Major Bible Themes
Mike Doyle · Dec 18, 2011
Major Bible Themes (2011), No. 51
Holly Hills Bible Church
https://www.hollyhillsbiblechurch.org/teaching/messages/4926256152830

Transcribed from the recording by SermonAudio, so expect the occasional misheard word.

Today we're going to talk about the new heavens and the new earth. How many read the chapter? I got one. All right. But what Malloy did or Henderson, which was kind of cool. How come that doesn't fit? Is that okay? He started out this, which Chafer didn't do in his book, but he started out by setting the class up by talking about God's eternal purpose.

And as you can see up there, if you start with that premise that everything that God does, he does to glorify himself, and so to declare his glory, to share his glory, reveal his glory and to be glorified, it kind of changes the perspective from what's in it for me to why is God doing what he's doing. So somebody explain to me from a gracious standpoint what it means for God to declare his glory. I ask this question all the time, isn't that a little egocentric? No?

God's all about Himself. Well, it seems like His mercy and grace towards us shows that more. I mean, that's part of the miraculous goodness of God is His grace and we're the benefit beneficiaries. It's interesting to me that I personally am so tainted by sin that when I see something like this, my sin nature, my old man immediately wants to compete with God. How come you get to show your glory? What's wrong with mine?

But when you begin to understand who God is, what his character is, that his attributes are, you can begin to see that when he When he creates, he does it specifically to demonstrate to the creation who he is. And there's no negatives in that scenario, none. It's all plus. When the center of his very being is love and he does everything to a sinful world based on a premise of grace, then the characteristics that are demonstrated by him, there isn't any downside to them. Where in my mind, if I'm competing with someone for acknowledgement or exposure, I'm looking at their negatives. I can't find any negatives in this.

So his eternal purpose is to declare his glory in his creation and especially now through us who are believers and share the resurrected life. share the resurrected life of the Lord Jesus, which is the sharing of His glory, and He's going to reveal it.

And we've talked during this class that in the Millennial Kingdom, when everybody in this room is existing in the Kingdom and ruling and reigning with Christ, how is somebody who, say, lives in Denver, who was born during the Millennial Kingdom, how does he know that you're a son of God?

Because you got a name tag on or got some cool looking vestment. How does he know? How would you, if all of you on this side of the room were living in the Millennial Kingdom, you were born in Millennial Kingdom year 200. In your neighborhood comes Courtney Hemingway. Son of God. How would you know that he was different than you? and he was different than all those Jewish guys in Jerusalem who were pretty cool. How would you know?

He's going to have a nice healthy glow. Yeah, he's going to radiate with the glory of God. Everybody in this room will be that way. So that's the revelation of his glory not only in the things that he creates but also in the people that belong to him. ultimately redounding to him so that he might be glorified, so that all of the attributes that you see in his creation be bound to who he is.

Okay with that? Is that confusing or is that okay? Alright, so will God's eternal purpose continue into the new heavens and the new earth? What do you think? Yeah, absolutely. You know what, I don't trust this little clicker thing. So open up your Bibles to Revelation 21. Is it my vision that's not very clear or is it that thing? That's alright. Okay, I want you to notice God's plan for the present earth. There are three people groups. Who are they? Republicans, Democrats, and Independents? Who are the three people groups? Muslims, Catholics, and Protestants, right? Who are they? Jews, Gentiles, Israel, and the Church.

When did the Gentiles show up? Who's the first Gentile? Adam. Okay. Who's the first Jew? Abraham. How many think it's Abraham? Yeah, it's Jacob. Abraham was a Gentile. So was Isaac. So the Jews show up, and then the church shows up. They're distinct entities. And as we've talked about for weeks now, it's important for us to keep them separated and understand who they are. The Gentiles show up with Adam. Families are created. that leads to nations up until the time of the cross.

Israel, what, 2500 years before the cross, maybe? God gives them covenants, promises, gives them the word, the law, and they have the fathers and the prophets. And then the church begins. When did the church begin? Pentecost, didn't it? How about the Feast on the Cross? God said, today you'll be with me in paradise. Isn't that guy in the church?

What do you think? No, he's not. No. If the bus left at 10, and you were there at 9, or you were there at 12, you missed it. Or if the bus doesn't leave till noon, and you went down at 9 and went home at 10, you missed it. You see that? When the church begins is when it begins, He doesn't round up all these people who were saints before and herd them in. Just like, when does the church end? Well, I shouldn't say the church doesn't end. When does membership in the church stop?

At the rapture. So, we've studied that people that become saints or saved after the rapture are not members of the body of Christ. Right? Okay. Now, with all those three people groups, Two out of the three of them go through the tribulation. And then in the Millennial Kingdom, everybody except those that are dead, separated from God, are somehow associated with the Millennial Kingdom, right?

At the end, Revelation 21, somebody read the first two verses. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth. The first heaven and the first earth passed away. her husband. I saw a new heaven and a new earth. Wow. What's a new heaven? Let me ask it this way. For him to see a new heaven and a new earth, here's my thought. All human beings who are, the Great White Throne Judgment's over, right?

So what do you got left? Who's left? Believers? Only just everybody gets shoved into one group called believers? So I'm no longer a son of God, I'm now a believer? I'm serious now. Who's left? Are there any Jews left? Yeah. Absolutely there are. Are there Gentiles left? Yeah. And then how about you and me? Is the church still there? So there's at least three groups of people. Right? Where are they standing?

In other words, when God, in order to do a new creation, what did he do with the old one? He blipped it out of existence. I remember years ago, some of you probably do, when Hal Malloy was talking about how easy it would be for God to wipe out the old creation in just an instant by just turning the molecules loose. The heat would be, boom, and they'd be gone. And it would happen in an instant. He just eliminated the laws that control molecules, just did it. They would collide with each other and it would just be over in a second.

Every molecule. Now here's another question. So God's going to assemble all those molecules and do another creation with them? Probably different ones. Yeah, I think so too. I think so too, Ruth, because it's going to be new and kind. He's not going to, you know, take the The old and then do a rehab job with the old material. No, I think it's all new. It's all new. And I think a lot of the laws of physics will be different. I think that the world that will be there or the environment that will be there will be something different.

And so John is trying to explain in Revelation kind of what he's seeing. And you have to understand about John, he's not a logical thinker like the Apostle Paul is. He's Jewish and he just sees it and says it. So he says, I saw a new heaven and a new earth. The new heavens, I'm assuming are what? The cosmos, the planets and stuff?

What do you think? You guys don't think about these really deep things? Yeah, I think so, you know. But one of the things that's missing, I think, is going to be the sun. Right? Yeah. And probably the moon. We don't need that. And the New Earth. And what's strange about the New Earth according to those verses? No sea. Yeah, there's no sea. And when there's no sea, there's no water. Courtney's out of work. All that studying he did. It's all underground. coming from another place.

So this New Earth, number one, it's got to be big enough to accommodate all of those who were saved from the time of Adam to the time of the Great White Throne Judgment, right before that. And so it's going to be quite a place. Is there going to be an Israel in the New Earth?

Sure is. Yeah, because God promised him the land, didn't he? And he said, well, never mind, because I started a new globe. I didn't include you in that. No, they'll be there. So where would the Jews be living? On the earth? Yes. I thought they'd be living in this cool place called heaven. What's the difference? They're going to live on the earth? Possess the land? Okay, are they going to feel like they're short-changed because they didn't get to go to heaven? No. Why, because he's told them don't feel bad? Where are the Gentiles, say, going to be? On the earth. They're on the earth too. Okay. Where are you going to be? On the earth. In heaven, just where Christ, whoever he is. Yeah, where is he going to be? See this thing up here? Was it?

You know, it's interesting. Chafer says in his book that this could be a pyramid. And if you read the description, I guess it could be because he describes the dimensions this way and then the height. I guess it could be a cube or a square, a cube. But it's possible that it would be a. Here's why he says it might be. It might be a pyramid is because the waters of life has got to flow down. He's assuming that gravity is going to be an issue. You know, so I don't know if it's if it's a cube like this. Take a look at this thing. When he says it's what did he say? It's twelve hundred cubits. Anybody remember the dimensions of this thing? What's the dimension between here and there in terms of miles? 1,500 miles? 1,500 miles from here to here is 1,500 miles. And that's the city that comes down out of the heavens. And it's 1,500 miles this way and 1,500 miles that way. So it's going to be a lot of steps to climb for you. Guys with bad knees are going to have trouble.

And there's a description in Revelation about what it's made out of. The cool thing in 11 is that having the glory of God her light was like unto a stone most precious even like Jasper stone clear as crystal. If you've ever seen a Jasper it isn't clear usually. It's usually kind of orangey color I think. But this he talks about it being clear.

Now this new Jerusalem is a city. Who occupies it? Who? The Jewish people. You think the Jewish people are here? Is this the land? This isn't on the earth. This says it comes down out of heaven. And what does it do? Does it park next to the earth or does it come down onto the earth? I'm not sure it says. There's access to it though from the earth. So who occupies it? I don't think it's the Jews because the Jews have their own land. Schaefer says that the occupants are all the saints.

I'm sorry, what? The one percent are in there. The one percenters? You know, I bet it's less than that if you figured out who the believers were of all eternity. The saints, believers, the members of the Bride of Christ, are they in there? They hang out in there? You guys don't know anything. I think wherever Christ is, that's where... Is he going to be in this city? Yeah. He's going to be there. And so we'll be there.

Now how about the other saints that aren't Jews? Where are they going to be? And I think everybody who's existing at this point in time, we can call them saints. So I think Schaeffer made a point that he thought all the saints were going to be in there from all dispensations.

Problem is, is that you've got a lot of vacant land on the earth, if that's true. This is a city, and oh, and it doesn't, interesting thing about what's the one building in this city that isn't there? There's a specific building. Yeah, there's no temple in this city. How come? Why don't you need it? Yeah, they're there. God and the Lord Jesus Christ are there, so you don't need this separate place called a temple. public service company there? Why not?

What does it say about day and night? It makes an interesting statement that it has these gates around it, like right there, but they never close. You know why? In a city like this in the ancient times, when did you close the gates? At night. Guess what? No night. No night. No naps. Sorry. So the Lord Jesus Christ is the glory thereof and the light in it. There's no night.

The gates never close. So what are you going to be doing? Doesn't that sound kind of boring? What's going to happen in this place? God will be worshipped. Now I think, this is my opinion, I think the Jews and the Gentiles on the earth can come to this place anytime they want. In and out. And it even says that the kings of the earth will come there. But they're always going to leave there and go back to their home. Where's their home? It's on the earth.

But you and I... So the saints are going to leave? and go live somewhere else on that earth? Well, now think about it. If you happen to be a Jew and you made it to here, you're going to get what God promised Abraham. You're going to get the land. And this isn't the land. This is a city. Yeah, this is a city. It's a new Jerusalem. So you're going to occupy, as a Jew, the land. which is on the earth, right? So if you became a believer before the church, here's a good example, where's Adam going to be? By the way, do you think Adam is saved?

Yes. Why? Because God took care of him. Sure, he accepted God's remedy for his sin, didn't he? Gave him the skins, Adam said, okay, I'll take them. He didn't say, never mind, I'll go get my... He already tried his own on. And he accepted God's remedy as covering for a sin, so I think he's safe. So where's he going to be in this environment? If we know he's saved, then he's a saint. So he has access to the city? He has access to the city. Will that be his home? What do you think? First man is of the earth, earthy. Right? I think you'll be in the new earth.

Who are those in the word of God that are declared to be heavenly people? Yeah, the bride of Christ. So I think this is our home. Because that's where Christ is. I think all the other saints who are earthly saints have access, but this isn't home for them. Yeah, but I don't think, well, just so people aren't confused, the people who believe God will have the same intimacy that those in the body do also, they just live in a different place. Does that make sense? Yeah, what Crystal says is that those that have believed God will have the same intimacy with Christ as you and I will have.

Courtney just went like this, which means he ain't buying it. I know his gestures pretty well. I don't think being part of the body is right. It's a different intimacy, but I don't think it's a valid intimacy of the Israelites. When you look at the Old Testament saints, God dealt very intimately and kindly with them. So it's very intimately and kindly with Abraham, very intimately kindly with all the people who just bought what he said.

And he says there is no impartiality with him. So to say that we have a different or a better intimacy would suggest that that is really impartial, which he isn't. Everybody hear that? When you're old you have bad hearing. Her point is that, to shorten it up, is that all saints of all times, Jews and members of the body of Christ will have in essence the same intimacy with Christ and the reason is that he would Would you say it would be unfair to do it any other way? Well, he said he's impartial. He's impartial. I have a different intimacy with Craig than I have with Tristan than I have with Kaylee. There are three different intimacies.

Right. Are they invalid or is one greater than the other? Absolutely not. Okay. Does that make sense? That will help me answer the question. You and I have an intimacy. We have an intimacy. But it's not like this. Not like my daughter. Why not? Because we're not family.

But we are family, and I think in the body of Christ. Well, we are family in the body of Christ, that's right. Absolutely. And I think that intimacy with Christ, us being in the Word of Jesus Christ, there's a possibility of that intimacy between brother and sister in the body of Christ, which is different than... I think it's even closer than that. I think that as a member of the body of Christ, I share the resurrected life of Christ and I am family.

Let me give you my example. In all eternity, before God ever created, in my mind I see the Father, Son and Holy Spirit together in maybe a triangle and they're loving each other and being loved by each other and they're perfectly satisfied with who they are. their god, their glorious, their unending attributes can be attributed to them. Then they determine to create, and they create because they want to do this. And so they accomplish this purpose.

Here's the difference I think of us being in Christ. When we go to eternity, there will be a fourth entity in this triangle. It's going to be the body of Christ because we're the bride. And I think it has to do with being elevated to a new creation qualifies us to become the bride of Christ.

I can't find where Jews or Gentile saints were recreated in Christ. I don't see language that puts them in Christ, and I think that's a huge difference. Will they be, from their perspective, short-changed, somehow left out, somehow not fulfilled? No way. They will be overwhelmingly blessed, but they won't share the intimacy with the Lord Jesus Christ as we do as a bride. That's the difference.

You know the relationship between all of us at that point, we'll all have that resurrected glorified life. Our focus will be on Him though. I don't know what our interaction will be with each other because there'll never be a time we will take our focus off of Him. but we will be involved in the ruling and reigning of the Millennial Kingdom. But even though I'll be in Casarach and Jesus will be in Jerusalem, there will be no lack of intimacy. It's like when the Lord Jesus was here, he didn't lack any intimacy with the Father. Location isn't the issue. So I'm a firm believer that those members of the body of Christ which will become the Bride, generates an intimacy that's beyond any other group of saints, I think. What do you guys think? I think it's all the life principle. That's identification.

We have something different than any other of the saints or anybody in eternity. We have His life. And that's different than the Old Testament saints. And that's what I was going to say. We think of it as a fairness doctrine. You know, we're just a little closer. The Jews aren't going to think, or any of the saints aren't going to think, we're better or whatever.

Because as you said, they're blessed completely. It's just a different relationship that we have. And that's a very special, intimate thing. And as you said, there's no place where the Old Testament saints are placed into the body of Christ. We're the only ones who are in that position.

And if we try to think of fairness, or impartial, or what you're saying, Chris, look at it and they're blessed beyond belief. And it's just like when we go with the crowns, when we're tossing the crowns, you know, I'm not thinking Mike got 25 and I got 23. You know, he's, oh man, he got, he had 25 occult tunes and I only got 23.

Absolutely, I'm not even going to be thinking about that. I don't think, I don't think the Jews are going to, or any of the Old Testament saints or any of those saints are going to be looking at us going, wow, if I only had their position. I don't think they're going to be able to. What I said about intimacy is actually because I don't I don't actually consider that there's going to be any sort of hash mark.

Yeah. I don't think that's not like Republicans Democrats and the rest of them guys. Yeah. No I understand what you're saying and it's I think my it's not that I disagree with you that we do have We have a very unique position being in the body of Christ. I mean, that's, yes, that's unique.

There's Old Testament language also, there where God the Father says, you are my bride. I mean, there's a possessive, there's a possessiveness, there's an intimacy, there's language. I mean, even, not that God is sexual, but there's even language of that sexual intimate relationship when it comes to the sons of Israel. So, if you were going to say the Israelites just, you know, you can't discard or discredit that language.

No, no you can't. I agree. And I think God is just an intimate, God is intimate. Well that's what he's all about anyway. Exactly. With every one of his creatures. So it's just more of a, I don't, I don't agree with the the imbalanced view of, okay, you have the bride of Christ. What God talks about is, the Israelites, you know my saying that they're going to be with Christ? Absolutely not. But God's not. Let's maybe go at it from this perspective. I hear what you're saying.

Do these wonderful creatures that God created, angels, have intimacy with God? You would think they do because they're around them all the time. The problem is that they're messengers. And they're brilliant and powerful creatures. But do they love? I don't think it says that they do. Which means that as God created them, they're perfectly satisfied with who they are and what they do. They're awed by God and they have an intimacy based on how they were created.

I think the Jews have an intimacy with Jehovah based on how they were created or what their capacity is. I think the members of the Bride of Christ though have a much greater capacity for intimacy than any other creature. The reason being is because they are recreated in Christ. And so when you share the resurrected life of Christ, it connotes an ability to have intimacy with God greater than a saved Jew, I think, because I'm a new creature. You know, they have life, every saint has eternal life, and in the Millennial Kingdom they're going to get all kinds of other benefits, you know, the law written on their heart and that kind of thing, but they're law-based people Will they be law-based people in eternity?

What do you think? I don't think they will. Will the Jews still have the law written inside of them? I don't think there's language that says whether they do or not. But from a creature standpoint, no creature that makes it to here will ever view that they don't have overwhelming intimacy with God.

It has to do with the capacity of each one for greater, like the Lord Jesus has a greater capacity with intimacy with the Father than anybody else. So if you're in him, if you get to share that capacity, I think you do. I think you do. I think that was demonstrated in the garden too. I mean, it's not good for you to be alone. And here he is walking in the cool of the morning, fellowshipping with God, having intimate fellowship with Him. But I said it's not good to be alone.

He wasn't on the same level. And I was wondering how that was. Well now, in the new creation, we are at the same level. Minus deity, but we are, and He brought us up to a different level of intimacy. through the new creation. Because that's why he could say it's not good to be alone, even though he was fellowshipping with them daily. But what did he do? He created somebody equal to them to have the intimacy, Eve. So he could have intimacy with somebody on the same level. But for us, in Christ, we are elevated as a new creation, so we could have that intimacy that Adam didn't have. So there is indications that in Christ has an intimacy different than in Adam or in an earthly sense.

I want to be happy to be there. I know. I mean, I don't think there's anything... I'm sure I'm going to be there. I don't think there's going to be any jealousy or anything of a different position. It's not even going to be on the radar screen. No, I agree.

So, this new Jerusalem, it seems like the Lord Jesus Christ has determined that he's going to occupy this environment for all eternity. Kind of limits himself, doesn't he? The other thing, oh, I better get the picture of the city up, huh? The interesting thing is, is that this city and the new heavens and the new earth exist in eternity, not in time-space. Do you understand what I mean by that? There aren't any clocks in this city. No night, no day. No, oh, I'll catch up with you next week.

There's no calendars. because it's eternal. Now it's hard for us with our finite minds to try to figure out, you know, put your arms around what eternal means. But there isn't, in the new heavens and the new earth there isn't time. And the other thing that's interesting, but there is space because he identifies this city by the length and height, so there is dimension. But no time.

You think part of this equation that people are not going to be competitive in their final outlooks as to where their association is eternally, kind of relating back to dispensation of how God is fulfilled his promises to people at any given point in time. And so as to how you fit into your timeliness on this earth, you go into eternity with God being fulfilled because of his fulfillment of his promises to you.

In this dispensation, there's only one issue and that's, what do you think of Christ? The Jewish thing has been set aside. The only way for salvation is to believe in Christ. And when you do, you become a member of the body of Christ. The promises that are made, well it's interesting, there aren't as many promises made to the body of Christ as there are facts related.

This demonstration of who you already are. And when I leave the planet, and it happens before the rapture, I instantly am face to face with Christ. So when I see him, I will be just like him. That's the promise. Hal Molloy is just like Christ right now. The only thing he doesn't have, I think, is a new body, a glorified body. But he's just like him in terms of soul and spirit.

The Jews, because they have been set aside, if they The promises were made to the nation of Israel, not to individual Jews. The issue with believers is that every one of them is individual. God deals with the nation of Israel on a corporate level. He deals with human beings today on an individual level. So the nation is the thing to focus in on with the Jews.

Will they as a nation get fulfilled all the promises, given them Yah, but not every person who was born a Jew is going to be able to partake in them. Because it does come down to individual faith even with them. I'm not sure I answered your question. I probably didn't ask it very clearly.

In sharing His glory in Colossians 3.4 it says, When Christ who is our life shall appear, then we shall appear with Him in glory.

A glory isn't a suburb of Jerusalem. What does in glory mean? When it says that you will appear with Him in glory, what does that mean? To be like Him. Be like Him? What's this in glory business? Maybe it's something you never thought about. My mind thinks about stuff like this all the time.

I will appear, you will appear, in other words you'll be visible with him in glory. So how do you define glory? What's the generic definition? It's the sum total of God's intrinsic attributes manifested. So here I am. in glory, appearing with Him in His glory. So whatever He is will be manifested around me, through me, that's where my identity is.

I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold the tabernacle of God is with men. and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people and God himself shall be with them and be their God. Is he talking about the church there? The bride of Christ, his people? What do you think? When I read this the other day I got to thinking, wow, you know, it's kind of interesting because language like this, with men, He'll dwell with them. They shall be his people. Am I his people as the bride of Christ? No, I'm not. I'm family. And God himself shall be with them and they will be their God. Is God with me? You see the difference in the language? Is God with me? I'm in Christ. That's different. Is he my God? Sure he is. But he's my father. That's different.

Just a little insight from Vines on Colossians 4. When it's saying that in Christ shall appear, the word is translated elsewhere as manifested and I really liked the way that this was expressed. It says to be manifested in the scriptural sense of the word is more than to appear. A person may appear in a false guise or without a disclosure of what he truly is. To be manifested is to be revealed in one's true character. Oh, I like that a lot. Christ is revealed in his true character, so we too are revealed in our true character in glory with him. That's awesome. Did everybody hear that? That's really cool. And that's right. That's absolutely right. As I was reading like 21.3 and then 22.3 through 5, and there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, talking about the New Jerusalem, and his servants shall serve him.

Who are the servants? I think there's a, when you look at the manifest character of God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit always serve each other. That servanthood is part of their character. None of them are like, well I'm the father so you two guys get busy and serve me. The servant thing goes on all the time. But now we're talking about God and his servants serving him. Serving will be a desirable thing. You won't, you know. And they shall see his face and his name shall be in their foreheads. Is that you and me? I don't think he's talking about us here. I don't think he is. And they shall reign forever and ever. Yeah? Yeah, they will. And I saw no temple therein, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need of the sun, neither moon, to shine in it, for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it. Who are the nations? Old Testament, New Testament, whenever you see the word nations, what do you think about? Everybody who isn't a Jew. Gentiles. And of the earth, the light of it, and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor into it. So here they come in, And it seems like there's going to be some sort of organization of the nations in terms of leaders or people responsible for the organization somehow. And the gates of it shall not be shut all by day because there won't be any night. And there shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into the city.

But it's already got its own glory. is already there. And if you're in Him, then you're part of that glory. And I don't know how you would say... The thing about glory is that God doesn't cut out a little piece for you and cut out a little piece for me, and so we somehow diminish Him because we've all got pieces. You understand what I mean? Glory is like grace. It's infinite. And so you can't If there ends up being 800 billion members of the Bride of Christ, it didn't diminish God's glory by 800 billion pieces. It manifested it even more. You see that?

So we will have as much glory as Craig and I will have as the manifestation of the totality of the glory of God. What's the one thing we won't have by being in Christ? The deity. I think we get everything else in terms of the manifestation of glory. I don't think there's no diminishment of it. Will the Jews be glorious? Absolutely they will. The nations of the earth and the kings, sure they will.

But when they come, think about this, before we get to this point we have this throne issue And if you go into 1 Corinthians, Paul says, hey, you guys can't judge little matters among you Corinthians. Don't you realize you're going to judge angels? He immediately takes him from here and puts him up here and says, look, don't you know who you are? You can't judge a little tiny thing like a dispute between people. You're going to judge angels. Well, it seems to me that God is the only one that judges angels, right?

But because we're in Christ, we're involved in the judgments. I think we are. As we talked last week, though, there isn't a correlation that we can find that, like at the Grave Throne, you know, it's Jesus up there saying, hey, Craig, what do you think? No, it's not like that. But because we have the mind of Christ, our viewpoint and attitude would be just what His is. Let's see, that might be it. That's it. Done.

Thank you for coming to the class. I hope you learned something. Dear Father, how we thank you for your grace towards us. Boy, we sure have a lot to look forward to and what you intend to do with the manifestation of your glory and that we would even be involved with glorifying yourself as a concept that's It's hard for us to grasp, but we thank you that you have included us. We pray in your son's precious name. Amen.