Feast of Tabernacles 2025:

Good afternoon, brethren. Now, this is kind of late, but I’m just curious. Before the Feast, if you can give me a hand raise, did anyone have any, I don’t know, tests, trials, any problems, maybe a month before the Feast? Yes. It’s not a surprise. Why is that that that happens, right? Every single time, no matter what happens, there was a lot of things we have to do before the Feast, sometimes even on the way to the Feast.

I had a great plan to get here to the Feast. I was going to get enough rest up, enough time to stretch our feet, and then get ready. And, of course, within what? Like a couple of hours, our son went, “Bwah.”

It took, like, almost a whole break time that we planned on it, was spent on cleaning everything up. So, something always comes up, right? No matter what. And it’s not a coincidence that that happens. Obviously, something or someone wants to keep us from this place. Obviously, that’s not going to keep us away from this place. It has a different reason why we have the trials, because obviously we’re here, right? If Satan’s job was to keep us away from this place, he failed miserably, right?

We’re all still here. But there’s another reason why that happens. And I want to talk about that. But before I do, I want to tell you about this little place in Japan. I don’t know if you’re familiar with it. I forgot the name of it. But it’s said that they have the majority of the longest-living people in this part of Japan. And there’s different reasons they say why. Well, maybe because they’re smaller, there’s less density, and there’s something.

I heard that from somewhere. It’s the meals that they eat, right? They eat a lot of, like, fresh seafood or all those kinds of things. I don’t know. But they interviewed some of these people. And the one thing that they all said was this. They all said that “We had something to look forward to. I had a reason to get up every day.” And this, I forgot the name of this documentary that I saw, but it said that they also went through people in America and other places, to where there were a lot of elderly people.

And when they go into homes, they seem to not last too long afterwards. They interviewed some of them before they passed. And what they found is, those who passed away quicker didn’t have anything to look forward to anymore. They had no reason to continue living. There was nothing else for them, past that moment. And that was kind of heartbreaking, right? That was heartbreaking to see.

And these people in Japan, who have a reason to get up every day, they’re active. They’re moving around. They’re doing something. They can’t wait to get up the next day and do whatever it is that they’re doing. Very different. Very different. And I realized that God’s way is more like these Japanese people in a sense. In fact, that’s kind of what we’re all working for. The reason why these trials didn’t stop us from coming here is because we know where we want to be. We have a reason to come here. Let’s go to First Corinthians, fifteen.

First Corinthians fifteen, and verse nineteen. We’ll read one verse. First Corinthians fifteen, nineteen reads, “If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.” We’ve heard that earlier because it’s true. If this is the only thing we have to look forward to, just this life right now, what’s the point? Right? What will be the point? But we’re here because we know something that a lot of people don’t know, or they have a misunderstanding of what’s to come.

We’re here because there’s something greater for us. We have a reason to show up, which is why trials or anything else comes our way. It does not stop us from coming here. We have a purpose. We have a reason. So, here’s the second thing that Satan would try to do, the purpose of the trials, other than it’s stopping us from getting here. And we’ll find that in Proverbs twenty-nine.

Maybe you know where I’m going with this. Proverbs twenty-nine.

And verse eighteen. Proverbs twenty-nine, and verse eighteen. It reads, “Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keeps the law, happy is he.” And just so we’re all on the same page, the word “vision,” okay, means a sight mentally. It is a dream. And the root word means to contemplate with pleasure.

In other words, we’re imagining something in our minds. And if we don’t have this picture in our minds, it says that the people perish. When we don’t have a reason, when we don’t have a future, the people begin to perish. One of the reasons why we have trials coming here, or even while we’re here, because Satan wants you to do something else. If you’re here, what is left for us for him to do?

And that is to keep our minds away from that image, from that picture, from that future. You see, when we were cleaning my son’s troubles up, the only thing that came to our mind is, “Why is this happening?” Right? “Oh, look at all this mess.” We had to stop in the middle of the highway, get down, clean up. And children, when they throw up, right? It’s like a party that just goes out.

It’s not controlled, right? And I won’t tell you the whole story, but, for that moment, it stopped us from where we were going. The joy that God built up, “Oh, we can’t wait to see the brethren. We can’t wait to be at the Feast. We can’t wait to see those we haven’t seen in a while.” “Bwah, bwah.” Right? And that’s a normal reaction. But then what happens is it lingers.

And sometimes we can’t let it go, right? Sometimes we can’t let it go. I know there’s probably some of us who don’t want to think about going back because they know what’s waiting for them. And that can rob us of our joy while we’re here at the Feast. We heard it earlier. To have the best feasts ever, one of those things is letting those things go. But now that we’re getting closer, Day Five, no one wants to go back.

The thing that happens is that slowly... and I believe this was attributed to F. Scott Gerald. Somebody asked him, you know, I forget, “How do you become bankrupt?” And he said, “Slowly at first and then all at once.” Because that’s what happens. We forget slowly at first and then all at once. One of the first couple of years when I first came to the Feast, I experienced, maybe you all experienced this, too, post-feast letdown.

When it ends and we start heading home, it goes, “Oh, no, the Feast. Oh, I can’t, man. Why are we leaving?” Driving home, “Oh, Bay Area traffic. We’re at home. Oh.” Day One of work, “Oh, I miss everyone so much.” Day Two, “Oh, man, work is here again.” Day Three, “Oh, I have to go to work tomorrow, I have to get up.” Day Four, Day Five, back to our lives. And the Feast becomes a distant memory.

Now we’re living day to day back in the world. Slowly at first and then all at once. That’s something that Satan wants all of us to experience. I pray and I hope that we all want the last day to be it. I don’t think anyone here will go, “Well, you know what, there’s something I want to do back home real quick.” I’m pretty sure no one has that feeling, right? But the danger is even while we’re here, and if time goes on, if we go on, is that memory, that future will slowly fade away, and we’ll just go back into the world to our old routine.

That’s not what this feast is for. Throughout the Bible, God wants all of his people to always remember God and his promise, and his rewards. That’s what He wants, and we can’t forget it. He told Israel to get those tassels so that they wouldn’t forget. He told Israel, “Talk about it all the time. You see that stone? Tell your kids this is what it was for,” and still, people forgot because we forget naturally unless we write them down.

We heard that joke earlier, at the Feast, right? Ask for ice cream, come up with bacon and eggs, because we forget. It’s a natural thing, and God is telling us we can’t forget. Now we have these Bibles, and sometimes people forget to read that. We can have, wow, we can read all the stories in here, and go, “Wow, what a great story. What’s for breakfast?” As if nothing ever happened.

What I want to discuss, brethren, is what Satan is trying to do. I want to make this... I want to bring this home as much as possible, but then we’re going to get into the good stuff, right? What are we fighting for? Because if we don’t have the picture, it’s just going to be another message. But I wouldn’t do any justice unless I show you through God’s Word what Satan is trying to do, that he’s trying to snatch that vision away because he wants us to forget eventually, slowly, and then all at once.

And what God is telling us to do is, no, contemplate with pleasure the reward that’s coming soon. You can just write down Matthew fifteen eight, where He says, “This people draw near unto me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their hearts are far from me.” “Their mind is far from me and my way.” The whole problem with the Pharisees is that they were so concerned with the now, their status, how they looked, the present time, that they forgot everything that was supposed to come. So, when the king actually came, they killed him instead. That’s how far they were off from having the kingdom in their mind. Matthew thirteen.

It’s not a coincidence that all through the Gospels, Christ kept talking about the Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God is like this. The Kingdom of God is like that. This is how the Kingdom of God is. The Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of God. And then we forget, What? The Kingdom of God. So, when we get to Matthew thirteen, and we’ll read verse eighteen, this is the Parable of the Sower.

We’re all very familiar with the parable. But let’s read this with, again, this idea of having the picture of the kingdom in our minds. Thirteen, eighteen. “Hear you therefore the Parable of the Sower. When anyone that hears the word of the kingdom,” there it is, “and understands it not, then comes the wicked one, and catches it away that which was sown in his heart.”

That’s their minds, their thoughts, their feelings. “This is he which receives the seed by the wayside.” Sometimes we have this wonderful image. We’ve had some good messages, really good messages about what the kingdom will be like. And then some of it, maybe we don’t understand, but Satan will come, and he’ll snatch it away. Even among believers. Because if that thought is already gone, and we already forgot what we heard a while ago, then he’s already snatched it away.

Story time. As we stopped after our son had that experience, we went to Walmart because we had to get a new bag. My church bag was all covered. I saw my first real-life furry. Some of you are like, “What’s that?” Furry is those people who think they’re animals, and they have the mask, right? And the tail, and the paws. And I’ve never seen one before. I’m like, “It’s furry.”

My wife didn’t see it, so I was almost like explaining to her, like, “Bigfoot is real,” right? “Sure, it is.” I couldn’t take a picture fast enough, but the reason I bring that up is because they left, and then I went, “All right, let’s go to Walmart.” And I forgot. That’s not the Kingdom of God, right? I miss those days where those people usually are like in Disneyland.

They’re dressed in costume, but now they’re starting to spread out. But it’s that fast. I forgot about it once I walked into Walmart, right? The image is now gone. Satan can snatch that away from us, just like he did as we were traveling to the Feast. Something bad happened, and that image was taken away temporarily. Continue reading. Verse twenty, “But he that receives the seed into stony places, the same is he that hears the word, and anon with joy receive it.” Right?

We’ve heard this. “Yes, the kingdom, I can’t wait. Mr. Pack brings us new things. Oh, that’s so exciting. I remember he taught us about wings. Ooh, that’s some good stuff.” “Yet has not root in himself, but just for a while: for when tribulation and persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.” And that word means scandalized or entrapped, to trip up, to entice, to sin, to be displeasured.

We get so excited about a nice image that we have of the kingdom to come, and then trials come, pressure, tribulations. We get attacked. Why does that happen? Because all of a sudden, our minds get taken away from God’s Kingdom to face a problem that we have at hand. Now, there’s nothing wrong. We obviously have to deal with these problems, but it gets to the point where we’re not even thinking of God’s Kingdom anymore.

It’s gone, and we just focus on these problems. When we go through financial hardship, which I’m from California, so I know a lot about that, brethren keep coming to me and going, “How are you living there?” And I go, “I don’t know. God has to do something,” right? But when tribulation comes, what’s one of the first things that come among people’s minds? “Oh, if I didn’t have to pay first and second tithe.”

It causes you to sin. “It’s because I’m paying God’s tithe that this is happening.” I’m telling you right now, brethren, I did the math. Strangely enough, if I wasn’t paying first and second tithe, we’ll be financially free. But look at the difference. Because later on, I thought, “But wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.” Especially after what we heard about the tax cut, right? I can’t wait for that to happen.

If I wasn’t paying taxes, I’ll be financially free. But that’s not where our mind went. Our mind goes strictly to, “If I wasn’t playing God’s... you know, I wasn’t taking the Sabbath, if I wasn’t doing this, my life would be much better.” Satan takes our minds away, sorry, from God, and puts us in those problems. Not a coincidence that it went straight to, “If I wasn’t keeping God’s tithes.” Instead of “If I wasn’t paying those taxes,” which by the way, I’m talking about twenty-three percent.

I worked overtime one time for about four days. Like, I was about eight hours of overtime. Good day. Got my paycheck. They took thirty percent away from me because I worked harder. If that was taken away, I’ll talk more about that later. That’s one of the good things that’s coming up. Continue reading. “He also that received seed among the thorns...” Here’s another one.

“...is he that hears the word,” we can say, has the image of God’s Kingdom in their mind, “and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, chokes the word, and he becomes unfruitful.” Distractions, that’s what that word means. I’ve heard this before. We live in one of the hardest era for salvation. That’s strange. Why is that? We have Wi-Fi. We have cars.

We have microwaves. We have all these. We have remote controls for our TV. By the way, when I came to the United States from Peru, those are the two things that shocked me: TV control and microwavable pizzas. That was amazing. “What? Three minutes, you have a pizza?” So, how is it the hardest time ever? Because of all the distractions around us. We cannot look around without a distraction.

Everywhere, everywhere. So, we’re studying. You know, we have apps, studying the Bible. “Wow, look at God’s Kingdom. Oh, YouTube puppies.” Easily distracted. I don’t have TikTok, but I heard that’s not a very good app, right? Instagram, same thing. We have so many apps. Distractions are everywhere. Coming down the road to the Feast, billboards, billboards, billboards.

“Come here. Eat here. Casino here, this,” blah, blah, blah, everywhere. I got a notification. “Oh, maybe it’s the brethren.” “Oh, come play this casino thing on the app.” Every single time, distractions, and it’s all around us. And also, the deceitfulness of riches, because that’s what we all want, right? That’s what the world wants is riches. We want everything. Distractions.

Satan wants our minds away from God and on him. How do you think he tried to distract Jesus? If you remember the story. I forgot to write it down. He took him to the mountain. He showed him, “Look at everything. I can give it to you now.” He probably told him, “You don’t even have to die. It’s right here already.” That would have been an... I would have been tempted. I don’t know.

I would’ve gone, “Ooh, everything now? No suffering?” Christ said, “No. No, no, no, no.” His mind was what He had to do. Satan wants us away from that. “But he that receives seed into the good ground is he that hears the word, and understands it; which also bears fruit, and brings forth, some a hundred, some sixty, and some thirty-fold.” It’s not easy, brethren. It’s not easy, but we need to have our mind.

We need to have the picture in our minds. And I don’t know how often we go to the Bible and read those scriptures that are about the kingdom here, or what it’s going to be like. If this is the only time we hear a word at the Feast, then Satan is doing a good job. Slowly at first and then all at once. We can’t allow that, brethren. We cannot allow that. But we’re here. Hopefully, only when we speak up here, which shouldn’t be the only time.

I hope we’re imagining what it’s going to be like, and the rest of it will be just for that. Because I want to excite all of us. I want to get excited myself, too. I want to start looking and imagining what God’s Kingdom is going to be like, right? We need this goal. Businesspeople know this trick. They go, they say, “If you don’t write your goals down precisely, it’s just going to be a nice thought.”

You can read this in business books. That’s what they all say. Have a goal. Write it down. We have it written down in this book, and we can still forget. So, while we’re here, brethren, while we’re still here, let’s take advantage of every moment, and let’s bring this kingdom to life. Let us imagine it. Not just a word. “Kingdom of God, things will be great.” Because that’s something that we see all the time.

I say it, too. When I see homeless people, “Oh, I can’t wait for God’s Kingdom to come.” Do, do, do, do, do, do, right? Something bad happened. “Oh, I can’t wait for God’s Kingdom to come.” Do, do, do, do, do, do. It passes away. Where’s the details? It’s not enough for us to just say, “Oh, the Kingdom of God, I can’t wait.” It needs to be alive in our minds. We need to have it to the point where whatever Satan throws our way, we go, “Okay, that’s nice, I’ll take care of that later. The kingdom.”

That’s what we need to do. We need to make this as alive or as clear as possible. So, let’s go to Matthew six, three-three. Because I think that’s where the main goal is. Matthew six, thirty-three.

Well, let’s read the first part of that. Because this is our goal. This is our goal. We need to make it more clear. But this is our overall goal. “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God.” That’s why we’re here. That’s why we’re all here. That’s the reason why we came here. That’s the reason why we left all these problems behind is that we can come here because we’re seeking the Kingdom of God.

That’s what we all want. And that verse comes way after. I’ve read this before. I’m trying to find it now. To where your treasure is, that’s where your heart will be. And we talked about what heart means, what’s in your mind, what’s your feelings, your thoughts. Wherever our treasure is, wherever we put our attention, that’s where our mind will go. If we think about this world, our mind will remain in this world.

If we think about God’s Kingdom, our mind will be, and our hearts will be in that kingdom. That comes after. It’s within the speaking of the Sermon on the Mount. Let’s go back to chapter five. We’ll just read a few of those, the first thing Christ opened his mouth and says in chapter five, verse two. Yes, verse two, chapter five, verse two. “And he opened his mouth,” talking about Christ, “and taught them, saying, Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the Kingdom of God.”

That word “poor” means a beggar. It doesn’t mean someone who doesn’t have God’s spirit. It’s someone who’s asking for God’s spirit. You’ve seen those people where, you know, “Help, please help me. Give me five dollars.” We’re doing the same thing. “Please help me, God. Give me your Holy Spirit.” Beggars are those who are asking for God’s spirit because they know, we know, we can’t go on without it.

Theirs is the Kingdom of God, those who ask and beg for God’s Holy Spirit. Verse five, “Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.” We know the verse, God draws near to the humble, but He resists the proud. Verse eight, “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.” Verse nine, “Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.”

Now, apart from you can come into a situation and bring peace, “peacemaker” actually means peaceable. So, can you bring peace to people? Yes, okay. Can you bring peace within yourself? It’s another question. Are you a peaceable person? Or does chaos ensue as soon as a problem hits? “But they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”

“Blessed are you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manners of evil thing against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.” Pressure should not stop us from imagining what God’s Kingdom is going to be like. Hebrews eleven, ten. Let’s begin having some fun, brethren.

I had to say that we had to know what Satan is up to. Trials will come because he wants to distract us, all of us. But God says, “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God.” Hebrews eleven. And we’ll start reading in verse nine. “By faith he,” talking about Abraham, “sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, and heirs with him of the same promise: For he,” talking about Abraham, “looked for a city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.”

That’s the city that we’re all looking for. That’s the city that we all want. That’s the Kingdom of God, brethren. But before we get to the kingdom, some really interesting things will happen. Now, I can’t promise you I can tell you exactly how things are going to happen. But let’s go down this journey together. Let’s imagine if we say, together. And by the way, before I tell you, let’s go to First Thessalonians.

Chapter four. First Thessalonians, chapter four. I think someone had a hard time saying that word. Thessalonians. We heard it said. Real men cry. Where are you going with this? I’m going to be vulnerable with you, brethren. There is something. I don’t know why. Do you know why? I didn’t understand why. But there is something that whenever it happens, I get a little bit emotional, okay?

And I’ll tell you what it is. And I’ll tell you where I first learned about this. It was a while ago. I was watching Spider-Man. Yes, Tobey Maguire one, by the way. That’s the older one. Okay, I was watching Spider-Man. And everyone hated Spider-Man, right? He was a criminal. We didn’t know what was going on. And he was fighting against a villain. I’m not going into details. I don’t want to spoil anything from you.

Well, that was a long time ago. If you haven’t seen the movie now, I don’t know. But anyways, he was getting beat up badly. He was about to lose, right? And this was in New York City. New York City folks, from what I hear, aren’t very friendly, right? So, Spider-Man is getting beat up. And I’m watching this movie. “Oh, man, Spider-Man, come on.” And then, as the villain is about to deal with the final strike, something hits him on the head.

He looks up. And what does he see? A bunch of New Yorkers, going, “Come on, leave Spider-Man alone.” All of a sudden, they all gather together. I’m already getting emotional just talking about it, brethren. But there’s something about when people get together for a common cause that I don’t know why it just gets me. When Nine-Eleven happened, and I saw everyone going, “Let’s go over there,” people driving from all over the places, together, for something good, for one focus, it got to me.

There’s something beautiful about people getting together. I don’t think that’s a coincidence that God gathers us here together every year. And even though we know the salvation, that we’re all responsible for our own salvation, and we have to deal with fear and trembling, it’s another part of it is that we do this together as one. God calls us a building, not buildings. He calls us a body, not bodies. Because we come together as one. First Thessalonians four. So, we’re going to go through this journey together, brethren.

First Thessalonians four, thirteen. “But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first.”

We have a saying in our congregation, I don’t know who started it, but they said, “No one gets left behind.” We’re not starting this kingdom until those people who are now asleep are coming back with us. We’re doing this together, brethren. I can’t wait to see my dead brothers and sisters who just passed away. And I’m going to keep going. But hold your finger there and go to First Corinthians fifteen.

We’re going to flip back to that same verse, but go to First Corinthians fifteen, and verse fifty-one. First Corinthians fifteen, verse fifty-one. I’ll read the last verse of First Thessalonians, just so it kind of flows together. “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first.”

First Corinthians fifteen fifty-one. “Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,” together, brethren. “...in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.”

Back to First Thessalonians four, seventeen. “Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them,” those who just raised up, “in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” Together. All of us. But now we’re in the air. What do we do? Are we just floating there for a while? No. Jude one, fourteen.

Now I might stay there for a bit just to say hello to all my brethren. We’re like, “Hey, we made it.” But after that, we’re not done, right? That’s going to be a good moment. Again, I don’t know exactly how this is going to play out. This is how I’m picturing it’s going to play out. Some of us rise up. You know, there’s my brothers who just passed away. We’re all transformed, however that looks, right?

I don’t know. We’re going to spin around like Wonder Woman and be all spirit beings, right? Or however that works. We’re going to go up. We’re going to be with Christ, with everyone together. And then Jude one, fourteen, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his saints.” We’re going to turn around, and we’re going to get to work. Because there’s a lot to do before we get to that city.

Again, this is how I’m imagining things are going to happen. But we have to make it vivid, brethren. Put some details in these things. “To execute judgment upon all...” That’s justice as well. “And to convince all who are ungodly among them of their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and for their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

We’re going to go, and we’re going to start working with people. And Revelation twenty, six, you can just write it down. “Blessed and holy is he that takes part in the first resurrection... but they shall be priests of God.” We’re going to be priests. That’s good to know. Because in Revelation two, twenty-six, it says, “He who overcomes, and keeps my work unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations.”

We know that we’re going to be kings as well. Kings and priests. Those two are very important together. Because, as kings, we’re going to have some authority. We’re going to have some power. We’re going to come here, and we’re going to make things straight. Make things right. See the things that are corrupt, and we’re going to change some things around. So, let’s go to Matthew twenty-one. We’ll have Jesus Christ as our example. Matthew twenty-one.

And we’ll start in verse twelve. Matthew twenty-one verse twelve. “And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast all of them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, and said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves.”

How many churches are out there that just use their people to sell products? I mentioned we came from a Pentecostal background. You had to buy the CDs if you wanted to really listen to those messages. “But it’s okay. You get a deal if you get the whole set.” It got so bad we used to make fun of it. We’re just like, “Well, if you go to the restroom, you have to put the coins in there if you really want to use the restroom.”

Everything they charge for. “You want to hear this preacher? Twenty bucks. We’ll get you a wristband. You can hear this preacher.” And then from them, they’ll come up and they’ll say, “Oh, now I have a premonition. I see some brethren out there. A hundred dollars. If you got a hundred dollars, come, bring it up to the friend.” And people, “Oh, ten people with a hundred dollars. Now I see twenty people with fifty dollars.”

That’s evil. That’s wrong. I tried this one time. I told my pastor, right? I’m like, “You know what? I don’t think it’s right that we sell things. How about we just give it away, and then we ask for a donation?” He got angry. He got angry. He did not like that idea at all. “Give things away for free? How dare we?” He says, “The church was built in the back of tamales.” It was a Hispanic church. Meaning, “We sold things to people, and we built the church.”

I get that. But once you’re there to sell God’s word, to sell that to people, that’s evil. We’re going to come. I can’t wait to go back there. “Pastor, poof.” I’ll be nice. Don’t worry. What would Jesus do? Well, He threw over some tables. But we’re going to go in there. Of course, we’re going to show them the right way. Of course, we’re going to do that. We’re lovely. But we’re going to have the authority to change some of these things around. Let’s go to Isaiah two, four. I can picture that one very vividly in my mind, by the way.

Isaiah two, and verse four. We’ll just read the one verse. “And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war no more.” We’re going to stop that. We’re going to stop all that.

Imagine how much funds nations would have if they stopped putting all that money into things like war. Into armies. That’s a lot of good we can do with those funds. No more war. We’re going to stop that. We’re going to be kings over places, going, “No, hey, you take the sword. You turn it into a plowshare.” “But it’s decorative.” “I don’t care. Turn it into a plowshare. It’ll be a decorative plowshare, okay? But no more war. You be nice with each other,” right?

It’s going to be hard. But we have to make this alive, brethren. That’s what I would say. But what would you do? As kings, again, I didn’t have a verse for that because we heard it already very well. That tax cut. Oh, can’t wait for that tax cut. How much better time everyone’s going to have without the tax cut. That alone will bring a lot of smiles to people’s faces in the world, right?

Thirty percent. That broke my heart. I’m like, “I’m never working again.” But then I have to pay, I have bills, and I have a baby who wants to eat, right? So, I have to work. That’s a lot. It’s like the more you work, the more you get punished. How does that make sense? No more fake workers’ compensation, right? I know that goes out a lot, too. But also, no more lazy people.

You don’t work; you don’t eat. We have to straighten these things out, brethren. We’re going to see people. Those homeless that we see out there, we’re going to find out, “Are you really homeless because of certain things that happened?” There are some who find themselves in hard places. I get that. And we heard about God’s plan for that. And that’s great. But there are those that are there by choice.

I don’t want to go, too… Okay, I’ll wait. It’s a funny story, but I can’t wait to get there. But let’s go to Isaiah forty-two. Isaiah forty-two. Here’s something else we’re going to be doing. We’ve got a lot of work to do here, brethren. We’ll have a reason to get up every day. And that’s not going to happen overnight. But Isaiah forty-two, I’m going to start reading in verse five. Isaiah forty-two, five.

“Thus says God the Lord, He that created the heavens, and stretches them out; he that spreads forth the earth, and that which comes out of it; he that gives breath unto the people upon it, and the spirit to them that walk therein.” Verse six. “I the Lord have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles; to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.”

We have a lot of problems with the prison system here. A lot of problems. I’ve heard stories of people going to prison who are actually innocent. Years in prison because they hadn’t paid child support. And then they go to court, and they find out they weren’t the parents after all. And the mom knew that. “Because, yes, I still have contact with the real father.” This guy’s crying in there because he was in prison for five years, and he shouldn’t have been.

That’s something evil that happened. But that happens a lot. That happens a lot. So obviously we’re going to release some people, those who are actually innocent. And the joy that they’ll have in their face, right? I can’t wait to see. But that’s just something that, again, we’re just trying to paint this picture, brethren, of God’s Kingdom. We were just there, but let’s go back to Isaiah two. Because another thing we’re going to do, you know, get into really fun stuff here. Isaiah two.

Isaiah two, and verse two. “And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall go and say, Come you, and let us go up to 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 paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.”

We’re going to be teaching God’s way. We’re going to establish God’s holy days for the whole nations, which means, I kind of spoke with this earlier, but we’re all, everyone’s going to come to this Feast of Tabernacles. Not just us, the whole world. I can’t even imagine how. I heard stories about how big the world was. This is the world. Much bigger than that. That blows my mind.

Just trying to think about worldwide blows my mind. I can’t even imagine the whole world. Nations? Coming together? But we’re going to be teaching the law. We’re going to be teaching God’s way. We’re going to tell them why this is so great. We’re going to show them, of course. But that’s something we have to look forward to, brethren. As priests, that’s going to be our job: teaching people properly.

Getting rid of worthless degrees that are in the world right now. I’ve read some of those degrees. They make no sense. But people pay thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars for them, and they can do nothing with it. We’re going to teach them right. We’re going to teach them to do things, to build, to use their hands, to better the nations, not just themselves. And as priests, brethren, we get to do what, at least for me, I find the most...

I can’t wait to do this. And that’s healing people. I cannot wait to go out there and just heal people. I see them all the time. Apart from my son, I work with other students who also are autistic. And behind my school, we have a small school for more severe, mentally sick, or diseased, or anything. And they’re children. And I see that all the time, and it breaks my heart. And I can’t just say, I can’t wait for God’s Kingdom to come, I have to go back to work.

This is where, at least to me, I’m sure a lot of us feel the same way, where it starts getting more real. Right, yes, I’ll have a rulership and authority. Well, fine. But now getting down to the people. Christ didn’t come to overthrow the governments of this earth. He’ll do that later. The first thing He did is came here to heal the sick, both physically and spiritually. To get away from sin. And that’s something that I really, really look forward to. Matthew eight.

I’m not able to go through every single thing that Christ did. Again, we’d have to go through the whole Bible, and I have not that much time. We’ll pick some things here out. Eight, verse two. Matthew eight, verse two. “And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if you will, you can make me clean. And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be you clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleared.”

Now, it says Jesus. Put yourself there. Someone comes to you, “Please, I have this leprosy. Cleanse me. Make me whole, if you’re willing.” And you’re saying, “I will.” And you take that man or that girl’s leprosy away. Or the young child’s away. Picture that in your mind. Picture their faces after they see that they’re whole. Picture the smile on their face, the twinkle in their eye.

How grateful they’ll be. Let’s go to verse five, “When Jesus entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, and saying, Lord, my servant lies at home sick of the palsy...” Palsy is like a paralyzing disease. There’s even cerebral palsy, which just affects more of the mind than everything else. Terrible disease. Terrible sickness. Grievously tormented, and his servant was healed.

I’m skipping over to verse thirteen. And Jesus just spoke those words, and he was healed from where he was at, right? But the palsy, something that bad, someone who’s paralyzed, I think also Matthew nine, two talks about that. I’ll just read it. “They brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy; Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven.”

And then after that, it says, “Take your mat and go.” I want to see paralyzed people run. Not just walk, run. Jump. But this is something that we’ll get to be a part of. I’ve seen a... Again, I work with a lot of kids, and I have this little girl, a sweet little girl, but her feet are a little bit deformed so she can’t run very well. You know, whenever we do the mile test, I’m a PE teacher, I have to skip her, and she’s aware of that.

I have to skip the mile test for her, because she can’t do it. She will soon. “You owe me like two years of miles. Let’s go.” They’re going to be running miles at a time. I’m not giving her mercy. She’s going to run, make those times up. But she can’t now; she will soon. That’s just someone with legs. What about someone who can’t move at all? Quadriplegics? Oh, imagine those faces.

Imagine that if they’re asking you, “Please, will you be willing to heal me?” Yes, of course. Who here would go, “No, you probably deserve that”? None of us. Can’t wait to see that girl’s face. Very sweet. You can just write down Matthew eight, fourteen. Jesus heals Peter’s mother-in-law when she was sick. Something as simple as a fever. “Oh, I don’t feel so good.” Bam. Healed. That’s it. That simple. That small. What about Matthew nine, verse twenty-seven? Let’s go there.

Imagine coming to this earth as a king, as a priest, and having something like chapter nine, verse twenty-seven happen. “And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying and saying, You son of David, have mercy on us.” Imagine that’s you. “Have mercy on us.” “And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus said unto them, believe you that I am able to do this? They said unto him, yes, Lord.

“Then touching their eyes, saying, According to your faith, be it unto you. And their eyes were opened; and Jesus straightly charged them, saying, see that no man knows it.” But imagine those two men coming to you. Telling you, “Have mercy.” Of course, we’re going to show them mercy. You’ll be the first face that they see. So, make sure your hair is combed, and you look good, right?

They go, “Oh, blind me, God. I don’t want to see anymore.” Now, we’re going to be beautified, from my understanding. But the blind will see. I can’t imagine. Here’s something about me, maybe you don’t know. I don’t have the ability to smell. So, when people talk about smells, I don’t understand what they’re talking about. When they say, “Well, it tastes the way it smells.”

See, to me, that doesn’t make sense, because I tried a rose one time, because it smells good, it doesn’t taste the same, from my understanding. Someone lied to me, right? So, I can’t imagine someone who has never seen something as beautiful as a sunset, right? Or someone who’s seen something as beautiful as just everyone’s faces right now, who’s never seen a smile.

Or the deaf who’s never heard laughter. Some of you have some pretty good laughs. So, you hear them laugh, and you all laugh, too, right? Imagine not being able to hear that. Or a symphony. Or when all of us sing together. I think my wife asked me. Someone gave a message about singing. She asked me, “If God likes all of us to sing, how come some of us don’t sing well like others?”

I think she was talking about me, but that’s fine. One day I will, I hope, right? That’s something that people will be able to hear. The blind will be able to see. And we get to be a part of that. We get to be a part of that. Not everyone does in the beginning. Let’s go back to Matthew eight, and verse sixteen.

I drink a lot of water. Matthew eight, verse sixteen. “When the even was come, they brought unto him,” talking about Jesus, “many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick.” I don’t want to say that a lot of people are demon-possessed, but I know a lot of people are mentally ill. It’s like the closer you get to the city of somewhere, like, the darker things get.

People are mentally sick. And we’ll be a part of healing them. We learned about making mistakes earlier in the Feast. Here’s a mistake that my wife and I did one time. We went to visit a CI in Reno, Nevada. So, we got a hotel. I didn’t know the hotel was attached to a casino. So, I’m an early person. I get up, like, at four or five AM in the morning. Go downstairs to get some coffee.

The casino is open. There’s people with alcohol, cigarettes, and they’re still gambling. Who gambles at five AM in the morning? These are messed-up minds. Who drinks a beer at five AM in the morning? I get there for coffee. And it’s like they do it on purpose. We’re going to get coffee. They go at the bar? What kind of coffee do they serve? But, again, we’ll be a part of all this.

Those casinos are going to be closed. That’s something we’ll do as a king. We’re going to close some of these things. Some of these stores, some of these buildings that exist. Done, gone. Some of these mental issues that people have healed. We’re going to be a part of all that. We’re going to see this. And again, it will be because of us. We’ll get to restore limbs. Matthew twelve.

Matthew twelve, verse nine. “When Jesus departed thence, he went into their synagogue: And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day? That they might accuse him. And he said unto them, what man shall there be among you, that there shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pen on the Sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?

“How much, then, is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath day. Then said he to the man, stretch forth your hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.” People who their limbs are not straight, well-straightened. Now, I know you’re wondering, “You said restored.” I like to imagine that those who don’t have limbs will still be restored.

Jeremiah thirty-two, twenty-seven says, “Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?” There are people who unfortunate accidents in war-torn countries, where there’s still landmines, and they lost limbs, and don’t have them. A lot of them are children who lose their hands or their feet and don’t have those anymore. I want to see them with those hands. Or adults who’ve never held their children because they can’t hold them, for the first time, hugging a child. Or a child climbing a tree. I used to love climbing trees as a kid. I feel a lot, but I used to love climbing them. They were fun. That’s an experience that all kids need to have.

Everyone should, at some point in their lives, climb a tree, and there’s a lot of people who have not, and they will get their chance for the first time. Or kick a ball, something that we take for granted. Or ride a bike. We do them, and then we forget about it. We forget that there are so many people out there who can’t, haven’t. And you’ll present them with that opportunity. We talked about giving earlier. How about giving them the first chance to do something they’ve never done before? That’s something that only we’ll get to be a part of. We have to have this picture in our minds of what that’s going to look like.

If we just say, oh, yeah, they’re going to get their limbs back, it’s not good enough, brethren. Picture it. Picture every moment of it. Their smile. Again, the twinkle in their eye, as I said earlier. But that’s the image we have to have vivid in our minds. The reason why we’ll get up every single day. To be a part of all that. Let’s go to Isaiah. In chapter thirty-five. And verse one.

We’ll start reading in verse one. Isaiah thirty-five, one, “The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them: and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God.”

Verse five. “Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land spring of waters: and the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grasped with reeds and rushes.”

Coming here, we saw a lot of desert. And all of that, just imagine that blossoming. To the point where the deaf will hear, and the eyes will be open, and the lame will leap, says like a hart. A hart’s like a male deer, if I’m not mistaken. But the ground are going to change.

You can write down Second Chronicles seven, fourteen, where God says, “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sins, and will heal their lands.” This world is filled with broken land. The nourishment that we once got from the land is no longer there. And God’s going to heal all that. God’s going to heal all that. There’s going to be an abundance of food.

Even here in America, there’s still a lot of people who don’t have enough to eat. I don’t know how that’s possible. But throughout the world, food is not something they get to have all the time. When we enjoyed the feast, I had a steak the other night. It was delicious. They don’t get that. They don’t experience that. All they’re used to is just plain bread, rice. I come from Peru. I’m blessed that I didn’t have it as bad as some of them, but it was to the point that if we didn’t eat it, we starved. We had just enough. And that’s us being well off, supposedly. People have it way worse than that. And that’s going to change. That’s going to change tremendously.

I do use YouTube, but once in a while, I’ll go there and I’ll see how people live, because there are those videos. And what breaks my heart more is when the kids don’t have enough to eat. That’s what breaks my heart more. I saw my son, and he’s eating. He doesn’t understand. He doesn’t know that he’s so blessed because he doesn’t know those kids. Just like a lot of children, we take things for granted.

But I believe that no child should have an empty belly ever. And right now, they do. And one day, they won’t. And we’ll be a part of that to help that spread out to them. I want to see those children eat that steak that I was eating, right, to enjoy those things that we enjoy all the time, and we take for granted. I mean more when they have it for the first time. I want them to have pizza. I don’t think anything beats pizza. That’s like every kid’s favorite staple of food. I think we had a...

When I was in K, we took a vote to see what people liked. Pizza was always on the top, no matter what. Some grilled cheese, but pizza was always there. I want to make those children pizza. That’s what I want to do. I want them to eat. And if there’s not enough, here’s something we can do. Let’s go to Matthew fourteen. Matthew fourteen, nineteen. Matthew fourteen, nineteen.

“And he,” talking about Christ, “commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and two fishes, and looking up unto heaven, he blessed, and broke it, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up the fragments that remained, twelve baskets full. And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, besides the women and children.”

We’re going to feed thousands with very little. No one’s going to go hungry. No one’s going to ever be hungry again. No child will ever not have something to eat. I gave, or I didn’t give. I saw someone, I think it was in a movie, but they gave them a bar of chocolate. I don’t know if you know what movie I’m talking about. And the child ate the bar of chocolate. And the smile on his face was so big. And the dad was saying that he never tasted chocolate. This was during one of the war movies.

Something as simple as chocolate, that people would eat during one of the war movies. Something as simple as chocolate, that people haven’t had a chance to experience. They’ll get a chance to experience that. But if you have that in your mind, that smile of that kid, just smiling for the first time to taste something, right, and we take those things for granted. So much so, the other day, we were just throwing Oreos all over our faces.

Only here can we do that. But if you go around the world, they’ll look at us like we’re crazy because we’re wasting food. Now I get it, that was fun. I’m not saying there was anything bad with that. I’m trying to just show the difference between how we can take things for granted and other people don’t have those things. Those things are special. They’re going to be very special for them. They’re going to appreciate it. They’re going to want to live God’s way of life.

Matthew fourteen, I threw this one in just because I can’t wait to do this. Matthew fourteen. Matthew fourteen and verse twenty-two. “And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away. And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went into the mountain apart and pray: and when evening was come, he was there alone. But the ship was now in the middle of the sea, tossed with the waves: for the wind was contrary. And in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went unto them, walking on the sea.”

I’ve been looking forward to that for a long time. I want to walk on the water, right? I’ve seen those ministers who’ve tried it. I don’t know if you’ve seen those pools. They get their pools, and they’re like, I believe in God. And they’ll try to walk on water, but they just sink. I always laugh at those. But one day we’re going to be able to do that. And I can’t wait. See, that’s something small. But for me, it means something. I can’t wait to do that.

What’s out there, brethren, that you can’t wait to do? We should all have something. Besides walking on water, yes, I want to heal the children. I want to heal the people. But we should all have that one thing. Again, if we don’t write down our goal, if it’s not clear, if it’s not specific, it’ll just slowly fade away. Slowly at first, and then all at once. And if we don’t want that to happen, we have to make this vivid and real in our minds, as real as possible.

After we’ve done all those things, brethren, after we’ve healed people and we’re making things better, we can’t forget about the city that Abraham went to go look. Let’s go to Revelation twenty-one. Revelation twenty-one.

Verse one. “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with man, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.”

“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful. And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is a thirst the fountains of water of life freely. He that overcomes shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.”

“But the fearful and unbelieving, the abominable, the murderers, the whoremongers, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and the liars, shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.” Verse nine, “And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will show you the bride, the Lamb’s wife.”

“And he carried me away in the spirit to a great high mountain, and showed me the great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God: and her light was like unto stones, most precious, even like jasper stone, clear as crystal; and had a wall great and high, and the gates twelve angels, and the names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.”

“On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles and the Lamb. And he had talked with me, and had a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. And the city lieth four square in length, and is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlong. The length and the breadth of the height of the air are equal. And he measured the wall thereof, a hundred and forty...” This is a big city, really big city, but let’s continue reading.

Verse eighteen, “And the building of the wall of it was of jasper,” give more to the descriptions of it, “jasper walls, and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass. And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manners of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony,” I’m not sure what that is, I’m pretty sure it’s nice, “the fourth, an emerald; the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl, the ninth, topaz, the tenth, chry...”

It just goes on and on. Too much sometimes for us to imagine. I’ve tried putting all this description on ChatGPT, and it does its best that it can, but just from what it creates, it looks gorgeous. And if that’s only a shadow of things to come, I can’t imagine what that looks like. We won’t keep reading, let me see, verse twenty-three. “And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. The nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth to bring the glory and honor into it. The gates shall not be shut all the day: for there shall be no night therein, and they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.”

Twenty-two, verse one, “He showed me a pure river, a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, on either side of the river, there was the tree of life, which bore twelve manners of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were the healing of the nations.” We get a description after description of what this kingdom or what the city is going to look like, but how often do we actually spend time trying to picture this?

That’s just a description of the city, brethren. When we go in there, what will it be like? We know we’re going to get a new name. What will your new name be? Ever thought about that? Hopefully you like it. What if it stays the same? Someone told me they had a hard time saying my last name. It’s okay. I had a hard time saying my last name, too, at first. Because in Spanish, it’s Velarde, but Velarde. And I like the way that she said it. She put it Velarde, the day of valor. I’m like, I like that. Day of valor. So, you can call me Mr. Day of Valor now, if you like. I’ll accept that.

But we’ll get a new name based upon our description of who we are, our characteristic. That seems to be how God did it. What will your name be based on your characteristics? How will you shine? In the city. I have to just read these verses because they’re great. Isaiah eleven, six. We’re coming to a close here, brethren. We know there’s no war. We know all these things are going to happen. But forget about some of the fun stuff that’s going to happen, too. It’s going to be animals all over the place. Obviously, those animals are not going to be harmful. And that’s something that we’ll get to be a part of and seeing as well.

Isaiah eleven, verse six. “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lay down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and the little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play in the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.”

We’ll be a part of passing that knowledge all over the world. Brethren, this is a shadow. This Feast is a shadow of things to come. And there’s things that we do here now that we’re going to do one day on a greater scale. I told you we’re going to do all this together. After we work, we’re still going to get together like we are today. There’s something that we do all the time, all the time. We’ve done it already. We’re going to do it one more time after I’m done here. And that’s we all get up and we sing songs. We do the why. If it’s a shadow of things to come, that means we’re going to do it one day, isn’t it? Revelation fourteen, one.

Revelation fourteen, one. “And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him a hundred and forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written on their heads.” That’s us, brethren, “And I heard a voice from heaven, and a voice of many waters, and as a voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps: And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, before the four beasts, and the elders: no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty-four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.”

When we sing after I’m done here, brethren, one more time, picture that. Picture a hundred and forty-four thousands of us singing a new song. Brethren, Satan wants our minds away from God’s kingdom. We can’t let him do that. We have to remember what it is that we’re getting up for every day, what it is that we’re looking forward to. We have to have that, write it down if we need to, but it has to be vivid in our minds. Let it not just slowly fade away and then be gone all at once, at one time. We have to continue picturing this day, today, tomorrow, and forward because, as God says, where there is no vision, the people perish. So let us contemplate with pleasure the kingdom that’s to come.