>> COMING UP NEXT ON "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 00:00:08.26\00:00:11.50 >> GOD WANTS EVERYONE TO TRUST HIM, AND YOU WILL LOOK AT 00:00:11.50\00:00:14.93 THE BOOKS AND YOU WILL SEE THAT GOD DID EVERYTHING HE COULD DO 00:00:14.93\00:00:18.23 WITHIN THE REALMS OF JUSTICE AND MERCY TO SAVE AS MANY AS 00:00:18.23\00:00:21.40 HE CAN 'CAUSE GOD IS NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH. 00:00:21.40\00:00:24.86 >> FOR OVER 40 YEARS, AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN 00:00:28.86\00:00:31.80 DEDICATED TO SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:00:31.80\00:00:35.20 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST 00:00:35.20\00:00:38.26 TELEVISION BROADCASTS. 00:00:38.26\00:00:40.53 WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF 00:00:40.53\00:00:43.70 "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 00:00:43.70\00:00:47.46 TODAY'S PRESENTATION IS AN EXCERPT FROM 00:00:47.46\00:00:49.46 "THE MILLENNIUM OF PROPHECY" VIDEO SERIES. 00:00:49.46\00:00:52.73 >> YOU KNOW BACK WHEN GOD FIRST MADE THE WORLD, EVERYTHING 00:00:57.00\00:01:00.06 WAS PERFECT IN ITS BEAUTY, IN ITS GLORY. 00:01:00.06\00:01:04.36 THERE WAS GREAT VITALITY AND VIGOR IN ALL THE CREATURES 00:01:04.36\00:01:08.06 AND IN THE VERY SOIL. 00:01:08.06\00:01:10.13 BUT WITH THE ENTRANCE OF SIN, EVEN THE GROUND ITSELF 00:01:10.13\00:01:13.93 WAS CURSED. 00:01:13.93\00:01:15.06 GOD SAID, "CURSED IS THE GROUND FOR YOUR SAKE." 00:01:15.06\00:01:17.96 AND HE FURTHER EXPLAINED THAT BECAUSE OF THIS CURSE, 00:01:17.96\00:01:20.93 "IN THE SWEAT OF YOUR FACE, YOU SHALL EAT YOUR BREAD." 00:01:20.93\00:01:24.46 UP TO THAT POINT IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, MAN'S WORK WAS A VERY 00:01:24.46\00:01:27.80 PLEASANT WORK, TRAINING THE VINES AND DOING CREATIVE THINGS 00:01:27.80\00:01:31.30 WITH WHAT GOD HAD MADE, BUT IT BECAME A MORE ARDUOUS, 00:01:31.30\00:01:35.93 TOILING SORT OF WORK. 00:01:35.93\00:01:38.46 THE GROUND BROUGHT FORTH AMALGAMATED PLANTS WITH THISTLES 00:01:38.46\00:01:43.40 AND THORNS AND THE WHOLE CREATION BECAME PERVERTED 00:01:43.40\00:01:47.33 AND CORRUPTED BECAUSE OF SIN, INCLUDING THAT THE VITALITY 00:01:47.33\00:01:50.43 OF THE SOIL WAS DEPLETED. 00:01:50.43\00:01:53.13 BECAUSE OF THIS, GOD IMPLEMENTED A LAW THAT HE GAVE TO HIS PEOPLE 00:01:53.13\00:01:56.66 WHERE THEY WERE TO GIVE THE LAND A YEAR OFF. 00:01:56.66\00:02:00.90 THE LAND WAS TO ENJOY A SABBATH, FOR A COUPLE OF REASONS. 00:02:00.90\00:02:04.00 YOU CAN READ ABOUT THIS IN EXODUS 23:10-11, "SIX YEARS YOU 00:02:04.00\00:02:09.60 SHALL SOW YOUR LAND AND GATHER ITS PRODUCE, BUT THE SEVENTH 00:02:09.60\00:02:12.86 YEAR, YOU SHALL LET IT REST," LET IT SABBATH, "AND LIE FALLOW, 00:02:12.86\00:02:17.83 THAT THE POOR OF YOUR PEOPLE MIGHT EAT." 00:02:17.83\00:02:20.70 GOD INTENDED THAT THE POOR COULD EAT THOSE CROPS, THAT THEY 00:02:20.70\00:02:23.36 HAD PUT UP ENOUGH PROVISIONS. 00:02:23.36\00:02:24.73 HE WAS GONNA BLESS THEIR INCREASE, EXTRA BLESSING 00:02:24.73\00:02:27.63 IF THEY LET THE LAND REST, BUT THE PEOPLE DIDN'T TRUST GOD. 00:02:27.63\00:02:32.16 AND YOU CAN READ IN THE BIBLE, THERE'S ACTUALLY NO RECORD OF 00:02:32.16\00:02:34.26 THEM EVER ALLOWING THE LAND TO KEEP A SABBATH. 00:02:34.26\00:02:37.56 AND FINALLY AFTER YEARS OF REBELLION AND TURNING AWAY 00:02:37.56\00:02:41.00 FROM GOD, JUDGMENT CAME. 00:02:41.00\00:02:44.80 THE BIBLE TELLS US THE KING OF BABYLON, NEBUCHADNEZZAR, 00:02:44.80\00:02:49.10 "HE CAME AND HE BURNT THE HOUSE OF GOD AND HE BROKE DOWN THE 00:02:49.10\00:02:52.83 WALL OF JERUSALEM, AND HE BURNT THE PALACES THEREOF WITH FIRE--" 00:02:52.83\00:02:57.23 NOTICE THIS IN 2 CHRONICLES 36, IT TELLS THIS WHOLE PASSAGE 00:02:57.23\00:03:00.96 HERE. 00:03:00.96\00:03:01.83 "AND THEM THAT HAD ESCAPED FROM THE SWORD CARRIED AWAY-- 00:03:01.83\00:03:06.10 CARRIED HE AWAY TO BABYLON." 00:03:06.10\00:03:08.13 NOTICE WHAT ELSE IT TELLS US IN THIS PASSAGE ABOUT WHAT 00:03:08.13\00:03:11.06 HAPPENED. 00:03:11.06\00:03:12.00 "UNTIL THE LAND HAD ENJOYED HER SABBATHS: FOR AS LONG AS SHE LAY 00:03:12.00\00:03:17.63 DESOLATE SHE KEPT SABBATH, TO FULFILL," 70 YEARS, 00:03:17.63\00:03:21.60 "THREESCORE AND TEN YEARS." 00:03:21.60\00:03:23.26 IN OTHER WORDS, GOD WAS SAYING THIS KING CAME WHO BROUGHT 00:03:23.26\00:03:27.63 JUDGMENT. 00:03:27.63\00:03:28.46 HE BURNT JERUSALEM IN THE PROMISED LAND. 00:03:28.46\00:03:30.66 SOME WERE SLAIN, SOME WERE SPARED. 00:03:30.66\00:03:33.46 THE ONES WHO WERE SPARED WERE TAKEN BACK WITH THE KING 00:03:33.46\00:03:35.70 TO THE GOLDEN EMPIRE. 00:03:35.70\00:03:37.03 THEN AFTER THEIR 70 YEARS WHEN THE LAND WAS DONE KEEPING 00:03:37.03\00:03:41.10 SABBATH, THE PEOPLE RETURNED AND BEGAN TO REBUILD JERUSALEM 00:03:41.10\00:03:45.83 AND REBUILD THE TEMPLE. 00:03:45.83\00:03:46.86 THEY MADE A NEW JERUSALEM AND THERE WAS GREAT REJOICING. 00:03:46.86\00:03:50.30 NOW LET ME DRAW THE PARALLEL FOR YOU IN THIS STORACLE. 00:03:50.30\00:03:53.13 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE THOUSAND YEARS OF REVELATION THAT YOU 00:03:53.13\00:03:56.13 FIND IN CHAPTER 20, SOMETIMES CALLED THE MILLENNIUM. 00:03:56.13\00:04:00.80 FOR 1,000 YEARS OUR WORLD IS GOING TO KEEP SABBATH. 00:04:00.80\00:04:05.26 THE LAND IS GOING TO BE FALLOW. 00:04:05.26\00:04:06.86 IT'S GOING TO BE DESOLATE. 00:04:06.86\00:04:07.96 THOSE ARE WHO NOT DESTROYED BY THE BRIGHTNESS OF 00:04:07.96\00:04:09.86 KING JESUS' COMING, GO BACK TO THE GOLDEN EMPIRE, RIGHT? 00:04:09.86\00:04:13.40 AT THE END OF THAT THOUSAND-YEAR SABBATH, WE COME AND THERE'S 00:04:13.40\00:04:16.53 A NEW JERUSALEM AND HE CREATES A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH 00:04:16.53\00:04:20.00 AND THERE'S REJOICING AMONG THE PEOPLE. 00:04:20.00\00:04:21.90 IT'S A PERFECT PARALLEL, A LITTLE MICROCOSM IN THAT STORY 00:04:21.90\00:04:25.36 TO HELP US UNDERSTAND WHAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. 00:04:25.36\00:04:28.26 WE'RE GONNA STUDY THIS NOW IN MORE DETAIL IN OUR LESSON. 00:04:28.26\00:04:31.23 LET'S GO TO QUESTION NUMBER ONE, "WHAT EVENTS MARKED 00:04:31.23\00:04:34.10 THE BEGINNING OF THE 1,000 YEARS FOUND IN REVELATION 20?" 00:04:34.10\00:04:38.13 SAY THE ANSWERS WITH ME. 00:04:38.13\00:04:39.93 "FOR THE LORD HIMSELF SHALL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN 00:04:39.93\00:04:44.23 WITH A SHOUT," AND THE BIBLE TELLS US, "AND THE DEAD 00:04:44.23\00:04:48.40 IN CHRIST SHALL RISE FIRST." 00:04:48.40\00:04:51.80 SO THERE'S A RESURRECTION IN THE SECOND COMING, AND THEN 00:04:51.80\00:04:55.20 WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THAT? 00:04:55.20\00:04:56.43 IT SAYS, "THEY LIVED AND THEY REIGNED WITH CHRIST FOR 00:04:56.43\00:05:01.03 A THOUSAND YEARS." 00:05:01.03\00:05:03.16 THE REST OF THE ANSWER TELLS US "THE REST OF THE DEAD LIVED NOT 00:05:03.16\00:05:07.03 AGAIN TILL THE THOUSAND YEARS WERE FINISHED. 00:05:07.03\00:05:09.30 THIS IS THE FIRST RESURRECTION." 00:05:09.30\00:05:12.16 NOW THIS IS OFTEN COMMONLY CALLED THE MILLENNIUM. 00:05:12.16\00:05:15.30 IT BEGINS WITH THE FIRST RESURRECTION AND 00:05:15.30\00:05:18.03 THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS. 00:05:18.03\00:05:20.46 IT ENDS WITH THE SECOND RESURRECTION OF THE WICKED. 00:05:20.46\00:05:23.33 THERE'S A THOUSAND-YEAR SPAN BETWEEN THE TWO. 00:05:23.33\00:05:25.80 QUESTION NUMBER TWO, "WHAT ELSE WILL HAPPEN AT THE TIME 00:05:25.80\00:05:29.30 OF THE FIRST RESURRECTION?" 00:05:29.30\00:05:31.63 ANSWER, IT SAYS, "WE WILL NOT ALL SLEEP, BUT WE 00:05:31.63\00:05:35.10 SHALL BE CHANGED, IN A MOMENT, IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, 00:05:35.10\00:05:39.13 FOR AT THE LAST TRUMPET, FOR THE TRUMPET WILL SOUND, 00:05:39.13\00:05:42.00 AND THE DEAD SHALL BE RAISED INCORRUPTIBLE." 00:05:42.00\00:05:45.40 2 THESSALONIANS 2:8, "THEN SHALL THAT WICKED BE REVEALED, WHOM 00:05:45.40\00:05:50.06 THE LORD SHALL CONSUME WITH THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING." 00:05:50.06\00:05:55.33 AND THEN REVELATION 16:18, 20-21, IT TELLS US THAT 00:05:55.33\00:06:00.53 THE BEGINNING OF THE MILLENNIUM IS MARKED WITH 00:06:00.53\00:06:02.90 "A GREAT EARTHQUAKE, SUCH AS WAS NOT SINCE MEN WERE 00:06:02.90\00:06:06.76 UPON THE EARTH, SO MIGHTY AN EARTHQUAKE, AND SO GREAT. 00:06:06.76\00:06:09.90 AND EVERY ISLAND FLED AWAY, AND THE MOUNTAINS WERE NOT FOUND. 00:06:09.90\00:06:14.30 AND THERE FELL UPON MEN A GREAT HAIL OUT OF HEAVEN, EVERY STONE 00:06:14.30\00:06:19.40 ABOUT THE WEIGHT OF A TALENT." 00:06:19.40\00:06:21.26 NOW DOES IT SOUND LIKE IT'S LIFE AS USUAL AFTER THE MILLENNIUM 00:06:21.26\00:06:25.03 BEGINS HERE ON THE PLANET? 00:06:25.03\00:06:26.80 ISLANDS ARE SWALLOWED UP, MOUNTAINS ARE MOVED OUT OF THEIR 00:06:26.80\00:06:29.63 PLACES AND FLATTENED OUT AND IT'S NOT GOING TO BE LIFE 00:06:29.63\00:06:32.76 AS NORMAL. 00:06:32.76\00:06:34.53 THE WICKED ARE DESTROYED BY THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING. 00:06:34.53\00:06:37.53 REVELATION 20:1-2, "AN ANGEL-- LAID HOLD ON THAT DRAGON, THAT 00:06:37.53\00:06:42.63 OLD SERPENT, WHO IS THE DEVIL, AND SATAN, AND BOUND HIM 00:06:42.63\00:06:46.73 A THOUSAND YEARS." 00:06:46.73\00:06:48.80 NOW THIS IS A PART OF THE STORY THAT SOME PEOPLE STRUGGLE WITH. 00:06:48.80\00:06:52.80 IT TALKS ABOUT THE DEVIL BEING BOUND IN, WHAT? 00:06:52.80\00:06:55.83 WHAT'S HE BOUND IN? 00:06:55.83\00:06:57.13 WHAT DO THEY CALL IT IN KING JAMES VERSION? 00:06:57.13\00:07:00.60 BOTTOMLESS PIT. 00:07:00.60\00:07:02.26 THERE'S NOWHERE ELSEWHERE THEY TRANSLATE THE WORD "ABUSSOS" 00:07:02.26\00:07:05.93 THAT WAY AND THAT'S WHAT THE WORD MEANS. 00:07:05.93\00:07:07.76 IF YOU LOOK AT THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT, THE SEPTUAGINT 00:07:07.76\00:07:10.93 WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT THE EARTH IN ITS CHAOTIC VOID CONDITION, 00:07:10.93\00:07:15.06 IT'S DESCRIBED AS THE ABUSSOS, THE ABYSS. 00:07:15.06\00:07:17.96 HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THAT STORY THAT'S FOUND IN LUKE 8:31 00:07:17.96\00:07:22.40 WHERE JESUS IS GETTING READY TO CAST THE DEMONS OUT OF THIS 00:07:22.40\00:07:25.46 DEMONIAC, A LEGION OF DEMONS AND THEY PLED, THESE DEMONS ARE 00:07:25.46\00:07:29.13 PLEADING WITH JESUS, "DO NOT CAST US INTO THE ABUSSOS." 00:07:29.13\00:07:32.83 THE VERY SAME WORD YOU FIND IN REVELATION 20. 00:07:32.83\00:07:36.00 WHAT IT MEANS THERE IS DON'T CAST US INTO THE NOTHINGNESS. 00:07:36.00\00:07:39.83 SEE THE ABYSS WITH THE DEVIL REPRESENTS THE WORLD. 00:07:39.83\00:07:43.03 THEY'RE CAPTIVE IN, THEY'RE CHAINED IN THIS WORLD, 00:07:43.03\00:07:45.13 THE BIBLE TELLS US, WITH NOBODY TO POSSESS. 00:07:45.13\00:07:48.06 AND SO WHEN DEVILS HAVE NOBODY OR NO LIVING THING TO MANIPULATE 00:07:48.06\00:07:51.43 OR TO TEMPT, THEY GO STIR CRAZY. 00:07:51.43\00:07:54.23 THEY'RE IN CHAINS OF DARKNESS, THE BIBLE TELLS US. 00:07:54.23\00:07:57.03 THE ABYSS DURING THE THOUSAND YEARS WHERE THE DEVIL IS BOUND 00:07:57.03\00:08:00.06 IS NOT A BIG BLACK HOLE SOMEWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE. 00:08:00.06\00:08:03.16 HE IS BOUND ON THIS DECIMATED, DEPLETED PLANET WITH NO PEOPLE 00:08:03.16\00:08:08.50 ALIVE TO TEMPT OR MANIPULATE. 00:08:08.50\00:08:10.33 QUESTION NUMBER THREE, "WHO WILL BE RAISED IN 00:08:10.33\00:08:14.00 THE SECOND RESURRECTION, AND WHEN DOES THIS TAKE PLACE?" 00:08:14.00\00:08:17.70 SAY THE ANSWERS WITH ME; JOHN 5:28, "ALL THAT ARE IN 00:08:17.70\00:08:21.23 THE GRAVES WILL HEAR HIS VOICE, AND SHALL COME FORTH; 00:08:21.23\00:08:24.20 THEY THAT HAVE DONE GOOD, UNTO THE RESURRECTION OF LIFE; AND 00:08:24.20\00:08:27.40 THEY THAT HAVE DONE EVIL, UNTO THE RESURRECTION OF DAMNATION." 00:08:27.40\00:08:32.63 SO WHO IS ITS THAT COMES FORTH AT THE END OF THE 1,000 YEARS? 00:08:32.63\00:08:36.30 THE WICKED. 00:08:36.30\00:08:37.86 IT SAYS IN REVELATION 25, "THE REST OF THE DEAD--" 00:08:37.86\00:08:41.16 OBVIOUSLY IF THE RIGHTEOUS ARE IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION, 00:08:41.16\00:08:43.80 WHO ARE THE REST OF THE DEAD? 00:08:43.80\00:08:45.13 I WANT TO ASK. 00:08:45.13\00:08:46.30 THE UNRIGHTEOUS, THE WICKED. 00:08:46.30\00:08:48.46 "THE REST OF THE DEAD DO NOT LIVE AGAIN UNTIL THE THOUSAND 00:08:48.46\00:08:51.10 YEARS ARE FINISHED." 00:08:51.10\00:08:52.20 THAT MEANS THEY DO LIVE AT THE END OF THE THOUSAND YEARS. 00:08:52.20\00:08:55.00 QUESTION NUMBER FOUR, "WHAT IS THE CONDITION OF THE EARTH 00:08:55.00\00:08:58.56 DURING THE MILLENNIUM?" 00:08:58.56\00:08:59.76 AND THIS IS WHAT SHOCKS A LOT OF PEOPLE. 00:08:59.76\00:09:02.00 ISAIAH 24:1, "BEHOLD, THE LORD MAKES THE EARTH EMPTY, 00:09:02.00\00:09:07.50 HE MAKES IT WASTE, HE TURNS IT UPSIDE DOWN." 00:09:07.50\00:09:11.06 JEREMIAH 4:23, "I BEHELD THE EARTH, AND LO, 00:09:11.06\00:09:15.46 IT WAS WITHOUT FORM, AND VOID." 00:09:15.46\00:09:18.10 NOW SOME PEOPLE SAY, "WHAT DOES THAT SOUNDS LIKE TO YOU, 00:09:18.10\00:09:20.43 WHAT PART OF THE BIBLE?" 00:09:20.43\00:09:21.76 SOUNDS LIKE GENESIS BUT KEEP READING AND YOU FIND OUT, 00:09:21.76\00:09:24.26 IS HE LOOKING BACK OR IS HE LOOKING FORWARD? 00:09:24.26\00:09:27.03 "IN THE HEAVENS AND THEY HAD NO LIGHT. 00:09:27.03\00:09:29.83 I BEHELD THE MOUNTAINS, AND LO, THEY TREMBLED, AND THERE WAS 00:09:29.83\00:09:33.30 NO MAN, AND ALL THE BIRDS OF HEAVEN WERE FLED." 00:09:33.30\00:09:37.43 THAT MEANS THEY WERE THERE BUT NOW THEY'RE GONE, 00:09:37.43\00:09:39.26 THEY'RE DONE WITH THE FEAST. 00:09:39.26\00:09:40.70 "AND THE FRUITFUL PLACE WAS A WILDERNESS, AND ALL THE CITIES 00:09:40.70\00:09:44.63 THEREOF ARE BROKEN DOWN AT THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD, 00:09:44.63\00:09:48.43 AND BY HIS FIERCE ANGER." 00:09:48.43\00:09:50.40 THAT'S NOT BACK IN GENESIS, IS IT? 00:09:50.40\00:09:52.80 THIS VOID WORLD THAT IS UTTERLY EMPTY IS RENDERED THAT WAY 00:09:52.80\00:09:58.03 BY THE COMING OF THE LORD. 00:09:58.03\00:09:59.73 NOW YOU KNOW WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND? 00:09:59.73\00:10:02.46 WHEN THE LORD COMES, READY OR NOT THAT'S IT, FRIENDS. 00:10:02.46\00:10:07.23 AND SO THE THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE PUTTING IT OFF THINKING THEY CAN 00:10:07.23\00:10:09.86 WAIT UNTIL AFTER THIS SECRET RAPTURE AND THEN GET THEIR ACT 00:10:09.86\00:10:12.40 TOGETHER, THEY ARE GONNA BE TERRIBLY DISAPPOINTED BECAUSE 00:10:12.40\00:10:15.76 THEY ARE NOT GOING TO HAVE THAT BENEFIT OF A WARNING. 00:10:15.76\00:10:19.80 DID I READ JEREMIAH 25:33? 00:10:19.80\00:10:21.90 "AND THE SLAIN OF THE LORD SHALL BE AT THAT DAY FROM ONE END OF 00:10:21.90\00:10:27.06 THE EARTH EVEN TO THE OTHER END OF THE EARTH: THEY SHALL NOT 00:10:27.06\00:10:30.63 BE LAMENTED, NEITHER GATHERED, NOR BURIED." 00:10:30.63\00:10:34.10 WHY AREN'T THEY BEING MOURNED? 00:10:34.10\00:10:36.03 WHY AREN'T THEY BEING BURIED? 00:10:36.03\00:10:37.63 THERE'S NONE LEFT ALIVE TO MOURN OR CONDUCT FUNERALS, RIGHT? 00:10:37.63\00:10:42.23 SATAN IS BOUND FOR 1,000 YEARS TO CONSIDER THE RESULTS 00:10:42.23\00:10:46.70 OF HIS REBELLION. 00:10:46.70\00:10:48.70 YOU'LL SEE WHY GOD ALLOWS THAT. 00:10:48.70\00:10:50.60 ALL RIGHT, QUESTION NUMBER FIVE, "WHERE WILL THE SAINTS BE 00:10:50.60\00:10:53.20 DURING THE 1,000 YEARS, AND WHAT WILL THEY BE DOING?" 00:10:53.20\00:10:57.40 JOHN 14:3 JESUS SAID, "I WILL COME AGAIN." 00:10:57.40\00:11:02.33 I BELIEVE THE LORD, DON'T YOU? 00:11:02.33\00:11:03.66 "AND RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF; THAT WHERE I AM, 00:11:03.66\00:11:08.43 THERE YOU MIGHT BE ALSO." 00:11:08.43\00:11:10.93 REVELATION 22:4, "AND I SAW THRONES, AND THEM THAT SAT UPON 00:11:10.93\00:11:15.66 THEM, AND JUDGMENT WAS GIVEN UNTO THEM--AND THEY LIVED 00:11:15.66\00:11:20.03 AND REIGNED WITH CHRIST A THOUSAND YEARS." 00:11:20.03\00:11:22.70 NOW WHAT A PRIVILEGE WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT. 00:11:22.70\00:11:24.56 WE'RE GOING TO LIVE IN THE CAPITAL OF THE INFINITE COSMOS, 00:11:24.56\00:11:27.76 BUT WHEN WE FIRST GET TO THE KINGDOM, WE'RE GONNA 00:11:27.76\00:11:30.76 HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS. 00:11:30.76\00:11:31.76 HOW ABOUT YOU? 00:11:31.76\00:11:33.80 A LOT OF QUESTIONS. 00:11:33.80\00:11:35.06 THERE'S GONNA BE SOME SURPRISES. 00:11:35.06\00:11:36.73 THERE'S GONNA BE THREE SURPRISES, 00:11:36.73\00:11:38.40 I HEARD A PREACHER SAY ONCE. 00:11:38.40\00:11:39.60 THE FIRST SURPRISE IS THAT WE'RE THERE. 00:11:39.60\00:11:42.70 AND THE SECOND SURPRISE IS GONNA BE THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE THERE 00:11:42.70\00:11:45.00 WE NEVER EXPECTED TO SEE. 00:11:45.00\00:11:48.06 THIRD SURPRISE IS THERE'S GONNA BE SOME PEOPLE MISSING WHO 00:11:48.06\00:11:51.13 WE THOUGHT WOULD BE LEADING THE PARADE. 00:11:51.13\00:11:53.76 AND WE'RE GONNA ASK OUR ANGELS, "WHERE'S SO AND SO?" 00:11:53.76\00:11:55.53 AND THEY'RE GONNA SAY, "NOT HERE," AND WE'RE 00:11:55.53\00:11:58.06 GOING TO WANT TO KNOW WHY. 00:11:58.06\00:12:00.30 BUT THEY'LL TAKE US TO THE RECORD OF DEACON JONES 00:12:00.30\00:12:02.96 OR WHOEVER IT IS AND SAY, "I THOUGHT HE'D BE HERE, 00:12:02.96\00:12:05.00 HE SEEMED LIKE SUCH A GOOD MAN." 00:12:05.00\00:12:06.20 "WELL, THERE'S SOMETHING YOU NEED TO KNOW." 00:12:06.20\00:12:08.33 THE ANGEL WILL TAKE THEM AND SHOW THEM THE RECORD BOOK AND 00:12:08.33\00:12:10.56 HE'LL SEE WHERE THE LORD DID EVERYTHING HE COULD DO IN 00:12:10.56\00:12:14.23 DEACON JONES' LIFE TO SAVE THAT INDIVIDUAL, BUT THERE WAS 00:12:14.23\00:12:17.56 A HIDDEN SIN THAT HE HID FROM THE CHURCH AND HE HID FROM 00:12:17.56\00:12:20.53 THE PEOPLE THAT HE COULDN'T HIDE FROM GOD. 00:12:20.53\00:12:23.00 AND THEN WE'RE GONNA HAVE SOME OTHER SURPRISES. 00:12:23.00\00:12:26.16 PEOPLE ARE THERE, WE THOUGHT, WHAT ARE THEY DOING HERE? 00:12:26.16\00:12:28.73 YOU'VE MADE A MISTAKE. 00:12:28.73\00:12:29.93 YOU HAD A BUG IN YOUR COMPUTER OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, 00:12:29.93\00:12:33.00 HOW CAN THIS HAPPEN? 00:12:33.00\00:12:33.90 FOR INSTANCE, CAN YOU IMAGINE THE LOOK ON STEPHEN'S FACE 00:12:33.90\00:12:39.73 WHEN HE SEES PAUL BEING GIVEN A POSITION OF GLORY 00:12:39.73\00:12:44.63 IN THE KINGDOM? 00:12:44.63\00:12:46.20 STEPHEN'S GONNA GO OVER TO HIS ANGEL, HE SAID, "YOU GUYS 00:12:46.20\00:12:48.10 TYPICALLY DO REALLY GOOD WORK. 00:12:48.10\00:12:49.70 BUT YOU KNOW I DON'T KNOW HOW TO TELL YOU THIS, 00:12:49.70\00:12:51.76 YOU'VE MADE A MISTAKE. 00:12:51.76\00:12:52.50 LAST TIME I SAW HIM, HE WAS EXECUTING CHRISTIANS 00:12:52.50\00:12:55.10 AND NOW HE'S BEING CARRIED ON THE SHOULDERS OF ANGELS. 00:12:55.10\00:12:57.00 WHAT'S THAT ALL ABOUT?" 00:12:57.00\00:12:58.73 AND THE ANGEL SAYS, "COME HERE, WE'LL SHOW YOU THE BOOKS. 00:12:58.73\00:13:01.26 AFTER HE STONED YOU, THE LORD GOT HIS ATTENTION ON THE ROAD 00:13:01.26\00:13:04.40 TO DAMASCUS AND HE WAS CHANGED AND HE BECAME ONE OF 00:13:04.40\00:13:07.10 THE GREATEST APOSTLES." 00:13:07.10\00:13:08.26 AND STEPHEN'S GONNA GO, "WOW, I GUESS WE'LL LET HIM STAY." 00:13:08.26\00:13:12.30 SEE, AND SO GOD WANTS EVERYONE TO TRUST HIM. 00:13:12.30\00:13:16.23 AND YOU WILL LOOK AT THE BOOKS AND YOU WILL SEE THAT GOD DID 00:13:16.23\00:13:19.30 EVERYTHING HE COULD DO WITHIN THE REALMS OF JUSTICE AND MERCY 00:13:19.30\00:13:22.50 TO SAVE AS MANY AS HE CAN 'CAUSE GOD IS NOT WILLING THAT ANY 00:13:22.50\00:13:25.40 SHOULD PERISH. 00:13:25.40\00:13:26.83 ARE WE DECIDING WHO'S SAVED AND WHO'S LOST? 00:13:26.83\00:13:29.53 NO, OF COURSE NOT. 00:13:29.53\00:13:30.53 GOD DETERMINES THAT. 00:13:30.53\00:13:31.73 WE WILL BE INVESTIGATING GOD'S JUDGMENT, SEE. 00:13:31.73\00:13:35.23 YOU AND I ARE NOT DETERMINING WHO'S SAVED AND LOST. 00:13:35.23\00:13:37.60 WE'RE NOT DECIDING WHETHER SATAN'S ANGELS WILL BE FORGIVEN, 00:13:37.60\00:13:40.40 BUT WE ARE CONFIRMING AND ENDORSING AND HAVING FAITH IN 00:13:40.40\00:13:44.30 GOD'S JUSTICE BECAUSE HE WANTS US TO ENTER ETERNITY TRUSTING 00:13:44.30\00:13:48.13 HIM, NO MORE DOUBTS SO SIN WILL NEVER RISE UP AGAIN. 00:13:48.13\00:13:52.73 YOU UNDERSTAND? 00:13:52.73\00:13:54.00 ALL RIGHT, BACK TO OUR LESSON. 00:13:54.00\00:13:55.50 QUESTION NUMBER SIX, "WHAT WILL HAPPEN AT THE CLOSE 00:13:55.50\00:13:58.83 OF 1,000 YEARS?" 00:13:58.83\00:14:00.86 ZECHARIAH 14, IT SAYS, "BEHOLD IN THAT DAY THE LORD COMES, AND 00:14:00.86\00:14:06.46 HIS FEET SHALL STAND IN THAT DAY UPON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, WHICH 00:14:06.46\00:14:11.46 IS BEFORE JERUSALEM ON THE EAST AND THE MOUNT OF OLIVES SHALL 00:14:11.46\00:14:16.53 CLEAVE IN THE MIDST THEREOF-- AND THE LORD MY GOD SHALL 00:14:16.53\00:14:22.30 COME, AND ALL THE SAINTS WITH THEE AND THE LORD SHALL 00:14:22.30\00:14:24.93 BE KING OVER ALL THOUGH EARTH." 00:14:24.93\00:14:26.93 REVELATION 21:2, "AND I JOHN SAW--" YOU KNOW 00:14:26.93\00:14:31.66 HOW JOHN SAYS THAT. 00:14:31.66\00:14:32.76 "I JOHN SAW THE NEW JERUSALEM." 00:14:32.76\00:14:37.13 CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW HE MUST HAVE TREMBLED WHEN HE PENNED THOSE 00:14:37.13\00:14:39.90 WORDS? 00:14:39.90\00:14:40.90 "I'VE SEEN IT. 00:14:40.90\00:14:42.00 IT'S REAL. 00:14:42.00\00:14:43.20 I GOT IT STRAIGHT FROM THE LORD, TRUST ME." 00:14:43.20\00:14:46.23 OH FRIENDS, I WISH THAT WE COULD SOMETIMES GET A GLIMPSE OF WHAT 00:14:46.23\00:14:48.50 GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THE REDEEMED. 00:14:48.50\00:14:50.30 YOU WOULD BECOME HIGHLY MOTIVATED TO DO GOD'S WILL. 00:14:50.30\00:14:52.80 I THINK SOMETIMES WE DON'T REALLY BELIEVE AND IF WE REALLY 00:14:52.80\00:14:55.80 BELIEVE WHAT HAS PREPARED, WE'D LOVE HIM MORE 00:14:55.80\00:14:59.00 AND WE'D TRUST HIM MORE. 00:14:59.00\00:15:00.76 "I SAW THE NEW JERUSALEM COMING DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN, 00:15:00.76\00:15:05.20 PREPARED AS A BRIDE ADORNED FOR HER HUSBAND." 00:15:05.20\00:15:08.66 NUMBER SEVEN, "WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT 00:15:08.66\00:15:11.16 TO FREE SATAN FROM HIS PRISON." 00:15:11.16\00:15:13.83 ANSWER REVELATION 20:5-7, "BUT THE REST OF THE DEAD LIVED 00:15:13.83\00:15:20.66 NOT AGAIN TILL THE THOUSAND YEARS ARE FINISHED. 00:15:20.66\00:15:23.76 AND WHEN THE THOUSAND YEARS ARE EXPIRED, SATAN SHALL 00:15:23.76\00:15:26.76 BE LOOSED FROM HIS PRISON." 00:15:26.76\00:15:29.40 NOW WHY IS GOD LOOSING SATAN? 00:15:29.40\00:15:32.86 WHY DOESN'T HE JUST DEAL WITH SATAN AT THE BEGINNING OF 00:15:32.86\00:15:34.50 THE THOUSAND YEARS? 00:15:34.50\00:15:36.53 BEFORE GOD EXECUTES JUDGMENT ON THE DEVIL, HE MUST DEMONSTRATE 00:15:36.53\00:15:41.26 NOT ONLY TO THOSE ON EARTH, BUT TO UNFALLEN ANGELS 00:15:41.26\00:15:46.63 AND OTHER CREATURES THAT HE HAS NO REDEEMABLE QUALITIES. 00:15:46.63\00:15:50.90 I GET QUESTIONS ALL THE TIME, PEOPLE FEEL SORRY FOR THE DEVIL. 00:15:50.90\00:15:53.60 THEY SAY, "BUT IF HE REPENTED, I KNOW HE WON'T, BUT IF HE 00:15:53.60\00:15:56.96 REPENTED, WILL GOD FORGIVE HIM?" 00:15:56.96\00:15:58.56 AND, YOU KNOW, SOME OF US ARE MORE COMPASSIONATE THAN OTHERS, 00:15:58.56\00:16:01.70 I GUESS, BUT GOD IS LOOSING HIM TO SHOW THAT THE FIRST THING 00:16:01.70\00:16:05.80 THE DEVIL DOES WHEN HE'S GOT AN OPPORTUNITY, 00:16:05.80\00:16:07.96 IS HE GOES OUT TO DECEIVE AGAIN. 00:16:07.96\00:16:10.03 HE IS CHRONIC. 00:16:10.03\00:16:11.50 HE CAN'T CHANGE. 00:16:11.50\00:16:13.56 QUESTION NUMBER EIGHT, "WHAT WILL SATAN DO 00:16:13.56\00:16:16.93 WHEN THE WICKED ARE RAISED." 00:16:16.93\00:16:18.83 REVELATION 20:8-9, "HE WILL GO OUT TO DECEIVE THE NATIONS WHICH 00:16:18.83\00:16:24.86 ARE IN THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH, GOG AND MAGOG, TO GATHER 00:16:24.86\00:16:28.26 THEM TOGETHER TO THE BATTLE: THE NUMBER OF WHOM IS AS 00:16:28.26\00:16:32.96 THE SAND OF THE SEA. 00:16:32.96\00:16:35.00 AND THEY WENT UP ON THE BREADTH OF THE EARTH, AND THEY COMPASSED 00:16:35.00\00:16:37.63 THE CAMP OF THE SAINTS ABOUT, THE BELOVED CITY." 00:16:37.63\00:16:41.63 WHAT IS IT THAT BINDS THE DEVIL? 00:16:41.63\00:16:44.30 NOBODY TO TEMPT AND MANIPULATE, NOBODY TO POSSESS, 00:16:44.30\00:16:47.40 NOBODY TO CONTROL. 00:16:47.40\00:16:48.66 WHAT IS IT THAT LIBERATES HIM BRIEFLY? 00:16:48.66\00:16:51.90 THE WICKED ARE RESURRECTED. 00:16:51.90\00:16:53.36 YOU KNOW, JESUS, WHEN HIS FEET TOUCHED THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, 00:16:53.36\00:16:55.60 HE CALLS FORTH THE WICKED. 00:16:55.60\00:16:57.33 THE DEVIL CAN'T RESURRECT ANYBODY. 00:16:57.33\00:16:59.03 HE HAS NO POWER OF LIFE. 00:16:59.03\00:17:00.30 YOU READ EZEKIEL 38, YOU'LL READ ABOUT GOG AND MAGOG. 00:17:00.30\00:17:04.40 YOU PROBABLY HEARD FOLKS OUT THERE SAY, "I THOUGHT IT 00:17:04.40\00:17:06.70 REPRESENTED RUSSIA AND CHINA, MESHACH IS MOSCOW." 00:17:06.70\00:17:11.00 HAVE YOU HEARD THESE THINGS BEFORE? 00:17:11.00\00:17:12.73 THERE'S NOT ONE SHRED OF BIBLICAL EVIDENCE FOR THAT. 00:17:12.73\00:17:15.76 THAT IS TOTAL WILD SPECULATION. 00:17:15.76\00:17:17.73 IF YOU READ YOUR BIBLE, GOG AND MAGOG REPRESENT THE ENEMIES 00:17:17.73\00:17:20.33 OF GOD'S PEOPLE. 00:17:20.33\00:17:21.33 IT'S IN EZEKIEL 38. 00:17:21.33\00:17:22.40 EVEN THERE IT SAYS, "THEY COVER THE EARTH AS A CLOUD. 00:17:22.40\00:17:24.50 THEY COME AGAINST MY PEOPLE." 00:17:24.50\00:17:25.93 IT'S AN ECHO OF WHAT YOU FIND IN REVELATION. 00:17:25.93\00:17:28.16 THE WHOLE SCENARIO THERE IN EZEKIEL CHAPTER 37-38 00:17:28.16\00:17:31.13 AND IT SAYS GOD FIGHTS FOR THEM. 00:17:31.13\00:17:33.23 THIS IS WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN WHEN THE WICKED SURROUND 00:17:33.23\00:17:35.60 THE CITY OF GOD. 00:17:35.60\00:17:36.76 THINK ABOUT THAT MASS OF PEOPLE. 00:17:36.76\00:17:38.36 ALL THE WICKED WHO'VE EVER LIVED FROM CAIN TO THE PRESENT BEING 00:17:38.36\00:17:42.26 RESURRECTED. 00:17:42.26\00:17:43.33 CAN YOU UNDERSTAND WHY THEY COVER THE EARTH LIKE A CLOUD? 00:17:43.33\00:17:45.63 WE'VE GOT 6 BILLION ON THE WORLD NOW. 00:17:45.63\00:17:48.06 AND THEY ALL MARSHAL AGAINST THE CITY OF GOD. 00:17:48.06\00:17:51.30 YOU'LL SEE WHY THE LORD IS ALLOWING THIS IN JUST A MOMENT. 00:17:51.30\00:17:54.90 QUESTION NUMBER NINE, "AT THIS CRUCIAL MOMENT, 00:17:54.90\00:17:57.66 WHAT STOPS EVERYTHING?" 00:17:57.66\00:17:59.80 WHAT BRINGS IT ALL TO A SCREECHING HALT? 00:17:59.80\00:18:02.26 REVELATION 20:11-12, "AND I SAW A GREAT WHITE THRONE, AND HIM 00:18:02.26\00:18:08.96 THAT SAT ON IT, AND THE DEAD WERE JUDGED OUT OF THOSE THINGS 00:18:08.96\00:18:13.50 THAT WERE WRITTEN IN THE BOOKS, ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS." 00:18:13.50\00:18:17.73 WHEN THE LORD SAVES PEOPLE, CAN THE LORD ONLY SAVE ONE PERSON 00:18:17.73\00:18:21.93 AT A TIME SEQUENTIALLY OR CAN THE LORD SAVE 3,000 PEOPLE 00:18:21.93\00:18:24.93 AT PENTECOST AT ONE TIME? 00:18:24.93\00:18:26.66 WELL, GOD CANNOT ONLY SAVE THOUSANDS AT A TIME, 00:18:26.66\00:18:30.03 HE JUDGES THEM THAT WAY. 00:18:30.03\00:18:32.86 YOU MAYBE HAVE HAD THIS MENTAL PICTURE THAT IN THE GREAT 00:18:32.86\00:18:34.63 JUDGMENT DAY, THERE'S A LINE THAT WRAPS 12 TIMES AROUND 00:18:34.63\00:18:37.30 THE WORLD AND PEOPLE ARE WAITING FOR THEIR TURN TO COME BEFORE 00:18:37.30\00:18:40.60 THIS WHITE THRONE ONE AT A TIME. 00:18:40.60\00:18:42.03 NO, NO, NO, THAT'S NOT HOW HE'S DOING IT, THANK GOODNESS. 00:18:42.03\00:18:45.40 HE IS GOING TO JUDGE, MILLIONS, BILLIONS AT A TIME. 00:18:45.40\00:18:49.46 HE WILL MAKE THEIR LIVES PASS BEFORE THEM. 00:18:49.46\00:18:51.93 AS THEY GET READY TO LAUNCH THIS ATTACK AGAINST THE CITY OF GOD, 00:18:51.93\00:18:55.30 SATAN SAYS TO ALL THE MULTITUDES OF THE WICKED WHO HAVE EVER 00:18:55.30\00:18:58.40 LIVED--KEEP IN MIND THESE PEOPLE LISTENED TO THE DEVIL 00:18:58.40\00:19:02.00 WHEN THEY WERE ALIVE. 00:19:02.00\00:19:03.26 THEY'RE STILL READY TO LISTEN TO HIM WHEN THEY COME 00:19:03.26\00:19:05.33 OUT OF THEIR GRAVES. 00:19:05.33\00:19:06.80 THEY HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED HIM AS THEIR MASTER. 00:19:06.80\00:19:09.46 ALL AROUND THE CITY, EVERYBODY'S GATHERED. 00:19:09.46\00:19:11.86 EVERYBODY WHO'S EVER LIVED WILL BE THERE THAT DAY. 00:19:11.86\00:19:14.70 YOU'VE GOT THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE GOOD ANGELS IN THE CITY. 00:19:14.70\00:19:17.30 YOU'VE GOT THE WICKED AND THE BAD ANGELS OUTSIDE THE CITY. 00:19:17.30\00:19:20.50 THEY'RE SEPARATED BY A WALL. 00:19:20.50\00:19:22.13 YOU REMEMBER THE PARABLE IN MATTHEW 25 WHERE JESUS SAID, 00:19:22.13\00:19:24.90 "THE DAY IS COMING WHEN I'M GOING TO SEPARATE THE SHEEP 00:19:24.90\00:19:27.90 FROM THE GOATS." 00:19:27.90\00:19:29.40 ONE GROUP WILL BE BLESSED AN ONE WILL BE CURSED. 00:19:29.40\00:19:31.66 ONE'S GOING TO BE WITH THE GOOD ANGELS. 00:19:31.66\00:19:33.06 ONE'S GOING TO BE WITH THE BAD ANGELS. 00:19:33.06\00:19:34.40 THAT'S THE DAY THAT CHRIST IS TALKING OF. 00:19:34.40\00:19:36.30 AND BEFORE THE DEVIL LAUNCHES THE ATTACK, HE SAYS, 00:19:36.30\00:19:38.73 "IT'S MY CITY. 00:19:38.73\00:19:39.90 THAT MAN IN THERE, HE'S AN IMPOSTER. 00:19:39.90\00:19:42.00 I AM THE RIGHTFUL OWNER. 00:19:42.00\00:19:43.20 WE CAN TAKE IT." 00:19:43.20\00:19:44.23 AND HE'S JUST GETTING READY. 00:19:44.23\00:19:45.63 GOD THE FATHER, SON AND SPIRIT WILL ELEVATE ABOVE THE CITY 00:19:45.63\00:19:49.10 WHERE ALL CAN SEE HIM AND THEY WILL REVEAL THEIR GLORY. 00:19:49.10\00:19:52.16 EACH INDIVIDUAL WILL SEE IN THEIR OWN HEART, IN THEIR 00:19:52.16\00:19:54.60 OWN LIFE, HOW GOD HAS DONE EVERYTHING HE COULD TO SAVE 00:19:54.60\00:19:58.03 THEM. 00:19:58.03\00:19:58.60 THEY'LL REMEMBER CLEARLY THEN ALL THE OCCASIONS WHERE THE 00:19:58.60\00:20:01.53 HOLY SPIRIT CALLED THEM AND THEY RESISTED OR EVEN MORE DANGEROUS, 00:20:01.53\00:20:05.50 THEY POSTPONED. 00:20:05.50\00:20:07.46 THEY KEPT PUTTING IT OFF, ONE OF THE MOST DEADLY WORDS 00:20:07.46\00:20:09.83 IS TOMORROW, NOT NOW. 00:20:09.83\00:20:11.76 AND THEY'LL SEE THAT GOD BORE PATIENTLY WITH THEM, 00:20:11.76\00:20:15.90 HE PLED WITH THEM. 00:20:15.90\00:20:17.30 THEY'LL SEE HOW THEY SPURNED THE INVITATIONS OF GRACE 00:20:17.30\00:20:20.73 AND THEN THE WHOLE WORLD WILL RECOGNIZE THAT 00:20:20.73\00:20:23.43 CHRIST HAS BEEN JUST. 00:20:23.43\00:20:24.76 YOU SEE THIS IS WHAT THE WHOLE JUDGMENT'S ABOUT, 00:20:24.76\00:20:26.40 GOD WANTS US TO TRUST HIM. 00:20:26.40\00:20:28.23 IT'S AT THAT TIME THEN EVERYONE KNEELS DOWN. 00:20:28.23\00:20:31.13 I'M GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF NOW. 00:20:31.13\00:20:32.50 THIS IS COMING UP IN THE NEXT QUESTION, NUMBER TEN, 00:20:32.50\00:20:35.60 "WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE WICKED ARE JUDGED?" 00:20:35.60\00:20:37.73 ROMANS 14:11, "AS I LIVE, SAYS THE LORD, EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW 00:20:37.73\00:20:44.60 TO ME," AND HOW MANY? 00:20:44.60\00:20:46.63 "EVERY TONGUE WILL CONFESS." 00:20:46.63\00:20:48.03 DOES THAT INCLUDE LUCIFER? 00:20:48.03\00:20:50.10 ULTIMATELY CONSTRAINED BY THE PURITY AND POWER OF GOD AND HIS 00:20:50.10\00:20:54.76 JUSTICE, THE DEVIL WILL FINALLY FALL DOWN AND WORSHIP. 00:20:54.76\00:20:58.40 HE'LL REMEMBER HIS UNFALLEN STATE AND HE WILL DECLARE 00:20:58.40\00:21:01.93 JESUS IS LORD. 00:21:01.93\00:21:03.90 "I AM NOT GOD, HE IS GOD." 00:21:03.90\00:21:05.50 ALL THE LOST WILL DECLARE IT. 00:21:05.50\00:21:07.43 THEY ARE NOT BEING CONVERTED, THEY ARE SIMPLY ACKNOWLEDGING 00:21:07.43\00:21:10.20 IT EVEN AS THE PHARAOH SAID TO MOSES THAT YOUR GOD IS RIGHT. 00:21:10.20\00:21:15.23 YOU ARE JUST AND TRUE AND, YOU KNOW, BUT HE STILL DIDN'T 00:21:15.23\00:21:17.63 CHANGE HIS WAYS, DID HE? 00:21:17.63\00:21:19.76 HE GOES ON TO SAY PHILIPPIANS 2:10-11, 00:21:19.76\00:21:22.70 "AT THE NAME OF JESUS EVERY KNEE SHOULD BOW, OF THINGS 00:21:22.70\00:21:26.86 IN HEAVEN, AND THINGS IN THE EARTH, AND THINGS UNDER 00:21:26.86\00:21:29.36 THE EARTH; AND THAT EVERY TONGUE SHOULD CONFESS THAT JESUS CHRIST 00:21:29.36\00:21:34.96 IS LORD, TO THE GLORY OF THE FATHER." 00:21:34.96\00:21:37.83 THIS WILL BE THE DAY WHEN THAT HAPPENS. 00:21:37.83\00:21:40.10 REVELATION 19:1-2, "I HEARD A GREAT VOICE OF MUCH PEOPLE 00:21:40.10\00:21:44.93 IN HEAVEN SAYING, TRUE AND RIGHTEOUS ARE HIS JUDGMENTS." 00:21:44.93\00:21:49.96 DO YOU SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE? 00:21:49.96\00:21:51.83 THE RIGHTEOUS ARE DECLARING THAT GOD'S JUDGMENTS ARE JUST. 00:21:51.83\00:21:56.90 YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON DURING THE THOUSAND YEARS, TECHNICALLY? 00:21:56.90\00:22:01.00 GOD'S JUDGMENTS ARE BEING JUDGED THAT EVERYTHING HE DID WAS 00:22:01.00\00:22:05.20 THE BEST WAY IT COULD BE DONE. 00:22:05.20\00:22:07.36 IN THIS LIFE, WE HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS, DON'T WE? 00:22:07.36\00:22:10.20 WE WONDER WHY DID GOD LET HIS HAPPEN? 00:22:10.20\00:22:12.40 WHY DO SOMETIMES THE RIGHTEOUS SUFFER AT THE HANDS OF 00:22:12.40\00:22:16.06 THE WICKED? 00:22:16.06\00:22:16.83 WHY, WHY, WHY? 00:22:16.83\00:22:17.76 THERE'S SO MANY QUESTIONS, EVEN THE SOULS UNDER THE ALTAR 00:22:17.76\00:22:19.96 IN SYMBOL ARE SAYING, "LORD, HOW LONG TILL YOU AVENGE OUR BLOOD?" 00:22:19.96\00:22:26.23 THERE ARE A LOT OF QUESTIONS THAT WE HAVE. 00:22:26.23\00:22:28.53 ALL THE QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED AT THAT TIME. 00:22:28.53\00:22:31.03 NOW QUESTION NUMBER 11, "WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?" 00:22:31.03\00:22:34.66 THEN AS THEY LAUNCH THEIR ASSAULT ON THE CITY OF GOD, 00:22:34.66\00:22:39.20 THEY GET OFF THEIR KNEES OF SAYING JESUS CHRIST IS LORD 00:22:39.20\00:22:42.13 BUT THEY CANNOT CHANGE. 00:22:42.13\00:22:44.26 THEY LAUNCHED THIS ASSAULT ON THE CITY OF GOD AND THE BIBLE 00:22:44.26\00:22:46.76 SAYS, SAY IT WITH ME. 00:22:46.76\00:22:48.46 "FIRE CAME DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN, AND BURNED THEM 00:22:48.46\00:22:52.96 FOREVER AND EVER." 00:22:52.96\00:22:54.20 OH, WHAT DOES IT SAY? 00:22:54.20\00:22:56.00 IT DID WHAT? 00:22:56.00\00:22:57.06 IT DEVOURS THEM AND THEN IT GOES ON TO SAY THIS IS THE SECOND 00:22:57.06\00:22:59.93 DEATH AND DEATH MEANS DEATH. 00:22:59.93\00:23:02.86 GOES ON FURTHER TO SAY REVELATION 20:15, 00:23:02.86\00:23:05.30 "WHOEVER WAS NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE WAS CAST 00:23:05.30\00:23:08.43 INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE." 00:23:08.43\00:23:11.63 I PRAY, FRIENDS, THAT YOUR NAME IS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE. 00:23:11.63\00:23:15.63 NUMBER 12, "AFTER THE FIRE GOES OUT, WHAT WILL GOD DO 00:23:15.63\00:23:20.36 FOR HIS PEOPLE AT THAT TIME?" 00:23:20.36\00:23:22.00 THE ANSWER IS "BEHOLD, I CREATE A NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH." 00:23:22.00\00:23:28.36 AND THEN 2 PETER 3:13, "WE, ACCORDING TO THE HIS PROMISE, 00:23:28.36\00:23:33.13 LOOK FOR A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH WHEREIN DWELLS 00:23:33.13\00:23:37.36 RIGHTEOUSNESS." 00:23:37.36\00:23:39.40 FRIENDS, THE PURPOSE OF THE PLAN OF SALVATION IS THAT 00:23:39.40\00:23:43.96 WE MIGHT BECOME RIGHTEOUS. 00:23:43.96\00:23:47.43 NUMBER 13, "WHERE WILL GOD AND THE RIGHTEOUS FINALLY LIVE?" 00:23:47.43\00:23:53.53 WE'RE GONNA FLOAT AROUND OUT IN HEAVEN ON CLOUDS? 00:23:53.53\00:23:56.30 WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY? 00:23:56.30\00:23:58.83 IT SAYS, "BEHOLD, THE TABERNACLE OR THE DWELLING PLACE 00:23:58.83\00:24:02.23 OF GOD IS WITH MEN. 00:24:02.23\00:24:04.26 HE WILL DWELL WITH THEM." 00:24:04.26\00:24:07.50 FURTHERMORE IT SAYS, "BLESSED ARE THE MEEK: FOR 00:24:07.50\00:24:10.60 THEY WILL INHERIT THE EARTH." 00:24:10.60\00:24:12.66 YOU KNOW WE DO HAVE SOME TIMES OF TROUBLE AHEAD. 00:24:12.66\00:24:16.63 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME PLAGUES. 00:24:16.63\00:24:20.56 THERE'S GONNA BE A GREAT TRIBULATION. 00:24:20.56\00:24:22.76 THERE'S GOING TO BE A STORM, JESUS SAID, THAT WILL TRY THE 00:24:22.76\00:24:25.33 FOUNDATION YOU'RE BUILDING ON. 00:24:25.33\00:24:27.36 I PRAY, FRIENDS, THAT ALL OF YOU ARE BUILDING ON THE ROCK. 00:24:27.36\00:24:30.36 YOU DON'T NEED TO BE AFRAID OF THAT THOUSAND-YEAR BLACKOUT. 00:24:30.36\00:24:33.96 YOU COULD BE LIVING IN A CITY OF LIGHT THAT CHRIST HAS PREPARED 00:24:33.96\00:24:36.83 FOR THOSE THAT TRUST HIM WHERE THERE'S NO MORE PAIN, SUFFERING 00:24:36.83\00:24:40.26 AND SORROW. 00:24:40.26\00:24:41.33 IF YOU WANT TO FOLLOW THE LAMB WHEREVER HE GOES THERE THEN, WE 00:24:41.33\00:24:45.63 MUST FIRST LEARN WHAT IT MEANS TO FOLLOW THE LAMB HERE NOW. 00:24:45.63\00:24:50.00 >> STAY TUNED, PASTOR DOUG WILL BE RIGHT BACK WITH THIS WEEK'S 00:24:51.46\00:24:54.00 SPECIAL FREE OFFER. 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