Hello and welcome to the House of Faith Ministries. I'm Lisa Kaine and I'm recording this message here on Thursday, January 18th, 2024. Welcome. This message is called the wedding. We're talking end time prophecy. I love teaching on end time prophecy and I hope you guys are going to enjoy this. Let's open up in a word of prayer. Father God, we thank you for your word and we bless your word that it does not return void. We pray and ask that our hearts are softened, that our eyes and ears are open to see and hear the word of God because you're because Jesus said that if we saw and heard we would believe. So I'm praying, Father God, for an understanding, a spirit of understanding to go forth to all the listeners of this message that they understand what the Holy Spirit is trying to teach. Move me inside. Let the Holy Spirit speak through me articulately and let this message be taught properly and correctly, Father God, in the name of Jesus. Amen. And amen. Amen. So, end time prophecy. Yeah. We're going to be talking about the wedding. And I'm going to tell you right now up front, this is at least it's a multi-part message and at least right now is two parts. So, I will get you the second part. I do have another message in between here. And I'm very excited though because this is good. So, we're going to be talking about the wedding in this message and I'm going to show you how the wedding plays into end time prophecy and how it plays in the role of the day of the Lord. Now, that's going to be the second part of the message. Okay? So, right now, let's delve into the wedding. Let's go to our opening scriptures here. We're in Revelation 7:9 and 10. After this I beheld, and lo, a great multitude which no man could number of all nations and kindreds and people and tongues stood before the throne and before the Lamb clothed with white robes and palms in their hands and cried with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation," or that means rescue, safety, deliver to our God, which siteth, he sits down and dwells upon the throne and unto the lamb. So here in Revelation 7, there's a group of people that show up in heaven out of nowhere. Now, who are these people? Well, the questions asked and answered in scripture. Let's continue. We're still in Revelation 7. Now, we're down to verse 13. And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, "What are these which are arrayed in white robes? And whence came they?" And I said unto him, now this is John the beloved writing the book of John uh the book of Revelation. And John says unto him, "Sir, thou knowest." And he, this elder, said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the lamb. Now, we know that our sins are pardoned by the blood of Jesus. Jesus is the lamb of God. This is this these this this group of people is suddenly all of these believers from the past which would be actually up to the day that Jesus uh rose from the dead because he brought the previous people who were in paradise out of the graves with him when he rose from the dead. So those people were taken absent from the body present with the Lord. So those that believed in God and were saved in paradise at the time Jesus rose from the grave, he took them. So now this is so they're there and this is the rest of us, the the ones that have died since then and the ones that are living but had to transform in in the rapture. I'm going show this here in just a moment. All of these people suddenly are there in heaven in Revelation 7. They just suddenly show up. Now, how do I know this is all these people? Well, let's go look. You have to understand as Revelation looks at things. This what we see in Revelation 7 is John who's writing Revelation. He it's from his point of view. He suddenly sees a whole bunch of people show up in heaven. Now, in the book of Revelation in chapter 12, there is a summary from Israel all the way to Revelation that there's a summary of events and we're talked about in that summary of events. Let's go look at that point of view because that's a different point of view than from what John was and it's a summary. So here in revelation 12 10 and 11 and I heard a loud voice saying in heaven now is come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ pause. How do I know this is about us? Because when Jesus was walking on the earth in his three years of ministry, what did he say? He said the kingdom of God is at hand. So this is about us because we're the ones who believe in Jesus and we're the ones marching as a kingdom of God taking back what belongs to us because that's what we are. We pray, we ask for forgiveness, we walk in grace, we walk in mercy, and we have to deal with the accuser day and night. Look at the scripture. He says here, "For the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night." This is us. Look at verse uh 11. And they overcame him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony and they love not their lives unto the death. Let me explain that we're overcome by the blood of the lamb. Jesus pardon our sins and we f we we accept the Lord. I'm going to show this to you in the wedding here in just a moment. So those of us who believe in Christ are forgiven. Now did you see what he said here? Because you got to catch the scriptures and by the word of their testimony. It says, "And they love not their lives unto the death." Listen to what that just said. And I hope you get this. You see, Hebrews 9:27 says, "Every man is appointed to die once." But there's a blessing that takes place for these people that are alive at the time of the day of the Lord. Now, I'm going to connect this in part two, but for now, I want you to hear that when that rapture takes place, Paul describes it as the living, transforming by the twinkle of the eye. They don't die. Well, doesn't that contradict the word of God? Look at what he says here. He says, "And they love not their lives unto the death." This group of people that go in this rapture, they died to the world. They don't love their lives. They give God the glory. So, they're already dead, which meets the requirement of what the scriptures say that every man is appointed to die once. Okay. Now, I want to talk about the wedding and I will go into the rapture uh as we go into the end of this message and into part two. Okay? So, now how so we're going to be talking about the wedding. So, how does the wedding work? because I want you to see it from God's perspective because the wedding tells us all the activities that are going on and how we can line up with the word of God and see where we are in end time prophecy is remarkable. So let's go look at uh Romans 10 9 and 10. that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe or have faith in thine heart that God hath raised him or waken him from the dead, thou shalt be saved to deliver, protect, heal, preserve. For with the heart, which is your thoughts or feelings, man believeth unto righteousness, which is equity, justification, and with the mouth confession, you're acknowledging, you're making a covenant. Your betroing is your betro is made into salvation which is your rescue, safety, deliverer. The moment you ask Jesus into you your heart, you become betrothed unto Jesus. Now, let's talk about the Galilean wedding because I really want you to see how this works because Jesus puts end time prophecy into this wedding part because he wants you to see and understand how the role of the kingdom of God, the body of Christ, us play into this because we do have a part of it. We don't have a part in the seven-year time period of God's wrath. Why don't we have a part there? one, go to uh go to Daniel and go to Revelation, excuse me, and look and see. Is grace taught? No. When the two witnesses come on the scene and they seal the 144,000 Jews, they are judging the earth. They're calling down fire from heaven and they're judging the earth. There's no grace here, which means our job is done. Also, it's said in scriptures by Paul, we're not appointed to God's wrath. We're not. So, we'll get to this, but I want you to see how the wedding works. So, let's This is when you get saved. Watch how this works. The Galilean wedding is done in legal contracts. Now, I'm going to be teaching on the courtroom of God here very shortly. There's another message I have prepared for this and it is so exciting. When you get into the legalities and what the devil has to do, oh my word, you wait for that. That is that is awesome. So anyways, at the gate all so the the father of the groom, the groom and the potential bride will show up at the gate. This is where all legal transactions take place is at the gate. The elders are there. All of this stuff is done at the gate. Um and there's witnesses. The elders become witnesses. So what the potential groom does, the son of the father, he's going to get a glass. He's going to put some wine in it. He's going to drink it. And he's going to hand it to his potential bride. And that's his redemption. He pardoned us of our sins. You can see the salvation there. So we or the bride if she wants to marry him, she will drink the cup. That becomes the agreement between the groom and the bride. Now the father is a witness. He saw it. He's the one who picks out the bride, by the way, if I hadn't said that already. And then uh the witnesses saw. So there's all these witnesses. Okay. So, there's an agreement in place. You become betrothed to Jesus Christ at that very moment. The moment you become saved, he is your groom to be. He's going to be your husband. Okay? He's the the he's the the groom. You're the bride. Okay? Now, the groom has a role to play. Jesus said, "I have to go to my father to prepare a place for you." He has to bring his wife or his bride it to the house, but he's got to do some construction. He's got to build a place for her. He's got to build her a room. He's got to build all this. So, we know that there's a new Jerusalem coming because Jesus is in the process of preparing a place for us right now. He said, you can go look up the scriptures of this. He said, "I go to my father's house to prepare a place for you." So, he's telling us, "I will come back for you." So, he's coming back to get us. Now, the bride has a role. She has to go get her wedding gown. It has to be made. She got to get her nails done, her hair done as it gets a little closer to that time frame. She's preparing herself so much so that when it gets real close to the time, cuz see, the father is the only one who knows the date. Watch how this Galilean work wedding works. This is awesome. The father is going to tell his servants, "Go put up the tent. Get the tables and chairs ready. We We're going to host a big wedding feast." So, he's getting the infrastructure already. And I'm going to show you God has already done that. We're going to see that part. That part is done. He's also going to prepare a whole bunch of food. Now, what is this? If you're have you ever cooked in the kitchen, you know that if you're going to prepare food, how long does it take to prepare food? Well, and how to keep it warm, you got to keep it warm, you got to keep it fresh, got to stay tasty and good in the wedding, right? It takes time to prepare that much food, but it also takes it goes quickly. That time goes quickly. But those people know, the chef knows when the feast is going to be served. The servants know when the feast is going to be served. The bride and groom don't. Are you catching this? But they're prepared and they know it's coming soon. So, in the Galilean wedding, the father's going to tell the the the the chef and he's going to tell his servants, "Go get the food ready." And then he looks to his groom, his son, excuse me, and it he says, "Go get your bride." And so a trumpet is blown. And the bride and the groom who've been sleeping in their wedding clothes, who have got extra canisters of oil that they've been saving and putting aside because they're getting ready for they got to keep the light lit in the dark. They and the trumpets's blown in the dark. So here they come in. The groom comes in. He lifts his bride up. She's caught up in the heavens and they enter into the wedding feast. That's how a Galilean wedding is represented for the bride of Christ and to the end times. This is so you could see the rapture, the catching up. It's what the word rapura means. And for those of you who think, well, the word rapture is not in the Bible. You're correct. Sort of. It's in the Latin Bible and it says raptor, but it means catching up or gathering together. Caught up. And that word caught up is in the Bible. So the rapture is in the Bible. Okay? So I hope you get that and understand it. It is there and it is event that is for the bride of Christ. Now I'm going to explain that and this is why there's going to be a part two. Now, let's look at the parable of the wedding because now that you kind of got a groundwork laid here, a foundation, watch Jesus talk about it. This is awesome. We're going to be in Matthew 22 and we're going to read verses 1-14. And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables and said, "The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son, and sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding, and they would not come." Who didn't come? Israel. They were supposed to come to the wedding. They were supposed to see Jesus as their Messiah. The problem is they were looking for a king. They weren't looking for a priest. They were looking for a king. And so Jesus, who had to redeem us first, that's his first role. And the scriptures were very clear, but they missed it. You see, Daniel saw when Messiah would get cut off. They should have known. The wise men showed up and declared the child as the Messiah. The angel showed up to the shepherds in the field. They should have known because the angel said, "Your Messiah has been born." and they went and found him just like the angel said. Then John the Baptist came along and says, "I'm not the one, but I'm a voice crying in the wilderness preparing the way for the one." And then when the one showed up that he said, "This is he, the one I've been telling you about that I'm not worthy to untie his shoes." So all that prophecy and more took place in heaven. and Israel when uh Pilate put on the sign above it Jesus on the cross says king of the Jews they said no rewrite it and say he said he was king of the Jews and pilot wouldn't reenter he says leave it alone because he is king of the Jews but he hasn't come back as king yet he's going to come back as king and you're going to see that in the end of the scripture now understand what's going on here Israel was invited they missed it and because they missed it now They got a front row. They to they accepted the invitation to the seven-year time period of God's wrath because as Daniel stated, they have they have to serve God uh 490 years of punishment. Well, they've done 483. You can go look at Daniel and research that they owe God seven years. And so God since they rejected, which it needed to happen, this was going to happen. He knew it was going to happen. But now they have to serve their time in the seven-year time period of God's wrath. So understand that Israel is going to be a main focus of the seven-year time period of God's wrath. In the meantime, when they rejected Christ and the veil was torn in two, Jesus came out of the grave with all the previous people out of the graves and they went walking around talking to people sharing, "Hey, this is the Messiah and he is the groom. He is the redeemer. Go and into all the world. Jesus said to his bride, "Go into all the world. Preach the good news. Share the gospel. Let them know that their sins have been pardoned if they want to accept their pardon." And so this is what you and I are doing today. Still, this time period has not changed. Not till the day of the Lord arrives. And we'll get to that later. So now you see that Israel didn't show up to the wedding that he was in they that Israel was invited to. Now watch in verse four again. He sent forth other servants saying tell them which are bidden. Behold, I have prepared my dinner. My oxen and my fat wings are killed. All things are ready come into the marriage. See they're killed. They haven't been cooked yet because they're going to be cooked here in a moment. They're preserved. You see how the chef knows the time? I I I got you. You got to get this. We know the time. We know the day and we know the hour of our Lord's return. If you're watching, you will know because the Holy Spirit is going to share that with you. I have not been authorized to release that information or to know that information for and you know what? Whether I'm right or wrong, it doesn't matter. You know why? Because if he doesn't come on the day that I think he's going to come, I'm still going to believe him because he's my groom and I'm going to give him the glory, praise, and honor and strength no matter what. I may be slightly disappointed, but I'm not God. And I understand. So, I humble myself before the Lord, but I know that we will know. So, here it's all ready. He's got this is the wedding. He's got everything prepared. And he invited his servants. And he sent out other servants, which by the way, these other servants are the prophets. Look what they did. Verse five, but they made light of it and went their ways. One to his farm, another to his merchandise. They were too busy with life. And in fact, look what they did. And the remnant took his servants and intreated them spitefully and slew them. prophets were um killed. They were telling them, the Israelites, look at God. This is God. And they killed the prophets. So, Israel not only killed their prophets, they missed their date and time. And all of this is done um by God. He is controlling everything. So, he's doing this on purpose. But there were those that saw it coming. They knew those that knew their father. Amen. Let's continue on with this parable. Verse seven, but when the king heard thereof, he was wroth and he sent forth his armies and destroyed those murderers and burned up their cities. Now, that scripture, I want you to see something here. When the day of the Lord comes, there's going to be an army trying to invade Israel. It's Gog and Magog and all of their allies. Some theologians believe it's a two million man army. It's a large army. I don't know about million men. I don't know how many, but it's it's coming again. You will know because you're going to see this army marching unto um Israel. Well, God is so mad at them, he destroys them. They never make it into Israel. It's going to take Israel seven months to clean up all those bodies, bury all those bodies at that time. This is in Ezekiel 38:39. You can go read that. Do you see the scripture talking about that? And yet he's talking about the wedding. You see how this is all connecting to the day of the Lord. Now, let's continue on. Then say he to his servants, "The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy." You know, Israel didn't show up. They weren't worthy. They missed it. Well, some missed it. The the one the Pharisees and the Sadducees, the leadership of Israel missed it. So as a nation they missed it because there was evil leadership in their their nation at the time. But the prophets got it. Daniel knew. The wise men knew. Are you seeing this? Because even if you're an American, we have evil leadership. There are the individuals who are watching and waiting. This is why we can pray for that evil leadership, but we need to make sure we're watching individually. You need to be watching. I need to be watching because that's what we were told to do as a believer in Christ. When you see him say no one knows the day nor the hour, he says, "But watch." After he says it's like the days of Noah, go to Matthew 24. Read it in the order it's in because it's going to show you the audience who he's talking to. Those that watch are the believers. The the dead don't watch. That's the unbelievers. They're dead. And Israel, they are already designated to go into the seven-year time period. Doesn't matter. But they're not watching. You see catching this? Watch, watch, watch, watch. Let's continue on. So he tells them in verse 9, talking to the servants, "Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage." Now he's telling them, "Go get the Gentiles." That's what he's saying. Look at this. So those servants went out into the highways and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good. And the wedding was furnished with guests. So now he's got the Gentiles, as many as he could, and he's got a wedding feast going on. It is prepared. He's got the marriage ready. It's going to take place. That's already done, folks. You saw in Revelation 7, all these people suddenly show up. He He's bring he's gathering everybody together for the wedding. Now, watch this. I want to show you a little golden nugget here um that my dad was mentioning the other day, and it's possible. And I I want you to catch this. See if you think the same way. You can always comment and send me a message and we can discuss this at length. Um verse 11. And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on wedding garments. You know, when you're invited to a wedding, you have to dress appropriately for your role in the wedding. You don't wear white because the bride wears white. So, you have to put on your wedding garments, whatever they may be, but you dress up like your Sunday best for church or like you're going for your Sunday best church service. You come in wearing wedding clothes, but there's a man that showed up that didn't have wedding clothes. Who is this man? I just the parable is so cool. I wanted to end this parable and show this to you. Verse 12. And he saith unto him, friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment, and he was speechless. It's like he got caught red-handed, right? He's like, so here we go in verse 13. Then said the king to the servants, "Bind him hand and foot and take him away and cast him into outer darkness. There shall be weeping and nashing of teeth, for many are called, but few are chosen.

Who is this man?" When God chose when Jesus chose his 12 disciples, one disciple betrayed him, Judas the Scariot. Is it possible because he's part of the 12, the invitation was already sent out for the wedding and he had an invitation, but he showed up not properly dressed and God had to remove him from the wedding. And then did you see this key part here? For many are called, but few are chosen. You see, Judas ended up, he didn't repent. He ended up committing suicide and that was the end of him and few many are called but few are chosen. You see there are few of us who are actually delving into the secret place with the Lord and delving into the scriptures of the word. This is very important because you have been called. Now do you want to be chosen or not? And if you think you're unworthy, you need to be going and talking to Jesus because he has prepared a table for you in front of you. Excuse me. He's prepared a table for you in front of your enemies. This is how much he loves you. And he has put all of this food on this table for you to partake of and to have a relationship with him. Are you eating the food? Are you talking with him? Or are you letting the devil come at your table and call you unworthy when you've got the king sitting right across from you? Psalm 23. It's a neat teaching. I just watched this teaching the other day. It was really cool. So, let's continue on now. In Luke 12:36 and 38, "And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their Lord, when he will return from the wedding, that when he cometh and knockketh, they may open unto him immediately." I want you to see this because this this all ties into end time prophecy and in to the seven-year time period of God's wrath. Verse 37, "Blessed are those servants whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching." Now remember, he said, "Watch." So he told no, he told the dead church, "You, you're not you're going to miss it. It's going to be like a thief in the night to you cuz you're dead. You're not watching." See, listen to the word cuz you're dead and you're not watching. But see, if you're watching, you're not going to come like a thief in the night because you're prepared. You got your wedding dress on. You're sleeping in your wedding clothes. You got extra oil canisters in case it comes at night time because you need oil to keep your lamp lit. You're prepared. How did you prepare? You spend time with God. You call on him. You pray with him. You get into the secret place with him. You sit at the table he prepared for you in front of his of your enemies. You are ready for his return. You go to bed with his wedding with your wedding garments on. You're ready to stand up. I'm ready. I'm ready. I got my wedding clothes on. I got my bridal gear on. I got my extra oil canisters because remember the 10 virgins, a parable of the 10 virgins. 50% of them, they're all virgins. They're all brides.

50% were prepared, 50% worked. Remember this guy shows up at the wedding didn't have the wedding garments on. Will you have your wedding garment on when that day arrives? That's a question you need to be asking yourself. And how do you get your wedding garment? You got to go find the material. Go read the word of God. You got to get it assembled. Go read the word of God and pray. You got to get it on. You need to see that you have to put on the whole armor of God. It's part of your wedding gear. Personally, I think that's a beautiful wedding gown in and of itself because you are part of God's army. I'm going to show that here in just a moment. Anyways, let's continue on. Uh, so blessed are those servants whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching. So we're watching. Verily I say unto you that he shall gard himself and make them to sit down to meet and will come forth and serve them. So we're going to enter into this wedding feast and he's going to give us food and we're going to sit down in this feast together. Now look at this. And if he shall come in the second watch or come in the third watch and find them, so blessed are those servants. Now watch how this connects to Revelation and the seven-year time period of God's wrath. So on the day of the Lord, you're going to see that you saw it in Revelation 7 in our opening scripture that a bunch of people suddenly show up. Then that you're going to see the two witnesses and you're going to see the ceiling of the Actually, you see the sealing of the 144,000 and the two witnesses prior to these people showing up in heaven. Go read the scripture. Go read all of Revelation 7. Do a little homework and you will see the scripture. They will show you. The Holy Spirit will show you. That's part of getting your wedding gown prepared and put on. So as you see that there's if you notice that there's a theologian theological debate about pre-trib midtrip post-trib rapture well in the middle of the seven-year time period of God's wrath. I like to call it that versus the tribulation. I think it's more appropriate because it is God's wrath pouring out. We're in tribulation now. But God's wrath pours out in this sevenyear and it is awful. It is worse than anything ever. And there's nothing that's ever going to be compared to it again. Scriptures tell us this. So, in the middle of it, the two and a half witnesses who have been judging for uh three and a half years, 1,260 days, they're killed and their bodies lay on the street for 3 and 1/2 days. Well, after and the people start handing gifts out to each other because they're thrilled. They're they're glad that this is done because he's not killing them. Well, then after three and a half days, God says, "Come up here." So they get up and they go. That's a resurrection of the dead. By the way, Jesus when he died, he was resurrected. He was dead. The rapture is for the living. That is the people that are still alive in righteousness that change in the twinkling of an eye. And those are the people with the ones that were dead who showed up the first time in Revelation 7. Well, there's a second coming that a second group of people who come in. Now the Galilean wedding shows that the door is shut on the feast and God says here I and if he shall come in the second watch or come in the third watch and find them so watching blessed are those servants because when the two and a half witnesses are killed there's going to be several people who have died for Christ during that time he takes them then there is a third it's called the first resurrection it's at the end of the sevenyear time period of God's wrath and the reason it's called the first resurrection because these people, they're called martyrs. They're given their bodies at this time. So, they're the first ones that are going to get their bodies. These are martyrs. These are people who died for Christ. And I believe it's died for Christ throughout history. The all these people are going to come and rule and reign with Christ for a thousand years. So, you can go read that and look at that. Well, in that moment again, he's bringing them up out of the grave. a third watch. So here God is saying, "I am preparing to come and get you again and get you again because I want all of you together." You see, God has to deal with sin. And this is why God's wrath is going to be poured out. But all the people have to be removed from the earth.

You want to know why the rapture has to take place? I'm going to digress. I I got just a couple of minutes here. I'm going to try to do this as quickly as possible. When Jesus says it'll be like the days of Noah. You go to the days of Noah. You're down to before the flood. You're you got Methuselah, a righteous man left, and Noah, a righteous man left. And remember the conversation that Abraham had with God when Lot was taken out of Sodom and Gomorrah. He said, 'If there's 50 righteous, will you you destroy the city? God said, 'N no. How about 30? How about 20? How about 10? And God says no every time. So there's a threshold. God has a threshold of 10 righteous people in a city. Well, it's down to Methuselah, Noah, his wife, his three sons. That's six people. And then you get three the the w the son's wives. That's nine people. They are under the threshold of 10. This allows God because when Methuselah died, this allowed God to remove all the righteous from the earth and actually pour his wrath on the word earth and judge the earth with the flood is what he did making Noah he brought them out like he did with Lot and his family. Lot it was Lot, his wife and his two daughters that were taken out. That's only four. And the wife turned around turned into a pillar of salt. You know this. So now you can understand why the rapture has to take place because there's righteous people all over the world. How do I know there's righteous pe people, not just me, because I know I'm not the only one. There are cities still alive. They're not being destroyed. That's a that's a testimony that tells me right now there's more than 10 righteous people in every city and in every nation that exists in this world. Okay. So now when that day of the Lord comes, God is giving the righteous a blessing. You see, when Methuselah died, he died of old age. God promised him and all the patriarchs long life if you don't sin. They didn't sin. They met the rules and the requirements of that time period. And they were blessed with lives over 900 years long. Do you believe? Now look at um the rapture. We're blessed. We're supposed to have a long life. So what God does because he's got a clock that he needs to honor and keep, he removes us in the twinkling of an eye that are living. We don't have to face the pain and suffering of death. We're blessed because we already died to the earth. Now when you understand why the rapture happens, now you understand why it has to take place before he uh pours out his wrath. Because he's not going to pour his wrath out on his bride. No, he loves her. He loves me. He loves you. So, he removes us. And then we get married. Let's look at what happens after we're married. Revelation 195 and 8. And a voice came out of the throne, saying, "Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him both small and great. And I heard as it w