Let me ask you to turn tonight quickly to John chapter five, the Gospel According to John and chapter five. It's a good thing I'm amongst friends, isn't it? I just walk in and start talking like I'd known you a hundred years and I feel like it, although I know most of you are not quite that old, but some of us are, or at least we feel that way. But it's been a beautiful day. I feel real good and really excited. And you know something this may sound to some that would be listening a bit trite, but it's good to be alive in the Lord Jesus Christ. You know, it's one thing to be alive and it's another thing quite different and far more wonderful to be alive in the Lord Jesus Christ. Because I've seen people that are quite alive, they're full of them and vigor, but you know what they do, they go home and they commit suicide. Why? Because though outwardly they appear to be alive and alert and happy, inwardly they're dejected, despondent, and in despair. But, you know, as Christians, we have a hope to look forward to, don't we? A real hope. And so I'm going to use this as a springboard to do a little bit of review tonight. Because as I mentioned Tuesday evening, you know, sometimes we get our eyes so fixed on things that are going on around us that we forget what the Christian's true hope is today. My hope is not in the Eastern world, as it were. My hope is not in Lebanon over there, though I'm concerned. And I repeat that again. I think a Christian should be knowledgeable of what's going on over in the Middle East and of a certain amount of concern. But if that is what motivates us, if that's what we're taken up with, and if that seems to consume us, then that's wrong. Because you see, my real hope, as I mentioned Tuesday night, is in the coming again of the Lord Jesus Christ into the air. And you know that what's happening in Lebanon, now bear with me, has nothing to do in regards as to whether he can come or not. That has nothing to do because all, as far as I'm concerned, all prophecy has been fulfilled that needed to be fulfilled before the Lord Jesus Christ could step out into the air and call us home to be with himself. So though I'm concerned for Israel and Lebanon and Beirut and all those places, I'm not taken up with them. I think today, again, let me remind you that we as Christians, if we had our eyes to the heavens, if our eyes were upward looking for his soon coming, maybe right now, maybe tonight, the Lord Jesus Christ would come. He can come. at any moment. And so if we were living in view of that event rather than what's happening in the world around us, I think we would go out and evangelize more. I think we would be more concerned about lost souls. I think we would be more about the master's business rather than being taken up with the business of the day. We should be knowledgeable. So don't go away mad. We should be knowledgeable but not taken up with. We should be taken up with our blessed Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. So we began just briefly on some of these things, by the way, but we mentioned last night, I should say, not started, but we mentioned about the first Advent of the Lord Jesus Christ, which simply means His coming as the babe in Bethlehem. Because remember, the word Advent simply means a coming or an arrival. And so it's no big mystery. His first coming into this world was as the babe at Bethlehem. We mentioned then, though, that he was the only one that I know of who came here expressly, if you please, to die. The rest of us hang on to life. We take pills. We do everything, don't we, to hang on to life. And that's quite all right. That's our nature, and that's good. I love life, too. I've already told you. It's wonderful to be alive in the Lord Jesus Christ. But he came in order that he might go to the cross of Calvary and there to give his life a ransom for us all. And he did. And he was buried as the scripture predicted. But thank God he arose the third day. And we were speaking of his resurrection last night. And I'm so thankful for that. And we were speaking of those that I believe he led captivity captive. He emptied out what was then at that time known as Paradise. which I believe strictly was in the balance of the earth. I think that I believe from scripture that I see it was only a compartment of what we call Hades or hell and it was separated though by great gulf that was fixed between the place at that time before Christ's resurrection that place called paradise and hell were separate compartments I believe in the balance of the earth. Now that's why that's the way I see scripture. And we mentioned that he arose that third day, and then for forty days and forty nights, he showed himself alive by many infallible truths. Forty days and forty nights. And then I told you to remember that in Acts chapter one, we know that he ascended from the little mount of Olivet. Now that will be important to us tomorrow night. But just remember that in Acts chapter one, And it's indicated by the gold arrow and the ascending gold line that Christ ascended. We know where he went back to heaven from, don't we? Isn't that marvelous how God tells us the things we really need to know? Because you need to know that if you want to rightly divide the word of truth and to better understand it. So he ascended on, after having showed himself a lie for forty days and forty nights, he ascended from the little mouth of olives there, and he ascended back into heaven. A cloud received him out of their sight. Then I mentioned ten days later a very marvelous event occurred. And that's indicated by the descending blue line right next to the gold line. And of course we looked at that day that we refer to and the second of Acts turns as Pentecost. And we mentioned, you know, the world gets excited when you mention the name Pentecost today. Some of them kind of get very excited. But we know that Pentecost simply means So it was the fiftieth day after Christ's resurrection, and it was a momentous day, because that's the birthday of the church. And I mentioned, you know, how important birthdays really are. Some of us would like to forget a few of those birthdays. Ladies, that's strange for them. It must be something peculiar to ladies. They really like to forget that, and I think we men do too. But anyway, it's an important day in God's plans. It was an important day. It's the birthday of the church. And so, having mentioned that and showing you that the goal line proceeded on over to this particular point, dips down, does not touch the earth, but at that point in time ascends back into heaven. And, of course, we know that is the event called the rapture. And I cautioned you that word rapture is not in the scriptures. That is to say, the word itself, rapture is not there. But the meaning that it conveys is there. The snatching away, the catching away of his bride, the church. And I told you that the blue line indicates the upward going of the church. And maybe more than that as we get into it tonight. But anyway, and so we call this the reading place in the air. I also mentioned that when the blue line ascends here joining the gold line, it's just telling us what First Thessalonians chapter four is. And about verse seventeen tells us, you know, and so shall we ever be with the Lord. So if you want to know at any period of time where Christ and his bride, the church, the heavenly saints are, from this point on, on the chart, look for the gold line indicating Christ being there. And the blue line is lined. And as you see, there's no real separation from then on. So so shall we ever be with the Lord. It's a marvelous hope. You see, I'm one that believes all go up in the rapture. I'm not one who takes the position of the mid-tribulation rapture or the post or anything of that nature. I'm a believer that all go up in the rapture. Every saint of God is caught away at this particular time. Now, let's read a little bit in John here, and then I'll tell you just what my subject is going to be in particular today. tonight okay it's quite a lengthy review but I think it's necessary and it'll bring us a little bit up to date John chapter five beginning with verse twenty eight I suppose verse twenty eight marvel not at this for the hour is coming in the which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice I want you to notice when the Lord Jesus Christ is speaking here he is speaking of a future event it's not something that had occurred But it says here that, Marble not at this, for the hour is coming. Now, that doesn't mean at eight-thirty tonight or anything of that nature a particular hour of sixty minutes and so forth. But it means there is a time coming. There is a time in God's plan. And it is a particular time. It's known only to God. But nevertheless, it is in God's time and it's not just happened so. God has a plan. That's what we kind of started with, if you'll remember on the chart, indicating that God has a plan for time, and it's an exact plan. And though you and I may look and say, well, looky there, this happened and it caught God by surprise. Nothing catches God by surprise. All things work together, and God is behind the scenes putting them together, as it were, to fulfill His plan for time. All right, begin again at verse twenty-eight. Marble not at this, for the hours coming into which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice, and shall come forth, they that have done good unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation, or the resurrection of condemnation, or the resurrection of judgment. Judgment. Now, we mentioned also last night that the believer, the one who receives the Lord Jesus Christ as his or her Savior, never, ever comes into judgment for their sins. Because that question was answered by Christ himself. Christ answered the sin question. And when I received him as my Savior, no longer is the sin question pertinent to me. Christ bore my sins in his own body on the tree. But we mentioned the judgment seat or the beam of seat of Christ And we told you that strictly has to do with the works of the believer that he or she does in this body while they're in this life. Has nothing to do with what you do in heaven. It has strictly to do, as we saw in Second Corinthians, with what the believer, and only the believer, not the world, but what the believer does in this body in regards to the person of Christ, in regards to service to Christ, and more particularly in regards as to how we live for Him in this life. In this life, we're rewarded and given those crowns and those rewards that we read of in the Scripture for having done or lived for Christ in this body. Now, I know some of you look at me puzzled, but I have found some Christians saved for thirty years who were totally unaware of this. They were mixed up. They were looking for some rewards. After they got to heaven, that is, for doing something in heaven, they were looking for rewards somewhere or other. I just don't really understand all they're thinking on it. But it's strictly for what we do in this body, in this life. Okay, so now in these two verses that we've read, as far as the resurrection unto life and the resurrection unto damnation or condemnation or judgment. When we speak of resurrection, let's be real simple. When we speak of resurrection, what are we talking about? Are we talking about the spirit and the soul? Or are we talking simply about the body? Now this is very important because there are some afoot today who teach the damnable doctrine of soul sleep. They teach that the soul sleep, that when a person, and I suppose they would term them as Christian, dies today they say that not only does the body go in the ground but the soul sleeps some such nonsense as that but we know from more than one scripture and a very favorite favorite one that for the day in which you and I live this period we call the day of grace this dispensation if you want to use the word that we call the dispensation of grace today when the child of God passes from this body What happened? We learn from Paul. He's absent from the body and present with the Lord. So we know what happens to the spirit and the soul. Because when you go to a funeral, what goes into the ground? Simply the house in which the person lived. That body goes into the ground. So if you are going to look at resurrection, what are you going to look at? The resurrection of the body has nothing to do with the spirit and the soul, does it? It is the body that goes into the ground and that must be resurrected. All right. How many resurrections are there? I'm going to point out something to give you a little time to think about that. If you looked on the chart and I pointed them out, it says the resurrection of saints, martyrs' resurrection. and the second resurrection you'd say, hey, wait a minute, one, two, three. I went to school in Lyman, and I can count to three, and I can see three resurrections. Yes, but here in John chapter five, verses twenty-eight and twenty-nine, as to character, there are only two. The Bible only teaches two resurrections in regards to their character. Now, by character, you know you can be a good character like Fred here, or you can be a bad character like me. And that's only two different ways to go, isn't it? Well, we only have two resurrections as to their character. The resurrection unto life and the resurrection unto judgment. So there are only two, but it would appear that they are three, and there are, but not in character. So let's think a moment about this, and I'm going to have to rely that you... followed me the other night when we read some of these scriptures. And I'm going to have to rely also that you'll go home and read them again. I want you to go home and read them again. All right. As to the time of the first resurrection or the resurrection unto life, when does it occur? When does it occur? Well, if you'll remember there in First Thessalonians and chapter four, it occurs at what we term the rapture. Let's read that again. It's worthy of reading because I want to point out some particular verses and we'll just take the time to do it tonight because I want to be very careful here even if we don't get along as far as I would like. First Thessalonians chapter four because in the teaching of the mid-tribulation rapture, I don't know whether any of you are familiar with that or not. The theory of that is that here in the middle of Daniel's last week is when the saints or raptured away, or at least a portion. Some teach all, some teach a portion. But I don't see either one of those in the Scripture. I see that all the saints go up here. And I mentioned the other night, as far as I see it, the Old Testament saints are included in this resurrection of saints at the moment of the rapture. I do see that. So it's something for you to think about. Let's read a little bit here then, beginning with verse thirteen again. But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that is sorrow not even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent, or that word is precede, shall not precede them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trunk of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Now, what is going to rise? Again, it's just a meaning of resurrection, only the body, right? So that means that the bodies of all of those who have died in Christ, Christ will be bringing them, that is their spirits and souls, back with him to this point, that we call the rapture. but their bodies which have lain in the grave for many years some of them will be resurrected we know that don't we i mean we believe that i'm sure you believe that so what it's saying it's saying all those who are in christ let's read again all right for the lord verse sixteen for the lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of god and the dead in christ the important point to note here i think is the expression in Christ. In Christ. Let me ask a question then to answer this. Were or are the Old Testament saints in Christ? If they're not, they're not saved. If they're not, they're not in heaven, are they? Because I don't care whether it's under the Old Testament economy or under the New Testament economy, we are really all saved by the grace of God through the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ. The only thing is that under this economy, God looked forward to the time when Christ would die and they in obedience to what God revealed to them accepted God in His Word and we would say in our language trusted Christ. They trusted God to keep His Word, God knowing in the fullness of the time Christ would come He could justify these Old Testament saints. He could save these Old Testament saints, but they were absolutely saved through the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Apart from that, no one could be saved. So just briefly, let me say this. We are all, both Old Testament saints and New Testament saints, we are either in Christ or we're not. And if we're saints, we're in Christ. And so I believe that when it says here in verse sixteen, the dead in Christ, that must, this is only one of the things that makes me convinced that the Old Testament saints, their bodies are in this resurrection, or in this resurrection. Because I think that all that are in Christ, that's what it really says here. And the dead in Christ shall rise first, okay, the ones who have died in Christ, their bodies shall be resurrected. Then look at verse seventeen. Then we, which are alive and remain, and if you just stop and think about this a moment, and you'll look at it just logically, if we say the Old Testament saints, their bodies are in this resurrection, all who have died in this resurrection, present dispensation of grace and have their spirits and souls are immediately absent from the body, present with the Lord. We've planted their bodies in Mother Earth. They're there if we believe that their bodies are also going to be resurrected. If you say one plus one, it's got to be two, don't it? In other words, at this point in time, what I'm trying to point out is this. All those who are in Christ, and this is an important point to me, All those who are in Christ, both Old Testament and New Testament church time, all of those have their bodies resurrected. So at that point in time, do you have any bodies of any saints left in the grave? I absolutely do not think you do. I think that at this point in time, you have every saint of God with his new body. including those, and I'm going to say of us, because I believe he could come tonight. I think that all of us, it says right here, let's read his words. They're better than mine. Verse seventeen. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Okay, well, let's give a little bit further proof in these scriptures and go back to First Corinthians chapter fifteen, if you will, please. I Corinthians chapter fifteen, and these also will be familiar verses. But keep in mind I'm trying to be very simplistic and very direct, though, and try to draw your thinking with the scriptures, I believe. All right, in I Corinthians chapter fifteen, verse fifty-one, behold, I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed. I don't think I need to tell this audience tonight that that word sleep simply means to die, to die. You know, that's an expression for death, to sleep is, but not the sleep of the soul. That's the reason I hesitate using this word sometimes because some people have this whole thing of the soul sleep. But it has nothing to do with sleeping of taking rest. It's like in our New Testament that we read, but rather it means that they have died in Christ. Okay, it says in verse fifty-two, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. So here again we have, as far as I'm concerned, the fact of all those who have died in Christ up to this moment in time, up to the rapture, up to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ into the air, all who have died in Christ. All we would term it who are saved, their bodies that have gone into the grave will be resurrected because that's all that's resurrected. The spirits and souls aren't resurrected. So the bodies are resurrected and changed. Then we who are alive and remain at this moment in time, we don't have to die. I met a Christian that had been saved forty some odd years here not long ago and he said, well, you know, Glenn, I'm going to have to die. And I thought he was teasing me. He's an elder in a meeting. And I thought he was teasing me. And to come to find out he was very serious. He thought that no matter if the Lord should come today some way or other, he would have to die. And he didn't really look forward to that. I said, how can that be a blessed hope? How can I be comforted because no one really relishes the thought of death? Now you hear people say, oh, I want to die, I want to die, I want to die. Well, there's something wrong. There's really something wrong. I'm looking for the coming of the Lord in the air, and I won't have to go through the article of death. A Christian shouldn't really just cringe in fear of death, but I don't think we should just want death to you. I want the Lord to come. I want to be changed while I'm still alive. I want to have this body changed in a moment in a twinkling of an eye, like unto his glorious body. And then I want to, with these other multitudes of saints, I want to be caught up together. What accompanies. call it together to meet the Lord in the air well a little further thing I'd like to point out as time permits tonight in verse fifty three it says for this corruptible must put on incorruption now I take it here that when we bury a body it corrupts don't you in other words do you remember the lady who said by Lord by now he stinking the natural thing to happen to the body Being made up as it is, it corrupts, doesn't it? So here again, it's speaking of the body, I think, when it says, And the dead shall be raised incorruptible. That is, these bodies that have gone into the grave and corrupted by the power of God will be raised and changed to an incorruptible, a body that will never, ever again see corruption. You know, the body of Christ never, ever saw corruption. Don't let anybody tell you any different. He never, because there was no sin in Him, He knew no sin. This thing of He could have sinned makes me ill. Christ could not sin. He did not sin. And so He was incorruptible. His body saw no corruption. And my body is going to be changed like unto His glorious body. Now it doesn't mean to me that we're going to be stamped out images. Boy, wouldn't it be terrible if you all look like Glenn Lightfoot? Probably just quit right now, wouldn't you? No, it's not like that. I think we have little peaks of this on the Mount of Transfiguration and other places in the Scripture. But I'm still going to be Glenn Lightfoot. Moses is still going to be Moses. Elijah is still going to be Elijah and this type of thing. But what it means when it says like unto his glorious body, I think it means in regards to seeing no corruption and being able to transverse the heavens. You know, when he went up from them there on the little Mount of Olives, there in the book of Acts chapter one, he just simply rose up. Earth couldn't hold him. I'll tell you, it's a marvelous thing. We're living in a marvelous privileged time. Some of us were talking up at the chart last night about this. Don't ask me why God selected a bride exactly. Don't ask me, but just... Just bask in the beauty that we who are saved today are a part of the bride. And, you know, that's a tremendous thing to be a part of the bride. To be the bride. You know, it's much better than just standing off and watching the wedding, isn't it? Well, anyway, that's some more. But let's, again, read verse fifty-three to pick up our thoughts. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. By the way, what is mortal? about a person. If you really want to know it, my soul is immortal, I believe. That is to say, it's a never dying soul in that sense. Now bear with me and listen closely so that you don't misunderstand me. But again, what I'm drawing out here is about the body, about the resurrection is nothing but the body. Because it says this mortal must put on immortality. The thing that's going to see that corruption that's mortal about me in that sense is the body again. I think it's just a re-emphasis of the fact it's not the spirit in the soul. Because, you know, when God breathed into the nostrils of man, the breath of life, he became a living soul. A never dying soul. See, some would like for you to believe that when death comes, they kick the body in the grave and that's all there is to it. You know, you're like the dog. The dog has a soul, but he has no spirit. And so that when you're kicked in the grave, they would like to think, well, that's the end of it. They like to think that they would never, ever have to face the Great White Throne. They would like to think they'd never have to face any judgment or punishment or any condemnation for being like they are. But, you know, they will face that. They will face that. So, again, I'm just being rather simplistic, but I tell you, I'm surprised and I found out it's better to just be very simple about these things. So it's only the body that goes into grave. It's the body that sees corruption. It's the body that's raised. The spirit and the soul of the believer goes to be with the Lord Jesus Christ, the unbeliever. His body goes into the grave as well, but his spirit and soul goes into that place we call hell. Where the rich man was of Luke sixteen. Well, let's see if we have time to, I don't think we'll pursue this any further. In verse fifty-four and fifty-five, I think that you've read that so much that that's well and good. So at this point in time, as far as I see the Scripture, when the rapture occurs, which could be at any instant, then simultaneously with that occurs the resurrection of the just. The resurrection of the saints is it's marked here. The grave is emptied of all bodies of all the saints, and they're called up to be with the Lord. Now, we just don't have time. I wish we did. Go into it tonight or probably while I'm here, this thing of the partial rapture. But there's a lot to do with the little word A-L-L. If you go to the scriptures that refer to not only the rapture, the catching away but if you go to the scriptures that tell us about his second advent if you put two and two together again they're going to be four and you're going to see that all the saints have gone up at this point in time as far as the rapture is concerned okay so now though we have read here uh of the resurrection of the just but now is this going to be all of the just ones all of the saved one? Some people ask me, will there be salvation during this Daniel's last week? I believe definitely that there will be. It'll come from the preaching of the gospel of the kingdom, as it's referred to. But I believe there will be those who are saved, we would term it, by the grace of God. Receive Christ as their Savior, we would say. I believe there are those Now during that time, some of those will give their lives for the faith. In other words, some of them will not bow to the dictator beast nor to the antichrist, to the old false prophet. They'll not bow to him and therefore they will give up their lives. Well, what do you do with the dead body? You put it in the ground. But now let's see something of what's called the martyr's resurrection. Remember, there's only two resurrections in character. It's the resurrection of the just, we would term it, and the resurrection of the unjust. So far, it's been the resurrection of the just. But we're going to see that these who are saved during this seven-year period are also just in the eyes of God. Or, in other words, they are also saved. Let's read now and see something about them. Go with me to Revelation chapter twenty. Revelation and chapter twenty. So much we're skipping over, isn't there? But anyway, I think this is good. Revelation chapter twenty and verse four. And I saw thrones, and they that set upon them, and judgment was given unto them, and I saw the souls of them which were beheaded for the witness of Jesus. and for the word of God and which had not worshipped the beast. There is a key point as to the time of this part of the resurrection of the just. Now here we have the key of the time. The key of the time of this part of the resurrection of the just is the rapture. Now we need a key to put us in the time element of when this part of what I'm calling the resurrection of the just occurs. And I just read it to you. Notice it says, And which had not worshipped the beast. Now we may or may not talk about this tomorrow night, but probably will on the Lord's day. When is the beast in power and in prominence? Here? No. During this seven years, and particularly, during the last three and a half years of Daniel's last week. So this gives us a key. It's those who have gone through this time. Some have given their lives for the testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ because they wouldn't bow to this old beast, as it says here. Now look in the middle of the verse. Neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads or in their hands, and they lived. Here's a key. and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. Okay. Those who give their lives here, their bodies go into the grave. But when the Lord comes back again to the Mount of Olives and he sets up shortly thereafter his millennial or his thousand-year reign, when he comes back at this moment in time to the Mount of Olives at the end of this seven years, closes the Battle of Armageddon, the bodies of those saints which gave their lives during this seven years will be resurrected and they'll have bodies because it says that they will live and reign with Christ just as you and I will be. They will live and reign with Christ a thousand years. So what this is doing, it's keying us in that their resurrection of their bodies is at the end of the seven years and just prior, just before he sets up his thousand-year reign. So it really, to me, pinpoints the time, doesn't it? Now, this really, and we'll see it in a moment, but this concludes or this finishes the resurrection of the just. And I'll show you and see if we can go a little bit further here. Let me look back. Well, I think we're just going to have to, let's read the rest of these verses here, verse five. But the rest of the dead live not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. In other words, this scripture is saying here, this complete, at this moment in time, when those bodies are resurrected, of the mortared saints, of the seven years of Daniel's last week when they're raised reunited with their spirits and souls at that time that concludes or that is the first resurrection and the first resurrection is the resurrection of the just okay now notice something else it says here in verse five at the very beginning but the rest of the dead live not again until the thousand years were finished Okay, here's the key again for us. We have so far only been looking at the resurrection of the just or the resurrection of those who have received Christ. But remember, hell is still, as it were, it's still a multitude of spirits and souls in hell. We haven't done a thing about the unsaved dead, have we? We haven't looked at them at all. So now we're going to look at what is referred to here as the second resurrection and rightly so because though we've had two parts of the first resurrection they were in character the same they still were a resurrection of the just so the second resurrection can only be the resurrection of the bodies of who the unsaved all right let's let's uh we know that uh this comes at the end time uh I'm just hesitating here to see which verse to read. Okay, let's for the sake of time. Well, let's read verse eleven. Verse eleven of chapter twenty. And I saw a great white throne and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great stand before God. And the books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the book of life, and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works. And we go on and on. Now look at verse fourteen. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. Right? Quickly then death. The second resurrection is only, of course, for the unbeliever, for the unsaved. This is when they are resurrected and receive bodies. Now, don't ask me what kind of bodies. I don't know. I'll be very frank with you. I don't know. And I'm not so sure anyone knows. Maybe someone does, but I can't really know what kind of bodies, but this much I know, that they are cast into the lake of fire and they're tormented forever and forever and forever and forever. You could just go on. So their bodies are those that don't just consume up in smoke and you think, well, okay, I'll bury the punishment for a few seconds and I'm gone. No, this is an everlasting punishment. This is referred to as the second death. They died once outside of Christ. And as it were, their final punishment, their second death, which is far worse than the first. This is a worse place as far as I can see from Scripture. The place called the Lake of Fire is far worse than Haiti or hell, as we refer to it. It's far worse. And so there's no, when they stand before the white throne, and I don't mind telling you this because I'm not going to be able to take this up long here, but when they stand before the throne, there'll be no justifying of themselves. You don't read here anywhere. that anyone opens their mouth. You know, that's what I used to believe so strongly, that, boy, after I died somewhere in the wild blue yonder, I'd wake up with my white robe, and there I'd be. You know, I could plead to God to let me into heaven. But you don't read of any pleas here, do you? It's a mere matter of sentencing. That's what the great white throne has to do with. It's not a matter that they'll be able to plead their good works or bad works. Their works are read out, and they're all bad. because they never received Christ. It's not that. It's just a mere matter that they're standing before the great judge to be sentenced, finally. You know, today we arraign people, and it takes a long process. They spend some time in secondary jails and in certain places and so on. But finally, when the sentencing comes down from the judge, you know, he says, all right, it's life. You're going to get life. And so they're off then to their final destination. So it is with the unbeliever. Those who die outside of Christ today, their bodies go in the grave, but their spirits and soul go to that place called Hades or Hell. And there they await the great white throne. Then their bodies too will be resurrected and joined with their spirits and souls, I believe. What kind of body just exactly, I don't know, but they stand before that great white throne simply to have their sentence read out. Well, you know, I'm so thankful to God as we close this meeting that I'm a Christian, aren't you? It's marvelous to be born again. Better to be born again than never born at all. Better to be born again, you know, than to have all the riches of the world. Brother Kim Beard, would you mind closing the meeting in prayer, please?