Participants: Pr. John Lomacang
Series Code: ASHF
Program Code: ASHF000080
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00:19 Hello Friends, welcome to another Wednesday night 00:22 Bible Study, here at the 3ABN Worship Center. 00:25 This is A Sharper Focus and thank you so much for tuning in 00:29 and joining us for a thoughtful hour 00:31 in studying the Word of God. 00:33 Can you all welcome our audience with a hearty "Amen. " 00:35 Audience: Amen. 00:37 And we'd like to encourage you to just relax, 00:40 get your Bible, get your pen 00:41 and we'll tell you in just a moment 00:43 how you can get an access... 00:45 actually get access to the lesson 00:47 to follow along with us tonight, 00:48 but we want to thank you for your prayers 00:51 and for all that you do to advance the cause of God 00:54 and for the ministry of Three Angels Broadcasting Network 00:58 but before we have our opening song, 01:00 we always begin with a word of prayer 01:02 so, bow your heads with us. 01:03 "Our heavenly Father, we thank you that tonight 01:07 You are going to come into our presence as You always do 01:11 when we invite You Lord, 01:14 we know that You'll send Your Holy Spirit to be our Teacher 01:17 and to be our Guide 01:19 and so, bless us Lord as our hearts are opened 01:22 and turned toward heaven, 01:23 we pray that our understanding will be fruitful 01:26 and that our hearts would be activated by Your presence 01:30 to follow You and to trust You with our lives 01:33 and this we pray in Jesus' name, amen. " 01:37 Now, let's begin by starting with our theme song tonight. 01:41 What is our theme song? 01:43 "Victory in Jesus. " 01:45 If you know the song, sing along with us 01:47 as we open our hearts before the Lord, 01:50 Victory in Jesus. 01:51 Music... 02:03 I heard an old, old story, 02:06 How the Savior came from glory, 02:10 How He gave His life on Calvary 02:14 To save a wretch like me; 02:17 I heard about His groaning, 02:21 of His precious blood's atoning 02:25 And I repented of my sins; 02:29 And won the victory. 02:32 O victory in Jesus, 02:36 My Savior, forever. 02:40 He sought me and bought me 02:44 with His redeeming blood, 02:48 He loved me ere I knew Him, 02:51 And all my love is due Him, 02:55 He plunged me to victory, 02:59 Beneath the cleaning flood 03:03 I heard about a mansion 03:07 He has built for me in glory. 03:10 And I heard about the streets of gold 03:14 Beyond the crystal sea; 03:18 About the angels singing, 03:22 And the old redemption story, 03:25 And some sweet day I'll sing up there 03:29 The song of victory. 03:31 Key change... 03:33 O victory in Jesus, 03:37 My Savior, forever. 03:40 He sought me and bought me 03:44 With His redeeming blood; 03:48 He loved me ere I knew Him, 03:52 And all my love is due Him, 03:56 He plunged me to victory, 04:00 Beneath the cleansing flood 04:03 He plunged me to victory, 04:07 Beneath the cleansing flood. 04:11 Amen... 04:14 Audience: Amen. 04:16 That song has received recognition all over the world. 04:18 I think I did this in the past 04:21 but someone has sent a request for the lyrics. 04:25 If you go to this website, where you can get the lyrics 04:29 as well as the lesson for tonight 04:31 ASF.3abn. org 04:36 there download lesson number 25 04:38 which is the truth about the Millennium 04:41 and then, scan through and you'll see the song lyrics 04:43 for "Victory in Jesus. " 04:46 Well, tonight we're going to continue in our study 04:48 on the Millennium... 04:49 the Millennium... it comes from two words, Milli... annum 04:54 meaning 1,000... what? 04:56 1,000 years... 04:58 Now, this is a very interesting topic 05:00 in that, there are so many misconceptions about it 05:04 and we've been covering in great detail 05:08 the beginning of the millennium... 05:09 what's going to be happening during the millennium 05:12 but what I'd like to begin with tonight 05:14 is something very important 05:16 because this is a very sobering topic, 05:18 we found out about that last week when we studied 05:21 how knowing about the millennium 05:23 is more than just understanding how it begins... 05:26 what happens during the millennium 05:27 and what happens at the end of the 1,000 years. 05:30 The most important message of the millennium is, 05:32 "We want to be with Jesus when He returns... " 05:35 what do you say? 05:36 We want to go back with Him, 05:38 So... so, we are just studying, 05:40 this is for those of us who have given our lives to Christ, 05:42 this is Millennium 101 05:45 because what's going to happen during that 1,000-year period, 05:48 if your life is in Christ... will not affect you negatively. 05:52 Now, I want to begin by just simply laying out the foundation 05:55 go with me to Matthew chapter 25 verse 41, 05:58 this is not one of the questions. 05:59 Matthew chapter 25 verse 41 06:02 and what I want to make very clear 06:04 is that... at the very outset of the rebellion, 06:10 God's intention was not to destroy humanity, 06:15 God's intention was to destroy the devil and his angels... 06:19 all of those who battled against Him in the kingdom and lost. 06:24 They were evicted from heaven and the Lord says in His Word, 06:28 you know... what's amazing about this 06:30 that when Jesus comes there are going to be two groups 06:34 how many groups did I say? 06:35 Two groups... one on the right 06:38 and one on the left... 06:40 the sheep will be on the right 06:41 and what's going to be on the left? 06:43 The goats... 06:45 and there's a phrase that Jesus uses here 06:47 in Matthew chapter 25 and verse 41, 06:51 well, let me just go ahead and give you the context, 06:53 look at verse 31 first, 06:55 just to show you the context of Matthew chapter 25, 06:59 verse 31, and the Bible says, 07:02 "When the son of man comes in His glory, 07:06 and all the holy angels with Him, 07:09 then He will sit on the throne of His... " what? 07:13 "of His glory... " 07:14 All nations will be gathered before Him, 07:18 and He will separate them one from another, 07:21 as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. " 07:26 Now there are going to be two declarations, 07:29 now we talked about these declarations last week... 07:31 we said, "Just and Unjust... 07:35 righteous and filthy... " 07:37 so there's only Just and Unjust... 07:40 Holy... Unholy... 07:42 Righteous... Unrighteous... 07:43 Clean... Filthy... 07:45 there are only two categories. 07:46 All those who were holy and just and righteous 07:49 will be among the goat or the sheep? 07:51 Among the goat or the sheep? 07:53 Audience: Sheep. 07:54 All the righteous will be the sheep 07:58 and so the Lord further emphasizes 08:02 what these two categories are. 08:03 Look at verse 34... just to get the first verse, 08:06 "Then the king will say to those on His... " say with me, 08:11 "right hand, 'Come you blessed of My Father, 08:14 inherit the kingdom prepared for you 08:17 from the foundation of the world... " 08:20 so, those who are on the right hand will inherit what? 08:22 They will inherit the kingdom. 08:25 They're going back to the kingdom with Jesus 08:27 as He says in John chapter 14 verses 1 to 3, 08:30 "I will come again to receive you unto myself 08:32 that where I am... " that's the Kingdom... 08:35 "there you may be also. " 08:36 That's the kingdom... 08:38 one day we are going to be all in the Kingdom. 08:40 Audience: Amen. 08:42 Pause... 08:44 One day, we are all going to be in the kingdom. 08:45 Audience: Amen. 08:47 Not in New York... 08:48 we're going to all be in the Kingdom. 08:50 That's what we've been waiting for. 08:51 That's not a... "Okay... " 08:53 it's a "Hallelujah. " 08:55 But just reserve that for later, that's the first group. 08:59 He's going to say, "Come and inherit the Kingdom" 09:02 and in 1st Corinthians chapter 15, 09:05 Paul says, "He will deliver the Kingdom to the Father... " 09:09 that means, He's not just delivering the New Jerusalem 09:12 but specifically, 09:14 He's delivering all the saints of all the ages, 09:16 "Come, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you 09:18 from the foundation of the world. " 09:20 Pause... 09:22 Now, I'm going to just ask you a question 09:23 and I want you to think about it, 09:25 I'll give you the answer later on... 09:26 if the Kingdom was prepared for them 09:28 from the foundation of the world, 09:29 what is he getting ready? 09:31 Think about that, okay. 09:33 Let's look at the second group, 09:35 He says, "I go to prepare a place for you. " 09:38 Let's look at verse 41 now, 09:40 the second group... 09:41 all right... 09:43 "Then He will also say to those on the... " what hand? 09:47 "left hand... depart from me ye cursed 09:52 into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and... " 09:56 what? "and his angels. " 09:59 Now, verse 46, the Bible says, 10:02 "These will go away into everlasting... " what? 10:07 "punishment... 10:08 but the righteous into eternal... " what? 10:11 "life... " 10:12 now, everlasting punishment not everlasting punishing. 10:16 The results are eternal for both groups, 10:18 eternal life... we're not being saved eternally, 10:22 we are saved eternally. 10:24 We're not being punished eternally, 10:27 but the punishment lasts... 10:29 the results of the punishment lasts eternally... 10:33 not the process. 10:35 The other day, I burned a pile of leaves and brushes, 10:39 I confessed last week that I hadn't done so 10:42 since the leaves started falling last year, 10:45 but this week... Sunday... it was a beautiful day 10:48 and I had cut down some bushes in front of the lake there 10:52 and all that in front of the pond... 10:53 and put them all together and since there was no wind 10:56 and I started my first southern Illinois fire... 10:59 actually Danny Shelton helped me with it, 11:01 and I had to stay there with a hose 11:03 to make sure it didn't go anywhere else, 11:04 because we wanted to make sure that the fire was contained. 11:07 When the Lord... when the Lord, 11:09 when the Lord allows His fire to be rained, 11:13 it's going to be contained, 11:15 we're going to see... it's going to be contained, 11:16 it's not going to affect the righteous, 11:18 and the fire that we're talking about tonight... 11:21 we'll get a clear understanding of that, 11:22 the fire that comes down... 11:24 comes down at the end of the 1,000 years, 11:27 while the saints are here... 11:30 we'll find out about that more tonight, 11:31 but, let's go ahead and look at one more text, 11:35 go with me to 2nd Peter chapter 3, 11:38 2nd Peter chapter 3, all right, 11:42 and we are going to look at verse 9 and 10. 11:46 Pause... 11:49 Well, actually verse 8 11:50 because very few places in the Bible do you hear this phrase, 11:54 1,000 years... 11:55 but these are two of the places in the Bible that you find it, 11:58 in Revelation chapter 20 11:59 and in 2nd Peter chapter 3 verse 9... 12:03 verse 8 down to verse 10. 12:05 It's the only other place you find 1,000 years as a phrase. 12:08 Look at what it says in verse 8, 12:10 "But Beloved, do not forget this one thing, 12:14 that with the Lord one day is as a... " what? 12:17 "thousand years 12:19 and a thousand years is as one day. " 12:21 Now, the reason I brought this up 12:23 is because... do you think that Jesus needs time? 12:25 No He doesn't... He's eternal. 12:28 so, the 1,000 years is not for God's sake 12:31 but the 1,000 years is for the sake of the saints... 12:34 He said He was going to take them to the kingdom, 12:36 they're going to spend a 1,000 years in heaven 12:39 before they return back to the earth. 12:42 So, Jesus is coming back the first time for His saints 12:47 and the next time He's coming back... with His saints. 12:50 If you get that mixed up, 12:52 you'll think that there's going to be a rapture of souls 12:54 coming back from heaven. 12:55 Don't ever get that mixed up. 12:57 He's coming the first time... say it with me... 12:59 "for His saints... " 13:01 the next time... with His saints. 13:03 The beginning of the 1,000 years... for the saints... 13:06 at the end of the 1,000 years, with the saints. 13:10 But look at the rest of the verse... verse 9 and verse 10, 13:12 most important... 13:14 so that you can understand 13:15 God is not just rubbing His hands 13:17 waiting to destroy folk. 13:18 "The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, 13:21 as some count slackness, but is... " together... 13:24 "longsuffering toward us, 13:27 not willing that any should perish 13:30 but that all should come to repentance. 13:34 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, 13:37 in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise... " 13:40 and it will be sudden but it won't be silent... 13:43 "and the elements will melt with fervent heat; 13:46 both the earth and the works that are therein... " 13:48 shall be what? "Burned up. " 13:50 Loud... affecting the earth... and a great fire... 13:54 but the fire that will destroy and annihilate the wicked 13:58 happens at the end of the 1,000 years. 14:00 So, let's begin tonight with Question number 14... 14:04 with Question Number 14... 14:06 I'll just go ahead and speed up here, 14:08 for my own sake... I kind of outlined here... 14:11 and I've covered quite a few of these 14:13 but I'm just going to scoot forward to Question number 14 14:15 and here it is, okay, 14:17 "What are the saints assigned to do during the Millennium?" 14:26 Let's go to Revelation chapter 20 and verse 4, 14:29 Revelation chapter 20 and verse 4, 14:35 see, right now, we don't know who's going to make it 14:40 and who's not going to make it. 14:41 That's why it always amazes me that when people say 14:44 at a funeral, "They're in heaven now... " 14:47 I always... I want to sometimes stand up and say, 14:50 "Only Jesus decides that... " 14:53 see, we don't decide based on what we see on the outside, 14:56 we cannot decide who's going to be there 14:58 and who's not going to be there, 14:59 because God looks at the heart, man looks at the... what? 15:04 outward appearance. 15:06 So, God is the only One that makes that decision. 15:11 Revelation 20 and verse 4, here's what the Bible says, 15:14 "I saw thrones, and they sat on them, 15:18 and judgment was committed to them. 15:20 Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded 15:24 for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, 15:27 who had not worshiped the beast or his image, 15:30 and had not received his mark on their foreheads 15:33 or on their hands. 15:35 And they lived and reigned with Christ... " how long? 15:38 "a thousand years. " 15:39 So, the only other place you find a 1,000 years 15:41 is in 2nd Peter chapter 3 and verse 8. 15:43 God does not need the time... the time is for the saints. 15:47 they will be living and reigning with Christ a thousand years 15:50 and I tell you, we've only been alive 15:51 some of us... 30 years... 40 years... 15:53 20 years... 15 years... 15:54 wouldn't you... wouldn't you love being in heaven 15:56 for a thousand years? 15:58 Audience: Amen. 15:59 What do you do for a 1,000 years? 16:00 Oh man! let's not start putting the list together, 16:04 because our list is going to fall far short of what we see 16:06 with our own eyes. 16:08 Because eyes have not seen... 16:10 see, usually, when you're planning to go somewhere, 16:13 you get on the internet... if it's vacation... 16:15 you kind of find out what all the amenities are, 16:18 what all the amusements are, 16:20 what you can do when you get there, 16:22 and you kind of plan... 16:23 "Okay, on Monday, we're going to go fishing... 16:25 Tuesday, we're going to go on the rides... 16:26 Wednesday, we're going to go on a long bike ride 16:30 or walk on the... or on the pond... " 16:32 but... but in this case, we haven't been there 16:35 so, whatever you plan on doing when you get there, 16:39 believe me, your list is going to change drastically. 16:42 I would suggest that the moment you get in, you'll say, 16:45 "Forget the list... " 16:48 because you will... 16:51 you will literally be enraptured in a state of... 16:53 and I think one of the reasons 16:55 why we're going to need immortality... 16:56 I think one of the reasons why we need to be immortal 16:59 before we can go there 17:01 is because, some people will drop dead 17:03 at the sight of the glories of heaven, 17:05 can you hear that? 17:06 Because people get overwhelmed. 17:08 People faint... people get overwhelmed 17:11 at things that they have not experienced before, 17:14 God is going to have to give us eternal life 17:17 because we will pass out or pass away 17:20 at the glory and the amazement 17:22 of what God reveals to those that love Him. 17:24 You got to think about that sometimes. 17:27 What I like about Revelation is, it often says, 17:29 "I, John, saw... " it's personal. 17:33 You get that on Tuesday. 17:34 Audience: Laughter. 17:36 Okay the answer to Number 14.8 is, 17:39 "What are the saints assigned to do during the judgment?" 17:41 What do we put down? 17:43 Participate in the judgment. 17:45 They'll participate in the judgment. 17:46 Question number 4, Revelation 20 and verse 4, 17:51 now, let's look at another one, 17:53 1st Corinthians chapter 6 and verse 2, 17:55 "They will participate in the judgment. " 17:56 In other words, 17:58 they'll see that the decisions that the Lord has made 18:01 have been just and fair. 18:02 They'll see that whoever is there, 18:05 deserves to be there, 18:08 but actually, none of us really deserve to be there... 18:12 we're all there by the... by the righteousness of Christ, 18:15 am I right? 18:17 we all make it based on His goodness 18:18 not on our goodness. 18:20 What else will the saints do? 18:21 1st Corinthians 6 and verse 2, 18:23 the Bible reads, 18:25 "Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? 18:27 And if the world will be judged by you, 18:31 are you not unworthy to judge the smallest matters?" 18:35 So, will the saints judge the world? 18:38 Yeah, the saints are going to be participating 18:41 in the great white-throne judgment, 18:43 you see, the great white-throne judgment 18:45 takes place at the end of the 1,000 years... 18:47 we'll see that in just a moment... 18:48 and by the way, that is the only time in history... 18:52 think about that... that is the only time in history 18:55 when everyone who has ever been alive 18:58 will be in one group or the other. 19:01 From Adam, all the way to the whoever that last person is, 19:06 everybody who has ever been alive, 19:09 will be alive at the end of the 1,000 years. 19:12 Wow! so, put that again, the judgment, 19:15 what are the saints assigned to do? 19:19 Involved... judging the world exactly... 19:22 and one more text, 19:23 and one more text... 19:25 1st Corinthians 6 verse 2, 19:28 and one more text, 19:29 Revelation chapter 20 verse 12 to verse 13, 19:34 all right, 19:36 all right, let me just go there, Revelation chapter 20 19:41 verse 12 and verse 13, here it is, 19:45 "I saw the dead, small and... " 19:49 let's read that together, "I saw the dead... " what? 19:51 "small and great, standing before God, 19:55 and books were opened. 19:58 And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. 20:02 And the dead were... " what? 20:04 "judged according to their works, 20:07 by the things which were... " what? 20:09 written in the books. 20:11 The sea gave up the dead who were in them... " 20:15 keep reading... 20:16 "and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. 20:20 And they were judged, each one according to his works. " 20:25 Now, get that, 20:26 there was not a general same declaration about... 20:30 each one was judged according to his works. 20:35 So, depending on the crime, thus, the punishment. 20:39 This is something that a lot of people don't get, 20:42 that's why the whole idea of eternally burning hell 20:45 is completely out of context with the character of God. 20:48 Eternally burning hell means 20:50 everybody gets the same judgment. 20:52 Pause... 20:54 anywhere from the... 20:55 I don't want to assign anybody to hell 20:57 so I won't make the statement but... 20:59 I heard a story of a gentleman who was in court... 21:01 yesterday or today, I think it was... 21:03 and he was there for a crime he had committed... 21:06 some murders he'd participated in 21:08 and he took a pencil and lunged toward the witness 21:11 to try to stab the witness, 21:13 and they yelled, "Stop" 21:14 and he was continuing trying to get to the witness... 21:17 the defendant... 21:18 and they unleashed three bullets and killed him there in court, 21:21 right in his... right at his trial... 21:24 and the News Reporter said, 21:26 "His judgment has just started... " 21:30 and I'm thinking, "He doesn't even have a clue 21:32 about what he just said... " 21:34 because the Bible says, 21:36 "It is the point that when a man... 21:37 it is a point that if the man wants to die 21:38 and after that the... " what? 21:40 Audience: The judgment. 21:41 That means, your case is closed, 21:43 all the evidence has been compiled. 21:45 When you close your eyes in death, 21:47 all the evidence has been compiled, 21:50 what is not covered by the blood of the lamb 21:52 will come up against you in the judgment. 21:54 That's why when you go to bed at night... 21:56 I'm not saying that if you forget... 21:59 God is going to say, "Oh boy! I wish you had prayed, 22:02 if you had prayed last night, 22:04 you wouldn't be in the judgment on the wrong side. 22:06 see, because God looks at the trend of your life, 22:08 not by one deed or by one misdeed, 22:11 so, don't think that you're saved one day and lost the other 22:14 and saved one... and lost the other... 22:15 but at the same time, 22:17 don't live like you're lost today and saved tomorrow 22:20 and you get... some people get saved on sunset on Friday, 22:23 and go back to "lost" category on sunset on Saturday 22:26 because they live for the weekend. 22:29 We've got to live our lives for Christ how often? 22:32 every day... Paul says, "I die daily. " 22:35 Live... live for the eternal aspects, 22:39 live for Christ, 22:40 not once in a while but every day. 22:43 Very important... 22:45 but, let's look at the last... I think we just did that. 22:48 so, so, Revelation 20 verse 12 and 13 points out 22:52 each one will be judged according to his works. 22:57 Each one judged according to his works. 23:00 Not a general judgment. 23:02 It's not just going to be a, "Okay, everybody in the furnace" 23:05 as morbid as that sounds, 23:07 it just kind of... it's the idea that many people push on Christ 23:12 that make Him look like this guy that just can't wait 23:15 to burn people up. 23:16 That's why we saw this movie 23:22 "Edward Fudge and... and... " 23:28 "Hell and Mr. Fudge" 23:32 get that video... "Hell and Mr. Fudge" 23:35 a wonderful documentary on how a Christian young man 23:39 discovered the truth about what the Bible teaches about hell 23:43 he believed differently and now he's traveling the world 23:46 Edward William Fudge... 23:48 that book called, "The Fire that Consumes. " 23:51 Powerful story... how it vindicates the character of God. 23:55 You see, what a lot of people don't realize 23:56 is, everything the Bible teaches is about the character of God. 23:59 Right? 24:01 Everything we do is about our character, isn't it? 24:04 Sometimes you do something and somebody says, 24:06 "Either that's out of your character 24:08 or you've been hiding all this time. " 24:09 Right... 24:11 we should live in harmony with the character of God. 24:14 Look at question number 15, question number 15... 24:18 here it is... 24:20 "What event describes or describes 24:24 the end of the Millennium?" 24:26 The end of the Millennium... 24:28 Start by going to Revelation chapter 20... 24:34 Revelation chapter 20 verse 7 and verse 8. 24:38 There's one passage I didn't put in here 24:43 but I included it in the new page 24:46 that was downloaded from the internet 24:48 and I.. I felt we needed that 24:51 so that people could adequately outline the beginning... 24:54 during... 24:55 and at the end of the Millennium... what happens then, 24:58 Revelation chapter 20 beginning with verse 7 and 8, 25:00 "What events describe the end of the Millennium?" 25:02 Here is the first verse, 25:03 "Now when the thousand years have expired... " or finished... 25:09 "Satan will be released from his prison 25:13 and will go out to deceive the nations 25:16 which are in the four corners of the earth, 25:19 Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, 25:25 whose number is as the sand of the sea. " 25:30 And it goes on... 25:32 well, I'm going to go to the next verse in just a moment, 25:35 we'll hold on to that one, 25:36 I'm going to go to verse 9 and 10 in just a moment 25:38 but let's look at verse 7 and 8, 25:40 so, at the end of the 1,000 years, 25:42 what's the event that is going to begin 25:46 the end of the thousand years? 25:48 Pause... 25:49 say it again... 25:50 Satan is released from his prison. 25:54 Now, we've got to get this really carefully 25:56 because you have to understand what actually happens 25:59 to release Him from his prison. 26:03 We talked about this earlier but I think it fits right here, 26:06 look at Revelation chapter 20, 26:07 since you're already there, Revelation chapter 20 26:12 and I want you to look at verse 5, 26:15 Revelation chapter 20 and verse 5. 26:19 We talked about that if we had continued, 26:21 we could see the context of it 26:23 but if you missed the last lesson, 26:24 this is the context of it 26:26 because those who were dead in Christ 26:28 rose when Jesus came, 26:29 right, remember that? 26:30 But there was another group, 26:32 look at verse 5, 26:33 "But the rest of the dead did not live again 26:37 until the thousand years were finished. " 26:40 So the one talked about in verse 4... the Bible says, 26:43 "This is the first resurrection" 26:45 so the ones that are in heaven with Christ... 26:47 that's the first resurrection, 26:48 but the rest of the dead do not live again 26:50 until the 1,000 years are finished. 26:52 Now, I want to make this very, very clear, 26:53 because we've got to expunge the idea 26:56 that there are people alive on the earth. 26:59 Did you get that? 27:01 If the living saints are in heaven 27:04 which they ascended when Jesus came, 27:07 the Bible says in 1st Thessalonians chapter 4 27:09 verses 13 to 18, 27:11 "The dead in Christ rise first 27:13 then we which are alive and remain 27:15 shall be caught up... " how? 27:16 "Together with them in the clouds... " to do what? 27:19 "To meet the Lord in the air 27:21 and thus we shall always be with the Lord. " 27:24 Get that now, if the righteous are caught up 27:27 which they are... 27:28 to meet the Lord and to go home with Him, 27:30 there's another group that didn't even do anything yet 27:35 and that's why this verse says, 27:36 "What about the other group?" 27:38 Oh, they don't live again until the 1,000 years are finished, 27:43 they don't live again 27:46 so they're not alive 27:49 we got to get this... because somehow... 27:51 somebody may be watching the program that says, 27:54 "What about the Millennial reign on earth?" 27:57 There is no Millennial reign on earth 27:59 that's Dispensationalism, 28:01 let's just shorten that, that's "Sationalism. " 28:04 That's Sensationalism... 28:06 that's not true... 28:07 that was a part of the whole "Rapture" idea... 28:10 that carried on through from the... 28:12 from the people getting snatched away 28:14 to the Jews converting the world... 28:16 to then the other opportunity to get saved 28:20 and the earthly Millennial reign... 28:22 and there are many sincere Christians today 28:24 that for some reason believe 28:26 they got to get the whole world fixed up 28:28 we got to keep our alliance and our allegiance 28:30 with the Jews in the Middle East... 28:32 we got to make sure that we get that ready 28:35 and reinstitute the sacrificial system... 28:36 it's amazing what goes on now-a-days 28:38 and what's actually taught. 28:39 We got the world ready for Jesus to come back 28:41 and you have now-a-days, 28:43 the New-Agers are looking for their god... 28:45 Jews are looking for the Messiah... 28:47 let's keep going down the list, 28:49 some group is looking for somebody to show up... 28:53 Evangelicals are looking for Jesus to come 28:55 and walk the earth again, 28:56 it's not going to happen, 28:58 He's going to wait for us in the air... 29:00 can somebody say "Amen" to that? 29:02 Audience: Amen. 29:03 He's not coming to hang out with us... 29:05 we're going to live with Him. 29:06 He went to get things ready for us. 29:09 The kingdom was ready... I was just kind of giving you... 29:14 I was giving you the... the question... 29:17 I gave you the question earlier 29:18 and why was this the kingdom prepared 29:21 from the foundation of the world? 29:23 Because from the very beginning... 29:26 wrap your head around this really briefly, 29:28 I want to give you a little new nugget tonight, 29:29 before Adam and Eve fell into sin, 29:32 the reason why God allowed the test to come to Adam and Eve... 29:36 is because what Paul the Apostle says in Roman 6 verse 23, 29:40 wasn't... wasn't true when Paul said it, 29:43 but it was always true, "The wages of sin is... " what? 29:47 "death... 29:48 but the gift of God is... " what? "eternal life... " 29:50 if they were to pass that test, 29:54 eternal life would have been theirs from the beginning 29:57 and then, they would have passed on that 30:01 to all their progenitors 30:03 to all of their... to all their posterity... 30:06 to all the people that would come from them. 30:09 They'll receive... generation to generation... 30:11 they would receive the very characters 30:14 that Adam and Eve would have maintained 30:17 and the kingdom which was heaven... 30:20 heaven was already there, 30:21 the only difference was, 30:23 Satan and his angels got kicked out... 30:24 the kingdom was already there, 30:26 so, what's the difference now? 30:28 what's the... what is He preparing? 30:30 What's He preparing? 30:32 You want to see it? 30:34 You want to see it? Okay, go with me to Revelation.. 30:36 since you guys are sitting there with your eyes... 30:39 your eyes are falling all over the place, 30:40 okay, ah... oooh... I tell you... 30:44 okay, let's go to... huh... 30:49 there's so many... 30:51 okay, "Blessed are the dead... " here it is... 30:53 go to Revelation chapter 16... 30:56 pause... 31:01 actually Revelation chapter 19, this is the one... 31:04 Revelation chapter 19... 31:06 there are seven blessings in Revelation 31:08 that most people don't see, 31:10 but there's a blessing that God... there's a blessing... 31:13 Revelation chapter 19, look at verse 7... 31:17 we're going to go to verse 9, 31:18 all right, "Let us be glad and rejoice 31:23 and give Him glory, for the... 31:27 for the... " say the word, "for the... 31:31 marriage of the Lamb has come, 31:33 and His wife has made herself ready. " 31:36 Okay, why wait for the... if the kingdom is already there, 31:41 what's getting ready? 31:42 What's... what's being prepared? 31:44 Come on, say it again, "The Wedding... " 31:48 The Wedding... 31:50 The Wedding, 31:51 this bride that fell away... 31:53 there's going to be an eternal wedding. 31:56 He's gonna... 31:57 He's going to declare before the world, 32:00 "This is my bride... here she is... 32:03 the redeemed host of all the ages... 32:05 this is my bride... 32:07 this is my bride. 32:09 Now, we know the New Jerusalem is declared to be the bride 32:13 as Revelation says clearly 32:14 but what good is the city without people living in it? 32:17 So, when the kingdom is delivered to the Lord, 32:20 let's look further on... 32:22 look what it says in verse 8: 32:23 And to her was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, 32:27 clean and bright, 32:29 for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints. 32:33 Then he said to me, "Write... " 32:35 Here's been what's getting ready... 32:37 "Blessed are those who are called to the... " what? 32:40 "marriage supper of the Lamb!" 32:43 And he said to me, 32:44 'These are the true sayings of God. '" 32:48 We are all invited to not only the wedding 32:51 but the marriage supper. 32:52 Not too long ago, Mike and Celestine... 32:56 you know... ah... declared their love of... 33:00 after 15 years they re-dedicated their hearts to each other 33:03 in marriage and we had some great food... 33:06 Filipino food to be exact 33:08 it was good... but there was a ceremony 33:11 and there was a supper... 33:12 so, the Lord is preparing a great banquet feast 33:15 for all of the saints of all the ages, amen to that. 33:18 Audience: Amen. 33:19 And what a feast it's going to be... 33:20 let's not focus on the food... 33:22 because we don't even know what's it's going to be... 33:24 I doubt we've eaten anything like what's going to be there 33:29 but this is the... this is the unification... 33:34 this is what Jesus had longed for, 33:37 He longed to bring His people home. 33:40 He longed... He built the city 33:43 but there's no one... the redeemed are not in there yet 33:48 and that day when He brings His glorious church back, 33:52 He's coming back for a church without spot or without wrinkle 33:57 or without any such thing kind of... 33:59 that's the picture of a bride. 34:01 Can you imagine a bride on the wedding day 34:03 with spots and wrinkles all over her dress? 34:05 "Are you getting married today? 34:06 Did you eat on the way here?" 34:08 Audience: Laughter. 34:10 No, without spot... no sin or wrinkle... 34:12 no unrighteousness nor any such thing. 34:15 What is He getting ready? 34:17 The beautiful marriage supper of the Lamb. 34:20 That's why... what do you need to get ready for that? 34:22 You have to have on the righteousness of Christ. 34:25 You have to have on that garment, 34:26 "Blessed is he that keepeth his garment, 34:28 lest he walk naked and they see his shame. " 34:31 Revelation chapter 16 verse 15, 34:33 "Behold, I come as a thief. 34:35 Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments, 34:37 lest he walks naked and they see his shame. " 34:40 You won't get into the marriage feast 34:42 without the righteousness of Jesus, amen. 34:44 Audience: Amen. 34:45 So, the answer to question number 15 verses 7 and 8... 34:48 "What event describes the end of the Millennium?" 34:51 Satan is loosed from his prison 34:55 and how was he loosed? 34:57 You see the earth... we discovered earlier, 35:00 the earth was empty... 35:01 the saints left... 35:02 all those who were here were destroyed 35:04 by the brightness of the coming of Christ 35:06 and the cities were broken down, 35:08 Jeremiah chapter 4 verse 23 to 26, 35:11 the cities were broken down... there was no one here... 35:13 the birds had fled... there was no man. 35:15 Yet, the Lord said in Jeremiah chapter 20... 35:17 chapter 4 verse 26, 35:19 "Yet will I not make a full end" 35:21 you know why? 35:23 Because the full end is going to come 35:24 at the end of the 1,000 years, 35:26 that's just the condition it's going to be in for a 1,000 years 35:29 and Satan and his angels will be bound here for a 1,000 years 35:32 with no one to tempt. 35:34 That's the binding... 35:37 "bound by a chain of circumstances. " 35:42 Amen for that... 35:44 now, look at verse 9 and 10, 35:45 verses 9 and 10... 35:47 okay, here it is... 35:49 here it is on the screen, and the Bible says, 35:52 "They went up on the breadth of the earth 35:56 and surrounded the camp of the saints 36:00 and the beloved city. 36:02 And fire came down from God out of heaven 36:05 and did... " what? 36:07 "and devoured them. 36:08 The devil, who deceived them, 36:10 was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone 36:13 where the beast and the false prophet are. 36:17 And they will be tormented day and night for... " how long? 36:20 "forever and forever. " 36:23 Now, we're going to explain that in just a moment here 36:26 so, don't get nervous 36:28 because we just said a moment ago 36:30 that the gift of God is eternal life. 36:32 The gift of God is eternal life to who? 36:35 to the wicked or the righteous? 36:36 To the righteous... 36:38 so, you cannot burn forever, if you cannot live forever. 36:42 You've got to have eternal life to burn eternally 36:47 and only God is the One 36:51 who's going to be granting eternal life 36:53 and by-the-way, just in case there's any mix up 36:56 about who gets eternal life, 36:57 go to 1st Corinthians chapter 15, 36:59 very quickly, 1st Corinthians chapter 15, 37:02 Paul already says in Timothy 37:05 that the only one that possesses immortality is... is Jesus, 37:12 okay, and I'll give you that in a moment 37:15 but... first... what did I say? 37:18 1st Corinthians chapter 15... I did say that... 37:22 and I'm almost there... hold on... 37:24 for those of you who are fast, here I am... 37:28 1st Corinthians chapter 15 and we're going to look together 37:31 at verse 51, notice this, 37:33 notice this... 37:35 all right... 37:37 something's going to happen at the beginning of the 1,000 years 37:40 that only happens to the righteous, 37:43 now, keep this in mind... this only happens to the righteous. 37:47 All right. 37:48 "Behold, I tell you a mystery... " 37:49 or show you a mystery, 37:51 "We shall not all sleep... " that is... die... 37:53 "but we shall all be changed... " 37:55 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, 37:58 at the last... " what? "trumpet. 38:00 For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised... " 38:04 how? "incorruptible, 38:06 and we shall be changed. " 38:09 Now, how are we going to be changed? 38:11 This only happens to the righteous. 38:13 "For this corruptible must put on... " what? 38:16 "incorruption, 38:18 and this mortal must put on... " what? 38:22 "immortality. " 38:23 So, just pause for a moment, let me ask you the question, 38:26 do we have immortality now? 38:29 Audience: No. 38:31 When do we put it on? 38:32 Give me the Scripture... give me the words... 38:36 when do we put it on? 38:38 At the last trumpet. 38:39 When that last trumpet sounds, we put on immortality 38:44 which means, we don't have it now, 38:46 which means the wicked don't have it 38:48 and the wicked will never get it 38:50 so the wicked can't live... they don't have immortality 38:53 which is eternal life 38:55 that's why John 3:16... the text that we all know so well 38:58 "that whosoever believeth in Him, 39:02 should not perish but have everlasting life. " 39:08 One perishes... the other one has everlasting life, 39:13 but let's finish, 39:14 verse 54, 39:16 "So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, 39:19 and this mortal has put on immortality, 39:22 then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: 39:26 'Death is swallowed up in victory. '" 39:29 Very quickly now, 1st Timothy chapter 6... 39:31 just so we can make this very clear 39:33 because there are some people that still believe... 39:35 I don't know what it is... 39:37 I think the single word I could use is "Deception. " 39:39 See, some people have been told the untruth for so long... 39:44 when I was being raised, my mother used to say, 39:46 "Never use the word 'lie'" 39:48 and I... so when... it's a... 39:50 "Lie" is a strong word... 39:51 "Untruth" sounds a little kinder... 39:53 some people have been lied to for so long... 39:58 that... that when you tell them the truth, 40:02 it sounds hard to receive. 40:04 I don't know why some Christian pastors 40:07 want people to burn forever and ever 40:10 and when you try to say, "No, they won't... " 40:12 "Yes, they will... " 40:14 "No they won't... " 40:15 "Yes, they will... " 40:16 and I always ask this question, "Where are they going to burn? 40:19 show me where... " 40:21 Ain't going to be in Kansas, 40:23 not going to be in New York, 40:25 it's not going to be down in Trinidad in the big Pitch Lake 40:29 it's not going to be in the Yellowstone Park 40:31 that finally erupts... 40:33 because the earth is going to be the ball of fire 40:36 and when the fire goes out, 40:38 the Lord will re-create a new heaven and a new earth. 40:42 But look at 1st Timothy 6 and verse 16, 40:45 just so we can be very clear... verse 14 starts with this... 40:49 it says... verse 14... 40:52 "that you keep this commandment without spot, 40:55 blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ's appearing, 40:59 which He will manifest in His own time, 41:03 He who is the blessed and only Potentate... " 41:07 that is Sovereign... 41:09 "the King of kings and Lord of lords, 41:13 who alone has immortality, 41:16 dwelling in unapproachable light, 41:20 whom no man has seen or can see, 41:25 to Him be honor and everlasting power. " 41:27 Just last week a movie was released... 41:29 "Heaven is for Real" 41:31 is heaven for real? 41:33 Audience: Yes. 41:35 But that little kid didn't go to heaven. 41:36 No man has seen or can see... 41:43 he dwells in a light... 41:45 and as the King James Version says, 41:46 "which no man can approach unto... " 41:48 is that... is that how it says it? 41:50 "which no man can approach unto... " 41:52 is that how the King James Version says it? 41:54 "Which no man can approach unto... 41:57 who no man has seen nor can see. " 42:00 Now, the reason why you can't approach it 42:01 is because until you're immortal, 42:03 you can't go into the presence of God. 42:05 Until you are immortal 42:07 and you don't become immortal at a car accident, 42:10 I'm... I'm not going to laugh... 42:12 you don't become immortal with a head wound... 42:14 you don't become immortal on an operating table... 42:17 you become immortal at the Second Coming 42:20 when Jesus transfers from Himself to His saints 42:26 who now are perfected in His character... 42:28 He puts immortality on His saints. 42:32 "Amen" someone... 42:34 Audience: Amen. 42:35 The devil has been really busy lately, 42:37 ABC has a new Series called, "The Resurrection" 42:40 people coming back from life... 42:42 kids have been dead 32 years... 42:44 a man died in an accident... plane crash... somebody drowned, 42:47 and all of a sudden, they're ringing doorbells 42:48 and coming back home... 42:50 and the people are scared out of their wits... 42:52 I... I haven't watched it... 42:53 I've seen the commercial and that's it 42:56 and then they all get together... 42:59 "Were we dead?" 43:01 If you were dead, you're still dead... 43:03 let me make this very clear, 43:04 if anybody rings your doorbell that you went to their funeral, 43:08 you'd better call on the name of Jesus 43:09 because that's an unclean spirit. 43:11 Audience: Amen. 43:13 That's the devil... 43:14 and he will show great signs and wonders 43:18 as Paul says, "With all deceivableness 43:22 of unrighteousness... " 43:24 but where is he going to work? 43:26 "Among them that perish... " 43:27 Why? 43:29 "Because they received not the love of the truth 43:31 that they might be saved. " 43:33 You see, when you don't accept the truth 43:34 that the dead are dead, 43:35 the devil can come to your house, 43:37 and you would think it's mamma or papa 43:38 or your little son that got killed in the car accident. 43:41 This is... I'm not going to laugh... 43:42 this is a very somber thought, 43:44 the devil is busy today and he wants people to think 43:47 that there's some alternate route to heaven 43:49 so, when Liberace died... he was in heaven... 43:51 that was a statement... 43:52 Sammy Davis, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin... the Rat Pak, 43:58 Michael Jackson's up there now... 43:59 that's what they say... 44:00 but that's not according to the Bible, 44:02 "amen" somebody, 44:03 Audience: Amen. 44:04 Get that clear, God has been so maligned 44:06 that the resurrection... 44:07 the teaching of the resurrection has been deleted 44:10 from the Bible. 44:11 So the devil decided... 44:13 since he got rid of what the resurrection actually teaches, 44:16 he's now introduced the resurrection in a lie. 44:19 You see what he's doing? 44:21 He's introduced the resurrection in ABC... 44:24 and because Christians don't read their Bibles anymore, 44:26 the moment somebody in Hollywood 44:28 comes out with a movie, that's their new doctrine. 44:30 "Noah" 44:33 "The Rapture" when it came out in the '90s... 44:36 "Left Behind" 44:38 what else? 44:39 The whole list goes on and on. 44:42 Let your Bible be the place where you find the truth 44:45 of God's word, "amen" somebody. 44:46 Audience: Amen. 44:47 Let's go to the next statement... 44:50 let's go to the next one, 44:52 Question number 16, 45:00 here it is... 45:01 "How do we know that Satan will not be tormented 45:06 without end?" 45:07 It's very important... very important... 45:09 "How do we know that Satan will not be tormented 45:12 without end?" 45:13 In other words, when the Bible says, 45:15 "Forever and ever and ever and ever... " 45:16 how do we know it's not going to be forever and ever and ever? 45:18 Let's start with these texts, Revelation chapter 20 45:22 verse 14 and verse 15, here it is, 45:24 Revelation chapter 20 verse 14 and verse 15. 45:28 Here's how the Bible communicates this truth. 45:32 "Then Death and Hades were cast into the... " what? 45:37 "lake of fire. This is the second death. " 45:41 This is the second... what? 45:43 death... 45:44 "And anyone not found written in the book of Life 45:49 was cast into the... " what? 45:51 "lake of fire. " 45:53 So now, let's pause a second, 45:55 this is called the "second death. " 45:59 Now, what's the first death? 46:01 First death was the funeral. 46:03 Second death is the Lake of Fire. 46:06 Why would it be called "death" 46:08 pause... 46:12 if it doesn't mean the end of life? 46:14 But now, let me... 46:17 let me go ahead and dive into the mind of the common teaching, 46:21 the devil has taught that the first death really wasn't death. 46:25 So, now he's got them to believe 46:27 that the second death is not really death... 46:28 did you get that? 46:30 You don't really die... 46:31 he told Eve, "You will not surely die... " 46:32 so what happens? 46:34 They die and go right to heaven 46:36 or they die and go right to hell? 46:37 Now, let's look at the ludicrous nature of this teaching. 46:40 If the second death is really eternal burning in hell, 46:43 and the first death for a wicked person means they went to hell, 46:47 what's the purpose of the judgment? 46:49 There's no purpose of the judgment. 46:52 If a wicked evil person... you can pick anybody's name, 46:57 I'm not going to do that, that's God's job... 46:58 if a wicked, evil, tyrant dictator 47:01 kills millions of people, 47:03 people will be glad to say, "He's in hell now. " 47:05 Right? 47:06 So, what's the purpose of the judgment? 47:08 A break? 47:10 "I've been burning for 142 years, 47:12 oh, I'm so glad for this break... 47:14 let's get some water 47:16 because when we go back in the next time, 47:18 it's going to be eternally. " 47:20 Now that sounds... that makes you want to laugh 47:22 but I'm not laughing, 47:24 because the devil has lied to so many people 47:25 that there are people that right now 47:27 tonight may be watching this program believe that somehow, 47:29 the wicked are in hell burning 47:31 and when the judgment comes, then all of a sudden 47:34 they look at the records and decide to judge them 47:37 according to their works 47:39 and put them back in the fire this time 47:41 for an undetermined period of time. 47:43 Let's take that to the extreme, Cain killed Abel, 47:47 are you telling me that Cain has been burning 47:51 ever since the dawn of creation? 47:53 that's what that belief says, 47:56 see what it does... 47:59 that the lie that death is not really death 48:02 Satan has led people to believe that 48:05 about the first death as well as the second death. 48:07 he's lied about both of the deaths. 48:09 The first one, you don't really die, 48:11 you go to heaven or hell, 48:12 and the second one, you don't really stop burning, 48:14 you just burn endlessly, 48:15 it's an attack on the character of God. 48:17 Isn't that right? 48:19 So, let's go to the... it's called the 2nd death... 48:21 put the answer down... 48:23 how do we know that Satan will not be tormented without end? 48:25 Revelation 20 verses 14 and 15, "The second death... 48:28 the second death... " 48:31 let's go to the next one, Ezekiel 28 verses 18 and 19, 48:35 this is about the devil himself, 48:39 this is what the Lord says about the devil himself. 48:42 Okay, I'm going to turn to Ezekiel 48:44 because I may want to add a few more things to that, 48:47 okay, I'm in Ezekiel now, okay... 48:50 Ezekiel... here we are... 48:52 all right... okay... 48:58 wow... hmmm... 49:00 it's amazing... 49:02 now, just to give the context before you bring the text up, 49:07 I'm going to read this verse, in Ezekiel 28 verse 14, 49:10 so we can be clear about who this is referring to. 49:12 Ezekiel 28 verse 14, 49:15 if you have your Bible, look at this verse 13 actually, 49:17 verse 12... 49:19 "Son of man, take up a lamentation 49:21 for the King of Tyre... " 49:22 the Lord calls him "the King of Tyre" 49:24 and say to him, 'Thus says the Lord God: 49:25 "You were the seal of perfection, 49:28 full of wisdom and perfect in... '" what? 49:30 "beauty. " 49:31 Verse 13, "You were in Eden, the garden of God; 49:34 every precious stone was your covering... " 49:37 verse 14... 49:38 you were the anointed cherub who covers... 49:43 I established you; 49:44 you were on the holy mountain of God; 49:47 you walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones. 49:51 You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, 49:57 till iniquity was found in you. " 49:59 Who is the Lord talking about? 50:01 He's talking about Satan. 50:03 In this context... Lucifer... 50:05 "this is who you were 50:07 but now what's going to happen to you?" 50:09 Now, go down to the verses, here we are, 50:10 bring it up on the screen, here we are, 50:11 Ezekiel 20 verses 18 and 19, the Bible says, 50:14 "You defiled your sanctuaries 50:17 by the multitude of your iniquities... " 50:19 so sinful... 50:20 "by the iniquity of your trading... " 50:22 truth for error... light for darkness... 50:26 that's what that's all about... 50:27 "Therefore I brought fire from your midst; 50:31 it devoured you... " 50:34 this is the projection... 50:35 this is the prophecy... 50:36 "And it turned you to... " what? my Brothers and Sisters, 50:39 come on say it, it turned you into what? 50:41 "Ashes upon the earth 50:42 in the sight of all who saw you. " 50:44 All those that come forth in the second resurrection 50:47 will behold his destruction... 50:49 and it says, "All who knew you among the peoples 50:52 are astonished at you, you have become a horror, 50:55 and shall be no more... " for how long? 50:58 Come on, say it, "forever... " 50:59 now, get this... if the devil is going to be no more forever, 51:03 how are the people that he led into sin 51:06 going to be around forever? 51:08 Is that clear? 51:10 If he is not going to be around forever, 51:12 how are the ones he led into sin 51:15 going to be around forever? 51:16 Let's get this together, answer here... 51:18 "How do we know that the devil will not be tormented 51:20 without end? 51:21 "He shall be ashes and shall be no more forever... " 51:25 Ezekiel 28 verses 18 and 19, 51:27 But let's move right on to Malachi chapter 4, 51:29 Malachi chapter 4, 51:31 praise God for the truth of His Word, what do you say? 51:33 Audience: Amen. 51:35 I've got to speak like Mark Finley and David Asscherick 51:37 here we go, the next one... 51:39 Malachi chapter 4, 51:40 this is the day... this is the day, here it is... 51:44 "For behold, the day is coming, 51:46 Burning like an oven, 51:49 and all the proud, yes, all who do wickedly 51:55 will be... " what? "Stubble. 51:58 And the day which is coming shall do... " what? 52:01 say it, "burn them up, 52:03 says the LORD of hosts... " 52:05 here it is... "That will leave them neither root nor branch. 52:11 You shall trample the wicked, 52:14 for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet 52:18 on the day that I do this," says the LORD of... what? 52:21 "hosts... " 52:23 now, get this... 52:24 Satan is ashes... the wicked are ashes... 52:27 now, look at the comparison, 52:29 they are the branches... 52:32 he is the root... 52:33 if a fire in the forest burns the branches, 52:38 there's still a chance for the tree to bud again, why? 52:41 Come on, quickly, 52:42 because the roots are still there, 52:44 but if the fire burns the roots and the branches, 52:47 will it come back? Come on, tell me... 52:49 No... 52:50 the fire that God will kindle is going to burn the root, Satan, 52:54 and the branches, the wicked... 52:56 no more budding... 52:59 let's go on... 53:01 Psalm 37... so the answer... "they shall be ashes... 53:06 they shall be ashes... 53:08 they shall be stubble... 53:10 they will be ashes under the soles of feet of the saints. " 53:13 That's so clear. 53:16 Psalm 37 verse 9 to 11, here's the other one, 53:21 here it is... 53:23 "For evildoers shall be cut off; 53:26 But those who wait on the LORD, 53:29 they shall... " what? 53:30 "inherit the earth. " 53:32 verse 10, "For yet a little while 53:36 and the wicked shall be... " come on tell me... 53:40 "no more; indeed, 53:42 indeed, 53:43 you will look carefully for his place, 53:47 but it shall be no more. " 53:49 Is that clear? 53:51 and Verse 11, 53:52 "But the meek shall inherit the earth, 53:55 and shall delight themselves in the... " together... 53:59 "abundance of peace. " 54:01 You know what that means? 54:03 That means, you can leave your doors unlocked, 54:05 come on, say "Amen" somebody... 54:07 that means, nobody is going to break into the house, 54:08 no more murder, no more crime, no more violence, 54:10 no more envy, no more hatred, no more... 54:12 I can't even keep going... 54:15 there's so much sin on this earth with so many descriptions 54:17 but the Lord will say, "You will look for... " 54:19 the devil won't be there... 54:21 the wicked won't be there... 54:22 and notice what it said, 54:24 he said, "You will look carefully" 54:25 I think the King James Version says, 54:27 "You will look diligently. " 54:29 You will look diligently... 54:30 somebody said, "You mean to tell me 54:34 there are no wicked people on earth anymore?" 54:36 Hallelujah somebody... 54:38 you mean to tell me the devil is not here anymore? 54:42 you mean to tell me we finally have eternal peace? 54:45 And the Bible says, 54:47 "The meek shall inherit the earth 54:49 and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. 54:53 You know that word "abundance" means in this context, 54:56 it means: ever prevailing... it's everywhere... 55:00 wow! I'm not fired up, it just looks like that. 55:04 The answer is, "The wicked shall be no more... 55:08 his place shall be no more. " 55:10 You won't even be able to find where he is. 55:13 And our last text for tonight, 55:15 our last text for tonight, 55:17 and by-the-way, if you're watching the program, 55:18 I'm sure you are... 55:20 I put a third page together with all the Scriptures on it 55:24 of the events of the Millennium from the beginning... 55:27 during the Millennium... 55:29 and at the end 55:30 and we'll cover that the next time 55:32 because I want to go through that very quickly on the screen 55:34 so we could cap it all together 55:36 and I'll cover as much as I can tonight 55:37 but I may not be able to get to all of these things. 55:39 Here it is, Nahum 1:9, there's only one chapter 55:44 Nahum verse 9, 55:46 this is powerful... 55:48 oh, I tell you, huh, 55:50 look at it, look at what the Bible says, 55:54 God's Word stands sure forever and ever, 55:58 Nahum 1 verse 9, 56:00 what did I say, "Nahum" did I say "one"? 56:04 Nahum 1 verse 9, here it is, 56:06 "What do you conspire against the LORD? 56:11 He will make an utter end of it. " 56:17 And let's read this together, 56:19 come one, put some energy into this, together, 56:23 "Affliction will not rise up a second time. " 56:27 And all God's people said, "Amen. " 56:29 It will not rise up a second time. 56:31 It's not coming back, 56:33 it's not coming back. 56:34 It's the final blow. 56:36 It's the 15th round... 56:37 and Jesus is Lord of all, "amen" somebody. 56:39 There's no need for a new Savior, 56:42 there'll be no need for a new sacrifice, 56:44 there's be no need for a new lamb... 56:46 a new sacrificial system... 56:48 there'll be no need for a new cross, 56:50 because what Jesus has done... 56:51 as the writer of Hebrews said, "He was manifested 56:55 that He might destroy not only sin... but the devil. " 56:59 Not only sin... but the devil 57:03 and I will tell you... 57:05 what Jesus has been manifest to do, 57:08 He will complete it, can you say "amen" to that? 57:10 Audience: Amen. 57:12 He's the mighty conqueror, He's the mighty deliverer, 57:14 He's the King of kings, the Lord of lords, 57:16 He loses no battle 57:17 and that's why... and this it says... 57:19 "The devil has come down unto you having great wrath 57:23 because he knows that he has but a... 57:26 short time... " 57:28 That's clear... 57:29 so if you believe tonight that somehow hell is eternal, 57:33 oh, my Brother, my Sister, my Friend, 57:35 turn your life to Christ... 57:36 God is not that kind of God, He's the God of love, 57:39 He will destroy sin and sinners, that's a guarantee, 57:42 the hell that God speaks of in His Word 57:45 is hotter than the hell that many people teach... 57:48 it's not just going to burn you and tickle you and torment... 57:51 but it will bring sin to an utter end 57:54 so, tonight, trust God... study His Word 57:57 and whatever doesn't make sense, 57:59 one day will come into a sharper focus. 58:02 God bless you, let us pray. |
Revised 2019-10-15