AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:00:05.40\00:00:09.74 DURING WORLD WAR II, A 29-YEAR-OLD ENGINEER NAMED 00:00:09.77\00:00:12.91 TSUTOMU YAMAGUCHI WAS ON A TRIP TO HIROSHIMA, JAPAN ON THE VERY 00:00:12.94\00:00:17.35 DAY WHEN THE U.S. DROPPED THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB. 00:00:17.38\00:00:21.15 AS HE STEPPED OFF A STREET CAR, THE ATOMIC BOMB DETONATED LESS 00:00:21.18\00:00:24.39 THAN TWO MILES AWAY. ALTHOUGH THE BLAST KILLED 80,000 00:00:24.42\00:00:28.62 PEOPLE, YAMAGUCHI GOT AWAY WITH ONLY RUPTURED EARDRUMS AND 00:00:28.66\00:00:32.43 SKIN THAT WAS SUNBURNED. AFTER A PAINFUL NIGHT IN A BOMB 00:00:32.46\00:00:36.13 SHELTER, HE RETURNED HOME TO NAGASAKI, 200 MILES AWAY. 00:00:36.16\00:00:40.77 HE REPORTED FOR WORK THREE DAYS LATER AND WAS TELLING HIS BOSS 00:00:40.80\00:00:43.84 ABOUT HIS ORDEAL WHEN THE SECOND ATOMIC BLAST HIT NAGASAKI, 00:00:43.87\00:00:48.44 KILLING AN ADDITIONAL 70,000 PEOPLE. 00:00:48.48\00:00:51.95 YAMAGUCHI BECAME THE ONLY OFFICIAL SURVIVOR OF BOTH 00:00:51.98\00:00:55.85 BLASTS. AMAZINGLY, IN SPITE OF DOUBLE 00:00:55.88\00:00:59.15 RADIATION EXPOSURE, HE HAD GOOD HEALTH MOST OF HIS LIFE 00:00:59.19\00:01:02.82 AND LIVED TO AGE 93. YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS US 00:01:02.86\00:01:06.23 ABOUT TWO ANCIENT CITIES THAT WERE WIPED OUT BY FIRE FROM 00:01:06.26\00:01:09.40 HEAVEN, LEAVING ONLY THREE SURVIVORS. THE PEOPLE OF SODOM 00:01:09.43\00:01:13.50 AND GOMORRAH SADLY TURNED AWAY FROM THE SOURCE OF LIFE AND WERE 00:01:13.54\00:01:17.27 COMPLETELY DESTROYED. JOIN ME TODAY AS WE UNCOVER THE 00:01:17.31\00:01:21.41 BIBLE TRUTH ABOUT THE ULTIMATE JUDGEMENT DAY. 00:01:21.44\00:01:29.32 IN OUR PRESENTATION THIS EVENING, WE'RE GOING TO BE 00:01:29.35\00:01:31.95 TALKING ABOUT THE GREAT JUDGMENT DAY. 00:01:31.99\00:01:34.89 THE BIBLE SAYS WE WILL ALL STAND BEFORE THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF 00:01:34.92\00:01:37.96 CHRIST. NOW, WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING 00:01:37.99\00:01:40.43 AT SEVERAL CHAPTERS IN THE BIBLE, PRINCIPALLY CHAPTER 20 OF 00:01:40.46\00:01:43.43 REVELATION THAT TALKS ABOUT THIS GREAT JUDGMENT DAY AND ALSO 00:01:43.47\00:01:47.17 TALKS ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM. SO, WHAT'S GOING ON 00:01:47.20\00:01:49.64 DURING THAT TIME? YOU CAN READ IN JOHN CHAPTER 14, 00:01:49.67\00:01:53.27 HE SAID, 'I WILL COME AGAIN, RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF, THAT 00:01:53.31\00:01:56.31 WHERE I AM THERE YOU MAY BE ALSO.' SO WE'LL BE WITH HIM IN 00:01:56.34\00:01:59.38 THE MANSIONS THAT HE'S PREPARED IN THE NEW JERUSALEM. 00:01:59.41\00:02:03.08 AND THEN IT GOES ON IN REVELATION 20, "AND THEY LIVED 00:02:03.12\00:02:05.59 AND REIGNED WITH CHRIST A THOUSAND YEARS." 00:02:05.62\00:02:08.46 SO JUDGMENT IS GIVEN UNTO THE SAINTS AND WE LIVE AND REIGN 00:02:08.49\00:02:11.33 WITH CHRIST A THOUSAND YEARS. NUMBER 6: WHAT WILL HAPPEN AT 00:02:11.36\00:02:14.73 THE CLOSE OF THE 1,000 YEARS? YOU READ IN ZECHARIAH 14:1, 00:02:14.73\00:02:19.93 "BEHOLD THE DAY OF THE LORD COMETH...AND HIS FEET SHALL 00:02:19.97\00:02:23.00 STAND IN THAT DAY UPON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES." - AT THE END OF THE 00:02:23.04\00:02:26.14 ONE THOUSAND YEARS JESUS IS GOING TO SAY, 'THE TIME HAS 00:02:26.17\00:02:28.58 COME. I'VE ANSWERED YOUR QUESTIONS. NOW WE'RE GOING TO GO 00:02:28.61\00:02:31.48 DOWN AND RETURN TO MY ORIGINAL PLAN FOR THIS PLANET.' 00:02:31.51\00:02:35.42 AND HIS FEET ARE GOING TO COME DOWN, HE WILL TOUCH THE MOUNT OF 00:02:35.45\00:02:37.69 OLIVES, "WHICH IS BEFORE JERUSALEM ON THE EAST, AND THE 00:02:37.72\00:02:41.42 MOUNT OF OLIVES SHALL CLEAVE IN THE MIDST THEREOF." 00:02:41.46\00:02:43.16 - IT'S GOING TO SPLIT IN TWO AND FORM A GREAT VALLEY. 00:02:43.19\00:02:45.93 JESUS DID A LOT OF TEACHING FROM THE MOUNT OF OLIVES. 00:02:45.96\00:02:48.63 HE PRAYED ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, 'FATHER, NOT MY WILL, 00:02:48.66\00:02:51.00 THY WILL BE DONE.' MOUNT OF OLIVES ISN'T FAR FROM BETHANY 00:02:51.03\00:02:54.87 WHERE HE ASCENDED TO HEAVEN. AND SO, THIS WAS A SPECIAL PLACE 00:02:54.90\00:02:58.61 HE SPENT WITH THE APOSTLES. HE FORETOLD THE END OF THE WORLD 00:02:58.64\00:03:01.01 ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES LOOKING AT THE TEMPLE. 00:03:01.04\00:03:03.75 AND, AFTER HIS FEET TOUCH THE MOUNTAIN, THIS GREAT VALLEY 00:03:03.78\00:03:07.42 FORMS. THERE'S GOING TO BE 00:03:07.45\00:03:08.65 A MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE. HE'S PREPARING THE FOUNDATION - 00:03:08.68\00:03:11.45 IT THEN TELLS US THAT THE NEW JERUSALEM COMES DOWN. 00:03:11.49\00:03:14.36 JOHN CHAPTER 21, VERSE 2 - HE SAYS, "AND I JOHN SAW THE HOLY 00:03:14.39\00:03:19.86 CITY, NEW JERUSALEM, COMING DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN. 00:03:19.89\00:03:23.37 PREPARED AS A BRIDE ADORNED FOR HER HUSBAND." 00:03:23.40\00:03:26.60 - BECAUSE THE BRIDE OF CHRIST, THE CHURCH, LIVES IN THAT CITY - 00:03:26.63\00:03:29.94 AND WHAT A GLORIOUS EXPERIENCE THAT WILL BE. 00:03:29.97\00:03:32.91 WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT TO FREE SATAN FROM HIS PRISON? 00:03:32.94\00:03:36.54 WELL, SATAN'S IMPRISONED BECAUSE HE HAS NOBODY TO TEMPT OR 00:03:36.58\00:03:38.85 MANIPULATE - ALL THE WICKED ARE DEAD, RIGHT? 00:03:38.88\00:03:42.08 HE'S GOT NO ONE TO POSSESS - NO ONE TO CONTROL. 00:03:42.12\00:03:44.55 BUT WHEN JESUS COMES BACK IT SAYS, AT THE END OF THE ONE 00:03:44.59\00:03:47.02 THOUSAND YEARS, THE REST OF THE DEAD - THIRD TIME WE'RE READING 00:03:47.06\00:03:50.16 THIS - THEY DON'T LIVE AGAIN UNTIL THE THOUSAND YEARS ARE 00:03:50.19\00:03:52.73 FINISHED. IF THE DEAD IN CHRIST RISE 00:03:52.76\00:03:55.46 FIRST, THEN THE REST OF THE DEAD ARE THE WICKED AND THEY RISE IN 00:03:55.50\00:03:58.47 THE SECOND RESURRECTION - ARE YOU STILL WITH ME? 00:03:58.50\00:04:01.54 THAT MEANS THEY DO LIVE AGAIN WHEN THE THOUSAND YEARS ARE 00:04:01.57\00:04:04.94 FINISHED. AND WHEN JESUS COMES DOWN, 00:04:04.97\00:04:07.81 HE CALLS THEM ALL FROM THEIR GRAVES. 00:04:07.84\00:04:10.41 "AND WHEN THE THOUSAND YEARS ARE EXPIRED, SATAN SHALL BE LOOSED 00:04:10.45\00:04:12.98 OUT OF HIS PRISON." WHAT LOOSES HIM FROM HIS PRISON? 00:04:13.01\00:04:15.45 WELL NOW THE WORLD IS KIND OF ILLUMINATED WITH THE CITY OF GOD 00:04:15.48\00:04:18.59 AND ALL THE WICKED COME FORTH FROM THEIR GRAVES. 00:04:18.62\00:04:20.76 THE BIBLE CALLS THEM 'GOG AND MAGOG'. 00:04:20.79\00:04:23.39 ALL THE NAMES IN REVELATION ARE SYMBOLS. 00:04:23.43\00:04:26.70 DOES REVELATION TALK ABOUT BALAAM? 00:04:26.73\00:04:29.23 YEAH, IT DOES. IT'S A SYMBOL. REVELATION MENTIONS JEZEBEL - 00:04:29.26\00:04:34.37 NOT THE REAL JEZEBEL, SHE'S DEAD. 00:04:34.40\00:04:36.54 IT'S TALKING ABOUT A SPIRITUAL JEZEBEL. 00:04:36.57\00:04:38.34 IT TALKS ABOUT APOLLYON AND IT TALKS ABOUT ALL THESE NAMES - IT 00:04:38.37\00:04:41.41 TALKS ABOUT EGYPT, IT TALKS ABOUT SODOM - AND WHEN IT TALKS 00:04:41.44\00:04:44.51 ABOUT GOG AND MAGOG IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE ANCIENT ENEMIES OF 00:04:44.55\00:04:47.38 GOD'S PEOPLE BECAUSE, ALL THE WICKED THROUGH THE AGES, THEY 00:04:47.42\00:04:50.49 REPRESENT THE ENEMIES OF GOD'S PEOPLE. 00:04:50.52\00:04:52.39 I'M GOING TO DROP IN A LITTLE AMAZING FACT FOR YOU HERE ABOUT 00:04:52.42\00:04:54.96 NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. YOU KNOW, AT ONE POINT, NAPOLEON 00:04:54.99\00:04:58.96 WAS SWEEPING ACROSS EUROPE AND IT LOOKED LIKE HE WAS GOING TO 00:04:58.99\00:05:01.66 REUNITE THE ANCIENT ROMAN EMPIRE - HE WAS A BRILLIANT GENERAL - 00:05:01.70\00:05:05.60 BUT, IN THE LARGEST BATTLE IN EUROPE, BEFORE WORLD WAR I, 00:05:05.63\00:05:10.94 NAPOLEON WAS FINALLY DEFEATED BY THIS COALITION OF NATIONS AND 00:05:10.97\00:05:15.78 THEY EXILED HIM TO ELBA, THIS ISLAND. 00:05:15.81\00:05:19.58 AND HE KNEW THAT BEFORE TOO LONG THEY WERE GOING TO SEND HIM TO A 00:05:19.61\00:05:22.28 REMOTE ISLAND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ATLANTIC - HE - VERY CLEVER 00:05:22.32\00:05:26.12 - HE MANAGED TO ESCAPE - A BOLD AND DARING ESCAPE FROM THAT 00:05:26.15\00:05:30.36 ISLAND - GOT BACK TO FRANCE, REASSEMBLED THE FRENCH ARMY, AND 00:05:30.39\00:05:34.56 FOR ANOTHER HUNDRED AND ELEVEN DAYS, HE WAS IN POWER AND HE 00:05:34.60\00:05:36.97 RALLIED THE FORCES ONE MORE TIME - EVEN THOUGH HE HAD BEEN 00:05:37.00\00:05:40.80 IMPRISONED HE COULDN'T CHANGE. SOON AS HE GOT BACK ON THE MAIN 00:05:40.84\00:05:44.41 LAND HE WENT BACK TO WAR TO BECOME KING OF THE WORLD AGAIN. 00:05:44.44\00:05:48.28 SATAN IS RELEASED TO SHOW ALL - HE USED TO BE - THINK ABOUT 00:05:48.31\00:05:51.81 THIS: SATAN WAS #4 - FATHER, SON, HOLY SPIRIT ARE GOD - HE 00:05:51.85\00:05:57.12 WAS THE HIGHEST OF THE CREATIONS. 00:05:57.15\00:05:59.45 HE IS GOING TO BE EXECUTED NOW. HE'S GOING TO BE CAST 00:05:59.49\00:06:02.62 INTO THIS LAKE OF FIRE. BEFORE GOD DOES THAT, HE WANTS 00:06:02.66\00:06:05.73 TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL - SOME OF THOSE GOOD ANGELS HEARD LUCIFER 00:06:05.76\00:06:09.70 APPEALING TO THEM - THEY CHOOSE TO STAY LOYAL TO GOD, BUT 00:06:09.73\00:06:12.67 MAYBE THEY WERE ON THE FENCE. AND SO, GOD WANTS TO MAKE 00:06:12.70\00:06:16.50 SURE THERE'S NO QUESTION. SOON AS LUCIFER HAS AN AUDIENCE 00:06:16.54\00:06:19.54 AGAIN HE GOES RIGHT BACK TO HIS OLD WAYS. 00:06:19.57\00:06:21.94 HE CANNOT CHANGE ANY MORE THAN NAPOLEON, WHO WAS PROBABLY 00:06:21.98\00:06:25.81 INSPIRED BY THE PRIDE OF THE DEVIL. 00:06:25.85\00:06:29.32 WHAT WILL SATAN DO WHEN HE SEES THE WICKED ARE RAISED? 00:06:29.35\00:06:32.42 - IS QUESTION NUMBER 8 - IT SAYS, REVELATION 20:8 - "AND 00:06:32.45\00:06:35.79 SHALL GO OUT TO DECEIVE THE NATIONS" - THAT TELLS YOU WHO 00:06:35.82\00:06:38.19 GOG AND MAGOG ARE, RIGHT? THE NATIONS OF ALL THE WICKED - 00:06:38.23\00:06:41.66 "WHICH ARE IN THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH, GOG AND MAGOG." 00:06:41.70\00:06:45.53 NOW, WHEN WE ARE RESURRECTED, WE GET GLORIFIED BODIES, RIGHT? 00:06:45.57\00:06:50.07 PEOPLE OFTEN ASK, 'WHAT ABOUT THE WICKED WHEN THEY'RE 00:06:50.11\00:06:52.57 RESURRECTED, WHAT DO THEY GET?' I THINK THE LORD JUST SORT OF 00:06:52.61\00:06:56.38 PATCHES THEM TOGETHER SO THEY KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON, BUT THEY 00:06:56.41\00:06:58.51 DON'T GET ANY SPECIAL BODIES - THEY DON'T GET THE 00:06:58.55\00:07:00.52 UPGRADES THAT WE GET. THEY JUST GET A STRIPPED-DOWN 00:07:00.55\00:07:04.09 RENTAL TO GET 'EM THROUGH THE JUDGMENT EXPERIENCE. 00:07:04.12\00:07:07.92 THEY PROBABLY COME OUT OF THEIR GRAVES PRETTY MUCH LIKE THEY 00:07:07.96\00:07:09.92 WENT IN. I CAN'T PROVE THAT BUT I DON'T 00:07:09.96\00:07:12.99 THINK THEY'RE GETTING ANY KIND OF GLORIFIED BODIES. 00:07:13.03\00:07:16.50 IT SAYS, "TO GATHER THEM TOGETHER TO BATTLE: THE NUMBER 00:07:16.53\00:07:19.30 OF WHOM IS AS THE SAND OF THE SEA." 00:07:19.33\00:07:21.24 YOU THINK ABOUT ALL THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE LIVED OVER THE 00:07:21.27\00:07:23.71 THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF HUMAN HISTORY - ALL ALIVE AT ONE TIME 00:07:23.74\00:07:27.28 ON THE PLANET - AND HE SEES ALL THESE FORCES - NOW, I KNOW IT'S 00:07:27.31\00:07:32.48 A SAD THOUGHT, BUT IT'S BIBLICAL. 00:07:32.51\00:07:34.88 WHO'S GOT THE BIGGER ARMY? SATAN. 00:07:34.92\00:07:37.59 CHRIST OR SATAN? NOW THINK ABOUT THIS: YOU'VE GOT 00:07:37.62\00:07:41.09 JESUS AND ALL THE GOOD ANGELS - THE GOOD ANGELS OUTNUMBER THE 00:07:41.12\00:07:43.76 BAD - AND THEN YOU'VE GOT SATAN, ALL THE BAD ANGELS, 00:07:43.79\00:07:46.70 AND THE WICKED. THE WICKED OUTNUMBER THE GOOD - 00:07:46.73\00:07:49.46 BROAD IS THE WAY THAT LEADS TO DESTRUCTION. 00:07:49.50\00:07:51.67 SO THEY COVER THE EARTH LIKE A CLOUD AND THAT MEANS EVERYBODY 00:07:51.70\00:07:55.67 IN THIS ROOM, WE'RE GOING TO SEE EACH OTHER AGAIN SOME DAY - 00:07:55.70\00:07:58.41 I HOPE YOU'RE IN THE CITY - 00:07:58.44\00:07:59.84 AMEN. WHEN THAT HAPPENS. 00:07:59.87\00:08:02.11 AND IT GOES ON TO SAY, "AND THOU SHALT COME UP AGAINST MY PEOPLE 00:08:02.14\00:08:06.18 OF ISRAEL, AS A CLOUD TO COVER THE LAND." 00:08:06.21\00:08:09.98 SO THEY'RE GOING TO COMPLETELY COVER THE LAND. 00:08:10.02\00:08:11.62 IT'S LIKE A CLOUD. AT THIS CRUCIAL MOMENT, 00:08:11.65\00:08:14.32 WHAT STOPS EVERYTHING? NOW SATAN IS LOOSED FROM HIS 00:08:14.36\00:08:18.46 PRISON, WHAT DO YOU THINK HE DOES WHEN HE'S LOOSED? 00:08:18.49\00:08:20.70 HE RALLIES ALL THE WICKED AND HE SAYS, 'THERE'S MORE OF US THAN 00:08:20.73\00:08:23.73 THERE ARE OF THEM.' YOU READ IN EZEKIEL IT SAYS THEY GATHER 00:08:23.77\00:08:26.67 TOGETHER. READ IN ZECHARIAH, 'AGAINST THE 00:08:26.70\00:08:29.30 CITY OF GOD TO ATTACK THE CITY OF GOD.' AND IT SAYS THEY'RE 00:08:29.34\00:08:34.14 LOOSED FROM THEIR PRISON FOR A SEASON. 00:08:34.18\00:08:35.88 HOW LONG IS THAT TIME? I DON'T KNOW, BUT IT'S LONG 00:08:35.91\00:08:38.58 ENOUGH FOR THEM TO ORGANIZE HIS ARMIES. 00:08:38.61\00:08:41.75 AND SATAN'S GOING TO SAY, 'THAT'S OUR CITY.' AND EVEN 00:08:41.78\00:08:43.72 THOUGH HE'S FALLEN, HE STILL LOOKS LIKE A GLORIOUS BEING. 00:08:43.75\00:08:46.72 HE SAID, 'THAT'S THE ENEMY. THAT BELONGS TO ME. 00:08:46.76\00:08:49.76 HE'S TAKEN IT AND HE'S GOING TO RALLY THEM ALL WITH HIM.' 00:08:49.79\00:08:52.33 BECAUSE, WHAT ELSE? IT'S THEIR LAST HOPE. 00:08:52.36\00:08:54.73 AND, IN DESPERATION, INSTEAD OF REPENTING, THEY TRY TO ATTACK 00:08:54.76\00:08:57.17 GOD'S CITY. BUT, BEFORE THEY CAN LAUNCH 00:08:57.20\00:09:00.17 THEIR ATTACK, JESUS SAYS, 'ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.' 00:09:00.20\00:09:03.91 AMEN. THIS IS THE 00:09:03.94\00:09:05.51 GREAT JUDGMENT DAY. NOW, WHEN I TALK ABOUT JUDGMENT 00:09:05.54\00:09:09.91 IT REALLY ALL HAPPENS IN THREE PHASES. 00:09:09.94\00:09:13.65 YOU'VE GOT A JUDGMENT THAT TAKES PLACE BEFORE JESUS COMES - THOSE 00:09:13.68\00:09:16.72 THAT TAKE THE NAME OF CHRIST, THEIR NAMES ARE ENTERED INTO THE 00:09:16.75\00:09:19.35 BOOK OF LIFE - 'HE THAT HAS THE SON HAS LIFE' - AND WE ARE 00:09:19.39\00:09:24.23 JUDGED BASED ON THE MERITS OF CHRIST. 00:09:24.26\00:09:27.56 THE BIBLE KNOWS - THE BIBLE TELLS US GOD KNOWS, BEFORE HE 00:09:27.60\00:09:30.07 COMES, WHO'S SAVED BECAUSE, WHEN HE COMES, HE'S DISPENSING 00:09:30.10\00:09:33.03 REWARDS, RIGHT? HE'LL GIVE TO EVERY MAN 00:09:33.07\00:09:35.47 ACCORDING TO HIS WORKS WHEN HE COMES. 00:09:35.50\00:09:37.41 HE KNOWS WHO'S SAVED OR LOST. THEN THERE'S THE JUDGMENT DURING 00:09:37.44\00:09:40.44 THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS WHERE WE PARTICIPATE IN ASKING QUESTIONS 00:09:40.48\00:09:44.38 AND UNDERSTANDING WHY GOD JUDGED AS HE DID. 00:09:44.41\00:09:49.02 WE'RE AFFIRMING THE JUDGMENTS OF GOD. 00:09:49.05\00:09:51.22 THEN THE FINAL EXECUTIVE PART OF THE JUDGMENT IS THE WHITE THRONE 00:09:51.25\00:09:54.62 JUDGMENT THAT HAPPENS NOW, AT THE END OF THE ONE THOUSAND 00:09:54.66\00:09:57.19 YEARS WHEN ALL THE WICKED ARE THERE BEFORE THE LORD. 00:09:57.23\00:10:02.10 CHRIST, ON HIS GREAT WHITE THRONE, IS EXALTED ABOVE THE 00:10:02.13\00:10:05.20 CITY WHERE EVERYBODY SEES HIM. AND THE GLORY OF CHRIST IS 00:10:05.23\00:10:09.60 GOING TO BE OVERWHELMING. AND, YOU CAN READ HERE IN - IT 00:10:09.64\00:10:12.37 SAYS, "AND I SAW A GREAT WHITE THRONE, AND HIM THAT SAT ON IT. 00:10:12.41\00:10:16.68 AND THE DEAD WERE JUDGED OUT OF THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE WRITTEN 00:10:16.71\00:10:19.71 IN THE BOOKS, ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS." 00:10:19.75\00:10:22.95 THIS FINAL JUDGMENT, IS IT WHERE EVERYONE LINES UP IN A BIG LINE 00:10:22.98\00:10:26.52 LIKE AT THE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES AND YOU'RE ALL KIND OF 00:10:26.55\00:10:29.79 WAITING AND THEY SAY, 'NEXT CASE'? 00:10:29.82\00:10:31.39 AND ONE BY ONE WE ALL COME AND - I DON'T THINK IT'S LIKE THAT. 00:10:31.43\00:10:35.60 AT PENTECOST, WHEN THE LORD FILLED 3,000 PEOPLE WITH THE 00:10:35.63\00:10:38.20 HOLY SPIRIT, WAS IT ONE AT A TIME OR WAS IT ALL AT ONCE? 00:10:38.23\00:10:41.14 SO THERE'S GOING TO BE A MASSIVE JUDGMENT, BUT EACH PERSON - AND 00:10:41.17\00:10:45.64 IT MAY TAKE A WHILE - EACH PERSON WILL HAVE THEIR LIFE IN 00:10:45.67\00:10:48.61 REVIEW IN THE HEAVENS. THEY WILL SEE A PANORAMA OF 00:10:48.64\00:10:53.55 CHRIST'S SACRIFICE AND ALL GOD DID TO TRY TO SAVE THEM. 00:10:53.58\00:10:57.65 AND EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OPENED - WE'RE GOING TO SEE 00:10:57.69\00:10:59.92 PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING TO BE OUTSIDE THE CITY BECAUSE OF OUR 00:10:59.95\00:11:03.26 INFLUENCE. IF YOU'RE SAVED, HOPEFULLY 00:11:03.29\00:11:06.49 YOU'LL SEE PEOPLE THAT ARE INSIDE THE CITY BECAUSE 00:11:06.53\00:11:08.96 OF YOUR INFLUENCE. AND SO, IT'S NOT JUST THAT 00:11:09.00\00:11:11.70 YOU'RE GOING TO BE JUDGED FOR YOUR DEEDS, YOU'RE GOING TO BE 00:11:11.73\00:11:13.44 JUDGED FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE TO OTHERS. 00:11:13.47\00:11:16.54 YOUR EXAMPLE IS GOING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. 00:11:16.57\00:11:18.41 IT'S NOT JUST WHAT YOU DO FOR YOU, EVERY ONE OF US IS 00:11:18.44\00:11:21.24 INFLUENCING OTHERS FOR OR AGAINST GOD. AMEN? 00:11:21.28\00:11:25.65 SO YOU WANT TO HAVE A GOOD INFLUENCE. 00:11:25.68\00:11:27.22 SO CHRIST IS UP THERE AND EVERYBODY SEES THE GLORY. 00:11:27.25\00:11:31.32 WHAT HAPPENS THEN WHEN THEY SEE THE GLORY OF GOD? 00:11:31.35\00:11:34.26 YOU'VE READ THAT VERSE IN ROMANS CHAPTER 14, VERSE 11, "AS I 00:11:34.29\00:11:38.39 LIVE, SAITH THE LORD, EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW TO ME, AND EVERY 00:11:38.43\00:11:42.86 TONGUE SHALL CONFESS TO GOD. THAT AT THE NAME OF JESUS EVERY 00:11:42.90\00:11:47.40 KNEE SHOULD BOW, OF THINGS IN HEAVEN, AND THINGS ON THE EARTH, 00:11:47.44\00:11:51.67 AND THINGS UNDER THE EARTH;" - EVERYBODY'S GOING TO BOW BEFORE 00:11:51.71\00:11:54.14 GOD, EVEN LUCIFER, AT SOME POINT, IS GOING 00:11:54.18\00:11:57.05 TO THEN FALL DOWN. HE'S GOING TO HAVE TO 00:11:57.08\00:11:58.55 DECLARE 'GOD IS GOOD. I HAVE BEEN WRONG.' HE'LL BE 00:11:58.58\00:12:02.68 OVERWHELMED WITH THE SENSE OF HIS OWN SIN. 00:12:02.72\00:12:07.26 YOU KNOW WHAT JUDAS DID BEFORE HE KILLED HIMSELF? 00:12:07.29\00:12:09.42 HE WENT INTO THE TEMPLE AND HE SAID, 'I HAVE BETRAYED INNOCENT 00:12:09.46\00:12:12.73 BLOOD.' AND HE WENT OUT AND HUNG HIMSELF. 00:12:12.76\00:12:15.23 SATAN, FROM HIS PROUD LIPS WILL BE FORCED A CONFESSION THAT HE 00:12:15.26\00:12:19.93 WAS THE AUTHOR OF THIS WHOLE REBELLION. 00:12:19.97\00:12:23.81 EVERY KNEE IS GOING TO BOW. EVERY - PEOPLE WHO ARE ATHEISTS 00:12:23.84\00:12:27.68 AND SAID 'THERE IS NO GOD' - EVERY KNEE WILL BOW. 00:12:27.71\00:12:30.21 I'D JUST AS SOON BOW TO JESUS NOW - 00:12:30.25\00:12:32.78 AMEN. AND BE READY FOR WHEN HE COMES 00:12:32.81\00:12:35.98 - AMEN. AND NOT BE A REBEL AS 00:12:36.02\00:12:37.89 WAIT UNTIL IT'S TOO LATE. "AND THAT EVERY TONGUE SHOULD 00:12:37.92\00:12:41.12 CONFESS THAT JESUS CHRIST IS LORD, TO THE GLORY OF GOD THE 00:12:41.16\00:12:44.89 FATHER." AMEN? AMEN. 00:12:44.93\00:12:46.90 AND YOU READ IN REVELATION 19, "I HEARD A GREAT VOICE OF MUCH 00:12:46.93\00:12:51.30 PEOPLE IN HEAVEN, SAYING...TRUE AND RIGHTEOUS ARE HIS 00:12:51.33\00:12:54.80 JUDGMENTS." NOTICE WHAT'S HAPPENING THERE? 00:12:54.84\00:12:56.47 EVERYONE IN HEAVEN IS SAYING THEY ARE AFFIRMING GOD'S 00:12:56.50\00:13:00.58 JUDGMENT. SO WHO IS THE JUDGE? ULTIMATELY IT'S GOD, AND 00:13:00.61\00:13:04.71 EVERYBODY WILL DECLARE GOD IS JUST. 00:13:04.75\00:13:06.51 GOD IS GOOD. HIS JUDGMENTS ARE FAIR. 00:13:06.55\00:13:09.85 DON'T GO ANYWHERE, FRIENDS, WE'LL BE BACK IN JUST A MOMENT 00:13:09.88\00:13:12.59 WITH THE REST OF TODAY'S PRESENTATION. 00:13:12.62\00:13:14.89 HAVE YOU READ WHAT THE BIBLE ACTUALLY SAYS ABOUT THE LAST-DAY 00:13:14.92\00:13:17.79 EVENTS? ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE SIGNS 00:13:17.83\00:13:20.36 OF THE SECOND COMING, LAST PLAGUES, AND THE FINAL JUDGMENT? 00:13:20.40\00:13:24.37 ANYONE WHO'S EVEN GLANCING AT THE HEADLINES TODAY PROBABLY 00:13:24.40\00:13:28.30 WONDERS IF OUR WORLD IS PLUNGING TOWARDS ARMAGEDDON, BUT I WANT 00:13:28.34\00:13:32.01 TO LET YOU KNOW THAT EVEN IN THE FACE OF ALL THAT'S HAPPENING, 00:13:32.04\00:13:35.81 YOU CAN STILL LIVE WITH PEACE AND ASSURANCE FOR YOUR FUTURE. 00:13:35.84\00:13:39.48 WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW HOW? AMAZING FACTS WANTS TO SHARE 00:13:39.51\00:13:42.48 WITH YOU THE FINAL EVENTS OF PROPHECY MAGAZINE. 00:13:42.52\00:13:45.92 IT FEATURES 32 PAGES OF CAPTIVATING, COLORFUL, AND 00:13:45.95\00:13:49.59 BIBLICALLY ACCURATE INFORMATION. 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THEN IT TELLS US THIS IS THE 00:14:22.99\00:14:27.36 FINAL PHASE OF WHAT YOU WOULD CALL THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON. 00:14:27.40\00:14:30.10 THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON KIND OF STARTS BEFORE JESUS GETS 00:14:30.13\00:14:32.17 HERE AND IT FINISHES AFTERWARDS. 00:14:32.20\00:14:34.97 THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON IS NOT CHINA AND RUSSIA AND ISRAEL AND 00:14:35.00\00:14:38.97 - GOD IS CONCERNED ABOUT THE BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL. 00:14:39.01\00:14:43.01 YOU KNOW, THERE'S A STORY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT ABOUT GIDEON. 00:14:43.04\00:14:47.62 GIDEON WAS SURROUNDED BY A THREE-FOLD UNION: THE 00:14:47.65\00:14:51.82 AMALEKITES, THE EDOMITES, AND THE PEOPLE OF THE EAST, THEY ALL 00:14:51.85\00:14:55.22 CAME LIKE - THEY COVERED THE EARTH LIKE A CLOUD. 00:14:55.26\00:14:58.09 THEY DEVOURED THE LAND LIKE LOCUSTS AND GOD SAID TO GIDEON, 00:14:58.13\00:15:01.73 'I'M GOING TO GO WITH YOU AND ALL YOU NEED IS YOUR 300 MEN. 00:15:01.76\00:15:05.97 AND THERE, IN THE VALLEY OF MEGIDDO, GIDEON, THROUGH THE 00:15:06.00\00:15:09.57 POWER OF GOD AND HIS SPIRIT, THEY HAVE COMPLETE VICTORY OVER 00:15:09.60\00:15:13.07 THESE SUPERIOR FORCES. YOU SEE, THAT SCENARIO HAPPENS 00:15:13.11\00:15:16.11 SEVERAL TIMES IN THE BIBLE, EXCEPT IN REVELATION IT'S THE 00:15:16.14\00:15:19.01 BEAST, THE DRAGON, AND THE FALSE PROPHET - ANOTHER THREE-FOLD 00:15:19.05\00:15:21.25 UNION - COME AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF GOD - THEY'RE COMING AGAINST 00:15:21.28\00:15:24.49 THE FATHER, SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT, BUT THEY'RE DEFEATED. 00:15:24.52\00:15:29.46 AND THIS IS WHERE JESUS, YOU SEE HIM, SOMETIMES, PICTURED AND 00:15:29.49\00:15:32.03 CONQUERING ON HIS HORSE AND HE THEN SENDS JUDGMENT ON THE 00:15:32.06\00:15:35.73 WICKED. IT SAYS IN REVELATION 20, VERSE 00:15:35.76\00:15:38.10 9, FIRE COMES DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN AND DEVOURS THEM. 00:15:38.13\00:15:43.91 NOW WHAT DOES IT SAY HAPPENS TO HIM? 00:15:43.94\00:15:45.67 DEVOURS THEM. WHOEVER WAS NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN 00:15:45.71\00:15:49.34 THE BOOK OF LIFE WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. 00:15:49.38\00:15:53.45 THERE'S NO THIRD OPTION. EVERYBODY IS EITHER - WE'RE IN 00:15:53.48\00:15:56.28 HEAVEN - YOUR NAME IS IN THE BOOK OF LIFE, OR YOU FOLLOW THE 00:15:56.32\00:15:59.29 DEVIL AND HIS ANGELS INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. 00:15:59.32\00:16:02.19 NOW, THE BIG QUESTION IS - PEOPLE MISUNDERSTAND THE LAKE OF 00:16:02.22\00:16:05.56 FIRE. LET'S TALK, FOR JUST A MINUTE, ABOUT HELL. 00:16:05.59\00:16:08.86 YOU READ IN REVELATION 20, VERSE 14, IT SAYS, "THIS IS THE SECOND 00:16:08.90\00:16:12.77 DEATH." I HEARD A PASTOR SAY, ONE TIME, 00:16:12.80\00:16:15.44 'IF YOU'RE ONLY BORN ONCE, YOU'RE GOING TO DIE TWICE. 00:16:15.47\00:16:21.68 IF YOU'RE BORN TWICE, YOU ONLY DIE ONCE.' 00:16:21.71\00:16:26.58 YOU SEE, CHRISTIANS, YOU MIGHT DIE, BUT THEN YOU 00:16:26.61\00:16:28.78 RESURRECT AND YOU DON'T DIE THE SECOND DEATH. 00:16:28.82\00:16:31.39 THE WICKED, IF YOU'RE ONLY BORN ONE TIME AND YOU'RE NOT BORN 00:16:31.42\00:16:33.89 AGAIN, YOU'RE GOING TO DIE THE SECOND DEATH. 00:16:33.92\00:16:37.73 LET'S TALK FOR JUST A MINUTE ABOUT HELL, IS THAT OKAY? 00:16:37.76\00:16:40.56 THIS IS A SUBJECT THAT IS VASTLY MISUNDERSTOOD AND A LOT OF 00:16:40.60\00:16:44.70 PEOPLE HAVE TURNED AWAY FROM GOD BECAUSE OF THE TERRIBLE, 00:16:44.73\00:16:47.44 MEDIEVAL MYTHS THAT HAVE BEEN PERPETRATED THAT ARE UNBIBLICAL. 00:16:47.47\00:16:52.87 I USED TO THINK GOD WAS A SADIST - SOMEONE'S LOST - YOU GOT SOME 00:16:52.91\00:16:56.24 TEENAGER WHO'S PAST THE AGE OF ACCOUNTABILITY BUT HE DOESN'T 00:16:56.28\00:16:59.15 ACCEPT JESUS AND SO HE GOES TO THE SAME LAKE OF FIRE AS ADOLF 00:16:59.18\00:17:02.62 HITLER AND HE BURNS FOR ZILLIONS OF YEARS. 00:17:02.65\00:17:05.49 AND A MILLION YEARS AFTER BROILING AND BOILING AND 00:17:05.52\00:17:08.16 SHRIEKING IN AGONY, MOMENT AFTER MOMENT, HE STICKS HIS HEAD 00:17:08.19\00:17:14.10 UP OUT OF THE SULPHUR AND BRIMSTONE AND SAYS, 'GOD HOW 00:17:14.10\00:17:16.26 LONG?' AND GOD PUSHES HIM UNDER AND 00:17:16.30\00:17:17.80 SAYS, 'YOU HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED YET.' (LAUGHTER) THAT'S THE 00:17:17.83\00:17:21.07 PICTURE THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE OF GOD AND THAT'S 00:17:21.10\00:17:24.64 WHAT'S BEEN TAUGHT. IT'S NOT WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES. 00:17:24.67\00:17:27.91 LET ME QUICKLY TELL YOU WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES. 00:17:27.94\00:17:30.15 MALACHI CHAPTER 4, 'BEHOLD THE DAY COMES THAT WILL BURN AS AN 00:17:30.18\00:17:32.91 OVEN AND ALL THE PROUD AND ALL THAT DO WICKEDLY WILL BE 00:17:32.95\00:17:35.92 STUBBLE.' THE DAY THAT COMES WILL BURN THEM UP. 00:17:35.95\00:17:38.99 THE BIBLE SAYS THE WICKED ARE DEVOURED. 00:17:39.02\00:17:41.12 THE WICKED ARE CONSUMED. YOU'VE GOT TWO CHOICES: HE THAT 00:17:41.16\00:17:43.99 HAS THE SON HAS LIFE; HE THAT DOES NOT HAVE THE SON 00:17:44.03\00:17:46.19 DOES NOT HAVE LIFE. WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM MAY NOT 00:17:46.23\00:17:49.16 PERISH BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. 00:17:49.20\00:17:51.63 YOU'RE EITHER GOING TO PERISH OR HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. 00:17:51.67\00:17:53.84 GOD TOLD ADAM AND EVE, HE SAID, 'IF YOU DISOBEY YOU DIE; IF YOU 00:17:53.87\00:17:57.87 BELIEVE YOU LIVE.' BUT THE DEVIL IS SAYING, 'NO, NO, YOU'VE GOT 00:17:57.91\00:18:02.41 EVERLASTING LIFE NO MATTER WHAT. YOU'RE IMMORTAL.' 00:18:02.44\00:18:04.48 YOU'RE EITHER GOING TO BURN FOREVER OR YOU'RE GOING TO GO TO 00:18:04.51\00:18:05.88 HEAVEN. THE BIBLE DOESN'T SAY THAT. 00:18:05.91\00:18:07.62 THE BIBLE SAYS GOD AND GOD ONLY HAS IMMORTALITY. 00:18:07.65\00:18:10.79 SHOW ME WHERE IT SAYS PEOPLE HAVE IMMORTALITY IN THE BIBLE. 00:18:10.82\00:18:14.79 I'M BEING QUIET. DOESN'T SAY IT. IT SAYS WHEN CHRIST COMES THEN 00:18:14.82\00:18:20.20 THIS MORTAL PUTS ON IMMORTALITY. BUT WE DIE. 00:18:20.23\00:18:23.73 THE IDEA THAT GOD IS GOING TO IMMORTALIZE SIN - THE BIBLE SAYS 00:18:23.77\00:18:26.40 THERE'S NO MORE SIN, THERE'S NO MORE PAIN - IF THERE'S NO MORE 00:18:26.43\00:18:29.60 PAIN - REVELATION SAYS NO MORE PAIN. 00:18:29.64\00:18:31.54 HOW CAN GOD SAY ALL THINGS ARE NEW IF YOU'VE GOT SINNERS 00:18:31.57\00:18:33.98 IMMORTALIZED IN SOME TORTURE CHAMBER FOREVER AND EVER? 00:18:34.01\00:18:38.45 AND SO MANY PEOPLE HAVE HEARD THAT - THINKING PEOPLE SAY, 00:18:38.48\00:18:41.28 'THERE'S NO JUSTICE IN THERE AT ALL TO TORMENT THE OBJECTS OF 00:18:41.32\00:18:45.69 YOUR CREATION THROUGH ALL ETERNITY FOR THE SINS OF A 00:18:45.72\00:18:50.09 FRACTION OF A SECOND.' THIS HAS BEEN USED BY THE CHURCH IN THE 00:18:50.13\00:18:54.66 DARK AGES TO SCARE PEOPLE. GOD DOESN'T WANT YOU COMING 00:18:54.73\00:18:58.07 BECAUSE OF FIRE INSURANCE, HE WANTS YOU TO COME TO HIM 00:18:58.10\00:19:01.54 BECAUSE YOU LOVE HIM. AMEN. 00:19:01.57\00:19:03.64 THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH. NOW, THERE ARE SOME 00:19:03.67\00:19:06.51 DIFFICULT VERSES. IT SAYS, 'ETERNAL FIRE' - CALLS 00:19:06.54\00:19:11.31 IT ETERNAL FIRE BECAUSE WHAT THE FIRE DOES IS ETERNAL. 00:19:11.35\00:19:14.42 AND IT CALLS IT EVERLASTING PUNISHMENT - THE PUNISHMENT 00:19:14.45\00:19:17.42 LASTS FOR HOW LONG? FOREVER. 00:19:17.45\00:19:19.19 FOREVER. THE BIBLE SAYS THE WICKED ARE 00:19:19.22\00:19:21.32 GOING TO BE TREATED LIKE SODOM AND GOMORRAH. 00:19:21.36\00:19:23.22 WERE SODOM AND GOMORRAH BURNT? ARE THEY STILL BURNING? NO. 00:19:23.26\00:19:26.73 THEY WERE CONSUMED. HE SAYS, 'TURNING THEM INTO 00:19:26.76\00:19:28.80 ASHES AS AN EXAMPLE TO THE UNGODLY.' WHAT HAPPENED 00:19:28.83\00:19:32.50 TO SODOM AND GOMORRAH? BURNT UP. DIFFERENT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO 00:19:32.53\00:19:36.67 SUFFER DIFFERENT LENGTHS OF TIME BASED ON WHAT THEY DESERVE. 00:19:36.71\00:19:40.24 THERE IS A LAKE OF FIRE SO DON'T GO OUT OF HERE AND SAY, 'PASTOR 00:19:40.28\00:19:42.48 DOUG DOESN'T BELIEVE IN HELL.' I DO BELIEVE IN HELL. 00:19:42.51\00:19:45.08 MY HELL IS HOTTER THAN MOST HELLS. 00:19:45.11\00:19:47.22 MY HELL IS HOTTER BECAUSE IT BURNS PEOPLE UP. 00:19:47.25\00:19:49.65 OTHERS JUST SIMMER FOREVER AND EVER. 00:19:49.68\00:19:52.65 SO I DO BELIEVE IN HELL. BIBLE DOES SAY THAT PEOPLE ARE 00:19:52.69\00:19:56.56 GOING TO BE PUNISHED ACCORDING TO WHAT THEY DESERVE. 00:19:56.59\00:19:59.16 BUT THE IDEA THAT IT GOES ON FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER - 00:19:59.19\00:20:03.50 BEING TORTURED - THAT IS NOT WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES. 00:20:03.53\00:20:07.47 GOD SAYS HE'S GOING TO MAKE A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH 00:20:07.50\00:20:10.07 WHEREIN DWELLS RIGHTEOUSNESS. ALL THINGS ARE GOING 00:20:10.11\00:20:12.14 TO BE MADE NEW. SO QUICKLY, LET'S 00:20:12.17\00:20:14.11 REVIEW THE MILLENNIUM. YOU'VE GOT THE FIRST 00:20:14.14\00:20:16.41 RESURRECTION STARTS IT AND THE SECOND COMING; A THOUSAND YEARS 00:20:16.44\00:20:20.28 WE LIVE AND REIGN WITH CHRIST DURING THE - THE MILLENNIUM. 00:20:20.32\00:20:24.65 SECOND RESURRECTION THE HOLY CITY DESCENDS. 00:20:24.69\00:20:27.99 AND SO, DURING THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS, WE'RE LIVING AND REIGNING 00:20:28.02\00:20:30.66 WITH CHRIST AND THERE'S A JUDGMENT. 00:20:30.69\00:20:32.46 BUT READ IN ISAIAH 65:17, "FOR, BEHOLD, I CREATE NEW HEAVENS AND 00:20:32.49\00:20:38.33 A NEW EARTH." WHY DOES IT SAY 'NEW HEAVEN'? 00:20:38.37\00:20:41.10 THE WORD 'HEAVEN' THERE IS AN ATMOSPHERE AROUND THE EARTH. 00:20:41.14\00:20:44.91 IT'S NOT TALKING ABOUT A NEW DWELLING PLACE. 00:20:44.94\00:20:47.08 HEBREWS HAD THREE WORDS FOR HEAVEN - HEAVEN HAD THREE 00:20:47.11\00:20:49.61 LEVELS, I SHOULD SAY. YOU'VE GOT THE AIR AROUND THE 00:20:49.64\00:20:53.31 PLANET WHERE THE BIRDS FLY AND THE CLOUDS FLOAT. 00:20:53.35\00:20:56.95 YOU HAVE THE PART OF THE COSMOS WHERE THE STARS HANG, THEN YOU 00:20:56.99\00:21:02.39 HAVE THE DWELLING PLACE OF GOD THAT WAS CALLED THE THIRD 00:21:02.42\00:21:04.69 HEAVEN. PAUL TALKS ABOUT A MAN CAUGHT 00:21:04.73\00:21:07.03 UP TO THE THIRD HEAVEN. AND WHO KNOWS WHERE THE VERSE 00:21:07.10\00:21:10.10 IS ABOUT THE SEVENTH HEAVEN? IT'S NOT IN THE BIBLE. 00:21:10.13\00:21:13.70 GOOD, JUST CHECKING TO MAKE SURE. 00:21:13.74\00:21:14.90 (LAUGHTER) SO GOD'S MAKING A NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH. 00:21:14.94\00:21:18.71 REVELATION 21, "AND I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH: FOR THE 00:21:18.74\00:21:22.74 FIRST HEAVEN AND THE FIRST EARTH WERE PASSED AWAY." 00:21:22.78\00:21:25.78 AND GOD SAID HE IS GOING TO MAKE ALL THINGS NEW. 00:21:25.81\00:21:28.85 IT SAYS, "WE, ACCORDING TO HIS PROMISE, LOOK FOR NEW HEAVENS 00:21:28.88\00:21:31.85 AND A NEW EARTH WHEREIN DWELLETH RIGHTEOUSNESS." 00:21:31.89\00:21:35.56 AND, AGAIN, YOU'VE GOT THE PROMISE, 'BLESSED ARE THE MEEK, 00:21:35.59\00:21:38.23 THEY WILL INHERIT THE EARTH.' I'M JUMPING AHEAD OF MYSELF 00:21:38.26\00:21:40.66 HERE. QUESTION NUMBER 13: WHERE WILL 00:21:40.70\00:21:43.10 GOD AND THE RIGHTEOUS FINALLY LIVE? 00:21:43.13\00:21:45.43 WHEN THE NEW JERUSALEM COMES DOWN, AFTER THAT GREAT WHITE 00:21:45.47\00:21:48.94 THRONE JUDGMENT, GOD WILL RAIN FIRE DOWN UPON THE WICKED 00:21:48.97\00:21:52.47 OUTSIDE THE CITY. THEY'RE ALL PUNISHED ACCORDING 00:21:52.51\00:21:55.41 TO WHAT THEY DESERVE. THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THAT FIRE 00:21:55.44\00:21:58.91 RAINS DOWN ON THE EARTH. IT'S NOT - HELL IS NOT A TORTURE 00:21:58.95\00:22:01.58 CHAMBER DOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE EARTH SOMEWHERE; THE 00:22:01.62\00:22:05.05 BIBLE DOESN'T TEACH THAT. IT SAYS THAT GOD HIMSELF 00:22:05.09\00:22:07.89 WILL DWELL WITH US. YOU CAN READ IN REVELATION 21:3 - WHAT 00:22:07.92\00:22:11.43 A BEAUTIFUL PROMISE. "BEHOLD, THE TABERNACLE OF GOD IS 00:22:11.46\00:22:15.00 WITH MEN, AND HE WILL DWELL WITH THEM." HE WILL BE THEIR GOD AND 00:22:15.03\00:22:19.40 THEY WILL BE HIS PEOPLE. AND THE BIBLE SAYS 00:22:19.43\00:22:20.57 WE WILL SEE HIS FACE. AMEN. 00:22:20.60\00:22:23.04 AND THEN WE ARE GOING TO HAVE GLORIFIED BODIES. 00:22:23.07\00:22:26.54 WE ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO EAT FROM THE TREE OF LIFE - TWELVE 00:22:26.57\00:22:29.24 DIFFERENT KINDS OF FRUIT TWELVE TIMES A YEAR. 00:22:29.28\00:22:31.98 THAT'S BETTER THAN BASKIN ROBBINS 31 FLAVORS. 00:22:32.01\00:22:34.18 AND YOU'RE GOING TO BE ABLE - WE'LL GATHER TOGETHER - NO MORE 00:22:34.22\00:22:36.69 PAIN, NO MORE POLICE STATIONS, NO MORE SICKNESS, NO MORE DEATH, 00:22:36.72\00:22:40.19 NO MORE SUFFERING. AND IT IS REAL, FRIENDS. 00:22:40.22\00:22:42.76 THIS PAIN AND MISERY IN OUR WORLD WAS NEVER GOD'S PLAN. 00:22:42.79\00:22:45.83 HE'S GOING TO RESTORE THINGS TO HIS ORIGINAL PLAN. 00:22:45.86\00:22:49.13 "BLESSED ARE THE MEEK; FOR THEY SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH." 00:22:49.16\00:22:51.53 WHERE DO WE ULTIMATELY LIVE? NOT IN HEAVEN. 00:22:51.57\00:22:54.57 THE NEW JERUSALEM COMES DOWN TO EARTH. 00:22:54.60\00:22:56.84 GOD HAS MADE A CITY HOME FOR YOU, BUT YOU CAN GO FORTH FROM 00:22:56.87\00:23:00.41 THE NEW JERUSALEM. IT SAYS YOU WILL TREAD ON THE 00:23:00.44\00:23:02.38 WICKED FOR THEIR ASHES UNDER THE SOLES OF YOUR FEET. 00:23:02.41\00:23:04.98 IT WON'T BE ASHES, THERE'LL BE BEAUTIFUL CARPETS OF LIVING 00:23:05.01\00:23:06.98 GRASS. BUT YOU'LL PLANT VINEYARDS AND EAT THE FRUIT. 00:23:07.02\00:23:10.82 YOU WILL BUILD HOUSES. WE'LL DO EXCITING THINGS. 00:23:10.85\00:23:13.49 WE'LL SOAR TO WORLDS UNKNOWN. ANYONE KNOW WHERE THAT VERSE IS? 00:23:13.52\00:23:18.49 ITS IN 'ROCK OF AGES,' IT'S NOT IN THE BIBLE - BUT IT'S A GREAT 00:23:18.53\00:23:20.40 VERSE. (LAUGHTER) WE'LL GO TO WORLDS 00:23:20.43\00:23:22.73 UNKNOWN. WE'LL BE ABLE TO FLY. 00:23:22.76\00:23:25.27 IT DOES SAY, IN THE BIBLE, WE WILL MOUNT UP WITH WINGS LIKE 00:23:25.30\00:23:27.74 EAGLES, WE'LL RUN AND NOT BE WEARY, WE'LL WALK AND NOT FAINT. 00:23:27.77\00:23:31.17 THIS IS VERY REAL. BOY, I TELL YOU, THE OLDER I 00:23:31.21\00:23:33.68 GET, THE MORE HEAVEN SOUNDS GOOD TO ME. 00:23:33.71\00:23:35.54 (RAUCOUS LAUGHTER) BECAUSE I CAN TELL - I WANT TO TRADE THIS ONE 00:23:35.58\00:23:38.61 IN ON A NEWER MODEL, AMEN? AMEN. 00:23:38.65\00:23:41.48 THE LORD IS GOING TO GIVE US AN UPGRADE. 00:23:41.52\00:23:44.82 THE QUESTION IS, WILL YOU ACCEPT JESUS' OFFER OF ETERNAL LIFE? 00:23:44.85\00:23:49.89 AMEN. AND A PLACE IN THAT KINGDOM. 00:23:49.92\00:23:52.66 I HEARD A STORY, YEARS AGO, ABOUT THIS KING IN PERSIA. 00:23:52.69\00:23:57.97 AND HE HAD A LAW IN HIS KINGDOM - HE HAD A HAREM - AND THE LAW 00:23:58.00\00:24:03.64 WAS THAT NO MAN WAS TO EVER ENTER THE HAREM OTHER THAN THE 00:24:03.67\00:24:08.78 SULTAN - THE KING. AND HE HAD HIS EUNUCHS AND HE 00:24:08.81\00:24:11.88 HAD PEOPLE THAT TOOK CARE OF THE HAREM, BUT THERE WAS THE 00:24:11.91\00:24:14.12 QUARTERS OF THE WOMEN AND THE WIVES AND NO MAN WAS 00:24:14.15\00:24:16.28 SUPPOSED TO GO IN. THE CROWN PRINCE WAS A LITTLE 00:24:16.32\00:24:18.75 ARROGANT AND HE THOUGHT, 'WELL, THAT LAW DOESN'T APPLY TO ME 00:24:18.79\00:24:22.26 BECAUSE I'M THE KING'S SON. I CAN GO WHEREVER I WANT TO 00:24:22.29\00:24:25.09 GO.' AND ONE DAY HE JUST WENT MARCHING OFF INTO THE KING'S 00:24:25.13\00:24:28.56 HAREM, TO THE HORROR OF ALL THE ATTENDANTS AND EVERYBODY THERE 00:24:28.60\00:24:32.30 AND IT HIT THE HEADLINES AND EVERYONE WAS WONDERING, 00:24:32.33\00:24:36.74 'WHAT WILL THE KING DO?' BECAUSE THE KING HAD A LAW THAT 00:24:36.77\00:24:39.14 SAID IF ANY MAN DARES TO GO INTO THE HAREM, HIS EYES 00:24:39.17\00:24:42.31 WILL BE PUT OUT. WOW. 00:24:42.34\00:24:45.28 NOW THE KING'S GOT TO MAKE A DECISION. 00:24:45.31\00:24:48.75 HE IS A JUST KING AND HE'S A LOVING FATHER. 00:24:48.78\00:24:53.62 HE DOESN'T WANT TO BLIND HIS SON, BUT HE DOESN'T WANT TO SEND 00:24:53.66\00:24:56.69 THE WRONG MESSAGE TO HIS PEOPLE. WHAT DO YOU DO? 00:24:56.73\00:25:00.63 AS THE STORY GOES, THE KING TOOK OUT ONE OF HIS SON'S EYES AND HE 00:25:00.66\00:25:05.63 TOOK OUT ONE OF HIS OWN - SO THEY COULD STILL SEE. 00:25:05.67\00:25:10.37 BUT, YOU KNOW, JESUS HAS GONE THE SECOND MILE. 00:25:10.41\00:25:14.14 HE DIDN'T SAY, 'LOOK, I'LL SHARE IN YOUR PUNISHMENT.' HE SAID, 'I 00:25:14.18\00:25:18.98 WILL TAKE THE WHOLE PUNISHMENT.' EVERYTHING THAT YOU DESERVE FOR 00:25:19.01\00:25:23.92 YOUR LIFE OF SIN - WE DESERVE DEATH - THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS 00:25:23.95\00:25:27.52 DEATH. JESUS SAID, 'I WILL TAKE YOUR PENALTY. 00:25:27.56\00:25:30.49 I AM GOING TO TAKE YOUR WEAKNESS, I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU 00:25:30.53\00:25:32.79 MY STRENGTH. I'M GOING TO TAKE YOUR SIN, I 00:25:32.83\00:25:35.20 WILL GIVE YOU MY RIGHTEOUSNESS. I'LL TAKE THE DEATH THAT YOU 00:25:35.23\00:25:37.93 DESERVE AND I'LL GIVE YOU THE LIFE THAT I DESERVE.' 00:25:37.97\00:25:41.60 HE SAID, 'I AM GOING TO MAKE A TOTAL TRADE WITH YOU. 00:25:41.64\00:25:44.87 THE BIBLE IS FULL OF STORIES OF GOD TAKING PEOPLE FROM THE 00:25:44.91\00:25:48.04 PRISON AND HE BRINGS THEM TO THE PALACE AND HE DOES IT IN ONE 00:25:48.08\00:25:50.11 DAY. IT'S WHAT HE DID FOR JOSEPH - 00:25:50.15\00:25:52.55 FROM THE PRISON TO THE PALACE. DANIEL WENT FROM BEING A 00:25:52.58\00:25:55.35 PRISONER TO BEING PRIME MINISTER. 00:25:55.38\00:25:57.09 ESTHER WENT FROM BEING AN ORPHAN CAPTIVE TO BEING QUEEN. 00:25:57.12\00:26:00.49 THE BIBLE IS FULL OF THESE STORIES. 00:26:00.52\00:26:03.19 THE EXODUS - THEY WENT FROM SLAVERY TO THE PROMISED LAND. 00:26:03.22\00:26:06.56 IT'S ALL THERE TO ILLUSTRATE WHAT GOD WANTS TO DO FOR YOU. 00:26:06.59\00:26:10.17 WE GO FROM THIS WORLD WHERE WE'RE SLAVES TO SIN. 00:26:10.20\00:26:12.73 AND JESUS SAID, 'I WANT YOU TO LIVE AND REIGN WITH ME IN 00:26:12.77\00:26:14.70 HEAVENLY PLACES. AMEN. 00:26:14.74\00:26:17.87 BUT THE QUESTION IS: WILL YOU ACCEPT IT? 00:26:17.91\00:26:20.78 THE LORD LOVES YOU SO MUCH HE'S GIVING YOU FREEDOM. 00:26:20.81\00:26:24.48 AND I COULD TALK ABOUT IT FOR A THOUSAND YEARS. 00:26:24.51\00:26:28.82 BUT, UNTIL YOU FINALLY SAY, 'YOU KNOW, I'M GOING TO STOP TRYING 00:26:28.85\00:26:33.22 TO DO IT ON MY OWN. I AM GOING TO SURRENDER MY LIFE TO GOD. 00:26:33.25\00:26:36.66 I'M GOING TO ACCEPT THE SACRIFICE THAT JESUS MADE. 00:26:36.69\00:26:39.56 ON THE CROSS, WHEN HE WAS UP THERE, IT'S AS THOUGH YOU WERE 00:26:39.59\00:26:42.46 THE ONLY ONE THAT SINNED. HE LOVED YOU THAT MUCH. 00:26:42.50\00:26:44.77 IF YOU WERE THE ONLY ONE WHO HAD REBELLED AND DONE ALL THE NASTY 00:26:44.80\00:26:47.97 THINGS THAT YOU AND I HAVE DONE, HE SAID, 'I WILL TAKE THE 00:26:48.00\00:26:50.87 PENALTY AND THE SHAME AND THE GUILT FOR ALL OF THAT BECAUSE I 00:26:50.91\00:26:53.31 LOVE YOU THAT MUCH, SO THAT YOU COULD BE WITH ME.' 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