reetings, holy children of God, in the wonderful name of our lord and saviour Jesus, the Christ. The sermon subject for today is:

IN THE WORLD TO COME MEN SHALL DWELL IN THREE PLACES; IN THE HEAVENLY CITY NEW JERUSALEM, ON THE EARTH, AND IN THE LAKE OF FIRE. THINK ON THIS VERSE OF SCRIPTURE SAINTS OF GOD, IS:64:4 FOR SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD MEN HAVE NOT HEARD, NOR PERCEIVED BY THE EAR, NEITHER HATH THE EYE SEEN, O GOD, BESIDE THEE, WHAT HE HATH PREPARED FOR HIM THAT WAITETH FOR HIM. HEAVEN IS A CITY, NEW JERUSALEM. IF YOU COUNT THE FURLONG AS A EIGHTIETH OF A MILE THE CITY IS FIFTEEN HUNDRED MILES FOUR SQUARE; WITH A WALL AROUND THE CITY, IF YOU COUNT THE CUBIC AS EIGHTEEN INCHES, THE WALL IS TWO HUNDRED SIXTEEN FEET HIGH. THERE ARE TWELVE GATES IN THE WALL, EACH GATE IS MADE OF ONE PEARL, AND THE STREETS ARE PURE GOLD. A CITY WITHOUT JAILS, OR PRISONS, FOR THERE ARE NO WICKED THERE, THERE ARE NO HOSPITALS, FOR THERE ARE NO PAIN, NOR SICKNESS. THERE ARE NO GRAVEYARDS FOR THERE IS NO DEATH THERE. THERE ARE MEN THAT SAY THAT THE RETURN OF THE LORD JESUS COULD HAPPEN AT ANY TIME. BUT, THAT IS NOT SO. BEFORE THE LORD JESUS RETURNS, THERE SHALL BE A FALLING AWAY; MEN RENOUNCING THEIR FAITH, WITHDRAWING THEIR SUPPORT OF THE CHURCH. THE WHEAT, AND THE TARES ARE BECOMING FULL GROWN. THE SAINTS OF GOD ARE BECOMING MORE LIKE THE LORD JESUS CHRIST DAY BY DAY. AND, THE TARES, THE CHILDREN OF SATAN, ARE BECOMING DAY BY DAY MORE LIKE SATAN. AFTER THE FALLING AWAY THE ANTICHRIST SHALL MAKE HIS APPEARANCE. 2THES:2:1 NOW WE BESEECH YOU, BRETHREN, BY THE COMING OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND BY OUR GATHERING TO GATHER UNTO HIM, 2. THAT YE BE NOT SOON SHAKEN IN MIND, OR BE TROUBLED, NEITHER BY SPIRIT, NOR BY WORD, NOR BY LETTER AS FROM US, AS THAT THE DAY OF CHRIST IS AT HAND. 3. LET NO MAN DECEIVE YOU BY ANY MEANS: FOR THAT DAY SHALL NOT COME, EXCEPT THERE COME A FALLING AWAY FIRST, AND THAT MAN OF SIN BE REVEALED, THE SON OF PERDITION; 4. WHO OPPOSETH AND EXALETH HIMSELF ABOVE ALL THAT IS CALLED GOD, OR THAT IS WORSHIPPED; SO THAT HE AS GOD SITTETH IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD, SHEWING HIMSELF THAT HE IS GOD. .5 REMEMBER YE NOT THAT, WHEN I WAS YET WITH YOU, I TOLD YOU THESE THINGS? THE ANTICHRIST SHALL MAKE WAR AGAINST THE SAINTS OF GOD, RV:13:7 AND IT WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM TO MAKE WAR WITH THE SAINTS, AND TO OVERCOME THEM: AND POWER WAS GIVEN HIM OVER ALL KINDREDS, AND TONGUES, AND NATIONS. SO MANY SHALL BE KILLED THAT ONE MAN COULD NOT NUMBER THEM ALL IN HIS LIFE TIME. RV:6:9 AND WHEN HE HAD OPENED THE FIFTH SEAL, I SAW UNDER THE ALTAR THE SOULS OF THEM THAT WERE SLAIN FOR THE WORD OF GOD, AND FOR THE TESTIMONY WHICH THEY HELD: 10. AND THEY CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, SAYING, HOW LONG , O LORD, HOLY AND TRUE, DOST THOU NOT JUDGE AND AVENGE OUR BLOOD ON THEM THAT DWELL ON THE EARTH? RV:6:11 AND WHITE ROBES WERE GIVEN UNTO EVERY ONE OF THEM; AND IT WAS SAID UNTO THEM, THAT THEY SHOULD REST YET FOR A LITTLE SEASON, UNTIL THEIR FELLOWSERVANTS ALSO AND THEIR BRETHREN, THAT SHOULD BE KILLED AS THEY WERE, SHOULD BE FULFILLED. 9. AFTER THIS I BEHELD, AND, LO, A GREAT MULTITUDE, WHICH NO MAN COULD NUMBER, OF ALL NATIONS, AND KINDREDS, AND PEOPLE, AND TONGUES, STOOD BEFORE THE THRONE, AND BEFORE THE LAMB, CLOTHED WITH WHITE ROBES, AND PALMS IN THEIR HANDS; 13. AND ONE OF THE ELDERS ANSWERED, SAYING UNTO ME, WHAT ARE THESE WHICH ARE ARRAYED IN WHITE ROBES? AND WHENCE CAME THEY? 14. AND I SAID UNTO HIM, SIR, THOU KNOWEST. AND HE SAID TO ME, THESE ARE THEY WHICH CAME OUT OF GREAT TRIBULATION, AND HAVE WASHED THEIR ROBES, AND MADE THEM WHITE IN THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB. THE GREAT TRIBULATION SHALL LAST THREE, AND ONE HALF YEARS, OR TIME, TIMES, AND DIVIDING OF TIME OR 42 MONTHS. RV:13:4 AND THEY WORSHIPPED THE DRAGON WHICH GAVE POWER UNTO THE BEAST: AND THEY WORSHIPPED THE BEAST: SAYING , WHO IS LIKE UNTO THE BEAST? WHO IS ABLE TO MAKE WAR WITH HIM? 5. AND THERE WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM A MOUTH SPEAKING GREAT THINGS AND BLASPHEMIES; AND POWER WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM TO CONTINUE FORTY AND TWO MONTHS. DN:7:21. I BEHELD, AND THE SAME HORN MADE WAR WITH THE SAINTS, AND PREVAILED AGAINST THEM; 22. UNTIL THE ANCIENT OF DAYS CAME, AND JUDGMENT WAS GIVEN TO THE SAINTS OF THE MOST HIGH; AND THE TIME CAME THAT THE SAINTS POSSESSED THE KINGDOM. 25. AND HE SHALL SPEAK GREAT WORDS AGAINST THE MOST HIGH, AND SHALL WEAR OUT THE SAINTS OF THE MOST HIGH, AND THINK TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS: AND THEY SHALL BE GIVEN INTO HIS HAND UNTIL A TIME AND TIMES AND THE DIVIDING OF TIME. THE LORD JESUS SHALL KILL THE ANTICHRIST WHEN HE RETURNS WITH THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING, AND WITH THE SPIRIT FROM HIS MOUTH. 2THES:2:8 AND THEN SHALL THAT WICKED BE REVEALED, WHOM THE LORD SHALL CONSUME WITH THE SPIRIT OF HIS MOUTH, AND SHALL DESTROY WITH THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING; BEFORE THE LORD JESUS RETURNS GOD SHALL CALL ALL THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD TO FIGHT AGAINST JERUSALEM. AND JUDAH SHALL FIGHT IN THAT BATTLE. ZEC:14:1 BEHOLD, THE DAY OF THE LORD COMETH, AND THY SPOIL SHALL BE DIVIDED IN THE MIDST OF THEE. 2. FOR I WILL GATHER ALL NATIONS AGAINST JERUSALEM TO BATTLE; AND THE CITY SHALL BE TAKEN, AND THE HOUSES RIFLED, AND THE WOMEN RAVISHED; AND HALF OF THE CITY SHALL GO FORTH INTO CAPTIVITY, AND THE RESIDUE OF THE PEOPLE SHALL NOT BE CUT OFF FROM THE CITY. THE LORD SHALL COME, AND ALL THE SAINTS SHALL BE WITH HIM, WHEN HIS FEET TOUCH DOWN ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. ZEC:14:5 AND YE SHALL FLEE TO THE VALLEY OF THE MOUNTAINS: FOR THE VALLEY OF THE MOUNTAINS SHALL REACH UNTO EZAL: YEA, YE SHALL FLEE, LIKE AS YE FLED FROM BEFORE THE EARTHQUAKE IN THE DAYS OF UZZIAH KING OF JUDAH: AND THE LORD MY GOD SHALL COME, AND ALL THE SAINTS WITH THEE. JESUS SHALL GO FORTH, AND FIGHT AGAINST THOSE NATIONS THAT HAVE FOUGHT AGAINST JERUSALEM. ZEC:14:3 THEN SHALL THE LORD GO FORTH, AND FIGHT AGAINST THOSE NATIONS, AS WHEN HE FOUGHT IN THE DAY OF BATTLE. AND THIS IS THE PLAGUE THAT JESUS SHALL PUT ON THOSE MEN THAT HAVE FOUGHT AGAINST JERUSALEM, THEIR EYES WILL CONSUME AWAY IN THEIR HOLES, AND THEIR TONGUE SHALL CONSUME AWAY IN THEIR MOUTHS. 12. AND THIS SHALL BE THE PLAGUE WHEREWITH THE LORD WILL SMITE ALL THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE FOUGHT AGAINST JERUSALEM; THEIR FLESH SHALL CONSUME AWAY WHILE THEY STAND UPON THEIR FEET, AND THEIR EYES SHALL CONSUME AWAY IN THEIR HOLES, AND THEIR TONGUE SHALL CONSUME AWAY IN THEIR MOUTH. 13. AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THAT DAY, THAT A GREAT TUMULT FROM THE LORD SHALL BE AMONG THEM; AND THEY SHALL LAY HOLD EVERY ONE ON THE HAND OF HIS NEIGHBOUR, AND HIS HAND SHALL RISE UP AGAINST THE HAND OF HIS NEIGHBOUR. 14. AND JUDAH ALSO SHALL FIGHT AT JERUSALEM; AND THE WEALTH OF ALL THE HEATHEN ROUND ABOUT SHALL BE GATHERED TOGETHER, GOLD, AND SILVER, AND APPAREL, IN GREAT ABUNDANCE. IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME HEAVEN SHALL COME TO EARTH, RV:21:1 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. 2. AND I JOHN SAW THE HOLY CITY, NEW JERUSALEM, COMING DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN, PREPARED AS A BRIDE ADORNED FOR HER HUSBAND. 3. AND 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. HEAVEN SHALL ALIGHT ON CANAAN LAND, AND THE LORD GOD SHALL REIGN FROM MOUNT ZION OVER ALL THE WORLD, THE NATIONS THAT HAVE FOUGHT AGAINST JERUSALEM WILL BE REQUIRED TO COME UP TO JERUSALEM, AND WORSHIP BEFORE THE KING THE LORD OF HOSTS. EVERYONE LEFT OF THOSE NATIONS THAT WILL NOT COME TO WORSHIP THE LORD OF HOST WILL RECEIVE NO RAIN ZEC:14:16 AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, THAT EVERY ONE THAT IS LEFT OF ALL THE NATIONS WHICH CAME AGAINST JERUSALEM SHALL EVEN GO UP FROM YEAR TO YEAR TO WORSHIP THE KING, THE LORD OF HOSTS, AND TO KEEP THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES. 17. AND IT SHALL BE, THAT WHOSO WILL NOT COME UP OF ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH UNTO JERUSALEM TO WORSHIP THE KING, THE LORD OF HOSTS, EVEN UPON THEM SHALL BE NO RAIN. WHEN THE NATIONS COME TO WORSHIP AT JERUSALEM, THEY WILL GO FORTH, AND LOOK AT THE CARCASES OF THE PEOPLE IN THE LAKE OF FIRE, IS:66:20 AND THEY SHALL BRING ALL YOUR BRETHREN FOR AN OFFERING UNTO THE LORD OUT OF ALL NATIONS UPON HORSES, AND IN CHARIOTS, AND IN LITTERS, AND UPON MULES, AND UPON SWIFT BEAST, TO MY HOLY MOUNTAIN JERUSALEM, SAITH THE LORD, AS THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL BRING AN OFFERING IN A CLEAN VESSEL INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD. 21. AND I WILL ALSO TAKE OF THEM FOR PRIESTS AND FOR LEVITES, SAITH THE LORD. 22. FOR AS THE NEW HEAVENS AND THE NEW EARTH, WHICH I WILL MAKE, SHALL REMAIN BEFORE ME, SAITH THE LORD, SO SHALL YOUR SEED AND YOUR NAME REMAIN. 23. AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, THAT FROM ONE NEW MOON TO ANOTHER, AND FROM ONE SABBATH TO ANOTHER, SHALL ALL FLESH COME TO WORSHIP BEFORE ME, SAITH THE LORD. 24. AND THEY SHALL GO FORTH, AND LOOK UPON THE CARCASES OF THE MEN THAT HAVE TRANSGRESSED AGAINST ME: FOR THEIR WORM SHALL NOT DIE, NEITHER SHALL THEIR FIRE BE QUENCHED; AND THEY SHALL BE AN ABHORRING UNTO ALL FLESH. THE FIRST HEAVEN, AND EARTH SHALL BE DESTROYED BY FIRE. 2PT:3:7 BUT THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, WHICH ARE NOW, BY THE SAME WORD ARE KEPT IN STORE, RESERVED UNTO FIRE AGAINST THE DAY OF JUDGMENT AND PERDITION OF UNGODLY MEN. 10. BUT THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL COME AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT; IN THE WHICH THE HEAVENS SHALL PASS AWAY WITH GREAT NOISE, AND THE ELEMENTS SHALL MELT WITH FERVENT HEAT, THE EARTH ALSO AND THE WORKS THAT ARE THEREIN SHALL BE BURNED UP. 11. SEEING THEN THAT ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE DISSOLVED, WHAT MANNER OF PERSONS OUGHT YE TO BE IN ALL HOLY CONVERSATION AND GODLINESS, 12. LOOKING FOR AND HASTING UNTO THE COMING OF THE DAY OF GOD, WHEREIN THE HEAVENS BEING ON FIRE SHALL BE DISSOLVED, AND THE ELEMENTS SHALL MELT WITH FERVENT HEAT? 2PT:3:13 NEVERTHELESS WE, ACCORDING TO HIS PROMISE, LOOK FOR NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH, WHEREIN DWELLETH RIGHTEOUSNESS. IN THE WORLD TO COME WHEN THE ANGELS BEGIN TO GATHER THE PEOPLE; IN THE FIRST GATHERING YOU WANT TO BE LEFT BEHIND; FOR THE FIRST TO BE GATHERED ARE THE TARES THE CHILDREN OF SATAN TO BE BURNED . MT:13:29 BUT HE SAID, NAY; LEST WHILE YE GATHER UP THE TARES, YE ROOT UP ALSO THE WHEAT WITH THEM. 30. LET BOTH GROW TOGETHER UNTIL THE HARVEST: AND IN THE TIME OF HARVEST I WILL SAY TO THE REAPERS, GATHER YE TOGETHER FIRST THE TARES, AND BIND THEM IN BUNDLES TO BURN THEM: BUT GATHER THE WHEAT INTO MY BARN. IN THE WORLD TO COME TIME SHALL BE A THING OF THE PAST. RV:10:5 AND THE ANGEL WHICH I SAW STAND UPON THE SEA AND UPON THE EARTH LIFTED UP HIS HAND TO HEAVEN. 6. AND SWARE BY HIM THAT LIVETH FOR EVER AND EVER, WHO CREATED HEAVEN, AND THE THINGS THAT THEREIN ARE, AND THE SEA, AND THE THINGS WHICH ARE THEREIN, THAT THERE SHOULD BE TIME NO LONGER; THINGS THAT ARE VISIBLE ARE TEMPORARY, INVISIBLE THINGS ARE ETERNAL. 2COR:4:18 WHILE WE LOOK NOT AT THE THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN, BUT AT THE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT SEEN: FOR THE THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN ARE TEMPORAL; BUT THE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT SEEN ARE ETERNAL. THOSE SAINTS THAT WERE BEHEADED DURING THE GREAT TRIBULATION SHALL RISE FIRST IN THE RESURRECTION AT THE LAST DAY. RV:20:4 AND I SAW THRONES, AND THEY SAT UPON THEM, AND JUDGMENT WAS GIVEN UNTO THEM: AND I SAW THE SOULS OF THEM THAT WERE BEHEADED FOR THE WITNESS OF JESUS, AND FOR THE WORD OF GOD, AND WHICH HAD NOT WORSHIPPED THE BEAST, NEITHER HIS IMAGE, NEITHER HAD RECEIVED HIS MARK UPON THEIR FOREHEADS, OR IN THEIR HANDS; AND THEY LIVED AND REIGNED WITH CHRIST A THOUSAND YEARS. 5. BUT THE REST OF THE DEAD LIVED NOT AGAIN UNTIL THE THOUSAND YEARS WERE FINISHED. THIS IS THE FIRST RESURRECTION. IF THE LORD TERRIES WE SHALL BE PLANTED IN WEAKNESS; BUT RAISE IN POWER, WE SHALL BE PLANTED A PHYSICAL BODY WE SHALL BE RAISED A SPIRITUAL BODY. 1COR:15:42 SO ALSO IS THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD. IT IS SOWN IN CORRUPTION; IT IS RAISED IN INCORRUPTION: 43. IT IS SOWN IN DISHONOUR; IT IS RAISED IN GLORY: IT IS SOWN IN WEAKNESS; IT IS RAISED IN POWER: 44. IT IS SOWN A NATURAL BODY; IT IS RAISED A SPIRITUAL BODY. THERE IS A NATURAL BODY, AND THERE IS A SPIRITUAL BODY. IN THE WORLD TO COME, THOSE THAT HAVE RECEIVED THE HOLY GHOST, AND COME INTO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH, AFTERWARDS COMMITTED THE SINS KNOWN AS THE WORKS OF THE FLESH SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. GAL:5:19 NOW THE WORKS OF THE FLESH ARE MANIFEST, WHICH ARE THESE; ADULTERY, FORNICATION, UNCLEANNESS, LASCIVIOUSNESS, 20. IDOLATRY, WITCHCRAFT, HATRED, VARIANCE, EMULATIONS, WRATH, STRIFE, SEDITIONS, HERESIES, 21. ENVYINGS, MURDERS, DRUNKENNESS, REVELLINGS, AND SUCH LIKE, OF THE WHICH I TELL YOU BEFORE, AS I HAVE ALSO TOLD YOU IN TIME PAST, THAT THEY WHICH DO SUCH THINGS SHALL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. JUDGMENT DAY SHALL TAKE PLACE IN THE VALLEY OF JEHOSOPHAT, MULTITUDES, MULTITUDES IN THE VALLEY OF DECISION. RV:20:13 AND THE SEA GAVE UP THE DEAD WHICH WERE IN IT; AND DEATH AND HELL DELIVERED UP THE DEAD WHICH WERE IN THEM: AND THEY WERE JUDGED EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS. 14. AND DEATH AND HELL WERE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH. 15. AND WHOSOEVER WAS NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. THERE SHALL BE NO SUN, NOR MOON. RV:21:22 AND I SAW NO TEMPLE THEREIN: FOR THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY AND THE LAMB ARE THE TEMPLE OF IT. 23. 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.