because if we don't think about it we're never going to achieve it if you don't think about where you're going if you don't think about and set goals if you don't think about if you're a young person if you don't think about graduating you're probably gonna make bad grades if you don't want to accomplish a certain thing on your job you're probably never going to get there unless you set up goals and you look at the path you're on because it's ever so simple but ever so true that you're going to get where you're going whatever path you're on wherever you're headed right now is where you're going to end up so I understand this evening that I may have just it just kind of grabbed your attention by you knowing that I'm going to talk about the rapture and touch on tribulation but we have to understand more than ever before that our adversary the devil and our flesh which we are born into which are our two greatest things trying to keep us from heaven and keep us from what God has for us put us in a little bit of a disadvantage because the the devil you under you have to understand has a heavenly perspective with a earthly destination and we are quite the opposite we are here with the earth are an earthly perception trying to obtain a heavenly destination so this evening I hope that I open up your eyes to be able to view things the way God used them to see what His Word says and to be able to have a little bit of a bigger perception of what God has for us John 14 and to John 14 chapter 2 is where we'll start tonight and it says in my father's house are many mansions if it were not so I would not have told you I go to prepare a place for you for you and your family and if I go and prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you unto myself it only makes sense if he's going to go prepare a place and we know that he's made away then he's going to come back there where I am you may be also he's not went through all this trouble he's not done everything that he's done and took on shame and pain and the cross and endured all that he endured to come down and die for us to simply just leave us in the state that we're in or leave us here on this earth acts 1 in verse number 11 who also said men of Galilee why do you stand gazing up into the heaven the same Jesus who was taken up from you into heaven who will so come in like manner as you saw him go in other words where he went just like he ascended he's going to come back and he's coming back for us and I pray and hope that you live each and every day looking lifting your eyes up to the hills hoping and praying that God is coming to take your family to take the church back because that's the whole purpose of everything we're doing if it's hard for you to think about it's hard for you to hear this subject in fact if you've already kind of tuned me out because you don't really want to think about that I pray that you get your priorities in order because we must understand that Jesus Christ is coming back for his church but until then we see that in Scripture we're going to see signs of the times we're going to experience signs that let us know that we're coming closer and closer to the end Matthew chapter 24 and verse number 3 says now he's set on the Mount of Olives the disciples came to him privately saying tell us when will these things be and what will be the sign of your coming at the end of the age and jesus answered and said unto them take heed no one deceive you from will come in my name saying that I am the Christ and will deceive many people and you will hear of wars and rumors of war and see this make sure that you're not troubled is what Jesus said for all things must come to pass but the end is not yet for nation will rise against nation and Kingdom against Kingdom and there will be famines and pestilence and earthquakes in various places and these are the beginnings of the Sorrows then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you and you will be hated by all nations from my namesake and then many will be offended they will betray one another and will hate one another then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many and because lawlessness will abound and love of many will grow cold but he who endures to the end shall be saved there's going to be many things that happen false Christ a deception wars and rumors of war nations against nation Kingdom against Kingdom famines pestilence earthquakes in various places churches persecuted for the name of Jesus offense betrayal hatred false prophets deception lawlessness diminishing of love I don't know about you but just in those nine things that we've named there's many of those if not all of them that we can see in our very own life if we just open our eyes and look around I'll give you a couple things real quick that stick out to me we heard just on the news just I believe it was yesterday or a day before that we had a 6.3 earthquake take place in Idaho they see a picture there there's there's earthquakes taking taking place all over the globe in fact if you were to get on mr. Google this evening and check it out the past seven days there's been over a thousand earthquakes worldwide that stuff that's not even making the news if you go and look there's pestilence in the land since that Africa and Asia just this past week you'll have a picture that'll come up it'll show you this is what that looks like and no that's not showing up on your news due to all the things going on with kovat 19 but some of the things that we're reading here that you think well no that's not happening you maybe need to search some of these things out 2nd Timothy chapter 3 verse number 1 but know this that in the last days perilous times are going to come for me it will be lovers of themselves lovers of money boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankful unholy unloving unforgiving slanderous without self-control brutal despisers of good traitors headstrong hardy lovers of pleasure rather love rather than lovers of god having a form of godliness but denying its power and from such people turn away for of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins led away by various lusts always learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth like I said I'm going to give you a lot of scripture 1st Thessalonians chapter 5 and verse number 1 but concerning the times and the seasons brethren you have no need that I should write to you for you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night for when they say peace and safety then sudden destruction comes upon them as labor pains upon a pregnant woman and they shall not escape I can't help but think throughout this past week that we've all been pushed into a state of quarantine of staying home of what it it almost just demonstrates and paints out the perfect picture of what it looked like as the Death Angel came past each and every home before the children of it crossed over the Red Sea and made their Exodus out that we've been taken to our home for a time to slow down time of evaluation the thief's going to come at a night Luke 17 likewise as it is it's also in the day of lot they ate they drank they bought they sold they planted they built but on that day that lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all even so will it be in the day of the Son of Man is revealed I can't stress to you enough this evening that don't ignore the signs globally there's also some signs that show us that we are coming to the closure of God's great book and God's great plan that the signs of the end times of his coming are shown through the people of God Israel another sign that has been shown Jeremiah 30 and verse number 3 is 11 this great indicator of God's prophetic time clock for behold the days are coming says the Lord that I will bring back from captivity my people Israel and Judah says the Lord and I will cause them to return to the land that I have gave their fathers and they shall possess it Amos 9 and 14 I will bring back the captives my people Israel they shall build the waste cities and inhabit them and shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them they shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them I will plant them in their land and no longer shall they be pulled from the land I have given them saith the LORD if you look at that and you really look into on what happened the prophecy was fulfilled as as the United Nations gave resolution to reinstate Israel back into their land in may we see in 1948 but Israel became the only nation in the world to ever be born again God promises that they will never be taken again but they have been reborn they have been perfectly aligned in the timetable of what God is doing to prepare us to give us a sign for his coming the signs of this world let us know that we are currently living in the end times there's signs within our globe our world there's signs within the people of God Israel and there's also signs within the church the Church of God will experience both the falling away yet a great expansion the church will move in both directions during the end times that you're going to see a great revival but you're gonna see those that have grown weary within the church those that are falling away from being inside the house of God so there's gonna be those that don't know God coming to God and those that know God falling away and I pray to God that this is a wake-up call to any of you that are in the church that are making steps away from God during this time but I pray to the you that are watching the scene that they don't know God that you would awaken from a slumber perhaps that maybe it's you ignored God knocking on the door of your life many times I pray that you see that we're living in the end times Matthew 24 verse number 24 for false Christ's and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive if possible even the elect 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2 and verse number 3 let no man deceive you by any means for that day will come unless the falling away comes first and the man of sin is revealed and the son of perdition there's going to be revival and expansion of the church and in the same sense there's going to be a falling away Joel chapter 2 and verse number 28 28 says and it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh see that with me your sons and your daughters shall prophesy your old men shall dream dreams your young men shall see visions and also on my men's man servants and my maid service I will pour out my spirit in those days Matthew 24 and 14 if the gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all nations and the end will then come can't help but think that the Internet where we've been pushed to as a church because we can't assemble together in our buildings and and we've we've heard all kinds of different sayings and and we weave with the churches left the building and we've have the same spirit and we're trying to minister to you through the internet and through a lens and through maybe you're looking through an iPhone or an iPad or you've got to project it onto your TV we're trying to minister to you through the internet that now more than ever before people that had excuses have no excuses you simply are a click away you're simply a login away from being able to hear the word of the Lord so we've seen now more than ever before that people if you have an ear you can hear what the Spirit is trying to say for God is coming for his church the rapture is going to take place 1st Thessalonians chapter 4 and verse number 15 for this we say to you by the word of the Lord they who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will well by no means perceived those who are asleep for the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout with a voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the lord in the air and thus we shall always be with the Lord forever from that point on therefore comfort one another with these words if there's any words of comfort I could give the church this evening I hope you feel what I feel in reading the passage in 1st Thessalonians chapter 4 and verse number 15 through 18 if there's anything that I could give you this evening to post it on your wall put it on the frigerator save it as a screensaver that comfort one another with these words that we're going to be caught up out of this place that we are not living for for for this world or we're not living for the things that we can achieve in this world but we're living for that day that he blows the trumpet and he calls his church home and those who have lived and they've died and they've served God all the days of their life go here well done they're gonna be called up out of the grave and there they're going to be picked they once said on these pews they're gonna be picked up and we're going to meet them in flight and gather together I hope that this evening that those are comforting words and not conflicting words to your spirit I hope that those are encouraging to you and not endangering to you I hope that I lift your spirits and talking about the rapture god I believe without a shadow of a doubt that he's coming back and we must be prepared the rapture something that we must look forward to that word rapture in the Latin word that a gate comes from and root means caught up the rapture is appearing before Jesus as he gathers up his church please don't be confused this evening as we clarify that the rapture is not to be confused with the second coming of Jesus the rapture is Jesus coming for his church while the second coming is Jesus coming with his church Matthew 24 and verse number 30 says then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn and they will see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory and he will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet and they will gather together his elect from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other so we see here that the rapture will come suddenly Matthew 24 36 through 39 tells us that as it was in the days of Noah so shall it be when the Son of man comes just like that the doors shut on the ark there's going to be a day when heaven is closed up they'll be no more getting through the pearly gates after he is called the church after the rapture after those days which he's called us out that behold I tell you Paul writes to the church at Corinth in chapter 15 of first Corinthians behold I tell you a mystery we shall not all sleep but we shall all be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye the last Trump of the trumpet will sound and the dead will be raised incorruptible and shall be changed we will put on immortality at that day of a rapture and verse number 53 as we continue to read to read for this corruptible must be what's must put on incorruptible and this mortal must put on immortality so when this corruptible has put on incorruption and this mortal has put on immortality they shall be brought to pass saying it is written death is swallowed up in victory so that rapture is going to deliver us from the judgment of God that is coming on the earth for God did not discipline did not appoint us to wrath but to obtain salvation through His Son Jesus Christ who died for us what whether we wake or sleep we should live together with him however we know that it's going to deliver the church from judgment we also see that the rapture it'll be selective I tell you Luke 17 and verse number 34 in the night there will be two men he said it'll be like two men in the bed one who will be taken and the other who will be left two women will be grinding together working one will be taking one will be left two men will be in the field one will be taken and the other will be left it sounds just like another ordinary day nobody's gonna know the day nor the hour but we can sure see right now that there's some there's some obvious signs in scripture that are telling us that we better not just go through the motions we better not just think that we're going to another generation gone by who goes by the grave rather than by the being caught out I believe more than ever before that we are seeing in the midst right now of covin 19 in the midst of a shaking and a stirring of the church in the midst of a shaking in the stirring of our entire world that God is coming back if he's come in sudden if he's coming back and it's selective then who will make the rapture the promise of the rapture was given to the church we must be a part of the church I could say that a hundred times we must be a part of the church Acts chapter 2 verse number 38 then Peter said unto them repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost for this promise is unto you and to your children and to all that are afar off as many as the Lord our God will call and with many other words did he testify and exhort saying be saved from this perverse generation then those who gladly received his word were baptized that day and about three thousand souls were added to the church John 3:5 jesus answered very assuredly I say unto you unless one is born of the water and of the spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God Colossians 1 and verse number 27 to them God willed to make known what are the riches and the glory of this mystery among the gentiles which is christ in you the hope of glory how do I get in the church three steps repentance baptism in Jesus name and the receiving of the gift of the Holy Ghost by the evidence of speaking in other tongues you say well I just read there that it says that you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost and don't say anything about in tongues continue to read on in your Bible if you read the rest of the book of Acts which is the Acts of the Apostles the actions of the Apostles we see that no one receives the gift of the Holy Ghost without speaking in other tongues we want that evidence we need that evidence against our flesh against the adversary the devil who's going to tell you that you don't have the spirit you need to be quickened to be pulled up out to be raptured out with the church some people are afraid I know that you you some people are okay with the the prayer repentance at an altar and some people are even okay with being baptized in the name of Jesus for the remission of your sins because we've seen that so often in such a traditional thing but there are some people when it gets to the gift of the Holy Ghost there's a supernatural move of the Spirit of God that comes down and feels your earthen vessel with what has now been cleansed out through repentance and through baptism in Jesus name you now have an empty place that was created for the gift of the Holy Ghost it was created for the Spirit of God to dwell and when we talk about speaking in tongues some people they're like that that's just a little spooky for me well we're talking about the rapture and I want to make it clear that the same spirit that raised Jesus Christ from the dead is the same spirit that wants to get in you and the gift of the Holy Ghost by speaking in other tongues you say how do I know I'm in the church how do I know I'm going to make it in the rapture by speaking in other tongues as the Spirit gives utterance so we see here that I know that that's speaking in tongues and you all of a sudden giving way to the Spirit to speak through your mouth and words that you're uh Turing that you don't understand and you say that's spooky and that's kind of crazy and that's kind of foolish well III don't mean to be so straightforward and I don't want to be offensive or conflictual to your theology but I'm reading you the Word of God this evening and I hope that you see that if that scares you if speaking in tongues is spooky and weird to you then you're going to be all but shaken in your boots when the rapture takes place because you're going to see well beyond the supernatural take place of what is already we're experience just a little bit though it's a small and tiny member that tongue is it is the James tells us that rudder that turns the entire boat oh what a little small spark that little fire can Kindle from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks it's no coincidence that we're given evidence so that we can know that when that day comes you say how do I know I had a conversation with a young person the other day said if God comes back how do I know I know because I speak in other tongues I know because I've been baptized in Jesus name I know because I prayed this morning to ask God to forgive me of all my sins we've got to be a part of the church and if we're going to be a part of the church we've got to repent be baptized in the name of Jesus for the remission of sins for the remission of sins for the remission of sins because it's essential to remit sense if we don't baptized for the remission of sins there's some people that want to skip or take out steps you need to be baptized in Jesus name because it's the only name it's the only way anybody's ever baptized in your Bible for the remission of sins because it's essential and then we get that gift from God of the Holy Ghost that gives us evidence to know that when he comes for us that when that trumpet sounds be comforted church with these words be comforted trendsetters be comforted brothers dear brothers sisters II endure this evening Saints of the gospel that have served God be be comforted with these words sister glossing this evening who's had the Holy Ghost longer that I've been alive I hope you feel what I feel in this room this evening be comforted that you speak with a heavenly language that this evening that if you lift your hands where you're at behind that screen on your couch sitting in your car maybe at a workplace wherever you're at that this finds you this evening that if you pray so you pray in the Holy Ghost that God can move right now and give you comfort to know that if he comes right now it becomes this evening if he comes before you wakes it wake up in the morning that you are going to make it I pray that you see very clearly that explanation of how we know that we're a part of the church it's through the plan of salvation how does the rapture affect us here today it causes us to consider salvation for he says it is is it an acceptable time that I've heard you than the day of salvation behold now is an acceptable time now today is the day of salvation Paul writes don't put it off to tomorrow don't put it off to a convenient time today is the day of salvation if you don't have the Holy Ghost pray now until you get it if you've never been baptized in the name of Jesus contact us through whatever whatever platform that you're watching this right now we will baptize you just like we baptize a young mother yesterday just like we baptize the another lady of just a few days ago they seen their need for baptism it produces a desire in us to be holy in order to be ready for our holy destination Titus chapter 2 and verse number 11 for the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we shall live soberly righteously and a godly and godly in this present age looking for the Blessed hope and the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ if you are living right it is a constant thought that I am looking for the coming of God everyone has this hope that purifies them daily that God is coming back no matter how bad it is we know that he's coming for us it causes us to reprioritize our life to get our time our money our goals and God's kingdom all lined up if we're not serving his kingdom what good is our kingdom I don't want to store up treasures here on earth where the scripture says often rust and can destroy and thieves can break in and steal what good are those things we must see and then prioritize our lives we can reference Acts chapter 1 verses 6 through 8 if you're making notes Matthew chapter 6 and verse number 33 but seek you first the kingdom of God and all his righteousness all these things will be added unto you so God is not asking us to guess when the rapture is going to happen he's just asking us to focus on the right things that he's commanded us to be a witness unto Him because we're looking you say well well how come you do this how come you do that why do you go to church as many times as you do why do you read your Bible why do you pray the witness under the world is that we're looking for him what are you looking for what is it that you're trying to obtain why is it that you're always doing this and doing that because I'm looking for a city I'm looking for him to split the clouds I'm looking for that trumpet to sound those who do not make the rapture the scripture says they'll be left behind on earth to face judgment and the Great Tribulation I will not spend quite as much time on the tribulation this evening mainly because I believe very strongly that if you can't make it right now you have no chance then for there will be a great tribulations Matthew 24 and 21 says such has not been since the beginning of the world until this time no one's ever ever seen anything like it we see that there's going to be seven judgment seven seals seven trumpets seven vials seven thunders there's going to be all these things go on and I again I want you to understand so clearly that what you do for God down here to some people seem so far fetched salvation the three steps the plan of salvation we just talked about whether it be holiness a consecration or sacrifice it seems so extreme to some people it maybe seems extreme to you maybe in StuffIt sometimes where you don't see the purpose of it but oh what what what light of things they will be when we see the weight of eternity we see so clearly here that we read these things in the book of revelations chapter 10 and throughout Scripture and a half I could stressed to anything anything to you as you read that book of Revelation to a lot of things we don't understand it's referred to as a mystery so many times things that we've never seen here on this earth things that we we can't really put into picture there's been videos and series and and Hollywood's done their best to try to depict certain things about what's described to us in scripture about tribulation and the Lord's coming but the bottom line is we've never seen anything like it so how much more normal does it seem when you read through the Book of Revelations to say that I'm going to walk with the Lord down here and simple prayer it's so hard to pray and be talking to someone you can't see well that don't seem near as far-fetched as seven seals and seven trumpets and fourteen this and 15 that and these beasts and these beasts and and and all the things are going to happen in the Book of Revelations we see with all these things get so beyond anything we've ever seen and so many people get infatuated with with with the aspects of tribulation and I wonder in my heart and with all the kindness and love that I can communicate to you why I get so caught up in what's going to happen after the church is gone I don't plan on being here for any of that I plan on comfort one another with these words that that's what I want you to hear tonight I can tell you about all the seven things that are going to happen there's seven things that are coming going to come but I don't plan on being here to have to experience those and my hopes and my prayer for you this evening is that you or anybody of your children or anybody connected to you and your family and all that are afar off as many as the Lord our God shall call will have to experience those things he's coming after the church there's going to be a judgment that's going to fall on the religious it's going to fall on the economic system of the Antichrist the false prophets the Antichrist in revelation 17 and 18 and the false prophet will afterward lead the world army against the nation of Israel the war is named the Battle of Armageddon I'm sure you've heard of that before it will pave the way for the second coming not the rapture but the coming back of Jesus Christ there's many lessons from the great tribulation that we'll see but there's one thing that I want to make clear there are no mentions of the church because there's not going to be there's not going to be a church presence we're not here of any conversation in this period except for the Jewish people even if there is a slim possibility of someone turning to God in this error it would be near impossible to live for God under such conditions that we read in the book of Revelation we must make it in the rapture Church because the judgment of God is going to be great his wrath is going to be great during that Great Tribulation get in the church be a part of the church you need a pastor and you come through that plan of salvation you receive the gift of the Holy Ghost you need a pastor to lead you you need a pastor's voice to guide you say well what makes up the church yeah the plan of salvation but the church is just a body it's just a gathering I might as well just be a social club without risk submission to a man of God and a pastor you need a pastor you need the people of God you need other people in in your life you've made a covenant with God through the death burial and resurrection through repentance and baptism in Jesus name and the end filling of the Holy Ghost now you've got a covenant with God when you receive that Holy Ghost now you got to you've got to share that through sanctification you've got to be what God's given you to to the people of God into your world and share those things and so now you have a covenant with God now you have a covenant with people and that's what makes up the church submitted to God submitted to my aster submitted to one another we see that it's powerful that as it was in the days of Noah get in the boat for things as a summary before we close this evening the signs in this world let us know that we are currently living in the end times - only those who are born again the kingdom of God will make it in the rapture 3 those who do not make it in the rapture will have to face great tribulation and number 4 we must make it in the rapture because there is a great judgment coming I want you to see very clearly this evening church I thank you for spending some time but I want to end with this passage of Scripture and you could quote it in revelations chapter 20 and whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire I pray that I have comforted you with these words on heaven that he is coming back but I tell you there is another side of that coin if the promises of God are so true that he has gone away to prepare a place there is another side of Hell that is eternal damnation that it is eternal torment that it is a place where we do not want to inhabit we don't want any of our family our children anybody that we know anybody that we don't know for that matter to be in eternal damnation Christians refer to the rapture as a blessed hope however this evening I know that this lesson brings on somewhat of an indescribable terror and fear that will fill hearts of many that will be left behind on that day if it's shaking you if it's quickening your body if you feel the mercy of God drawing you to an altar of repentance I pray that from this point forward that speaking about heaven and hell would be more something that you would think on and that you would be more apt to talk about because the rapture will be sudden but the top Bible tells us that it is not a secret it will be sudden but it is not a secret for he is coming and the scripture says no man knows the day or the hour that it will be just another ordinary day that he will come in the twinkling of an eye that the trumpets going to sound and all of a sudden we will be caught out millions of conversations will end mid-sentence millions of phoner centers will suddenly go dead a woman will reach for a husband's hand no would be their cars will collide a mother will fill the horror of kissing empty air has her baby disappears from the bundle of blankets in her arms high fives will move through empty air a backslider will turn the joke with his friend one last time as he suddenly feels the fear that he spent a lifetime avoiding pulpits will be empty but altars will be full and the door of the ark will be shut knowing you had every opportunity to make a change but delayed it one more day we certainly hope that the Word of God that you have heard tonight challenges you it is my desire that if you are a believer that this word has drawn you closer to the Lord Jesus Christ if by chance tonight you have been watching and your heart has been touched by God's Word but you have not yet committed your life to God you've not yet been baptized in the wonderful name of Jesus Christ not yet receive the gift of the Holy Ghost we want you to know that although there is a band about the attendance at the house of God that our church is open for you to come and pray for you to come and be baptized to receive the Spirit of God please contact the church office and make arrangements to come and meet one of the pastoral team and their pray and be baptized god bless you until tomorrow night may the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be upon you