Here in Hebrews 3 I want to bring
up and finish the message and say once again Moses being a
type of our Lord Jesus Christ. Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers
of the heavenly calling, consider the apostle and high priest of
our profession, Christ Jesus, who was faithful to him that
appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in his house, in
all his house. For this man was counted worthy
of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath built the house
hath more honor than the house. For every house is built by some
man, but he that built all things is God. And Moses verily or truly
was faithful in all his house as a servant for a testimony
of those things which were to be spoken after. But Christ has
a son over his own house, whose house we are, if we hold fast
the confidence and rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. Now here Moses and Christ, Christ
had his own house. Moses was just faithful in his
house. And all things that was made
was made by God. And it talks about Christ having
much more glory than Moses. Just like the man who builds
the house has more glory than the house itself. But he says
there in verse 5, Moses was faithful in all his house, and that means
his generation, in all of his house, in the time that God let
him have on this earth. He had a father, he had a mother,
he had a Pharaoh's daughter, he had brothers and sisters,
and then all his house as a servant for a testimony of those things
which should be spoken after. And Moses, so much is written
about Moses. When we talked about the law,
the ceremonial law, the Ten Commandments, anything about the law, the tabernacle,
or anything else, it was called the law of Moses. It's called
the law of Moses. Some call themselves the disciples
of Moses. And some trusted in Moses. Look
over here in John chapter 5 with me. John chapter 5. Some people They believe in Moses and they
trusted Moses, trusted in Moses. John chapter 5 and verse 45. John 5, 45. Some trusted in Moses. And our Lord said here in verse
45, Do not think. Do not think that I will accuse
you to the Father. There is one that accuses you.
Who? Moses in whom you trust. Moses
will accuse you whom you trust. You say you trust Moses, you
trust the law, you trust him to be a prophet of God, one sin
of God. For had you believed Moses, that's
why he's going to accuse you. You would have believed me, for
he wrote of me. But if you believe not his writings, how shall you
believe my words? So he says in Moses, so much
is written about Moses. And here it talks about who he
was. Moses. Moses. What was he? Prophet man sin of God what he
did he was faithful What was he faithful as a servant a servant? a servant And He was a testimony
for all the things that should be spoken hereafter. In other
words, Moses spoke about Christ and the things of Christ. Now
I'm going to go down through this again, you know, like I
did last week, and show Moses and then Christ. And Moses is
just faithful in his house. Christ is the Son over His own
house who we are. And so Moses, though he has a
lot of glory, his glory absolutely amounts to nothing in light of
the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. And the first thing I want you
to see is Moses had a forgiving spirit. Look over in Numbers.
Look in Numbers with me. We're going to do a lot of turning
tonight. So keep your Bibles. Numbers chapter 12. Look in Numbers
chapter 12 with me. And here's Moses. He has such
a forgiving spirit. And that's something, you know, that
our Lord taught so much is about forgiveness. But here in verse
1, look what he says. And Mary, a Mrs. Moses' sister,
and Aaron spake against Moses, his sister and brother, spake
against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married. For he had married an Ethiopian
woman. She was a Cushite. And they said,
Hath the Lord indeed spoken only by Moses? So, oh my, they're
really getting feeling good about themselves, you know. Did God
only speak by Moses? Hath he not spoken also by us? And the Lord heard us. He heard
us. He heard what we had to say.
well Moses never said a word never said a word now look what
happens down here in verse 10 Moses never said a word he just
kept his mouth shut let him talk about him let him ridicule him
let him find fault with him and the cloud departed from off the
tabernacle and behold Miriam became leprous white as snow
and Aaron looked upon Miriam and behold she was leprous And
Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay
not the sin upon us wherein we have done foolishly, wherein
we have sinned. Let her not be as one of the
dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when she cometh out
of his mother's womb. And Moses, listen, this is the
only thing he did. Moses cried unto the Lord, saying,
Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee. So they accused him. God, did you know Moses really
thinks he's something, that he's the only preacher around, he's
the only prophet. But God listens to us too. He
speaks through us too. Well, God didn't like that. Turned
her into a leper. Moses never said a word. Not
a word. And then he had to turn around
and pray for her to be healed. Now Lord Jesus Christ has said
when he was reviled, and oh how he was reviled. Oh, He's reviled
all the days of His life. Some of the awful things that
were said to Him, some awful things said about Him. But 1
Peter says this, when our Lord was reviled, He reviled not again. And when He was cursed, He blessed. That's the way he was. He never
said, but never defended himself. And our Lord, when he is reviled,
he reviled not again. And that's human nature. Human nature is when somebody
says something ugly to you, human nature wants to respond and say
something back, to defend itself and say something back to get
even. But this is not the way Christ did. It's not the way
Moses did. And I hope by God's grace we
don't do that. That we don't do that. Then he
prayed for the Lord to heal her and our Lord Jesus Christ You
know what he prayed for us The greatest prayer he ever prayed
for us not was not was just in in in the in John 17 the high
priestly prayer But the greatest prayer he prayed for us when
he was on that cross And he said father Forgive them They don't
know what they're doing And we did not know what we was doing
And I tell you something God Christ did forgive them people
And there are so many that was at that cross that became a believer
in the Lord Jesus Christ. And because he prayed that prayer,
God has been forgiving generation after generation because Christ
prayed that prayer. And when Christ prays, Father
forgive them, believe me, they're forgiven. Christ I tell you bless
his holy name Of all the things he said on the cross the two
things that stand out more than anything else Father forgive
them they know not what they do And then it is finished Oh
my we can never plumb the depth of those two things Can't do
it. Can't do it. And I tell you,
even those disciples, Simon Peter, who forsook him, John, and all
of them, they all fled and forsook the Lord Jesus Christ. But you
think he held it against them? No. They were out fishing one
morning. And he's standing on the shore
and he said, children, have you caught anything? You know what
they had to say? Nothing. We ain't caught a thing. Well without Christ and you do
anything without Christ, it ain't nothing gonna ever happen. But
our Lord Jesus, they said, that's the Lord. And he said, if you
got anything to eat? They said, no. He said, come
over here. Come and dine. That's what he
said, come and dine. So they had bread and fish by
the fire. Oh my! Now these are men that
fled from him, that denied him. And he cooked for them, fed them,
put a fire out there for them. How many times He fed us when
we didn't even have a fire. And He put the fire in our hearts.
He put the fire in our soul. He put the fire in our souls
and hearts. How many times He done us that
way. And then look what else He done. Moses was a man of prayer. I don't have to tell you about
this. I showed you that when we went through. The book of
Hebrews was going through exodus. Moses was a man of prayer and
every crisis that came up the first thing he did is he turned
his face toward the Lord. Or else he fell on his face before
God. That's what he always did. Whatever
the situation was, whatever the crisis was, whatever the circumstances
turned to, whatever it was, he always, always turned to the
Lord. And that's one thing I know that
we as God's people do. We turn to the Lord all the time. In fact, that's all we do is
turn to Him. Don't we always turn to Him?
Who are we going to turn to in this life that we're living now?
Who are we going to turn to in this nation like it is? Who are
we going to turn to when we get sick? Who are we going to turn
to when we get cold? Who are we going to turn to when
our hearts get hard? Who are we going to turn? We
turn to the Lord! I guarantee you that these two
Kim and Houston are saying tonight, I'm not, I shouldn't even say
bad, but I'd say that they both prayed, Lord enable us to sing
to your glory. We don't want to get up there
and embarrass him. And I tell you in our blessing,
you talk about a man of prayer. Our Lord Jesus was a man of prayer. Oh what a man of prayer he was.
I'll tell you what, when he prayed, all people would listen. And
he was so blessed in his prayers, and God inherited him so much,
and he was so blessed in his prayers, that his disciples would
listen to him. And when he'd get through praying,
he'd say, Lord, teach us to pray. They'd hear him pray, Lord, teach
us to pray. Teach us to pray. And then I
tell you Moses was a meek man. Now we will turn back over there
to Numbers 12. But that verse 3 says that after
Miriam and Aaron spoke against him. And it says Moses was the
meekest man on the face of the earth. The meekest man on the
face of the earth. Now you know what meekness means?
Meekness means that people think it's just somebody that has no
personality and just weak and frail and that. But meekness,
what it means is that you're moldable in God's hands. That's
what it means. That God can take you and mold
you and shape you and you will not resist the will of God. You will not resist Christ. You
will not resist the Word that molds you and shapes you. You
have the ability to take what God says and He molds you with
that Word. And that's what it means, that
he was in God's sight, one that was so meek, that God amounted
to everything to him. Not everybody, what everybody
else said to him did not hurt him, did not mean, he did not
fight. He was not a fighter. But yet
he was a man. And he was a strong man. He was a God-honored man. But
he meekness showed that he was moldable and shapeable in God's
hand and to God's will. And our Lord Jesus Christ nobody
was meeker than our Lord. Do you know what I said about
Christ? He said he is meek and lowly. Meek and lowly. Would anybody
doubt that he was a man? Would anybody doubt that he had
authority? Would anybody doubt that he had
power? He had it and then it says there
about when he went to Get a come in as the king as the king of
Israel riding into Jerusalem You know how he come riding in As It said is that Zechariah
he said the king cometh unto thee meek and lowly Riding on
a coat the fold of an ass. I Kings don't come riding donkeys. The king of Israel did, and the
king of kings did. Everybody else... Robert E. Lee rode a big old white horse
called Charger. He was a great big general, a
wonderful general. But listen, Christ didn't ride
on a white horse. He'd come in on a colt. And they
had to put something on it for him to ride on it. And I'll tell
you, it was a, you know, how the world you jump on a coat
or a donkey and nobody ever had it broke before. Listen, you
don't have to break it in cross riding. You know, I'll tell you what,
you talk about faithful. It said here in Hebrews 3 that
Moses was faithful in his house. Faithful in his house. You know
what our Lord is called? He's called the true and the
faithful witness. Over in Revelations 3.14. And
you know how faithful he is? He promised us, he said, I'll
never cast you out. If you come to me, I won't cast
you out. You say, but you don't know what I'm like. I won't cast
you out. You don't know how far I fell
down. I'll not cast you out. You don't know what I've said.
I won't cast you out. I won't cast you out. And not
only that, but he said, I should lose nothing, but I'll raise
it up again at the last day. You talk about faithful. Faithful. And you know what else he said?
I'll never leave you. I'll never leave you. I'll never
ever leave you. And I'll never ever ever forsake
you. I won't do it. He said, I won't
do that. We sing that song with our friends,
despise and forsake thee. What a friend we have in Jesus.
There's been a lot of people forsaken over the years by husbands
and wives and mothers and fathers and wives and children has been
forsaken and all kinds of people have been forsaken. But Christ
said, I'll never, never, never, never, I'll never forsake you. Can a woman forget her sucking
child? Yes, she can. But I'll never,
never, I'll always remember you. How come you don't remember us
Lord? I wrote you on my hand. That's why. I look at my hands
and I see you. Talk about faithful. Great is
thy faithfulness? Oh my, ain't you glad? Moses,
I'll tell you one thing, Moses was thankful that Christ was
faithful to him because the only reason he was faithful was because
Christ was faithful to him. And he would tell you that. He'd
tell you that quickly. And I'll tell you something else
he did now. He gave his for water. You remember
when he stood on the rock. God said, smite that rock. Well, first time he said, speak
unto the rock. And water gushed out. And then
he smoked that rock. And water came out. Which is
of course typical of Christ being smitten. But he gave him water
out of a rock. But oh Lord, I'll tell you something. He gave them water and Christ
is our water. He told that woman at the well,
give me a drink of water. She said, well you're a Jew and
I'm a Samaritan. We don't even talk to one another.
He said, if you knew, if you knew the gift of God, you'd ask
Him and He'd give you a drink of living water. drink a living
water, and you'd never thirst again. And that's what our Lord
Jesus Christ, He is the water of life itself. And He stood
in that last day, that great day of the feast and said, if
any man's thirsty, let him come unto Me. Let him come unto Me. And I'll tell you, He had a,
and I preached on this the other day, Moses, his office as a prophet,
His office is a prophet. God, He was a prophet. Oh, how
a prophet He was. What a great prophet He was.
First prophet, really. God's first prophet. But our Lord, not only was a
prophet of God, but He was the voice of God itself. He said, I speak the words that
my father gave me. He said, I do always speak the
things that my father gave me. And so our Lord Jesus Christ,
He was a prophet. Not only was He a prophet, and
a prophet is one who speaks for God. He gets a message from God
and He delivers it. Well, Christ, He delivered God's
message because He is God's message. He didn't bring a message from
God. He is the message from God. What message did He give us to
say about Him? He is our message. He said, He
come, He said, no man has seen the Father at any time, only
me. You want to see Him? You got to see me. And then he acts as a priest.
He acted as a priest. You know, I think I showed you
that too. The scripture shows that on that great day of atonement,
when he was set up to tabernacle, Moses, he began to offer sacrifices. And that tabernacle, everything
about it had to be washed in blood. He went through that tabernacle. He offered those sacrifices.
He went through there and sprinkled blood on everything. Nothing can be made holy. Nothing
can be made righteous. Nothing can be acceptable except
through the blood. Even when Aaron was in the high
priest office, he had to have blood applied to his thumb, to
his toe, and to his ears. Blood for, you can't hear me
without blood being applied. We couldn't hear God unless God
applied the blood. He said on your thumb, you ain't
gonna do anything with your hands until blood's been applied to
be acceptable. And you can't walk right until
blood's been applied to your toe. You can't even walk right.
It takes blood for top, bottom, and middle. It takes the blood.
And oh, listen, and I, Lord Jesus Christ, Moses was a priest, acted
as a priest, but our Lord Jesus Christ is our great high priest. Where's he at? He's passed into
the heavens. And you know what his offering
was? Himself. He offered himself without spot
to God. Oh my. I tell you what, look
in Deuteronomy 33 about Moses. Deuteronomy 33, 5th book of the
Bible. Deuteronomy 33. Did you all know
Moses was a king? You ever heard Moses being called
a king? Well, he is a king. Deuteronomy 33, look here in
verse 4 and 5. Moses commanded us a law, even
the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob. And he was king in
Jeshurun when the heads of the people and tribes of Israel gathered
together. So he was a king. King in Jeshurun. But our Lord Jesus Christ was
born king. But he was born in Bethlehem.
He was king. And I'll tell you something,
before he was born in Bethlehem, he was king. Everything in heaven
revolved around him. And I'll tell you, beloved, he
was born king of the Jews, king of Zion. And when we get in Revelations,
we're going to read that he is the king of kings and lord of
lords. And he rides a white horse with
a great sword in his hand. Going forth to conquer and to
conquer. And that's everything that He
does for us. He went forth conquering and to conquer. And He's still
going forth conquering and to conquer. Huh? He's still doing
what He's always done. He's still conquering people.
And you know what? One of these days He's gonna
conquer the whole world. And you know what He'll do with
it when He's got it conquered? He's gonna set it down and put
His feet on it. We got footstools. We put our
feet on footstools. If you ain't got it, everybody's
got recliners now. They don't need a footstool. But women bring footstools in
here to set their feet on so they don't, because they're so
short they can't touch the floor. Well Christ is going to take
all of his enemies. Get down there. Get down there.
He's talking about a king. Get down there. And he's going
to sit on his throne and put his feet on them. Boy, that's going to be something,
isn't it? Boy, that's going to be something.
So our Lord is King. And Moses was a judge over Israel. Moses was a judge over Israel.
God made him judge over Israel. Well, our Lord God made him to
be judge over everything. Acts 17.30 says that God hath
appointed a day in which he'll judge the world through righteousness
through our Lord Jesus Christ. And he's the one, and I've showed
you this before over in John 9, that he himself said, for
this judgment I am come, that those that don't see can see. I'm going to give them sight.
And those who say, I do see, they're going to stay blind. So it's up to Christ whether
we see or not. It's like he told Nicodemus,
you can't see the kingdom of God unless you're born again. And that was in Christ's hands
to give that man sight to see Christ or not of the kingdom
of God. And that's the way it is in this world today. And then
Moses was a mediator. He was a mediator. He stood between
God and all those people in their rebellion. And he told them,
he said, I stood between you and the Lord. How many times
was God going to destroy them? And Moses said, oh Lord, he said
one time blot my name out, but save these people. Have mercy
on these people. And I, Lord Jesus Christ, We need somebody to go between
us and God. We really need somebody to go
between us and God. And I'll tell you something,
a Catholic, Catholics, and Baptists do it too, I mean Baptists are
just as bad as they are, just about. They think that you know,
that you can have an angel or a saint or Mary or somebody they
understand that they can't approach God on their own. So they go
to the priest and the priest says you need to call on Saint
so-and-so or you need to call on Mary or you call on somebody
else and get them to be your go-between between you and God.
They know they can't come up there by themselves. So they've
been deceived in trusting someone else. But God set us up a mediator. God don't need a mediator. He
don't need one. God is one. But if somebody else
is going to talk to God, you got to have a mediator. Somebody
between you and God. Somebody's got to be able to
mediate between us and God. How do you think we become reconciled?
Reconciliation means two enemies that were made friends. Now how
in the world did we, who were enemies of God, how did we become
reconciled to God? Through a mediator. Through a
mediator. And you know, and everybody that
prays here, they say, Lord, through thy blessed name, thy son's name,
Our Lord's name. You know why? Because that's
the name of a mediator. And you know what it says? The
man, Christ Jesus. One set in a man, set in God's
right hand. And let me, I'm in a hurry, I
ain't going to take much longer. Moses, he sent 12 men to spy
out Canaan. You remember he sent 12 men to
spy out Canaan. Two of them come back. They went
to spy out the land. In Numbers 13, to spy out the
land. They come back and told about it. Well, our Lord, He
chose twelve men. He sent twelve men out. He sent
twelve men out. And they gave every one of them.
He named every one of them. You can find them all in Matthew
10. I believe it is in Matthew 10. You can find all their names.
And then Moses appointed 70 men, that's what you call the Sanhedrin,
70 men to help him judge all of Israel, because he couldn't
do it all by himself. So he chose out 70 men that they
would judge the different tribes. Our Lord Jesus Christ, he sent
70 disciples out. to preach the gospel and they
came back rejoicing that the devils were subject unto them
he said don't rejoice that the devil is subject unto you rather
rejoice that your names are written in heaven he said 70 and Moses
was a man of wisdom and might mighty in words and deeds but
nobody was like our Lord Jesus Christ in wisdom the treasures
of wisdom dwelt in our Lord Jesus Christ. He himself became our
wisdom. Now what does it mean to have
Christ as your wisdom? What does it mean? Is God made
Christ unto you wisdom? What in the world does that mean?
That means do you see Christ being how God can be just and
holy and righteous? and how He can turn around at
the same time and save sinners, rebels, God-haters and Christ-rejecters
and save them and stay just and holy and righteous. Christ is
that wisdom of God, how He done it. Wisdom is so manifested at the
cross. He said, I'll show you how wise
I am. I'll show you my wisdom and I'll show you my wisdom in
my son. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll send him into this world
and he'll be your representative. He'll live a life that you never
could live. And when it comes time for him
to leave this world and all your sin that would have damned you
for eternity. He said, I'm going to take all
the sin of all my length And of all the people that I chose
in Christ before the foundation, I'm going to take all their sin
and I'm going to put them on Him. And then His holy, sinless, perfect,
representative life, I'm going to slay Him and kill Him in your
place. And He's going to satisfy me
and honor me and glorify me in such a way And I was just and
righteous to do that. And I'll bring you to where you'll
believe Him. Believe Him. You'll trust Him
and you'll look to Him. And I'll be just to save you
from your sins. Has God made Christ's wisdom
unto you? How He can be that way? Oh my. That's why they ask about
the Lord Jesus Christ. Who has this man? This wisdom,
where's it come from? Where'd it come from? And oh my. Well, let me just give
you a couple more. Moses had a message. He was the
mouthpiece of God. He was the mouthpiece of God.
When God sent him down to Egypt, he said, now you go down there, and I'll tell you what to say. And whenever he told Israel,
he told Israel, he said, you know what I've told you? He said,
I've told you all the words of the Lord. You know what Christ is? He not
only tells us the Word of the Lord, He Himself is the Word
of the Lord. In the beginning was the Word.
What was it? The Word was with God. The Word
was God. Everything that was made was
made by Him. God hath in these last days spoken
in Son. And then let me just give you
a couple and I'll quit. You know our Lord Jesus Christ,
Moses fasted for 40 days upon the mountain. 40 days. Well our Lord Jesus Christ, He
went without food and water for 40 days. Moses was in the presence
of God. Christ was in the presence of
the devil. For 40 days and 40 nights. And
I tell you Moses washed his brethren with water. When they was taken
into the ministry the first thing he had to do was wash them. Wash them with
water. He had to wash them himself. And you know what Christ did
for us? He washed us from our sins in his own blood. And you
know what he did for his disciples? He put a tile around himself.
Got a basin of water. and got down and watched a bunch
of hard-hearted, unbelieving, didn't understand but very very
little washed the disciples feet and old Simon Peter was like
us oh Lord listen you can't wash me oh my not me Lord he said
if I don't wash your feet you'll have no part with me oh well
listen you start at the head and go to the feet oh my Moses
had a perfect perfect obedience It says that he did everything,
Isaiah 40, 60, Exodus 40, 16 says, he did everything that
God commanded him to do. And you know what our Lord Jesus
Christ said? I have kept all my father's commandments. I've done everything he told
me to do. And Moses, I preached on this
here a while back, he finished the work. He completed the work. It was a finished work. Christ
said, Father, I have finished the work that thou hast given
me to do. Now glorify me with the glory
that I had with you before the world was. And I'll give you
this last thing right here. Moses' death was for the benefit
of God's people. You know what he said? He said,
God was angry with me for your sakes. That's what he said. But Moses' life, his death, was
for the benefit of God's people. He had to die before they go
into Canaan. The Lord was angry with me for
your sakes. And our Lord Jesus Christ, he could say the same
thing. God was angry with me for your
sakes. God poured his wrath out on me
for your sakes. And what benefits, what benefits
have we come from the death of our Lord Jesus Christ? They're
more than can be numbered. That's what they are. That's
what they are. And Moses had to die Before Israel
could enter into Canaan. The law could not take them into
that Canaan. Could not take them into the
promised land. The law couldn't do it. Moses couldn't do it.
But Moses couldn't do it. And Christ our Lord had to die
before we can get into the promised land too. He had to die. And
I tell you, all these things that I've mentioned the last
two weeks shows us how the scriptures are inspired. That God can take
two men, thousands of years between them,
as far as living on this earth. and show you how much one was
like the other, but this and over here so far exceeded His
glory. It's as the sun against one little
old star. Our Father, in the precious name,
blessed name of Your Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, Lord, we praise
You again that You let us meet together. Meet together. Lord, what a privilege, what
a blessing. And Lord Jesus, I pray that you
take the things that's been said and cause them to be a blessing.
Cause them to instruct our minds and our hearts. And I know that
to honor you and glorify you, it's in our hearts desire to
do that, it's in our will to do that. But oh Lord, We fall
a thousand, thousand miles short of honoring you and glorifying
you as your word and as your worthy. But Lord, we thank you
for the day. Thank you for the songs. Thank
you for the love of Christ. Thank you for the love of your
people. And we pray again for those who are not with us through
the weakness and frailty of their body. Doc and Janie, Rick and
Helen, Jim, Debbie, oh Lord, you know
these dearest people. They're your people. They're
your saints. They're your children. And they're sick. And Lord, as
Moses said, Lord heal her. And you did, you healed Mary.
And Lord, we're not Moses, but we have a oneness greater than
Moses, 10,000 times greater than Moses, the Lord Jesus Christ. And we ask you to do for them
and their bodies what only you can do for Christ's sake. Bless
these dear saints as they go home. You see him safely home. Give him a good night's rest.
Give him a day tomorrow. As we'll all get up tomorrow.
And we'll trust you again for another day. In our Lord's blessed
name we pray. Amen. Amen. Let's turn to 51
in the hymn book. We'll sing that and then we'll
go. 51. 51. Let's stand together and sing
this, then you have liberty to go. Praise the Savior, ye who
know Him, who can tell how much we owe Him. Jesus is the name that charms
us before conflict fits and arms us. Nothing moves and nothing
harms us while we trust in him. Trust in Him, ye saints, forever
He is faithful, changing never Neither force nor God can sever
Those He loves from Him Keep us, Lord, O keep us cleaving
To Thyself and still believing Till the hour of our receiving
Promise joy with Thee Then we shall be where we were Things that are now nor could
be, soon shall be