Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
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Program Code: AFP000145A
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01:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 01:11 >>THIS TOPIC, THE DEVIL'S DUNGEON , IS REALLY TALKING 01:16 ABOUT A TIME WHEN SATAN IS BOUND. 01:19 SATAN IS BOUND ON THIS PLANET WITH NOBODY TO TEMPT AND 01:22 MANIPULATE AND HE HAS TO LOOK AT THE CONSEQUENCES OF HIS 01:25 REBELLION FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS. 01:31 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO 01:33 SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 01:36 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST TELEVISION 01:40 BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND 01:42 ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 01:51 >>TONIGHT OUR SUBJECT IS DEALING WITH THE TOPIC OF THE MILLENNIUM 01:58 IN THE BIBLE, SOMETIMES KNOWN AS THE THOUSAND YEARS. 02:01 YOU FIND THIS IN REVELATION 20; IT'S CALLED THE DEVIL'S DUNGEON . 02:07 IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLE, I'D LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO TURN WITH ME TO 02:10 REVELATION CHAPTER 20 AND WE'RE GOING TO READ THE FIRST FEW 02:15 VERSES HERE AND IT'LL GIVE US THE FOUNDATION FOR WHAT WE'RE 02:18 GOING TO STUDY. I WANT TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY 02:20 UNDERSTANDS THIS VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECT. 02:23 SO IF YOU LOOK THERE IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION, CHAPTER 20, VERSE 02:27 1, "THEN I SAW AN ANGEL COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN, HAVING THE KEY 02:32 TO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT AND A GREAT CHAIN IN HIS HAND. 02:36 HE LAID HOLD OF THE DRAGON, THAT SERPENT OF OLD, WHO IS THE DEVIL 02:39 AND SATAN," - ANY QUESTION ABOUT WHO THE 02:41 DEVIL, SATAN, AND DRAGON ARE? - "AND BOUND HIM FOR" - HOW LONG? 02:46 - "A THOUSAND YEARS; AND HE CAST HIM INTO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT," - 02:52 WHAT IS THAT? - "AND SHUT HIM UP, AND SET A 02:55 SEAL ON HIM, SO THAT HE SHOULD DECEIVE THE NATIONS NO MORE TILL 02:59 THE THOUSAND YEARS WERE FINISHED...NOW WHEN THE THOUSAND 03:03 YEARS HAVE EXPIRED, SATAN WILL BE RELEASED FROM HIS PRISON AND 03:06 HE'LL GO OUT TO DECEIVE THE NATIONS THAT ARE IN THE FOUR 03:10 CORNERS OF THE EARTH, GOG AND MAGOG, TO GATHER THEM TOGETHER 03:13 TO BATTLE, WHOSE NUMBER IS AS THE SAND OF THE SEA. 03:16 THEY WENT UP ON THE BREADTH OF THE EARTH AND SURROUNDED THE 03:19 CAMP OF THE SAINTS AND THE BELOVED CITY. 03:21 AND FIRE CAME DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN AND DEVOURED THEM. 03:24 THE DEVIL, WHO DECEIVED THEM, WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE 03:28 AND BRIMSTONE WHERE THE BEAST AND THE FALSE PROPHET ARE. 03:31 AND THEY WILL BE TORMENTED DAY AND NIGHT FOREVER AND EVER." 03:35 ALRIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO PAUSE RIGHT THERE. WITH THAT AS A 03:37 BACKGROUND FOR OUR STUDY, NOW WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO QUESTION 03:40 #1 OF THE LESSON. YOU'VE GOT THE PICTURE AND LET'S LEARN ABOUT 03:44 THIS DUNGEON THAT THE DEVIL IS CONFINED TO. 03:48 QUESTION #1 IN OUR STUDY: WHAT EVENTS MARK THE BEGINNING OF 03:52 THIS ONE THOUSAND-YEAR PERIOD? SO HOW DO WE KNOW? 03:55 WHAT'S THE LANDMARKS THAT BEGIN THIS TIME PERIOD? 03:57 YOU FIND IN 1 THESSALONIANS 4:16 IT SAYS, "FOR THE LORD HIMSELF 04:04 SHALL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT," - THE SECOND COMING OF 04:09 JESUS IS WHEN THE LORD DESCENDS AND IT SAYS - "AND THE DEAD IN 04:14 CHRIST WILL RISE FIRST." WHEREVER YOU HEAR ABOUT FIRST, 04:20 SEQUENTIALLY THAT MEANS WHAT? SOMEWHERE THERE'S A - 04:23 >>SECOND. >>A SECOND. 04:25 AND SO IT'S SAYING, 'BLESSED AND HOLY ARE THOSE THAT ARE IN THE 04:27 FIRST RESUR - YOU WANT TO BE IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION, FRIENDS. 04:30 THAT'S THE RESURRECTION OF THE SAVED. 04:32 AND THEN YOU READ IN REVELATION 20, VERSES 4 AND 5, "AND THEY 04:36 LIVED AND REIGNED WITH CHRIST FOR" - HOW LONG? 04:39 >>A THOUSAND YEARS. >>"A THOUSAND YEARS. 04:42 BUT" - IT TELLS US - "THE REST OF THE DEAD DID NOT LIVE AGAIN 04:46 UNTIL THE THOUSAND YEARS WERE FINISHED. 04:49 THIS IS THE FIRST RESURRECTION." NOW YOU DO NOT FIND THE WORD 04:52 'MILLENNIUM IN THE BIBLE. MILLENNIUM IS A COMPOSITE OF TWO 04:56 LATIN WORDS THAT SIMPLY MEAN 'MILLI' WHICH IS A THOUSAND AND 05:00 'ANNUM' WHICH MEANS YEARS. AND SO THE BEGINNING OF THE ONE 05:05 THOUSAND-YEAR PERIOD, IT STARTS WITH WHAT WE CALL THE FIRST 05:09 RESURRECTION AND THE END OF IT IS THE SECOND RESURRECTION. 05:12 THERE ARE TWO COMPLETE SEPARATE DISTINCT RESURRECTIONS. 05:16 I REMEMBER WHEN I FIRST HEARD THIS, IT KIND OF SURPRISED ME. 05:18 I THOUGHT THERE WAS ONE RESURRECTION AT THE END OF TIME. 05:20 THE BIBLE IS VERY CLEAR. QUESTION #2: WHAT ELSE WILL 05:24 HAPPEN IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION? 05:26 YOU READ IN 1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 15, VERSES 51 THROUGH 05:30 53, IT SAYS, "WE SHALL NOT ALL SLEEP, BUT WE SHALL ALL BE 05:36 CHANGED - IN A MOMENT...AT THE LAST TRUMPET. 05:40 FOR THE TRUMPET WILL SOUND AND ALL THE DEAD WILL BE RAISED 05:44 INCORRUPTIBLE AND WE SHALL BE CHANGED. 05:47 FOR THIS CORRUPTIBLE" - IT GOES ON TO SAY - "MUST PUT ON 05:51 INCORRUPTION, AND THIS MORTAL MUST PUT ON IMMORTALITY." 05:55 JUST THINK ABOUT THAT. SOME PEOPLE WILL NEVER DIE. 06:00 THERE'S ALREADY A FEW PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER DIED - WHO ARE THEY? 06:03 THERE'S TWO. >>ENOCH AND ELIJAH. 06:06 >>ENOCH AND ELIJAH. THE BIBLE SAYS ELIJAH - ENOCH 06:08 WALKED WITH GOD AND GOD TOOK HIM. 06:10 ELIJAH WENT TO HEAVEN IN A FIERY CHARIOT. 06:12 THERE ARE GOING TO BE OTHERS WHO ARE ALIVE WHEN JESUS COMES 06:15 WHO WILL NEVER EXPERIENCE DEATH. SO WHAT HAPPENS? 06:17 WHEN THE LORD COMES DOWN, ALL OF A SUDDEN WE GO THROUGH THIS 06:20 MIRACULOUS, COMPLETE, TOTAL REVITALIZATION WHERE WE'RE 06:25 TRANSFORMED AND WE GET THESE GLORIFIED ETERNAL BODIES AND IT 06:29 JUST HAPPENS IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE. 06:32 THAT'S QUICKER THAN A BLINK. YOU CAN READ MORE ABOUT THIS 06:35 ANSWER - IT'S IN PHILIPPIANS 3, VERSE 21. IT SAYS, "WHO WILL 06:41 CHANGE OUR VILE BODY THAT IT MIGHT BE FASHIONED LIKE UNTO HIS 06:45 GLORIOUS BODY." WHAT KIND OF BODIES DO WE GET? 06:49 DO WE TURN INTO GHOSTS OR DO WE GET GLORIFIED BODIES? 06:53 WHAT WAS JESUS' BODY LIKE WHEN HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD? 06:55 DID HE TELL THE DISCIPLES TO TOUCH HIM? 06:57 IT WAS A GLORIOUS BODY. 06:59 IT WAS A SUPERNATURAL BODY BUT IT WAS REAL AT THE SAME TIME. 07:02 THEN HE SAID, 'DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO EAT? 07:04 I'M HUNGRY.' TWICE HE ASKED THEM TO FEED HIM. ACTUALLY, ONCE, HE 07:06 DID THE COOKING - WHEN IT WAS BY THE SEASHORE. 07:09 SO HE'S MAKING IT CLEAR - HE SAYS, 'I'M NOT AN ETHEREAL 07:12 GHOST.' YOUR GLORIFIED BODY IS A REAL BODY. 07:15 WHEN GOD MADE ADAM AND EVE, DID THEY HAVE REAL BODIES? 07:19 DID HE INTEND THEM TO LIVE FOREVER? 07:21 DOES THE BIBLE SAY, IN HEAVEN, WE'RE GOING TO PLANT VINEYARDS 07:24 AND EAT THE FRUIT OF THEM AND BUILD HOUSES AND INHABIT THEM? 07:26 AND WE'LL BE DOING REAL THINGS, WE'RE NOT JUST GOING TO BE 07:29 STRUMMING HARPS ON A CLOUD SOMEWHERE. 07:31 SO OUR BODIES WILL BE LIKE JESUS' GLORIFIED BODY. 07:34 AND AGAIN, 2 THESSALONIANS 2, VERSE 8, "THEN SHALL THAT WICKED 07:40 BE REVEALED, WHOM THE LORD SHALL CONSUME...WITH THE BRIGHTNESS OF 07:46 HIS COMING." SO WHEN THE LORD COMES, THE DEAD 07:48 IN CHRIST THAT ARE DEAD WILL BE CAUGHT UP. 07:51 THOSE WHO ARE SAVED WILL BE TRANSFORMED AND CAUGHT UP. 07:54 AND WHAT HAPPENS TO THOSE LEFT BEHIND? JUST LIKE WHAT HAPPENED 07:58 TO THE DEVIL - CONSUMED WITH THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING. 08:00 FURTHERMORE, REVELATION 16:18, "...AND THERE WAS A GREAT 08:04 EARTHQUAKE, SUCH AS WAS NOT SINCE MEN WERE UPON THE EARTH, 08:07 SO MIGHTY AN EARTHQUAKE, AND SO GREAT." 08:10 THIS IS GOING TO BE A 15 ON THE RICHTER SCALE BECAUSE IT SAYS 08:14 ISLANDS ARE SWALLOWED UP AND THE MOUNTAINS ARE SHAKEN OUT OF 08:17 THEIR FOUNDATIONS. ALRIGHT, AND IT GOES ON TO SAY, 08:20 "AND EVERY ISLAND FLED AWAY, AND THE MOUNTAINS WERE NOT FOUND. 08:25 AND THERE FELL UPON MEN A GREAT" - WHAT? 08:29 - "A GREAT HAIL OUT OF HEAVEN, EVERY STONE ABOUT THE WEIGHT OF 08:33 A TALENT:" - NOW SEE THAT PICTURE, THAT'S SOMEBODY WHO'S 08:37 HOLDING WALNUT-SIDED HAIL. I DID AN AMAZING FACT ONE TIME 08:40 TO FIND OUT WHAT WAS THE LARGEST HAIL EVER RECORDED. 08:43 IN BANGLADESH THEY HAD SOFTBALL-SIZED HAIL. 08:47 NOW THAT CAN KILL YOU, BUT STILL, THAT'S NOT 75 POUNDS. 08:52 CAN YOU IMAGINE THE WORLD BEING PUMMELED BY THAT KIND OF HAIL? 08:56 NOW, WHEN ALL THESE THINGS ARE HAPPENING, WITH THE COMING OF 08:59 JESUS, THIS MARKS THE BEGINNING OF A PERIOD WHERE 09:03 SATAN IS BOUND. 09:04 REVELATION 20, VERSES 1 AND 2, "AND...AN ANGEL...LAID HOLD ON 09:09 THE DRAGON, THAT OLD SERPENT, WHICH IS THE DEVIL, AND SATAN, 09:13 AND BOUND HIM A THOUSAND YEARS." NOW, HOW DO YOU BIND A DEVIL? 09:19 I MEAN, SAMSON, THEY TIED HIM UP WITH ALL DIFFERENT KINDS OF 09:21 ROPES AND HE JUST BROKE THE ROPES. YOU WONDER, IS SATAN 09:23 STRONGER THAN SAMSON? HOW DO YOU TIE UP A DEVIL? 09:27 IF WE KNEW HOW, WE'D ALL WANT TO DO IT, WOULDN'T WE? 09:31 SATAN IS NOT BEING BOUND BY ROPES, IT'S THE CHAIN THAT'S 09:35 BEING REFERRED TO - IT SAYS, "THE ANGEL HAD A GREAT CHAIN IN 09:38 HIS HAND." IT'S TALKING ABOUT A CHAIN OF 09:39 CIRCUMSTANCES. NOW, THAT BOTTOMLESS PIT IS A 09:44 VERY INTERESTING WORD AND THIS IS WHAT THROWS PEOPLE. 09:47 IT COMES FROM A GREEK WORD THAT YOU FIND OTHER PLACES IN THE 09:50 BIBLE. YOU EVER HEARD THE WORD 'ABYSS'? IT COMES FROM THE GREEK 09:55 WORD 'ABUSSOS'. IT SOUNDS SIMILAR, RIGHT? 09:59 THAT WORD 'ABUSSOS', IT MEANS THE DEVIL IS CHAINED WHERE HE 10:03 CANNOT DO ANYTHING. IT'S ISOLATION FOR HIM. 10:07 THE SAME WORD IS USED IN LUKE CHAPTER 8, VERSE 31. 10:11 YOU REMEMBER, THERE'S THIS MAN WHO'S POSSESSED WITH A LEGION OF 10:15 DEMONS AND THE DEMONS SAY TO JESUS, 'DO NOT CAST US OUT INTO 10:19 THE' - SAME EXACT WORD - 'ABUSSOS.' DEMONS AND THE DEVIL 10:24 DO NOT WANT TO BE CAST INTO NOTHINGNESS. 10:27 THE DEVIL WANTS TO POSSESS SOMEBODY. 10:30 HE WILL POSSESS A SERPENT. THE DEVILS IN THIS STORY 10:32 POSSESSED PIGS - WELL, POSSESSED PEOPLE - THEY WANT TO TEMPT. 10:36 THE DEVIL'S A WORKAHOLIC - WITH NOTHING TO DO IT'S TORTURE FOR 10:39 HIM. AND SO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT IS THIS PLANET. 10:45 >>THE BIBLE TALKS, IN REVELATION 20, ABOUT A VERY INTERESTING 10:48 PERIOD OF TIME, BETTER KNOWN AS THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS, OR THE 10:52 MILLENNIUM. IT'S A TIME THAT'S COMING VERY 10:54 SOON. THE BIBLE SAYS IT'S A TIME WHERE WE WILL LIVE AND REIGN 10:58 WITH THE LORD. THE QUESTION IS: WHERE DO 11:00 WE SPEND THE MILLENNIUM? IS IT HERE ON EARTH? 11:03 IS IT IN HEAVEN? WHAT'S THE CONDITION OF THE 11:05 WICKED DURING THIS TIME? WOULD YOU LIKE TO UNDERSTAND 11:07 THIS SUBJECT THAT'S COMING VERY SOON? 11:09 WE HAVE A STUDY GUIDE CALLED A THOUSAND YEARS OF PEACE THAT 11:12 EXPLAINS IT ALL. TO GET YOUR FREE COPY GO TO 11:16 AMAZINGFACTS.ORG OR CALL THE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN 11:20 AND ASK FOR OFFER #123. AND FRIENDS, WHEN YOU RECEIVE 11:24 THIS FREE RESOURCE, PLEASE READ IT AND THEN SHARE 11:26 IT WITH A FRIEND. WE WANT TO GET THE WORD OUT, 11:28 BECAUSE GOD'S MESSAGE IS OUR MISSION. 11:32 FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS SATAN IS GOING TO BE BOUND DOWN HERE IN 11:37 DARKNESS, WITH HIS DEMONS, WITH NO HUMANS ALIVE, WHY? 11:43 BECAUSE WHEN JESUS COMES BACK, WHAT DIRECTION DO THE DEAD IN 11:46 CHRIST GO? UP. THE LIVING SAINTS ARE 11:50 TRANSFORMED AND IN WHAT DIRECTION 11:51 DO THEY GO? WE WILL BE CAUGHT UP. 11:54 REMEMBER, JESUS SAID, 'I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU. 11:56 I WILL COME AGAIN AND RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF THAT WHERE I AM, 11:59 YE MAY BE.' SO WE'RE ALL GOING BACK TO THE MANSIONS 12:01 HE'S PREPARED WHEN HE COMES, RIGHT? 12:04 WHAT HAPPENS TO THE WICKED WHO ARE ALIVE WHEN HE COMES? 12:07 THE DEVIL AND ALL - THE DEVIL'S GOING TO RUN FROM HIS PRESENCE. 12:11 ALL THE WICKED ARE DESTROYED BY THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING. 12:14 HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE ALIVE ON THE PLANET AT THAT POINT? 12:17 >>ZERO. >>NOBODY. 12:18 WHO DOES THE DEVIL HAVE TO TEMPT, HIM AND HIS DEMONS? 12:21 THEY'RE GOING TO BE CHAINED ON THIS DARK PLANET. 12:23 QUESTION #3: IN WHAT CONDITION WILL THE EARTH BE LEFT AFTER 12:29 THIS DEVASTATING EARTHQUAKE AND HAILSTORM THAT BEGIN THE ONE 12:32 THOUSAND YEARS? LET'S LET THE BIBLE EXPLAIN ITSELF. 12:37 ISAIAH 24, VERSE 19, "THE LORD MAKETH THE EARTH EMPTY, AND 12:47 MAKETH IT WASTE, AND TURNETH IT UPSIDE DOWN." 12:51 THE EARTH IS UTTERLY BROKEN DOWN. 12:55 HOW MANY PEOPLE ON THE EARTH? IT'S EMPTY. 12:57 READ NOW IN JEREMIAH 4, VERSE 23, "I BEHELD THE EARTH, AND, 13:03 LO, IT WAS WITHOUT FORM, AND - >>VOID. 13:05 >>VOID. NOW, YOU READ THAT YOU MIGHT 13:06 THINK, 'OH, HE'S TALKING ABOUT CREATION.' BECAUSE IT'S THE SAME 13:09 WORDING, BUT IT'S NOT WHAT HE'S TALKING ABOUT. KEEP READING, 13:12 "I BEHELD...AND THE HEAVENS, AND THEY HAD NO LIGHT. 13:15 I BEHELD THE MOUNTAINS, AND, LO, THEY TREMBLED, AND...THERE WAS 13:19 NO MAN, ALL THE BIRDS OF HEAVEN WERE FLED...THE FRUITFUL PLACE 13:25 WAS A WILDERNESS, AND ALL THE CITIES THEREOF WERE BROKEN DOWN 13:32 AT THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD, AND BY HIS FIERCE ANGER." 13:36 WHAT WAS THE CONDITION OF ISRAEL AFTER NEBUCHADNEZZAR CAME 13:38 AND LEFT? DESOLATE - CITIES BROKEN DOWN. 13:41 DIDN'T WE JUST READ THAT? READ JEREMIAH 25, VERSE 33, "AND 13:48 THE SLAIN OF THE LORD SHALL BE AT THAT DAY FROM ONE END OF THE 13:54 EARTH EVEN UNTO THE OTHER END OF THE EARTH:" - IS THAT CLEAR? 13:58 - "THEY SHALL NOT BE LAMENTED, NEITHER GATHERED, NOR BURIED;" 14:04 WHY IS THERE NOBODY TO GATHER THEM OR TO BURY THEM? 14:08 BECAUSE THERE'S NOBODY ALIVE. 14:10 NOW, I'LL TELL YOU WHY THIS IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT SUBJECT - I 14:14 NEED BOTH HANDS; I'VE GOT TO PUT DOWN MY CLICKER FOR THIS - MANY 14:18 DEAR CHRISTIANS BELIEVE THE TIM LAHAYE/LEFT BEHIND SCENARIO OF 14:24 FINAL EVENTS, WHICH SAY - AND, AGAIN, WE MAY JUST RESPECTFULLY 14:29 DISAGREE - BUT THEY SAY THAT THE SECRET RAPTURE TAKES PLACE SEVEN 14:35 YEARS BEFORE JESUS ACTUALLY TOUCHES THE EARTH. 14:37 THEY GO BACK TO HEAVEN. 14:39 GREAT TRIBULATION - PEOPLE STILL ALIVE ON EARTH DURING THE 14:42 TRIBULATION - THEN AT THE END OF THAT TIME JESUS COMES DOWN AND 14:46 THE MILLENNIAL REIGN IS HERE ON EARTH AND THEN AT THE END OF 14:49 THAT MILLENNIAL REIGN, THE WICKED ARE SLAIN AND WE JUST 14:51 OCCUPY THE EARTH. IN THAT SCENARIO, WHERE IS THE 14:55 EARTH COMPLETELY VACATED FROM ALL LIFE? 15:00 IT DOESN'T FIT. IT NEVER HAPPENS. 15:02 IT DOESN'T FIT THE SCHEME IN THE BIBLE OF WHAT IT'S DESCRIBING. 15:06 AND SO THIS IS WHAT PROTESTANTS USED TO BELIEVE FOR ABOUT 1,500 15:10 YEARS, AND IT'S GETTING ECLIPSED BY HOLLYWOOD PRODUCTIONS NOW. 15:14 IT TELLS US THAT THE SLAIN OF THE LORD COVER THE EARTH. 15:17 THERE IS NO MAN. I TURNED THE EARTH UPSIDE DOWN - 15:18 IT'S UTTERLY EMPTY - THE CITIES ARE ALL BROKEN DOWN. 15:21 THEY'VE ALL FLED FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD BY HIS 15:23 FIERCE ANGER. THERE'S NO ONE TO LAMENT OR TO BURY THEM OR MOURN. 15:27 THEY'RE ALL GONE. BUT WE'RE LIVING AND REIGNING WITH CHRIST. 15:30 SATAN IS BOUND ON THIS PLANET. YOU KNOW, IN THE GREEK OLD 15:36 TESTAMENT - IT'S THE SAME OLD TESTAMENT AS HEBREW EXCEPT IT'S 15:39 IN GREEK - CALLED THE SEPTUAGINT. 15:41 WHEN IT SAYS THE EARTH IS VOID, IT USES THE WORD 'ABUSSOS'. 15:47 IT CALLS THIS PLANET THE SAME THING AND THAT VERSE IN JEREMIAH 15:51 USES THE WORD 'ABUSSOS' - THE EARTH WAS AN ABYSS. 15:54 SATAN IS BOUND ON THIS PLANET WITH NOBODY TO TEMPT AND 15:57 MANIPULATE AND HE HAS TO LOOK AT THE CONSEQUENCES OF HIS 16:01 REBELLION FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS. 16:04 THAT'S A LONG PRISON SENTENCE. 16:08 ALRIGHT, QUESTION #4: WHERE WILL THE SAINTS BE DURING THE ONE 16:11 THOUSAND YEARS AND WHAT WILL THEY BE DOING? 16:14 ALRIGHT, NOW WE'RE GOING TO JUMP TO HEAVEN. 16:15 IT'S GOING TO BE A PRETTIER PICTURE. 16:17 JOHN 14, VERSE 3, JESUS SAID, "I WILL COME AGAIN AND RECEIVE YOU 16:23 TO MYSELF; THAT WHERE I AM, THERE YE MAY BE ALSO." 16:30 HE'S TAKING US TO WHERE HE IS - WHERE HE'S TOLD HIS DISCIPLES HE 16:33 WAS GOING. IS IT CLEAR WE'RE GOING UP? 16:35 YET THE LEFT BEHIND SCENARIO SAYS THAT WE SPEND THE 16:39 MILLENNIUM HERE ON EARTH, REIGNING OVER THE WICKED. 16:42 I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I HAVE NO ASPIRATIONS TO REIGN 16:44 OVER THE WICKED. THAT WOULD BE REALLY STRANGE. 16:49 THINK ABOUT THAT. THAT THE RIGHTEOUS ARE HERE ON 16:51 EARTH - THEY'VE GOT GLORIFIED BODIES - AND THEY'RE REIGNING 16:52 OVER THE WICKED THAT STILL GET MARRIED, HAVE BABIES, AND DIE. 16:56 IT JUST - IT JUST SEEMS REALLY STRANGE TO MAKE THAT FIT. 17:01 REVELATION 20, VERSE 4 - WHAT ARE WE DOING IN HEAVEN WHEN IT 17:04 SAYS WE LIVE AND REIGN WITH CHRIST? 17:06 IT TELLS US IN THE BIBLE. 17:07 "I SAW THRONES AND THEY SAT UPON THEM AND JUDGEMENT WAS GIVEN 17:12 UNTO THEM AND THEY LIVED AND THEY REIGNED WITH CHRIST A 17:16 THOUSAND YEARS." NOW WHAT DOES JUDGMENT MEAN? 17:18 DOES THAT MEAN THAT WE'RE UP THERE GOING 'INNOCENT. 17:21 GUILTY. INNOCENT. GUILTY.' WHO ARE WE JUDGING? 17:25 KEEP READING, IT TELLS US. 1 CORINTHIANS - THIS IS PAUL - 17:30 CHAPTER 6, VERSE 2, "DO YE NOT KNOW" - AND VERSE 3 - "DO YE NOT 17:34 KNOW THAT THE SAINTS SHALL JUDGE THE WORLD?" 17:39 YOU KNOW, WE'RE, AS CHRISTIANS, GOING TO BE PERSECUTED BY THE 17:41 WORLD. WE'RE GOING TO BE JUDGED. 17:43 THERE'LL BE A DEATH DECREE ON US - BUT BEFORE THAT HAPPENS, JESUS 17:46 IS GOING TO COME AND RESCUE US AND THE TABLES ARE GOING TO 17:49 TURN. THAT MEANS PAUL WILL SOMEDAY BE 17:54 SITTING IN JUDGMENT OF NERO, WHO DECLARED THAT PAUL SHOULD BE 17:58 BEHEADED. WON'T THAT BE INTERESTING? 18:02 SO GOD IS JUST. ALRIGHT, QUESTION #5: WHAT WILL 18:05 HAPPEN AT THE CLOSE OF THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS? SEVERAL THINGS: 18:10 "BEHOLD" - IT SAYS - AND NOW I'M IN ZECHARIAH 14, VERSES 1, 4, 5, 18:14 AND 9 - "BEHOLD, THE DAY OF THE LORD COMETH...AND HIS FEET SHALL 18:20 STAND IN THAT DAY UPON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, WHICH IS BEFORE 18:25 JERUSALEM ON THE EAST, AND" - IT SAYS - "THE MOUNT OF OLIVES 18:30 SHALL CLEAVE IN THE MIDST THEREOF." 18:33 THE NIGHT WE STUDIED THE SECOND COMING - IF ANYBODY COMES ALONG 18:36 AND THEY SAY, 'I'M JESUS' - IF HIS FEET ARE TOUCHING THE 18:39 GROUND, HE'S NOT JESUS, BECAUSE WHEN JESUS' FEET TOUCH THE 18:42 GROUND, HE'S COMING TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES AND IT'S GOING TO 18:44 SPLIT AND FORM A GREAT VALLEY. NOW WHY DOES THAT HAPPEN? 18:48 REVELATION 21, VERSE 2 - IT'S IN YOUR LESSON - "AND I JOHN SAW 18:54 THE HOLY CITY, NEW JERUSALEM, COMING DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF 18:59 HEAVEN, PREPARED AS A BRIDE ADORNED FOR HER HUSBAND." 19:02 THIS IS A GREAT MARRIAGE SUPPER WHERE FINALLY THE END OF THAT 19:06 SEVEN THOUSAND-YEAR PERIOD TAKES PLACE. THIS ALL HAPPENS AT THE 19:09 END OF THAT ONE THOUSAND YEARS - THE NEW JERUSALEM COMES DOWN. 19:13 THAT IS THE GOOD JERUSALEM - CITY OF PEACE. 19:18 ALRIGHT, SO WHEN THAT HAPPENS, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT TO NOW FREE 19:22 SATAN FROM HIS PRISON? YOU READ IN REVELATION CHAPTER 19:27 20, VERSE 5 - WE ALREADY TOUCHED ON THIS BUT WE'RE GOING TO READ 19:30 IT AGAIN: "BUT THE REST OF THE DEAD LIVED NOT AGAIN UNTIL THE 19:35 THOUSAND YEARS WERE FINISHED." WHAT DOES THAT IMPLY? 19:38 AFTER THE THOUSAND YEARS ARE FINISHED, WHAT HAPPENS? 19:41 THEY LIVE AGAIN. YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE WE READ? 19:43 AFTER THE THOUSAND YEARS ARE FINISHED, SATAN IS LOOSED FROM 19:45 HIS PRISON. WHAT IS IT THAT LOOSES SATAN FROM HIS PRISON? 19:50 ALL THE WICKED DEAD WHO HAVE EVER LIVED ARE GOING TO COME 19:53 BACK TO LIFE. HE'S NOW GOT THIS VAST ARMY 19:57 AGAIN THAT'S ALWAYS LISTENED TO HIM BEFORE. 19:59 THEY'RE READY AND ABLE TO LISTEN TO HIM AGAIN. 20:02 SO, WHAT WILL SATAN DO WHEN THE WICKED ARE RAISED? 20:06 REVELATION 20, VERSES 8 AND 9 - IT SAYS HE "SHALL GO OUT TO 20:12 DECEIVE THE NATIONS WHICH ARE IN THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE EARTH, 20:16 GOG AND MAGOG, TO GATHER THEM TOGETHER TO BATTLE: THE NUMBER 20:22 OF WHOM IS AS THE SAND OF THE SEA." 20:25 - AND IT GOES ON TO SAY - "AND THEY WENT UP ON THE BREADTH OF 20:28 THE EARTH, AND COMPASSED THE CAMP OF THE SAINTS ABOUT, AND 20:32 THE BELOVED CITY." EZEKIEL TALKS ABOUT GOG AND 20:36 MAGOG COMING AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF GOD. 20:39 GOG AND MAGOG, YOU READ IN GENESIS, THEY ARE SOME OF THE 20:42 ANCESTORS OF THE TRIBES THAT FOUGHT AGAINST ISRAEL. 20:47 THEY REPRESENT THE ENEMIES OF ISRAEL. 20:49 GOG - MAGOG MEANS 'FROM THE MATRIX, OR THE CHILDREN OF GOG.' 20:55 GOG WAS A WARLIKE NATION THAT FOUGHT AGAINST ISRAEL; MAGOG 20:59 MEANT 'AND THE CHILDREN OF GOG.' SO - I'VE HEARD PEOPLE SAY, 'OH, 21:03 IT'S RUSSIA AND CHINA.' AND REVELATION IS NOT TALKING ABOUT 21:09 THOSE KIND OF BATTLES OF NATIONS. 21:11 IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL, CHRIST 21:13 AND SATAN, THOSE WHO FOLLOW HIM AND THOSE WHO DON'T. 21:16 IN REVELATION IT TALKS ABOUT BABYLON, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS, 21:21 AND HER DAUGHTERS. GOG AND MAGOG. 21:25 YOU'VE GOT THE WICKED AND THEIR CHILDREN IT TALKS ABOUT AND 21:27 THAT'S ALL THAT IT'S SAYING. 21:28 IT SAYS, 'THEY COVER THE EARTH LIKE A CLOUD.' CAN YOU IMAGINE 21:33 JUST THE SWARMS OF HUMANITY ALL OVER THE PLANET. 21:36 AND THOSE IN THE CITY - IT'S GOING TO LOOK PRETTY OMINOUS FOR 21:39 US. QUESTION #6: AT THIS CRUCIAL 21:43 MOMENT, WHAT WILL STOP EVERYTHING? 21:48 REVELATION 20, VERSES 11 AND 12, "AND I SAW A GREAT WHITE THRONE, 21:56 AND HIM THAT SAT ON IT...AND THE DEAD WERE JUDGED OUT OF THOSE 22:02 THINGS WHICH WERE WRITTEN IN THE BOOKS, ACCORDING TO THEIR 22:05 WORKS." WHO ARE THE DEAD THAT ARE BEING 22:08 JUDGED AT THIS JUDGMENT? THAT'S THE WICKED. 22:11 THEY'RE DEAD SPIRITUALLY. 22:12 JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU HAVE THE SON YOU HAVE LIFE. 22:14 IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE SON, YOU DO NOT HAVE LIFE.' AND SO, 22:17 DURING THAT TIME, WHEN THEY PREPARED TO LAUNCH THIS ASSAULT 22:20 ON THE CITY OF GOD, JESUS IS EXALTED ABOVE THE CITY, THIS 22:26 BATTLE IS PAUSED, THE LORD WILL MAKE EVERY PERSON'S LIFE TO PASS 22:31 BEFORE THEM IN THE HEAVENS, WHERE ALL CAN SEE. 22:34 ABOVE THE NEW JERUSALEM THEY'LL SEE JESUS COMING INTO THE WORLD. 22:38 THEY'LL SEE HIS PERFECT LIFE. THEY'LL SEE THAT HE TAUGHT 22:41 EVERYBODY WHAT THEY NEEDED TO DO TO BE SAVED. 22:44 THEY'LL SEE JESUS' SUFFERINGS AT THE HANDS OF LUCIFER AND THE WAY 22:47 THAT THE DEVIL WAS SO FILLED WITH THIS LOVE FOR POWER AND 22:51 JESUS WAS SO FILLED WITH THE POWER OF LOVE. 22:54 WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT? 22:55 AFTER GOD SHOWS THE ISSUES - SHOWS PEOPLE THEIR SINS - SHOWS 23:00 HIS GOODNESS, EVERYONE BOWS DOWN AND THEY SAY, 'JESUS IS LORD.' - 23:05 EVEN THE DEVIL WILL FINALLY BE CONSTRAINED BY THE JUSTICE OF 23:08 GOD TO BOW DOWN AND DECLARE THAT JESUS IS LORD. 23:11 IT'LL BE HARDER FOR HIM THAN ANYONE. 23:13 AND, AT THAT POINT, THE DEVIL JUMPS BACK TO HIS FEET AND HE 23:16 SAID, 'IT'S OUR LAST CHANCE. TAKE THE CITY.' 23:20 THEY COME AGAINST THE CITY OF GOD. IT TELLS US IN REVELATION 23:23 20, VERSE 9, AT THAT POINT GOD HAS NO ALTERNATIVE, DOES HE? 23:28 FIRE COMES DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN AND DEVOURS THEM. 23:32 AGAIN, REVELATION 20, VERSE 15 - AND IT TELLS US "WHOSOEVER WAS 23:37 NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF 23:43 FIRE." AS THAT FIRE RAINS DOWN AROUND 23:45 THE NEW JERUSALEM - THE NEW JERUSALEM'S GOT BIG WALLS, IT'S 23:48 SAFE, EVEN THOUGH IT'S MOLTEN OUTSIDE THE CITY, EVERYONE 23:51 INSIDE IS SAFE. AND ALL THE WICKED ARE GOING TO 23:56 BE PUNISHED ACCORDING TO WHAT THEY DESERVE AND ANYONE NOT 23:59 FOUND IN THE BOOK OF LIFE IS THROWN INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. 24:03 THE BIBLE SAYS THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH. 24:06 SO, QUICKLY, AND THAT'S, BY THE WAY, REVELATION 20, VERSE 14. 24:09 LET'S REVIEW WHAT HAPPENS NOW - TO MARK OUT THE MILLENNIUM. 24:13 WE'LL JUST PUT A LITTLE CHART UP ON THE SCREEN TO GIVE YOU THE 24:15 QUICK PICTURE OF HOW DO YOU SEPARATE THIS PERIOD OF TIME. 24:19 AT THE BEGINNING OF THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS YOU HAVE THE 24:21 FIRST RESURRECTION AND THE SECOND COMING, RIGHT? 24:24 AND THEN, AT THE END, IT'S THE SECOND RESURRECTION AND THE HOLY 24:27 CITY COMES DOWN. DURING THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS, 24:31 THE RIGHTEOUS ARE IN HEAVEN, WE'RE LOOKING AT THE BOOKS, 24:33 WE'RE ASKING QUESTIONS, WE'RE JUDGING - SO THAT WHEN THE 24:36 JUDGMENT HAPPENS, WE'RE ALL IN AGREEMENT SAYING, 'TRUE AND 24:39 RIGHTEOUS ARE HIS JUDGMENTS.' AND THEN, AFTER THE ONE THOUSAND 24:43 YEARS, FIRE COMES DOWN, THERE - IT'S CALLED 'THE EXECUTIVE PART' 24:47 OF THE JUDGEMENT - WHEN PEOPLE RECEIVE THEIR PENALTIES. 24:51 AFTER THE FIRE GOES OUT, WHAT WILL GOD DO FOR HIS PEOPLE AT 24:56 THAT TIME? DO WE CONTINUE TREADING ON ASHES 24:59 OR DOES THE BIBLE SAY - ISAIAH 65:17 - "BEHOLD, I CREATE A NEW 25:06 HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH" WHEREIN DWELLS RIGHTEOUSNESS. 25:11 WE WILL GET TO SEE HIM MAKING THIS NEW HEAVEN AND THIS NEW 25:14 EARTH, AMEN? WON'T THAT BE EXCITING? AND THEN READ ALSO, 25:17 REVELATION 21, VERSE 1, "AND I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A 25:22 NEW EARTH: FOR THE FIRST HEAVEN AND THE FIRST EARTH WERE PASSED 25:25 AWAY." AND THE LORD WANTS YOU IN THAT CITY, FRIENDS. 25:29 2 PETER 3, VERSE 13, "BUT WE, ACCORDING TO HIS PROMISE, LOOK 25:34 FOR NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH, WHEREIN DWELLS RIGHTEOUSNESS." 25:39 BLESSED ARE THE MEEK, THEY WILL INHERIT THE EARTH - WE WILL GET 25:43 TO WATCH JESUS MAKING THE WORLD ALL OVER AGAIN, EVEN MORE 25:47 BEAUTIFUL THAN BEFORE, BECAUSE HE'S GOING TO GIVE US AN 25:49 UPGRADE. GOD, HIMSELF, WILL DWELL WITH US, AMEN? WHERE WILL 25:53 GOD AND THE RIGHTEOUS FINALLY LIVE? REVELATION 21, VERSE 3, 25:58 "BEHOLD, THE TABERNACLE OF GOD IS WITH MEN, AND HE WILL DWELL 26:05 WITH THEM." GOD IS GOING TO LIVE WITH US. 26:09 INSTEAD OF THIS JUST BEING ANOTHER WORLD, THE LORD IS 26:12 MOVING THE CAPITAL OF THE UNIVERSE TO THIS PLANET AND 26:15 THAT'S WHY WE WILL REIGN WITH CHRIST. 26:17 WON'T THAT BE WONDERFUL, FRIENDS? 26:19 >>AMEN. >>AT THIS POINT, ALL OF THIS IS 26:22 BEHIND US. THE MEEK WILL INHERIT THE EARTH. 26:26 THE QUESTION IS WHERE WILL WE BE? 26:30 THE LORD HAS BROUGHT YOU TO THESE MEETINGS - YOU'RE WATCHING 26:32 NOW - YOU'RE HERE NOW BECAUSE HE WANTS YOU TO ACCEPT HIS GIFT OF 26:35 EVERLASTING LIFE THAT HE'S OFFERING. 26:37 HE HAS A SPECIAL PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE THAT HE CAN ONLY MOBILIZE 26:40 AND ACTIVATE WHEN HE RETURNS AND WHEN YOU SURRENDER YOUR LIFE TO 26:45 HIM. IT BEGINS NOW. 26:48 WOULD YOU LIKE TO MAKE THAT DECISION TONIGHT, FRIENDS? 26:51 YOU CAN HAVE THAT. WE DON'T HAVE TO FEAR ALL THE 26:53 PAIN AND THE DARKNESS IN THIS WORLD IF WE GIVE OUR LIVES TO 26:56 JESUS. (MUSIC) 26:58 >>LET'S FACE IT, IT'S NOT ALWAYS EASY TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING 27:01 YOU READ IN THE BIBLE. WITH OVER 700,000 WORDS CONTAINED IN 27:05 66 BOOKS, THE BIBLE CAN GENERATE A LOT OF QUESTIONS. TO GET 27:09 BIBLICAL STRAIGHTFORWARD ANSWERS CALL IN TO BIBLE ANSWERS 27:12 LIVE - A LIVE NATIONWIDE CALL-IN RADIO PROGRAM WHERE YOU CAN TALK 27:16 TO PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR AND ASK HIM YOUR MOST DIFFICULT BIBLE 27:20 QUESTIONS. FOR TIMES AND STATIONS IN YOUR AREA, OR TO 27:23 LISTEN TO ANSWERS ONLINE, VISIT BAL.AMAZINGFACTS.ORG . 27:32 >>AMAZING FACTS HAS IMPACTED MY LIFE. 27:33 >>AND I JUST PRAISE GOD FOR AMAZING FACTS. 27:35 >>AMAZING FACTS ACTUALLY DID HAVE AN IMPACT ON MY LIFE. 27:38 >>THIS WHOLE PROCESS - GETTING WHERE I AM TODAY - I FELT GOOD 27:42 ABOUT THAT. I DIDN'T FEEL CONDEMNED. 27:44 >>I BEGAN READING THE BIBLE AND - 27:46 >>I GOT BAPTIZED INTO A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST - 27:48 >>I REALIZED THAT THERE HAD TO BE MORE TO LIFE. 27:50 >>GOD IS REALLY DOING THIS. >>THE LIFE THAT HE'S GIVEN ME. 27:52 >>THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL. 27:54 >>I'LL FOLLOW CHRIST WHEREVER HE GOES. 27:56 >>AMAZING FACTS. MORE THAN 45 YEARS OF 28:00 PROCLAIMING GOD'S MESSAGE AROUND THE WORLD. 28:03 >>AND THEN THE LOGO POPS ACROSS AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS . 28:07 I'VE LISTENED TO A LOT OF DIFFERENT MINISTERS, BUT THIS 28:10 WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT HE'S ACTUALLY SAYING SOMETHING WHERE 28:13 I HAD TO GRAB MY BIBLE AND ACTUALLY PICK IT UP AND I'VE 28:16 NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE. LET ME - LET ME LOOK 28:18 THROUGH AND FIND THIS. THEN I JUST COULDN'T GET ENOUGH. 28:21 >>AND SO I STARTED DOING BIBLE STUDIES. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF 28:24 THESE GUYS STARTED BEING CHANGED, INCLUDING MYSELF. 28:28 >>MY QUESTION WAS, 'WHY DID THAT HAPPEN TO ME, GOD?' 28:31 THE LORD WAS ABLE TO REACH OUT AND - AND I ACTUALLY SAW HIM AS 28:35 A FATHER. >>I LOST EVERYTHING AND THAT WAS 28:38 WHEN I REALIZED THAT IT WAS GOD MISSING IN MY LIFE. 28:41 >>I WENT TO A PROPHECY SEMINAR, WHICH KNOCKED ME OUT. 28:45 THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL AND SO IRREFUTABLE, I JUST WENT, 28:49 'THIS IS REAL. THIS IS - THIS IS AMAZING.' 28:54 (MUSIC) 29:25 >>THIS PRESENTATION WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE 29:28 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. |
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