The Book of Revelation says
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that when the
thousand years are expired,
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Satan shall be
loosed out of his prison.
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Then what?
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To discover the answer,
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stick with me
on His Voice Today.
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Welcome to
another His Voice Today
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with Steve Wohlberg.
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Welcome to
Millennial Madness part two.
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And my family which
consist of me and my wife
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and my two small
children Seth and Abby.
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We often sing a
Christian song for the kids
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especially and
these are the words,
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"Be careful
little eyes what you see.
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Be careful little
lips what you say.
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Be careful little
hands what to you touch.
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Be careful little
feet where you go.
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Be careful little
mind what you think,
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and be careful
little heart who you trust."
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We are trying here to unravel
the mysteries of the Millennium
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and we need to be careful,
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we need to carefully look
at what the Bible actually says
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and what it doesn't say
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in order to understand
this powerful subject correctly
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and its relationship
to our eternal destiny.
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So let's start with
chapter 19 Revelation 19,
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which moves us into
chapter 20, Revelation 20,
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is the only chapter
in the Bible that really
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specifically
describes the Millennial period,
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what happens at the beginning,
in the middle and at the end.
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So this is what
we're going to pick up on.
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We talked about this in part one
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and we're gonna
continue in part two
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so, lets back up to chapter
19 and see the flow of thought.
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Look at it very
carefully, chapter 19 verse 11,
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John wrote, "I
saw heaven opened,
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and behold a white horse..."
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We pick the name
White Horse Media
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as the title of our
ministry based on this text,
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Jesus coming on a white horse.
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"And he that sat upon him
was called faithful and true,
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and in righteousness he
doesn't judge and make war.
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His eyes were as aflame of fire,
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and on his head
were many crowns,
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and he had a name written,
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that no man
knew, but he himself.
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He was clothed with a
vesture, dipped in blood:
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and his name is
called the Word of God.
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This was a mighty description
of the return of Jesus Christ.
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Verse 14 says,
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"The armies which were in heaven
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followed him up on white horses,
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white representing his purity,
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clothed in fine
linen, clean and white."
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Verse 15 says, "Out of his mouth
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goes a sharp sword,
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that with it he
should smite the nations:
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and he will rule
them with a rod of iron:
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and he treads the
winepress of the fierceness
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and the wrath of Almighty God."
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When this verse says
that Jesus rules them
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as with the rod of iron,
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this means that He exercises
his authority over the nations
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by destroying them again.
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In verse 15 it says,
"He will smite the nations,
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he will rule them
with the rod of iron,
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He will tread the
winepress of the fierceness
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and the wrath of Almighty God."
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And in verse 16, it
says, "He has on his vesture
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and on his thigh a name written,
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King of Kings,
and Lord of Lords."
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In this verses
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we find God describing
the return of Jesus Christ
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as a holy warrior
riding a white horse,
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a pure horse to do battle
with the global forces of evil
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and He crushes them,
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He smites the
nations of the earth
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that are on the
side of the devil
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and they end up
suffering the wrath of God,
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that's what verse 16 says.
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Now verse 17 describes
the effect of all of these
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and what happens next.
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Verse 17 says, "I saw an
angel standing in the sun,
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and he cried with a loud voice,
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saying to the fowls that
fly in the midst of heaven,
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come gather yourselves together
to the supper of the great God,
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that you may eat
the flesh of kings,
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the flesh of captains,
the flesh of mighty men,
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the flesh of horses
and of them who sat on them
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and the flesh of all
men, both free and bond,
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both small and great".
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Now if the birds come to
eat the flesh of all men,
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it's obvious
that when Jesus comes
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all men who are not
ready for his coming,
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who do not go up to be with him
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as we talked about
in the last program.
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1 Thessalonians 4
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describes Jesus coming
down and picking up His people.
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Chapter 5 describes
those who are not ready
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who experience
sudden destruction.
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And Revelation 19 describes
the extent of that destruction
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and it says that
after Jesus comes
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the birds come to
eat the flesh of all men,
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all around the world,
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and so it's obvious
that their carcasses
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are littering the
planet coast to coast,
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country to
country around the world
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and so those who do not go
up with Jesus when He comes,
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they don't survive,
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they don't survive his
smiting of the nations,
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they don't survive his
ruling with the rod of iron.
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They don't
survive the fierceness
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and the wrath of God Almighty.
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And they end up
dead on the ground
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as food for the birds.
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At the end of
chapter 19 verse 21 says,
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"That all the fowls were
filled with their flesh."
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Now that is the context
as we move into chapter 20,
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looking at the millennium.
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Chapter 20 verse 1,
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John continuous his thoughts
straight, straight down,
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"And I saw an angel
coming down from heaven,
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having the key of
the bottomless pit
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and a great chain in his hand.
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And he laid hold on the
dragon, that old serpent,
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which is the devil, and Satan,
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and bound him
for a thousand years,
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he cast him into
the bottomless pit,
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and shut him up,
so that he should
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and set a seal upon him,
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so that he should
deceive the nations no more,
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until the thousand
years should be fulfilled.
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After this he must be
loosed for a little season."
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So put the pieces together,
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why is it that at this
point in time in the narrative
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Satan is not allowed to
deceive the nations anymore
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during the millennium.
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I think the answer is obvious
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because the nations
have all been struck down.
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Chapter 19 verse 15 says,
"He'll smite those nations
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and they're dead.
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The birds come
and eat their flesh.
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All the fowls are
filled with their flesh,
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and so the reason
why Satan isn't bound
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and shut up
represented with the chain
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during the millennium
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is because there are no
more nations for him to deceive.
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They're dead on the ground
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and the only survivor of
the second coming down here
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is not human beings,
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but its Lucifer and his angels.
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For a thousand years,
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Satan will not be
able to deceive anybody.
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He'll be stuck here,
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the Bible says that
he will be in a pit.
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If you look up the word
pit in the Old Testament,
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the pit is often used
to refer to a cemetery,
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a big massive cemetery.
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David prayed in
the Book of Psalms
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that he wouldn't be
caught by the wicked
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and he wouldn't have
to go down into the pit
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referring to the
grave or cemetery,
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and the whole world will be
one big massive pit or cemetery
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and Satan will be
bound it says with the chain
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and it's not a literal chain,
it's a chain of circumstances
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because he's stuck here,
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he's quarantined on planet earth
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and he has nobody to
deceive for a thousand years.
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It says until the thousand years
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are fulfilled
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and at the end of
the thousand years
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then he's gonna be
loose for a little season,
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and I'll explain this
in just a few moments.
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Going on to verse 4,
John wrote, "I saw thrones,
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and they sat upon them,
and judgment was given to them,
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this is
referring to God's people
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and I saw the souls
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of those who had been beheaded
for the witness of Jesus,
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those and for the word of God
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who had not worshipped
the beast, neither his image,
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neither had received his
mark upon their forehead,
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or their hands, and they lived,
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this is a
resurrection of God's people
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and they reigned with
Christ for a thousand years.
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Verse 6 says, "Blessed and holy
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is he that has a part
in this first resurrection,
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on such the second
death has no power,
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but they shall be
priests of God and of Christ,
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and they shall reign with
him for a thousand years."
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We talked about this in part one
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of Millennial Madness
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that when Jesus
comes in 1 Thessalonians 4,
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and the description is
there Jesus comes down,
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the dead in
Christ are resurrected
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and God's living saints are
caught up with dead in Christ
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and we're all taken up
into the sky up toward heaven
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where we eventually
will enter the New Jerusalem.
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Those that do not go
up they're destroyed.
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1 Thessalonians 5:3 says
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they experienced
sudden destruction.
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Revelation 19:15 and 16 says
the nations will be smitten.
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Revelation 19:17 and 18 says
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that the birds will
come and eat all the flesh.
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And then chapter 20 says
that the devil will be bound
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for a thousand
years, because he has nobody
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to deceive during
this millennial time.
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Now, think about it, in
chapter 6 or chapter 20:6
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it says, "Blessed and holy
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is he who has a part in
the first resurrection."
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That's the good resurrection.
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The blessed and the holy
come up in that resurrection.
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If there is a
first resurrection,
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there must also be
a second resurrection.
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And as we'll see
clearly the second resurrection
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takes place at the
end of the thousand years.
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Verse 5 says, "But the
rest of the dead lived not again
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until the thousand
years were finished."
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The rest of the dead
who're not the dead in Christ,
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who didn't come up at
the second coming of Christ
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in the first resurrection,
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they stay dead and
the rest of the nations
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they're destroyed and
they all remain on earth,
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dead in their graves or
scattered around the world,
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their carcasses
which the birds have eaten
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whatever is left of them.
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And they're there until
the end of the millennium.
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Let me read it again, verse 5,
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"But the rest of
the dead lived not again
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until the thousand
years were finished."
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I remember in one of my
travels in Southern California,
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I met a lady a
number of years ago
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and she told me about a dream,
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very mysterious dream
that a friend of hers had
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and she shared this with me
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and she said that in
this dream there was a woman
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and she saw a very tall
man who look like an angel,
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and he was digging a big grave
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and the woman in the
dream looked at the tall man
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and said, whose
grave is that for?
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And the tall man
said, this grave is for you
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and for your
mother and your children.
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And the woman looked
at the tall man and said,
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would you mind
digging separate graves
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for each of my family members,
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I don't know why she
said that but she did.
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And so the angel
nodded and said okay,
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and he began
digging separate graves.
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And then after this
scene there was a new scene,
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things change and
there was a great earthquake,
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there was a
loud trumpet sounding
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and the whole scene change,
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there was a
bright light that flashed
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and the woman
in the dream looked
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at these different graves
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and she saw herself
coming out of the grave,
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she saw her mother
coming out of her grave,
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she saw her children
coming out of their grave,
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and then she
looked at the tall man
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and the tall man said,
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this is the
return of Jesus Christ,
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this is the first resurrection,
the good resurrection.
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And as the woman
looked at the graves,
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sort of third person
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and saw her family
coming out of the grave,
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she looked farther down the line
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and she notice that
there were other graves
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that had not opened
up, they were just closed
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and then she
looked at the tall man,
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the tall nobleman
who had a very kind face,
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but a very
solemn look on his face,
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and she asked him,
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she said what
about those other graves
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that didn't open up?
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What about those people?
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And the tall man
looked at her very solemnly
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and he said those
graves will open up
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at the end of the
one thousand years.
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Oh my, and so this lady
shared this dream with me,
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I don't believe
every dream that I hear.
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There's people that
have all kinds of dreams,
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even you can go to bed at night
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and who knows what you'll dream.
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Some dreams come
from, can come from God.
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There are examples
in the Bible of this
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and there are some dreams
that can come from the devil.
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Satan can give us dreams too
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and we have to test
every dream by the Bible.
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And when I heard that
dream from this woman,
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I thought you know this
dream fits the scripture,
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it fits what the Bible
says in Revelation 20:5,
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"The rest of the
dead lived not again
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until the thousand
years were finished.
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Now when you look at
something very carefully,
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we just read verse 5, in
verse 7 the Bible continues
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and says, "When the
thousand years are expired,
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Satan shall be
loosed out of his prison."
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Now if you just put verse 5,
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which says the rest
of the dead don't live
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until the
thousand years are over
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which obviously means
there's gonna be resurrected.
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And then verse 7 says,
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"When the
thousand years are expired,
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Satan shall be
loosed out of his prison.
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It's obvious when you put
verse 5 and verse 7 together
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that what looses Satan
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at the end of the thousand years
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is the
resurrection of all of the lost.
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Just like I mentioned
there is a first resurrection
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of the good people at the end
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or at the beginning
of the one thousand years
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and there is a second
resurrection of all the lost
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at the end of the
one thousand years.
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And that is what
looses the devil,
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and if that's what looses him,
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then it's obvious
that what bound him
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was it all those
nations were destroyed,
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so he is bound at
the end of the millennium
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they are
resurrected and so he is loosed,
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and he goes into them.
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In verse 8 John wrote that,
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"The devil will then go
out to deceive those nations,
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those same nations,
those are his nations,
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which are in the four
quarters of the earth.
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Now it doesn't say
that they are there
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during the millennium,
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but it says that
they are there at the end,
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and the reason why they're there
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is because
they're all resurrected,
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and it says they are called,
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they are in the four
quarters of the earth,
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they're all around the world,
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and they are
called Gog and Magog,
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which does not represent Russia,
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it represents the conglomeration
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of all the lost, and
then Satan goes into them
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to gather them
together for a battle.
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The number of whom is
as the sand of the sea.
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The sand of the
sea, in other words
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John couldn't
count all these people,
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there is millions,
billons probably trillions,
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this is the
conglomeration of all the lost
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who had ever lived
from the days of Adam
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all the way down
to the end of time
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to the second coming of Christ
when the wicked are destroyed,
00:16:05.09\00:16:08.76
the righteous are
taken up to heaven,
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we're with Jesus
for a thousand years.
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At the end of the thousand years
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they're all resurrected
to receive your final doom,
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and it says that
there are just so many
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that you can't even count
them, and Satan goes into them
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and gathers them for a battle.
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And what is he going
to try to fight against
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with all these people?
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Verse 9 tells us, it says,
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they went up on the
breadth of the earth
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and they compass the
camp of the saints about
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and the beloved city
and fire came down from God
00:16:38.36\00:16:41.46
out of heaven and devoured them.
00:16:41.50\00:16:43.63
Satan goes into
all these nations,
00:16:43.67\00:16:45.57
he picks up right
where he left off,
00:16:45.60\00:16:46.94
he was deceiving them
before the millennium,
00:16:46.97\00:16:49.00
during the
millennium, he took a break
00:16:49.04\00:16:50.81
because the
nations weren't there.
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At the end of the millennium
they are all resurrected,
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Satan goes into
them and gathers them all
00:16:54.71\00:16:56.88
for a final battle against God.
00:16:56.91\00:17:00.98
And verse 9 says,
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they gathered against
the camp of the saints,
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the beloved city when
you read Revelation 21,
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that beloved city is
called the New Jerusalem.
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And Revelation 3:12 says,
00:17:10.29\00:17:12.19
the New Jerusalem
comes down from heaven
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and that's what will happen
at the end of the millennium,
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God's people are in
that city and they come down,
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Revelation 21:2
and 3 also describes
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the holy city coming down
at the end of the millennium,
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and all of the wicked
are gathered around the city.
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God's people
are inside the city,
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and if you put
the pieces together
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basically what's happening is,
00:17:37.39\00:17:38.72
this is the first time
in the history of the world
00:17:38.75\00:17:40.92
when all of the
whole human family
00:17:40.96\00:17:43.69
saved and lost,
righteous and wicked,
00:17:43.73\00:17:46.29
those that followed God,
those that followed the devil
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are all alive at the same time.
00:17:48.40\00:17:50.53
All the lost are
outside the city,
00:17:50.57\00:17:52.23
all the saved
are inside the city,
00:17:52.27\00:17:54.60
and they're trying
to take the cities.
00:17:54.64\00:17:56.57
Satan is trying to get
in and to use these armies,
00:17:56.60\00:18:00.81
these millions
and billions of people
00:18:00.84\00:18:02.74
to storm the gates and
conquer the city of God,
00:18:02.78\00:18:05.75
but he knows better
than that, that's impossible.
00:18:05.78\00:18:07.82
And I think one reason
00:18:07.85\00:18:09.18
why he wants to
get into that city
00:18:09.22\00:18:10.55
is because Revelation 22 says,
00:18:10.59\00:18:12.19
inside the city is something
called the tree of life
00:18:12.22\00:18:15.16
and Satan knows it if he
can just get out that tree,
00:18:15.19\00:18:17.36
and if he can
convince these people,
00:18:17.39\00:18:18.99
if they can get
through those walls
00:18:19.03\00:18:20.36
and get out that tree,
then they will be able to eat
00:18:20.40\00:18:23.67
from the fruit
of the tree of life
00:18:23.70\00:18:25.27
and live forever,
but he really knows
00:18:25.30\00:18:27.70
that's, that's
impossible, he is insane,
00:18:27.74\00:18:29.40
this is his last
battle, his last stand,
00:18:29.44\00:18:32.44
and then the end
of verse of 9 says,
00:18:32.47\00:18:34.11
"That fire then comes
down from God out of heaven,
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and devoured them."
00:18:37.51\00:18:39.88
Now, verse 11
backs up and describes
00:18:39.91\00:18:42.42
what happens
before the fire falls,
00:18:42.45\00:18:44.75
and there is a great
final solemn judgment seen.
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Verse 11 says, "I
saw a great white throne,
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and him who sat upon it,
from whose face the earth
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and the heaven had fled away,
00:18:55.76\00:18:57.10
and there was
found no place for them,
00:18:57.13\00:18:58.83
and I saw the
dead, small and great,
00:18:58.87\00:19:00.84
standing before God,
00:19:00.87\00:19:02.20
here's again the resurrection
of all the lost described,
00:19:02.24\00:19:05.27
and the books were opened
00:19:05.31\00:19:06.64
and another book was opened,
which is the book of life,
00:19:06.68\00:19:08.98
and the dead were
judged out of those things
00:19:09.01\00:19:11.45
which were written in the books,
00:19:11.48\00:19:13.01
according to their works."
00:19:13.05\00:19:15.42
And the reason why the
book of life is mentioned
00:19:15.45\00:19:17.12
is because their
names are not in that book
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and they look and they
see before the fire falls
00:19:19.29\00:19:21.92
as they're
gathered around the city,
00:19:21.96\00:19:23.59
they look up and they
see a great white throne.
00:19:23.63\00:19:25.83
They see Jesus Christ
sitting upon the throne,
00:19:25.86\00:19:28.16
they see books opened.
00:19:28.20\00:19:29.73
They see the
book of life opened.
00:19:29.76\00:19:31.30
Their name are not in,
00:19:31.33\00:19:33.07
their names are not
in the book of life,
00:19:33.10\00:19:34.64
and there is a great
final solemn judgment seen
00:19:34.67\00:19:37.74
of all the lost
00:19:37.77\00:19:39.81
to help them to understand
exactly why they are lost.
00:19:39.84\00:19:45.71
As we keep reading
describes it again in verse 13,
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"The sea gave up the
dead which were in it,
00:19:48.88\00:19:51.65
and death and hell
delivered up the dead
00:19:51.69\00:19:53.96
which were in them,
00:19:53.99\00:19:55.32
now they are alive
again, they're resurrected,
00:19:55.36\00:19:57.79
they're standing
outside the New Jerusalem,
00:19:57.83\00:20:01.20
the camp of God's people
and they're looking up in there
00:20:01.23\00:20:04.13
seeing Jesus sitting
on his throne and it says,
00:20:04.17\00:20:06.97
they're judged every man
according to their works.
00:20:07.00\00:20:11.97
This is not a
judgment of the saved,
00:20:12.01\00:20:14.71
this is a judgment of the lost,
00:20:14.74\00:20:16.41
this a judgment
of all the people
00:20:16.44\00:20:18.01
who have ever lived
from the days of Cain
00:20:18.05\00:20:21.52
who first killed Abel,
00:20:21.55\00:20:23.18
all the way
down through history,
00:20:23.22\00:20:24.55
all the people in the
Bible that were bad people
00:20:24.59\00:20:26.96
like Jezebel and King Ahab
00:20:26.99\00:20:29.69
and people like Judas
who betrayed Jesus Christ
00:20:29.72\00:20:32.89
and going down through
history people like Adolf Hitler
00:20:32.93\00:20:37.00
and Saddam
Hussein and those whose,
00:20:37.03\00:20:39.30
on whose hands is the
blood of countless souls
00:20:39.33\00:20:43.04
that they've executed and
murdered and all the lost,
00:20:43.07\00:20:46.47
they're all resurrected,
they stand before God,
00:20:46.51\00:20:48.91
they see the great white throne,
00:20:48.94\00:20:50.81
they realize they can't
take the city, it's impossible,
00:20:50.85\00:20:53.72
this is Satan's
last stand and it's over.
00:20:53.75\00:20:56.25
And when they look up
00:20:56.28\00:20:57.62
and they see the
great white throne
00:20:57.65\00:20:58.99
in their whole lives
flash before their eyes
00:20:59.02\00:21:00.59
and they're judged
according to their works.
00:21:00.62\00:21:03.86
I have a feeling
00:21:03.89\00:21:05.76
that a lot of
people are gonna realize
00:21:05.79\00:21:08.53
that they weren't
careful about their little eyes
00:21:08.56\00:21:11.37
what they saw,
00:21:11.40\00:21:12.73
they weren't
careful about their hands
00:21:12.77\00:21:14.10
what they did,
about their tongues
00:21:14.14\00:21:16.00
what they said,
00:21:16.04\00:21:17.37
about their
feet where they went,
00:21:17.41\00:21:18.91
about their
minds what they thought
00:21:18.94\00:21:20.88
and about their
hearts who they trusted.
00:21:20.91\00:21:24.85
They realize that
they were not careful
00:21:24.88\00:21:27.02
and now they're
lost, now they're lost,
00:21:27.05\00:21:29.45
and as they see Jesus
sitting upon the throne,
00:21:29.48\00:21:31.75
finally the
gavel will come down,
00:21:31.79\00:21:33.89
the great gavel and it will say
guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty.
00:21:33.92\00:21:39.03
And I believe that
Jesus will look at the lost
00:21:39.06\00:21:41.33
and somehow they will
understand that he loved them,
00:21:41.36\00:21:44.77
that he gave his life for them.
00:21:44.80\00:21:46.90
The nail scars in his
hands will probably be visible.
00:21:46.94\00:21:50.94
The great light
shining out from his face
00:21:50.97\00:21:53.61
and they'll
realize that this one
00:21:53.64\00:21:55.38
who is judging them
is one who loved them
00:21:55.41\00:21:57.91
and gave everything for them,
died on the cross for them,
00:21:57.95\00:22:00.92
rose from the dead,
00:22:00.95\00:22:02.28
all the people that are
inside the city are there
00:22:02.32\00:22:04.45
because of him,
00:22:04.49\00:22:05.82
and they are outside
because they've rejected him,
00:22:05.85\00:22:08.36
because they weren't
careful about their lives,
00:22:08.39\00:22:10.23
they didn't
repent of their sins,
00:22:10.26\00:22:11.69
they didn't trust in
Jesus as their personal savior,
00:22:11.73\00:22:13.96
and they didn't choose
00:22:14.00\00:22:15.36
to live lives of
obedience to God.
00:22:15.40\00:22:19.73
It's just a very
solemn sad, sad scene.
00:22:19.77\00:22:22.50
And then finally as you read on,
00:22:22.54\00:22:23.87
it describes what's
gonna happen to them.
00:22:23.91\00:22:26.71
Verse 14 says, "Death and hell
00:22:26.74\00:22:28.21
were then cast
into the lake of fire.
00:22:28.24\00:22:30.25
This is the second death."
00:22:30.28\00:22:31.75
See they come up in
the second resurrection,
00:22:31.78\00:22:33.68
they're judged
00:22:33.72\00:22:35.05
and then they
die the second death.
00:22:35.08\00:22:37.02
And whoever was not found
written in the book of life
00:22:37.05\00:22:39.79
was cast into the lake of fire.
00:22:39.82\00:22:43.49
And then chapter
21 continues and says,
00:22:43.53\00:22:45.43
"Then I saw a new
heaven and a new earth,
00:22:45.46\00:22:47.80
for the first
heaven and the first earth
00:22:47.83\00:22:49.30
had passed away, and
there was no more sea."
00:22:49.33\00:22:52.83
Verse 4 says that, "God
shall then wipe away all tears
00:22:52.87\00:22:56.20
from their eyes,
meaning the eyes of the saved,
00:22:56.24\00:22:59.11
because many of
them will be weeping
00:22:59.14\00:23:00.54
because some of their
people that they know,
00:23:00.58\00:23:02.31
that they love are on
the outside of the city
00:23:02.34\00:23:04.51
and they end up
in the lake a fire,
00:23:04.55\00:23:06.25
and they're lost
and they're gone.
00:23:06.28\00:23:08.85
So God will wipe away
all tears from their eyes,
00:23:08.88\00:23:10.85
and there will be no more death,
00:23:10.89\00:23:12.22
neither sorrow, nor crying,
00:23:12.25\00:23:13.72
neither shall
there be any more pain
00:23:13.76\00:23:15.32
for the former
things have passed away.
00:23:15.36\00:23:17.36
Verse 5 says, "He that
sat upon the throne said,
00:23:17.39\00:23:19.83
'Behold, I make all things new.'
00:23:19.86\00:23:23.13
And he said right
00:23:23.16\00:23:24.73
for these words are
true and faithful.'"
00:23:24.77\00:23:28.94
After the second resurrection,
00:23:28.97\00:23:30.31
after Satan gathers
the lost around the city
00:23:30.34\00:23:32.44
after the great
white throne judgment
00:23:32.47\00:23:34.34
where people are
judged for their works,
00:23:34.38\00:23:35.98
and they
realized why they're lost
00:23:36.01\00:23:37.88
and after the fire falls
00:23:37.91\00:23:39.98
and Satan and
all of his followers
00:23:40.02\00:23:42.48
meet their bitter end,
00:23:42.52\00:23:44.85
then the Bible says God
will change the scene again
00:23:44.89\00:23:48.29
and there will be a
new heaven and a new earth
00:23:48.32\00:23:51.53
where love and righteousness
will endure forever.
00:23:51.56\00:23:57.27
And want to be in that place,
00:23:57.30\00:23:59.13
I don't want to
end up outside the city
00:23:59.17\00:24:02.04
at the end of the
millennium, do you?
00:24:02.07\00:24:04.34
I don't want to be in
Satan's crowd, do you?
00:24:04.37\00:24:07.54
I want to be inside the city
00:24:07.58\00:24:09.44
with Jesus Christ and
his people, don't you?
00:24:09.48\00:24:12.51
I wan to be someone that
has all his sins forgiven,
00:24:12.55\00:24:16.72
don't you?
00:24:16.75\00:24:18.45
And we're all gonna be there
at the end of the millennium,
00:24:18.49\00:24:21.06
we're either gonna
be inside or outside.
00:24:21.09\00:24:23.06
We're gonna be with Jesus
or end up in the lake of fire,
00:24:23.09\00:24:25.69
and after the lake of fire
00:24:25.73\00:24:27.16
it says that God
will make a new heaven
00:24:27.20\00:24:28.90
and a new earth
00:24:28.93\00:24:30.27
and just like Noah went
out of the ark after the flood
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on to what was
left of the earth,
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so the saved will leave the city
00:24:35.90\00:24:37.71
at the end of
the thousand years,
00:24:37.74\00:24:39.77
after lake of fire is all
over and the lost are all done,
00:24:39.81\00:24:42.54
Satan, sin, sinners are all gone
00:24:42.58\00:24:45.21
and they will walk
out on to a new heaven
00:24:45.25\00:24:47.98
and a new earth, or
actually a new earth
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and everything will be brand new
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just like it was
in the Garden of Eden.
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I heard a story once about
a man named Dr. Leo Winters,
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he lived in Chicago.
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He was one of the most
famous physicians in the city.
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He got a phone call one
night about 2 in the morning,
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the phone rang
and the voice said
00:25:04.67\00:25:06.07
Dr. Winters, you got to
get to the hospital quickly,
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there's been a terrible accident
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only your hands
can heal this boy,
00:25:09.64\00:25:12.04
he's been critically injured,
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so the doctor got up real quick,
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he put his clothes on,
00:25:15.88\00:25:17.28
got into a car and
drove as quick as he could
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to the hospital,
he knew time was short
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so he took a turn
through a bad neighborhood
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which was a more direct route
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and as he stopped
at the stop light,
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there was a man that all
of a sudden opened the door,
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burst into his car,
00:25:32.23\00:25:33.60
he had a grey hat on
and a flannel shirt on
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and he grabbed him
00:25:35.53\00:25:36.87
and he threw Dr.
Winters out of the car
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and Dr. Winters said,
wait you don't understand,
00:25:39.17\00:25:40.84
I got to go, and the
man said, I need your car,
00:25:40.87\00:25:42.84
so he took the
car and rode away.
00:25:42.87\00:25:45.44
It took Dr. Winters
45 minutes to find a taxi
00:25:45.47\00:25:47.88
and he finally
got to the hospital.
00:25:47.91\00:25:49.34
When he got there the
nurse said, it's too late,
00:25:49.38\00:25:51.65
it's too late.
00:25:51.68\00:25:53.31
And then he went into the chapel
00:25:53.35\00:25:55.18
to meet the boy's
father and when he walked in,
00:25:55.22\00:25:58.45
he saw man on the
ground with a gray hat
00:25:58.49\00:26:01.49
and a flannel shirt
on crying his eyes out,
00:26:01.52\00:26:04.79
and that man did not realized
00:26:04.83\00:26:06.16
that he had
pushed out of his life
00:26:06.19\00:26:08.00
the only one in
the city of Chicago
00:26:08.03\00:26:09.56
that have the hands that
were able to save his boy.
00:26:09.60\00:26:13.40
And I want to tell you
there's only one person
00:26:13.44\00:26:14.77
in the universe
that has the hands,
00:26:14.80\00:26:16.34
the nail scarred hands
that are able to save your soul
00:26:16.37\00:26:19.84
and bring you inside the city
00:26:19.87\00:26:21.64
and not have
you outside the city
00:26:21.68\00:26:24.01
at the end of
the thousand years,
00:26:24.05\00:26:26.82
so that you'll end
up in the lake of fire
00:26:26.85\00:26:28.75
and that is Jesus
Christ who loves you
00:26:28.78\00:26:30.92
and who wants to be
with you forever and ever.
00:26:30.95\00:26:33.42
The Bible says,
00:26:33.46\00:26:34.79
that at the end
of the millennium,
00:26:34.82\00:26:36.16
God will say, behold,
I make all things new,
00:26:36.19\00:26:38.39
write these words down for
they are true and faithful.
00:26:38.43\00:26:42.93
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