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01:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 01:11 >>YOU READ THE TOMBSTONES AND ONE TOMBSTONE WILL SAY, 'OUR 01:14 BELOVED MOTHER - RESTING IN PEACE WAITING FOR THE 01:17 RESURRECTION MORNING'. THEN YOU GO TWO TOMBSTONES AWAY 01:21 IT'LL SAY, 'OUR BELOVED MOTHER WALKING ON GOLDEN STREETS'. 01:25 SO, IS SHE RESTING AND WAITING FOR THE RESURRECTION OR IS SHE 01:28 SINGING WITH THE ANGELS AND WALKING ON GOLDEN STREETS? 01:32 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO 01:35 SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 01:38 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST TELEVISION 01:42 BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND 01:44 ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 01:54 >>IN OUR PRESENTATION THIS EVENING, WE'RE GOING TO BE 01:56 TALKING ABOUT THE GREAT JUDGMENT DAY. 01:59 LET'S BEGIN WITH A LITTLE AMAZING FACT FROM HISTORY. 02:02 I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD OF BARON FABIAN VON 02:05 SCHLABRENDORFF. HIS WHOLE NAME WAS FABIAN 02:10 LUDWIG GEORGE ADOLF KURT VON SCHLABRENDORFF. 02:14 HOW'D YOU LIKE TO BE HIS MOTHER CALLING HIM WHEN YOU'RE ANGRY? 02:17 (LAUGHTER) PROBABLY CALLED HIM 'BUTCH'. 02:20 (LAUGHTER) HE WAS BORN IN GERMANY IN 1907, TRAINED AS A 02:23 LAWYER - VERY BRIGHT INDIVIDUAL - AND WHEN THE WAR WAS GETTING 02:27 READY TO BREAK OUT, HE WAS DRAFTED BUT, BECAUSE HE WAS SO 02:31 BRIGHT AND PERFORMED WELL, HE WAS RAPIDLY PROMOTED. 02:35 WELL, IT DIDN'T TAKE HIM VERY LONG TO REALIZE THAT ADOLPH 02:37 HITLER WAS CRAZY, DESTROYING EUROPE, NOT TO MENTION GERMANY, 02:41 SO HE JOINED THE RESISTANCE. SCHLABRENDORFF WAS THE ONE WHO, 02:45 WHEN HITLER CAME TO VISIT AN ARMY BASE IN GERMANY, HE 02:48 SMUGGLED A TIME BOMB ONTO HITLER'S PLANE THAT WAS SUPPOSED 02:51 TO BLOW UP AND GET RID OF THAT CRUEL DICTATOR, BUT IT FAILED. 02:56 EVENTUALLY THEY TRACED IT BACK TO HIM, HE WAS ARRESTED, HE WAS 03:01 TORTURED - HE NEVER DID TALK AND GIVE UP ANY OF THE PEOPLE THAT 03:04 WERE PART OF THE RESISTANCE - AND, FINALLY, THEY SET A TRIAL 03:09 FOR HIM. HE WAS BROUGHT INTO THE 03:11 COURTROOM - THIS WAS NOW 1945 BY THE TIME IT GOT TO HIS TRIAL 03:15 - AND COURTHOUSE WAS FULL - JUDGES, JURY - THEY ALL FOUND 03:21 HIM GUILTY OF HIGH TREASON AND HE WAS SENTENCED TO BE 03:24 KILLED BY FIRING SQUAD. BECAUSE OF THE WAR EFFORT, THEY 03:29 DIDN'T PUT YOU ON DEATH ROW AND YOU DID NOT HAVE APPEALS. 03:32 THEY WERE MARCHING HIM OUT OF THE COURTROOM TO A WALL WHERE HE 03:35 WAS GOING TO BE EXECUTED, WHEN THE AIR RAID SIRENS WENT OFF AND 03:41 ONE OF THE ALLIED BOMBERS SCORED A DIRECT HIT ON THE COURTHOUSE. 03:45 EVERYBODY IN THE COURTHOUSE WAS KILLED EXCEPT SCHLABRENDORFF 03:50 (LAUGHTER) WHO ESCAPED. HE LATER WAS RECAPTURED AND THEY 03:56 PUT HIM IN DACHAU PRISON OF WAR CAMP, BUT IT WASN'T LONG BEFORE 03:59 THE ALLIES CAME AND HE SURVIVED. AND GUESS WHAT? 04:04 HE BECAME A LEADING JUDGE IN GERMANY. 04:09 THE ONE WHO WAS BEING TRIED - WHAT A REVERSAL OF FORTUNES - 04:13 WHO HAD BEEN CONDEMNED ENDED UP BEING THE JUDGE. 04:16 >>WOW. >>AND HE LIVED UNTIL 1980. 04:19 IT MAKES ME THINK ABOUT WHEN JESUS STOOD BEFORE CAIAPHAS THE 04:23 HIGH PRIEST AND PONTIUS PILATE AND THERE THEY WERE, THE CHURCH 04:26 AND THE STATE, CONDEMNING HIM AND HE SAID, 'HEREAFTER YOU WILL 04:30 SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN.' TALK ABOUT A 04:34 BIG SURPRISE, WHEN THEY COME OUT OF THEIR GRAVES AND THEY SEE THE 04:38 ONE THEY WERE JUDGING IS NOW THE JUDGE OF THE UNIVERSE. 04:41 THE BIBLE SAYS WE WILL ALL STAND BEFORE THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF 04:44 CHRIST. NOW, WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING 04:47 AT SEVERAL CHAPTERS IN THE BIBLE, PRINCIPALLY CHAPTER 20 OF 04:50 REVELATION THAT TALKS ABOUT THIS GREAT JUDGMENT DAY AND ALSO 04:54 TALKS ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM. IT BEGINS - AND, IF YOU HAVE 04:57 YOUR BIBLES, YOU MIGHT WANT TO TURN TO CHAPTER 04:58 20 OF REVELATION. REVELATION 20, VERSE 1, "THEN I 05:02 SAW AN ANGEL COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN, HAVING THE KEY TO THE 05:06 BOTTOMLESS PIT, AND A GREAT CHAIN IN HIS HAND. 05:10 HE LAID HOLD ON THE DRAGON, THAT OLD SERPENT CALLED THE DEVIL, 05:14 AND SATAN," - THERE YOU HAVE IT AGAIN, THE SAME THING YOU SEE IN 05:16 REVELATION 12 - HAS HIS TITLES - "AND BOUND HIM A THOUSAND 05:20 YEARS." SO THIS ONE-THOUSAND-YEAR PERIOD 05:24 YOU HEAR REFERENCED OFTEN IS USUALLY CALLED THE MILLENNIUM. 05:27 THE WORD 'MILLENNIUM' IS SIMPLY - IT'S A COMPOSITE LATIN WORD - 05:31 'MILLE' - THOUSAND - 'ANNUM' - YEARS - IT'S TALKING ABOUT A 05:34 THOUSAND-YEAR PERIOD. YOU PRINCIPALLY FIND THIS 05:37 IN REVELATION CHAPTER 20. AND IT GOES ON TO SAY, IF YOU GO 05:41 IN REVELATION CHAPTER 20, VERSE 4, "AND I SAW THRONES, AND THEY 05:47 SAT ON THEM, AND JUDGMENT WAS COMMITTED TO THEM." 05:52 AND SO, THERE'S THIS JUDGMENT THAT IS GIVEN. 05:54 WHAT EVENTS MARK THE BEGINNING OF THE MILLENNIUM AND THE GREAT 05:58 JUDGMENT DAY? SO LET'S LOOK AT THIS TIMELINE 06:00 IN THE FINAL EVENTS OF PROPHECY. YOU READ, FOR INSTANCE, IN 1 06:04 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 4, VERSE 6, "FOR THE LORD HIMSELF SHALL 06:09 DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A SHOUT, WITH THE VOICE OF THE 06:12 ARCHANGEL AND THE TRUMP OF GOD, AND" - IT SAYS - "THE DEAD 06:15 IN CHRIST SHALL RISE FIRST." SO THIS ONE-THOUSAND-YEAR PERIOD 06:20 BEGINS WITH THE COMING OF THE LORD AND A RESURRECTION. 06:24 NOW, IN OUR STUDY THIS EVENING, WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO BE 06:26 TALKING ABOUT FOUR DIFFERENT GROUPS OF PEOPLE: WHEN CHRIST 06:30 COMES YOU'VE GOT THE GOOD THAT ARE ALIVE - OR SAVED, I SHOULD 06:34 SAY, THAT ARE ALIVE, AND THE EVIL THAT ARE ALIVE. 06:38 YOU'VE GOT THE SAVED THAT ARE DEAD, AND THE EVIL THAT ARE DEAD 06:43 - THE LOST. EVERYBODY WHO'S EVER LIVED FALLS 06:47 INTO ONE OF THOSE CATEGORIES, ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 06:50 YOU'VE GOT THE LIVING AND THE DEAD, THE GOOD AND THE BAD, AND 06:53 ALL OF THEM ARE ADDRESSED IN THIS STUDY TONIGHT, SO THIS IS 06:56 RELEVANT FOR EVERYBODY IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER. 06:59 AND IT SAYS, "THEY LIVED AND REIGNED WITH CHRIST A THOUSAND 07:01 YEARS." THOSE WHO ARE RESURRECTED - 07:04 THE DEAD IN CHRIST - RISE. THOSE OF US WHO ARE ALIVE AND 07:06 REMAIN, WE'RE CAUGHT UP, WE MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR, AND WE 07:09 LIVE AND REIGN WITH CHRIST. SOME CHURCHES TEACH THAT THE ONE 07:13 THOUSAND YEARS WE SPEND HERE ON EARTH WHERE THE RIGHTEOUS ARE 07:17 REIGNING OVER THE WICKED - WE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE BUT THEY 07:19 DON'T, SO I GUESS THEY'RE LIVING, BREEDING AND DYING, BUT 07:24 WE'RE IMMORTAL AND WE DON'T GET MARRIED AND HAVE CHILDREN. 07:28 FIRST OF ALL, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT I DON'T WANT TO REIGN 07:29 OVER THE WICKED - AND THAT CHRIST IS HERE ON EARTH. 07:34 BUT - AND THEN THE OTHER GROUP OF CHRISTIANS BELIEVE THAT WE GO 07:38 UP AND WE LIVE AND REIGN WITH CHRIST IN GLORY DURING THE ONE 07:42 THOUSAND YEARS. NOW, YOU REMEMBER WHEN JESUS 07:44 SAYS, IN JOHN CHAPTER 14, 'I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU' - 07:48 RIGHT? HE'S GONE - 'I WILL COME AGAIN, RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF 07:53 THAT WHERE I AM, YOU MAY BE.' HE'S TAKING US TO WHERE HE IS 07:56 GOING. ISN'T THAT CLEAR IN THE LANGUAGE? 07:58 SO WHAT DIRECTION DO WE GO WHEN JESUS COMES? 08:01 >>UP. >>WE ARE CAUGHT UP. 08:02 SO, WHEN WE LIVE AND REIGN WITH HIM, IT'S IN THAT NEW JERUSALEM 08:06 THAT LATER COMES DOWN. WE'RE NOT LIVING AND REIGNING 08:08 OVER THE WICKED HERE ON EARTH. IT'S NOT HAPPENING HERE. 08:12 ABSOLUTELY. SO THEY LIVE AND REIGN WITH 08:14 CHRIST FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS AND THEN IT TELLS YOU WHAT 08:17 HAPPENS TO THE REST OF THE DEAD: "BUT THE REST OF THE DEAD LIVED 08:20 NOT AGAIN UNTIL THE THOUSAND YEARS WERE FINISHED. 08:23 THIS IS THE FIRST RESURRECTION." IN OTHER WORDS, THE DEAD 08:25 IN CHRIST ARE THE FIRST RESURRECTION, THE REST OF THE 08:27 DEAD, THEY DON'T LIVE AGAIN 'TIL WHEN? 08:30 THE END OF THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS. 08:32 AND SO, HERE YOU'VE GOT THE THOUSAND-YEAR PERIOD - IT'S LIKE 08:34 BOOKENDS, YOU CAN SEPARATE IT WITH FIRST RESURRECTION - 08:38 RIGHTEOUS - SECOND RESURRECTION - WICKED - AND THEY'RE SPREAD 08:43 APART. AND THIS FITS WITH WHAT 08:45 JESUS ALWAYS TAUGHT. NUMBER TWO: WHAT ELSE 08:48 WILL HAPPEN AT THE FIRST RESURRECTION? 08:51 IT SAYS, "WE SHALL NOT ALL SLEEP, BUT WE SHALL ALL BE 08:54 CHANGED, IN A MOMENT...AT THE LAST TRUMP:" - BY THE WAY, 1 08:59 CORINTHIANS 15, VERSE 51 - "FOR THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND, AND THE 09:03 DEAD SHALL BE RAISED INCORRUPTIBLE, AND WE SHALL BE 09:06 CHANGED." - THIS MORTAL - 09:08 WHEN ARE WE CHANGED? WHEN CHRIST COMES. 09:11 WE'LL BE CHANGED - "FOR THIS CORRUPTIBLE MUST PUT ON 09:14 INCORRUPTION, AND THIS MORTAL MUST PUT ON IMMORTALITY." 09:18 AND THEN IT SAYS, IN PHILIPPIANS 3:21, JESUS, WHEN HE COMES, "WHO 09:22 SHALL CHANGE OUR VILE BODY," - THESE BODIES THAT HAVE ACHES AND 09:24 PAINS AND THEY GET OLD AND - "THAT IT MAY BE FASHIONED LIKE 09:27 UNTO HIS GLORIOUS BODY." NOW, WHAT KIND OF BODIES DO THE 09:31 REDEEMED HAVE WHEN THEY GET A GLORIFIED BODY? 09:35 ARE THEY GHOSTS? WHEN JESUS ROSE FROM 09:38 THE DEAD, WAS HE REAL? >>YES. 09:41 >>DID HE TRY TO EMPHASIZE THAT HE WAS REAL? 09:44 HE SAID - THEY WERE JUST SHOCKED - HE SAID, 'TOUCH ME. 09:47 HANDLE ME. A SPIRIT DOES NOT HAVE FLESH AND 09:50 BONE AS YOU SEE THAT I HAVE.' AND THEN HE SAID, 'I'M HUNGRY. 09:54 YOU GOT ANYTHING TO EAT?' NOT ONLY DID HE SAY THAT IN THE 09:57 UPPER ROOM, HE MET THEM BY THE SEA. 09:59 HE SAID, 'YOU GUYS GOT ANY FOOD?' 10:00 SO WAS IT GOD'S ORIGINAL PLAN THAT ADAM AND EVE EAT? 10:04 >>YES. >>DO GHOSTS EAT? 10:08 YOU KNOW, GHOSTS DON'T EAT. THEY'RE REAL PEOPLE. 10:11 AND HE'S - THE THING IS, WE HAVE SPIRITUAL BODIES. 10:13 SEE, THE BEST WAY I CAN EXPLAIN IT, ADAM AND EVE, BEFORE SIN, 10:17 THEY LIVED IN FOUR DIMENSIONS. YOU AND I LIVE IN 10:20 THREE DIMENSIONS NOW. THEY HAD GLORIFIED BODIES THAT 10:23 HAD NO ACHES OR PAINS, WHERE THEY COULD SEE ANGELS. 10:27 THEN, AFTER SIN, THE LIGHT WENT OUT AND SOMETHING CHANGED. 10:31 THEY LOST A WHOLE DIMENSION. THE WHOLE SPIRITUAL DIMENSION OF 10:34 OUR BEING WILL BE ADDED AGAIN IN THESE GLORIFIED ETERNAL 10:38 BODIES THAT WE HAVE. BUT THEY'RE REAL BODIES. 10:41 YOU LEARN LATER, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HEAVEN, IT SAYS, 10:43 'THEY PLANT VINEYARDS AND THEY EAT THE FRUIT OF THEM, AND THEY 10:46 BUILD HOUSES AND THEY GO FORTH - AND WE'RE DOING REAL THINGS, 10:50 WE'RE NOT JUST, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE - HEAVEN - I USED TO THINK WE'RE 10:53 UP ON CLOUDS, WE'RE FAT LITTLE CHERUBS, NAKED, PLAYING HARPS, 10:56 AND I THOUGHT, 'BOY, I DON'T - YOU KNOW, HELL SOUNDS MORE 10:58 INTERESTING. WHEN I WAS A TEENAGER, 11:00 THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT. (LAUGHTER) THAT'S NOT IT AT ALL. 11:05 WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING REAL THINGS. 11:06 SO WE'LL HAVE WHAT KIND OF BODY? >>GLORIFIED. 11:08 >>GLORIOUS BODIES LIKE HIS BODY. NOW THERE WAS ONE THING WRONG 11:12 WITH JESUS' BODY WHEN HE ROSE. DID HE STILL HAVE THE 11:15 SCARS IN HIS HANDS? >>YES. 11:17 >>THE LORD DELIBERATELY ALLOWED THAT BLEMISH TO REMAIN SO THAT, 11:22 THROUGH ETERNITY, WE WOULD SEE THE ICON, THE REMINDER OF HIS 11:28 SACRIFICE FOR US, SO SIN WILL NEVER RISE UP AGAIN THE SECOND 11:31 TIME. WE'LL NEVER FORGET WHAT HE DID TO SAVE US. 11:34 WHAT HAPPENS TO THE WICKED WHEN THE LORD COMES? 11:37 2 THESSALONIANS 2:8, "AND THEN SHALL THAT WICKED BE REVEALED, 11:40 WHOM THE LORD...SHALL CONSUME WITH THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS 11:43 COMING." AND DESTROY WITH THE BREATH OF HIS MOUTH. 11:46 IT ALSO GOES ON TO SAY - REVELATION 16 - "AND THERE WAS A 11:49 GREAT EARTHQUAKE SUCH AS WAS NOT SINCE MEN WERE UPON THE EARTH, 11:53 SO MIGHTY AN EARTHQUAKE, AND SO GREAT." 11:56 AND SO THERE'S A GREAT EARTH-SHAKING EARTHQUAKE AND 11:59 THIS IS NOT, YOU KNOW, 3 OR 4 ON THE RICHTER SCALE - WE HAVE 12:03 THOSE IN CALIFORNIA, WE JUST SORT OF SHRUG. 12:05 THIS IS TALKING ABOUT MAJOR, YOU KNOW, 15 ON THE RICHTER SCALE - 12:11 MOUNTAINS AND ISLANDS ARE BEING SWALLOWED UP IN THIS EARTHQUAKE. 12:15 AND IT SAYS, "EVERY ISLAND FLED AWAY, AND THE MOUNTAINS WERE NOT 12:19 FOUND." IT GOES ON TO SAY THAT THERE WAS 12:22 "A GREAT HAIL OUT OF HEAVEN, EVERY STONE ABOUT THE 12:26 WEIGHT OF A TALENT." YOU KNOW WHAT A TALENT IS? 12:29 IT'S ABOUT 75 POUNDS. >>WOW. 12:32 >>AND SO, IF YOU CAN IMAGINE HAIL STONES WITH THAT WEIGHT, 12:35 THAT'S PRETTY AMAZING. IT GOES ON TO SAY THAT SATAN IS 12:39 THEN BOUND, AT THIS TIME, IN THE BOTTOMLESS PIT. 12:42 SO WHAT IS THIS BOTTOMLESS PIT? THE WORD THAT YOU FIND THERE FOR 12:46 BOTTOMLESS PIT IS 'ABUSSOS' AND ABUSSOS MEANS - WELL, YOU'VE 12:52 HEARD THE WORD ABYSS - ABYSS MEANS 'EMPTINESS; VOID'. 12:57 YOU ACTUALLY FIND THAT WORD DESCRIBING THE WORLD BEFORE GOD 13:00 CREATED IN GENESIS IN THE SEPTUAGINT - THE GREEK VERSION - 13:04 TALKS ABOUT THE WORLD WAS VOID AND WITHOUT FORM. 13:07 IT WAS AN ABYSS - IT WAS DARK. 13:09 BUT THE, YOU KNOW, BOTTOMLESS PIT IS REALLY - IT'S A WORD - I 13:12 DON'T KNOW WHY THE KING JAMES TRANSLATORS CHOSE THAT WORD 13:14 BECAUSE YOU FIND THE WORD OTHER PLACES IN THE BIBLE. 13:17 HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT THIS DEMONIAC 13:22 THAT WAS FILLED WITH DEVILS - YOU READ ABOUT IT IN LUKE 13:25 CHAPTER 8 AND MARK CHAPTER 5 - AND THEY BEGGED JESUS, WHEN 13:29 JESUS WAS CASTING THEM OUT OF THE MAN, 'PLEASE DO NOT CAST US 13:33 OUT INTO' - EXACT SAME WORD - ABUSSOS. 13:36 THERE, IT'S TRANSLATED 'DEEP' - INTO THE NOTHINGNESS. 13:39 YOU SEE, WHEN THE DEVIL HAS NOBODY TO TEMPT, POSSESS, 13:42 MANIPULATE FOR HIM IT'S NOTHINGNESS BECAUSE THE DEVIL 13:44 DOES HIS WORK - HE'S A SPIRIT - BY POSSESSING LIVING CREATURES. 13:49 EVEN THE DEVILS IN THIS STORY SAID, 'PLEASE, LET US POSSESS 13:52 THE PIGS - SOMETHING - BUT DON'T CAST US OUT INTO THE 13:54 NOTHINGNESS.' AND SO, WHEN THE DEVIL IS BOUND ON THIS EARTH 13:58 WITH NOBODY TO TEMPT AND MANIPULATE, THAT IS THE 14:01 BOTTOMLESS PIT. THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT JUDE - 14:05 I READ IT TO YOU EARLIER - IN VERSE 6. 14:07 THE DEVIL'S BEING CHAINED IN DARKNESS, BUT THEN THEY'LL HAVE 14:11 NOBODY TO TEMPT BECAUSE THE RIGHTEOUS ARE RAISED - DEAD 14:17 RIGHTEOUS - THOSE WHO ARE ALIVE ARE TRANSFORMED - WE GO UP - THE 14:21 WICKED WHO ARE ALIVE ARE DESTROYED BY THE BRIGHTNESS OF 14:24 HIS COMING. HOW MANY LIVING PEOPLE 14:25 DOES THAT LEAVE ON EARTH? NONE. SO IT DESCRIBES THIS TIME WHEN 14:30 SATAN IS BOUND ON THIS PLANET AND HE'S GOT A THOUSAND YEARS, 14:34 WHILE WE'RE LIVING AND REIGNING WITH CHRIST, TO CONTEMPLATE THE 14:37 RESULTS OF HIS REBELLION AGAINST GOD. 14:40 NOW THE LORD IS DOING THIS DELIBERATELY BECAUSE HE'S GOING 14:43 TO DEMONSTRATE TO THE UNIVERSE THAT HE HAS NO ALTERNATIVE BUT 14:46 TO DO WHAT HE'S GOING TO DO TO LUCIFER AND HIS FOLLOWERS. 14:49 SO SATAN'S DOWN HERE WITH ALL HIS ANGELS - THEY'VE GOT TO LIVE 14:51 WITH EACH OTHER. THEY'RE GOING TO ALL BLAME EACH OTHER. 14:54 THEY'RE GOING TO BE CHASING LUCIFER ALL OVER THE PLANET AND 14:57 SAY, 'WE WOULDN'T BE HERE IF IT WASN'T FOR YOU.' HE'S GOT TO PUT 14:59 UP WITH THAT FOR A THOUSAND YEARS. 15:01 AND SO, THEY'RE IN THIS DARK PRISON DURING THAT TIME. 15:07 >>THE BIBLE TALKS, IN REVELATION 20, ABOUT A VERY INTERESTING 15:10 PERIOD OF TIME, BETTER KNOWN AS THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS OR THE 15:14 MILLENNIUM. IT'S A TIME THAT'S 15:16 COMING VERY SOON. THE BIBLE SAYS IT'S A TIME WHERE 15:18 WE WILL LIVE AND REIGN WITH THE LORD. 15:21 THE QUESTION IS, WHERE DO WE SPEND THE MILLENNIUM, IS IT HERE 15:24 ON EARTH? IS IT IN HEAVEN? 15:25 WHAT'S THE CONDITION OF THE WICKED DURING THIS TIME? 15:28 WOULD YOU LIKE TO UNDERSTAND THIS SUBJECT THAT'S COMING VERY 15:30 SOON? WE HAVE A STUDY GUIDE CALLED 15:32 A THOUSAND YEARS OF PEACE THAT EXPLAINS IT ALL. 15:36 TO GET YOUR FREE COPY, CALL THE PHONE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN AND 15:39 ASK FOR OFFER #123 OR VISIT OFFERS.AFTV.ORG . 15:46 AND, WHEN YOU GET THIS FREE RESOURCE, MAKE SURE AND READ IT 15:49 AND THEN SHARE IT WITH SOMEONE ELSE, BECAUSE GOD'S MESSAGE IS 15:52 OUR MISSION. >>WHO IS RAISED - QUESTION 3 - 15:57 IN THE SECOND RESURRECTION, AND WHEN WILL IT TAKE PLACE? 16:00 IT SAYS, IN JOHN CHAPTER 5, VERSE 28 - JESUS SPEAKING HERE - 16:04 "ALL THAT ARE IN THE GRAVES SHALL HEAR HIS VOICE, AND SHALL 16:07 COME FORTH: THEY THAT HAVE DONE GOOD UNTO THE RESURRECTION OF 16:11 LIFE; AND THEY THAT HAVE DONE EVIL, UNTO THE RESURRECTION OF 16:15 DAMNATION." HOW MANY RESURRECTIONS? 16:16 >>TWO. >>TWO. 16:18 YOU EVEN READ ABOUT THAT IN DANIEL CHAPTER 12, 'MANY OF THEM 16:21 THAT SLEEP IN THE DUST OF THE EARTH SHALL AWAKE; SOME TO 16:23 EVERLASTING LIFE, SOME TO SHAME AND EVERLASTING CONTEMPT.' 16:27 YOU'VE GOT TWO SEPARATE RESURRECTIONS - THEY'VE GOT A 16:29 THOUSAND YEARS BETWEEN THEM, AND SO, IF, IN THE RESURRECTION YOU 16:35 COME FORTH AND YOU STILL HAVE WRINKLES, YOU'RE IN THE WRONG 16:38 RESURRECTION. (LAUGHTER) THAT'S NOT GOOD. 16:41 BECAUSE WE GET GLORIFIED BODIES AT THAT POINT, RIGHT? 16:45 REVELATION 20, VERSE 5, "BUT THE REST OF THE DEAD (THE WICKED) 16:49 LIVED NOT AGAIN UNTIL THE THOUSAND YEARS WERE FINISHED." 16:51 I READ THIS BUT I WANT TO RE-EMPHASIZE IT. 16:54 BEFORE I MOVE ON, I'VE JUST GOT TO STOP AND SAY SOMETHING - 16:58 HOPEFULLY YOU'VE CAUGHT IT ALONG THE WAY, BUT THERE IS A LOT OF 17:00 CONFUSION AMONG CHRISTIANS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A PERSON DIES. 17:06 WALK THROUGH A CHRISTIAN CEMETERY AND CHURCHYARD CEMETERY 17:09 SOMETIME, YOU WILL SEE THE CONFUSION. 17:11 YOU READ THE TOMBSTONES AND ONE TOMBSTONE WILL SAY, 'OUR BELOVED 17:15 MOTHER, RESTING IN PEACE WAITING FOR THE RESURRECTION MORNING'. 17:20 THEN YOU GO TWO TOMBSTONES AWAY IT'LL SAY, 'OUR BELOVED MOTHER, 17:23 WALKING ON GOLDEN STREETS'. 17:26 SO, IS SHE RESTING AND WAITING FOR THE RESURRECTION OR IS SHE 17:28 SINGING WITH THE ANGELS AND WALKING ON GOLDEN STREETS? 17:31 AND YOU'LL SEE ALL - PEOPLE ARE VERY CONFUSED. 17:33 THEY SAY, 'NOW, DOESN'T THE BIBLE SAY TO BE ABSENT FROM THE 17:35 BODY IS TO BE PRESENT WITH THE LORD'? YES. 17:38 THAT MEANS, IF YOU'RE A BELIEVER AND YOU DIE, YOUR NEXT CONSCIOUS 17:42 THOUGHT, WHICH WILL SEEM LIKE THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, WILL BE 17:46 THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD AND THE RESURRECTION OF THE RIGHTEOUS - 17:48 BUT THEY'RE NOT THERE YET BECAUSE THE RESURRECTION HASN'T 17:51 HAPPENED AND THE JUDGMENT HASN'T HAPPENED. 17:53 THE BIBLE IS REALLY CLEAR THAT THE DEAD ARE SLEEPING UNTIL THE 17:56 RESURRECTION, BUT THEY DON'T KNOW THEY'RE SLEEPING. 17:59 THERE ARE ABOUT A DOZEN RESURRECTIONS IN THE BIBLE. 18:04 JESUS RAISED SEVERAL PEOPLE. YOU'VE GOT RESURRECTIONS 18:06 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. DO YOU KNOW, IN EVERY SINGLE 18:09 RESURRECTION IN THE BIBLE, NONE OF THOSE RESURRECTED EVER 18:12 MAKE ONE COMMENT ON WHAT THEY EXPERIENCED DURING 18:15 DEATH - NONE OF THEM. WHY? 18:19 THE DEAD KNOW NOT ANYTHING, ACCORDING TO SOLOMON. 18:22 THEY'RE SLEEPING A DREAMLESS SLEEP. 18:25 THEY DO NOT DIE AND GO RIGHT TO HEAVEN; THEY DO NOT DIE AND GO 18:27 RIGHT TO HELL. SO, WHEN SOMEONE SAYS, YOU KNOW, 18:29 'I'M SO THANKFUL FOR MY GRANDMA BECAUSE HER NEXT THOUGHT IS THE 18:33 RESURRECTION.' THAT'S TRUE. SHE'S NOT THERE YET, THOUGH. 18:36 BECAUSE YOU AND I LIVE IN A DIMENSION OF TIME. 18:39 YOU REALIZE GOD IS NOT CONFINED TO TIME. 18:42 >>AMEN. >>GOD CAN GO INTO THE FUTURE, HE 18:44 CAN GO INTO THE PAST BUT, AS FAR AS THE TIME WE LIVE IN, 18:47 THEY'RE NOT THERE YET. SO THE IDEA THAT YOUR LOVED ONES 18:50 ARE IN HEAVEN SPYING ON YOU OR, IF THEY'RE LOST, THAT THEY'RE 18:54 SUFFERING IN THE LAKE OF FIRE, THAT COMES FROM PAGANISM - 18:57 THAT'S NOT - LET ME GIVE YOU SOME VERSES ON THAT. 18:59 GO WITH ME TO 1 CORINTHIANS 15:21, "FOR SINCE BY MAN CAME 19:03 DEATH, BY MAN ALSO CAME THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD. 19:07 FOR AS IN ADAM ALL DIE, EVEN SO IN CHRIST ALL SHALL BE MADE 19:11 ALIVE. BUT EACH ONE IN HIS OWN ORDER" - 19:13 HERE'S THE ORDER - VERY PLAIN - "CHRIST THE FIRSTFRUITS, 19:17 AFTERWARD THOSE WHO ARE CHRIST'S AT HIS COMING." 19:21 WHEN ARE THEY MADE ALIVE? AT HIS COMING, WHICH MEANS, 19:25 BEFORE HIS COMING, THEY ARE NOT ALIVE. 19:28 AND, IF YOU'RE NOT ALIVE, YOU'RE DEAD. 19:31 THE BIBLE DOESN'T HAVE AN IN BETWEEN. 19:34 AND SO, PEOPLE ARE NOT GETTING THEIR REWARDS BEFORE THE 19:37 RESURRECTION AND THE JUDGMENT. WE'VE GOT A WHOLE STUDY ON THAT; 19:41 I WISH I HAD MORE TIME TO TALK ABOUT. 19:43 WHAT WILL THE CONDITION OF THE EARTH BE LEFT IN DURING THE ONE 19:46 THOUSAND YEARS? WHAT'S IT LOOK LIKE DOWN HERE? 19:49 MANY OF US HAVE HEARD THE POPULAR LEFT BEHIND SCENARIO OF 19:53 FINAL EVENTS , WHERE THE RIGHTEOUS ARE SECRETLY RAPTURED, 20:00 LIFE CONTINUES TO GO ON HERE ON EARTH, THERE'S 144,000 LITERAL 20:05 JEWS THAT ARE CONVERTED - THAT ARE PREACHING EVERYWHERE - THE 20:08 SEVEN LAST PLAGUES FALL, SOME PEOPLE MAY STILL BE CONVERTED AT 20:11 THE END OF THAT SEVEN YEARS OF TRIBULATION, THEN JESUS COMES 20:15 BACK DOWN HERE ON EARTH WITH THE RIGHTEOUS AND WE LIVE AND REIGN 20:19 DOWN HERE TOGETHER FOR A THOUSAND YEARS AND THEN THE 20:21 WICKED ARE DESTROYED AT THE END OF THAT ONE THOUSAND YEARS, 20:23 WHICH REALLY PUTS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WICKED 20:26 ANOTHER THOUSAND YEARS BEYOND THE COMING OF THE LORD. 20:28 IN THAT SCENARIO, IS THERE EVER A TIME WHEN THE EARTH IS VACANT? 20:35 THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING GOING ON DOWN HERE. 20:37 BUT, IF YOU READ IN 2 PETER CHAPTER 3, IT SAYS, 'THE DAY OF 20:40 THE LORD WILL COME AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT, IN WHICH THE HEAVENS 20:43 PASS AWAY WITH A GREAT NOISE, THE ELEMENTS MELT WITH FERVENT 20:47 HEAT, THE EARTH AND THE THINGS THAT ARE IN IT ARE BURNED UP.' 20:52 SO WHAT'S THE WORLD GOING TO LOOK LIKE DURING THAT TIME? 20:55 AND YOU LOOK AT THIS VERSE HERE IN ISAIAH 24, "BEHOLD, THE LORD 20:58 MAKETH THE EARTH EMPTY," - NOBODY HERE - "AND MAKETH IT 21:02 WASTE." 'BEHOLD, THE LORD MAKES THE 21:04 EARTH UTTERLY EMPTY, HE TURNS IT UPSIDE DOWN, THE EARTH IS 21:07 UTTERLY BROKEN DOWN.' READ THIS VERSE IN JEREMIAH CHAPTER 4, 21:12 VERSE 23, "I BEHELD THE EARTH, AND LO, IT WAS WITHOUT FORM, AND 21:18 VOID: AND THE HEAVENS, AND THEY HAD NO LIGHT. 21:21 I BEHELD THE MOUNTAINS, AND, LO, THEY TREMBLED...THERE WAS NO 21:25 MAN," - IT SOUNDS LIKE HE'S DESCRIBING THE WORLD BEFORE 21:27 CREATION, BUT KEEP READING - "AND ALL THE BIRDS OF THE 21:30 HEAVENS WERE FLED." THAT MEANS THEY WERE 21:32 THERE, BUT THEY'RE GONE. IT SAYS, "THE FRUITFUL PLACE WAS 21:36 A WILDERNESS, AND ALL THE CITIES THEREOF WERE BROKEN DOWN" - SO 21:41 THERE WAS CITIES, NOW THEY'RE BROKEN DOWN. BY WHAT? 21:43 - "AT THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD, AND BY HIS FIERCE ANGER." 21:47 PRETTY CLEAR THAT HERE'S THE CONDITION OF THE WORLD WHERE IT 21:49 SAYS BURNED UP, CITIES BROKEN DOWN, NO MAN ALIVE. 21:54 IT GOES ON AND SAYS IN ANOTHER PASSAGE, 'THE SLAIN OF THE LORD 21:56 COVER THE EARTH FROM ONE END TO THE OTHER AND THERE'S NO ONE TO 21:58 MOURN, LAMENT, OR BURY THEM.' AND SO, ALL THROUGH THE 22:02 PROPHECIES IT TALKS ABOUT THIS TIME AFTER THE JUDGEMENT WHEN 22:04 THE EARTH IS A MESS. YOU CAN LOOK IN JEREMIAH - I'M 22:08 STILL READING - "AND THE SLAIN OF THE LORD SHALL BE AT THAT DAY 22:11 FROM ONE END OF THE EARTH EVEN UNTO THE OTHER...THEY SHALL NOT 22:14 BE LAMENTED, NEITHER GATHERED, NOR BURIED." 22:17 WHERE WILL THE SLAIN BE DURING THE 1,000 YEARS, AND WHAT 22:21 ARE THEY DOING? ALRIGHT, SO NOW WE'RE TALKING 22:23 ABOUT DEAD IN CHRIST RISE, WE WHO ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN - I 22:27 WOULD LIKE TO BE ONE OF THOSE WHO ARE ALIVE AND 22:29 REMAIN, HOW ABOUT YOU? >>AMEN. 22:30 >>CAUGHT UP TO MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR - AND I THINK HE'S 22:32 COMING PRETTY SOON. >>YEP - AMEN. 22:34 >>SOME OF YOU HERE MAY DIE, BUT NOT A LOT ARE GOING TO DIE OF 22:36 OLD AGE. I THINK THAT JESUS 22:38 IS COMING SOON. >>AMEN. 22:39 >>SO WHAT'S GOING ON DURING THAT TIME? 22:42 YOU CAN READ IN JOHN CHAPTER 14, HE SAID, "I WILL COME AGAIN, AND 22:46 RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF: THAT WHERE I AM, THERE YE MAY BE 22:49 ALSO." WE'LL BE WITH HIM IN THE 22:51 MANSIONS THAT HE'S PREPARED IN THE NEW JERUSALEM. 22:54 AND THEN IT GOES ON IN REVELATION 20 AND IT SAYS IN 22:57 VERSE 4, "AND I SAW THRONES, AND THEY SAT UPON THEM, AND JUDGMENT 23:01 WAS GIVEN UNTO THEM: AND THEY LIVED AND REIGNED WITH CHRIST A 23:05 THOUSAND YEARS." SO JUDGMENT IS GIVEN UNTO THE 23:07 SAINTS AND WE LIVE AND REIGN WITH CHRIST A THOUSAND YEARS. 23:11 NOW READ IN 1 CORINTHIANS 6:2 - I KNOW SOME OF YOU ARE TAKING 23:14 NOTES FURIOUSLY - "DO YE NOT KNOW THAT THE SAINTS WILL JUDGE 23:18 THE WORLD?" - AND IT GOES ON TO SAY, "KNOW 23:21 YE NOT THAT WE SHALL JUDGE ANGELS?" 23:27 NOW, OBVIOUSLY, WE'RE NOT JUDGING GOOD ANGELS, BUT DOES 23:30 THE BIBLE TELL US THERE'S A LOT OF FALLEN ANGELS? 23:32 WE ARE NOT DECIDING WHETHER THEY'RE SAVED OR LOST. 23:35 WE ARE ACTUALLY ENDORSING - WE'RE COOPERATING BECAUSE CHRIST 23:40 SAID, 'LOOK, I WANT TO INVOLVE YOU WITH ME. 23:43 DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHY WE'RE GOING TO JUDGE THEM THE WAY 23:45 WE'RE GOING TO JUDGE THEM?' AND WE AFFIRM THE JUDGMENTS OF 23:48 GOD IS REALLY WHAT WE'RE DOING. BUT THERE'S GOING TO BE LOSS. 23:52 NOW WHY IS THIS HAPPENING? SOMEONE SAID THERE'S GOING TO BE 23:56 FOUR BIG SURPRISES WHEN YOU GET TO HEAVEN - MAYBE IT WAS THREE 24:01 SURPRISES - FIRST SURPRISE IS THAT YOU'RE THERE. 24:04 (LAUGHTER) SECOND SURPRISE IS THAT THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE THAT 24:12 ARE NOT THERE THAT YOU THOUGHT WOULD BE LEADING THE PARADE. 24:18 AND YOU'RE GOING TO GO TO YOUR ANGEL AND SAY, 'WHERE IS PASTOR 24:22 SO AND SO?' 'WHERE IS DEACON ELDER' - 24:24 'WHERE'S THIS SISTER OR BROTHER - THEY WERE JUST SO SPIRITUAL - 24:27 I DON'T SEE THEM ANYWHERE.' AND THE ANGEL SAID, 'WELL, COME WITH 24:31 ME.' AND THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE YOU TO THE LIBRARY - THE BIBLE 24:35 SAYS EVERYTHING'S IN THE BOOKS. EVERYTHING - JESUS SAID EVERY 24:38 IDLE WORD - MATTHEW CHAPTER 12 - EVERY IDLE WORD THAT MEN SPEAK 24:42 YOU'LL GIVE AN ACCOUNT THEREOF IN THE JUDGMENT. 24:44 SO EVERYTHING'S IN THE BOOKS AND SO THE ANGELS TAKE YOU OVER TO 24:48 THE BOOKS AND SAY, 'WE REALLY WANTED TO SAVE DEACON HERB' - 24:52 HOPE NOBODY HERE'S NAMED HERB - BUT - AND YOU SEE THAT, WHILE HE 24:58 LOOKED REAL GOOD ON THE OUTSIDE, THERE WAS SOME SIN THAT HE WOULD 25:03 NOT SURRENDER TO THE LORD AND YOU'LL SEE THOSE THINGS DONE IN 25:06 SECRET, JESUS SAID, WILL BE SHOUTED FROM THE HOUSETOP. 25:09 ONLY THING THAT'S GOING TO BE HIDDEN ARE THOSE THINGS UNDER 25:11 THE BLOOD. THAT'S WHY I WANT TO BE SAVED, 25:13 BECAUSE I DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE MY BOOK. 25:15 (RAUCOUS LAUGHTER) AMEN? >>AMEN. 25:18 I WANT IT EXPUNGED. >>WE WANT IT ALL THIRD SURPRISE IS THERE'S SOME UNDER THE BLOOD. 25:24 PEOPLE THERE AND YOU THINK, 'HOW IN THE WORLD DID THEY GET HERE? 25:27 (RAUCOUS LAUGHTER) I'VE OFTEN THOUGHT, CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT 25:31 IT'S GOING TO BE LIKE WHEN STEPHEN GETS TO HEAVEN - AND 25:36 STEPHEN IS IN HEAVEN, HE'S ENJOYING HEAVEN AND THEY'RE ALL, 25:39 YOU KNOW, GIVING HIM HIS CROWNS FOR HIS BEING THE FIRST 25:42 CHRISTIAN MARTYR AND THEN THEY SEE THIS CHARACTER IS BEING 25:45 CARRIED ON THE SHOULDERS OF THE ANGELS AND IT'S PAUL. 25:48 (LAUGHTER) AND WHEN STEPHEN KNEW HIM, HIS 25:50 NAME WAS SAUL AND HE WAS KILLING CHRISTIANS. 25:53 AND STEPHEN'S GOING TO SAY TO HIS ANGEL, 'YOU GUYS NORMALLY DO 25:56 REALLY GOOD WORK, BUT THERE'S SOMETHING DEFINITELY WRONG WITH 25:58 THIS PICTURE BECAUSE LAST TIME I SAW HIM, HE WAS AN ACCOMPLICE IN 26:02 MY MURDER. WHAT'S HE DOING HERE? 26:05 I MEAN, I BELIEVE IN FORGIVING AND EVERYTHING, BUT' - AND THE 26:08 ANGEL SAYS, 'STEPHEN, WASN'T YOUR LAST PRAYER, 'FATHER, 26:10 FORGIVE THEM'? WELL, THE FATHER FORGAVE HIM. 26:15 AND HE WAS CONVERTED AND HE SUFFERED MUCH FOR THE GOSPEL AND 26:20 HE WAS SO SORRY ABOUT WHAT HE DID TO YOU.' SO, DURING THIS ONE 26:23 THOUSAND YEARS, THERE'S A LOT OF QUESTIONS. 26:25 AND IT'S LIKE A THOUSAND-YEAR SABBATH - FOR SIX THOUSAND 26:29 YEARS, FROM THE TIME OF ADAM, TO THE COMING OF THE LORD - AND WE 26:32 DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHEN THAT IS, BUT IT'S APPROXIMATELY THAT 26:34 PERIOD OF TIME, CHRIST HAS BEEN SOWING THE SEED OF THE GOSPEL - 26:38 THEN WE ARE GOING TO LIVE AND REIGN - IT'S LIKE A 26:39 THOUSAND-YEAR SABBATH. DO YOU KNOW, WHEN THE CHILDREN 26:42 OF ISRAEL WERE CARRIED OFF TO BABYLON BY KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR, 26:46 GOD TOOK THE SURVIVORS TO THIS GOLDEN CITY? 26:49 AND THE BIBLE SAYS THE LAND WAS DESOLATE AND IT KEPT SABBATH 26:54 WHILE IT WAS DESOLATE. THE PLANET IS GOING TO GET 26:57 A THOUSAND-YEAR SABBATH. GOD HAD A PATTERN IN THE BIBLE 26:59 WHERE, FOR SIX YEARS YOU WOULD SOW THE SEED IN THE FIELD, ONE 27:04 YEAR YOU WOULD LET IT LAY FALLOW - YOU'D LET IT REST. 27:07 AND THEN, GOD IS GOING TO CREATE A NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH. 27:11 >>(CRICKETS) (SPRINKLERS) (OMINOUS MUSIC) (DOG BARKING) 27:44 (FIRE ALARM) >>MOMMY, DADDY, HELP ME. 27:59 >>NO, I DON'T THINK SO. YOU DIDN'T DO VERY WELL ON YOUR 28:02 REPORT CARD THIS LAST QUARTER SO, NO. 28:06 >>YOU HAVEN'T BEEN PULLING YOUR WEIGHT AROUND HERE LATELY. 28:08 YOU WANT HELP? WELL, I WANTED HELP WITH THE DISHES LAST NIGHT. 28:12 HELP YOURSELF. >>HUH? 28:15 >>HONEY, DID YOU BRING THE MARSHMALLOWS? (SIRENS) (MUSIC) 28:42 >>WANT TO KNOW GOD'S PLAN FOR OUR WORLD AND 28:44 SOLUTIONS FOR YOUR LIFE'S CHALLENGES? 28:46 BEAUTIFULLY REDESIGNED, AMAZING FACTS 27 BIBLE STUDY GUIDES 28:50 PROVIDE ENCOURAGING BIBLE-BASED ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS ON 28:52 HEALTHIER RELATIONSHIPS. 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