OK.

Time for some email.

You ready?

Let's bring in the [INAUDIBLE].

This is a viewer who says, "If your spouse has committed

adultery, but has repented and asked for forgiveness,

is it still OK to divorce them?

I don't know that I want to forgive."

Look, I'm telling you.

You're missing what God says.

Jesus says, when you stand praying, if you have

ought against any, forgive.

When you say your spouse has committed adultery,

I mean, hey, people do that all the time.

I don't excuse it, but it happens.

And so the Bible says forgive.

No, you do not have any ground to hold a grudge.

If you do, it'll corrode you.

All right.

This is Sarah, who says, "Help, Pat!

I've heard so many scholars, preachers, teachers

say the rapture of the Church comes before the Antichrist.

But studying the Word in 2 Thessalonians 2:3B, it reads,

'That day will not come, and the man of sin is revealed.' Please

help me understand.

I have prayed for an answer so I will understand, but so far

no answer.

I trust your knowledge of the Bible."

All right, look.

First of all, focus on what's going on now.

Don't be spending all your time worrying about the man of sin

coming, and so forth.

I mean, it'll happen, it'll happen.

And until it does, don't worry about it.

But there is so much, this false teaching

that was introduced at the Irvingite meetings, about 1830.

A little girl was giving-- a 17-year-old girl--

was giving a message in tongues, and interpretation.

And she started talking about all these things.

A man named John Nelson Darby was there.

He thought it was great.

He was Plymouth Brethren.

So he started this whole stuff about pre-tribulation,

and rapture, and all these things.

None of it's in the Bible.

It's not biblical.

But you're right, the Bible says,

this day will not come until the man of sin is revealed.

That's what it says.

But it also says, the Lord Himself

will descend from Heaven with a shout,

a command, the trumpet of God, and the dead of Christ

will raise.

And then we who remain will be called up

to be with Him in the Lord.

We believe in the rapture, but the rapture

comes at the end of the age.

Jesus is going to come back, and He will take His Church

to Himself.

End of story, end of the age.

Until that happens, it's not going

to be a secret catching away, then seven years later,

and all that stuff.

That just isn't in the Bible.

All right.

This is David, who says, "Why is it

OK for Christians to practice made-up things like Christmas

and Easter?"

Well, you say it's made up.

I mean, you've got to have some celebration.

I mean, Christmas-- you want to celebrate the birth of Jesus.

So, OK.

The Catholic church picked up the winter solstice,

and it was a nice holiday, and so they Christianized it.

Easter was made up for the goddess Ostara.

That's what Eostre-- Ostara-- that's where it came from.

OK.

But you've got to have something for the Resurrection.

It followed the Passover.

So what is your problem about made-up holidays?

You got to celebrate it sometime, so,

some day He was born, and you celebrate this.

So it could just as easily have been December the 25th

or some other time.

So why get all hung up on specific dates?

We honor the Lord as His Resurrection.

That's what Easter is about.

He is risen.

The fact is, He rose from the dead with a shout of triumph.

That's what we celebrate.

The fact that it comes when it comes, and we say, quote,

"made up."

Don't worry about things like that.

Worry about what's important, and that is serving Jesus.