>> THIS PRESENTATI IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE 00:01:00.82\00:01:03.36 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:01:03.39\00:01:08.36 >> COMING UP NEXT ON "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 00:01:08.40\00:01:11.57 >> WHEREVER YOU GET A FIRST RESURRECTION, 00:01:11.60\00:01:12.73 WHAT DOES THAT INDICATE? SOMEWHERE THERE'S A SECOND 00:01:12.77\00:01:15.40 RESURRECTION. DO YOU REALIZE THE TWO 00:01:15.44\00:01:17.01 RESURRECTIONS DON'T HAPPEN AT THE SAME TIME? 00:01:17.04\00:01:23.98 >> FOR OVER 40 YEARS, AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN 00:01:24.01\00:01:26.58 DEDICATED TO SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:01:26.61\00:01:30.25 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST 00:01:30.29\00:01:33.12 TELEVISION BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK 00:01:33.15\00:01:37.09 AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 00:01:37.13\00:01:42.66 TODAY'S PRESENTATION IS AN EXCERPT FROM 00:01:42.70\00:01:44.43 "THE MOST AMAZING PROPHECIES" VIDEO SERIES. 00:01:44.47\00:01:52.04 >> OUR STUDY TONIGHT, OF COURSE, IS THE MILLENNIUM OF PEACE BASED 00:01:52.07\00:01:55.68 MOSTLY ON REVELATION 20 AND THIS JUDGMENT THAT TAKES PLACE. 00:01:55.71\00:02:01.65 THERE IS A JUDGMENT COMING THAT YOU WILL PARTICIPATE IN. 00:02:01.68\00:02:05.09 WE ALL THINK ABOUT THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT AND THAT'S 00:02:05.12\00:02:08.76 IN OUR STUDY TONIGHT, BUT DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU'RE GONNA 00:02:08.79\00:02:11.09 PARTICIPATE IN AN ASPECT OF JUDGMENT? 00:02:11.13\00:02:13.96 AND SOMETIMES IT'S INTERESTING THE WAY THINGS ARE GONNA TURN 00:02:14.00\00:02:17.50 AROUND. LET'S START BY GOING TO OUR 00:02:17.53\00:02:21.30 BIBLES AND TURN WITH ME TO REVELATION 20. 00:02:21.34\00:02:24.87 NOW I DON'T HAVE TIME TO READ ALL OF IT, BUT I WANT TO GIVE 00:02:24.91\00:02:28.18 YOU THE BACKGROUND FOR THIS MOST AMAZING PROPHECY THAT WE'RE 00:02:28.21\00:02:31.28 GOING TO STUDY. IT SORT OF TIES TOGETHER SO MANY 00:02:31.31\00:02:33.21 SUBJECTS AND THAT'S ONE REASON I CHOSE THIS. 00:02:33.25\00:02:36.79 REVELATION 20:1, "THEN I SAW AN ANGEL COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN 00:02:36.82\00:02:44.06 HAVING THE KEY TO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT AND A GREAT CHAIN IN HIS 00:02:44.09\00:02:48.26 HAND AND HE LAID HOLD OF THE DRAGON, THAT SERPENT OF OLD WHO 00:02:48.30\00:02:53.23 IS THE DEVIL, AND SATAN, AND BOUND HIM FOR A THOUSAND YEARS. 00:02:53.27\00:02:58.34 AND HE CAST HIM INTO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT AND SHUT HIM UP 00:02:58.37\00:03:01.54 AND SET A SEAL ON HIM SO THAT HE SHOULD DECEIVE THE NATIONS NO 00:03:01.58\00:03:05.31 MORE TILL THE THOUSAND YEARS WERE FINISHED. 00:03:05.35\00:03:08.78 BUT AFTER THESE THINGS, HE MUST BE RELEASED FOR A LITTLE WHILE. 00:03:08.82\00:03:12.85 AND I SAW THRONES AND THEY THAT SAT UPON THEM AND JUDGMENT WAS 00:03:12.89\00:03:16.36 COMMITTED TO THEM. AND I SAW THE SOULS OF THOSE WHO 00:03:16.39\00:03:20.20 HAD BEEN BEHEADED FOR THEIR WITNESS TO JESUS AND FOR 00:03:20.23\00:03:23.03 THE WORD OF GOD WHO HAD NOT WORSHIPED THE BEAST IN HIS IMAGE 00:03:23.06\00:03:25.80 AND HAD NOT RECEIVED HIS MARK ON THEIR FOREHEAD OR IN THEIR HANDS 00:03:25.83\00:03:28.54 AND THEY LIVED AND REIGNED WITH CHRIST FOR A THOUSAND YEARS. 00:03:28.57\00:03:33.78 BUT THE REST OF THE DEAD DID NOT LIVE AGAIN UNTIL THE THOUSAND 00:03:33.81\00:03:36.11 YEARS WERE FINISHED." THIS WAS THE FIRST RESURRECTION. 00:03:36.14\00:03:39.11 IN OTHER WORDS, THOSE WHO WERE LIVING AND REIGNING WITH CHRIST, 00:03:39.15\00:03:41.15 THEY'RE THE ONES FROM THE FIRST RESURRECTION. 00:03:41.18\00:03:43.72 NOW THE SUBJECT OF THE MILLENNIUM, AS I SAID, 00:03:43.75\00:03:46.45 MILLENNIUM IS A COMPOSITE OF TWO WORDS, TWO LATIN WORDS. 00:03:46.49\00:03:49.89 A LOT OF THE CHRISTIAN TERMS OF THEOLOGY WERE NAMED, LIKE 00:03:49.92\00:03:53.23 TRINITY'S NOT FOUND IN THE BIBLE, THE CONCEPT IS THERE. 00:03:53.26\00:03:56.50 YOU DON'T FIND THE WORD RAPTURE AND A NUMBER OF OTHER TEACHINGS 00:03:56.53\00:03:59.13 THAT COME FROM LATIN WORDS WHEN THE CHURCH SPOKE LATIN. 00:03:59.17\00:04:02.24 MILLE ANNIUM COMES FROM, OF COURSE, A THOUSAND YEARS IS WHAT 00:04:02.27\00:04:06.94 THAT SIMPLY MEANS AND THE TEACHING OF THE THOUSAND YEARS 00:04:06.98\00:04:09.84 IS CERTAINLY THERE IN REVELATION 20. 00:04:09.88\00:04:12.31 LET'S BEGIN WITH OUR FIRST QUESTION AS WE DIVE INTO THIS. 00:04:12.35\00:04:15.28 WHAT EVENTS MARK THE BEGINNING OF THE 1,000-YEAR PERIOD THAT WE 00:04:15.32\00:04:19.75 JUST READ ABOUT IN REVELATION 20? 00:04:19.79\00:04:22.72 YOU CAN READ ABOUT IT IN 1 THESSALONIANS 4:16, "FOR THE 00:04:22.76\00:04:26.49 LORD HIMSELF WILL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT, AND 00:04:26.53\00:04:31.87 THE DEAD IN CHRIST WILL RISE." SO ONE OF THE EVENTS THAT MARKS 00:04:31.90\00:04:37.27 THE BEGINNING OF THE 1,000 YEARS, OF COURSE, 00:04:37.31\00:04:39.04 IS THE LORD COMING BACK, THE DEAD IN CHRIST RISE. 00:04:39.07\00:04:42.44 WE JUST READ IN REVELATION 20. IT SAID, "THESE ARE THOSE WHO 00:04:42.48\00:04:45.41 ARE PART OF THE FIRST RESURRECTION." 00:04:45.45\00:04:48.58 AND IT GOES ON TO SAY IN VERSES 4 AND 5, "AND THEY LIVE 00:04:48.62\00:04:52.19 AND REIGN WITH CHRIST FOR A THOUSAND YEARS." 00:04:52.22\00:04:56.16 NOW I'VE GOT A CHART HERE THAT JUST SHOWS YOU A LITTLE BIT OF 00:04:56.19\00:04:59.33 THE MILLENNIUM. IT BEGINS WITH THE FIRST RESURRECTION. 00:04:59.36\00:05:02.50 IT SAYS, "THE REST OF THE DEAD, IF THE DEAD IN CHRIST WERE IN 00:05:02.53\00:05:05.77 THE FIRST RESURRECTION, YA'LL WITH ME? 00:05:05.80\00:05:08.14 WHEREVER YOU'VE GOT A FIRST RESURRECTION WHAT THAT DOES THAT 00:05:08.17\00:05:09.90 INDICATE? SOMEWHERE THERE'S A SECOND RESURRECTION. 00:05:09.94\00:05:13.51 THE DEAD IN CHRIST RISE FIRST, WHEN JESUS COMES THEN IT SAYS 00:05:13.54\00:05:16.31 IN REVELATION 20, "THE REST OF THE DEAD." 00:05:16.34\00:05:18.55 IF THE DEAD IN CHRIST, IF THE SAVED ARE IN THE FIRST 00:05:18.58\00:05:21.22 RESURRECTION, WHO ARE THE REST OF THE DEAD? 00:05:21.25\00:05:24.29 THE LOST, THE WICKED. IS THAT SAFE TO SAY? 00:05:24.32\00:05:27.46 THEY DON'T LIVE AGAIN UNTIL THE THOUSAND YEARS ARE FINISHED. 00:05:27.49\00:05:30.86 THAT'S WHAT WE JUST READ. ALL RIGHT, QUESTION NUMBER TWO, 00:05:30.89\00:05:34.86 "WHAT ELSE WILL HAPPEN AT THE FIRST RESURRECTION?" 00:05:34.93\00:05:38.07 ANSWER, 1 CORINTHIANS 15:51-53, "WE SHALL NOT ALL SLEEP, BUT 00:05:38.10\00:05:43.97 WE SHALL ALL BE CHANGED, IN A MOMENT, IN THE TWINKLING OF AN 00:05:44.01\00:05:47.44 EYE, AT THE LAST TRUMP: FOR THE TRUMPET WILL SOUND, AND THE DEAD 00:05:47.48\00:05:52.05 SHALL BE RAISED INCORRUPTIBLE." IT SAYS AGAIN IN 00:05:52.08\00:05:55.92 PHILIPPIANS 3:21, "THE LORD WHO WILL CHANGE 00:05:55.95\00:05:59.42 OUR VILE BODY, THAT IT MIGHT BE FASHIONED LIKE UNTO HIS GLORIOUS 00:05:59.45\00:06:04.03 BODY." NOW I WANT TO PAUSE RIGHT HERE 00:06:04.06\00:06:06.63 AND TALK ABOUT THAT FOR A SECOND. 00:06:06.66\00:06:08.36 WE'VE JUST READ THAT WHEN THE LORD COMES, THE DEAD IN CHRIST 00:06:08.40\00:06:11.57 RISE, WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO ARE ALIVE? 00:06:11.60\00:06:13.90 THEY'RE CHANGED IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE. 00:06:13.94\00:06:16.14 SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT TWINKLING OF AN EYE IS THE SECRET RAPTURE. 00:06:16.17\00:06:18.54 IT NEVER SAYS THAT. 00:06:18.57\00:06:19.67 THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE IS WHEN THOSE OF US WHO ARE ALIVE 00:06:19.71\00:06:21.44 AND REMAIN, OUR BODIES ARE TRANSFORMED FROM THESE 00:06:21.48\00:06:24.91 CORRUPTIBLE BODIES THAT HAVE ALL THE ACHES AND PAINS AND THEY GET 00:06:24.95\00:06:27.08 OLD TO GLORIFIED BODIES THAT ARE MEANT TO DWELL WITH CHRIST IN 00:06:27.12\00:06:31.35 HEAVEN FOREVER. ARE WE GHOSTS? NO. 00:06:31.39\00:06:34.92 THE BIBLE SAYS, "WE WILL GET BODIES," I JUST READ IT TO YOU 00:06:34.96\00:06:37.29 IN PHILIPPIANS, "LIKE UNTO HIS GLORIFIED BODY." 00:06:37.33\00:06:40.70 WHEN JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD, WHAT KIND OF BODY DID HE HAVE? 00:06:40.73\00:06:43.67 WAS HE A GHOST? COULD THEY TOUCH HIM? 00:06:43.70\00:06:47.00 COULD THEY HUG HIM? THEY HELD HIS FEET. 00:06:47.04\00:06:49.97 DID HE EAT IN FRONT OF THEM? THOSE OF YOU WHO KNOW YOUR 00:06:50.01\00:06:52.31 BIBLES KNOW HE ATE WITH THEM, HE WAS VERY REAL AND VERY TANGIBLE 00:06:52.34\00:06:56.71 BUT HE HAD A DIFFERENT KIND OF BODY IN THAT IT WAS A GLORIFIED 00:06:56.75\00:06:59.51 BODY. HE COULD APPEAR AND DISAPPEAR 00:06:59.55\00:07:01.98 FOR ONE THING. SEE, WHEN ADAM AND EVE SINNED, 00:07:02.02\00:07:06.09 THEY LOST A DIMENSION OF THEIR NATURE. 00:07:06.12\00:07:11.43 ADAM AND EVE USED TO HAVE THESE GARMENTS OF LIGHT. 00:07:11.46\00:07:13.56 I THINK MAN USED TO LIVE IN FOUR DIMENSIONS, WE LIVE IN 00:07:13.60\00:07:15.76 THE SPIRITUAL DIMENSION. THERE ARE ANGELS IN THIS ROOM 00:07:15.80\00:07:17.63 NOW. HOW COME WE CAN'T SEE THEM? MAN, BECAUSE OF SIN, HAS BEEN 00:07:17.67\00:07:22.47 STUNTED WHERE WE ONLY CAN SEE THESE THREE DIMENSIONS. 00:07:22.50\00:07:26.51 WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES ON A PROPHET, HE CAN THEN SEE 00:07:26.54\00:07:28.78 THE ANGELS. HE CAN TALK AND THE SPIRIT REALM IS OPEN TO HIM. 00:07:28.81\00:07:32.28 SO WHEN WE GET OUR GLORIFIED BODIES, IT'S NOT MAKING US JUST 00:07:32.31\00:07:36.72 SPIRITUAL, IT'S ADDING THE MISSING DIMENSION. 00:07:36.75\00:07:39.42 WE STILL HAVE OUR PHYSICAL BODIES BUT THERE'S THE SPIRITUAL 00:07:39.45\00:07:42.36 DIMENSION THAT WE LOST BECAUSE OF SIN. DID THAT MAKE SENSE? 00:07:42.39\00:07:46.06 AND SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE THESE REAL BODIES, THEY'RE CHANGED IN 00:07:46.09\00:07:49.00 AN INSTANT, REAL BODIES LIKE JESUS HAD. 00:07:49.03\00:07:52.60 THEN IT GOES ON TO SAY, 2 THESSALONIANS 2:8. 00:07:52.63\00:07:55.97 WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN TO THE WICKED AT THAT TIME? 00:07:56.00\00:07:58.47 IT SAID, "THEN THE WICKED ONE WILL BE REVEALED, 00:07:58.51\00:08:00.91 WHOM THE LORD-- SHALL DESTROY WITH THE 00:08:00.94\00:08:02.28 BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING." WHAT HAPPENS TO THE WICKED WHO 00:08:02.31\00:08:04.98 ARE ALIVE WHEN JESUS COMES? THEY ARE DESTROYED BY THE 00:08:05.01\00:08:09.22 BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING. THERE ARE FOUR KINDS OF PEOPLE. 00:08:09.25\00:08:13.39 YOU GOT THE GOOD LIVING AND THE GOOD DEAD. 00:08:13.42\00:08:19.73 YOU GOT THE BAD LIVING AND THE BAD DEAD. 00:08:19.76\00:08:22.93 LET ME SAY IT ANOTHER WAY. YOU GOT THE DEAD IN CHRIST, 00:08:22.96\00:08:25.70 YOU GOT THE LIVING IN CHRIST. YOU GOT THE DEAD WITHOUT CHRIST, 00:08:25.73\00:08:29.50 THE LOST, AND YOU GOT THE LIVING WHO ARE WITHOUT CHRIST. 00:08:29.54\00:08:32.44 ISN'T THAT RIGHT? THERE'S FOUR GROUPS. 00:08:32.47\00:08:34.44 WE'VE JUST COVERED WHAT'S HAPPENING TO THOSE FOUR GROUPS. 00:08:34.48\00:08:37.08 IN THIS ROOM AND SOME WHO ARE LISTENING, WE HAD TWO GROUPS, 00:08:37.11\00:08:40.25 HOPEFULLY THERE ARE NO DEAD LISTENING RIGHT NOW. 00:08:40.28\00:08:42.75 BUT AT LEAST THE TWO GROUPS ARE REPRESENTED, RIGHT? 00:08:42.78\00:08:46.15 I'M HOPING THAT ALL LISTENING WILL CHOOSE TO BE IN THE FIRST 00:08:46.19\00:08:48.76 GROUP, THE DEAD IN CHRIST--NO, NO, NOT THE DEAD IN CHRIST. 00:08:48.79\00:08:56.03 A LOT OF CHURCHES ARE FILLED WITH THE DEAD IN CHRIST. 00:08:56.06\00:09:00.64 I WANT THE LIVING INHRIST. OH, MAN, I'M DIGGING A HOLE. 00:09:00.67\00:09:05.31 ALL RIGHT, SO THE WICKED WHO ARE ALIVE WHEN THE LORD COMES, 00:09:05.34\00:09:10.38 WHAT HAPPENS TO THEM? THEY'RE DESTROYED BY THE 00:09:10.41\00:09:12.48 BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING. THE WICKED WHO ARE DEAD WHEN 00:09:12.51\00:09:15.42 JESUS COMES, THEY STAY DEAD UNTIL THE SECOND RESURRECTION. 00:09:15.45\00:09:19.35 YOU KNOW THE BIBLE'S VERY CLEAR, THERE ARE TWO RESURRECTIONS. 00:09:19.39\00:09:21.82 JESUS SAID, "THE HOUR IS COMING INTO WHICH ALL THAT ARE IN THE 00:09:21.86\00:09:23.99 GRAVES WILL HEAR HIS VOICE. THEY THAT HAVE DONE GOOD, SHALL 00:09:24.03\00:09:26.49 COME FORTH UNTO THE RESURRECTION OF LIFE. 00:09:26.53\00:09:29.23 THEY THAT HAVE DONE EVIL, THE RESURRECTION OF DAMNATION. 00:09:29.26\00:09:32.90 AND DANIEL 12:1, MICHAEL WILL STAND UP, THAT GREAT PRINCE THAT 00:09:32.93\00:09:36.60 STANDS FOR THE CHILDREN OF THY PEOPLE. 00:09:36.64\00:09:38.14 THERE'LL BE A TIME OF TROUBLE SUCH AS THERE NEVER HAS BEEN 00:09:38.17\00:09:39.87 SINCE THERE WAS A NATION UNDER THAT SAME TIME AND AT THAT TIME 00:09:39.91\00:09:42.81 THY PEOPLE WILL BE DELIVERED AND MANY OF THEM THAT SLEEP IN THE 00:09:42.84\00:09:45.95 DUST OF THE EARTH SHALL AWAKE. SOME TO EVERLASTING LIFE, 00:09:45.98\00:09:49.12 RESURRECTION OF LIFE. SOME TO SHAME AND EVERLASTING 00:09:49.15\00:09:51.72 CONTEMPT, RESURRECTION OF DAMNATION. 00:09:51.75\00:09:54.56 YOU'VE GOT TWO DIFFERENT RESURRECTIONS THE BIBLE SPEAKS 00:09:54.59\00:09:57.23 OF. YOU WANT TO BE IN THE FIRST ONE, JUST TAKE MY WORD FOR IT. 00:09:57.26\00:10:02.36 THE WICKED WHO ARE DESTROYED BY THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING, 00:10:02.40\00:10:05.70 THEY'RE THE ONES WHO ARE DESCRIBED IN THIS GRIZZLY 00:10:05.73\00:10:07.64 PASSAGE YOU FIND. I DON'T LIKE TO READ SOME OF 00:10:07.67\00:10:09.70 THESE THINGS, BUT I WANT TO BE FAITHFUL TO READ THE VERSES. 00:10:09.74\00:10:12.37 REVELATION 19:17-18, IT SAYS, "THEN I SAW AN ANGEL STANDING 00:10:12.41\00:10:18.05 IN THE SUN; AND HE CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, SAYING TO ALL THE 00:10:18.08\00:10:21.38 BIRDS THAT FLY IN THE MIDST OF HEAVEN, 'COME AND GATHER 00:10:21.42\00:10:25.52 TOGETHER FOR THE SUPPER OF THE GREAT DAY OF GOD.'" 00:10:25.55\00:10:28.22 NOW THE DEVIL IS BOUND IN THIS BOTTOMLESS PIT. 00:10:28.26\00:10:32.89 WHAT IS THE BOTTOMLESS PIT THAT THE BIBLE SPEAKS OF? 00:10:32.93\00:10:37.63 YOU KNOW, THAT'S NOT THE BEST TRANSLATION. 00:10:37.67\00:10:41.17 IN REVELATION 20 THERE IT COMES FROM A GREEK WORD, "ABUSSOS" AND 00:10:41.20\00:10:45.54 THAT WORD, "ABUSSOS," YOU CAN FIND IT IN THE SEPTUAGINT WHEN 00:10:45.57\00:10:49.58 IT DESCRIBES THE WORLD BEFORE GOD BEGAN CREATING. 00:10:49.61\00:10:51.95 WHEN IT SAYS, "IN THE BEGINNING THE EARTH WAS VOID AND WITHOUT 00:10:51.98\00:10:55.28 FORM." IN THE GREEK TRANSLATION IT 00:10:55.32\00:10:57.55 SAYS, "THE EARTH WAS ABUSSOS." SATAN IS BOUND HERE ON EARTH 00:10:57.59\00:11:02.62 AND A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN CONFUSED. 00:11:02.66\00:11:04.06 THEY THINK THAT THE LORD'S GOT SOME WORM HOLE OUT THERE IN THE 00:11:04.09\00:11:06.70 COSMOS AND SATAN'S GONNA GET LOCKED UP IN THIS COSMIC, 00:11:06.73\00:11:10.20 BOTTOMLESS PIT SOMEWHERE THAT THEY CAN'T UNDERSTAND. 00:11:10.23\00:11:13.07 THAT'S AN UNFORTUNATE TRANSLATION. 00:11:13.10\00:11:14.87 IF YOU HAVE ANY DOUBTS ABOUT WHAT IT IS, THE ANSWER'S 00:11:14.90\00:11:17.11 IN THE BIBLE. IN LUKE 8:31, IT TELLS THE STORY 00:11:17.14\00:11:22.04 ABOUT THESE DEMONIACS FILLED WITH A LEGION OF DEMONS. 00:11:22.08\00:11:26.72 AND WHEN CHRIST WAS PREPARING TO CAST THE DEMONS OUT OF THESE 00:11:26.75\00:11:29.58 MEN, THEY SAID, "PLEASE, DO NOT CAST US OUT INTO THE ABUSSOS." 00:11:29.62\00:11:35.02 THE EXACT SAME WORD, OF COURSE, IT'S TRANSLATED, "DON'T CAST US 00:11:35.06\00:11:38.99 INTO THE DEEP OR THE ABYSS." BUT IT'S THE EXACT SAME WORD 00:11:39.03\00:11:43.26 YOU FIND IN REVELATION 20. AND WHAT IS THE ABYSS? 00:11:43.30\00:11:48.27 IT'S WHEN THE DEVILS DON'T HAVE ANYONE TO TEMPT OR MANIPULATE. 00:11:48.30\00:11:50.94 THEY WERE STILL HERE IN THE WORLD, BUT THEY JUST DIDN'T HAVE 00:11:50.97\00:11:54.01 ANYBODY TO POSSESS. SO THEY SAID, "DON'T CAST US OUT 00:11:54.04\00:11:56.14 OF THE MAN INTO NOTHING, LET'S US AT LEAST POSSESS THOSE PIGS." 00:11:56.18\00:11:59.75 AND SO THEY DIDN'T WANT TO BE BOUND IN THAT WAY WHERE THEY 00:11:59.78\00:12:03.12 COULDN'T TEMPT ANYBODY, COULDN'T MANIPULATE. 00:12:03.15\00:12:05.82 SEE, THE DEVIL'S A SPIRIT. 00:12:05.85\00:12:07.32 HOW DOES HE MANIFEST HIMSELF TO THE WORLD? 00:12:07.36\00:12:11.76 THROUGH PEOPLE HE POSSESSES, THROUGH HIS DEMONS. 00:12:11.79\00:12:15.43 PEOPLE TALK ABOUT HAUNTED HOUSES. 00:12:15.46\00:12:17.67 YOU KNOW, I REALLY DON'T THINK DEMONS ENJOY HAUNTING, 00:12:17.70\00:12:20.70 POSSESSING 2 X 4S AND PLASTER. THEY GET A LOT MORE 00:12:20.74\00:12:24.14 ENTERTAINMENT OUT OF POSSESSING PEOPLE OR LIVING ANIMALS. 00:12:24.17\00:12:29.34 WE KNOW THE DEVIL CAN POSSESS ANIMALS. 00:12:29.38\00:12:32.61 DID HE DO IT WITH A SERPENT? WE KNOW HE DID IT WITH PIGS. 00:12:32.65\00:12:36.45 SOME OF YOU WHO HAVE PETS, YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN EPISODES 00:12:36.48\00:12:39.29 WHERE YOU WONDER. WE KNOW THE LORD CAN POSSESS 00:12:39.32\00:12:42.29 ANIMALS, RIGHT? DID A DONKEY TALK TO BALAAM? 00:12:42.32\00:12:46.26 YEAH, SO THEY WANT TO POSSESS THESE LIVING CREATURES THAT 00:12:46.29\00:12:49.20 AT LEAST HAVE SOME ELEMENT OF INTELLIGENCE. 00:12:49.23\00:12:51.53 I KNOW MOSQUITOES ARE ALL DEMON-POSSESSED, ALL OF THEM 00:12:51.57\00:12:54.84 ARE, FLIES, ALL OF THEM. MATTER OF FACT, ONE OF THE WORDS 00:12:54.87\00:12:58.44 THEY GOT FOR FLIES, BEELZEBUB, ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 00:12:58.47\00:13:01.54 THAT WAS IN "THE LORD OF FLIES." "WHO WILL BE RAISED IN 00:13:01.58\00:13:04.98 THE SECOND RESURRECTION AND WHEN DOES IT TAKE PLACE?" 00:13:05.01\00:13:07.88 NOW, THIS IS REINFORCING WHAT WE JUST TOUCHED ON. 00:13:07.92\00:13:09.72 IT TELLS US THAT IN JOHN 5, "ALL THAT ARE IN THEIR GRAVES WILL 00:13:09.75\00:13:14.79 HEAR HIS VOICE, THAT HAVE COME FORTH." 00:13:14.82\00:13:16.49 IT TELLS US, THE GOOD, THE RESURRECTION OF LIFE BUT IN THE 00:13:16.52\00:13:20.00 SECOND RESURRECTION, THE EVIL, THE RESURRECTION OF DAMNATION. 00:13:20.03\00:13:24.53 AND AGAIN, REVELATION 20:5, "THE REST OF THE DEAD DO NOT LIVE 00:13:24.57\00:13:28.10 AGAIN UNTIL THE THOUSAND YEARS ARE FINISHED. 00:13:28.14\00:13:31.74 TURN WITH ME IN YOUR BIBLES, I DON'T HAVE ALL THE SCRIPTURES ON 00:13:31.77\00:13:34.08 THE SCREEN, I JUST DON'T WANT YOU TO GET LAZY. 00:13:34.11\00:13:36.31 LUKE 14:14 IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE, THERE'S SO MANY VERSES I COULD 00:13:36.34\00:13:41.62 GIVE YOU IF TIME PERMITTED THAT REINFORCE THESE TEACHINGS. 00:13:41.65\00:13:47.16 JESUS SAID, "YOU WILL BE BLESSED BECAUSE THEY CANNOT REPAY YOU. 00:13:47.19\00:13:51.26 YOU WILL BE REPAID AT THE RESURRECTION OF THE JUST." 00:13:51.29\00:13:55.23 DIDN'T CHRIST MAKE IT CLEAR, THERE'S A RESURRECTION OF THE 00:13:55.26\00:13:57.70 JUST AND THERE'S A RESURRECTION OF THE UNJUST, 00:13:57.73\00:14:00.84 TWO RESURRECTIONS. I WAS SURPRISED WHEN I READ 00:14:00.87\00:14:03.14 THE BIBLE AND DISCOVERED THAT. I THOUGHT EVERYBODY WAS RAISED 00:14:03.17\00:14:05.44 AT THE END WHEN THE LORD CAME. THAT'S NOT WHAT THE BIBLE 00:14:05.47\00:14:07.78 TEACHES. "WHERE DO DEAD PEOPLE GO 00:14:07.81\00:14:09.94 WHEN THEY DIE?" THERE IS SO MUCH CONFUSION. 00:14:09.98\00:14:13.08 "PASTOR DOUG, WE KNOW THAT IF YOU'RE GOOD WHEN YOU DIE, YOU GO 00:14:13.11\00:14:16.69 TO HEAVEN. IF YOU'RE BAD WHEN YOU DIE, YOU GO RIGHT TO HELL." 00:14:16.72\00:14:19.95 BUT IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, THAT'S KIND OF CONFUSING BECAUSE 00:14:19.99\00:14:23.59 WE ALL KNOW THE RESURRECTION HASN'T TAKEN PLACE YET. 00:14:23.63\00:14:26.70 THE GENERAL RESURRECTION THE BIBLE SPEAKS OF SO MANY PLACES 00:14:26.73\00:14:29.03 AT THE END OF THE WORLD, THE LORD'S DAY, THE LAST DAY, 00:14:29.06\00:14:31.60 IT ALWAYS TALKS ABOUT THE LORD COMING IN HIS RESURRECTION. 00:14:31.63\00:14:34.34 WHY WOULD PEOPLE GO TO THEIR REWARDS BEFORE THE RESURRECTION? 00:14:34.37\00:14:38.07 AND FURTHERMORE, WHY WOULD THEY GO TO THEIR REWARDS BEFORE 00:14:38.11\00:14:41.14 THE JUDGMENT? AND THEN SOME CHURCHES HAVE 00:14:41.18\00:14:44.58 DEVELOPED SORT OF THESE VARIOUS LIMBOS. 00:14:44.61\00:14:46.85 THE SAVED, THEY GO TO THE BOSOM OF ABRAHAM. 00:14:46.88\00:14:49.55 OR THE LOST, THEY GO TO SOME FORM OF PURGATORY. 00:14:49.58\00:14:51.99 IT'S LIKE A HOLDING TANK UNTIL THEY CAN BE JUDGED. 00:14:52.02\00:14:55.36 PART OF THE CONFUSION COMES FROM READING VERSES WHERE PAUL SAYS, 00:14:55.39\00:14:59.63 "TO BE ABSENT FROM THE BODY IS TO BE PRESENT WITH THE LORD." 00:14:59.66\00:15:02.70 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD THAT QUOTED BEFORE? 00:15:02.73\00:15:05.13 WELL, IN EFFECT, THAT'S TRUE. IF YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN, FOR 00:15:05.17\00:15:08.67 EXAMPLE, AND YOU DIE, YOUR NEXT CONSCIOUS THOUGHT IS 00:15:08.70\00:15:13.41 THE RESURRECTION OF THE JUST. IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN HUNDREDS OF 00:15:13.44\00:15:16.95 YEARS AGO, BUT IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE THAT TO YOU. 00:15:16.98\00:15:19.88 IT SEEMS LIKE THE MOMENT, THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE. 00:15:19.91\00:15:22.75 I'VE GOT SOME EXAMPLES OF THAT HERE. 00:15:22.78\00:15:24.79 JOB 17:13, WHERE DO THE WICKED STAY UNTIL THE RESURRECTION? 00:15:24.82\00:15:30.13 HE SAID, "IF I WAIT, THE GRAVE IS MY HOUSE." 00:15:30.16\00:15:33.60 THERE'S A WAITING PERIOD. THEY DON'T KNOW IT. 00:15:33.63\00:15:35.96 IT'S NOT LIKE RESTLESS SLEEP, IT'S A DREAMLESS SLEEP. 00:15:36.00\00:15:39.53 ACTS 2:29, NOW KEEP IN MIND PETER IS PREACHING HERE. 00:15:39.57\00:15:43.94 PETER IS PREACHING AFTER JESUS HAS ASCENDED TO HEAVEN. 00:15:43.97\00:15:47.28 SOME PEOPLE SAY, "WELL, THE NEW TESTAMENT THINGS ARE DIFFERENT. 00:15:47.31\00:15:49.81 YES, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, THEY STAYED IN THE GRAVES, BUT NOW 00:15:49.84\00:15:52.01 THAT CHRIST WENT TO HEAVEN, EVERYBODY'S IN HEAVEN." 00:15:52.05\00:15:53.58 NO, NO, NO, PETER'S PREACHING LONG AFTER THE RESURRECTION. 00:15:53.62\00:15:57.19 LISTEN TO WHAT HE SAYS, "MEN AND BRETHREN, LET ME FREELY SPEAK 00:15:57.22\00:16:00.19 UNTO YOU OF THE PATRIARCHDAVID." 00:16:00.22\00:16:02.09 THIS IS GOOD KING DAVID, THE ONE WHO KILLED GOLIATH. 00:16:02.12\00:16:05.03 HE'S GONNA BE SAVED, THE MAN AFTER GOD'S OWN HEART. 00:16:05.06\00:16:07.50 "THAT HE IS BOTH DEAD AND BURIED, AND HIS GRAVE IS WITH US 00:16:07.50\00:16:12.03 UNTO THIS DAY." "OH, YEAH, WELL THAT'S HIS 00:16:12.07\00:16:14.20 GRAVE, BUT HE'S IN HEAVEN, ISN'T HE, DOUG?" KEEP READING, 00:16:14.24\00:16:17.11 VERSE 34, "FOR DAVID IS NOT ASCENDED INTO THE HEAVENS." 00:16:17.14\00:16:21.58 SO PETER SAYS, "HE'S DEAD, HE'S BURIED, HE'S NOT IN HEAVEN." 00:16:21.61\00:16:25.75 NOW DAVID DIED ABOUT A THOUSAND YEARS BEFORE CHRIST. 00:16:25.78\00:16:29.48 SO THAT'S ABOUT 3,000 YEARS AGO AND IT SAYS, "DAVID SLEPT 00:16:29.52\00:16:33.22 WITH HIS FATHERS." HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN FOR DAVID? 00:16:33.25\00:16:37.09 IF YOU WERE PART OF KING DAVID'S FAMILY, WHEN YOU LAID HIM IN THE 00:16:37.13\00:16:39.43 GRAVE, YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO FEEL SAD FOR DAVID BECAUSE HIS NEXT 00:16:39.46\00:16:42.80 CONSCIOUS THOUGHT IS BEING WITH THE LORD. 00:16:42.83\00:16:45.63 SO IF YOU COULD PUT YOURSELF IN HIS SHOES, THERE IS NO TIME. 00:16:45.67\00:16:48.40 THAT'S WHAT CONFUSES PEOPLE. YOU AND I, DOES GOD LIVE 00:16:48.44\00:16:51.31 IN ANYONE? CAN GOD GO FOREVER IN THE FUTURE 00:16:51.34\00:16:53.27 AND SEE IT? CAN GOD TRAVEL INTO THE PAST? 00:16:53.31\00:16:56.81 GOD IS NOT ONLY OMNIPRESENT GEOGRAPHICALLY, 00:16:56.85\00:16:58.81 GOD IS OMNIPRESENT IN TIME. HE IS SO GREAT, HE CAN BE 00:16:58.85\00:17:02.55 FOREVER THIS WAY AND FOREVER THAT WAY FROM EVERLASTING TO 00:17:02.58\00:17:06.42 EVERLASTING THOU ART GOD. YOU AND I LIVE IN A DIMENSION OF 00:17:06.45\00:17:09.52 TIME AND AS FAR AS THE TIME OUR WORLD OCCUPIES UNDER, 00:17:09.56\00:17:14.96 THEY'RE NOT THERE YET. IF THEY ARE THERE, YOU DON'T 00:17:15.00\00:17:17.90 NEED A RESURRECTION. AND THEN SOME SAY, "WELL, YEAH, 00:17:17.93\00:17:20.90 YOU NEED A RESURRECTION SO HE CAN COME BACK AND GET THE BODY." 00:17:20.94\00:17:22.84 WE'VE JUST LEARNED THEY'RE NOT GETTING THE OLD BODY. 00:17:22.87\00:17:26.74 IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE-- SO MANY PEOPLE ARE CONFUSED. 00:17:26.78\00:17:28.98 ALL YOU GOTTA GO IS WALK THROUGH A CEMETERY AND SEE HOW CONFUSED 00:17:29.01\00:17:30.81 PEOPLE ARE. READ THE TOMBSTONES. 00:17:30.85\00:17:33.31 WALK THROUGH THE CEMETERY, YOU SEE A TOMBSTONE, "OUR DEARLY 00:17:33.35\00:17:36.25 BELOVED MOTHER IS NOW SINGING ON THE GOLDEN STREETS WITH 00:17:36.28\00:17:40.02 THE ANGELS," ONE TOMBSTONE. SAME CHURCH CEMETERY, I WENT TO 00:17:40.06\00:17:44.39 TEXAS, THEY GOT BAPTIST, CHURCH OF CHRIST, METHODIST CHURCHES 00:17:44.43\00:17:47.60 EVERYWHERE AND A LOT OF THEM HAVE DWINDLED BUT SOME OF THEM 00:17:47.60\00:17:50.70 STILL HAVE THE CEMETERIES AND YOU CAN WALK IN THE SAME CHURCH 00:17:50.73\00:17:53.17 CEMETERY AND IT'LL SAY, "OUR MOTHER'S ON THE GOLDEN STREETS 00:17:53.20\00:17:57.14 SINGING WITH THE ANGELS." SAME CEMETERY, 00:17:57.17\00:17:59.37 "OUR MOTHER RESTING IN THE ARMS OF JESUS 00:17:59.41\00:18:01.44 WAITING FOR THE RESURRECTION MORNING." CONFUSION. 00:18:01.48\00:18:06.25 WELL, THE BIBLE'S CLEAR, THEY'RE ASLEEP, A DREAMLESS SLEEP. 00:18:06.28\00:18:08.72 THEY'RE NOT SPYING ON YOU RIGHT NOW. 00:18:08.75\00:18:11.65 SOME PEOPLE, THERE'S A LOT OF SPIRITUALISM IN OUR WORLD. 00:18:11.69\00:18:13.66 PEOPLE TRYING TO COMMUNICATE WITH THEIR LOVED ONES AND YOU'VE 00:18:13.69\00:18:15.66 GOTTA KNOW THE DEAD ARE ASLEEP UNTIL THE RESURRECTION. 00:18:15.69\00:18:19.06 LET'S KEEP GOING. 00:18:19.09\00:18:20.20 "HOW MUCH DOES A DEAD PERSON KNOW BEFORE THE RESURRECTION?" 00:18:20.23\00:18:25.00 ANSWER, IT SAYS IN ECCLESIASTES 9:6, 00:18:25.03\00:18:32.74 "THE DEAD KNOW NOT ANY THING, NEITHER HAVE THEY ANYMORE 00:18:32.77\00:18:36.28 A REWARD; FOR THE MEMORY OF THEM IS FORGOTTEN. 00:18:36.31\00:18:40.35 ALSO THEIR LOVE, AND THEIR HATRED, THEIR ENVY, IS NOW 00:18:40.38\00:18:43.18 PERISHED; NEITHER HAVE THEY ANY MORE A PORTION FOR EVER IN ANY 00:18:43.22\00:18:48.02 THING THAT IS DONE UNDER THE SUN." 00:18:48.06\00:18:49.52 THAT MEANS, THEY DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO FOREVER WITH 00:18:49.56\00:18:52.03 ANYTHING THAT HAPPENS IN THIS LIFE. 00:18:52.06\00:18:55.13 HOW DID JESUS REFER TO DEATH? REMEMBER WHEN LAZARUS, 00:18:55.16\00:19:00.67 S FRIEND, DIED? WHAT DID JESUS SAY? 00:19:00.70\00:19:04.14 HE SAID, OUR FRIEND LAZARUS WHAT? SLEEPETH. 00:19:04.17\00:19:10.51 AND THEY SAID, "OH, THAT'S GOOD, LORD, HE WAS SICK, HE NEEDED 00:19:10.55\00:19:12.35 SOME REST. HE'LL FEEL BETTER." 00:19:12.38\00:19:14.05 JESUS CLARIFIES 'CAUSE THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND. 00:19:14.08\00:19:15.95 HE SAYS, "LAZARUS IS DEAD." NOW IF YOU READ JOHN 11, 00:19:15.98\00:19:20.06 HOW LONG WAS LAZARUS DEAD? FOUR DAYS. AND WHEN LAZARUS WAS 00:19:20.09\00:19:30.13 BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE, HE'D ALREADY BEGAN TO DECOMPOSE. 00:19:30.17\00:19:35.34 IF YOU HAD BEEN LIVING IN THE WORLD BACK THEN AND YOU MET 00:19:35.37\00:19:39.51 SOMEBODY WHO HAD BEEN DEAD FOR 4 DAYS AND YOU WANTED TO KNOW 00:19:39.54\00:19:42.51 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE, WOULDN'T YOU WANT TO ASK 00:19:42.54\00:19:46.48 LAZARUS, "WHAT WAS IT LIKE? WHAT DID YOU SEE? 00:19:46.51\00:19:50.72 WHERE DID YOU GO? WHAT DID YOU FEEL? 00:19:50.75\00:19:52.62 WHAT DID YOU SENSE? WHO WAS THERE?" 00:19:52.65\00:19:54.32 RIGHT? THE BIG QUESTION. 00:19:54.36\00:19:56.62 IF THAT HAPPENED TODAY, SOMEBODY'D BEEN DEAD FOR 4 DAYS, 00:19:56.66\00:20:00.13 YOU WOULD HAVE MICROPHONES FROM EVERY NEWS AGENCY IN THE WORLD 00:20:00.16\00:20:03.93 SHOVED IN THAT PERSON'S FACE AND THE BIG QUESTION WOULD BE, 00:20:03.97\00:20:06.30 "WHAT'S ON THE OTHER SIDE?" WHAT DID LAZARUS SAY ABOUT IT? 00:20:06.33\00:20:12.37 NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. YOU KNOW WHY? 00:20:12.41\00:20:16.75 'CAUSE THEY KNEW BACK THEN THAT IT WAS LIKE A SLEEP. 00:20:16.78\00:20:19.55 LAZARUS GOT SICK WITH HIS FEVER, HE DIED. 00:20:19.58\00:20:21.42 NEXT THING HE KNOWS, HE'S IN GRAVE CLOTHES AND HE'S TRYING 00:20:21.45\00:20:23.45 TO STUMBLE OUT OF THIS TOMB. THE LIVING KNOW THEY'LL DIE, BUT 00:20:23.49\00:20:27.22 THE DEAD DON'T KNOW ANYTHING AND THERE'S JUST A LOT OF CONFUSION 00:20:27.26\00:20:30.19 IN THE CHURCH ON THIS SUBJECT. "OH, PASTOR DOUG, BUT I KNOW 00:20:30.23\00:20:32.89 SOMEBODY THEY DIED ON THE OPERATING TABLE." 00:20:32.93\00:20:35.60 THESE NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES, HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT THAT? 00:20:35.63\00:20:38.10 AND THEIR BODY CAME OUT AND THEY SAW EVERYONE IN THE SURGICAL 00:20:38.13\00:20:42.04 ROOM AND THEY SAW THEIR BODY ON THE TABLE AND THEY STARTED GOING 00:20:42.07\00:20:44.44 TOWARDS THE LIGHT. OR PEOPLE HAVE THESE DREAMS 00:20:44.47\00:20:46.94 AND THEY SAY, "I DIED, MY HEART STOPPED AND I HAD A VISION 00:20:46.98\00:20:52.38 AND I WAS ON MY WAY TO HEAVEN. AND THERE WERE THE ANGELS AND 00:20:52.41\00:20:55.65 WHEN THEY TRIED PUNCH ME INTO THE COMPUTER, THEY SAID, 'OOP, 00:20:55.68\00:20:58.19 WE'VE MADE A MISTAKE, YOU'RE HERE TOO SOON.' 00:20:58.22\00:21:00.19 AND I'M SUPPOSED TO COME BAC NOW." 00:21:00.22\00:21:01.96 YOU HEAR ALL KINDS OF BIZARRE THINGS THAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT 00:21:01.99\00:21:04.99 THEIR NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE. YOU ASK MOST DOCTORS, THEY'LL 00:21:05.03\00:21:07.50 TELL YOU THAT WHEN THERE'S A BUILD UP OF CARBON MONOXIDE 00:21:07.56\00:21:10.53 IN THE BRAIN, YOU BEGIN TO HALLUCINATE. 00:21:10.57\00:21:14.10 I ALWAYS GET CARBON MONOXIDE AND CARBON DIOXIDE MIXED UP. 00:21:14.14\00:21:18.21 I DON'T KNOW WHICH-- THE ONE THAT YOU EXHALE. 00:21:18.24\00:21:20.88 YOU GET TOO MUCH OF THAT MIXED UP. 00:21:20.91\00:21:23.01 ALL I KNOW IS THAT YOU DON'T WANT TO SUCK ON YOUR CAR EXHAUST 00:21:23.04\00:21:26.58 PIPE. NUMBER EIGHT, "WHAT IS 00:21:26.61\00:21:32.69 THE CONDITION OF THE EARTH DURING THE 1,000 YEARS?" 00:21:32.72\00:21:35.86 ISAIAH 24:1, "BEHOLD, THE LORD MAKES THE EARTH EMPTY, HE MAKES 00:21:35.89\00:21:41.53 IT WASTE, HE TURNETH IT UPSIDE DOWN." 00:21:41.56\00:21:45.27 NOW THIS IS WHERE PEOPLE GET CONFUSED. 00:21:45.30\00:21:47.17 "PASTOR DOUG, I THOUGHT WHEN WE LIVE AND REIGN WITH CHRIST, 00:21:47.20\00:21:49.70 WE ARE LIVING AND REIGNING HERE ON THE EARTH. 00:21:49.74\00:21:52.01 THE RIGHTEOUS ARE REIGNING OVER THE WICKED." 00:21:52.04\00:21:54.24 HOW MANY OF YOU WANT TO REIGN OVER THE WICKED? 00:21:54.28\00:21:57.41 ANYONE HERE WANT TO REIGN OVER THE WICKED? 00:21:57.45\00:21:59.75 WHY WOULD THE LORD HAVE THE SAVED REIGN OVER THE WICKED? 00:21:59.78\00:22:03.28 WOULD A PERSON WITH THE SPIRIT AND MIND OF CHRIST ENJOY THAT? 00:22:03.32\00:22:07.42 "I'M REIGNING OVER YOU, WICKED PEOPLE." 00:22:07.46\00:22:10.69 BUT THAT'S WHAT SOME CHURCHES TEACH. 00:22:10.73\00:22:13.60 NO. REIGNING WITH CHRIST DOESN'T 00:22:13.63\00:22:15.80 MEAN YOU HAVE TO REIGN, YOU HAVE TO SUBJUGATE SOMEBODY BAD. 00:22:15.83\00:22:19.53 REIGNING WITH CHRIST MEANS WE'RE GLORIFIED WITH HIM, WE'RE 00:22:19.57\00:22:22.27 DECLARING HIS PRAISES TO THE UNFALLEN WORLDS. 00:22:22.30\00:22:25.81 IT'S A GLORIOUS REIGN, IT'S NOT SOME DESPOTIC TYRANNICAL REIGN. 00:22:25.84\00:22:33.68 WHEN JESUS COMES BACK, THINK ABOUT THIS FOR A SECOND. 00:22:33.72\00:22:37.09 WHEN JESUS COMES BACK, FIRST LET'S JUST REMIND YOU IF YOU'VE 00:22:37.12\00:22:39.72 FORGOTTEN, "I GO," JOHN 14, "TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU. 00:22:39.75\00:22:43.09 AND IF I GO AND PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU, I WILL COME AGAIN AND 00:22:43.12\00:22:45.86 RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF." WE GO UP, WE ARE CAUGHT UP 00:22:45.89\00:22:48.93 TO MEET THE LORD. THE DEAD IN CHRIST WILL RISE. 00:22:48.96\00:22:50.93 WE WHO ARE LIVE AND REMAIN, WHAT DIRECTION DO WE GO WHEN 00:22:50.97\00:22:52.77 JESUS COMES? UP. IT'S VERY CLEAR. 00:22:52.80\00:22:56.24 THEN WE LIVE AND REIGN WITH HIM FOR A THOUSAND YEARS. 00:22:56.27\00:22:58.64 THE WICKED ARE DESTROYED BY THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING, 00:22:58.67\00:23:01.41 THE WICKED WHO ARE ALIVE. THE WICKED WHO ARE DEAD, 00:23:01.44\00:23:03.81 THEY STAY DEAD. HOW MANY HUMANS ARE ALIVE ON 00:23:03.85\00:23:06.61 THE PLANET AT THAT POINT? NONE. 00:23:06.65\00:23:09.58 YOU KNOW IN SOME OF THE POPULAR LEFT-BEHIND SCENARIOS OF FINAL 00:23:09.62\00:23:13.59 EVENTS, THEY'VE ALWAYS GOT SOMEONE ALIVE HERE ON EARTH 00:23:13.62\00:23:16.09 AND ALL THESE PROPHECIES IN THE BIBLE THAT TALK ABOUT THE EARTH 00:23:16.12\00:23:19.06 BEING DECIMATED AND TOTALLY WIPED OUT OF LIFE, 00:23:19.09\00:23:23.77 THEY DON'T FIT ANYWHERE. LET'S READ THIS ONE, JEREMIAH 4:23 00:23:23.80\00:23:28.10 NOW LET'S READ THE WHOLE THING, "I BEHELD THE EARTH, AND, 00:23:28.14\00:23:31.81 LO, IT WAS WITHOUT FORM, AND VOID--" IF I STOPPED THERE, 00:23:31.84\00:23:34.11 YOU'D THINK HE WAS TALKING ABOUT GENESIS, BUT KEEP READING. 00:23:34.14\00:23:37.51 "AND THE HEAVENS, AND THEY HAD NO LIGHT. 00:23:37.55\00:23:40.58 I BEHELD THE MOUNTAINS AND, LO, THEY TREMBLED, AND ALL THE HILLS 00:23:40.62\00:23:44.12 MOVED LIGHTLY." THIS IS SEISMIC ACTIVITY. 00:23:44.15\00:23:47.06 "I BEHELD, AND, LO, THERE WAS NO MAN--" HOW MANY MEN? 00:23:47.09\00:23:50.66 THAT MEANS NO HUMANITY, MAN WOMAN, NO MAN. 00:23:50.69\00:23:53.90 "AND ALL THE BIRDS OF HEAVEN WERE FLED." 00:23:53.93\00:23:56.20 THOSE BIRDS THAT DID THE FEASTING, THEY'RE GONE TOO. 00:23:56.23\00:23:58.73 "THE FRUITFUL PLACE WAS A WILDERNESS, AND ALL THE CITIES 00:23:58.77\00:24:02.37 ARE BROKEN DOWN." IN OTHER WORDS, THERE USED TO BE 00:24:02.40\00:24:04.07 CITIES BUT NOW THEY'RE RUBBLE. WHAT CAUSES IT? 00:24:04.11\00:24:07.51 "AT THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD AND BY HIS FIERCE ANGER." 00:24:07.54\00:24:10.58 SO THIS PROPHECY CLEARLY DESCRIBES A TIME WHEN THE EARTH 00:24:10.61\00:24:13.62 IS TOTALLY BARREN AND BROKEN DOWN WITH NO HUMANS ON IT. 00:24:13.65\00:24:18.09 THE ONLY WAY THESE PROPHECIES FIT TOGETHER IS THE SCENARIO 00:24:18.12\00:24:20.56 WE'RE SHARING WITH YOU TONIGHT. WE LIVE AND REIGN WITH CHRIST 00:24:20.59\00:24:23.16 IN HEAVEN. AND YOU KNOW THAT MAKES SENSE. 00:24:23.19\00:24:26.23 GOD WORKS ON A PRINCIPLE OF 6 DAYS YOU WORK, 1 DAY YOU REST. 00:24:26.26\00:24:29.90 A DAY WITH THE LORD IS LIKE A THOUSAND YEARS. 00:24:29.93\00:24:32.13 FOR 6,000 YEARS JESUS SAID, "I'VE BEEN SOWING THE GOSPEL 00:24:32.17\00:24:35.10 SEED." REVELATION SAYS, "I'M COMING TO HARVEST THE EARTH." 00:24:35.14\00:24:38.04 WE'RE GONNA GO SPEND A THOUSAND YEARS SABBATH WITH THE LORD IN 00:24:38.07\00:24:41.51 A HOLY PLACE. THAT ALL MAKES SENSE. 00:24:41.54\00:24:45.08 BY THE WAY, THE JEWS HAD A PROGRAM, 6 YEARS YOU FARM THE 00:24:45.11\00:24:49.28 LAND, THE 7TH YEAR, YOU LEAVE IT DESOLATE. 00:24:49.32\00:24:53.09 YOU KNOW, THAT'S HOW THE OLD TESTAMENT ENDS? 00:24:53.12\00:24:55.52 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE CARRIED OFF TO BABYLON SO THE LAND COULD 00:24:55.56\00:24:57.86 KEEP SABBATH AND WHILE IT KEPT SABBATH, IT WAS DESOLATE. 00:24:57.89\00:25:01.50 THAT WILL BE THE CONDITION OF THIS WORLD, THIS WORLD THAT'S 00:25:01.53\00:25:04.13 BEEN ABUSED BY MAN WHO IS TO BE THE STEWARD OF GOD'S GARDEN IS 00:25:04.17\00:25:07.34 GONNA REST FOR A THOUSAND YEARS, NOTHING HAPPENING DOWN HERE. 00:25:07.37\00:25:12.17 "THE SLAIN OF THE LORD THAT DAY," CONDITION OF THE EARTH 00:25:12.21\00:25:14.48 AGAIN, "SHALL BE FROM ONE END OF THE EARTH EVEN UNTO THE OTHER 00:25:14.51\00:25:18.51 END OF THE EARTH." THIS IS ONE VAST CEMETERY. 00:25:18.55\00:25:22.08 "THEY SHALL NOT BE LAMENTED, NEITHER GATHERED, NOR BURIED; 00:25:22.12\00:25:24.59 THEY SHALL BE LIKE DUNG ON THE GROUND." WHY? THERE'S NO 00:25:24.62\00:25:27.16 ONE ALIVE TO BURY THEM, NO ONE TO MOURN. NO FUNERALS. 00:25:27.19\00:25:30.86 >> STAY TUNED, PASTOR DOUG WILL BE RIGHT BACK WITH 00:25:30.89\00:25:33.16 THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL FREE OFFER. 00:25:33.19\00:25:37.53 >>SPANNING THE TIMELINE OF HUMAN HISTORY GOD HAS PROVIDED 00:25:37.57\00:25:41.20 PROPHETIC LANDMARKS SIGNALING THAT HIS COMING IS NEAR. 00:25:41.24\00:25:45.61 ARE YOU READY FOR THE NEXT BIG LEAP IN BIBLE PROPHECY? 00:25:45.64\00:25:49.04 JOIN PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR AS HE PRESENTS 00:25:49.08\00:25:51.91 'LANDMARKS OF PROPHECY.' 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