Revelation chapter 20... whew!
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basically, we are finished...
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I mean we've got...
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probably two or three more
programs including this one
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but just because
we're almost done,
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doesn't mean... we don't
have some important significant
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material here that
we still need to cover,
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and Revelation 20 is
one of those chapters
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well, it can take you in the
wrong way or in the right way...
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in the wrong direction
or in the right direction,
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it's a really
important chapter to understand
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because basically Revelation
20 is sewing everything up,
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it's a further explanation
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of something that we've
read already in Revelation 19...
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the Beast... the False Prophet
thrown into the Lake of Fire
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the Lake-of-Fire process
is explained in Revelation 20.
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It's not that Jesus just
returns the second time...
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and He takes His people home...
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and throws those
guys in the Lake of Fire,
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there's a
process that takes place
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between the
second coming of Jesus
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and the Lake-of-Fire experience
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and that process is
described as the 1,000 years...
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the 1,000 years and an
investigation into the books
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and that's what Revelation
20 tries to explain to us.
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It's really a good chapter...
it's really a good chapter
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in helping us to understand
how God closes all of this up.
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God's going to give us
some time to figure it all out,
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1,000 years' worth of time
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so, Yvonne, would
you like to pray for us
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and we'll get right into it.
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Sure, "Lord God, we
just thank you again
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for just being such a great God
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and so loving
and kind and merciful
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and we just pray right
now for your Holy Spirit,
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we pray that He will
guide us into all truth
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and that we will be able to
apply the truth that we learned
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in this Book, thank you
Lord, in Jesus' name, amen. "
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"Amen. "
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So again, I just want to
say that for our Viewers...
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when we read here that
Christ comes, in Revelation 19,
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and it says, in verse
20, "And the beast was taken,
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and with him the false prophet
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that wrought
miracles before him,
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with which he deceived them
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that had received
the mark of the beast,
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and them that
worshipped his image,
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These both were cast
alive into a lake of fire
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burning with brimstone. "
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When we read that,
sometimes people will ask me,
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"Well, I thought that happened
like... after the 1,000 years...
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well, it does,
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Revelation 19 is just
taking us all the way down
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past the 1,000 years
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without an
explanation of the 1,000 years.
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Revelation does this
often, Daniel does it also,
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it goes all the way through
the end and then backs up
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and kind of
gives us an enlargement
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of some of the details
that we just passed over.
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So Revelation 20, now,
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is the enlargement on
the details that take place
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from the 2nd coming of Christ
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until the
Lake-of-Fire experience
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so Revelation 20 could be fit
right in between these verses
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back here in
Revelation 19, verses 18 and 19,
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you put this whole
chapter right in there...
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this is all going to take place
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before the Beast
and the False Prophet
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are thrown into
the Lake of Fire.
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All right, let's start
in Revelation 20 verse 1,
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Jason, let's read
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and let's read it
all the way to verse 6.
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Okay, "And I saw an
angel come down from heaven,
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having the key of
the bottomless pit
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and a great chain in his hand.
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And he laid hold on the
dragon, that old serpent,
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which is the Devil, and Satan,
and bound him a thousand years.
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And cast him into
the bottomless pit,
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and shut him up,
and set a seal upon him,
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that he should
deceive the nations no more,
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till the thousand
years should be fulfilled:
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and after that he must
be loosed a little season.
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And I saw thrones,
and they sat upon them,
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and judgment
was given unto them:
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and I saw the souls of
them that were beheaded
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for the witness of
Jesus, and for the word of God,
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and which had not worshipped
the beast, neither his image,
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neither had received his mark
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upon their
foreheads, or in their hands;
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and they lived and reigned
with Christ a thousand years.
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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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This is the first resurrection.
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Blessed and holy is he
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that hath part in
the first resurrection:
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on such the second
death hath no power,
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but they shall be
priests of God and of Christ
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and shall reign with
him a thousand years. "
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Okay, we're going
to start in verse 6
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and we're going
to work backwards...
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so verse 6, the reason
why I want to start there
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is because verse
6 identifies for us
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that this is the
first resurrection
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and we know the first
resurrection takes place
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at the second coming of Jesus...
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So this event now, again,
is building on Revelation 19,
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it's taking us to the
second coming of Jesus
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and it's telling us
that the first resurrection
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is going to take place
then and those who are...
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who partake in the
first resurrection,
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are blessed and holy
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and the second death
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which is the death
of the Lake of Fire
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the second death will
have no power over them,
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they will live and reign with
Christ though for a 1,000 years
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so before the second death...
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before the Lake
of Fire takes place,
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a thousand years
is going to go by,
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there's going to
be a thousand years,
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now we know that
during that 1,000-year period
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God's people are
going to be in heaven...
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that's where they're going
to be with Christ... with God
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and we also know from verse 4
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because we're
going backwards now,
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we also know from
verse... well verse 5
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that the rest of
the dead... that is...
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those who do not partake of the
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second
resurrection... they're dead...
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they don't live again until
the thousand years are finished.
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So, in 2nd Thessalonians it says
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that they're consumed by
the brightness of His coming.
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So the rest of
the dead are dead...
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those who are in the
first resurrection...
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those who are the saints of God,
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those who didn't
worship the beast or his image
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according to
verse 5... verse 4...
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they live and reign with
Christ for a thousand years
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and they live
and reign with Christ
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and they also are
given thrones of judgment.
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Now, what that means
is... they get an opportunity
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to figure out...
in a thousand years
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why certain people aren't there.
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What's going on...
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they get to sit in
judgment with Christ
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and they can figure out...
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"Well, how come so
and so is not there?"
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and how come you decided this
and how come you decided that
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and what is it... they get
to look at all of the evidence
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during that thousand years
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so they get all
their questions answered
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for example, I have a question
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that I want to find
out about and that is
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we know that this war...
this conflict began in heaven
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it began before it came
to this earth with Lucifer.
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Well, what did God do to try to
convince him that he was wrong?
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How did God interact with him
and like, "Hey, wait a minute...
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what about
this... what about...?"
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I want to see all that, I
want to see how God relates...
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because I don't think
God was like, "ah... "
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I think God was
like, "Wait a minute... "
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and tried to show...
"Don't, no, don't do that...
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don't do it... " you
know what I'm saying?
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Because sometimes we think,
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"Well, why can't
Lucifer be saved?"
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"Why can't the devil be saved?"
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Well, there's got to
be a reason, we know.
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Ivor: We get to review
the evidence in heaven.
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James: Yes!
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Ivor: Sounds like
there was a tape running
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and in heaven we
get to see the tape.
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"Oh, this was all
caught on camera, by-the-way. "
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So, we're in
heaven... and the books...
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He's showing us the
evidence of all that happened,
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we get to see it, our
questions are answered
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why are some
people not here and...
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why are some people here?
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Hmmm... Hmmm...
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"What is he doing here?" Right?
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That's what Stephen is
going to say about Paul, right?
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Yes. "How did he get here?"
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That's right.
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"Whoa, Nebuchadnezzar,
what's he doing here?"
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Kings of Judah might
be wondering about that.
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Yeah.
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Some of God's people. Yeah, yep.
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So, that's what
this judgment is about,
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right, it's God
opening the record to show...
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and He does this for a reason.
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See, in the book of
Daniel chapter 8... and...
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maybe we should cover...
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at least touch on
this a little bit.
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Daniel 8... the Bible
says that a judgment was set
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and the books were
opened, okay, so...
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James: Daniel 7...
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Ivor: Daniel 7... Daniel 7...
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judgment was
set... books were opened
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and it says that
there were thousand...
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thousands around
the throne of God.
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Well, these
aren't saints because
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that judgment is
something that occurred
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at a very specific time before
the second coming of Jesus.
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Right, so
you've got these angels
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that are around the throne,
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this judgment is for the angels
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right, God is
allowing the angels
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who can't read the
heart like God can.
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Right, so He's
allowing the angels...
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I mean, just
imagine, God's like,
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"All right angels, I'm
bringing those guys up here"
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the angels are probably like,
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"Whoa, so... we're
sure about this Lord?
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and we trust
you, we trust you... "
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God says, "I'm going
to show you the books...
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I'm going to allow you to see
why those who are lost are lost
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and why those who
are saved are saved. "
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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At the end of that
judgment, the angels are like,
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"All right, just and true
are thy ways O God, we're ready,
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let's go get them... " right.
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They know who to get
because they're getting
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everyone whose names
are written in the books.
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Okay, so that's the
righteous... the angels,
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in the millennium, he said,
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"I'm going to take the
saints through the same process,
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I'm going to allow
you now to see the books.
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I'm going to allow you to
see if I've made any mistakes. "
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At the end of that
judgment, what do they say?
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"Just and
true... we got you, Lord,
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just and true are thy ways,
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the people that you left out,
you left out for a reason. "
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We will find that when we
get to the end of the millennium
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the books are
opened one more time.
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This time... is for the wicked.
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The wicked are
going to look at the books
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and guess what
they're going to say?
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"Just and true... "
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all right, when
everything is said and done
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there'll be not
one dissenting voice...
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not even from Lucifer himself,
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and it is this time
that every knee bows...
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and every tongue
confesses that Jesus is Lord...
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in all the
universe... there's no...
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"you're right, everyone
agrees, everyone agrees...
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we agree on the judgment,
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we agree on the
judgment, we agree on the... "
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no one can every
again in the future say,
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"You know, maybe
God was wrong" why?
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Because they would
have heard the confessions
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of the wicked
themselves... of Satan himself,
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that's the purpose of it.
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The judgment is designed to...
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pause...
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James: Clear the name of God.
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Ivor: Clear the name of God
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so that sin will not
rise again a second time.
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Yeah.
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No one will be able to say,
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"Maybe God
didn't do enough to save
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this person or that person"
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no, it's going to be all seen
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and God will be
vindicated, yeah.
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So what you have...
in Revelation chapter 20
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when you have this picture
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in these last three
verses that we read,
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I'm seeing verses 6, 5 and 4,
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going back now to
verses 1, 2 and 3,
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it fills out
what's taking place here,
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because what happens here is,
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you have this
symbolic representation,
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you have an angel
coming down from heaven
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and it says that he has
a key of the bottomless pit
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and a great chain in his hand,
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okay, and he lays
hold of the dragon,
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that old serpent
which is the Devil and Satan
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and bound him
for a thousand years,
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and cast him into
the bottomless pit,
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and shut him up,
and set a seal upon him,
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that he should
deceive the nations no more,
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till the thousand
years should be fulfilled:
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and after that he must
be loosed a little season...
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and you're like, "What,
what does that all mean?"
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that seems very strange,
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see it's only as we
understand the next three verses
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that these first three
verses can be understood,
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because this
isn't a literal chain.
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There was a story in the gospels
about a demon-possessed man,
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and it says they had pieces of
chains that they had broken...
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you can't bind the devil with
chains... with literal chains
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so, this can't
be literal chains,
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this is a "chain
of circumstances"
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in other words,
what's happening here is
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when Jesus
comes the second time,
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remember, all the armies
of the earth are gathered,
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and the birds...
the fowls of the earth
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are called to feast
on them, they all die,
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they're all slain by the
brightness of Christ's coming,
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the righteous are resurrected
and they're taken to heaven,
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so this world becomes the
habitation of devils, literally,
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Babylon literally
becomes the habitation of devils
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the prison of... the cage...
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the prison of every
unclean and hateful bird
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so this becomes the
prison house of Satan
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so when it says,
"he's cast into the pit... "
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in... the word actually here
is "abussos" the bottomless pit,
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it means... it's the same
word that's used in Genesis
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to describe this world before
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God added to it
the birds and the trees
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and the vegetation
and made it beautiful...
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it's the earth in a state
of darkness and desolation
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and that's...
Yvonne: The abyss...
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James: Yeah, the abyss...
the earth in that state...
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so Satan is imprisoned in
the sense that verse 3 says,
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"He's not going to be
able to deceive the nations
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until the thousand
years are finished...
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because the rest of
the dead don't live again
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until the thousand
years are finished... "
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he's imprisoned on this earth
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in a state of
darkness and confusion
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with no one to tempt
because the wicked are dead
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and no one to tempt because
the righteous are in heaven.
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Ivor: Let's go to Jeremiah
chapter 4, Jeremiah chapter 4
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and verse 23...
Jeremiah chapter 4 verse 23
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beginning... yeah,
beginning with 23...
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James: 23 and 27... yeah.
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Ivor: Yeah... I'll
go ahead and read it.
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Okay, so it says,
"I beheld the earth,
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and lo, it was
without form and void... "
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Man, that sounds
just like Genesis, right?
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Except, He's not talking
about what happened in Genesis,
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here's why... it says,
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"and the heavens,
they had no light.
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I beheld the
mountains... " wait a minute...
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there were no mountains
in the Genesis account right?
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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"I beheld the mountains,
and lo, they trembled,
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and all the hills moved lightly.
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I beheld, and
lo, there was no man,
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and all the birds of
the heavens were fled.
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I beheld, and, lo, the
fruitful place was a... " what?
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"wilderness, and all the
cities thereof were broken down
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at the presence of the
LORD and by his fierce anger. "
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James: There we go.
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Ivor: "For thus
saith the Lord...
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for thus has the LORD said,
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The whole land
shall be desolate;
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yet will I not make a... " what?
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"Full end. "
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Okay, so, this
desolate place is a wilderness,
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now, the reason why
that's significant is because
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let's go back and re-cap
the entire book of Revelation,
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okay, we saw that
the book of Revelation
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was based on the
pattern of the Sanctuary.
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Seven churches...
first part of the book,
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unfolding at the
seven candlesticks.
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The seven seals... unfolding
at the Table of Shewbread.
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The seven trumpets... unfolding
at the Altar of Incense.
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That's Revelation 1
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all the way to
Revelation 11 basically,
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in 11, we have a veil that is
opened... a door that is opened
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that brings us into
the Most Holy Place.
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James: The Ark of the Covenant.
00:14:31.57\00:14:33.00
Ivor: That's right,
The Ark of the Covenant,
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that brings us to the Day
of Atonement, so remember...
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in the Old Testament...
everyday people would sin...
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people sinned... they
would take their animal,
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their lamb... they would lay
hands on the head of the animal
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okay, and confess the sins...
00:14:45.48\00:14:47.28
their sins over
the head of the animal.
00:14:47.32\00:14:48.68
The animal was
killed... the sins from that...
00:14:48.72\00:14:52.59
that they had committed
would transfer to the animal,
00:14:52.62\00:14:55.32
that blood was
transferred to the Sanctuary.
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the Sanctuary
was becoming defiled
00:14:58.16\00:15:01.30
by the sins of the people.
00:15:01.33\00:15:02.70
James: Through the
blood that was transferred...
00:15:02.73\00:15:04.83
the blood represented
the life that was given
00:15:04.87\00:15:06.97
in place of the sinner.
00:15:07.00\00:15:08.90
Ivor: Exactly, so on
the Day of Atonement,
00:15:08.94\00:15:10.97
that's when the High Priest
moved into the Most Holy Place
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because he was going to
do a work of atonement...
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the final work of atonement
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and so, I don't know if
I've explained this before
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maybe we have in this Program
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but I think it's a
good time to explain it.
00:15:23.18\00:15:26.25
The process of
atonement in the Old Testament,
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is... much... we go
through that process
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every week in our houses,
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okay, when you want to
clean your house, right,
00:15:34.03\00:15:37.33
because that's what God wants
to do... He wants to cleanse us,
00:15:37.37\00:15:39.63
when you clean
your house every day...
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you get your stuff and...
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"all right good my
house is clean... "
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you've clean the kitchen...
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you take the
garbage and what do you do?
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Yvonne: Take it out.
Ivor: You put it outside right?
00:15:48.98\00:15:51.71
Outside of the
house or whatever...
00:15:51.78\00:15:53.11
is your house clean now?
00:15:53.15\00:15:54.48
James: You take
your dirty clothes
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and you put them in
the laundry hamper...
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get lots of soap...
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Ivor: Yeah, yeah,
so everything is clean,
00:15:59.05\00:16:00.72
now, is your house
clean? James: No...
00:16:00.76\00:16:02.32
Ivor: When you think
about it, is your house clean?
00:16:02.36\00:16:04.63
James: Well, it's
clean... it's clean but...
00:16:04.66\00:16:06.43
Ivor: But... is
the garbage still...
00:16:06.49\00:16:08.46
it's still there,
it's still there...
00:16:08.50\00:16:10.47
James: Your dirty clothes
are still there in the wash...
00:16:10.57\00:16:13.07
Ivor: Or the garbage
bags are still outside,
00:16:13.10\00:16:16.10
you're like, "Okay,
my house is clean... "
00:16:16.14\00:16:19.21
when the sinner
went to confess his sins,
00:16:19.24\00:16:22.24
guess what? His
sins were forgiven
00:16:22.28\00:16:24.25
but in a sense...
00:16:24.28\00:16:25.71
they were kind of
like... still there
00:16:25.75\00:16:28.32
because they
had been transferred
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but not completely taken away,
00:16:31.29\00:16:34.12
so, one day of the
week comes that day...
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where the garbage
truck is going to come
00:16:38.89\00:16:43.13
and if you don't
get all your garbage out
00:16:43.16\00:16:46.87
to the front of the
house, what will happen?
00:16:46.90\00:16:50.57
You are stuck with the garbage.
00:16:50.61\00:16:53.64
James: With the
smelly, stinky garbage.
00:16:53.68\00:16:55.31
Ivor: But praise God because
of that divine garbage...
00:16:55.34\00:16:58.48
I mean the garbage
truck comes, right,
00:16:58.51\00:17:02.48
and takes that garbage
out into a desolate place
00:17:02.52\00:17:07.09
and once that's
done, guess what?
00:17:07.12\00:17:09.02
You never think
about that garbage again,
00:17:09.06\00:17:11.69
ever... you're not like...
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"You know, I remember... "
00:17:13.09\00:17:14.43
no, the memory
of it is forgotten
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before that,
you're remembering, right,
00:17:16.06\00:17:18.23
same thing with this process.
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James: Perfect illustration.
00:17:19.97\00:17:21.60
Ivor: On the Day of
Atonement, Christ says...
00:17:21.64\00:17:23.34
because every other day...
"Okay, my sins are forgiven"
00:17:23.41\00:17:25.57
but you know
what? They're just...
00:17:25.61\00:17:27.58
they're piling
up in the Sanctuary,
00:17:27.61\00:17:29.04
on the Day of Atonement,
00:17:29.08\00:17:30.41
the High Priest goes
into the Most Holy Place
00:17:30.45\00:17:31.98
and he does the
final work of cleansing
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what he does... is
he gathers all the sins
00:17:34.62\00:17:37.12
and he exits the Sanctuary
00:17:37.15\00:17:39.62
and he lays hold on this
animal called the scapegoat,
00:17:39.65\00:17:43.99
he transfers the
sins to that animal
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and that animal is sent
out into the wilderness...
00:17:47.66\00:17:51.27
into a desolate
place, what's happening?
00:17:51.30\00:17:54.70
That animal will now
bear the sins of God's people
00:17:54.74\00:17:58.77
out into a place uninhabited.
00:17:58.81\00:18:01.04
that's what the Bible says
00:18:01.08\00:18:03.24
and here's what I love about it,
00:18:03.31\00:18:05.35
you see, Jesus said that He's...
00:18:05.38\00:18:07.35
He will take our sins
and cast them... where?
00:18:07.38\00:18:11.29
Into the depths of the sea
00:18:11.32\00:18:12.95
well, guess how
they're going to get there?
00:18:13.02\00:18:14.59
Somebody's taking them there.
00:18:14.62\00:18:17.16
Hmmm... Hmmm.
00:18:17.19\00:18:18.53
Somebody's taking them there,
00:18:18.56\00:18:19.89
when He comes out
of that Most Holy Place
00:18:19.93\00:18:21.60
and lays hold on the dragon
00:18:21.63\00:18:24.63
guess what's being
transferred to him?
00:18:24.67\00:18:26.74
All the sins of His
people... and those sins
00:18:26.77\00:18:31.97
Satan's going to take
them right into the sea...
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James: The
deeps... Ivor: The deeps.
00:18:37.18\00:18:38.98
James: I think it's
really important, though,
00:18:39.01\00:18:40.58
to remember that in
the Day of Atonement,
00:18:40.62\00:18:42.08
before the scapegoat,
there was the Lord's goat.
00:18:42.15\00:18:44.42
Ivor: That's right.
00:18:44.45\00:18:45.79
James: And you see, the
scapegoat didn't shed any blood
00:18:45.82\00:18:47.82
because the Bible says,
00:18:47.86\00:18:49.52
"without the shedding of blood
there's no remission of sin... "
00:18:49.56\00:18:51.49
so the Lord's goat will come
through first and be sacrificed
00:18:51.53\00:18:55.46
and that made
the "blood atonement"
00:18:55.50\00:18:57.67
that was actually the
atonement that was for the sin.
00:18:57.70\00:19:00.40
Ivor: Yes.
00:19:00.44\00:19:01.77
James: Everything that
we're talking about right now
00:19:01.80\00:19:03.14
was experienced by Christ,
00:19:03.17\00:19:04.51
Christ took our
sins into the depths...
00:19:04.54\00:19:06.64
into the deeps first...
00:19:06.68\00:19:08.58
so he actually
makes the atonement...
00:19:08.64\00:19:10.91
the final atonement was first
typified by the Lord's goat
00:19:10.95\00:19:14.25
and then the responsibility
for all of those sins
00:19:14.28\00:19:17.79
was placed upon the scapegoat,
00:19:17.82\00:19:19.25
now, the scapegoat
doesn't shed any blood.
00:19:19.29\00:19:21.29
Ivor: Yeah, and so Satan is not
making an atonement for us...
00:19:21.32\00:19:23.89
James: Right, very
important. Ivor: He's simply...
00:19:23.93\00:19:25.89
James: Bearing
responsibility... Ivor: Exactly.
00:19:25.93\00:19:27.86
James: Yeah, that's
why the scapegoat never...
00:19:27.90\00:19:29.73
his blood was never shed...
00:19:29.76\00:19:31.10
because there's no atonement
without shedding of blood,
00:19:31.13\00:19:33.64
that's what Hebrews 9 tells us,
00:19:33.67\00:19:35.80
"there's no atonement
without shedding of blood"
00:19:35.84\00:19:37.17
and so, his blood was
never shed but he is responsible
00:19:37.21\00:19:40.34
and that's what's
taking place in Revelation 20,
00:19:40.38\00:19:42.81
he is... he is going
to bear responsibility
00:19:42.84\00:19:46.68
for all the sins
that he's caused...
00:19:46.72\00:19:48.72
all of the people of the
entire world ever to commit
00:19:48.75\00:19:51.75
and that's what we're seeing
00:19:51.79\00:19:53.39
when we're seeing
these books opened,
00:19:53.42\00:19:54.76
so, he's laid hold of...
like the Day of Atonement...
00:19:54.79\00:19:57.49
scapegoat was laid hold of
00:19:57.53\00:19:58.86
he's sent into
this desolate place
00:19:58.89\00:20:01.26
and for a thousand years
he's in the agony and torture
00:20:01.30\00:20:04.93
just contemplating
everything he's done
00:20:04.97\00:20:07.10
without being able
to do his favorite thing
00:20:07.14\00:20:09.10
and that is...
tempt people to sin
00:20:09.14\00:20:11.87
and to get back at God...
00:20:11.94\00:20:13.27
he can't do
anything to get back at God
00:20:13.31\00:20:15.18
and then that
thousand years ends
00:20:15.21\00:20:17.01
and when that
thousand years ends,
00:20:17.05\00:20:18.78
you have, what we call...
00:20:18.81\00:20:20.15
what the Bible calls,
"the second resurrection"
00:20:20.22\00:20:21.75
see, there are
two resurrections,
00:20:21.78\00:20:23.82
there's a
resurrection of the righteous
00:20:23.85\00:20:26.09
and then there's a
resurrection of the unrighteous
00:20:26.12\00:20:28.42
and so, verse 7...
Jason, can you read that for us,
00:20:28.46\00:20:30.69
verse 7... and let's read all
the way down here to verse 10.
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Okay, "And when the
thousand years are expired,
00:20:35.00\00:20:39.07
Satan shall be
loosed out of his prison,
00:20:39.10\00:20:41.44
And shall go out
to deceive the nations
00:20:41.47\00:20:43.74
which are in the four quarters
of the earth, Gog and Magog,
00:20:43.77\00:20:46.94
to gather them
together to battle:
00:20:46.98\00:20:50.08
the number of whom is
as the sand of the sea.
00:20:50.11\00:20:53.88
And they went up on
the breadth of the earth,
00:20:53.92\00:20:57.62
and compassed the
camp of the saints about,
00:20:57.65\00:21:01.29
and the beloved city:
00:21:01.32\00:21:02.82
And fire came down
from God out of heaven,
00:21:02.86\00:21:05.79
and devoured them. "
00:21:05.83\00:21:07.16
Ivor: Let us pause
right here. James: Okay...
00:21:07.20\00:21:08.53
Ivor: Because... two things...
00:21:08.56\00:21:10.57
first of all,
what's happening here
00:21:10.60\00:21:11.93
is... at the end
of the thousand years,
00:21:11.97\00:21:13.30
the reason why Satan is
loosed out of his prison
00:21:13.34\00:21:16.47
is because... the righteous...
I'm sorry, the wicked
00:21:16.50\00:21:20.04
are brought back to life.
00:21:20.08\00:21:21.41
"The rest of the
dead live not again... "
00:21:21.44\00:21:23.65
so now they've
come back to life, so,
00:21:23.68\00:21:25.65
people think, "Oh
it's going to be...
00:21:25.68\00:21:27.68
a thousand years
of peace on the earth
00:21:27.72\00:21:29.68
because the nations are not
going to be deceived by Satan. "
00:21:29.72\00:21:31.72
The nations are not
deceived by Satan because
00:21:31.75\00:21:34.12
the nations of the
righteous are in heaven,
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the nations of the
wicked are dead on earth,
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that's why there's a
thousand years of peace
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so when this
resurrection happened,
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happens... Satan is
again able to gather them
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under his
deception, probably like,
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"I rose you from the
dead" but he gathers them
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and now what's happening...
this is kind of because...
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this is again
like, from verse 8...
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it's kind of going kind of
chronologically... and then...
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James: It stops...
and goes back again...
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and now explains to us again...
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so it's just like what we
read in 19... in verses...
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in verse 7, 8 and 9,
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you have the resurrection...
thousand years expired...
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Satan goes out to deceive
those who have been resurrected
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gathers them together
against the city of God...
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they go up on the
breadth of the earth...
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they compassed the...
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they surround the camp of
the saints... the New Jerusalem
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Ivor: So the
question is, wait a minute...
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where did the New
Jerusalem come from?
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right, how did this...
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we have to go to
Revelation 21 right,
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just go over to Revelation
21 and look at verse 2.
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It says, "I John
saw the holy city,
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new Jerusalem... " doing what?
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"coming down from
God out of heaven... "
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okay, so, we
just got that piece...
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so let's go back to chapter 20
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and so now we know that
at the end of the millennium,
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as the wicked are
resurrected at the same time
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the new Jerusalem is
coming down from heaven,
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right, to earth...
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by-the-way, that new
Jerusalem is Mount Zion
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"on the sides of the north"
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remember what
Lucifer's thing was?
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"I will ascend... "
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"they went up on the
breadth of the earth... "
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"I will ascend above
the heights of the clouds;
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I will be like the most High"
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he wanted... this is his
final attack, if you will,
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on the sides...
against the sides of the north.
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James: And that's Hebrews
chapter 12 verses 22 and 23,
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just for reference for that.
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Ivor: Yes... yes.
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James: So, it's
coming down and then stop...
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verse 10 describes
that they come around
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and that the fire
from heaven, verse 9 and 10
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devoured them... but
then, verse 11 goes back,
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verse 11 describes
more details again,
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so he starts in verse 11,
in the first phrase there,
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"And I saw... " so
Jason read verse...
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Ivor: Wait a
minute, before you do that,
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just look at verse 9
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and I want you to notice
this because we're putting...
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we're these pieces
together, "And the devil... "
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so, give me
another name for the devil
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in the book of Revelation.
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James: Satan... the dragon...
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Ivor: The dragon... right
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"the devil that deceived them
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was cast into the
lake of fire and brimstone,
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where the beast and
the false prophet are,
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and shall be tormented day
and night for ever and ever. "
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We've discussed, "forever"
but I want you to notice
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the three powers that
are destroyed together,
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the Dragon, the
Beast, the False Prophet.
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Remember, remember the 7th king?
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This is the same king
that goes into perdition,
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and the same... he's
now... here is the 8th...
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Hmmm...
00:24:38.11\00:24:40.04
See, here they are again...
Dragon, Beast, False Prophet...
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they all come back together
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and God says now,
they all go into the fire.
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Hmmm... hmmm... hmmm...
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Okay, verse 11.
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So, verse 11, " And I saw... "
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we're going now to Revelation
00:24:52.02\00:24:53.46
where God is
opening and expanding to us
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the details that
took place or take place
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between the time
the city comes down
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and the time the fire devours.
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So, between that time...
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the city comes down
and then we read verse 11.
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Jason, read verse 11 and 12.
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"And I saw a great white
throne, and him that sat on it,
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from whose face the
earth and the heaven fled away;
00:25:13.07\00:25:16.18
and there was
found no place for them.
00:25:16.21\00:25:18.41
And I saw the
dead, small and great,
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stand before God; and
the books were opened:
00:25:20.65\00:25:22.72
and another book was opened,
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which is the book of life:
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and the dead were
judged out of those things
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which were written in the books,
according to their works. "
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James: And verse 13...
00:25:30.13\00:25:31.46
Jason: "and the sea gave
up the dead which were in it;
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and death and hell delivered
up the dead which were in them:
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and they were judged every
man according to their works. "
00:25:37.50\00:25:40.84
So, these verses now are
giving us all the details,
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it's talking about
the second resurrection...
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everyone is resurrected
from the sea, from the earth,
00:25:44.97\00:25:46.94
from wherever
they are, the grave...
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"hell" is actually...
00:25:48.64\00:25:50.25
that word there in
Hebrews is actually "the grave"
00:25:50.28\00:25:52.25
it's not
actually... like a burning place
00:25:52.28\00:25:54.02
because they're cast into
the Lake of burning Fire...
00:25:54.05\00:25:56.35
which is... you know... hell...
00:25:56.38\00:25:57.72
and it says the books were
opened and no place was found...
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and the Book of Life was opened.
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Hmmm...
00:26:01.79\00:26:03.12
Now we talk here... in the Bible
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we're talking about books
but we know in our day and age
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that most good books are
turned into DVDs or movies.
00:26:08.50\00:26:11.53
This is God's way of explaining
to us... this is a video,
00:26:11.60\00:26:14.87
this is... the
cameras are rolling...
00:26:14.90\00:26:17.31
and so you have this
video of the Plan of Salvation
00:26:17.34\00:26:21.11
that culminates in the cross
00:26:21.14\00:26:22.74
and in that
contrast to that video
00:26:22.78\00:26:24.85
you have the history...
00:26:24.88\00:26:26.48
the exact history of every
single person in the human race
00:26:26.51\00:26:29.62
except for those who
put their trust in Christ
00:26:29.65\00:26:32.29
because their sins have
gone beforehand to the judgment
00:26:32.32\00:26:34.36
and they've been blotted out.
00:26:34.39\00:26:35.72
So our lives are pictured
in this video reproduction
00:26:35.76\00:26:39.89
just like they
are in Hebrews 11.
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In Hebrews 11 you have a
record of the saints of faith...
00:26:41.56\00:26:45.17
and there are no
mistakes revealed.
00:26:45.20\00:26:48.00
Read Hebrews 11 sometime, it
talks about Abraham, Moses...
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it never
mentions their missteps...
00:26:50.87\00:26:53.51
Ivor: It's DD TV...
Divine Definition Television.
00:26:53.54\00:26:59.11
James: If we
have faith in Christ,
00:26:59.15\00:27:01.62
our sins are covered...
00:27:01.65\00:27:02.98
but this... their
sins cannot be covered
00:27:03.02\00:27:05.85
and when they see their
lives in contrast with the Lamb,
00:27:05.89\00:27:08.29
the torment is overwhelming
00:27:08.32\00:27:10.49
and then it
culminates with this fire,
00:27:10.53\00:27:13.80
what we have here is
00:27:13.83\00:27:15.16
we have the
ultimate consequences of sin,
00:27:15.20\00:27:16.93
there's a punishment for sin
00:27:16.97\00:27:18.30
and each one is punished
according to their works
00:27:18.33\00:27:20.97
so, we'll talk about
that a little bit more
00:27:21.00\00:27:23.30
when we come
back we'll look at...
00:27:23.34\00:27:25.37
we'll contrast this
with Romans chapter 2.
00:27:25.41\00:27:27.41
Romans chapter 2
00:27:27.48\00:27:29.14
really helps us to explain these
verses right here and how it is
00:27:29.18\00:27:32.78
that each one receives
according to their works.
00:27:32.81\00:27:34.85
There's a punishment
that's in harmony with...
00:27:34.88\00:27:36.89
there's the "wages of sin"
00:27:36.92\00:27:39.29
is basically what
we're talking about here.
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We're not going to have time
to finish all this right now
00:27:41.22\00:27:43.26
because we're
running out of time
00:27:43.29\00:27:44.63
but we really do
need to finish this up
00:27:44.66\00:27:45.99
because this is a
really important part
00:27:46.03\00:27:47.46
of the big picture
00:27:47.50\00:27:48.83
and then we'll
just have a couple more
00:27:48.86\00:27:50.70
sessions where we...
00:27:50.77\00:27:52.20
where we'll close out with
Revelation chapters 21 and 22.
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That sounds good.
00:27:54.94\00:27:56.34
So we're almost done.
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Whew!
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