Hi, and you're in now with
the "Forerunner Chronicles."
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All right,
everybody, so in the Book of Job
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the Bible presented to us
a very interesting question
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which perplexes
the minds of multitudes
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within our world today
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and the question is found
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where the Bible says
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"If a man die,
shall he live again?
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Now it's only
natural for human beings
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which experience
death on a daily basis
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to be at least a
little bit curious
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as to whether or not
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there's a
possibility of life after death.
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And the Bible begins
to answer this question
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in the Book of John
5:25 where Jesus Himself said
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"Verily, verily, I say unto you,
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that the hour
cometh, and now is,
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when they that are
dead shall hear the voice
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of the Son of God and
they that hear shall live."
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So the Bible is clear
all that are in the grave
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one day will hear
the creative power
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of the voice of the
Son of God Jesus Christ
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and at hearing
His voice they will be
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resurrected from the grave.
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However the Bible gives us
more information about this
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and we need to take note of it.
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It's down with in John
5:28 where the Bible tells us
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"Marvel not at this
for the hour is cometh,
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in the which all
that are in the graves
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shall hear his
voice, and come forth,
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they that have done good,
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unto the resurrection of life
and they that have done evil,
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unto the
resurrection of damnation."
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So the scriptures
clearly indicate that
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there are two
distinctly different classes
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that will be
resurrected from the grave
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that will receive two
distinctly different rewards
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at the time periods at
which they are resurrected.
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Class number one,
those that are good.
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Their reward?
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The gift of life.
Obviously eternal life.
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And class number
two, those that are evil.
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Their reward?
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Damnation, which is
the punishment untempered
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wrath of God
which is going to bring
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about their utter destruction.
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Now because none of us
want to receive the punishment
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of untempered wrath of God
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which will bring
about our utter destruction.
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The question we
should be asking is,
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how can I be a part of
the resurrection of those
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that will receive the
reward of eternal life?
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Well, according to
the Bible that is a reward
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that will be given
to those that are good.
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So what is the criteria
that God uses to determine
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whether or not a man is
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characteristically
speaking good?
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Well, according to
the Book of Romans 7:12
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the Bible says
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"Wherefore the law is
holy, the commandment is holy,
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just, and good."
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You see ladies and
gentlemen, God's royal law
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His Ten Commandments
are as universal standard
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which He uses to
measure the characters of men
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to determine
whether or not they are good
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and that same royal law
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His Ten Commandments which
are good they are also holy.
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And the Bible says
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any man that
keeps God's commandments
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is declaring that they have
a specific mindset towards God.
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The Word of God speaks of
this in the Book of 1 John 5:3.
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The Word of God says,
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"For this is the love of God,
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that we keep his commandments
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and his
commandments are not grievous."
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When we keep God's
commandments by faith
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we are revealing that
we have a deep-seeded love
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and gratitude for our Creator.
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When we give
ourselves in total commitment
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to His service we
are proving to the world,
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we are giving a
revelation to mankind that we
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do not esteem God's
commandments to be a burden,
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but we look upon them
as the source of our joy
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and our happiness
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because they bring us
into communion with God
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as we walk by
faith in Jesus Christ
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to do all that is
pleasing in His sight.
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Matter-of-fact God
pronounces something about
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the characters of those
that keep His commandments.
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In the Book of
Revelation 22:14 the Bible says
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"Blessed are they
that do his commandments,
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that they may have
right to the tree of life,
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and may enter in through
the gates into the city."
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Then the Book of
Numbers 15:40 the Bible tells us
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"That ye remember,
and do my commandments,
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and be holy unto your God."
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So according to the
Bible those who by faith
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in the power of God
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reveal their love
and adoration for Him
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by keeping His commandments
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God will pronounce
them to be blessed and holy.
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Now I wonder,
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which resurrection do you think
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the blessed and
holy will come up in?
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Well the Bible tells us in
the Book of Revelation 20:6
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"Blessed and holy
is he that hath part
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in the first
resurrection on such
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the second death hath no power,
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but they shall be
priests of God and of Christ,
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and shall reign with
him a thousand years."
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So once again,
those who by faith in God
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reveal their
loving reverence for Him
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by keeping His commandments
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God pronounces
them blessed and holy.
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He raises them up in
the first resurrection
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and they reign with
Him for 1,000 year period,
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this is the great millennium.
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And you may be wondering
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when will this first
resurrection take place?
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Well, the Bible tells us
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in the Book of 1
Thessalonians 4:16
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where the Word of God says
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"For the Lord himself
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shall descend from
heaven with a shout,
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with the voice of the archangel,
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and with the trump of
God and the dead in Christ
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shall rise first.
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Then we which
are alive and remain
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shall be caught up together
with them in the clouds,
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to meet the Lord in the air
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and so shall we
ever be with the Lord."
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Its at the second
coming of Jesus Christ
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when the good the
holy and the blessed
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will be
resurrected from the grave
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which is the first
resurrection to go to heaven
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to be with Jesus and
rain with Him for 1,000 years.
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And what about
the rest of the dead?
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When will they be
resurrected from the grave
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the evil ones that receive
the punishment of damnation?
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Well, the Bible tells us
in the Book of Revelation 20:5
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which says "And the rest
of the dead lived not again
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until the thousand
years were finished."
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Now notice something carefully,
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there is a
1,000 year time period
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that separates the resurrection
of the two different classes.
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The first class is resurrected
at this second coming
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of Jesus Christ,
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taken to having to
reign with Him for 1,000 years
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and at the end the
that millennium the evil,
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the unjust and the
wicked they are resurrected
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at the end of the 1,000 years.
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These are the two resurrections.
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And during this
1,000 year time period
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in which the saints are
reigning with God in heaven
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what will they be doing?
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Well, the Bible lets us know
exactly what they'll be doing
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in the Book of Revelation 20:4
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because it tells us there
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"And I saw thrones,
and they sat upon them,
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and judgment was given unto them
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and I saw the souls of them
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that were beheaded
for the witness of Jesus,
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and for the word of God,
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and which had not
worshipped the beast,
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neither his image,
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neither had received his
mark upon their foreheads,
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or in their hands
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and they lived and reigned
with Christ a thousand years."
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So for the
1,000 year time period
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the saints will be engaged
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in the work of
judgment with Jesus Christ.
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And who will they be judging?
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Well, the Bible lets us know
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who in the Book
1 Corinthians 6:2.
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The Word of God tells us there
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"Do ye not know that the
saints shall judge the world?
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And if the world
shall be judged by you,
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are ye unworthy to
judge the smallest matters?
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Know ye not that
we shall judge angels?
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How much more things
pertaining to this life?"
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According to the
Bible the saints will judge
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both the world
and the fallen angels.
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And when the Bible
tells us that the saints
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will be engaged in
the work of judgment
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this does not mean that
they will be determining
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who will be saved
or who will be lost.
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It is obvious that Jesus
has already completed this work
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because the saints have received
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the reward of eternal life.
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The work of judgment
they will be engaged in
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is determining the
extent of punishment
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that all are worthy of receiving
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according to the works of
lawlessness they performed
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during their lifetime.
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And speaking of lawlessness
what about those individuals
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that will be living
when Jesus Christ returns
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to this earth
for the second time?
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But when Jesus comes
they will be living in sin.
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What is going to
happen to the living wicked
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at the second coming of Christ?
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Well, the Bible begins
to answer this question
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in the Book a Luke
17:26 where the Bible says
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"And as it was in the
days of Noe," meaning Noah
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"so shall it be also in
the days of the Son of man.
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They did eat, they
drank, they married wives,
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they were given in marriage,
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until the day that
Noah entered into the ark,
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and the flood came,
and destroyed them all.
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Likewise also as it
was in the days of Lot,
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they ate, they drink,
they bought, they sold,
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they planted, they
builded, but the same day
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that Lot went
out of Sodom it fire
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and brimstone
rained down from heaven,
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and destroyed them all.
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Even thus shall it be in the day
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when the Son of
man is revealed."
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Ladies and
gentlemen, the Bible is clear.
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Every individual that
refuses to repent of their sin
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when Jesus Christ returns they
will have no place of safety,
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they will have no shelter,
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they will be destroyed
at the presence of the Lord.
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All the wicked
will be laid down dead.
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The Bible tells us
in 1 Thessalonians 5:3
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"For when they shall
say, peace and safety,
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then sudden
destruction cometh upon them,
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as travail upon
a woman with child
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and they shall not escape."
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There will be
no place of escape.
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Men will be running it caves.
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Men will
literally beg the mountains
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and the rocks to
fall on them to hide them
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from the presence of the Lord
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but they will not
escape the destruction
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that God will be
bringing to the wicked.
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The Bible speaks
more of this event
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in the Book of Jeremiah
25:30 where the Bible tells us,
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"Therefore prophesy thou
against them these words,
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and say unto them,
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the Lord shall
roar from on high,
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and utter his voice
from his holy habitation,
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he shall mightily
roar upon his habitation,
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he shall give a shout, as
they that tread the grapes,
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against all the
inhabitants of the earth.
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A noise shall come even
to the ends of the earth
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for the Lord hath a
controversy with the nations,
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he will plead with all flesh,
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he will give them that
are wicked to the sword."
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And then in Jeremiah 25:33
the Word of God goes on to say,
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"And in that day the
slain of the Lord shall be from
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one end of the earth even
unto the other end of the earth,
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they shall not be lamented,
neither gathered, nor buried,
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they shall be
dung upon the ground."
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Ladies and gentlemen,
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can you imagine that
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at the presence of
the Lord every wicked man,
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every unrepentant sinner,
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every person that
refused to stop lying,
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refused to stop stealing,
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refused to stop fornicating,
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refused to stop being
dishonest in every shape,
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form, or fashion they
will be laid down dead.
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This whole world from
North, South, East and West
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will be covered
with the mangled forms
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of rotting corpses.
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And what will the
earth look like at that time?
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In what condition
will this world be in?
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Well the Bible begins to tell us
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in the Book of Jeremiah
4:23 where the Bible says
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"And I beheld the earth,
and, lo, it was without form,
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and void and the
heavens, and there was no light.
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I beheld the mountains,
and, lo, they trembled,
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and all the hills moved lightly.
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I beheld, and,
lo, there was no man,
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and all the birds of
the heavens were fled.
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I beheld, and, lo,
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the fruitful
place was a wilderness,
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and all the cities
thereof were broken down
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at the presence of the
Lord, and his fierce anger."
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Oh, ladies and gentlemen,
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this world is getting
ready to be broken down.
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All the cities there
of will be broken down
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for the Word a God goes
on to say in Jeremiah 4:20
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"For thus hath the Lord said,
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the whole land
shall be desolate."
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This world will become desolate.
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Even as the Bible said
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that when the
prophet beheld the earth
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it was without form and void.
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The Word of God
is letting us know
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that the world at that
time will become to be like
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it was prior to
creation for we are told
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in the Book of Genesis 1:2
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before God made anything
that the earth was without form
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and void and darkness
covered the face of the deep.
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When Jesus Christ
returns the second time
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and redeems His people
He will render this world
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into a dark chaotic state.
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It will be in
absolute desolation,
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a vast wilderness of nothingness
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and abyss of darkness.
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And where will the
devil and his angels be
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during all this chaos,
00:14:51.82\00:14:53.82
during all this
destruction and mayhem that day
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all responsible for causing?
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Well the Bible begins to let
us know what will happen to them
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in the Book of
Revelation 20:1 which says
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"And I saw an angel
come down from heaven,
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having the key of
the bottomless pit
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and a great chain in his hand.
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And he laid
hold upon the dragon,
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that old serpent,
which is the Devil,
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and Satan, and bound
him a thousand years,
00:15:18.78\00:15:21.82
and cast him into
the bottomless pit,
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and shut him up,
and set a seal upon him,
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that he should
deceive the nations no more,
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till the thousand
years should be fulfilled
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and after that he must be
loosed for a little season."
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According to the Bible there
is an angel that will come down
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from heaven possessing
the key of the bottomless pit
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and a great chain in his hand.
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Now this key
and this great chain
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are symbolic of
two different things.
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A key in the Bible can
be a symbol of authority.
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The Bible begins to
give us this understanding
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in the book of Isaiah
22:22 where the Bible says
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"And the key of
the house of David
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will I lay upon his
shoulder, so he shall open,
00:16:03.14\00:16:06.44
and none shall
shut, and he shall shut,
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and none shall open."
00:16:09.15\00:16:11.27
Then in the Book of
Matthew 16:19 the Bible says,
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"And I will give
unto thee the keys
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of the kingdom of
heaven and whatsoever thou
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shall bind on earth
shall be bound in heaven
00:16:20.12\00:16:22.86
and whatsoever thou
shall loose on earth
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shall be loosed in heaven."
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Notice that the one
whom is given a key by God
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possesses the
authority to either open up
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or to set loose or to
bind up or to close up.
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And we are told
about Revelation Chapter 20
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that this angel that
comes down from heaven
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having the key a bottomless pit
00:16:45.50\00:16:48.00
he will bind
Satan for 1,000 years.
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And what will he bind him with?
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Obviously he's going
to use this great chain.
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Well, what is this great chain?
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Is it big metallic bolts?
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No, the Bible let us
know what this great chain
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is symbolic of in the
Book the Lamentations 3:7
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where the Word of God declares
00:17:07.06\00:17:09.23
"He hath hedged me
about, that I cannot get out,
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he hath made my chain heavy."
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The word heavy there in
the original language means
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that he made his chain great.
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So when God places
a great chain on you
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it means that He
is hedged you about
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so that you cannot get out.
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And the phrase hedged about
means that God as fenced you up
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or placed] you with in a prison
so that you cannot escape.
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Therefore in
Revelation Chapter 20
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that angel that
comes down from heaven
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having the key of
the bottomless pit
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and a great chain in his
hand literally is an angel
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that has been given authority
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to place the devil in
prison for 1,000 years.
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Will the devil be
imprisoned for 1,000 years?
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Well, the Bible
declares that he will be
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in the Book of
Revelation 20:7 which says
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"And when the
thousand years are expired,
00:18:01.25\00:18:04.22
Satan shall be
loosed out of his prison."
00:18:04.25\00:18:07.27
To be set free from prison
you up the first be in prison.
00:18:07.30\00:18:10.74
And according to the
Bible the devil is going
00:18:10.77\00:18:12.91
to be in prison for 1,000 years.
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And what about the
rest of the evil angels?
00:18:17.19\00:18:19.54
What about the rest
of the fallen angels
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that have been
united with the devil
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since the very beginning
of the great controversy
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on planet earth to lead
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countless
numbers of human beings
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into
transgressing the law of God
00:18:30.34\00:18:31.86
there by bringing
destruction upon themselves?
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How is God going to punish them?
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Well, the Bible begins
to answer this question
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in the Book of Isaiah 24:21
where the Word of God tells us
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"And it shall come
to pass in that day,
00:18:43.81\00:18:46.29
that the Lord shall
punish the host of the high ones
00:18:46.32\00:18:49.46
that are on high,
00:18:49.49\00:18:50.82
and the kings of the
earth upon the earth."
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Now notice the
Lord is going to punish
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the host of high
ones that are on high.
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This host of high ones are
the same supernatural agencies
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which the Bible
speaks of as being the ones
00:19:03.47\00:19:06.01
that we are now
wrestling against.
00:19:06.04\00:19:08.41
In the Book in
Ephesians 6:12 where we are told
00:19:08.44\00:19:11.92
"For we wrestle not
against flesh and blood,
00:19:11.95\00:19:13.94
but against
principalities, against powers,
00:19:13.97\00:19:16.61
against the rulers of
the darkness of this world,
00:19:16.64\00:19:19.10
against spiritual
wickedness in high places."
00:19:19.13\00:19:23.55
The spiritual
wickedness in high places
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and the host of high
ones are none other than
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the fallen angels
and the devil himself
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that are collectively
united in warring against
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the souls of humanity
00:19:33.12\00:19:34.52
and they are the
agencies whom God will punish.
00:19:34.55\00:19:37.66
And the way they will
be punished is spoken up
00:19:37.69\00:19:39.91
in Isaiah 24:22 which tells us
00:19:39.94\00:19:43.65
"And they shall
be gathered together,
00:19:43.68\00:19:46.12
as prisoners are
gathered in the pit,
00:19:46.15\00:19:49.36
and shall be
shut up in the prison,
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and after many days
shall they be visited."
00:19:51.65\00:19:54.93
Noticed that the fallen angels
00:19:54.96\00:19:57.13
they are going to
be gathered in the pit,
00:19:57.16\00:19:59.91
the bottomless
pit with that devil
00:19:59.94\00:20:02.36
and after many days which
is the 1,000 year time period
00:20:02.39\00:20:05.67
they will be visited.
00:20:05.70\00:20:06.91
The same way the
Bible speaks of this event
00:20:06.94\00:20:09.29
in the Book of
Revelation 20:7 which says
00:20:09.32\00:20:12.76
"And after the
thousand years is expired,
00:20:12.79\00:20:15.53
Satan shall be
loosed out of his prison,"
00:20:15.56\00:20:18.66
The bottomless pit
will be the penitentiary
00:20:18.69\00:20:21.62
in which the devil
and his fallen angels
00:20:21.65\00:20:24.09
will be imprisoned for
the 1,000 year time period.
00:20:24.12\00:20:29.90
Now the word
bottomless pit comes
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from the word abyss.
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The same word abyss
that is used in Genesis 1:2
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to describe the deep.
00:20:37.45\00:20:38.92
When the Bible
says and the earth
00:20:38.95\00:20:40.72
was without form and void
00:20:40.75\00:20:42.25
and darkness covered
that face of the deep.
00:20:42.28\00:20:45.61
Now this is
peaking of this world
00:20:45.64\00:20:47.45
in its darkened chaotic state
00:20:47.48\00:20:49.46
prior to anything
being created on this earth.
00:20:49.49\00:20:52.43
So when the Bible tells
us that the bottomless pit
00:20:52.46\00:20:55.39
will become the
prison for the devil
00:20:55.42\00:20:57.05
and his angels
00:20:57.08\00:20:58.41
this is letting us
know that it is planet earth
00:20:58.44\00:21:01.32
when it is rendered
into a dark wasteland,
00:21:01.35\00:21:04.17
a chaotic place that
is filled with nothing
00:21:04.20\00:21:06.59
but dead bodies
after the second coming
00:21:06.62\00:21:08.76
of Jesus Christ
00:21:08.79\00:21:10.42
that will become the
penitentiary for the devil
00:21:10.45\00:21:13.44
and his angels with a
1,000 year time period.
00:21:13.47\00:21:16.78
Now you may be wondering,
00:21:16.81\00:21:18.15
why would God make this
dark wasteland of a world
00:21:18.18\00:21:21.24
after the second
coming of Jesus Christ
00:21:21.27\00:21:23.47
into the prison for
the devil and his angels?
00:21:23.50\00:21:26.05
Well, I'm going to
show you why from the Bible.
00:21:26.08\00:21:28.48
Now remember it is
when God places symbolically
00:21:28.51\00:21:31.93
a great chain about
Satan and his angels
00:21:31.96\00:21:35.25
that they are imprisoned
in the bottomless pit.
00:21:35.28\00:21:38.36
A chain is also spoken
of as fetters in the Bible.
00:21:38.39\00:21:42.58
Now, look at what
purpose God seeks to accomplish
00:21:42.61\00:21:46.42
by placing someone in fetters
00:21:46.45\00:21:48.65
in the Book of Job
36:8 which tells us
00:21:48.68\00:21:52.99
"And if they be
bound in fetters,
00:21:53.02\00:21:55.37
and be holden in
cords of affliction,
00:21:55.40\00:21:58.15
then he sheweth
them their works,
00:21:58.18\00:22:01.69
and their transgressions
that they have exceeded."
00:22:01.72\00:22:05.23
The reason why God will
bind them on planet earth
00:22:05.26\00:22:09.20
is to show them their works.
00:22:09.23\00:22:11.55
Right now that
devil and his angels are
00:22:11.58\00:22:14.87
24/7 engaged in thinking about
00:22:14.90\00:22:18.27
and working out our destruction.
00:22:18.30\00:22:21.76
But now for the very
first time Satan and his angels
00:22:21.79\00:22:25.91
will be forced to
behold their works.
00:22:25.94\00:22:27.77
They will be forced to consider
all the pain and destruction,
00:22:27.80\00:22:31.76
all of the
sorrow and the disease,
00:22:31.79\00:22:34.40
all of the mayhem
00:22:34.43\00:22:35.90
and the death that
they were responsible
00:22:35.93\00:22:39.12
for bringing into existence
as a result of their rebellion
00:22:39.15\00:22:44.41
against the kingdom of God.
00:22:44.44\00:22:46.69
And for the next 1,000 years
they will trample with fear
00:22:46.72\00:22:51.56
as they realize that
when their time on death row
00:22:51.59\00:22:55.95
is completed they will
receive the most painful,
00:22:55.98\00:23:00.10
fiery judgment that
God can hand down to them.
00:23:00.13\00:23:04.90
And we are told in the
Book of Revelation 21:2,
00:23:04.93\00:23:09.90
that as the
thousand years were completed
00:23:09.93\00:23:12.59
the prophet beheld
the most wonderful site.
00:23:12.62\00:23:16.42
For the Bible tells
us in Revelation 21:2
00:23:16.45\00:23:19.78
"And I John saw the
holy city, the new Jerusalem,
00:23:19.81\00:23:24.68
coming down from
God out of heaven,
00:23:24.71\00:23:27.74
and prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband."
00:23:27.77\00:23:31.39
When the thousand years
are completed the holy city,
00:23:31.42\00:23:35.03
the New Jerusalem
00:23:35.06\00:23:36.26
will descend from
heaven on to planet earth.
00:23:36.29\00:23:39.19
Inside of that city the
saints who had their sins washed
00:23:39.22\00:23:43.66
in the blood of the Lamb
00:23:43.69\00:23:45.12
clenched from all
defilement they will be there.
00:23:45.15\00:23:48.10
Inside of that city
will be the tree of life.
00:23:48.13\00:23:50.73
Inside of that city
there will be streets of gold
00:23:50.76\00:23:53.58
that are transparent.
00:23:53.61\00:23:55.23
Inside of that
city there will be Jesus
00:23:55.26\00:23:59.30
in all of His kingly glory.
00:23:59.33\00:24:02.04
It will be a most
splendid sight to behold.
00:24:02.07\00:24:06.02
I have not seen, nor ear heard,
00:24:06.05\00:24:09.33
neither have it
entered into the heart of men
00:24:09.36\00:24:12.19
the things which God
has prepared for them
00:24:12.22\00:24:14.21
that love Him.
00:24:14.24\00:24:15.82
But then the Bible tells us
in the Book of Revelation 20:7
00:24:15.85\00:24:22.24
"And when the thousand
years shall be expired,
00:24:22.27\00:24:25.48
Satan shall be
loosed out of his prison,
00:24:25.51\00:24:28.72
and he shall go out
to deceive the nations
00:24:28.75\00:24:32.83
which are in the four
quarters of the earth,
00:24:32.86\00:24:35.68
Gog, and Magog,
00:24:35.71\00:24:37.65
to gather them together
to battle the number of whom
00:24:37.68\00:24:41.57
is as the sand of the sea."
00:24:41.60\00:24:44.43
At the end of the 1000 years
Satan's situation will change.
00:24:44.46\00:24:49.85
The wicked dead
will be resurrected
00:24:49.88\00:24:52.47
and in that great multitude
00:24:52.50\00:24:55.06
that numbers more
than the sand of the sea
00:24:55.09\00:24:58.40
there will be military generals,
00:24:58.43\00:25:00.91
there will be
military strategists,
00:25:00.94\00:25:03.01
there will be tanks and missiles
00:25:03.04\00:25:04.65
and nuclear weapons,
armor-piercing artillery
00:25:04.68\00:25:08.90
everything that he
could possibly need to wage
00:25:08.93\00:25:12.39
a successful military conquest.
00:25:12.42\00:25:15.01
He will have at
the tip of his fingers
00:25:15.04\00:25:17.69
and he will encourage
all of the wicked resurrected
00:25:17.72\00:25:21.42
to unite with him,
00:25:21.45\00:25:22.84
to try to take this city
and to destroy Jesus Christ
00:25:22.87\00:25:27.73
and the redeemed saints.
00:25:27.76\00:25:30.21
But the Bible tells in
the Book of Revelation 20:9
00:25:30.24\00:25:36.81
"And they went up on
the breadth of the earth,
00:25:36.84\00:25:42.46
and they compassed
the camp of the saints,
00:25:42.49\00:25:46.22
and the beloved city
00:25:46.25\00:25:47.82
and fire came down
from God out of heaven,
00:25:47.85\00:25:52.00
and devoured them off."
00:25:52.03\00:25:55.37
There will be no battle,
there will be a slaughter.
00:25:55.40\00:26:00.41
All men that lived the life sin,
00:26:00.44\00:26:04.09
every angel including the devil
00:26:04.12\00:26:07.15
that was caught up
in rebellion against God
00:26:07.18\00:26:10.37
all of them will feel
the power of the fire of God.
00:26:10.40\00:26:15.93
And the Bible
speaks about this fire
00:26:15.96\00:26:19.01
in the Book of 2 Peter
3:12 where the Word of God says
00:26:19.04\00:26:25.17
"Looking for and hasting
00:26:25.20\00:26:27.22
unto the coming
of the day of God,
00:26:27.25\00:26:30.83
in the which the heavens being
on fire shall be dissolved,
00:26:30.86\00:26:35.41
and the elements shall
melt with fervent heat?"
00:26:35.44\00:26:39.57
Even the
elements will be on fire.
00:26:39.60\00:26:42.46
This world will turn into
one massive burning furnace.
00:26:42.49\00:26:46.31
The planet will
become a lake of fire
00:26:46.34\00:26:49.92
in which all
sin will be consumed
00:26:49.95\00:26:53.59
and we remove from
God's universe for ever.
00:26:53.62\00:26:57.97
Well, praise God the
Bible tells us in 2 Peter 3:13
00:26:58.00\00:27:03.10
"Nevertheless we,
according to his promise,
00:27:03.13\00:27:06.70
look for a new
heavens and a new earth,
00:27:06.73\00:27:09.78
wherein dwelleth righteousness."
00:27:09.81\00:27:12.25
God is going to make
all things new some day.
00:27:12.28\00:27:16.55
Even the lion and the
lamb will play together.
00:27:16.58\00:27:19.95
No more death, no more sorrow,
no more pain, no more crime,
00:27:19.98\00:27:23.99
no more disease, everything
will be in righteousness.
00:27:24.02\00:27:29.09
So as the Bible accounts
in the Book a 2 Peter 3:11
00:27:29.12\00:27:35.56
"Seeing then
that all these things
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shall be dissolved,
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what manner of
persons ought ye to be
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in all holy
conversation and godliness."
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Everything in this
world is going to pass away.
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The only thing that
will survive is a character
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that is made like after
the character of Christ.
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I pray that you will possess
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the character of
Jesus in that day.
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God bless you.
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As always this is the Forerunner
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and whether you like it or
not, the truth is the truth.
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