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All week we've looked at an Irish prayer from St. Patrick called St. Patrick's

breastplate or the Deers Cry. So let me read the beginning of it here. I rise today through a mighty

strength, the invocation of the Trinity, through believe in the threiness, through confession of the

oneness of the creator of creation. I rise today through the strength of Christ with his baptism, through the strength of his

crucifixion with his burial, through the strength of his resurrection with his ascension,

through the strength of his descent for the judgment of doom.

So today we're going to key in on this line, I arise today through the strength of his

descent for the judgment of doom. In Acts 17, Luke records Paul

addressing the Ariopagus in Greece, and verses 30 and 31 quotes Paul is saying,

The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he

has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed.

And of this, he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.

And with that, you know, if you're wondering what that judgment would look like,

Paul actually says this in First Thessalonians chapter four verse 16.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command with the voice of an archangel

and with the sound of the trumpet of god and the dead in christ will rise first so then we see in

revelation 20 we see the apostle john talk about the judgment before the great white throne so let's start in verse

11 then i saw a great white throne in him who is seated on it.

From his presence, earth and sky fled away and no place was found for them.

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