God of the Valley Part 3
The Return of the King
September 13, 2020

28 Then a man of God came and spoke to the king of Israel, and said, “Thus says the LORD: ‘Because the Syrians have said, “The LORD is God of the

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, but He is not God of the

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,” therefore I will deliver all this great multitude into your hand, and you shall know that I am the

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.’ —I Kings 20:28

• If you

believe that he’s the God of the hills, then when you arrive in a valley, you will believe that you are

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and forsaken.

• Emmanuel is God with us in both life’s

points and

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points.

Last week in part 2, Pastor Dave talked about going from Valley to victory.

• Battles of

are often fought and

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in the valley. What God gives you on the mountaintop gets worked out in the valley. God has prepared you for the moment that you are in, and has provided for you in advance.

• Valleys are the in-

times.

The Return of King Jesus

In Luke 4, Jesus paused, closed the scroll, and said

this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.

• When he closed the scroll, in effect, Jesus was saying there is a “Part

” and a “Part

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”.

• Part 1 is now. Part 2 is coming. The trailer is already out.
• Part 1 is the year of the Lord’s

. Part 2 is the Day of

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of our God.
• Part 1 was fulfilled in His first coming. Part 2 will fulfilled in His second coming.

1. Jesus is the

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and the

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.

Revelation 5:4-6
4 So I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open and read the scroll, or to look at it. 5 But one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll and to loose its seven seals.”
6 And I looked, and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as though it had been slain.

• In His first coming, we see Jesus as the Lamb that takes away the

of the world. In His second coming, we’ll see Jesus as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, and the Lord will

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out of Zion.

• We can learn from those that initially

Jesus the first time.

• Don’t look for a baa when the King is about to

! Be not deceived -The Lord will roar out of Zion.

2. Jesus is the One Who is to

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.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.” —Revelation 1:8

• The Lord is. He is with us

by His Spirit. He will never leave us or forsake us.
• The Lord

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. From eternity, to eternity, he is God. He was the word made flesh. He was born, lived, died, and rose on the third day. Then He ascended.
• The Lord is to

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. Jesus is coming again.

• The One who

the scroll in Luke 4:20, is also the One found worthy to

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the scroll in Revelation 5:9.

3 to whom He also presented Himself alive after His suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.
4 And being assembled together with them, He commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Promise of the Father, “which,” He said, “you have heard from Me;
5 for John truly baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.”
6 Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?”
7 And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority.
8 But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
9 Now when He had spoken these things, while they watched, He was taken up, and a cloud received Him out of their sight.
10 And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel,
11 who also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.” —Acts 1:3-11

3. We are called to

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the time.

• No one knows the

or the hour, but we can know our prophetic

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.

36 “But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son but only the Father. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. —Matthew 24:36-37

a. General description.

Daniel 12:4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

2 Timothy 3:13
13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

b. Specific prophecies.

Ezekiel 37:
14 I will put My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. Then you shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken it and performed it,” says the LORD.’

Matthew 24:14
14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.

4. How should we then

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? What should our

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be?

a. With a heart

on pilgrimage.

Psalm 84 - Valley of weeping, turns into a spring!

5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.
6 As they pass

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the Valley of Baka,
they make it a place of springs;
the autumn rains also cover it with pools.
7 They go from strength to strength,
till each appears before God in Zion. —Psalm 84:5-7

• Living in the light of His return

us in an eternal perspective, while we live in a temporal world.

b. With a heart that is

and watching.

Matthew 25:13
Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour.

Romans 13:11
And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed.

c. With a

for people.

• As we prepare for the return

the Lord, there will be a great return

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the Lord.

• As we live in the light of Christ’s return, we’ll also live

to God’s purpose in our generation.

Now it shall come to pass in the latter days
That the mountain of the LORD’s house
Shall be established on the top of the mountains,
And shall be exalted above the hills;
And all nations shall

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to it.
3 Many people shall come and say,
“Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD,
—Isaiah 2:2-3