>>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE 00:01:01.52\00:01:03.73 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:01:03.76\00:01:11.70 >>THIS TOPIC, THE DEVIL'S DUNGEON , IS REALLY TALKING 00:01:11.73\00:01:16.24 ABOUT A TIME WHEN SATAN IS BOUND. 00:01:16.27\00:01:19.51 SATAN IS BOUND ON THIS PLANET WITH NOBODY TO TEMPT AND 00:01:19.54\00:01:22.28 MANIPULATE AND HE HAS TO LOOK AT THE CONSEQUENCES OF HIS 00:01:22.31\00:01:25.38 REBELLION FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS. 00:01:25.41\00:01:31.09 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO 00:01:31.12\00:01:33.96 SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:01:33.99\00:01:36.66 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST TELEVISION 00:01:36.69\00:01:40.40 BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND 00:01:40.43\00:01:42.80 ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 00:01:42.83\00:01:51.57 >>TONIGHT OUR SUBJECT IS DEALING WITH THE TOPIC OF THE MILLENNIUM 00:01:51.61\00:01:58.41 IN THE BIBLE, SOMETIMES KNOWN AS THE THOUSAND YEARS. 00:01:58.45\00:02:01.35 YOU FIND THIS IN REVELATION 20; IT'S CALLED THE DEVIL'S DUNGEON 00:02:01.38\00:02:07.39 . IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLE, I'D LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO TURN WITH 00:02:07.42\00:02:10.39 ME TO REVELATION CHAPTER 20 AND WE'RE GOING TO READ THE FIRST 00:02:10.43\00:02:15.63 FEW VERSES HERE AND IT'LL GIVE US THE FOUNDATION FOR WHAT WE'RE 00:02:15.66\00:02:18.67 GOING TO STUDY. I WANT TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY 00:02:18.70\00:02:20.67 UNDERSTANDS THIS VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECT. 00:02:20.70\00:02:23.24 SO IF YOU LOOK THERE IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, CHAPTER 20, VERSE 00:02:23.27\00:02:27.81 1, "THEN I SAW AN ANGEL COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN, HAVING THE KEY 00:02:27.84\00:02:32.21 TO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT AND A GREAT CHAIN IN HIS HAND. 00:02:32.25\00:02:36.45 HE LAID HOLD OF THE DRAGON, THAT SERPENT OF OLD, WHO IS THE DEVIL 00:02:36.48\00:02:39.75 AND SATAN," - ANY QUESTION ABOUT WHO THE 00:02:39.79\00:02:41.86 DEVIL, SATAN, AND DRAGON ARE? - "AND BOUND HIM FOR" - HOW LONG? 00:02:41.89\00:02:46.59 - "A THOUSAND YEARS; AND HE CAST HIM INTO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT," - 00:02:46.63\00:02:52.17 WHAT IS THAT? - "AND SHUT HIM UP, AND SET A 00:02:52.20\00:02:55.57 SEAL ON HIM, SO THAT HE SHOULD DECEIVE THE NATIONS NO MORE TILL 00:02:55.60\00:02:59.11 THE THOUSAND YEARS WERE FINISHED...NOW WHEN THE THOUSAND 00:02:59.14\00:03:03.51 YEARS HAVE EXPIRED, SATAN WILL BE RELEASED FROM HIS PRISON AND 00:03:03.55\00:03:06.88 HE'LL GO OUT TO DECEIVE THE NATIONS THAT ARE IN THE FOUR 00:03:06.92\00:03:10.35 CORNERS OF THE EARTH, GOG AND MAGOG, TO GATHER THEM TOGETHER 00:03:10.39\00:03:13.36 TO BATTLE, WHOSE NUMBER IS AS THE SAND OF THE SEA. 00:03:13.39\00:03:16.19 THEY WENT UP ON THE BREADTH OF THE EARTH AND SURROUNDED THE 00:03:16.22\00:03:19.19 CAMP OF THE SAINTS AND THE BELOVED CITY. 00:03:19.23\00:03:21.23 AND FIRE CAME DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN AND DEVOURED THEM. 00:03:21.26\00:03:24.23 THE DEVIL, WHO DECEIVED THEM, WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE 00:03:24.27\00:03:28.37 AND BRIMSTONE WHERE THE BEAST AND THE FALSE PROPHET ARE. 00:03:28.40\00:03:31.71 AND THEY WILL BE TORMENTED DAY AND NIGHT FOREVER AND EVER." 00:03:31.74\00:03:35.14 ALRIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO PAUSE RIGHT THERE. WITH THAT AS A 00:03:35.18\00:03:37.85 BACKGROUND FOR OUR STUDY, NOW WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO QUESTION 00:03:37.88\00:03:40.15 #1 OF THE LESSON. YOU'VE GOT THE PICTURE AND LET'S LEARN ABOUT 00:03:40.18\00:03:44.05 THIS DUNGEON THAT THE DEVIL IS CONFINED TO. 00:03:44.09\00:03:48.19 QUESTION #1 IN OUR STUDY: WHAT EVENTS MARK THE BEGINNING OF 00:03:48.22\00:03:52.26 THIS ONE THOUSAND-YEAR PERIOD? SO HOW DO WE KNOW? 00:03:52.29\00:03:55.06 WHAT'S THE LANDMARKS THAT BEGIN THIS TIME PERIOD? 00:03:55.10\00:03:57.83 YOU FIND IN 1 THESSALONIANS 4:16 IT SAYS, "FOR THE LORD HIMSELF 00:03:57.87\00:04:04.47 SHALL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT," - THE SECOND COMING OF 00:04:04.51\00:04:09.68 JESUS IS WHEN THE LORD DESCENDS AND IT SAYS - "AND THE DEAD IN 00:04:09.71\00:04:14.68 CHRIST WILL RISE FIRST." WHEREVER YOU HEAR ABOUT FIRST, 00:04:14.72\00:04:20.36 SEQUENTIALLY THAT MEANS WHAT? SOMEWHERE THERE'S A - 00:04:20.39\00:04:23.56 >>SECOND. >>A SECOND. 00:04:23.59\00:04:25.86 AND SO IT'S SAYING, 'BLESSED AND HOLY ARE THOSE THAT ARE IN THE 00:04:25.89\00:04:27.93 FIRST RESUR - YOU WANT TO BE IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION, FRIENDS. 00:04:27.96\00:04:30.43 THAT'S THE RESURRECTION OF THE SAVED. 00:04:30.47\00:04:32.70 AND THEN YOU READ IN REVELATION 20, VERSES 4 AND 5, "AND THEY 00:04:32.73\00:04:36.57 LIVED AND REIGNED WITH CHRIST FOR" - HOW LONG? 00:04:36.60\00:04:39.51 >>A THOUSAND YEARS. >>"A THOUSAND YEARS. 00:04:39.54\00:04:41.98 BUT" - IT TELLS US - "THE REST OF THE DEAD DID NOT LIVE AGAIN 00:04:42.01\00:04:46.41 UNTIL THE THOUSAND YEARS WERE FINISHED. 00:04:46.45\00:04:48.98 THIS IS THE FIRST RESURRECTION." NOW YOU DO NOT FIND THE WORD 00:04:49.02\00:04:52.05 'MILLENNIUM IN THE BIBLE. MILLENNIUM IS A COMPOSITE OF TWO 00:04:52.09\00:04:56.66 LATIN WORDS THAT SIMPLY MEAN 'MILLI' WHICH IS A THOUSAND AND 00:04:56.69\00:05:00.66 'ANNUM' WHICH MEANS YEARS. AND SO THE BEGINNING OF THE ONE 00:05:00.70\00:05:05.27 THOUSAND-YEAR PERIOD, IT STARTS WITH WHAT WE CALL THE FIRST 00:05:05.30\00:05:09.04 RESURRECTION AND THE END OF IT IS THE SECOND RESURRECTION. 00:05:09.07\00:05:12.81 THERE ARE TWO COMPLETE SEPARATE DISTINCT RESURRECTIONS. 00:05:12.84\00:05:16.51 I REMEMBER WHEN I FIRST HEARD THIS, IT KIND OF SURPRISED ME. 00:05:16.54\00:05:18.28 I THOUGHT THERE WAS ONE RESURRECTION AT THE END OF TIME. 00:05:18.31\00:05:20.25 THE BIBLE IS VERY CLEAR. QUESTION #2: WHAT ELSE WILL 00:05:20.28\00:05:24.32 HAPPEN IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION? 00:05:24.35\00:05:26.79 YOU READ IN 1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 15, VERSES 51 THROUGH 00:05:26.82\00:05:30.76 53, IT SAYS, "WE SHALL NOT ALL SLEEP, BUT WE SHALL ALL BE 00:05:30.79\00:05:36.23 CHANGED - IN A MOMENT...AT THE LAST TRUMPET. 00:05:36.26\00:05:40.60 FOR THE TRUMPET WILL SOUND AND ALL THE DEAD WILL BE RAISED 00:05:40.64\00:05:44.21 INCORRUPTIBLE AND WE SHALL BE CHANGED. 00:05:44.24\00:05:47.48 FOR THIS CORRUPTIBLE" - IT GOES ON TO SAY - "MUST PUT ON 00:05:47.51\00:05:50.98 INCORRUPTION, AND THIS MORTAL MUST PUT ON IMMORTALITY." 00:05:51.01\00:05:55.62 JUST THINK ABOUT THAT. SOME PEOPLE WILL NEVER DIE. 00:05:55.65\00:06:00.46 THERE'S ALREADY A FEW PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER DIED - WHO ARE THEY? 00:06:00.49\00:06:03.26 THERE'S TWO. >>ENOCH AND ELIJAH. 00:06:03.29\00:06:06.66 >>ENOCH AND ELIJAH. THE BIBLE SAYS ELIJAH - ENOCH 00:06:06.70\00:06:08.53 WALKED WITH GOD AND GOD TOOK HIM. 00:06:08.56\00:06:10.27 ELIJAH WENT TO HEAVEN IN A FIERY CHARIOT. 00:06:10.30\00:06:12.20 THERE ARE GOING TO BE OTHERS WHO ARE ALIVE WHEN JESUS COMES 00:06:12.23\00:06:15.04 WHO WILL NEVER EXPERIENCE DEATH. SO WHAT HAPPENS? 00:06:15.07\00:06:17.34 WHEN THE LORD COMES DOWN, ALL OF A SUDDEN WE GO THROUGH THIS 00:06:17.37\00:06:20.91 MIRACULOUS, COMPLETE, TOTAL REVITALIZATION WHERE WE'RE 00:06:20.94\00:06:25.35 TRANSFORMED AND WE GET THESE GLORIFIED ETERNAL BODIES AND IT 00:06:25.38\00:06:29.52 JUST HAPPENS IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE. 00:06:29.55\00:06:32.39 THAT'S QUICKER THAN A BLINK. YOU CAN READ MORE ABOUT THIS 00:06:32.42\00:06:35.56 ANSWER - IT'S IN PHILIPPIANS 3, VERSE 21. IT SAYS, "WHO WILL 00:06:35.59\00:06:41.20 CHANGE OUR VILE BODY THAT IT MIGHT BE FASHIONED LIKE UNTO HIS 00:06:41.23\00:06:45.57 GLORIOUS BODY." WHAT KIND OF BODIES DO WE GET? 00:06:45.60\00:06:49.00 DO WE TURN INTO GHOSTS OR DO WE GET GLORIFIED BODIES? 00:06:49.04\00:06:53.24 WHAT WAS JESUS' BODY LIKE WHEN HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD? 00:06:53.27\00:06:55.64 DID HE TELL THE DISCIPLES TO TOUCH HIM? 00:06:55.68\00:06:57.81 IT WAS A GLORIOUS BODY. 00:06:57.85\00:06:59.81 IT WAS A SUPERNATURAL BODY BUT IT WAS REAL AT THE SAME TIME. 00:06:59.85\00:07:02.75 THEN HE SAID, 'DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO EAT? 00:07:02.78\00:07:04.52 I'M HUNGRY.' TWICE HE ASKED THEM TO FEED HIM. ACTUALLY, ONCE, HE 00:07:04.55\00:07:06.39 DID THE COOKING - WHEN IT WAS BY THE SEASHORE. 00:07:06.42\00:07:09.12 SO HE'S MAKING IT CLEAR - HE SAYS, 'I'M NOT AN ETHEREAL 00:07:09.16\00:07:12.93 GHOST.' YOUR GLORIFIED BODY IS A REAL BODY. 00:07:12.96\00:07:15.80 WHEN GOD MADE ADAM AND EVE, DID THEY HAVE REAL BODIES? 00:07:15.83\00:07:19.10 DID HE INTEND THEM TO LIVE FOREVER? 00:07:19.13\00:07:21.27 DOES THE BIBLE SAY, IN HEAVEN, WE'RE GOING TO PLANT VINEYARDS 00:07:21.30\00:07:24.14 AND EAT THE FRUIT OF THEM AND BUILD HOUSES AND INHABIT THEM? 00:07:24.17\00:07:26.54 AND WE'LL BE DOING REAL THINGS, WE'RE NOT JUST GOING TO BE 00:07:26.57\00:07:29.14 STRUMMING HARPS ON A CLOUD SOMEWHERE. 00:07:29.18\00:07:31.05 SO OUR BODIES WILL BE LIKE JESUS' GLORIFIED BODY. 00:07:31.08\00:07:34.78 AND AGAIN, 2 THESSALONIANS 2, VERSE 8, "THEN SHALL THAT WICKED 00:07:34.82\00:07:40.49 BE REVEALED, WHOM THE LORD SHALL CONSUME...WITH THE BRIGHTNESS OF 00:07:40.52\00:07:46.33 HIS COMING." SO WHEN THE LORD COMES, THE DEAD 00:07:46.36\00:07:48.10 IN CHRIST THAT ARE DEAD WILL BE CAUGHT UP. 00:07:48.13\00:07:51.23 THOSE WHO ARE SAVED WILL BE TRANSFORMED AND CAUGHT UP. 00:07:51.27\00:07:54.60 AND WHAT HAPPENS TO THOSE LEFT BEHIND? JUST LIKE WHAT HAPPENED 00:07:54.64\00:07:57.97 TO THE DEVIL - CONSUMED WITH THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING. 00:07:58.01\00:08:00.68 FURTHERMORE, REVELATION 16:18, "...AND THERE WAS A GREAT 00:08:00.71\00:08:04.05 EARTHQUAKE, SUCH AS WAS NOT SINCE MEN WERE UPON THE EARTH, 00:08:04.08\00:08:07.62 SO MIGHTY AN EARTHQUAKE, AND SO GREAT." 00:08:07.65\00:08:10.95 THIS IS GOING TO BE A 15 ON THE RICHTER SCALE BECAUSE IT SAYS 00:08:10.99\00:08:14.49 ISLANDS ARE SWALLOWED UP AND THE MOUNTAINS ARE SHAKEN OUT OF 00:08:14.52\00:08:17.43 THEIR FOUNDATIONS. ALRIGHT, AND IT GOES ON TO SAY, 00:08:17.46\00:08:20.96 "AND EVERY ISLAND FLED AWAY, AND THE MOUNTAINS WERE NOT FOUND. 00:08:20.96\00:08:25.67 AND THERE FELL UPON MEN A GREAT" - WHAT? 00:08:25.70\00:08:29.10 - "A GREAT HAIL OUT OF HEAVEN, EVERY STONE ABOUT THE WEIGHT OF 00:08:29.14\00:08:33.31 A TALENT:" - NOW SEE THAT PICTURE, THAT'S SOMEBODY WHO'S 00:08:33.34\00:08:37.08 HOLDING WALNUT-SIDED HAIL. I DID AN AMAZING FACT ONE TIME 00:08:37.11\00:08:40.35 TO FIND OUT WHAT WAS THE LARGEST HAIL EVER RECORDED. 00:08:40.38\00:08:43.25 IN BANGLADESH THEY HAD SOFTBALL-SIZED HAIL. 00:08:43.28\00:08:47.32 NOW THAT CAN KILL YOU, BUT STILL, THAT'S NOT 75 POUNDS. 00:08:47.36\00:08:52.29 CAN YOU IMAGINE THE WORLD BEING PUMMELED BY THAT KIND OF HAIL? 00:08:52.33\00:08:56.53 NOW, WHEN ALL THESE THINGS ARE HAPPENING, WITH THE COMING OF 00:08:56.56\00:08:59.27 JESUS, THIS MARKS THE BEGINNING OF A PERIOD WHERE 00:08:59.30\00:09:03.24 SATAN IS BOUND. 00:09:03.27\00:09:04.41 REVELATION 20, VERSES 1 AND 2, "AND...AN ANGEL...LAID HOLD ON 00:09:04.44\00:09:09.51 THE DRAGON, THAT OLD SERPENT, WHICH IS THE DEVIL, AND SATAN, 00:09:09.54\00:09:13.38 AND BOUND HIM A THOUSAND YEARS." NOW, HOW DO YOU BIND A DEVIL? 00:09:13.42\00:09:19.22 I MEAN, SAMSON, THEY TIED HIM UP WITH ALL DIFFERENT KINDS OF 00:09:19.25\00:09:21.92 ROPES AND HE JUST BROKE THE ROPES. YOU WONDER, IS SATAN 00:09:21.96\00:09:23.89 STRONGER THAN SAMSON? HOW DO YOU TIE UP A DEVIL? 00:09:23.93\00:09:27.60 IF WE KNEW HOW, WE'D ALL WANT TO DO IT, WOULDN'T WE? 00:09:27.60\00:09:31.00 SATAN IS NOT BEING BOUND BY ROPES, IT'S THE CHAIN THAT'S 00:09:31.03\00:09:34.97 BEING REFERRED TO - IT SAYS, "THE ANGEL HAD A GREAT CHAIN IN 00:09:35.00\00:09:38.21 HIS HAND." IT'S TALKING ABOUT A CHAIN OF 00:09:38.24\00:09:39.91 CIRCUMSTANCES. NOW, THAT BOTTOMLESS PIT IS A 00:09:39.94\00:09:44.01 VERY INTERESTING WORD AND THIS IS WHAT THROWS PEOPLE. 00:09:44.05\00:09:47.88 IT COMES FROM A GREEK WORD THAT YOU FIND OTHER PLACES IN THE 00:09:47.92\00:09:50.89 BIBLE. YOU EVER HEARD THE WORD 'ABYSS'? IT COMES FROM THE GREEK 00:09:50.92\00:09:55.69 WORD 'ABUSSOS'. IT SOUNDS SIMILAR, RIGHT? 00:09:55.72\00:09:59.93 THAT WORD 'ABUSSOS', IT MEANS THE DEVIL IS CHAINED WHERE HE 00:09:59.96\00:10:03.80 CANNOT DO ANYTHING. IT'S ISOLATION FOR HIM. 00:10:03.83\00:10:07.44 THE SAME WORD IS USED IN LUKE CHAPTER 8, VERSE 31. 00:10:07.47\00:10:11.91 YOU REMEMBER, THERE'S THIS MAN WHO'S POSSESSED WITH A LEGION OF 00:10:11.94\00:10:15.11 DEMONS AND THE DEMONS SAY TO JESUS, 'DO NOT CAST US OUT INTO 00:10:15.14\00:10:19.71 THE' - SAME EXACT WORD - 'ABUSSOS.' DEMONS AND THE DEVIL 00:10:19.75\00:10:24.92 DO NOT WANT TO BE CAST INTO NOTHINGNESS. 00:10:24.95\00:10:27.39 THE DEVIL WANTS TO POSSESS SOMEBODY. 00:10:27.42\00:10:30.13 HE WILL POSSESS A SERPENT. THE DEVILS IN THIS STORY 00:10:30.16\00:10:32.33 POSSESSED PIGS - WELL, POSSESSED PEOPLE - THEY WANT TO TEMPT. 00:10:32.36\00:10:36.30 THE DEVIL'S A WORKAHOLIC - WITH NOTHING TO DO IT'S TORTURE FOR 00:10:36.33\00:10:39.73 HIM. AND SO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT IS THIS PLANET. 00:10:39.77\00:10:45.47 >>THE BIBLE TALKS, IN REVELATION 20, ABOUT A VERY INTERESTING 00:10:45.51\00:10:48.54 PERIOD OF TIME, BETTER KNOWN AS THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS, OR THE 00:10:48.58\00:10:52.55 MILLENNIUM. IT'S A TIME THAT'S COMING VERY 00:10:52.58\00:10:54.62 SOON. THE BIBLE SAYS IT'S A TIME WHERE WE WILL LIVE AND REIGN 00:10:54.65\00:10:58.25 WITH THE LORD. THE QUESTION IS: WHERE DO 00:10:58.29\00:11:00.72 WE SPEND THE MILLENNIUM? IS IT HERE ON EARTH? 00:11:00.76\00:11:03.12 IS IT IN HEAVEN? WHAT'S THE CONDITION OF THE 00:11:03.16\00:11:05.03 WICKED DURING THIS TIME? WOULD YOU LIKE TO UNDERSTAND 00:11:05.06\00:11:07.60 THIS SUBJECT THAT'S COMING VERY SOON? 00:11:07.60\00:11:09.73 WE HAVE A STUDY GUIDE CALLED A THOUSAND YEARS OF PEACE THAT 00:11:09.76\00:11:12.73 EXPLAINS IT ALL. TO GET YOUR FREE COPY GO TO 00:11:12.77\00:11:16.04 AMAZINGFACTS.ORG OR CALL THE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN 00:11:16.07\00:11:19.97 AND ASK FOR OFFER #123. AND FRIENDS, WHEN YOU RECEIVE 00:11:20.01\00:11:24.18 THIS FREE RESOURCE, PLEASE READ IT AND THEN SHARE 00:11:24.21\00:11:26.45 IT WITH A FRIEND. WE WANT TO GET THE WORD OUT, 00:11:26.48\00:11:28.82 BECAUSE GOD'S MESSAGE IS OUR MISSION. 00:11:28.85\00:11:32.75 FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS SATAN IS GOING TO BE BOUND DOWN HERE IN 00:11:32.79\00:11:37.96 DARKNESS, WITH HIS DEMONS, WITH NO HUMANS ALIVE, WHY? 00:11:37.99\00:11:43.93 BECAUSE WHEN JESUS COMES BACK, WHAT DIRECTION DO THE DEAD IN 00:11:43.97\00:11:46.87 CHRIST GO? UP. THE LIVING SAINTS ARE 00:11:46.90\00:11:50.81 TRANSFORMED AND IN WHAT DIRECTION 00:11:50.84\00:11:51.84 DO THEY GO? WE WILL BE CAUGHT UP. 00:11:51.87\00:11:54.61 REMEMBER, JESUS SAID, 'I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU. 00:11:54.64\00:11:56.78 I WILL COME AGAIN AND RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF THAT WHERE I AM, 00:11:56.81\00:11:59.68 YE MAY BE.' SO WE'RE ALL GOING BACK TO THE MANSIONS 00:11:59.71\00:12:01.82 HE'S PREPARED WHEN HE COMES, RIGHT? 00:12:01.85\00:12:04.55 WHAT HAPPENS TO THE WICKED WHO ARE ALIVE WHEN HE COMES? 00:12:04.59\00:12:07.56 THE DEVIL AND ALL - THE DEVIL'S GOING TO RUN FROM HIS PRESENCE. 00:12:07.59\00:12:11.23 ALL THE WICKED ARE DESTROYED BY THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING. 00:12:11.26\00:12:14.10 HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE ALIVE ON THE PLANET AT THAT POINT? 00:12:14.10\00:12:17.00 >>ZERO. >>NOBODY. 00:12:17.03\00:12:18.43 WHO DOES THE DEVIL HAVE TO TEMPT, HIM AND HIS DEMONS? 00:12:18.47\00:12:20.97 THEY'RE GOING TO BE CHAINED ON THIS DARK PLANET. 00:12:21.00\00:12:23.77 QUESTION #3: IN WHAT CONDITION WILL THE EARTH BE LEFT AFTER 00:12:23.81\00:12:29.11 THIS DEVASTATING EARTHQUAKE AND HAILSTORM THAT BEGIN THE ONE 00:12:29.14\00:12:32.85 THOUSAND YEARS? LET'S LET THE BIBLE EXPLAIN ITSELF. 00:12:32.88\00:12:37.42 ISAIAH 24, VERSE 19, "THE LORD MAKETH THE EARTH EMPTY, AND 00:12:37.45\00:12:46.96 MAKETH IT WASTE, AND TURNETH IT UPSIDE DOWN." 00:12:47.00\00:12:51.20 THE EARTH IS UTTERLY BROKEN DOWN. 00:12:51.23\00:12:55.14 HOW MANY PEOPLE ON THE EARTH? IT'S EMPTY. 00:12:55.17\00:12:57.21 READ NOW IN JEREMIAH 4, VERSE 23, "I BEHELD THE EARTH, AND, 00:12:57.24\00:13:03.04 LO, IT WAS WITHOUT FORM, AND - >>VOID. 00:13:03.08\00:13:05.75 >>VOID. NOW, YOU READ THAT YOU MIGHT 00:13:05.78\00:13:06.95 THINK, 'OH, HE'S TALKING ABOUT CREATION.' BECAUSE IT'S THE SAME 00:13:06.98\00:13:09.35 WORDING, BUT IT'S NOT WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT. KEEP READING, 00:13:09.38\00:13:12.52 "I BEHELD...AND THE HEAVENS, AND THEY HAD NO LIGHT. 00:13:12.55\00:13:15.72 I BEHELD THE MOUNTAINS, AND, LO, THEY TREMBLED, AND...THERE WAS 00:13:15.76\00:13:19.39 NO MAN, ALL THE BIRDS OF HEAVEN WERE FLED...THE FRUITFUL PLACE 00:13:19.43\00:13:25.67 WAS A WILDERNESS, AND ALL THE CITIES THEREOF WERE BROKEN DOWN 00:13:25.70\00:13:32.24 AT THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD, AND BY HIS FIERCE ANGER." 00:13:32.27\00:13:35.98 WHAT WAS THE CONDITION OF ISRAEL AFTER NEBUCHADNEZZAR CAME 00:13:36.01\00:13:38.91 AND LEFT? DESOLATE - CITIES BROKEN DOWN. 00:13:38.95\00:13:41.88 DIDN'T WE JUST READ THAT? READ JEREMIAH 25, VERSE 33, "AND 00:13:41.92\00:13:48.16 THE SLAIN OF THE LORD SHALL BE AT THAT DAY FROM ONE END OF THE 00:13:48.19\00:13:54.20 EARTH EVEN UNTO THE OTHER END OF THE EARTH:" - IS THAT CLEAR? 00:13:54.23\00:13:58.40 - "THEY SHALL NOT BE LAMENTED, NEITHER GATHERED, NOR BURIED;" 00:13:58.43\00:14:04.31 WHY IS THERE NOBODY TO GATHER THEM OR TO BURY THEM? 00:14:04.34\00:14:08.54 BECAUSE THERE'S NOBODY ALIVE. 00:14:08.58\00:14:10.91 NOW, I'LL TELL YOU WHY THIS IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT SUBJECT - I 00:14:10.95\00:14:14.18 NEED BOTH HANDS; I'VE GOT TO PUT DOWN MY CLICKER FOR THIS - MANY 00:14:14.22\00:14:18.42 DEAR CHRISTIANS BELIEVE THE TIM LAHAYE/LEFT BEHIND SCENARIO OF 00:14:18.45\00:14:24.53 FINAL EVENTS, WHICH SAY - AND, AGAIN, WE MAY JUST RESPECTFULLY 00:14:24.56\00:14:29.36 DISAGREE - BUT THEY SAY THAT THE SECRET RAPTURE TAKES PLACE SEVEN 00:14:29.40\00:14:35.70 YEARS BEFORE JESUS ACTUALLY TOUCHES THE EARTH. 00:14:35.74\00:14:37.84 THEY GO BACK TO HEAVEN. 00:14:37.87\00:14:39.64 GREAT TRIBULATION - PEOPLE STILL ALIVE ON EARTH DURING THE 00:14:39.67\00:14:42.68 TRIBULATION - THEN AT THE END OF THAT TIME JESUS COMES DOWN AND 00:14:42.71\00:14:46.41 THE MILLENNIAL REIGN IS HERE ON EARTH AND THEN AT THE END OF 00:14:46.45\00:14:49.42 THAT MILLENNIAL REIGN, THE WICKED ARE SLAIN AND WE JUST 00:14:49.45\00:14:51.82 OCCUPY THE EARTH. IN THAT SCENARIO, WHERE IS THE 00:14:51.85\00:14:55.82 EARTH COMPLETELY VACATED FROM ALL LIFE? 00:14:55.86\00:15:00.10 IT DOESN'T FIT. IT NEVER HAPPENS. 00:15:00.13\00:15:02.93 IT DOESN'T FIT THE SCHEME IN THE BIBLE OF WHAT IT'S DESCRIBING. 00:15:02.96\00:15:06.33 AND SO THIS IS WHAT PROTESTANTS USED TO BELIEVE FOR ABOUT 1,500 00:15:06.37\00:15:10.37 YEARS, AND IT'S GETTING ECLIPSED BY HOLLYWOOD PRODUCTIONS NOW. 00:15:10.41\00:15:14.91 IT TELLS US THAT THE SLAIN OF THE LORD COVER THE EARTH. 00:15:14.94\00:15:17.15 THERE IS NO MAN. I TURNED THE EARTH UPSIDE DOWN - 00:15:17.18\00:15:18.95 IT'S UTTERLY EMPTY - THE CITIES ARE ALL BROKEN DOWN. 00:15:18.98\00:15:21.62 THEY'VE ALL FLED FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD BY HIS 00:15:21.65\00:15:23.79 FIERCE ANGER. THERE'S NO ONE TO LAMENT OR TO BURY THEM OR MOURN. 00:15:23.82\00:15:27.22 THEY'RE ALL GONE. BUT WE'RE LIVING AND REIGNING WITH CHRIST. 00:15:27.26\00:15:30.79 SATAN IS BOUND ON THIS PLANET. YOU KNOW, IN THE GREEK OLD 00:15:30.83\00:15:36.23 TESTAMENT - IT'S THE SAME OLD TESTAMENT AS HEBREW EXCEPT IT'S 00:15:36.26\00:15:39.07 IN GREEK - CALLED THE SEPTUAGINT. 00:15:39.10\00:15:41.77 WHEN IT SAYS THE EARTH IS VOID, IT USES THE WORD 'ABUSSOS'. 00:15:41.80\00:15:47.48 IT CALLS THIS PLANET THE SAME THING AND THAT VERSE IN JEREMIAH 00:15:47.51\00:15:51.85 USES THE WORD 'ABUSSOS' - THE EARTH WAS AN ABYSS. 00:15:51.88\00:15:54.88 SATAN IS BOUND ON THIS PLANET WITH NOBODY TO TEMPT AND 00:15:54.92\00:15:57.59 MANIPULATE AND HE HAS TO LOOK AT THE CONSEQUENCES OF HIS 00:15:57.62\00:16:00.99 REBELLION FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS. 00:16:01.02\00:16:04.59 THAT'S A LONG PRISON SENTENCE. 00:16:04.63\00:16:08.13 ALRIGHT, QUESTION #4: WHERE WILL THE SAINTS BE DURING THE ONE 00:16:08.16\00:16:11.50 THOUSAND YEARS AND WHAT WILL THEY BE DOING? 00:16:11.53\00:16:14.27 ALRIGHT, NOW WE'RE GOING TO JUMP TO HEAVEN. 00:16:14.30\00:16:15.70 IT'S GOING TO BE A PRETTIER PICTURE. 00:16:15.74\00:16:17.71 JOHN 14, VERSE 3, JESUS SAID, "I WILL COME AGAIN AND RECEIVE YOU 00:16:17.74\00:16:23.08 TO MYSELF; THAT WHERE I AM, THERE YE MAY BE ALSO." 00:16:23.11\00:16:29.98 HE'S TAKING US TO WHERE HE IS - WHERE HE'S TOLD HIS DISCIPLES HE 00:16:30.02\00:16:33.32 WAS GOING. IS IT CLEAR WE'RE GOING UP? 00:16:33.36\00:16:35.49 YET THE LEFT BEHIND SCENARIO SAYS THAT WE SPEND THE 00:16:35.52\00:16:39.43 MILLENNIUM HERE ON EARTH, REIGNING OVER THE WICKED. 00:16:39.46\00:16:42.30 I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I HAVE NO ASPIRATIONS TO REIGN 00:16:42.33\00:16:44.87 OVER THE WICKED. THAT WOULD BE REALLY STRANGE. 00:16:44.90\00:16:49.00 THINK ABOUT THAT. THAT THE RIGHTEOUS ARE HERE ON 00:16:49.04\00:16:51.01 EARTH - THEY'VE GOT GLORIFIED BODIES - AND THEY'RE REIGNING 00:16:51.04\00:16:52.71 OVER THE WICKED THAT STILL GET MARRIED, HAVE BABIES, AND DIE. 00:16:52.74\00:16:56.01 IT JUST - IT JUST SEEMS REALLY STRANGE TO MAKE THAT FIT. 00:16:56.04\00:17:01.52 REVELATION 20, VERSE 4 - WHAT ARE WE DOING IN HEAVEN WHEN IT 00:17:01.55\00:17:04.85 SAYS WE LIVE AND REIGN WITH CHRIST? 00:17:04.89\00:17:06.35 IT TELLS US IN THE BIBLE. 00:17:06.39\00:17:07.72 "I SAW THRONES AND THEY SAT UPON THEM AND JUDGEMENT WAS GIVEN 00:17:07.76\00:17:12.49 UNTO THEM AND THEY LIVED AND THEY REIGNED WITH CHRIST A 00:17:12.53\00:17:16.13 THOUSAND YEARS." NOW WHAT DOES JUDGMENT MEAN? 00:17:16.16\00:17:18.80 DOES THAT MEAN THAT WE'RE UP THERE GOING 'INNOCENT. 00:17:18.83\00:17:21.10 GUILTY. INNOCENT. GUILTY.' WHO ARE WE JUDGING? 00:17:21.14\00:17:25.37 KEEP READING, IT TELLS US. 1 CORINTHIANS - THIS IS PAUL - 00:17:25.41\00:17:30.25 CHAPTER 6, VERSE 2, "DO YE NOT KNOW" - AND VERSE 3 - "DO YE NOT 00:17:30.28\00:17:34.45 KNOW THAT THE SAINTS SHALL JUDGE THE WORLD?" 00:17:34.48\00:17:39.62 YOU KNOW, WE'RE, AS CHRISTIANS, GOING TO BE PERSECUTED BY THE 00:17:39.65\00:17:41.86 WORLD. WE'RE GOING TO BE JUDGED. 00:17:41.89\00:17:43.76 THERE'LL BE A DEATH DECREE ON US - BUT BEFORE THAT HAPPENS, JESUS 00:17:43.79\00:17:46.66 IS GOING TO COME AND RESCUE US AND THE TABLES ARE GOING TO 00:17:46.70\00:17:49.63 TURN. THAT MEANS PAUL WILL SOMEDAY BE 00:17:49.66\00:17:54.40 SITTING IN JUDGMENT OF NERO, WHO DECLARED THAT PAUL SHOULD BE 00:17:54.44\00:17:58.34 BEHEADED. WON'T THAT BE INTERESTING? 00:17:58.37\00:18:02.31 SO GOD IS JUST. ALRIGHT, QUESTION #5: WHAT WILL 00:18:02.34\00:18:05.81 HAPPEN AT THE CLOSE OF THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS? SEVERAL THINGS: 00:18:05.85\00:18:10.32 "BEHOLD" - IT SAYS - AND NOW I'M IN ZECHARIAH 14, VERSES 1, 4, 5, 00:18:10.35\00:18:14.82 AND 9 - "BEHOLD, THE DAY OF THE LORD COMETH...AND HIS FEET SHALL 00:18:14.86\00:18:20.20 STAND IN THAT DAY UPON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, WHICH IS BEFORE 00:18:20.23\00:18:25.90 JERUSALEM ON THE EAST, AND" - IT SAYS - "THE MOUNT OF OLIVES 00:18:25.93\00:18:30.31 SHALL CLEAVE IN THE MIDST THEREOF." 00:18:30.34\00:18:33.88 THE NIGHT WE STUDIED THE SECOND COMING - IF ANYBODY COMES ALONG 00:18:33.91\00:18:35.98 AND THEY SAY, 'I'M JESUS' - IF HIS FEET ARE TOUCHING THE 00:18:36.01\00:18:39.38 GROUND, HE'S NOT JESUS, BECAUSE WHEN JESUS' FEET TOUCH THE 00:18:39.41\00:18:42.45 GROUND, HE'S COMING TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES AND IT'S GOING TO 00:18:42.48\00:18:44.49 SPLIT AND FORM A GREAT VALLEY. NOW WHY DOES THAT HAPPEN? 00:18:44.52\00:18:48.69 REVELATION 21, VERSE 2 - IT'S IN YOUR LESSON - "AND I JOHN SAW 00:18:48.72\00:18:54.20 THE HOLY CITY, NEW JERUSALEM, COMING DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF 00:18:54.23\00:18:59.17 HEAVEN, PREPARED AS A BRIDE ADORNED FOR HER HUSBAND." 00:18:59.20\00:19:02.94 THIS IS A GREAT MARRIAGE SUPPER WHERE FINALLY THE END OF THAT 00:19:02.97\00:19:06.24 SEVEN THOUSAND-YEAR PERIOD TAKES PLACE. THIS ALL HAPPENS AT THE 00:19:06.27\00:19:09.48 END OF THAT ONE THOUSAND YEARS - THE NEW JERUSALEM COMES DOWN. 00:19:09.51\00:19:13.85 THAT IS THE GOOD JERUSALEM - CITY OF PEACE. 00:19:13.88\00:19:18.39 ALRIGHT, SO WHEN THAT HAPPENS, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT TO NOW FREE 00:19:18.42\00:19:22.12 SATAN FROM HIS PRISON? YOU READ IN REVELATION CHAPTER 00:19:22.16\00:19:27.60 20, VERSE 5 - WE ALREADY TOUCHED ON THIS BUT WE'RE GOING TO READ 00:19:27.66\00:19:30.73 IT AGAIN: "BUT THE REST OF THE DEAD LIVED NOT AGAIN UNTIL THE 00:19:30.77\00:19:35.20 THOUSAND YEARS WERE FINISHED." WHAT DOES THAT IMPLY? 00:19:35.24\00:19:38.37 AFTER THE THOUSAND YEARS ARE FINISHED, WHAT HAPPENS? 00:19:38.41\00:19:41.31 THEY LIVE AGAIN. YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE WE READ? 00:19:41.34\00:19:43.78 AFTER THE THOUSAND YEARS ARE FINISHED, SATAN IS LOOSED FROM 00:19:43.81\00:19:45.95 HIS PRISON. WHAT IS IT THAT LOOSES SATAN FROM HIS PRISON? 00:19:45.98\00:19:50.05 ALL THE WICKED DEAD WHO HAVE EVER LIVED ARE GOING TO COME 00:19:50.09\00:19:53.86 BACK TO LIFE. HE'S NOW GOT THIS VAST ARMY 00:19:53.89\00:19:57.36 AGAIN THAT'S ALWAYS LISTENED TO HIM BEFORE. 00:19:57.39\00:19:59.86 THEY'RE READY AND ABLE TO LISTEN TO HIM AGAIN. 00:19:59.89\00:20:02.53 SO, WHAT WILL SATAN DO WHEN THE WICKED ARE RAISED? 00:20:02.56\00:20:06.30 REVELATION 20, VERSES 8 AND 9 - IT SAYS HE "SHALL GO OUT TO 00:20:06.33\00:20:12.04 DECEIVE THE NATIONS WHICH ARE IN THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH, 00:20:12.07\00:20:16.24 GOG AND MAGOG, TO GATHER THEM TOGETHER TO BATTLE: THE NUMBER 00:20:16.28\00:20:22.12 OF WHOM IS AS THE SAND OF THE SEA." 00:20:22.15\00:20:25.69 - AND IT GOES ON TO SAY - "AND THEY WENT UP ON THE BREADTH OF 00:20:25.72\00:20:28.66 THE EARTH, AND COMPASSED THE CAMP OF THE SAINTS ABOUT, AND 00:20:28.69\00:20:32.93 THE BELOVED CITY." EZEKIEL TALKS ABOUT GOG AND 00:20:32.96\00:20:36.60 MAGOG COMING AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF GOD. 00:20:36.63\00:20:39.47 GOG AND MAGOG, YOU READ IN GENESIS, THEY ARE SOME OF THE 00:20:39.50\00:20:42.50 ANCESTORS OF THE TRIBES THAT FOUGHT AGAINST ISRAEL. 00:20:42.54\00:20:47.41 THEY REPRESENT THE ENEMIES OF ISRAEL. 00:20:47.44\00:20:49.74 GOG - MAGOG MEANS 'FROM THE MATRIX, OR THE CHILDREN OF GOG.' 00:20:49.78\00:20:55.32 GOG WAS A WARLIKE NATION THAT FOUGHT AGAINST ISRAEL; MAGOG 00:20:55.35\00:20:59.12 MEANT 'AND THE CHILDREN OF GOG.' SO - I'VE HEARD PEOPLE SAY, 'OH, 00:20:59.15\00:21:03.96 IT'S RUSSIA AND CHINA.' AND REVELATION IS NOT TALKING ABOUT 00:21:03.99\00:21:09.00 THOSE KIND OF BATTLES OF NATIONS. 00:21:09.03\00:21:11.03 IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL, CHRIST 00:21:11.07\00:21:13.10 AND SATAN, THOSE WHO FOLLOW HIM AND THOSE WHO DON'T. 00:21:13.13\00:21:16.10 IN REVELATION IT TALKS ABOUT BABYLON, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS, 00:21:16.14\00:21:20.98 AND HER DAUGHTERS. GOG AND MAGOG. 00:21:21.01\00:21:25.18 YOU'VE GOT THE WICKED AND THEIR CHILDREN IT TALKS ABOUT AND 00:21:25.21\00:21:27.38 THAT'S ALL THAT IT'S SAYING. 00:21:27.42\00:21:28.55 IT SAYS, 'THEY COVER THE EARTH LIKE A CLOUD.' CAN YOU IMAGINE 00:21:28.58\00:21:33.12 JUST THE SWARMS OF HUMANITY ALL OVER THE PLANET. 00:21:33.15\00:21:36.83 AND THOSE IN THE CITY - IT'S GOING TO LOOK PRETTY OMINOUS FOR 00:21:36.86\00:21:39.79 US. QUESTION #6: AT THIS CRUCIAL 00:21:39.83\00:21:43.50 MOMENT, WHAT WILL STOP EVERYTHING? 00:21:43.53\00:21:48.20 REVELATION 20, VERSES 11 AND 12, "AND I SAW A GREAT WHITE THRONE, 00:21:48.24\00:21:56.88 AND HIM THAT SAT ON IT...AND THE DEAD WERE JUDGED OUT OF THOSE 00:21:56.91\00:22:02.65 THINGS WHICH WERE WRITTEN IN THE BOOKS, ACCORDING TO THEIR 00:22:02.68\00:22:05.69 WORKS." WHO ARE THE DEAD THAT ARE BEING 00:22:05.72\00:22:08.49 JUDGED AT THIS JUDGMENT? THAT'S THE WICKED. 00:22:08.52\00:22:11.79 THEY'RE DEAD SPIRITUALLY. 00:22:11.83\00:22:12.89 JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU HAVE THE SON YOU HAVE LIFE. 00:22:12.93\00:22:14.46 IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE SON, YOU DO NOT HAVE LIFE.' AND SO, 00:22:14.50\00:22:17.17 DURING THAT TIME, WHEN THEY PREPARED TO LAUNCH THIS ASSAULT 00:22:17.20\00:22:20.77 ON THE CITY OF GOD, JESUS IS EXALTED ABOVE THE CITY, THIS 00:22:20.80\00:22:26.04 BATTLE IS PAUSED, THE LORD WILL MAKE EVERY PERSON'S LIFE TO PASS 00:22:26.07\00:22:31.15 BEFORE THEM IN THE HEAVENS, WHERE ALL CAN SEE. 00:22:31.18\00:22:34.52 ABOVE THE NEW JERUSALEM THEY'LL SEE JESUS COMING INTO THE WORLD. 00:22:34.55\00:22:38.05 THEY'LL SEE HIS PERFECT LIFE. THEY'LL SEE THAT HE TAUGHT 00:22:38.09\00:22:41.89 EVERYBODY WHAT THEY NEEDED TO DO TO BE SAVED. 00:22:41.92\00:22:44.46 THEY'LL SEE JESUS' SUFFERINGS AT THE HANDS OF LUCIFER AND THE WAY 00:22:44.49\00:22:47.93 THAT THE DEVIL WAS SO FILLED WITH THIS LOVE FOR POWER AND 00:22:47.96\00:22:51.57 JESUS WAS SO FILLED WITH THE POWER OF LOVE. 00:22:51.60\00:22:54.07 WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT? 00:22:54.10\00:22:55.80 AFTER GOD SHOWS THE ISSUES - SHOWS PEOPLE THEIR SINS - SHOWS 00:22:55.84\00:23:00.71 HIS GOODNESS, EVERYONE BOWS DOWN AND THEY SAY, 'JESUS IS LORD.' - 00:23:00.74\00:23:05.21 EVEN THE DEVIL WILL FINALLY BE CONSTRAINED BY THE JUSTICE OF 00:23:05.25\00:23:08.08 GOD TO BOW DOWN AND DECLARE THAT JESUS IS LORD. 00:23:08.12\00:23:11.19 IT'LL BE HARDER FOR HIM THAN ANYONE. 00:23:11.22\00:23:13.69 AND, AT THAT POINT, THE DEVIL JUMPS BACK TO HIS FEET AND HE 00:23:13.72\00:23:16.83 SAID, 'IT'S OUR LAST CHANCE. TAKE THE CITY.' 00:23:16.86\00:23:20.43 THEY COME AGAINST THE CITY OF GOD. IT TELLS US IN REVELATION 00:23:20.46\00:23:23.16 20, VERSE 9, AT THAT POINT GOD HAS NO ALTERNATIVE, DOES HE? 00:23:23.20\00:23:28.24 FIRE COMES DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN AND DEVOURS THEM. 00:23:28.27\00:23:32.47 AGAIN, REVELATION 20, VERSE 15 - AND IT TELLS US "WHOSOEVER WAS 00:23:32.51\00:23:37.48 NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF 00:23:37.51\00:23:43.25 FIRE." AS THAT FIRE RAINS DOWN AROUND 00:23:43.28\00:23:45.85 THE NEW JERUSALEM - THE NEW JERUSALEM'S GOT BIG WALLS, IT'S 00:23:45.89\00:23:48.86 SAFE, EVEN THOUGH IT'S MOLTEN OUTSIDE THE CITY, EVERYONE 00:23:48.89\00:23:51.79 INSIDE IS SAFE. AND ALL THE WICKED ARE GOING TO 00:23:51.83\00:23:56.33 BE PUNISHED ACCORDING TO WHAT THEY DESERVE AND ANYONE NOT 00:23:56.36\00:23:59.50 FOUND IN THE BOOK OF LIFE IS THROWN INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. 00:23:59.53\00:24:03.07 THE BIBLE SAYS THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH. 00:24:03.10\00:24:06.24 SO, QUICKLY, AND THAT'S, BY THE WAY, REVELATION 20, VERSE 14. 00:24:06.27\00:24:09.84 LET'S REVIEW WHAT HAPPENS NOW - TO MARK OUT THE MILLENNIUM. 00:24:09.88\00:24:13.62 WE'LL JUST PUT A LITTLE CHART UP ON THE SCREEN TO GIVE YOU THE 00:24:13.65\00:24:15.48 QUICK PICTURE OF HOW DO YOU SEPARATE THIS PERIOD OF TIME. 00:24:15.52\00:24:19.42 AT THE BEGINNING OF THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS YOU HAVE THE 00:24:19.45\00:24:21.72 FIRST RESURRECTION AND THE SECOND COMING, RIGHT? 00:24:21.76\00:24:24.29 AND THEN, AT THE END, IT'S THE SECOND RESURRECTION AND THE HOLY 00:24:24.33\00:24:27.40 CITY COMES DOWN. DURING THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS, 00:24:27.40\00:24:31.20 THE RIGHTEOUS ARE IN HEAVEN, WE'RE LOOKING AT THE BOOKS, 00:24:31.23\00:24:33.47 WE'RE ASKING QUESTIONS, WE'RE JUDGING - SO THAT WHEN THE 00:24:33.50\00:24:36.27 JUDGMENT HAPPENS, WE'RE ALL IN AGREEMENT SAYING, 'TRUE AND 00:24:36.30\00:24:39.24 RIGHTEOUS ARE HIS JUDGMENTS.' AND THEN, AFTER THE ONE THOUSAND 00:24:39.27\00:24:43.31 YEARS, FIRE COMES DOWN, THERE - IT'S CALLED 'THE EXECUTIVE PART' 00:24:43.35\00:24:47.38 OF THE JUDGEMENT - WHEN PEOPLE RECEIVE THEIR PENALTIES. 00:24:47.42\00:24:51.85 AFTER THE FIRE GOES OUT, WHAT WILL GOD DO FOR HIS PEOPLE AT 00:24:51.89\00:24:56.16 THAT TIME? DO WE CONTINUE TREADING ON ASHES 00:24:56.19\00:24:59.59 OR DOES THE BIBLE SAY - ISAIAH 65:17 - "BEHOLD, I CREATE A NEW 00:24:59.63\00:25:06.17 HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH" WHEREIN DWELLS RIGHTEOUSNESS. 00:25:06.20\00:25:11.24 WE WILL GET TO SEE HIM MAKING THIS NEW HEAVEN AND THIS NEW 00:25:11.27\00:25:14.44 EARTH, AMEN? WON'T THAT BE EXCITING? AND THEN READ ALSO, 00:25:14.48\00:25:17.71 REVELATION 21, VERSE 1, "AND I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A 00:25:17.75\00:25:22.15 NEW EARTH: FOR THE FIRST HEAVEN AND THE FIRST EARTH WERE PASSED 00:25:22.18\00:25:25.22 AWAY." AND THE LORD WANTS YOU IN THAT CITY, FRIENDS. 00:25:25.25\00:25:29.72 2 PETER 3, VERSE 13, "BUT WE, ACCORDING TO HIS PROMISE, LOOK 00:25:29.76\00:25:34.50 FOR NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH, WHEREIN DWELLS RIGHTEOUSNESS." 00:25:34.56\00:25:39.80 BLESSED ARE THE MEEK, THEY WILL INHERIT THE EARTH - WE WILL GET 00:25:39.83\00:25:43.04 TO WATCH JESUS MAKING THE WORLD ALL OVER AGAIN, EVEN MORE 00:25:43.07\00:25:47.08 BEAUTIFUL THAN BEFORE, BECAUSE HE'S GOING TO GIVE US AN 00:25:47.11\00:25:49.01 UPGRADE. GOD, HIMSELF, WILL DWELL WITH US, AMEN? WHERE WILL 00:25:49.04\00:25:53.58 GOD AND THE RIGHTEOUS FINALLY LIVE? REVELATION 21, VERSE 3, 00:25:53.62\00:25:58.35 "BEHOLD, THE TABERNACLE OF GOD IS WITH MEN, AND HE WILL DWELL 00:25:58.39\00:26:05.36 WITH THEM." GOD IS GOING TO LIVE WITH US. 00:26:05.39\00:26:09.53 INSTEAD OF THIS JUST BEING ANOTHER WORLD, THE LORD IS 00:26:09.56\00:26:12.20 MOVING THE CAPITAL OF THE UNIVERSE TO THIS PLANET AND 00:26:12.23\00:26:15.30 THAT'S WHY WE WILL REIGN WITH CHRIST. 00:26:15.34\00:26:17.94 WON'T THAT BE WONDERFUL, FRIENDS? 00:26:17.97\00:26:19.94 >>AMEN. >>AT THIS POINT, ALL OF THIS IS 00:26:19.97\00:26:22.94 BEHIND US. THE MEEK WILL INHERIT THE EARTH. 00:26:22.98\00:26:25.98 THE QUESTION IS WHERE WILL WE BE? 00:26:26.01\00:26:29.98 THE LORD HAS BROUGHT YOU TO THESE MEETINGS - YOU'RE WATCHING 00:26:30.02\00:26:31.99 NOW - YOU'RE HERE NOW BECAUSE HE WANTS YOU TO ACCEPT HIS GIFT OF 00:26:32.02\00:26:35.56 EVERLASTING LIFE THAT HE'S OFFERING. 00:26:35.59\00:26:37.46 HE HAS A SPECIAL PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE THAT HE CAN ONLY MOBILIZE 00:26:37.49\00:26:40.96 AND ACTIVATE WHEN HE RETURNS AND WHEN YOU SURRENDER YOUR LIFE TO 00:26:40.96\00:26:45.40 HIM. IT BEGINS NOW. 00:26:45.43\00:26:47.97 WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE THAT DECISION TONIGHT, FRIENDS? 00:26:48.00\00:26:51.31 YOU CAN HAVE THAT. WE DON'T HAVE TO FEAR ALL THE 00:26:51.34\00:26:53.54 PAIN AND THE DARKNESS IN THIS WORLD IF WE GIVE OUR LIVES TO 00:26:53.58\00:26:56.34 JESUS. (MUSIC) 00:26:56.38\00:26:58.18 >>LET'S FACE IT, IT'S NOT ALWAYS EASY TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING 00:26:58.21\00:27:01.25 YOU READ IN THE BIBLE. WITH OVER 700,000 WORDS CONTAINED IN 00:27:01.28\00:27:05.42 66 BOOKS, THE BIBLE CAN GENERATE A LOT OF QUESTIONS. TO GET 00:27:05.45\00:27:09.76 BIBLICAL STRAIGHTFORWARD ANSWERS CALL IN TO BIBLE ANSWERS 00:27:09.79\00:27:12.73 LIVE - A LIVE NATIONWIDE CALL-IN RADIO PROGRAM WHERE YOU CAN TALK 00:27:12.76\00:27:16.90 TO PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR AND ASK HIM YOUR MOST DIFFICULT BIBLE 00:27:16.93\00:27:20.24 QUESTIONS. FOR TIMES AND STATIONS IN YOUR AREA, OR TO 00:27:20.27\00:27:23.47 LISTEN TO ANSWERS ONLINE, VISIT BAL.AMAZINGFACTS.ORG . 00:27:23.51\00:27:32.48 >>AMAZING FACTS HAS IMPACTED MY LIFE. 00:27:32.51\00:27:33.68 >>AND I JUST PRAISE GOD FOR AMAZING FACTS. 00:27:33.72\00:27:35.88 >>AMAZING FACTS ACTUALLY DID HAVE AN IMPACT ON MY LIFE. 00:27:35.92\00:27:38.52 >>THIS WHOLE PROCESS - GETTING WHERE I AM TODAY - I FELT GOOD 00:27:38.55\00:27:42.02 ABOUT THAT. I DIDN'T FEEL CONDEMNED. 00:27:42.06\00:27:44.36 >>I BEGAN READING THE BIBLE AND - 00:27:44.39\00:27:46.09 >>I GOT BAPTIZED INTO A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST - 00:27:46.13\00:27:48.23 >>I REALIZED THAT THERE HAD TO BE MORE TO LIFE. 00:27:48.26\00:27:50.57 >>GOD IS REALLY DOING THIS. >>THE LIFE THAT HE'S GIVEN ME. 00:27:50.60\00:27:52.90 >>THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL. 00:27:52.93\00:27:54.54 >>I'LL FOLLOW CHRIST WHEREVER HE GOES. 00:27:54.57\00:27:56.54 >>AMAZING FACTS. MORE THAN 45 YEARS OF 00:27:56.57\00:28:00.64 PROCLAIMING GOD'S MESSAGE AROUND THE WORLD. 00:28:00.68\00:28:03.65 >>AND THEN THE LOGO POPS ACROSS AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS . 00:28:03.68\00:28:07.58 I'VE LISTENED TO A LOT OF DIFFERENT MINISTERS, BUT THIS 00:28:07.62\00:28:10.19 WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT HE'S ACTUALLY SAYING SOMETHING WHERE 00:28:10.22\00:28:12.99 I HAD TO GRAB MY BIBLE AND ACTUALLY PICK IT UP AND I'VE 00:28:13.02\00:28:16.86 NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE. LET ME - LET ME LOOK 00:28:16.89\00:28:18.83 THROUGH AND FIND THIS. THEN I JUST COULDN'T GET ENOUGH. 00:28:18.86\00:28:21.20 >>AND SO I STARTED DOING BIBLE STUDIES. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF 00:28:21.23\00:28:24.57 THESE GUYS STARTED BEING CHANGED, INCLUDING MYSELF. 00:28:24.60\00:28:28.07 >>MY QUESTION WAS, 'WHY DID THAT HAPPEN TO ME, GOD?' 00:28:28.10\00:28:31.57 THE LORD WAS ABLE TO REACH OUT AND - AND I ACTUALLY SAW HIM AS 00:28:31.61\00:28:34.98 A FATHER. >>I LOST EVERYTHING AND THAT WAS 00:28:35.01\00:28:38.21 WHEN I REALIZED THAT IT WAS GOD MISSING IN MY LIFE. 00:28:38.25\00:28:41.18 >>I WENT TO A PROPHECY SEMINAR, WHICH KNOCKED ME OUT. 00:28:41.22\00:28:45.35 THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL AND SO IRREFUTABLE, I JUST WENT, 00:28:45.39\00:28:49.76 'THIS IS REAL. THIS IS - THIS IS AMAZING.' 00:28:49.79\00:28:54.93 (MUSIC) 00:28:54.96\00:29:25.59 >>THIS PRESENTATION WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE 00:29:25.63\00:29:28.26 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:29:28.30\00:29:43.31