 will get started. So I see a question from Anita. In the new world will there be babies born as far as as 65-20? So the answer is in the millennium that is in the thousand year reign of Christ that is right after the you know the the battle of Armageddon at the end of the seven year tribulation there's a battle of Armageddon, Revelation 19 and then Revelation 20 verses one through six talk about the thousand year reign of Christ the millennium which is what Isaiah 65 about verse 20 which you're referencing talks about and during the thousand year reign of Christ yes people will be born in the millennium babies will be born people live and die during the millennium the ones not us who have glorified bodies but the ones who are in their natural human bodies they will live and die during the millennium but in the new heavens and the new earth there we said most likely from what we understand in scripture that will not happen because we said in class that we you know when we are all when we are in our glorified bodies we are like the angels of God we don't procreate is it okay okay any other questions of thanks we have covered so far before we Christopher please go ahead oh yes thank you pastor i just i'm just going to look at the the the rapture in in sort of conjunction with the with these signs and just wanted to get a confirmation that these signs could be independent of of the rapture itself and hypothetically the rapture could happen anytime you know as you know during during these these signs lead all the way up to the battle of Armageddon and when when use actually comes comes down onto the earth so hypothetically it could happen you know it could happen tomorrow and you know there could be a could be you know a gap between rapture and then you know this this second coming of Jesus so we just wanted to get a confirmation on that and what is your view on that okay so yeah so as we talk about you know these signs these signs have to be understood not just saying that all of them have to be fulfilled before the rapture because some of these for example ethical 38 what we have been saying and then the previous one when you talked about the one world the one world economic system and identification system those are things that are actually fulfilled during the rapture uh during the tribulation sorry they're so those will actually come together or actually be fulfilled during the tribulation so the rapture already happens before that so as we are looking at the science we're just saying that things that need to be fulfilled during the tribulation there's a build up towards it so to answer your question the rapture will take place before these things are actually culminated the culmination of these signs the actual fulfillment of you know what we've been talking about is equal 38 or those things will happen after the rapture and so the answer is yes the rapture will take place before you know many of these things are actually fulfilled because these will be fulfilled during the seven-year tribulation period now how much of time gap will there be from the time the rapture takes place and the beginning of the tribulation just based on script the Bible of course doesn't state you know so much time as per se but just based on what we see in scripture it could be a very very short time because uh second Thessalonians chapter two says that there's only one thing that's restraining the man of sin from being revealed and then that which restrains is taken out of the way then the son of perdition will be revealed it's it's second Thessalonians chapter two so it's giving us a picture is so to speak where it's it's almost happening one after the other with very little time in between now again you know that that very little uh you know is it what is it you know 10 days is it one year I don't know but it's it's it's indicating that and what that which restrains is taken out of the way the antichrist is going to be revealed so it's going to be soon after that we just don't exactly you know in terms of days or how quickly so it's not a very definite answer to your question but overall the answer is yes rapture happens then tribulation suggests I hope it's okay right so I'm going to to confirm that uh the rapture could could really happen anytime yes anytime yeah um um um I mean some of the signs um you know we are we as believers would not really have uh would not really experience it at all yes yes we don't we won't be here when these things happen yeah right okay thank you get any question please yes thank you thank you who's restraining the antichrist currently the rest laina uh good sir shriek of our your question please thank you sir sir my question is now as a believer um when we know um that these are prophecies uh which has to be fulfilled when we see the persecutions and other things um then um uh many times when we see these things we sometimes we um we move to pray against all these things for example we try to we pray that god let it be stopped let it be uh even though we know that uh this is the end time and these things has to be fulfilled as per the part of the prophecy so how much uh it is uh how true it is like uh you know that um when we are praying against these things to be stopped is it the right way of praying or as a believer how we have to pray like uh is it only we have to pray that god in the midst of all these persecutions uh guard us keep us safe what kind of a prayer we we should pray as a believer thank you pastor so good question so we have to pray of course we want to pray the will of god uh in any situation and uh so some things we do know about the will of god what is god's will he wants people to be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth he wants people to experience goodness right so those are things we definitely do pray even in so example in the in the crisis that we're seeing right now and the and what's happening we pray you know 10 million people already displaced the numbers are just keep increasing every every day uh so we pray for the well-being we pray for their salvation we pray for peace in the land for the land to be restored and the war war to cease because you know some 49 says god causes wars to cease so we we pray those print those are in line with the will of god right so we're saying god uh we want to see uh what was it um yeah uh we we want to see uh uh this war to you know stop we want to see nations changed and healed and restored and so on so we're praying for the well-being of people which is god's will god desires for that um now what has what god has determined to happen will happen in the sense that yeah a time will come when you know is equal 38 will be fulfilled uh we won't be there to see it but that is going to happen uh and even in the midst of that suppose there was a believer and of course there will be believers uh what would they pray we would pray for the salvation of israel we pray for the protection of israel we would pray for the salvation of people and we would pray for peace but uh ultimately you know what god has determined will will take place so from our perspective we are praying the will of god what is the will of god people to be saying the well-being and the preservation of people uh for wisdom to prevail in the hearts of the leaders uh these are things that is the will of god for us to pray and so we're praying again praying aligned to the will of god because it's the word of god and that's that's how we pray thank you master okay thanks nothing else any other questions yeah yeah chris about please go ahead yes i just have one question to my earlier question so although we we are we know that um in the rapture will um will happen before the fulfillment of the of the signs um is there any sort of um you know kind of a definitive event which could indicate that the rapture could it's it's unlikely that the rapture would happen before before that that that event um is there i mean is there anything in the bible or you know you know even through the through the study of fire scretology to you know to indicate that hmm so if we look at all these signs which we are going to enumerate of which we are enumerating right now i think the biggest sign to say time for rapture is is the readiness of the church because the rapture is the gathering of the saints the church being taken up and the church will only be taken up when it is ready because in Ephesians 5 tells us he's coming for a glorious church without spot or wrinkle on that's the rapture right so that cannot happen until the church is brought into this place uh of being a glorious church without spot or wrinkle so if you ask me what is that one sign of all these signs that we talk about because of course many of these signs are going to take place during the tribulation later on of all these signs which is that one sign that will take place just before the rapture the one sign that has to take place well Ephesians 5 the church has to be brought to this place of being a glorious church without spot or wrinkle because he's coming back for such a church in other words the rapture cannot take place until the church is ready so that's the sign i would point to so that would mean that that churches will be united and there will be some some kind of you know togetherness of the churches what could be a definition of this glorious church so now churches coming together doesn't mean you know that we would all like no obviously we're not going to be under the same roof we're not going to be under the same name per se in the sense you know we're not all are going to be called you know XYZ's church then so that will not happen now we're not going to all be under one denomination that that's not gonna there will be many denominations but the kind of unity we're talking about is what paul wrote in Ephesians form you all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the son of god yeah so what's going to unite us the faith and knowing Jesus you know of course we are going to have different variations in how we worship and styles of worship and these kinds of things but we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the son of god and we come to a perfect man and i'm quoting Ephesians 4 13 14 we come to a perfect man to a mature man what is a mature man a mature man is able to fully represent so we the church will be brought to a place where it fully represents or it it represents Jesus right or Ephesians 5 a glorious church what is a glorious church a church that is emitting or manifesting the glory of god right without spot or wrinkle what are the spots in the wrinkles it's the sin and the division this type those become wrinkles so that unity is not the unity is a spiritual unity the unity and the faith and of the knowledge of the son of god so what is happening globally actually is very wonderful you know and for example if you if you look into this classroom that we're all connected all of us have actually come from diverse backgrounds we are from diverse backgrounds we all have our you know our individual differences our individual you know individual experiences and whatever but whatever we agreed upon we agreed upon the unity of the faith and the son of god we agreed upon Jesus and what is our desire our desire is to be a perfect man to be a mature man to be like Jesus to fully represent Jesus and so you know what what is happening right here in this little group is in some way it's an expression of you know what god is doing in the church worldwide and this is happening worldwide meaning there are people everywhere god is working all around the world and you know people are being brought to this place of understanding of knowledge of the son of god and saying we want to be mature now doesn't mean everybody in the christian world is going to be like that no there are going to be lots of people who will still be stuck in the denomination and in their own religious traditions they're going to miss out on this but when god looks at the church that means his people he sees people who are coming to the unity of the faith we may belong to different churches and you know we have our own local churches etc but we all in the unity of the faith maturing growing into that mature man the full man representing christ becoming the glorious church and he's coming back for such people will there be people in denominations who don't bother anything yeah they will still be those but they'll just be having a form of religion without the power right so that is and that's going to you know that's going to be one of the signs we'll talk about so Anita says where are we in that regards can you point that if possible yeah so hopefully answer the question either you know god is working if you look at things and you separate out the shell that is the form and the denomination and you look at what's happening the lives of people it is happening right and we are beginning to be able to to love each other because we have one thing in common is the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the son of god right we all are different you know we all may worship in different churches and have different names and labels and denominations all that but we can still love each other and work because once one thing unity of the faith you know the knowledge of the son of god that's happening and it's wonderful yeah okay let's move forward we'll have time again later to take up questions let's try to cover a few more signs so so we talked about you know peace talks Israel planted by the land number eight is the church coming to maturity which is what we were talking about right now so this is a very important sign you know Paul wrote several places he said in Ephesians 4 11 15 he said that the Lord has placed in the church apostles prophets events as pastors teachers they're going to equip the saint to the work of the ministry they're going to edify the body of Christ for what till we all come to the unity of the faith that means they're going to be doing their work doing their work doing their work and it's going to result in us coming to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the son of god this is where we're going to be united and this is what unites us it's faith in god and faith in in the god we know and the knowledge of the son of god and we will all come to a perfect man a mature man that means we are going to come to a place where we can represent christ fully and that should be our each one of us individual desire lord i want to represent you fully i want to be like jesus right i'm not i may not be 100 person like him but i'm growing into that full measure into that statue the fullness of christ and you know we won't be tossed to and fro with all this wind of doctrine and man you know this is going to be happening and there's going to be all these winds blowing different ideas and things that people are coming up with but none of these things matter we're going to just leave them all aside we're going to grow up the main thing that is that we're going to be focused on is we want to grow up and be like jesus we're not worried about all these winds of doctrine it's you know silly things that people preach these days they're not interested in that our focus is we want to be like jesus in acts three um well peter was preaching in acts three he says you know he's going to send jesus christ and heaven must receive or the word receive simply means to retain he must be until the times of restoration of all things so how long is jesus going to be retained in heaven until this time when things are going to be restored until the restoration of all it's easy to retain so part of this restoration of all things is the church itself you know the church itself has to be you know of course a lot of other things that need to be restored but when you look at the church the church itself has to be fully restored right and the church being restored is one of the things that you know so until that happens until that happens jesus will be retained in heaven when is he going to come well and for what kind of a church is he going to come and be referenced this just now you know he will he's coming back for a glorious church not having any spot or wrinkle or any such thing but a church that is holy and without blemish so the church is being brought to this state it's being brought to a place where it is holy without blemish no spot or wrinkle or any such thing but it's a glorious church a church that is revealing the glory of god now you know sometimes when we look at the church we say well how is this ever going to happen you know look at all the things that are happening there's so much of you know fighting and division and all sin and these things happening in the church how is the church going to become a glorious church well we must look at the history of the church and you see where the church has come in just 500 years right so I think you have this course on church history and you know from about 15 I think it was 1583 or forget the exact year from the time the beginning of the reformation 1500s here we are about 500 years later from a time when the Bible was available only in Latin and a few languages and the common man didn't have access to the scriptures in 500 years scriptures are available in just you know I mean in all the major languages people have easy access to it churches are everywhere people can worship anytime listen to some it's such a big change that's happened and more and more understanding of the word is is is is being made available to us today all in just 500 years so 500 years ago people didn't even have a Bible to read the masses I'm talking to people 500 years later such a big difference people know the truth the truth is being proclaimed so the church is being you know brought into this place of becoming a glorious church so it is it is really amazing now our focus should be on the people who are being changed not necessarily the system that's around it the system around it may may be bad the structure the system the politics the all those kind of things that are happening it of course is very disappointing it is very bad and we don't have to worry whether that changes don't bother don't bother with it look at the people people's lives are being changed people are seeking people are hungry for God people are loving Jesus more people are fellowshiping with each other you know that is happening so the church which is really the people are becoming more and more glorious the systems around it the structure around it don't worry about it may not even change or it's not going to change but he's not coming back for the system he's not coming back for the structure he's coming back for the church which is the people and that definitely is becoming more and more glorious so today believers are being challenged to be like Jesus they're not you know nobody cares about being like your denomination or being like you know they're being true to some sort of a form or a structure of the system those who want to do that they're going to be dead I'm dead meaning spiritually dead no life but there are people who say I want to be like Jesus I want to grow up in all things to be like him now that's the real church okay so this is happening right before our eyes it's just getting better and better and sure enough when this culminates meaning the Lord will be satisfied it's okay my church is ready it's come into a place where there is no spot or wrinkle any such thing and holy and without blemish and and you know of course God is also doing the shaking meaning things that shouldn't be part of the church he's shaking and they're coming down and you know he's shaking up all the the dirt and the filth and out of the church so he's getting it ready and when he's when he is satisfied he's going to come but all we can say is we're getting closer and closer because when you look past the structure and you look past the systems and you look at the people people are becoming beautiful day after day maybe we'll do one more sign one or two more so another sign is the gospel to the nations and Jesus said in that list in Matthew 24 when his disciples said you know Lord what are the signs what will be the signs of your coming he said the gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations now I want you to just imagine this with me just imagine this with me if you were standing next to Jesus in Matthew chapter 24 and you were with the 12 apostles and you were there and you heard Jesus say the gospel will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations what would you have thought impossible impossible so what Jesus you me we are living in this tiny place in Jerusalem and we're going around here and there we're going up to you know about less than 100 kilometers north and south and we're just moving around here and there preaching this gospel of the kingdom we hardly have we don't even have a church we don't even have a building you haven't even written your first book nothing and Jesus you're saying this message that you are preaching and which we have been listening to you the 12 of us this gospel is going to go to the nations you know if you and I if we were standing then listening to Jesus in Matthew 24 it's like this cannot happen I mean we can't get it 100 kilometers beyond us in our own hometown people are not believing us in Nazareth we are rejected how is this gospel going to go to the nations and you're thinking about the Roman government you know they are not going to listen to anything like this just gospel of the kingdom doesn't make sense to them they have their own kingdom they have their own gospel they have power they are the Romans are in charge a Rome has you know so powerful where are we what message do we have you know honestly if you imagine you are standing next to Jesus and you're listening to him say this this is going to be one of the signs what I am preaching here today in Jerusalem what I am preaching here in this little town of you know where in Capernaum in Bethsaida what we are preaching here we are going around these little towns and preaching this message will be heard all over the world how is it going to be possible Jesus even if we have five lives to live fire we can't do it how are we going to do it and here we are 2000 years and truly the same message Jesus preached starting there in you know from Capernaum and Nazareth and but you know starting there in and around Jerusalem that same gospel has covered the whole world and it's being preached 24 seven proof just about every possible channel every possible means in every possible language that we can think of you know and it's happened and it's happening and it's one of the signs Jesus gave this gospel will be preached to all the nations then the end will come now it's taken 2000 years but it's done so we are now in the last mile or the last frontier which is it's those individual tribes in different places that need to hear the gospel I mean otherwise you know major cities have already been reached but it's going beyond the cities into the tribes at the gospel this is the last frontier the final the last mile that is happening right now people are pushing for it all over the world but this is amazing okay so I'm going to stop here and we will cover the yeah just a few more we will cover those next week and we will be done with the course I think next week and and then we will just kind of do a quick review and take some questions so any thoughts so far any questions so far everyone's good so yeah so basically you know we will have probably one more week of classes next week I'll probably finish and just see if there are any more questions do a quick review then month of April will be time for assessments I will create assessments and put them out and so the month of April you could use to do the assessments I'll create assessments which will be like last semester which will be multiple choice questions three sets covering we don't just bring the whole portion into three parts questions that get in there and so in the assessments yeah just questions covering the content that we've gone through it will be open book open bible and open news questions so you can refer to everything and answer the questions so we'll keep month of April for that for just to do your work right so next year will be your last year your third year and I just just just wanted to give you a heads up the third year we are going to be doing you know courses that are a little bit more intense in terms of studying the scriptures so we should be doing a lot of book study going through chapter and verse understanding the books of the bible but it'll also be a lot of practical that is you know how do you the church and ministry administration we'll be talking about it we'll talk about urban church planting how do you start a ministry in an urban context which can be of course applied in any any other way so we'll be dealing with a lot of practical things you know how do you run a children's ministry youth ministry how do you run small groups we talk about media and technology and ministry and so a lot of practical things also a lot of study oriented studying the scriptures right but then one of the things I want you to start thinking about is and some of you may already be doing ministry many of you will already be doing ministry but one of the things I want you to start thinking about is what are you going to do after you graduate right so you're going to graduate you know in a year's time approximately 12 months from now you'll finish your bachelor's you'll get your degree you'd have done all these courses but what are you going to do and one of the things we will learn next year in our urban church planting course is how to you know actually kind of come up you know in in the in in the corporate well we call it a business plan and so when you when you want to start a business when you want to start a venture what do you do you write a business plan you put down your thoughts what are you going to do so you know of course an urban church planting we will kind of do something like that and if you want to start a ministry how would you what would you write church planning we'll have another course on church and ministry administration how do you organize that ministry and how would you do it right so and of course a lot of things we will share with you very very practical but the objective is you need to put down if you're going to start a church what do you need to think about or a ministry you know so church or some other ministry if you're going to you know and how do you organize it how do you know so you learn all these things but then you need to write it down and what we are going to set up is you know we're going to set this up and we've been talking about it for a while where we will have people meaning students who've finished their three years with us to you know submit their what you know what we call as proposals it's something like if in the corporate world if you want to start a business you want to start something you have to write it down and you have to present it to people so that you know you you share your idea with them and convince them that your ideas is feasible it's good it's something they need to invest in right so we're going to ask those of I mean it's not a compulsory thing we're going to give you all the information you need in terms of setting up a church or a ministry in your third year but then you need to put down what God wants you to do and you need to write it down as a proposal and then you can share it with us we will review it and then you know so we will get ourselves organized in terms of actually you know how to fund the ministry though though your your idea and then you know so you work out all the details when we talk about accounting and so on so forth and how you do it and then when you present that we can review it and then you know if I'm not saying every proposal will be you know funded and accepted but our desire is to help as many people as we can to start out on their ministry so whether it's planting a church or maybe it's an urban ministry or a rural ministry whatever it is that's something God has to put in your heart you have to find out we are not here to tell you what to do but we are here to show you how to go about it how to write it down how to hear from God how to do your survey how to you know go about planting a church or starting a ministry and how to administer it organize it how you how you can leverage tools and technologies and how you can you know and so our goal is to help you but then you must hear from God you must write down what God puts on your heart and you must commit to working on it right and so then you know when that happens and you submit your proposals and then you know our goal is to bless you that okay God here here are you know 10 churches that that that can be started whether in India or outside around the world or here are the 10 different ministries you know that we can back up financially and help get it off the ground and then then you have to run with it you have to do the work but we'll be there to you know just be a support and encouragement to you but what I want the reason I'm talking about it now is I want you to start praying I want you to start thinking about it and then putting your ideas down and next year third year you'll have courses that will teach you how to what to think about how to do your survey how to plan it out and then hopefully we'll have some great proposals coming from all of you and you know over the years that's how all our churches around the country in India have started it has been students who've gone out and they have started the churches and they are doing a great work right but now since your batch it's opened up across outside of India many of you from outside India and God's helping us position ourselves so that we could help students outside India so our goal is to help within India which we are already doing and we can do we'll continue doing and then also students who are from outside India but remember it's got to be your vision it's got to be something God wants you to do our goal is just to help you right and make sure you become fruitful for God's kingdom all right question Abraham says is it possible to come to India for a month you're welcome Abraham but I think let's just maybe wait for sometime after August when our campus opens up but yeah those who want to come you're welcome to do that Srikumar your question please thank you sir is it only for the church planting or for any other ministries yeah anything anything right so church planting of course is one important aspect but we will learn next year you know urban missions could be church planting it could be starting something else example it could be reaching street children in a certain city it could be working with you know whatever whatever need you see right ultimately we have to bring the gospel to all people so church planting is one way of doing it but they're just n number of opportunities and God puts different things in different people's hearts so we have some people who are itinerant ministers that means they're traveling but it has to be a really committed minister most of what so far is going on is church plants but you know as as just it all depends on what the student come what God puts in the hearts of the students yeah thank you sir okay so the reason I brought it up is I just want you to start praying I want you to start you know you need to seek God you need to pray about it and write down your ideas we will tell you how to do it of course but pray and see what and look around you you know in the cities where you are what is the need what what touches your heart right that has to come from God into your heart okay all right let's wrap up can I ask please somebody to close in prayer and then we will dismiss anybody faster can I pray yeah go ahead precious father we thank you and praise you for this wonderful day we bless you holy name of father thank you father god for every every precious word what we received from your servant of father let it be deeply rooted in us and father we pray lord master let me let me hold on this revelation let me hold on lord master these these words of father god so that we can move ahead of father god and he pray that father god let these words strengthen us and help us to fight our lord master fight a good fight of faith lord master in our in the in this journey of father god we ask you that your holy presence and your anointing increase in your servant's life of father god and strengthen each one of us or lord master who heard from his from his mouth thank you father god for strengthening him thank you for lord master giving us the grace and understanding to receive your word all the glory only one praises belongs to in jesus day we pray amen god bless y'all thank you god bless you god bless you see you again tomorrow thank you thank you pastor bless god bless thank you god bless you see you tomorrow god bless