I'm John Carter in Moscow.
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In Havana, Cuba.
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Now in Kiev, the
capital of Ukraine.
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I'm John Carter in Petra.
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Right here in Communist China.
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Reporting from India.
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Hi, I'm John Carter
in the Solomon Islands.
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I'm John Carter in Soweto.
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From El Salvador.
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I'm John Carter
in Sydney, Australia.
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And now Pastor
John Carter gives us
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a look into the future.
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We give you a
terrific welcome today
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to the Carter Report.
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We're going to have today,
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a prophetic
look into the future.
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Did you know this?
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Every person who's ever lived
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in the history of the
world is going to live again.
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Amazing concept.
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Some people say, when I
die, hey, that's the end of me.
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No, no.
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The Word of God teaches that
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every person is
going to live again.
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And the Bible
also teaches that God
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one day is going
to have a brand new,
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wonderful, perfect world.
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We're going to
talk about that today.
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Our topic today
is the millennium.
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Now, the word millennium
is not found in the Bible.
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It comes from,
comes from the Latin.
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I'm sure most of
you folks know this.
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The word's not found
in the Bible, millennium.
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But millie is the
Latin word for 1,000.
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And annus means a year.
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So the word millennium
simply means 1,000 years.
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The Bible says
that the devil is bound
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with a great chain
in the bottomless pit
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for 1,000 years.
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Let me just say a
little bit about Latin.
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Latin was the
language of the ancient Romans,
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and what a great language.
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And the language of
the Roman Catholic Church
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who got it from the Romans.
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A Latino is one
who uses a language
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derived from the
Latin, for instance,
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the Italians and the
Spanish, and the Portuguese,
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and especially
Central and South America,
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all Roman Catholic countries,
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they got it, of course,
from the Roman Catholic Church,
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and they got it from the Romans.
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Also Latin to a
lesser extent contributed
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to the English language.
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So English people
are not really Latinos.
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But some of their
words come from the Latin.
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I want you to take
your Bibles, please.
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And we're going to use
this book a great deal today,
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because we believe the
power is in the Word of God.
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Would you come to
Revelation Chapter 20?
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And this is the chapter,
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there's a whole Chapter in
the Bible on the millennium.
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Revelation 20:1-2.
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Have you folks got it?
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I want you to turn
it up in the scriptures.
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"Then I saw an angel
coming down from heaven,
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having the key to
the bottomless pit,"
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that's the abussos,
this place of desolation,
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"A great chain in his hand,
he laid hold of the dragon,
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that serpent of old who
is the Devil, and Satan,
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bound him for a thousand years."
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So let's just have
a little look at this.
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And we're going to
put this up on the screen.
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We've got a time
period of 1,000 years.
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And the Bible tells us
that during the 1,000 years
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that the devil is bound,
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and he's thrown
into the bottomless pit.
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Now the next verse,
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then we're going
to have the diagram,
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Verse 3, Revelation 20:3, "
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And he cast him
into the bottomless pit,
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and shut him up
and set a seal on him,
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so that he should
deceive nations no more
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till the thousand
years were finished.
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And after these things,
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he must be released
for a little while."
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Now, I just want you
to see it on the screen.
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The Bible tells us that
you got this time period it's,
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it's 1,000 years.
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And after the 1,000
years, the Bible says, Satan,
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who has been bound
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with a tremendous
chain is released.
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And the Bible
tells us that he's bound
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and he's cast into
the bottomless pit.
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This is one of the
most amazing truths
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that you're ever
going to hear in your life.
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Let's ask this question
before we go any farther today.
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Is Satan a real person?
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I can understand cynics saying,
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we don't believe in the
devil because you Christians
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believe that he's
sort of a demon being,
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and he's got horns
and he's got a spike tail
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and all of this stuff.
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Well, of course, the
Bible doesn't teach this.
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The Bible teaches that Satan
or the Devil is a fallen angel.
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And he's a person of
extraordinary capability,
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a person of immense beauty.
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The most charming
person you could ever meet
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would be Lucifer,
this fallen angel.
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Now in some of my
lectures you heard,
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when I talk on astronomy,
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and I love the
story of astronomy,
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but scientists know about
dark matter and dark energy.
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To this point of time,
nobody knows what it is.
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When you look out
into the universe,
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when you see the pictures
of the galaxies and the stars,
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the trillions and
trillions of blazing suns,
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and the billions and
billions of vast galaxies,
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that is less than 5%
of what is really there,
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because most of what is
really there cannot be seen.
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Nobody knows to
this point in time,
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maybe they'll
discover it one day,
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but to this point in time,
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nobody has got a clue
what this dark matter is,
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all the dark energy
that actually drives
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the expansion of the universe,
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that makes life
on earth possible.
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But there is a
substance that cannot be seen.
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We noticed it, but
we cannot analyze it,
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we cannot touch it,
and we cannot see it.
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To me, at least it
makes the idea of a being
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who we cannot see and who exists
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in another realm
exceedingly possible.
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And so here you have a
being who is a fallen angel
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with an immense brain,
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not a brain such as we have
but tremendous intelligence,
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and he is a spirit being,
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and he is the originator of
everything evil in the world
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and in the universe.
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Listen carefully.
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Revelation 20 describes
the fate of the human race.
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So I'm interested in this.
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What's going to
happen to the human race?
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It talks about
two resurrections,
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this is astounding,
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because the Bible teaches
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that every person
is going to live again.
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And if you and I
never meet again,
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one day we're
going to meet again,
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because there are
two resurrections.
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There's a
resurrection for the righteous
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and there's a resurrection
for the wicked in the world
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and the Bible teaches that
one day there's going to be
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a tremendous battle,
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the greatest battle in
the history of the universe.
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And every person
who has ever lived,
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every person who has breathed
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God's beautiful oxygen
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is going to live again.
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And at the end of everything,
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God is going to
create a brand new cosmos.
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Now the question is,
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when does this
1,000 year period,
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when does the
millennium take place?
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Look at Revelation 20:4-5,
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dear hearts and gentle people.
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Revelation 20:4-5,
"And I saw thrones,
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and they sat on them,
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judgment was committed to them."
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So these are the
saints. These are God's people.
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"Then I saw the souls of
those who had been beheaded
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for their witnessed to
Jesus and for the Word of God."
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So we're talking here about
the good people, the saints.
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"Who would not worship
the beast or his image,
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and had not received his mark
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on their foreheads
or on their hands."
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Then it says, "And they
lived," hey, look at me.
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These are people who died.
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These are people
who were put to death.
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And they lived, in other
words, they were resurrected.
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Other translations say,
they came to life again.
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And so you've got
here all the saints of God,
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who were put to
death, and it says,
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"And they lived, and
they reigned with Christ
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for a thousand years."
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But notice this now, this
is tremendously important,
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"But the rest of the dead."
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Who would the
rest of the dead be?
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The righteous are raised
and they reign was Christ
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for 1,000 years,
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but the rest of
the dead, still wicked.
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The wicked lived not
again, "they did not live
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until the 1,000
years were finished,"
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and then going back it says,
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"This is the
first resurrection."
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So, if we can
establish this truth,
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everything starts to get plain.
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If you can get this,
if we can get this down
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into the molecules of our minds,
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this great time
period of the 1,000 years
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starts with a resurrection.
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And it closes
with a resurrection.
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If you remember
nothing else, remember this.
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The millennium
starts with a resurrection.
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And it closes
with a resurrection.
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And the
resurrection that it closes
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with is the
resurrection of the wicked.
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But it starts
with a resurrection.
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And the Bible
says, blessed and holy,
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it starts with the
resurrection of the saved.
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Look, please at verse 6.
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This is plain, verse 6
says, "Blessed and holy
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is he who has part in
the first resurrection."
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I want to be in
the first resurrection.
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What about you?
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"Blessed and
holy is he who is part
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in the first resurrection.
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Over such the
second death has no power."
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So some people are
going to die twice.
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The Bible teaches,
unless we are born twice,
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we are going to die twice.
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The Bible says over
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such the second
death has no power,
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but they shall be
priests of God and of Christ,
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and they shall reign with
Him for a thousand years."
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Now listen,
please, stay with me.
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The Bible teaches
that this great time period
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when Satan is thrown
into the bottomless pit,
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it commences
with the resurrection
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of the righteous and it closes
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with the
resurrection of the wicked.
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Everybody
watching on television,
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I've got news for you.
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As I've got news for
the people sitting here
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in our studio in
Southern California,
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if we don't come up
in this resurrection,
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we are going to come
up in this resurrection.
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Because the Bible
teaches that every person
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who has ever lived
is going to be raised.
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Nobody can
escape the resurrection
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because we have an appointment.
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Let me give you
just a little aside.
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Why I believe in
the resurrection.
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I believe in life everlasting.
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I believe in the resurrection.
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Why do I believe
in the resurrection?
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I believe in the resurrection,
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because Jesus Christ
was raised from the dead.
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I heard a young man,
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a young pastor
asked the question,
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why do you believe
in the resurrection?
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He was at a great youth Congress
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here in the
United States of America.
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There must have been
20,000 youth leaders,
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and they had him up the front.
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He was their leader.
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Why do you believe
in the resurrection?
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He said, I believe
in the resurrection
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because of my faith."
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When a person says that,
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it is little wonder
that skeptics laugh at us.
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I don't believe
in the resurrection,
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because of blind faith.
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I believe in the resurrection
because it happened.
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I believe that faith
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must rest on evidence, you see,
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I do not believe
in a blind faith.
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If Jesus had not
been raised from the dead,
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I would not believe it, you see.
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Let me give you some evidence.
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The resurrection
of Christ is recorded
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in genuine historical documents.
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How many?
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Hundreds,
hundreds, hundreds, hundreds.
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Documents written
in the Greek language,
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written by many, many people
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who testified that
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they saw Christ
rise from the dead.
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And here's the
second piece of evidence,
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I can give you much
more but we don't have time.
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There was no dead
body of Christ ever found.
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I want you to think about this.
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Whatever happened to the
body of Christ, Christ was dead.
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He was cold.
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He was limp.
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He'd been crucified and Christ,
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the Bible says,
was stone cold dead.
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And then a little later,
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there was no dead
body of Christ found,
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whatever happened to it?
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Well, the rumor was
that the disciples had come
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and got the body
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and had stolen
the body of Christ.
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I can't buy it.
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How could a dozen
dispirited broken men
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and a few women storm the tomb
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that was guarded by a
bunch of Roman soldiers.
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Can't believe that.
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Others have said,
"Well, if the disciples
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didn't get the body of Christ,
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then the Jews got
the body of Christ."
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Then why didn't they produce it?
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When the apostles started
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to preach the
resurrection of Christ,
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the best way to destroy
the church was to say, well,
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look at this, the
dead body of Christ.
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So I can't buy this.
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And then the third
possibility is that the Romans
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got the body of Christ somehow,
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but they wanted
the Christian church
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destroyed as much
as the Jewish people.
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And the best way to
destroy the Christian church
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and the faith that burns
in our hearts today is to say,
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here is the dead body of Christ.
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But no dead body of
Christ was produced.
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You know why?
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Because there was no dead body,
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the body had been
raised from the dead.
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You see.
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So I believe in the
resurrection of Christ,
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not because of blind
faith, as my young friend said,
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I believe in the
resurrection of Christ,
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because it happened.
00:16:48.00\00:16:49.84
It is an historical fact.
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Some years ago, firstly in 1971,
00:16:53.61\00:16:56.51
as a young man,
I went to Moscow.
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And saw the body of Lenin.
00:17:00.35\00:17:04.55
I went into the mausoleum
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and joined a big
crowd of Russians,
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saw him there,
cold, dead and waxy.
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I went back in 1991,
when communism was collapsing.
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And there he was, again.
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It was my privilege later on
00:17:22.50\00:17:24.31
to speak to
literally millions of Russians.
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And I told them this.
00:17:27.78\00:17:29.68
The church is
alive today in Russia,
00:17:29.71\00:17:32.31
because the church is
built upon a living Christ.
00:17:32.35\00:17:37.39
But communism has
collapsed in Russia,
00:17:37.42\00:17:40.49
in the old Soviet Union,
00:17:40.52\00:17:42.16
because it was built
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upon a dead man, you see.
00:17:44.03\00:17:49.33
So on the basis of the evidence,
00:17:49.36\00:17:51.13
not on the basis of
warm, fuzzy feelings,
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I believe in the resurrection.
00:17:54.90\00:17:58.57
So come back with me
to the topic of today,
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the millennium.
00:18:01.61\00:18:04.91
We are told that the millennium
starts with a resurrection.
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The Bible tells us
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it is the
resurrection of the righteous.
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Are you with me? Am
I making this plain?
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Well come with me now
00:18:17.53\00:18:18.86
to 1
Thessalonians 4:16, my friends.
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1 Thessalonians 4:16,
00:18:24.30\00:18:28.50
and the Apostle Paul says,
00:18:28.54\00:18:31.34
"For the Lord
Himself will descend
00:18:31.37\00:18:33.21
from heaven with a shout,
00:18:33.24\00:18:35.78
with the voice of an archangel,
and with the trumpet of God.
00:18:35.81\00:18:40.12
And the dead in
Christ will rise first."
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The righteous are raised
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when Jesus returns.
00:18:48.79\00:18:52.39
And so when Jesus
comes back in glory
00:18:52.43\00:18:56.03
and fiery splendor,
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the Bible tells us
that the righteous,
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all the saints are raised.
00:19:01.54\00:19:04.57
If this is so,
then the millennium
00:19:04.61\00:19:08.14
that commences
00:19:08.18\00:19:09.51
with the
resurrection of the righteous
00:19:09.54\00:19:11.51
that takes place
at the Second Coming.
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The millennium takes
place when Jesus returns.
00:19:14.18\00:19:18.99
So there it is.
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It hasn't started yet.
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But the millennium
commences when Christ returns.
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Come over here with me please
00:19:29.23\00:19:30.93
to Revelation 20:5-6,
00:19:30.97\00:19:35.84
dear hearts and gentle people.
00:19:35.87\00:19:37.87
Revelation 20:5-6,
"But the rest of the dead,
00:19:37.91\00:19:42.94
the wicked did not live again
00:19:42.98\00:19:44.58
until the thousand
years were finished,"
00:19:44.61\00:19:46.88
then our parenthesis.
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"This is the
first resurrection."
00:19:48.28\00:19:50.32
Then it says 6th
verse "Blessed and holy
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is He who has part in
the first resurrection.
00:19:53.39\00:19:58.53
Over such the
second death has no power,
00:19:58.56\00:20:01.40
but they shall be priests of God
00:20:01.43\00:20:02.86
and of Christ
00:20:02.90\00:20:04.23
and they shall reign
with Him a thousand years."
00:20:04.27\00:20:08.57
Listen, my friend.
00:20:08.60\00:20:11.17
I say it again, and every person
00:20:11.21\00:20:12.61
here needs to listen up.
00:20:12.64\00:20:16.04
If we don't come up
00:20:16.08\00:20:17.41
in the
resurrection of the righteous,
00:20:17.45\00:20:19.68
we are going to come up
00:20:19.71\00:20:21.12
in the
resurrection of the wicked.
00:20:21.15\00:20:24.02
And we can say, I
just don't, I just don't.
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It doesn't matter
whether we believe it or not.
00:20:27.59\00:20:31.26
This is the Word of God.
00:20:31.29\00:20:36.06
Many years ago in
Germany was a famous atheist.
00:20:36.10\00:20:41.64
When he died,
because of his hatred to God
00:20:41.67\00:20:44.57
and because he wouldn't
believe in the afterlife.
00:20:44.61\00:20:47.18
He said, when I die, I
die and even God Almighty
00:20:47.21\00:20:51.91
will not get me
out of this tomb.
00:20:51.95\00:20:56.45
When he died
00:20:56.48\00:20:59.75
a little acorn fell
somehow into the tomb.
00:20:59.79\00:21:04.59
And water got into the tomb
00:21:04.63\00:21:08.23
and it started to grow.
00:21:08.26\00:21:09.60
And if you go
to that tomb today,
00:21:09.63\00:21:12.07
the tomb has been burst asunder,
00:21:12.10\00:21:15.27
as every tomb in this world,
00:21:15.30\00:21:17.51
one day is going to
break asunder, you see.
00:21:17.54\00:21:23.38
And so there are
two resurrections
00:21:23.41\00:21:25.38
and if you don't come up in one,
00:21:25.41\00:21:27.25
you are
certainly going to come up
00:21:27.28\00:21:31.02
in the next one, the second one,
00:21:31.05\00:21:32.75
and they are 1,000 years apart.
00:21:32.79\00:21:35.96
And during the millennium,
00:21:35.99\00:21:37.79
the devil is cast into
00:21:37.83\00:21:40.76
that bottomless pit.
00:21:40.80\00:21:44.17
Now, notice with me please,
00:21:44.20\00:21:45.90
the events
during the millennium.
00:21:45.93\00:21:48.30
We've noticed the events at
the start of the millennium,
00:21:48.34\00:21:51.27
now during the millennium.
00:21:51.31\00:21:53.78
Come with me
00:21:53.81\00:21:55.14
to 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17.
00:21:55.18\00:22:00.82
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17,
00:22:00.85\00:22:05.09
The Word of the Lord.
00:22:08.16\00:22:09.86
"For the Lord
Himself will descend
00:22:09.89\00:22:12.03
from heaven with a shout,"
this is our Lord's return.
00:22:12.06\00:22:16.26
"With the voice of
an archangel," loud,
00:22:16.30\00:22:20.70
"and with the trumpet of God,
00:22:20.74\00:22:22.07
and the dead in
Christ will rise first."
00:22:22.10\00:22:25.47
That's the first resurrection,"
00:22:25.51\00:22:27.44
Then we who are
alive and remain,"
00:22:27.48\00:22:30.35
the living saints,
00:22:30.38\00:22:32.01
"shall be caught up together
00:22:32.05\00:22:33.92
with them in the clouds,
to meet the Lord in the air,
00:22:33.95\00:22:38.69
and that's we shall
always be with the Lord."
00:22:38.72\00:22:42.36
The Bible tells me that
00:22:42.39\00:22:44.83
the sleeping
saints are resurrected.
00:22:44.86\00:22:47.96
And the Bible teaches that
00:22:48.00\00:22:49.40
the living
saints are translated,
00:22:49.43\00:22:52.00
and they're caught up to glory,
00:22:52.03\00:22:54.57
and they go to be with Christ
00:22:54.60\00:22:57.67
for 1,000 years.
00:22:57.71\00:23:01.08
Now I don't know about you,
00:23:01.11\00:23:04.15
but sometimes I get
very tired of this old world.
00:23:04.18\00:23:08.62
But one day, my friend,
00:23:08.65\00:23:10.32
I'm going to be
with Jesus in paradise.
00:23:10.35\00:23:14.36
You see, we're going
home one day to glory.
00:23:14.39\00:23:17.73
And the Bible teaches
that during the millennium,
00:23:17.76\00:23:20.70
listen to this,
during the millennium,
00:23:20.73\00:23:23.77
the wicked remain on
this earth as corpses.
00:23:23.80\00:23:29.44
Look at Revelation 20:5,
00:23:29.47\00:23:33.21
dear hearts and gentle people,
00:23:33.24\00:23:34.98
Revelation 20:5, "But
the rest of the dead,"
00:23:35.01\00:23:39.45
that's the wicked,
"did not live again
00:23:39.48\00:23:41.92
until the thousand
years were finished."
00:23:41.95\00:23:45.02
And then if you come
to the Old Testament,
00:23:45.05\00:23:46.89
please come over here
to the Book of Jeremiah,
00:23:46.92\00:23:50.19
Jeremiah 25:32-33,
00:23:50.23\00:23:55.03
Jeremiah 25:32-33,
00:23:55.06\00:24:01.87
and I'm reading it
out of the scriptures,
00:24:01.90\00:24:04.64
the Bible says, "Thus
says the Lord of hosts,
00:24:04.67\00:24:09.18
'Behold disaster shall go
forth from nation to nation,
00:24:09.21\00:24:13.25
and a great
whirlwind shall be raised up
00:24:13.28\00:24:15.32
from the farthest
parts of the earth.'
00:24:15.35\00:24:17.19
And at that day the
slain of the Lord shall be
00:24:17.22\00:24:20.42
from one end of the earth,
00:24:20.46\00:24:22.49
even to the
other end of the earth.
00:24:22.52\00:24:25.13
They shall not be
lamented or gathered or buried,
00:24:25.16\00:24:28.40
they shall become
refuse on the ground."
00:24:28.43\00:24:31.73
Would you like to know
why nobody buries them?
00:24:31.77\00:24:35.90
Because nobody is on
the earth who's alive,
00:24:35.94\00:24:38.84
except the devil
and his evil angels,
00:24:38.87\00:24:41.88
because the saints had
been taken home to glory.
00:24:41.91\00:24:46.01
Would you come now to
2 Thessalonians 1:7-9,
00:24:46.05\00:24:50.85
2 Thessalonians 1:7-9,
00:24:50.89\00:24:55.02
my dear
friends, "And to give you
00:24:55.06\00:24:57.33
who are troubled rest with us
00:24:57.36\00:24:58.96
when the Lord Jesus is revealed
00:24:58.99\00:25:01.13
from heaven with
His mighty angels,"
00:25:01.16\00:25:04.30
glory, "In flaming fire
taking vengeance on those
00:25:04.33\00:25:08.27
who do not know God,
00:25:08.30\00:25:09.84
and those who do not obey
00:25:09.87\00:25:12.14
the gospel of our
Lord Jesus Christ,
00:25:12.17\00:25:14.28
they shall be
punished," the Bible says,
00:25:14.31\00:25:16.78
"With everlasting destruction
from the presence of the Lord,
00:25:16.81\00:25:20.02
and from the
glory of His power."
00:25:20.05\00:25:22.22
Now listen to me.
00:25:22.25\00:25:24.32
When Jesus comes back,
00:25:24.35\00:25:25.69
He comes back as King
of kings and Lord of lords.
00:25:25.72\00:25:31.09
He doesn't come back as
gentle Jesus, weak and mild.
00:25:31.13\00:25:35.80
He comes back as King of kings,
00:25:35.83\00:25:38.93
Lord of lords, the
King of the universe.
00:25:38.97\00:25:42.17
And when He comes
back with all His power,
00:25:42.20\00:25:45.67
He raises His saints
00:25:45.71\00:25:49.44
and He takes them home to glory.
00:25:49.48\00:25:51.81
It does make a difference.
00:25:51.85\00:25:55.32
The Bible tells me that
00:25:55.35\00:25:56.69
the wicked are destroyed
and remain on this earth.
00:25:56.72\00:26:02.56
The question is
you've got to ask,
00:26:02.59\00:26:05.29
where do I plan to
spend the millennium?
00:26:05.33\00:26:08.66
And there'll be
more coming up soon.
00:26:08.70\00:26:12.73
Time.
00:26:26.05\00:26:27.38
It takes only a
minute to have eternal life.
00:26:27.42\00:26:29.98
How can you get
saved in a minute?
00:26:30.02\00:26:31.62
It's simple.
00:26:31.65\00:26:32.99
First believe that
Jesus was the Son of God.
00:26:33.02\00:26:35.69
Second, accept His
free gift of eternal life,
00:26:35.72\00:26:38.79
and then you're saved.
00:26:38.83\00:26:40.70
It's not hard.
00:26:40.73\00:26:42.06
It doesn't take any time.
00:26:42.10\00:26:43.47
You can be saved
in a minute right now.
00:26:43.50\00:26:46.57
Pray with me, Lord God, I
realize that I am a sinner.
00:26:46.60\00:26:50.71
My sin has
separated me from You.
00:26:50.74\00:26:53.11
I accept that Your son
Jesus Christ died for me.
00:26:53.14\00:26:56.11
I asked Jesus into my heart.
00:26:56.14\00:26:58.15
If you prayed this
prayer, you are saved.
00:26:58.18\00:27:01.08
The next thing to
do is tell someone,
00:27:01.12\00:27:03.72
fellowship with
other followers of Jesus.
00:27:03.75\00:27:06.45
Get baptized.
00:27:06.49\00:27:07.82
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00:27:07.86\00:27:10.09
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00:27:10.13\00:27:11.46
We make them every day, all day.
00:27:11.49\00:27:13.76
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00:27:13.80\00:27:16.53
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00:27:16.56\00:27:18.53
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00:27:18.57\00:27:20.40
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00:27:30.18\00:27:35.65
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00:27:35.68\00:27:38.25
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00:27:38.29\00:27:42.72
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00:27:48.23\00:27:50.30
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00:27:50.33\00:27:56.17
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