>>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE 00:00:02.93\00:00:05.37 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:00:05.40\00:00:09.64 >>ONCE CONSIDERED THE MOST WICKED CITY ON EARTH, PORT 00:00:09.67\00:00:12.61 ROYAL, IN JAMAICA HAD MORE BARS AND BROTHELS PER SQUARE FOOT 00:00:12.64\00:00:16.14 THAN ANY OTHER PLACE ON THE PLANET. 00:00:16.18\00:00:18.45 IT WAS A HAUNT OF THIEVES AND PIRATES. 00:00:18.48\00:00:20.95 WHEN LEWIS GALDY AND HIS BROTHER ARRIVED THERE AS MISSIONARIES IN 00:00:20.98\00:00:23.55 THE 17TH CENTURY, THEY WERE SHOCKED AT THE IMMORALITY, 00:00:23.59\00:00:27.09 VIOLENCE, AND EXTRAVAGANCE, BUT JUDGMENT DAY ARRIVED ON JUNE 7, 00:00:27.12\00:00:31.79 1692 WHEN A MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE SHOOK THE ISLAND. 00:00:31.83\00:00:35.36 TWO-THIRDS OF PORT ROYAL SLID INTO THE SEA AND THOUSANDS DIED 00:00:35.40\00:00:39.87 IN THE FOLLOWING TSUNAMI. LEWIS GALDY WAS BURIED ALIVE 00:00:39.90\00:00:43.84 AND, WHILE UNDERGROUND, EXPECTING TO DIE, HE PRAYED AND 00:00:43.87\00:00:47.31 THAT'S WHEN A VOLCANIC EXPLOSION BLEW HIM OUT OF THE EARTH FAR 00:00:47.34\00:00:50.78 OUT INTO THE SEA WHERE HE WAS EVENTUALLY PICKED UP BY A BOAT. 00:00:50.81\00:00:54.62 LEWIS GALDY DEDICATED THE REMAINING 47 YEARS OF HIS LIFE 00:00:54.65\00:00:58.42 TO SERVING JESUS ON THE ISLAND. YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS US, 00:00:58.45\00:01:03.39 JUST BEFORE JESUS COMES BACK, THAT CONDITIONS IN THE WORLD 00:01:03.43\00:01:06.93 WILL BE VERY MUCH LIKE THEY WERE IN PORT ROYAL. 00:01:06.96\00:01:09.60 THINGS ARE GOING TO BE ROUGH, BUT GOD'S PEOPLE DON'T NEED TO 00:01:09.63\00:01:12.73 BE AFRAID. THE SAME WAY THE LORD TOOK CARE 00:01:12.77\00:01:15.17 OF LEWIS GALDY, HE WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU. AND HE HAS 00:01:15.20\00:01:18.77 THE POWER TO PROTECT YOU AND, YES, EVEN RESURRECT YOU. 00:01:18.81\00:01:26.82 >>SOME OF YOU MAY REMEMBER THAT WE WERE INVOLVED IN A SERIES OF 00:01:26.85\00:01:30.95 MESSAGES ON THE SUBJECT OF ARMAGEDDON AND I TOLD YOU 00:01:30.99\00:01:34.56 THERE'D PROBABLY BE THREE PARTS. TODAY WOULD BE THE THIRD 00:01:34.59\00:01:37.19 INSTALLMENT ON THIS SUBJECT. THERE HAS BEEN A LOT 00:01:37.23\00:01:40.53 OF WAR IN THE WORLD. EVEN SOLOMON SAYS THERE'S A TIME 00:01:40.56\00:01:45.87 OF LOVE AND A TIME OF HATE, A TIME OF WAR AND A TIME OF PEACE. 00:01:45.90\00:01:50.37 ONE HISTORIAN ESTIMATED THAT SINCE 3,600 B.C. 00:01:50.41\00:01:54.98 THE WORLD HAS KNOWN ONLY FOUR HUNDRED - I'M SORRY, TWO HUNDRED 00:01:55.01\00:01:58.21 AND NINETY-TWO YEARS OF PEACE. 00:01:58.25\00:02:00.72 DURING THIS PERIOD THERE HAVE BEEN 14,531 WARS, LARGE AND 00:02:00.75\00:02:06.65 SMALL, IN WHICH 3 BILLION 640 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED. 00:02:06.69\00:02:13.13 THE VALUE OF DESTRUCTION WOULD PAY FOR A GOLDEN BELT AROUND THE 00:02:13.16\00:02:15.70 WORLD 97 MILES WIDE AND 33-FEET THICK. IN THE LAST 200 YEARS 00:02:15.73\00:02:22.24 WE'VE HAD 13 YEARS OF WAR FOR EVERY YEAR OF PEACE. 00:02:22.27\00:02:26.44 IN THE BIBLE THE WORD 'WAR' IS FOUND 251 TIMES, 'BATTLE' 192 00:02:26.47\00:02:31.21 TIMES, 'PEACE' IS FOUND 401 TIMES. 00:02:31.25\00:02:35.32 NOW, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON, SOME 00:02:35.35\00:02:37.69 PEOPLE THINK THAT THAT MEANS THAT IT'S JUST - IT ALL HAPPENS 00:02:37.72\00:02:40.99 AT ONE TIME AND THERE'S THIS BIG BATTLE. 00:02:41.02\00:02:43.89 IN REALITY, SOME BATTLES CAN TAKE SEVERAL DAYS. 00:02:43.93\00:02:47.10 YOU READ, IN 1862, THE LARGEST MILITARY CONFLICT IN NORTH 00:02:47.13\00:02:52.43 AMERICAN HISTORY BEGAN WHEN THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE FORCES 00:02:52.47\00:02:57.17 COLLIDED AT GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA. 00:02:57.21\00:03:00.04 THIS EPIC BATTLE LASTED THREE DAYS AND IT RESULTED IN THE 00:03:00.08\00:03:04.08 RETREAT OF THE SOUTH AND 50,000 WERE DEAD. 00:03:04.11\00:03:08.02 NOW THERE'S TWO PHASES TO THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON: PART OF IT 00:03:08.05\00:03:12.22 TAKES PLACE JUST BEFORE THE SECOND COMING AND PART OF IT 00:03:12.25\00:03:15.82 TAKES PLACE AT THE END OF THE SECOND COMING. 00:03:15.86\00:03:18.66 SO, YOU'VE GOT LIKE A THOUSAND YEARS BETWEEN THE BEGINNING OF 00:03:18.69\00:03:21.86 THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON AND THE END OF THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON. 00:03:21.90\00:03:26.10 FIRST, YOU WOULD CALL IT THE PRE-MILLENNIAL BATTLE. 00:03:26.13\00:03:29.84 SO, LET'S BEGIN. YOU GO TO REVELATION 12 - WHAT 00:03:29.87\00:03:32.97 LAUNCHES THE BEGINNING OF THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON? 00:03:33.01\00:03:36.78 NOW THERE HAVE BEEN BATTLES BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL ALL 00:03:36.81\00:03:39.48 THROUGH HISTORY, BUT THIS ONE IS UNIQUE. 00:03:39.51\00:03:42.18 IT SAYS, "AND THE DRAGON WAS ENRAGED WITH THE WOMAN, AND HE 00:03:42.22\00:03:45.39 WENT TO MAKE WAR WITH THE REST OF HER OFFSPRING, WHO KEEP THE 00:03:45.42\00:03:48.99 COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST." 00:03:49.02\00:03:52.96 SO THE DEVIL IS MAKING A WAR AGAINST THE WOMAN. 00:03:52.99\00:03:56.40 AND WHAT DOES THAT WAR LOOK LIKE? 00:03:56.43\00:03:58.23 REVELATION 13:15: "HE WAS GRANTED POWER TO GIVE BREATH TO 00:03:58.27\00:04:04.07 THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST, THAT THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST SHOULD BOTH 00:04:04.11\00:04:06.98 SPEAK AND CAUSE AS MANY AS WOULD NOT WORSHIP THE IMAGE OF THE 00:04:07.01\00:04:10.61 BEAST..." - SHOULD WHAT? - "...BE KILLED." 00:04:10.65\00:04:15.28 SO GOD'S PEOPLE ARE FORCED INTO THIS BATTLE, AND IT'S A BATTLE 00:04:15.32\00:04:18.79 WHERE THE DEVIL IS TRYING TO ANNIHILATE THE PEOPLE OF GOD. 00:04:18.82\00:04:22.09 NOW, AT THAT POINT IN HISTORY, WHERE THE LAWS ARE MADE AND 00:04:22.12\00:04:24.76 EVERYBODY IS GOING TO BE FORCED TO DO WHAT HAPPENED IN THE BOOK 00:04:24.79\00:04:28.90 OF DANIEL, WE'VE GOT TO CHOOSE: DO WE OBEY THE LAWS OF MAN OR 00:04:28.93\00:04:33.17 ARE WE GOING TO OBEY THE LAWS OF GOD? 00:04:33.20\00:04:35.70 AND IT'S GOING TO LOOK LIKE GOD'S PEOPLE ARE BEING 00:04:35.74\00:04:38.14 DESTROYED, BUT GOD WILL STEP IN AT THAT TIME. 00:04:38.17\00:04:41.64 NOW THIS IS DIFFERENT BECAUSE, YOU SEE, GOD HASN'T ALWAYS 00:04:41.68\00:04:44.55 STEPPED IN TO RESCUE WHEN HIS PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PERSECUTED. 00:04:44.58\00:04:47.98 IF YOU READ EARLIER IN REVELATION 13, WHERE IT TALKS 00:04:48.02\00:04:50.95 ABOUT THE BEAST POWER, IT SAYS, "IT WAS GIVEN HIM POWER TO MAKE 00:04:50.99\00:04:55.22 WAR AGAINST THE SAINTS AND OVERCOME THEM." 00:04:55.26\00:04:58.29 DURING THE DARK AGES, PEOPLE OF GOD ARE BEING PERSECUTED - IT 00:04:58.33\00:05:03.50 LOOKS LIKE THEY'VE LOST. YOU KNOW, THEY SAY WHAT MAKES 00:05:03.53\00:05:08.70 KIND OF A GREAT STORY: WHEN IT LOOKS LIKE THE GOOD GUY KEEPS 00:05:08.74\00:05:12.34 BEING OVERCOME AND THEN IN THE END HE FINALLY TRIUMPHS. 00:05:12.37\00:05:15.74 AND ONE REASON THE TRIUMPH, DURING THIS BATTLE, WAS SO GREAT 00:05:15.78\00:05:19.55 IS BECAUSE GOD'S PEOPLE HAVEN'T ALWAYS WON IN THIS BATTLE. 00:05:19.58\00:05:23.72 THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF TIMES WHERE IT LOOKED LIKE THE BEAST 00:05:23.75\00:05:25.75 WAS WINNING. BUT NOW THE TABLES ARE GOING 00:05:25.79\00:05:27.92 TO TURN AND SO YOU'VE GOT THIS PICTURE HERE WHERE THERE'S A WAR 00:05:27.96\00:05:31.93 BEING LAUNCHED, IN A SPECIAL WAY, TO GET ALL OF GOD'S PEOPLE 00:05:31.96\00:05:37.00 TO TURN FROM HIS COMMANDMENTS, OTHERWISE THEY'LL BE 00:05:37.03\00:05:40.24 ANNIHILATED. AND, AT THE KEY MOMENT, "I SAW 00:05:40.27\00:05:44.31 HEAVEN OPENED, AND BEHOLD A WHITE HORSE; AND HE THAT SAT 00:05:44.34\00:05:48.01 UPON HIM WAS CALLED FAITHFUL AND TRUE AND IN RIGHTEOUSNESS 00:05:48.04\00:05:51.65 HE DOTH JUDGE AND MAKE WAR. AND HE WAS CLOTHED WITH A ROBE 00:05:51.68\00:05:55.58 DIPPED IN BLOOD: AND HIS NAME IS CALLED THE WORD OF GOD. 00:05:55.62\00:05:58.69 AND THE ARMIES" - NOTICE THE CONTEXT IS ALL WAR - "THE ARMIES 00:05:58.72\00:06:02.22 WHICH WERE IN HEAVEN...ARE CLOTHED IN FINE LINEN, 00:06:02.26\00:06:04.76 WHITE AND CLEAN." WHAT DOES THAT WHITE AND CLEAN LINEN REPRESENT? 00:06:04.79\00:06:07.66 IT SAYS IT'S THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF SAINTS. 00:06:07.66\00:06:10.93 "AND OUT OF HIS MOUTH GOES A SHARP SWORD." 00:06:10.97\00:06:13.94 WHAT IS THAT MOUTH? THAT SWORD, I SHOULD 00:06:13.97\00:06:15.97 SAY, IN HIS MOUTH? "THE WORD OF GOD IS QUICK AND 00:06:16.00\00:06:19.37 POWERFUL AND SHARPER THAN ANY TWO-EDGED SWORD." 00:06:19.41\00:06:21.58 EPHESIANS SAYS, "AND THE WORD OF GOD, WHICH IS THE SWORD OF THE 00:06:21.61\00:06:24.88 SPIRIT" - AND SO, THAT WORD, AGAIN, IS THIS A SYMBOL? 00:06:24.91\00:06:28.75 IS JESUS REALLY COMING WITH A BIG DAGGER COMING OUT OF HIS 00:06:28.78\00:06:31.39 MOUTH? OR IT'S A PICTURE OF THE 00:06:31.42\00:06:32.59 WORD IN HIS MOUTH, RIGHT? AND HE, HIMSELF, WILL RULE THEM 00:06:32.62\00:06:36.36 WITH A ROD OF IRON AND HE TREADS THE WINEPRESS OF THE FIERCENESS 00:06:36.39\00:06:40.70 OF THE WRATH OF ALMIGHTY GOD." YOU EVER SUNG THAT SONG? 00:06:40.73\00:06:45.43 'MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY OF THE COMING OF THE LORD, HE IS 00:06:45.47\00:06:49.20 TRAMPLING OUT THE VINTAGE WHERE THE GRAPES OF WRATH ARE STORED.' 00:06:49.24\00:06:53.61 WHERE DO YOU THINK THAT VERSE COMES FROM? 00:06:53.64\00:06:55.04 RIGHT HERE. WHEN THE LORD COMES AND IT'S 00:06:55.08\00:06:57.55 TALKING ABOUT THE WINE OF THE WRATH OF GOD AND 00:06:57.58\00:06:59.35 TREADING THE WINEPRESS. "...AND ON HIS THIGH A NAME IS 00:06:59.38\00:07:02.92 WRITTEN: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS." 00:07:02.95\00:07:05.69 SO JESUS, IT'S LOOKING LIKE THE DEATH DECREE IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN 00:07:05.72\00:07:09.56 AND ALL THE SAINTS ARE ABOUT TO BE DESTROYED. 00:07:09.59\00:07:11.86 AND IT'S ONE OF THE GREAT TURNING POINTS IN HISTORY, WHEN 00:07:11.89\00:07:15.26 YOU THINK THEY'RE OUTNUMBERED AND THE RIDER ON THE WHITE HORSE 00:07:15.30\00:07:18.63 COMES. NOTICE, REVELATION 19:19, 00:07:18.67\00:07:22.50 "AND...THE BEAST, THE KINGS OF THE EARTH, AND THEIR ARMIES, 00:07:22.54\00:07:26.34 GATHERED TOGETHER TO MAKE WAR AGAINST HIM WHO SAT ON THE 00:07:26.37\00:07:30.11 HORSE" - SO THEY SEE THE ONE ON THE HORSE. 00:07:30.15\00:07:32.71 SO, WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT JESUS COMING ON A HORSE AND HIS 00:07:32.75\00:07:36.05 SOLDIERS ON HORSES AND THE DEVIL IS MAKING WAR AGAINST THOSE THAT 00:07:36.08\00:07:39.75 ARE ON THE HORSE, IT'S REALLY A DESCRIPTION OF THE FINAL BATTLE 00:07:39.79\00:07:43.89 JUST BEFORE CHRIST COMES AND IT CULMINATES WITH THE SKY 00:07:43.93\00:07:48.00 SPLITTING. WHAT IS OUR WEAPON IN THAT BATTLE? IT'S THE SWORD 00:07:48.03\00:07:52.60 COMING OUT OF HIS MOUTH - IT'S THE WORD OF GOD IS OUR WEAPON. 00:07:52.63\00:07:57.27 IT'S THE WORD - THE SWORD THAT WOUNDED THE BEAST. 00:07:57.31\00:08:00.78 AND AT THIS TIME, WHEN THE LORD DESCENDS FROM HEAVEN HE SAID, 00:08:00.81\00:08:05.35 'BEHOLD I COME AS A THIEF.' 2 PETER CHAPTER 3. 00:08:05.38\00:08:08.85 FINALLY, THE LORD BREAKS OUT OF THE HEAVENS, IT SAYS, 'THE DAY 00:08:08.88\00:08:12.12 OF THE LORD WILL COME AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT IN WHICH THE 00:08:12.15\00:08:14.36 HEAVENS PASS AWAY WITH A GREAT NOISE AND THE ELEMENTS MELT WITH 00:08:14.39\00:08:17.56 FERVENT HEAT AND THE EARTH AND THE THINGS THAT ARE IN IT WILL 00:08:17.59\00:08:20.50 BE BURNT UP. SINCE ALL THESE THINGS WILL BE 00:08:20.53\00:08:24.23 DISSOLVED, WHAT MANNER OF PEOPLE OUGHT WE BE IN ALL HOLY 00:08:24.27\00:08:27.00 CONVERSATION AND GODLINESS, LOOKING FOR AND HASTENING THE 00:08:27.04\00:08:29.70 DAY OF GOD.' ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE IT TALKS ABOUT 00:08:29.74\00:08:32.04 THE DAY OF GOD. THIS IS IT. 00:08:32.07\00:08:34.31 AT THAT CRUCIAL MOMENT WHEN IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE GOING TO BE 00:08:34.34\00:08:36.51 DESTROYED, JESUS COMES THROUGH THE CLOUDS. 00:08:36.54\00:08:39.71 THE BIBLE SAYS, "...AND THE DEAD IN CHRIST SHALL RISE FIRST:" - 00:08:39.75\00:08:43.25 THERE ARE TWO RESURRECTIONS. I REMEMBER IT SURPRISED 00:08:43.28\00:08:46.29 ME WHEN I HEARD THAT. I THOUGHT WHEN THE LORD 00:08:46.32\00:08:48.09 COMES, EVERYBODY'S RAISED. NO, NO. 00:08:48.12\00:08:51.16 JESUS SAID, "FOR THE HOUR IS COMING IN WHICH ALL WHO ARE IN 00:08:51.19\00:08:54.20 THE GRAVES WILL HEAR HIS VOICE - THEY THAT HAVE 00:08:54.23\00:08:56.67 DONE GOOD, TO THE RESURRECTION OF LIFE, AND THEY THAT HAVE DONE 00:08:56.70\00:09:00.44 EVIL, THE RESURRECTION OF CONDEMNATION." 00:09:00.47\00:09:03.20 TWO DIFFERENT RESURRECTIONS. 00:09:03.24\00:09:04.71 EVEN IF YOU READ IN DANIEL 12, IT SEPARATES THE TWO. 00:09:04.74\00:09:08.44 IT SAYS, 'MANY THAT SLEEP IN THE DUST OF THE EARTH SHALL AWAKE. 00:09:08.48\00:09:11.21 SOME TO EVERLASTING LIFE, SOME TO SHAME AND EVERLASTING 00:09:11.25\00:09:14.32 CONDEMNATION.' AND SO, THE VERY FACT IT SAYS, IN 1 THESSALONIANS 00:09:14.35\00:09:18.82 4, THE DEAD IN CHRIST RISE FIRST, WHAT DOES THAT IMPLY? 00:09:18.85\00:09:22.06 WHEREVER YOU'VE GOT THE FIRST OF SOMETHING, WHY BOTHER SAYING 00:09:22.09\00:09:26.13 FIRST UNLESS THERE'S GOING TO BE A WHAT? 00:09:26.16\00:09:27.86 >>SECOND. >>A SECOND. 00:09:27.93\00:09:30.30 >>DON'T GO ANYWHERE, FRIENDS, WE'LL BE BACK IN JUST A MOMENT 00:09:30.33\00:09:32.90 WITH THE REST OF TODAY'S PRESENTATION. 00:09:32.93\00:09:35.50 >>HAVE YOU READ WHAT THE BIBLE ACTUALLY SAYS ABOUT THE LAST-DAY 00:09:35.54\00:09:38.21 EVENTS? ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE SIGNS 00:09:38.24\00:09:40.71 OF THE SECOND COMING, LAST PLAGUES, AND FINAL JUDGMENT? 00:09:40.74\00:09:44.68 ANYONE WHO'S EVEN GLANCING AT THE HEADLINES TODAY PROBABLY 00:09:44.71\00:09:48.75 WONDERS IF OUR WORLD IS PLUNGING TOWARD ARMAGEDDON. 00:09:48.78\00:09:52.15 BUT I WANT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT EVEN IN THE FACE OF ALL THAT'S 00:09:52.19\00:09:55.36 HAPPENING, YOU CAN STILL LIVE WITH PEACE AND ASSURANCE FOR 00:09:55.39\00:09:58.93 YOUR FUTURE. WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW HOW? 00:09:58.96\00:10:01.13 AMAZING FACTS WANTS TO SHARE WITH YOU THE FINAL EVENTS OF 00:10:01.16\00:10:04.90 PROPHECY MAGAZINE. IT FEATURES 32 PAGES OF 00:10:04.93\00:10:08.34 CAPTIVATING, COLORFUL, AND BIBLICALLY ACCURATE INFORMATION. 00:10:08.37\00:10:12.74 THIS ONE-OF-A-KIND SHARING RESOURCE COVERS THE SEVEN KEY 00:10:12.77\00:10:16.21 EVENTS OF THE LAST DAYS AND IT UNVEILS THE ASTONISHING 00:10:16.24\00:10:19.61 PREDICTIONS ABOUT OUR PLANET'S FINAL DAYS AND HOW YOU CAN BE 00:10:19.65\00:10:23.02 READY FOR THEM. TO GET YOUR FREE COPY, CALL THE 00:10:23.05\00:10:26.05 PHONE NUMBER ON THE SCREEN AND ASK FOR OFFER #856 OR 00:10:26.09\00:10:30.46 VISIT THE WEB ADDRESS. AND AFTER YOU READ THIS 00:10:30.49\00:10:32.89 INCREDIBLE RESOURCE, BE SURE AND SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND. 00:10:32.93\00:10:36.13 LET'S RETURN NOW TO TODAY'S PRESENTATION AND LEARN SOME MORE 00:10:36.16\00:10:39.13 AMAZING FACTS FROM THE WORD OF GOD. 00:10:39.17\00:10:43.64 >>THE REST OF THE DEAD DO NOT LIVE UNTIL THE THOUSAND YEARS 00:10:43.67\00:10:47.98 ARE FINISHED. SO THERE'S A SEPARATION BETWEEN 00:10:48.01\00:10:51.25 THESE TWO RESURRECTIONS OF THE JUST AND OF THE DEAD. 00:10:51.28\00:10:54.42 AND SO, WHEN THE LORD COMES, WHAT HAPPENS TO THE RIGHTEOUS 00:10:54.45\00:10:57.69 WHO ARE DEAD? THEY'RE RESURRECTED AND GIVEN 00:10:57.72\00:11:01.39 GLORIFIED BODIES. WHAT IF YOU'RE ALIVE WHEN THE LORD COMES? 00:11:01.42\00:11:04.86 THOSE OF US THAT ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN WILL BE CHANGED OR 00:11:04.89\00:11:09.13 TRANSFORMED IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE. 00:11:09.16\00:11:11.23 WE ARE GIVEN GLORIFIED BODIES AND THEN WE ARE CAUGHT UP TO 00:11:11.27\00:11:13.40 MEET THEM IN THE AIR. AND SO, ALL OF THE GOOD LEAVE 00:11:13.44\00:11:17.11 THE PLANET. WHAT HAPPENS TO THE WICKED? IT SAYS THE WICKED ARE 00:11:17.14\00:11:20.94 DESTROYED BY THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING. THIS IS THE FIRST 00:11:20.98\00:11:23.81 PART OF THE BATTLE, BUT THAT'S NOT THE END OF IT. 00:11:23.85\00:11:26.35 AND THEN, AT THAT POINT, YOU CAN READ IN REVELATION 20, VERSE 1, 00:11:26.38\00:11:31.95 "I SAW AN ANGEL COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN, HAVING THE KEY TO THE 00:11:31.99\00:11:35.16 BOTTOMLESS PIT AND A GREAT CHAIN IN HIS HAND. 00:11:35.19\00:11:38.73 HE LAID HOLD OF THE DRAGON, THAT SERPENT OF OLD, WHO IS THE DEVIL 00:11:38.76\00:11:42.83 AND SATAN, AND BOUND HIM FOR A THOUSAND YEARS;" - AND IT SAYS, 00:11:42.86\00:11:47.50 "AND HE CAST HIM INTO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT, AND SHUT HIM UP, 00:11:47.54\00:11:51.24 AND SET A SEAL ON HIM" - YOU KNOW, THE DEVIL USUALLY PUT 00:11:51.27\00:11:54.04 JESUS IN THE TOMB AND SEALED HIM. 00:11:54.08\00:11:55.74 WELL, NOW THE DEVIL'S GOING TO FEEL - FIND OUT HOW THAT FEELS. 00:11:55.78\00:11:58.65 HE'S PUT IN THE PIT AND HE'S SEALED - "SO THAT HE SHOULD 00:11:58.68\00:12:01.08 DECEIVE THE NATIONS NO MORE TILL THE THOUSAND YEARS WERE 00:12:01.12\00:12:03.79 FINISHED. BUT AFTER THESE THINGS HE MUST 00:12:03.82\00:12:05.95 BE RELEASED FOR A LITTLE WHILE." NOW, DOES THAT BOTHER YOU? 00:12:05.99\00:12:09.46 YOU THINK THAT WOULD BE GOOD ENOUGH TO THROW HIM IN THE PIT 00:12:09.49\00:12:11.83 AND LEAVE HIM THERE, BUT IT SAYS HE'S GOING TO BE RELEASED FROM 00:12:11.86\00:12:14.50 HIS PIT. NOW, THIS IDEA OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT WHERE SATAN IS 00:12:14.56\00:12:19.93 BOUND AT THE BEGINNING OF THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON, IS - IT 00:12:19.97\00:12:25.14 CONFUSES PEOPLE. THAT IS A WORD - THE WORD IS ABUSSOS - IT'S A 00:12:25.17\00:12:29.81 GREEK WORD YOU FIND OTHER PLACES - YOU FIND IT IN LUKE CHAPTER 8 00:12:29.84\00:12:33.11 WHEN THE DEVIL SAID TO JESUS, 'DO NOT CAST US OUT INTO THE 00:12:33.15\00:12:35.88 DEEP. THAT VERY WORD THERE IS 'BOTTOMLESS PIT'. 00:12:35.92\00:12:39.12 IT MEANS, 'DON'T CAST US INTO THE NOTHINGNESS WHERE WE HAVE 00:12:39.15\00:12:41.66 NOBODY TO POSSESS AND MANIPULATE. IF YOU'RE GOING TO 00:12:41.69\00:12:45.53 CAST US OUT OF THE MAN, THEN LET US POSSESS THE PIGS. 00:12:45.56\00:12:49.03 CAST US INTO THIS HERD OF SWINE, BUT DON'T CAST US INTO THE 00:12:49.06\00:12:51.33 ABUSSOS.' THAT WORD IS THE SAME WORD YOU FIND IN REVELATION 20. 00:12:51.37\00:12:56.34 WHY THE TRANSLATORS PICKED 'BOTTOMLESS PIT' THERE - I JUST 00:12:56.37\00:13:00.41 FIGURED THE KING JAMES TRANSLATORS WERE GETTING TO THE 00:13:00.44\00:13:02.41 END OF THE BIBLE AND THEY WANTED TO LEAVE THEIR MARK AND 00:13:02.44\00:13:05.05 SAY SOMETHING COLORFUL AND SO THEY CAME UP WITH BOTTOMLESS 00:13:05.08\00:13:07.98 PIT. BUT HE'S CAST INTO THE 00:13:08.02\00:13:10.32 EMPTINESS, THE VOID, THE NOTHINGNESS. 00:13:10.35\00:13:13.32 NOW WHY ARE - WHAT IS THAT BOTTOMLESS PIT AND WHERE IS 00:13:13.36\00:13:16.83 SATAN BOUND DURING THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS? 00:13:16.86\00:13:20.03 WELL, YOU CAN READ A FEW VERSES ABOUT THAT. 00:13:20.06\00:13:22.26 LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN JEREMIAH CHAPTER 25, "...THE SLAIN OF THE 00:13:22.30\00:13:27.50 LORD SHALL BE IN THAT DAY FROM ONE END OF THE EARTH EVEN UNTO 00:13:27.54\00:13:31.07 THE OTHER. THEY SHALL NOT BE LAMENTED 00:13:31.11\00:13:34.04 NOR GATHERED, NOR BURIED." WHY NOT? 00:13:34.08\00:13:36.34 THE RIGHTEOUS ARE ALL GONE. THE WICKED ARE DESTROYED. 00:13:36.38\00:13:40.18 WHO'S THERE TO BURY THEM? WHO'S THERE TO MOURN THEM? 00:13:40.22\00:13:44.22 YOU CAN READ IN ISAIAH 24, "BEHOLD, THE LORD MAKES THE 00:13:44.25\00:13:47.19 EARTH EMPTY." WHAT DOES HE MAKE EMPTY? 00:13:47.22\00:13:49.69 >>THE EARTH. >>"AND MAKES IT WASTE, HE TURNS 00:13:49.72\00:13:51.89 IT UPSIDE DOWN. THE EARTH IS UTTERLY BROKEN DOWN." 00:13:51.93\00:13:56.06 JEREMIAH 4, VERSE 23, "I BEHELD THE EARTH, AND, LO, IT WAS 00:13:56.10\00:13:59.60 WITHOUT FROM, AND VOID;" - NOW IF I STOP RIGHT THERE - WITHOUT 00:13:59.63\00:14:03.10 FORM AND VOID - WHAT PICTURE DO YOU SEE? 00:14:03.14\00:14:04.87 >>CREATION. >>GENESIS, RIGHT? 00:14:04.91\00:14:07.28 AND YOU THINK, GOING BACK, HE'S HAVING A FLASHBACK OF GENESIS - 00:14:07.31\00:14:10.05 NO, HE'S HAVING A FLASH FORWARD. KEEP WATCHING. 00:14:10.08\00:14:13.78 "AND THE HEAVENS, AND THEY HAD NO LIGHT. 00:14:13.82\00:14:16.72 I BEHELD THE MOUNTAINS AND, INDEED, THEY TREMBLED AND THE 00:14:16.75\00:14:20.19 HILLS MOVED BACK AND FORTH. I BEHELD, AND, INDEED, THERE WAS 00:14:20.22\00:14:23.16 NO MAN, AND ALL THE BIRDS OF THE HEAVENS HAD FLED." 00:14:23.19\00:14:27.10 - THAT MEANS THEY WERE THERE BUT THEY'RE GONE - "I BEHELD...THE 00:14:27.13\00:14:29.23 FRUITFUL PLACE" - WHAT WAS ONCE FRUITFUL - "IS A WILDERNESS AND 00:14:29.26\00:14:32.63 ALL THE CITIES ARE BROKEN DOWN." 00:14:32.67\00:14:35.20 WELL, WHAT CAUSED THIS CONDITION WHERE THERE IS NO MAN AND THE 00:14:35.24\00:14:37.67 BIRDS ARE GONE AND THE CITIES ARE BROKEN DOWN? 00:14:37.71\00:14:39.81 "AT THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD AND BY HIS FIERCE ANGER." 00:14:39.84\00:14:43.78 SO, FROM THE DAY OF THE LORD, AND WHEN THE LORD COMES AND HIS 00:14:43.81\00:14:47.02 WRATH IS POURED OUT ON THE WICKED, THE EARTH IS EMPTY. 00:14:47.05\00:14:50.55 IT IS CALLED A VOID. NOW, YOU KNOW WHAT THAT WORD IS THERE? 00:14:50.59\00:14:53.62 THERE'S A GREEK VERSION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT - IT'S VERY 00:14:53.66\00:14:55.76 ANCIENT - AND IT GOES BACK BEFORE CHRIST. 00:14:55.79\00:14:58.66 IT'S CALLED THE SEPTUAGINT AND IN THE GREEK IT SAYS, "I BEHELD 00:14:58.69\00:15:03.03 THE EARTH AND INDEED IT WAS WITHOUT FORM AND IT WAS 00:15:03.06\00:15:05.43 ABUSSOS." SO, SATAN HAS BEEN CONFINED TO THIS WORLD. 00:15:05.47\00:15:10.64 HE CALLS HIMSELF THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD. 00:15:10.67\00:15:11.87 AFTER THE RIGHTEOUS ARE CAUGHT UP AND THE DEAD ARE RAISED AND 00:15:11.91\00:15:16.38 WE TO GO THE PLACES CHRIST HAS PREPARED, SATAN IS BOUND ON THIS 00:15:16.41\00:15:21.85 PLANET WITH HIS FALLEN ANGELS. FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS THEY MUST 00:15:21.88\00:15:26.39 WANDER IN THE DARKNESS TO BEHOLD THE RESULTS OF THEIR REBELLION. 00:15:26.42\00:15:31.69 SATAN SAID, 'I COULD MAKE A BETTER GOD THAN GOD. 00:15:31.73\00:15:34.30 IF I WAS IN CHARGE OF THIS WORLD I COULD DO A BETTER JOB.' HE'S 00:15:34.36\00:15:36.97 GOING TO LOOK AT THE RESULT OF HIS PHILOSOPHY FOR A THOUSAND 00:15:37.00\00:15:39.70 YEARS. AND SO, HERE YOU'VE GOT WHAT'S 00:15:39.73\00:15:42.87 HAPPENING DURING THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS, BUT IT SAID HE 00:15:42.90\00:15:46.74 WAS CAST IN THE BOTTOMLESS PIT, BUT HE WILL BE 00:15:46.78\00:15:50.08 LOOSED FOR A SEASON. SO WHEN DOES THAT HAPPEN? 00:15:50.11\00:15:54.02 GO TO REVELATION 20, VERSE 5 - WE JUST READ - "BUT THE REST OF 00:15:54.05\00:15:58.19 THE DEAD DID NOT LIVE AGAIN UNTIL THE THOUSAND YEARS WERE 00:15:58.22\00:16:01.42 FINISHED." NOW, IF ALL THE RIGHTEOUS OF THE 00:16:01.46\00:16:03.06 DEAD IN CHRIST RISE FIRST, WHO ARE THE REST OF THE DEAD? 00:16:03.09\00:16:05.76 IT SAYS THEY'RE LIKE THE SAND OF THE SEA. 00:16:05.79\00:16:08.36 HOW MANY PEOPLE IN THE WORLD NOW? 00:16:08.40\00:16:10.13 7.8 BILLION - AND YOU WONDER HOW MANY PEOPLE LIVED IN THE DAYS OF 00:16:10.17\00:16:15.40 NOAH BEFORE FLOOD - IT COULD HAVE BEEN A BILLION. 00:16:15.44\00:16:17.87 IF YOU DO THE MATH, THEY LIVED HUNDREDS OF YEARS - HOW MANY 00:16:17.91\00:16:21.64 PEOPLE HAVE EVER LIVED? IT SAYS THEY COVERED THE EARTH. 00:16:21.68\00:16:25.48 IF THEY WERE ALL ALIVE AT ONE TIME, THAT'S A PRETTY 00:16:25.51\00:16:28.35 SUBSTANTIAL GROUP. NOW SATAN, THOUGH DIMINISHED, HE 00:16:28.38\00:16:32.62 STILL LOOKS LIKE A GREAT ANGEL. AND YOU KNOW WHAT HE SAYS? 00:16:32.65\00:16:36.86 'YOU SEE THIS CITY? THAT'S MINE.' I'VE LEFT OUT AN 00:16:36.89\00:16:40.33 IMPORTANT POINT: AT THE END OF THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS, NOT ONLY 00:16:40.36\00:16:44.50 IS THERE A RESURRECTION OF THE WICKED, IT SAYS AT THE END OF 00:16:44.53\00:16:47.60 THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS THE NEW JERUSALEM DESCENDS 00:16:47.64\00:16:50.54 FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN. AND, IF YOU READ IN ZECHARIAH 00:16:50.57\00:16:53.68 CHAPTER 14, IT SAYS IT WILL COME TO PASS IN THAT DAY THAT THE 00:16:53.71\00:16:57.65 LORD'S FEET WILL TOUCH THE MOUNT OF OLIVES AND THERE'LL BE A 00:16:57.68\00:17:01.62 GREAT EARTHQUAKE AND IT WILL FORM A GREAT VALLEY. 00:17:01.65\00:17:04.75 NOW THAT GREAT VALLEY IS LIKE 375 MILES SQUARE AND THE NEW 00:17:04.79\00:17:09.12 JERUSALEM ENDS UP SITTING DOWN IN THAT VALLEY. 00:17:09.16\00:17:12.66 I DON'T WANT TO BELABOR THIS, BUT THIS IS AN IMPORTANT POINT 00:17:12.69\00:17:15.16 I DON'T WANT YOU TO MISS. GOD MADE A PROMISE TO ABRAHAM. 00:17:15.20\00:17:19.10 WHAT DID GOD PROMISE ABRAHAM? THAT YOU WOULD GET 00:17:19.13\00:17:22.40 A CERTAIN TERRITORY. BUT THE BIBLE SAYS THAT ABRAHAM 00:17:22.44\00:17:25.87 LIVED IN A TENT, BECAUSE HE LOOKED FOR A CITY THAT HAD 00:17:25.91\00:17:28.51 FOUNDATIONS, WHOSE BUILDER AND MAKER IS GOD. WHEN DOES ABRAHAM 00:17:28.54\00:17:32.38 FINALLY INHERIT EVERYTHING GOD PROMISED? DO YOU KNOW THE 00:17:32.41\00:17:36.89 BORDERS OF THE NEW JERUSALEM WILL BE SO BIG THEY WILL 00:17:36.92\00:17:39.49 COMPLETELY ENCOMPASS THE TERRITORY THAT GOD PROMISED 00:17:39.52\00:17:42.22 ABRAHAM? EVERYTHING THAT GOD PROMISED ABRAHAM WILL BE WITHIN 00:17:42.26\00:17:45.59 THE BORDERS OF THAT CITY, BECAUSE IT SAYS THE NEW 00:17:45.63\00:17:48.10 JERUSALEM SETS DOWN - YOU FIGURE ITS EPICENTER IS 00:17:48.13\00:17:51.57 NEAR THE MOUNT OF OLIVES - IT SETS DOWN IN THIS GREAT VALLEY 00:17:51.60\00:17:55.57 THAT'S BEEN FORMED BY THE LORD'S FEET TOUCHING THE MOUNTAIN. 00:17:55.60\00:17:59.37 SO, WHEN THE NEW JERUSALEM COMES DOWN, WHO'S IN THE NEW 00:17:59.41\00:18:02.28 JERUSALEM? YOU READ ABOUT THIS IN REVELATION CHAPTER 21. 00:18:02.31\00:18:07.65 ALL THE SAVED WHO EVER LIVED ARE IN THE NEW JERUSALEM. 00:18:07.68\00:18:11.32 ALL THE LOST WHO EVER LIVED ARE OUTSIDE. 00:18:11.35\00:18:14.46 ALL OF THE GOOD ANGELS ARE ON THE INSIDE. 00:18:14.49\00:18:17.39 ALL OF THE BAD ANGELS ARE ON THE OUTSIDE. 00:18:17.43\00:18:21.16 CHRIST IS ON THE INSIDE. SATAN IS ON THE OUTSIDE. 00:18:21.20\00:18:25.63 HERE YOU HAVE A PICTURE WHERE EVERYBODY'S WHO'S EVER LIVED IN 00:18:25.67\00:18:28.77 THIS WORLD IS GOING TO BE ALIVE ON EARTH AT THE SAME TIME, WHICH 00:18:28.80\00:18:32.67 MEANS - I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE VISITING TODAY, BUT WE WILL ALL 00:18:32.71\00:18:36.98 MEET AGAIN SOMEDAY. WE ALL HOPE WE'RE ON THE 00:18:37.01\00:18:40.62 INSIDE OF THE CITY, RIGHT? >>RIGHT. 00:18:40.65\00:18:43.35 >>THAT'S WHAT REVELATION IS TELLING US IS GOING TO HAPPEN. 00:18:43.39\00:18:46.19 SO, SATAN SEES THE CITY AND HE SEES ALL THE RIGHTEOUS IN THE 00:18:46.22\00:18:50.09 CITY, HE REALIZES WHAT HE'S LOST, AND NOW HE SEES HIS ARMY 00:18:50.13\00:18:53.03 AND SATAN TRIES TO INSPIRE AND INFUSE HIM WITH HIS OWN SPIRIT 00:18:53.06\00:18:57.67 AND HE SAYS, 'THAT'S OUR CITY! I AM THE PRINCE! 00:18:57.70\00:18:59.93 I'M THE KING! HE TOOK IT FROM ME WRONGFULLY! 00:19:00.04\00:19:01.87 WE CAN TAKE IT! LOOK HOW MANY OF US THERE ARE. 00:19:01.90\00:19:05.14 WE'VE GOT THEM OUTNUMBERED A HUNDRED TO ONE.' I MADE THAT UP. 00:19:05.17\00:19:08.78 I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S A HUNDRED TO ONE, BUT IT'S GOING TO BE - 00:19:08.81\00:19:11.41 WE FIGURE THERE'S MORE OUTSIDE THE CITY THAN INSIDE, RIGHT? 00:19:11.45\00:19:14.68 >>RIGHT. >>NARROW IS THE WAY THAT LEADS 00:19:14.72\00:19:16.52 TO LIFE AND FEW THERE BE THAT FIND IT, UNFORTUNATELY. 00:19:16.55\00:19:19.82 BUT THERE'S A PERIOD OF TIME WHERE SATAN GATHERS ALL THE 00:19:19.85\00:19:22.72 WICKED AND THEY FORM WEAPONS OF DESTRUCTION. 00:19:22.76\00:19:26.03 THERE MUST BE ENOUGH HAPPENING ON THE EARTH WHERE THEY CAN USE 00:19:26.06\00:19:28.70 SOME RESOURCES AND THEY TRY TO LAUNCH THIS BATTLE WITH - 00:19:28.73\00:19:33.17 THEY'RE USING NUCLEAR WEAPONS - NOTHING'LL WORK ON GOD SO IT 00:19:33.20\00:19:35.90 DOESN'T MATTER - BUT THEY TRY TO LAUNCH THIS BATTLE AND TAKE IT 00:19:35.94\00:19:39.37 BY FORCE, SHOWING THAT THEY HAVEN'T CHANGED. 00:19:39.41\00:19:43.85 AND JUST WHEN THEY'RE READY TO SAY, 'READY, AIM, FIRE!' 00:19:43.88\00:19:48.05 'CHARGE!' - IT TELLS US THAT SOMETHING 00:19:48.08\00:19:52.09 INTERRUPTS THEIR PLAN. SUDDENLY, ABOVE THE CITY, A 00:19:52.12\00:19:55.52 LIGHT BEGINS TO SHINE AND THE GLORY OF GOD APPEARS. 00:19:55.56\00:19:59.59 "AND I SAW A GREAT WHITE THRONE, AND HIM THAT SAT ON IT, FROM 00:19:59.63\00:20:04.03 WHOSE FACE THE EARTH AND THE HEAVEN FLED AWAY;" - YOU KNOW, 00:20:04.07\00:20:08.47 THE WICKED CANNOT ENDURE THE FACE OF GOD - 00:20:08.50\00:20:11.01 "AND THERE WAS FOUND NO PLACE FOR THEM. 00:20:11.04\00:20:13.54 AND I SAW THE DEAD, SMALL AND GREAT, STAND BEFORE GOD; AND THE 00:20:13.58\00:20:17.08 BOOKS WERE OPENED: AND ANOTHER BOOK WAS OPENED, WHICH IS THE 00:20:17.11\00:20:20.22 BOOK OF LIFE: AND THE DEAD WERE JUDGED...ACCORDING TO THEIR 00:20:20.25\00:20:23.82 WORKS." - BY THE THINGS THAT WERE 00:20:23.85\00:20:26.29 WRITTEN IN THE BOOKS - "AND THE SEA GAVE UP THE DEAD THAT WERE 00:20:26.32\00:20:30.03 IN IT; AND DEATH AND THE GRAVE GAVE UP THE DEAD WHICH WERE IN 00:20:30.06\00:20:32.86 THEM: AND THEY WERE JUDGED EACH ONE ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS." 00:20:32.89\00:20:36.87 SO THERE IS THIS GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT. 00:20:36.90\00:20:40.14 WHEN CHRIST STANDS ABOVE THE CITY, HE WILL MAKE EVERY 00:20:40.17\00:20:42.47 PERSON'S LIFE PASS BEFORE THEM. HOW LONG THIS WILL TAKE, I DON'T 00:20:42.50\00:20:47.04 KNOW, BUT I THINK THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF INTERACTION 00:20:47.08\00:20:50.45 THAT GOES ON DURING THAT TIME. FIRST OF ALL, THERE'S GOING TO 00:20:50.48\00:20:52.68 BE FAMILY MEMBERS THAT SEE EACH OTHER. 00:20:52.71\00:20:54.65 WE'RE GOING TO HAVE DISCERNMENT WHERE WE'RE GOING TO SEE PEOPLE 00:20:54.68\00:20:56.58 THAT MAYBE ARE IN THE CITY THAT ARE SAVED THAT TRIED TO TELL US 00:20:56.62\00:21:00.49 AND WE DIDN'T LISTEN. WE'RE GOING TO SEE PEOPLE THAT 00:21:00.52\00:21:04.83 ARE MAYBE OUTSIDE THE CITY AND THEY THINK, 'YOU 00:21:04.86\00:21:08.33 KNEW THESE THINGS! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?' 00:21:08.36\00:21:10.57 I'M JUST TELLING YOU I WANT TO BE IN THE CITY. 00:21:10.60\00:21:12.73 I'M JUST SAYING THAT PEOPLE ALL AROUND, DURING THE JUDGMENT, ARE 00:21:12.77\00:21:15.17 GOING TO BE HAVING SOME TERRIBLE EMOTIONS. 00:21:15.20\00:21:17.94 THEIR LIVES WILL BE MADE TO PASS BEFORE THEM. 00:21:17.97\00:21:20.58 THEY'LL SEE ALL THE TIMES OVER THE COURSE OF THEIR LIVES THAT 00:21:20.61\00:21:23.55 THE LORD PLEADED WITH THEM TO TURN FROM THEIR SINS - TO DO IT 00:21:23.58\00:21:28.12 NOW - THEY KEPT PUTTING IT OFF. THAT'S THE MOST FAMOUS THING - 00:21:28.15\00:21:31.52 PROCRASTINATION - DON'T DO IT NOW - EVENTUALLY. 00:21:31.55\00:21:34.26 DON'T FULLY SURRENDER AND REPENT AND TURN NOW. 00:21:34.29\00:21:37.93 AND THEY'RE GOING TO SEE THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST. 00:21:37.96\00:21:40.76 THEY'RE GOING TO SEE THE BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL. 00:21:40.80\00:21:42.66 THEY'RE GOING TO SEE JESUS SUFFERING FOR THEM AND REALIZE 00:21:42.70\00:21:45.93 THAT GOD, HIMSELF, SUFFERED TO SAVE THEM AND THEY COUNTED IT AS 00:21:45.97\00:21:49.00 AN UNCLEAN THING. AND EVERY PERSON IS GOING TO 00:21:49.04\00:21:52.77 HAVE A PANORAMA PASS BEFORE THEM AND THIS JUDGMENT WILL TRANSPIRE 00:21:52.81\00:21:56.44 AND IT IS GOING TO BE A VERY SOBERING TIME. 00:21:56.48\00:22:00.35 HAVE YOU HEARD THE PARABLE WHERE JESUS TALKS ABOUT SEPARATING THE 00:22:00.38\00:22:03.08 SHEEP AND THE GOATS? THIS IS THAT MOMENT WHEN YOU'VE 00:22:03.12\00:22:07.02 GOT ALL THE SAVED ARE THERE AND ALL THE WICKED ARE LOST. 00:22:07.06\00:22:12.33 AND SO, AFTER THIS WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT EVENTUALLY EVERY KNEE 00:22:12.36\00:22:18.67 WILL BOW. HAVE YOU READ WHERE PAUL SAYS 00:22:18.70\00:22:20.54 THAT EVERY TONGUE WILL CONFESS AND EVERY KNEE WILL BOW 00:22:20.57\00:22:23.54 DECLARING THAT JESUS IS LORD. EVEN SATAN, AT SOME POINT, IS 00:22:23.57\00:22:27.94 GOING TO GET DOWN ON HIS KNEES BEFORE GOD. 00:22:27.98\00:22:30.15 THE DEVIL WHO SAID, 'CHRIST, IF YOU WORSHIP ME I'LL GIVE YOU THE 00:22:30.18\00:22:32.71 WORLD - IF YOU WOULD JUST BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP ME.' AND SATAN 00:22:32.75\00:22:35.45 IS NOW GOING TO HAVE TO BOW DOWN TO GOD. 00:22:35.48\00:22:37.55 >>AMEN. >>AND, FINALLY, YOU'VE GOT 00:22:37.59\00:22:41.26 THE GREAT WHITE THRONE. I REMEMBER GOING TO GERMANY 00:22:41.29\00:22:44.49 ONE YEAR AND THEY TOOK US TO NUREMBERG. 00:22:44.53\00:22:47.76 AND NUREMBERG IS FAMOUS FOR THE NUREMBERG TRIALS. 00:22:47.76\00:22:50.60 AFTER WORLD WAR II, ALL OF THE CULPRITS INVOLVED IN THAT HAD TO 00:22:50.63\00:22:53.90 BE TRIED AND THEY WERE JUDGED AND MANY WERE HANGED FOR THEIR 00:22:53.94\00:22:56.24 WAR CRIMES. SATAN IS GOING TO PAY FOR HIS WAR CRIMES. 00:22:56.27\00:23:01.88 THERE'S GOING TO BE A FINAL JUDGMENT AT THAT TIME. 00:23:01.91\00:23:05.68 IT SAYS THAT HE IS CAST OUT. LET ME LOOK HERE - JOEL CHAPTER 00:23:05.71\00:23:11.02 3, VERSE 2, "I WILL GATHER ALL NATIONS, AND BRING THEM DOWN TO 00:23:11.05\00:23:16.36 THE VALLEY OF JEHOSHAPHAT, AND I WILL ENTER INTO JUDGMENT WITH 00:23:16.39\00:23:19.69 THEM THERE ON ACCOUNT OF MY PEOPLE AND MY HERITAGE ISRAEL, 00:23:19.73\00:23:23.60 WHOM THEY HAVE SCATTERED AMONG THE NATIONS." 00:23:23.63\00:23:26.30 AND THEN, FINALLY, AFTER GOD RAINS HAIL AND FIRE DOWN UPON 00:23:26.33\00:23:30.27 THE WICKED - YOU KNOW, FIRE PURIFIES. I HEARD - SOMEONE SENT 00:23:30.31\00:23:34.94 ME AN AMAZING FACT THIS WEEK THAT THERE WAS A TERRIBLE 00:23:34.98\00:23:38.28 BUBONIC PLAGUE THAT HAD SEVERAL PLAGUES THAT HAD BROKE OUT IN 00:23:38.31\00:23:40.65 ENGLAND AND THEY HAD TROUBLE CONTROLLING IT. 00:23:40.68\00:23:44.95 BUT ENGLAND WAS FULL - LONDON WAS FULL OF TENEMENTS AT THAT 00:23:44.99\00:23:48.12 TIME AND THEY HAD SOMETHING CALLED THE GREAT LONDON FIRE. 00:23:48.16\00:23:52.46 I HADN'T HEARD ABOUT THAT, BUT IT WAS LIKE A QUARTER OF LONDON 00:23:52.49\00:23:54.56 BURNED - IT'S LIKE YOU'VE HEARD OF ROME BURNING? 00:23:54.60\00:23:56.80 BUT LONDON BURNING DESTROYED THE BUBONIC PLAGUE BECAUSE IT KILLED 00:23:56.83\00:24:00.24 ALL THE RATS. SO GOD IS HAILING THIS FIRE DOWN 00:24:00.27\00:24:04.91 TO PURIFY THE PLANET BECAUSE THEN, ON THE ASHES OF THIS 00:24:04.94\00:24:09.34 PURIFIED WORLD, IT SAYS HE WILL CREATE A NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW 00:24:09.38\00:24:12.51 EARTH AND THERE'LL BE NO SIGN OF THE FORMER ANYMORE. 00:24:12.55\00:24:17.65 YOU CAN READ IN ISAIAH 2, VERSE 4 - I LOVE THIS VERSE - "HE WILL 00:24:17.69\00:24:22.26 JUDGE BETWEEN THE NATIONS, AND REBUKE MANY PEOPLE; THEY WILL 00:24:22.29\00:24:25.76 BEAT THEIR SWORDS INTO PLOWSHARES AND THEIR SPEARS INTO 00:24:25.79\00:24:30.13 PRUNING HOOKS; NATION SHALL NOT LIFT UP SWORD AGAINST NATION, 00:24:30.17\00:24:35.10 NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANYMORE." 00:24:35.14\00:24:38.97 HAVE YOU EVER SUNG THAT SONG DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE, AIN'T 00:24:39.01\00:24:42.08 GONNA STUDY WAR NO MORE, AIN'T GONNA STUDY WAR NO MORE ? 00:24:42.11\00:24:45.68 IT ALL COMES FROM THIS VERSE. THEY WILL LEARN THIS VERSE - 00:24:45.71\00:24:48.35 THEY'LL LEARN WAR NO MORE. AND IT TELLS US THAT "THE EYES 00:24:48.38\00:24:53.39 OF THE BLIND" - ISAIAH 35 - "WILL BE OPENED AND THE EARS 00:24:53.42\00:24:56.76 OF THE DEAF WILL BE UNSTOPPED. THE LAME MAN WILL LEAP AS A 00:24:56.79\00:25:00.10 DEER, AND THE TONGUE OF THE DUMB WILL SING. FOR WATERS SHALL 00:25:00.13\00:25:02.93 BURST FORTH IN THE WILDERNESS, AND STREAMS IN THE DESERT. 00:25:02.96\00:25:06.23 THE PARCHED GROUND WILL BECOME A POOL, AND THE THIRSTY LAND 00:25:06.27\00:25:09.47 SPRINGS OF WATER; IN THE HABITATION OF JACKALS, WHERE 00:25:09.50\00:25:14.68 EACH LAY, THERE SHALL BE GRASS WITH REEDS AND RUSHES." 00:25:14.71\00:25:17.15 INSTEAD OF THE DESERT. REVELATION 21:1 - A NEW HEAVEN 00:25:17.18\00:25:21.38 AND A NEW EARTH, FOR THE FIRST HEAVEN AND EARTH 00:25:21.42\00:25:24.35 ARE PASSED AWAY. "AND I HEARD A LOUD VOICE FROM 00:25:24.39\00:25:27.56 HEAVEN SAYING, 'BEHOLD, THE TABERNACLE OF GOD IS WITH MEN, 00:25:27.59\00:25:31.63 AND...GOD HIMSELF WILL BE WITH THEM AND BE THEIR GOD. 00:25:31.66\00:25:34.56 AND GOD WILL WIPE AWAY EVERY TEAR FROM THEIR EYES; THERE 00:25:34.56\00:25:37.43 SHALL BE NO MORE DEATH, NOR SORROW, NOR CRYING. 00:25:37.47\00:25:40.94 THERE SHALL BE NO MORE PAIN," - NO MORE WAR - "FOR THE FORMER 00:25:40.97\00:25:43.74 THINGS HAVE PASSED AWAY." THEY SAID THAT WORLD WAR I WAS 00:25:43.77\00:25:47.38 GOING TO BE THE WAR TO END ALL WARS. YOU KNOW WHAT THE WAR IS? 00:25:47.41\00:25:51.18 ARMAGEDDON IS THE WAR THAT ENDS ALL WARS. 00:25:51.21\00:25:54.28 THERE'LL BE WAR NO MORE, AMEN? FOR THESE WORDS ARE FAITHFUL AND 00:25:54.32\00:25:59.22 TRUE. SO, PASTOR DOUG, ARE WE JUST 00:25:59.25\00:26:01.79 TALKING ABOUT A BATTLE OFF IN THE FUTURE? 00:26:01.82\00:26:03.96 NO, THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON IS REALLY GOING ON IN OUR LIVES 00:26:03.99\00:26:06.39 EVERY DAY. THERE'S A WAR. I'LL CLOSE WITH THESE WORDS. 00:26:06.43\00:26:12.47 1 PETER 2, "BELOVED, I BEG YOU AS SOJOURNERS AND PILGRIMS, 00:26:12.50\00:26:17.27 ABSTAIN FROM FLESHLY LUSTS WHICH WAR AGAINST THE SOUL," - HAVE 00:26:17.31\00:26:21.24 YOU EVER FELT THAT WAR? JAMES 4:1, "WHERE DO WARS AND 00:26:21.28\00:26:25.71 FIGHTINGS COME FROM AMONG YOU? DO THEY NOT COME FROM YOUR 00:26:25.75\00:26:28.65 DESIRES FOR PLEASURE THAT WAR IN YOUR MEMBERS?" YOU'VE GOT THE 00:26:28.68\00:26:33.02 SPIRIT AND THE FLESH THAT ARE AT WAR. 00:26:33.05\00:26:35.49 YOU'VE GOT CHRIST AND SATAN AT WAR IN OUR HEARTS. 00:26:35.52\00:26:37.26 ROMANS 7:23, "BUT I SEE ANOTHER LAW IN MY MEMBERS, WARRING" - 00:26:37.29\00:26:41.70 THERE'S A BATTLE - "AGAINST THE LAW OF MY MIND, AND BRINGING ME 00:26:41.73\00:26:44.80 INTO CAPTIVITY TO THE LAW OF SIN WHICH IS IN MY MEMBERS. 00:26:44.83\00:26:47.54 O WRETCHED MAN THAT I AM! WHO WILL DELIVER ME 00:26:47.57\00:26:50.21 FROM THIS BODY OF DEATH? I THANK GOD - THROUGH 00:26:50.24\00:26:53.21 JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD!" SO YOU AND I ARE ALL 00:26:53.24\00:26:56.54 EXPERIENCING LITTLE FORETASTES OF THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON 00:26:56.58\00:27:01.52 EVERY DAY, BECAUSE THERE ARE TWO MASTERS WHO ARE AT WAR, CHRIST 00:27:01.55\00:27:05.45 AND SATAN, AND THEY'RE FIGHTING FOR OUR LOVE AND OUR ALLEGIANCE. 00:27:05.49\00:27:09.26 AND JESUS, OF COURSE, HE'S GIVEN HIS LIFE. 00:27:09.29\00:27:12.96 HE'S SHOWN US HIS LOVE. YOU KNOW, I WANT TO BE ON 00:27:12.99\00:27:15.53 THE WINNING TEAM, DON'T YOU? >>DON'T FORGET TO REQUEST 00:27:15.56\00:27:22.27 TODAY'S LIFE-CHANGING FREE RESOURCE. 00:27:22.30\00:27:24.81 NOT ONLY CAN YOU RECEIVE THIS FREE GIFT IN THE MAIL, YOU CAN 00:27:24.84\00:27:27.31 DOWNLOAD A DIGITAL COPY STRAIGHT TO YOUR COMPUTER OR MOBILE 00:27:27.34\00:27:29.88 DEVICE. 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