And we do welcome you
right here for the final
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program tonight.
And we are so excited
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about the way the Lord
has been with us all day.
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Have you been blessed?
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Amen. Amen.
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One message from
God right after another.
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And when I heard you
singing a few moments ago
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When we all get to heaven, what
a day of rejoicing that will be!
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I was singing at the
top of my lungs back there.
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They won't give me a
mike when I'm singing...
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they held it away
from me but I enjoyed it.
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And boy, I tell you,
John preached his heart out
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and you sang your heart out.
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And Tim played his
fingers off over there
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and we just had a wonderful
praise the Lord. We really did.
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Well, we're going to enjoy
some more really good music
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in a moment.
Before our music comes
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I want to talk to you
about Dr. Calvin Rock.
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Dr. Calvin Rock has been
professor - president actually -
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of Oakwood University.
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He served at that
capacity for a number of years.
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Before that a
pastor, an evangelist.
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And then he became
vice president of the
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General Conference of
Seventh-day Adventists.
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The whole world
church he was vice president.
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And when he
retired nine years ago
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he said: "I want to
retire where I can reach people
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for the Lord. "
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Now he could have gone to
Oakwood where people love him,
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where he'd been president,
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and been around a
whole lot of friends.
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He could have
stayed in Washington, D.C.
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where there are more Adventists
than you can shake a stick with.
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But... at. And I
don't know how to say that
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I messed that up. But anyway...
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You don't want to
start shaking sticks, do you?
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But he said: "I'm going to go
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where I believe that I
can reach out and witness. "
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And he moved to
Las Vegas, Nevada.
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They asked him... they
said: "Would you take the church
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for about six months?
" And he said: "Yes. "
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That was nine years ago.
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When the brethren ask you
to do something for six months
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look out, because...
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But you know, he is retiring
July 1 as far as that church
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is concerned. Remember
he already retired once...
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but he's still going
to be available to preach
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wherever the Lord
calls upon him to go
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because he's given his
life to the Lord Jesus.
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This is a man that I
appreciate very much.
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I know his uncle:
Elder Charles Bradford.
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You know Elder Charles Bradford?
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Elder Charles
Bradford's oldest sister
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is the mother of Calvin Rock.
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And she went to sleep
in Jesus a few years ago.
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But this is a lady who
had a powerful ministry
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as a lay person in a
church out in California
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because I knew of so
many people who knew her.
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And this man...
God has blessed him.
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He has been used
by the Lord mightily
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through all of these years
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and pastor now of the Abundant
Life Church in Las Vegas.
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And he's going to be
speaking on The Millennium
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and the End of Sin.
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It's going to be
all over tonight.
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And that's a fitting subject for
us to close this series with.
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Before he does, Reggie
Smith is going to come.
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He's going to sing
that song that he sang
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at General Conference:
I Have Fixed My Mind -
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Amen - On Another Time.
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Words of William
Miller... Reggie.
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Amen everybody?
Amen! Praise the Lord.
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Our final message
for this encampment
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is The
Millennium. Shall we pray?
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Our Father in heaven,
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we thank Thee for the
words of hope and comfort
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that have been sung just now
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and for all of the words,
the preaching, the singing
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that have cheered and encouraged
and educated our hearts
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during this encampment.
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And as we come
now to the final study
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we ask that the Holy
Spirit will once again
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speak to us and through
us to the good of the cross.
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In Jesus' name, Amen.
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The Millennium.
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The book of Revelation
chapter 20 beginning at verse 1
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as recorded in the
New International version
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reads as follows:
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"And I saw an angel
coming down out of heaven
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having the key to the
abyss and holding in his hand
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a great chain.
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Besieged the devil,
that ancient serpent,
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the dragon, or Satan
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and bound him for 1,000 years.
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And he threw him into an abyss
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and locked and
sealed it over him
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to keep him from
deceiving the nations any more
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until the 1,000
years were ended.
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After that he must be set free
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for a short time. "
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Now, of course,
the abyss referred to
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in other versions
as the bottomless pit
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is symbolic of the
earth's grim darkness
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and the destruction that
will be wrought in the wake
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of Christ's second coming
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when every mountain and island
will be moved out of its place
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and our planet
chaotically convulsed.
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The chain by
which Satan is bound
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is also mentioned in verse 1
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and further detailed in verse 2,
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and it is a
chain of circumstances
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and speaks to the fact
that at Christ's second coming
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the wicked living are slain.
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Isaiah 11:4 and
II Thessalonians 2:8.
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And joining the
wicked already dead.
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And that the righteous dead
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are raised at the sound
of the archangel's shout
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and the trumpet's sound.
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Now mind you, this trumpet that
will sound at the second coming
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is different from any other
trumpet that has ever sounded.
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All other trumpets have
assumed the faculty of sound,
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but this trumpet
supplies the faculty of hearing
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and the dead in
Christ shall rise.
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Then joined by the translated
living who follow them up
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levitated into the
presence of Christ.
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So that with all the wicked down
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and all the righteous up
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there are no humans left for
the devil to tempt and trouble.
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No souls for him to corrupt.
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No flesh for him to disease.
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No bodies for him to mangle;
no minds for him to confuse.
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The seal mentioned in verse 3
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symbolizes Satan's
total quarantine or lockdown
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to this desolated earth in the
most miserable of circumstances.
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Unable to
trouble any other planet
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and having at his disposal
only the vast but already
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irreversibly
corrupted host of angels
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who accompanied him in his fall,
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he is stymied,
stalled, shut up, and shut down
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in this earth.
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Frustrated and forlorn,
he is left for 1,000 years
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to stumble and stew
amidst the devastated remains
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of the once idyllic kingdom
he rested from Adam's grasp.
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There is more to be said
about Satan's unhappy plight
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and eventual destruction.
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But the main character
in this drama is not Satan,
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the incarcerated, but
Christ, the incarcerator.
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The hero of Revelation 20
is not Lucifer the deceiver
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but Christ the deliverer.
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And that becomes
starkly apparent in verse 4
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which informs us that
during the 1,000 years the devil
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and his angels are confined
to this devastated world
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and the unhappy
company of each other
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while the redeemed are
the guests of the Savior
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living and reigning
with Christ in heaven.
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Now John does not detail
for us the journey of the saved
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from earth to glory,
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but the prophet to the remnant
- Ellen White - does portray
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in glowing terms. And her
description is that of the
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redeemed after their rendezvous
with Christ above the earth
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being transported on
clouds shaped like chariots
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with wings on each
side and wheels below
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to their heavenly home.
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And as the chariot rolls
upward the wheels cry "holy"
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and the wings cry "holy"
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and the accompanying
angels cry "holy, holy, holy. "
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Story of Redemption page 412.
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John does give a
hint of travel activity
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in Revelation 8:1 where
in commenting on the opening
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of the seventh seal which
follows closely the events
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leading to the second coming
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he observes there
was "silence in heaven
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about the space of half an hour"
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or prophetically
speaking one week.
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I like to think
that the heavenly silence
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speaks to unusual quiet in glory
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because the angelic hosts
are busy escorting the redeemed
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to heaven and that
since a week or seven days
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will include a Sabbath - and
we've been talking about that -
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that somewhere on
some happy hosting planet
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the traveling saved will enjoy
their first post-resurrection
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or translation Sabbath
worship before entering glory.
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Now the mileage and
route and travel time
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and stops along the way if any
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are not otherwise
detailed by inspiration
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but the events of
our arrival there are.
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"Our entrance into
glory... " inspiration says,
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Early Writings page 288...
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"will be preceded by a welcome
ceremony in which the saints
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will be arranged in
a wide expansive square
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before the gates of glory.
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Christ the Redeemer, who
positions Himself in the middle
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of the square will then
requisition for each redeemed
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a crown on which is written
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HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD
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and with it the new
name promised overcomers
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in Revelation 2:17.
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And that crown gilded with stars
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representing others each
recipient led to salvation
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will be placed on the
head of every waiting saint.
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He who as undeserving
victim wore a crown of thorns
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now as undisputed
victor hands to every saint
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a crown of glory
and a golden harp.
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And the redeemed will break
forth in loud, long, rapturous
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joyous praise to the Savior. "
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I find the arranging
of the saints in a square
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with Christ in the
middle highly suggestive.
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In ancient Israel the sanctuary
where the Shekinah glowed
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was squarely in the
middle of the formation
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that positioned the tribes.
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And the altar in
Solomon's splendid temple
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on the top of which
God's presence shown was built
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in a perfect square.
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The prototypical
temple described by Ezekiel
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in the last 9
chapters of his book
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contained an
altar built foursquare
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in the middle of
which was a hearth or pit
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designed for the
burning of sacrifices.
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And of course
the habitation above
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to which the
saints are journeying now.
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That place built by
God's own hands will be the
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bejeweled city where
Jesus Himself is King
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and according to
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is a city foursquare.
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Christ positioning
Himself squarely in the middle
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of structural arrangements
of both ancient Israel
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and the future
redeemed is a forceful reminder
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that He was and is
indeed God with us.
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God in the middle.
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He is the
centerpiece of our salvation:
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equidistance
from all His children,
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equally available
to every petitioner.
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That in all our
trials, all our striving,
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all of our overcomings,
He - Christ - is squarely
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in the midst. That He
is not an absentee landlord
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occupying broad space in
some far-away antiseptic kingdom
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that we cannot see or reach
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but rather He is ever nigh
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unto all that
call upon Him in truth.
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Psalm 145:18.
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And please notice that
the number of those served
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by Jesus with crowns and harps
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is according to Revelation 7:9
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a number that no man can number.
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And yet we are promised that
each will be personally served
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by Him. Now in human time
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this process of
crowning and harping
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would require an
unimaginably- lengthy period.
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But in millennial time, it will
be but a happy, happy instant.
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The saints will have
crossed over from beginnings and
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endings. From weary
days to the never-ending joys
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of chartless tomorrows.
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Chronology will have
given way to eternity,
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and eternity past will have
collapsed into eternity future.
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And time - the tragic
interruption of God's plan
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for the human
race - will be no more.
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It is then, when the
welcome ceremony has concluded,
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that the radiant Savior
will swing open the pearly gates
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and in the
words of Matthew 25:34
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say to His church - once
militant, now triumphant -
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"Come, ye blessed of My Father.
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Inherit the
kingdom prepared for you
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from the
foundation of the world. "
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And then it happens.
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In full view of
the transfixed redeemed
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there in the foyer of glory
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the two Adams meet:
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the Adam who pulled us down and
the Adam who turned us around.
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The Adam who started our strife
and the Adam who gave us life.
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The Adam who failed his race
and the Adam who took his place.
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The Adam who started the trouble
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and the Adam who
pulled us from the rubble.
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The Adam in whom we sinned
and the Adam by whom we win.
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The Adam who
saddled us with loss
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and the Adam who
saved us by the cross.
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They meet in
wondrous interaction.
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The first Adam who was
banished from the garden
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after sin is then presented that
for which the last centuries
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of his sorrowful life
he longed and lamented:
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the Garden of Eden.
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Third Spiritual
Gifts page 83 informs us
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that the garden was kept safe,
unentered by any human being
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from Adam's expulsion
until just before the flood
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when it was taken from the
earth and preserved in heaven.
00:23:33.34\00:23:36.80
But now Adam is
reinstated in his paradise lost.
00:23:37.10\00:23:40.60
He and his glorified
descendants joyfully inspect
00:23:40.90\00:23:45.00
its provisions and then
begin 1,000 years of reveling
00:23:45.20\00:23:50.06
in the environs of glory.
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Walking upon the sea of glass.
Eating from the Tree of Life.
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Bowing before the
great white throne.
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Singing praises
to the holy Lamb.
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Renewing happy acquaintance
with family and friends.
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Studying with fascinated
attraction the wonders
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of nature and the
science of salvation
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and judging the
records of the wicked.
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Revelation 20:4.
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All recorded - the
deeds of the wicked - in what
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Ellen White called
the Books of Death.
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Great Controversy, 661.
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More accurately stated
00:24:28.12\00:24:31.30
this process will be a
matter of the righteous
00:24:31.90\00:24:34.88
given modern
technology - the saints -
00:24:35.08\00:24:38.20
judging the wicked
based upon information
00:24:38.40\00:24:41.77
stored in the databases
viewed from the desktops
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of their personal thrones.
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And what a gesture of absolute
grace and fairness that is.
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God the Father, who
never walked in our moccasins,
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who does not know what
it is to be born of a woman
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and to live in a world of sin,
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gives judgment to the
Son according to John 5:22.
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But then Jesus, who does
know what it's like to be born
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and to live and
die in our world,
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Jesus who came in our
flesh and ate our food
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and breathed our
air and drank our water
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and suffered our
pain and died our death...
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He, the compassionate Savior,
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He who was temped in all
points as are we - Hebrews 4:12-
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but who never sinned.
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Who repented and was
baptized symbolically
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gives the last word of judgment
to those for whom repentance
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was real and
necessary... to you and for me.
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He who came in
Adam's sinless innocence
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but with our physical debilities
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and lived in a world
that was as wantonly wicked
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as was Adam's perfectly pure...
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He who overcome
under circumstances
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infinitely more drastic
than those that Adam endured
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and suffered temptations
100 times more intense
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than he or we... He who in
the wilderness felt the strength
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of our evil cravings
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whose corpuscles
and cells and sinews
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after 40 days
and nights of fasting
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cried out for
satisfaction with the same force
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with which the
addict craves for a fix...
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He who though hounded,
harassed, and hassled by Satan
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every step of His life
never yielded to temptation
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commits
judgment to those who did
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but who in sorrow
accepted His forgiveness
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and yielded to the ongoing
process of sanctification
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or daily growth.
THOUGH, while they were growing,
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while we are growing,
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already perfected -
Hebrews 10:14 says -
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by the robe of
His righteousness.
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And when the process
of judgment is completed
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the thousand years will expire.
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That is when, verse 7 of
Revelation 20 informs us,
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Christ will
return back to the earth
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and Satan will be
loosed from his prison.
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Now this coming to the earth
is labeled as His 3rd coming.
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And that is correct in
terms of His appearances
00:27:33.12\00:27:37.53
with global
visibility and global mission.
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However, He has visited this
earth on many other memorable
00:27:41.67\00:27:47.26
though less auspicious occasions
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as when He
appeared to Abraham at Mamre
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and when He wrestled
with Jacob at Peniel.
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When He spoke to
Moses from the burning bush.
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When by Jericho
with sword in hand
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He intercepted Joshua.
00:28:03.41\00:28:05.48
When He recruited
Gideon at the winepress.
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When He appeared in the
flames at Manoah's altar.
00:28:08.85\00:28:12.08
When He stood with the
Hebrews in the fiery furnace.
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He was here when He after
His resurrection conversed
00:28:15.49\00:28:19.58
with Mary and walked with
the travelers toward Emmaus
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and when in repeated
visits with the 11 He instructed
00:28:22.84\00:28:26.25
them regarding His
replacement, the Holy Spirit.
00:28:26.45\00:28:29.48
Zechariah 14:5 tells us
that when He returns this time
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He will touch down
on the Mount of Olives.
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And our remnant prophet
describes in graphic language
00:28:38.78\00:28:42.31
how that mountain in the
bosom of which He agonized
00:28:42.52\00:28:46.14
the night of His betrayal
00:28:46.34\00:28:48.32
will spread out into a broad
plateau and how the redeemed
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and angelic hosts who followed
Him back here from heaven
00:28:53.34\00:28:57.36
will then look up and see
the holy city following them
00:28:57.56\00:29:01.88
descending from
God out of heaven.
00:29:02.08\00:29:04.38
At that point, Satan is
released from his prison.
00:29:04.68\00:29:09.68
It was the
removal of his followers
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that tied the devil's hands
00:29:13.95\00:29:16.26
and it is their reinstatement
to life, their resurrection,
00:29:16.46\00:29:21.13
that frees him again.
00:29:21.33\00:29:23.24
At Satan's call,
they all come forth...
00:29:24.75\00:29:28.38
from the
antelluvian giants of antiquity
00:29:28.58\00:29:32.31
to the anticommandment jurists
of modernity they come forth.
00:29:32.51\00:29:37.37
The righteous who were
raised at the second coming -
00:29:37.67\00:29:40.83
I Thessalonians 4:13-18-
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were brought up
in immortal bloom.
00:29:43.99\00:29:47.37
The wicked are now
raised immoral and doomed.
00:29:47.67\00:29:51.83
Every rejecter of grace,
00:29:52.13\00:29:54.78
every proclaimer
that God was dead,
00:29:55.08\00:29:58.80
every preacher of the
Ten Commandments done away,
00:29:59.10\00:30:03.01
every promoter
of Sabbath change,
00:30:03.31\00:30:06.57
every purveyor of evolutionism,
00:30:06.87\00:30:09.65
every pompous prophet of
self-praise and adoration,
00:30:09.95\00:30:13.78
every drug dealer and user,
00:30:13.98\00:30:16.52
every child molester and abuser,
00:30:16.72\00:30:19.12
every unregenerate
adulterer and disobedient child,
00:30:19.43\00:30:23.75
every professor of
Christ who lived a double life,
00:30:24.06\00:30:27.56
every smiling
parrot of "Happy Sabbath"
00:30:27.86\00:30:30.78
who lived a previously
unholy six along with every
00:30:30.99\00:30:34.97
bloodthirsty warrior who
ever died during the 6,000 years
00:30:35.17\00:30:39.18
of warfare on
earth... they come forth.
00:30:39.38\00:30:41.65
From Ahab to Attila the Hun.
00:30:41.95\00:30:44.92
From
Chedorlaomer to Charlemagne.
00:30:45.02\00:30:47.54
From Nero to Napoleon
and Senaccherib to Stalin.
00:30:47.74\00:30:51.32
And Pharaoh to Pot-Pol.
00:30:51.42\00:30:53.37
From Pilate to
Pinochet; from Hamaan to Hitler.
00:30:53.67\00:30:56.32
From Cain to Capone.
00:30:56.52\00:30:58.02
From Jezebel the
queen to Idi Amin...
00:30:58.22\00:31:01.00
they all come forth
00:31:01.20\00:31:02.27
in the same bodybuild and
mindset in which they died.
00:31:02.57\00:31:06.68
And their second resurrection...
this releasing the devil
00:31:08.11\00:31:12.98
from his prison... is but
prelude to their second death.
00:31:13.18\00:31:17.65
Except, that is, for
those who pierced Him.
00:31:18.90\00:31:21.30
Those who inflicted
the body blows at Calvary -
00:31:21.60\00:31:25.66
Revelation 1:7.
00:31:25.86\00:31:28.52
For these it is the third death.
00:31:28.72\00:31:31.93
They died the natural death
at the end of their unprofitable
00:31:32.23\00:31:35.74
lives. They were resurrected
at Christ's second coming
00:31:35.94\00:31:39.03
and died with the wicked then.
00:31:39.24\00:31:41.40
And now at the millennium's
end they are revived
00:31:41.70\00:31:44.92
only to die once more.
00:31:45.12\00:31:47.35
Some religionists
teach that the millennium -
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the 1,000 years - will be a
golden age of Christianization.
00:31:53.46\00:31:58.41
A time when the wicked will
be afforded a final opportunity
00:31:58.71\00:32:02.06
for repentance and that
then Christ will return.
00:32:02.26\00:32:05.67
They are known as
the post- millenialists.
00:32:05.98\00:32:10.21
There are others who
teach that the 1,000-year period
00:32:10.31\00:32:13.44
mentioned six
times in Revelation 20
00:32:13.64\00:32:16.41
is simply symbolic... a
representation of the time
00:32:16.61\00:32:20.46
between the first and
second coming of Christ.
00:32:20.66\00:32:23.62
They are known as
the amillennialists.
00:32:23.92\00:32:27.16
Neither position is correct.
00:32:27.46\00:32:29.55
What is correct based
upon the earth-clearing events
00:32:29.85\00:32:34.06
at Christ's second coming
00:32:34.26\00:32:36.16
and the earth cleansing
actions of His third appearance
00:32:36.36\00:32:40.86
is that millennial
consequences do not take place
00:32:41.06\00:32:45.01
at His second coming
and that it is destruction
00:32:45.21\00:32:48.83
not revival that follows
the awakening of the wicked.
00:32:49.03\00:32:52.47
Now it is true according to
Story of Redemption page 423
00:32:52.87\00:32:57.82
that upon resurrection to life
00:32:58.03\00:33:00.14
the wicked - made
ashamed and remorseful
00:33:00.24\00:33:03.28
by the
brightness of His person -
00:33:03.48\00:33:05.84
will acknowledge
His mercy and truth
00:33:06.04\00:33:08.97
and cry out the honor
and justice of His name.
00:33:09.27\00:33:13.45
But that will not
be genuine repentance.
00:33:14.65\00:33:17.73
It will be Balaam-like
confession wrung from
00:33:17.83\00:33:21.19
Balak-like hearts soon
to receive the dire reward
00:33:21.39\00:33:25.24
of their foxhole religion.
00:33:25.44\00:33:27.11
And it is not simply the
glow of Christ's appearance
00:33:27.41\00:33:31.25
that will arouse their awe.
00:33:31.45\00:33:34.09
As they awaken, they
witness in the skies,
00:33:34.40\00:33:37.98
our prophet tells
us, a panoramic display
00:33:38.18\00:33:41.69
in three-dimension clarity -
I added that, but I believe it -
00:33:41.89\00:33:46.77
the whole history of
Christ's salvation efforts
00:33:47.07\00:33:51.12
from Adam's fall to Christ's
first coming and crucifixion
00:33:51.33\00:33:55.45
and the centuries of growth
and development of His cause
00:33:55.75\00:33:58.94
will be shown.
00:33:59.14\00:34:01.57
Having been so vividly
reminded of God's goodness
00:34:01.87\00:34:05.87
and their guiltiness,
their awe converts to ire
00:34:06.18\00:34:10.18
and they turn in
rage upon the deceiver
00:34:10.39\00:34:13.38
who himself has seemed
paralyzed and transfixed
00:34:13.68\00:34:17.09
by the panorama in the skies.
00:34:17.39\00:34:19.72
But then their
rage is interrupted
00:34:20.02\00:34:23.62
as their attention is
called to the Holy City
00:34:23.92\00:34:26.48
into which Christ has now taken
the redeemed and shut the door
00:34:26.68\00:34:30.92
upon its happy occupants.
00:34:31.22\00:34:32.68
The lost look up and
see the saints looking down
00:34:32.98\00:34:37.73
from the cities walls.
00:34:37.93\00:34:39.90
And above them they
see Christ seated high
00:34:40.20\00:34:45.19
upon a throne.
And as they look up
00:34:45.39\00:34:48.54
and see the saints
peering over the walls
00:34:48.74\00:34:52.50
of the city
positioned above them
00:34:52.70\00:34:54.60
and above the
saints there is Christ
00:34:54.80\00:34:57.28
and above Christ, our
prophet says, there is the cross
00:34:57.48\00:35:01.61
sitting high.
00:35:01.92\00:35:03.25
And how fitting that is.
00:35:03.65\00:35:06.51
The cross... they see
the cross above it all.
00:35:06.82\00:35:12.22
Above the wicked, above
the city, above the righteous,
00:35:12.63\00:35:16.48
above the throne
stands the cross.
00:35:16.69\00:35:19.26
The cross - where six
hours of suffering excised
00:35:19.56\00:35:23.26
six millennia of sin.
00:35:23.46\00:35:25.41
The cross - where justice
and mercy met in perfect blend.
00:35:25.71\00:35:30.37
The cross - on which the Son
of God gave all for the victims
00:35:30.67\00:35:34.86
of sin. The cross on
which Jesus endured and died
00:35:34.89\00:35:38.99
not because of loss of
blood or searing physical pain
00:35:39.19\00:35:43.11
but because of a
broken heart. A heart imploded
00:35:43.31\00:35:47.34
by the thought
of human rejection.
00:35:47.54\00:35:49.65
The cross - where
Satan took his last stand
00:35:49.95\00:35:53.38
and Jesus died with pierced
hands and feet and wounded brow.
00:35:53.58\00:35:57.60
The cross will
stand above it all.
00:35:57.80\00:36:00.42
It was a thing of pity then...
but it is a thing of praise now.
00:36:00.72\00:36:05.09
It was an ugly instrument then
00:36:05.40\00:36:08.09
but it's a beautiful diadem
now shining in the heavens
00:36:08.29\00:36:12.66
above the head of
the victorious Christ.
00:36:12.87\00:36:15.07
And it's all too much for
the wicked who are looking up
00:36:16.11\00:36:20.45
and much too much
for their leader, Satan,
00:36:20.75\00:36:23.74
who rallies them to attack.
00:36:24.05\00:36:25.55
"Let's take it, " he commands.
00:36:25.75\00:36:27.26
"I know that city. I lived
there for thousands of years.
00:36:27.47\00:36:31.13
I know every street and
every building and every room.
00:36:31.43\00:36:34.18
I was once the covering cherub;
I practically ran the place.
00:36:34.48\00:36:37.93
Have no fear... follow me. "
00:36:38.23\00:36:40.36
Revelation 20:8-9 states
00:36:41.84\00:36:45.73
that the wicked - as numerous
as the sand of the sea -
00:36:45.86\00:36:48.72
then surround the Holy City.
00:36:48.92\00:36:51.01
Satan, who just prior to
the end of the world, knew
00:36:51.31\00:36:54.84
that he had but a
short time to work
00:36:55.04\00:36:57.07
and frantically assaulted
society - Revelation 12:12-
00:36:57.27\00:37:02.41
now just prior to his own end
00:37:02.61\00:37:05.18
knowing that he is
loosed but for a little season -
00:37:05.38\00:37:08.00
chapter 20 verse 2-
00:37:08.20\00:37:09.68
frantically rallies
his forces and succeeds...
00:37:09.88\00:37:13.36
our prophet saw,
Great Controversy 644...
00:37:13.56\00:37:16.64
in marshaling his
vast army and leading it -
00:37:16.85\00:37:21.64
get this - and leading
it in a well-planned advance
00:37:21.84\00:37:27.12
on all four sides of the city.
00:37:27.32\00:37:31.99
And it is then -
Revelation 20:9- that Christ
00:37:35.09\00:37:40.97
gives the orders
and hell fire erupts.
00:37:41.17\00:37:44.93
Satan has been
loosed from his prison
00:37:45.13\00:37:48.21
and fire is now loosed
from its pent-up casement
00:37:48.51\00:37:52.19
deep in the bowels of the earth.
00:37:52.39\00:37:53.97
The searing, soaring
flames springing up from below
00:37:54.27\00:37:58.51
meet with raging, roaring
flames raining down from above,
00:37:58.71\00:38:02.66
and this planet glows red
and its surface is covered
00:38:02.86\00:38:07.72
with melting fervent
heat - II Peter 3:10.
00:38:07.92\00:38:13.01
The God who hates sin -
00:38:13.11\00:38:16.16
big sins and little sins -
00:38:16.46\00:38:19.21
public sins and private sins -
00:38:19.51\00:38:22.84
weekday sins and
Sabbath Day sins -
00:38:23.14\00:38:27.36
old folk sins and
young people sins -
00:38:27.66\00:38:31.01
sins of commission
and sins of omission -
00:38:31.31\00:38:34.14
laity sins and preacher's sins -
00:38:34.44\00:38:37.85
sins of the mind
and sins of the body -
00:38:39.55\00:38:42.57
now conducts what
Isaiah 28:21 calls
00:38:42.87\00:38:46.87
"His strange act. "
00:38:47.07\00:38:49.09
The planet is now
literally a molten lake of fire
00:38:49.39\00:38:53.79
but the God who protected
the ark and its occupants
00:38:53.99\00:38:58.62
when the world was
rendered a lake of water
00:38:58.82\00:39:01.51
now shelters the city and the
redeemed as the world has become
00:39:01.71\00:39:06.51
a lake of fire
- Revelation 20:9.
00:39:06.71\00:39:10.01
Because all sin must be punished
no sin will go unrewarded.
00:39:10.31\00:39:14.75
The wicked will
burn for their evil...
00:39:15.06\00:39:18.18
some lesser and
some to a greater degree.
00:39:18.39\00:39:21.46
But Satan will burn not only
for all of his personal sins
00:39:21.76\00:39:26.75
but for all of the confessed
sins of the redeemed as well.
00:39:26.95\00:39:31.05
And I've got a lot
to add to his load...
00:39:31.45\00:39:34.78
how about you?
00:39:34.98\00:39:36.58
And there are some confused
by the language of verse 10
00:39:36.88\00:39:41.37
that states that the wicked
will "burn forever and ever. "
00:39:41.57\00:39:44.78
However, close scrutiny
reveals that this "foreverness"
00:39:45.08\00:39:49.57
does not imply, as some
believe, an ever-burning hell.
00:39:49.77\00:39:55.03
It means only as long
as the burning substance
00:39:55.33\00:39:59.11
will last. In fact,
Malachi 4:1 states clearly
00:39:59.31\00:40:03.27
that the wicked will be
burned up... root and branch.
00:40:03.47\00:40:07.57
Root = the devil.
Branch = his followers.
00:40:07.88\00:40:11.40
They will be
entirely eliminated,
00:40:14.09\00:40:16.75
completely obliterated,
00:40:17.05\00:40:19.55
and the message sent to
the Father in language akin
00:40:19.95\00:40:25.90
to the report of the American
SEALs who overran Bin Laden
00:40:26.20\00:40:31.87
A... or rather EKIA.
00:40:32.17\00:40:36.89
EKIA...
00:40:37.19\00:40:40.16
enemy killed in action.
00:40:40.46\00:40:42.41
And the earth... fumigated,
cleansed, and finally cooled
00:40:42.71\00:40:48.26
will then be much as it was
00:40:48.46\00:40:51.08
in its pre-creation condition.
00:40:51.28\00:40:54.11
And then Christ
goes to work again.
00:40:54.41\00:40:56.47
Christ, who in the beginning
when the earth was without form
00:40:56.77\00:41:02.02
and void, spake and it was done,
00:41:02.22\00:41:04.37
commanded and it
stood fast - Psalm 32:5,
00:41:04.67\00:41:09.17
will speak again and
the earth will reappear
00:41:09.47\00:41:13.13
in its original beauty.
00:41:13.33\00:41:15.32
It is then that He
opens the gates to the city
00:41:15.53\00:41:19.50
now majestically
settled upon its exalted heights
00:41:19.70\00:41:24.00
and those who've
been sheltered there
00:41:24.03\00:41:26.71
will flow forth to
inherit the earth made new -
00:41:26.91\00:41:30.41
Revelation 21:1-4.
00:41:30.44\00:41:32.51
The curse has now been
eliminated, the scourge excised.
00:41:32.81\00:41:37.79
The one blot in God's otherwise
pure, holy, perfect, pristine,
00:41:38.09\00:41:44.06
pure universe done away.
00:41:44.26\00:41:46.85
And as Nahum
reminds us chapter 1 verse 9
00:41:47.16\00:41:50.42
"iniquity shall not
rise the second time. "
00:41:50.62\00:41:55.07
And then there will
be peace in the valley.
00:41:55.37\00:41:58.13
"The lion and the
lamb shall lie down,
00:41:58.44\00:42:00.66
and none shall hurt or destroy
in all His holy mountain. "
00:42:00.87\00:42:03.87
There we shall not
have a tear nor terror.
00:42:04.17\00:42:08.75
Not an itch nor a twitch.
00:42:08.95\00:42:11.66
Not a snarl nor a sniffle.
00:42:11.96\00:42:14.22
Not a pill nor an ill.
00:42:14.52\00:42:17.13
No health shots
and no blood clots.
00:42:17.43\00:42:20.18
No abrasions and no contagions.
00:42:20.49\00:42:23.20
No rheumatism and no embolism.
00:42:23.50\00:42:25.89
No infections and no injections.
00:42:26.19\00:42:28.85
No paralysis and no dialysis.
00:42:29.15\00:42:31.87
No aching backs
and no heart attacks.
00:42:32.17\00:42:35.18
No amnesia and no anesthesia.
00:42:35.48\00:42:39.47
No handicapped signs
and no drug store lines.
00:42:39.77\00:42:43.46
No pacemakers
and no undertakers!
00:42:43.76\00:42:47.12
No terminal pains and
no funeral trains. Yes!
00:42:47.42\00:42:50.88
But the Tree of Life
and the giver of life,
00:42:51.18\00:42:55.23
the God in whose
presence sickness cannot abide
00:42:55.43\00:42:59.67
and by whose power we will enjoy
eternity without infirmity.
00:42:59.87\00:43:05.43
Utopia with no myopia.
00:43:05.73\00:43:08.15
Society with no psychiatry.
00:43:08.45\00:43:11.55
Paradise with no parasites.
00:43:11.85\00:43:14.21
"And the former
things will not be remembered
00:43:14.41\00:43:17.26
nor brought to mind. " Amen!
00:43:17.46\00:43:19.39
And He shall
reign where ere the sun
00:43:19.69\00:43:23.08
on its appointed
course shall run.
00:43:23.28\00:43:26.11
His kingdom rule
from shore to shore
00:43:26.41\00:43:29.99
till moon and
stars shall wax no more.
00:43:30.29\00:43:34.08
And with only the
beautified scars on his brow
00:43:34.18\00:43:38.03
and the glorified
marks in His hands and feet
00:43:38.23\00:43:41.70
and the glow
from His wounded side
00:43:42.83\00:43:46.47
to remind us that
there was a former life
00:43:46.77\00:43:50.21
we shall follow the
glorified Lamb of Calvary
00:43:50.51\00:43:54.17
wherever He shall go.
00:43:54.38\00:43:56.22
We must be there.
00:43:56.52\00:43:58.59
I must be there.
00:43:58.89\00:44:00.94
By God's grace
we SHALL be there.
00:44:01.24\00:44:04.97
Is that your determination?
00:44:05.28\00:44:07.41
If so, would you stand
with me now and let us pray.
00:44:07.71\00:44:11.59
Our Father in heaven,
00:44:14.38\00:44:15.66
we long for the second coming
00:44:16.99\00:44:21.76
and look to the end
of the millennial period
00:44:22.77\00:44:28.41
when sin and sinners
00:44:29.68\00:44:32.19
and even the evil proclivities
00:44:32.49\00:44:37.57
of our fallen nature
will forever be done away.
00:44:37.77\00:44:41.50
When we can cry:
"Free at last, free at last"
00:44:41.80\00:44:46.50
and live together forever
00:44:46.80\00:44:49.22
in the environs of
a sinless happy home.
00:44:51.87\00:44:57.84
Toward that end
we work and pray.
00:44:58.14\00:45:01.60
And before I conclude my
prayer while our heads are bowed
00:45:01.80\00:45:05.86
and our eyes are closed
00:45:06.06\00:45:07.48
I want to go one step further
as we conclude our encampment.
00:45:07.78\00:45:12.04
There just may be somebody
here, and let me start with
00:45:13.75\00:45:17.85
those of us who are
already Seventh-day Adventists.
00:45:18.05\00:45:20.39
Is there a party here who
would like by raising your hand
00:45:20.79\00:45:25.49
while you stand to say:
"Yes, I have let this vision
00:45:25.69\00:45:29.38
fade a little bit. I
admit I haven't been on it
00:45:29.58\00:45:33.68
like I should have been.
00:45:33.88\00:45:35.32
I haven't been reading
the prophesies and studying.
00:45:35.52\00:45:37.89
My first love has cooled off,
00:45:38.08\00:45:41.20
and I don't want to be a
part of that mob at the end
00:45:41.41\00:45:44.55
of the millennium. I want
to be on the inside looking out
00:45:44.65\00:45:48.26
not on the outside looking in.
00:45:48.56\00:45:50.96
So right here
now I say yes, Lord,
00:45:51.26\00:45:53.61
I renew my vows; I
renew my covenant. "
00:45:53.81\00:45:57.11
If you feel OK with
the Lord and it's all right
00:45:57.41\00:46:00.22
don't raise your hand.
Well let me change that.
00:46:00.42\00:46:02.13
It's never all
all right. But I mean
00:46:02.23\00:46:04.07
if you've been living so that
you have no major problem...
00:46:04.27\00:46:07.96
just the usual wash your
feet at communion time...
00:46:08.06\00:46:12.54
that's OK. But if you
have something special you need
00:46:12.84\00:46:15.85
to get rid of you
want to get behind you
00:46:16.15\00:46:18.04
something that you really
want to leave and not take home
00:46:18.34\00:46:22.04
would you raise your
hand and say: "Yes, that's me.
00:46:22.34\00:46:23.85
I've got it and I admit it.
00:46:23.95\00:46:25.11
God renew my commitment.
" And here's my hand.
00:46:25.32\00:46:28.23
All right, you may
put your hands down.
00:46:28.53\00:46:30.84
That's your commitment.
00:46:31.14\00:46:32.25
But I want to go a step further.
00:46:32.65\00:46:34.74
There may be some Seventh-day
Adventist, some ex-Adventist
00:46:35.04\00:46:38.35
here, somebody who
used to belong to the church
00:46:38.45\00:46:41.42
but you came to the 3ABN
Camp Meeting to hear preaching
00:46:41.82\00:46:45.79
and singing. And somebody
brought you here or dragged you
00:46:45.99\00:46:48.42
here or you wandered in.
Don't know how you got here
00:46:48.52\00:46:50.81
but you don't want to leave here
00:46:51.11\00:46:52.81
without coming
back into the fold.
00:46:52.91\00:46:55.49
I want to go a step further.
00:46:55.79\00:46:57.02
You used to be but now
you want to come back home.
00:46:57.33\00:47:00.15
You want to get your
name back on the books.
00:47:00.45\00:47:02.36
You want to start attending
church like you should.
00:47:02.66\00:47:04.73
Or maybe you've never
been a Seventh-day Adventist
00:47:05.03\00:47:07.16
but you know the
commandments are right.
00:47:07.36\00:47:09.07
You know the Sabbath is right
00:47:09.37\00:47:10.78
and you want to say:
"Yes, Brother Preacher,
00:47:11.08\00:47:12.95
I want to rejoin
the church tonight.
00:47:13.16\00:47:16.22
I'm not going to
leave here outside the ark.
00:47:16.42\00:47:19.33
I do want to be on the inside. "
00:47:19.53\00:47:21.08
Would you raise
your hand where you are?
00:47:21.38\00:47:23.20
That man or woman or boy or
girl who may need to return,
00:47:23.40\00:47:26.42
are you here?
00:47:26.62\00:47:28.51
God sees your hand, maam.
00:47:30.07\00:47:31.73
Seal the vision; when you
go home, talk to your preacher.
00:47:32.23\00:47:35.06
You know who the
preacher is in your city?
00:47:35.36\00:47:37.15
Talk to him; talk
to her. Anybody else?
00:47:37.46\00:47:39.85
Need to come back
home? Need to get in the ark?
00:47:40.35\00:47:44.76
Need to make your
reservation for the Holy City?
00:47:45.06\00:47:47.72
Want to be in the
first resurrection.
00:47:50.51\00:47:53.94
To the rest of us
who are standing...
00:47:57.03\00:47:58.64
God bless you
brother... He sees you.
00:47:59.05\00:48:01.27
When you get home
talk to your preacher.
00:48:01.57\00:48:03.64
Get it right... seal the vision.
00:48:03.95\00:48:06.90
Let the words you've heard this
weekend be a seed in good soil.
00:48:07.20\00:48:11.04
Father, we stand in Your
presence humbled and awed
00:48:12.56\00:48:16.74
at Your goodness, at Your mercy.
00:48:17.04\00:48:19.07
Thanking you that You've
given us yet another chance,
00:48:20.72\00:48:24.75
another day of life, another
opportunity learn and grow.
00:48:24.95\00:48:29.26
Now Father, by Your Holy Spirit
00:48:29.76\00:48:33.88
in the name of
Jesus seal the blessings
00:48:34.18\00:48:37.60
that we have
enjoyed here together
00:48:37.71\00:48:39.42
as seed in good soil to
spring forth into fruits
00:48:39.72\00:48:43.06
and works of
righteousness and finally
00:48:43.26\00:48:46.19
to be saved at Christ's return.
00:48:46.39\00:48:51.12
In His name and
for His sake we ask it,
00:48:51.42\00:48:54.30
let all the people
join in saying, Amen.
00:48:54.50\00:48:58.84
Shall we be seated.
00:48:59.14\00:49:00.80
Amen. Thank you.
00:49:01.80\00:49:04.87
Thank you. Be seated.
00:49:05.17\00:49:07.76
We're going to ask some
of our folks to come out.
00:49:08.06\00:49:11.47
And we've got... We're
going to ask some of the singers
00:49:11.67\00:49:15.16
and some of the musicians.
We thought what we would do
00:49:15.36\00:49:18.35
in closing. We have about
eight minutes left on satellite.
00:49:18.45\00:49:22.50
Some of you that were
singers and... come on up.
00:49:22.80\00:49:26.27
Singers from
last night come on up.
00:49:26.57\00:49:29.53
If you were a speaker here...
Elder Brooks and Sr. Brooks,
00:49:29.83\00:49:33.11
if you all want to
just come up for a minute.
00:49:33.31\00:49:34.67
Some of the
speakers and the singers.
00:49:34.77\00:49:36.50
We want to come up...
00:49:36.60\00:49:37.66
We thought we'd
have Reggie maybe sing
00:49:37.86\00:49:39.83
the song that we ended
with last night: The Solid Rock.
00:49:40.03\00:49:42.96
And when we get to the
last part of it, maybe all of us
00:49:43.26\00:49:45.89
will sing... join with him.
00:49:46.10\00:49:48.12
But this is an incredible
song and it's been an incredible
00:49:48.42\00:49:51.61
weekend, hasn't it? Amen.
00:49:51.81\00:49:53.59
And where's Baby Faith
behind... there she is, OK.
00:49:53.72\00:49:57.29
And it's been a wonderful time
and we're coming to the close.
00:49:57.49\00:50:00.46
And so what we'd like to
do is... we're so thankful
00:50:00.76\00:50:03.99
for all the speakers,
the sermons that we've heard,
00:50:04.19\00:50:06.63
all the music. But maybe give
us a chance to stand together
00:50:06.83\00:50:10.00
because without
Christ we'd have nothing.
00:50:10.20\00:50:12.77
And He is the only thing
solid. It's the solid rock
00:50:13.08\00:50:15.49
that we have, and we
need to depend upon Him.
00:50:15.70\00:50:18.35
And so Reggie, if
you want to come on up.
00:50:18.55\00:50:20.62
You sing it. Maybe when
you get toward the end of it
00:50:20.82\00:50:23.00
on the chorus we'll all
just jump in with you. OK?
00:50:23.20\00:50:25.59
All right.
00:50:25.79\00:50:26.82
Praise the Lord!
00:54:12.64\00:54:14.83
Thank you, Reggie. Jim...
00:54:15.13\00:54:17.36
My oh my oh my.
00:54:17.66\00:54:20.34
Wow, what a way to
end Camp Meeting, right?
00:54:20.84\00:54:24.37
On Christ the
solid rock we stand.
00:54:24.67\00:54:27.76
Each and every one of
us. ALL other ground is
00:54:28.06\00:54:31.11
sinking sand. Amen!
00:54:31.31\00:54:33.17
Standing in His
righteousness alone.
00:54:33.47\00:54:36.84
All other
ground is sinking sand.
00:54:37.34\00:54:41.09
That song has a message...
a message for God's people
00:54:41.40\00:54:44.83
today, Danny. It really does.
00:54:44.93\00:54:47.15
I'm so thankful for all
of you that have come so far.
00:54:47.25\00:54:51.25
And we found out from several
other countries... even as far
00:54:51.45\00:54:53.91
away as Australia. I
have to say Alaska again
00:54:54.01\00:54:57.21
'cause they tell
me "remember Alaska. "
00:54:57.41\00:54:58.80
But all across the continental
United States, probably even
00:54:59.10\00:55:02.44
somebody from Hawaii.
We're so thankful for all of you
00:55:02.64\00:55:04.97
who have come here. It
shows great support to us
00:55:05.17\00:55:07.70
because we're here in this
little community of 600 people.
00:55:08.00\00:55:10.71
Our big town, my home
town there, West Frankfort,
00:55:10.91\00:55:13.52
of about 8500 people. And
so to have all of you coming
00:55:13.72\00:55:17.06
from so many
places around the world
00:55:17.26\00:55:19.25
and to see what you have
built. What God has built, but
00:55:19.45\00:55:22.61
through you. Because without
you, none of what you see here
00:55:22.82\00:55:25.94
at 3ABN and all the dishes and
all the production facilities,
00:55:26.14\00:55:29.38
the facility we're in tonight.
None of this would happen
00:55:29.58\00:55:32.12
without your being willing
to listen to the Holy Spirit
00:55:32.32\00:55:35.64
and to give in
support of this ministry.
00:55:35.74\00:55:38.00
We want to thank you for
that. Those of you at home,
00:55:38.20\00:55:40.42
those who couldn't come...
thank you for how you support
00:55:40.62\00:55:43.51
through prayer,
through financial blessings,
00:55:43.65\00:55:45.56
whatever is on your heart.
Sharing the word about 3ABN.
00:55:45.76\00:55:49.16
Getting the good
news into all the world.
00:55:49.37\00:55:51.37
And really, that's
all it's all about.
00:55:51.57\00:55:53.21
And without this,
there would be nothing...
00:55:53.41\00:55:55.59
This is solid ground
that we're talking about,
00:55:55.79\00:55:58.47
and here we feel
like we're on holy ground.
00:55:58.67\00:56:00.65
But anywhere we go
we're on holy ground
00:56:00.75\00:56:03.59
when we're in the
presence of the Lord. Amen.
00:56:03.79\00:56:05.80
I have felt it this entire
weekend from Wednesday night.
00:56:05.94\00:56:08.28
Even before, actually...
our board meeting and on.
00:56:08.38\00:56:11.04
And we want to take
this home with us, folks.
00:56:11.34\00:56:14.41
We want you to take what
you got here this weekend
00:56:14.71\00:56:17.75
and take it home and
share it with your loved ones.
00:56:17.85\00:56:20.15
Share it with your friends,
your enemies... everybody.
00:56:20.45\00:56:22.28
Share what you have got
because that's God's commission
00:56:22.58\00:56:27.74
to us is "Go ye
into all the world. "
00:56:27.88\00:56:29.77
So when we come to the
gas station and fill up
00:56:30.07\00:56:32.13
now we've got to go
disseminate it, right?
00:56:32.33\00:56:35.01
Share it with others...
that's how God blesses us.
00:56:35.41\00:56:37.66
It's been an incredible
meeting, an incredible weekend.
00:56:37.86\00:56:40.80
And there's been a
number of appeals already.
00:56:41.11\00:56:43.53
But if there's anybody
watching on television,
00:56:43.73\00:56:45.90
listening on radio, or here
00:56:46.10\00:56:47.81
that you still... It's never
too late to give your heart
00:56:48.01\00:56:50.14
to the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:56:50.24\00:56:51.32
That's right. And
that's where it all begins
00:56:51.42\00:56:53.65
is making that step
of saying "yes" to Jesus
00:56:53.86\00:56:57.83
and then stepping
out and trusting in Him
00:56:58.13\00:57:01.05
and relying upon Him.
Jesus is coming again.
00:57:01.35\00:57:06.89
He's coming! I don't
know when but I know He is.
00:57:07.19\00:57:11.93
And I'll trust Him. He has
not put me on the Arrangements
00:57:12.23\00:57:15.67
Committee; He has put me
on the Proclamation Committee.
00:57:15.78\00:57:18.94
I'm not to bring Him in; I'm
to proclaim that He's coming.
00:57:19.14\00:57:22.45
All right. And
He's coming very soon.
00:57:22.76\00:57:25.42
Keep on keeping on with
Jesus, our Lord, our God,
00:57:25.63\00:57:30.17
and our Savior. Amen.
00:57:30.38\00:57:32.44