Hello friends, grab
your Bible and a friend
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and sit back as we
explore God's word together
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on this edition of House Calls.
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Welcome to House Calls.
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Thank you so
much for remembering
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If you're joining us
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hey, get all
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and enjoy us for the next hour
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as we continue on the
topic of the resurrection.
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What does the
Bible say about it,
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but you might notice there is
another person in this picture.
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How are you doing,
John? How are you doing, John?
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Good to have you here.
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Hey, how is it going up in the
upper Northwest there for you?
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It's going great.
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Yeah, we're
enjoying the Spokane Area.
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It's been a blessing.
That's good, that's good.
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You're closer to California
than you've been to north--
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Yeah, little closer
back to where I grew up but--
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but a beautiful area.
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I tell you it is,
it is nice up there.
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God's country.
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You know, we say the same
thing about Thompsonville.
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They just have
mountains over there
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that are very beautiful.
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We're not gonna spend a
lot of time on that topic.
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But we're glad that
you've chosen to tune in
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and we have
questions, we have a Bible topic
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that's really powerful one
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that you don't
want to miss today.
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But before we do anything else,
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we always like to have prayer.
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And John, so
would have pray for us?
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I will. Dear Father, in heaven.
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We invite Your
presence to be here with us.
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Send Your spirit to
guide and direct our thoughts,
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our hearts toward You.
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And as we lean on Your word
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as we read it and
we study it today,
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we just pray that You
allow it to speak to us.
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We know it already has life
but Lord may become life to us,
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we pray in Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen. Thank you, John.
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And for those of you
who send questions to us,
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we want to thank you in advance
because many of you do that.
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You send questions and comments
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and we, we appreciate it all.
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The internet is a powerful tool
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when it's used
for the glory of God
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and this is one of
the ways that it is.
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So but if you have any questions
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you want to send
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send those questions
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housecalls@3abn.org
that'shousecalls@3abn.org.
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And we'll
download those questions
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and get them and
get them answered
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as expeditiously
as we possibly can.
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But you know, since I have
usually introduce this part,
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I'm gonna have John
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lead us into our
first question for today.
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Sure. This
question is from Vernon.
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And good question he says,
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Revelation 21:9,
implies the holy city,
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the New Jerusalem is
the bride of Christ. Okay.
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But yet we read as a church
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through else
where in the scripture
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that the church is the bride.
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Please help. Okay.
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And actually it's a
fairly simple answer
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I don't think we'd
spend a lot of time
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necessarily to
answer this question.
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Because the
context of when John sees
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the city coming
down helps to clarify
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or answer the question here,
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because at the
time John is seeing
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the New Jerusalem come down
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as a bride
adorned for her husband,
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the bride at that time
pictured in this prophecy.
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The people of God,
the church is in the city
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and what good is a
city without people in it.
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And so what you have
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in John's vision
here at this time
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is a city that is already
inhabited by the people of God.
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And so throughout scripture
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you find that the people of God
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are referred to as a woman.
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Referred to as a virgin
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and then even
the language of Paul
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speaking about
the husband of Christ
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and all these things,
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those things are
all true as is true
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that the New
Jerusalem is seen as a bride.
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But the reason
it's seen as a bride
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is because the
people of God are in it.
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This is after the
1000 years are over
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they have reign with Christ
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for that thousand year
period in the New Jerusalem
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and they're all seen come
down out of heaven together.
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And really wonderful,
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the wonderful illustration
here that this whole bride,
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you said it
entirely but I need to ask--
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You got to say something?
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Come on.
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Why, why the bride?
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Why is the bride
used in wonderful
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both context in the Bible?
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You know, when Paul gives this
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beautiful picture of the church,
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he refers to the church as when,
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when the Lord fully
remakes us in His image.
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He says, not
having spot or wrinkle
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or any such thing,
speaking about the purity.
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And then Revelation talks about
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the garment of the saints,
pure and white and clean.
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And all those, all those
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allegorical pictures are
associated with the bride.
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But one of the, one
of the wonderful ways
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that Isaiah the prophet
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uses an analogy of
the church in Isaiah 61
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where the Lord talks about,
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"The spirit of
the Lord is upon me
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for He has anointed
me" to preach the gospel
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"the good tidings to the poor."
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But look at verse 10
and that very outline.
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The Lord talks about
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how beautifully the
church is going to be clothed
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and this is the
language that's being used.
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Isaiah 61:10,
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"I will greatly
rejoice in the Lord,
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My soul shall be
joyful in my God,
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For He has clothed me
with the garments of salvation,
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He has covered me with
the robe of righteousness,"
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as a bride decks himself
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"a bridegroom decks
himself with the ornaments
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and as a bride adorns
herself with her jewels."
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He uses the, the
analogy of the wedding.
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As, as an example of the church
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and, and then
finally in Revelation,
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the Bible says, "The
marriage of the Lamb has come
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and His bride has
made herself ready."
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Paul how does she do that?
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The bride garments are the
righteousness of the saints.
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So those analogies they
are continue to add to it.
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And John said it wonderfully.
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What good is the
city without people in it?
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That's right, that's the goal.
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The goal is clearly that.
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That's Revelation not Revelation
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but 1 Corinthians 15.
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Look at that very quickly,
1 Corinthians 15 and verse--
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this, this topic actually
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or this text fits
into the resurrection,
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but I want to go ahead
and just give verse 24.
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It says, 1 Corinthians
15:24, read that for us, John.
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"Then comes the end,
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when he delivers
the kingdom to God,
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the Father, when he
puts an end to all rule
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and all authority and power."
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There you go.
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The delivering of
the kingdom would be
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the furnishing of
the saints into the city.
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And so therefore that's would be
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best refer to in an earthly term
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as the reception
is now taking place.
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The dinner has been
set, tables are ready,
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all the best
provision has been made
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and the glorious
church comes through the gates
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into the beloved
city the New Jerusalem
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and that is the
marriage supper of the Lamb.
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And therefore the kingdom
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and the bride
are united together
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and what a
celebration that's gonna be.
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Wow. Beautiful.
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Okay, so let's see,
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what do I have our here.
I do appreciate all these.
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Here is a very
good one, very good one.
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Also the devil, this is a
continuation of a question.
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And it says, also the devil is
on earth during the millennium
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and the earth is
desolate nothing is alive.
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Then the devil is loose for a
season to deceive the nations.
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What nations if
the earth is desolate?
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Wonderful question.
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For that answer
we'll go to Revelation 20.
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You want to go
there John, and read those
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couple of passages first for me.
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Because I have a couple of
other once I want to share.
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Let me just set the stage
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as John is
turning to Revelation 20.
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Revelation 20, talks
about the millennium.
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It talks about the
first resurrection,
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the second
resurrection and the 1000 years.
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What happens between
each of the resurrections?
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So what I like you to do, John,
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is walks through that for me
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and pause along the
way to give commentary.
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I'd like to go ahead
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and start with
verse 1 of Revelation 20.
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Okay. Okay.
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Contextually we have verse--
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Chapter 19 of Revelation
which is the second coming.
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There you go. 'Cause
we got to start there.
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So the progression is
the second coming of Jesus
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and then at the second coming
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we're in the heels
of the second coming
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these events occur that
are found in Revelation 20.
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"Then I saw an angel
coming down from heaven
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and having the key
to the bottomless pit
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and a great chain in his hand.
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He laid hold of the
dragon, that serpent of old,
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who is called
the Devil and Satan,
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and bound him for a 1000 years,
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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 the nations no more
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till the 1000
years were finished.
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But after these things
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he must be
released for a little while.
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And I saw thrones,
and they sat on them,
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and judgment was
committed to them.
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And I saw the souls of those
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who had been beheaded
for their witness to Jesus
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and for the word of God,
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who had not worshiped
the beast or his image,
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and had not received
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his mark on their
foreheads or on the hands.
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And they lived and reigned
with Christ for 1,000 years."
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Millennium.
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So let's pause just therefore
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just the brief
minute here on the heels
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then of Christ's second coming,
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we have this angel
grabbing Satan and binding him
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and shut him up
setting a seal on him.
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So he can't deceive the nations
any longer. That's right.
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What we read in
the second coming
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and language not
only in Revelation 19
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but elsewhere about
the second coming is that
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those who are wicked die
in that event. That's right.
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Because Jesus in
the second coming,
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is coming back to
take His saints with Him,
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that's found in John 14:1-3
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and many other
places. That's right.
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And to resurrect those things
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and we'll talk more about that
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in our topic here
a little bit later.
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But with that happens
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the death of
those that are wicked
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that are not
waiting for Christ's return
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and they're destroyed
by what the Bible says,
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the brightness of His presence.
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And Saints go to heaven then
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to reign with
Christ for 1000 years.
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But let me also add something
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because you find the phrase.
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And this is-- this is where
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lot of the
misunderstanding comes in
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with the word or the phrase.
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I saw the souls of those
who had been beheaded, okay.
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Lot of people think
that the souls are separated
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from those who
have been beheaded.
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You got to keep in mind,
this is the first resurrection.
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What-- what is John saying?
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He's not seeing
souls that will be headed,
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he is not seeing
the souls of the bodies
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that will beheaded,
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he is seeing them
in the resurrection.
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All those that where--
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all those that had been
martyred I have--I see them.
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Keep this in mind,
the world souls there
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is not the way that
people teach it nowadays
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because when the
ark in the flood--
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the Bible says all the souls
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who had the breath of
life in them perished.
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And the very same way today on,
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on airplanes as
well as on ships,
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cruise ships they say
how many souls on board?
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Four thousand souls if is the--
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if is the one of the Freedom
of the Seas, large ships,
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4000 souls on board
that's on the manifest.
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So we infuse different meaning
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into that word
souls overtime. Exactly.
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Right the word soul is
not some separate entity
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because when the
Bible says in Ezekiel 18:4,
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"The soul that
sinneth it shall die."
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It completely
divorces the teaching
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that a soul is some
separate thing from the body.
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Because how could
an ethereal force die,
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if it doesn't have anything
to even actually cease to live.
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So, so for a soul to die
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it has to have a
heart that stops,
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a mind that cease functioning,
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a body that
actually is no longer
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in any kind of
operation whatsoever.
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So it's not a separate thing,
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that's you know,
where that comes from
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that is the whole concept
that came from Greek mythology,
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the separate--
the separate soul,
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separate body, separate spirit.
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Yeah, they said the
actual soul was good,
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the good part of man,
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the body was the
evil part of man.
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And that upon death
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the soul couldn't wait to
depart from the wicked part
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and to go back and be in heaven.
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So that came
right into Christian,
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Christian understanding.
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So when people read this passage
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they right away think,
oh, they are the souls.
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What about the body?
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Well, I saw the souls of those
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who have been beheaded
for the witness of their--
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and they-- what did they do?
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They lived and reign
with Christ for 1,000 years.
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A soul reigned? How
is a soul gonna reign?
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The entire person is what John
is saying in the resurrection.
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Not only that in
the second coming
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which is Chapter 19 again,
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we know that event is portrayed
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in several passages
that Paul writes about it.
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Number one, 1 Corinthians 15,
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where they are resurrecting
and given bodies. That's right.
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So the resurrection
occurs at the second coming
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and they're given bodies
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this event is speaking of
that souls must have bodies.
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That's why the verse 5 is there.
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Verse 5, John stopped at verse 4
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just to give some explanation,
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but if you continue
thier very thought to verse 5,
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John is gonna tell you exactly
what event he is talking about.
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"But the rest of the
dead did not live again
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until the thousand
years were finished.
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This is the first resurrection."
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Right, the very
description from verse 1 to 5,
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he described the
first resurrection.
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What was resurrected?
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The whole
person was resurrected.
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Not this convoluted teaching
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nowadays that
there's a soul hanging out
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waiting for the body
to come out of the ground.
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The whole
person was resurrected.
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That's what he--
after the resurrection,
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these souls live
and reign with Christ
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for 1,000 years. That's right.
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Okay, now go to
the very next part.
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"Blessed and holy is who has
part in the first resurrection.
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Over such the
second death has no power,
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but they shall be priests
of God and that is Christ,
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and shall reign with Him
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a thousand years." That's right.
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"Now when the
thousand years have expired,
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Satan will be
released from his prison
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and will go out to
deceive the nations
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which are in the
four corners of the earth,
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Gog and Magog to gather
them together to the battle
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whose member is as
the sand of the sea."
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Now I'll just mention
something here real quick here.
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Question, how is it that he
could not deceive the nations
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when God put a seal on
him and shut him up? Okay.
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Some might say, well,
the nations were there
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and they just shut him up,
so he couldn't speak to them.
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But that's not really
what the Bible is saying. No.
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He couldn't deceive the nations
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because the nations
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as it says in verse 5
were dead. That's right.
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In another words,
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"But the rest of the
dead did not live again
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till the thousand
years were finished."
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They were not alive.
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So he could not deceive them
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because there was
no one to deceive.
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That's right.
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And I'm reading on verse 9,
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"Then they went up on
the breadth of the earth
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and surround at
the camp of the saints
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and of the beloved city.
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And fire came down from God
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out of heaven and devoured them.
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The devil, who deceived them,
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was cast into the
lake of fire and brimstone
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where the beast and
the false prophet are.
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And they will be tormented
day and night forever and ever."
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So let me go ahead and
add the components in there.
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And we're gonna take a
little bit of time on this
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because the question was,
how could they deceive nations?
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It's simple.
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The righteous
are where? In heaven.
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The wicked have
not yet been raised,
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the rest of the dead
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Revelation 20:6,
did not live again
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until the 1,000
years are finished.
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So the wicked will
be resurrected. Yeah.
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But not until later on.
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So, so how is Satan bound?
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If you take that
in a literal sense,
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what could bind him?
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If something could bind him,
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we'll find it--we'll find
out what is it in bind him now?
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The only thing
that can bind him,
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as first Peter
talks about this--
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this place called Tartarus.
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He was delivered
in chains of darkness,
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the Bible says reserve
unto the day of judgment.
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So right now the only binding is
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the Lord limits Satan as
he did on the activity of Job.
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He says, you can't,
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no, no, I'm not
letting you to take his life.
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So if Satan can take our
lives, do you think he'd do it?
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He'd do it in a heartbeat.
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So he is bound in that
sense and the very same way
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he'll be bound
during the 1,000 years.
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The righteous are in heaven,
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the wicked have
not been raised yet.
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So who is on the earth?
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Let me go and
read the Bible to you.
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Jeremiah 4:23.
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And them I'm gonna
read Jeremiah 25:33.
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So what happens to
this? Listen to this.
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Jeremiah 4:23,
"I beheld the earth,
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and it was
without form and void."
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Just like it
was in the creation.
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"And the heavens
they had no light,
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I beheld in mountains
and indeed they trembled
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and all the hills
moved back and forth.
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I beheld and
indeed there was no man."
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This is the
condition of the earth.
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"And all the birds
of the heavens had fled
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I beheld and indeed
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the fruitful
land was a wilderness
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and all the cities
were broken down" how?
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"At the presence of the
Lord by His fierce anger."
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That's the condition
of the earth, no man.
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Well, where are they?
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In the grave, they
haven't raised yet or in heaven.
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They ascended
when Jesus came back.
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At the presence of the Lord
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the righteous
ascended to heaven.
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1 Corinthians, 1
Thessalonians 4:16-18.
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But then now let's
get this, watch this.
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"The whole land," verse 27,
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"shall be desolate, yet I
will not make a full end."
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Why hasn't he
made a full end yet?
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Because there is
a 1,000 years there.
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The full end comes at
the end of the 1,000 years.
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The full end of what?
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The full end of sin,
the full end of death,
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then comes the end,
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the last enemy that
will be destroyed is death.
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So the full end hasn't come.
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So what's, what's
gonna be the condition?
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Since there's no
man, no man alive,
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they were
destroyed by the brightness
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of the coming of the Lord,
David the Psalmist says that.
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They shall be slain by
the brightness of His coming."
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But now what's gonna
happen with those who die?
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What are they--
what's gonna go on with them?
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Listen to this, Jeremiah
25:33, "And at that day,"
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the Lord's "coming of the Lord"
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you see he says it
in verse 31 leading down
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"a noise will come
from the ends of the earth."
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Verse 31 of Jeremiah 25,
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"For the Lord has a
controversy with the nations,
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He will plead His
case with all flesh
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and He will give
those who are wicked
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to the sword says the Lord."
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That's what's gonna happen.
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Verse 32, "Thus
says the Lord of host,
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'Behold
disaster shall come forth
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from nation to
nation, and a great world
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when shall be raised up
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from the farthest
parts of the earth."
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This destruction
that will weak the earth.
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What's gonna happen now?
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Let's get this.
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Nobody is gonna be down
here to be performing funerals.
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Verification,
the very next verse.
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"And at that day the
slain of the Lord shall be
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from one end of the earth
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even to the
other end of the earth.
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They shall not be lamented,
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or gathered, or buried,
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they shall become
refuse on the ground."
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Just imagine the picture.
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There is no funeral
parlors functioning then
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because the funeral
directors are the righteous
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and is in heaven or
wicked and he's been killed
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by the brightness of
the coming of the Lord.
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So what happened
to all those people
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running the
streets of the cities
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and running through
the villages of the towns
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that are not righteous?
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The brightness of
the Lord destroys them
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and they fall right where
the destruction has left them
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and they lay on the ground
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and they are
refuse on the ground.
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So what happens?
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That's the sense of the
binding for the 1,000 years.
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The devil, who God
has a special destruction
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waiting for will be destroyed
at the end of the 1,000 years.
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One of the reasons just
a little point to add here,
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one of the reasons why I think
00:20:41.53\00:20:43.49
so much confusion
is there on this topic
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is because a lot of
those in the Christian faith
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have kind of thrown
out the Old Testament. Oh.
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And the Old Testament speaks
00:20:52.74\00:20:54.35
just as much or more about
the second coming of Jesus.
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And even the third coming
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with His saints
in the New Jerusalem
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than the New Testament does.
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And when you throw
out the Old Testament,
00:21:04.52\00:21:06.54
you don't have an anchor.
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And you can use--you
can read the New Testament
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and you can try and hit it
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and you can do a good job of it,
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if you are open to
really being led by
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scripture and scripture alone,
00:21:17.42\00:21:18.53
but the real
benefit is when you go back
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to the writings of
Isaiah and Jeremiah and Ezekiel
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and all these that
speak of that event.
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Because they're
very, very important
00:21:29.49\00:21:30.88
to get you that anchor,
that root in this teaching.
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And so--so this
destruction of the devil
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just to cap it off
Ezekiel 28 just to cap it off.
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I think I need to cap it off
to show you the ultimate end.
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Because John, go to Malachi,
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I mean, you could follow me
in Ezekiel but go to Malachi.
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You know, where I'm
going Malachi Chapter--
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You mean, another
Old Testament Book.
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The Bible-- you
know when the Bible--
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this is funny, John, but.
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When the Lord
read from the word,
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He read the Old Testament.
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The apostles, disciples,
they read the Old Testament.
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So there was no New Testament
00:22:01.53\00:22:02.87
in the days of the
apostles and the disciples.
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There was no New Testament.
00:22:05.33\00:22:06.36
It's way down the road
00:22:06.39\00:22:07.52
that the New
Testament was put together.
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But they wrote the
things in the New Testament
00:22:09.10\00:22:11.13
because of what they
learned from the old.
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There you ago.
00:22:13.07\00:22:14.12
And all the prophecies
fulfilled about Christ
00:22:14.15\00:22:16.57
were from the Old Testament.
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When He says, all scripture
is given by inspiration of God,
00:22:19.76\00:22:23.04
when Paul said that,
00:22:23.07\00:22:24.18
he was talking
about the Old Testament.
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Anyway I think
the point is made.
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Okay, now
speaking about Lucifer.
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You're in Malachi,
you know the place--
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Yeah, I'm, I'm ready to go.
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Okay, great.
00:22:32.62\00:22:33.71
Now Lucifer who became
this destroying angel who--
00:22:33.74\00:22:37.04
who lost his state in heaven,
00:22:37.07\00:22:38.81
look at what his
ultimate end is going to be.
00:22:38.84\00:22:40.94
And this is the lake
of fire that we talk about
00:22:40.97\00:22:42.71
whoever has not
written the Book of Life
00:22:42.74\00:22:43.97
will be cast
into the lake of fire,
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this the second
death, Revelation 20.
00:22:45.55\00:22:48.37
Here it is, the
Lord's speaks of him
00:22:48.40\00:22:50.05
He says, in Ezekiel 20:17,
00:22:50.08\00:22:53.05
your heart speaking of Satan,
00:22:53.08\00:22:55.72
speaking of Satan now
who used to be Lucifer.
00:22:55.75\00:22:58.47
"Your heart was lifted
up because of your beauty,
00:22:58.50\00:23:01.16
you corrupted your wisdom
for the sake of your splendor.
00:23:01.19\00:23:04.95
I cast you to the ground,
00:23:04.98\00:23:06.88
I laid you before kings
that they might gaze at you.
00:23:06.91\00:23:12.26
You defiled your sanctuaries
00:23:12.29\00:23:14.52
by the multitude
of your iniquities."
00:23:14.55\00:23:17.67
And notice what he says,
00:23:17.70\00:23:18.92
"Therefore I brought
fire from your midst,
00:23:18.95\00:23:23.25
it devoured you
00:23:23.28\00:23:25.61
and I turned you to
ashes upon the earth
00:23:25.64\00:23:29.55
in the sight of all who saw you.
00:23:29.58\00:23:31.82
All who knew you
among the peoples
00:23:31.85\00:23:34.04
are astonished at you,
you have become a horror
00:23:34.07\00:23:37.83
and shall be no more forever."
00:23:37.86\00:23:40.88
That's Satan ultimate--
that Satan's ultimate end.
00:23:40.91\00:23:43.84
And here is the
point, I'm gonna transition
00:23:43.87\00:23:45.10
and give John the next mantle.
00:23:45.13\00:23:46.88
If Satan is
going to become ashes,
00:23:46.91\00:23:49.03
how will those who served him
00:23:49.06\00:23:50.67
burn for ever and ever
and ever and ever and ever?
00:23:50.70\00:23:54.62
That's right.
Satan is gonna be ashes.
00:23:54.65\00:23:56.23
Now read the ultimate end there.
00:23:56.26\00:23:58.25
This is from Malachi 4:1,
00:23:58.28\00:24:01.07
"For behold, the day is
coming, burning like an oven,"
00:24:01.10\00:24:04.55
and all the proud yes,
00:24:04.58\00:24:05.77
"all who do
wickedly will be stubble.
00:24:05.80\00:24:09.29
And the day which is
coming shall burn them up
00:24:09.32\00:24:11.52
says the Lord of host
00:24:11.55\00:24:12.78
that will leave them
neither root nor branch.
00:24:12.81\00:24:15.94
But to you who fear My
name the Son of Righteousness
00:24:15.97\00:24:19.43
shall arise with
healing in His wings,
00:24:19.46\00:24:21.14
and you shall go out and
grow fat like stall-fed calves.
00:24:21.17\00:24:25.57
You shall trample the wicked,
00:24:25.60\00:24:27.39
for they shall be ashes
under the soles of your feet
00:24:27.42\00:24:30.34
on the day that I do
this," says the Lord of hosts.
00:24:30.37\00:24:32.38
Okay, the devil
is gonna be ashes
00:24:32.41\00:24:34.23
the wicked are gonna be ashes.
00:24:34.26\00:24:35.59
There will be no
eternally burning hell.
00:24:35.62\00:24:37.93
The fires of hell will
burn as long as it takes
00:24:37.96\00:24:42.24
to eradicate sin and sinners.
00:24:42.27\00:24:44.12
And this is description of
the third return of Christ.
00:24:44.15\00:24:46.49
Exactly. After the 1,000 years.
00:24:46.52\00:24:47.72
After the 1,000
years, when Revelation
00:24:47.75\00:24:50.05
says it there
clearly here it is.
00:24:50.08\00:24:53.74
Revelation 20, "They went up
on the breadth of the earth."
00:24:53.77\00:24:57.53
Verse 9, and they
this is the resurrection.
00:24:57.56\00:24:59.87
They went up the
second resurrection.
00:24:59.90\00:25:02.16
"They went up on
the breadth of the earth
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and surrounded
the camp of the saints
00:25:03.70\00:25:05.50
and the beloved city
and fire came down from God
00:25:05.53\00:25:10.31
out of heaven
and devoured them."
00:25:10.34\00:25:15.12
So when you ask the
question, how did the saints--
00:25:15.15\00:25:17.45
how did the city of the
saints get to the, to be there?
00:25:17.48\00:25:20.41
It tells you clearly.
00:25:20.44\00:25:22.08
I saw new heaven
and the holy city,
00:25:22.11\00:25:24.08
New Jerusalem
descending from heaven,
00:25:24.11\00:25:26.20
coming out of
heaven to the earth
00:25:26.23\00:25:28.67
prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband,
00:25:28.70\00:25:30.74
there in Revelation.
00:25:30.77\00:25:31.95
It tells you,
the city came down.
00:25:31.98\00:25:34.34
God established
on earth His kingdom.
00:25:34.37\00:25:38.51
Established at the
end of the 1,000 years,
00:25:38.54\00:25:41.47
end of the 1,000
years on the earth
00:25:41.50\00:25:43.33
and the devil
seeing the city says
00:25:43.36\00:25:45.24
to all those who
are finally resurrected
00:25:45.27\00:25:47.29
in the second resurrection,
let's take the city
00:25:47.32\00:25:49.84
and fire comes down from God
00:25:49.87\00:25:51.27
out of heaven and devours them.
00:25:51.30\00:25:53.43
It's important to remember here
00:25:53.46\00:25:54.59
the prophecies of Revelation
aren't sequential in everyway.
00:25:54.62\00:25:58.07
There are, there are pictures,
00:25:58.10\00:25:59.39
snapshots that are
sequential in and of themselves,
00:25:59.42\00:26:03.20
but there are snapshots
that God is showing you
00:26:03.23\00:26:06.27
of what will happen in
the future. That's right.
00:26:06.30\00:26:08.08
So he, just
because in Chapter 21
00:26:08.11\00:26:11.29
it shows that John,
it says the John saw
00:26:11.32\00:26:13.96
the New Jerusalem
coming down out of heaven,
00:26:13.99\00:26:16.40
doesn't mean that that
00:26:16.43\00:26:18.41
is not giving the
time of that occurring
00:26:18.44\00:26:20.50
because in Chapter 20
00:26:20.53\00:26:22.78
at the end of that chapter
the city is there. Right.
00:26:22.81\00:26:25.83
So in other words
you can't just say
00:26:25.86\00:26:27.83
well, you know, it comes--
one comes after the other,
00:26:27.86\00:26:30.42
so one must happen after
the other, it's not that simple.
00:26:30.45\00:26:33.03
Right and so the
reason why Chapter 21
00:26:33.06\00:26:34.90
speaks about the
descent of the cities
00:26:34.93\00:26:36.36
because it's
dealing with all the details
00:26:36.39\00:26:38.29
concerning this
city, the amount of gates,
00:26:38.32\00:26:39.97
the foundations, the names,
the apostles, the disciples,
00:26:40.00\00:26:43.33
he has given you all
the details about that city.
00:26:43.36\00:26:46.10
That's why
that's the city chapter.
00:26:46.13\00:26:48.54
Revelation 20 is
the judgment chapter.
00:26:48.57\00:26:51.23
That's the
whole context of that.
00:26:51.26\00:26:52.76
In Revelation 22
00:26:52.79\00:26:53.82
is the new
earth, new life chapter.
00:26:53.85\00:26:56.99
Praise God for that.
00:26:57.02\00:26:58.39
Wow, I think
that was pretty clear,
00:26:58.42\00:27:00.45
so here is the answer.
00:27:00.48\00:27:02.11
Does the devil
have eternal life? No.
00:27:02.14\00:27:04.87
Why?
00:27:04.90\00:27:06.06
Is he gonna be able
to deceive the nations
00:27:06.09\00:27:07.60
at the end of the 1,000 years
00:27:07.63\00:27:08.71
because all those evil nations
00:27:08.74\00:27:10.95
are finally resurrected
in the second resurrection.
00:27:10.98\00:27:14.23
John 5:29 "And shall come forth,
00:27:14.26\00:27:17.74
they that have done good,
to the resurrection of life,"
00:27:17.77\00:27:21.36
first one "and they
that have done evil,
00:27:21.39\00:27:23.65
to the
resurrection of condemnation."
00:27:23.68\00:27:25.48
Second one. We're
looking forward by God's grace
00:27:25.51\00:27:29.41
and I think it's a
perfect segue, John,
00:27:29.44\00:27:31.70
into our topic
on the resurrection.
00:27:31.73\00:27:33.64
So thank you for your
questions and your comments.
00:27:33.67\00:27:35.69
If you have anymore
that you like to send to us,
00:27:35.72\00:27:38.68
you can submit
those to us at our email
00:27:38.71\00:27:41.29
that's housecalls@3abn.org,
housecalls@3abn.org.
00:27:41.32\00:27:48.82
And thank you so
much for those questions.
00:27:48.85\00:27:52.23
We're gonna
transition straight up today
00:27:52.26\00:27:54.01
into our topic today because
we've laid some great foundation
00:27:54.04\00:27:57.46
on the topic of
the resurrection.
00:27:57.49\00:28:00.50
See clearly making known
00:28:00.53\00:28:03.61
that--when a
person dies-- I think
00:28:03.64\00:28:07.15
we just need to read one text.
00:28:07.18\00:28:08.63
When a person dies the place
00:28:08.66\00:28:11.04
that they end
up is in the grave.
00:28:11.07\00:28:13.84
They don't end
up in the kingdom.
00:28:13.87\00:28:19.78
Ecclesiastes
9:5-6. And the premise
00:28:19.81\00:28:22.58
of this here then is
and we're not going into
00:28:22.61\00:28:27.17
the entire teaching of soul
and body and all those things
00:28:27.20\00:28:31.08
the--the misconceptions
there but the whole man,
00:28:31.11\00:28:36.40
so his body, mind everything
about us that is in the grave.
00:28:36.43\00:28:42.53
There is no soul
departing and going
00:28:42.56\00:28:44.10
to heaven
separate from the grave.
00:28:44.13\00:28:46.00
Nowhere in the
Bible is that found.
00:28:46.03\00:28:48.01
So that's the premise.
00:28:48.04\00:28:49.31
So when the Bible is
speaking of resting in the grave
00:28:49.34\00:28:52.14
it means the
whole person is there.
00:28:52.17\00:28:53.65
That's right.
That's why we take them.
00:28:53.68\00:28:55.40
When the funeral is done,
where do we go, to the cemetery?
00:28:55.43\00:28:59.68
So let's go
ahead and jump at some.
00:28:59.71\00:29:01.16
Well, and
that's what--the reason
00:29:01.19\00:29:02.48
I say that is that's why there
is a need of the resurrection.
00:29:02.51\00:29:06.85
There would be no
need for a resurrection
00:29:06.88\00:29:09.92
if everybody was already there.
00:29:09.95\00:29:12.81
And that's the key,
that's the key point.
00:29:12.84\00:29:14.98
That's the key--have we noticed,
have you noticed that all,
00:29:15.01\00:29:17.85
no matter what
denomination some churches
00:29:17.88\00:29:19.93
have cemeteries
in their backyard.
00:29:19.96\00:29:23.28
You know, where that person is?
00:29:23.31\00:29:24.76
In the cemetery.
00:29:24.79\00:29:27.27
Job says, if I
wait, I apologize,
00:29:27.30\00:29:31.60
I got to take you
to the Book of Job
00:29:31.63\00:29:32.85
real quickly and then
we're gonna dive into it.
00:29:32.88\00:29:34.68
As you're going there, I just
make a quick statement here.
00:29:34.71\00:29:37.17
Okay. Some recent,
00:29:37.21\00:29:39.59
fairly recent conclusions
came out from some studies
00:29:39.62\00:29:42.94
and I think one of the things
that the scientific community
00:29:42.97\00:29:45.74
really struggles with
when it comes to Christians
00:29:45.77\00:29:47.54
is some of our--our false
beliefs and this is one of them.
00:29:47.57\00:29:51.87
Oh, man. The
scientific community
00:29:51.90\00:29:53.96
doesn't understand this idea
of thinking without a brain.
00:29:53.99\00:29:58.59
It just doesn't work for them.
00:29:58.62\00:30:00.85
And so this--this idea
of-- of some soul that somewhere
00:30:00.88\00:30:04.37
that they're in
heaven and there is you know
00:30:04.40\00:30:06.18
and the bodies down
here and the brain is dead
00:30:06.21\00:30:08.23
and the way the, the
scientists and biologists
00:30:08.26\00:30:12.50
and those have come together
to prove the absolute dependence
00:30:12.53\00:30:16.40
we have on the physical
makeup of our brain to think,
00:30:16.43\00:30:20.74
confuses them with
this idea that people
00:30:20.77\00:30:24.55
are in heaven
already, how are they,
00:30:24.58\00:30:25.87
how are they thinking and doing
and it doesn't make any sense.
00:30:25.90\00:30:28.81
No. And I think it doesn't make
00:30:28.84\00:30:31.68
any sense because it's not true.
00:30:31.71\00:30:34.27
We think because
our brain is active.
00:30:34.30\00:30:36.81
We live because our,
our heart is beating,
00:30:36.84\00:30:40.33
blood is pumping.
00:30:40.36\00:30:42.08
Without those functions,
we don't live anymore.
00:30:42.11\00:30:45.62
That is the clearest can be
and this teaching goes way back.
00:30:45.65\00:30:48.34
It's not, it is a--you mentioned
it before a Greek philosophy
00:30:48.37\00:30:52.56
with these ideas, these
traditions came into the church.
00:30:52.59\00:30:55.52
They are not biblical.
00:30:55.55\00:30:57.21
I'm glad you
reminded me of that because
00:30:57.24\00:30:58.89
I was trying to draw my memory
00:30:58.92\00:31:00.19
to find out what the phrase is.
00:31:00.22\00:31:01.84
If you study this just
many of you have access
00:31:01.87\00:31:05.14
to the internet, most of you do.
00:31:05.17\00:31:06.69
Type in this phrase,
00:31:06.72\00:31:08.31
neo-- not Neo paganism,
00:31:08.34\00:31:14.54
Neoplatonism,
thank you Neoplatonism.
00:31:16.42\00:31:20.67
Look that up and you'll discover
where this diabolical teaching
00:31:20.70\00:31:24.35
of the soul body and
spirit being separate.
00:31:24.38\00:31:26.75
It was a teaching of Plato
that very famous philosopher.
00:31:26.78\00:31:31.55
Neoplatonism it
inhabited the church
00:31:31.58\00:31:35.10
even during the time of Christ,
that's one of the reasons John
00:31:35.13\00:31:38.88
why Jesus stayed
away for four days.
00:31:38.91\00:31:41.83
You know, a lot
on people wonder,
00:31:41.86\00:31:43.22
why would He do that to a
family that He loves so much?
00:31:43.25\00:31:45.80
Why would He hear
that Lazarus's near death
00:31:45.83\00:31:48.62
and He would
disappoint Mary and Martha
00:31:48.65\00:31:51.22
and stay away for four days?
00:31:51.25\00:31:52.86
Because under the
Neoplatonistic teaching,
00:31:52.89\00:31:55.28
they believe that the
soul-- this is with the teaching
00:31:55.31\00:31:58.30
that came out of Neoplatonism.
00:31:58.33\00:32:00.08
They believe that the soul
made an attempt for three days
00:32:00.11\00:32:03.92
straight to get
back into the body.
00:32:03.95\00:32:05.91
And if it was
successful the person
00:32:05.94\00:32:07.72
will come back to life.
00:32:07.75\00:32:09.51
In order to
debunk that teaching,
00:32:09.54\00:32:12.41
Jesus stayed away
for how many days? Four.
00:32:12.44\00:32:15.75
He stayed away for four days,
so when He got there and Martha
00:32:15.78\00:32:19.44
met Him on the way as He
is coming close to the house
00:32:19.47\00:32:22.20
she said, Lord if you had been
00:32:22.23\00:32:25.24
here my brother
would not have died.
00:32:25.27\00:32:28.76
And He said to her, all right,
your brother will rise again.
00:32:28.79\00:32:33.72
And she said, I know my
brother would rise again
00:32:33.75\00:32:37.30
in the
resurrection at the last day.
00:32:37.33\00:32:40.77
Martha knew it. That's right.
00:32:40.80\00:32:43.30
She knew about the resurrection,
00:32:43.33\00:32:44.74
but for this family Jesus
was gonna do something special.
00:32:44.77\00:32:47.91
Now the reality of it is
even after He raised Lazarus,
00:32:47.94\00:32:51.61
Lazarus eventually died again.
00:32:51.64\00:32:53.41
And Lazarus is waiting
00:32:53.44\00:32:54.54
for the
resurrection of the Lord.
00:32:54.57\00:32:56.11
But he said to Martha, "I am
the resurrection and the life.
00:32:56.14\00:33:00.89
He who believes in me,
00:33:00.92\00:33:02.07
though he were
dead, yet shall he live.
00:33:02.10\00:33:05.03
And he who lives and
believes in Me shall never die."
00:33:05.06\00:33:07.64
Do you believe this?
00:33:07.67\00:33:09.39
Now get this, this
is what he didn't say.
00:33:09.42\00:33:10.94
He didn't say, though
he is dead, he does live.
00:33:10.97\00:33:14.41
Exactly. He will live.
00:33:14.44\00:33:16.23
That's right. Future tense.
00:33:16.26\00:33:17.50
And then when He
said, :He who lives
00:33:17.53\00:33:19.13
and believes in
Me shall never die."
00:33:19.16\00:33:20.77
He wasn't saying oh,
ah, they don't really die.
00:33:20.80\00:33:23.41
He was saying, they are
not gonna die in what way?
00:33:23.44\00:33:26.46
The second death.
00:33:26.49\00:33:28.48
Blessed and holy
is he who has part
00:33:28.51\00:33:30.66
in the first resurrection
over such the second death
00:33:30.69\00:33:33.79
has no power because the
fact was Lazarus had died.
00:33:33.82\00:33:37.61
So this death that
the Christian will be able
00:33:37.64\00:33:39.78
to evade is the second death.
00:33:39.81\00:33:42.34
But just very quickly Job 14,
just to show you where we are
00:33:42.37\00:33:46.80
and then we're
gonna dive right into
00:33:46.83\00:33:47.96
our first question
on the resurrection.
00:33:48.00\00:33:50.41
Job 14:12 all right.
00:33:50.44\00:33:54.62
Well Job 14:10, "But
man dies and is laid away,
00:33:54.65\00:33:59.21
indeed he breathes
his last and where is he?"
00:33:59.24\00:34:04.46
That's a viable question.
00:34:04.49\00:34:05.83
Where is He? Is he in
heaven, is he in--where is he?
00:34:05.86\00:34:08.15
Where is he, how
clear can the question be?
00:34:08.18\00:34:11.21
And the answer
comes up in verse 11.
00:34:11.24\00:34:13.82
Read that for us, John,
just to change the tone.
00:34:13.85\00:34:15.92
"As water
disappears from the sea,
00:34:15.95\00:34:18.17
And a river becomes
parched and dries up,
00:34:18.20\00:34:21.07
So man lies down
and does not rise.
00:34:21.10\00:34:23.80
Till the heavens are no more,
00:34:23.83\00:34:25.65
They will not awake Nor
be roused from their sleep.
00:34:25.68\00:34:28.57
How long, they do not rise
till the heavens are no more.
00:34:28.60\00:34:31.78
And then look at
verse 13 now back to me.
00:34:31.81\00:34:34.12
"Oh, that you would
hide me in the grave,"
00:34:34.15\00:34:38.62
Job, a righteous man said.
00:34:38.65\00:34:40.68
That you will,
"That you would conceal me
00:34:40.71\00:34:44.08
until Your wrath is
past, that you would appoint me
00:34:44.11\00:34:48.54
a set time and remember me."
00:34:48.57\00:34:53.33
How long is he gonna stay there?
00:34:53.36\00:34:55.02
According to verse
14, he says I'm gonna stay
00:34:55.05\00:34:57.97
there until my
change comes. So he says--
00:34:58.00\00:35:01.53
And wrath, and
wrath of God is passed.
00:35:01.56\00:35:02.64
Until the wrath
of God is passed.
00:35:02.67\00:35:04.24
Hide me in the grave
until your wrath is passed.
00:35:04.27\00:35:06.73
When is the wrath of
God going to be revealed?
00:35:06.76\00:35:08.78
In the future, in
the seven last plagues.
00:35:08.81\00:35:11.29
He says, when you are done
with that, then I'll come out.
00:35:11.32\00:35:14.27
Yeah. That's the resurrection.
00:35:14.30\00:35:15.84
That the book
end-- if you gonna take
00:35:15.87\00:35:17.83
two book end text passages
take this one from Job 14
00:35:17.86\00:35:21.22
and take 1 Corinthians 15.
00:35:21.25\00:35:22.59
Beautiful. Take
those two and read
00:35:22.62\00:35:24.80
those together
and you will develop,
00:35:24.83\00:35:27.08
you begin to develop a real
good solid foundation for death
00:35:27.11\00:35:31.83
lying in a grave
resting resurrection.
00:35:31.86\00:35:36.32
So let's do this since we've
been saying we're gonna do this.
00:35:36.35\00:35:38.86
Let's go to our first question.
00:35:38.89\00:35:42.45
I'm gonna just
dive into it in John 20,
00:35:42.48\00:35:44.81
John, Matthew 27:63.
00:35:44.84\00:35:49.25
We want to clearly reestablish
something that has been deleted.
00:35:49.28\00:35:53.06
Deleted, this word I've
been used, I've been using.
00:35:53.09\00:35:56.11
This whole idea
of a resurrection
00:35:56.14\00:35:58.70
has been deleted somewhere.
00:35:58.73\00:36:00.71
What message was delivered to
Pilate after the death of Jesus?
00:36:00.74\00:36:04.44
Matthew 27:63, even
verse 62 if you want to read
00:36:04.47\00:36:08.82
just to kind of
get the context of it.
00:36:08.85\00:36:10.34
"On the next day, which followed
the Day of Preparation,"
00:36:10.37\00:36:14.35
so this is gonna
be now on the Sabbath
00:36:14.38\00:36:17.13
"the chief priests
and the Pharisees gathered
00:36:17.16\00:36:19.43
together to Pilate,
saying, 'Sir, we remember,
00:36:19.46\00:36:22.17
while He was still
alive, how that deceiver said,
00:36:22.20\00:36:25.82
"After three days I will rise.'"
00:36:25.85\00:36:28.29
Okay, now they-- even
though they didn't like
00:36:28.32\00:36:31.83
Jesus they
remembered that He said
00:36:31.86\00:36:34.48
after three days I will rise.
00:36:34.51\00:36:37.99
Now let me ask a question.
00:36:38.02\00:36:39.85
This-- this really you know
00:36:39.88\00:36:41.85
when we did this at our
once in our Bible study,
00:36:41.88\00:36:45.95
people sat back
and said I never heard
00:36:45.98\00:36:48.48
it that way before.
00:36:48.51\00:36:49.69
And here is the question.
00:36:49.72\00:36:51.46
Who is more
worthy than Jesus to die
00:36:51.49\00:36:54.76
and go right to heaven?
00:36:54.79\00:36:56.89
Who is more worthy?
00:36:56.92\00:36:58.41
Nobody. Nobody.
00:36:58.44\00:36:59.79
Did He go right to
heaven when he died?
00:36:59.82\00:37:01.32
No, He didn't. No, He didn't.
00:37:01.35\00:37:02.69
Because He himself
said, go to Mark 9:31.
00:37:02.72\00:37:05.78
Look at Mark
9:31, they, even though
00:37:05.81\00:37:09.05
they didn't like Jesus they
said I remember what He said.
00:37:09.08\00:37:13.04
He said that I will rise
after three days which means
00:37:13.07\00:37:18.08
He didn't go directly to heaven.
00:37:18.11\00:37:20.19
Look at Mark 9:31
and this how Jesus
00:37:20.22\00:37:22.53
encouraged His disciples.
00:37:22.56\00:37:23.94
Look at what He said.
00:37:23.97\00:37:25.08
"He taught His
disciples and said to them,
00:37:25.11\00:37:27.63
'The Son of Man is being
betrayed into the hands of men,
00:37:27.66\00:37:30.39
and they will kill Him.
00:37:30.42\00:37:32.06
And after He is killed,
He will rise the third day.'"
00:37:32.09\00:37:35.20
Okay, Jesus' own
words encouraging
00:37:35.23\00:37:38.02
His disciples-- I know you heard
00:37:38.05\00:37:40.14
that I'm gonna be killed.
00:37:40.17\00:37:41.30
But let me encourage you,
I will rise the third day.
00:37:41.33\00:37:45.24
And when He rose that
conversation between him
00:37:45.27\00:37:49.50
and Mary in the
garden, she thought He was
00:37:49.53\00:37:51.26
the gardener remember that?
00:37:51.29\00:37:53.59
She is about cling
on to Him and He says,
00:37:53.62\00:37:55.67
do not cling to me, I have
not yet ascended to my Father.
00:37:55.70\00:38:00.94
Yeah. That's the
third day when He rose.
00:38:00.97\00:38:03.33
So He didn't
die and go to heaven
00:38:03.36\00:38:04.62
and there is no one
more worthy than Jesus to die
00:38:04.65\00:38:08.02
and go directly
to heaven and even
00:38:08.05\00:38:10.07
He didn't because He
taught the resurrection.
00:38:10.10\00:38:12.96
Which answers the
question when some always say,
00:38:12.99\00:38:17.00
what about the
thief on the cross?
00:38:17.03\00:38:18.73
He said, today you'll
be with me in paradise.
00:38:18.76\00:38:21.28
Exactly. We know by Jesus'
00:38:21.31\00:38:23.41
own admission that He was
never in paradise that day.
00:38:23.44\00:38:27.28
That's right. He was killed,
00:38:27.31\00:38:28.95
He laid in the grave
and He rose three days later
00:38:28.98\00:38:31.73
only to tell Mary that He
had not yet gone to paradise.
00:38:31.76\00:38:36.21
And--and people often
ignore what the thief asked.
00:38:36.24\00:38:38.99
The thief then say,
could I go to paradise
00:38:39.02\00:38:41.00
with You today?
00:38:41.03\00:38:42.06
The thief said,
remember me when you come.
00:38:42.09\00:38:45.24
That's right. Into your kingdom.
00:38:45.27\00:38:47.02
He didn't say,
remember when you leave.
00:38:47.05\00:38:49.62
He said remember
me when you come.
00:38:49.65\00:38:51.84
He didn't say take me now?
00:38:51.87\00:38:53.12
He didn't-- it's
amazing how people read
00:38:53.15\00:38:56.01
into the Bible what's not there.
00:38:56.04\00:38:57.46
Matter of fact, John, I
want to--I want to digress
00:38:57.49\00:39:00.01
here just briefly and
is not even digressing,
00:39:00.04\00:39:01.81
but it's actually
going to the Bible
00:39:01.84\00:39:03.29
to see-- there
are certain verses
00:39:03.32\00:39:04.91
in the Bible
that is so powerful.
00:39:04.94\00:39:06.41
One of those is John
16:33, go there with me.
00:39:06.44\00:39:10.00
Read that John 16:33.
00:39:10.03\00:39:12.87
This is powerful, this
is powerful in the sense
00:39:12.90\00:39:14.93
that the Lord
said to His disciples,
00:39:14.96\00:39:18.58
they--where I'm going,
you know, where I'm going
00:39:18.61\00:39:20.59
but you're not going with me.
00:39:20.62\00:39:22.38
Is it John--John 13:33. Yeah.
00:39:22.41\00:39:24.64
John 13:33. Look at what
He said to His disciples.
00:39:24.67\00:39:29.18
This whole ideology
that they're going right way
00:39:29.21\00:39:31.78
is not taught in Scripture.
00:39:31.81\00:39:33.05
Jesus never taught that in any
00:39:33.08\00:39:35.35
of His
discourses to His disciples.
00:39:35.38\00:39:37.44
Look what He says in John 13:33.
00:39:37.47\00:39:40.04
Read it for us, John.
00:39:40.07\00:39:41.28
"Little children I shall be
with you a little while longer,
00:39:41.31\00:39:44.39
you will seek Me and
as I have said to the Jews
00:39:44.42\00:39:47.85
where I am
going you cannot come.
00:39:47.88\00:39:49.71
So now I say to you."
00:39:49.74\00:39:52.11
So--so get it. What
is He talking about?
00:39:52.14\00:39:54.29
He's talking
about His glorification
00:39:54.32\00:39:55.77
because in verse 31 He
says, "So, when he had gone out,
00:39:55.80\00:39:59.77
Jesus said, 'Now the
Son of Man is glorified,
00:39:59.80\00:40:02.57
and God is glorified.'"
00:40:02.60\00:40:04.84
We'll look a
little further, verse 36.
00:40:04.87\00:40:06.94
Okay. "Simon Peter said to Him,
00:40:06.97\00:40:08.73
'Lord, where are you going?'
00:40:08.76\00:40:10.65
Jesus answered him,
'Where I am going you cannot
00:40:10.68\00:40:13.54
follow Me now, but you
shall follow Me afterward.'"
00:40:13.57\00:40:16.95
That's right.
Afterward, well some say well,
00:40:16.98\00:40:20.12
that's after death. No.
00:40:20.15\00:40:21.31
But that's not
what, what He's saying.
00:40:21.34\00:40:23.02
Because every else,
everywhere else in the Bible
00:40:23.05\00:40:25.64
the afterward is
not death. Exactly.
00:40:25.67\00:40:27.62
The afterward is when Jesus
00:40:27.66\00:40:29.10
comes back at the resurrection.
00:40:29.13\00:40:31.28
He said that again in John 8:22,
00:40:31.31\00:40:34.00
He made a soul abundantly clear.
00:40:34.03\00:40:35.71
John 8:22 is another
passage here where it says,
00:40:35.74\00:40:41.00
"So the Jew said," we will
kill "Will he kill Himself,
00:40:41.03\00:40:46.09
because He said,
'Where I go you cannot come?'
00:40:46.12\00:40:50.63
And He said to them,
'You are from beneath,
00:40:50.67\00:40:54.24
I am from above.'"
00:40:54.27\00:40:56.61
So what was He saying
they cannot come, above.
00:40:56.64\00:40:59.71
He is making it very clear.
00:40:59.74\00:41:01.10
When He talked about
where they cannot go,
00:41:01.13\00:41:03.59
He was saying they can't go
above that's where He is from.
00:41:03.62\00:41:06.31
And so this whole
ideology has been divorced.
00:41:06.34\00:41:08.84
And by the way, let me
even add another component.
00:41:08.87\00:41:12.16
Not only was this teaching
clear with the disciples
00:41:12.19\00:41:15.89
but this teaching was
clear with the Old Testament
00:41:15.92\00:41:18.90
those who died
in the Old Testament
00:41:18.93\00:41:20.88
and those who died
in the New Testament.
00:41:20.91\00:41:22.95
What did they look forward to?
00:41:22.98\00:41:25.07
John go to, go to Hebrews 11.
00:41:25.10\00:41:28.25
What did they
all look forward to?
00:41:28.28\00:41:29.82
They all had a desire
to see something happened
00:41:29.85\00:41:31.90
and the Bible is so clear
about what they look forward to.
00:41:31.93\00:41:34.62
Let's look at that,
John, I mean Hebrews 11:35.
00:41:34.65\00:41:39.29
I want you to
just read that one.
00:41:39.32\00:41:40.66
"Women received their
dead raised to life again.
00:41:40.69\00:41:43.37
Others were tortured,
not accepting deliverance,
00:41:43.40\00:41:45.59
that they might obtain
a better resurrection."
00:41:45.62\00:41:48.17
Okay, now
Hebrews 11 is the faith
00:41:48.20\00:41:50.64
book or the
faith chapter, sorry.
00:41:50.67\00:41:52.88
Talk about all of the faithful
00:41:52.91\00:41:56.55
but what did
they look forward to?
00:41:56.58\00:41:58.58
A better death?
00:41:58.61\00:42:00.12
What did they
look forward to, John?
00:42:00.15\00:42:01.78
They looked forward
to a better resurrection
00:42:01.81\00:42:04.54
which is clarified
in verses 39 and 40.
00:42:04.57\00:42:06.72
Read it. "And all these,
00:42:06.75\00:42:08.66
having obtained
a good testimony"
00:42:08.69\00:42:10.33
these are all the Matriarchs,
Patriarchs having received
00:42:10.36\00:42:13.88
a good testimony through faith,
did not receive the promise."
00:42:13.91\00:42:16.50
They died but they
never received the promise.
00:42:16.53\00:42:19.09
That's right. "God
having provided something
00:42:19.12\00:42:21.46
better for us,
that they should not
00:42:21.49\00:42:23.10
be made perfect apart from us."
00:42:23.13\00:42:25.22
Okay, what's perfect mean?
00:42:25.25\00:42:27.40
Putting on your mortality.
00:42:27.43\00:42:28.51
What is perfect mean?
00:42:28.54\00:42:29.75
Putting on incorruptibleness.
00:42:29.78\00:42:30.93
They won't do it before we will.
00:42:30.96\00:42:33.75
The God having something better
00:42:33.78\00:42:36.68
that they will not be
made perfect apart from us.
00:42:36.71\00:42:42.74
John the most-- the
most joyous occasion
00:42:42.77\00:42:46.25
we can experience on
this earth are reunions.
00:42:46.28\00:42:51.15
Reunions of family, of
friends, of classmates,
00:42:51.18\00:42:54.75
those are the
finest times I think
00:42:54.78\00:42:57.22
we can ever possibly have.
00:42:57.25\00:42:59.57
And Jesus has plan a
great reunion in the sky.
00:42:59.60\00:43:03.28
That's right. And that reunion
00:43:03.31\00:43:04.85
is at the resurrection.
00:43:04.88\00:43:06.23
No one will have
been to heaven yet,
00:43:06.26\00:43:08.31
everybody will with
anticipation be either raised
00:43:08.34\00:43:12.05
from the grave or caught
up in the air to meet them,
00:43:12.08\00:43:14.41
to meet Jesus in the
air and we will all go
00:43:14.44\00:43:16.70
at the same time
and during that time
00:43:16.73\00:43:19.70
as we are going that grand
reunion will happen in the sky.
00:43:19.73\00:43:23.20
And--in fact there is
one of the funeral sermons.
00:43:23.23\00:43:27.43
Oh, man. Tell us that I have
00:43:27.46\00:43:28.97
grand reunion. Grand reunion--
00:43:29.00\00:43:30.77
And that's the-- I
mean there is so much
00:43:30.80\00:43:32.77
in there about
the resurrection being
00:43:32.80\00:43:34.47
the reunion with
Christ and His saint
00:43:34.50\00:43:37.08
and the saints with the saints.
00:43:37.11\00:43:38.79
You know and
it's so imperatively
00:43:38.82\00:43:40.55
necessary another
thing that we will seek
00:43:40.58\00:43:42.91
to completely debunk is
the idea of the rapture.
00:43:42.94\00:43:46.88
People don't die and go
to heaven and the church
00:43:46.91\00:43:48.99
is not going to be swept
away before the tribulation.
00:43:49.02\00:43:51.07
Another lie weaved
during the Dark Ages.
00:43:51.10\00:43:54.80
Neoplatonism was
the-- was the first one
00:43:54.83\00:43:57.34
about the soul spirit
and body being separate
00:43:57.37\00:43:59.51
and the--and the gap
theory formulate about
00:43:59.54\00:44:02.72
the Catholic Church during
the Dark Ages was formulated
00:44:02.75\00:44:06.02
to teach what's now commonly
00:44:06.05\00:44:08.21
known today as
the secret rapture.
00:44:08.24\00:44:09.87
But neither of those is
true because listen to this,
00:44:09.90\00:44:12.54
Matthew 25 the
second coming of Christ
00:44:12.57\00:44:16.05
the doctrine--another
doctrine that's not been taught.
00:44:16.08\00:44:18.48
Because the rapture
all these left behind books
00:44:18.51\00:44:21.27
have left behind
everything, that's true.
00:44:21.30\00:44:23.45
Everything in these books
the truth has been left behind
00:44:23.48\00:44:26.13
if I can say that way.
00:44:26.16\00:44:27.59
But look at Matthew 25:31-34.
00:44:27.62\00:44:31.52
This is when the
gathering takes place.
00:44:31.55\00:44:33.50
The reason why they're
waiting for the better--better
00:44:33.53\00:44:35.76
resurrection
Hebrews 11:35, 39-40
00:44:35.79\00:44:39.33
is because they know
that later on in the future
00:44:39.36\00:44:41.89
when the Lord comes
that's when we're gonna
00:44:41.92\00:44:43.91
all possess the kingdom.
00:44:43.94\00:44:45.80
John, read Matthew 25:31-34.
00:44:45.83\00:44:50.45
"When the Son of
Man comes in His glory,
00:44:50.48\00:44:52.83
and all the
holy angels with Him,
00:44:52.86\00:44:54.97
then He will sit on
the throne of His glory.
00:44:55.00\00:44:57.59
All the nations will
be gathered before Him,
00:44:57.62\00:45:00.19
and He will separate
them one from another,
00:45:00.22\00:45:02.09
as a shepherd divides
his sheep from the goats."
00:45:02.12\00:45:04.92
Okay, stop before
we go to the verse.
00:45:04.95\00:45:06.46
All the nations, then
the separation takes place.
00:45:06.49\00:45:11.59
What's the separation for?
00:45:11.62\00:45:12.96
Who's going, who's
not going. Verse 33-34.
00:45:12.99\00:45:17.90
"And He will set the
sheep on His right hand,
00:45:17.93\00:45:21.13
but the goats on his left.
00:45:21.16\00:45:23.62
Then the King will say
to those on His right hand,
00:45:23.65\00:45:26.37
'Come, you blessed of My Father,
00:45:26.40\00:45:28.16
inherit the kingdom prepared
00:45:28.19\00:45:29.89
for you from the
foundation of the world.'"
00:45:29.92\00:45:31.84
That's where Paul
meant, inherit the kingdom,
00:45:31.87\00:45:34.04
1 Corinthians
15 then the kingdom
00:45:34.07\00:45:37.17
will be delivered of 1
Corinthians 15:23-24-25.
00:45:37.20\00:45:41.57
Then the kingdom
will be delivered.
00:45:41.60\00:45:43.79
Then who is he saying to
all those on His right hand
00:45:43.82\00:45:46.91
come and inherit the kingdom.
00:45:46.94\00:45:49.59
But this teaching that they
inherit the kingdom at death
00:45:49.62\00:45:52.32
is not supported by the Bible.
00:45:52.35\00:45:53.89
This is the Lord coming back
00:45:53.92\00:45:55.59
with all the
holy angels with Him,
00:45:55.62\00:45:57.86
all the nations
gathered in front of Him.
00:45:57.89\00:46:00.67
They are ready for the
gathering, the gathering.
00:46:00.70\00:46:03.10
And what's gonna
happen to the other group?
00:46:03.13\00:46:05.21
They gonna be
gathered in bundles to burn.
00:46:05.24\00:46:07.36
But the weed are gonna
be gathered into his barns,
00:46:07.39\00:46:10.38
that's another doctrine John,
that we have to hit the idea
00:46:10.41\00:46:13.17
that people are
in hell burning now.
00:46:13.20\00:46:16.85
They're not in hell burning now.
00:46:16.88\00:46:18.55
Anymore than
people are in heaven up
00:46:18.58\00:46:19.97
there dancing right now.
00:46:20.00\00:46:21.23
I got to give another text here.
00:46:21.26\00:46:22.75
I'm just on a roll today.
00:46:22.78\00:46:23.87
Well, one simple statement
on that to is--is a text
00:46:23.90\00:46:27.07
we've already read twice.
00:46:27.10\00:46:28.51
We've gone to Revelation
20 and Revelation 20 says,
00:46:28.54\00:46:31.20
fire came down out of
heaven and devoured them.
00:46:31.23\00:46:35.10
Creating the lake
of fire and devouring
00:46:35.13\00:46:37.57
those that were
thrown into a cast,
00:46:37.60\00:46:39.56
into the lake of fire. Right.
00:46:39.59\00:46:41.24
That is when it occurs fire
00:46:41.27\00:46:43.43
was-- it came
down out of heaven.
00:46:43.46\00:46:45.61
Not fire at the
center of the earth
00:46:45.64\00:46:47.41
or some other
place kindled already.
00:46:47.44\00:46:50.12
And in fact if
that was the case,
00:46:50.15\00:46:52.59
people would be burning--
if you accepted all these
00:46:52.62\00:46:55.63
false theories,
people will be burning
00:46:55.66\00:46:56.98
now to then come before judgment
00:46:57.01\00:46:59.55
and thrown into another
lake of fire to burn forever.
00:46:59.58\00:47:02.48
Doesn't make sense? It
doesn't make any sense.
00:47:02.51\00:47:04.79
So fire is not kindled now,
00:47:04.82\00:47:07.49
fire will be
kindled for the lake of fire
00:47:07.52\00:47:10.04
at the time that is needed.
00:47:10.07\00:47:11.83
And that's-- that's
what Matthew 13 says,
00:47:11.86\00:47:15.40
speaking about the judgment
00:47:15.43\00:47:16.80
and we'll get to
that in the moment.
00:47:16.83\00:47:18.04
I just want to just
insert this text very quickly.
00:47:18.07\00:47:20.53
Psalms 115:17 get
this, this is powerful.
00:47:20.56\00:47:24.28
Psalms 115:17, "The
dead do not praise the Lord,
00:47:24.32\00:47:30.20
neither any who go
down into silence."
00:47:30.23\00:47:34.96
Down into
silence, down into silence,
00:47:34.99\00:47:37.91
read what happened to all
00:47:37.94\00:47:39.23
the patriarchs in
the Old Testament.
00:47:39.26\00:47:41.12
The Bible say, the Bible says,
00:47:41.15\00:47:42.66
they died and was
buried with their fathers.
00:47:42.69\00:47:46.52
In Jeremiah, in the
Book of Judges it says,
00:47:46.55\00:47:48.79
speaking of a
king who died it says,
00:47:48.82\00:47:50.04
he went the way of the dead
00:47:50.07\00:47:51.42
and they buried
him with his fathers.
00:47:51.45\00:47:53.70
That's the whole thing.
00:47:53.73\00:47:54.97
The dead do not praise the Lord,
00:47:55.00\00:47:56.62
that's-- that
what's being taught.
00:47:56.65\00:47:58.17
They're up there
praising the Lord.
00:47:58.20\00:47:59.56
It says, neither any who go
down into silence, get this.
00:47:59.59\00:48:02.73
They're gonna up into praise,
they're going into silence.
00:48:02.76\00:48:05.82
One day we will
all go up in the praise
00:48:05.85\00:48:07.87
and I think that somehow,
John, people are hearing
00:48:07.90\00:48:10.23
that we say we're not
going to go to heaven.
00:48:10.26\00:48:12.04
We all gonna go to heaven,
we all gonna go together.
00:48:12.07\00:48:15.08
That's right.
That's what the--that's
00:48:15.11\00:48:17.21
what the whole massive beautiful
thing of the skies departing
00:48:17.24\00:48:20.56
as a scroll and
angels descending to gather
00:48:20.59\00:48:23.51
God's elect from
all over the earth.
00:48:23.54\00:48:24.88
And the trumpet
sounding and the dead in Christ
00:48:24.91\00:48:27.41
being raised and we who are
alive are caught up together
00:48:27.44\00:48:29.33
with them to meet the Lord.
00:48:29.36\00:48:30.49
That's what that's all about.
00:48:30.52\00:48:31.71
This grand gathering. Reunion.
00:48:31.74\00:48:34.57
Grand reunion. Yeah.
00:48:34.60\00:48:35.90
You know, one
other thing to John,
00:48:35.93\00:48:38.19
just to gonna throw in here
and its not exactly on topic
00:48:38.22\00:48:40.93
but it kind of leads into why
there are some confusion here?
00:48:40.96\00:48:43.95
Is there is a
method of Bible study
00:48:43.98\00:48:47.55
that has comeback into view
today that was born long ago,
00:48:47.58\00:48:53.69
but really it's kind of
coming to the forefront.
00:48:53.72\00:48:56.00
It is no longer the
Protestants sola scriptura.
00:48:56.03\00:48:59.46
That's right. The
Bible explains itself,
00:48:59.49\00:49:02.20
it defines itself and the Bible,
and the Bible alone is the rule
00:49:02.23\00:49:08.35
of our authority and doctrine.
00:49:08.38\00:49:09.87
It is--what's called
the higher critical method,
00:49:09.90\00:49:12.96
higher criticism
which is a reading
00:49:12.99\00:49:16.91
the Bible as an allegory.
00:49:16.94\00:49:19.09
It's an
allegorical teaching approach,
00:49:19.12\00:49:22.15
story approach to
reading the Bible.
00:49:22.18\00:49:23.72
That's right.
There's no literal taking
00:49:23.75\00:49:25.61
of scripture and comparing
it with other literal pieces
00:49:25.64\00:49:28.63
of scripture and
building a doctrine.
00:49:28.66\00:49:30.95
It is in essence
built its doctrine already
00:49:30.98\00:49:34.23
and you're reading
things allegorically to throw
00:49:34.26\00:49:36.29
into your model that's already
preconceived and developed.
00:49:36.32\00:49:39.00
Wow, that's
true. That's very true.
00:49:39.03\00:49:40.54
And so Christians
today, many of them are reading
00:49:40.57\00:49:43.70
the Bible in this way.
00:49:43.73\00:49:45.04
It's not a study
of comparing scripture
00:49:45.07\00:49:46.88
with scripture sola
scriptura but is an allegorical.
00:49:46.91\00:49:52.19
What do we get
out of this according
00:49:52.22\00:49:53.96
to what we
already know, not what can
00:49:53.99\00:49:56.92
this teach us that
we don't already know?
00:49:56.95\00:49:59.06
Right. The Bible is not seen
00:49:59.09\00:50:00.86
as the authority and
that's what happened actually
00:50:00.89\00:50:03.33
during the Dark Ages,
John, and I'm glad you open
00:50:03.36\00:50:05.03
that door because it's
very important to understand
00:50:05.06\00:50:07.17
how we got to
where we are today?
00:50:07.20\00:50:09.18
During the Dark Ages, the
Church of Rome confiscated
00:50:09.21\00:50:13.83
and prohibited the use of
the Bible by the common man.
00:50:13.86\00:50:16.68
And any Bible in existence
were chained to the altars.
00:50:16.71\00:50:20.53
And the priests and the popes
were the only ones having access
00:50:20.56\00:50:24.23
to that and they
built this whole doctrine
00:50:24.26\00:50:26.73
during the Dark Ages,
00:50:26.76\00:50:28.03
that's why it was
called the Dark Ages.
00:50:28.06\00:50:29.29
The Bible says,
the word is a lamp
00:50:29.32\00:50:30.80
to our feet or
light to our path.
00:50:30.83\00:50:32.57
Turned the light
off, you are in darkness.
00:50:32.60\00:50:34.21
So that gives
room for the entrance
00:50:34.24\00:50:36.04
of all these false
teachings such as purgatory,
00:50:36.07\00:50:39.47
such as limbo, such
as eternally burning hell
00:50:39.50\00:50:42.18
and those three teachings
alone including indulgences
00:50:42.21\00:50:45.56
was the reasons
why Martin Luther
00:50:45.59\00:50:47.11
those four teachings
or four of the 95 reasons
00:50:47.14\00:50:50.61
why Martin Luther broke
away from the Roman church
00:50:50.64\00:50:53.37
when he read the Bible himself.
00:50:53.40\00:50:55.47
The fifth one out of
the 95 was that the Pope
00:50:55.50\00:50:59.15
was the sole authority
and that we had to be saved
00:50:59.18\00:51:01.83
by words when in fact
"The just shall live by faith."
00:51:01.86\00:51:04.08
A clarion teaching of
Martin Luther got from
00:51:04.11\00:51:06.74
the Book of Hebrews also
from the Book of Habakkuk,
00:51:06.77\00:51:10.04
"The just shall live by faith."
00:51:10.07\00:51:11.53
So you have that
whole time period
00:51:11.56\00:51:13.49
when all these doctrines
came into view and--and to show
00:51:13.52\00:51:17.14
you how these
cathedrals became so monstrous,
00:51:17.17\00:51:20.12
these big
monstrosities in Europe.
00:51:20.15\00:51:22.07
That's how they built that,
they raised these cathedrals
00:51:22.10\00:51:25.31
on the moneys
given to these churches.
00:51:25.34\00:51:29.26
Extracted.
Extracted from these people.
00:51:29.29\00:51:31.96
How? Because if
you taught me through
00:51:31.99\00:51:35.08
the teaching of
purgatory that my mom
00:51:35.11\00:51:38.09
is in heaven for-- that my mom
00:51:38.12\00:51:39.93
is in this
middle place for 30 days
00:51:39.97\00:51:41.81
and if I don't pay you
to pray her into heaven
00:51:41.85\00:51:44.92
that she is gonna burn forever.
00:51:44.95\00:51:46.35
You can bet I'm gonna pray you
if I have no other knowledge.
00:51:46.38\00:51:49.51
And that's how the
church became wealthy
00:51:49.54\00:51:50.90
during the Dark Ages.
00:51:50.93\00:51:51.96
They received money,
they extracted moneys
00:51:51.99\00:51:54.34
from the poor
man, from the vagrant,
00:51:54.37\00:51:56.49
from the people that
had no other understanding
00:51:56.52\00:51:58.52
and they built
their massive cathedrals.
00:51:58.55\00:52:01.53
And they believed
through purgatory that the adult
00:52:01.56\00:52:04.44
will die and go to hell and burn
forever or be tormented forever.
00:52:04.47\00:52:07.90
And through the limbo
teaching, that the baby
00:52:07.93\00:52:10.39
that was not baptized
will be burning forever
00:52:10.42\00:52:12.57
in the fires of hell
and with that belief,
00:52:12.60\00:52:14.63
the people out of fear and
love for their loved ones said,
00:52:14.66\00:52:17.57
how much do I need to pay?
00:52:17.60\00:52:19.46
And they paid and
these cathedrals were built.
00:52:19.49\00:52:21.93
And the sad part is John though
that the teaching although
00:52:21.96\00:52:24.35
not in its total
form and the teaching
00:52:24.38\00:52:27.56
is still this
compulsory worship of God
00:52:27.59\00:52:31.36
is still there in
churches today. Oh, yeah.
00:52:31.39\00:52:33.82
Because if you
if-- if your motivation
00:52:33.85\00:52:36.46
for getting
someone to accept Jesus
00:52:36.49\00:52:38.22
is to resist or avoid
burning in hell forever.
00:52:38.25\00:52:41.72
That's right. That's
not a pure motivation
00:52:41.75\00:52:44.26
for--for following
Christ. No, not at all.
00:52:44.29\00:52:46.19
Our motive for following
Jesus is our love for Him
00:52:46.22\00:52:49.16
and what He's done
for us. Praise the Lord.
00:52:49.19\00:52:51.12
And in fact that's one of
the-- article after article
00:52:51.15\00:52:54.20
I've read on this
immortality of the soul versus
00:52:54.23\00:52:58.42
and what called annihilation.
00:52:58.45\00:52:59.97
If you don't believe a
soul separate from the body
00:53:00.00\00:53:02.29
but is together
goes in the grave
00:53:02.32\00:53:03.38
they call you
an annihilationist.
00:53:03.41\00:53:04.90
Right. So one of the core things
00:53:04.93\00:53:07.11
is that if you accept
that you eliminate the desire,
00:53:07.14\00:53:11.26
the need to follow
Christ, and I'm thinking
00:53:11.29\00:53:14.35
are you kidding? Right.
00:53:14.38\00:53:16.40
The true motive for following
anybody is not fear based
00:53:16.43\00:53:19.87
because it's not then love,
00:53:19.90\00:53:21.01
isn't the core
of your motivation.
00:53:21.04\00:53:24.11
It's the love for
Christ. That's right.
00:53:24.14\00:53:26.05
And so I think there's
a greater amount of love
00:53:26.08\00:53:28.77
that comes in knowing that
God that is not a torturer.
00:53:28.80\00:53:31.64
That's right.
And that is the truth
00:53:31.67\00:53:34.53
of what God's word says but
yet they hold to this because
00:53:34.56\00:53:37.17
they're afraid
to let something go.
00:53:37.20\00:53:38.65
That has gained
them lot of success
00:53:38.68\00:53:41.24
in the past and
getting converts.
00:53:41.27\00:53:43.06
And that's the way the Church
of Rome did accomplish things.
00:53:43.09\00:53:46.39
It's returning back
to the tactic of fear.
00:53:46.42\00:53:50.23
In another words if God, if
you don't believe that God's
00:53:50.26\00:53:52.61
gonna burn you
for-- well, here it is.
00:53:52.64\00:53:54.54
And I think I'm gonna summarize.
00:53:54.57\00:53:57.11
You need to give your
life to Christ because
00:53:57.14\00:53:58.73
if you don't you'll burn
forever and ever and ever
00:53:58.76\00:54:00.73
and ever and ever and ever.
00:54:00.76\00:54:01.92
That doesn't motivate to love.
00:54:01.95\00:54:03.54
I've even seen people
do videos where someone
00:54:03.57\00:54:05.41
stand up and they hold
a flame under their hand
00:54:05.44\00:54:08.59
and they say now that
hurt that much for that time,
00:54:08.62\00:54:13.95
imagine what would
happen if your whole body
00:54:13.98\00:54:16.85
is on fire throughout eternity.
00:54:16.88\00:54:19.14
I attended one
in Fairfield John,
00:54:19.17\00:54:22.23
back in our Fairfield days. Wow.
00:54:22.26\00:54:23.89
There was some church
that was just down the street.
00:54:23.92\00:54:26.16
I don't know if you remember
this. Just down the street from
00:54:26.19\00:54:28.03
the Fairfield
church to the right.
00:54:28.06\00:54:29.79
Yeah, I remember that. A
nondenominational church,
00:54:29.82\00:54:31.15
they had this
whole play, and the play
00:54:31.18\00:54:33.18
was about the fires of hell.
00:54:33.21\00:54:34.47
I said, I've got to go see what
they're teaching on this thing.
00:54:34.50\00:54:36.92
So I attended and this
whole thing was a scare tactic
00:54:36.95\00:54:41.15
to bring people
in to their church.
00:54:41.18\00:54:45.47
Showing out there
what-- how horrible
00:54:45.50\00:54:48.29
this eternal
burning was going to be
00:54:48.32\00:54:50.04
if they don't give
their lives to Jesus
00:54:50.07\00:54:51.59
and I just-- is
the wrong approach.
00:54:51.62\00:54:53.26
That's why when
people ask me sometimes
00:54:53.29\00:54:54.76
I joke-- I don't
jokingly say but to lead
00:54:54.79\00:54:56.84
into the fact
that I'm the pastor.
00:54:56.87\00:54:58.22
Some people say what do you do?
00:54:58.25\00:54:59.34
I said to them, I
sell life insurance
00:54:59.37\00:55:02.12
and fire insurance because
Jesus is our fire insurance.
00:55:02.15\00:55:07.18
Jesus can deliver us from
the destruction of the fires
00:55:07.22\00:55:10.05
that are going to come.
00:55:10.08\00:55:11.11
The purpose of these
fires is not to turn Jesus
00:55:11.14\00:55:14.91
into an unsatisfiable
tyrant but to eradicate sin
00:55:14.94\00:55:19.20
and sin from
the-- sin and sinners
00:55:19.23\00:55:21.59
from the entire universe.
00:55:21.62\00:55:22.65
It's really destroying.
It's a cleansing process,
00:55:22.68\00:55:24.70
not a tormenting process,
but why has this been done.
00:55:24.73\00:55:27.93
Everything that Satan has
lied to us about has the purpose
00:55:27.96\00:55:30.84
of it is to misrepresent
the character of God.
00:55:30.87\00:55:33.36
That's a whole purpose of it.
00:55:33.39\00:55:34.49
Thus, a text that's so
significant in the Bible.
00:55:34.52\00:55:37.16
Romans 6:23, "For the
wages of sin is death,
00:55:37.19\00:55:42.45
but the gift of God is eternal
life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
00:55:42.48\00:55:47.03
Here is a very simple
question and it sometimes
00:55:47.06\00:55:49.30
doesn't come on to
you as the question.
00:55:49.33\00:55:50.97
Who receives the gift of
eternal life? The righteous.
00:55:51.00\00:55:54.86
So then the righteous
will be able to live eternally.
00:55:54.89\00:55:57.87
Do the wicked receive
the gift of eternal life?
00:55:57.90\00:56:00.59
No. So how are the
wicked going to burn eternally
00:56:00.62\00:56:04.36
if they can't live eternally.
00:56:04.39\00:56:07.54
But that's the whole reason
why these teachings are taught,
00:56:07.57\00:56:10.27
so that you don't have
to think about these things.
00:56:10.30\00:56:12.43
But if you think
only the righteous receive
00:56:12.46\00:56:15.15
eternal life and not the wicked
and there is no such thing
00:56:15.18\00:56:18.55
as an immortal soul.
00:56:18.59\00:56:19.85
Ezekiel 18:4, "The soul
that sinneth that shall die."
00:56:19.88\00:56:23.11
That's the whole man.
00:56:23.14\00:56:24.27
Yeah, yeah powerful.
00:56:24.30\00:56:26.42
Well, John we're not gonna
be able to finish this today.
00:56:26.45\00:56:28.80
We gonna have to
do at another time
00:56:28.83\00:56:29.96
because this is so much
here that I've--and as much
00:56:29.99\00:56:33.45
as I would like to
rush through the topic
00:56:33.48\00:56:34.98
I can't do it because this
topic is gonna be the reason
00:56:35.01\00:56:37.87
why many of you are freed
00:56:37.90\00:56:39.68
from the-- from
the doctrine of fear
00:56:39.71\00:56:41.90
and from the
untruths that are being taught
00:56:41.93\00:56:44.33
maybe even where you worship.
00:56:44.36\00:56:46.09
You love the Lord
and that's why we want
00:56:46.12\00:56:47.95
to bring this to you so clearly.
00:56:47.98\00:56:49.79
The Lord is your
Savior, that's why you need
00:56:49.82\00:56:52.23
to know what
your Savior teaches.
00:56:52.26\00:56:53.76
Yeah and I think
without this assurance
00:56:53.79\00:56:57.06
that we have in a
loving God that cares for us.
00:56:57.09\00:57:00.11
That has our best interest
and has this wonderful reunion
00:57:00.14\00:57:03.56
planned for us with our
family, with our friends.
00:57:03.59\00:57:06.08
Without seeing
that picture of God
00:57:06.11\00:57:07.73
in this true form,
how can we love Him?
00:57:07.76\00:57:09.90
That's right. We can't love Him.
00:57:09.93\00:57:11.77
One day He is gonna make a
House Call and this House Call
00:57:11.80\00:57:15.57
is not to say I'm here
to burn your house down,
00:57:15.60\00:57:19.64
but I'm coming to take you home.
00:57:19.67\00:57:21.59
Study God's
word, trust God's word,
00:57:21.62\00:57:24.06
not the opinions of
men because when that day
00:57:24.09\00:57:26.98
comes our only desire
for you, is that you be ready
00:57:27.01\00:57:30.24
to meet the Lord in
peace. God bless you.
00:57:30.27\00:57:32.63