Remain Till End

Those who will remain faithful and loyal to Jesus Christ till the end are the clouds that will be covering the body of Christ. How far are you willing to go? How long are you willing to last? You need to choose and the moment we choose Him, the rest is history. He will never let go of you.

You will, along the way you will, but He won't because He made a promise, I am with you all the days of your life and until the end of all ages. You walk astray, I am the good shepherd seeking the lost sheep. You fall, I'll put you back on your feet.

You go on to the grave, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me even if he dies shall live but he who eats my body and drinks my blood will live in me forever. These are the seals, the promises of Christ to all those who believe in Him and trust in Him.

He is clothed with a cloud, the cloud is the church, the saints of Christ. Since the clouds are the saints, well of course and a rainbow was on his head. The rainbow is the promise of God to humanity.

At the great flood, the ark of Noah, when the Lord God flooded the whole globe and every human being perished except eight people, it was Noah, his wife, his three children, and three daughter-in-laws. Eight people entered the ark. After the flood had receded, rainbow appeared in the sky and God said, I will never, I make a promise and my promise is this rainbow, I will never bring rain on the face of this earth that will flood the entire globe.

I will never flood the world with water. But God did not promise, I will not burn the globe with fire. But he promised he's not going to bring a flood.

So they can do cloud seeding but they ain't gonna succeed because the Lord will burn the world with fire, not water. With fire, that's a promise. Yes, so now the rainbow came out after the great flood and he said no more flood, that's a promise and that promise he said the rainbow was what? Over his head.

Why over the head? Because the head is where the thought is, where the word is, meaning you are in my thoughts always, even when I come to bring judgment on the face of this world, you are in my thought. Those who are seeking me, those who are chasing after me, those who believe in me, even when I come to bring fire to the world, those who belong to me, you are in my thought. I never, never forsake you.

I will deliver you. I've made a promise, no more I will kill those who love me and are after me and be wanting to be with me in the end. I am the God who sticks to his word and delivers everything he says.

The rainbow is a promise of deliverance. Now, what was on his head? His face like the sun. Well, if he was clothed with a cloud, the saints, if the saints are the body or members in the body of Christ, I should say, then the face of Christ is the sun because it is the sun that made this cloud possible.

Remember, the sun struck the ocean, heated the water, evaporated it, and at the top, the cold wind struck that vapor, turned it into a cloud, so the sun, Jesus Christ, the S-U-N and the S-O-N made this worldly person into a heavenly divine person. And his face was like the sun. Look at this, and his feet like pillars of fire.

Why the feet are like pillars of fire? Because trumpet number six, not Trump, trumpet number six, has gone deep into the end of times. So the Lord is coming to judge. He's not coming to say hello.

No, in his first coming, he was nice and kind. The second coming, he will not tolerate nonsense. So what are his feet like? Pillars of fire.

Fire is judgment. You see, the Lord perished the world with water at the beginning. In the end, he will perish it with fire.

So fire is judgment because Saint Paul says, everything gets tested with fire. The grass, the wood, the brick, the silver, the copper, the silver, the gold, everything gets tested with fire. So his feet are like pillars of fire because the Lord is saying, when I come back on my second return, the world will be so evil, my feet need to be like fire in order to overcome the evilness of that generation.

And he said it, he said, when the son of man comes back again, will he find faith on earth? No. The whole world would have denied him. And are we tasting some of that in our time and age? Are we? Yes.

If you look at the church, now look, the Lord is focused on the church. He's not focused on the world. The world has a day to be judged but the Lord's children is the church.

The Lord gets angry with the church, not with the world because the world never accepted him. But those who have accepted him, he made them the sons of God. He made them the heirs to the throne and the children of the kingdom.

Now he's got a connection with the church. When you look at the church nowadays, when the church is living or enjoying freedom, it's very easy to love the Lord. It's very easy to speak about the Lord because everything is easy.

I have the full right to say whatever without anyone stopping me. I can preach inside, outside, on the roof, in the street, anywhere. I've got freedom.

The government is not telling me nothing. So when you come in good days of enjoying freedom and then you start preaching so eloquently about the Lord Jesus, well, that is not an effort. But when are you gonna really prove that you belong to Jesus Christ? When that freedom is taken away from you.

The narrow door, not the white gate, the narrow door. Now when I speak about the church, I'm one of the leaders. So I'm talking about myself.

So if anybody says you're judging, I'm not. I'm talking about myself, my dear friend. I'm not judging.

If you're gonna tell me that today the church is seeking Christ, I'll say to you, you're lying. It's seeking its own glory, yes. It's seeking its own thrones, yes.

It's seeking its own image, yes, but not Christ. And I'm talking in general. There are still wonderful clergymen, absolute saints.

There are priests, bishops, cardinals, and some popes, not all, but some, absolutely magnificent. But in general, those clergymen that want to promote Christ, not promote, that is not the, it's a weak sort of illustration. Those who want to serve the Lord from the heart, those who want to go and embrace the entire world and bring it to the world, to the Lord, they are not given the opportunity by their hierarchies.

Don't talk too much about Jesus Christ. Listen, you're going to cause us a lot of trouble, right? And you're going to make the members upset. So stop talking about Jesus.

Make it short. Your sermon, no more than 10 minutes. It's a drive-through service, okay? Half an hour, 15 minutes, enough.

Let them go. What? Here, I remember Padre Pio. He always comes to my mind.

Oh, he's Catholic. I'm Orthodox. Whoa.

Please, in heaven, there is none of this nonsense. In heaven, there is no Catholics Orthodox. There is children of God that belong to Christ.

Don't ever think you're going to be Catholic up there or Orthodox up there. Please, get it out of your head. But as a Christian first, then an Orthodox bishop, I'm proud.

I'm proud of that. But that doesn't mean I'm the right way and everyone is wrong. That's very, it's an ignorant statement.