John 17:23, The Bible In Basic English:
I in them and you in me, so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me, and have loved them, even as you loved me.

We Christians are a good people. We have come so far. But we still have far to go. We will press forward with speed and urgency, for we have much to do. Much to repair, much to restore, much to heal, much to build, and much to gain.

Few times in our history has been more challenging or difficult than the time we are in now. Time itself may be rolling down. A cry for survival comes from the planet itself. A cry that can not be any more desperate, or any more clear. To overcome these challenges, to restore the soul, and to secure the future, requires more than words. It requires, that most elusive of things, Unity.

Today, our whole soul must be in this unity. Uniting our people as Christians. I ask every Christian to join me in this cause. Uniting to fight the common foe we face: sin, anger, resentment, hatred, violence, disease, hopelessness. With unity we can do great things. Important things. We can right wrongs. We can take back what the devil has stolen from us. We can teach our children in safe schools. We can deliver justice.

I know speaking of unity can sound to some like a foolish fantasy. I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are real. But I also know they are not new.

The battle is formitable. Yet, we can do all things in Christ Jesus. Through struggle, sacrifice, and setbacks, our “better angels” have always prevailed.

In each of these moments, enough of us came together to carry all of us forward. We can do so now. Faith, history, and reason show the way, the way of unity. We can see each other not as adversaries but as neighbors. We can treat each other with dignity and respect.

We can join forces, stop the shouting, and lower the temperature. For without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury. No progress, only exhausting outrage. No togetherness, only a state of chaos.

This is our moment of crisis and challenge, and unity is the path forward. We must meet this moment as Christians under God. If we do that, I guarantee you, we will not fail. We have never, ever, ever failed, when we have acted together.

So today, at this time and in this place, let us start afresh. All of us. Let us listen to one another, hear one another, see one another, show respect to one another.

Differencences need not be a raging fire destroying everything in its path. Every disagreement doesn’t have to be a cause for total war. We must reject a culture in which facts themselves are manipulated and even manufactured. My fellow Christians, we have to be different than this.

I believe we Christians are better than this. Just look around. Here we stand, in the shadow of chaos, and yet we endured and prevailed. Don’t tell me things can’t change. Disagreement must not lead to disunion.

We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts. If we show a little tolerance and humility. If we’re willing to stand in the other person’s shoes just for a moment. Because here is the thing about life: There is no accounting for what fate will deal you.

There are some days when we need a hand. There are other days when we’re called on to lend one. That is how we must be with one another. If we are this way, we will all be stronger, more prosperous, more ready for the future.

My fellow Christians, in the work ahead of us, we will need each other. We will need all our strength to persevere through this dark winter. As the Bible says, weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. We will get through this, together. The world is watching today. So here is my message to us all: We Christians are being tested and we will come out stronger for it.

We will repair our alliances, and engage with the world once again. Not to meet yesterday’s challenges, but today’s and tomorrow’s. We will lead, not merely by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. We will be a strong and trusted partner for peace, progress, and security. We have been through so much in this world. We will honor the saints who came before us, by becoming the people we know we can and should be.

This is a time of testing. We face an attack of sin, anger, resentment, hatred, violence, disease, hopelessness, growing inequity, the sting of systemic racism, a climate in crisis. Any one of these would be enough to challenge us in profound ways. But the fact is we face them all at once, presenting us with the grave-est of responsibilities.

Now we must step up, All of us. It is a time for boldness, for there is so much to do, and, this is certain. We will be judged, you and I, for how we resolve the cascading crises of our era. Will we rise to the occasion? Will we master this rare and difficult hour?

Will we meet our obligations and pass along a new and better world for our children? I believe we must, and I believe we will.

And when we do, we will write the next chapter in the Christian story. It’s a story that might sound something like a song, that says that we gave our best to our children, and our children's children. They did their duty.

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Please bear with me for a few minutes more.

Jesus is not going to return to a divided church. We the church have a level of division. That is unacceptable. Thus unity in the body of Christ is of Paramont importance. This this unity started with the separation of the Catholic Church and the protestant church. This is not speaking to who is right, and who is wrong rather it is speaking to disunity. Then the disunity was further increased by the separation of the protestant church amongst themselves. I hate speaking of the dis-unity issues and then attaching those issues to denominations. So I won’t. What I will do is speak of the dis-unity issues. For we accuse others, and then excuse ourselves, therefore, we are without excuse old man.. Nevertheless, I am working on myself. Now, I have a ministry called the alternative view. That is, I make in on purpose and deliberate decision to say things that ain’t nobody else saying this, but me and the Bible. So, here is my view.

I will now read several scriptures, and then quickly summarize all.

Acts 1:6 to 7.
-When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?
-And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.

Matthew 6 to 15.
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.
13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand.

21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.

27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:
33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.

36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

Luke 21:25-28 (ESV)
But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

Hebrews 9:28 (ESV
So Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for Him.

Revelation 1:7 (ESV)
Behold, He is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see Him, even those who pierced Him, and all tribes of the earth will wail on account of Him. Even so. Amen.

Daniel 9:27, CSB).
He will make a firm covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and offering. And the abomination of desolation will be on a wing of the temple until the decreed destruction is poured out on the desolator”.

Daniel 11:31.
“Forces shall be mustered by him, and they shall defile the sanctuary fortress; then they shall take away the daily sacrifices, and place there the abomination of desolation” (

1. A future ruler will make a treaty with the people of Israel.
2. The terms of this treaty will be for a “week”—which we take to be a period of seven years.
3. Midway through this time, the ruler will gather his troops and put an end to the sacrifices and offerings in the temple.
4. At that time the ruler will desecrate the temple, setting up some type of sacrilegious object.
5. The desecration of the temple will continue until the judgment of God is finally poured out on the ruler and his followers, 1,290 days (3½ years).

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Matthew 24:36 says,But of that day and hour knoweth no man.Yet, Acts 1:7 says that we cannot know the time nor the season., Nevertheless, we say that we can know the season because we can read the signs of the times.

Now, in relationship to the day, nor the hour, a day is the long period of time, and the hour is the subset of the day, which is a short period of time.
Now, in relationship to the time nor the season. The time is a long period of time. The season is a subset of the time. Therefore, both are saying the same thing you can not know the long period of time nor the short period of time.
Now LG what is the long period of time that you cannot know. The long period of time that you cannot know is the sentry. That is the first century the second century the 18 century the 21st-century. Now most definitely you cannot know the season, because you don’t even know the century which the season is in. So what signs of what century are you reading to get to the season that you don’t know.

Now here is what Matthew 24:32 to 33 Says about the season and the signs

Of the times. Now learn a parable of the fig tree. When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves. Ye know that summer is nigh.So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. So what signs are there in that season, and note that the text says all these things, not most of these things?

6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows. I emphasizs, but the end is not yet. So when is the end?

Verse 15 says, When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:

Verses 21 to 27 says:
2 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened.
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

So Jesus will not return until all these things have been fulfilled. All of these things have already been fulfilled for quite some time every since World War I or World War II. The only thing that has not yet been fulfilled is the abomination of desolation. Understand this, ever since the day of Pentecost men have been saying that Jesus is going to return any day now. Yes, he can return any day now. Also, he can return 10 years from now or 50 years or 100 years from now or even another 2000 years from now. After all, probabilities, rise, and fall. Israel has been searching for over 1000 years for the red heifer needed to complete the temple.

But after the abomination of desolation, he is going to return almost immediately, and that has not happened yet. So, this being the season of the return of Jesus, and the season is now. is not rightly discerning the word of God. Praise ye the name of the Lord. In Revelations 20:22 we say, come ye, Lord Jesus. Well, Jesus is not going to come to a divided church. We the church have to get ourselves together before Jesus will come to rescue us from a tribulant time.

Israel is currently at war for its own survival again. We the body of Christ can assist them in that war by getting the church together in unity to open the door for the return of Jesus. If we do not establish unity, who will? Again, I say, for Jesus, is not going to return to a divided church praise ye the name of the Lord, so let it be.