The Best Is Yet To Come

Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, equip the saints, and impact our culture. I can't stand when people say the best is still to come, the best is yet to come. In what? America, listen America, it's greatest days are ahead, have you read your Bible? We kick God in the teeth, we throw Him out in the street, we replace Him with other gods, and then we have the audacity to say the best is yet to come. You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. Now, open your hearts to what God's Word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. John said, I heard an as it were the voice of a great multitude as the sound of many waters and the sound of mighty thunderings saying, Hallelujah for the Lord God omnipotent rains. Let us be glad and rejoice and give Him glory for the marriage of the Lamb, who's the Lamb? Jesus has come and His wife, who's His wife? The church. His wife has made herself ready. And to her it was granted to be arrayed in, mark it down, fine linen, clean and bright. Listen, Old Testament saints, they get a white robe, the Bible tells us. The tribulation saints during the seven-year tribulation period that's yet coming, they get white robes. There's only one group of God's saints who get fine linen, clean and bright. It's the church, the bride of Christ, the wife of the Lamb. That's pretty fun stuff. That's pretty cool. Watch this. She's made herself ready, verse 8. And to her it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright. For the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints, verse 9. Then he said to me, right, blessed are those who are called to the marriage suffer of the Lamb. These are going to be the Old Testament saints. These are going to be the tribulation saints. Right now the Bible says, Jesus is preparing for us a house for His bride. It's been 2,000 years, and he's a carpenter. It's going to be amazing. The Bible here says, and he said to me, these are the faithful truths, these are the true saints of God, next verse. And I fell at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, see that you did not do that. I am your fellow servant and of your brother and who have the testimony of Jesus. This is a guy that's been, we don't know who he is, but he's been redeemed with us as well. Worship God for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. John says, now I saw heaven opened and behold a white horse, and he used that on him was called faithful and true. And in righteousness he judges and makes war. You mean like the fierceness of the wrath, the rope that is stained or watched? Verse 12, his eyes were like a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns. He had a name written that no one knew except himself. He is clothed with a rope dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of God. And the armies, remember you read the word sabbioth in here in Romans 9? That's what the word means, sabbioth, not sabbaths, sabbioth is the Lord of heaven's armies. Wow. Cloth and fine linen, there you go again, there she is, white and clean followed him on white horses. Now out of his mouth goes a sharp sword that with it he should strike the nations. He himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and what wrath of Almighty God? And he has on his robe and on his thigh a name written king of kings and what? Lord of lords. Who is that? It's Jesus. Here's what's fun. Please write this down. It's not in the notes. This should blow your mind. The second coming, you look at Isaiah 63, Revelation chapter 19, and the marriage supper of the Lamb and all of that stuff. Jesus is splattered in blood, but he's also at his wedding. What's going on here? Isaiah 26 verses 19 to 21. Write it down. It's not on the screen. Isaiah 26, 19 to 21. The Bible tells us that God will say, come up here. Come to me. And hide yourself as it were for a little moment. Enter into the chambers of marriage, the chambers, the honeymoon suites, and close the doors behind you. For I will come out of my place to punish all the inhabitants of the earth for their sins. Where were your sins punished? On the cross. Notice the timing of that. Come up here. Hide yourself just a little bit like this. Come up here. Go freshen up. In the wedding chamber, you who wear fine linen, clean and bright, I'll be right back. And Jesus, the Bible says, will go, listen, he will go and fight for Israel during that seven-year tribulation period. He will go and fight for them as God fought in the day of battle. That is awesome. Think of that. What a powerful, all-consuming, amazing God that we know. Also this, his salvation is exclusive regarding his awesome glory. In verse 24, the Bible says, even us, who he called not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles. Just exclusively this. What does this mean? It doesn't sound exclusive. You just said Jews and Gentiles. It's exclusive because Christ is the salvation. He is the Messiah. Notice this. I love this. It says here in verse 24, that what's exclusive is that the salvation belongs to those who believe. You want to write a horse with Jesus coming out of heaven with fine white linen in an army. That's wild. Warrior princess for sure. And he strikes the earth with his judgment. Well, the Bible here says in verse 24, he will save both Jew and Gentile. In this room, right here, just left service. I met some Jews who have come to Messiah, Jesus, Yeshua, as Savior. By the way, that's happening more and more since October 7th. More and more Jews are coming to Christ, at least in California, but I've heard all over the world. Why? God's getting ready to start to fulfill his word with his people. Anybody who teaches replacement theology should be marked as a heretic. Get out of there. Get away from them. Oh, no, no. There is no Israel. The church is Israel. Run for your spiritual life. God's kept his promises to Israel and he will. And now the globe is churning with anti-Semitic belief. Why? It's demonic. It's exactly how it's supposed to go according to God's plan. The world will turn its back on Israel. Did you not know that in the last days? Anti-Semitism will rise. Hatred, Jesus warned both the church and the Jew who believes in Him. There will be those who will seek to kill you and they think they're doing God a service. We're living in times like that. The hatred of Christianity is rising rapidly in our world. All this stuff is prophesied in Scripture. Don't panic. Just know this. Man, this word's true. I'm going to get behind this word. I'm going to get into this word. And this word is the word of God Himself. Remarkable. The Bible tells us in Galatians 3, verse 26. Galatians 3, 26. The Bible says, for you are all sons of God. Well, that appears in Romans 9. Through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ, that is, you entered into Him, not water, into Him, have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek. There is neither slave nor free. There is neither male nor female. There is neither for all or one in Christ Jesus. One. Is that amazing? The Jew and the Gentile in Christ are one. That's exclusive. Number five, we're going to go quick. Verses 26 to 27 is the evidence that has gone out about God's good, good sovereignty. And the first thing is, as we mentioned earlier, look at this, evidence of His invitation, verse 25. And He says also, in Hosea, the prophet Hosea, I will call them my people who were not my people and her beloved, who was not beloved. What does this mean? Let me tell you, and then we'll move on. It's beautiful. God is speaking through the prophet Hosea to the Jewish people, and he's saying, you're my people, and then when they rebel, he said, you're not my people. And then when they repented, he said, you're my people. Listen, logic, course, one-on-one. If he says to them initially, you are my people, and then says to them later, you're not my people, and then to the same people, he said, you're not, you are my people. Then we wind up learning something about the full counsel of God. God chose Israel and the Jews to be His people. And He says to them, I have these everlasting promises that I've given. But when you don't walk with me, you're not my people. My people walk this way. When you rebel and go the other way, just want you to know, you're not my people. They are His people, because He's going to have them experience a return. But He's basically saying what you say in a family. Listen, you're acting like you belong to this family. What's wrong with you? Now, does the kid belong to the family? Yes. Is he acting like he belongs to the family? No. This is a promise of God. He's not changing his mind. He's basically saying this, when you walk with me, I'll bless you. When you walk away from me, I'm not going to bless you. And that's true, by the way, for the Jewish believer and the Gentile believer. Nonetheless, true. And then this goes on, verses 25 to 26, the evidence of His generosity. I will call them my people who were not my people and her beloved, who was not beloved, and it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, you are not my people, there they shall be called the sons of the living God. Look at that. Quoting, Hosea and Book of Romans speaking about both areas or both peoples to be saved. The Gentile world and the Jewish world, the epicenterist Christ. I'll save the Jew, he says, and I'll save the Gentile. Jew, turn around, walk with me in obedience to my word, believe on me. Gentile, you never had a God. You've never worshiped me, and I'm calling you to come and be my people also. And it's beautiful, he says, I'll call you sons of God, children of God. What an amazing God we have. Tremendous. Here we end with this. Number six is verses 27 to 28, and that is his gathering, a gathering of a people for himself. Verse 27 says this, that he has been gathering, this to me is kind of fun. Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel, though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved. A small amount of them will turn to me. It's going to happen, it's not a lot, but God says it's going to happen. Gathering to himself of people, he always has been gathering himself of people. Instead of what I said earlier, Adam and Eve being thrown in the trashy, did he not start to gather people by redeeming them? By offering up an animal, he did. The second thing is this, is he not gathering now? That's gathering people now. He's extending the offer of salvation today. He always has been. He is today when the Bible says in verse 28, this is a remarkable verse. For he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness. What does that mean? That means he's going to finish it in righteousness, but it's going to be a short work. Something's going to happen that it's going to bring it to its rapid conclusion because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth. I know it sounds crazy, but you and I have been here 2,000 years after the cross. Several thousand years before the cross. For thousands of years, since Adam and Eve has fallen and God says I'm going to do a short work on the earth, friends cheer up. What does the Bible say? A thousand years with God is as though it's one day. Right now, you and I are like, oh man, come on! It's driving crazy! Put that up against eternity. Friends, were you and I are going and Christ Jesus? The Bible says this life span will be but a vapor that dissipates. Like that. Aren't you glad, but I'll think about that. What a beautiful wake-up call that is. This is not it. This is not all there is. The Bible says in Matthew 28, verse 19, we're all familiar with this. This might come as a shock to you. I don't mean to hurt anybody's feelings exactly, but do we teach evangelism courses here? Absolutely. And you should attend. The fantastic. You know why we teach you evangelism courses? Well, let me rephrase. Do you know why I as pastor see to it that we offer evangelism courses? Anybody know? You're quiet. Okay, that's good. Yes. You might be shocked to find out that my job is not my job as a pastor teacher is not to evangelize. My job is to teach you the word of God so that you go and evangelize. Well, don't we hire people to evangelize? No! This is how it works. Ready? Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations. Teach them how to be a Christ follower. Baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Teaching them to observe all things that I command you. And lower, behold them with you always, even to the end of the age. Amen, Jesus said. Listen, we go through the Bible to get the Bible in you so that the Bible, because it's pretty amazing. The Bible gets inside of you and then stand back. Somebody get a fire extinguisher because that person is going to start blowing up with the Bible. They're just going to start percolating. It's just going to start happening and they're going to build people. If we make disciples, evangelism will happen. And I'm not going to, you can host crusades all day long. But you've got to make disciples out of those who get saved. They've got to get into the doctrines. Why? Because they go out and they'll eventually reach more people than any crusade could ever. Making disciples knowing how to follow Jesus. To this, we end. He will be gathering people, verse 29. And as Isaiah said before, unless the Lord of Saviour, the Lord of Heaven's Armies, had left us a seed, a little fragment of believers, we would have become like in the Sodom, and we would have been likened unto Gomorrah, meaning we would have been toast by the wrath of God. But God left the remnant. Friends, He will be gathering. Imagine when it comes to salvation and what this world is going to experience, I can honestly say, almost sounds like a political, what do you call it, slogan? I can't stand when people say, the best is still to come. The best is yet to come. And what? Listen, America, it's greatest days are ahead. Have you read your Bible? We kick God in the teeth, we throw him out in the street, we replace him with other gods, and then we have the audacity to say, the best is yet to come. Really? I don't think so. You can't do that to him. He's actually real. No, but I can tell you, the church, the best is yet to come. Where you and I are going forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever is so amazing and so beautiful that you look at a day like this, stormy rainy skies, clouds, parts, sun comes out, snow in the mountains, hills are green, flowers and bloom, birds singing. Yes, but when will the message be over? Right now. Right now, God is so good. He's so beautiful, he's so wonderful. You need to know him. This Jack Kibs podcast as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities are listener supported. Will you consider partnering with us through a special gift? Go to jackhibs.com to learn more and stay connected.