by giving you something that
will help you immensely as you read and study the Old Testament
scriptures. It ought to be elementary, it
ought to be very simple, but because there is so much religious
tomfoolery in this day as there has been in every age, simple
things are confused by men's opinions. Any time you read any
gracious promise from God made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
to Israel, Judah, and Jerusalem, read it as a promise made to
the Church of God, to His elect. Better yet, read it as a promise
made from God to you. And I promise you you will read
it accurately if you're one of God's people. Anytime you read
of something glorious concerning the nation of Israel, Jerusalem,
Zion, or the house and temple of God, apply the promise to
the Church of God right now. Apply it to the Church of God
in this present age and for eternity. That's always the intent of such
passages. Now the New Testament makes this
abundantly clear. The New Testament is the inspired
word of God the Holy Spirit by which he explains and applies
that which he has caused to be written by inspiration in the
Old Testament. In the New Testament, we have
written out the explanation of those things which our Savior
declared and accomplished while he was upon this earth, those
things that he fulfilled which were prophesied and spoken of
in the Old Testament. And in the New Testament, this
is how the Holy Spirit describes the Church of God. In Galatians
6.16, it is called the Israel of God. In Galatians 4.26, the
church is called Jerusalem. In Hebrews 12.22, the church
is called Mount Zion. And 1 Corinthians 3.17, the church
is called the Temple of God. And in 1 Timothy 3.15, it's called
the House of God. Folks often say, well, you take
too much license when you say that the church is true Jerusalem
and true Israel and the true temple. That's no license at
all. That's the plain statement of
Holy Scripture. The physical seed of Israel,
Abraham's physical descendants, were the people of God only typically. Now, be sure you get that. Abraham's
physical descendants were the people of God only typically. There were many of Abraham's
physical seed in the Old Testament who were truly a part of God's
Israel, his people, his covenant people, multitudes, Abraham,
Isaac, Jacob, David, just go on and on and on and on and on.
But the Israel of God was represented. The church of God's elect was
portrayed and typified in the physical seed of Abraham. Let
me show you this plainly. Listen carefully. You don't have
to turn there. If ye be Christ. This is what Paul says in Galatians
3.29. This is what God the Holy Spirit
says. If ye be Christ. I qualify. He's talking about folks who
trust the Son of God. Are you Christ? Are you born
of God? Do you believe on the Son of
God? Do you trust Jesus Christ? If ye be Christ, then are ye
Abraham's seed. Abraham's seed. Not those folks
who live over there fighting Arabs. That's not Abraham's seed.
They are just physical descendants of Abraham. There's a huge difference. If you'd be Christ, then are
you Abraham's seed and heirs according to promise. You mean,
Brother Don, the Bible does not in any way
give special privileges, special promises, Special exceptions
to the Jews, to the nations of Israel? You got it. None at all. None at all. We're plainly told
all the promises of God are in Christ. How much plainer could
Scripture be? All the promises of God. All
of them. We're not talking about those.
We're talking about God's promises to Noah. He said all the promises.
But you don't understand, we're talking about God's promises
to Abraham. He said all the promises. You don't understand, we're talking
about the land promises. All the promises of God. Every one
of them, no exception, are in Christ Jesus. And in Him, and
only in Him, are they yea and amen to the glory of God. Now this is what I want you to
see. It will help you immensely in understanding scripture. The
blessings and promises of God's grace come to no human being
by pedigree, but rather by God's decree. So then it is not of
him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that
showeth mercy. As many as received him, our Lord tells us, to them
gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe
on his name. which were born not of blood,
nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of
God." Now, with those things in mind, I want you to turn with
me to Zechariah chapter 8. The title of my message this
morning is, The Gospel Church, God's Holy Mountain. Here's Zechariah. God's prophet is describing the
goodness and grace of God to his people in this gospel day. He does so using Jerusalem and
the people of Israel as typical pictures of his church. The prophet
of God is here commended to proclaim the rich, precious promises of
grace and glory to his chosen people, the church of his elect,
these people. his church, here called Zion,
Jerusalem, the mountain of the Lord, and the holy mountain.
Let's begin in verse 1. Again the word of the Lord of
hosts came to me, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I was
jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with
great fury. Thus saith the Lord, I am returned
unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem. And Jerusalem
shall be called a city of truth, and the mountain of the Lord
of hosts, the holy mountain. Thus saith the Lord of hosts,
there shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of
Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very
age. and the streets of the city shall
be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof. Thus
saith the Lord of Hosts, If it be marvellous in the eyes of
the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be
marvellous in mine eyes? saith the Lord of Hosts. Now
let me show you seven things distinctly set before us here. There is one group, just one. One group in this world who is
of interest to the triune God. One nation to which the Almighty
is devoted. One city He makes His home. That is Zion, Jerusalem, the
church of His elect, called in Psalms, the city of God. Zachariah here tells us that
the Lord gave him his word and said, I was jealous for her. I was jealous for her with great
fury. The Lord Jesus Christ is jealous
for no one else. He is completely, totally, fully
committed to his chosen bride, his church. those espoused by
him to himself from eternity. There is none other who is the
object of his love or even his care. And so why do you say that? Because
if you make his love and care to be dispersed among others,
then you declare that his love and care for his people is utterly
meaningless. There's no one else who's the
object of his love and care. The Lord Jesus did not love all
people, but he loved the church with an everlasting love. Is
that language of scripture? He loved the church and gave
himself for it. To say that he loved all people
is to say that his love is meaningless, insignificant, is of no benefit
to anyone. Our Savior did not choose all
people. He chose His bride, the church
of His elect. To suggest otherwise is to say
that His election is of no consequence. The Lord Jesus Christ, God's
darling Son, did not die for, did not redeem, did not make
atonement for, did not purchase, did not ransom anyone except
the church for which He laid down His life. He purchased the
church with his own blood, we're told in Acts 20, 28. To suggest,
to imply that there is any sense in which Jesus Christ intended
to redeem, save, justify, ransom anyone except those who shall
at last be found with him in Mount Zion on God's holy hill
in glory is to declare that his death is absolutely meaningless.
The Lord of glory is not even concerned. about all the other
nations of the world. He has no concern for all the
other peoples of the world. His concern is for one nation
called his holy nation, the church. He has no concern for anyone
else. In fact, he plainly tells us
that he does all things just for his bride, the object of
his love. Everything. Everything. What
a faithful husband he is. There's not a man in this assembly,
not a man walking on this earth, who can say that concerning his
bride. Not one. Not one. We have many other cares. We have to juggle many other
things attached to our hearts and to which our hearts are attached.
we have to deal with, not the Son of God. Darwin, he's totally
devoted to his bride. Can you get hold of that? Totally
devoted to his bride. Absolutely. He does everything
for her. The scripture tells us that he
raises up all others for her. He uses all others for her, and
he sacrifices all others for her. Read Isaiah chapter 43 one
more time. People talk about mealy mouth, love, sugar sweets, common graces,
but we must say there's a sense in which Jesus loves everybody.
Well, if that's the case, you must say there's a sense in which
Jesus loves nobody. Because his love is utterly insignificant. Isaiah 43 says, I gave Egypt
for you. I gave Ethiopia for you. Sounds
to me like he loved Israel, not Egypt, not Ethiopia. I gave people
for you. I gave men for your lives. There's
nothing in nobody I won't give for you. He is totally devoted
to his bride. He says here, he's jealous for
her. Jealous for her everlasting salvation. Zealous for her. Zealous to save
her. And zealous with great fury against
all who oppose her. Turn to Isaiah chapter 9. Let
me show you. Remember that word jealous? It's exactly the same
as the word zealous. His jealousy and His zealousness
are one and the same thing, and have the same object. Isaiah
9, verse 6, For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given. The government shall be upon
his shoulder and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor,
the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.
Now watch this. Of the increase of his government
and peace there shall be no end. Upon the throne of David and
upon his kingdom to order it and to establish it with judgment
and justice from henceforth even forever. Now that can't possibly
be talking about David's physical throne. Because there came a
time when he destroyed that nation and that throne. And if it's
talking about, and somebody said, well that's not talking about
just perpetually from then on. That's what this says. And what
is this? Forever without interruption. Perpetually. No disturbance. This is talking about the Son
of God, our true David, sitting on his throne. Now watch this.
The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will perform this. Turn to Isaiah
37, verse 31. And the remnant that is escaped
to the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit
upward. For out of Jerusalem shall go
forth the remnant and they that escaped out of Mount Zion. The
zeal of the Lord of Hosts will do this." He said, I'm zealous
for her and I will destroy nations to accomplish her salvation.
Jerusalem was a city God had chosen. He says in 2 Kings, in
Jerusalem I will put my name. In this house and in Jerusalem,
which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put
my name forever? And they shall put my name upon
the children of Israel, and I will bless them. This is the place
where God established His worship. This is the place where God put
His name. This is the place where God revealed His glory. This
is the place from which God sent forth His word. This was the
place of the temple, the tabernacle, the mercy seat, the altar, everything
involved in the worship of God was in Jerusalem. That's what
God's church is. place where he's put his name,
where he reveals himself, from which he sends out his word,
in which he's glorified. Look at verse 3, back in Zechariah
8. Here's the second thing. The Lord God here describes his
church, the city of God, as it is in this gospel day, and as
it shall be forever, perfectly in glory, as the place of his
residence. a city of truth, you see that?
The mountain of the Lord of hosts, and the holy mountain. Thus saith
the Lord, I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst
of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth, and
the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy mountain. What a blessed
description of God's people. All that is said here is true
of God's church in its universal aspect. Now, let me be crystal
clear. We live in this area where some
folks spell badness with big B, and they think they're the
only ones who've got anything. Let me be crystal clear. The
scriptures clearly teach that all God's elect are one church. That does not mean that all the
churches put together make up one big church. It means that
all God's elect are the body and bride of Jesus Christ. From Adam to the last sinner
saved on this earth, all are one in Christ. And that which
is spoken here clearly applies to the whole church of God's
elect, the ransomed of the Lord, when they shall be with Christ
forever in glory. And that which is spoken here,
is true of every true gospel church in this world. was saying
that him round each habitation hovering. Each local church is
the habitation of God through the Spirit. Every true church
is. Every local church, every body of believing sinners is
precious to God. Each is fully and equally precious
to God and ought to be precious to us. Now that is true with
regard to the largest metropolitan assembly in the most flourishing
place in the world, most well known. And it is equally true
with the smallest band of believers in some isolated place meeting
to worship our Redeemer. One is not to be exalted above
another. And one is not exalted above
another by him. Right now, today, there are several
groups of people who have no pastor, no prospect immediately
of getting a pastor. Meeting together, watching our
video messages in various parts of the world. Some in other places
watching Brother Mahan's messages, Brother Nybert's, others. Meeting
together in Christ's name. A church in their house. Somebody
says, well, you can't call that a church. Our God does. Our God
does. He said, where two or three are
gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them,
and such are not to be despised by us. Each of these gospel churches,
every gathered assembly of believers is the place of God's residence. Oh, I would to God. We could
understand what the scriptures teach concerning this. Where
two or three are gathered together in my name, come together, believing
me, trusting me, to worship me for my honor. I wonder if there
are two or three here. I'm sure not everybody here did.
I wonder if there are just two or three who came here today
to worship God. to hear from heaven. If so, the
Master says, I'm right here. Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians
3 that the gathered assembly of God's people is the temple
of God. And the Spirit of God dwells
in us. There's something mysterious that cannot be explained except
in the statements of Holy Scripture. about the gathering of God's
saints to worship. When we come into those doors,
we come together as a body of believers. The building is insignificant. You don't have to have one. I've
met with churches in open fields. You don't have to have a building.
The building is insignificant. The surroundings are insignificant.
But as we come together, Rex, you and I come by different walks
of life. Different difficulties, different
struggles, different needs, different heartaches, different joys. And
we come together to worship Christ. God comes with us. Sometimes He comes manifestly. Sometimes He comes secretly.
But He always comes. That's what it says. It says,
I will return to Zion. And so He does every time. making the local church and habitation
of God through the Spirit. Here he shows himself by his
word. Reveals us his will and nourishes
and cherishes our souls. And from here he sends out the
gospel, the word of his grace into all the world. This is,
in fact, his Shekinah. This is the place where he comes
in his glory and shows forth his glory. Now, that being said,
what a serious admonition this is, and how blessed
to obey. Don't forsake this symboling
of yourselves together, as manner of some is. Sometimes it's unavoidable,
I understand that. I recall once years ago, I was
getting ready to go somewhere and preach, brother Rex said to me,
I sure wish I could go, but I've got to work tomorrow." I said,
man, don't apologize to me for working. If you didn't work and
pay the bills, I couldn't go. That's understandable. Sometimes
you have difficulties to arise. I sure got a call this morning
from Peterson's. David's office is in the ditch. The roof is
off his house. It's fixing to rain. They've got to get things taken
care of. But to absent yourselves from worship of God, from the
gathering of God's people, When you can, be present. We're fixing
to meet together with God's saints from around the world. I'm talking
about folks from everywhere. Well, I believe I've got something
better to do this morning. I'll stay home and watch television.
It don't matter what you've got to do. It ain't worth doing. It ain't worth doing. Because
you absent yourself from the people of God, your family. The
message God gives His servant for the hour. I'll get that on
tape. If I put the Spirit of God on
tape all you want to, it ain't going to work. Ain't going to
work. He didn't promise where you gather
and listen to your tape and your car going down the road, I'll
be with you. He said, where two or three come in my name, I'll
be there. The absence of yourself in the
house of God, you miss. the presence of your Savior. You miss the consolation of the
gospel and the fellowship of God's saints. You absent yourself
from the reproof you need and the comfort you need. You absent yourself from food
for your soul. This is the house of God. The
place of His desire. The place of His tender care.
The place of His goodness. The place of His residence. The place where you get to know
Him. I'll tell you one place where
folks know me, one place, for better or for worse, where folks
know me. You know a little. I try to keep
you from knowing a lot on purpose, because if you really knew me,
you wouldn't want to know me. But over yonder in that house,
the little girl who was raised over there, that lady who lives
over there, she knows me. Because there I expose myself
for all that I am, for better or for worse. Will you hear me?
This is the house, Larry, where God exposes Himself all the time. So we know Him. All right? Here's the third thing. The Church
of God is called the City of Truth. Paul tells us it's the pillar
and ground of the truth. And those are true, accurate
descriptions of every true gospel church. We receive and embrace
Christ who is the truth. Each local church, each true
gospel church, and that is not a church of which this is not
true. Each true gospel church receives and embraces the gospel,
the whole revealed truth concerning the person and work of Jesus
Christ. The whole of it. The whole of it. Any church that
rejects and denies any aspect of the whole revealed truth of
God is only a fake. She is but a whore church claiming
the name of the Savior. Oh, that serious? Read this book
and find out. We embrace and publish the truth
in the house of God. Every gospel church embracing
and loving the truth is the means by which God graciously preserves
his truth in this world, generation after generation. We don't invent
the truth, and we don't improve the truth, and we don't qualify
the truth, and we dead sure don't cover up the truth. We just embrace
it. and proclaim it with joy. In
this place, the City of Truth, we worship God in spirit and
in truth, rejoicing in Christ Jesus. This is called the City
of Righteousness, the Faithful City, because those who are born
of God in every place in this book are spoken of as the faithful
in Jesus Christ. Believers are not folks who ought
to be faithful, they are. That's right. Believers are not
folks who ought to love the truth, they do. Believers are not people
who ought to believe the truth, they do. This is the city of
truth. Here's the fourth thing. When
the Lord Jesus comes to chosen, redeemed sinners in the saving
operations of His grace and plants them in Zion, His church, and
His kingdom, they find that His grace is elevating grace. For
Zion, the city of truth, the church of God, is here called
the mountain of the Lord of hosts. When the Lord Jesus comes to
a chosen sinner, He brought into his house, maybe some of you
come here today to this vanquishing house, and you're crushed and
abased by the knowledge he's given you of yourself so that
you take your place in obscurity and think to yourself, I'm not
fit to take the lowest room in the house. And you won't so much
as lift up your eyes toward heaven, but cry, God be merciful to me
the sinner. When Christ comes in grace, you
know what he does? This is what he says in the parable. He'll
come to you and say, friend, come up higher. For everyone that exalteth himself
shall be abased, and he that abaseth himself shall be exalted. Turn to Isaiah chapter 2. Isaiah
chapter 2. Isaiah gives us a very similar
prophecy. He begins his prophecy by telling us this is the word
of the Lord that he received in the days of Amos, the message
God gave him which he understood and received concerning these
last days. And this will help you, too,
in understanding the Old Testament. Whenever you see any word concerning
the last days, it's talking about this gospel age. 1 John 2.18
says so. This is the last time. We believe in a future tribulation
period. We believe in a day when God's
going to return to the Jews and rebuild the temple and reestablish
Jewish worship in this earth. Do you know, I've been converted
now for, I've been a believer for 39 years. And you know one
of the first things I heard when I was a 16, 17 year old boy about
all of this? They've already got the rocks
cut, they're in the harbor over in Jerusalem just waiting to
build that temple. Do you know I've been hearing that again
this week? They just got them in over there. I don't know how
they got them in 40 years ago and still getting them in today.
Because idiots keep making predictions. There's a time going to come
when God's going to deal with the Jews on the basis of Jewish
priesthood, Jewish sacrifices, and a Jewish temple. If so, Christ
is a fake. Christ is a fake. Salvation doesn't
come by works today, yesterday, or tomorrow. Salvation by grace. And when Christ gets done with
this last day, then come at the end, and there'll be no more
days. Well, what about the millennium? I'm in it. What about the kingdom
of God? I'm a part of it. It's called
His church. What about the Kingdom of Heaven? I was sitting about
where Bobby was one day, a Sunday school teacher, and he said,
now there's the Kingdom of Heaven and the Kingdom of God and the
Millennial Kingdom and the Church of God and the Church of Christ,
and these are all different. Isn't that right, Brother Don?
I said, no, they ain't right. They're all the same. They're
all the same. This is talking about spiritual
things. Isaiah says it's talking about
this last day. In verse 2, he speaks of the establishment of
the Lord's house. It shall be established. How come? Because the Savior
himself said, I build my church. The kingdom of our Lord Jesus
Christ, the gospel of it, is openly preached, established
in the high mountain of the Lord. Nothing secret about this. People
tell me that You know brother, brother Joe hid it all down there.
He's coming to understand a little bit about grace. He'll talk to
you about it, you got to talk to him. Man, I ain't interested
in him talking to me about it over a cup of coffee. Get on
the radio and tell the world! And if you don't dare do that,
you don't believe a thing. You're just a fake. You're charlatan. Here's the truth of the shit
on a hill. His word shines forth brightly
into all of us. He didn't give us these things
to hide them, but to proclaim them. Verse 2 again, He says,
all nations, all nationalities shall flow to it. The Lord Jesus
has broken down every wall of partition that divides men. And
they all come from everywhere into His house, flowing into
it. In verse 3, He speaks of the unity of the church. Many
shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up into the mountain
of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will
teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his path. No wonder
they say, I was glad when they said to me, let us go to the
house of the Lord. And then he speaks of the power
of the church. For out of Zion shall go forth
the law and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. The gospel, we
preach, is the power of God to salvation to everyone that believes. The power of God. The word that
goes forth. The rod by which Christ conquers
and subdues his enemies. And Christ, the head of the church,
he shall judge among the nations and shall rebuke many people. And he will give her peace. They
shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into
pruning hooks. Nations shall not lift up sword
against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. That's not talking about some
dreamy-eyed prophecy of a utopian millennial age. That's talking
about God's people in the here and now. In the here and now. A few weeks that many of us be
going down to Cherokee, North Carolina. My grandson hadn't figured out
yet there's some good Indians. He still thinks we ought to all
be fighting each other. They've been my friends for a
long time, yours too, haven't they? Our forefathers killed
each other. And if ever there was a group
of people in this world had a reason to hate a white man, they had
it. They have it. The man that love
me just like you do. Cook for me just like you ladies
do. Do everything they can to pamper me just like you do. I'll
come. Because we're one in Christ.
And we beat our swords in the flare shafts. Our spears in the
pruning hooks. And we learn war no more. The
King of Peace reigns in His church. Oh, House of Jacob, come ye. Let us walk in the light of the
Lord. That's it. That's it. Back to
Zechariah chapter 8. Here God's church is called His
holy mountain. His holy mountain. How come? Because they're holy people who
are citizens of this city. Citizens of this mountain. Holy
people. God calls them everyone same. Did you ever notice you read
through the New Testament, when the apostles are writing, folks,
I'm talking back to believers that don't even know? People
they've never seen, never spoken with, first correspondence. First
time he writes to them, Paul says, to the saints of God, which
are in Ephesus, to the saints at Rome, to the saints at Colossae,
to the saints here and the saints there. Well, how dare he presume
that those people are all perfectly sanctified, perfectly holy, perfectly
righteous people, because they're gods. They're Christ. And the people
of Christ are righteous. Not in themselves. They'll tell
you that in a heartbeat. Not by what they do. They acknowledge
that gladly. Righteous. Because, Lindsay,
we're one with the Righteous One. This is His name. Jeremiah 23, verse 6. Jehovah-seeking
you, the Lord our righteousness. And do you know what He says
the name of His church is? Jeremiah 33 verse 16, he says, this is
her name, Jehovah Zedekiah, the Lord our righteousness. With
his spotless garments on, you and I are as holy as God's own
son. Washed from all sin in his blood,
made righteous by his perfect obedience, given a new nature
by his free grace. Here's the sixth thing. She's
called the city of peace. Look at this, verses four and
five. Thus saith the Lord of hosts,
there shall yet old men and women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem,
and every man with his staff in his hand for a very age. The old folks, by long, long
experience, still clinging to Christ their staff, leaning heavy
on Him. And the streets of the city shall
be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof, living
with Christ, living in his presence, living under his wings, all is
perfect peace. Turn back to Isaiah chapter 11
for just a second. This is why I read this passage
to you earlier. Living in saving union with Christ,
who is our salvation. All who walk the golden streets
of Zion live in peace. I'm talking about you, my brother. You, my sister. Young and old. Isaiah 11, verse 6. The wolf. Wouldn't you hate to run across
one? I run across them every day. They snarl and growl at
me all the time. shall dwell with the lamb and
the leopard. And just to sound the one, scare
the britches off of you. I'm around them all the time,
sneaking, cunning, folks who try to change their spots but
they can't, Pharisees. Shall lie down with the kid,
the calf, and the young lion. lying, seeking to devour. And the fact being together,
a little child shall lead them. The least most insignificant person among them will be leading
you this morning. This is a little child, leading
an old man. Babes in grace, leading folks
who have been walking for a long time with the Lord. And the cow
and the bear shall feed, and their young ones shall lie down
together, and the lion will eat straw like an ox, not hay, straw. stubble, not the green pastures
of the word, but just stubble. And God's given plenty of it
in this book to feed them on. Read on. And the sucking child, little
baby, nursing in his mama's breast, shall play on the hole of an
asp, most dangerous viper, snake in the world. And the winged
child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's You should be bitten
of serpents that will not affect you. Now watch this. They shall
not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain. Well, the lad said to me about
some gay who's yakking a lot these days. I said, I've got
a place I like to play at the home of the cockatrice. And I
like to play the vipers, the asshole, and tease them. And I'm not concerned about them.
Hurt nothing. Now look at verse 6, and I'll
send you home rejoicing. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, if it
be marvelous in the eyes of the reddened of this people in these
days, should it also be marvelous in my eyes, saith the Lord of
hosts. Now let me paraphrase that for you. If it looks to
you like something's impossible, don't imagine that it is. If it looks to you like this
is a thing that just can't possibly be done, it's not possible that
God's going to save all His elect. It's not possible that nothing
will hurt His church. It's not possible that nothing
will hinder His purpose. Wait a minute. This is God's
Word. This is God's doing! So far from
hurting, from stopping, or even hindering the building of God's
church and the saving of His people. All who oppose Him and
oppose His people are just scaffolding He uses for the building of His
holy temple. And when it gets done, Revelation
chapter 14 verse 1, in the mountain of the Lord's house, gathered
around the throne of the Lamb, with Him and singing His praises,
all Israel will stand before Him. All the hundred and forty
and four thousand of God's elect, all the complete number of the
chosen are with the Lamb in glory, because this is God's work. So it is now, And so it shall
be tomorrow, He will build His house. Amen.