Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel – Can You Truly Be a Christian and a Nationalist?

0:00 Can you please explain this Bible verse?

0:03 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable or rational service. Romans chapter 12, verse 1.

0:22 Well, this question, my beloveds, is very deep. St.

0:30 Paul is really talking about how we should offer our bodies as a living sacrifice acceptable to God.

0:42 In a nutshell, St.

0:44 Paul is saying, offer your bodies as a living sacrifice. Now, There is an issue here because a sacrifice is when you actually slain something or kill it. In the Old Testament times, they used to offer an animal as a sacrifice so they would kill that animal, slain that animal. So a sacrifice, it's talking about an animal that is dead.

1:14 But St.

1:14 Paul here is saying, my brothers, I urge you to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice. Well, there is contradiction in this verse because a sacrifice is dead, something that is dead. How can this sacrifice be living?

1:33 St. Paul is saying, I.

1:37 Want you to be living for Christ and dead to the world. I want you to be living to Christ and dead to the world.

1:47 When the Lord.

1:48 Jesus speaks to you, you become all ears opened to his voice. But when the world tries to speak to you, you'll be dead.

1:58 And a dead.

1:59 Person hears nothing, sees nothing, knows nothing, cannot say nothing.

2:06 St.

2:06 Paul is saying, as far as the world is concerned, be dead to it. But as far as our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is concerned, be all living for Him. Do not dishearten yourself. Do not shut the door in the face of the Lord. When the Lord is calling you, be the living person. Say, yes, Lord, I am here.

2:33 What can I do for you? But when the world speaks to you, you be like that dead person.

2:42 That's in a nutshell, my beloved. Now when he talks about.

2:48 Offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your rational service. He's talking about the intellect, your rational service. Because my beloved, how do we worship God? How do we please God? When we obey His word. So the word is law. The law is to do with your rational mind. It's to do with your intellectual capacity.

3:15 So St.

3:16 Paul is saying... As far as the law is concerned... When you obey the law, you are obeying God.

3:23 You are worshipping God. So he's saying when.

3:27 You get to know... When you get to know how to worship God... When you get to know the law of God, you get to know how to worship God. Because worshiping God and offering your bodies as a living sacrifice acceptable by God, to be acceptable to God, I need to obey His word. And to obey His word means I begin to worship Him, being obedient to Him.

3:59 Because he goes on, on verse 2.

4:02 And he says... Do not be conformed to the world.

4:06 So how do I offer my body as a living sacrifice acceptable to God? How do I make sure that I am worshipping Him, which is that reasonable or rational service? He says, when you do not become conformed to the world, but rather renewing your mind, being transformed by the renewing of your mind.

4:34 Do not be conformed to.

4:35 The world, but rather transformed by the renewing of your mind.

4:42 So don't be like the world. So how do I be.

4:46 Not conformed, but rather transformed when I renew my mind? You see, he comes back again to the rational service. Renewing the mind. And the word renew, meaning to go back to the origin. And my origin is God. And to go back to God is the Holy Bible. How do I renew my mind?

5:08 How do I get.

5:09 To learn on how to get to know the word. Which is the law of God. In order to worship God. And offer my body as a living sacrifice. Acceptable to God. When I begin to read his word. And get to know the meaning of his word. I begin to renew my mind. Where it is acceptable to God.

5:33 Because the day I know the word of God. I begin to worship Him.

5:41 And then I become a living sacrifice acceptable to Him.

5:46 I'm no longer of the world. I am of Christ. Question number two. Hi, beloved Marmari.

5:56 Sorry for the long-winded question and with all the problems happening in the world. This question feels irrelevant, but I've been thinking about this for a while now. Can someone be a nationalist while still be a good Christian at the same time? I dream of a day we Assyrian can have a country of my own, but when I read my Bible more and more, it draws me away from that thinking. Such passages or verses as Galatians 3.28, which calls us all to be one under Christ despite our race, color, etc.

6:35 Is it wrong to love one's nation and Christ? Thank you. And thank you for your question. Well, we need to understand one thing.

6:47 When you were born in an Assyrian family.

6:50 Guess what? Who chose that for you? God? The Lord Jesus?

6:55 When you were born in a Lebanese family, who chose that for you?

6:58 The Lord Jesus? God?

7:01 When you were born Chinese, when you were born Aussie, when you were born American, Canadian, European, from the Middle East, anywhere in this world, who gave you that family? Who gave you that place and that race.

7:15 And that color? God. So therefore, everything is of God.

7:20 So we should never sort of put separation here, but the approach has to be adjusted slightly.

7:32 I'm a Syrian. Another one is from the Middle East. Someone is Asian. Someone is European. Someone is Canadian. And someone is American. Whatever country you come from. That is your nationality.

7:48 But when you receive Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, and you were baptized in the name of the Father, of the Son, of the Holy Spirit.

7:56 You became the child of God.

7:59 Christ, our Messiah, through His holy baptism, adopted us to become sons of the Almighty God, and God becomes our Heavenly Father.

8:11 So when you were.

8:12 Baptized and become a Christian, you became the child of God. But at the same time, as far as the physical realm is concerned, you're still a Syrian, or Middle Eastern, or American, etc.

8:26 etc.

8:28 You should never deny your roots. You should never deny your heritage. You should never deny your ancestral lineage because that is also of God's. So can you be a nationalist and also a believer in the Lord Jesus? I'll tell you this. The only time, the only time you will know You will get to know how to love your country. The only time, please pay attention. The only time you will ever know how to love your country truly.

9:06 How to be a good citizen in that country truly. When you have the love of God in your heart. You see without God there is nothing. If somebody says, I don't believe in God, but I love my country. I have a humongous question mark on that kind of a love. Because my question will be to that person, with all.

9:28 Love and respect, of course.

9:30 Where did you get this love from? Definitely mother nature did not give you that love. Because mother nature is pre-wired. One plus one equals two. Mother Nature cannot give you feelings, emotions, loves, morals, ethics, principles, values. Mother Nature cannot give you that. That's a done deal, finished.

9:53 So where did you get that love from? Where did you get those moral values from? Where did you get your ethics and values of life and principles in life where did you get all these from definitely from God my dear friend so when you come back to God and and Acknowledge God that He is the very reason for your existence. Then and then only you will know how to love, how to have love for your country, how to have love for that land where God has made you be born in that particular land. Yes, I should love my country and I should pray for my country.

10:38 And being....

10:42 A nationalist, as you put it, my beloved. It is not only necessarily that I need to have my country back, and unless I have my country back, I cannot be a true Assyrian. No, I can be a true Assyrian wherever I am, whichever country I am, when I have Jesus Christ in my heart, in my life, then I can be a true Assyrian. What is the benefit from having a country that has no God ruling over that country?

11:17 Look at the people of the world.

11:19 What are they doing with their own countries?

11:21 They are destroying their countries.

11:24 Because the only one that can give you that wisdom to discern what is right and wrong, what is good and evil, is God. It's not about having a piece of land called country, then I can say, I've got a country. No, when you have God, wherever you are, that is your country. On earth, but above all and beyond that, God is your country at the end. Because sooner or later, I'm going to leave this world and this country on earth is only temporary. I have another country in heaven that is forever. I need to be the citizen Of this country in heaven where I live there forever. No one can ever take me out of my father's house.

12:16 Ever.

12:18 So you can be a good Assyrian. A good Middle Eastern. A good Aussie. A good British man. American, European, wherever you come from, Asian. You can be a very good citizen for your own country. But above all, you need to love God. Because the love comes from God. There is no other source for it, my beloved.

12:43 So don't worry that you don't have a country as an Assyrian. When you have Jesus Christ, you have that country.

12:49 Look, I believe as an Assyrian person myself, I believe if we are truly seeking a country... is when we really bring our sons and daughters, our younger generation, our children, when we bring them into the fear of the Lord, into the love of Christ, when we teach them the word of the Lord Jesus, when we raise them in the love of God, I believe this is the true country that we can establish on earth, more than any piece of land. Because the land, one day it's mine, tomorrow it's not going to be. If not the enemy is going to come and take it away from me, death, the ultimate enemy will come and take it away from me.

13:32 But when you have faith in Christ, death was conquered.

13:37 Jesus, our Lord, through his death.

13:39 On the cross, crushed death underfoot and rose from the dead, triumphant, victorious forever.

13:46 Let Jesus be our country first.

13:48 And then whichever piece of land on earth we go to, you can call it home as well.

13:54 Temporarily only on earth. So it's all good.

13:58 Be a good Christian. Be of carrying good values. Be a good citizen for your country. Wherever you are living. This is a true Assyrian. When you are really showing good values. Good morals and good ethics. And being someone of good gesture. And you bring good values to that society. I believe this is the way to reflect your nationality and your Assyrian hood, my beloved.

14:33 Question number three.

14:36 How can I lay a good foundation so that I don't start building my house on the sand?

14:43 Yes, the sand.

14:46 It's not a good place to build a house because the foundation is very shallow and it's very weak. any water, any erosion, the sand is washed away, and the foundation collapses. Look, I believe, and this is what the Holy Bible teaches us, the number one thing we need to ask the Lord Jesus to teach us, so that way we have a strong foundation built on the rock instead of the sand.

15:14 Number one, ask the Lord to give you humility.

15:20 And with humility....

15:22 You will understand how to be obedient, number two. And when you're obedient, be always in touch with the sound biblical teachings based on apostolic truths. It's very vital that we have a connection with the true teachings in an apostolic sense. But you see, before you read the Holy Bibles, before you start understanding the word, before you begin even to start preaching the word, humility is foundational. Humility is foundational.

16:09 The beginning to humility, the beginning of the road to humility is when you and I begin to see our hearts the way God sees it. I'll say that again. The beginning of the road to humility is when you and I begin to see our.

16:35 Hearts the way God sees it. The question is, when.

16:40 God looks at our hearts, how does God see it? Well, the Lord Jesus said it very clearly. He said, it is not It is not that what enters through your mouth that defiles man, but it is what comes out of the mouth of the man.

16:58 That defiles him. It is out of the heart of man all evil comes out. Out of the heart of man all evil comes out. So the Lord.

17:10 Jesus said, the status of your heart is evil. As far as the natural, normal human being, the physical human being, the fallen human nature, the fallen human nature, the heart is evil. Out of the heart comes envy, jealousy, hatred, bigotry, self-exaltation, self-pride, dignity, you name it. Out of the heart comes all evil.

17:39 When you and I begin to see our hearts, not other people's, We're very good.

17:45 At pointing the finger at others. But I'll tell you one thing.

17:50 You know when we point our finger at other people, you know what we are really saying to ourselves? When we point the finger, this is how we do it.

18:03 We fold these.

18:04 Three fingers inside of the palm of the hand and the thumb on top of them and one finger pointing at people. Every time you want to point your finger at someone, remember, you are pointing three fingers at yourself.

18:22 Do not judge, lest you be judged.

18:27 So when I'm pointing the finger at someone else, I have judged myself three times moreover.

18:34 I've just pointed three fingers.

18:36 At me and one finger at my neighbor. We need to be very careful. We need to be very careful, my beloved. We need to be very careful. When you read in the Gospel of Saint Luke, chapter 3, it talks about the Lord Jesus. And it says that the Lord was growing in stature and wisdom before God and men. The Lord Jesus was growing in stature and wisdom before God and men. Stature is referring to the physical body.

19:08 Wisdom is referring to the spirit in that physical body. So the Lord was growing in stature, physically, and in wisdom, spiritually. Look how amazing the Holy Spirit is revealing it to our beloved Saint Luke. He's put the physical before the spiritual. Jesus was growing in stature, physical growth, before the wisdom, spiritual growth.

19:39 Why? Because my beloveds, We are.

19:43 Living in a tangible realm, in a physical realm, where we need to see through our naked eyes. I cannot see the spirit, I can only see the physical.

19:54 So the reason.

19:56 Why people loved the Lord Jesus, the reason why people followed the Lord Jesus, the reason why people believed in the Lord Jesus, it was because of the physical first prior to the spiritual first. Because they saw Him, the way He spoke was so respectful, was so eloquent, was so beautiful. They've never heard anyone talk like that. When they saw Him walking, the way Jesus lived, the way Jesus walked, the way Jesus talked, that's what drew.

20:32 People unto Him.

20:35 And what made Jesus succeed in His ministry on earth?

20:39 Was humility.

20:42 Humility was number one for the Lord. He emptied himself of all the glory that he had with his father in the very beginning. And he became a servant on earth. The highest rank in the world is a king. And the lowest rank in the world is a slave. Jesus became a slave on earth. Yet he is not only a king, but he is the king of all kings.

21:11 But when he came to earth to glorify his.

21:14 Dad, he became a slave.

21:16 He emptied himself of all glories so that all glory was to be given to his heavenly father.

21:25 Humility. And through humility, obedience.

21:28 We can never be obedient unless we are humble first. People talk about Jesus so much, but they are disobedient. They preach on every social media platform. You tell them one thing, they don't listen. Talking about the Lord is easy, but living with Him, no my dear friend, that's a totally different level. Humility foundational. And the day you become humble, When you acknowledge and confess that you are the greatest sinner of all sinners.

22:09 When you confess this. And when you truly live this.

22:13 Knowing for yourself that you are the greatest sinners of all sinners.

22:18 Then you begin the road to humility.

22:22 And you will see the Lord Jesus so vividly clear in your life. My goodness. You know why people say, where is God? Well, they are lacking humility. Humble yourself. Stop judging others. Stop pointing the finger at others. Stop seeing yourself as if you are the first class citizen and everyone else is a second class citizen to you.

22:48 Stop looking at yourself as if you are the smartest, you are the strongest, you are the highly elevated out of all.

22:55 Stop. Come down. Come down to earth.

22:59 Humble yourself. When you learn to live a life of humility, the Lord Jesus is your friend.

23:10 Believe me.

23:13 This, there is no theological university can give you this or teach you this. When we go to school and study theology, When we go to university and receive our PhDs, all that is doing is giving me knowledge, but cannot give me how to live this knowledge. To live this knowledge that I gained through uni is when you become humble before your master.

23:51 Jesus Christ. Jesus will make you live what you've learned. Because that's the only source. It's the Lord.

24:02 And when the Lord teaches you, is there anyone more supreme than the Lord? Of course not.

24:11 Is there anyone wiser than the Lord?

24:13 Of course not. Is there anyone that is more qualified to be the teacher than the Lord Jesus?

24:19 Of course not.

24:20 When the Lord teaches you, my goodness, What you've been studying, what you've been learning, what you've been hearing, it's nothing compared when Jesus teaches you. Humility, the key to your success in your spiritual life. Before you, Lord, be the sinner, the number one sinner, always. Let Jesus sanctify you. Thank you for sharing your beautiful messages online. I feel so blessed to have found you. Well, we thank the Lord, my beloved. My question is about the rapture. Revelation chapter 4.

24:59 When St. John states.

25:02 These two words, after this. So chapter 4 in Revelation begins with these two words, after this. Is he talking about Christians being raptured? I have noticed that the church is not mentioned again in the book of Revelation until chapter 22, which is the last chapter in this book.

25:22 Thank you.

25:23 I look forward to understanding this and pray that Jesus will call us soon. Such sorrowful times we are living in. Blessings and blessing to you, my beloved.

25:34 So, St.

25:35 John in the book of Revelation, when he talks in chapter 4, after this, does.

25:40 That mean after this? Does St. John mean by stating after this, does he mean after being raptured?

25:49 Now, the word rapture is not found in the Holy, in the New Testament at all as the word rapture. I'm going to say this with absolute love and respect. Rapture, my beloved, it is not actually the teachings of the apostolic church. And when I say apostolic churches, I mean Catholic and Orthodox. And these two branches, Catholic and Orthodox, we do not believe in rapture.

26:20 This is only taught in Protestantism. With all love and respect. I'll just say this very, very quickly.

26:33 And then it's up to you if you want to accept it or not. I'll leave you with the Lord and His Holy Spirit.

26:42 Rapture. Where did this come from? The word rapture.

26:46 When you read in the epistle of St. Paul to Thessalonians. 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 verses 13 to 18. Yes, 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, verses 13 to 18. Let's read together. But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who sleep in Jesus.

27:19 Verse 15, For.

27:20 This we pray to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout and the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God and the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up. Now the word caught up They called it rapture. So rapture as a word does not exist in the Holy Bible. So then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.

28:06 And thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these words. So 1 Thessalonians 4 verse 17 says, Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up, raptured, caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Now, some of our beloveds took it as the Lord prior to the tribulation or the great tribulation. You know, when the Lord Jesus, prior to His second coming, He will rapture His church, meaning those who believe in Him, those who follow Him, not just with words, but with a lip service, but in their heart, they follow Him truly, true followers of the Lord Jesus. He will rapture them.

29:03 They will be caught up to be met in the air with the Lord. So caught up, they said they will be raptured.

29:11 Why?

29:12 Because the Lord, prior to the great tribulation coming, He will deliver those who are His. He will deliver those who are His, so they don't enter the great tribulation, the most painful times of the end of times. So who's going to stay on earth? Those who are evildoers. And who are going to be taken into heaven? The good Christians, the good people.

29:43 Well, the Lord Jesus spoke about this.

29:48 We read in the Gospel of Luke chapter 17 and the Gospel of Saint Matthew chapter 24.

29:54 The Lord Jesus....

29:57 He's talking about the Lord Jesus coming. It's compared to the days of Noah and the days of Lot. So when the Lord spoke in the gospel of St. Luke 17 and St. Matthew 24, the Lord was comparing his second coming to the days of Noah and the days of Lot.

30:18 However, however, when we read... About the days of Noah and the days of Lut. Who remained on earth? The bad ones. Sorry the good ones. Not the bad ones. When we read in the days of Noah and the days of Lut. Who remained on earth? The good ones.

30:45 Some of our beloved are saying. Rapture is when the good ones are taken. And the bad ones are left. That is not biblical. Because the ones that were left where the Lord Jesus was referring to in Luke 17 and Matthew 24, He was referring as the good ones are remaining and the bad ones are gone. Because He was talking about the days of Noah and the days of Lot. Well, let's come to the days of Noah.

31:15 Who was delivered and remained on earth? Noah, his wife, his three sons and three daughter-in-laws.

31:24 So who left on earth? The good ones. Who died and who perished? All the bad ones. The days of Lot, who.

31:31 Was saved from Sodom and Gomorrah? Lot and his two daughters. Well, his wife turned back and she turned into a statue of salt. And she died and perished. But it was Lot and his two daughters. They were delivered and remained on earth. And all the bad ones, they perished. So my beloved, when we read in the Holy Bible, there is no such thing as rapture prior to the Great Tribulation. Now, we read in the Gospel of St. Matthew, chapter 13, verses 39 to 43. 39 to 43, Matthew 13. The enemy who sowed them is the devil. The harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels. Therefore, as the tares are gathered and burnt in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age.

32:25 The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness. and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear. It's very clear that when the Lord comes again.

33:00 They'll be separated. The good....

33:07 Will be taken with him, and the bad will be burned in hell forever.

33:14 There is no.

33:18 People sort of working in the field, two people working in the field, one will be taken up, disappear all of a sudden, and the other one remain.

33:28 No, if we're going to take it in.

33:30 This way, my beloved, the Lord here was referring to the days of Noah and the days of Lot. The ones who remained on earth were the good people, not the bad people. So the good people were not taken up or did not disappear from earth.

33:45 It was the bad who disappeared from earth. The good remained. The good remained, my beloved.

33:52 So when you read in Matthew 13, 39 to 43, the Lord is very clear here. When He comes to cleanse this earth, those who are not His will perish in hell and those who are His... They will be taken to heaven. There is nothing prior to that as being raptured and some people staying on earth. And those who are evil, they'll be tortured for a thousand years or whatever. That is non-biblical, unfortunately. Some believe the rapture will happen pre or mid-tribulation. So some believe that this rapture will happen prior to the tribulation or in the midst of the tribulation. The answer to that is no Christian believed it or knew about it for the first 1800 years of Christianity. So this kind of a teaching

34:46 was non-existent in Christendom for over 1800 years about being raptured. That was never taught by church fathers. For 1800 years, we never saw such teachings. So this rapture only came out in recent times. But John the Beloved, in the book of Revelation chapter 4, and after this, what is after this? You see, the book of Revelation, we can divide it into three sections. Chapter 1, on its own.

35:21 Chapter 2 and 3, And then 4 to 22, these are the three sections.

35:26 Chapter 1, introduction.

35:28 Chapter 2 and 3, the history of the church, the beloved bride of Christ. Chapter 4 to 22, the wrath of God, the judgment of God coming upon the whole world. until chapter 22 where the Lord comes back the second coming and take his bride without a blemish without a stain perfect like him and bring her into the house of his heavenly daddy so when you read in chapter 2 and 3 John the beloved was revealed to him by the Lord Jesus what is going to happen to the church of the Lord throughout the history of the church So it begins with Ephesus and ends with Laodicea.

36:18 So the history of the church was revealed to John the Beloved prior to the end of times. So the book of Revelation really has become alive more so than any other century in our century, the 21st. More than any other century. So when you read in chapter 3 and 4, the Lord Jesus reveals to John the Beloved what will happen to his church from the very beginning, Ephesus, till the very end, Laodicea.

36:51 And then after that, St.

36:54 John comes and says, what's going to take place in this history of the church? That is chapter 4 to 22. The church will go through different stages. Then the wrath of God is going to come on the world and also a disciplinary action on the church like we are being disciplined now by the Lord Jesus through these pandemics and lockdowns. This is a disciplinary action from the Lord to His beloved church.

37:25 Why? Because the church has veered off the.

37:28 Road and walked away from her beloved heavenly groom, Christ the King. So when the church went through these different phases, then different punishment and different disciplinary actions were going to come to the church and to the world.

37:45 And that is chapter 4 to 22.

37:47 And chapter 22, because the question says, we do not hear anything about the church until 22.

37:52 Why?

37:53 Because 22, my beloved, is when the Lord Jesus comes back again and takes the church as the perfect bride to His and bring her into the Father's house. That is the second coming. There is no rapture prior to that. Because rapture, when the Lord Jesus was talking in Luke 17 and Matthew 24, and when St. Paul was referring to in 1 Thessalonians 4, 17, we be caught up with him. He's talking about the second coming of the Messiah, my beloved.

38:36 Because look at this. I'll read it again.

38:38 1 Thessalonians 4, 13 to 18. But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who sleep in Jesus. Who are the ones who are asleep in Jesus now?

39:01 The saints in paradise. And by the way, sleep in Jesus doesn't mean they.

39:06 Don't hear us, they don't pray for us.

39:09 No, no, no.

39:10 Because how can you be in Jesus and be asleep?

39:15 Whoever is in Jesus is fully alert and fully awake. When the Lord.

39:21 Jesus said in his parable in Matthew 25 about the ten virgins, five wise and five unwise.

39:29 What happened? They both... fell asleep. But when they.

39:32 Heard the cry and the voice at midnight, those who were wise, they woke up and lit their lanterns. But those who were ignorant, when they woke up, there was no oil. They didn't carry oil with them. They were not ready.

39:49 Why?

39:50 Because they lived a life of ignorance. They ignored the calling of Christ. They ignored the signs of Christ. They ignored the Lord himself. And they wanted to live on earth their way, not God's. So the ignorant went away. By the time they came back, the door was shut.

40:11 Too late. But those who were alert, those who were with the Lord, they were awake. They were alert.

40:20 So sleeping in Christ, I don't have the time.

40:23 I don't have the time to explain it. But sleeping in Christ, meaning the saints in heaven.

40:28 So, even so God will bring with Him, God will bring with Jesus, those who are in paradise.

40:37 Verse 15, Meaning, When the Lord.

40:56 Jesus comes the second time, He will bring with Him those who are asleep in Him, the saints. So the Lord will come in His glory with His saints with Him, who have preceded us, who.

41:08 Are living on earth. The saints... preceded us.

41:12 They departed from this realm and went into the spiritual realm.

41:16 They went into paradise. They will come with the Lord.

41:19 And us remaining on earth, we can never precede those who have gone before us. What will happen when the Lord comes with His saints with Him? For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of God.

41:40 And the dead in.

41:41 Christ will rise first. Who are the dead in Christ? The saints who have gone before us to paradise. They will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain alive. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds.

42:04 So who was remaining on earth? Those who were going to be caught up together. They will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. So when the Lord comes... He's going to come with.

42:23 The saints who slept in Christ, who preceded us to paradise.

42:28 He will come with them.

42:30 And us remaining on earth will be caught up with the saints that came with the Lord. And we will meet the Lord together.

42:40 The saints that came with him and us remaining on earth being caught up with them. We will meet the Lord in the air. Now.

42:50 Rapture, those who believe in rapture, what do they say? They say that the good ones will be taken up. No, but St. Paul says, us who remain on earth will be caught up, will be raptured.

43:05 With whom? With the saints.

43:07 So, if rapture was taking the good ones and leaving the bad ones, well, that is.

43:12 Not according to the Holy Bible. Because those who remain.

43:16 On earth in the time of Noah and Lot were the good ones.

43:19 Not the bad ones. And St.

43:22 Paul here very clearly says, those who remain on earth will be caught up with the saints to meet the Lord. So those who remain on earth are going to be the good ones, not the bad ones. But according to some of our beloveds, they say rapture will take the good ones and leave the bad ones. It's not biblical.

43:45 The good ones will remain and they'll be caught up With the saints. To meet the Lord in the air. And that is the second coming. And that's why the church. Will be taking in the end. Chapter 22. The bride and the spirit say.

44:10 Come quickly. Calling.

44:14 The bride the church. And the Holy Spirit in the church. Calling Jesus to come quickly.

44:18 Quickly. and take his bride, and take his bride.

44:23 So rapture is not, according to biblical references, it is not that you will be taken up and then the bad ones will remain on earth. There is no such thing. May the Lord Jesus bless you, guard you, and protect you. May the peace of Christ be in every heart. May the light of Christ be in every soul, and in every house, and in every human being.

44:47 For all of us to realize.

44:49 There is only one God in heaven, there is only one truth, and there is only one way, and that is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. All glory to His holy name. God bless you all, and until next week, may the peace of Christ be always with you, in you, circling you, within and without.

45:09 Amen.