Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
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Program Code: AFP000083
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00:08 >> COMING UP NEXT ON "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS."
00:11 >> GOD WANTS EVERYONE TO TRUST HIM, AND YOU WILL LOOK AT 00:14 THE BOOKS AND YOU WILL SEE THAT GOD DID EVERYTHING HE COULD DO 00:18 WITHIN THE REALMS OF JUSTICE AND MERCY TO SAVE AS MANY AS 00:21 HE CAN 'CAUSE GOD IS NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH. 00:28 >> FOR OVER 40 YEARS, AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN 00:31 DEDICATED TO SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:35 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST 00:38 TELEVISION BROADCASTS. 00:40 WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF 00:43 "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 00:47 TODAY'S PRESENTATION IS AN EXCERPT FROM 00:49 "THE MILLENNIUM OF PROPHECY" VIDEO SERIES. 00:57 >> YOU KNOW BACK WHEN GOD FIRST MADE THE WORLD, EVERYTHING 01:00 WAS PERFECT IN ITS BEAUTY, IN ITS GLORY. 01:04 THERE WAS GREAT VITALITY AND VIGOR IN ALL THE CREATURES 01:08 AND IN THE VERY SOIL. 01:10 BUT WITH THE ENTRANCE OF SIN, EVEN THE GROUND ITSELF 01:13 WAS CURSED. 01:15 GOD SAID, "CURSED IS THE GROUND FOR YOUR SAKE." 01:17 AND HE FURTHER EXPLAINED THAT BECAUSE OF THIS CURSE, 01:20 "IN THE SWEAT OF YOUR FACE, YOU SHALL EAT YOUR BREAD." 01:24 UP TO THAT POINT IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, MAN'S WORK WAS A VERY 01:27 PLEASANT WORK, TRAINING THE VINES AND DOING CREATIVE THINGS 01:31 WITH WHAT GOD HAD MADE, BUT IT BECAME A MORE ARDUOUS, 01:35 TOILING SORT OF WORK. 01:38 THE GROUND BROUGHT FORTH AMALGAMATED PLANTS WITH THISTLES 01:43 AND THORNS AND THE WHOLE CREATION BECAME PERVERTED 01:47 AND CORRUPTED BECAUSE OF SIN, INCLUDING THAT THE VITALITY 01:50 OF THE SOIL WAS DEPLETED. 01:53 BECAUSE OF THIS, GOD IMPLEMENTED A LAW THAT HE GAVE TO HIS PEOPLE 01:56 WHERE THEY WERE TO GIVE THE LAND A YEAR OFF. 02:00 THE LAND WAS TO ENJOY A SABBATH, FOR A COUPLE OF REASONS. 02:04 YOU CAN READ ABOUT THIS IN EXODUS 23:10-11, "SIX YEARS YOU 02:09 SHALL SOW YOUR LAND AND GATHER ITS PRODUCE, BUT THE SEVENTH 02:12 YEAR, YOU SHALL LET IT REST," LET IT SABBATH, "AND LIE FALLOW, 02:17 THAT THE POOR OF YOUR PEOPLE MIGHT EAT." 02:20 GOD INTENDED THAT THE POOR COULD EAT THOSE CROPS, THAT THEY 02:23 HAD PUT UP ENOUGH PROVISIONS. 02:24 HE WAS GONNA BLESS THEIR INCREASE, EXTRA BLESSING 02:27 IF THEY LET THE LAND REST, BUT THE PEOPLE DIDN'T TRUST GOD. 02:32 AND YOU CAN READ IN THE BIBLE, THERE'S ACTUALLY NO RECORD OF 02:34 THEM EVER ALLOWING THE LAND TO KEEP A SABBATH. 02:37 AND FINALLY AFTER YEARS OF REBELLION AND TURNING AWAY 02:41 FROM GOD, JUDGMENT CAME. 02:44 THE BIBLE TELLS US THE KING OF BABYLON, NEBUCHADNEZZAR, 02:49 "HE CAME AND HE BURNT THE HOUSE OF GOD AND HE BROKE DOWN THE 02:52 WALL OF JERUSALEM, AND HE BURNT THE PALACES THEREOF WITH FIRE--" 02:57 NOTICE THIS IN 2 CHRONICLES 36, IT TELLS THIS WHOLE PASSAGE 03:00 HERE. 03:01 "AND THEM THAT HAD ESCAPED FROM THE SWORD CARRIED AWAY-- 03:06 CARRIED HE AWAY TO BABYLON." 03:08 NOTICE WHAT ELSE IT TELLS US IN THIS PASSAGE ABOUT WHAT 03:11 HAPPENED. 03:12 "UNTIL THE LAND HAD ENJOYED HER SABBATHS: FOR AS LONG AS SHE LAY 03:17 DESOLATE SHE KEPT SABBATH, TO FULFILL," 70 YEARS, 03:21 "THREESCORE AND TEN YEARS." 03:23 IN OTHER WORDS, GOD WAS SAYING THIS KING CAME WHO BROUGHT 03:27 JUDGMENT. 03:28 HE BURNT JERUSALEM IN THE PROMISED LAND. 03:30 SOME WERE SLAIN, SOME WERE SPARED. 03:33 THE ONES WHO WERE SPARED WERE TAKEN BACK WITH THE KING 03:35 TO THE GOLDEN EMPIRE. 03:37 THEN AFTER THEIR 70 YEARS WHEN THE LAND WAS DONE KEEPING 03:41 SABBATH, THE PEOPLE RETURNED AND BEGAN TO REBUILD JERUSALEM 03:45 AND REBUILD THE TEMPLE. 03:46 THEY MADE A NEW JERUSALEM AND THERE WAS GREAT REJOICING. 03:50 NOW LET ME DRAW THE PARALLEL FOR YOU IN THIS STORACLE. 03:53 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE THOUSAND YEARS OF REVELATION THAT YOU 03:56 FIND IN CHAPTER 20, SOMETIMES CALLED THE MILLENNIUM. 04:00 FOR 1,000 YEARS OUR WORLD IS GOING TO KEEP SABBATH. 04:05 THE LAND IS GOING TO BE FALLOW. 04:06 IT'S GOING TO BE DESOLATE. 04:07 THOSE ARE WHO NOT DESTROYED BY THE BRIGHTNESS OF 04:09 KING JESUS' COMING, GO BACK TO THE GOLDEN EMPIRE, RIGHT? 04:13 AT THE END OF THAT THOUSAND-YEAR SABBATH, WE COME AND THERE'S 04:16 A NEW JERUSALEM AND HE CREATES A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH 04:20 AND THERE'S REJOICING AMONG THE PEOPLE. 04:21 IT'S A PERFECT PARALLEL, A LITTLE MICROCOSM IN THAT STORY 04:25 TO HELP US UNDERSTAND WHAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. 04:28 WE'RE GONNA STUDY THIS NOW IN MORE DETAIL IN OUR LESSON. 04:31 LET'S GO TO QUESTION NUMBER ONE, "WHAT EVENTS MARKED 04:34 THE BEGINNING OF THE 1,000 YEARS FOUND IN REVELATION 20?" 04:38 SAY THE ANSWERS WITH ME. 04:39 "FOR THE LORD HIMSELF SHALL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN 04:44 WITH A SHOUT," AND THE BIBLE TELLS US, "AND THE DEAD 04:48 IN CHRIST SHALL RISE FIRST." 04:51 SO THERE'S A RESURRECTION IN THE SECOND COMING, AND THEN 04:55 WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THAT? 04:56 IT SAYS, "THEY LIVED AND THEY REIGNED WITH CHRIST FOR 05:01 A THOUSAND YEARS." 05:03 THE REST OF THE ANSWER TELLS US "THE REST OF THE DEAD LIVED NOT 05:07 AGAIN TILL THE THOUSAND YEARS WERE FINISHED. 05:09 THIS IS THE FIRST RESURRECTION." 05:12 NOW THIS IS OFTEN COMMONLY CALLED THE MILLENNIUM. 05:15 IT BEGINS WITH THE FIRST RESURRECTION AND 05:18 THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS. 05:20 IT ENDS WITH THE SECOND RESURRECTION OF THE WICKED. 05:23 THERE'S A THOUSAND-YEAR SPAN BETWEEN THE TWO. 05:25 QUESTION NUMBER TWO, "WHAT ELSE WILL HAPPEN AT THE TIME 05:29 OF THE FIRST RESURRECTION?" 05:31 ANSWER, IT SAYS, "WE WILL NOT ALL SLEEP, BUT WE 05:35 SHALL BE CHANGED, IN A MOMENT, IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, 05:39 FOR AT THE LAST TRUMPET, FOR THE TRUMPET WILL SOUND, 05:42 AND THE DEAD SHALL BE RAISED INCORRUPTIBLE." 05:45 2 THESSALONIANS 2:8, "THEN SHALL THAT WICKED BE REVEALED, WHOM 05:50 THE LORD SHALL CONSUME WITH THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING." 05:55 AND THEN REVELATION 16:18, 20-21, IT TELLS US THAT 06:00 THE BEGINNING OF THE MILLENNIUM IS MARKED WITH 06:02 "A GREAT EARTHQUAKE, SUCH AS WAS NOT SINCE MEN WERE 06:06 UPON THE EARTH, SO MIGHTY AN EARTHQUAKE, AND SO GREAT. 06:09 AND EVERY ISLAND FLED AWAY, AND THE MOUNTAINS WERE NOT FOUND. 06:14 AND THERE FELL UPON MEN A GREAT HAIL OUT OF HEAVEN, EVERY STONE 06:19 ABOUT THE WEIGHT OF A TALENT." 06:21 NOW DOES IT SOUND LIKE IT'S LIFE AS USUAL AFTER THE MILLENNIUM 06:25 BEGINS HERE ON THE PLANET? 06:26 ISLANDS ARE SWALLOWED UP, MOUNTAINS ARE MOVED OUT OF THEIR 06:29 PLACES AND FLATTENED OUT AND IT'S NOT GOING TO BE LIFE 06:32 AS NORMAL. 06:34 THE WICKED ARE DESTROYED BY THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING. 06:37 REVELATION 20:1-2, "AN ANGEL-- LAID HOLD ON THAT DRAGON, THAT 06:42 OLD SERPENT, WHO IS THE DEVIL, AND SATAN, AND BOUND HIM 06:46 A THOUSAND YEARS." 06:48 NOW THIS IS A PART OF THE STORY THAT SOME PEOPLE STRUGGLE WITH. 06:52 IT TALKS ABOUT THE DEVIL BEING BOUND IN, WHAT? 06:55 WHAT'S HE BOUND IN? 06:57 WHAT DO THEY CALL IT IN KING JAMES VERSION? 07:00 BOTTOMLESS PIT. 07:02 THERE'S NOWHERE ELSEWHERE THEY TRANSLATE THE WORD "ABUSSOS" 07:05 THAT WAY AND THAT'S WHAT THE WORD MEANS. 07:07 IF YOU LOOK AT THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT, THE SEPTUAGINT 07:10 WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT THE EARTH IN ITS CHAOTIC VOID CONDITION, 07:15 IT'S DESCRIBED AS THE ABUSSOS, THE ABYSS. 07:17 HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THAT STORY THAT'S FOUND IN LUKE 8:31 07:22 WHERE JESUS IS GETTING READY TO CAST THE DEMONS OUT OF THIS 07:25 DEMONIAC, A LEGION OF DEMONS AND THEY PLED, THESE DEMONS ARE 07:29 PLEADING WITH JESUS, "DO NOT CAST US INTO THE ABUSSOS." 07:32 THE VERY SAME WORD YOU FIND IN REVELATION 20. 07:36 WHAT IT MEANS THERE IS DON'T CAST US INTO THE NOTHINGNESS. 07:39 SEE THE ABYSS WITH THE DEVIL REPRESENTS THE WORLD. 07:43 THEY'RE CAPTIVE IN, THEY'RE CHAINED IN THIS WORLD, 07:45 THE BIBLE TELLS US, WITH NOBODY TO POSSESS. 07:48 AND SO WHEN DEVILS HAVE NOBODY OR NO LIVING THING TO MANIPULATE 07:51 OR TO TEMPT, THEY GO STIR CRAZY. 07:54 THEY'RE IN CHAINS OF DARKNESS, THE BIBLE TELLS US. 07:57 THE ABYSS DURING THE THOUSAND YEARS WHERE THE DEVIL IS BOUND 08:00 IS NOT A BIG BLACK HOLE SOMEWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE. 08:03 HE IS BOUND ON THIS DECIMATED, DEPLETED PLANET WITH NO PEOPLE 08:08 ALIVE TO TEMPT OR MANIPULATE. 08:10 QUESTION NUMBER THREE, "WHO WILL BE RAISED IN 08:14 THE SECOND RESURRECTION, AND WHEN DOES THIS TAKE PLACE?" 08:17 SAY THE ANSWERS WITH ME; JOHN 5:28, "ALL THAT ARE IN 08:21 THE GRAVES WILL HEAR HIS VOICE, AND SHALL COME FORTH; 08:24 THEY THAT HAVE DONE GOOD, UNTO THE RESURRECTION OF LIFE; AND 08:27 THEY THAT HAVE DONE EVIL, UNTO THE RESURRECTION OF DAMNATION." 08:32 SO WHO IS ITS THAT COMES FORTH AT THE END OF THE 1,000 YEARS? 08:36 THE WICKED. 08:37 IT SAYS IN REVELATION 25, "THE REST OF THE DEAD--" 08:41 OBVIOUSLY IF THE RIGHTEOUS ARE IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION, 08:43 WHO ARE THE REST OF THE DEAD? 08:45 I WANT TO ASK. 08:46 THE UNRIGHTEOUS, THE WICKED. 08:48 "THE REST OF THE DEAD DO NOT LIVE AGAIN UNTIL THE THOUSAND 08:51 YEARS ARE FINISHED." 08:52 THAT MEANS THEY DO LIVE AT THE END OF THE THOUSAND YEARS. 08:55 QUESTION NUMBER FOUR, "WHAT IS THE CONDITION OF THE EARTH 08:58 DURING THE MILLENNIUM?" 08:59 AND THIS IS WHAT SHOCKS A LOT OF PEOPLE. 09:02 ISAIAH 24:1, "BEHOLD, THE LORD MAKES THE EARTH EMPTY, 09:07 HE MAKES IT WASTE, HE TURNS IT UPSIDE DOWN." 09:11 JEREMIAH 4:23, "I BEHELD THE EARTH, AND LO, 09:15 IT WAS WITHOUT FORM, AND VOID." 09:18 NOW SOME PEOPLE SAY, "WHAT DOES THAT SOUNDS LIKE TO YOU, 09:20 WHAT PART OF THE BIBLE?" 09:21 SOUNDS LIKE GENESIS BUT KEEP READING AND YOU FIND OUT, 09:24 IS HE LOOKING BACK OR IS HE LOOKING FORWARD? 09:27 "IN THE HEAVENS AND THEY HAD NO LIGHT. 09:29 I BEHELD THE MOUNTAINS, AND LO, THEY TREMBLED, AND THERE WAS 09:33 NO MAN, AND ALL THE BIRDS OF HEAVEN WERE FLED." 09:37 THAT MEANS THEY WERE THERE BUT NOW THEY'RE GONE, 09:39 THEY'RE DONE WITH THE FEAST. 09:40 "AND THE FRUITFUL PLACE WAS A WILDERNESS, AND ALL THE CITIES 09:44 THEREOF ARE BROKEN DOWN AT THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD, 09:48 AND BY HIS FIERCE ANGER." 09:50 THAT'S NOT BACK IN GENESIS, IS IT? 09:52 THIS VOID WORLD THAT IS UTTERLY EMPTY IS RENDERED THAT WAY 09:58 BY THE COMING OF THE LORD. 09:59 NOW YOU KNOW WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND? 10:02 WHEN THE LORD COMES, READY OR NOT THAT'S IT, FRIENDS. 10:07 AND SO THE THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE PUTTING IT OFF THINKING THEY CAN 10:09 WAIT UNTIL AFTER THIS SECRET RAPTURE AND THEN GET THEIR ACT 10:12 TOGETHER, THEY ARE GONNA BE TERRIBLY DISAPPOINTED BECAUSE 10:15 THEY ARE NOT GOING TO HAVE THAT BENEFIT OF A WARNING. 10:19 DID I READ JEREMIAH 25:33? 10:21 "AND THE SLAIN OF THE LORD SHALL BE AT THAT DAY FROM ONE END OF 10:27 THE EARTH EVEN TO THE OTHER END OF THE EARTH: THEY SHALL NOT 10:30 BE LAMENTED, NEITHER GATHERED, NOR BURIED." 10:34 WHY AREN'T THEY BEING MOURNED? 10:36 WHY AREN'T THEY BEING BURIED? 10:37 THERE'S NONE LEFT ALIVE TO MOURN OR CONDUCT FUNERALS, RIGHT? 10:42 SATAN IS BOUND FOR 1,000 YEARS TO CONSIDER THE RESULTS 10:46 OF HIS REBELLION. 10:48 YOU'LL SEE WHY GOD ALLOWS THAT. 10:50 ALL RIGHT, QUESTION NUMBER FIVE, "WHERE WILL THE SAINTS BE 10:53 DURING THE 1,000 YEARS, AND WHAT WILL THEY BE DOING?" 10:57 JOHN 14:3 JESUS SAID, "I WILL COME AGAIN." 11:02 I BELIEVE THE LORD, DON'T YOU? 11:03 "AND RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF; THAT WHERE I AM, 11:08 THERE YOU MIGHT BE ALSO." 11:10 REVELATION 22:4, "AND I SAW THRONES, AND THEM THAT SAT UPON 11:15 THEM, AND JUDGMENT WAS GIVEN UNTO THEM--AND THEY LIVED 11:20 AND REIGNED WITH CHRIST A THOUSAND YEARS." 11:22 NOW WHAT A PRIVILEGE WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT. 11:24 WE'RE GOING TO LIVE IN THE CAPITAL OF THE INFINITE COSMOS, 11:27 BUT WHEN WE FIRST GET TO THE KINGDOM, WE'RE GONNA 11:30 HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS. 11:31 HOW ABOUT YOU? 11:33 A LOT OF QUESTIONS. 11:35 THERE'S GONNA BE SOME SURPRISES. 11:36 THERE'S GONNA BE THREE SURPRISES, 11:38 I HEARD A PREACHER SAY ONCE. 11:39 THE FIRST SURPRISE IS THAT WE'RE THERE. 11:42 AND THE SECOND SURPRISE IS GONNA BE THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE THERE 11:45 WE NEVER EXPECTED TO SEE. 11:48 THIRD SURPRISE IS THERE'S GONNA BE SOME PEOPLE MISSING WHO 11:51 WE THOUGHT WOULD BE LEADING THE PARADE. 11:53 AND WE'RE GONNA ASK OUR ANGELS, "WHERE'S SO AND SO?" 11:55 AND THEY'RE GONNA SAY, "NOT HERE," AND WE'RE 11:58 GOING TO WANT TO KNOW WHY. 12:00 BUT THEY'LL TAKE US TO THE RECORD OF DEACON JONES 12:02 OR WHOEVER IT IS AND SAY, "I THOUGHT HE'D BE HERE, 12:05 HE SEEMED LIKE SUCH A GOOD MAN." 12:06 "WELL, THERE'S SOMETHING YOU NEED TO KNOW." 12:08 THE ANGEL WILL TAKE THEM AND SHOW THEM THE RECORD BOOK AND 12:10 HE'LL SEE WHERE THE LORD DID EVERYTHING HE COULD DO IN 12:14 DEACON JONES' LIFE TO SAVE THAT INDIVIDUAL, BUT THERE WAS 12:17 A HIDDEN SIN THAT HE HID FROM THE CHURCH AND HE HID FROM 12:20 THE PEOPLE THAT HE COULDN'T HIDE FROM GOD. 12:23 AND THEN WE'RE GONNA HAVE SOME OTHER SURPRISES. 12:26 PEOPLE ARE THERE, WE THOUGHT, WHAT ARE THEY DOING HERE? 12:28 YOU'VE MADE A MISTAKE. 12:29 YOU HAD A BUG IN YOUR COMPUTER OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, 12:33 HOW CAN THIS HAPPEN? 12:33 FOR INSTANCE, CAN YOU IMAGINE THE LOOK ON STEPHEN'S FACE 12:39 WHEN HE SEES PAUL BEING GIVEN A POSITION OF GLORY 12:44 IN THE KINGDOM? 12:46 STEPHEN'S GONNA GO OVER TO HIS ANGEL, HE SAID, "YOU GUYS 12:48 TYPICALLY DO REALLY GOOD WORK. 12:49 BUT YOU KNOW I DON'T KNOW HOW TO TELL YOU THIS, 12:51 YOU'VE MADE A MISTAKE. 12:52 LAST TIME I SAW HIM, HE WAS EXECUTING CHRISTIANS 12:55 AND NOW HE'S BEING CARRIED ON THE SHOULDERS OF ANGELS. 12:57 WHAT'S THAT ALL ABOUT?" 12:58 AND THE ANGEL SAYS, "COME HERE, WE'LL SHOW YOU THE BOOKS. 13:01 AFTER HE STONED YOU, THE LORD GOT HIS ATTENTION ON THE ROAD 13:04 TO DAMASCUS AND HE WAS CHANGED AND HE BECAME ONE OF 13:07 THE GREATEST APOSTLES." 13:08 AND STEPHEN'S GONNA GO, "WOW, I GUESS WE'LL LET HIM STAY." 13:12 SEE, AND SO GOD WANTS EVERYONE TO TRUST HIM. 13:16 AND YOU WILL LOOK AT THE BOOKS AND YOU WILL SEE THAT GOD DID 13:19 EVERYTHING HE COULD DO WITHIN THE REALMS OF JUSTICE AND MERCY 13:22 TO SAVE AS MANY AS HE CAN 'CAUSE GOD IS NOT WILLING THAT ANY 13:25 SHOULD PERISH. 13:26 ARE WE DECIDING WHO'S SAVED AND WHO'S LOST? 13:29 NO, OF COURSE NOT. 13:30 GOD DETERMINES THAT. 13:31 WE WILL BE INVESTIGATING GOD'S JUDGMENT, SEE. 13:35 YOU AND I ARE NOT DETERMINING WHO'S SAVED AND LOST. 13:37 WE'RE NOT DECIDING WHETHER SATAN'S ANGELS WILL BE FORGIVEN, 13:40 BUT WE ARE CONFIRMING AND ENDORSING AND HAVING FAITH IN 13:44 GOD'S JUSTICE BECAUSE HE WANTS US TO ENTER ETERNITY TRUSTING 13:48 HIM, NO MORE DOUBTS SO SIN WILL NEVER RISE UP AGAIN. 13:52 YOU UNDERSTAND? 13:54 ALL RIGHT, BACK TO OUR LESSON. 13:55 QUESTION NUMBER SIX, "WHAT WILL HAPPEN AT THE CLOSE 13:58 OF 1,000 YEARS?" 14:00 ZECHARIAH 14, IT SAYS, "BEHOLD IN THAT DAY THE LORD COMES, AND 14:06 HIS FEET SHALL STAND IN THAT DAY UPON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, WHICH 14:11 IS BEFORE JERUSALEM ON THE EAST AND THE MOUNT OF OLIVES SHALL 14:16 CLEAVE IN THE MIDST THEREOF-- AND THE LORD MY GOD SHALL 14:22 COME, AND ALL THE SAINTS WITH THEE AND THE LORD SHALL 14:24 BE KING OVER ALL THOUGH EARTH." 14:26 REVELATION 21:2, "AND I JOHN SAW--" YOU KNOW 14:31 HOW JOHN SAYS THAT. 14:32 "I JOHN SAW THE NEW JERUSALEM." 14:37 CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW HE MUST HAVE TREMBLED WHEN HE PENNED THOSE 14:39 WORDS? 14:40 "I'VE SEEN IT. 14:42 IT'S REAL. 14:43 I GOT IT STRAIGHT FROM THE LORD, TRUST ME." 14:46 OH FRIENDS, I WISH THAT WE COULD SOMETIMES GET A GLIMPSE OF WHAT 14:48 GOD HAS PREPARED FOR THE REDEEMED. 14:50 YOU WOULD BECOME HIGHLY MOTIVATED TO DO GOD'S WILL. 14:52 I THINK SOMETIMES WE DON'T REALLY BELIEVE AND IF WE REALLY 14:55 BELIEVE WHAT HAS PREPARED, WE'D LOVE HIM MORE 14:59 AND WE'D TRUST HIM MORE. 15:00 "I SAW THE NEW JERUSALEM COMING DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN, 15:05 PREPARED AS A BRIDE ADORNED FOR HER HUSBAND." 15:08 NUMBER SEVEN, "WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT 15:11 TO FREE SATAN FROM HIS PRISON." 15:13 ANSWER REVELATION 20:5-7, "BUT THE REST OF THE DEAD LIVED 15:20 NOT AGAIN TILL THE THOUSAND YEARS ARE FINISHED. 15:23 AND WHEN THE THOUSAND YEARS ARE EXPIRED, SATAN SHALL 15:26 BE LOOSED FROM HIS PRISON." 15:29 NOW WHY IS GOD LOOSING SATAN? 15:32 WHY DOESN'T HE JUST DEAL WITH SATAN AT THE BEGINNING OF 15:34 THE THOUSAND YEARS? 15:36 BEFORE GOD EXECUTES JUDGMENT ON THE DEVIL, HE MUST DEMONSTRATE 15:41 NOT ONLY TO THOSE ON EARTH, BUT TO UNFALLEN ANGELS 15:46 AND OTHER CREATURES THAT HE HAS NO REDEEMABLE QUALITIES. 15:50 I GET QUESTIONS ALL THE TIME, PEOPLE FEEL SORRY FOR THE DEVIL. 15:53 THEY SAY, "BUT IF HE REPENTED, I KNOW HE WON'T, BUT IF HE 15:56 REPENTED, WILL GOD FORGIVE HIM?" 15:58 AND, YOU KNOW, SOME OF US ARE MORE COMPASSIONATE THAN OTHERS, 16:01 I GUESS, BUT GOD IS LOOSING HIM TO SHOW THAT THE FIRST THING 16:05 THE DEVIL DOES WHEN HE'S GOT AN OPPORTUNITY, 16:07 IS HE GOES OUT TO DECEIVE AGAIN. 16:10 HE IS CHRONIC. 16:11 HE CAN'T CHANGE. 16:13 QUESTION NUMBER EIGHT, "WHAT WILL SATAN DO 16:16 WHEN THE WICKED ARE RAISED." 16:18 REVELATION 20:8-9, "HE WILL GO OUT TO DECEIVE THE NATIONS WHICH 16:24 ARE IN THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH, GOG AND MAGOG, TO GATHER 16:28 THEM TOGETHER TO THE BATTLE: THE NUMBER OF WHOM IS AS 16:32 THE SAND OF THE SEA. 16:35 AND THEY WENT UP ON THE BREADTH OF THE EARTH, AND THEY COMPASSED 16:37 THE CAMP OF THE SAINTS ABOUT, THE BELOVED CITY." 16:41 WHAT IS IT THAT BINDS THE DEVIL? 16:44 NOBODY TO TEMPT AND MANIPULATE, NOBODY TO POSSESS, 16:47 NOBODY TO CONTROL. 16:48 WHAT IS IT THAT LIBERATES HIM BRIEFLY? 16:51 THE WICKED ARE RESURRECTED. 16:53 YOU KNOW, JESUS, WHEN HIS FEET TOUCHED THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, 16:55 HE CALLS FORTH THE WICKED. 16:57 THE DEVIL CAN'T RESURRECT ANYBODY. 16:59 HE HAS NO POWER OF LIFE. 17:00 YOU READ EZEKIEL 38, YOU'LL READ ABOUT GOG AND MAGOG. 17:04 YOU PROBABLY HEARD FOLKS OUT THERE SAY, "I THOUGHT IT 17:06 REPRESENTED RUSSIA AND CHINA, MESHACH IS MOSCOW." 17:11 HAVE YOU HEARD THESE THINGS BEFORE? 17:12 THERE'S NOT ONE SHRED OF BIBLICAL EVIDENCE FOR THAT. 17:15 THAT IS TOTAL WILD SPECULATION. 17:17 IF YOU READ YOUR BIBLE, GOG AND MAGOG REPRESENT THE ENEMIES 17:20 OF GOD'S PEOPLE. 17:21 IT'S IN EZEKIEL 38. 17:22 EVEN THERE IT SAYS, "THEY COVER THE EARTH AS A CLOUD. 17:24 THEY COME AGAINST MY PEOPLE." 17:25 IT'S AN ECHO OF WHAT YOU FIND IN REVELATION. 17:28 THE WHOLE SCENARIO THERE IN EZEKIEL CHAPTER 37-38 17:31 AND IT SAYS GOD FIGHTS FOR THEM. 17:33 THIS IS WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN WHEN THE WICKED SURROUND 17:35 THE CITY OF GOD. 17:36 THINK ABOUT THAT MASS OF PEOPLE. 17:38 ALL THE WICKED WHO'VE EVER LIVED FROM CAIN TO THE PRESENT BEING 17:42 RESURRECTED. 17:43 CAN YOU UNDERSTAND WHY THEY COVER THE EARTH LIKE A CLOUD? 17:45 WE'VE GOT 6 BILLION ON THE WORLD NOW. 17:48 AND THEY ALL MARSHAL AGAINST THE CITY OF GOD. 17:51 YOU'LL SEE WHY THE LORD IS ALLOWING THIS IN JUST A MOMENT. 17:54 QUESTION NUMBER NINE, "AT THIS CRUCIAL MOMENT, 17:57 WHAT STOPS EVERYTHING?" 17:59 WHAT BRINGS IT ALL TO A SCREECHING HALT? 18:02 REVELATION 20:11-12, "AND I SAW A GREAT WHITE THRONE, AND HIM 18:08 THAT SAT ON IT, AND THE DEAD WERE JUDGED OUT OF THOSE THINGS 18:13 THAT WERE WRITTEN IN THE BOOKS, ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS." 18:17 WHEN THE LORD SAVES PEOPLE, CAN THE LORD ONLY SAVE ONE PERSON 18:21 AT A TIME SEQUENTIALLY OR CAN THE LORD SAVE 3,000 PEOPLE 18:24 AT PENTECOST AT ONE TIME? 18:26 WELL, GOD CANNOT ONLY SAVE THOUSANDS AT A TIME, 18:30 HE JUDGES THEM THAT WAY. 18:32 YOU MAYBE HAVE HAD THIS MENTAL PICTURE THAT IN THE GREAT 18:34 JUDGMENT DAY, THERE'S A LINE THAT WRAPS 12 TIMES AROUND 18:37 THE WORLD AND PEOPLE ARE WAITING FOR THEIR TURN TO COME BEFORE 18:40 THIS WHITE THRONE ONE AT A TIME. 18:42 NO, NO, NO, THAT'S NOT HOW HE'S DOING IT, THANK GOODNESS. 18:45 HE IS GOING TO JUDGE, MILLIONS, BILLIONS AT A TIME. 18:49 HE WILL MAKE THEIR LIVES PASS BEFORE THEM. 18:51 AS THEY GET READY TO LAUNCH THIS ATTACK AGAINST THE CITY OF GOD, 18:55 SATAN SAYS TO ALL THE MULTITUDES OF THE WICKED WHO HAVE EVER 18:58 LIVED--KEEP IN MIND THESE PEOPLE LISTENED TO THE DEVIL 19:02 WHEN THEY WERE ALIVE. 19:03 THEY'RE STILL READY TO LISTEN TO HIM WHEN THEY COME 19:05 OUT OF THEIR GRAVES. 19:06 THEY HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED HIM AS THEIR MASTER. 19:09 ALL AROUND THE CITY, EVERYBODY'S GATHERED. 19:11 EVERYBODY WHO'S EVER LIVED WILL BE THERE THAT DAY. 19:14 YOU'VE GOT THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE GOOD ANGELS IN THE CITY. 19:17 YOU'VE GOT THE WICKED AND THE BAD ANGELS OUTSIDE THE CITY. 19:20 THEY'RE SEPARATED BY A WALL. 19:22 YOU REMEMBER THE PARABLE IN MATTHEW 25 WHERE JESUS SAID, 19:24 "THE DAY IS COMING WHEN I'M GOING TO SEPARATE THE SHEEP 19:27 FROM THE GOATS." 19:29 ONE GROUP WILL BE BLESSED AN ONE WILL BE CURSED. 19:31 ONE'S GOING TO BE WITH THE GOOD ANGELS. 19:33 ONE'S GOING TO BE WITH THE BAD ANGELS. 19:34 THAT'S THE DAY THAT CHRIST IS TALKING OF. 19:36 AND BEFORE THE DEVIL LAUNCHES THE ATTACK, HE SAYS, 19:38 "IT'S MY CITY. 19:39 THAT MAN IN THERE, HE'S AN IMPOSTER. 19:42 I AM THE RIGHTFUL OWNER. 19:43 WE CAN TAKE IT." 19:44 AND HE'S JUST GETTING READY. 19:45 GOD THE FATHER, SON AND SPIRIT WILL ELEVATE ABOVE THE CITY 19:49 WHERE ALL CAN SEE HIM AND THEY WILL REVEAL THEIR GLORY. 19:52 EACH INDIVIDUAL WILL SEE IN THEIR OWN HEART, IN THEIR 19:54 OWN LIFE, HOW GOD HAS DONE EVERYTHING HE COULD TO SAVE 19:58 THEM. 19:58 THEY'LL REMEMBER CLEARLY THEN ALL THE OCCASIONS WHERE THE 20:01 HOLY SPIRIT CALLED THEM AND THEY RESISTED OR EVEN MORE DANGEROUS, 20:05 THEY POSTPONED. 20:07 THEY KEPT PUTTING IT OFF, ONE OF THE MOST DEADLY WORDS 20:09 IS TOMORROW, NOT NOW. 20:11 AND THEY'LL SEE THAT GOD BORE PATIENTLY WITH THEM, 20:15 HE PLED WITH THEM. 20:17 THEY'LL SEE HOW THEY SPURNED THE INVITATIONS OF GRACE 20:20 AND THEN THE WHOLE WORLD WILL RECOGNIZE THAT 20:23 CHRIST HAS BEEN JUST. 20:24 YOU SEE THIS IS WHAT THE WHOLE JUDGMENT'S ABOUT, 20:26 GOD WANTS US TO TRUST HIM. 20:28 IT'S AT THAT TIME THEN EVERYONE KNEELS DOWN. 20:31 I'M GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF NOW. 20:32 THIS IS COMING UP IN THE NEXT QUESTION, NUMBER TEN, 20:35 "WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE WICKED ARE JUDGED?" 20:37 ROMANS 14:11, "AS I LIVE, SAYS THE LORD, EVERY KNEE SHALL BOW 20:44 TO ME," AND HOW MANY? 20:46 "EVERY TONGUE WILL CONFESS." 20:48 DOES THAT INCLUDE LUCIFER? 20:50 ULTIMATELY CONSTRAINED BY THE PURITY AND POWER OF GOD AND HIS 20:54 JUSTICE, THE DEVIL WILL FINALLY FALL DOWN AND WORSHIP. 20:58 HE'LL REMEMBER HIS UNFALLEN STATE AND HE WILL DECLARE 21:01 JESUS IS LORD. 21:03 "I AM NOT GOD, HE IS GOD." 21:05 ALL THE LOST WILL DECLARE IT. 21:07 THEY ARE NOT BEING CONVERTED, THEY ARE SIMPLY ACKNOWLEDGING 21:10 IT EVEN AS THE PHARAOH SAID TO MOSES THAT YOUR GOD IS RIGHT. 21:15 YOU ARE JUST AND TRUE AND, YOU KNOW, BUT HE STILL DIDN'T 21:17 CHANGE HIS WAYS, DID HE? 21:19 HE GOES ON TO SAY PHILIPPIANS 2:10-11, 21:22 "AT THE NAME OF JESUS EVERY KNEE SHOULD BOW, OF THINGS 21:26 IN HEAVEN, AND THINGS IN THE EARTH, AND THINGS UNDER 21:29 THE EARTH; AND THAT EVERY TONGUE SHOULD CONFESS THAT JESUS CHRIST 21:34 IS LORD, TO THE GLORY OF THE FATHER." 21:37 THIS WILL BE THE DAY WHEN THAT HAPPENS. 21:40 REVELATION 19:1-2, "I HEARD A GREAT VOICE OF MUCH PEOPLE 21:44 IN HEAVEN SAYING, TRUE AND RIGHTEOUS ARE HIS JUDGMENTS." 21:49 DO YOU SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE? 21:51 THE RIGHTEOUS ARE DECLARING THAT GOD'S JUDGMENTS ARE JUST. 21:56 YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON DURING THE THOUSAND YEARS, TECHNICALLY? 22:01 GOD'S JUDGMENTS ARE BEING JUDGED THAT EVERYTHING HE DID WAS 22:05 THE BEST WAY IT COULD BE DONE. 22:07 IN THIS LIFE, WE HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS, DON'T WE? 22:10 WE WONDER WHY DID GOD LET HIS HAPPEN? 22:12 WHY DO SOMETIMES THE RIGHTEOUS SUFFER AT THE HANDS OF 22:16 THE WICKED? 22:16 WHY, WHY, WHY? 22:17 THERE'S SO MANY QUESTIONS, EVEN THE SOULS UNDER THE ALTAR 22:19 IN SYMBOL ARE SAYING, "LORD, HOW LONG TILL YOU AVENGE OUR BLOOD?" 22:26 THERE ARE A LOT OF QUESTIONS THAT WE HAVE. 22:28 ALL THE QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED AT THAT TIME. 22:31 NOW QUESTION NUMBER 11, "WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?" 22:34 THEN AS THEY LAUNCH THEIR ASSAULT ON THE CITY OF GOD, 22:39 THEY GET OFF THEIR KNEES OF SAYING JESUS CHRIST IS LORD 22:42 BUT THEY CANNOT CHANGE. 22:44 THEY LAUNCHED THIS ASSAULT ON THE CITY OF GOD AND THE BIBLE 22:46 SAYS, SAY IT WITH ME. 22:48 "FIRE CAME DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN, AND BURNED THEM 22:52 FOREVER AND EVER." 22:54 OH, WHAT DOES IT SAY? 22:56 IT DID WHAT? 22:57 IT DEVOURS THEM AND THEN IT GOES ON TO SAY THIS IS THE SECOND 22:59 DEATH AND DEATH MEANS DEATH. 23:02 GOES ON FURTHER TO SAY REVELATION 20:15, 23:05 "WHOEVER WAS NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE WAS CAST 23:08 INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE." 23:11 I PRAY, FRIENDS, THAT YOUR NAME IS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE. 23:15 NUMBER 12, "AFTER THE FIRE GOES OUT, WHAT WILL GOD DO 23:20 FOR HIS PEOPLE AT THAT TIME?" 23:22 THE ANSWER IS "BEHOLD, I CREATE A NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH." 23:28 AND THEN 2 PETER 3:13, "WE, ACCORDING TO THE HIS PROMISE, 23:33 LOOK FOR A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH WHEREIN DWELLS 23:37 RIGHTEOUSNESS." 23:39 FRIENDS, THE PURPOSE OF THE PLAN OF SALVATION IS THAT 23:43 WE MIGHT BECOME RIGHTEOUS. 23:47 NUMBER 13, "WHERE WILL GOD AND THE RIGHTEOUS FINALLY LIVE?" 23:53 WE'RE GONNA FLOAT AROUND OUT IN HEAVEN ON CLOUDS? 23:56 WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY? 23:58 IT SAYS, "BEHOLD, THE TABERNACLE OR THE DWELLING PLACE 24:02 OF GOD IS WITH MEN. 24:04 HE WILL DWELL WITH THEM." 24:07 FURTHERMORE IT SAYS, "BLESSED ARE THE MEEK: FOR 24:10 THEY WILL INHERIT THE EARTH." 24:12 YOU KNOW WE DO HAVE SOME TIMES OF TROUBLE AHEAD. 24:16 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME PLAGUES. 24:20 THERE'S GONNA BE A GREAT TRIBULATION. 24:22 THERE'S GOING TO BE A STORM, JESUS SAID, THAT WILL TRY THE 24:25 FOUNDATION YOU'RE BUILDING ON. 24:27 I PRAY, FRIENDS, THAT ALL OF YOU ARE BUILDING ON THE ROCK. 24:30 YOU DON'T NEED TO BE AFRAID OF THAT THOUSAND-YEAR BLACKOUT. 24:33 YOU COULD BE LIVING IN A CITY OF LIGHT THAT CHRIST HAS PREPARED 24:36 FOR THOSE THAT TRUST HIM WHERE THERE'S NO MORE PAIN, SUFFERING 24:40 AND SORROW. 24:41 IF YOU WANT TO FOLLOW THE LAMB WHEREVER HE GOES THERE THEN, WE 24:45 MUST FIRST LEARN WHAT IT MEANS TO FOLLOW THE LAMB HERE NOW. 24:51 >> STAY TUNED, PASTOR DOUG WILL BE RIGHT BACK WITH THIS WEEK'S 24:54 SPECIAL FREE OFFER. 24:58 >> YOU'D BE AMAZED HOW MANY PEOPLE THINK 24:59 THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE ENERGY OF GOD. 25:02 THE BIBLE SAYS THE HOLY SPIRIT IS A PERSON. 25:06 >> IS THE HOLY SPIRIT GOD? 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