What do the mysterious images of Daniel and Revelation mean? When 00:00:01.56\00:00:07.40 will the antichrist appear and make his final move? How can I 00:00:07.44\00:00:12.01 be ready for the final events of earth's history? You'll be 00:00:12.04\00:00:16.71 amazed and encouraged by what the Bible reveals. Join us as 00:00:16.75\00:00:20.55 Pastor Brian McMahon leads out in Prophecy Unsealed. 00:00:20.58\00:00:29.86 Our title is Revelation's 1000 Years. And I want to start with 00:00:29.89\00:00:35.20 a prayer tonight. Dear Father in heaven, we're so grateful again 00:00:35.23\00:00:39.07 to come together and to be able to study your word. Whether we 00:00:39.10\00:00:43.74 have joined at home or whether we have driven afar or maybe 00:00:43.77\00:00:47.91 just around the block, we're so grateful again to be in a place 00:00:47.94\00:00:51.51 where we can peacefully and studiously look at the future 00:00:51.55\00:00:55.38 through your word. And we know we're studying solemn topics 00:00:55.42\00:00:59.42 tonight, serious information and we cannot understand it unless 00:00:59.45\00:01:02.96 your Holy Spirit is with us. And so may you be our teacher. May 00:01:02.99\00:01:06.93 we be your students. In Jesus' name, Amen. 00:01:06.96\00:01:10.27 Well friends tonight again we're discussing a fascinating time 00:01:10.30\00:01:15.84 period called the millennium. We humbly ask the question what 00:01:15.87\00:01:19.87 does the Bible really have to say? The word millennium itself 00:01:19.91\00:01:24.41 can be interesting. Where does it actually come from? Well it 00:01:24.45\00:01:27.35 comes from a Latin word or two Latin words actually. 00:01:27.38\00:01:30.95 Milli means 1000, annum means year. The church that ruled 00:01:30.99\00:01:34.42 during the time of the dark ages for over a 1000 years spoke 00:01:34.46\00:01:37.13 Latin in their services and when they came to this subject they 00:01:37.16\00:01:40.83 gave it a Latin term. Now that term is carried over into the 00:01:40.86\00:01:43.77 English but it simply means 1000 years. And what exactly is going 00:01:43.80\00:01:47.87 to take place during that time. The 20th chapter of Revelation 00:01:47.90\00:01:51.91 basically can be divided into three different parts. As it 00:01:51.94\00:01:54.21 opens up it speaks about what is going to happen to Satan, the 00:01:54.24\00:01:57.31 devil, at the beginning of the 1000 years. In the middle of the 00:01:57.35\00:02:01.35 chapter it speaks about the saints and where they are during 00:02:01.38\00:02:03.95 the 1000 years and at the end of the chapter, it concludes by 00:02:03.99\00:02:06.79 telling things that happen at the end of the 1000 years. And 00:02:06.82\00:02:11.59 so the questions that come up are these: The Christians will 00:02:11.63\00:02:14.20 ask well what happens after Jesus returns. What is the 00:02:14.23\00:02:17.03 condition of the earth during the 1000 years? What happens to 00:02:17.07\00:02:20.00 the devil, where is he during that period of time? Is there 00:02:20.04\00:02:23.41 anyone on earth during the 1000 years? And when does God make 00:02:23.44\00:02:26.14 the earth new? All of that is important information and we're 00:02:26.17\00:02:29.28 going to answer it in our study tonight. So let's go 00:02:29.31\00:02:31.95 to Revelation chapter 20 verse 1 and see what the Bible says. 00:02:31.98\00:02:35.45 It starts out by saying: And I saw an angel come down from 00:02:35.48\00:02:38.45 heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain 00:02:38.49\00:02:42.26 in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, 00:02:42.29\00:02:44.59 which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him, how long friends? 00:02:44.63\00:02:48.16 A 1000 years. There it is. There's the 1000 years first 00:02:48.20\00:02:51.77 mentioned for us. Verse 3 says: And cast him into the bottomless 00:02:51.80\00:02:55.20 pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should 00:02:55.24\00:02:59.01 deceive the nations no more, till the 1000 years should be 00:02:59.04\00:03:02.88 fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season. 00:03:02.91\00:03:05.85 Now this is very intriguing to me because it says the devil is 00:03:05.88\00:03:10.22 going to be shut up, remember that term, shut up, because 00:03:10.25\00:03:12.05 we'll see it elsewhere in the scriptures tonight. But it says 00:03:12.09\00:03:15.06 here he's going to be shut up at the beginning of the 1000 years 00:03:15.09\00:03:16.96 and he shall deceive the nations no more. Now that means that 00:03:16.99\00:03:20.30 tonight he is out there deceiving the nations, right? 00:03:20.33\00:03:23.16 And it says that at the end of the 1000 years he'll be loosed 00:03:23.20\00:03:27.14 a little season. Now how long is that little season. We 00:03:27.17\00:03:29.74 actually don't know because the word for season there is kronos, 00:03:29.77\00:03:35.14 it's where we get our English word chronology from. It simply 00:03:35.18\00:03:37.75 means time or delay. So there'll be a short time or a short delay 00:03:37.78\00:03:41.38 at the end of the 1000 years where the Devil will have some 00:03:41.42\00:03:43.99 more freedom and we're going to talk tonight what's going to 00:03:44.02\00:03:46.55 happen at the end of that or during that 1000 years and at 00:03:46.59\00:03:50.06 the end of that time what is that freedom all about. We'll be 00:03:50.09\00:03:52.83 talking about that before our study is over. So let's go to 00:03:52.86\00:03:56.36 verse 4 now. And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and 00:03:56.40\00:04:00.07 judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that 00:04:00.10\00:04:03.14 were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, 00:04:03.17\00:04:05.17 and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, 00:04:05.21\00:04:08.48 neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in 00:04:08.51\00:04:11.25 their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand 00:04:11.28\00:04:15.18 years. So notice that if Satan is bound for that 1000 years, it 00:04:15.22\00:04:19.42 says the saints or the redeemed, the saved, they're going to be 00:04:19.45\00:04:21.06 living with Jesus for the same period of time, 1000 years. 00:04:21.09\00:04:25.83 And it says in verse 5: But the rest of the dead lived not again 00:04:25.86\00:04:30.23 until the 1000 years were finished. This is the first 00:04:30.27\00:04:33.00 resurrection. Now remember from our last study there was no 00:04:33.03\00:04:35.97 punctuation when the Bible was originally written. Punctuation 00:04:36.00\00:04:39.77 was added centuries and centuries later. And it would 00:04:39.81\00:04:42.74 have been nice if they'd put parentheses around the words 00:04:42.78\00:04:46.21 but the rest of the dead lived not again until the 1000 years 00:04:46.25\00:04:49.48 were finished. Why would that have been helpful. Because when 00:04:49.52\00:04:52.65 you put parentheses around something, what, in effect are 00:04:52.69\00:04:55.79 you doing? You're breaking from the flow of thought just for a 00:04:55.82\00:05:00.10 moment, you're adding a little bit of extra information and 00:05:00.13\00:05:03.06 then you're coming back to the original thought. And that's 00:05:03.10\00:05:05.30 what John is doing here. He's breaking from his flow of 00:05:05.33\00:05:08.20 thought and he's adding the phrase, but the rest of the dead 00:05:08.24\00:05:11.17 lived not again until the 1000 years were finished, and then he 00:05:11.21\00:05:14.28 comes back to the point he was making at the beginning of the 00:05:14.31\00:05:16.48 chapter, this is the first resurrection. Now we know that's 00:05:16.51\00:05:19.05 the case because without understanding it that way we 00:05:19.08\00:05:22.12 would have the first resurrection at the end 00:05:22.15\00:05:23.69 of the 1000 years. And we've already studied more than once 00:05:23.72\00:05:26.45 in our seminar that the first resurrection happens when Jesus 00:05:26.49\00:05:29.79 comes. So we'll see this a little bit more clearly as we go 00:05:29.82\00:05:32.53 through the rest of our study tonight. So yes, verse 5 says 00:05:32.56\00:05:36.67 the rest of the dead will live at the end of the 1000 years. 00:05:36.70\00:05:40.84 Now when it says the rest of the dead now that's very important 00:05:40.87\00:05:43.57 because that means there must be another kind of dead, right? 00:05:43.61\00:05:46.27 So the Bible speaks about two kinds of dead. And we're going 00:05:46.31\00:05:50.15 get also into that in our study. Now let's go on if we can to 00:05:50.18\00:05:54.68 verse 6. It says: Blessed and holy is he that has part in the 00:05:54.72\00:06:01.69 first resurrection: on such the second death has no power, for 00:06:01.72\00:06:05.69 they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with 00:06:05.73\00:06:08.36 him a 1000 years. Now Bible students let me ask you a very 00:06:08.40\00:06:10.93 logical question. If there is a first resurrection then that 00:06:10.97\00:06:15.04 would strongly imply that there must at least be what? A second 00:06:15.07\00:06:20.08 resurrection, sure, or God would not be numbering them here. 00:06:20.11\00:06:21.94 So, we have two resurrections and the Bible speaks about two 00:06:21.98\00:06:25.61 different deaths. You have a first death and what the Bible 00:06:25.65\00:06:28.15 calls a second death. And understanding that there are two 00:06:28.18\00:06:31.65 resurrections and understanding that there are two different 00:06:31.69\00:06:33.19 types of death give us some great insight to what is going 00:06:33.22\00:06:36.36 on during the 1000 years. It really lays the foundation for 00:06:36.39\00:06:39.56 what we're talking about here. So let's go to John 5, which is 00:06:39.59\00:06:42.80 a repeating of our last study. It helps to repeat some verses 00:06:42.83\00:06:46.10 so we anchor them in our minds where they are in the Bible. So, 00:06:46.13\00:06:49.70 it says in John 5:28: Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, 00:06:49.74\00:06:53.41 in which all that are in the graves, so where are the dead? 00:06:53.44\00:06:56.81 They're in the graves. Shall hear his voice and shall come 00:06:56.85\00:07:00.42 forth; they that have done good unto the resurrection of life; 00:07:00.45\00:07:02.92 and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of 00:07:02.95\00:07:05.32 damnation. Now the resurrection of life, that's the first 00:07:05.35\00:07:08.69 resurrection. The resurrection of damnation, that's the second 00:07:08.72\00:07:12.06 resurrection. So here Jesus speaks about two different 00:07:12.09\00:07:15.90 resurrections. Now he doesn't tell us how much time is between 00:07:15.93\00:07:19.53 the two. We have to go to Revelation 20 to get that 00:07:19.57\00:07:21.87 information. But he does tell us that there are two. And I think 00:07:21.90\00:07:25.47 the key point here before we move on folks is to know that we 00:07:25.51\00:07:29.84 are given a probationary period in this life and that 00:07:29.88\00:07:34.45 probationary period is to make sure that we absolutely 00:07:34.48\00:07:39.09 positively do not come up in the second resurrection because 00:07:39.12\00:07:44.59 those that come up in the second resurrection they'll be lost for 00:07:44.63\00:07:45.96 eternity. There's no hope for them whatsoever. We want to be 00:07:45.99\00:07:49.53 sure absolutely that if we were to die before Jesus comes back 00:07:49.56\00:07:53.20 we would be in that first resurrection. Now we're going to 00:07:53.23\00:07:56.07 put it up on the screen here and use some graphs tonight to make 00:07:56.10\00:07:59.17 it more clear at what we're illustrating from the millennium 00:07:59.21\00:08:01.68 We have a 1000-year period of time and when you have a time 00:08:01.71\00:08:06.08 period you have to know when does it begin? Because if you 00:08:06.11\00:08:09.98 don't know when it begins you won't know when it ends. So, the 00:08:10.02\00:08:13.66 Lord has made it very easy for us by framing that 1000 years 00:08:13.69\00:08:17.96 with two events. I like to call them bookends, right? By 00:08:17.99\00:08:21.66 bookending it by the first resurrection and the second 00:08:21.70\00:08:25.90 resurrection. What that means is the millennium falls between 00:08:25.93\00:08:30.24 those two great events. And when you know that that the 00:08:30.27\00:08:33.98 resurrection at the beginning is for the righteous and the 00:08:34.01\00:08:36.75 resurrection at the end is for the wicked. The one the Bible 00:08:36.78\00:08:39.85 says the beginning is blessed and holy so the one at the other 00:08:39.88\00:08:41.85 side would be for the unblessed and the unholy. We want to make 00:08:41.88\00:08:45.65 sure again that we want to be in the first resurrection. Now if 00:08:45.69\00:08:50.06 you could take all the human beings folks that have ever 00:08:50.09\00:08:53.13 lived, are living now and ever will live they'll fall into four 00:08:53.16\00:08:57.93 categories. You see them. Righteous living, righteous dead 00:08:57.97\00:09:00.67 wicked living and wicked dead. Every human being will fall into 00:09:00.70\00:09:06.11 one of those four categories. Knowing what those four 00:09:06.14\00:09:08.14 categories are or what happens to them at the time of Jesus' 00:09:08.18\00:09:12.21 second coming really helps us to understand the 1000 years. So 00:09:12.25\00:09:16.55 let's look at the first two groups, the righteous living and 00:09:16.58\00:09:18.92 the righteous dead. By going to a familiar passage 00:09:18.95\00:09:21.76 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 starting in verse 16. Here it 00:09:21.79\00:09:25.29 says: The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout 00:09:25.33\00:09:28.43 with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and 00:09:28.46\00:09:31.97 the dead in Christ shall rise first: So there's the righteous 00:09:32.00\00:09:36.00 dead spoken of. Then we which are alive and remain shall be 00:09:36.04\00:09:38.51 caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in 00:09:38.54\00:09:41.74 the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. So there is the 00:09:41.78\00:09:46.08 righteous living spoken of. So we have now and answer to John 00:09:46.11\00:09:50.65 chapter 14 where Jesus says I'm going away, preparing a place 00:09:50.69\00:09:53.46 If I go away and prepare a place I will come again and receive 00:09:53.49\00:09:57.53 you. We know that the 1000 years cannot begin before this event 00:09:57.56\00:10:03.57 Why, that we call the second coming. Because it says during 00:10:03.70\00:10:05.73 the 1000 years that the saints reign with Christ. And the only 00:10:05.77\00:10:10.01 way they can reign with Christ is if they are with Christ and 00:10:10.04\00:10:14.54 Jesus comes and gets them at the time of the second coming. So, 00:10:14.58\00:10:17.31 the 1000 years does not begin until they are with Jesus. So, 00:10:17.35\00:10:21.72 we just linked the first resurrection with the second 00:10:21.75\00:10:24.35 coming of Jesus. So keep in mind the Bible says in Revelation 1:7 00:10:24.39\00:10:28.42 that every eye is going to see him, right? Nobody is going to 00:10:28.46\00:10:31.79 wake up because they overslept and say, Oh I missed the event. 00:10:31.83\00:10:35.13 Everyone is going to know when Jesus comes back. So yes John 14 00:10:35.16\00:10:40.64 tells us, Jesus is speaking, he says I'm going to go away and 00:10:40.67\00:10:42.77 prepare a place and the whole purpose of the resurrection is 00:10:42.80\00:10:45.67 to take us to that place that the Father has prepared. It's 00:10:45.71\00:10:49.64 the first resurrection that makes that possible. So, let's 00:10:49.68\00:10:53.08 now go on. What is going to happen at the resurrection for 00:10:53.11\00:10:56.72 the other groups of people. No, excuse me, first of all, we're 00:10:56.75\00:11:00.06 going to talk about something else that's going to happen. 00:11:00.09\00:11:01.42 What's going to happen at the resurrection for those first two 00:11:01.46\00:11:04.86 groups? Well let's find out here in I Corinthians 15:51. Behold I 00:11:04.89\00:11:08.26 show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep. What does Paul call 00:11:08.30\00:11:11.47 death here? A sleep, sure. We shall all be changed in a moment 00:11:11.50\00:11:15.64 in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; for the trumpet 00:11:15.67\00:11:19.34 will sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we 00:11:19.37\00:11:22.94 shall be changed. Now again why would we have to put on 00:11:22.98\00:11:26.82 something if we already had it? If we already had immortality 00:11:26.85\00:11:29.68 if we had an immortal soul already dwelling in us we 00:11:29.72\00:11:32.42 wouldn't be putting it on at the second coming, would we? So, it 00:11:32.45\00:11:36.36 says in verse 53: For this corruptible must put on 00:11:36.39\00:11:38.39 incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when 00:11:38.43\00:11:41.66 this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal 00:11:41.70\00:11:44.53 shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass 00:11:44.57\00:11:47.90 the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory 00:11:47.94\00:11:51.77 Think of it friends of all of the thousands of graveyards all 00:11:51.81\00:11:54.58 over this world, millions upon millions of believers coming up 00:11:54.61\00:12:00.15 out of those graves from all of human history. Can you imagine 00:12:00.18\00:12:03.99 what a glorious event that is to contemplate to think of that 00:12:04.02\00:12:06.76 resurrection during that day. When that happens friends the 00:12:06.79\00:12:09.52 righteous will meet Jesus in the air. They will go to heaven to 00:12:09.56\00:12:12.96 be with Jesus. They're going to go in through those beautiful 00:12:12.99\00:12:14.73 pearl gates that God has prepared for them and we are 00:12:14.76\00:12:18.27 going to be with Jesus in heaven So, those are the first two 00:12:18.30\00:12:21.97 groups, the righteous living and the righteous dead. But what 00:12:22.00\00:12:24.01 about the others, what about the lost? What happens to them when 00:12:24.04\00:12:26.84 Jesus comes. They must be destroyed because it says the 00:12:26.88\00:12:30.38 the rest of the dead did not live until after the 1000 years 00:12:30.41\00:12:33.21 were finished. You'll find that there are many Christians who 00:12:33.25\00:12:35.68 believe that during the 1000 years there are going to be 00:12:35.72\00:12:40.16 people here on earth, right, celebrating this wonderful 00:12:40.19\00:12:42.06 paradise and so on. It simply is not true that they're going to 00:12:42.09\00:12:46.19 have a second chance during the 1000 years. You're going to see 00:12:46.23\00:12:48.40 why. Let's go take a look at 2 Thessalonians chapter 1 and 00:12:48.43\00:12:53.50 verse 7. It says: And to you who are troubled rest with us, when 00:12:53.54\00:12:55.64 the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty 00:12:55.67\00:12:58.97 angels. We know that's the second coming. In flaming fire 00:12:59.01\00:13:02.74 taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not 00:13:02.78\00:13:06.18 the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: Well that doesn't sound 00:13:06.21\00:13:08.28 like a second chance to me, does it to you? Of course not. And it 00:13:08.32\00:13:12.85 says in 2 Thessalonians 2 and verse 8: And then shall that 00:13:12.89\00:13:16.26 Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the 00:13:16.29\00:13:18.39 spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the, what folks? 00:13:18.43\00:13:23.06 Brightness of his coming. So against, those that are not 00:13:23.10\00:13:27.54 covered with the righteousness of Jesus, they'll be destroyed 00:13:27.57\00:13:30.17 when Jesus comes back. That's why the Bible says blessed is 00:13:30.21\00:13:32.97 the pure in heart for they shall see God. What a beautiful 00:13:33.01\00:13:38.88 privilege it's going to be to see Jesus when he comes. But 00:13:38.91\00:13:42.02 the Bible clearly states in 1 Thessalonians chapter 5 verses 00:13:42.05\00:13:43.89 1-3 that the wicked will experience sudden destruction 00:13:43.92\00:13:47.66 when Jesus comes. So that's what happens to the wicked living. 00:13:47.69\00:13:51.23 They are going to experience sudden destruction. Let's go to 00:13:51.26\00:13:55.26 Isaiah 13 verse 9, one from the Old Testament here. It says: 00:13:55.30\00:13:59.13 Behold, the day...cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger 00:13:59.17\00:14:03.57 to lay the land, say it out loud what does it say? Desolate. Now 00:14:03.61\00:14:09.28 remember the word desolate because we're going to see that 00:14:09.31\00:14:11.95 also in another text tonight. And speaking of the Lord: and he 00:14:11.98\00:14:14.42 shall, do what to the sinners? Destroy the sinners thereof out 00:14:14.45\00:14:18.99 of it. So it's very clear when Jesus comes the sinners are 00:14:19.02\00:14:23.39 destroyed and the land is laid desolate. Let's keep reading 00:14:23.43\00:14:27.86 here from Isaiah 13 verse 10: For the stars of heaven and the 00:14:27.90\00:14:32.53 constellations thereof shall not give their light. Now here's 00:14:32.57\00:14:37.01 some special information given by Isaiah, that's going to help 00:14:37.04\00:14:41.04 us understand Revelation chapter 20. It says: The stars will not 00:14:41.08\00:14:44.81 give their light, it says the sun shall be darkened in his 00:14:44.85\00:14:47.78 going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. 00:14:47.82\00:14:50.19 So it says the light of the stars will go out. The sun will 00:14:50.22\00:14:53.62 be darkened it will go out and even the moon which gives of 00:14:53.66\00:14:55.89 course a reflected light even it will not shine. It's going to be 00:14:55.92\00:14:59.63 a dark day for sure. Verse 11: And I will punish the world for 00:14:59.66\00:15:02.66 their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause 00:15:02.70\00:15:05.77 the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the 00:15:05.80\00:15:08.77 haughtiness of the terrible. Again this verse makes it so 00:15:08.80\00:15:11.01 that at the second coming there is no second chance. There is 00:15:11.04\00:15:14.94 not another opportunity during the 1000 years to be saved 00:15:14.98\00:15:18.65 friends. We have every day an opportunity to serve the Lord. 00:15:18.68\00:15:22.82 Would you say amen? Every day we get up and we take breath into 00:15:22.85\00:15:26.86 our lungs is the time to say Lord, I want to serve you. Lord 00:15:26.89\00:15:29.56 I want to be a Christian. I want to be pure in my heart. God 00:15:29.59\00:15:35.06 gives us that every single day and those decisions that we make 00:15:35.10\00:15:37.70 every day in this life will of course settle where we spend 00:15:37.73\00:15:42.30 eternity. So then what do we find? We find the righteous go 00:15:42.34\00:15:44.61 to heaven. The wicked living are slain. What about the wicked 00:15:44.64\00:15:49.11 dead. We've already actually read about them in Revelation 20 00:15:49.14\00:15:51.88 and verse 5. It says: But the rest of the dead lived not again 00:15:51.91\00:15:55.95 until the thousand years were finished... So because the 00:15:55.98\00:15:58.82 wicked dead are already dead, they simply remain dead till the 00:15:58.85\00:16:04.66 1000 years are complete. So let's just take a little review 00:16:04.69\00:16:08.46 now about the events when Jesus returns. A little overview is 00:16:08.50\00:16:11.37 always helpful. We know that the believers are going to be 00:16:11.40\00:16:14.84 resurrected at that time. They receive immortality their bodies 00:16:14.87\00:16:19.27 are changed. The wicked living are consumed by the spirit or 00:16:19.31\00:16:22.51 the breath of Jesus, it says. His very presence consumes them. 00:16:22.54\00:16:26.95 And it says: The wicked dead are going to remain in their 00:16:26.98\00:16:30.19 Revelation 20 verse 5 and of course the believers ascend to 00:16:30.22\00:16:34.29 heaven with Christ, 1 Thessalonians 4 and verse 16. 00:16:34.32\00:16:37.09 How could there be anybody alive on planet Earth when after that 00:16:37.13\00:16:43.57 happens, folks? This sets up the question: How many people are 00:16:43.60\00:16:48.90 alive on planet Earth after Jesus comes and takes the church 00:16:48.94\00:16:52.37 away? How many? Zero, absolutely The idea that the 1000 years are 00:16:52.41\00:16:57.88 a time of prosperity and peace and it's a paradise is 00:16:57.91\00:17:02.98 absolutely false. What people have done is they've made the 00:17:03.02\00:17:04.49 mistake, friends, of taking a few verses that talk about what 00:17:04.52\00:17:08.92 is going to happen at the end of the 1000 years and they misapply 00:17:08.96\00:17:11.69 it and they put it at the beginning of the 1000 years. And 00:17:11.73\00:17:14.93 the Bible simply is not telling us that there's going to be a 00:17:14.96\00:17:17.40 great paradise at the beginning of the 1000 years. Think of it. 00:17:17.43\00:17:21.17 It says in Revelation that when Jesus comes every mountain and 00:17:21.20\00:17:24.37 island are going to be moved out of their places. The seven last 00:17:24.41\00:17:28.01 plagues have fallen. It says the oceans are turned to blood and 00:17:28.04\00:17:30.58 the fresh water is turned to blood and we're going to get 00:17:30.61\00:17:32.28 into this on another study. But it says the sun scorches the 00:17:32.31\00:17:36.58 earth and the hail comes down and ever hailstone the weight of 00:17:36.62\00:17:40.29 a talent. The earth is going to be decimated and that's what it 00:17:40.32\00:17:42.79 told us there in Isaiah 13. It said the earth would be desolate 00:17:42.82\00:17:46.26 So they make that mistake unfortunately but we're going 00:17:46.29\00:17:50.77 to study it out in its correct way tonight. It says that the 00:17:50.80\00:17:54.14 devil is going to be chained when Jesus comes back. What are 00:17:54.17\00:17:57.21 the chains that bind the devil? Remember now we're looking at a 00:17:57.24\00:18:02.68 book of the Bible of Revelation that is highly symbolic, right? 00:18:02.71\00:18:05.51 We would expect the chains to be a symbol. You know the Bible 00:18:05.55\00:18:09.28 says we wrestle not against flesh and blood which means 00:18:09.32\00:18:12.79 we're not fighting against that which is physical in nature. 00:18:12.82\00:18:15.79 How many have ever seen the devil actually walking around 00:18:15.82\00:18:19.26 you know in some kind of physical form? We don't do we? 00:18:19.29\00:18:22.63 The devil is a spiritual being right? He's an angel, fallen 00:18:22.66\00:18:28.04 angel but he's still a spiritual being. So we can't expect then 00:18:28.07\00:18:31.71 friends to tie a spiritual being with a literal rope or chain 00:18:31.74\00:18:36.64 that you'd buy down you now some kind of hardware store or 00:18:36.68\00:18:41.05 whatever. So no, can you tie an angel's hands behind his back? 00:18:41.08\00:18:44.29 Of course not. So when it says that Satan is bound with a chain 00:18:44.32\00:18:48.76 we have to look at it with the symbolism in which it was 00:18:48.79\00:18:52.43 intended. Remember that the books of Daniel and Revelation 00:18:52.46\00:18:55.50 have highly symbolized words in them. The beast is a symbol. The 00:18:55.53\00:19:00.00 dragon is a symbol and they have meanings behind them. But look 00:19:00.04\00:19:02.70 at this one from 2 Peter 2 verse 4. Speaking of chains it says: 00:19:02.74\00:19:07.38 For if God spared not the angels that sinned but cast them down 00:19:07.41\00:19:11.38 hell, and the word there hell simply means a place of outer 00:19:11.41\00:19:14.22 darkness, and delivered them into chains of darkness. So 00:19:14.25\00:19:18.12 again chains here is used symbolically in that they are 00:19:18.15\00:19:21.99 constrained to a certain point in an area of darkness next to 00:19:22.02\00:19:25.79 what they had been in the glory of heaven. And it says they're 00:19:25.83\00:19:28.76 reserved unto judgment. So here we see chains are used 00:19:28.80\00:19:31.70 symbolically. It's the same in the book of Revelation. We've 00:19:31.73\00:19:34.24 got righteous living, righteous dead, wicked living and wicked 00:19:34.27\00:19:36.91 dead. Now follow along with me. The righteous living they're 00:19:36.94\00:19:40.04 caught up to meet the Lord in the air and they go to heaven to 00:19:40.08\00:19:41.74 be with Jesus when Jesus comes. The righteous dead, they're 00:19:41.78\00:19:44.35 resurrected, caught up to meet the Lord in the air and they go 00:19:44.38\00:19:46.35 to heaven to be with Jesus. We've got the wicked living 00:19:46.38\00:19:48.55 they're slain by the glory of the Lord, they're dead. The 00:19:48.58\00:19:51.55 wicked dead are already dead so they remain dead. So when you 00:19:51.59\00:19:55.02 think about this then let me ask you a question again. When the 00:19:55.06\00:20:00.93 church is taken away who does Satan have to work with? 00:20:00.96\00:20:03.00 Basically nobody, right? How much power does a king have 00:20:03.03\00:20:07.87 without a kingdom? No power whatsoever. How much power does 00:20:07.90\00:20:11.84 Satan have with no one to tempt, no one to destroy, no one to 00:20:11.87\00:20:15.51 work with. All he has is his evil cohorts the other evil 00:20:15.54\00:20:18.45 angels. So the devil can only be affective to work when he has 00:20:18.48\00:20:23.69 people to do his bidding. And it is the devil's work to deceive 00:20:23.72\00:20:26.76 people but now there are no good people there anymore, they're 00:20:26.79\00:20:30.33 taken away. There are no bad people, they're slain, they're 00:20:30.36\00:20:33.19 dead on the ground and so Satan would love to continue his 00:20:33.23\00:20:36.40 sinister work but he can't. He's bound for a 1000 years. So to 00:20:36.43\00:20:42.74 put it plainly friends the circumstances that God places 00:20:42.77\00:20:46.51 him in bind him in that he cannot escape those 00:20:46.54\00:20:50.91 circumstances for 1000 years. The great chain with which Satan 00:20:50.95\00:20:56.58 is bound is the condition that God places him in that he cannot 00:20:56.62\00:21:01.46 change till the 1000 years is over. And you know we use that 00:21:01.49\00:21:05.76 figure of speech the same way today. If you want to do 00:21:05.79\00:21:07.56 something but circumstances do not allow you to do it you might 00:21:07.60\00:21:11.20 say Oh, I'm all tied up today. My hands are tied in the matter. 00:21:11.23\00:21:15.44 Are you really tied? No, you're saying symbolically that I'm 00:21:15.47\00:21:19.31 tied up in that I cannot do what I would like to do. Or have you 00:21:19.34\00:21:22.74 ever said this? I am bound and determined. Right? Are you 00:21:22.78\00:21:27.38 really bound. No of course not. But you're saying circumstances 00:21:27.42\00:21:30.82 have put me in a place that I cannot change, right? In the 00:21:30.85\00:21:35.02 same way, again the metaphors that we often use are no 00:21:35.06\00:21:37.79 than the Bible. So God has put him in this condition. Now what 00:21:37.83\00:21:42.36 is the condition of the earth during that time? You know that 00:21:42.40\00:21:44.87 the Lord has actually allowed a couple of his prophets to look 00:21:44.90\00:21:48.14 into the future and see the condition of the world during 00:21:48.17\00:21:51.01 the 1000 years. That's pretty exciting when you know that and 00:21:51.04\00:21:54.61 we're going to look into it right now. Let's start in Isaiah 00:21:54.64\00:21:57.61 chapter 24. Now something you can do as you follow along is 00:21:57.65\00:22:01.65 notice how closely Isaiah's language is linked to Revelation 00:22:01.68\00:22:06.09 chapter 20. Remember how opening night we talked about how 00:22:06.12\00:22:11.03 Revelation's phraseology its symbols are often borrowed 00:22:11.06\00:22:12.83 from the Old 00:22:12.86\00:22:14.20 Testament. Well here is an example of that if you go to 00:22:14.23\00:22:16.80 some of these texts in Isaiah. It says in Isaiah 24 verse 19: 00:22:16.83\00:22:20.94 The earth is utterly broken down the earth is clean dissolved, 00:22:20.97\00:22:25.21 the earth is moved exceedingly. The earth shall reel to and fro 00:22:25.24\00:22:28.51 as a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the 00:22:28.54\00:22:32.75 transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall 00:22:32.78\00:22:35.62 and not rise again. And it shall come to pass in that day, 00:22:35.65\00:22:39.29 speaking of the day Jesus comes, that the Lord shall punish the 00:22:39.32\00:22:42.02 host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the 00:22:42.06\00:22:44.63 earth upon the earth. Now notice where they're punished. They're 00:22:44.66\00:22:47.93 not punished way down in the earth. It says they're punished 00:22:47.96\00:22:51.03 upon the earth, and that's going to be very important for our 00:22:51.07\00:22:53.50 next study when we study about the fires of hell. So it says 00:22:53.54\00:22:57.31 he'll punish the host of the high ones that are on high. Who 00:22:57.34\00:22:59.27 are the host of the high ones that are on high? Ephesians 00:22:59.31\00:23:02.14 chapter 6 says that's Satan and his evil angels. So notice it 00:23:02.18\00:23:06.51 Satan and his evil angels and it says the kings of the earth 00:23:06.55\00:23:10.42 that's wicked humanity. They're both going to be punished in the 00:23:10.45\00:23:13.36 same place. It says they're going to be upon the earth. So 00:23:13.56\00:23:18.79 it's talking about a time when God is going to punish the evil 00:23:18.83\00:23:20.66 ones and the evil angels together. And they shall be 00:23:20.70\00:23:23.77 gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the, where now? 00:23:23.80\00:23:28.57 In the pit. Where else do we read about a pit. We read about 00:23:28.60\00:23:31.74 it in Revelation chapter 20 sure and it says shall be shut up in 00:23:31.77\00:23:35.21 the prison, and after many days they shall be visited. Where 00:23:35.24\00:23:39.08 else do we read about someone that was shut up, right? In 00:23:39.11\00:23:42.62 Revelation 20 verse 3 that says Satan was shut up. And it says 00:23:42.65\00:23:47.39 they'll be shut up for 1000 years and after that he'll be 00:23:47.42\00:23:51.09 loosed a little season. Here is says after many days they shall 00:23:51.13\00:23:52.83 be visited. How long do you think those many days are? 00:23:52.86\00:23:55.13 A 1000 years. And so just as it says they'll be visited at the 00:23:55.16\00:23:59.83 end of the 1000 years or at the end of many days, so Satan will 00:23:59.87\00:24:03.44 be released for a little time at the end of the 1000 years. 00:24:03.47\00:24:07.41 So we're going to notice how these two groups are linked 00:24:07.44\00:24:12.81 together, wicked humanity and the wicked angels. Very, very 00:24:12.85\00:24:17.82 interesting. But the trouble is most churches don't go into the 00:24:17.85\00:24:20.56 Old Testament so they miss out on this vital, vital information 00:24:20.59\00:24:23.46 There are about a 1000 references in Revelation 00:24:23.49\00:24:26.93 which are coming from the Old Testament. So we have to go 00:24:26.96\00:24:31.00 there to get that information. Now let's keep reading here. 00:24:31.03\00:24:33.00 In Jeremiah chapter 4 and verse 23. It says: I beheld the earth 00:24:33.03\00:24:36.97 so Jeremiah's looking at the earth and what does he see? 00:24:37.01\00:24:39.64 It says, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens 00:24:39.67\00:24:43.28 and they had no light. So again it's repeating something that we 00:24:43.31\00:24:47.78 learned over in Isaiah. Again it says God is going to put the 00:24:47.82\00:24:51.85 lights out for this world. But notice it also says that it's 00:24:51.89\00:24:54.86 without form and void. Where else do we read about something 00:24:54.89\00:24:57.03 being without form and void? In Genesis, right? But this is 00:24:57.06\00:25:00.23 not talking about what the earth was in the very beginning before 00:25:00.26\00:25:03.37 God made it something beautiful but what the earth is going to 00:25:03.40\00:25:06.43 be reverting to after the plagues have fallen and Jesus 00:25:06.47\00:25:11.71 has come and the earth is decimated. It goes back to a 00:25:11.74\00:25:13.41 type of without form and void which basically means dark and 00:25:13.88\00:25:17.68 desolated. Verse 24: I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they 00:25:17.71\00:25:21.55 trembled, and all the hills moved lightly, which means in 00:25:21.58\00:25:24.92 the original it means they moved back and forth. I beheld, and, 00:25:24.95\00:25:28.92 lo, there were how many people? No man and all the birds of the 00:25:28.96\00:25:33.36 heaven were fled. Why no man? Because the righteous they've 00:25:33.40\00:25:35.90 been taken away. The wicked are destroyed. There's no one left. 00:25:35.93\00:25:39.73 And it goes on: And I beheld and lo, the fruitful place was a 00:25:39.77\00:25:42.80 wilderness. Isaiah said the earth is desolated. And all the 00:25:42.84\00:25:47.44 cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord, and 00:25:47.48\00:25:49.21 by his fierce anger...thus hath the Lord said, The whole land 00:25:49.24\00:25:53.58 shall be, what again, desolate; so it's repeating it so we 00:25:53.62\00:25:57.62 understand that the earth is desolated at the time of the 00:25:57.65\00:26:00.36 time of the second coming. No wonder why God takes the church 00:26:00.39\00:26:03.63 away. Yet, he says, will I not make a full end. Why does God 00:26:03.66\00:26:07.73 not make a full end at the time of the second coming? Because 00:26:07.76\00:26:10.60 we have how many years to go? A thousand years to go through. 00:26:10.63\00:26:14.97 God makes a full end at the end of the 1000 years. And then in 00:26:15.00\00:26:19.01 verse 28 Jeremiah says: For this shall the earth mourn, and the 00:26:19.04\00:26:23.01 heavens above be black; because I have spoken it I have purposed 00:26:23.04\00:26:28.05 it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it. So the 00:26:28.08\00:26:31.82 earth goes through what we might call a mourning period. It is 00:26:31.85\00:26:35.72 black, it is darkened, it is... it is mourning for what sin has 00:26:35.76\00:26:39.89 done upon it. God made this world beautiful in the beginning 00:26:39.93\00:26:43.00 didn't he? After every day of creation God said it is good, it 00:26:43.03\00:26:46.77 is good, it is good. At the end he said it is very good. 00:26:46.80\00:26:48.17 God made this 00:26:49.70\00:26:51.04 world beautiful but sin has wreaked havoc upon it and 00:26:51.07\00:26:54.11 finally, we see that it has been destroyed because of what sin 00:26:54.14\00:26:58.98 has done. And so now we see that God is going to take this world 00:26:59.01\00:27:02.52 and during the 1000 years, he's going to put it into darkness. 00:27:02.55\00:27:08.42 Satan has been spreading spiritual darkness for thousands 00:27:08.46\00:27:12.36 of years. God is going to put him and his other evil angels 00:27:12.39\00:27:15.66 in literal darkness for a 1000 years. You can just imagine what 00:27:15.70\00:27:20.54 that might be like for him. Jeremiah 25 verse 33 says: And 00:27:20.57\00:27:24.21 the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the 00:27:24.24\00:27:28.44 earth even unto the other end of the earth. Now again that's 00:27:28.48\00:27:31.38 exactly a repetition of what we read in those other verses. And 00:27:31.41\00:27:33.72 they shall not be lamented, What does that mean? 00:27:33.75\00:27:35.98 mean? Mourned over. Neither gathered nor buried. Why? There 00:27:36.02\00:27:40.86 is no one to do the work. Right? The righteous are gone. So you 00:27:40.89\00:27:43.76 can imagine friend; just let your mind picture of what the 00:27:43.79\00:27:48.53 Bible's describing for us here. the great and lofty cities, 00:27:48.56\00:27:51.40 broken down lying in utter ruin. The entire world absolutely 00:27:51.43\00:27:55.80 desolate. No one to mourn over the wicked. The righteous are 00:27:55.84\00:27:59.37 gone. The wicked are destroyed, and the wicked remain dead 00:27:59.41\00:28:03.21 during the thousand years and do you know that is a merciful act 00:28:03.24\00:28:07.98 on the part of God? They don't have to suffer during those 1000 00:28:08.02\00:28:10.62 years like Satan and his evil angels have to do. They remain 00:28:10.65\00:28:15.02 dead. They'll sleep of death for a 1000 years. So what goes on 00:28:15.06\00:28:17.93 during the millennium. Let's recap here. The righteous are in 00:28:17.96\00:28:21.66 heaven, the earth is desolated, the earth is described in 00:28:21.70\00:28:26.97 Revelation as a pit and unfortunately, Revelation uses 00:28:27.00\00:28:30.57 the term bottomless pit because when we think of a bottomless 00:28:30.61\00:28:33.01 pit, we think of what? A hole in the ground for which there is no 00:28:33.04\00:28:36.38 end, right? But that's not actually the meaning of the term 00:28:36.41\00:28:39.81 there. It is the word abussos. It's where we get our English 00:28:39.85\00:28:44.32 word abyss from and it literally means a place of darkness and 00:28:44.35\00:28:48.19 desolation. It is the same word in the Old Testament when it was 00:28:48.22\00:28:53.06 translated into Greek, from Hebrew to Greek, in Genesis when 00:28:53.09\00:28:55.63 it says without form and void it uses the word abussos, right? So 00:28:55.66\00:28:59.27 it's talking about a place of darkness and destruction and did 00:28:59.30\00:29:01.94 we not read over and over that the earth is desolated? Yes. And 00:29:01.97\00:29:05.57 did we not read over and over that it is going to be dark and 00:29:05.61\00:29:08.58 God's going to put the lights out? Yes. So it becomes abussos 00:29:08.61\00:29:11.95 it becomes in a pit-like state for the 1000 years and that 00:29:11.98\00:29:16.99 represents the earth and it represents a prison because 00:29:17.02\00:29:21.76 Satan is bound there. He cannot escape from it so it is a prison 00:29:21.79\00:29:26.66 for Satan for a 1000 years. He cannot escape from it. Okay so 00:29:26.70\00:29:33.10 let us go take a look at this incredible world, hail stones 00:29:33.13\00:29:39.27 coming down, all of that doing its work. You can imagine the 00:29:39.31\00:29:41.81 state of it. Satan is going to suffer during this time. It 00:29:41.84\00:29:45.65 would be an awful period for him A 1000 years in that condition. 00:29:45.68\00:29:49.65 He can't go anywhere. What does he have to do for those 1000 00:29:49.68\00:29:53.12 years. Just reflect on the results of his rebellion doesn't 00:29:53.15\00:29:56.62 he. Can you imagine the arguments that are going to be 00:29:56.66\00:29:58.13 going back and forth between him and those other evil angels 00:29:58.16\00:30:00.66 about who caused what and who is responsible for what. So 00:30:00.70\00:30:03.37 these angels that we know as demons will contemplate their 00:30:03.40\00:30:06.63 fall for 1000 years and they are in that cold, dark, desolated 00:30:06.67\00:30:11.41 condition that they cannot escape from. Bodies strewn all 00:30:11.44\00:30:15.08 over the place. Everyone in the whole universe friends sees an 00:30:15.11\00:30:19.35 object lesson here of what Satan's rebellion has brought 00:30:19.38\00:30:23.75 about. Because in the very beginning when Satan rebelled, 00:30:23.79\00:30:27.36 how is it that he deceived so many angels to come on his side? 00:30:27.39\00:30:30.43 He did it by saying that he had better ideas than God did. That 00:30:30.46\00:30:35.40 he had a better way of ruling then God did. He could set up a 00:30:35.43\00:30:39.03 better government than God had. Now there are some things that 00:30:39.07\00:30:42.07 can only be proven with time. Because if God had instantly 00:30:42.10\00:30:45.61 eliminated Satan because of his rebellion, because the Bible 00:30:45.64\00:30:47.98 says the wages of sin is what now? Death. If God had said 00:30:48.01\00:30:52.15 Satan you sinned and therefore you're going to have to die 00:30:52.18\00:30:54.75 the angels had never seen rebellion before. The angels had 00:30:54.78\00:30:59.65 never seen sin before. And so if God had immediately slain Satan 00:30:59.69\00:31:04.23 the angels would have said, Wow! That's what happens? Boy we 00:31:04.26\00:31:07.86 better fall into line too, or else we're going to get killed 00:31:07.90\00:31:09.76 just like Satan did. And they would have served God out of 00:31:09.80\00:31:13.64 fear and not from love because they had to. And God could only 00:31:13.67\00:31:17.71 take the service of love. And so because he could not demand it 00:31:17.74\00:31:22.08 but he had to reveal it over time he allowed sin to run its 00:31:22.11\00:31:26.28 course because what's happening friends is God is allowing the 00:31:26.31\00:31:29.08 great controversy between good and evil to run its course in 00:31:29.12\00:31:33.56 such a way that he doesn't just solve things for a period of 00:31:33.59\00:31:37.56 but God is solving it so that all eternity can go by and we 00:31:37.59\00:31:42.73 will never ever repeat this awful sin experiment. Right? 00:31:42.76\00:31:46.40 Because as the universe looks down upon this world which is an 00:31:46.43\00:31:52.87 object lesson because of its rebellion they see that Satan's 00:31:52.91\00:31:56.81 way did not bring extra happiness. It did not bring joy 00:31:56.85\00:31:59.28 to its inhabitants. It did not bring peace, it did not bring a 00:31:59.31\00:32:03.08 higher state of ability. In fact, the thousand years goes by 00:32:03.12\00:32:06.45 and the universe sees nothing but death and destruction and 00:32:06.49\00:32:10.16 pain and heartache, it will echo and it will reecho throughout 00:32:10.19\00:32:13.96 the inhabited universe, the wages of sin is death. And we'll 00:32:14.00\00:32:19.27 see that we would never ever, ever want to go through that 00:32:19.30\00:32:23.81 experiment again. What do you say, Amen? So God's handling the 00:32:23.84\00:32:28.88 controversy between good and evil that this conflict will not 00:32:28.91\00:32:32.61 arise a second time and we will see that Satan's way could never 00:32:32.65\00:32:35.82 have brought about happiness and that God was just in everything 00:32:35.85\00:32:39.72 he did. So now let's refocus to another group of people, God's 00:32:39.75\00:32:48.73 people. The saved or the righteous. Where are they? 00:32:48.76\00:32:51.57 They are taken to heaven at the second coming. Now think of this 00:32:51.60\00:32:55.70 incredible contrast. Satan and the evil ones are in perfect 00:32:55.74\00:33:00.38 darkness for 1000 years. God has the saints in absolute glory, 00:33:00.41\00:33:05.71 right? Oh friends, it pays to serve the Lord, Amen? In every 00:33:05.75\00:33:09.28 way this is just rich in the contrast of it all. How amazing. 00:33:09.32\00:33:13.15 At the end of time when we see that the experiment of sin 00:33:13.19\00:33:15.69 is over. We'll 00:33:15.72\00:33:17.16 see that Satan is totally unmasked and we're going to see 00:33:17.19\00:33:20.96 that the saints are up in heaven and what are they going to be 00:33:21.00\00:33:23.06 doing during that time? Let's go take a look. Revelation 00:33:23.10\00:33:26.10 20 and verse 4. What are the saints doing during the 1000 00:33:26.13\00:33:28.40 years? And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment 00:33:28.44\00:33:32.47 was given unto them, them being the saints or the saved, And I 00:33:32.51\00:33:35.58 saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of 00:33:35.61\00:33:37.71 Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the 00:33:37.75\00:33:40.72 beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark 00:33:40.75\00:33:43.62 upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and 00:33:43.65\00:33:45.62 reigned with Christ a thousand years. Now there's something 00:33:45.65\00:33:48.86 worth noting here friends, that this is a group of people that 00:33:48.89\00:33:52.29 made a conscious decision not to worship the beast or take his 00:33:52.33\00:33:57.10 image or receive his mark. Now that tells us right there that 00:33:57.13\00:33:59.97 this idea of a secret, silent, invisible rapture where the 00:34:00.00\00:34:02.74 church is going to be taken away before any kind of tribulation 00:34:02.77\00:34:05.27 cannot be true. Because here are a group of people that were here 00:34:05.31\00:34:08.81 and they did go through that time and they did stand faithful 00:34:08.84\00:34:12.18 to God during that final tribulation which we'll take up 00:34:12.21\00:34:15.48 on another night. Well you see here is a group of people and 00:34:15.52\00:34:19.42 they're going to be on thrones. Who are they going to judge? 00:34:19.45\00:34:21.79 Now let's go to 1 Corinthians 6 and verse 2. During the 1000 00:34:21.82\00:34:25.63 years, it's called the millennium, the righteous are in 00:34:25.66\00:34:28.13 heaven with Christ. They're setting on thrones. They're 00:34:28.16\00:34:29.53 participating in the work of judgment and Paul says in 00:34:29.56\00:34:32.00 1 Corinthians 6 and verse 2: Do Do you not know that the saints 00:34:32.03\00:34:34.34 shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you 00:34:34.37\00:34:38.21 are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters? What Paul is 00:34:38.24\00:34:40.61 saying in essence is hey you've got big things in store for you 00:34:40.64\00:34:43.85 Learn how to judge properly because God is going to use you 00:34:43.88\00:34:47.42 in a future judgment. He says here in 1 Corinthians 6:3: Know 00:34:47.45\00:34:51.99 you not that we shall judge what Angels. Now that's not talking 00:34:52.02\00:34:57.13 about the holy angels. They have not sinned. They need no 00:34:57.16\00:35:00.20 judgment. It's talking about the wicked angels that did sin. How 00:35:00.23\00:35:03.10 much more things that pertain to this life? So here we find 00:35:03.13\00:35:07.04 that Paul said we're going to judge the world. Now that means 00:35:07.07\00:35:11.57 of course, those who have made this world the object of their 00:35:11.61\00:35:14.41 affection and their desire. So we realize that God is going to 00:35:14.44\00:35:19.91 take people that have lived in this world, they've gone through 00:35:19.95\00:35:22.25 the hardships, they've gone through the trials, they've gone 00:35:22.28\00:35:24.35 through all of the suffering. He's going to put them in a 00:35:24.39\00:35:27.46 place of judgment and actually allow them to have an insight 00:35:27.49\00:35:31.56 into what has gone on during all of these years. And God is going 00:35:31.59\00:35:36.43 say in essence, was I just? Was I fair? Did I do everything 00:35:36.46\00:35:41.77 right? Does God have to do that? No, he doesn't have to do that. 00:35:41.80\00:35:44.01 But does he do it? Yes he does do it. It's amazing. He says in 00:35:44.04\00:35:49.34 verse 5: Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord 00:35:49.38\00:35:52.18 come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of, what 00:35:52.21\00:35:55.12 Darkness. And further on it says And he will make manifest the 00:35:55.15\00:35:59.95 counsels of the hearts: right? Things that we could never judge 00:35:59.99\00:36:05.09 correctly but God knew about, and then shall every man have 00:36:05.13\00:36:08.26 praise of God. Why shall every man have praise of God? Because 00:36:08.30\00:36:11.43 we are going to see in that day that God did everything right. 00:36:11.47\00:36:17.87 And he was just and he was fair. In essence, we're going to have 00:36:17.91\00:36:22.91 an instant replay. Now those of you who have a sports background 00:36:22.94\00:36:27.32 you know about instant replay. Does instant replay change the 00:36:27.35\00:36:30.29 play? No instant replay doesn't change the play, it may change 00:36:30.32\00:36:33.96 minds but it doesn't change the play. The reason for instant 00:36:33.99\00:36:37.43 replay is to make sure that the umpire or the referee or whoever 00:36:37.46\00:36:41.80 is judging it got the call right And God is going to give us the 00:36:41.83\00:36:45.43 most amazing instant replay. The Bible speaks about books there. 00:36:45.47\00:36:49.40 Books in heaven. And God is going to allow us to take a look 00:36:49.44\00:36:52.27 at these. And he's going to ask us, did I do everything correct? 00:36:52.31\00:36:56.18 Did I do everything fair? Was I loving in how I handled things? 00:36:56.21\00:37:00.58 Have you noticed in the Bible friends that before God acts He 00:37:00.62\00:37:05.42 always investigates? Let me give you some examples of that. When 00:37:05.45\00:37:09.49 Adam and Eve fell God walked into the garden and he said Adam 00:37:09.52\00:37:13.16 Adam, where art thou? Did God not know? Of course, he knew. 00:37:13.19\00:37:18.03 But he investigated before he took action. What about when 00:37:18.07\00:37:21.44 Cain killed his brother Abel and he said to Cain, Cain where is 00:37:21.47\00:37:26.27 thy brother? Did God not know? Of course, he knew, but he 00:37:26.31\00:37:30.18 investigated before he took action. What about when it came 00:37:30.21\00:37:32.68 to the time of the Tower of Babel. It said God came down to 00:37:32.71\00:37:37.82 see the city. What was he telling us? He's showing us that 00:37:37.85\00:37:40.49 God does not act arbitrarily. He investigated before he took 00:37:40.52\00:37:44.76 action. Same with Sodom and Gomorrah. He said to Abraham, 00:37:44.79\00:37:47.63 I'm going to go down and look for myself. Why? Because he was 00:37:47.66\00:37:52.23 telling Abraham I'm going to investigate before I act. God is 00:37:52.27\00:37:55.47 showing us that he does things fairly and not arbitrarily. So, 00:37:55.50\00:38:02.28 yes, God is going to allow us to look into the books of record 00:38:02.31\00:38:04.65 He could do the judgment in a millisecond if he wanted to. But 00:38:04.68\00:38:09.68 you see right now folks the holy angels see behind the scenes. 00:38:09.72\00:38:13.32 They see everything right. They see what's going on. But we 00:38:13.36\00:38:18.19 don't have that accurate viewpoint. But during the 1000 00:38:18.23\00:38:21.26 years God is going to say, Do you have a question? Would you 00:38:21.30\00:38:24.50 like to have an insight into something that happened? What 00:38:24.53\00:38:26.40 if you were there and someone that you thought was a better 00:38:26.43\00:38:28.84 Christian than you wasn't there? Would you have a question about 00:38:28.87\00:38:31.14 that? Would you have a question about maybe why your life is a 00:38:31.17\00:38:34.91 certain turn? Why God allowed a certain thing. God is going to 00:38:34.94\00:38:37.51 say, Listen, I didn't cause that bad thing to happen. You see 00:38:37.55\00:38:40.28 that was caused by the evil one. But when you gave your heart 00:38:40.32\00:38:42.25 to me, I even took the bad things that happened and turned 00:38:42.28\00:38:46.86 them around and made them a blessing in your life. We're 00:38:46.89\00:38:51.43 going to see friends during the time of the 1000 years that God 00:38:51.46\00:38:53.26 was at work 24 hours a day, seven days a week with one 00:38:53.29\00:39:00.04 purpose. It was the salvation of human beings. Amen. God was at 00:39:00.07\00:39:02.84 work. And we're going to...and when we finish it all, when God 00:39:02.87\00:39:05.41 has allowed us to look into all the things that we need to look in to he's going to 00:39:05.44\00:39:08.71 say did I get the call right? I'm going to say yes Lord. You 00:39:08.74\00:39:13.35 got the call right. It's just an amazing thing and when we see 00:39:13.38\00:39:17.19 that instant replay, when we see that if a person was not there 00:39:17.22\00:39:22.36 in heaven, it wasn't God's fault He's going to say did I send 00:39:22.39\00:39:25.79 them an invitation? Did I make appeals to them? Did I do it 00:39:25.83\00:39:31.20 through every which way that I could? I'm going to say yes Lord 00:39:31.23\00:39:34.94 you did. He's going to say is there anything more I could have 00:39:34.97\00:39:36.84 done for the salvation of that individual? No, Lord. You pulled 00:39:36.87\00:39:40.84 out all the stops. You were just and you were fair and that 00:39:40.88\00:39:44.51 person is not here because of a choice that they made. And when 00:39:44.55\00:39:48.68 we're finished all of that we're going to have this to say. 00:39:48.72\00:39:51.55 Revelation 15 and verse 3, it says: And they sing the song of 00:39:51.59\00:39:54.92 Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, 00:39:54.96\00:39:57.66 Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just 00:39:57.69\00:40:01.96 and true are thy ways, Amen, thou King of saints. Oh friends 00:40:02.00\00:40:07.90 we're going to know that God was just in everything he did. 00:40:07.94\00:40:10.17 Well now let's have another summary about what happens 00:40:10.21\00:40:13.04 during the 1000 years of the Millennium. The righteous are in 00:40:13.07\00:40:15.81 heaven. The wicked remain dead during that time. Satan and his 00:40:15.84\00:40:20.28 angels are bound on the earth. The earth remains desolate. Okay 00:40:20.32\00:40:24.89 so what happens at the end of the 1000 years? There's only one 00:40:24.92\00:40:29.39 group now that remains to be convinced of God's justice. The 00:40:29.42\00:40:33.60 angels in heaven they understand it. The 1000 years are for the 00:40:33.63\00:40:36.46 righteous. They understand it now. But God is so just friends. 00:40:36.50\00:40:41.14 He is so merciful he's even going to allow the unsaved to 00:40:41.17\00:40:46.71 understand why they were not saved. They need to be 00:40:46.74\00:40:50.21 resurrected though so that they can understand it and so now 00:40:50.25\00:40:52.88 let's look at the things that happen at the close of the 1000 00:40:52.91\00:40:54.82 years. Revelation 21 and verse 2 A solemn announcement is made 00:40:54.85\00:40:59.59 The capitol of the universe, the new Jerusalem is going to move 00:40:59.62\00:41:03.93 from its present location wherever that is down to this 00:41:03.96\00:41:07.96 world. Here it is: And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem 00:41:08.00\00:41:11.80 coming down from God out of heaven prepared as a bride 00:41:11.83\00:41:14.94 adorned for her husband. Now you know that's going to be 00:41:14.97\00:41:17.44 beautiful, right? And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying 00:41:17.47\00:41:19.74 Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, which means the 00:41:19.77\00:41:22.71 dwelling place of God is with people and he will dwell with 00:41:22.74\00:41:26.41 them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be 00:41:26.45\00:41:29.75 with them, and be their God. So God is saying, I want to be 00:41:29.78\00:41:33.36 right down here in this world preparing it for when he's going 00:41:33.39\00:41:36.86 make it brand new, but we'll talk about that in just a moment 00:41:36.89\00:41:38.99 So God is bringing the universe, excuse me, God is bringing the 00:41:39.03\00:41:42.96 New Jerusalem right down to this world. It's an immense city. 00:41:43.00\00:41:46.60 And it's an amazing city. There are dimensions given for that 00:41:46.63\00:41:50.94 city. Some say it's 1500 kilometers on each side. Some 00:41:50.97\00:41:56.88 say that's all the way around. But even if you take the smaller 00:41:56.91\00:41:58.48 measurement, that would be like 375 miles on one side. It's a 00:41:58.51\00:42:00.08 city roughly the size of the state of Oregon. That's a big 00:42:00.12\00:42:03.52 city right? And when you think about it every square inch of it 00:42:03.55\00:42:06.09 is beautiful and habitable. That's a lot of people to fit in 00:42:06.12\00:42:09.72 that city. That's for another night to talk about that. God's 00:42:09.76\00:42:13.46 people friends are in that city. So I want you to picture this 00:42:13.50\00:42:17.13 now in your mind's eye. The 1000 years are over. It's one of the 00:42:17.17\00:42:21.67 the most exciting moments in all of history when you really take 00:42:21.70\00:42:25.17 it all in. The 1000 years are over. The wicked will now be 00:42:25.21\00:42:31.15 resurrected. Let's go to Revelation 20 verse 5. A little 00:42:31.18\00:42:32.91 bit of review here. It says: The rest of the dead lived not again 00:42:32.95\00:42:35.78 until the thousand years were finished. So what's another word 00:42:35.82\00:42:38.82 for finished? It's over, right? This expired. In fact, in Acts 00:42:38.85\00:42:44.13 24 Paul says:...there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both 00:42:44.16\00:42:48.76 of the just and the, what else, the unjust, right? So we already 00:42:48.80\00:42:53.70 had the resurrection of the just That happened at the time of the 00:42:53.74\00:42:55.50 second coming. But now the one for the unjust, the one that 00:42:55.54\00:42:57.51 Jesus said was the resurrection of damnation. So we'll put our 00:42:57.54\00:43:02.01 graph up here on the screen again. We got a 1000-year period 00:43:02.04\00:43:04.11 of time. It's bookended by two resurrections, the first and the 00:43:04.15\00:43:07.22 second. The saved or the righteous come up in the first 00:43:07.25\00:43:09.48 resurrection. The unrighteous or the lost will come up in the 00:43:09.52\00:43:12.62 second resurrection. What event triggers them. The second coming 00:43:12.65\00:43:17.59 triggers the first resurrection. The holy city descending out of 00:43:17.63\00:43:19.69 heaven triggers the second resurrection. So now the city 00:43:19.73\00:43:23.30 comes down and what else takes place? Verse 7: And when the 00:43:23.33\00:43:29.40 1000 years are expired, what does expired mean? Finished 00:43:29.44\00:43:33.17 right? Over. Satan shall be loosed out of his what? Prison. 00:43:33.21\00:43:38.21 So what has the 1000 years been when it's desolate and dark. 00:43:38.25\00:43:42.78 It's been a prison, the pit has been a prison for Satan for a 00:43:42.82\00:43:46.52 1000 years. He's been chained by circumstances. No one to 00:43:46.55\00:43:51.63 tempt. There's been no light. Only cold darkness. At the end 00:43:51.66\00:43:55.16 of the 1000 years, it'll be lightened with the presence of 00:43:55.20\00:43:57.73 God. And it says that the wicked now are loosed. Now we enter 00:43:57.77\00:44:02.90 into that short season or that little season that's talked 00:44:02.94\00:44:07.34 about in Revelation 20 and verse 3. I'm going to ask you to try 00:44:07.38\00:44:11.61 to just keep him quiet there if you could please. All right. 00:44:11.65\00:44:15.12 Thank you. Now we enter into that little season called 00:44:15.15\00:44:19.42 Revelation 20 verse 3 that Revelation talks about. What is 00:44:19.45\00:44:21.56 Satan going to do when he loosed out of his prison. You think 00:44:21.59\00:44:24.56 he's learned any lessons there? Huh? Has he changed his 00:44:24.59\00:44:27.83 character during the 1000 years do you think? No not at all. 00:44:27.86\00:44:30.33 We're going to take a look here at what's going to happen. It 00:44:30.37\00:44:33.34 says in verse 8: And shall go out to deceive the nations which 00:44:33.37\00:44:35.70 are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog, and Magog,...Now 00:44:35.74\00:44:38.67 don't get thrown off with that Gog and Magog because Gog was a 00:44:38.71\00:44:42.98 king of wickedness in the Old Testament. So Revelation is 00:44:43.01\00:44:45.35 picking up on that and making it a symbol, Gog being the king of 00:44:45.38\00:44:49.32 wickedness, which of course is Satan. Magog being all his 00:44:49.35\00:44:52.99 followers or the land of Magog, all of the wicked hosts there, 00:44:53.02\00:44:56.89 that's all that that's representing there. 00:44:56.93\00:44:58.46 Now there weren't any nations before the second resurrection, 00:44:58.49\00:45:01.96 but now the second resurrection has occurred and now Satan can 00:45:02.00\00:45:06.13 go out and deceive them and he can go out and tempt them. 00:45:06.17\00:45:08.80 Now it tells us in verse 8: ...to gather them together to 00:45:08.84\00:45:13.64 battle. What happens when they're finally resurrected? 00:45:13.68\00:45:16.08 Have the wicked changed at all? Has their character been 00:45:16.11\00:45:19.51 converted? Not at all. They were against God when they perished 00:45:19.55\00:45:23.32 and now they're against God again. The number of whom is as 00:45:23.35\00:45:26.72 the sand of the sea. John sees this vast number of people. It's 00:45:26.76\00:45:32.46 so large friends that the only term he can come up with is like 00:45:32.49\00:45:37.13 the sand of the seashore. That tells us where the majority are 00:45:37.17\00:45:40.30 going to be, right? That tells us where the broad road leads 00:45:40.34\00:45:43.61 to. Don't let anybody tell you dear friends that because of 00:45:43.64\00:45:47.68 numbers that they're right because numbers have really 00:45:47.71\00:45:51.91 never been in the right through all of history. So here we've 00:45:51.95\00:45:57.22 got thousands of millions of people coming up and John says 00:45:57.25\00:46:01.36 it's like the sand of the sea. They're lost but nevertheless 00:46:01.39\00:46:04.96 they're deceived and they think that they can overcome the city 00:46:04.99\00:46:09.10 by force. Now we don't know exactly how Satan deceives them. 00:46:09.13\00:46:12.03 But it can't be difficult. They listened to his voice when they 00:46:12.07\00:46:15.10 were on the earth before. They're going to listen to his 00:46:15.14\00:46:16.77 voice the second time. It means that whatever a person was used 00:46:16.81\00:46:20.48 to doing, they're going to go right back to doing it as well. 00:46:20.51\00:46:23.58 When my wife and I want to go on vacation...it's an 00:46:23.61\00:46:29.88 interesting thing when you have a husband and wife. Sometimes 00:46:29.92\00:46:31.52 you don't always see the same. And when we go on vacation we 00:46:31.55\00:46:35.29 sometimes, or when we think we're going to have vacation 00:46:35.32\00:46:37.86 sometimes we have different ideas about what vacation is. 00:46:37.89\00:46:40.70 Have you ever had that before, right? My wife likes one kind of 00:46:40.73\00:46:43.93 vacation and it's not bad to me but sometimes I want to go do 00:46:43.97\00:46:46.70 something different on vacation. And when my wife thinks vacation 00:46:46.74\00:46:51.84 I'll tell you what three things she thinks about. She thinks of 00:46:51.87\00:46:53.78 sun, sand, and surf. And here I am at the beach and I just reach 00:46:53.81\00:46:57.11 over and I grab sand and I look at that and I say what? Wow! I 00:46:57.15\00:47:01.02 wonder how many grains of sand are in there. Now I'm honestly 00:47:01.05\00:47:04.99 not this boring, right, but I mean I'm sitting there...that 00:47:05.02\00:47:08.92 would be a massive number. Only God could count that but boy 00:47:08.96\00:47:11.56 that would be a lot. And I'm looking down the shore and wow, 00:47:11.59\00:47:14.43 look at all that, wow, a lot of sand. Now many grains would that 00:47:14.46\00:47:17.53 be you know. That would be a lot. When the Holy City comes 00:47:17.57\00:47:20.60 down all the righteous are in that city. When the wicked come 00:47:20.64\00:47:25.91 up all the wicked are now gathered around that city. 00:47:25.94\00:47:29.44 At this moment in time every human being that has ever lived 00:47:29.48\00:47:38.12 is living now or ever will live meet together for the first and 00:47:38.15\00:47:44.69 the last time. They're all there All of humanity is there. You 00:47:44.73\00:47:51.17 have got the wicked outside of the walls. You've got the 00:47:51.20\00:47:55.90 righteous inside of the walls. We have no choice in that we 00:47:55.94\00:47:59.51 will be there but thank God we have a choice what side of those 00:47:59.54\00:48:03.48 city walls we are going to be on Amen? We don't have to be 00:48:03.51\00:48:06.98 outside of those walls with Satan because they are 00:48:07.02\00:48:08.35 rebellious. And it says they're going to go up on the breadth 00:48:08.38\00:48:13.09 of the earth and it says they compass, that means they 00:48:13.12\00:48:14.46 surround the camp of the saints and the beloved city. So Satan 00:48:14.49\00:48:17.89 gathers them around like they're actually going to attack the 00:48:17.93\00:48:20.56 city. Amazing. When you think of that city friends it says the 00:48:20.60\00:48:26.23 walls of that city are like a translucent gold. They're 00:48:26.27\00:48:29.60 actually going to be like transparent and the wicked will 00:48:29.64\00:48:32.47 be able to look in as far as possible and they're going to be 00:48:32.51\00:48:36.44 able to see a lot of the glory that that city has. Can you 00:48:36.48\00:48:40.32 imagine the regret in that day in those minds when they see 00:48:40.35\00:48:44.35 what they've missed out on. When they see that all those 00:48:44.39\00:48:48.49 excuses they made, right? All of those things that they did to 00:48:48.52\00:48:52.03 show themself to be against God. Now they find themselves outside 00:48:52.06\00:48:57.03 those walls and there are going to be people outside of those 00:48:57.07\00:48:59.50 walls that actually think that they should be inside those 00:48:59.53\00:49:01.00 walls. And on a night to come we're going to study, they say 00:49:01.04\00:49:06.24 Lord, Lord why am I outside of these walls. I thought I should 00:49:06.27\00:49:09.11 be inside. This is the real star- wars conclusion right here 00:49:09.14\00:49:13.45 right Did you see that TV show or you've heard that TV show 00:49:13.48\00:49:15.88 called Survivor. This is the real-time of the time of the 00:49:15.92\00:49:20.49 survivors those who are inside the city. And this is much more 00:49:20.52\00:49:24.73 exciting than any cheap Hollywood drama or any kind of 00:49:24.76\00:49:29.03 fictitious movie that Hollywood could make. This is showing the 00:49:29.06\00:49:33.13 real conclusion to the battle between good and evil that has 00:49:33.17\00:49:36.00 raged for thousands of years and God is finally bringing it to a 00:49:36.04\00:49:40.61 conclusion. Sometimes people's minds get so confused over the 00:49:40.64\00:49:43.88 fictitious that the real doesn't have an impact on them anymore. 00:49:43.91\00:49:48.15 This is the final moment in history when God is going to do 00:49:48.18\00:49:52.92 away with all of evil and wickedness forever friends and 00:49:52.95\00:49:55.56 I'm looking forward to that. What a momentous event. There's 00:49:55.59\00:49:57.76 coming a time when the hands of the history clock stop and God 00:49:57.79\00:50:05.43 has given this short time of probation for us. We can choose 00:50:05.47\00:50:08.47 to buy a house or rent a house. We can choose to live on the 00:50:08.50\00:50:12.77 east coast or the west coast. You know we can make these 00:50:12.81\00:50:15.78 kinds of choices to last for what 50, 60, 70 years but the 00:50:15.81\00:50:20.45 choice to serve the Lord, the choice to accept the gospel 00:50:20.48\00:50:25.75 message and be converted in our hearts, the choice to desire 00:50:25.79\00:50:28.69 to love Jesus 00:50:28.72\00:50:30.06 enough to keep his commandments The choice to follow Jesus' word 00:50:30.09\00:50:34.13 and be baptized as a sign that you want to be on his side. 00:50:34.16\00:50:36.97 These are not choices for 50, 60 or 70 years, friends. These are 00:50:37.00\00:50:40.57 choices that will 00:50:40.60\00:50:41.94 last for eternity. Amen? Eternity. Let us make those 00:50:41.97\00:50:46.74 choices friends. Let's prepare for the future. This is the main 00:50:46.78\00:50:50.61 purpose of life. It's amazing again as I said the people can 00:50:50.65\00:50:53.01 go through so many years of schooling just for this life. 00:50:53.05\00:50:57.15 When you ask them to come to a seminar, and I commend you for 00:50:57.19\00:51:00.86 being here and I commend all of you on television for watching 00:51:00.89\00:51:03.73 at home, but you ask them to come to something of a spiritual 00:51:03.76\00:51:08.36 nature and they say well I have no time for that. Oh I'm busy 00:51:08.40\00:51:12.33 now. It's amazing how Satan can confuse us into not making time 00:51:12.37\00:51:16.60 to get ready for Jesus. The walls again are transparent and 00:51:16.64\00:51:21.14 they're looking up at that and they see all of that and there's 00:51:21.18\00:51:23.95 going to be the biggest agony of regret that this world has ever 00:51:23.98\00:51:28.82 seen when they realize they've sold out cheap on eternity. 00:51:28.85\00:51:32.89 There'll be the greatest agony of sorrow and regret and I just 00:51:32.92\00:51:36.86 want you to grasp this in your mind friends that no matter what 00:51:36.89\00:51:40.80 trials we go through here, no matter what heartache we go 00:51:40.83\00:51:44.43 through here, no matter if somebody mocks you for your 00:51:44.47\00:51:47.80 faith, right, no matter if someone ridicules you for your 00:51:47.84\00:51:51.47 stance for Jesus. In that day, when you find yourself on the 00:51:51.51\00:51:55.64 inside of those city walls, whatever we go through now, it 00:51:55.68\00:51:59.35 will be worth it, amen. It'll be worth it folks. All throughout 00:51:59.38\00:52:03.65 the Bible there are only two classes: Wheat and the tares, 00:52:03.69\00:52:07.82 sheep and the goats, broad road, narrow road, good and evil, 00:52:07.86\00:52:11.39 truth and error, the saved and the lost. All of these ways but 00:52:11.43\00:52:15.76 there's only two sides and in that day again only two sides. 00:52:15.80\00:52:19.03 Those inside the walls and those outside the walls and I'm so 00:52:19.07\00:52:23.61 glad to note that we're going to be inside the walls by God's 00:52:23.64\00:52:27.38 grace. And I just wish I could paint this picture so 00:52:27.41\00:52:29.84 graphically that every single one of us would make that 00:52:29.88\00:52:33.38 decision in our heart that we will do everything to be inside 00:52:33.42\00:52:38.65 the walls on that day. Sometimes people are held back by 00:52:38.69\00:52:41.52 possessions, sometimes by jobs, sometimes by friends, even 00:52:41.56\00:52:46.63 ministers friend, can sometimes hold you back because they don't 00:52:46.66\00:52:52.30 want to do the things that they know they should do. And in that 00:52:52.33\00:52:55.60 day there'll be a lot of people outside those walls with excuses 00:52:55.64\00:52:58.67 oh, I did this or...I don't want to be outside of those walls 00:52:58.71\00:53:02.88 with a good excuse in that day because the best excuse ever 00:53:02.91\00:53:06.11 will not be good enough when we know that we could have followed 00:53:06.15\00:53:10.69 what the Bible says. But there's going to be something momentous 00:53:10.72\00:53:13.89 happen when they gather around that city. They look like 00:53:13.92\00:53:16.49 they're going to charge it, they're going attack it but all 00:53:16.52\00:53:20.16 of a sudden at a crucial moment Revelation 20 verse 11: And I 00:53:20.20\00:53:25.90 saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose 00:53:25.93\00:53:28.40 face the earth and the heaven fled away, and there was found 00:53:28.44\00:53:31.34 no place for them. And I saw the dead, small, and great, stand 00:53:31.37\00:53:34.28 before God; and the books were opened: And another book was 00:53:34.31\00:53:36.41 was opened which is the book of life: and the dead were judged 00:53:36.44\00:53:40.02 out of those things which were written in the books, according 00:53:40.05\00:53:41.78 to their works. So as Satan and the wicked advance upon that 00:53:41.82\00:53:45.35 city God stops them in their tracks. The great white throne 00:53:45.39\00:53:48.56 judgment takes place of Revelation 20:11-14 because God 00:53:48.59\00:53:52.23 does not just destroy the wicked without showing them why they're 00:53:52.26\00:53:56.77 lost. Does God have to do that? No. But does God do that? Yes. 00:53:56.80\00:54:00.30 And he's going to open the books and if they have any question 00:54:00.34\00:54:05.81 he's going to say is your name written here in the book of life 00:54:05.84\00:54:08.34 and they will say no. Then he'll say let me show you why it's 00:54:08.38\00:54:11.98 not in there. And another book is opened which is the book of 00:54:12.01\00:54:14.65 their life, the book of record. And after he reveals to them 00:54:14.68\00:54:19.09 an instant replay of things, it says the dead were judged out 00:54:19.12\00:54:25.73 of those things which were written in the books according 00:54:25.76\00:54:28.10 to their what? Their works. So God gives them in a miraculous 00:54:28.13\00:54:33.64 way the instant replay of their life. The history. They'll see 00:54:33.67\00:54:38.61 see how they rejected the Holy Spirit's many pleas. They 00:54:38.64\00:54:43.35 rejected the spirit's work to try to guide them into truth. 00:54:43.38\00:54:44.71 They could have come to a prophecy seminar, they could 00:54:44.75\00:54:48.38 have read that gospel tract that someone put in their hand. They 00:54:48.42\00:54:52.02 could have had their heart softened if they had allowed it 00:54:52.05\00:54:54.79 to be softened. They are going to see that they are justly 00:54:54.82\00:54:56.36 excluded from heaven and when they realize they are eternally 00:54:56.39\00:55:00.00 lost. They're going to realize there's no repentance for them 00:55:00.03\00:55:03.03 at that time but they realize that God was fair and God was 00:55:03.06\00:55:08.04 just and now at that moment in time friends, this verse will be 00:55:08.07\00:55:13.01 fulfilled. Philippians 2 it says in verse 10 that the name of 00:55:13.04\00:55:15.98 Jesus how many knees are going to bow. Every knee should 00:55:16.01\00:55:18.95 bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things 00:55:18.98\00:55:20.45 under the earth. And that how many tongues are going to 00:55:20.48\00:55:24.25 confess, friend? Every tongue that Jesus Christ is Lord, to 00:55:24.29\00:55:27.82 the glory of God the father. That is the moment when all of 00:55:27.86\00:55:32.46 humanity and I believe even all of the angelic hosts will bow 00:55:32.49\00:55:36.26 the knee and they will say God is love. Amen. God was fair. And 00:55:36.30\00:55:43.37 then it says in Revelation 20 and verse And fire came down 00:55:43.41\00:55:46.51 from God out of heaven and what did it do It devoured them. Now 00:55:46.54\00:55:49.94 that is our next study together. What is that fire all about that 00:55:49.98\00:55:55.12 the Bible speaks about and is this called the lake of fire all 00:55:55.15\00:55:58.15 about that, the Bible speaks of? That's our very next session 00:55:58.19\00:56:01.42 So yes fire comes down from God out of heaven. Revelation 20 and 00:56:01.46\00:56:05.09 verse 14 says: And death and hell were cast into the lake of 00:56:05.13\00:56:08.83 fire. This is the second death. So there is a first death called 00:56:08.86\00:56:11.87 a sleep and there is second death. What is the second death 00:56:11.90\00:56:14.17 all about? Once again our next study we're going to find out 00:56:14.20\00:56:18.17 exactly what that means. Verse And whosoever was not found 00:56:18.21\00:56:20.24 written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire. So 00:56:20.28\00:56:24.91 this world now has a lake of fire to consume the sin and 00:56:24.95\00:56:29.55 sinner. He's destroyed Satan in that lake of fire. We're 00:56:29.58\00:56:33.59 going to study that in our next session together but Isaiah 00:56:33.62\00:56:36.52 called it God's strange act. Why is that? We'll find out. But 00:56:36.56\00:56:41.30 we're not going to end on that fire. We're not going to end 00:56:41.33\00:56:43.40 end on that but end on a much more positive note. When the 00:56:43.43\00:56:45.83 fire goes out what does God going to do for his people? 00:56:45.87\00:56:47.57 let's find out. Isaiah 65 and verse 17 and here it says: For 00:56:47.60\00:56:51.81 behold I create new heavens and a, what friends? A new earth. 00:56:51.84\00:56:56.44 Yeah. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, says Revelation 00:56:56.48\00:57:00.68 21:1; for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away 00:57:00.72\00:57:03.59 and there was no more sea. So twice it speaks about it, once 00:57:03.62\00:57:07.39 the Old Testament, once herein Revelation and actually a third 00:57:07.42\00:57:10.76 time in Peter, but Peter adds something to it. He says in 00:57:10.79\00:57:14.60 2 Peter 3:13: Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look 00:57:14.63\00:57:17.20 for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth, what folks? 00:57:17.23\00:57:22.00 Righteousness. On aren't you looking forward to the time when 00:57:22.04\00:57:27.21 everybody does what is right. Oh isn't that going to be great? 00:57:27.24\00:57:28.91 God says we're not going to remember this old earth any more 00:57:28.94\00:57:31.68 He'll wipe it out of our memory. So what's going to happen at 00:57:31.71\00:57:34.92 the end of the 1000 years? Christ, the saints, and the city 00:57:34.95\00:57:37.45 descent. The wicked dead will be raised at that time. Satan is 00:57:37.49\00:57:40.72 loosed out of his dark desolate prison. The last judgment 00:57:40.76\00:57:43.79 concludes. Satan and sinners will be destroyed and again 00:57:43.83\00:57:47.20 that's our next subject. The earth will be cleansed and 00:57:47.23\00:57:48.96 renewed, he'll make a new heaven and a new earth. And then where 00:57:49.00\00:57:52.37 will God and the righteous finally, live. Now is fulfilled 00:57:52.40\00:57:56.44 this verse folks: Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit 00:57:56.47\00:57:59.74 the earth. Many think that they inherit it at the beginning of 00:57:59.77\00:58:03.01 1000 years and the Bible actually tells that they inherit 00:58:03.04\00:58:05.11 at the end of the 1000 years. They will dwell with God for all 00:58:05.15\00:58:10.39 eternity. 00:58:10.42\00:58:11.75 ¤ ¤ 00:58:11.79\00:58:28.37