LAST THINGS
TRIBULATION
DR. JIM DIXON
DANIEL 12:1-4, MARK 13:19-20, MARK 13:24-27
JUNE 25, 2006
“The last of the great cities died when my father was a child, victims of yet another war. He told of the plagues that followed and how the living hid themselves, scattered in tiny hamlets in hopes of surviving whatever new madness conspired to rob them of the little that remained. In those days he walked alone, a solitary witness to the chaos that reigned. The earth itself had fallen victim to the insanity. He told stories of the 3-year winter and how the dirty snow never stopped falling. He saw the ocean, barren, poisoned, near death and how they watched the sky for 16 long years, praying for the great lungs to start working again. He said it was as if the ocean had breathed a great sigh of relief.” – clip from the movie “The Postman”
Hollywood loves apocalyptic movies. They particularly love post-apocalyptic movies, but they never seem to get it right. The Apocalypse is not going to conclude with a barren and parched earth and a small remnant of people whose only hope is Kevin Costner. If you want to know about the Apocalypse, you’ve got to look in the Bible. In the Bible we see the Greek word from which we get the word apocalypse and that’s the word, “apokalupsis.” The word means, “to reveal.” The word means, “to unveil.” In the Bible there are a number of apocalyptic books and there are a number of apocalyptic passages. All of these reveal or unveil the truth with regard to the end times, with regard to the consummation of this age. They all agree. They tell us that this age will conclude with a time of great tribulation, culminating in Armageddon and the return of Jesus Christ.
The word tribulation comes from the Latin word, “tribulum” which described a piece of agricultural equipment that was used in the ancient Roman world. It was used to separate wheat from the chaff and it did this through a violent vibrating process called “tribulatio.” Of course, the Bible tell us that this earth itself will one day shake. This earth itself will one day experience great tribulation. That time of great tribulation at the consummation of this age will indeed separate the wheat from the chaff, the righteous from the unrighteous, the sheep from the goats, and today we take a look at this great tribulation.
I want us to do this in two ways. First I want us to take a look at the subject of the global tribulation that is coming and then I want us to take a brief look at personal tribulation in our lives, personal tribulation in your lives. We begin with global tribulation. The Bible is consistent and it prophesies throughout the Book that there will come this time of Great Tribulation.
Moses prophesied that there would come a time of Great Tribulation just before the end of this age of the world and you can read that in Deuteronomy, chapter 4. Of course, Daniel prophesied there would come a time of great tribulation and that was part of our scripture for today, Daniel, chapter 12, verses 1-4. Our Lord Jesus Christ confirmed this in the Olivet Discourse, Matthew, chapter 24 and Mark, chapter 13. Jesus tells us that there will come the tribulation, the Great One is the literal rendering of the Greek. He said there will come the tribulation, the Great One such as the world has never seen. The Apostle Paul refers to this future time of tribulation in I and 2 Timothy and in I and 2 Thessalonians. Peter refers to it in 2 Peter, chapter 3. John’s Book, the Apocalypse, the Book of Revelation of course, is primarily devoted to this theme of the tribulation. So the Book of Revelation, chapter 6-18 deals with the events that will characterize a global tribulation. So, it doesn’t really matter this morning what your particular eschatology is. You might be Pre-Trib, Mid-Trib, Post-Trib. You might be Pre-Millennial. You might be Amillennial and of course we’re going to discuss all of these view and positions later in the summer but, you see, it doesn’t matter. Whatever your position, you have to acknowledge this. The tribulation is coming. The Bible makes it clear from the beginning of the book to the end of the book. The tribulation will come.
Now, in the Book of Revelation, chapter 6-18 we have a description of the tribulation events. There are seven seals, seven trumpets and of course seven bulls, three series of seven disasters. There are some scholars who view them as simultaneous so that the seven seals and the seven trumpets and the seven bulls are all happening simultaneously and then there are some scholars who view these as sequential so that the seven bulls are followed by the seven trumpets which are followed by the seven bulls. So, there are all of these disasters.
What I would like to do this morning in summary fashion is take a look at the primary characteristics of the tribulation. I want us to look at seven primary characteristics of the tribulation and these will be extracted from Revelation and from the bulls and the trumpets and the seals. It will also be extracted from the Olivet Discourse—Matthew 24, Mark 13—and from the Book of Daniel. So when we look at the apocalyptic literature in general, what are the characteristics of this final time of great tribulation? We believe from Daniel 9 that the great tribulation will be seven years in length, a week of years, but what is going to characterize these seven years? First of all, peace. The first characteristic of the great tribulation will be peace.
I know this sounds kind of like a surprise because it’s a time of violent shaking. How can it be characterized by peace? But understand it will begin with peace. The first horse of the Apocalypse is probably Antichrist—Revelation, chapter 6—and his rise to power. In the beginning he will offer peace. So, you look back at Daniel, chapter 9 and you see Antichrist and the Antichrist alignment of nations signing a peace treaty with Israel, a long-awaited peace treaty and the world will applaud. Those Antichrist nations may include a confederation of European states and a coalition of Arab or Muslim nations. They will come together and sign a peace treaty with Israel and this will be globally applauded. But of course, the Antichrist will break that covenant and the peace will fail. When you see that peace treaty signed, know that this is kind of the beginning of the end.
The Bible says when people say there is peace and security, THEN sudden destruction shall come upon them as travail comes upon a woman with child and there shall be no escape. So the first characteristic of the tribulation is peace. The second characteristic of the tribulation is cosmic disturbances. These are disasters on earth with cosmic causation, disturbances in the heavens that effect events on earth. Of course, we see this in the seven seals. We see it in the seven trumpets. We see it in the Olivet Discourse. The stars fall from heavens. The powers of the heavens are shaken. The sun does not give its light and it seemingly describes major cataclysm which perhaps has as its cause the impact of an asteroid with this planet.
I want you to see a little clip from the movie, “Armageddon.” “This is the earth and a time when the dinosaurs roamed a lush and fertile planet. A piece of rock just six miles wide changed all that. It hit with the force of 10,000 nuclear weapons. A trillion tons of dirt and rock hurdled into the atmosphere, creating a suffocating blanket of dust. The sun was powerless to penetrate for a thousand years. It happened before. It will happen again. It’s just a question of when.”
The movie “Armageddon” starred Bruce Willis. That beginning intro portion of the movie was narrated by Charlton Heston and it describes what today scientists call the KT Boundary Event, which I mentioned two weeks ago in our sermon that Sunday. Of course, the KT Boundary Event was the collision of an asteroid with this planet between the Cretaceous-Tertiary periods of earth history resulting, at least allegedly, in the demise of the dinosaurs and the eradication of half of the life on this planet.
There are some people who think during the Great Tribulation that kind of scenario is going to take place again but I think it unlikely that anything of that magnitude will happen during the Great Tribulation. If you had such incredibly massive global disasters, you would have no possibility or need for Armageddon. I mean, the earth would virtually be destroyed by virtue of the cosmic disturbances and yet I do believe in the Book of Revelation and in the Olivet Discourse there is a description there of heavenly bodies impacting the earth—perhaps meteor showers, perhaps a comet, perhaps a smaller asteroid. Not like the KT Boundary Event where the crater was over 100 miles in diameter, but something smaller. I think earthly cities during the tribulation, at least one or two, will experience destruction and perhaps it will be like this. Here’s a clip from Armageddon showing the destruction of Paris by a meteor shower or an asteroid hit.
The third characteristic of the Great Tribulation will be earthly disturbances. These are to be distinguished from cosmic disturbances in that the destruction is caused by events on earth. With cosmic disturbances, you have heavenly bodies falling to earth. Earthly disturbances are things like earthquakes, volcanic eruption. The Bible describes these kinds of cataclysmic events also during the Great Tribulation.
Barb and I were married on August 21, 1971, almost 35 years ago. We were married in a little Baptist Church in Temple City, California. It was 100 degrees that day and there was no air conditioning in the church. For all of us, it was not only a time of inspiration but of perspiration. Barb and I had never gone to that church. We had never attended there and so why were we there? Well, you see, it’s because of an earthquake that took place in Southern California in 1971 and it destroyed my home church, my family’s home church, which was Glendale Presbyterian Church. There were millions of dollars’ worth of damage in the destruction of a beautiful cathedral sanctuary. By the grace of God, a new church was built but, you see, earthquakes are constantly occurring and the damage is tremendous. Yet I think they all pale when compared to the earthquakes that are coming.
If you look at the Seven Seals, Daniel, chapter 6, the 6th seal is an earthquake. If you look at the Seven Trumpets, the 7th and final trumpet is an earthquake and we are told it will be the greatest earthquake in the history of the world. Islands will descend into the sea and indeed mountains will fall into the ocean. Perhaps folks in Arizona will suddenly have beachfront property. But you get the idea. These are tragedies on earth with earthly disturbances as causation-earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and of course we also know that there will be ecological disasters as part of these earthly disturbances. We don’t know the cause of all of these ecological disasters. Certainly, global warming is a factor. If you look at Revelation, chapter 16, verses 8 and 9, there’s no question that there is a scorching of the earth with the heating up of the sun. Some of these ecological disasters may have some human causation. We know that man is not always good to the environment.
I know some of you most recently have seen Al Gore’s movie that’s currently in theaters called “An Inconvenient Truth.” Of course, there is great scientific debate about the accuracy of that movie. By some accounts it’s more like a convenient half-truth but of course that scientific debate continues. I take a lot of scientific journals and magazines because I love to read science and I can tell you that the jury is still out in terms of the significance of human misconduct and its effect on the environment. There’s no question that whether or not we’re part of the cause, we sure need to be part of the solution to whatever extent is possible. I think as Christians, as those who follow Jesus Christ, we should remember that we were once given dominion over this earth, mankind was, and that we are called to be faithful in our stewardship of this planet.
We’re going to have a missions trip next year, we’re planning it, a short-term missions trip. We want some of you to be involved and we’re going to Belize to work with the rain forest and its depletion. The shrinking of the rain forest is a reality on earth and there are some critical contributions that rain forests make to medicine. We’re going with an evangelical Christian organization down in Belize. Some of you may want to be part of that but the point is God wants to find us faithful when He comes again. Christ wants to find you faithful when He comes again.
Perhaps this is the final generation. Perhaps it isn’t. Perhaps you will see the Great Tribulation. Perhaps you won’t but, you see, in whatever time is yours and whatever time is mine, we’re called to live our lives with faithfulness in all ways and that means we’re faithful in our custodianship of the earth.
The fourth characteristic of the Great Tribulation will be famine. Of course, the Bible consistently describes famine as characterizing the Great Tribulation. We see that in Revelation 6:3-4;7- 8; Matthew, chapter 24, verse 7. The third horse of the four horses of the Apocalypse is the horse famine. You understand famine is coming. Already in the 2/3rds world there are many starving people. Perhaps 2 billion people, 1/3 of the earth’s population, go to be hungry every night. The Bible says that during the Great Tribulation for most of the earth it will be a day’s wage for a loaf of bread. Of course, it’s that way in some parts of the world today. Famine is a horrible thing to endure. We look at earth history and there are many civilizations that have just disappeared because of famine.
Some of you have heard of the Acadians. Perhaps you haven’t heard of them and that would be because they disappeared and they lived a long time ago. They flourished 4,200 years ago in the Valley of Mesopotamia near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in the region of modern-day Iraq. The Acadians were an advanced civilization and they were powerful, ruling a great portion of the earth’s geography, but 4,200 years ago they just disappeared. For a long time, historians didn’t know why. They had built great cities and they just vacated them and now scientists and historians at Yale University have conducted an examination and reach a conclusion based on archeological evidence and some ancient writings that the Acadians disappeared because of famine and because of global climate changes on the earth and famine coming to that part of the world. It happens.
People left their farms. They left their agricultural communities and they all came to the cities where food had been stockpiled. Archeologically they now know that the Arcadians began to then build their city walls higher, trying to keep the desperate out so the people within the city walls would have enough food but eventually their food supplies ran out and their civilization just went extinct. These things happen as you look at earth history and they will happen during the time of the Great Tribulation.
The fifth characteristic of the Great Tribulation is pestilence. Again, what is the fourth horse of the four horses of the Apocalypse in Revelation, chapter 6? Pestilence. We know that pandemic plague and pandemic disease will characterize the earth in those days.
I want to tell you the story of the movie “Outbreak.” A little town in California called Cedar Creek experiences a virus which mutates and becomes an airborne contagion and it is deadly, and the United States Government has to make a decision to eradicate that town in the name of national and global compassion. Such a scenario could take place. I know what many of you are thinking and you’re probably thinking this. “I sure hope that PreTribulationism turns out to be true. I’m sure that many of you are thinking, “I sure hope that the Church is raptured before the final Great Tribulation.” I share those feelings. I also very much hope that the Church is raptured before the final Great Tribulation, but of course there are other views and we’ll look at all the views a little later this summer. But understand this fifth characteristic of the tribulation is pestilence and of course we have seen it throughout history. The 14th century, the Black Plague, the Bubonic Plague that was pandemic in Europe 1347 to 1352. One-third of Europe killed by the plague - forty million Europeans, another 13 million in Asia. These things have happened historically and they could happen again.
Of course, today you hear some people talking about the avian flu. I sometimes have people ask me or others of us here at the church if we have any counsel or advice. Certainly, we don’t want anyone to panic and we don’t want to be paranoid. It’s very possible medically and scientifically that the avian flu will never become an airborne contagion. Even if it does, the evidence is overwhelming that most people will survive it and yet the United States Government has told us that because of such type of pandemic possibilities, we should have a 2-month food supply at our house. We should perhaps have some kind of one- to two-week dosage of Tamiflu. There’s varying opinions on that. That we should perhaps have surgical masks. We can order a few surgical masks which can filter out airborne contagions. It’s always good to use a little common sense but understand pestilence will come and it will characterize the tribulation.
Well, the sixth characteristic of the tribulation is war and we’re really not going to get into this because we already looked at Armageddon. We know that the tribulation leads to that final battle of Armageddon and we should understand that during the time of tribulation there will be great tension between peoples and great tension between nations. There will be many skirmishes and wars, probably with many causes.
I just read a few weeks ago in a scientific journal that the ice on the North Pole is melting. Certainly, that is happening and they believe within ten to twenty years some cargo ships will be able to pass right over the North Pole, cutting hundreds and perhaps thousands of miles off their routes, saving a lot of time. Of course, if the North Pole melts and the ice is gone they will be able to access the ocean floor. It is said that one-fourth of the remaining fossil fuel supply of the earth is right there under the North Pole, 375 billion barrels of crude oil is estimated. Of course, the problem is who does it belong to? It’s not like the South Pole. It’s not like Antarctica where under international law it’s all been divvied up and we know who has what. The North Pole is up for grabs and that’s the kind of situation that can lead to chaos, conflict and yes, even war. I think these are the kinds of things that are approaching.
The seventh characteristic, the final one of the Great Tribulation, is persecution and martyrdom. Of course, if the Church of Jesus Christ is raptured prior to the tribulation, there will still be persecution during the tribulation. The Book of Revelation makes it very clear that there will be those during the tribulation who come to Christ, who come to faith in Christ. Their faith will be challenged and the forces of Antichrist will persecute them.
The whole issue of the mark of the beast which will persecute many economically and you have to have the mark of the beast in order to buy or sell. We’re going to discuss those kinds of things when we look at the subject of Antichrist later this summer, but I wanted you to get a kind of picture of what the tribulation is going to be like. I know it’s not fun. I know it couldn’t possibly be fun for you to just watch death and destruction and to contemplate any possibility that you might be here or have any part of that. But understand the Bible is true. The tribulation is coming. We will see the wrath of God, a Holy God and His righteous indignation. We will also see the satanic wrath of the devil and the Antichrist. And yes, we will see the wrath of man, which is rarely righteous. It will all be taking place simultaneously during these years called the Great Tribulation.
I wanted to take, before we conclude today, a few moments and take a look at personal tribulation. Jesus said to Christians in every generation, “In this world you will have tribulation.” Jesus also said, “Be of good cheer for I have overcome the world.” Of course, the biblical word for tribulation, the word “thlipsis,” means “pressure,” “stress,” “affliction,” and “trouble.” We all experience pressure, stress, affliction and trouble in this world, don’t we? Some of you are experiencing economic stress right now. Some of you feel afflicted physically. Maybe you’re struggling with a disease and maybe it’s life-threatening. Some of you are in pain relationally. Some of you are in pain emotionally because life is not easy in this world. While we have many times of joy, there is also sadness. How do you handle tribulation? In Revelation 7:14 we’re told the Great Tribulation is coming but of course there are lesser tribulations that every generation experiences and the causes may be many.
Sometime we’re afflicted and we’re suffering because of the power of darkness and satanic attack, the demonic forces. The Bible tells us that Satan afflicts and he tempts and he deceives. Maybe we’re suffering because of man, because of the evil that men do. Maybe somebody has done something to you. Maybe you’ve done something to yourself. Maybe your own misconduct has caused you to suffer or maybe some decisions that were poorly made or maybe you’re suffering just because we live in a fallen world and nature includes disaster and disease, accidents. Many causes, and yet we don’t want to fail the Lord in a time of tribulation. We want to be found faithful. We don’t seek tribulation.
Some Christians in past generations have made that mistake. They’ve actually sought tribulation as though that would prove them strong and make them more noble but I think Jesus tells us – even in the Lord’s Prayer – to pray for protection. Have you ever really looked at The Lord’s Prayer? “Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Lead us not into testing or temptation – the Greek word “peirazo” equally refers to testing or temptation. You could properly render The Lord’s Prayer, “Lead us not into testing.” Lead us not into testing or temptation but deliver us from evil, for Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.” You’re asking for protection. I say that prayer every day. I long for the Lord to protect my family, my loved ones, this church. I long for the Lord to protect you but of course sometimes tribulation comes. Sometimes we all experience trials and tests and suffering and how we handle that is so important.
In the year 1547 a young prince became king. He made the love of his life, the young lady that he had fallen in love with, his queen. He had chosen her out of a lineup of 2,000 young ladies, all high born, who were paraded before him. He chose her not simply because she was most beautiful, which surely she was, but there was just something in her eyes that melted this prince’s heart. He loved her. They ascended the throne together of this nation and they resolved together that they would make their nation the most Christian nation the earth had ever seen. They began together to build churches and to build cathedrals and to build schools and to reach out to the poor and they were beloved of the people.
And so it went for 13 wonderful years, but in the year 1560, after 13 years, the queen died and the king lost his great love. Something just snapped inside of him and there must have been evil lurking there because he was suddenly transformed into a monster. He began to hate God and he began to hate man. He began to hate the creation. Historians tell us that he sent his military forces, his vast armies, over towns and villages just slaughtering people meaninglessly, arbitrarily, capriciously. He began to murder children, even his own children he murdered. He began to torture his friends unto death. The people in that nation forgot the saint that once he was and only remembered the devil that he had become. Of course, historians refer to him today as Ivan the Terrible.
Paul Harvey, in his book “The Rest of the Story” tells us that he was once Ivan the Wonderful. History refers to him as Ivan IV, Czar of Russia, during the 16th century. He was obviously a man who didn’t handle loss very well, obviously a man who didn’t handle tribulation very well. Of course, most people, when they experience loss of loved ones, don’t become violent but they might become, at least for a season, depressed. They might turn inward. God understands but remember God has called us to productive lives in this world and He’s looking at how we handle tribulation and how we handle loss.
I want to tell you a little story—I know our time is wrapping up—about a woman named Anna Tuben Larson. You probably haven’t heard of her. We have her picture and we can put it up on the screen. She lived in the 19th century and people looked a little different, dressed a little different. Anna Tuben Larson was born in 1842. She gave her heart to Jesus when she was 6 years old. At the age of 19 in 1861 she fell in love and she was married to a wonderful man and they began to have kids. Oh, did she love her kids. In 1871, when they had been married for 10 years, their 4-year old boy, their only son, died of scarlet fever and Anna was in incredible grief but that was also the year of the Great Chicago Fire. Anna and her husband lived in Chicago and 100,000 people in the city of Chicago lost their homes and so she began to minister to them and she forgot her own pain. She forgot her own loss and with the love of Jesus Anna began to reach out to people who were in tribulation around her, people who were suffering around her and she ministered to them.
Just two years later, 1873, Anna and her husband decided to take a trip to England. Her husband was a prominent attorney. As a couple they were very close to D.L. Moody, the world-famous evangelist. They were going to England to hang out with D.L. Moody for a while and just enjoy their friendship and be part of a crusade he was going to do there. Anna and her husband were going to spend time in Europe and just have some fun but then an emergency came up in Chicago and Anna’s husband had to stay back for a time so he sent Anna and the four girls on a transatlantic voyage to go before him and he would come later.
I think many of you know what happened. Anna Tuben Larsen and her four daughters were on that French liner on that transatlantic voyage and there was a horrible collision at sea and the ship went down. Anna was holding three of the four kids in her arms as waves swept over the deck and they all went tumbling over. Anna alone was saved. She alone was rescued. She lost her four kids. She arrived at Cardiff and she radioed back to her husband, “Saved alone.”
How do you handle something like that? She and her husband loved Jesus. They knew that time in this world was brief anyway compared to eternity to come. They moved from Chicago to Jerusalem. There in Jerusalem they established a ministry called The Jerusalem Colony and they began to minister to children – Arab children, Muslim children, Jewish children – and they did it all in the name of Jesus. You can go to Jerusalem today and you can go to The American Colony as Barb and I have and you can stay there. You can spend the night there. You can eat a meal there. It’s wonderful. You can see their history. You can look at their Christian ministry that God established through Anna and her husband because they were faithful come what may.
Of course, you sang a song this morning. It was precious to Anna because her husband wrote it. Her husband was Horatio Spafford and she was Anna Tuben Larsen Spafford. Her husband wrote that great hymn you sang today. He wrote it when he crossed the ocean to see his wife. When he came to the spot where he lost his four kids, that’s when he wrote the song that you sang, “It Is Well With My Soul.” “Whatever my lot, You taught me to say, “It is well. It is well with my soul.” Can you imagine the depth of faith that it takes to come through that kind of tribulation?
I think we’re all going through stuff. I think you’ll probably have a few things at lunch today you could complain about but most of us have less pain in our lives than Anna and Horatio had. Most of us are doing a little better. I sure hope you are. God is watching and seeing how we handle pressure and stress, tribulation. In 1 Thessalonians, chapter 5 God says, “Give thanks in all circumstances.” He doesn’t say “for” all circumstances but “in the midst of” all circumstances give thanks. In James, chapter 1, “Count it all joy when you experience various trials, for you know the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.” That’s a beautiful passage. Hard to follow.
In I Corinthians, chapter 10, we see God was displeased with the Israelites because in the midst of their tribulation, they bickered and complained and grumbled. God is looking for people who are triumphant and who believe.
As we conclude the service today, I want to tell you one more little story about Eric Liddell. He won the Olympic Gold in 1924 in the 400 Meters. He was a world-class sprinter. The movie “Chariots of Fire,” the Academy Award winning movie which won “Best Picture,” basically tells the story of Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams. Eric Liddell, after his career in track and field, went on to become a missionary. He loved Jesus Christ and had given his heart to Jesus when he was very young. He went on to be a missionary in China. During World War II he was thrown into a prison camp and there he died but before he died Eric Liddell led many to Christ in China and in the prison camp he led many to Christ. He taught them all to sing his favorite song. He taught them all to sing his favorite song that he had sung his whole life again and again. He loved it so much he sang it to the end and he taught it to his friends. It is that great song called, “Be Still My Soul.” It was written in 1752 by Katarina van Schlegel. The words were put to one of the great national hymns of Finland called “Finlandia.” I want you to hear this song after I pray. I want you to hear the words of this song as some of our praise team are going to sing it for you. Maybe these words will help you as you’re going through some personal time of testing, some personal time of suffering. Let’s look to the Lord with a word of prayer.
“Lord Jesus, Sundays like this are kind of hard. We don’t like to think about tribulation, Lord. We know that the Great Tribulation is coming on this earth. You have said it in Your Word, and Your Word never returns void. Lord, we know that this time of tribulation is coming on the world. We all would love You to just take us out of the world before then and yet Lord, we just want to be faithful. We want to be faithful until we see You face-to-face. We want to be faithful come what may, not matter what happens. We want to be people of joy and we want to be people of vision and people of mission, people who triumph, people whose service to you in unquenchable, whose longing for You in unquenchable. Lord help us to serve You faithfully on this earth head to toe as long as we draw breath, come what may. Lord, bless every person in this room. Bless their families. Lord, we pray for protection. We also pray for courage and strength in times of sorrow. We love you Lord Jesus. We pray this in Your Great and Matchless Name. Maranatha. Come, Lord Jesus.