As I bring this series of messages on the second coming of the Lord Jesus to 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 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. That ought to tell you something. He spoke about hell

in the most dire and vivid, descriptive language that you'll ever find in the scripture.

And here is a fact. Most of what we know about hell, if not all that we know about hell, comes from the lips

of the Savior.

That's really all we know.

And yet, he spoke of judgment and the judgment day with the most caring, passionate,

and compassionate language in the Bible.

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. He's pleading with people

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