END TIMES OH NO NOT AGAIN!!!

Several students have been talking about the end-times we live in! So, there isn’t any need to really evangelize!

Why can’t it be just going and making disciples… This movement is built on a false premise and misplaced escapology (current end-time doctrine -eschatology for those who think it is important to say the theo term!) by doing this so Jesus will come. Making disciples is the command of Jesus till Father tells him it is over for this place and the new place of earth and heaven are conjoined. The question is asked by Jesus in Luke 18:8b “But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?” WILL HE??

There are websites that are pushing evangelism to close in on Jesus coming again. But like project A.D. 2000 and the other previous “evangelism” stuff, it is not biblical in its end
goal.”The means” is for every generation make disciples (Matt 28:16-20 – even then some doubted him), be winsome to the world, love your enemies (now that is a joy) which doesn’t mean you stop speaking out against them but you are compelled by Love (having their interest at heart) by speaking out – I mean who really wants someone thrown in a lake of fire – unless you have unforgivness in your heart then you will get what you give, giving that hand up to everyone cold water that Jesus talks about…!! Evangelism IS NOT AN EVENT… becoming and being a disciple is a relationship with Jesus, exercised in Churches that exercises it in our cultures that we live in.

“Jesus Christ lived in the midst of his enemies. At the end all his disciples deserted him. On the Cross he was utterly alone, surrounded by evildoers and mockers. For this cause he had come, to bring peace to the enemies of God. So the Christian, too, belongs not in the seclusion of a cloistered life but in the thick of foes. There is his commission, his work. ‘The kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of Christ! If Christ had done what you are doing who would ever have been spared’ (Luther).” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community.

Christians need to be alive not for the rapture but for Jesus in this world. Misplaced end-times theology has caused most of the mess we have in this culture by waiting for Jesus or doing to make Father tell Jesus to come back – instead of living for Jesus and being life-giving to everyone.

SO what you ask – Basically, I do not just need to prepare for a life after death, but I need to prepare for life after life after death, the new heaven and earth conjoined together is the big event and Father is in charge of that not any of us –thankfully! This gives such a new perspective on my actions in the here and now. My present work for the kingdom, however insignificant, however much like a drop in the ocean it seems, matters in the eternity of others living with me in the eternal kingdom of the true King. My hope for my own life is that what we do in this “life matters” into God’s future. It’s all “building for God’s kingdom.” This is also an answer to Solomon’s meanderings in Ecclesiastes, that what I “do for the Lord is not in vain.” You are not oiling the wheels of a machine that’s about to roll over a cliff or raptured. You are not planting roses in a garden that is about to be dug up for a building site. You are accomplishing something that will become in due course part of God’s new world. MAKE DISCIPLES!! Cheers!!

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I want to remind us that we all need to remember that the church is victorious in the end. We are on the winning side!! The work of the Holy Spirit is to usher in the full sovereign rule of God is in the process of becoming complete. How often has this been put aside in our church sermons, Easter and Christmas services, worship songs, and daily devotions! Jesus is the King now as Paul preached and as John gave us the future – Jesus will assert himself as King of the earth. John seems to be screaming this out from the Island of Patmos when he writes my favorite passage Revelation 19:11-16 – go on read it!

What I am advising is that the New Testament image of the future hope of the whole cosmos, grounded in the resurrection of Jesus, gives as coherent a picture as we need on a daily basis. A picture of the future that is promised to the whole world, a future in which …decay and death will be done away with and a new creation born, to which the present one will stand as mother to child.” Then heaven and earth will be joined as in marriage. So it’s not about how we just follow Jesus into heaven but it’s about Jesus coming back to complete His rule on earth. From my studies the rapture in 1 Thessalonians 4:15 is a mis-translation of the word parousia. The rapture is not the living saved souls coming to meet Jesus, rather it is the coming parousia – the royal presence of a King – in this case Jesus. This passage needs to be examined in light of other New Testament passages.
Let me continue to say that the purpose of Jesus’ Kingdom inauguration is so we could enjoy, already in the present, that renewal of creation which is God’s ultimate purpose – manage the environment not worship it!! Furthermore, Jesus’ Resurrection was actually the birthing of a new world. The creating Logos of John 1:3 has begun his new creation at the Resurrection. Now we are co-redeemers, participating with God in renewing earth and all of heaven throughout eternity. To this end we can begin to invest now and begin to bring hope to our world because our works will last to the new creation. The surprising future hope held out to us in Jesus Christ leads directly…to a vision of the present hope that is the basis of all Christian mission.
Wow. Let Hope Rise! Not only does the church come out as the vindicated group at the end of this age, but the Lord will avenge her adversaries! Then also, the hope of Israel is also met in the return of the King. Then the whole world is consumed by his glory as “the waters cover the sea.” Then true presence and being is revealed to the potential beings. This is my most forceful thrust into tonight topic – that the inaugurated already but not yet kingdom, to which we live and move and have our being, will become complete and actualized…THEN!
Behold the coming King. “Behold, I make all things new.” (Rev 21:5)
This teaching can’t be taken lightly because it changes everything on how we live today. For instance, how many of you were so unhappy about Denver getting undone on Saturday, we can get over quicker, because we already know what the future holds – we win.

Hope is what you get when you suddenly realize that a different worldview is possible, a worldview in which the rich, the powerful, the evil violent men and the unscrupulous do not after all have the last word.
I want to sum it all up by saying; Life after death, it seems, can be a serious distraction not only from the ultimate life after life after death, but also from life before death (Thank you N.T. Wright and Steve Burger – Franklin TN). Basically, I do not just need to prepare for a life after death, but I need to prepare for life after life after death, the new heaven and earth conjoined together. This gives such a new perspective on my actions in the here and now. My present work for the kingdom, however insignificant, however much like a drop in the ocean it seems, matters in the winning and eternal kingdom of the true King. My hope for my own life is that what we do in this life matters into God’s future. It’s all “building for God’s kingdom.” This is also an answer to Solomon’s meanderings in Ecclesiastes, that what I “do for the Lord is not in vain. You are not oiling the wheels of a machine that’s about to roll over a cliff. You are not planting roses in a garden that is about to be dug up for a building site. You are accomplishing something that will become in due course part of God’s new world.”
How refreshing! How enlightening! The candles of all of history are overtaken by the light of the sun of Jesus’ resurrection and our future one where we have life after life after death a NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH!! The future resurrection matters incomprehensibly; thus everything in this life matters in preparation for such a bright future – King Jesus will find faith!!!

Rev 21:1-7: A New Heaven and a New Earth:   “Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”[a] for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’[b] or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” 5 He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” 6 He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. 7 Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children.”

A reminder in troubled times…

I want to remind us that we all need to remember that the church is victorious in the end. We are on the winning side!! The work of the Holy Spirit is to usher in the full sovereign rule of God is in the process of becoming complete. How often has this been put aside in our church sermons, Easter and Christmas services, worship songs, and daily devotions! Jesus is the King now as Paul preached and as John gave us the future – Jesus will assert himself as King of the earth. John seems to be screaming this out from the Island of Patmos when he writes my favorite passage Revelation 19:11-16 – go on read it!

What I am advising is that the New Testament image of the future hope of the whole cosmos, grounded in the resurrection of Jesus, gives as coherent a picture as we need on a daily basis. A picture of the future that is promised to the whole world, a future in which …decay and death will be done away with and a new creation born, to which the present one will stand as mother to child.” Then heaven and earth will be joined as in marriage. So it’s not about how we just follow Jesus into heaven but it’s about Jesus coming back to complete His rule on earth. From my studies the rapture in 1 Thessalonians 4:15 is a mis-translation of the word parousia. The rapture is not the living saved souls coming to meet Jesus, rather it is the coming parousia – the royal presence of a King – in this case Jesus. This passage needs to be examined in light of other New Testament passages.

Let me continue to say that the purpose of Jesus’ Kingdom inauguration is so we could enjoy, already in the present, that renewal of creation which is God’s ultimate purpose – manage the environment not worship it!! Furthermore, Jesus’ Resurrection was actually the birthing of a new world. The creating Logos of John 1:3 has begun his new creation at the Resurrection. Now we are co-redeemers, participating with God in renewing earth and all of heaven throughout eternity. To this end we can begin to invest now and begin to bring hope to our world because our works will last to the new creation. The surprising future hope held out to us in Jesus Christ leads directly…to a vision of the present hope that is the basis of all Christian mission.

Wow. Let Hope Rise!
Not only does the church come out as the vindicated group at the end of this age, but the Lord will avenge her adversaries! Then also, the hope of Israel is also met in the return of the King. Then the whole world is consumed by his glory as “the waters cover the sea.” Then true presence and being is revealed to the potential beings. This is my most forceful thrust into tonight topic – that the inaugurated already but not yet kingdom, to which we live and move and have our being, will become complete and actualized…THEN!

Behold the coming King. “Behold, I make all things new.” (Rev 21:5)

This teaching can’t be taken lightly because it changes everything on how we live today. For instance, how many of you were so unhappy about Denver getting undone on Saturday, we can get over quicker, because we already know what the future holds – we win.

Hope is what you get when you suddenly realize that a different worldview is possible, a worldview in which the rich, the powerful, the evil violent men and the unscrupulous do not after all have the last word.

I want to sum it all up by saying; Life after death, it seems, can be a serious distraction not only from the ultimate life after life after death, but also from life before death (Thank you N.T. Wright and Steve Burger – Franklin TN). Basically, I do not just need to prepare for a life after death, but I need to prepare for life after life after death, the new heaven and earth conjoined together. This gives such a new perspective on my actions in the here and now. My present work for the kingdom, however insignificant, however much like a drop in the ocean it seems, matters in the winning and eternal kingdom of the true King. My hope for my own life is that what we do in this life matters into God’s future. It’s all “building for God’s kingdom.” This is also an answer to Solomon’s meanderings in Ecclesiastes, that what I “do for the Lord is not in vain. You are not oiling the wheels of a machine that’s about to roll over a cliff. You are not planting roses in a garden that is about to be dug up for a building site. You are accomplishing something that will become in due course part of God’s new world.”

How refreshing! How enlightening! The candles of all of history are overtaken by the light of the sun of Jesus’ resurrection and our future one where we have life after life after death a NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH!! The future resurrection matters incomprehensibly; thus everything in this life matters in preparation for such a bright future – King Jesus will find faith!!!

Rev 21:1-7: A New Heaven and a New Earth:   “Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”[a] for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2 I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4 ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’[b] or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” 5 He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” 6 He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. 7 Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children.”