>>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE 00:01:00.92\00:01:03.56 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:01:03.59\00:01:11.67 >>YOU READ THE TOMBSTONES AND ONE TOMBSTONE WILL SAY, 'OUR 00:01:11.70\00:01:14.80 BELOVED MOTHER - RESTING IN PEACE WAITING FOR THE 00:01:14.84\00:01:17.71 RESURRECTION MORNING'. THEN YOU GO TWO TOMBSTONES AWAY 00:01:17.74\00:01:21.28 IT'LL SAY, 'OUR BELOVED MOTHER WALKING ON GOLDEN STREETS'. 00:01:21.31\00:01:25.51 SO, IS SHE RESTING AND WAITING FOR THE RESURRECTION OR IS SHE 00:01:25.55\00:01:28.28 SINGING WITH THE ANGELS AND WALKING ON GOLDEN STREETS? 00:01:28.32\00:01:32.49 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO 00:01:32.52\00:01:35.66 SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:01:35.69\00:01:38.33 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST TELEVISION 00:01:38.36\00:01:41.96 BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND 00:01:42.00\00:01:44.40 ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 00:01:44.43\00:01:54.14 >>IN OUR PRESENTATION THIS EVENING, WE'RE GOING TO BE 00:01:54.18\00:01:56.78 TALKING ABOUT THE GREAT JUDGMENT DAY. 00:01:56.81\00:01:59.48 LET'S BEGIN WITH A LITTLE AMAZING FACT FROM HISTORY. 00:01:59.51\00:02:02.68 I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD OF BARON FABIAN VON 00:02:02.72\00:02:05.49 SCHLABRENDORFF. HIS WHOLE NAME WAS FABIAN 00:02:05.52\00:02:10.49 LUDWIG GEORGE ADOLF KURT VON SCHLABRENDORFF. 00:02:10.53\00:02:14.63 HOW'D YOU LIKE TO BE HIS MOTHER CALLING HIM WHEN YOU'RE ANGRY? 00:02:14.66\00:02:17.47 (LAUGHTER) PROBABLY CALLED HIM 'BUTCH'. 00:02:17.50\00:02:20.27 (LAUGHTER) HE WAS BORN IN GERMANY IN 1907, TRAINED AS A 00:02:20.30\00:02:23.91 LAWYER - VERY BRIGHT INDIVIDUAL - AND WHEN THE WAR WAS GETTING 00:02:23.94\00:02:27.48 READY TO BREAK OUT, HE WAS DRAFTED BUT, BECAUSE HE WAS SO 00:02:27.51\00:02:31.28 BRIGHT AND PERFORMED WELL, HE WAS RAPIDLY PROMOTED. 00:02:31.31\00:02:35.15 WELL, IT DIDN'T TAKE HIM VERY LONG TO REALIZE THAT ADOLPH 00:02:35.18\00:02:37.72 HITLER WAS CRAZY, DESTROYING EUROPE, NOT TO MENTION GERMANY, 00:02:37.75\00:02:41.42 SO HE JOINED THE RESISTANCE. SCHLABRENDORFF WAS THE ONE WHO, 00:02:41.46\00:02:45.49 WHEN HITLER CAME TO VISIT AN ARMY BASE IN GERMANY, HE 00:02:45.53\00:02:48.80 SMUGGLED A TIME BOMB ONTO HITLER'S PLANE THAT WAS SUPPOSED 00:02:48.83\00:02:51.73 TO BLOW UP AND GET RID OF THAT CRUEL DICTATOR, BUT IT FAILED. 00:02:51.77\00:02:56.34 EVENTUALLY THEY TRACED IT BACK TO HIM, HE WAS ARRESTED, HE WAS 00:02:56.37\00:03:01.11 TORTURED - HE NEVER DID TALK AND GIVE UP ANY OF THE PEOPLE THAT 00:03:01.14\00:03:04.38 WERE PART OF THE RESISTANCE - AND, FINALLY, THEY SET A TRIAL 00:03:04.41\00:03:09.02 FOR HIM. HE WAS BROUGHT INTO THE 00:03:09.05\00:03:11.25 COURTROOM - THIS WAS NOW 1945 BY THE TIME IT GOT TO HIS TRIAL 00:03:11.29\00:03:15.69 - AND COURTHOUSE WAS FULL - JUDGES, JURY - THEY ALL FOUND 00:03:15.72\00:03:21.60 HIM GUILTY OF HIGH TREASON AND HE WAS SENTENCED TO BE 00:03:21.63\00:03:24.40 KILLED BY FIRING SQUAD. BECAUSE OF THE WAR EFFORT, THEY 00:03:24.43\00:03:29.47 DIDN'T PUT YOU ON DEATH ROW AND YOU DID NOT HAVE APPEALS. 00:03:29.50\00:03:32.21 THEY WERE MARCHING HIM OUT OF THE COURTROOM TO A WALL WHERE HE 00:03:32.24\00:03:35.58 WAS GOING TO BE EXECUTED, WHEN THE AIR RAID SIRENS WENT OFF AND 00:03:35.61\00:03:41.08 ONE OF THE ALLIED BOMBERS SCORED A DIRECT HIT ON THE COURTHOUSE. 00:03:41.12\00:03:45.69 EVERYBODY IN THE COURTHOUSE WAS KILLED EXCEPT SCHLABRENDORFF 00:03:45.72\00:03:50.13 (LAUGHTER) WHO ESCAPED. HE LATER WAS RECAPTURED AND THEY 00:03:50.16\00:03:56.40 PUT HIM IN DACHAU PRISON OF WAR CAMP, BUT IT WASN'T LONG BEFORE 00:03:56.43\00:03:59.10 THE ALLIES CAME AND HE SURVIVED. AND GUESS WHAT? 00:03:59.13\00:04:04.84 HE BECAME A LEADING JUDGE IN GERMANY. 00:04:04.87\00:04:09.54 THE ONE WHO WAS BEING TRIED - WHAT A REVERSAL OF FORTUNES - 00:04:09.58\00:04:13.05 WHO HAD BEEN CONDEMNED ENDED UP BEING THE JUDGE. 00:04:13.08\00:04:16.28 >>WOW. >>AND HE LIVED UNTIL 1980. 00:04:16.32\00:04:19.95 IT MAKES ME THINK ABOUT WHEN JESUS STOOD BEFORE CAIAPHAS THE 00:04:19.99\00:04:23.32 HIGH PRIEST AND PONTIUS PILATE AND THERE THEY WERE, THE CHURCH 00:04:23.36\00:04:26.66 AND THE STATE, CONDEMNING HIM AND HE SAID, 'HEREAFTER YOU WILL 00:04:26.70\00:04:30.37 SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN.' TALK ABOUT A 00:04:30.40\00:04:34.30 BIG SURPRISE, WHEN THEY COME OUT OF THEIR GRAVES AND THEY SEE THE 00:04:34.34\00:04:38.21 ONE THEY WERE JUDGING IS NOW THE JUDGE OF THE UNIVERSE. 00:04:38.24\00:04:41.78 THE BIBLE SAYS WE WILL ALL STAND BEFORE THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF 00:04:41.81\00:04:44.61 CHRIST. NOW, WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING 00:04:44.65\00:04:47.55 AT SEVERAL CHAPTERS IN THE BIBLE, PRINCIPALLY CHAPTER 20 OF 00:04:47.58\00:04:50.45 REVELATION THAT TALKS ABOUT THIS GREAT JUDGMENT DAY AND ALSO 00:04:50.49\00:04:54.26 TALKS ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM. IT BEGINS - AND, IF YOU HAVE 00:04:54.29\00:04:57.06 YOUR BIBLES, YOU MIGHT WANT TO TURN TO CHAPTER 00:04:57.09\00:04:58.49 20 OF REVELATION. REVELATION 20, VERSE 1, "THEN I 00:04:58.53\00:05:02.90 SAW AN ANGEL COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN, HAVING THE KEY TO THE 00:05:02.93\00:05:06.63 BOTTOMLESS PIT, AND A GREAT CHAIN IN HIS HAND. 00:05:06.67\00:05:10.21 HE LAID HOLD ON THE DRAGON, THAT OLD SERPENT CALLED THE DEVIL, 00:05:10.24\00:05:14.18 AND SATAN," - THERE YOU HAVE IT AGAIN, THE SAME THING YOU SEE IN 00:05:14.21\00:05:16.64 REVELATION 12 - HAS HIS TITLES - "AND BOUND HIM A THOUSAND 00:05:16.68\00:05:20.42 YEARS." SO THIS ONE-THOUSAND-YEAR PERIOD 00:05:20.45\00:05:24.45 YOU HEAR REFERENCED OFTEN IS USUALLY CALLED THE MILLENNIUM. 00:05:24.49\00:05:27.92 THE WORD 'MILLENNIUM' IS SIMPLY - IT'S A COMPOSITE LATIN WORD - 00:05:27.96\00:05:31.53 'MILLE' - THOUSAND - 'ANNUM' - YEARS - IT'S TALKING ABOUT A 00:05:31.56\00:05:34.36 THOUSAND-YEAR PERIOD. YOU PRINCIPALLY FIND THIS 00:05:34.40\00:05:37.40 IN REVELATION CHAPTER 20. AND IT GOES ON TO SAY, IF YOU GO 00:05:37.43\00:05:41.40 IN REVELATION CHAPTER 20, VERSE 4, "AND I SAW THRONES, AND THEY 00:05:41.44\00:05:47.44 SAT ON THEM, AND JUDGMENT WAS COMMITTED TO THEM." 00:05:47.48\00:05:51.98 AND SO, THERE'S THIS JUDGMENT THAT IS GIVEN. 00:05:52.01\00:05:54.22 WHAT EVENTS MARK THE BEGINNING OF THE MILLENNIUM AND THE GREAT 00:05:54.25\00:05:58.25 JUDGMENT DAY? SO LET'S LOOK AT THIS TIMELINE 00:05:58.29\00:06:00.56 IN THE FINAL EVENTS OF PROPHECY. YOU READ, FOR INSTANCE, IN 1 00:06:00.59\00:06:04.63 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 4, VERSE 6, "FOR THE LORD HIMSELF SHALL 00:06:04.66\00:06:09.16 DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT, WITH THE VOICE OF THE 00:06:09.20\00:06:12.07 ARCHANGEL AND THE TRUMP OF GOD, AND" - IT SAYS - "THE DEAD 00:06:12.10\00:06:15.40 IN CHRIST SHALL RISE FIRST." SO THIS ONE-THOUSAND-YEAR PERIOD 00:06:15.44\00:06:20.31 BEGINS WITH THE COMING OF THE LORD AND A RESURRECTION. 00:06:20.34\00:06:24.05 NOW, IN OUR STUDY THIS EVENING, WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO BE 00:06:24.08\00:06:26.45 TALKING ABOUT FOUR DIFFERENT GROUPS OF PEOPLE: WHEN CHRIST 00:06:26.48\00:06:30.65 COMES YOU'VE GOT THE GOOD THAT ARE ALIVE - OR SAVED, I SHOULD 00:06:30.69\00:06:34.62 SAY, THAT ARE ALIVE, AND THE EVIL THAT ARE ALIVE. 00:06:34.66\00:06:38.93 YOU'VE GOT THE SAVED THAT ARE DEAD, AND THE EVIL THAT ARE DEAD 00:06:38.96\00:06:43.73 - THE LOST. EVERYBODY WHO'S EVER LIVED FALLS 00:06:43.77\00:06:47.50 INTO ONE OF THOSE CATEGORIES, ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 00:06:47.54\00:06:50.41 YOU'VE GOT THE LIVING AND THE DEAD, THE GOOD AND THE BAD, AND 00:06:50.44\00:06:53.38 ALL OF THEM ARE ADDRESSED IN THIS STUDY TONIGHT, SO THIS IS 00:06:53.41\00:06:56.54 RELEVANT FOR EVERYBODY IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. 00:06:56.58\00:06:59.61 AND IT SAYS, "THEY LIVED AND REIGNED WITH CHRIST A THOUSAND 00:06:59.65\00:07:01.92 YEARS." THOSE WHO ARE RESURRECTED - 00:07:01.95\00:07:04.32 THE DEAD IN CHRIST - RISE. THOSE OF US WHO ARE ALIVE AND 00:07:04.35\00:07:06.89 REMAIN, WE'RE CAUGHT UP, WE MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR, AND WE 00:07:06.92\00:07:09.72 LIVE AND REIGN WITH CHRIST. SOME CHURCHES TEACH THAT THE ONE 00:07:09.76\00:07:13.19 THOUSAND YEARS WE SPEND HERE ON EARTH WHERE THE RIGHTEOUS ARE 00:07:13.23\00:07:17.30 REIGNING OVER THE WICKED - WE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE BUT THEY 00:07:17.33\00:07:19.70 DON'T, SO I GUESS THEY'RE LIVING, BREEDING AND DYING, BUT 00:07:19.73\00:07:24.54 WE'RE IMMORTAL AND WE DON'T GET MARRIED AND HAVE CHILDREN. 00:07:24.57\00:07:28.28 FIRST OF ALL, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT I DON'T WANT TO REIGN 00:07:28.31\00:07:29.81 OVER THE WICKED - AND THAT CHRIST IS HERE ON EARTH. 00:07:29.84\00:07:34.58 BUT - AND THEN THE OTHER GROUP OF CHRISTIANS BELIEVE THAT WE GO 00:07:34.62\00:07:38.52 UP AND WE LIVE AND REIGN WITH CHRIST IN GLORY DURING THE ONE 00:07:38.55\00:07:42.39 THOUSAND YEARS. NOW, YOU REMEMBER WHEN JESUS 00:07:42.42\00:07:44.56 SAYS, IN JOHN CHAPTER 14, 'I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU' - 00:07:44.59\00:07:48.33 RIGHT? HE'S GONE - 'I WILL COME AGAIN, RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF 00:07:48.36\00:07:53.30 THAT WHERE I AM, YOU MAY BE.' HE'S TAKING US TO WHERE HE IS 00:07:53.34\00:07:56.87 GOING. ISN'T THAT CLEAR IN THE LANGUAGE? 00:07:56.91\00:07:58.74 SO WHAT DIRECTION DO WE GO WHEN JESUS COMES? 00:07:58.77\00:08:01.24 >>UP. >>WE ARE CAUGHT UP. 00:08:01.28\00:08:02.54 SO, WHEN WE LIVE AND REIGN WITH HIM, IT'S IN THAT NEW JERUSALEM 00:08:02.58\00:08:05.98 THAT LATER COMES DOWN. WE'RE NOT LIVING AND REIGNING 00:08:06.01\00:08:08.65 OVER THE WICKED HERE ON EARTH. IT'S NOT HAPPENING HERE. 00:08:08.68\00:08:11.99 ABSOLUTELY. SO THEY LIVE AND REIGN WITH 00:08:12.02\00:08:14.29 CHRIST FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS AND THEN IT TELLS YOU WHAT 00:08:14.32\00:08:17.29 HAPPENS TO THE REST OF THE DEAD: "BUT THE REST OF THE DEAD LIVED 00:08:17.33\00:08:20.03 NOT AGAIN UNTIL THE THOUSAND YEARS WERE FINISHED. 00:08:20.06\00:08:23.43 THIS IS THE FIRST RESURRECTION." IN OTHER WORDS, THE DEAD 00:08:23.47\00:08:25.30 IN CHRIST ARE THE FIRST RESURRECTION, THE REST OF THE 00:08:25.33\00:08:27.47 DEAD, THEY DON'T LIVE AGAIN 'TIL WHEN? 00:08:27.50\00:08:30.11 THE END OF THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS. 00:08:30.14\00:08:32.37 AND SO, HERE YOU'VE GOT THE THOUSAND-YEAR PERIOD - IT'S LIKE 00:08:32.41\00:08:34.54 BOOKENDS, YOU CAN SEPARATE IT WITH FIRST RESURRECTION - 00:08:34.58\00:08:38.55 RIGHTEOUS - SECOND RESURRECTION - WICKED - AND THEY'RE SPREAD 00:08:38.58\00:08:43.82 APART. AND THIS FITS WITH WHAT 00:08:43.85\00:08:45.79 JESUS ALWAYS TAUGHT. NUMBER TWO: WHAT ELSE 00:08:45.82\00:08:48.82 WILL HAPPEN AT THE FIRST RESURRECTION? 00:08:48.86\00:08:51.73 IT SAYS, "WE SHALL NOT ALL SLEEP, BUT WE SHALL ALL BE 00:08:51.76\00:08:54.73 CHANGED, IN A MOMENT...AT THE LAST TRUMP:" - BY THE WAY, 1 00:08:54.76\00:08:59.00 CORINTHIANS 15, VERSE 51 - "FOR THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND, AND THE 00:08:59.03\00:09:03.47 DEAD SHALL BE RAISED INCORRUPTIBLE, AND WE SHALL BE 00:09:03.51\00:09:06.94 CHANGED." - THIS MORTAL - 00:09:06.98\00:09:08.58 WHEN ARE WE CHANGED? WHEN CHRIST COMES. 00:09:08.61\00:09:11.95 WE'LL BE CHANGED - "FOR THIS CORRUPTIBLE MUST PUT ON 00:09:11.98\00:09:14.38 INCORRUPTION, AND THIS MORTAL MUST PUT ON IMMORTALITY." 00:09:14.42\00:09:18.12 AND THEN IT SAYS, IN PHILIPPIANS 3:21, JESUS, WHEN HE COMES, "WHO 00:09:18.15\00:09:22.09 SHALL CHANGE OUR VILE BODY," - THESE BODIES THAT HAVE ACHES AND 00:09:22.12\00:09:24.63 PAINS AND THEY GET OLD AND - "THAT IT MAY BE FASHIONED LIKE 00:09:24.66\00:09:27.66 UNTO HIS GLORIOUS BODY." NOW, WHAT KIND OF BODIES DO THE 00:09:27.66\00:09:31.70 REDEEMED HAVE WHEN THEY GET A GLORIFIED BODY? 00:09:31.73\00:09:34.97 ARE THEY GHOSTS? WHEN JESUS ROSE FROM 00:09:35.00\00:09:38.61 THE DEAD, WAS HE REAL? >>YES. 00:09:38.64\00:09:41.18 >>DID HE TRY TO EMPHASIZE THAT HE WAS REAL? 00:09:41.21\00:09:44.11 HE SAID - THEY WERE JUST SHOCKED - HE SAID, 'TOUCH ME. 00:09:44.15\00:09:47.82 HANDLE ME. A SPIRIT DOES NOT HAVE FLESH AND 00:09:47.85\00:09:50.29 BONE AS YOU SEE THAT I HAVE.' AND THEN HE SAID, 'I'M HUNGRY. 00:09:50.32\00:09:54.69 YOU GOT ANYTHING TO EAT?' NOT ONLY DID HE SAY THAT IN THE 00:09:54.72\00:09:57.06 UPPER ROOM, HE MET THEM BY THE SEA. 00:09:57.09\00:09:58.99 HE SAID, 'YOU GUYS GOT ANY FOOD?' 00:09:59.03\00:10:00.53 SO WAS IT GOD'S ORIGINAL PLAN THAT ADAM AND EVE EAT? 00:10:00.56\00:10:04.17 >>YES. >>DO GHOSTS EAT? 00:10:04.20\00:10:08.04 YOU KNOW, GHOSTS DON'T EAT. THEY'RE REAL PEOPLE. 00:10:08.07\00:10:11.44 AND HE'S - THE THING IS, WE HAVE SPIRITUAL BODIES. 00:10:11.47\00:10:13.84 SEE, THE BEST WAY I CAN EXPLAIN IT, ADAM AND EVE, BEFORE SIN, 00:10:13.88\00:10:17.78 THEY LIVED IN FOUR DIMENSIONS. YOU AND I LIVE IN 00:10:17.81\00:10:20.22 THREE DIMENSIONS NOW. THEY HAD GLORIFIED BODIES THAT 00:10:20.25\00:10:23.65 HAD NO ACHES OR PAINS, WHERE THEY COULD SEE ANGELS. 00:10:23.69\00:10:27.39 THEN, AFTER SIN, THE LIGHT WENT OUT AND SOMETHING CHANGED. 00:10:27.42\00:10:31.46 THEY LOST A WHOLE DIMENSION. THE WHOLE SPIRITUAL DIMENSION OF 00:10:31.49\00:10:34.46 OUR BEING WILL BE ADDED AGAIN IN THESE GLORIFIED ETERNAL 00:10:34.50\00:10:38.13 BODIES THAT WE HAVE. BUT THEY'RE REAL BODIES. 00:10:38.17\00:10:41.37 YOU LEARN LATER, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HEAVEN, IT SAYS, 00:10:41.40\00:10:43.67 'THEY PLANT VINEYARDS AND THEY EAT THE FRUIT OF THEM, AND THEY 00:10:43.71\00:10:46.44 BUILD HOUSES AND THEY GO FORTH - AND WE'RE DOING REAL THINGS, 00:10:46.47\00:10:50.45 WE'RE NOT JUST, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE - HEAVEN - I USED TO THINK WE'RE 00:10:50.48\00:10:53.01 UP ON CLOUDS, WE'RE FAT LITTLE CHERUBS, NAKED, PLAYING HARPS, 00:10:53.05\00:10:56.35 AND I THOUGHT, 'BOY, I DON'T - YOU KNOW, HELL SOUNDS MORE 00:10:56.38\00:10:58.79 INTERESTING. WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER, 00:10:58.82\00:11:00.29 THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT. (LAUGHTER) THAT'S NOT IT AT ALL. 00:11:00.32\00:11:04.99 WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING REAL THINGS. 00:11:05.03\00:11:06.93 SO WE'LL HAVE WHAT KIND OF BODY? >>GLORIFIED. 00:11:06.96\00:11:08.70 >>GLORIOUS BODIES LIKE HIS BODY. NOW THERE WAS ONE THING WRONG 00:11:08.73\00:11:12.63 WITH JESUS' BODY WHEN HE ROSE. DID HE STILL HAVE THE 00:11:12.67\00:11:15.74 SCARS IN HIS HANDS? >>YES. 00:11:15.77\00:11:17.51 >>THE LORD DELIBERATELY ALLOWED THAT BLEMISH TO REMAIN SO THAT, 00:11:17.54\00:11:22.58 THROUGH ETERNITY, WE WOULD SEE THE ICON, THE REMINDER OF HIS 00:11:22.61\00:11:28.25 SACRIFICE FOR US, SO SIN WILL NEVER RISE UP AGAIN THE SECOND 00:11:28.28\00:11:31.75 TIME. WE'LL NEVER FORGET WHAT HE DID TO SAVE US. 00:11:31.79\00:11:34.89 WHAT HAPPENS TO THE WICKED WHEN THE LORD COMES? 00:11:34.92\00:11:37.06 2 THESSALONIANS 2:8, "AND THEN SHALL THAT WICKED BE REVEALED, 00:11:37.09\00:11:40.86 WHOM THE LORD...SHALL CONSUME WITH THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS 00:11:40.90\00:11:43.23 COMING." AND DESTROY WITH THE BREATH OF HIS MOUTH. 00:11:43.26\00:11:46.33 IT ALSO GOES ON TO SAY - REVELATION 16 - "AND THERE WAS A 00:11:46.37\00:11:49.54 GREAT EARTHQUAKE SUCH AS WAS NOT SINCE MEN WERE UPON THE EARTH, 00:11:49.57\00:11:53.74 SO MIGHTY AN EARTHQUAKE, AND SO GREAT." 00:11:53.78\00:11:56.88 AND SO THERE'S A GREAT EARTH-SHAKING EARTHQUAKE AND 00:11:56.91\00:11:59.91 THIS IS NOT, YOU KNOW, 3 OR 4 ON THE RICHTER SCALE - WE HAVE 00:11:59.95\00:12:02.98 THOSE IN CALIFORNIA, WE JUST SORT OF SHRUG. 00:12:03.02\00:12:05.29 THIS IS TALKING ABOUT MAJOR, YOU KNOW, 15 ON THE RICHTER SCALE - 00:12:05.32\00:12:11.26 MOUNTAINS AND ISLANDS ARE BEING SWALLOWED UP IN THIS EARTHQUAKE. 00:12:11.29\00:12:15.10 AND IT SAYS, "EVERY ISLAND FLED AWAY, AND THE MOUNTAINS WERE NOT 00:12:15.13\00:12:19.53 FOUND." IT GOES ON TO SAY THAT THERE WAS 00:12:19.57\00:12:22.17 "A GREAT HAIL OUT OF HEAVEN, EVERY STONE ABOUT THE 00:12:22.20\00:12:26.17 WEIGHT OF A TALENT." YOU KNOW WHAT A TALENT IS? 00:12:26.21\00:12:29.74 IT'S ABOUT 75 POUNDS. >>WOW. 00:12:29.78\00:12:32.95 >>AND SO, IF YOU CAN IMAGINE HAIL STONES WITH THAT WEIGHT, 00:12:32.98\00:12:35.82 THAT'S PRETTY AMAZING. IT GOES ON TO SAY THAT SATAN IS 00:12:35.85\00:12:39.85 THEN BOUND, AT THIS TIME, IN THE BOTTOMLESS PIT. 00:12:39.89\00:12:42.46 SO WHAT IS THIS BOTTOMLESS PIT? THE WORD THAT YOU FIND THERE FOR 00:12:42.49\00:12:46.66 BOTTOMLESS PIT IS 'ABUSSOS' AND ABUSSOS MEANS - WELL, YOU'VE 00:12:46.70\00:12:52.27 HEARD THE WORD ABYSS - ABYSS MEANS 'EMPTINESS; VOID'. 00:12:52.30\00:12:57.87 YOU ACTUALLY FIND THAT WORD DESCRIBING THE WORLD BEFORE GOD 00:12:57.91\00:13:00.44 CREATED IN GENESIS IN THE SEPTUAGINT - THE GREEK VERSION - 00:13:00.48\00:13:04.48 TALKS ABOUT THE WORLD WAS VOID AND WITHOUT FORM. 00:13:04.51\00:13:07.08 IT WAS AN ABYSS - IT WAS DARK. 00:13:07.12\00:13:09.42 BUT THE, YOU KNOW, BOTTOMLESS PIT IS REALLY - IT'S A WORD - I 00:13:09.45\00:13:12.25 DON'T KNOW WHY THE KING JAMES TRANSLATORS CHOSE THAT WORD 00:13:12.29\00:13:14.72 BECAUSE YOU FIND THE WORD OTHER PLACES IN THE BIBLE. 00:13:14.76\00:13:17.89 HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT THIS DEMONIAC 00:13:17.93\00:13:22.36 THAT WAS FILLED WITH DEVILS - YOU READ ABOUT IT IN LUKE 00:13:22.40\00:13:25.43 CHAPTER 8 AND MARK CHAPTER 5 - AND THEY BEGGED JESUS, WHEN 00:13:25.47\00:13:29.87 JESUS WAS CASTING THEM OUT OF THE MAN, 'PLEASE DO NOT CAST US 00:13:29.90\00:13:33.24 OUT INTO' - EXACT SAME WORD - ABUSSOS. 00:13:33.27\00:13:36.44 THERE, IT'S TRANSLATED 'DEEP' - INTO THE NOTHINGNESS. 00:13:36.48\00:13:39.21 YOU SEE, WHEN THE DEVIL HAS NOBODY TO TEMPT, POSSESS, 00:13:39.25\00:13:42.15 MANIPULATE FOR HIM IT'S NOTHINGNESS BECAUSE THE DEVIL 00:13:42.18\00:13:44.85 DOES HIS WORK - HE'S A SPIRIT - BY POSSESSING LIVING CREATURES. 00:13:44.89\00:13:49.89 EVEN THE DEVILS IN THIS STORY SAID, 'PLEASE, LET US POSSESS 00:13:49.92\00:13:52.03 THE PIGS - SOMETHING - BUT DON'T CAST US OUT INTO THE 00:13:52.06\00:13:54.50 NOTHINGNESS.' AND SO, WHEN THE DEVIL IS BOUND ON THIS EARTH 00:13:54.56\00:13:58.43 WITH NOBODY TO TEMPT AND MANIPULATE, THAT IS THE 00:13:58.47\00:14:01.87 BOTTOMLESS PIT. THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT JUDE - 00:14:01.90\00:14:05.21 I READ IT TO YOU EARLIER - IN VERSE 6. 00:14:05.24\00:14:07.51 THE DEVIL'S BEING CHAINED IN DARKNESS, BUT THEN THEY'LL HAVE 00:14:07.54\00:14:11.95 NOBODY TO TEMPT BECAUSE THE RIGHTEOUS ARE RAISED - DEAD 00:14:11.98\00:14:17.42 RIGHTEOUS - THOSE WHO ARE ALIVE ARE TRANSFORMED - WE GO UP - THE 00:14:17.45\00:14:21.82 WICKED WHO ARE ALIVE ARE DESTROYED BY THE BRIGHTNESS OF 00:14:21.86\00:14:24.06 HIS COMING. HOW MANY LIVING PEOPLE 00:14:24.09\00:14:25.73 DOES THAT LEAVE ON EARTH? NONE. SO IT DESCRIBES THIS TIME WHEN 00:14:25.76\00:14:30.77 SATAN IS BOUND ON THIS PLANET AND HE'S GOT A THOUSAND YEARS, 00:14:30.80\00:14:34.54 WHILE WE'RE LIVING AND REIGNING WITH CHRIST, TO CONTEMPLATE THE 00:14:34.57\00:14:37.21 RESULTS OF HIS REBELLION AGAINST GOD. 00:14:37.24\00:14:40.41 NOW THE LORD IS DOING THIS DELIBERATELY BECAUSE HE'S GOING 00:14:40.44\00:14:43.21 TO DEMONSTRATE TO THE UNIVERSE THAT HE HAS NO ALTERNATIVE BUT 00:14:43.24\00:14:46.75 TO DO WHAT HE'S GOING TO DO TO LUCIFER AND HIS FOLLOWERS. 00:14:46.78\00:14:49.82 SO SATAN'S DOWN HERE WITH ALL HIS ANGELS - THEY'VE GOT TO LIVE 00:14:49.85\00:14:51.55 WITH EACH OTHER. THEY'RE GOING TO ALL BLAME EACH OTHER. 00:14:51.59\00:14:54.69 THEY'RE GOING TO BE CHASING LUCIFER ALL OVER THE PLANET AND 00:14:54.72\00:14:57.06 SAY, 'WE WOULDN'T BE HERE IF IT WASN'T FOR YOU.' HE'S GOT TO PUT 00:14:57.09\00:14:59.73 UP WITH THAT FOR A THOUSAND YEARS. 00:14:59.76\00:15:01.83 AND SO, THEY'RE IN THIS DARK PRISON DURING THAT TIME. 00:15:01.86\00:15:07.34 >>THE BIBLE TALKS, IN REVELATION 20, ABOUT A VERY INTERESTING 00:15:07.37\00:15:10.34 PERIOD OF TIME, BETTER KNOWN AS THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS OR THE 00:15:10.37\00:15:14.58 MILLENNIUM. IT'S A TIME THAT'S 00:15:14.61\00:15:16.21 COMING VERY SOON. THE BIBLE SAYS IT'S A TIME WHERE 00:15:16.24\00:15:18.88 WE WILL LIVE AND REIGN WITH THE LORD. 00:15:18.91\00:15:21.28 THE QUESTION IS, WHERE DO WE SPEND THE MILLENNIUM, IS IT HERE 00:15:21.32\00:15:24.25 ON EARTH? IS IT IN HEAVEN? 00:15:24.29\00:15:25.79 WHAT'S THE CONDITION OF THE WICKED DURING THIS TIME? 00:15:25.82\00:15:28.39 WOULD YOU LIKE TO UNDERSTAND THIS SUBJECT THAT'S COMING VERY 00:15:28.42\00:15:30.69 SOON? WE HAVE A STUDY GUIDE CALLED 00:15:30.73\00:15:32.69 A THOUSAND YEARS OF PEACE THAT EXPLAINS IT ALL. 00:15:32.73\00:15:36.06 TO GET YOUR FREE COPY, CALL THE PHONE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN AND 00:15:36.10\00:15:39.60 ASK FOR OFFER #123 OR VISIT OFFERS.AFTV.ORG . 00:15:39.63\00:15:46.68 AND, WHEN YOU GET THIS FREE RESOURCE, MAKE SURE AND READ IT 00:15:46.71\00:15:49.38 AND THEN SHARE IT WITH SOMEONE ELSE, BECAUSE GOD'S MESSAGE IS 00:15:49.41\00:15:52.95 OUR MISSION. >>WHO IS RAISED - QUESTION 3 - 00:15:52.98\00:15:57.39 IN THE SECOND RESURRECTION, AND WHEN WILL IT TAKE PLACE? 00:15:57.42\00:16:00.79 IT SAYS, IN JOHN CHAPTER 5, VERSE 28 - JESUS SPEAKING HERE - 00:16:00.82\00:16:04.96 "ALL THAT ARE IN THE GRAVES SHALL HEAR HIS VOICE, AND SHALL 00:16:04.99\00:16:07.60 COME FORTH: THEY THAT HAVE DONE GOOD UNTO THE RESURRECTION OF 00:16:07.60\00:16:10.97 LIFE; AND THEY THAT HAVE DONE EVIL, UNTO THE RESURRECTION OF 00:16:11.00\00:16:15.10 DAMNATION." HOW MANY RESURRECTIONS? 00:16:15.14\00:16:16.81 >>TWO. >>TWO. 00:16:16.84\00:16:18.61 YOU EVEN READ ABOUT THAT IN DANIEL CHAPTER 12, 'MANY OF THEM 00:16:18.64\00:16:21.84 THAT SLEEP IN THE DUST OF THE EARTH SHALL AWAKE; SOME TO 00:16:21.88\00:16:23.91 EVERLASTING LIFE, SOME TO SHAME AND EVERLASTING CONTEMPT.' 00:16:23.95\00:16:27.68 YOU'VE GOT TWO SEPARATE RESURRECTIONS - THEY'VE GOT A 00:16:27.72\00:16:29.82 THOUSAND YEARS BETWEEN THEM, AND SO, IF, IN THE RESURRECTION YOU 00:16:29.85\00:16:35.39 COME FORTH AND YOU STILL HAVE WRINKLES, YOU'RE IN THE WRONG 00:16:35.42\00:16:38.16 RESURRECTION. (LAUGHTER) THAT'S NOT GOOD. 00:16:38.19\00:16:41.40 BECAUSE WE GET GLORIFIED BODIES AT THAT POINT, RIGHT? 00:16:41.43\00:16:44.97 REVELATION 20, VERSE 5, "BUT THE REST OF THE DEAD (THE WICKED) 00:16:45.00\00:16:49.14 LIVED NOT AGAIN UNTIL THE THOUSAND YEARS WERE FINISHED." 00:16:49.17\00:16:51.94 I READ THIS BUT I WANT TO RE-EMPHASIZE IT. 00:16:51.97\00:16:54.48 BEFORE I MOVE ON, I'VE JUST GOT TO STOP AND SAY SOMETHING - 00:16:54.51\00:16:57.98 HOPEFULLY YOU'VE CAUGHT IT ALONG THE WAY, BUT THERE IS A LOT OF 00:16:58.01\00:17:00.95 CONFUSION AMONG CHRISTIANS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A PERSON DIES. 00:17:00.98\00:17:06.09 WALK THROUGH A CHRISTIAN CEMETERY AND CHURCHYARD CEMETERY 00:17:06.12\00:17:09.49 SOMETIME, YOU WILL SEE THE CONFUSION. 00:17:09.52\00:17:11.73 YOU READ THE TOMBSTONES AND ONE TOMBSTONE WILL SAY, 'OUR BELOVED 00:17:11.76\00:17:15.76 MOTHER, RESTING IN PEACE WAITING FOR THE RESURRECTION MORNING'. 00:17:15.80\00:17:20.30 THEN YOU GO TWO TOMBSTONES AWAY IT'LL SAY, 'OUR BELOVED MOTHER, 00:17:20.34\00:17:23.37 WALKING ON GOLDEN STREETS'. 00:17:23.41\00:17:26.34 SO, IS SHE RESTING AND WAITING FOR THE RESURRECTION OR IS SHE 00:17:26.37\00:17:28.94 SINGING WITH THE ANGELS AND WALKING ON GOLDEN STREETS? 00:17:28.98\00:17:31.05 AND YOU'LL SEE ALL - PEOPLE ARE VERY CONFUSED. 00:17:31.08\00:17:33.48 THEY SAY, 'NOW, DOESN'T THE BIBLE SAY TO BE ABSENT FROM THE 00:17:33.52\00:17:35.72 BODY IS TO BE PRESENT WITH THE LORD'? YES. 00:17:35.75\00:17:38.89 THAT MEANS, IF YOU'RE A BELIEVER AND YOU DIE, YOUR NEXT CONSCIOUS 00:17:38.92\00:17:42.92 THOUGHT, WHICH WILL SEEM LIKE THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, WILL BE 00:17:42.96\00:17:46.03 THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD AND THE RESURRECTION OF THE RIGHTEOUS - 00:17:46.06\00:17:48.56 BUT THEY'RE NOT THERE YET BECAUSE THE RESURRECTION HASN'T 00:17:48.60\00:17:51.07 HAPPENED AND THE JUDGMENT HASN'T HAPPENED. 00:17:51.10\00:17:53.64 THE BIBLE IS REALLY CLEAR THAT THE DEAD ARE SLEEPING UNTIL THE 00:17:53.67\00:17:56.77 RESURRECTION, BUT THEY DON'T KNOW THEY'RE SLEEPING. 00:17:56.81\00:17:59.64 THERE ARE ABOUT A DOZEN RESURRECTIONS IN THE BIBLE. 00:17:59.67\00:18:04.61 JESUS RAISED SEVERAL PEOPLE. YOU'VE GOT RESURRECTIONS 00:18:04.65\00:18:06.68 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. DO YOU KNOW, IN EVERY SINGLE 00:18:06.72\00:18:09.38 RESURRECTION IN THE BIBLE, NONE OF THOSE RESURRECTED EVER 00:18:09.42\00:18:12.79 MAKE ONE COMMENT ON WHAT THEY EXPERIENCED DURING 00:18:12.82\00:18:15.22 DEATH - NONE OF THEM. WHY? 00:18:15.26\00:18:19.29 THE DEAD KNOW NOT ANYTHING, ACCORDING TO SOLOMON. 00:18:19.33\00:18:22.46 THEY'RE SLEEPING A DREAMLESS SLEEP. 00:18:22.50\00:18:25.17 THEY DO NOT DIE AND GO RIGHT TO HEAVEN; THEY DO NOT DIE AND GO 00:18:25.20\00:18:27.40 RIGHT TO HELL. SO, WHEN SOMEONE SAYS, YOU KNOW, 00:18:27.44\00:18:29.84 'I'M SO THANKFUL FOR MY GRANDMA BECAUSE HER NEXT THOUGHT IS THE 00:18:29.87\00:18:33.54 RESURRECTION.' THAT'S TRUE. SHE'S NOT THERE YET, THOUGH. 00:18:33.58\00:18:36.81 BECAUSE YOU AND I LIVE IN A DIMENSION OF TIME. 00:18:36.85\00:18:39.41 YOU REALIZE GOD IS NOT CONFINED TO TIME. 00:18:39.45\00:18:42.55 >>AMEN. >>GOD CAN GO INTO THE FUTURE, HE 00:18:42.58\00:18:44.52 CAN GO INTO THE PAST BUT, AS FAR AS THE TIME WE LIVE IN, 00:18:44.55\00:18:47.62 THEY'RE NOT THERE YET. SO THE IDEA THAT YOUR LOVED ONES 00:18:47.66\00:18:50.59 ARE IN HEAVEN SPYING ON YOU OR, IF THEY'RE LOST, THAT THEY'RE 00:18:50.63\00:18:54.20 SUFFERING IN THE LAKE OF FIRE, THAT COMES FROM PAGANISM - 00:18:54.23\00:18:57.93 THAT'S NOT - LET ME GIVE YOU SOME VERSES ON THAT. 00:18:57.97\00:18:59.83 GO WITH ME TO 1 CORINTHIANS 15:21, "FOR SINCE BY MAN CAME 00:18:59.87\00:19:03.74 DEATH, BY MAN ALSO CAME THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD. 00:19:03.77\00:19:07.04 FOR AS IN ADAM ALL DIE, EVEN SO IN CHRIST ALL SHALL BE MADE 00:19:07.08\00:19:11.38 ALIVE. BUT EACH ONE IN HIS OWN ORDER" - 00:19:11.41\00:19:13.78 HERE'S THE ORDER - VERY PLAIN - "CHRIST THE FIRSTFRUITS, 00:19:13.82\00:19:17.55 AFTERWARD THOSE WHO ARE CHRIST'S AT HIS COMING." 00:19:17.59\00:19:21.56 WHEN ARE THEY MADE ALIVE? AT HIS COMING, WHICH MEANS, 00:19:21.59\00:19:25.59 BEFORE HIS COMING, THEY ARE NOT ALIVE. 00:19:25.63\00:19:28.73 AND, IF YOU'RE NOT ALIVE, YOU'RE DEAD. 00:19:28.76\00:19:31.93 THE BIBLE DOESN'T HAVE AN IN BETWEEN. 00:19:31.97\00:19:34.27 AND SO, PEOPLE ARE NOT GETTING THEIR REWARDS BEFORE THE 00:19:34.30\00:19:37.31 RESURRECTION AND THE JUDGMENT. WE'VE GOT A WHOLE STUDY ON THAT; 00:19:37.34\00:19:40.98 I WISH I HAD MORE TIME TO TALK ABOUT. 00:19:41.01\00:19:43.35 WHAT WILL THE CONDITION OF THE EARTH BE LEFT IN DURING THE ONE 00:19:43.38\00:19:46.82 THOUSAND YEARS? WHAT'S IT LOOK LIKE DOWN HERE? 00:19:46.85\00:19:49.35 MANY OF US HAVE HEARD THE POPULAR LEFT BEHIND SCENARIO OF 00:19:49.38\00:19:53.25 FINAL EVENTS , WHERE THE RIGHTEOUS ARE SECRETLY RAPTURED, 00:19:53.29\00:20:00.53 LIFE CONTINUES TO GO ON HERE ON EARTH, THERE'S 144,000 LITERAL 00:20:00.56\00:20:05.07 JEWS THAT ARE CONVERTED - THAT ARE PREACHING EVERYWHERE - THE 00:20:05.10\00:20:08.20 SEVEN LAST PLAGUES FALL, SOME PEOPLE MAY STILL BE CONVERTED AT 00:20:08.24\00:20:11.07 THE END OF THAT SEVEN YEARS OF TRIBULATION, THEN JESUS COMES 00:20:11.11\00:20:15.64 BACK DOWN HERE ON EARTH WITH THE RIGHTEOUS AND WE LIVE AND REIGN 00:20:15.68\00:20:18.98 DOWN HERE TOGETHER FOR A THOUSAND YEARS AND THEN THE 00:20:19.01\00:20:21.35 WICKED ARE DESTROYED AT THE END OF THAT ONE THOUSAND YEARS, 00:20:21.38\00:20:23.65 WHICH REALLY PUTS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WICKED 00:20:23.69\00:20:26.22 ANOTHER THOUSAND YEARS BEYOND THE COMING OF THE LORD. 00:20:26.25\00:20:28.82 IN THAT SCENARIO, IS THERE EVER A TIME WHEN THE EARTH IS VACANT? 00:20:28.86\00:20:34.96 THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING GOING ON DOWN HERE. 00:20:35.00\00:20:37.20 BUT, IF YOU READ IN 2 PETER CHAPTER 3, IT SAYS, 'THE DAY OF 00:20:37.23\00:20:40.20 THE LORD WILL COME AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT, IN WHICH THE HEAVENS 00:20:40.24\00:20:43.14 PASS AWAY WITH A GREAT NOISE, THE ELEMENTS MELT WITH FERVENT 00:20:43.17\00:20:47.14 HEAT, THE EARTH AND THE THINGS THAT ARE IN IT ARE BURNED UP.' 00:20:47.18\00:20:52.38 SO WHAT'S THE WORLD GOING TO LOOK LIKE DURING THAT TIME? 00:20:52.41\00:20:55.25 AND YOU LOOK AT THIS VERSE HERE IN ISAIAH 24, "BEHOLD, THE LORD 00:20:55.28\00:20:58.45 MAKETH THE EARTH EMPTY," - NOBODY HERE - "AND MAKETH IT 00:20:58.49\00:21:02.19 WASTE." 'BEHOLD, THE LORD MAKES THE 00:21:02.22\00:21:04.73 EARTH UTTERLY EMPTY, HE TURNS IT UPSIDE DOWN, THE EARTH IS 00:21:04.76\00:21:07.96 UTTERLY BROKEN DOWN.' READ THIS VERSE IN JEREMIAH CHAPTER 4, 00:21:07.96\00:21:12.70 VERSE 23, "I BEHELD THE EARTH, AND LO, IT WAS WITHOUT FORM, AND 00:21:12.73\00:21:18.41 VOID: AND THE HEAVENS, AND THEY HAD NO LIGHT. 00:21:18.44\00:21:21.84 I BEHELD THE MOUNTAINS, AND, LO, THEY TREMBLED...THERE WAS NO 00:21:21.88\00:21:25.25 MAN," - IT SOUNDS LIKE HE'S DESCRIBING THE WORLD BEFORE 00:21:25.28\00:21:27.95 CREATION, BUT KEEP READING - "AND ALL THE BIRDS OF THE 00:21:27.98\00:21:30.89 HEAVENS WERE FLED." THAT MEANS THEY WERE 00:21:30.92\00:21:32.85 THERE, BUT THEY'RE GONE. IT SAYS, "THE FRUITFUL PLACE WAS 00:21:32.89\00:21:36.66 A WILDERNESS, AND ALL THE CITIES THEREOF WERE BROKEN DOWN" - SO 00:21:36.69\00:21:40.96 THERE WAS CITIES, NOW THEY'RE BROKEN DOWN. BY WHAT? 00:21:41.00\00:21:43.40 - "AT THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD, AND BY HIS FIERCE ANGER." 00:21:43.43\00:21:47.17 PRETTY CLEAR THAT HERE'S THE CONDITION OF THE WORLD WHERE IT 00:21:47.20\00:21:49.44 SAYS BURNED UP, CITIES BROKEN DOWN, NO MAN ALIVE. 00:21:49.47\00:21:54.88 IT GOES ON AND SAYS IN ANOTHER PASSAGE, 'THE SLAIN OF THE LORD 00:21:54.91\00:21:56.95 COVER THE EARTH FROM ONE END TO THE OTHER AND THERE'S NO ONE TO 00:21:56.98\00:21:58.81 MOURN, LAMENT, OR BURY THEM.' AND SO, ALL THROUGH THE 00:21:58.85\00:22:02.02 PROPHECIES IT TALKS ABOUT THIS TIME AFTER THE JUDGEMENT WHEN 00:22:02.05\00:22:04.82 THE EARTH IS A MESS. YOU CAN LOOK IN JEREMIAH - I'M 00:22:04.85\00:22:08.39 STILL READING - "AND THE SLAIN OF THE LORD SHALL BE AT THAT DAY 00:22:08.42\00:22:11.46 FROM ONE END OF THE EARTH EVEN UNTO THE OTHER...THEY SHALL NOT 00:22:11.49\00:22:14.63 BE LAMENTED, NEITHER GATHERED, NOR BURIED." 00:22:14.66\00:22:17.73 WHERE WILL THE SLAIN BE DURING THE 1,000 YEARS, AND WHAT 00:22:17.77\00:22:21.27 ARE THEY DOING? ALRIGHT, SO NOW WE'RE TALKING 00:22:21.30\00:22:23.00 ABOUT DEAD IN CHRIST RISE, WE WHO ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN - I 00:22:23.04\00:22:27.48 WOULD LIKE TO BE ONE OF THOSE WHO ARE ALIVE AND 00:22:27.51\00:22:29.14 REMAIN, HOW ABOUT YOU? >>AMEN. 00:22:29.18\00:22:30.35 >>CAUGHT UP TO MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR - AND I THINK HE'S 00:22:30.38\00:22:31.98 COMING PRETTY SOON. >>YEP - AMEN. 00:22:32.01\00:22:33.98 >>SOME OF YOU HERE MAY DIE, BUT NOT A LOT ARE GOING TO DIE OF 00:22:34.02\00:22:36.58 OLD AGE. I THINK THAT JESUS 00:22:36.62\00:22:37.99 IS COMING SOON. >>AMEN. 00:22:38.02\00:22:39.72 >>SO WHAT'S GOING ON DURING THAT TIME? 00:22:39.75\00:22:42.69 YOU CAN READ IN JOHN CHAPTER 14, HE SAID, "I WILL COME AGAIN, AND 00:22:42.72\00:22:46.16 RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF: THAT WHERE I AM, THERE YE MAY BE 00:22:46.19\00:22:49.36 ALSO." WE'LL BE WITH HIM IN THE 00:22:49.40\00:22:51.03 MANSIONS THAT HE'S PREPARED IN THE NEW JERUSALEM. 00:22:51.07\00:22:54.24 AND THEN IT GOES ON IN REVELATION 20 AND IT SAYS IN 00:22:54.27\00:22:57.47 VERSE 4, "AND I SAW THRONES, AND THEY SAT UPON THEM, AND JUDGMENT 00:22:57.51\00:23:01.28 WAS GIVEN UNTO THEM: AND THEY LIVED AND REIGNED WITH CHRIST A 00:23:01.31\00:23:05.25 THOUSAND YEARS." SO JUDGMENT IS GIVEN UNTO THE 00:23:05.28\00:23:07.85 SAINTS AND WE LIVE AND REIGN WITH CHRIST A THOUSAND YEARS. 00:23:07.88\00:23:11.12 NOW READ IN 1 CORINTHIANS 6:2 - I KNOW SOME OF YOU ARE TAKING 00:23:11.15\00:23:14.69 NOTES FURIOUSLY - "DO YE NOT KNOW THAT THE SAINTS WILL JUDGE 00:23:14.72\00:23:18.16 THE WORLD?" - AND IT GOES ON TO SAY, "KNOW 00:23:18.19\00:23:21.93 YE NOT THAT WE SHALL JUDGE ANGELS?" 00:23:21.96\00:23:27.14 NOW, OBVIOUSLY, WE'RE NOT JUDGING GOOD ANGELS, BUT DOES 00:23:27.17\00:23:29.97 THE BIBLE TELL US THERE'S A LOT OF FALLEN ANGELS? 00:23:30.01\00:23:32.91 WE ARE NOT DECIDING WHETHER THEY'RE SAVED OR LOST. 00:23:32.94\00:23:35.64 WE ARE ACTUALLY ENDORSING - WE'RE COOPERATING BECAUSE CHRIST 00:23:35.68\00:23:40.15 SAID, 'LOOK, I WANT TO INVOLVE YOU WITH ME. 00:23:40.18\00:23:42.98 DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHY WE'RE GOING TO JUDGE THEM THE WAY 00:23:43.02\00:23:45.79 WE'RE GOING TO JUDGE THEM?' AND WE AFFIRM THE JUDGMENTS OF 00:23:45.82\00:23:48.69 GOD IS REALLY WHAT WE'RE DOING. BUT THERE'S GOING TO BE LOSS. 00:23:48.72\00:23:52.89 NOW WHY IS THIS HAPPENING? SOMEONE SAID THERE'S GOING TO BE 00:23:52.93\00:23:56.56 FOUR BIG SURPRISES WHEN YOU GET TO HEAVEN - MAYBE IT WAS THREE 00:23:56.60\00:24:01.84 SURPRISES - FIRST SURPRISE IS THAT YOU'RE THERE. 00:24:01.87\00:24:04.47 (LAUGHTER) SECOND SURPRISE IS THAT THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE THAT 00:24:04.51\00:24:12.81 ARE NOT THERE THAT YOU THOUGHT WOULD BE LEADING THE PARADE. 00:24:12.85\00:24:18.32 AND YOU'RE GOING TO GO TO YOUR ANGEL AND SAY, 'WHERE IS PASTOR 00:24:18.35\00:24:22.06 SO AND SO?' 'WHERE IS DEACON ELDER' - 00:24:22.09\00:24:23.99 'WHERE'S THIS SISTER OR BROTHER - THEY WERE JUST SO SPIRITUAL - 00:24:24.03\00:24:27.50 I DON'T SEE THEM ANYWHERE.' AND THE ANGEL SAID, 'WELL, COME WITH 00:24:27.56\00:24:31.40 ME.' AND THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE YOU TO THE LIBRARY - THE BIBLE 00:24:31.43\00:24:35.04 SAYS EVERYTHING'S IN THE BOOKS. EVERYTHING - JESUS SAID EVERY 00:24:35.07\00:24:38.84 IDLE WORD - MATTHEW CHAPTER 12 - EVERY IDLE WORD THAT MEN SPEAK 00:24:38.87\00:24:42.84 YOU'LL GIVE AN ACCOUNT THEREOF IN THE JUDGMENT. 00:24:42.88\00:24:44.85 SO EVERYTHING'S IN THE BOOKS AND SO THE ANGELS TAKE YOU OVER TO 00:24:44.88\00:24:48.15 THE BOOKS AND SAY, 'WE REALLY WANTED TO SAVE DEACON HERB' - 00:24:48.18\00:24:52.15 HOPE NOBODY HERE'S NAMED HERB - BUT - AND YOU SEE THAT, WHILE HE 00:24:52.19\00:24:58.89 LOOKED REAL GOOD ON THE OUTSIDE, THERE WAS SOME SIN THAT HE WOULD 00:24:58.93\00:25:03.20 NOT SURRENDER TO THE LORD AND YOU'LL SEE THOSE THINGS DONE IN 00:25:03.23\00:25:06.50 SECRET, JESUS SAID, WILL BE SHOUTED FROM THE HOUSETOP. 00:25:06.53\00:25:09.07 ONLY THING THAT'S GOING TO BE HIDDEN ARE THOSE THINGS UNDER 00:25:09.10\00:25:11.64 THE BLOOD. THAT'S WHY I WANT TO BE SAVED, 00:25:11.67\00:25:13.31 BECAUSE I DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE MY BOOK. 00:25:13.34\00:25:14.98 (RAUCOUS LAUGHTER) AMEN? >>AMEN. 00:25:15.01\00:25:18.25 I WANT IT EXPUNGED. >>WE WANT IT ALL THIRD SURPRISE IS THERE'S SOME UNDER THE BLOOD. 00:25:18.28\00:25:24.52 PEOPLE THERE AND YOU THINK, 'HOW IN THE WORLD DID THEY GET HERE? 00:25:24.55\00:25:27.36 (RAUCOUS LAUGHTER) I'VE OFTEN THOUGHT, CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT 00:25:27.39\00:25:31.86 IT'S GOING TO BE LIKE WHEN STEPHEN GETS TO HEAVEN - AND 00:25:31.89\00:25:36.87 STEPHEN IS IN HEAVEN, HE'S ENJOYING HEAVEN AND THEY'RE ALL, 00:25:36.90\00:25:39.70 YOU KNOW, GIVING HIM HIS CROWNS FOR HIS BEING THE FIRST 00:25:39.73\00:25:42.47 CHRISTIAN MARTYR AND THEN THEY SEE THIS CHARACTER IS BEING 00:25:42.50\00:25:45.81 CARRIED ON THE SHOULDERS OF THE ANGELS AND IT'S PAUL. 00:25:45.84\00:25:48.64 (LAUGHTER) AND WHEN STEPHEN KNEW HIM, HIS 00:25:48.68\00:25:50.95 NAME WAS SAUL AND HE WAS KILLING CHRISTIANS. 00:25:50.98\00:25:53.68 AND STEPHEN'S GOING TO SAY TO HIS ANGEL, 'YOU GUYS NORMALLY DO 00:25:53.72\00:25:56.28 REALLY GOOD WORK, BUT THERE'S SOMETHING DEFINITELY WRONG WITH 00:25:56.32\00:25:58.59 THIS PICTURE BECAUSE LAST TIME I SAW HIM, HE WAS AN ACCOMPLICE IN 00:25:58.62\00:26:02.76 MY MURDER. WHAT'S HE DOING HERE? 00:26:02.79\00:26:05.56 I MEAN, I BELIEVE IN FORGIVING AND EVERYTHING, BUT' - AND THE 00:26:05.59\00:26:08.10 ANGEL SAYS, 'STEPHEN, WASN'T YOUR LAST PRAYER, 'FATHER, 00:26:08.13\00:26:10.17 FORGIVE THEM'? WELL, THE FATHER FORGAVE HIM. 00:26:10.20\00:26:15.20 AND HE WAS CONVERTED AND HE SUFFERED MUCH FOR THE GOSPEL AND 00:26:15.24\00:26:20.11 HE WAS SO SORRY ABOUT WHAT HE DID TO YOU.' SO, DURING THIS ONE 00:26:20.14\00:26:23.88 THOUSAND YEARS, THERE'S A LOT OF QUESTIONS. 00:26:23.91\00:26:25.78 AND IT'S LIKE A THOUSAND-YEAR SABBATH - FOR SIX THOUSAND 00:26:25.81\00:26:29.12 YEARS, FROM THE TIME OF ADAM, TO THE COMING OF THE LORD - AND WE 00:26:29.15\00:26:32.29 DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHEN THAT IS, BUT IT'S APPROXIMATELY THAT 00:26:32.32\00:26:34.39 PERIOD OF TIME, CHRIST HAS BEEN SOWING THE SEED OF THE GOSPEL - 00:26:34.42\00:26:37.99 THEN WE ARE GOING TO LIVE AND REIGN - IT'S LIKE A 00:26:38.03\00:26:39.46 THOUSAND-YEAR SABBATH. DO YOU KNOW, WHEN THE CHILDREN 00:26:39.49\00:26:42.36 OF ISRAEL WERE CARRIED OFF TO BABYLON BY KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR, 00:26:42.40\00:26:46.40 GOD TOOK THE SURVIVORS TO THIS GOLDEN CITY? 00:26:46.43\00:26:49.10 AND THE BIBLE SAYS THE LAND WAS DESOLATE AND IT KEPT SABBATH 00:26:49.14\00:26:54.11 WHILE IT WAS DESOLATE. THE PLANET IS GOING TO GET 00:26:54.14\00:26:57.28 A THOUSAND-YEAR SABBATH. GOD HAD A PATTERN IN THE BIBLE 00:26:57.31\00:26:59.65 WHERE, FOR SIX YEARS YOU WOULD SOW THE SEED IN THE FIELD, ONE 00:26:59.68\00:27:04.75 YEAR YOU WOULD LET IT LAY FALLOW - YOU'D LET IT REST. 00:27:04.79\00:27:07.96 AND THEN, GOD IS GOING TO CREATE A NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH. 00:27:07.99\00:27:11.29 >>(CRICKETS) (SPRINKLERS) (OMINOUS MUSIC) (DOG BARKING) 00:27:11.33\00:27:44.29 (FIRE ALARM) >>MOMMY, DADDY, HELP ME. 00:27:44.33\00:27:59.81 >>NO, I DON'T THINK SO. 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