As I bring this series of messages on the second coming of the Lord Jesus to a close,

I want to remind you of what I said at the very beginning.

This Olivet discourse that we have been looking at from Matthew 24 and 25,

and I told you that this is the longest answer that Jesus had given to any question that

has ever been asked.

Now, that in itself ought to make you sit back and take notice because Jesus obviously

was to communicate some things to us, namely that you and I who know

the Lord Jesus Christ must take his second coming very seriously. He does, and therefore

you and I ought to. Jesus wants his own to live expectantly of his return, that Jesus wants his own to be prepared

for his second coming, that Jesus wants to warn his own, to be careful, to be forewarn of false

teachers and false messiahs and false preachers and false teaching.

In fact, Jesus spoke more about heaven and hell than anybody in the Bible.

And he spoke more about hell than he spoke about heaven. Why? Because he knew what it's like. He is a creator of the

universe. And as a creator of the universe, he knows what that place is like. It's prepared originally

for Satan and his demons. And that is why he pleads with people to repent. He pleads with them to accept God's

plan for salvation as the only way for salvation. That he's pleading with people to take refuge in

him, to take refuge in his cross, to take refuge before the wrath of God is revealed.

He is pleading with people to escape the judgment of God.

He is pleading with them to come and be redeemed and be eternally saved.

He is pleading with people to count the high cost of rejecting him as the only way to the Father, as the only way to heaven, as the only way to salvation.

You will never hear him speak with vengeance or with hostility or in anger.

No, no, no, you can't find that in the scripture.

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