>>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE 00:01:02.52\00:01:05.06 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:01:05.09\00:01:09.53 >>DID YOU KNOW ABOUT 5,000 STARS CAN BE SEEN WITH THE NAKED EYE? 00:01:09.56\00:01:13.97 YET, WITH A SMALL TELESCOPE YOU CAN SEE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF 00:01:14.00\00:01:18.01 STARS. THE LARGEST TELESCOPES ON EARTH 00:01:18.04\00:01:20.78 REVEAL MILLIONS OF GALAXIES PACKED WITH STARS, WHEREAS THE 00:01:20.81\00:01:24.98 HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE MIGHT BE ABLE TO SEE OVER A 00:01:25.01\00:01:27.85 BILLION GALAXIES. KEEP IN MIND, IT'S ESTIMATED 00:01:27.88\00:01:31.75 THAT EACH OF THESE GALAXIES CONTAIN OVER 200 BILLIONS STARS. 00:01:31.79\00:01:37.06 AND, IT'S NOW BELIEVED, OVER TWO TRILLION GALAXIES EXIST IN THE 00:01:37.09\00:01:40.86 UNIVERSE. LOOKING AT THE SKY ON A CLEAR NIGHT, ALL THE STARS WE 00:01:40.90\00:01:44.53 SEE ARE IN THE MILKY WAY GALAXY, A FIERY SPIRAL OF STARS OVER 00:01:44.57\00:01:49.30 100,000 LIGHT YEARS ACROSS. SUCH AWESOME STATISTICS GIVE US 00:01:49.34\00:01:55.21 A SMALL CONCEPT OF THE GREATNESS OF GOD AND IT STIRS WITHIN US 00:01:55.24\00:01:59.65 A YEARNING FOR SPACE TRAVEL. BUT, DID YOU KNOW THE BIBLE 00:01:59.68\00:02:04.02 TEACHES THAT THE REDEEMED WILL HAVE THIS OPPORTUNITY? 00:02:04.05\00:02:07.69 JOIN ME TODAY AS WE LOOK AT SOME FASCINATING BIBLE FACTS ABOUT 00:02:07.72\00:02:11.63 THE INCREDIBLE FUTURE GOD HAS PLANNED FOR HIS PEOPLE. 00:02:11.66\00:02:19.50 >>IN OUR PRESENTATION THIS EVENING, WE'RE GOING TO BE 00:02:19.53\00:02:21.97 TALKING ABOUT THE GREAT JUDGMENT DAY. 00:02:22.00\00:02:24.91 LET'S BEGIN WITH A LITTLE AMAZING FACT FROM HISTORY. 00:02:24.94\00:02:27.98 I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD OF BARON FABIAN VON 00:02:28.01\00:02:30.78 SCHLABRENDORFF. HIS WHOLE NAME WAS FABIAN 00:02:30.81\00:02:35.78 LUDWIG GEORGE ADOLF KURT VON SCHLABRENDORFF. 00:02:35.82\00:02:39.95 HOW'D YOU LIKE TO BE HIS MOTHER CALLING HIM WHEN YOU'RE ANGRY? 00:02:39.99\00:02:42.79 (LAUGHTER) PROBABLY CALLED HIM 'BUTCH'. 00:02:42.82\00:02:45.59 (LAUGHTER) HE WAS BORN IN GERMANY IN 1907, TRAINED AS A 00:02:45.63\00:02:49.20 LAWYER - VERY BRIGHT INDIVIDUAL - AND WHEN THE WAR WAS GETTING 00:02:49.23\00:02:52.77 READY TO BREAK OUT, HE WAS DRAFTED BUT, BECAUSE HE WAS SO 00:02:52.80\00:02:56.57 BRIGHT AND PERFORMED WELL, HE WAS RAPIDLY PROMOTED. 00:02:56.60\00:03:00.51 WELL, IT DIDN'T TAKE HIM VERY LONG TO REALIZE THAT ADOLPH 00:03:00.54\00:03:03.14 HITLER WAS CRAZY, DESTROYING EUROPE, NOT TO MENTION GERMANY, 00:03:03.18\00:03:06.85 SO HE JOINED THE RESISTANCE. SCHLABRENDORFF WAS THE ONE WHO, 00:03:06.88\00:03:10.92 WHEN HITLER CAME TO VISIT AN ARMY BASE IN GERMANY, HE 00:03:10.95\00:03:14.26 SMUGGLED A TIME BOMB ONTO HITLER'S PLANE THAT WAS SUPPOSED 00:03:14.29\00:03:17.19 TO BLOW UP AND GET RID OF THAT CRUEL DICTATOR, BUT IT FAILED. 00:03:17.23\00:03:21.76 EVENTUALLY THEY TRACED IT BACK TO HIM, HE WAS ARRESTED, HE WAS 00:03:21.80\00:03:26.47 TORTURED - HE NEVER DID TALK AND GIVE UP ANY OF THE PEOPLE THAT 00:03:26.50\00:03:29.67 WERE PART OF THE RESISTANCE - AND, FINALLY, THEY SET A TRIAL 00:03:29.70\00:03:34.31 FOR HIM. HE WAS BROUGHT INTO THE 00:03:34.34\00:03:36.54 COURTROOM - THIS WAS NOW 1945 BY THE TIME IT GOT TO HIS TRIAL 00:03:36.58\00:03:40.98 - AND COURTHOUSE WAS FULL - JUDGES, JURY - THEY ALL FOUND 00:03:41.02\00:03:46.92 HIM GUILTY OF HIGH TREASON AND HE WAS SENTENCED TO BE 00:03:46.96\00:03:49.72 KILLED BY FIRING SQUAD. BECAUSE OF THE WAR EFFORT, THEY 00:03:49.76\00:03:54.76 DIDN'T PUT YOU ON DEATH ROW AND YOU DID NOT HAVE APPEALS. 00:03:54.83\00:03:57.50 THEY WERE MARCHING HIM OUT OF THE COURTROOM TO A WALL WHERE HE 00:03:57.53\00:04:00.94 WAS GOING TO BE EXECUTED, WHEN THE AIR RAID SIRENS WENT OFF AND 00:04:00.97\00:04:06.51 ONE OF THE ALLIED BOMBERS SCORED A DIRECT HIT ON THE COURTHOUSE. 00:04:06.54\00:04:11.11 EVERYBODY IN THE COURTHOUSE WAS KILLED EXCEPT SCHLABRENDORFF 00:04:11.15\00:04:15.55 (LAUGHTER) WHO ESCAPED. HE LATER WAS RECAPTURED AND THEY 00:04:15.58\00:04:21.86 PUT HIM IN DACHAU PRISON OF WAR CAMP, BUT IT WASN'T LONG BEFORE 00:04:21.89\00:04:24.56 THE ALLIES CAME AND HE SURVIVED. AND GUESS WHAT? 00:04:24.59\00:04:30.13 HE BECAME A LEADING JUDGE IN GERMANY. 00:04:30.17\00:04:34.84 THE ONE WHO WAS BEING TRIED - WHAT A REVERSAL OF FORTUNES - 00:04:34.87\00:04:38.34 WHO HAD BEEN CONDEMNED ENDED UP BEING THE JUDGE. 00:04:38.37\00:04:41.58 >>WOW. >>AND HE LIVED UNTIL 1980. 00:04:41.61\00:04:45.25 IT MAKES ME THINK ABOUT WHEN JESUS STOOD BEFORE CAIAPHAS THE 00:04:45.28\00:04:48.62 HIGH PRIEST AND PONTIUS PILATE AND THERE THEY WERE, THE CHURCH 00:04:48.65\00:04:51.95 AND THE STATE, CONDEMNING HIM AND HE SAID, 'HEREAFTER YOU WILL 00:04:51.99\00:04:55.69 SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN.' TALK ABOUT A 00:04:55.72\00:04:59.63 BIG SURPRISE, WHEN THEY COME OUT OF THEIR GRAVES AND THEY SEE THE 00:04:59.66\00:05:03.63 ONE THEY WERE JUDGING IS NOW THE JUDGE OF THE UNIVERSE. 00:05:03.67\00:05:07.20 THE BIBLE SAYS WE WILL ALL STAND BEFORE THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF 00:05:07.24\00:05:10.04 CHRIST. NOW, WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING 00:05:10.07\00:05:12.97 AT SEVERAL CHAPTERS IN THE BIBLE, PRINCIPALLY CHAPTER 20 OF 00:05:13.01\00:05:15.88 REVELATION THAT TALKS ABOUT THIS GREAT JUDGMENT DAY AND ALSO 00:05:15.91\00:05:19.68 TALKS ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM. IT BEGINS - AND, IF YOU HAVE 00:05:19.71\00:05:22.48 YOUR BIBLES, YOU MIGHT WANT TO TURN TO CHAPTER 00:05:22.52\00:05:23.92 20 OF REVELATION. REVELATION 20, VERSE 1, "THEN I 00:05:23.95\00:05:28.22 SAW AN ANGEL COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN, HAVING THE KEY TO THE 00:05:28.26\00:05:31.96 BOTTOMLESS PIT, AND A GREAT CHAIN IN HIS HAND. 00:05:31.99\00:05:35.50 HE LAID HOLD ON THE DRAGON, THAT OLD SERPENT CALLED THE DEVIL, 00:05:35.53\00:05:39.47 AND SATAN," - THERE YOU HAVE IT AGAIN, THE SAME THING YOU SEE IN 00:05:39.50\00:05:41.94 REVELATION 12 - HAS HIS TITLES - "AND BOUND HIM A THOUSAND 00:05:41.97\00:05:45.71 YEARS." SO THIS ONE-THOUSAND-YEAR PERIOD 00:05:45.74\00:05:49.74 YOU HEAR REFERENCED OFTEN IS USUALLY CALLED THE MILLENNIUM. 00:05:49.78\00:05:53.21 THE WORD 'MILLENNIUM' IS SIMPLY - IT'S A COMPOSITE LATIN WORD - 00:05:53.25\00:05:56.82 'MILLE' - THOUSAND - 'ANNUM' - YEARS - IT'S TALKING ABOUT A 00:05:56.85\00:05:59.69 THOUSAND-YEAR PERIOD. YOU PRINCIPALLY FIND THIS 00:05:59.72\00:06:02.86 IN REVELATION CHAPTER 20. AND IT GOES ON TO SAY, IF YOU GO 00:06:02.89\00:06:06.86 IN REVELATION CHAPTER 20, VERSE 4, "AND I SAW THRONES, AND THEY 00:06:06.90\00:06:12.87 SAT ON THEM, AND JUDGMENT WAS COMMITTED TO THEM." 00:06:12.90\00:06:17.41 AND SO, THERE'S THIS JUDGMENT THAT IS GIVEN. 00:06:17.44\00:06:19.64 WHAT EVENTS MARK THE BEGINNING OF THE MILLENNIUM AND THE GREAT 00:06:19.67\00:06:23.68 JUDGMENT DAY? SO LET'S LOOK AT THIS TIMELINE 00:06:23.71\00:06:25.91 IN THE FINAL EVENTS OF PROPHECY. YOU READ, FOR INSTANCE, IN 1 00:06:25.95\00:06:29.92 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 4, VERSE 6, "FOR THE LORD HIMSELF SHALL 00:06:29.95\00:06:34.49 DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT, WITH THE VOICE OF THE 00:06:34.52\00:06:37.39 ARCHANGEL AND THE TRUMP OF GOD, AND" - IT SAYS - "THE DEAD 00:06:37.43\00:06:40.73 IN CHRIST SHALL RISE FIRST." SO THIS ONE-THOUSAND-YEAR PERIOD 00:06:40.76\00:06:45.60 BEGINS WITH THE COMING OF THE LORD AND A RESURRECTION. 00:06:45.63\00:06:49.34 NOW, IN OUR STUDY THIS EVENING, WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO BE 00:06:49.37\00:06:51.74 TALKING ABOUT FOUR DIFFERENT GROUPS OF PEOPLE: WHEN CHRIST 00:06:51.77\00:06:55.94 COMES YOU'VE GOT THE GOOD THAT ARE ALIVE - OR SAVED, I SHOULD 00:06:55.98\00:06:59.91 SAY, THAT ARE ALIVE, AND THE EVIL THAT ARE ALIVE. 00:06:59.95\00:07:04.35 YOU'VE GOT THE SAVED THAT ARE DEAD, AND THE EVIL THAT ARE DEAD 00:07:04.39\00:07:09.19 - THE LOST. EVERYBODY WHO'S EVER LIVED FALLS 00:07:09.22\00:07:12.96 INTO ONE OF THOSE CATEGORIES, ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 00:07:12.99\00:07:15.83 YOU'VE GOT THE LIVING AND THE DEAD, THE GOOD AND THE BAD, AND 00:07:15.86\00:07:18.80 ALL OF THEM ARE ADDRESSED IN THIS STUDY TONIGHT, SO THIS IS 00:07:18.83\00:07:21.97 RELEVANT FOR EVERYBODY IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. 00:07:22.00\00:07:25.04 AND IT SAYS, "THEY LIVED AND REIGNED WITH CHRIST A THOUSAND 00:07:25.07\00:07:27.21 YEARS." THOSE WHO ARE RESURRECTED - 00:07:27.24\00:07:29.61 THE DEAD IN CHRIST - RISE. THOSE OF US WHO ARE ALIVE AND 00:07:29.64\00:07:32.18 REMAIN, WE'RE CAUGHT UP, WE MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR, AND WE 00:07:32.21\00:07:35.02 LIVE AND REIGN WITH CHRIST. SOME CHURCHES TEACH THAT THE ONE 00:07:35.05\00:07:38.49 THOUSAND YEARS WE SPEND HERE ON EARTH WHERE THE RIGHTEOUS ARE 00:07:38.52\00:07:42.62 REIGNING OVER THE WICKED - WE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE BUT THEY 00:07:42.66\00:07:45.03 DON'T, SO I GUESS THEY'RE LIVING, BREEDING AND DYING, BUT 00:07:45.06\00:07:49.83 WE'RE IMMORTAL AND WE DON'T GET MARRIED AND HAVE CHILDREN. 00:07:49.86\00:07:53.57 FIRST OF ALL, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT I DON'T WANT TO REIGN 00:07:53.60\00:07:55.10 OVER THE WICKED - AND THAT CHRIST IS HERE ON EARTH. 00:07:55.14\00:07:59.87 BUT - AND THEN THE OTHER GROUP OF CHRISTIANS BELIEVE THAT WE GO 00:07:59.91\00:08:03.95 UP AND WE LIVE AND REIGN WITH CHRIST IN GLORY DURING THE ONE 00:08:03.98\00:08:07.82 THOUSAND YEARS. NOW, YOU REMEMBER WHEN JESUS 00:08:07.85\00:08:09.98 SAYS, IN JOHN CHAPTER 14, 'I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU' - 00:08:10.02\00:08:13.79 RIGHT? HE'S GONE - 'I WILL COME AGAIN, RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF 00:08:13.82\00:08:18.76 THAT WHERE I AM, YOU MAY BE.' HE'S TAKING US TO WHERE HE IS 00:08:18.79\00:08:22.30 GOING. ISN'T THAT CLEAR IN THE LANGUAGE? 00:08:22.33\00:08:24.17 SO WHAT DIRECTION DO WE GO WHEN JESUS COMES? 00:08:24.20\00:08:26.53 >>UP. >>WE ARE CAUGHT UP. 00:08:26.57\00:08:27.84 SO, WHEN WE LIVE AND REIGN WITH HIM, IT'S IN THAT NEW JERUSALEM 00:08:27.87\00:08:31.27 THAT LATER COMES DOWN. WE'RE NOT LIVING AND REIGNING 00:08:31.31\00:08:33.94 OVER THE WICKED HERE ON EARTH. IT'S NOT HAPPENING HERE. 00:08:33.98\00:08:37.28 ABSOLUTELY. SO THEY LIVE AND REIGN WITH 00:08:37.31\00:08:39.58 CHRIST FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS AND THEN IT TELLS YOU WHAT 00:08:39.61\00:08:42.58 HAPPENS TO THE REST OF THE DEAD: "BUT THE REST OF THE DEAD LIVED 00:08:42.62\00:08:45.32 NOT AGAIN UNTIL THE THOUSAND YEARS WERE FINISHED. 00:08:45.35\00:08:48.76 THIS IS THE FIRST RESURRECTION." IN OTHER WORDS, THE DEAD 00:08:48.79\00:08:50.63 IN CHRIST ARE THE FIRST RESURRECTION, THE REST OF THE 00:08:50.66\00:08:52.79 DEAD, THEY DON'T LIVE AGAIN 'TIL WHEN? 00:08:52.83\00:08:55.40 THE END OF THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS. 00:08:55.43\00:08:57.67 AND SO, HERE YOU'VE GOT THE THOUSAND-YEAR PERIOD - IT'S LIKE 00:08:57.70\00:08:59.83 BOOKENDS, YOU CAN SEPARATE IT WITH FIRST RESURRECTION - 00:08:59.87\00:09:03.97 RIGHTEOUS - SECOND RESURRECTION - WICKED - AND THEY'RE SPREAD 00:09:04.01\00:09:09.24 APART. AND THIS FITS WITH WHAT 00:09:09.28\00:09:11.21 JESUS ALWAYS TAUGHT. NUMBER TWO: WHAT ELSE 00:09:11.25\00:09:14.25 WILL HAPPEN AT THE FIRST RESURRECTION? 00:09:14.28\00:09:17.15 IT SAYS, "WE SHALL NOT ALL SLEEP, BUT WE SHALL ALL BE 00:09:17.19\00:09:20.19 CHANGED, IN A MOMENT...AT THE LAST TRUMP:" - BY THE WAY, 1 00:09:20.22\00:09:24.46 CORINTHIANS 15, VERSE 51 - "FOR THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND, AND THE 00:09:24.49\00:09:28.76 DEAD SHALL BE RAISED INCORRUPTIBLE, AND WE SHALL BE 00:09:28.80\00:09:32.23 CHANGED." - THIS MORTAL - 00:09:32.27\00:09:33.87 WHEN ARE WE CHANGED? WHEN CHRIST COMES. 00:09:33.90\00:09:37.24 WE'LL BE CHANGED - "FOR THIS CORRUPTIBLE MUST PUT ON 00:09:37.27\00:09:39.67 INCORRUPTION, AND THIS MORTAL MUST PUT ON IMMORTALITY." 00:09:39.71\00:09:43.41 AND THEN IT SAYS, IN PHILIPPIANS 3:21, JESUS, WHEN HE COMES, "WHO 00:09:43.45\00:09:47.38 SHALL CHANGE OUR VILE BODY," - THESE BODIES THAT HAVE ACHES AND 00:09:47.42\00:09:49.92 PAINS AND THEY GET OLD AND - "THAT IT MAY BE FASHIONED LIKE 00:09:49.95\00:09:52.95 UNTO HIS GLORIOUS BODY." NOW, WHAT KIND OF BODIES DO THE 00:09:52.99\00:09:57.03 REDEEMED HAVE WHEN THEY GET A GLORIFIED BODY? 00:09:57.06\00:10:00.30 ARE THEY GHOSTS? WHEN JESUS ROSE FROM 00:10:00.33\00:10:03.90 THE DEAD, WAS HE REAL? >>YES. 00:10:03.93\00:10:06.47 >>DID HE TRY TO EMPHASIZE THAT HE WAS REAL? 00:10:06.50\00:10:09.40 HE SAID - THEY WERE JUST SHOCKED - HE SAID, 'TOUCH ME. 00:10:09.44\00:10:13.11 HANDLE ME. A SPIRIT DOES NOT HAVE FLESH AND 00:10:13.14\00:10:15.58 BONE AS YOU SEE THAT I HAVE.' AND THEN HE SAID, 'I'M HUNGRY. 00:10:15.61\00:10:19.98 YOU GOT ANYTHING TO EAT?' NOT ONLY DID HE SAY THAT IN THE 00:10:20.02\00:10:22.35 UPPER ROOM, HE MET THEM BY THE SEA. 00:10:22.38\00:10:24.29 HE SAID, 'YOU GUYS GOT ANY FOOD?' 00:10:24.32\00:10:25.82 SO WAS IT GOD'S ORIGINAL PLAN THAT ADAM AND EVE EAT? 00:10:25.85\00:10:29.49 >>YES. >>DO GHOSTS EAT? 00:10:29.52\00:10:33.36 YOU KNOW, GHOSTS DON'T EAT. THEY'RE REAL PEOPLE. 00:10:33.40\00:10:36.73 AND HE'S - THE THING IS, WE HAVE SPIRITUAL BODIES. 00:10:36.77\00:10:39.13 SEE, THE BEST WAY I CAN EXPLAIN IT, ADAM AND EVE, BEFORE SIN, 00:10:39.17\00:10:43.07 THEY LIVED IN FOUR DIMENSIONS. YOU AND I LIVE IN 00:10:43.10\00:10:45.51 THREE DIMENSIONS NOW. THEY HAD GLORIFIED BODIES THAT 00:10:45.54\00:10:48.94 HAD NO ACHES OR PAINS, WHERE THEY COULD SEE ANGELS. 00:10:48.98\00:10:52.68 THEN, AFTER SIN, THE LIGHT WENT OUT AND SOMETHING CHANGED. 00:10:52.71\00:10:56.75 THEY LOST A WHOLE DIMENSION. THE WHOLE SPIRITUAL DIMENSION OF 00:10:56.79\00:10:59.79 OUR BEING WILL BE ADDED AGAIN IN THESE GLORIFIED ETERNAL 00:10:59.82\00:11:03.59 BODIES THAT WE HAVE. BUT THEY'RE REAL BODIES. 00:11:03.63\00:11:06.83 YOU LEARN LATER, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HEAVEN, IT SAYS, 00:11:06.86\00:11:09.10 'THEY PLANT VINEYARDS AND THEY EAT THE FRUIT OF THEM, AND THEY 00:11:09.13\00:11:11.87 BUILD HOUSES AND THEY GO FORTH - AND WE'RE DOING REAL THINGS, 00:11:11.90\00:11:15.87 WE'RE NOT JUST, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE - HEAVEN - I USED TO THINK WE'RE 00:11:15.90\00:11:18.44 UP ON CLOUDS, WE'RE FAT LITTLE CHERUBS, NAKED, PLAYING HARPS, 00:11:18.47\00:11:21.78 AND I THOUGHT, 'BOY, I DON'T - YOU KNOW, HELL SOUNDS MORE 00:11:21.81\00:11:24.21 INTERESTING. WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER, 00:11:24.25\00:11:25.65 THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT. (LAUGHTER) THAT'S NOT IT AT ALL. 00:11:25.68\00:11:30.29 WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING REAL THINGS. 00:11:30.32\00:11:32.22 SO WE'LL HAVE WHAT KIND OF BODY? >>GLORIFIED. 00:11:32.25\00:11:34.02 >>GLORIOUS BODIES LIKE HIS BODY. NOW THERE WAS ONE THING WRONG 00:11:34.06\00:11:37.96 WITH JESUS' BODY WHEN HE ROSE. DID HE STILL HAVE THE 00:11:37.99\00:11:41.03 SCARS IN HIS HANDS? >>YES. 00:11:41.06\00:11:42.80 >>THE LORD DELIBERATELY ALLOWED THAT BLEMISH TO REMAIN SO THAT, 00:11:42.83\00:11:47.87 THROUGH ETERNITY, WE WOULD SEE THE ICON, THE REMINDER OF HIS 00:11:47.90\00:11:53.54 SACRIFICE FOR US, SO SIN WILL NEVER RISE UP AGAIN THE SECOND 00:11:53.58\00:11:57.05 TIME. WE'LL NEVER FORGET WHAT HE DID TO SAVE US. 00:11:57.08\00:12:00.25 WHAT HAPPENS TO THE WICKED WHEN THE LORD COMES? 00:12:00.28\00:12:02.48 2 THESSALONIANS 2:8, "AND THEN SHALL THAT WICKED BE REVEALED, 00:12:02.52\00:12:06.29 WHOM THE LORD...SHALL CONSUME WITH THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS 00:12:06.32\00:12:08.69 COMING." AND DESTROY WITH THE BREATH OF HIS MOUTH. 00:12:08.72\00:12:11.79 IT ALSO GOES ON TO SAY - REVELATION 16 - "AND THERE WAS A 00:12:11.83\00:12:14.96 GREAT EARTHQUAKE SUCH AS WAS NOT SINCE MEN WERE UPON THE EARTH, 00:12:15.00\00:12:19.17 SO MIGHTY AN EARTHQUAKE, AND SO GREAT." 00:12:19.20\00:12:22.30 AND SO THERE'S A GREAT EARTH-SHAKING EARTHQUAKE AND 00:12:22.34\00:12:25.34 THIS IS NOT, YOU KNOW, 3 OR 4 ON THE RICHTER SCALE - WE HAVE 00:12:25.37\00:12:28.28 THOSE IN CALIFORNIA, WE JUST SORT OF SHRUG. 00:12:28.31\00:12:30.58 THIS IS TALKING ABOUT MAJOR, YOU KNOW, 15 ON THE RICHTER SCALE - 00:12:30.61\00:12:36.55 MOUNTAINS AND ISLANDS ARE BEING SWALLOWED UP IN THIS EARTHQUAKE. 00:12:36.58\00:12:40.42 AND IT SAYS, "EVERY ISLAND FLED AWAY, AND THE MOUNTAINS WERE NOT 00:12:40.46\00:12:44.86 FOUND." IT GOES ON TO SAY THAT THERE WAS 00:12:44.89\00:12:47.50 "A GREAT HAIL OUT OF HEAVEN, EVERY STONE ABOUT THE 00:12:47.50\00:12:51.47 WEIGHT OF A TALENT." YOU KNOW WHAT A TALENT IS? 00:12:51.50\00:12:55.04 IT'S ABOUT 75 POUNDS. >>WOW. 00:12:55.07\00:12:58.24 >>AND SO, IF YOU CAN IMAGINE HAIL STONES WITH THAT WEIGHT, 00:12:58.27\00:13:01.18 THAT'S PRETTY AMAZING. IT GOES ON TO SAY THAT SATAN IS 00:13:01.21\00:13:05.28 THEN BOUND, AT THIS TIME, IN THE BOTTOMLESS PIT. 00:13:05.31\00:13:07.88 SO WHAT IS THIS BOTTOMLESS PIT? THE WORD THAT YOU FIND THERE FOR 00:13:07.92\00:13:12.09 BOTTOMLESS PIT IS 'ABUSSOS' AND ABUSSOS MEANS - WELL, YOU'VE 00:13:12.12\00:13:17.73 HEARD THE WORD ABYSS - ABYSS MEANS 'EMPTINESS; VOID'. 00:13:17.76\00:13:23.30 YOU ACTUALLY FIND THAT WORD DESCRIBING THE WORLD BEFORE GOD 00:13:23.33\00:13:25.80 CREATED IN GENESIS IN THE SEPTUAGINT - THE GREEK VERSION - 00:13:25.83\00:13:29.77 TALKS ABOUT THE WORLD WAS VOID AND WITHOUT FORM. 00:13:29.80\00:13:32.37 IT WAS AN ABYSS - IT WAS DARK. 00:13:32.41\00:13:34.71 BUT THE, YOU KNOW, BOTTOMLESS PIT IS REALLY - IT'S A WORD - I 00:13:34.74\00:13:37.55 DON'T KNOW WHY THE KING JAMES TRANSLATORS CHOSE THAT WORD 00:13:37.58\00:13:40.02 BECAUSE YOU FIND THE WORD OTHER PLACES IN THE BIBLE. 00:13:40.05\00:13:43.18 HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT THIS DEMONIAC 00:13:43.22\00:13:47.69 THAT WAS FILLED WITH DEVILS - YOU READ ABOUT IT IN LUKE 00:13:47.72\00:13:50.76 CHAPTER 8 AND MARK CHAPTER 5 - AND THEY BEGGED JESUS, WHEN 00:13:50.79\00:13:55.16 JESUS WAS CASTING THEM OUT OF THE MAN, 'PLEASE DO NOT CAST US 00:13:55.20\00:13:58.53 OUT INTO' - EXACT SAME WORD - ABUSSOS. 00:13:58.57\00:14:01.80 THERE, IT'S TRANSLATED 'DEEP' - INTO THE NOTHINGNESS. 00:14:01.84\00:14:04.64 YOU SEE, WHEN THE DEVIL HAS NOBODY TO TEMPT, POSSESS, 00:14:04.67\00:14:07.58 MANIPULATE FOR HIM IT'S NOTHINGNESS BECAUSE THE DEVIL 00:14:07.61\00:14:10.28 DOES HIS WORK - HE'S A SPIRIT - BY POSSESSING LIVING CREATURES. 00:14:10.31\00:14:15.32 EVEN THE DEVILS IN THIS STORY SAID, 'PLEASE, LET US POSSESS 00:14:15.35\00:14:17.45 THE PIGS - SOMETHING - BUT DON'T CAST US OUT INTO THE 00:14:17.49\00:14:19.95 NOTHINGNESS.' AND SO, WHEN THE DEVIL IS BOUND ON THIS EARTH 00:14:19.99\00:14:23.89 WITH NOBODY TO TEMPT AND MANIPULATE, THAT IS THE 00:14:23.93\00:14:27.20 BOTTOMLESS PIT. THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT JUDE - 00:14:27.23\00:14:30.50 I READ IT TO YOU EARLIER - IN VERSE 6. 00:14:30.53\00:14:32.80 THE DEVIL'S BEING CHAINED IN DARKNESS, BUT THEN THEY'LL HAVE 00:14:32.83\00:14:37.24 NOBODY TO TEMPT BECAUSE THE RIGHTEOUS ARE RAISED - DEAD 00:14:37.27\00:14:42.71 RIGHTEOUS - THOSE WHO ARE ALIVE ARE TRANSFORMED - WE GO UP - THE 00:14:42.74\00:14:47.12 WICKED WHO ARE ALIVE ARE DESTROYED BY THE BRIGHTNESS OF 00:14:47.15\00:14:49.35 HIS COMING. HOW MANY LIVING PEOPLE 00:14:49.38\00:14:51.02 DOES THAT LEAVE ON EARTH? NONE. SO IT DESCRIBES THIS TIME WHEN 00:14:51.05\00:14:56.09 SATAN IS BOUND ON THIS PLANET AND HE'S GOT A THOUSAND YEARS, 00:14:56.12\00:14:59.86 WHILE WE'RE LIVING AND REIGNING WITH CHRIST, TO CONTEMPLATE THE 00:14:59.89\00:15:02.63 RESULTS OF HIS REBELLION AGAINST GOD. 00:15:02.66\00:15:05.83 NOW THE LORD IS DOING THIS DELIBERATELY BECAUSE HE'S GOING 00:15:05.87\00:15:08.64 TO DEMONSTRATE TO THE UNIVERSE THAT HE HAS NO ALTERNATIVE BUT 00:15:08.67\00:15:12.17 TO DO WHAT HE'S GOING TO DO TO LUCIFER AND HIS FOLLOWERS. 00:15:12.21\00:15:15.24 SO SATAN'S DOWN HERE WITH ALL HIS ANGELS - THEY'VE GOT TO LIVE 00:15:15.28\00:15:16.98 WITH EACH OTHER. THEY'RE GOING TO ALL BLAME EACH OTHER. 00:15:17.01\00:15:20.12 THEY'RE GOING TO BE CHASING LUCIFER ALL OVER THE PLANET AND 00:15:20.15\00:15:22.48 SAY, 'WE WOULDN'T BE HERE IF IT WASN'T FOR YOU.' HE'S GOT TO PUT 00:15:22.52\00:15:25.15 UP WITH THAT FOR A THOUSAND YEARS. 00:15:25.19\00:15:27.22 AND SO, THEY'RE IN THIS DARK PRISON DURING THAT TIME. 00:15:27.26\00:15:32.59 >>DON'T GO ANYWHERE, FRIENDS, WE'LL BE BACK IN JUST A MOMENT 00:15:32.63\00:15:35.10 WITH THE REST OF TODAY'S PRESENTATION. 00:15:35.13\00:15:37.67 HAVE YOU READ WHAT THE BIBLE ACTUALLY SAYS ABOUT THE LAST-DAY 00:15:37.70\00:15:40.54 EVENTS? ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE SIGNS 00:15:40.57\00:15:43.10 OF THE SECOND COMING, THE LAST PLAGUES, AND THE FINAL JUDGMENT? 00:15:43.14\00:15:47.21 ANYONE WHO'S EVEN GLANCING AT THE HEADLINES TODAY PROBABLY 00:15:47.24\00:15:51.01 WONDERS IF OUR WORLD IS PLUNGING TOWARDS ARMAGEDDON. 00:15:51.05\00:15:54.35 BUT I WANT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT EVEN IN THE FACE OF ALL THAT'S 00:15:54.38\00:15:57.39 HAPPENING, YOU CAN STILL LIVE WITH PEACE AND ASSURANCE FOR 00:15:57.42\00:16:01.09 YOUR FUTURE. 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LET'S RETURN NOW TO TODAY'S 00:16:37.13\00:16:40.00 PRESENTATION AND LEARN SOME MORE AMAZING FACTS 00:16:40.03\00:16:42.90 FROM THE WORD OF GOD. >>WHO IS RAISED - QUESTION 3 - 00:16:42.93\00:16:47.94 IN THE SECOND RESURRECTION, AND WHEN WILL IT TAKE PLACE? 00:16:47.97\00:16:51.27 IT SAYS, IN JOHN CHAPTER 5, VERSE 28 - JESUS SPEAKING HERE - 00:16:51.31\00:16:55.38 "ALL THAT ARE IN THE GRAVES SHALL HEAR HIS VOICE, AND SHALL 00:16:55.41\00:16:58.01 COME FORTH: THEY THAT HAVE DONE GOOD UNTO THE RESURRECTION OF 00:16:58.05\00:17:01.48 LIFE; AND THEY THAT HAVE DONE EVIL, UNTO THE RESURRECTION OF 00:17:01.52\00:17:05.69 DAMNATION." HOW MANY RESURRECTIONS? 00:17:05.72\00:17:07.39 >>TWO. >>TWO. 00:17:07.42\00:17:09.19 YOU EVEN READ ABOUT THAT IN DANIEL CHAPTER 12, 'MANY OF THEM 00:17:09.22\00:17:12.43 THAT SLEEP IN THE DUST OF THE EARTH SHALL AWAKE; SOME TO 00:17:12.46\00:17:14.46 EVERLASTING LIFE, SOME TO SHAME AND EVERLASTING CONTEMPT.' 00:17:14.50\00:17:18.23 YOU'VE GOT TWO SEPARATE RESURRECTIONS - THEY'VE GOT A 00:17:18.27\00:17:20.37 THOUSAND YEARS BETWEEN THEM, AND SO, IF, IN THE RESURRECTION YOU 00:17:20.40\00:17:25.94 COME FORTH AND YOU STILL HAVE WRINKLES, YOU'RE IN THE WRONG 00:17:25.97\00:17:28.71 RESURRECTION. (LAUGHTER) THAT'S NOT GOOD. 00:17:28.74\00:17:31.98 BECAUSE WE GET GLORIFIED BODIES AT THAT POINT, RIGHT? 00:17:32.01\00:17:35.55 REVELATION 20, VERSE 5, "BUT THE REST OF THE DEAD (THE WICKED) 00:17:35.58\00:17:39.72 LIVED NOT AGAIN UNTIL THE THOUSAND YEARS WERE FINISHED." 00:17:39.75\00:17:42.52 I READ THIS BUT I WANT TO RE-EMPHASIZE IT. 00:17:42.56\00:17:45.06 BEFORE I MOVE ON, I'VE JUST GOT TO STOP AND SAY SOMETHING - 00:17:45.09\00:17:48.53 HOPEFULLY YOU'VE CAUGHT IT ALONG THE WAY, BUT THERE IS A LOT OF 00:17:48.56\00:17:51.43 CONFUSION AMONG CHRISTIANS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A PERSON DIES. 00:17:51.47\00:17:56.50 WALK THROUGH A CHRISTIAN CEMETERY AND CHURCHYARD CEMETERY 00:17:56.54\00:17:59.91 SOMETIME, YOU WILL SEE THE CONFUSION. 00:17:59.94\00:18:02.21 YOU READ THE TOMBSTONES AND ONE TOMBSTONE WILL SAY, 'OUR BELOVED 00:18:02.24\00:18:06.35 MOTHER, RESTING IN PEACE WAITING FOR THE RESURRECTION MORNING'. 00:18:06.38\00:18:10.89 THEN YOU GO TWO TOMBSTONES AWAY IT'LL SAY, 'OUR BELOVED MOTHER, 00:18:10.92\00:18:13.96 WALKING ON GOLDEN STREETS'. 00:18:13.99\00:18:16.93 SO, IS SHE RESTING AND WAITING FOR THE RESURRECTION OR IS SHE 00:18:16.96\00:18:19.53 SINGING WITH THE ANGELS AND WALKING ON GOLDEN STREETS? 00:18:19.56\00:18:21.60 AND YOU'LL SEE ALL - PEOPLE ARE VERY CONFUSED. 00:18:21.63\00:18:24.03 THEY SAY, 'NOW, DOESN'T THE BIBLE SAY TO BE ABSENT FROM THE 00:18:24.07\00:18:26.27 BODY IS TO BE PRESENT WITH THE LORD'? YES. 00:18:26.30\00:18:29.44 THAT MEANS, IF YOU'RE A BELIEVER AND YOU DIE, YOUR NEXT CONSCIOUS 00:18:29.47\00:18:33.48 THOUGHT, WHICH WILL SEEM LIKE THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, WILL BE 00:18:33.51\00:18:36.58 THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD AND THE RESURRECTION OF THE RIGHTEOUS - 00:18:36.61\00:18:39.15 BUT THEY'RE NOT THERE YET BECAUSE THE RESURRECTION HASN'T 00:18:39.18\00:18:41.65 HAPPENED AND THE JUDGMENT HASN'T HAPPENED. 00:18:41.68\00:18:44.22 THE BIBLE IS REALLY CLEAR THAT THE DEAD ARE SLEEPING UNTIL THE 00:18:44.25\00:18:47.36 RESURRECTION, BUT THEY DON'T KNOW THEY'RE SLEEPING. 00:18:47.39\00:18:50.23 THERE ARE ABOUT A DOZEN RESURRECTIONS IN THE BIBLE. 00:18:50.26\00:18:55.03 JESUS RAISED SEVERAL PEOPLE. YOU'VE GOT RESURRECTIONS 00:18:55.06\00:18:57.10 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. DO YOU KNOW, IN EVERY SINGLE 00:18:57.13\00:18:59.80 RESURRECTION IN THE BIBLE, NONE OF THOSE RESURRECTED EVER 00:18:59.83\00:19:03.34 MAKE ONE COMMENT ON WHAT THEY EXPERIENCED DURING 00:19:03.37\00:19:05.77 DEATH - NONE OF THEM. WHY? 00:19:05.81\00:19:09.84 THE DEAD KNOW NOT ANYTHING, ACCORDING TO SOLOMON. 00:19:09.88\00:19:13.05 THEY'RE SLEEPING A DREAMLESS SLEEP. 00:19:13.08\00:19:15.75 THEY DO NOT DIE AND GO RIGHT TO HEAVEN; THEY DO NOT DIE AND GO 00:19:15.78\00:19:17.99 RIGHT TO HELL. SO, WHEN SOMEONE SAYS, YOU KNOW, 00:19:18.02\00:19:20.42 'I'M SO THANKFUL FOR MY GRANDMA BECAUSE HER NEXT THOUGHT IS THE 00:19:20.46\00:19:24.13 RESURRECTION.' THAT'S TRUE. SHE'S NOT THERE YET, THOUGH. 00:19:24.16\00:19:27.40 BECAUSE YOU AND I LIVE IN A DIMENSION OF TIME. 00:19:27.40\00:19:29.96 YOU REALIZE GOD IS NOT CONFINED TO TIME. 00:19:30.00\00:19:33.10 >>AMEN. >>GOD CAN GO INTO THE FUTURE, HE 00:19:33.13\00:19:35.07 CAN GO INTO THE PAST BUT, AS FAR AS THE TIME WE LIVE IN, 00:19:35.10\00:19:38.17 THEY'RE NOT THERE YET. SO THE IDEA THAT YOUR LOVED ONES 00:19:38.21\00:19:41.14 ARE IN HEAVEN SPYING ON YOU OR, IF THEY'RE LOST, THAT THEY'RE 00:19:41.18\00:19:44.78 SUFFERING IN THE LAKE OF FIRE, THAT COMES FROM PAGANISM - 00:19:44.81\00:19:48.52 THAT'S NOT - LET ME GIVE YOU SOME VERSES ON THAT. 00:19:48.55\00:19:50.42 GO WITH ME TO 1 CORINTHIANS 15:21, "FOR SINCE BY MAN CAME 00:19:50.45\00:19:54.19 DEATH, BY MAN ALSO CAME THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD. 00:19:54.22\00:19:57.49 FOR AS IN ADAM ALL DIE, EVEN SO IN CHRIST ALL SHALL BE MADE 00:19:57.53\00:20:01.80 ALIVE. BUT EACH ONE IN HIS OWN ORDER" - 00:20:01.83\00:20:04.20 HERE'S THE ORDER - VERY PLAIN - "CHRIST THE FIRSTFRUITS, 00:20:04.23\00:20:07.97 AFTERWARD THOSE WHO ARE CHRIST'S AT HIS COMING." 00:20:08.00\00:20:11.97 WHEN ARE THEY MADE ALIVE? AT HIS COMING, WHICH MEANS, 00:20:12.01\00:20:16.01 BEFORE HIS COMING, THEY ARE NOT ALIVE. 00:20:16.04\00:20:19.18 AND, IF YOU'RE NOT ALIVE, YOU'RE DEAD. 00:20:19.21\00:20:22.38 THE BIBLE DOESN'T HAVE AN IN BETWEEN. 00:20:22.42\00:20:24.72 AND SO, PEOPLE ARE NOT GETTING THEIR REWARDS BEFORE THE 00:20:24.75\00:20:27.76 RESURRECTION AND THE JUDGMENT. WE'VE GOT A WHOLE STUDY ON THAT; 00:20:27.79\00:20:31.43 I WISH I HAD MORE TIME TO TALK ABOUT. 00:20:31.46\00:20:33.80 WHAT WILL THE CONDITION OF THE EARTH BE LEFT IN DURING THE ONE 00:20:33.83\00:20:37.23 THOUSAND YEARS? WHAT'S IT LOOK LIKE DOWN HERE? 00:20:37.27\00:20:39.77 MANY OF US HAVE HEARD THE POPULAR LEFT BEHIND SCENARIO OF 00:20:39.80\00:20:43.67 FINAL EVENTS , WHERE THE RIGHTEOUS ARE SECRETLY RAPTURED, 00:20:43.71\00:20:50.95 LIFE CONTINUES TO GO ON HERE ON EARTH, THERE'S 144,000 LITERAL 00:20:50.98\00:20:55.52 JEWS THAT ARE CONVERTED - THAT ARE PREACHING EVERYWHERE - THE 00:20:55.55\00:20:58.65 SEVEN LAST PLAGUES FALL, SOME PEOPLE MAY STILL BE CONVERTED AT 00:20:58.69\00:21:01.59 THE END OF THAT SEVEN YEARS OF TRIBULATION, THEN JESUS COMES 00:21:01.62\00:21:06.23 BACK DOWN HERE ON EARTH WITH THE RIGHTEOUS AND WE LIVE AND REIGN 00:21:06.26\00:21:09.53 DOWN HERE TOGETHER FOR A THOUSAND YEARS AND THEN THE 00:21:09.56\00:21:11.90 WICKED ARE DESTROYED AT THE END OF THAT ONE THOUSAND YEARS, 00:21:11.93\00:21:14.20 WHICH REALLY PUTS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WICKED 00:21:14.24\00:21:16.77 ANOTHER THOUSAND YEARS BEYOND THE COMING OF THE LORD. 00:21:16.81\00:21:19.37 IN THAT SCENARIO, IS THERE EVER A TIME WHEN THE EARTH IS VACANT? 00:21:19.41\00:21:25.55 THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING GOING ON DOWN HERE. 00:21:25.58\00:21:27.78 BUT, IF YOU READ IN 2 PETER CHAPTER 3, IT SAYS, 'THE DAY OF 00:21:27.82\00:21:30.79 THE LORD WILL COME AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT, IN WHICH THE HEAVENS 00:21:30.82\00:21:33.72 PASS AWAY WITH A GREAT NOISE, THE ELEMENTS MELT WITH FERVENT 00:21:33.76\00:21:37.73 HEAT, THE EARTH AND THE THINGS THAT ARE IN IT ARE BURNED UP.' 00:21:37.76\00:21:42.93 SO WHAT'S THE WORLD GOING TO LOOK LIKE DURING THAT TIME? 00:21:42.96\00:21:45.80 AND YOU LOOK AT THIS VERSE HERE IN ISAIAH 24, "BEHOLD, THE LORD 00:21:45.83\00:21:49.00 MAKETH THE EARTH EMPTY," - NOBODY HERE - "AND MAKETH IT 00:21:49.04\00:21:52.61 WASTE." 'BEHOLD, THE LORD MAKES THE 00:21:52.64\00:21:55.14 EARTH UTTERLY EMPTY, HE TURNS IT UPSIDE DOWN, THE EARTH IS 00:21:55.18\00:21:58.38 UTTERLY BROKEN DOWN.' READ THIS VERSE IN JEREMIAH CHAPTER 4, 00:21:58.41\00:22:03.28 VERSE 23, "I BEHELD THE EARTH, AND LO, IT WAS WITHOUT FORM, AND 00:22:03.32\00:22:08.99 VOID: AND THE HEAVENS, AND THEY HAD NO LIGHT. 00:22:09.02\00:22:12.43 I BEHELD THE MOUNTAINS, AND, LO, THEY TREMBLED...THERE WAS NO 00:22:12.46\00:22:15.80 MAN," - IT SOUNDS LIKE HE'S DESCRIBING THE WORLD BEFORE 00:22:15.83\00:22:18.50 CREATION, BUT KEEP READING - "AND ALL THE BIRDS OF THE 00:22:18.53\00:22:21.44 HEAVENS WERE FLED." THAT MEANS THEY WERE 00:22:21.47\00:22:23.41 THERE, BUT THEY'RE GONE. IT SAYS, "THE FRUITFUL PLACE WAS 00:22:23.44\00:22:27.21 A WILDERNESS, AND ALL THE CITIES THEREOF WERE BROKEN DOWN" - SO 00:22:27.24\00:22:31.55 THERE WAS CITIES, NOW THEY'RE BROKEN DOWN. BY WHAT? 00:22:31.58\00:22:33.98 - "AT THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD, AND BY HIS FIERCE ANGER." 00:22:34.02\00:22:37.75 PRETTY CLEAR THAT HERE'S THE CONDITION OF THE WORLD WHERE IT 00:22:37.79\00:22:40.02 SAYS BURNED UP, CITIES BROKEN DOWN, NO MAN ALIVE. 00:22:40.06\00:22:45.46 IT GOES ON AND SAYS IN ANOTHER PASSAGE, 'THE SLAIN OF THE LORD 00:22:45.49\00:22:47.50 COVER THE EARTH FROM ONE END TO THE OTHER AND THERE'S NO ONE TO 00:22:47.56\00:22:49.36 MOURN, LAMENT, OR BURY THEM.' AND SO, ALL THROUGH THE 00:22:49.40\00:22:52.50 PROPHECIES IT TALKS ABOUT THIS TIME AFTER THE JUDGEMENT WHEN 00:22:52.53\00:22:55.24 THE EARTH IS A MESS. YOU CAN LOOK IN JEREMIAH - I'M 00:22:55.27\00:22:58.81 STILL READING - "AND THE SLAIN OF THE LORD SHALL BE AT THAT DAY 00:22:58.84\00:23:01.94 FROM ONE END OF THE EARTH EVEN UNTO THE OTHER...THEY SHALL NOT 00:23:01.98\00:23:05.21 BE LAMENTED, NEITHER GATHERED, NOR BURIED." 00:23:05.25\00:23:08.32 WHERE WILL THE SLAIN BE DURING THE 1,000 YEARS, AND WHAT 00:23:08.35\00:23:11.85 ARE THEY DOING? ALRIGHT, SO NOW WE'RE TALKING 00:23:11.89\00:23:13.59 ABOUT DEAD IN CHRIST RISE, WE WHO ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN - I 00:23:13.62\00:23:18.06 WOULD LIKE TO BE ONE OF THOSE WHO ARE ALIVE AND 00:23:18.09\00:23:19.73 REMAIN, HOW ABOUT YOU? >>AMEN. 00:23:19.76\00:23:20.93 >>CAUGHT UP TO MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR - AND I THINK HE'S 00:23:20.96\00:23:22.53 COMING PRETTY SOON. >>YEP - AMEN. 00:23:22.56\00:23:24.53 >>SOME OF YOU HERE MAY DIE, BUT NOT A LOT ARE GOING TO DIE OF 00:23:24.57\00:23:27.14 OLD AGE. I THINK THAT JESUS 00:23:27.17\00:23:28.54 IS COMING SOON. >>AMEN. 00:23:28.57\00:23:30.27 >>SO WHAT'S GOING ON DURING THAT TIME? 00:23:30.31\00:23:33.24 YOU CAN READ IN JOHN CHAPTER 14, HE SAID, "I WILL COME AGAIN, AND 00:23:33.27\00:23:36.71 RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF: THAT WHERE I AM, THERE YE MAY BE 00:23:36.75\00:23:39.95 ALSO." WE'LL BE WITH HIM IN THE 00:23:39.98\00:23:41.62 MANSIONS THAT HE'S PREPARED IN THE NEW JERUSALEM. 00:23:41.65\00:23:44.82 AND THEN IT GOES ON IN REVELATION 20 AND IT SAYS IN 00:23:44.85\00:23:48.06 VERSE 4, "AND I SAW THRONES, AND THEY SAT UPON THEM, AND JUDGMENT 00:23:48.09\00:23:51.79 WAS GIVEN UNTO THEM: AND THEY LIVED AND REIGNED WITH CHRIST A 00:23:51.83\00:23:55.66 THOUSAND YEARS." SO JUDGMENT IS GIVEN UNTO THE 00:23:55.70\00:23:58.27 SAINTS AND WE LIVE AND REIGN WITH CHRIST A THOUSAND YEARS. 00:23:58.30\00:24:01.60 NOW READ IN 1 CORINTHIANS 6:2 - I KNOW SOME OF YOU ARE TAKING 00:24:01.64\00:24:05.24 NOTES FURIOUSLY - "DO YE NOT KNOW THAT THE SAINTS WILL JUDGE 00:24:05.27\00:24:08.71 THE WORLD?" - AND IT GOES ON TO SAY, "KNOW 00:24:08.74\00:24:12.51 YE NOT THAT WE SHALL JUDGE ANGELS?" 00:24:12.55\00:24:17.72 NOW, OBVIOUSLY, WE'RE NOT JUDGING GOOD ANGELS, BUT DOES 00:24:17.75\00:24:20.56 THE BIBLE TELL US THERE'S A LOT OF FALLEN ANGELS? 00:24:20.59\00:24:23.49 WE ARE NOT DECIDING WHETHER THEY'RE SAVED OR LOST. 00:24:23.53\00:24:26.23 WE ARE ACTUALLY ENDORSING - WE'RE COOPERATING BECAUSE CHRIST 00:24:26.26\00:24:30.70 SAID, 'LOOK, I WANT TO INVOLVE YOU WITH ME. 00:24:30.73\00:24:33.54 DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHY WE'RE GOING TO JUDGE THEM THE WAY 00:24:33.57\00:24:36.34 WE'RE GOING TO JUDGE THEM?' AND WE AFFIRM THE JUDGMENTS OF 00:24:36.37\00:24:39.24 GOD IS REALLY WHAT WE'RE DOING. BUT THERE'S GOING TO BE LOSS. 00:24:39.27\00:24:43.45 NOW WHY IS THIS HAPPENING? SOMEONE SAID THERE'S GOING TO BE 00:24:43.48\00:24:47.15 FOUR BIG SURPRISES WHEN YOU GET TO HEAVEN - MAYBE IT WAS THREE 00:24:47.18\00:24:52.35 SURPRISES - FIRST SURPRISE IS THAT YOU'RE THERE. 00:24:52.39\00:24:54.92 (LAUGHTER) SECOND SURPRISE IS THAT THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE THAT 00:24:54.96\00:25:03.37 ARE NOT THERE THAT YOU THOUGHT WOULD BE LEADING THE PARADE. 00:25:03.40\00:25:08.87 AND YOU'RE GOING TO GO TO YOUR ANGEL AND SAY, 'WHERE IS PASTOR 00:25:08.90\00:25:12.61 SO AND SO?' 'WHERE IS DEACON ELDER' - 00:25:12.64\00:25:14.54 'WHERE'S THIS SISTER OR BROTHER - THEY WERE JUST SO SPIRITUAL - 00:25:14.58\00:25:18.08 I DON'T SEE THEM ANYWHERE.' AND THE ANGEL SAID, 'WELL, COME WITH 00:25:18.11\00:25:21.98 ME.' AND THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE YOU TO THE LIBRARY - THE BIBLE 00:25:22.02\00:25:25.62 SAYS EVERYTHING'S IN THE BOOKS. EVERYTHING - JESUS SAID EVERY 00:25:25.65\00:25:29.42 IDLE WORD - MATTHEW CHAPTER 12 - EVERY IDLE WORD THAT MEN SPEAK 00:25:29.46\00:25:33.43 YOU'LL GIVE AN ACCOUNT THEREOF IN THE JUDGMENT. 00:25:33.46\00:25:35.40 SO EVERYTHING'S IN THE BOOKS AND SO THE ANGELS TAKE YOU OVER TO 00:25:35.43\00:25:38.70 THE BOOKS AND SAY, 'WE REALLY WANTED TO SAVE DEACON HERB' - 00:25:38.73\00:25:42.70 HOPE NOBODY HERE'S NAMED HERB - BUT - AND YOU SEE THAT, WHILE HE 00:25:42.74\00:25:49.44 LOOKED REAL GOOD ON THE OUTSIDE, THERE WAS SOME SIN THAT HE WOULD 00:25:49.48\00:25:53.65 NOT SURRENDER TO THE LORD AND YOU'LL SEE THOSE THINGS DONE IN 00:25:53.68\00:25:56.95 SECRET, JESUS SAID, WILL BE SHOUTED FROM THE HOUSETOP. 00:25:56.99\00:25:59.52 ONLY THING THAT'S GOING TO BE HIDDEN ARE THOSE THINGS UNDER 00:25:59.55\00:26:02.16 THE BLOOD. THAT'S WHY I WANT TO BE SAVED, 00:26:02.19\00:26:03.89 BECAUSE I DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE MY BOOK. 00:26:03.93\00:26:05.56 (RAUCOUS LAUGHTER) AMEN? >>AMEN. 00:26:05.59\00:26:08.80 I WANT IT EXPUNGED. THIRD SURPRISE IS THERE'S SOME 00:26:08.83\00:26:15.07 PEOPLE THERE AND YOU THINK, 'HOW IN THE WORLD DID THEY GET HERE? 00:26:15.10\00:26:17.91 (RAUCOUS LAUGHTER) I'VE OFTEN THOUGHT, CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT 00:26:17.94\00:26:22.41 IT'S GOING TO BE LIKE WHEN STEPHEN GETS TO HEAVEN - AND 00:26:22.44\00:26:27.45 STEPHEN IS IN HEAVEN, HE'S ENJOYING HEAVEN AND THEY'RE ALL, 00:26:27.48\00:26:30.29 YOU KNOW, GIVING HIM HIS CROWNS FOR HIS BEING THE FIRST 00:26:30.32\00:26:33.05 CHRISTIAN MARTYR AND THEN THEY SEE THIS CHARACTER IS BEING 00:26:33.09\00:26:36.39 CARRIED ON THE SHOULDERS OF THE ANGELS AND IT'S PAUL. 00:26:36.42\00:26:39.23 (LAUGHTER) AND WHEN STEPHEN KNEW HIM, HIS 00:26:39.26\00:26:41.50 NAME WAS SAUL AND HE WAS KILLING CHRISTIANS. 00:26:41.53\00:26:44.23 AND STEPHEN'S GOING TO SAY TO HIS ANGEL, 'YOU GUYS NORMALLY DO 00:26:44.27\00:26:46.84 REALLY GOOD WORK, BUT THERE'S SOMETHING DEFINITELY WRONG WITH 00:26:46.87\00:26:49.14 THIS PICTURE BECAUSE LAST TIME I SAW HIM, HE WAS AN ACCOMPLICE IN 00:26:49.17\00:26:53.17 MY MURDER. WHAT'S HE DOING HERE? 00:26:53.21\00:26:55.98 I MEAN, I BELIEVE IN FORGIVING AND EVERYTHING, BUT' - AND THE 00:26:56.01\00:26:58.55 ANGEL SAYS, 'STEPHEN, WASN'T YOUR LAST PRAYER, 'FATHER, 00:26:58.58\00:27:00.68 FORGIVE THEM'? WELL, THE FATHER FORGAVE HIM. 00:27:00.72\00:27:05.79 AND HE WAS CONVERTED AND HE SUFFERED MUCH FOR THE GOSPEL AND 00:27:05.82\00:27:10.69 HE WAS SO SORRY ABOUT WHAT HE DID TO YOU.' SO, DURING THIS ONE 00:27:10.73\00:27:14.46 THOUSAND YEARS, THERE'S A LOT OF QUESTIONS. 00:27:14.46\00:27:16.33 AND IT'S LIKE A THOUSAND-YEAR SABBATH - FOR SIX THOUSAND 00:27:16.36\00:27:19.67 YEARS, FROM THE TIME OF ADAM, TO THE COMING OF THE LORD - AND WE 00:27:19.70\00:27:22.84 DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHEN THAT IS, BUT IT'S APPROXIMATELY THAT 00:27:22.87\00:27:24.94 PERIOD OF TIME, CHRIST HAS BEEN SOWING THE SEED OF THE GOSPEL - 00:27:24.97\00:27:28.54 THEN WE ARE GOING TO LIVE AND REIGN - IT'S LIKE A 00:27:28.58\00:27:30.01 THOUSAND-YEAR SABBATH. DO YOU KNOW, WHEN THE CHILDREN 00:27:30.05\00:27:32.95 OF ISRAEL WERE CARRIED OFF TO BABYLON BY KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR, 00:27:32.98\00:27:36.99 GOD TOOK THE SURVIVORS TO THIS GOLDEN CITY? 00:27:37.02\00:27:39.69 AND THE BIBLE SAYS THE LAND WAS DESOLATE AND IT KEPT SABBATH 00:27:39.72\00:27:44.69 WHILE IT WAS DESOLATE. THE PLANET IS GOING TO GET 00:27:44.73\00:27:47.86 A THOUSAND-YEAR SABBATH. GOD HAD A PATTERN IN THE BIBLE 00:27:47.86\00:27:50.20 WHERE, FOR SIX YEARS YOU WOULD SOW THE SEED IN THE FIELD, ONE 00:27:50.23\00:27:55.17 YEAR YOU WOULD LET IT LAY FALLOW - YOU'D LET IT REST. 00:27:55.20\00:27:58.37 AND THEN, GOD IS GOING TO CREATE A NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH. 00:27:58.41\00:28:05.55 >>WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW GOD'S PLAN FOR OUR BROKEN WORLD, AS 00:28:05.58\00:28:08.42 REVEALED IN BIBLE PROPHECY? 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