Good morning, brothers and sisters. It is good to be with you, worshiping together.
I have made my yearly migration through the desert to come up here for the youth conference. Between New York and Toronto, it is all desert.
I was recently at the WCCC conference in Los Angeles, and a brother there defined Los Angeles for me. My wife and I rented a car for that week, and we discovered that his definition was true.
He said that LA is actually a desert with an occasional oasis here and there. Now, if you ever drive in LA, you will realize this is true. You just see a desert of homes and homes and homes, and occasionally an oasis where you can get a bite to eat.
You can see the sign over the oasis in LA. It is always In-N-Out Burger. Many people gather there.
Well, now we are marching through the desert, and we must move forward.
I want to share something from the familiar story of the remnant who returned from Babylonian captivity through the desert to return to Jerusalem.
And we know, as we read the passages, that the Lord was obviously up to something.
There are always two difficulties in getting the saints to understand what is going on. Whether you read the Old Testament prophets or the Book of Revelation, the problems are always the same.
People lack vision to know where they are going, so they spend an awful lot of time wasting and wandering about.
But the second problem is just as real: spiritually speaking, we love to sleep. And so we do not know what time it is.
Do you know what time it is? When the remnant came back from captivity, did they know what time it was?
We will think about some of these questions. But now, just a few verses in Ezra and nearby passages will awaken us to the story.
Actually, I am assuming you know the story, but I just want to read a few names to bring it to your remembrance. A remnant came back to Jerusalem—under fifty thousand people.
In Ezra 2, their names are listed. Let us read Ezra 2:1-2.
Now these are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and that returned unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city;
Who came with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mizpar, Bigvai, Rehum, Baanah.
We will not read the rest of the names in the chapter. But I want you to look very carefully whether your name is there.
There are a lot of Christians stuck in Babylon. Is your name on the remnant list?
Well, you will notice at the top are Zerubbabel and Jeshua. We will talk about them in a couple of minutes.
Then we have to go to Ezra 7 to meet Ezra. He is a very shy guy. Even writing his book, he did not get to his own name until chapter 7.
Just look at Ezra 7:6.
This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the Lord, the God of Israel, had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the Lord his God upon him.
Then I would like you to turn to one more Scripture: the second book of Ezra. That is probably called Nehemiah.
I think you all know that originally Ezra and Nehemiah were one book in Hebrew. Ezra was quite a scribe. He not only scribbled Ezra; he scribbled Nehemiah, and he scribbled 1 Chronicles and 2 Chronicles. That is what a scribe does.
But here, in those first seven chapters of Nehemiah, Ezra gives us Nehemiah’s own personal journal. For now, we will just read two verses from his journal in Nehemiah 2:17-18.
Then said I unto them, Ye see the evil case that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.
And I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me, as also of the king’s words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for the good work.
Now we can understand how time-sensitive this information is, unless we ask the Holy Spirit to make us aware. Let us pray.
Our Father, we are so thankful that Your Word is always guiding us. We are so thankful for the details the Holy Spirit gives us.
We pray that this blessed Teacher, this Holy Spirit of ours, would give us a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus Christ, that our eyes may be opened to the vision ahead.
And may Your Spirit speak to those who have an ear to hear, that we may be awakened to the time that we are in.
These things we pray in the name of our Lord Jesus. Amen.
Before we get into this simple message, we need to check our time zone. What time zone do you live in?
Down in New York, this is called EDT—Eastern Daylight Time. What do you call it here? I do not know. I guess we could just call it Trudeau, but he may become president of the United States, man.
Now, what time is it? Of course, you all have watches. Do you not have a watch? Even I have an iWatch. But it only tells one time.
That is why my brother L. B. is always selling watches. He often wears two watches. I have no idea why he wears the second watch.
We should all have a second watch, because the second watch should be set to KTZ: Kingdom Time Zone.
Now look at that watch you have on your other wrist. What time is it in KTZ? It is one of those you have to listen to.
If you listen to it, it says, “Behold, I am coming quickly.” And, “My reward is with Me.”
There are a lot of sleepy Christians. They do not even hear the alarm going off. They have no idea how time-sensitive this is.
Maybe you hear a prophetic brother, like our brother Kahn, or even our dear brother Chen, who recently went away. They say, “Do you see that fig tree full of leaves in Israel?” That is one of the markers on the KTZ.
What does it tell us? It says the Lord’s appearing is near, even at the door.
You see, now you have just heard that, but many of you will go right back to sleep. Because we live in the cyclical world under the sun.
Everything is always the same, and it always has been and will be the same as today. It is only the KTZ that tells us we are on a timeline upward.
When do we see that we have gotten there? Two things: the throne and the glory.
That is what the Lord is waiting for: the throne and the glory.
Now you have to understand: this watch has a corresponding zone in heaven. In heaven, Jesus is already on the throne. In heaven, Jesus is already full of glory.
But this KTZ watch the Lord has given us on earth is to make us aware that we are nearly synchronized to heaven.
How near are we to the rapture of the bride? As near as the King, the throne, and the glory are here upon the earth.
In these last days, we notice on the Kingdom watch that things have changed.
There used to be a day when the kingdom priority was for apostles, prophets, and preachers to rise up and build the foundation of the church.
In the Old Testament, as we are looking at this story, the Lord raised up His Moses, His Joshua, and His David. These men had all to do with the throne and the glory.
But now, in the latter days, a remnant has returned to Jerusalem. But where are these great men? Where are the Moseses and Davids?
Strangely, there are people like Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Who are these people? Where are those glorious prophets and apostles?
Ah, but I suppose you have noticed on your KTZ watch that the time has changed. Now, the Lord will always raise up some brother, but the emphasis has changed.
These Moseses and Davids brought in the kingdom. But now the church needs to bring in her Lord.
This will not be done by some amazing heroes of the faith. It will be done by a remnant—a faithful remnant of people with names like these.
And so it is necessary to clarify what the strategy of God is in these days. That is why I would like to use this story to help explain.
The question must be raised: why should the remnant even go back to Jerusalem? There was no good reason, really, when you think about it.
There was no earthly benefit in going back to poverty. There was no kingdom to reclaim. Persia was in command of everything.
They could not go back and establish a throne. And even if they went back and built the house of God, they had one thing missing among the furniture: the ark of God itself.
That means if they went back and built everything according to the pattern of God, even if they did all of that, the Shekinah glory would not fall.
The cloud and the fire rested over the ark, and there was no ark. It sounds like going back on a fool’s errand—except the Lord was so obviously behind it in all the circumstances.
How did the opportunity to return to Jerusalem arise? It was a total miracle.
A hundred years before they went back, Jeremiah prophesied. The prophecy said that after seventy years, the children would go back.
Now, they did not have Bibles back then. There were just parchments. Maybe Baruch wrote up a couple of Jeremiah’s parchments.
What were the odds that one of those parchments would reach all the way down into the Persian Empire, into Susa, where Daniel was living? And not only that, that the parchment would arrive just a year or two before the seventy years were up?
I believe in coincidence, but that is a little bit too much.
Then Daniel starts praying. He reads the scroll: “We are about to go back.” It is impossible.
And then one day, a man takes the throne named Cyrus. Daniel also has a scroll of Isaiah where it says that a messiah will arise named Cyrus, who will bring My people back.
And then, can you believe it? Cyrus makes Daniel a prime minister.
Daniel went to Cyrus and said, “Look what it says in the holy book of the Jews. Your name was put in it two hundred and fifty years ago.”
You know, now you feel pretty important if your name is in the Bible. If I ever turned to 2 Timothy and said, “Now, Dana, I want you to do something,” and it was in the Bible, I would go crazy.
I would say, “That must be my destiny.” That is exactly what Cyrus said: “This is my destiny. I must build the house of God in Jerusalem. God told me to do this.”
It is an amazing set of circumstances.
Now, how did you get here? Circumstances almost as amazing. For whatever reason you are here, there is a whole lot going on in the background that God is doing.
So this remnant went back, and eventually they built a house—a temple. Eventually, they built the city. Those were the two big projects.
But is this what God was really after? God says, “I am sending you back because I want My house.”
“I know that you are all poor, so you are going to build Me a crummy house, but it is okay. I want My house. I want Jerusalem, the city of the living God. I want you to rebuild the walls and build the city.”
I think there was a little bit more than that. God wanted a city, but there was no throne because there was no king.
God had a house, but there was no throne and no ark, so there was no glory. What is God doing? Why are these people sacrificing their lives?
Wait a minute. This was the last major thing done in the Old Testament period.
The whole reason the remnant came back—none of them understood. Only the last prophet in the old economy understood.
Jerusalem was rebuilt, and the temple was rebuilt, so that in the fullness of time Jesus could come to Jerusalem and His temple.
So all their work was preparatory, anticipating the first coming of Jesus: to come as King and take His throne, and to come as High Priest and take His house.
This is what they were doing.
So, of course, this raises the question: now what are we doing? Now we are building God’s house. It looks pretty crummy. I do not see the glory.
It turns out that only when God comes does the house have glory. Even as they were building that temple, God said that when the real Zerubbabel comes, He will lay the topstone on that temple with shouts of “Grace, grace,” because only God can complete it.
But nevertheless, on earth, God wants that temple ready for the glory to come.
Regarding the first coming, Malachi said, “And the Lord will suddenly come to His temple.” Nobody will be ready. He is going to come.
And the second coming is just the same. Now here we are. This is the city of God.
Look at your stones. There is a lot of work to be done. A lot of stones do not look as if they are shaping up right.
A lot of living stones—Christians—still cannot fit in anywhere in the church. I think there are too many rhombuses here.
But God is building His church. It is preparation. This will not be completed until the throne and the glory come.
But what are we doing here on earth? We cannot build the church into a perfect church, and we cannot build a city with golden walls. So why even bother?
You know, just go down to the Yankee-Dinky-Do Church, wave hi to God, sing a few songs, and go home.
Because if you want to do the preparatory work, it is costly. But it gives you the right to say—if you are truly doing the preparatory work—“Even so, come, Lord Jesus.”
Because you are doing something that corresponds with what heaven wants.
“Behold, I am coming quickly.” “Even so, come, Lord Jesus.” We are setting ourselves for His coming, and this is the story about that.
So let us look at these four names, because they tell us an interesting story. We see Zerubbabel and Jeshua.
They stand at the head of a long list of names of people, because that is all they are: part of the remnant. They are not big shots, just part of the remnant, but with a very, very important testimony.
Most of the Jews obviously did not sense the burden to go back. More than a million just stayed in Babylon.
You know why? You can make a lot more money in Toronto than you can in the desert. Besides, you can meet a lot of other saints in Toronto.
But, oh, if you decide that you are coming to Mount Zion, it sounds pretty wonderful, does it not? We are going to Zion; you sing all the Zion marching songs.
But sometimes it can be a rather barren place.
The remnant going back was a sovereign act of God. It does not say that Cyrus told everybody to go back to build the house.
It does not give us a list of all the good people, the goody-good people, who went back to build the house. It does not say Zerubbabel was first on the list because he was the best, and then there was Jeshua down the list of nobodies.
Is that how it happened? No. The Bible says the only people who went back were the people whose spirits God had sovereignly stirred.
Who can take credit for that? “I am one of the chosen.” God stirred your heart.
And when He says He stirred their hearts, it means these people strangely were willing to pay the price.
“All right, I am leaving my business. I was making Teslas. I took a Tesla there. I am leaving it all.” Your relatives back in Babylon would think you were crazy, but your heart had been stirred. It had set you apart.
Forty-something thousand people trekked through the wilderness with nothing in their pockets except a Jehovah credit card, and somehow they made it to Jerusalem.
Actually, they had a lot of gold, brass, and silver for the house, but all that stuff was in escrow. They could not spend it on themselves.
And they went back. Whenever you see Zerubbabel’s name, you always see Jeshua right next to him, because the two of them represent two principles of the remnant.
Zerubbabel actually was from the line of David, but Babylon had stripped him down to being a nobody.
Can you imagine being from David’s line, but your name is not a name with the Lord in it, like Jeconiah? That was his grandfather, a king of Judah.
No, Zerubbabel—his name means “born in Babylon.” So he is a king of Judah with a name meaning “born in Babylon.”
He may have been of the royal lineage, and actually the Babylonians treated him well because he was from royalty.
But what is your purpose for being from David’s line? To sit on a throne.
Zerubbabel had no throne. But when the opportunity opened, there was something in Zerubbabel’s heart that was willing to go back as a nobody.
With royal blood in his veins, he went back to Jerusalem. For what purpose? To stand as a testimony of King David and his line.
To be, as it were, spiritually speaking, a king in Jerusalem, even without a throne—a king without a crown, but standing there in testimony.
“Here I am, of the line of David, and I look for the Messiah to come.” In those days, they wanted the Messiah from David’s line to come.
There was not a visible throne in Zion, but by his testimony he could establish, as it were, a spiritual throne that corresponded with something in heaven.
In this way, Zerubbabel was exactly like the Lord Jesus: of David’s line, a King in Jerusalem, without a throne and without a crown.
He laid His life down. He bore the cross. Royalty living in poverty; One who should be worshiped becoming the servant of all.
Zerubbabel paid a great price to go back, for most from the line of David stayed in Babylon. But Zerubbabel went back.
Jeshua came along with him. Now, that is the high priest, because there is something else necessary in Jerusalem: the glory.
Who is the high priest? We think of him as the boss of the temple, or perhaps as the one who goes in on the Day of Atonement and offers the sacrifice.
But among the priests, he is charged with a special duty. Do you know what that is? Jewish priests charge the high priest to be a guardian of the glory.
According to Jewish tradition, when Solomon built the temple in all of its order, the glory of God came down as a visible glory that touched the brazen altar and burned the sacrifices offered.
And all in Jerusalem, from Solomon down to the least Levite, fell to the ground and worshiped as the glory came down.
For the next four hundred years, even though the temple went through difficult times under evil kings, the Jewish rabbis said that when you came into the presence of the temple, there was Shekinah—the presence of God.
This was not a cloud and fire that could be seen. Shekinah means presence. When you came to the temple, you sensed presence, and the high priests were to be in charge of this presence.
So Jeshua, the high priest, went back. Why not? He was unemployed in Babylon. There were no sacrifices to offer and no place to offer prayers for the people.
His heart rejoiced when he went back, and it mentions his many brothers who went with him. They went back to be guardians of glory.
They set up the temple in its orderly fashion. They began offering sacrifices. They recovered the Feast of Booths, Passover, and even the Day of Atonement.
But when they sprinkled blood on the Day of Atonement, they had to do it before the altar of incense because there was no ark.
Jeshua and his relatives would stand there for four hundred years as guardians of the glory, praying, “God, let Your glory come down.”
The temple is nothing without His glory. But on earth, it is something: a testimony for His glory.
How important it is to see that it is not just the remnant of nobodies. Is your name on that list in Ezra 2? Have you counted yourself one of the nobodies?
Every one of the nobodies represents kings and priests. That is our calling here on earth. You have been made kings and priests.
We do not have a crown. We do not have the glory. But we testify: we are kings and priests of the Lord our God and of His Son, Jesus Christ.
So we live as kings and priests. The house of prayer is a house of prayer for the nations because we are priests.
We rule under the headship of Jesus Christ.
Now the Lord is waiting for the day when His people testify with enough truth that they are kings and priests.
And what will the Lord say—the Lord who is our High Priest and King of kings? It is coming very soon. Have you marked it on your watch?
The day will come when our Lord will say, looking down at earth, “Bone of My bone.” We will look like Jesus. He will come to take us.
Oh, that will be glory. That will be reigning.
We are preparing for the throne and the glory. We are nobodies, but we are kings and priests.
This is what marked all the remnant. They gave everything to be His testimony. They bore a cross.
And all those Jews back in Babylon would look at those foolish remnants there in Jerusalem. All they could see was a cross—a wasted life, a long failure.
Babylon became the center of Jewish learning. When they wrote their rabbinical Bible, called the Talmud, it was the Babylonian Talmud that even today is the most popular.
Babylon became such a center of Jewish learning that they actually despised Jerusalem. They said, “There is no reason to go back. God is doing His purpose here in Babylon now.”
“Well, that remnant—what a bunch of fools.” Until the glory comes. Then those who remained in Babylon will be the fools.
We have two more personalities to touch on. First, we have to mention Nehemiah.
I got saved under a Baptist preacher, and he always asked this question. He was the corniest joke teller I ever heard. Whenever he preached from the Book of Nehemiah, he would say, “Who was the shortest man in the Bible? Nehemiah.” Well, never mind.
Who was Nehemiah? He was a working man. He had an important job in the secular world. When you drink the king’s wine before he does, you have great faith.
I wonder if he did not sign his contract of employment every day.
You see, God needed something more. The remnant had gone back for the house. They waited four hundred years for Jesus to show up. People were there, and truth was taught.
But God wanted something more: not just worshipers, but a body of people, a civilization, a city—a testimony that is recognizable.
The people of God built together as a church, one stone upon another. This indeed is a miraculous work, and it needs a special people to do it.
What does Nehemiah represent? Let me put them together: Nehemiah and Ezra represent pastors and teachers—Nehemiah the shepherd, Ezra the teacher.
How did God call Nehemiah to be a shepherd? How does God call you to be a shepherd?
Spiritually speaking, every brother and every sister is a shepherd of those around you. To whatever degree you know the Lord, you need to shepherd those who do not know Him that much.
And you cannot have the city of God without shepherds.
But how can God call shepherds? How did He call Nehemiah? Did He say, “Nehemiah, I want you to be a shepherd. Go back to Jerusalem”?
You know what? God broke Nehemiah’s heart. Nehemiah had a burden for the people.
His brother came back from a visit to Jerusalem. He said, “Things are terrible. The people are being harassed. They are in poverty.”
Nehemiah broke down and cried. Where do you find somebody who cares for God’s people?
I will give you a further detail about Nehemiah, which you have to dig to find. It was not just that the poverty of the testimony broke his heart.
He saw that the Lord’s heart was broken about Jerusalem.
I am not going to try to convince you of anything here this morning. But I wonder if you have had a recent look at the desperate situation of Jerusalem.
Do you see her condition? Her weakness? Her lack of wall? The enemy running in, stealing, and eating? Is it enough to make you cry?
His brother gave him the report, but he did not cry. He went on with his business. But Nehemiah could not help it. He wept and cried.
What could he do? Of course, you know the Lord raised him up. He was a shepherd.
What does a shepherd do? Of course, he feeds the sheep.
I always notice that the Chinese wake up when we talk about feeding and food. Do not worry; it is easy. You like a good shepherd who brings us a nice meal. You even have big round tables where you can feed all the sheep.
But just as important as feeding the sheep, shepherds have to order the sheep. Order them.
Sheep do not stay in order unless there is a shepherd. How are we going to get from the wilderness to Zion? Somebody has to take order. Somebody has to be there ordering.
When Moses had the tabernacle all built and the Ten Commandments all set and ready to go, they still needed the order of the Lord to get to the Promised Land.
Now, if we just say, “Okay, all of you, now we need to build the city walls. Everybody find your stone and just get going,” I do not know what you are going to build, but it is not going to be the city wall.
Nehemiah was a man of prayer, a practical man. He never did anything without praying, and he never prayed without knowing.
There were two things he saw that needed to be taken care of. Now, if you are building the wall, what would you do? You know what it was? The gates—the gates.
First, the gates must be repaired. Now, that does not make sense if you are a contractor. First you build the walls, then you put in the doors, right?
He said, “No, no, we start at the gate.” Gates speak of authority.
If the city of God is ever going to be testified to, there must be authority. Gates prevent the enemy from coming in and allow the saints to go out.
Without doorkeepers, you will not have a city for long. So first he appointed people for the twelve gates.
When you look it up in Nehemiah, he only mentions eleven, so you have to discover the twelfth.
But then what is the next thing he did? Between the gates, the walls needed to be built.
But he did not say, “Okay, this family, you just start over this way.” Listen to this wisdom: “You and your family, start where you live and start building toward your neighbor.”
When it comes to the wall, what part are you most interested in? Probably right around your house.
They were all living by a wall. “Hey, this is Dana’s little cave in the wall.” All right, Dana, get your boys out now. Start building. Get this wall going away from your place toward your neighbor.
Now, if you tell me, “I want you to go over to somebody else’s house and start building his wall,” I say, “Wait till summer vacation is over.”
But if it is my wall, I say, “No time off. We have got to do it.” It is my wall. Suddenly the KTZ says it has to be now.
You started building out that way; they started building that way. And they were so happy when they met their neighbor. They fixed the wall between the two neighbors, and it was perfect.
In fifty-two days, they built the whole wall around the city of Jerusalem. Nehemiah knew what he was doing.
You need people who can shepherd, order, and lead.
I love it in a prayer meeting when we all pray and say, “Oh Lord, we give You this prayer. What do You want us to do?”
You know, our prayers rise like hot air, but often nothing comes down.
Every once in a while, we gain a shepherd. She may be a sister or a brother who says, “I heard the Lord say something back.” And we say, “What? What?”
We are surprised when we hear the Lord’s wisdom, you know? But this was Nehemiah. He could hear the Lord: “Do this. Do not do that.”
Which brings me to the last example. You know Ezra. He loved the Word. He studied the Word, taught other people, and at the right time he came to Jerusalem.
Now, Nehemiah is the can-do man. He can do anything and get the wall built. But he also knew there were some things he could not do, and that is where Ezra the teacher comes in.
You might have a city, but only the Word of God can beautify the city.
You know the story in Nehemiah 8. The can-do man—who was that? He called all the people from every city to come to Jerusalem because he knew they needed something.
Then he made a quick phone call—not to the can-do man, but to the do-it-right man.
Have you ever noticed in fellowship that there are some can-do people who always say, “Okay, let’s do this,” and then some people say, “No, no, no, wait. Let’s do it right”?
So Nehemiah says, “Ezra, come here, come here. We have a city. We have people. We need the Word of God.”
“These people do not know what they are called to. They do not know why they are here in Jerusalem. I need them to understand. Open the Word.”
Ezra began to preach. The people stood up. They heard the beauty of the Lord. They were being sanctified by the Word of God.
You cannot just have stones in the city; you have to have beautiful stones. Zion is God’s holy city.
Oh, how we need teachers who can show us the beauty of the Lord.
My own personal testimony about Brother Christian Chen is that he beautified the temple. He brought things out of the Word of God—gems that no one had ever seen before.
It was a great privilege to hear our brother teach. We need such people who can teach the holiness of His Word.
But not just teaching. If you just read the law, nobody would have understood.
The Word had to be translated into the common language. You see, in captivity the Jews had lost Hebrew. They were now speaking Babylon’s language.
So they had to interpret the law from Hebrew into Aramaic. It was as if the people heard the Word of God for the first time.
Now, this is God’s principle. This is what a teacher does: they translate the Word.
It is a principle you see throughout the Bible. Every word needs a second teacher.
God speaks to us once, and then speaks to us with clarification, and now we understand. There must be a translation. A teacher translates the Word so we can understand.
This is a tremendous gift. The saints received the law in the Book of Exodus, but God spoke the law the second time in Deuteronomy.
And the people saw that the law came out of God’s love.
Now, in order for us to come to the throne and glory, the Lord has to build His house with kings and priests dwelling together, willing to build the house and say, “Lord, the house is ready.”
So then we say, “Come, Lord Jesus.” Our God wants to come to bring glory to His house, but the house has to correspond with His desire.
Now the Lord wants to see not just an ugly city, but a holy city.
It is something when there are shepherds, teachers, and people willing to build because they know God is in this.
With all that is going on right now, nothing has an end. Everything is imperfect. Everything is preparatory until the Lord comes.
But He is waiting for that which corresponds to Himself.
Do you have such a vision, that the Lord will come upon a testimony? Has your watch alarm gone off? Do you realize how near the Lord is?
He is coming down, taking His throne. I hope you are aware.
Babylon absolutely deadens our spiritual life. May the Spirit of God wake us up. Know what time it is.
Lord, we come before You as nobodies.
We have no kings or priests with holy garb, and we know You are not looking for a physical house on this mountain or that.
But You are looking for the church, the house of God, and You are looking for Mount Zion on which to place Your throne.
May You grant to every one of us a willing heart to be part of that insignificant remnant.
May we be among those who are doing the most important work this age has ever known.
When all the important moments in history are added up, the climax of history—the Messiah’s coming—will be accomplished by those who overcome as a remnant.
May You receive all the glory and the throne.
In Jesus’ name, amen.