OF THE AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:00:05.00\00:00:09.47 DID YOU KNOW ABOUT 5,000 STARS CAN BE SEEN WITH THE NAKED EYE? 00:00:09.50\00:00:13.91 YET, WITH A SMALL TELESCOPE YOU CAN SEE HUNDREDS OF 00:00:13.94\00:00:16.95 THOUSANDS OF STARS. 00:00:16.98\00:00:18.28 THE LARGEST TELESCOPES ON EARTH 00:00:18.31\00:00:20.72 REVEAL MILLIONS OF GALAXIES PACKED WITH STARS, WHEREAS THE 00:00:20.75\00:00:24.92 HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE MIGHT BE ABLE TO SEE OVER 00:00:24.95\00:00:27.79 A BILLION GALAXIES. KEEP IN MIND, IT'S ESTIMATED 00:00:27.82\00:00:31.69 THAT EACH OF THESE GALAXIES CONTAIN OVER 200 BILLIONS STARS. 00:00:31.73\00:00:36.97 AND, IT'S NOW BELIEVED, OVER TWO TRILLION GALAXIES EXIST IN THE 00:00:37.00\00:00:40.77 UNIVERSE. LOOKING AT THE SKY ON A CLEAR NIGHT, ALL THE STARS WE 00:00:40.80\00:00:44.47 SEE ARE IN THE MILKY WAY GALAXY, A FIERY SPIRAL OF STARS OVER 00:00:44.51\00:00:49.24 100,000 LIGHT YEARS ACROSS. SUCH AWESOME STATISTICS GIVE US 00:00:49.28\00:00:55.15 A SMALL CONCEPT OF THE GREATNESS OF GOD AND IT STIRS WITHIN US 00:00:55.18\00:00:59.59 A YEARNING FOR SPACE TRAVEL. BUT, DID YOU KNOW THE BIBLE 00:00:59.62\00:01:03.89 TEACHES THAT THE REDEEMED WILL HAVE THIS OPPORTUNITY? 00:01:03.93\00:01:07.56 JOIN ME TODAY AS WE LOOK AT SOME FASCINATING BIBLE FACTS ABOUT 00:01:07.60\00:01:11.47 THE INCREDIBLE FUTURE GOD HAS PLANNED FOR HIS PEOPLE. 00:01:11.50\00:01:17.07 IN OUR PRESENTATION THIS EVENING, WE'RE GOING TO BE 00:01:19.41\00:01:21.84 TALKING ABOUT THE GREAT JUDGMENT DAY. 00:01:21.88\00:01:24.78 LET'S BEGIN WITH A LITTLE AMAZING FACT FROM HISTORY. 00:01:24.81\00:01:27.85 I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD OF BARON FABIAN VON 00:01:27.88\00:01:30.65 SCHLABRENDORFF. HIS WHOLE NAME WAS FABIAN 00:01:30.69\00:01:35.66 LUDWIG GEORGE ADOLF KURT VON SCHLABRENDORFF. 00:01:35.69\00:01:39.83 HOW'D YOU LIKE TO BE HIS MOTHER CALLING HIM WHEN YOU'RE ANGRY? 00:01:39.86\00:01:42.63 (LAUGHTER) PROBABLY CALLED HIM 'BUTCH'. 00:01:42.66\00:01:45.43 (LAUGHTER) HE WAS BORN IN GERMANY IN 1907, TRAINED AS A 00:01:45.47\00:01:49.07 LAWYER - VERY BRIGHT INDIVIDUAL - AND WHEN THE WAR WAS GETTING 00:01:49.10\00:01:52.64 READY TO BREAK OUT, HE WAS DRAFTED BUT, BECAUSE HE WAS SO 00:01:52.67\00:01:56.44 BRIGHT AND PERFORMED WELL, HE WAS RAPIDLY PROMOTED. 00:01:56.48\00:02:00.38 WELL, IT DIDN'T TAKE HIM VERY LONG TO REALIZE THAT ADOLPH 00:02:00.42\00:02:02.95 HITLER WAS CRAZY, DESTROYING EUROPE, NOT TO MENTION GERMANY, 00:02:02.98\00:02:06.65 SO HE JOINED THE RESISTANCE. SCHLABRENDORFF WAS THE ONE WHO, 00:02:06.69\00:02:10.73 WHEN HITLER CAME TO VISIT AN ARMY BASE IN GERMANY, HE 00:02:10.76\00:02:14.03 SMUGGLED A TIME BOMB ONTO HITLER'S PLANE THAT WAS SUPPOSED 00:02:14.10\00:02:16.97 TO BLOW UP AND GET RID OF THAT CRUEL DICTATOR, BUT IT FAILED. 00:02:17.00\00:02:21.57 EVENTUALLY THEY TRACED IT BACK TO HIM, HE WAS ARRESTED, HE WAS 00:02:21.60\00:02:26.27 TORTURED - HE NEVER DID TALK AND GIVE UP ANY OF THE PEOPLE THAT 00:02:26.31\00:02:29.48 WERE PART OF THE RESISTANCE - AND, FINALLY, THEY SET A TRIAL 00:02:29.51\00:02:34.12 FOR HIM. HE WAS BROUGHT INTO THE 00:02:34.15\00:02:36.35 COURTROOM - THIS WAS NOW 1945 BY THE TIME IT GOT TO HIS TRIAL 00:02:36.38\00:02:40.79 - AND COURTHOUSE WAS FULL - JUDGES, JURY - THEY ALL FOUND 00:02:40.82\00:02:46.73 HIM GUILTY OF HIGH TREASON AND HE WAS SENTENCED TO BE 00:02:46.76\00:02:49.50 KILLED BY FIRING SQUAD. BECAUSE OF THE WAR EFFORT, THEY 00:02:49.53\00:02:54.57 DIDN'T PUT YOU ON DEATH ROW AND YOU DID NOT HAVE APPEALS. 00:02:54.60\00:02:57.31 THEY WERE MARCHING HIM OUT OF THE COURTROOM TO A WALL WHERE HE 00:02:57.34\00:03:00.74 WAS GOING TO BE EXECUTED, WHEN THE AIR RAID SIRENS WENT OFF AND 00:03:00.78\00:03:06.25 ONE OF THE ALLIED BOMBERS SCORED A DIRECT HIT ON THE COURTHOUSE. 00:03:06.28\00:03:10.85 EVERYBODY IN THE COURTHOUSE WAS KILLED EXCEPT SCHLABRENDORFF 00:03:10.89\00:03:15.29 (LAUGHTER) WHO ESCAPED. HE LATER WAS RECAPTURED AND THEY 00:03:15.32\00:03:21.56 PUT HIM IN DACHAU PRISON OF WAR CAMP, BUT IT WASN'T LONG BEFORE 00:03:21.60\00:03:24.27 THE ALLIES CAME AND HE SURVIVED. AND GUESS WHAT? 00:03:24.30\00:03:29.87 HE BECAME A LEADING JUDGE IN GERMANY. 00:03:29.90\00:03:34.58 THE ONE WHO WAS BEING TRIED - WHAT A REVERSAL OF FORTUNES - 00:03:34.61\00:03:38.08 WHO HAD BEEN CONDEMNED ENDED UP BEING THE JUDGE. 00:03:38.11\00:03:41.32 WOW. AND HE LIVED UNTIL 1980. 00:03:41.35\00:03:44.99 IT MAKES ME THINK ABOUT WHEN JESUS STOOD BEFORE CAIAPHAS THE 00:03:45.02\00:03:48.36 HIGH PRIEST AND PONTIUS PILATE AND THERE THEY WERE, THE CHURCH 00:03:48.39\00:03:51.69 AND THE STATE, CONDEMNING HIM AND HE SAID, 'HEREAFTER YOU WILL 00:03:51.73\00:03:55.40 SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN.' TALK ABOUT A 00:03:55.43\00:03:59.33 BIG SURPRISE, WHEN THEY COME OUT OF THEIR GRAVES AND THEY SEE THE 00:03:59.37\00:04:03.30 ONE THEY WERE JUDGING IS NOW THE JUDGE OF THE UNIVERSE. 00:04:03.34\00:04:06.88 THE BIBLE SAYS WE WILL ALL STAND BEFORE THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF 00:04:06.91\00:04:09.71 CHRIST. NOW, WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING 00:04:09.74\00:04:12.65 AT SEVERAL CHAPTERS IN THE BIBLE, PRINCIPALLY CHAPTER 20 OF 00:04:12.68\00:04:15.55 REVELATION THAT TALKS ABOUT THIS GREAT JUDGMENT DAY AND ALSO 00:04:15.58\00:04:19.35 TALKS ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM. IT BEGINS - AND, IF YOU HAVE 00:04:19.39\00:04:22.16 YOUR BIBLES, YOU MIGHT WANT TO TURN TO CHAPTER 00:04:22.19\00:04:23.59 20 OF REVELATION. REVELATION 20, VERSE 1, "THEN 00:04:23.63\00:04:27.86 I SAW AN ANGEL COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN, HAVING THE KEY TO THE 00:04:27.93\00:04:31.60 BOTTOMLESS PIT, AND A GREAT CHAIN IN HIS HAND. 00:04:31.63\00:04:35.17 HE LAID HOLD ON THE DRAGON, THAT OLD SERPENT CALLED THE DEVIL, 00:04:35.20\00:04:39.14 AND SATAN," - THERE YOU HAVE IT AGAIN, THE SAME THING YOU SEE IN 00:04:39.17\00:04:41.61 REVELATION 12 - HAS HIS TITLES - "AND BOUND HIM A THOUSAND 00:04:41.64\00:04:45.38 YEARS." SO THIS ONE-THOUSAND-YEAR PERIOD 00:04:45.41\00:04:49.42 YOU HEAR REFERENCED OFTEN IS USUALLY CALLED THE MILLENNIUM. 00:04:49.45\00:04:52.89 THE WORD 'MILLENNIUM' IS SIMPLY - IT'S A COMPOSITE LATIN WORD - 00:04:52.92\00:04:56.49 'MILLE' - THOUSAND - 'ANNUM' - YEARS - IT'S TALKING ABOUT A 00:04:56.52\00:04:59.36 THOUSAND-YEAR PERIOD. YOU PRINCIPALLY FIND THIS 00:04:59.39\00:05:02.43 IN REVELATION CHAPTER 20. AND IT GOES ON TO SAY, IF YOU GO 00:05:02.46\00:05:06.43 IN REVELATION CHAPTER 20, VERSE 4, "AND I SAW THRONES, AND THEY 00:05:06.47\00:05:12.47 SAT ON THEM, AND JUDGMENT WAS COMMITTED TO THEM." 00:05:12.51\00:05:17.01 AND SO, THERE'S THIS JUDGMENT THAT IS GIVEN. 00:05:17.05\00:05:19.25 WHAT EVENTS MARK THE BEGINNING OF THE MILLENNIUM AND THE GREAT 00:05:19.28\00:05:23.28 JUDGMENT DAY? SO LET'S LOOK AT THIS TIMELINE 00:05:23.32\00:05:25.52 IN THE FINAL EVENTS OF PROPHECY. YOU READ, FOR INSTANCE, IN 1 00:05:25.55\00:05:29.52 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 4, VERSE 6, "FOR THE LORD HIMSELF SHALL 00:05:29.56\00:05:34.10 DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT, WITH THE VOICE OF THE 00:05:34.10\00:05:36.97 ARCHANGEL AND THE TRUMP OF GOD, AND" - IT SAYS - "THE DEAD 00:05:37.00\00:05:40.30 IN CHRIST SHALL RISE FIRST." SO THIS ONE-THOUSAND-YEAR PERIOD 00:05:40.34\00:05:45.21 BEGINS WITH THE COMING OF THE LORD AND A RESURRECTION. 00:05:45.24\00:05:48.94 NOW, IN OUR STUDY THIS EVENING, WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO BE 00:05:48.98\00:05:51.35 TALKING ABOUT FOUR DIFFERENT GROUPS OF PEOPLE: WHEN CHRIST 00:05:51.38\00:05:55.55 COMES YOU'VE GOT THE GOOD THAT ARE ALIVE - OR SAVED, I SHOULD 00:05:55.58\00:05:59.52 SAY, THAT ARE ALIVE, AND THE EVIL THAT ARE ALIVE. 00:05:59.55\00:06:03.89 YOU'VE GOT THE SAVED THAT ARE DEAD, AND THE EVIL THAT ARE DEAD 00:06:03.93\00:06:08.70 - THE LOST. EVERYBODY WHO'S EVER LIVED FALLS 00:06:08.73\00:06:12.47 INTO ONE OF THOSE CATEGORIES, ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 00:06:12.50\00:06:15.37 YOU'VE GOT THE LIVING AND THE DEAD, THE GOOD AND THE BAD, AND 00:06:15.40\00:06:18.34 ALL OF THEM ARE ADDRESSED IN THIS STUDY TONIGHT, SO THIS IS 00:06:18.37\00:06:21.51 RELEVANT FOR EVERYBODY IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. 00:06:21.54\00:06:24.58 AND IT SAYS, "THEY LIVED AND REIGNED WITH CHRIST A THOUSAND 00:06:24.61\00:06:26.75 YEARS." THOSE WHO ARE RESURRECTED - 00:06:26.78\00:06:29.15 THE DEAD IN CHRIST - RISE. THOSE OF US WHO ARE ALIVE AND 00:06:29.18\00:06:31.72 REMAIN, WE'RE CAUGHT UP, WE MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR, AND WE 00:06:31.75\00:06:34.56 LIVE AND REIGN WITH CHRIST. SOME CHURCHES TEACH THAT THE ONE 00:06:34.59\00:06:38.03 THOUSAND YEARS WE SPEND HERE ON EARTH WHERE THE RIGHTEOUS ARE 00:06:38.06\00:06:42.13 REIGNING OVER THE WICKED - WE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE BUT THEY 00:06:42.16\00:06:44.53 DON'T, SO I GUESS THEY'RE LIVING, BREEDING AND DYING, BUT 00:06:44.57\00:06:49.37 WE'RE IMMORTAL AND WE DON'T GET MARRIED AND HAVE CHILDREN. 00:06:49.40\00:06:52.87 FIRST OF ALL, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT I DON'T WANT TO REIGN 00:06:52.91\00:06:54.74 OVER THE WICKED - AND THAT CHRIST IS HERE ON EARTH. 00:06:54.78\00:06:59.41 BUT - AND THEN THE OTHER GROUP OF CHRISTIANS BELIEVE THAT WE GO 00:06:59.45\00:07:03.42 UP AND WE LIVE AND REIGN WITH CHRIST IN GLORY DURING THE ONE 00:07:03.45\00:07:07.29 THOUSAND YEARS. NOW, YOU REMEMBER WHEN JESUS 00:07:07.32\00:07:09.46 SAYS, IN JOHN CHAPTER 14, 'I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU' - 00:07:09.49\00:07:13.26 RIGHT? HE'S GONE - 'I WILL COME AGAIN, RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF 00:07:13.29\00:07:18.20 THAT WHERE I AM, YOU MAY BE.' HE'S TAKING US TO WHERE HE IS 00:07:18.23\00:07:21.77 GOING. ISN'T THAT CLEAR IN THE LANGUAGE? 00:07:21.80\00:07:23.64 SO WHAT DIRECTION DO WE GO WHEN JESUS COMES? 00:07:23.67\00:07:26.01 UP. WE ARE CAUGHT UP. 00:07:26.04\00:07:27.41 SO, WHEN WE LIVE AND REIGN WITH HIM, IT'S IN THAT NEW JERUSALEM 00:07:27.44\00:07:30.75 THAT LATER COMES DOWN. WE'RE NOT LIVING AND REIGNING 00:07:30.78\00:07:33.42 OVER THE WICKED HERE ON EARTH. IT'S NOT HAPPENING HERE. 00:07:33.45\00:07:36.75 ABSOLUTELY. SO THEY LIVE AND REIGN WITH 00:07:36.79\00:07:39.05 CHRIST FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS AND THEN IT TELLS YOU WHAT 00:07:39.09\00:07:42.06 HAPPENS TO THE REST OF THE DEAD: "BUT THE REST OF THE DEAD LIVED 00:07:42.09\00:07:44.79 NOT AGAIN UNTIL THE THOUSAND YEARS WERE FINISHED. 00:07:44.83\00:07:48.20 THIS IS THE FIRST RESURRECTION." IN OTHER WORDS, THE DEAD 00:07:48.23\00:07:50.07 IN CHRIST ARE THE FIRST RESURRECTION, THE REST OF THE 00:07:50.10\00:07:52.23 DEAD, THEY DON'T LIVE AGAIN 'TIL WHEN? 00:07:52.27\00:07:54.87 THE END OF THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS. 00:07:54.90\00:07:57.14 AND SO, HERE YOU'VE GOT THE THOUSAND-YEAR PERIOD - IT'S LIKE 00:07:57.17\00:07:59.31 BOOKENDS, YOU CAN SEPARATE IT WITH FIRST RESURRECTION - 00:07:59.34\00:08:03.38 RIGHTEOUS - SECOND RESURRECTION - WICKED - AND THEY'RE SPREAD 00:08:03.41\00:08:08.65 APART. AND THIS FITS WITH WHAT 00:08:08.68\00:08:10.62 JESUS ALWAYS TAUGHT. NUMBER TWO: WHAT ELSE 00:08:10.65\00:08:13.66 WILL HAPPEN AT THE FIRST RESURRECTION? 00:08:13.69\00:08:16.56 IT SAYS, "WE SHALL NOT ALL SLEEP, BUT WE SHALL ALL BE 00:08:16.59\00:08:19.59 CHANGED, IN A MOMENT...AT THE LAST TRUMP:" - BY THE WAY, 1 00:08:19.63\00:08:23.83 CORINTHIANS 15, VERSE 51 - "FOR THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND, AND THE 00:08:23.87\00:08:28.17 DEAD SHALL BE RAISED INCORRUPTIBLE, AND WE SHALL BE 00:08:28.20\00:08:31.64 CHANGED." - THIS MORTAL - 00:08:31.67\00:08:33.27 WHEN ARE WE CHANGED? WHEN CHRIST COMES. 00:08:33.31\00:08:36.64 WE'LL BE CHANGED - "FOR THIS CORRUPTIBLE MUST PUT ON 00:08:36.68\00:08:39.08 INCORRUPTION, AND THIS MORTAL MUST PUT ON IMMORTALITY." 00:08:39.11\00:08:42.82 AND THEN IT SAYS, IN PHILIPPIANS 3:21, JESUS, WHEN HE COMES, "WHO 00:08:42.85\00:08:46.79 SHALL CHANGE OUR VILE BODY," - THESE BODIES THAT HAVE ACHES AND 00:08:46.82\00:08:49.32 PAINS AND THEY GET OLD AND - "THAT IT MAY BE FASHIONED LIKE 00:08:49.36\00:08:52.36 UNTO HIS GLORIOUS BODY." NOW, WHAT KIND OF BODIES DO THE 00:08:52.39\00:08:56.40 REDEEMED HAVE WHEN THEY GET A GLORIFIED BODY? 00:08:56.43\00:08:59.67 ARE THEY GHOSTS? WHEN JESUS ROSE FROM 00:08:59.70\00:09:03.37 THE DEAD, WAS HE REAL? YES. 00:09:03.41\00:09:05.94 DID HE TRY TO EMPHASIZE THAT HE WAS REAL? 00:09:05.97\00:09:08.88 HE SAID - THEY WERE JUST SHOCKED - HE SAID, 'TOUCH ME. 00:09:08.91\00:09:12.58 HANDLE ME. A SPIRIT DOES NOT HAVE FLESH AND 00:09:12.61\00:09:15.05 BONE AS YOU SEE THAT I HAVE.' AND THEN HE SAID, 'I'M HUNGRY. 00:09:15.08\00:09:19.45 YOU GOT ANYTHING TO EAT?' NOT ONLY DID HE SAY THAT IN THE 00:09:19.49\00:09:21.82 UPPER ROOM, HE MET THEM BY THE SEA. 00:09:21.86\00:09:23.76 HE SAID, 'YOU GUYS GOT ANY FOOD?' 00:09:23.79\00:09:25.29 SO WAS IT GOD'S ORIGINAL PLAN THAT ADAM AND EVE EAT? 00:09:25.33\00:09:28.93 YES. DO GHOSTS EAT? 00:09:28.96\00:09:32.80 YOU KNOW, GHOSTS DON'T EAT. THEY'RE REAL PEOPLE. 00:09:32.83\00:09:36.20 AND HE'S - THE THING IS, WE HAVE SPIRITUAL BODIES. 00:09:36.24\00:09:38.61 SEE, THE BEST WAY I CAN EXPLAIN IT, ADAM AND EVE, BEFORE SIN, 00:09:38.64\00:09:42.54 THEY LIVED IN FOUR DIMENSIONS. YOU AND I LIVE IN 00:09:42.58\00:09:44.98 THREE DIMENSIONS NOW. THEY HAD GLORIFIED BODIES THAT 00:09:45.01\00:09:48.42 HAD NO ACHES OR PAINS, WHERE THEY COULD SEE ANGELS. 00:09:48.45\00:09:52.15 THEN, AFTER SIN, THE LIGHT WENT OUT AND SOMETHING CHANGED. 00:09:52.19\00:09:56.22 THEY LOST A WHOLE DIMENSION. THE WHOLE SPIRITUAL DIMENSION OF 00:09:56.26\00:09:59.26 OUR BEING WILL BE ADDED AGAIN IN THESE GLORIFIED ETERNAL 00:09:59.29\00:10:02.90 BODIES THAT WE HAVE. BUT THEY'RE REAL BODIES. 00:10:02.93\00:10:06.13 YOU LEARN LATER, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HEAVEN, IT SAYS, 00:10:06.17\00:10:08.44 'THEY PLANT VINEYARDS AND THEY EAT THE FRUIT OF THEM, AND THEY 00:10:08.47\00:10:11.21 BUILD HOUSES AND THEY GO FORTH - AND WE'RE DOING REAL THINGS, 00:10:11.24\00:10:15.21 WE'RE NOT JUST, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE - HEAVEN - I USED TO THINK WE'RE 00:10:15.24\00:10:17.78 UP ON CLOUDS, WE'RE FAT LITTLE CHERUBS, NAKED, PLAYING HARPS, 00:10:17.81\00:10:21.12 AND I THOUGHT, 'BOY, I DON'T - YOU KNOW, HELL SOUNDS MORE 00:10:21.15\00:10:23.55 INTERESTING. WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER, 00:10:23.59\00:10:24.99 THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT. (LAUGHTER) THAT'S NOT IT AT ALL. 00:10:25.02\00:10:29.62 WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING REAL THINGS. 00:10:29.66\00:10:31.56 SO WE'LL HAVE WHAT KIND OF BODY? GLORIFIED. 00:10:31.59\00:10:33.36 GLORIOUS BODIES LIKE HIS BODY. NOW THERE WAS ONE THING WRONG 00:10:33.40\00:10:37.27 WITH JESUS' BODY WHEN HE ROSE. DID HE STILL HAVE THE 00:10:37.30\00:10:40.37 SCARS IN HIS HANDS? YES. 00:10:40.40\00:10:42.14 THE LORD DELIBERATELY ALLOWED THAT BLEMISH TO REMAIN SO THAT, 00:10:42.17\00:10:47.21 THROUGH ETERNITY, WE WOULD SEE THE ICON, THE REMINDER OF HIS 00:10:47.24\00:10:52.88 SACRIFICE FOR US, SO SIN WILL NEVER RISE UP AGAIN THE SECOND 00:10:52.91\00:10:56.38 TIME. WE'LL NEVER FORGET WHAT HE DID TO SAVE US. 00:10:56.42\00:10:59.52 WHAT HAPPENS TO THE WICKED WHEN THE LORD COMES? 00:10:59.55\00:11:01.76 2 THESSALONIANS 2:8, "AND THEN SHALL THAT WICKED BE REVEALED, 00:11:01.79\00:11:05.56 WHOM THE LORD...SHALL CONSUME WITH THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS 00:11:05.59\00:11:07.96 COMING." AND DESTROY WITH THE BREATH OF HIS MOUTH. 00:11:07.96\00:11:11.03 IT ALSO GOES ON TO SAY - REVELATION 16 - "AND THERE WAS 00:11:11.07\00:11:14.24 A GREAT EARTHQUAKE SUCH AS WAS NOT SINCE MEN WERE UPON THE 00:11:14.27\00:11:18.44 EARTH, SO MIGHTY AN EARTHQUAKE, AND SO GREAT." 00:11:18.47\00:11:21.58 AND SO THERE'S A GREAT EARTH-SHAKING EARTHQUAKE AND 00:11:21.61\00:11:24.61 THIS IS NOT, YOU KNOW, 3 OR 4 ON THE RICHTER SCALE - WE HAVE 00:11:24.65\00:11:27.55 THOSE IN CALIFORNIA, WE JUST SORT OF SHRUG. 00:11:27.58\00:11:29.85 THIS IS TALKING ABOUT MAJOR, YOU KNOW, 15 ON THE RICHTER SCALE - 00:11:29.88\00:11:35.82 MOUNTAINS AND ISLANDS ARE BEING SWALLOWED UP IN THIS EARTHQUAKE. 00:11:35.86\00:11:39.69 AND IT SAYS, "EVERY ISLAND FLED AWAY, AND THE MOUNTAINS WERE NOT 00:11:39.73\00:11:44.10 FOUND." IT GOES ON TO SAY THAT THERE WAS 00:11:44.13\00:11:46.74 "A GREAT HAIL OUT OF HEAVEN, EVERY STONE ABOUT THE 00:11:46.77\00:11:50.74 WEIGHT OF A TALENT." YOU KNOW WHAT A TALENT IS? 00:11:50.77\00:11:54.31 IT'S ABOUT 75 POUNDS. WOW. 00:11:54.34\00:11:57.51 AND SO, IF YOU CAN IMAGINE HAIL STONES WITH THAT WEIGHT, 00:11:57.55\00:12:00.45 THAT'S PRETTY AMAZING. IT GOES ON TO SAY THAT SATAN IS 00:12:00.48\00:12:04.49 THEN BOUND, AT THIS TIME, IN THE BOTTOMLESS PIT. 00:12:04.52\00:12:07.09 SO WHAT IS THIS BOTTOMLESS PIT? THE WORD THAT YOU FIND THERE FOR 00:12:07.12\00:12:11.29 BOTTOMLESS PIT IS 'ABUSSOS' AND ABUSSOS MEANS - WELL, YOU'VE 00:12:11.33\00:12:16.90 HEARD THE WORD ABYSS - ABYSS MEANS 'EMPTINESS; VOID'. 00:12:16.93\00:12:22.50 YOU ACTUALLY FIND THAT WORD DESCRIBING THE WORLD BEFORE GOD 00:12:22.54\00:12:25.01 CREATED IN GENESIS IN THE SEPTUAGINT - THE GREEK VERSION - 00:12:25.04\00:12:28.98 TALKS ABOUT THE WORLD WAS VOID AND WITHOUT FORM. 00:12:29.01\00:12:31.58 IT WAS AN ABYSS - IT WAS DARK. 00:12:31.61\00:12:33.92 BUT THE, YOU KNOW, BOTTOMLESS PIT IS REALLY - IT'S A WORD - 00:12:33.95\00:12:36.75 I DON'T KNOW WHY THE KING JAMES TRANSLATORS CHOSE THAT WORD 00:12:36.79\00:12:39.22 BECAUSE YOU FIND THE WORD OTHER PLACES IN THE BIBLE. 00:12:39.25\00:12:42.39 HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT THIS DEMONIAC 00:12:42.42\00:12:46.90 THAT WAS FILLED WITH DEVILS - YOU READ ABOUT IT IN LUKE 00:12:46.93\00:12:49.93 CHAPTER 8 AND MARK CHAPTER 5 - AND THEY BEGGED JESUS, WHEN 00:12:49.96\00:12:54.37 JESUS WAS CASTING THEM OUT OF THE MAN, 'PLEASE DO NOT CAST US 00:12:54.40\00:12:57.74 OUT INTO' - EXACT SAME WORD - ABUSSOS. 00:12:57.77\00:13:01.01 THERE, IT'S TRANSLATED 'DEEP' - INTO THE NOTHINGNESS. 00:13:01.04\00:13:03.78 YOU SEE, WHEN THE DEVIL HAS NOBODY TO TEMPT, POSSESS, 00:13:03.81\00:13:06.72 MANIPULATE FOR HIM IT'S NOTHINGNESS BECAUSE THE DEVIL 00:13:06.75\00:13:09.42 DOES HIS WORK - HE'S A SPIRIT - BY POSSESSING LIVING CREATURES. 00:13:09.45\00:13:14.46 EVEN THE DEVILS IN THIS STORY SAID, 'PLEASE, LET US POSSESS 00:13:14.49\00:13:16.59 THE PIGS - SOMETHING - BUT DON'T CAST US OUT INTO THE 00:13:16.62\00:13:19.09 NOTHINGNESS.' AND SO, WHEN THE DEVIL IS BOUND ON THIS EARTH 00:13:19.13\00:13:23.00 WITH NOBODY TO TEMPT AND MANIPULATE, THAT IS THE 00:13:23.03\00:13:26.30 BOTTOMLESS PIT. THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT JUDE - 00:13:26.33\00:13:29.64 I READ IT TO YOU EARLIER - IN VERSE 6. 00:13:29.67\00:13:31.94 THE DEVIL'S BEING CHAINED IN DARKNESS, BUT THEN THEY'LL HAVE 00:13:31.97\00:13:36.38 NOBODY TO TEMPT BECAUSE THE RIGHTEOUS ARE RAISED - DEAD 00:13:36.41\00:13:41.85 RIGHTEOUS - THOSE WHO ARE ALIVE ARE TRANSFORMED - WE GO UP - THE 00:13:41.88\00:13:46.25 WICKED WHO ARE ALIVE ARE DESTROYED BY THE BRIGHTNESS OF 00:13:46.29\00:13:48.49 HIS COMING. HOW MANY LIVING PEOPLE 00:13:48.52\00:13:50.16 DOES THAT LEAVE ON EARTH? NONE. SO IT DESCRIBES THIS TIME WHEN 00:13:50.19\00:13:55.20 SATAN IS BOUND ON THIS PLANET AND HE'S GOT A THOUSAND YEARS, 00:13:55.23\00:13:58.97 WHILE WE'RE LIVING AND REIGNING WITH CHRIST, TO CONTEMPLATE THE 00:13:59.00\00:14:01.70 RESULTS OF HIS REBELLION AGAINST GOD. 00:14:01.74\00:14:04.91 NOW THE LORD IS DOING THIS DELIBERATELY BECAUSE HE'S GOING 00:14:04.94\00:14:07.71 TO DEMONSTRATE TO THE UNIVERSE THAT HE HAS NO ALTERNATIVE BUT 00:14:07.74\00:14:11.25 TO DO WHAT HE'S GOING TO DO TO LUCIFER AND HIS FOLLOWERS. 00:14:11.28\00:14:14.32 SO SATAN'S DOWN HERE WITH ALL HIS ANGELS - THEY'VE GOT TO LIVE 00:14:14.35\00:14:16.05 WITH EACH OTHER. THEY'RE GOING TO ALL BLAME EACH OTHER. 00:14:16.08\00:14:19.19 THEY'RE GOING TO BE CHASING LUCIFER ALL OVER THE PLANET AND 00:14:19.22\00:14:21.56 SAY, 'WE WOULDN'T BE HERE IF IT WASN'T FOR YOU.' HE'S GOT TO PUT 00:14:21.59\00:14:24.23 UP WITH THAT FOR A THOUSAND YEARS. 00:14:24.26\00:14:26.29 AND SO, THEY'RE IN THIS DARK PRISON DURING THAT TIME. 00:14:26.33\00:14:29.86 DOUG: DON'T GO ANYWHERE, FRIENDS. 00:14:31.40\00:14:32.80 WE'LL BE BACK IN JUST A MOMENT, 00:14:32.83\00:14:34.40 WITH THE REST OF TODAY'S PRESENTATION. 00:14:34.44\00:14:36.64 HAVE YOU READ WHAT THE BIBLE ACTUALLY SAYS 00:14:36.67\00:14:38.64 ABOUT THE LAST DAY EVENTS? 00:14:38.67\00:14:40.54 ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE SIGNS OF THE SECOND COMING, 00:14:40.58\00:14:43.55 LAST PLAGUE IN THE FINAL JUDGMENT? 00:14:43.58\00:14:46.15 ANYONE WHO'S EVEN GLANCING AT THE HEADLINES TODAY 00:14:46.18\00:14:49.42 PROBABLY WONDERS IF OUR WORLD IS PLUNGING TOWARDS ARMAGEDDON. 00:14:49.45\00:14:53.15 BUT I WANT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT 00:14:53.19\00:14:55.16 EVEN IN THE FACE OF ALL THAT'S HAPPENING, YOU CAN STILL LIVE 00:14:55.19\00:14:58.63 WITH PEACE AND ASSURANCE FOR YOUR FUTURE. 00:14:58.66\00:15:01.16 WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW HOW? 00:15:01.20\00:15:02.80 AMAZING FACTS WANTS TO SHARE WITH YOU 00:15:02.83\00:15:04.87 “THE FINAL EVENTS OF PROPHECY” MAGAZINE. 00:15:04.90\00:15:07.60 IT FEATURES 32 PAGES OF CAPTIVATING, COLORFUL, 00:15:07.64\00:15:11.07 AND BIBLICALLY-ACCURATE INFORMATION. 00:15:11.11\00:15:13.78 THIS ONE-OF-A-KIND SHARING RESOURCE 00:15:13.81\00:15:15.91 COVERS THE SEVEN KEY EVENTS OF THE LAST DAYS, 00:15:15.94\00:15:19.08 AND IT UNVEILS THE ASTONISHING PREDICTIONS ABOUT OUR PLANET'S 00:15:19.11\00:15:22.22 FINAL DAYS, AND HOW YOU CAN BE READY FOR THEM. 00:15:22.25\00:15:25.32 TO GET YOUR FREE COPY CALL THE PHONE NUMBER ON THE SCREEN 00:15:25.59\00:15:28.59 AND ASK FOR OFFER NUMBER 856, OR VISIT THE WEB ADDRESS. 00:15:28.62\00:15:32.83 AND AFTER YOU READ THIS INCREDIBLE RESOURCE 00:15:32.86\00:15:35.26 BE SURE AND SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND. 00:15:35.30\00:15:37.37 LET'S RETURN NOW TO TODAY'S PRESENTATION AND LEARN 00:15:37.40\00:15:40.30 SOME MORE AMAZING FACTS FROM THE WORD OF GOD. 00:15:40.34\00:15:43.24 WHO IS RAISED - QUESTION 3 - 00:15:44.94\00:15:46.34 IN THE SECOND RESURRECTION, AND WHEN WILL IT TAKE PLACE? 00:15:46.37\00:15:50.08 IT SAYS, IN JOHN CHAPTER 5, VERSE 28 - JESUS SPEAKING HERE - 00:15:50.11\00:15:54.18 "ALL THAT ARE IN THE GRAVES SHALL HEAR HIS VOICE, AND SHALL 00:15:54.22\00:15:56.82 COME FORTH: THEY THAT HAVE DONE GOOD UNTO THE RESURRECTION OF 00:15:56.85\00:16:00.29 LIFE; AND THEY THAT HAVE DONE EVIL, UNTO THE RESURRECTION OF 00:16:00.32\00:16:04.43 DAMNATION." HOW MANY RESURRECTIONS? 00:16:04.46\00:16:06.13 TWO. TWO. 00:16:06.16\00:16:07.93 YOU EVEN READ ABOUT THAT IN DANIEL CHAPTER 12, 'MANY OF THEM 00:16:07.96\00:16:11.13 THAT SLEEP IN THE DUST OF THE EARTH SHALL AWAKE; SOME TO 00:16:11.17\00:16:13.20 EVERLASTING LIFE, SOME TO SHAME AND EVERLASTING CONTEMPT.' 00:16:13.23\00:16:16.97 YOU'VE GOT TWO SEPARATE RESURRECTIONS - THEY'VE GOT A 00:16:17.01\00:16:19.11 THOUSAND YEARS BETWEEN THEM, AND SO, IF, IN THE RESURRECTION YOU 00:16:19.14\00:16:24.68 COME FORTH AND YOU STILL HAVE WRINKLES, YOU'RE IN THE WRONG 00:16:24.71\00:16:27.45 RESURRECTION. (LAUGHTER) THAT'S NOT GOOD. 00:16:27.48\00:16:30.72 BECAUSE WE GET GLORIFIED BODIES AT THAT POINT, RIGHT? 00:16:30.75\00:16:34.29 REVELATION 20, VERSE 5, "BUT THE REST OF THE DEAD (THE WICKED) 00:16:34.32\00:16:38.46 LIVED NOT AGAIN UNTIL THE THOUSAND YEARS WERE FINISHED." 00:16:38.49\00:16:41.23 I READ THIS BUT I WANT TO RE-EMPHASIZE IT. 00:16:41.26\00:16:43.77 BEFORE I MOVE ON, I'VE JUST GOT TO STOP AND SAY SOMETHING - 00:16:43.80\00:16:47.27 HOPEFULLY YOU'VE CAUGHT IT ALONG THE WAY, BUT THERE IS A LOT OF 00:16:47.30\00:16:50.17 CONFUSION AMONG CHRISTIANS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A PERSON DIES. 00:16:50.21\00:16:55.24 WALK THROUGH A CHRISTIAN CEMETERY AND CHURCHYARD CEMETERY 00:16:55.28\00:16:58.65 SOMETIME, YOU WILL SEE THE CONFUSION. 00:16:58.68\00:17:00.95 YOU READ THE TOMBSTONES AND ONE TOMBSTONE WILL SAY, 'OUR BELOVED 00:17:00.98\00:17:05.02 MOTHER, RESTING IN PEACE WAITING FOR THE RESURRECTION MORNING'. 00:17:05.05\00:17:09.56 THEN YOU GO TWO TOMBSTONES AWAY IT'LL SAY, 'OUR BELOVED MOTHER, 00:17:09.59\00:17:12.63 WALKING ON GOLDEN STREETS'. 00:17:12.66\00:17:15.56 SO, IS SHE RESTING AND WAITING FOR THE RESURRECTION OR IS SHE 00:17:15.60\00:17:18.17 SINGING WITH THE ANGELS AND WALKING ON GOLDEN STREETS? 00:17:18.20\00:17:20.27 AND YOU'LL SEE ALL - PEOPLE ARE VERY CONFUSED. 00:17:20.30\00:17:22.70 THEY SAY, 'NOW, DOESN'T THE BIBLE SAY TO BE ABSENT FROM THE 00:17:22.74\00:17:24.94 BODY IS TO BE PRESENT WITH THE LORD'? YES. 00:17:24.97\00:17:28.11 THAT MEANS, IF YOU'RE A BELIEVER AND YOU DIE, YOUR NEXT CONSCIOUS 00:17:28.14\00:17:32.15 THOUGHT, WHICH WILL SEEM LIKE THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, WILL BE 00:17:32.18\00:17:35.25 THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD AND THE RESURRECTION OF THE RIGHTEOUS - 00:17:35.28\00:17:37.82 BUT THEY'RE NOT THERE YET BECAUSE THE RESURRECTION HASN'T 00:17:37.85\00:17:40.32 HAPPENED AND THE JUDGMENT HASN'T HAPPENED. 00:17:40.36\00:17:42.89 THE BIBLE IS REALLY CLEAR THAT THE DEAD ARE SLEEPING UNTIL THE 00:17:42.92\00:17:46.03 RESURRECTION, BUT THEY DON'T KNOW THEY'RE SLEEPING. 00:17:46.06\00:17:48.86 THERE ARE ABOUT A DOZEN RESURRECTIONS IN THE BIBLE. 00:17:48.90\00:17:53.70 JESUS RAISED SEVERAL PEOPLE. YOU'VE GOT RESURRECTIONS 00:17:53.74\00:17:55.77 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. DO YOU KNOW, IN EVERY SINGLE 00:17:55.80\00:17:58.47 RESURRECTION IN THE BIBLE, NONE OF THOSE RESURRECTED EVER 00:17:58.51\00:18:01.94 MAKE ONE COMMENT ON WHAT THEY EXPERIENCED DURING 00:18:01.98\00:18:04.38 DEATH - NONE OF THEM. WHY? 00:18:04.41\00:18:08.45 THE DEAD KNOW NOT ANYTHING, ACCORDING TO SOLOMON. 00:18:08.48\00:18:11.65 THEY'RE SLEEPING A DREAMLESS SLEEP. 00:18:11.69\00:18:14.36 THEY DO NOT DIE AND GO RIGHT TO HEAVEN; THEY DO NOT DIE AND GO 00:18:14.39\00:18:16.59 RIGHT TO HELL. SO, WHEN SOMEONE SAYS, YOU KNOW, 00:18:16.62\00:18:19.03 'I'M SO THANKFUL FOR MY GRANDMA BECAUSE HER NEXT THOUGHT IS THE 00:18:19.06\00:18:22.70 RESURRECTION.' THAT'S TRUE. SHE'S NOT THERE YET, THOUGH. 00:18:22.73\00:18:25.97 BECAUSE YOU AND I LIVE IN A DIMENSION OF TIME. 00:18:26.00\00:18:28.57 YOU REALIZE GOD IS NOT CONFINED TO TIME. 00:18:28.60\00:18:31.71 AMEN. GOD CAN GO INTO THE FUTURE, HE 00:18:31.74\00:18:33.68 CAN GO INTO THE PAST BUT, AS FAR AS THE TIME WE LIVE IN, 00:18:33.71\00:18:36.78 THEY'RE NOT THERE YET. SO THE IDEA THAT YOUR LOVED ONES 00:18:36.81\00:18:39.75 ARE IN HEAVEN SPYING ON YOU OR, IF THEY'RE LOST, THAT THEY'RE 00:18:39.78\00:18:43.39 SUFFERING IN THE LAKE OF FIRE, THAT COMES FROM PAGANISM - 00:18:43.42\00:18:47.12 THAT'S NOT - LET ME GIVE YOU SOME VERSES ON THAT. 00:18:47.16\00:18:49.02 GO WITH ME TO 1 CORINTHIANS 15:21, "FOR SINCE BY MAN CAME 00:18:49.06\00:18:52.79 DEATH, BY MAN ALSO CAME THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD. 00:18:52.83\00:18:56.06 FOR AS IN ADAM ALL DIE, EVEN SO IN CHRIST ALL SHALL BE MADE 00:18:56.10\00:19:00.47 ALIVE. BUT EACH ONE IN HIS OWN ORDER" - 00:19:00.50\00:19:02.87 HERE'S THE ORDER - VERY PLAIN - "CHRIST THE FIRSTFRUITS, 00:19:02.90\00:19:06.64 AFTERWARD THOSE WHO ARE CHRIST'S AT HIS COMING." 00:19:06.68\00:19:10.65 WHEN ARE THEY MADE ALIVE? AT HIS COMING, WHICH MEANS, 00:19:10.68\00:19:14.68 BEFORE HIS COMING, THEY ARE NOT ALIVE. 00:19:14.72\00:19:17.85 AND, IF YOU'RE NOT ALIVE, YOU'RE DEAD. 00:19:17.89\00:19:21.06 THE BIBLE DOESN'T HAVE AN IN BETWEEN. 00:19:21.09\00:19:23.39 AND SO, PEOPLE ARE NOT GETTING THEIR REWARDS BEFORE THE 00:19:23.43\00:19:26.43 RESURRECTION AND THE JUDGMENT. WE'VE GOT A WHOLE STUDY ON THAT; 00:19:26.46\00:19:30.07 I WISH I HAD MORE TIME TO TALK ABOUT. 00:19:30.10\00:19:32.43 WHAT WILL THE CONDITION OF THE EARTH BE LEFT IN DURING THE ONE 00:19:32.47\00:19:35.90 THOUSAND YEARS? WHAT'S IT LOOK LIKE DOWN HERE? 00:19:35.94\00:19:38.44 MANY OF US HAVE HEARD THE POPULAR LEFT BEHIND SCENARIO OF 00:19:38.47\00:19:42.34 FINAL EVENTS , WHERE THE RIGHTEOUS ARE SECRETLY RAPTURED, 00:19:42.38\00:19:49.62 LIFE CONTINUES TO GO ON HERE ON EARTH, THERE'S 144,000 LITERAL 00:19:49.65\00:19:54.19 JEWS THAT ARE CONVERTED - THAT ARE PREACHING EVERYWHERE - THE 00:19:54.22\00:19:57.33 SEVEN LAST PLAGUES FALL, SOME PEOPLE MAY STILL BE CONVERTED AT 00:19:57.36\00:20:00.20 THE END OF THAT SEVEN YEARS OF TRIBULATION, THEN JESUS COMES 00:20:00.23\00:20:04.73 BACK DOWN HERE ON EARTH WITH THE RIGHTEOUS AND WE LIVE AND REIGN 00:20:04.77\00:20:08.07 DOWN HERE TOGETHER FOR A THOUSAND YEARS AND THEN THE 00:20:08.10\00:20:10.44 WICKED ARE DESTROYED AT THE END OF THAT ONE THOUSAND YEARS, 00:20:10.47\00:20:12.74 WHICH REALLY PUTS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WICKED 00:20:12.77\00:20:15.31 ANOTHER THOUSAND YEARS BEYOND THE COMING OF THE LORD. 00:20:15.34\00:20:17.91 IN THAT SCENARIO, IS THERE EVER A TIME WHEN THE EARTH IS VACANT? 00:20:17.95\00:20:24.09 THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING GOING ON DOWN HERE. 00:20:24.12\00:20:26.32 BUT, IF YOU READ IN 2 PETER CHAPTER 3, IT SAYS, 'THE DAY OF 00:20:26.35\00:20:29.32 THE LORD WILL COME AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT, IN WHICH THE HEAVENS 00:20:29.36\00:20:32.26 PASS AWAY WITH A GREAT NOISE, THE ELEMENTS MELT WITH FERVENT 00:20:32.29\00:20:36.23 HEAT, THE EARTH AND THE THINGS THAT ARE IN IT ARE BURNED UP.' 00:20:36.26\00:20:41.47 SO WHAT'S THE WORLD GOING TO LOOK LIKE DURING THAT TIME? 00:20:41.50\00:20:44.34 AND YOU LOOK AT THIS VERSE HERE IN ISAIAH 24, "BEHOLD, THE LORD 00:20:44.37\00:20:47.54 MAKETH THE EARTH EMPTY," - NOBODY HERE - "AND MAKETH IT 00:20:47.58\00:20:51.15 WASTE." 'BEHOLD, THE LORD MAKES THE 00:20:51.18\00:20:53.68 EARTH UTTERLY EMPTY, HE TURNS IT UPSIDE DOWN, THE EARTH IS 00:20:53.72\00:20:56.92 UTTERLY BROKEN DOWN.' READ THIS VERSE IN JEREMIAH CHAPTER 4, 00:20:56.95\00:21:01.76 VERSE 23, "I BEHELD THE EARTH, AND LO, IT WAS WITHOUT FORM, AND 00:21:01.79\00:21:07.46 VOID: AND THE HEAVENS, AND THEY HAD NO LIGHT. 00:21:07.50\00:21:10.87 I BEHELD THE MOUNTAINS, AND, LO, THEY TREMBLED...THERE WAS NO 00:21:10.90\00:21:14.27 MAN," - IT SOUNDS LIKE HE'S DESCRIBING THE WORLD BEFORE 00:21:14.30\00:21:16.97 CREATION, BUT KEEP READING - "AND ALL THE BIRDS OF THE 00:21:17.01\00:21:19.91 HEAVENS WERE FLED." THAT MEANS THEY WERE 00:21:19.94\00:21:21.88 THERE, BUT THEY'RE GONE. IT SAYS, "THE FRUITFUL PLACE WAS 00:21:21.91\00:21:25.68 A WILDERNESS, AND ALL THE CITIES THEREOF WERE BROKEN DOWN" - SO 00:21:25.71\00:21:30.02 THERE WAS CITIES, NOW THEY'RE BROKEN DOWN. BY WHAT? 00:21:30.05\00:21:32.45 - "AT THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD, AND BY HIS FIERCE ANGER." 00:21:32.49\00:21:36.22 PRETTY CLEAR THAT HERE'S THE CONDITION OF THE WORLD WHERE IT 00:21:36.26\00:21:38.49 SAYS BURNED UP, CITIES BROKEN DOWN, NO MAN ALIVE. 00:21:38.53\00:21:43.90 IT GOES ON AND SAYS IN ANOTHER PASSAGE, 'THE SLAIN OF THE LORD 00:21:43.93\00:21:45.97 COVER THE EARTH FROM ONE END TO THE OTHER AND THERE'S NO ONE TO 00:21:46.00\00:21:47.84 MOURN, LAMENT, OR BURY THEM.' AND SO, ALL THROUGH THE 00:21:47.87\00:21:50.97 PROPHECIES IT TALKS ABOUT THIS TIME AFTER THE JUDGEMENT WHEN 00:21:51.01\00:21:53.71 THE EARTH IS A MESS. YOU CAN LOOK IN JEREMIAH - I'M 00:21:53.74\00:21:57.28 STILL READING - "AND THE SLAIN OF THE LORD SHALL BE AT THAT DAY 00:21:57.31\00:22:00.42 FROM ONE END OF THE EARTH EVEN UNTO THE OTHER...THEY SHALL NOT 00:22:00.45\00:22:03.62 BE LAMENTED, NEITHER GATHERED, NOR BURIED." 00:22:03.65\00:22:06.72 WHERE WILL THE SLAIN BE DURING THE 1,000 YEARS, AND WHAT 00:22:06.76\00:22:10.26 ARE THEY DOING? ALRIGHT, SO NOW WE'RE TALKING 00:22:10.29\00:22:11.99 ABOUT DEAD IN CHRIST RISE, WE WHO ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN - I 00:22:12.03\00:22:16.43 WOULD LIKE TO BE ONE OF THOSE WHO ARE ALIVE AND 00:22:16.46\00:22:18.10 REMAIN, HOW ABOUT YOU? AMEN. 00:22:18.13\00:22:19.47 CAUGHT UP TO MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR - AND I THINK 00:22:19.50\00:22:21.20 HE'S COMING PRETTY SOON. YEP - AMEN. 00:22:21.24\00:22:22.94 SOME OF YOU HERE MAY DIE, BUT NOT A LOT ARE GOING TO DIE OF 00:22:22.97\00:22:25.54 OLD AGE. I THINK THAT JESUS 00:22:25.57\00:22:26.94 IS COMING SOON. AMEN. 00:22:26.98\00:22:28.68 SO WHAT'S GOING ON DURING THAT TIME? 00:22:28.71\00:22:31.65 YOU CAN READ IN JOHN CHAPTER 14, HE SAID, "I WILL COME AGAIN, AND 00:22:31.68\00:22:35.12 RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF: THAT WHERE I AM, THERE YE MAY BE 00:22:35.15\00:22:38.35 ALSO." WE'LL BE WITH HIM IN THE 00:22:38.39\00:22:40.02 MANSIONS THAT HE'S PREPARED IN THE NEW JERUSALEM. 00:22:40.06\00:22:43.22 AND THEN IT GOES ON IN REVELATION 20 AND IT SAYS IN 00:22:43.26\00:22:46.46 VERSE 4, "AND I SAW THRONES, AND THEY SAT UPON THEM, AND JUDGMENT 00:22:46.49\00:22:50.17 WAS GIVEN UNTO THEM: AND THEY LIVED AND REIGNED WITH CHRIST A 00:22:50.20\00:22:54.07 THOUSAND YEARS." SO JUDGMENT IS GIVEN UNTO THE 00:22:54.10\00:22:56.67 SAINTS AND WE LIVE AND REIGN WITH CHRIST A THOUSAND YEARS. 00:22:56.71\00:22:59.94 NOW READ IN 1 CORINTHIANS 6:2 - I KNOW SOME OF YOU ARE TAKING 00:23:00.04\00:23:03.58 NOTES FURIOUSLY - "DO YE NOT KNOW THAT THE SAINTS WILL JUDGE 00:23:03.61\00:23:07.05 THE WORLD?" - AND IT GOES ON TO SAY, "KNOW 00:23:07.08\00:23:10.85 YE NOT THAT WE SHALL JUDGE ANGELS?" 00:23:10.89\00:23:16.06 NOW, OBVIOUSLY, WE'RE NOT JUDGING GOOD ANGELS, BUT DOES 00:23:16.09\00:23:18.89 THE BIBLE TELL US THERE'S A LOT OF FALLEN ANGELS? 00:23:18.93\00:23:21.80 WE ARE NOT DECIDING WHETHER THEY'RE SAVED OR LOST. 00:23:21.83\00:23:24.53 WE ARE ACTUALLY ENDORSING - WE'RE COOPERATING BECAUSE CHRIST 00:23:24.57\00:23:29.04 SAID, 'LOOK, I WANT TO INVOLVE YOU WITH ME. 00:23:29.07\00:23:31.87 DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHY WE'RE GOING TO JUDGE THEM THE WAY 00:23:31.91\00:23:34.68 WE'RE GOING TO JUDGE THEM?' AND WE AFFIRM THE JUDGMENTS OF 00:23:34.71\00:23:37.58 GOD IS REALLY WHAT WE'RE DOING. BUT THERE'S GOING TO BE LOSS. 00:23:37.61\00:23:41.78 NOW WHY IS THIS HAPPENING? SOMEONE SAID THERE'S GOING TO BE 00:23:41.82\00:23:45.49 FOUR BIG SURPRISES WHEN YOU GET TO HEAVEN - MAYBE IT WAS THREE 00:23:45.52\00:23:50.69 SURPRISES - FIRST SURPRISE IS THAT YOU'RE THERE. 00:23:50.73\00:23:53.26 (LAUGHTER) SECOND SURPRISE IS THAT THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE THAT 00:23:53.29\00:24:01.64 ARE NOT THERE THAT YOU THOUGHT WOULD BE LEADING THE PARADE. 00:24:01.67\00:24:07.14 AND YOU'RE GOING TO GO TO YOUR ANGEL AND SAY, 'WHERE IS PASTOR 00:24:07.18\00:24:10.88 SO AND SO?' 'WHERE IS DEACON ELDER' - 00:24:10.91\00:24:12.81 'WHERE'S THIS SISTER OR BROTHER - THEY WERE JUST SO SPIRITUAL - 00:24:12.85\00:24:16.35 I DON'T SEE THEM ANYWHERE.' AND THE ANGEL SAID, 'WELL, COME WITH 00:24:16.38\00:24:20.26 ME.' AND THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE YOU TO THE LIBRARY - THE BIBLE 00:24:20.29\00:24:23.89 SAYS EVERYTHING'S IN THE BOOKS. EVERYTHING - JESUS SAID EVERY 00:24:23.93\00:24:27.66 IDLE WORD - MATTHEW CHAPTER 12 - EVERY IDLE WORD THAT MEN SPEAK 00:24:27.73\00:24:31.67 YOU'LL GIVE AN ACCOUNT THEREOF IN THE JUDGMENT. 00:24:31.70\00:24:33.67 SO EVERYTHING'S IN THE BOOKS AND SO THE ANGELS TAKE YOU OVER TO 00:24:33.70\00:24:36.97 THE BOOKS AND SAY, 'WE REALLY WANTED TO SAVE DEACON HERB' - 00:24:37.01\00:24:40.98 HOPE NOBODY HERE'S NAMED HERB - BUT - AND YOU SEE THAT, WHILE HE 00:24:41.01\00:24:47.72 LOOKED REAL GOOD ON THE OUTSIDE, THERE WAS SOME SIN THAT HE WOULD 00:24:47.75\00:24:51.92 NOT SURRENDER TO THE LORD AND YOU'LL SEE THOSE THINGS DONE IN 00:24:51.95\00:24:55.22 SECRET, JESUS SAID, WILL BE SHOUTED FROM THE HOUSETOP. 00:24:55.26\00:24:57.79 ONLY THING THAT'S GOING TO BE HIDDEN ARE THOSE THINGS UNDER 00:24:57.83\00:25:00.43 THE BLOOD. THAT'S WHY I WANT TO BE SAVED, 00:25:00.46\00:25:02.06 BECAUSE I DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE MY BOOK. 00:25:02.10\00:25:03.73 (RAUCOUS LAUGHTER) AMEN? AMEN. 00:25:03.77\00:25:07.00 I WANT IT EXPUNGED. THIRD SURPRISE IS THERE'S SOME 00:25:07.04\00:25:13.27 PEOPLE THERE AND YOU THINK, 'HOW IN THE WORLD DID THEY GET HERE? 00:25:13.31\00:25:16.11 (RAUCOUS LAUGHTER) I'VE OFTEN THOUGHT, CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT 00:25:16.14\00:25:20.62 IT'S GOING TO BE LIKE WHEN STEPHEN GETS TO HEAVEN - AND 00:25:20.65\00:25:25.65 STEPHEN IS IN HEAVEN, HE'S ENJOYING HEAVEN AND THEY'RE ALL, 00:25:25.69\00:25:28.49 YOU KNOW, GIVING HIM HIS CROWNS FOR HIS BEING THE FIRST 00:25:28.52\00:25:31.26 CHRISTIAN MARTYR AND THEN THEY SEE THIS CHARACTER IS BEING 00:25:31.29\00:25:34.56 CARRIED ON THE SHOULDERS OF THE ANGELS AND IT'S PAUL. 00:25:34.60\00:25:37.40 (LAUGHTER) AND WHEN STEPHEN KNEW HIM, HIS 00:25:37.43\00:25:39.70 NAME WAS SAUL AND HE WAS KILLING CHRISTIANS. 00:25:39.73\00:25:42.44 AND STEPHEN'S GOING TO SAY TO HIS ANGEL, 'YOU GUYS NORMALLY DO 00:25:42.47\00:25:45.04 REALLY GOOD WORK, BUT THERE'S SOMETHING DEFINITELY WRONG WITH 00:25:45.07\00:25:47.34 THIS PICTURE BECAUSE LAST TIME I SAW HIM, HE WAS AN ACCOMPLICE IN 00:25:47.38\00:25:51.38 MY MURDER. WHAT'S HE DOING HERE? 00:25:51.41\00:25:54.18 I MEAN, I BELIEVE IN FORGIVING AND EVERYTHING, BUT' - AND THE 00:25:54.22\00:25:56.75 ANGEL SAYS, 'STEPHEN, WASN'T YOUR LAST PRAYER, 'FATHER, 00:25:56.79\00:25:58.82 FORGIVE THEM'? WELL, THE FATHER FORGAVE HIM. 00:25:58.85\00:26:03.93 AND HE WAS CONVERTED AND HE SUFFERED MUCH FOR THE GOSPEL AND 00:26:03.96\00:26:08.80 HE WAS SO SORRY ABOUT WHAT HE DID TO YOU.' SO, DURING THIS ONE 00:26:08.83\00:26:12.57 THOUSAND YEARS, THERE'S A LOT OF QUESTIONS. 00:26:12.60\00:26:14.47 AND IT'S LIKE A THOUSAND-YEAR SABBATH - FOR SIX THOUSAND 00:26:14.50\00:26:17.81 YEARS, FROM THE TIME OF ADAM, TO THE COMING OF THE LORD - AND WE 00:26:17.84\00:26:20.98 DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHEN THAT IS, BUT IT'S APPROXIMATELY THAT 00:26:21.01\00:26:23.08 PERIOD OF TIME, CHRIST HAS BEEN SOWING THE SEED OF THE GOSPEL - 00:26:23.11\00:26:26.68 THEN WE ARE GOING TO LIVE AND REIGN - IT'S LIKE 00:26:26.72\00:26:28.15 A THOUSAND-YEAR SABBATH. DO YOU KNOW, WHEN THE CHILDREN 00:26:28.18\00:26:31.09 OF ISRAEL WERE CARRIED OFF TO BABYLON BY KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR, 00:26:31.12\00:26:35.12 GOD TOOK THE SURVIVORS TO THIS GOLDEN CITY? 00:26:35.16\00:26:37.83 AND THE BIBLE SAYS THE LAND WAS DESOLATE AND IT KEPT SABBATH 00:26:37.86\00:26:42.80 WHILE IT WAS DESOLATE. THE PLANET IS GOING TO GET 00:26:42.83\00:26:45.97 A THOUSAND-YEAR SABBATH. GOD HAD A PATTERN IN THE BIBLE 00:26:46.00\00:26:48.34 WHERE, FOR SIX YEARS YOU WOULD SOW THE SEED IN THE FIELD, ONE 00:26:48.37\00:26:53.31 YEAR YOU WOULD LET IT LAY FALLOW - YOU'D LET IT REST. 00:26:53.34\00:26:56.51 AND THEN, GOD IS GOING TO CREATE A NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH. 00:26:56.54\00:27:01.55 DOUG: BEASTS, PLAGUES, AND THE CRYPTIC NUMBER 666. 00:27:04.25\00:27:08.92 FOR MANY, THE BOOK OF REVELATION IS BOTH FRIGHTENING 00:27:08.96\00:27:11.89 AND CONFUSING. 00:27:11.93\00:27:13.23 DOES THIS LAST BOOK OF THE BIBLE REALLY PROVIDE INSIGHT 00:27:13.26\00:27:16.67 FOR THE FINAL DAYS? 00:27:16.70\00:27:18.00 OR IS IT NOTHING MORE THAN AN OMINOUS BOOK OF DOOM AND GLOOM? 00:27:18.03\00:27:21.40 ON THE CONTRARY, REVELATION IS, AS THE TITLE SUGGESTS, 00:27:21.44\00:27:25.54 A REVEALING, A POWERFUL, PROPHETIC BOOK FILLED WITH HOPE, 00:27:25.57\00:27:29.71 ENCOURAGEMENT, AND YES, URGENT MESSAGES OR FINAL WARNING 00:27:29.74\00:27:33.92 FOR OUR WORLD. 00:27:33.95\00:27:35.25 FRIENDS, PLEASE JOIN ME, DOUG BATCHELOR, 00:27:35.28\00:27:37.55 AS AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS "THE PINNACLE OF PROPHECY: UNLOCKING 00:27:37.59\00:27:42.36 REVELATION'S MYSTERIES," STARTING OCTOBER 27 AT 7 P.M. 00:27:42.39\00:27:46.39 PACIFIC TIME. 00:27:46.43\00:27:47.73 YOU CAN ATTEND IN PERSON AT THE GRANITE BAY HILLTOP CHURCH, 00:27:47.76\00:27:50.67 AND YOU CAN VIEW THE PROGRAMS ON AFTV, 00:27:50.70\00:27:52.43 FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE, AND MORE. 00:27:52.47\00:27:54.94 YES, IT'S TRUE: YOU CAN KNOW THE FUTURE. 00:27:54.97\00:27:57.74 FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO REGISTER, 00:27:57.77\00:27:59.67 VISIT PINNACLEOFPROPHECY.COM. 00:27:59.71\00:28:02.08 ¤¤¤ 00:28:02.11\00:28:07.88 MALE ANNOUNCER: DON'T FORGET TO REQUEST TODAY'S FREE OFFER, 00:28:07.92\00:28:09.95 IT'S SURE TO BE A BLESSING. 00:28:09.98\00:28:11.75 AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT 00:28:11.79\00:28:13.86 AS WE TAKE THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST 00:28:13.89\00:28:15.92 TO THE WORLD. 00:28:15.96\00:28:19.69 ¤¤¤ 00:28:19.73\00:28:24.87 THIS PRESENTATION WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS 00:28:24.90\00:28:27.17 OF THE AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:28:27.20\00:28:29.30