you by the friends of
the Amazing Facts Ministry.
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Doug Batchelor: You probably
know sometimes notorious
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criminals will receive a prison
sentence that's far longer than
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the average human lifespan.
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Some stretch to more than 1,000
years, but the longest prison
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sentence on record was handed
to Chamoy Thipyaso, a woman in
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Thailand who defrauded more than
16,000 of her countrymen out of
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hundreds of millions of
dollars back in the 1980s.
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Her sentence was
more than 140,000 years.
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Remarkably, after an appeal
to challenge the legality of the
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sentence, her epic prison term
was reduced to 20 years, and she
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ended up only
serving about 8 years.
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The Bible book of Revelation
explains that following the
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Second Coming of Jesus, the most
notorious criminal of all time,
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the devil, will be handed a
sentence of 1,000 years, after
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which, he's briefly paroled, but
where is this prison, and why
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would God briefly let him out,
and what's happening on Earth
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during this 1,000
years when Satan is bound?
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Join me now as we take a closer
look at this fascinating Bible
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prophesy topic
known as the millennium.
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Doug: Tonight's subject is
one of my favorites, and it's
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based on a passage you
find in Revelation chapter 20.
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We're calling it
the devil's dungeon.
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I think it was George Washington
Carver who was famous because
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he really helped an economic
resurrection in the South
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following the Civil War.
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The sharecroppers, they kept
farming cotton, cotton, cotton,
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and it sapped the ground from
its nutrients, and Carver said
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you got to let
the land lay fallow.
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You got to let it recover
and so that it can generate more
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nitrogen, and he had them
introduce crops like sweet
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potatoes and peanuts, and that
really was an economic salvation
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for them when they finally
realized you got to rest the
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land, you can't keep farming
the same thing all the time.
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The Lord told the children
of Israel when they came out of
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Egypt, Moses said, Exodus
23: "Six years you will sow your
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land and gather its produce, but
the seventh year you shall let
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it rest and lie fallow, that the
poor of your people may eat."
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They were to rest the land.
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They used to have a farming
Sabbath every seventh year,
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don't farm.
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Well, it's kind of hard
sometimes to ask farmers not to
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farm because it represents and
economic loss, and evidently,
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the children of Israel often
ignored this law, and so you
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find that from the time of King
David up until the time of the
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Babylonian captivity, they were
farming the land year after year
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after year, were not letting
it keep the Sabbath, and so when
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God finally brought judgment
on them 490 years after David,
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"then they burned the house of
God and broke down the wall of
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Jerusalem, and burned all of its
palaces with fire--" notice this
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very carefully--"and those
who escaped from the sword he
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carried off to Babylon until the
land had enjoyed her Sabbaths.
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As long as she lay
desolate she kept Sabbath,
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to fulfill seventy years."
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So if you've got 490
years, how many annual Sabbaths
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would you have?
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How many 7-year Sabbaths
would you have in 490 years?
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Seventy.
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So for every year that they
neglected to let the land rest,
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God said, "You're going
to spend a year in captivity.
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Jerusalem and the
people--Jerusalem is going
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to be uninhabited.
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The land is going to rest."
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It's very interesting.
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You can read about this Nehemiah
1:3, "The wall of Jerusalem is
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broken down.
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The gates are burned with fire."
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So God sort of
compelled the land to rest.
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You know, the Bible tells us
that for about 6,000 years now,
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Jesus has been
sowing the gospel seed.
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Revelation tells us that he's
coming with a sickle to harvest
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the earth.
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Several parables, Jesus talks
about farming and harvesting,
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and during that time after we
are caught up to meet the Lord,
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the Lord is going to keep--the
land is going to keep, or the
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earth, a 1,000-year
Sabbath when it is desolate.
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Sometimes it's
referred to as the millennium.
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First question, what events mark
the beginning of this 1,000-year
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period, what we
call the millennium?
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It begins with the
coming of the Lord.
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It tells us "for the LORD
Himself will descend from heaven
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with a shout, and the
dead in Christ will rise first.
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We shall not all sleep, but
we will all be changed," and you
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read on here 1 Corinthians
15:52, "In a moment, in the
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twinkling of an eye, at the last
trumpet, for the trumpet will
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sound, and the
dead shall be raised."
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Now, those who are dead,
they're raised, they're given
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glorified bodies.
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Those of us who are
alive, we get new bodies.
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You read in Philippians
3:21, "Who will transform our
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lowly body that it might be
conformed to His glorious body."
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This verse wasn't near as
important to me when I was,
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like, 19 years old as it is now.
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The older you get, the
better this verse looks, amen?
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"And then this lawless one will
happen so the wicked--then that
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lawless one will be revealed
whom the Lord will destroy with
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the brightness of His coming."
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And so you've got the
righteous who are alive.
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They're transformed.
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The righteous
dead are resurrected.
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The wicked who
are dead stay dead.
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The wicked who are alive are
destroyed, and we are caught up
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to meet the Lord in the air.
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What is the condition of the
earth during the 1,000 years?
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Now, this is where a
lot of people are surprised.
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Look at this: "I beheld the
earth and indeed it was without
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form, and void, and the
heavens, they had no light."
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If I stop right there,
you'll think he's describing
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before creation.
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Oh, keep reading, he's not.
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It says, "I beheld the mountains
and indeed they trembled.
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I beheld and, indeed, there
was no man, and all the birds of
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heaven had fled, and the
fruitful place was a wilderness,
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and all its
cities were broken down."
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There were people there,
but they're not there anymore.
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The birds have all fled.
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"And the cities are
broken down--" what caused all
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this devastation?
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It says the presence of the
Lord and by His fierce anger.
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Look at this verse in Jeremiah
25:33, "And at that day the
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slain of the Lord shall be
from one end of the earth even
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to the other end of the earth.
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They are not be lamented,
or gathered, or buried," why?
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There's no one alive to
gather, lament, or bury them.
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See, what happens is
when Jesus comes back, what
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direction do we go?
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We go up. What
happens to the wicked?
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They're destroyed by the
brightness of his coming.
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This earth is going to
get a 1,000-year Sabbath.
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We are not living and
reigning here on the earth
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over the wicked.
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I don't know about you,
but I have no desire to reign
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over sinners.
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We are living and reigning
with Christ and his ambassadors.
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He says, "I've gone to
prepare a place for you."
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We go up when he comes.
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"And an angel laid hold of the
dragon, that serpent of old, who
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is the devil and Satan, and
bound him for a thousand years."
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So we see that Satan
is captured, he's bound.
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Now, where is he bound?
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It tells us that the devil
is cast into this--what is it?
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Bottomless pit, that word there,
"bottomless pit" has confused a
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lot of people, and folks wonder,
"Is it a black hole out in the
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universe somewhere, and
is it a wormhole, and what is
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this bottomless pit?"
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Well, the word in Greek
is abussos, and the word
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simply means abyss.
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It means a place where the
devil has no one to inhabit.
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It is the same word that is used
in the Greek Septuagint that is
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for "when the earth is
without form and void."
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It describes our
world in a state of chaos.
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The earth is a
dark chaotic mess.
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Satan is bound on
the void, this abussos.
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Where will the saints
be during the 1,000 years
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and what are they doing?
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All right, Jesus said, "I will
come again and receive you to
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Myself; that where I am--"
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He's on-- up in
heaven with the Father
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in the mansions He's
prepared-- "you may be also."
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So as the dead in Christ rise,
we're caught up, we meet him in
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the air, we go
with him to that place.
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We've got glorified bodies now.
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What are we doing?
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"I saw thrones, and they that
sat upon them, and judgment was
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given to them, and they
lived and reigned with Christ
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for a thousand years."
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So what are we doing
during the 1,000 years?
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Well, someone said there's
going to be three big surprises
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in heaven.
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I think I mentioned this.
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One surprise is
that you're there.
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The other surprise is that
you're going to see people there
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that you never dreamed would be
there, and the third surprise is
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that there are going to be
people missing that you thought
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would be leading
the parade in heaven.
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Now, suppose you get to heaven
and you got your uncle Elmer,
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and he seemed like such a
godly man, deacon in the church,
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smiled all the time, carried
his Bible under his arm, and you
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thought that, "Wow,
he's going to be in heaven."
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You're going to get to heaven,
say, "Where's Uncle Elmer?"
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And the angel's going to put his
eyes down, say, "Well, you know,
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I got some sad news.
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He's not here."
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"What?" "Come with me."
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The Bible says there's books.
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I don't know if God is going
to have old-fashioned books or a
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video or how He's going
to show us, but He'll show us
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everything's recorded, and
the angel's going to play back.
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You realize the Bible says
everything done in secret will
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be proclaimed
from the housetops.
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Unless your sins are under
the blood, you're in trouble.
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I don't want you seeing my
book, and you don't want me
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seeing yours.
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Can you say amen?
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But if you're lost, your book is
going to be opened, because your
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sins are not covered by the
blood, and you're going to look
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and see Uncle Elmer, ooh,
he looked real good in public,
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but there was some private sin.
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"Well, Lord, but why
didn't you save him?"
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You'll see everywhere in his
life where God tried to reach
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him, and he hardened his heart,
and finally you'll say, "Lord,
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you did the right thing.
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You had no choice."
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See, during that 1,000
years, we're going to have
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a lot of questions.
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The Lord wants us to enter
eternity trusting his judgment.
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The Bible says in the book
of Revelation, chapter 15, "Thy
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judgments have
been made manifest."
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All that God's judgments will
be open so that we can trust him
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as we enter eternity.
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What will happen at the
close of the 1,000 years?
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"Behold, the day of the Lord is
coming, and in that day His feet
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will stand on the Mount of
Olives--" this is Zechariah 14,
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verses 1, 4, 5, 9--"His
feet will stand on the Mount of
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Olives, which faces
Jerusalem on the east.
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And the Mount of
Olives will split in two."
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This is one of those apocalyptic
prophesies in the Old Testament
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where Zechariah
pictures the Savior coming down.
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It's at the end
of the 1,000 years.
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Feet touch the Mount of Olives.
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Why the Mount of Olives?
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This was a place that was
especially precious to Jesus.
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Now, He was born in Bethlehem.
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It was just down the
hill from the southern side of
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the Mount of Olives.
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On the Mount of Olives He told
His disciples about the fall of
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Jerusalem and the
signs of His Second Coming.
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It was on the Mount of Olives
that Jesus wept over Jerusalem
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when they came in and
had the triumphal entry.
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It was on the Mount of
Olives you've got the garden of
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Gethsemane, where He was
arrested, and He sweat and
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prayed "Not My
will, Thy will be done."
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And it was from the Mount
of Olives by Bethany when He
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ascended to heaven.
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He said, "As I
left, I'm coming back."
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That's what the angel
said in Acts chapter 1.
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So Jesus is coming back.
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He'll be visible, He'll be real,
and He's coming back the same
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place He left.
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Doug: Don't go
anywhere, friends.
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In just a moment we're
going to return for the rest of
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today's presentation.
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What happens before and after
the millennium, and how does it
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fit in with the two
resurrections that are mentioned
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in the book of Revelation, and
where will Satan and the fallen
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angels be during this time,
and what about humans, the saved
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and the lost?
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and share it with a friend.
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Well, let's get back to today's
presentation and learn some more
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amazing facts
about the Word of God.
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Doug: And when his feet
touched the Mount of Olives,
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something happens.
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You know, the
earth is already a mess.
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You know, when bulldozers
come in and they try and rebuild
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after a terrible earthquake,
they just clear a big area.
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Jesus's feet touch
that mountain and it splits.
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There's seismic activity.
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It splits and it forms a
tremendous valley, and in that
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valley, the New
Jerusalem comes down.
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What happens next to
free Satan from his prison?
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The Bible says that when Jesus
comes down, not only does a new
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Jerusalem descend but the rest
of the dead don't live again
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until the thousand
years are finished.
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There you've got it, Revelation
20, verse 5, which means what?
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At the end of the 1,000
years, the devil's released
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from his prison.
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You know one reason the earth
is called a prison for Satan,
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a bottomless pit
during the 1,000 years?
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Satan is a workaholic.
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Would you agree?
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You ever heard someone
say, "He works like the devil"?
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I remember hearing a story
where it talked about this man.
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He worked in an office where
there was a lady, and she was
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always a
positive, upbeat Christian.
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This man was kind of a negative
atheist, and whenever he'd say,
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"Aw man, it's pouring cats
and dogs out there," she was
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always positive.
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She'd say, "Yeah, the flowers
are going to be beautiful
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in May."
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And he said "You know,
what the politicians are
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doing is terrible."
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She said, "I'm so thankful
for the freedoms that we enjoy."
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And he used to get so irritated
at her because everything he
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said where he's just
complaining, she'd always
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turn it positive.
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One day he thought, "I got her.
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She's a Christian."
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And one day he went into
the office, he says, "Boy, that
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devil, isn't he terrible?"
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And she said, "Well,
he certainly is busy."
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He can't stand to be idle.
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Do you realize what is going on?
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Why is Satan being
released from his prison?
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Why is he bound like
this for 1,000 years?
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Why doesn't
Jesus just destroy him?
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You realize that for 1,000 years
Satan and his angels are bound.
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The Lucifer--the devil Lucifer,
he told these other angels,
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"If you follow me, I've
got a better government.
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I can do better than God."
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Satan said, "Six thousand years
in this world" to demonstrate
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what his
government would be like.
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I know you're thinking it's not
fair that it happened here to
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us, but our first parents
chose to listen to Lucifer
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instead of God.
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God said, "Don't eat it."
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The devil said, "Eat it," and
they listened to the devil, and
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whoever you obey,
that's whose servants you are.
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Satan set up his rebellion
here on this planet, and look at
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what's happened to our
world under his leadership.
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Now, for 1,000 years, Satan
and his angels need to roam this
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dark, cold planet, and they look
at the results of the rebellion:
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broken-down cities,
the earth is all cracked.
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It was a paradise, and
his government of self-first
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selfishness
destroyed everything.
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So at the end of the 1,000 years
when the New Jerusalem comes
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down, Jesus's feet like a
hypodermic needle, He brings all
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the dead back to life.
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He calls them back to life.
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The devil can't
resurrect anybody.
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Even Jesus is the only one
who can resurrect the lost.
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He brings him forth.
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Now all the people who have ever
lived through the ages, we got
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almost eight billion people
alive on the world today, you
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add that up with all the people
who have lived through history,
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you've got billions of
people that are coming out
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of the grave.
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What will Satan do
when the wicked are raised?
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"He'll go out to deceive
the nations that are in the four
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corners of the earth,
Gog and Magog, to gather them
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together to battle.
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The number is as
the sand of the sea."
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And they went up on
the breadth of the earth.
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This is a global army.
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It's not just one nation.
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"And they surround the camp
of the saints, the beloved city,
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the new Jerusalem."
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Now, friends, this is where
it gets really interesting.
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Everybody here this evening,
do you know we are all going to
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meet again someday.
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I promise you.
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See, there's only
four kinds of people.
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You've got the righteous
alive and the righteous dead.
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You've got the wicked
alive and the wicked dead.
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This is an event where
everybody will be present
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and accounted for.
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You've got God and
Christ and the good angels.
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You've got the devil and his
fallen angels, all present and
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accounted for at this event.
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And this is going to be a
time that is going to be very
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profound, and there will be some
very sober situations there when
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everybody meets again, and I
think there's going to be a lot
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of revelation, everything that
the lost have ever done against
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anybody is going to be playing.
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You're going to see fights
breaking out among the lost.
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"I'm here because of you.
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Why didn't you tell me?"
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Parents, they said to their
kids, "Oh, you can go to church
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if you want to, but
we're staying home."
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And the kids grow up and
they go wild, and they said,
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"Why didn't you tell me?
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Why didn't you lead me to God?"
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It's going to be a
very sobering time.
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Says, "You will come up against
My people Israel like a cloud to
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cover the land," all the
wicked who've ever lived.
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At this crucial moment, what
stops everything, before Satan
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launches his final attack?
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I don't know if he's going
to have enough intelligence or
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materials or resources to
build weapons or put together
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nuclear bombs.
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I don't know, but he's going
to try and launch this attack
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against the new Jerusalem.
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At this crucial moment, just
before they launch their final
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attack, and Satan says charge,
let's attack the city, the only
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chance they've got is
attacking the city and listening
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to Lucifer.
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They know
they're doomed otherwise.
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You read in
Revelation 20, verse 11, now.
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"I saw a great white throne and
Him who sat on it, and the dead
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were judged according to their
works by the things that were
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written in their books."
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We are saved by grace through
faith, but if we're not saved,
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we're judged by our works.
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Matter of fact, even the
saved are judged by their works
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because their works show whether
they're saved, even if that work
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is a work of believing.
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Now, Jesus once said,
"This is the work you shall do.
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Believe on the one
the Father has sent."
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Now, can the Lord save 3,000
people at one time at Pentecost?
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Can He judge 1,000
people at one time?
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I think sometime we think of the
judgment, God's going to say,
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"Okay, line up, take a
number--" like when you go to
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Baskin-Robbins or the parts
store, and everybody's waiting,
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"Okay, next," the bailiff says,
the angel there, and you come up
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and they open the books.
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God is going to play out in
the heavens the whole thing.
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There just before Satan launches
attack, Christ is going to be
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exalted above the city where
everybody in the world can see
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Him, enthroned, the right hand
of the glory of the Father, and
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in the sky and panorama of the
great controversy between good
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and evil is going to play out,
how God sent His own Son, and
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all the sufferings of Christ,
and the opportunities in every
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person's life to be saved.
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I think you've heard one person
almost dies, their life flashes
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before them,
happens very quickly.
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This may not be so quick.
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God is going to take
people all through the history.
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Their memories are
going to be restored.
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They're going to see everything
God did to try to save them, and
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they would not, and ultimately,
they realize there's nothing
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else that God could do.
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What will happen
after the wicked are judged?
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"As I live, says the Lord, every
knee will bow to Me, and every
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tongue will confess to God."
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See, Satan, he wanted to be God.
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He told Jesus, "Bow down,
worship me, and I'll give you
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the world."
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Christ said, "Though shalt
not worship anyone but God."
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And Satan wanted
Christ's position.
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Ultimately, everybody's going
to be brought to the point where
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they bow down and they confess.
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Now, for the righteous, if you
repent and confess Jesus's name
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before he comes,
you can be saved.
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Those who confess the name of
Jesus afterward are confessing
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like Judas confessed, when
he went into the temple and he
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threw down the blood money,
and he said, "I have betrayed
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innocent blood."
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That was too late.
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He was just overwhelmed with
a sense of his guilt and the
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foreboding of his punishment.
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That is the wrong
kind of repentance.
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It's like when the
Pharaoh repented when all
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the plagues began to fall.
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That repentance won't save you.
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It says, "I heard a loud voice,"
Revelation 19:1 and 2, "I heard
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a loud voice of a great
multitude in heaven saying,
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'True and righteous
are His judgments.'"
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Before we enter eternity,
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God wants us to see
that He is just, that He is
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fair, that He is good,
that He is love, and even in the
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punishment of the wicked, He
is doing the loving, just thing.
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God has no
alternative but to do that.
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So everybody's going
to meet again that day.
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What happens next?
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"Fire comes down from God
out of heaven and devours them."
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Before they ever get the fire
off the first shot, after they
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all kneel and they say
Jesus Christ is Lord, after this
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white-throne judgment where
everyone's life passes before
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them and they see that God did
all he could to save them, but
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they kept procrastinating.
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They would not surrender.
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They would not trust
Jesus, and God rains fire down
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upon the wicked, and
it says it devours them.
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Now, different people are going
to suffer different lengths
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of time.
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He that sinned
much will suffer much.
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To whom much is
given, much is required.
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There will be some people that
will probably die very quickly.
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They had very little light
or knowledge in their lives, and
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who do you think is
going to suffer the longest?
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The devil.
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He has on his back the guilt
of the whole world and all the
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fallen angels he
led and he instigated.
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You know, all of us have
an influence for good or evil.
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I want my life to tell for good.
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I spent too many years in my
youth having an evil influence,
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and but everybody, the
Bible says that we'll answer
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for those things.
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If your sins are not
forgiven and under the blood,
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there's a punishment for that.
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So everyone is going to
be rewarded according to what
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they deserve.
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There will be some lost, young
people that maybe did not have
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knowledge.
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They'll die very quickly.
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Adolf Hitler,
Idi Amin and others?
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They're going to look
at the millions that died.
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Joseph Stalin?
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Millions that died because
of their evil leadership.
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"And anyone who is not written
in the Book of Life was cast
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into the lake of fire."
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As that fire rains down, it
continues to build up until it
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forms a lake.
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We saw that happen here in
California about a week ago, how
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that famine in the land--and
then we had a downpour, and now
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there's lakes
where there was dust.
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Have you noticed?
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And the wicked
are then devoured.
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This is the second death.
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Now, let's just
review what's going on here.
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Beginning of the 1,000 years,
First Resurrection, Second
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Coming of Jesus; the end of the
1,000 years, the wicked Second
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Resurrection, Holy Spirit--a
holy city descends, a new
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Jerusalem comes down to earth.
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During the millennium, the
righteous are in heaven, we're
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engaged in judgment, having our
questions answered, enjoying a
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1,000-year
Sabbath with the Lord.
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For 6,000 years you have this
battle between good and evil
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here in the world, right?
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We're going to get a
millennial rest with the Lord
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during that time.
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The earth is desolate.
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It is keeping
Sabbath during that time.
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After the fire goes out,
what will God do for his people?
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Ah, friends, I want to see this.
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The Bible says, "For I create
a new heavens and a new earth."
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Eventually, the fire goes out.
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Bible says there will
not be a coal to warm at.
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Christ then creates a
new heavens and a new earth.
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Whether He'll do it in six days
or not, I don't know, but you
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and I will get to watch
God speak a new paradise into
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existence from these balcony
seats of the new Jerusalem.
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On the wall, we'll see a
beautiful, new environment
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for us.
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The Bible says,
"Blessed are the meek.
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They will inherit the earth."
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It's an earth made new, amen?
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"You shall go forth from
the gates of the new Jerusalem."
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It says, "You shall go forth and
thread upon the wicked, for they
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are ashes under the
soles of your feet."
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If that's
clear, please say amen.
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So they're being,
they're receiving their judgment
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here in this world.
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"We, according to His promise,
look for a new earth in which
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dwells righteousness."
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We've just seen how
things are going to play out in
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the last days.
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And God--this is not very
far in the distance, friend.
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You know, the Bible
tells us a day with the Lord is
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like 1,000 years.
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Here we are now about 6,000
years into human history based
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on Bible times, and then we're
going to live and reign with
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Christ for 1,000 years.
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We are at the sundown,
right now, of the sixth day.
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That millennial
Sabbath is going to begin soon.
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Jesus is going to come.
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There's going to
be a resurrection.
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Those that serve him are going
to be transformed and caught up
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to meet him in the air.
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Says, "Wherefore, comfort
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