Amir Tsarfati: Global Suspense

Global suspense.

I want to take you back to the time of Hanukkah,

the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem of 2000 years ago.

And the book of John chapter 10, verses 22 to 24.

The Bible says:
“Now, it was the Feast of Dedication …”

In Hebrews, Hanukkah – dedication is Hanukkah,
the Feast of Dedication, the Feast of Hanukkah.

And “…it was the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem,
and it was winter.

And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon’s porch.

Then the Jews surrounded Him and said to Him,

‘How long do You keep us in doubt?
–Actually, the word in the Greek is “suspense”.–

If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.'”

I can almost picture George from Seinfeld
… angry and saying that.

Tell us if that’s You, tell us,
don’t keep us in suspense!

Because there was suspense and there is suspense.

The word in the Greek is [aireis].

In fact, the whole verse …

And circle there for Him, the Jews, they were saying to him –

until when the souls of us hold You in suspense?

The souls, psyché, psycho, psyché, until…
this is like we’re in suspense, our souls.

If it’s you, tell us!

Isn’t that true that our world feels like a pressure cooker right now?

There is suspense everywhere.

But that suspense began not with the Jews,
and not with humans.

It started with Satan, in Genesis chapter three.

Because the first ever Bible prophecy given to anyone,
was actually to him about him.

The Bible says (Genesis 3:14),
“So the Lord God said to the serpent:

‘Because you have done this,
You are cursed more than all cattle,

And more than every beast of the field;

On your belly you shall go,
And you shall eat dust
All the days of your life.

And I will
-Oh, it’s a prophecy, it’s a future –

I will put enmity
Between you and the woman,

And between your seed and her Seed;

He shall bruise your head,
And you shall bruise His heel.'”

It’s the first ever Bible prophecy.

He is going to kill you, you’re only going to irritate,
your end has just been pronounced, just so you know.

And God also told him how, by who.

And from that point on Satan is on the run, on the defense

and on the offense of finding out who is that seed of the woman

that is going to crush his head basically.

In Genesis 22:16: “By Myself I have sworn,
says the Lord, because you have done this thing,

and have not withheld your son,
– God is telling Abraham –

your only son— blessing I will bless you,

and multiplying I will multiply your descendants
as the stars of the heaven

and as the sand which is on the seashore;

and your descendants shall possess
the gate of their enemies.

In your seed…

all the nations of the earth shall be blessed,

because you have obeyed My voice.”

There you go that seed all over again.
That word, that nightmare of Satan.

Suspense is building up.

Galatians 3:16 speaks of that thing with Abraham saying:

“Now to Abraham and his (what?) Seed …
were the promises made.

He does not say, ‘And to seeds,’…”

That’s why I know that in Genesis 22,
what was God speaking about?

Or who was He speaking about?

Jesus, who had to come from the seed of the nation of Israel
and came from the seed of Abraham.

And not ‘to seeds,’ as of many, but as of one, ‘And to your Seed,’

who is …. you don’t have to guess!

Paul, this ex-ultra-orthodox Jew,
he was not a gentile,

he studied the book of Genesis and finally,
by the revelation of Jesus Christ,

by the guidance of the Holy Spirit,
he finally understood what this is all about.

Who is that seed?
“…who is Christ.”

And from Genesis 3 on,
Satan is trying to stop this prophecy from coming to pass.

And this is why he’s confused.

Then comes Cain and Abel: Who is going to be the one?
I mean, is it …

Who is a nicer guy – Abel or Cain? I will make sure that
Cain is killing Abel and that is it, we’re done.

No!

He didn’t plan on having another one coming.

And after the flood Abraham is chosen,
and then Israel is becoming a nation.

“So let’s try and eradicate that nation.

As long as the seed will not come,
and will not be there to crush my head.”

Suspense …

Then suspense started evolving

and then Abraham, nice guy, Iraqi, by the way,
if you’re wondering …

You know, most of the Bible is not
about Canada or America, or Mexico …

it is the Middle East, you know.

Then that Iraqi who was not even a Jew!

(Genesis 12) “Now the Lord had said to Abram:

‘Get out of your country,
From your family
And from your father’s house,

To a land that I will show you.'”
… Did He give him the name of the land?

Did He give him the coordinates?
Did He give him the exact location?

Did He text to him? Did Siri said something? Nothing!

The suspense thus begins,
but one thing he told him is amazing.

“I will make you (what?) … a great nation;

I will bless you
And make your name great;

And you shall be a blessing.

I will bless those who bless you…”
You don’t have to bless those who bless you.

This is not – I will bless those who bless you. That’s how it works.

Because I’m the one who is taking you out of your house.

I’m the one who is showing you the place I want you to be.

So I’m the one who is also responsible to bless you.

And I will be responsible to bless those who bless you.

But I will also be responsible for (what?)
“…curse him who curses you;”

And then look what he says:

“In you! … all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

Wow…

Now suspense is building up.

“Then Abraham, in Genesis 17:17, fell on his face and laughed…”

when the news about his next generation came to him.

Come to 100 year old guy and tell him that
he’s about to be a father, you know …

He knows one or two things about, you know, biology by then …

Abraham fell on his face and laughed …

Can you imagine, God is sending people to tell
Abraham something amazing.

And Abraham listens to it and ”boom” falls on his face laughing.

“…and said in his heart,
‘Shall a child be born to a man who is one hundred years old?

And shall Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?'”

I mean, maybe if … maybe possible… could be
… I will – but Hello, Sarah? …

Come on …

Has to be something else around.

And then God said: No.

Think about it.

He says: Oh, that Ishmael might live before You!
He’s laughing and saying:

“Oh, He probably means Ishmael.

That’s what it’s all about.”

“Then God said: ‘No, Sarah your wife shall bear you a son,

and you shall call his name (what?) Isaac, yitz·chak;

I will establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant,

and with his descendants after him.'”

God says, Look, Abraham, I don’t know if you understand that,
but I call the shots here.

See, when I say the things are going to happen,

they’re going to happen whether you like it or not.

You better believe, they’re going to happen.

There is this 90 year old …
Not only that she is going to bear a son for you,

you better listen to her about Ishmael and his mom.

If she says they need to go, they need to go.

Listen to your wife, Abraham.

Now all the woman are …
“I knew there’s a verse about it!”

And then after Isaac comes Jacob
and from Jacob comes to nation of Israel.

And now there is that same suspense,
that same suspense regarding that seed,

that same suspense regarding the seed
that is going to come and do (what?)

and crush the head of Satan …

but not just crush the head of Satan,
but will (what?) … will give us (what?)

Peace.

They didn’t think about the peace in their heart
… peace in their land.

Prosperity, they didn’t think about the prospering of the soul,

they are thinking about prospering of the land … wow.

There has to be that who comes
… therefore, when they saw Jesus:

Tell us, how long can you keep us in suspense, you’re killing us.

Israel’s suspense began in Genesis continued throughout
the entire Old Testament,

the whole essence of the nation of Israel is Christ.

Everything about Israel is something that has to do with Jesus.

You cannot take Jesus away from Israel.

Israel has to do with Jesus …
Messiah and Israel are one, He had to come from them.

He has to come to them, He will return for them.

All of that is together, this whole nation was the way
for God to bring Him to the world.

Any attempt of any person around the world
from a pulpit – or from… I don’t know where –

to disconnect, the nation of Israel from Jesus is from the pit of hell.

The entire Bible …. let’s say the Old Testament,
that is what the Jews are calling their Bible,

all of it is filled with Jesus.

All of it is filled with the expectation,
the suspense that He’s about to come.

Genesis 4:25: “And Adam knew his wife again,
and she bore a son and named him Seth,

‘For God has appointed another seed
for me instead of Abel, whom Cain killed.'”

You see, God, nothing stops God from fulfilling it.

This is the one thing Satan didn’t know.

Another one is in the oven.

Genesis 6:7 to 8: “So the Lord said,

‘I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth,

both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air,

for I am sorry that I have made them.’
But Noah…”

God did not do that. Why?
Because there is a mission, there is a seed …

There is something that is greater than all of these.

“Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.”

Genesis 49:10.
What is that amazing thing that was given to Jacob, look…

“The scepter shall not depart from Judah,

Nor a lawgiver from between his feet,
Until (what?)

Shiloh – it’s one of the names of the Messiah in the Old Testament,

until Shiloh, until the Messiah comes;
And to Him shall be the obedience of the people.”

Numbers 21:8: “Then the Lord said to Moses,

‘Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole;

and it shall be that everyone who is bitten,
when he looks at it, shall live.’

So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole;

and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone,
when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.”

And we all know later on in New Testament
what all these things meant.

Deuteronomy 18:15: “The LORD your God
will raise up for you a Prophet like me…

–Moses is saying and then–
from your midst, from your brethren.”

He has to be born of the tribe of Judah,
of the nation of Israel.

He will not come from the outer space
and land in a spaceship.

He will be born as a child, He will grow …
He will come out of the people.

“Him … you shall hear.”

Even in the era of the conquest,
in Ruth 4:8 we know:

“Therefore the close relative said to Boaz,

‘Buy it for yourself.’ So he took off his sandal.

And Boaz said to the elders and all the people,

‘You are witnesses this day that
I have bought all that was Elimelech’s,

and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, from the hand of Naomi.

Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess,
– which is the picture of the Gentile church –

the widow of Mahlon, I have acquired as (what?)
my wife,

to perpetuate the name of the dead through his inheritance,

that the name of the dead may not be cut off
from among his brethren

and from his position at the gate.'”

And under even the united kingdom, we know in 2nd Samuel (7:12-16),
when Samuel, we all know …

how we can clearly see that the anointing of David came,
but then the promise,

the promise was, I will establish
– look what he says, look what David says …

The Lord says to David: I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

I will be his Father, and he shall be My son.

If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men…”

And look what he continue and then he says:

“I removed from before you.

And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you.

Your throne shall be established (what?) forever.”

There is no earthly king that receives such a promise

that his throne will be established forever.

No such thing.

And the book of Psalm, from Psalm 2, to Psalms 22,
to Psalm 45, to Psalm 72, to Psalm 110,

all of those are a picture of Jesus.

And even after the kingdom was divided, we see in Isaiah,

Isaiah is the prophet that led me to the Lord.

I never read a single verse in the New Testament.

I didn’t even think that the New Testament is for the Jews.

I thought it’s a Gentile book for Gentile people
and I don’t need that.

So I read Isaiah (53:4-6) and I saw:

“Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows;

Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.

But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;

The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed.

All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;

And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all.”

I read that and I couldn’t believe,
this is the Jewish Old Testament

speaking so vividly and so clearly of the One
that will come to take all the sins of the whole world.

And no synagogue is teaching that,
yet it is there in the Bible,

This is the forbidden chapter, Isaiah 53.

And then Jeremiah 23:5: “‘Behold, the days are coming,’ says the Lord,

‘That I will raise to David a Branch of (what?) righteousness,”tsaddiq”;

A King shall reign and prosper,
And execute judgment and righteousness in the earth.'”

These prophets, all the prophets,
the Bible says in 1st Peter 1:10:

“Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and searched carefully…”

They were busy, all the prophets, of this salvation.

They didn’t know, they were in suspense, they…

This whole thing, waiting for the coming of the Messiah,
is the essence of what they were all talking about.

Even during the Babylonian exile,
“I will establish one shepherd over them,

and he shall feed them, Ezekiel wrote (34:23),
—My servant David. He shall feed them and be their shepherd.

And I, the Lord, will be their God,
and My servant David a prince among them;

I, the Lord, have spoken.”

There was always in the Jewish tradition, the greater David
– the greatest David, which is the Messiah himself.

Daniel, chapter 7:14, we all know about,
His dominion is an everlasting dominion.

And even after the Babylonian exile, Zechariah chapter 3, verse 8:

“‘Hear, O Joshua, the high priest,
You and your companions who sit before you,

For they are a wondrous sign;
For behold, I am bringing forth My Servant the BRANCH.”

Zechariah 9:9:
“Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!

Behold, your King is coming to you…”

The suspense is getting more and more intense.

And then… Christ was born.

And you would think that – [Exhale] …

you would think that the suspense is over …

Well, it was over for some people …

for those of the people that truly seek the true Messiah,
suspense was over.

Those who knew the Scriptures and understood
when the fulfillment of the time had arrived,

for them, this suspense was over.

Old Simeon in the temple, a Jew.

The Bible says: Behold, in Luke chapter 2:25,

“…there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon,
and this man was just

he was (what?) … this man was just and devout, waiting (what?)

–Waiting! That’s the suspense. –

(he was) waiting for the Consolation of Israel,
and the Holy Spirit was upon him…”

–Because the Holy Spirit was not sealed in anyone in those days,

the Holy Spirit would come upon someone
and leave, could leave.

That’s why David pray, don’t take your Holy Spirit for me.

“…and the Holy Spirit was upon him.

And it had been revealed to him (how?)

by the Holy Spirit …

that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s (Messiah) Christ.

So he came by the Spirit into the temple.

And when the parents, Joseph and Mary, brought in the Child Jesus, to do

for Him according to the custom of the law,
he took Him up in his arms

and blessed God and said:
(Okay, the suspense is over….)

‘Lord, now You are letting Your servant depart in peace,

(I can die now. It’s over.)

According to Your word;
For my eyes have seen Your salvation…”

–What was the name of Jesus in Hebrew? Yeshua.

What is the Hebrew word for salvation? Yeshua.

You see, my eyes have seen Your salvation,
my eyes are looking at your Yeshua.

Then he says:
“Which You have prepared before the face of all peoples,

–And look what he says now. Now he’s talking about you.–

A light to bring revelation to the? …Gentiles,
And the glory of Your people Israel.”

See, up until then, up until that moment,
Gentiles had no revelation,

Gentiles did whatever they want,
Gentile worshiped so many different gods,

so many different things, so many different temples,
so many different weird foods,

whatever, you call it whatever … one pig
– you call it ham, you call it bacon, you call it whatever.

It’s fine, do whatever you want.
But then he says there is a point… that’s it.

He’s now bringing that light of revelation.
And it’s amazing. Jesus was born.

And now today, 2000 years later,
we’re arguing about the date: So important!

How foolish it is …

to argue about?
You know, by the way,

first of all, the Bible says exactly when He was born.

You know when? Galatians 4:4 says:

“But when the fullness of the time had come,
God sent forth His Son.” That’s it!

Other words, He was born on time.

Not only He was born exactly when God wanted Him to be born.

And it doesn’t matter if you think
it’s August, September, April or December.

Who cares…

when your birthday is?

It’s more important that you are here with us.

Who cares the day?

You know, I have a friend, he’s a pastor, his mom,

all she remembers is that she was born in 1934.

So they gave her March 21 as her birthday. Why?
Because the father is also March 21.

And they can do it together. Save money.

And then she moved to an elderly home

and then they found out there’s another person there on March 21.

So they change her to a different day.

Because so she will feel special because the date.
Who cares – it’s about the person.

I will not celebrate Christmas.

Are you celebrating the 24th- the 25th?
Or are you celebrating the birth of Christ?

But then there’s also the world’s suspense.

Hmm…

The world is on suspense.
The world is expecting a Messiah.

The world could care less about the details,
as long as that man will bring what we need,

take us out of this mess, that’s it.

Allow me to remind you what Paul-Henri Spaak,
used to be the Secretary General of NATO,

and also the ex-Prime Minister of Belgium
and look what he said:

We do not want another committee,
we had too many already.

What we want is a man of sufficient stature to hold
the allegiance of all people,

and to lift us out of the economic morass
into which we are sinking.

Send us such a man, and whether he will be
god or devil, we will receive him.”

By the way, this is exactly the mindset of the world,

not of the church, not even of Israel,
Israel will never say such a thing.

Send us a man, but we don’t want him to be the devil, hello?

But this, you know, at this point, who cares?

The world is conditioned to receive such a thing.

2nd Thessalonians 2:8, we read it few times today,

“…the lawless one will be revealed,

whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth…”

He will come, the Lord will consume him,
he is going to rise.

You can protest as much as you want.

You can stand outside of his house,

you can say, I am not allowing you to rise,

you know what? He will rise!

You know why?
Because God said is going to happen.

You know why?
Because God knows this world.

You know why?
Because God understands the future.

And thus He sent us an email with an attachment.

And He says: Hey, by the way,
just so you know, this is all that is going to happen.

It’s not maybe, possibly, could be … it WILL happen.

And so when He speaks about these things,
He speaks about these things as a fact.

It says, “the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth

and destroy with the brightness of His coming.”

When will the Antichrist be destroyed?

The brightness of who’s coming?

Jesus.

At what coming?
…The Second Coming,

when Jesus will come back, not for us, but with us.

You see, when Jesus comes for us,
He’s not coming to earth. Hello?

Our meeting places not here.

Not a beautiful coast and beach of Santa Monica or whatever.

No. We are going to meet Jesus in the clouds.

Okay, it goes like that.
He comes halfway we go halfway.

Oh, I don’t know how to fly.
You don’t need to!

You don’t need to!
This body is not going to fly. Don’t worry, you can try.

It’s not going to fly. You need a new body.

You need a body that will completely be different
without a single cell from this one.

This is a tent. This is a lowly body.

Yeah, I’ve been working out – it is still lowly.

Your body cannot enter the kingdom of God

this cannot inherit the kingdom of God, the Bible says.

That’s why He’s going to give you…
And how fast can He make this body a new one?

Boom! a the twinkling of an eye – Boom!

And that’s when the law of physics, the gravity and all of that
will not even be affecting this new body.

Whoop! You’re going to be out of here,
you’re going to meet Jesus in the air.

And so that’s…

Now it’s the time for the world to enjoy
that man or devil that they’ve been waiting for.

And he’s going to be destroyed.

Revelation 13: 2:
“Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard,

his feet were like the feet of a bear,
and his mouth like the mouth of a lion.

The dragon gave him his power,
– the Dragon, Satan, is going to give this man his power.–

The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.

And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded,

and his deadly wound was healed.

And all the world marveled and followed the beast.

So they worshiped the dragon…”

Look, they saw the Antichrist
and who did they really worship? Satan.

“…they worshiped the dragon

who gave authority to the beast;

and they worshiped the beast, saying,
‘Who is like the beast?

Who is able to make war with him?'”

This is the boastful attitude of this world.

Who? … and that’s why I love Psalm 2
– God is looking and He is laughing.

What are you talking about, Willis?

So the world is in suspense, but what about creation?

Creation is in suspense to.

Romans 8:19 says: “For the earnest expectation
of the creation eagerly waits for (what ?)

for the revealing of the sons of God.
For the creation was subjected to futility,

not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it in hope;

because the creation itself also will be
delivered from the bondage of corruption…”

Creation, everybody wants to save earth.

Save earth?
You cannot save earth until you save sin.

Until you solve sins problem.
That’s the problem why earth suffers.

Sin! … Oh, I want to stay sinful but I want to heal the world.

It is not going to work,
it’s going to get worse and worse.

What … if you really think about it,

most of the catastrophic things that are going to happen
during the Tribulation, when we’re not here,

are things that are going to hit the world, the earth,
creation, is going to be horrific.

What’s going to happen to islands,
what’s going to happen to the fish,

what’s going to happen to the water,
what’s going to happen to the trees.

We all, we know what’s going to happen.

You and I are wiser than even the most educated person
on the best committee for the future of planet earth.

We know what’s going to happen.

Of course now they want to put us
in straitjacket if we say something.

2nd, Peter 3:10 says:
“But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night,

in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise,

and the elements will melt with fervent heat;

both the earth and the works that are in it
will be (what?) burned up.

Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved,

what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,

looking for and hastening the coming of the day of The Lord,

because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire,

and the elements will melt with fervent heat?

Nevertheless we, according to His promise,

look for new heavens and a new earth in which
righteousness dwells.”

Amazing…

And there is also the church suspense.

You see those same, those same prophets … …

that “inquired and searched carefully,
who prophesied of the grace that would come to you…”

The prophets of the Old Testament, were inquiring,

who is going to be that is going to come to …
you, to us.

“…searching what, or what manner of time,
the Spirit of (who?) …”

The spirit of …

Can we see the verse, please? Do we have the verse?

Yes, thank you!

“…the spirit of (what?)
… the Spirit of Christ

who was in them was indicating
–the Spirit of Christ was indicating–

when He testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ
and the glories that would follow.

To them it was revealed that, not to themselves,
but who was in them,”

–those prophets were not just working for their own generation,

they were not just suffering for the people of Israel at that time.

Look, “…to them, it was revealed that not to themselves
but to? …us

they were ministering the things which
now have been reported to you

through those who have preached the gospel
to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven

—things which angels desire to look into.”

Wow, suspense all over.

Now, I want to tell you something
– Is the suspense of His first coming over for you?

And the reason why I’m asking this is,

in John, chapter 3 (v17),
we understand that He came, it’s a done deal.

“For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world,

but that the world through Him might be saved.

–That was the first coming of the Messiah.–

‘He who believes in Him is not condemned;

but he who does not believe is (what?) condemned already…'”

You see, all people on planet earth
were condemned already.

The thing is the minute we became believers

we were plucked out of the condemned already
into the not-condemned party.

So… “He who believes in Him is not condemned;

but he who does not believe is condemned already,

because he has not believed in the name of the only…

– there is no other name by which men can be healed or save –

the only begotten Son of God.”

The believers should not be in suspense
regarding the coming of the Lord.

Our suspense is over, we already know
who He is, we already know why He came,

we already believe in Him,
we already have the Holy Spirit,

we already have that peace that surpasses all understanding,

we already have that live – this new life,
new heart, new spirit, our suspense is over.

But something else should be birthed in us
instead of that suspense.

And that’s the anticipation.

1st Thessalonians 1:9:
“For they themselves declare concerning us

what manner of entry we had to you, and how you turned to God

from idols to serve the living and true God,

and to wait for His Son from heaven,
whom He raised from the dead,

even Jesus who delivers us from?

He delivers us from? …the wrath to come.”

Not through the wrath, but from the wrath.

Jesus will take us from – He will take us before the wrath.

So we will not go through the wrath.

Titus 2:11-14:
“For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,

teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts,

we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age,

looking for… –we’re not anxious,
this is no longer suspense of who He is,–

looking for the blessed hope
and glorious appearing of…” who?

We already know who He is, of who?

Of our great God, he is not a man only,
He is a man and He is God.

This is not just a man.
This is not someone who is a human only.

He is God who came in the shape of a man but he is God –

the deity of Christ that matters,
all other sects, and all other cults,

the first thing they deny is His deity.

First thing – Jehovah’s witnesses knock on your door…

They don’t believe in Jesus deity.

But we, “looking for the blessed hope
and glorious appearing (who?)

of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

who gave Himself for us,
that He might redeem us from every lawless deed

and purify for Himself His own special people,
zealous for good works.”

You need to be zealous for good work.

That’s what you need to do
– that’s how you need to live right now.

Yeah, but Pelosi is running again.
–Who cares?

Pelosi is running again. –So what?

You still need to be zealous for good works.

That’s who we are – agents of righteousness.

That’s what He wants us to be.

Jude 1:20-21: “But you, beloved,
building yourselves up on your most holy faith,

praying in the Holy Spirit,
keep yourselves in the love of God,

looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.”

We already know who He is,
there is no suspense here.

We know His name and we know that
whatever He started with us,

it is going to be for (what?) … eternal life.

1st John 3: “Behold what manner of love
the Father has bestowed on us,

that we should be called children of God!

Therefore the world does not know us,
because it did not know Him.

Beloved, now we are children of God;

and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be,
but we know that when He is revealed,

we shall be like Him,”
when He is revealed… what do you mean, revealed?

When He appears, we will change and we will be (what?)
… just like Him,

“… for we shall see Him as He is.
And everyone who has this hope in Him

purifies himself, just as He is pure.”

The moment the longing for His return began,
is, of course, Acts chapter 1:9.

“Now when He had spoken these things,
while they watched,

He was taken up, and a cloud received Him…”

You know, there are so many Christians
that don’t believing in the Rapture.

Oh, how come people just go up
and they go to the cloud.

What is it? It sounds fantastic.

Well, let’s read Acts chapter 1 regarding Jesus, okay?

“… cloud received Him out of their sight.

And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up,

behold, two men stood by them in white apparel,

who also said,
‘Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven?

This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven,

will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.'”

In other words, you see that cloud,
you see that cloud? Hello.

You see that cloud receiving Him
… He’s going to come back to that cloud,

Same Jesus, not a different one …

Not Isa or whatever, or some, you know,
it’s not the one of the Quran or it’s not some …

This is Jesus of Nazareth, Yeshua of “netser”
– Jesus of Nazareth,

Who is man and God, this is the Promised Messiah,
this is the Seed, He’s coming back,

in the same manner that you saw Him taken,
you will also be taken.

Acts 17:30: “Truly, these times of ignorance…”
– Paul is standing in the midst of … [sigh] …

in the midst of Areopagus, in Athens.

And he’s looking at all these scholars
– We know better.

And he says, Remember, when Messiah was born?

Remember what Simeon says, this is light of revelation to Gentiles?

Remember, the time of playing games is over?

“Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked…”

And let’s read together.

“…but now commands all men everywhere to repent.”

Paul is standing in the middle of Athens,
and he’s telling everyone –

so far you’ve been building your shrines and temples,
different gods.

Okay, God overlooked all of this,
but now, now He commands.

It’s not a suggestion. It’s a commandment.

Not few people, all people.

He commands them… to give money?

No!

He commands them…
to start dancing and rolling down the aisle – No!

He commands them first, to (what?) … [repent] Repent.

There is no church that should teach
that salvation can come without repentance.

Repentance is the first thing that is required.

And why? … why repentance is so required. Why?

Because he says, that men whom He raised,

He will also judge the world in righteousness
by that man whom He raised,

He ordained, He is giving assurance of to
all of us of this by raising Him from the dead.

And I want to tell you something,
without the first coming, the Second Coming is pointless.

Make it very clear, when the Jews are waiting for Him to come
riding a horse or whatever,

they should have understood that
first He should have been on a donkey.

And they should have also understood that
He came to first deliver them from their own sins.

He first came as a servant,
as a suffering one to bear their sins.

And that’s when He can come back as a King
to conquer and to kill all their enemies

and to of course, to reign and rule.

What’s the point of having the Messiah
coming to rule when you’re (what?)

When you don’t even know Him personally.

Hebrews 9: 27: “And as it is appointed for men to die once,
but after this the judgment,

so Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many.

To those
– let’s read together –

To those who (want?) …who eagerly wait for Him

He will appear a second time,
apart from sin, for salvation.”

And it’s going to be the salvation of your body.

Hello.

The most important thing is
that you trust in what He did at His first coming,

before you’re looking for His second coming.

You see, as believers the suspense of His first coming is over.

We do not need any more to find out who He is…

Now, we need to eagerly wait for His appearance.

We are no longer in suspense of someone or something.

We are anticipating the appearance of someone
we already know personally.

The point is this, if you don’t know Jesus personally,

you will always remain in suspense.

Jesus came to give us peace that surpasses all understanding –

how come half of us are frantic
– are so obsessed with when and whatever …

Guys, first of all, He’s coming in the hour you don’t know.
Let’s start with that.

Second, He is coming to people who are waiting for him,
and who are ready.

When you’re ready, it doesn’t matter what you’re doing
and where you’re at- You’re ready.

Can you imagine if Jesus would have told us
– I’m coming on May 21, 2023.

Half of you will be in Vegas until then.

We know the day, don’t worry, a week before we’ll be on our knees.

Are you eagerly awaiting His return?

“For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits
for the revealing of the sons of God.” (v19)

Romans 8

“Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit,

even we ourselves groan within ourselves,
eagerly waiting for the adoption,

the redemption of (what?) … our body.” (v23)

We’ve been redeemed already but our body
– look at our body.

Look at this. Look at yourself.

You have to think 50,000 times
before you eat the doughnut.

We have a saying in Hebrew – Is it butt worthy?

I’m sorry, that’s Hebrew.

Romans 8:25: “But if we hope for what we do not see,

we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.”

1st Corinthians 1:7: “so that you come short in no gift,

eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

Galatians 5:5: “For we through the Spirit
eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith.”

Philippians 3:20: “For our citizenship is in heaven,

from which we also eagerly wait for
the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.”

Eagerly wait
– It’s not suspense anymore. We know who He is.

We have the peace in our hearts.
We are workers of righteousness.

We’re not sitting in front of YouTube and
– When is it? Who said that the day?

Oh yeah, this is the day,
it matches the stars, it matches the sun.

We see this – all of them are like that all the time.

Oh yeah, it’s coming – I’m selling all my stocks.

I’m going up the mountain,
I’m changing my clothes.

I mean, it’s like what happened to you?

And then when you sell the world,
all these theories about blood moons and this and that

and nothing happens, everybody looks at you – fool …

You did the wrong service.

The church is not waiting for
the physical return of Jesus to earth,

but rather the physical departure of the church
from earth into heaven.

And I want you to know that even for Israel,
there’s coming an end to that suspense.

What was anticipation for the early church,

and even believers today remain suspense
for unbelieving Israel.

But Zachariah 12:10 says:
“And I will pour on the house of David

and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem
the Spirit of grace and supplication;”

And say the word –then- say then, [then]
not before -unfortunately, I wish it was before.

But only then when they see Him,
“…they will look on Me whom they pierced.

Yes, they will mourn…”

What comes right after you understand
that He’s the Messiah?

What’s the first thing?
–Repentance.

You understand how filthy you are,
you understand how holy He is.

You understand you made a mistake 2000 years ago,
you understand it is Him! …

It’s the same One we rejected 2000 years ago,
you start crying and mourning.

Thus such a mourn as one for his only son … as one grieves for a firstborn.

Zechariah 13:7 speaks of the fact that:
“‘Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd,

Against the Man who is My Companion,’

Says the Lord of hosts. ‘Strike the Shepherd,
And the sheep will be scattered;

Then I will turn My hand against the little ones.

And it shall come to pass in all the land,’
Says the Lord,

–Now unfortunately, this is going to happen to Israel.–

‘That two-thirds in it shall be cut off and die,
But one-third shall be left in it:

I will bring the one-third through the fire,

Will refine them as silver is refined,
And test them as gold is tested.

They will call on My name,
And I will answer them.

I will say, ‘This is My people’;
And each one will say, ‘The Lord is my God.'”

And then Zachariah 14:3:
“Then the Lord will go forth

And fight against those nations,
As He fights in the day of battle.

And in that day His feet…”
–His feet, Jesus’ feet, He’s coming back to reign,

He is going to look like a King.

He’s coming as a King and His feet will stand on Mount of Olives.

It’s not going to be in Utah,
and it’s not going to be in New York City.

It’s going to be the Mount of Olives,
Which faces Jerusalem on the east.

And the Mount of Olives shall be split in two,
From east to west,

Making a very large valley;

Half of the mountain shall move toward the north

And half of it toward the south.

Then you shall flee through My mountain valley,

For the mountain valley shall reach to Azal.

–And look when he says–
Thus the Lord my God will come…”

And what?

Hello?

Oh, no, no, no, no, no. That was…
I’m embarrassed.

Guys, please delete that from the video.

Again, together, “Thus the Lord my God will come,
And all the saints with You.”

He’s coming with us.

Romans 11:25 to 27:

“For I do not desire, brethren,
that you should be ignorant of this mystery,

lest you should be wise in your own opinion…”

You see, when you are ignorant of God’s things,

you become wise in your own opinion.

I know better – ooh la la – ooh la la …
I’m a doctor. I’m professor, I have all the degrees.

Ladies and gentlemen,
“blindness in part has happened to Israel until…”

There’s an expiration date – until –
it’s not going to be forever – until –

“…until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.”

Until the last Gentile person has to be added,

until the last moment Gentiles can trample
over Jerusalem’s Temple Mount,

until the last moment Gentiles or non-believers can celebrate

and just think that they hold and control the world.

And he says: “And so – say that –
all Israel will be saved, as it is written:

‘The Deliverer will come out of Zion,

And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

For this is My covenant with them,
When I take away their sins.”- Isaiah 59, verse 20.

So I want to conclude with this.

There’s a global suspense all around us.

But we, we know who the Messiah is.

We have the peace.

We have the joy of our salvation,
we have the Holy Spirit, we have a new heart.

We have… The only thing that is not new.

The only redemption that is still left –

is the redemption of body
because He needs to finish that work.

And that will happen very fast.

Keep on taking care of yourself.
I’m not saying don’t.

But this is not what’s going to be in heaven.

Okay, I will barely recognize you up there.

But I want you to know, I want you to know
that for us, the suspense is over.

For us it’s over. Don’t be frantic.

Don’t be like someone who is all day long looking
for when, for the day for the…

All you need to live life like right now is –

that readiness, the expectancy and to eagerly wait for His return.

And this is why in Revelation 22:20:

“He who testifies to these things says,
‘Surely I am coming quickly.’ Amen.”

And now we say: “Even so, come, Lord Jesus!”

Father, we thank You for Your Word.

We thank You that for us the suspense is over.

We thank You that we know Jesus personally
as our Lord and Savior.

We thank You that He is God and Savior,
not just a man,

we thank You that we do not settle for anything
but the One You send to set us free.

Father, I ask that You will recalibrate our hearts
and minds this afternoon,

to not look for a day and an hour
and a second and a moment and an event,

but to remember,
all that had to happen has happened already.

All the signs are all over
– at this point what we need is to eagerly wait,

to be ready, to expect but to have peace, to have the joy

and to be agents of righteousness
ready for good works.

We thank You and we bless You
in the name of the Holy One of Israel, Yeshua, we pray.

And all of God people say: Amen.