Pastor Steve explains the real issues our entire world will soon face during the last crisis when the mark of the beast is globally enforced (see Revelation 13:16, 17).

Forward to Zion: Ohio Hometown Camp Meeting 2013

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Forward to Zion

Steve Wohlberg

God’s Last Message: Christ Our Righteousness

If you have your Bibles, I invite you to open up to the book of Revelation, chapter 18.

God's last message, Christ our righteousness.

Let's read the verse, Revelation 18, 1, and then let's pray.

The Bible says, After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great power, and the earth was lightened with his glory.

Dear God, dear Jesus, this is the hour of power.

I know that you have been blessing all of the presenters and you have blessed my first talk yesterday and this morning is really like the highlight of the weekend.

And we just pray, God, that you will take charge of our time together.

I've been impressed recently that I should pray also that you would deliver me from the sins of the spotlight of being at the center of people's eyesight Because Lord, I want you Jesus to be at the center of our focus Not Steve Wahlberg Jesus needs to be lifted up and I pray Lord that that will happen today That Jesus will be lifted up that your truth will be very very powerful and that you will help all of us to understand it and then to surrender our lives to you.

God, please bless us right now in a mighty way.

All right, I wanna start out by telling you a little story about this picture on the screen.

My little eight-year-old boy, actually he's not so little anymore, he's getting bigger every day.

He came running in from the bedroom into the living room where I was and he drew that little picture after that.

And he said, he said, Daddy, Daddy, I had a dream last night.

And he said, Daddy, in my dream, I dreamed that I went to heaven.

He said, I dreamed that I went to the new Jerusalem.

And he said, and I saw the streets of gold in the New Jerusalem.

And then he said, he said, and daddy, I saw Jesus sitting on a throne.

He was so bright that I had to squint in order to see him.

And Seth said, Daddy, you need to put this on Facebook.

So I said, well, draw the picture, and I'll do that.

So he drew this little picture that you see here.

That's a dream, there's Jesus sitting on the throne and the bright rays of light coming out of him.

And I took a picture of that on my cell phone and I put it up on my Facebook page and got a lot of responses, quite a few responses.

And after, as he and I were discussing this, I just thought to myself, my mind went to a verse in the book of Acts.

And I opened my Bible and I turned to the book of Acts chapter 2 and I opened it up and I showed Seth this verse where it says in verse 17 and 18 that in the last days, God says I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh.

And then it says somewhere in here that people will dream dreams when the Holy Spirit is poured out.

And he was sitting next to me and he looked at that Bible verse and when he saw last days in Acts 2.17 and dreaming, then he put his little hand on his heart and he just went – he said, Daddy, these are the last days.

And he could just, he could feel it in his soul that we were in the final days.

And I can't help but think, you know, what's it gonna be like when we get up there and we see Jesus sitting on his throne, and he is going to be so bright.

Revelation 18, verse 1, tells us, as we already read, that before Jesus comes, God's brightness is going to burst all around the world.

Revelation 18 1 says, "'After these things, I saw another angel "'coming down from heaven, having great power, "'and the earth was lightened with his glory." Did you see that?

Now I don't believe that this means that the dirt is going to start glowing.

What this is talking about is that in the final days, right before Jesus comes, there is going to be an angelic manifestation or a Holy Spirit manifestation of tremendous light and power that's gonna belt the world.

And that light is going to shine into people's minds and into their hearts.

It's basically God saying that this is my last call.

Last call before the door closes, the door of the ark.

Last call before probation comes to an end.

It's Jesus sending his light and saying, this is it, this is it.

Come to me, Jesus is going to be saying, and make the right choice.

And I've been, I have pondered this verse for many years, and I've thought about it, I've prayed about it, and my earnest desire is to be a part of that light when it comes down and shines.

Now, as I have studied this verse and realized what the whole chapter is talking about and compared it with other verses in the book of Revelation, I have come to the conclusion that the angel that comes down in Revelation 18.1 and lightens the earth with his glory, that in the heart of that glory, in the heart of that light, and that brightness, is a very powerful message about Jesus Christ Himself.

That He is at the heart of God's message.

That Jesus would be at the heart of God's message.

And I'm also going to show you as we go on, that the heart of that message has to do with a distinct message of Jesus Christ as our righteousness.

And that's what I will be unpacking for you as we move along.

If you have studied your Bible carefully and studied prophecy, studied Revelation, and studied the spirit of prophecy, and put the pieces together, you have discovered that the angel that comes down in Revelation 18.1, which we often refer to as the fourth angel, that what he does really is he comes down and he combines his power with the messages of the 3 angels in Revelation 14 during the final crisis.

Especially with the third angel's message.

The fourth angel comes down and gives special power to the third angel's message during the final crisis.

And when you study this carefully, it's definitely there.

Revelation 18 talks about the fall of Babylon, which is mentioned in the second angel.

And what is the final message to the world?

So go back to Revelation 14, and the 3 angels' messages are found in verses 6 and 7 is message 1, verse 8 is message 2, and then verse 9 says that the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice.

So the third is the last, it's the last of the 3 who gives the final message.

And When you read the context of Revelation 14, when you get to, toward the end of the chapter, after the 3 angels' messages, in verse 14, we have a picture of the coming of Christ on a white cloud.

14.14 says, behold, I saw a white cloud, and on the cloud was the Son of Man.

So when you look at the order in Revelation 14, we have the 3 angels' messages, the third angel being the last message, and then we have a description of the return of Jesus Christ.

So God has a last message to give to the world, last call, 3 angels' messages.

Verse 12 is the conclusion of the last message that God gives to the world, that the fourth angel comes down and gives special power to.

Right, that keep the commandments of God and it says they have the faith of Jesus.

Now I'm going to show you as we go along, we're going to have a real Bible study in just a little while, it's going to be very powerful, from the book of Romans.

I'm gonna show you how the message of the righteousness of Christ is at the heart of this message.

I'm gonna show you that, I'm gonna make it very, very plain.

This verse is talking about a group of people called saints.

Saints who are ready for the second coming.

That's really the first part of the conclusion of the message.

And I'm gonna show you that the only way that anyone can keep the commandments of God is through Jesus Christ and His righteousness.

I'm gonna prove that to you from the Bible in just a little bit.

And then it says, and the faith, they also have the faith of Jesus.

Now, I've noticed something about this verse.

That period is the last period at the end of the last message for the last time.

And what is the word or the name before the period?

God’s Last Message: Christ Our Righteousness

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