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00:35 >>HELLO FRIENDS, AND WELCOME AGAIN TO SABBATH SCHOOL 00:37 STUDY HOUR. A VERY WARM WELCOME TO OUR 00:39 FRIENDS JOINING US ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD - 00:41 AND ALSO TO THE MEMBERS HERE OF THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH AND THOSE 00:43 WHO ARE VISITING ON A RAINY SABBATH MORNING. 00:46 SO GLAD TO SEE YOU HERE TODAY. WE'VE BEEN STUDYING ALONG IN OUR 00:50 LESSON QUARTERLY DEALING WITH REBELLION AND REDEMPTION. 00:53 TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES ON LESSON #13. AND FOR OUR 00:56 FRIENDS JOINING US, THIS IS THE FINAL STUDY IN THIS QUARTERLY. 01:00 YOU CAN FOLLOW ALONG, IF YOU GO ONLINE TO THE AMAZING FACTS 01:02 WEBSITE - YOU CAN DOWNLOAD TODAY'S LESSON - LESSON #13 01:06 ENTITLED REDEMPTION AND STUDY ALONG WITH US. 01:09 WE ALSO HAVE A FREE OFFER THAT IS ENTITLED RENDEZVOUS IN SPACE 01:13 - A BOOK WRITTEN BY JOE CREWS - AND THIS IS OUR FREE OFFER FOR 01:17 TODAY. ANYBODY WANTING TO RECEIVE THIS 01:19 - IN NORTH AMERICA - GIVE US A CALL. 01:21 THE NUMBER IS 866-788-3966 AND YOU CAN ASK FOR OFFER #151. 01:29 THAT NUMBER AGAIN IS 866-788-3966 - RENDEZVOUS IN 01:33 SPACE - OFFER #151. WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND IT TO 01:36 ANYBODY (IN NORTH AMERICA) WHO CALLS AND ASKS. 01:38 NOW, USUALLY, BEGINNING OUR STUDY TIME TOGETHER WE LIKE TO 01:41 SPEND A FEW MOMENTS SINGING A FEW HYMNS, BUT TODAY WE HAVE A 01:44 SPECIAL TREAT. (MUSIC) (PIANO AND VIOLIN - 01:51 INSTRUMENTAL VERSION OF HOLY, HOLY, HOLY ) (CLAPPING) 05:27 >>BEFORE WE GET STARTED WITH OUR STUDY, LET'S BOW OUR HEADS FOR 05:28 PRAYER. DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WE ARE SO GRATEFUL FOR THE 05:31 OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO, ONCE AGAIN, TO GATHER TOGETHER TO 05:34 STUDY YOUR WORD. LORD, AS WE OPEN UP THE 05:36 SCRIPTURES WE ASK FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT TO COME AND GUIDE OUR 05:39 HEARTS, OUR MINDS - LEAD US, LORD, INTO A CLEARER AND FULLER 05:41 UNDERSTANDING OF THIS GREAT PLAN OF REDEMPTION - THIS SALVATION 05:45 THAT HAS BEEN PROVIDED AT SUCH AN INFINITE COST. 05:49 BLESS OUR TIME TOGETHER. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 05:52 OUR LESSON THIS MORNING WILL BE BROUGHT TO US 05:54 BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. >>GOOD MORNING. 05:58 >>GOOD MORNING. >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS. 06:00 HOW IS EVERYBODY? WE'RE GLAD TO BE HOME. 06:05 SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED THAT WE'VE BEEN GONE FOR A 06:08 COUPLE OF WEEKS. SOME OF YOU PROBABLY DIDN'T 06:10 NOTICE. AND WE WERE IN SOUTH AFRICA. 06:15 MATTER OF FACT, I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE TO MAYBE 06:18 MAKE A LITTLE MISSION REPORT AND TELL OUR FRIENDS. 06:21 I WANT TO WELCOME OUR SABBATH SCHOOL CLASS - THOSE WHO ARE 06:24 PART OF THE GRANITE BAY ONLINE MEMBERSHIP AND THE OTHERS AT 06:28 LARGE AROUND THE WORLD THAT ARE WATCHING. 06:30 AND WE KNOW THAT WE HAVE SOME FRIENDS THAT ARE IN AFRICA 06:32 WATCHING, BECAUSE WE MET THEM AND THEY SAID THEY WATCH EVERY 06:35 WEEK. IT WORKS WELL FOR THEM WITH THE TIME. 06:37 THEY CAN DO IT IN THE AFTERNOON. 06:38 AND I'LL JUST GIVE YOU A QUICK LITTLE REPORT. 06:41 THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE MEMBERS HERE, YOU REALIZE THAT PASTOR 06:46 ROSS HAS A LITTLE BIT OF AN ACCENT AND THAT'S BECAUSE HE 06:49 HAILS FROM CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA. 06:52 I GOT TO GO BY AND SEE WHERE HE WENT TO SCHOOL AND EVERYTHING. 06:54 I THOUGHT HE HAD AN ACCENT UNTIL I WENT THERE WITH HIM AND I 06:58 REALIZED HE'S REALLY LOST MOST OF HIS ACCENT. 07:00 (LAUGHTER) BUT WE WENT TO THE MAJOR CITIES IN SOUTH AFRICA IN 07:06 THAT, OH, TWELVE, FOURTEEN DAYS WE WERE GONE - BEING CAPE TOWN, 07:10 DURBAN, JOHANNESBURG, AND PRETORIA - AND AT THOSE PLACES 07:16 WE WERE DOING EVANGELISM TRAINING WITH OUR AFCOE GROUP 07:20 AND THEN WE WOULD DO REVIVAL MEETINGS - A SERIES CALLED KEYS 07:24 TO THE KINGDOM . AND SO, IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW IT, 07:29 SOUTH AFRICA IS A LONG WAY FROM NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. 07:33 I'VE BEEN THERE - THIS IS MY SECOND TIME - AND OF ALL THE 07:36 PLACES IN THE WORLD THAT I'VE FLOWN - AND THAT'S, YOU KNOW, 07:39 AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND, NEW GUINEA, INDIA - ALL, YOU KNOW, 07:44 FAR REMOTE CORNERS OF THE EARTH. THE LONGEST PLANE RIDE I'VE EVER 07:47 BEEN ON IS THE ONE WHERE I'M COMING HOME FROM SOUTH AFRICA. 07:51 I WAS GLAD KAREN WAS ABLE TO JOIN ME ON THIS TRIP AND RUTH 07:53 WAS ABLE TO GO WITH PASTOR ROSS, SO WE DID HAVE A LITTLE FUN - 07:57 I HOPE THAT'S OKAY. 07:59 BUT IT WAS MISSION WORK AND SO - GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE HERE, WE'LL 08:05 JUST SHOW YOU SOME OF THE THINGS WE DID. 08:06 IN CAPE TOWN, AFTER DOING SOME EVANGELISM TRAINING THERE, WE 08:10 WERE THERE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE GRADUATION OF AN AFCOE CLASS. 08:14 THEY BROUGHT THE AREA CHURCHES TOGETHER. 08:16 THEY HAD NO ONE CHURCH LARGE ENOUGH AND SO THEY ACTUALLY 08:19 RENTED, I THINK ONE OF THE LARGEST, IF NOT THE LARGEST, 08:22 CHARISMATIC CHURCH CALLED THE LIGHTHOUSE IN TOWN AND THE LORD 08:25 BLESSED. THE PLACE WAS FILLED TO OVERFLOWING. 08:29 THERE WERE ABOUT 4,000 PEOPLE CAME OUT TO THE PROGRAM AND MANY 08:33 WERE NOT MEMBERS OF OUR CHURCH, BUT THEY HAD BEEN WATCHING THE 08:38 AMAZING FACTS PROGRAMS OR STUDYING ONLINE AND THEY HEARD 08:43 ABOUT THE MEETINGS AND THEY CAME OUT. 08:45 SOMETHING ELSE INTERESTING WHILE WE WERE THERE: WE WENT FROM 08:48 CAPE TOWN THEN TO DURBIN AND - WHERE WE DID SOME EVANGELISM 08:52 TRAINING. THAT'S MORE - IT'S UP ON THE 08:55 INDIAN OCEAN SIDE OF THE COUNTRY. 08:56 THERE WAS A CHRISTIAN COUPLE THERE AND THEY LEARNED THE 09:00 SABBATH TRUTH. AND THEY OPERATED A RECREATION 09:04 RESORT WHERE THEY'VE GOT SOME NICE WHOLESOME THINGS LIKE 09:06 ZIP LINING AND THEY TEACH SCUBA DIVING - AND WHEN THEY REALIZED 09:10 ABOUT THE SABBATH TRUTH THEY SAID, 'THAT'S OUR BUSIEST DAY. 09:13 WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN TO OUR BUSINESS?' 09:15 THEY SAID, 'WELL, IT'S IN THE BIBLE. 09:16 WE WANT TO KEEP THE SABBATH.' AND SO THEY DECIDED TO CLOSE ON 09:19 SABBATH. YOU CAN SEE, THIS IS WHAT'S ON THEIR GATE COMING INTO 09:22 THEIR ESTABLISHMENT. AND YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED? 09:26 THE LORD BLESSED AND THEIR BUSINESS, OVER THE NEXT THREE OR 09:28 FOUR YEARS, WENT UP LIKE FIFTEEN PERCENT A YEAR. 09:32 AND GOD JUST BLESSED - BUT THEY'RE CLOSED EVERY SABBATH. 09:36 THEY DONATED THEIR PLACE FOR US TO USE. 09:39 THE OWNER WAS ACTUALLY AN AFCOE GRADUATE NOW AND THEY DONATED 09:42 THE PLACE FOR US TO USE TO TEACH AN AFCOE CLASS THERE IN DURBAN. 09:46 AND SO, AND THIS IS SOME OF THE - THEY HAVE KIND OF AN OPEN 09:50 AREA. WE HAD 70 STUDENTS THERE AND I THINK CHUCK HOLTRY IS 09:54 TEACHING AND THERE'S CARISSA MCSHERRY TEACHING SOME CLASSES. 09:57 PASTOR ROSS AND I ALSO WERE TEACHING SOME CLASSES. 10:00 THE NEAT THING ABOUT THESE CLASSES - IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING 10:03 ABOUT SOUTH AFRICA, THEY HAVE VERY SERIOUS RACIAL PROBLEMS. 10:08 AND IF YOU THINK THERE'S RACIAL PROBLEMS IN NORTH AMERICA, 10:11 YOU NEED TO GO VISIT SOUTH AFRICA. 10:14 YOU KNOW, THEY'RE STILL NOT COMPLETELY RECOVERED FROM THE 10:17 APARTHEID ERA - AND THAT'S, I THINK, A DUTCH WORD MEANING 10:21 'APART', AND THEY BASICALLY HAD DIFFERENT RACES THAT COULD AND 10:25 COULDN'T VOTE. IT WAS PRETTY SERIOUS. 10:27 BUT, AT THE CLASS, AND IN THESE ASSEMBLIES WE HAD, PEOPLE - AND 10:32 THEY DIVIDE THEIR RACES IN REALLY THREE GROUPS THERE. 10:34 THEY'VE GOT THE WHITE, THE COLORED, AND THEN THE BLACK. 10:37 THE COLORED COULD BE ANYTHING FROM INDIAN TO FILIPINO AND 10:41 THERE'S A LOT OF SEGREGATION THAT STILL GOES ON TODAY AMONG 10:46 THOSE THREE GROUPS. BUT IT WAS WONDERFUL THAT WHEN 10:49 WE HAD OUR EVANGELISM TRAINING, WHEN WE HAD OUR RALLIES, THE 10:51 PASTOR SAID, 'WE'VE NEVER SEEN IT LIKE THIS. SUCH A BEAUTIFUL 10:54 CO-MINGLING OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY COMING TOGETHER.' 10:58 AND SO, THAT'S SOMETHING WE'RE VERY THANKFUL FOR. 11:00 AND WE HAD PEOPLE THAT WERE IN OUR CLASS AND THEY - THEY SAID, 11:03 'I HAVE NEVER SAT DOWN NEXT TO A WHITE PERSON IN MY LIFE.' 'I 11:07 HAVE NEVER SAT DOWN NEXT TO A BLACK PERSON IN MY LIFE.' AND 11:10 YET THEY CAME TOGETHER FOR THE EVANGELISM TRAINING. 11:13 THERE WAS A WONDERFUL SPIRIT THERE. 11:14 NEXT SLIDE. AND THEN - JUST - I'D NEVER BEEN 11:18 TO HEALDBERG COLLEGE - DID I SAY THAT RIGHT? 11:21 HELDERBERG COLLEGE - AND WE HAD A GOOD PROGRAM THERE AND THEY 11:24 SHOWED US THE CAMPUS AND INVITED US BACK AGAIN. 11:26 NEXT SLIDE. OH, AND WE DID SOME AMAZING 11:30 FACTS VIDEOTAPING WHILE WE WERE THERE. 11:32 SOME OF OUR CREW FLEW OUT AND TAPED SOME OF THE PROGRAMS AND 11:36 ONE OF THE THINGS WE DID IS WE WENT TO A LION PARK 11:39 AND WE DID AN AMAZING FACT ABOUT LIONS. 11:41 AND THIS IS THE SIGN THAT YOU SEE WHEN YOU GO IN. 11:44 AND WHILE WE WERE TAPING THERE, THEY LET ME PET THESE LIONS, 11:47 THEY'RE LIKE THREE MONTHS OLD AND, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THEY ARE 11:51 PRETTY ROWDY AND WHILE - YOU SEE, THERE'S ONE LION THAT'S 11:57 BEHIND JARED THERE, HOLDING THE MICROPHONE, THE MICROPHONE IS A 12:01 BIG FURRY THING AND THE LIONS BECAME VERY INTERESTED IN THAT. 12:05 THEY HAD TO TAKE THE FUR OFF THE MICROPHONE - IT'S A WINDSCREEN - 12:09 AND ONE OF THOSE LIONS ATTACKED KAREN. 12:12 NOW, ATTACKED MIGHT BE AN OVERSTATEMENT BUT HE WAS 12:14 PROBABLY BEING PLAYFUL, BUT HE SCRATCHED AND HE BIT HER. 12:17 AND I REALLY WANTED TO PUT ON FACEBOOK: MRS. BATCHELOR 12:20 ATTACKED BY LION IN AFRICA, BUT SHE WOULDN'T LET ME DO IT. 12:24 I THOUGHT THAT WOULD REALLY HAVE GONE FAR - HEADLINES LIKE THAT, 12:26 YOU KNOW? (LAUGHTER) BUT YEAH, SHE DID, SHE GOT 12:30 SCRATCHED AND BRUISED. AND SO WE TAPED SOME - THEN WE 12:35 WENT - OUR LAST SABBATH - WE DID SOME OTHER - YOU KNOW, WE'RE 12:38 JUST MAKING IT VERY SHORT, TO JUST GIVE YOU AN OVERVIEW. 12:41 THE LAST SABBATH WE WENT TO THE LARGEST ADVENTIST ARENA IN THE 12:44 COUNTRY, WHICH WAS AT SEDAVIN, OUTSIDE OF JOHANNESBURG. 12:49 AND, AGAIN, OVER 4,000 PEOPLE CAME. 12:51 IT WAS JUST ABSOLUTELY PACKED. 12:53 A LOT OF FOLKS THERE WATCH THE PROGRAMS. 12:56 THEY'RE MEMBERS OF OUR SABBATH SCHOOL CLASS AND SO, I TELL YOU 12:58 WHAT: I WANT YOU TO WAVE AT THEM RIGHT NOW. 13:00 I TOLD THEM, 'WHEN WE GET HOME WE'LL WAVE AT YOU.' SO, OKAY, WE 13:03 KNOW YOU'RE WATCHING THERE IN SOUTH AFRICA. 13:05 GOD BLESS YOU AND THANK YOU FOR BEING PART OF OUR CLASS. 13:09 SO - AND THAT'S JUST ONE MORE PICTURE OF THE SAME SABBATH. 13:11 WE HAD GREAT MEETINGS - AND THEY STAYED ALL DAY LONG. 13:14 AFTER CHURCH - WE THOUGHT THEY'D GO HOME AFTER LUNCH, BUT THEY 13:17 CAME BACK AGAIN. AND, AGAIN, IT WAS A WONDERFUL 13:19 CO-MINGLING OF THE PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY - CAME 13:22 TOGETHER BECAUSE OF THE WORD OF GOD AND JESUS. 13:24 ALRIGHT, WE WANT TO TURN OUR ATTENTION TO OUR LESSON. 13:28 WE ARE DEALING, TODAY, WITH THE LAST LESSON IN OUR QUARTERLY. 13:31 WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT REBELLION AND REDEMPTION AND THE 13:34 LESSON TODAY IS ON REDEMPTION. BEFORE WE GET TO THAT, IT 13:38 OBVIOUSLY STANDS TO REASON WE ARE STARTING WITH OUR 13:40 NEW QUARTERLY'S LESSON. I'M REALLY LOOKING 13:42 FORWARD TO THIS. IT'S THE BOOK OF MATTHEW. 13:45 WE'RE GOING TO BE GOING THROUGH THE BOOK OF MATTHEW IN THIRTEEN 13:48 LESSONS AND, FOLLOWING OUR CLASS HERE, THOSE WHO ARE REGULAR, 13:52 LOCAL ATTENDEES, WE DO HAVE SOME LESSONS FOR YOU, SO YOU'RE READY 13:54 FOR NEXT WEEK. THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE VISITING, 13:57 WE ARE THREE WEEKS AHEAD OF WHERE YOUR CHURCH PROBABLY IS, 14:01 BECAUSE OF THE RECORDING, AND I'M SURE YOU'LL HAVE THOSE 14:03 AVAILABLE FOR YOU AT YOUR CHURCH. TO OUR LESSON. 14:06 AND NOW, WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE AND THE MEMORY VERSE COMES TO US 14:10 FROM REVELATION 21, VERSE 4 - I THINK MOST OF US PROBABLY KNOW 14:15 THIS BY HEART, BUT WHY DON'T YOU SAY IT WITH ME? 14:17 REVELATION 21, VERSE 4. YOU READY? 14:20 "AND GOD WILL WIPE AWAY EVERY TEAR FROM THEIR EYES; THERE 14:25 SHALL BE NO MORE DEATH, NOR SORROW, NOR CRYING. THERE SHALL 14:30 BE NO MORE PAIN, FOR THE FORMER THINGS HAVE PASSED AWAY." 14:36 WE ARE ALL LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT DAY, AMEN? 14:39 WE'RE GOING TO BE DEALING, IN PARTICULAR NOW, IN THIS LAST 14:43 LESSON, WITH THE LAST THREE CHAPTERS IN REVELATION. 14:47 TALKING ABOUT REVELATION CHAPTERS 20, 21, AND 22. 14:51 AND SO TURN WITH ME IN YOUR BIBLE TO REVELATION CHAPTER 20 14:54 AND THIS IS A CHAPTER THAT DEALS, TO A LARGE EXTENT, WITH 15:00 SOMETHING WE CALL THE MILLENNIUM, OR THE THOUSAND 15:03 YEARS. NOW, THE WORD MILLENNIUM DOES NOT APPEAR IN THE BIBLE. 15:06 MILLENNIUM IS A COMPOSITE OF TWO LATIN WORDS MILLE AND ANNUM 15:10 - SIMPLY MEANS 'A THOUSAND YEARS'. 15:12 AND SO THE TEACHING OF THE MILLENNIUM IS IN THE BIBLE. 15:15 AND LET'S GO AHEAD AND READ THE FIRST FEW VERSES HERE. 15:18 WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THE BINDING OF SATAN. 15:21 "THEN I SAW AN ANGEL" - REVELATION 20:1 - "THEN I SAW AN 15:24 ANGEL COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN, HAVING THE KEY TO THE BOTTOMLESS 15:27 PIT AND A GREAT CHAIN IN HIS HAND. 15:31 HE LAID HOLD OF THE DRAGON, THAT SERPENT OF OLD, WHO IS THE DEVIL 15:34 AND SATAN," - NOW I JUST WANT TO PAUSE HERE. 15:36 WHEN PEOPLE SAY 'SERPENT' IN THE BIBLE, WE SAY, 'THAT'S A SYMBOL 15:39 FOR THE DEVIL.' DO WE HAVE BIBLICAL SUPPORT THAT 15:42 THE SERPENT REPRESENTS THE DEVIL? 15:44 HERE'S ONE VERSE THAT ALSO SAYS THIS IN REVELATION 12, THE 15:47 DEVIL, SATAN, SERPENT, DRAGON - IT'S ALL ONE - "THE DRAGON, THAT 15:54 SERPENT OF OLD, WHO IS THE DEVIL AND SATAN, AND BOUND HIM FOR 15:57 A THOUSAND YEARS; AND HE CAST HIM INTO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT, AND 16:03 SHUT HIM UP, AND SET A SEAL ON HIM, SO THAT HE SHOULD DECEIVE 16:06 THE NATIONS NO MORE TILL THE THOUSAND YEARS WERE FINISHED. 16:10 BUT AFTER THESE THINGS HE MUST BE RELEASED FOR A LITTLE WHILE." 16:14 AND WE'LL GET TO THAT. 16:15 FIRST, LET'S TALK ABOUT THE THOUSAND YEARS. 16:18 A NUMBER OF BIBLE THEOLOGIANS AND SCHOLARS, OVER TIME - MARTIN 16:24 LUTHER BEING ONE OF THEM - HAVE BELIEVED THAT HISTORY WOULD BE 16:28 SUMMARIZED IN A 7,000-YEAR SECTION. THAT, IF YOU GO BACK TO 16:34 THE TIME OF CREATION AND YOU ADD UP THE AGES IN THE BIBLE, THE 16:39 BIRTH OR CREATION OF ADAM WAS SOME TIME AROUND 4,000 B.C. 16:43 NOW, NO ONE KNOWS EXACTLY - AMAZING FACTS DEVELOPED A 16:46 TIMELINE A FEW YEARS AGO, WHERE WE WENT TO THE BEST SCHOLARS IN 16:49 OUR CHURCH AND THE BIBLE RESEARCH INSTITUTE AND TRIED TO 16:52 GET THE DATES AS CLOSE AS WE COULD. 16:54 AND WE PUT QUESTION MARKS THERE BECAUSE YOU CAN'T BE EXACT, BUT 16:57 APPROXIMATELY 4,000 B.C. NOW WE'RE LIVING IN 2016. 17:03 THAT COMES TO ABOUT 6,000 YEARS AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO LIVE AND 17:09 REIGN WITH CHRIST FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS - LIKE A 17:12 THOUSAND-YEAR SABBATH. GOD OFTEN WORKS ON A PRINCIPLE 17:15 OF SIX DAYS YOU WORK, ONE DAY YOU REST - 'A DAY WITH THE LORD 17:17 IS LIKE A THOUSAND YEARS; A THOUSAND YEARS LIKE A DAY'. 17:21 G. EDWARD REID WROTE A GOOD BOOK CALLED EVEN AT THE DOOR , WHERE 17:26 HE TALKS ABOUT THIS THEORY AND HE GIVES A LOT OF SCRIPTURE FOR 17:30 IT, AND I THINK THERE'S SOMETHING TO IT. I DON'T THINK 17:32 IT'S GOING TO BE MUCH LONGER BEFORE THE LORD COMES. 17:35 AND WHEN WE GET TO HEAVEN, AND WE GO INTO THE EARTH MADE NEW, 17:38 WE'LL LOOK BACK AND SEE THAT GOD, SORT OF, WRAPPED IT ALL UP 17:41 IN A 7,000-YEAR CYCLE - SIX DAYS SOWING THE SEED OF THE GOSPEL, 17:45 ONE DAY RESTING - A DAY WITH THE LORD LIKE A THOUSAND YEARS. 17:49 BY THE WAY, PETER, WHEN HE SAYS THAT IN 2 PETER CHAPTER 3, HE'S 17:52 QUOTING PSALM 84, PSALM 91, SIMILAR VERSES THAT TALK ABOUT 17:57 THAT. SO SATAN IS BOUND FOR A THOUSAND 18:00 YEARS AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN, 'THE BINDING OF SATAN'? 18:05 I WANT TO READ MARK 3, VERSES 26 AND 27. 18:10 JESUS SAYS, "AND IF SATAN HAS RISEN UP AGAINST HIMSELF, AND IS 18:16 DIVIDED, HE CANNOT STAND, BUT HAS AN END. 18:18 NO ONE CAN ENTER A STRONG MAN'S HOUSE AND PLUNDER HIS GOODS, 18:23 UNLESS HE FIRST BINDS THE STRONG MAN. 18:25 AND THEN HE WILL PLUNDER HIS HOUSE." SATAN HAS HAD PEOPLE 18:29 THAT ARE IN HIS HOUSE OF BONDAGE FOR MANY YEARS. 18:34 BY THE WAY, WHEN JESUS COMES IT'S A TIME OF JUBILEE. 18:37 YOU COULD HAVE A HEBREW SERVANT FOR SIX YEARS - AT THE END, THEY 18:40 WENT FREE. YOU'LL FIND A NUMBER OF 18:42 SCENARIOS LIKE THAT IN THE BIBLE. 18:44 YOU'VE GOT TO BIND THE STRONG MAN BEFORE YOU CAN PLUNDER HIS 18:48 HOUSE. AND IT TELLS YOU, RIGHT THERE IN 18:51 THAT VERSE, ABOUT SATAN RISEN UP AGAINST HIMSELF, IMPLYING THERE 18:54 WOULD BE A TIME WHEN SATAN WOULD BE BOUND AND THE CAPTIVES 18:57 WOULD BE SET FREE. YOU CAN ALSO READ WHERE 19:00 SATAN DOES BINDING. A LOT OF TIMES SATAN TRIED TO 19:03 BIND GOD'S PEOPLE AND BIND THE TRUTH. LUKE 13:15, "THE LORD 19:09 THEN ANSWERED HIM AND SAID, 'HYPOCRITE! 19:11 DOES NOT EACH ONE OF YOU ON THE SABBATH LOOSE HIS OX OR DONKEY 19:15 FROM THE STALL, AND LEAD IT AWAY TO WATER IT? 19:18 SO OUGHT NOT THIS WOMAN, BEING A DAUGHTER OF ABRAHAM, WHOM SATAN 19:21 HAS BOUND - THINK OF IT - FOR EIGHTEEN YEARS, BE LOOSED FROM 19:25 THIS BOND ON THE SABBATH?'" SHE HAD BEEN BOUND 19:28 WITH AN AFFLICTION. SHE WAS BENT OVER. 19:30 SO JESUS SAYS THE DEVIL IS SEEKING TO BIND GOD'S PEOPLE. 19:34 HE BINDS THEM WITH SICKNESS AND HE BINDS THEM LITERALLY. 19:37 BY THE WAY, THE DEVIL TRIED TO BIND GOD'S MESSENGERS SO HE 19:41 COULD BIND THE TRUTH. HE WANTED TO BIND THE WORD OF 19:46 GOD TO PREVENT IT FROM GOING FORTH. 19:48 YOU CAN READ AT THE END OF ACTS CHAPTER 12, THE DEVIL STARTS OUT 19:51 TRYING TO BIND PETER. JAMES IS KILLED. 19:55 BUT AT THE END OF CHAPTER 12 IT SAYS, 'THE WORD OF GOD GREW AND 19:58 MULTIPLIED.' HERE'S ANOTHER EXAMPLE, ACTS 21:33, "THEN THE 20:03 COMMANDER CAME NEAR AND TOOK HIM," - PAUL - "AND COMMANDED 20:06 HIM TO BE BOUND WITH TWO CHAINS;" - THERE YOU HAVE IT 20:08 AGAIN - ONE ON THE RIGHT AND ONE ON THE LEFT. 20:11 BUT YOU READ WHERE PAUL RESPONDS IN 2 TIMOTHY 2:9, "FOR WHICH I 20:16 SUFFER TROUBLE AS AN EVILDOER, EVEN TO THE POINT OF CHAINS; BUT 20:20 THE WORD OF GOD IS NOT CHAINED." WHEN THE DEVIL TRIED TO BIND THE 20:24 WORD OF GOD BY BINDING PAUL, WHAT WAS THE RESULT? 20:28 PAUL DID MORE WRITING IN JAIL THAN HE DID ANY OTHER TIME. 20:32 SOMEONE SAID THAT HALF OF PAUL'S LETTERS WERE WRITTEN FROM 20:34 PRISON. AND SO, DID THE DEVIL SUCCEED 20:36 IN BINDING THE WORD OF GOD? NO, BUT THE DEVIL IS GOING TO BE 20:40 BOUND AND LET'S TALK ABOUT HIS INFLUENCE BEING BOUND. 20:43 IF YOU READ IN JUDE 6 IT SAYS, "THE ANGELS" - THERE'S ONLY ONE 20:49 VERSE - ONE CHAPTER IN JUDE - JUDE 6 - "AND THE ANGELS WHO DID 20:53 NOT KEEP THEIR PROPER DOMAIN, BUT LEFT THEIR OWN ABODE, HE HAS 20:57 RESERVED IN EVERLASTING CHAINS UNDER DARKNESS FOR THE JUDGMENT 21:01 OF THE GREAT DAY;" - AGAIN, THEY ARE BOUND IN CHAINS, WAITING FOR 21:06 JUDGMENT. NOW, WE ARE GOING TO FIND OUT 21:08 MORE ABOUT WHERE THEY'RE BOUND. LET ME JUST TELL YOU, WHEN YOU 21:11 TALK ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM, THERE ARE ABOUT FIVE OR SIX DIFFERENT 21:15 VIEWS. I WAS REVIEWING THE VIEWS LAST NIGHT. 21:18 YOU'VE GOT POST-MILLENNIALISTS, PRE-MILLENNIALISTS, AND 21:21 AMILLENNIALISTS AND ALL THESE DIFFERENT VIEWS ON THE 21:25 MILLENNIUM. THERE'S LIKE FIVE OR SIX 21:27 DIFFERENT VIEWS - AND THE VIEW OF SOME CHURCHES IS 'DON'T READ 21:30 REVELATION, IT'LL CONFUSE YOU.' THAT'S THEIR VIEW. 21:34 PEOPLE WONDER WHERE DO YOU PUT THIS? 21:36 NOW EVERYONE AGREES THERE'S A PERIOD OF TIME WHERE WE LIVE AND 21:39 REIGN WITH CHRIST. FOLKS ARE WONDERING, 'WHAT IS 21:42 THIS BOTTOMLESS PIT WHERE SATAN IS BOUND? 21:45 AND 'WHERE DO WE LIVE AND REIGN WITH CHRIST? 21:48 IS IT ON EARTH? IS IT IN HEAVEN? 21:50 IS IT BEFORE THE SECOND COMING? IS IT AFTER THE RAPTURE?' 21:54 AND THEY DIVIDE IT UP IN THOSE DIFFERENT SEGMENTS. 21:57 FIRST, LET'S TALK ABOUT WHAT IS THE BOTTOMLESS PIT? 21:59 WHAT DO YOU THINK OF WHEN SOMEONE SAYS 'BOTTOMLESS PIT'? 22:04 SOME WOULD THINK, 'MAYBE IT'S A WORMHOLE IN SPACE WHERE SATAN IS 22:06 BOUND.' NO, THE - THAT WORD THAT IS TRANSLATED 'BOTTOMLESS PIT' 22:12 IS AN UNFORTUNATE TRANSLATION. THE KING JAMES TRANSLATORS, 22:16 WHEN THEY GOT TO THE END OF THE BIBLE, WANTED TO BE CREATIVE. 22:19 THE WORD IS ABUSSOS AND YOU FIND THAT WORD OTHER PLACES IN THE 22:22 NEW TESTAMENT. I'LL GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE. 22:24 IF YOU LOOK IN LUKE 8:30 - REMEMBER THE DEMON-POSSESSED MAN 22:28 - HE'S GOT A LEGION OF DEMONS AND THE DEMONS 22:31 START TO TALK TO JESUS AND THEY SAY, 'DON'T CAST US INTO THE 22:35 ABUSSOS' - THE DEEP - THE NOTHINGNESS - 'PUT US INTO THE 22:38 HERD OF SWINE.' SO CHRIST WAS PREPARING TO CAST THEM OUT. 22:44 AND WHEN HE WAS GOING TO CAST THEM OUT OF THE MAN, 22:46 THEY HAD NOBODY TO POSSESS OR MANIPULATE. 22:48 THAT WAS CALLED THE ABUSSOS - THE NOTHINGNESS. 22:52 NOW - AND YOU CAN READ THAT - JESUS SAID, 'WHAT IS YOUR NAME? 22:56 THEY SAID, 'LEGION' BECAUSE MANY DEMONS HAD ENTERED HIM AND THEY 23:00 BEGGED HIM HE WOULD NOT COMMAND THEM TO GO OUT INTO THE ABYSS. 23:04 SAME EXACT WORD AS REVELATION 20 - ABUSSOS - WHY THEY DIDN'T SAY 23:09 'BOTTOMLESS PIT' THERE, OR WHY THEY SAID 'BOTTOMLESS PIT' IN 23:12 REVELATION 20, ALL THE TRANSLATORS HAVE PASSED AWAY, 23:17 WHO KNOWS? BUT IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE EARTH. 23:21 NOW LET ME GIVE YOU SOME EVIDENCE FOR THAT. 23:25 FIRST, WHERE DO WE LIVE AND REIGN WITH CHRIST? 23:28 SOME OF MY CHARISMATIC FRIENDS, THEY BELIEVE THAT THE SECRET 23:32 RAPTURE TAKES PLACE NEXT ON THE SCHEME - THE TIMELINE - AND THEN 23:36 WE GO TO HEAVEN WITH JESUS FOR SEVEN YEARS, WHILE THERE'S SEVEN 23:38 YEARS OF TRIBULATION DOWN HERE. THEN, AT THE END OF THE SEVEN 23:42 YEARS OF TRIBULATION, JESUS COMES BACK WITH THE SAINTS AND 23:45 HE SETS UP AN EARTHLY KINGDOM IN ISRAEL WHERE HE AND THE SAVED 23:50 REIGN OVER THE WICKED FOR A THOUSAND YEARS. 23:53 NOW, WHO HERE WANTS TO REIGN OVER THE WICKED? 23:56 AND WOULDN'T THAT REALLY BE A STRANGE WORLD TO LIVE IN, WHERE 23:58 THE SAVED - ETERNAL LIFE AND ETERNAL BODIES - AND YOU'RE 24:01 RULING OVER THE WICKED WHO ARE STILL DYING AND HAVING NORMAL 24:06 LIVES AND IT'S JUST SORT OF THE CO-MINGLING THE ETERNAL WORLD 24:09 WITH THE CARNAL WORLD. IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE. 24:12 WHAT DIRECTION DO WE GO WHEN JESUS COMES? 24:15 NOW SOMEONE GET READY TO READ FOR ME 1 THESSALONIANS 4:16, 24:19 OKAY? I WANT TO READ JOHN 14:1 THROUGH 4. 24:22 MOST OF YOU KNOW THIS VERSE, "LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED; 24:27 YOU BELIEVE IN GOD, BELIEVE ALSO IN ME. 24:30 IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE ARE MANY MANSIONS; IF IT WERE NOT SO, I 24:34 WOULD HAVE TOLD YOU. I GO TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU. 24:37 AND IF I GO AND PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU, I WILL COME AGAIN AND 24:41 RECEIVE YOU TO MYSELF; THAT WHERE I AM, THERE YOU MAY BE 24:46 ALSO. AND WHERE I GO YOU KNOW, AND THE WAY YOU KNOW." 24:51 SO, CHRIST IS SAYING - YOU STOP ME IF I DON'T GET IT RIGHT - 24:54 JESUS SAID, 'I'M GOING - I'M GOING AWAY FROM THE PLANET TO MY 24:58 FATHER'S PLACE, PARADISE, TO PREPARE A PLACE FOR YOU AND I'LL 25:04 COME BACK AND I'LL GET YOU TO RECEIVE YOU UNTO MYSELF THAT 25:08 WHERE I AM YOU MIGHT BE' - I'M TAKING YOU WITH ME, AWAY FROM 25:11 THIS WORLD TO MY FATHER'S HOUSE. 25:13 SO WHAT DIRECTION DO WE GO WHEN JESUS COMES? 25:15 >>UP. >>WE GO UP. ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, 25:18 READ THE NEXT VERSE FOR US. IN 1 THESSALONIANS 4. 25:21 >>"FOR THE LORD HIMSELF WILL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN WITH A 25:23 SHOUT, WITH THE VOICE OF AN ARCHANGEL, AND WITH THE TRUMPET 25:27 OF GOD. AND THE DEAD IN CHRIST WILL RISE FIRST. 25:31 THEN WE WHO ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN SHALL BE CAUGHT UP TOGETHER WITH 25:36 THEM IN THE CLOUDS TO MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR. 25:39 AND THUS, WE SHALL ALWAYS BE WITH THE LORD." 25:41 >>ALRIGHT, IT'S VERY CLEAR: WHEN THE LORD COMES AGAIN, 25:43 WE'RE GOING TO REMAIN WITH HIM. 25:44 WHAT DIRECTION DO WE GO WHEN JESUS COMES? 25:48 FIRST OF ALL, IT SAYS THE DEAD RISE - THEY'RE GOING UP. 25:52 WE WHO ARE ALIVE WILL BE CAUGHT UP TOGETHER WITH HIM SO THEY 25:54 HAVE RISEN TO CHRIST AND WE'RE, THEN, GOING TO GO UP WITH THEM 25:57 AND BE WITH THE LORD. HE SAYS, 'I'M TAKING YOU TO 26:00 WHERE I WAS - MY FATHER'S HOUSE.' WE ARE LEAVING THE 26:02 PLANET WHEN JESUS COMES. SO WHEN IT SAYS WE LIVE AND 26:06 REIGN WITH CHRIST, ARE WE REIGNING ON EARTH? 26:09 LET ME GIVE YOU SOME OTHER VERSES WHY I BELIEVE THAT THAT'S 26:11 NOT CORRECT. THERE'S GOING TO BE A TIME IN 26:15 THE FUTURE WHEN NOBODY IS ALIVE ON EARTH. 26:19 NOW ONCE YOU ESTABLISH THAT THERE'S A POINT IN PROPHECY 26:23 WHERE IT SAYS THERE'S NO MAN ALIVE ON EARTH, ALL THE OTHER 26:27 SCHEMES DON'T WORK ANYMORE BECAUSE, WITH THE TYPICAL, YOU 26:30 KNOW, THE HAL LINDSEY SCHEME THAT YOU SEE WHERE YOU'VE GOT 26:35 THE TRIBULATION PEOPLE ARE ON EARTH. 26:38 AT THE END OF THE TRIBULATION JESUS COMES DOWN AND HE SETS UP 26:40 HIS MILLENNIAL REIGN AND THEN AFTER THE THOUSAND YEARS, ALL 26:42 THE WICKED ARE DESTROYED. THERE'S ALWAYS A 26:45 POPULATION ALIVE ON EARTH. BUT THE BIBLE DESCRIBES A TIME 26:48 WHEN THE EARTH IS VACATED. THERE IS NOBODY ALIVE. 26:51 HERE'S SOME VERSES: ISAIAH 24:3, "THE LAND SHALL BE UTTERLY 26:56 EMPTIED AND UTTERLY SPOILED: FOR THE LORD HATH SPOKEN THIS WORD." 27:00 JEREMIAH 25:33, "AND AT THAT DAY THE SLAIN OF THE LORD SHALL BE 27:05 FROM ONE END OF THE EARTH EVEN UNTO THE OTHER END OF THE EARTH: 27:08 THEY SHALL NOT BE LAMENTED, NEITHER GATHERED, NOR BURIED; 27:11 THEY SHALL BE DUNG UPON THE GROUND." WHY IS THERE NOBODY TO 27:14 MOURN THEM OR BURY THEM OR GATHER THEM? 27:17 THERE'S NOBODY ALIVE. HE SAYS HE'LL MAKE THE WHOLE 27:22 EARTH EMPTY - UTTERLY DESOLATE. LET ME GIVE YOU ANOTHER ONE: 27:25 JEREMIAH 4:23, "I BEHELD THE EARTH, AND, LO, IT WAS WITHOUT 27:31 FORM, AND VOID;" - NOW I WANT TO STOP RIGHT THERE. 27:34 IF JEREMIAH HAS SEEN THE EARTH WITHOUT FORM AND VOID, IS HE 27:37 LOOKING BACK IN TIME TO CREATION OR IS HE LOOKING FORWARD? 27:42 WHEN YOU FIRST READ IT, 'IN THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED THE 27:44 HEAVENS AND THE EARTH AND THE EARTH WAS WITHOUT FORM AND 27:46 VOID.' AND, BY THE WAY, THOSE TERMS - WITHOUT FORM AND VOID - 27:52 COME FROM - IT'S INTERESTING HEBREW WORDS - TOHUW AND BOHUW - 27:58 SO WHEN YOU READ THAT IN HEBREW, IT ALMOST SOUNDS LIKE A PLAY ON 28:02 WORDS - 'THE EARTH WAS TOHUW BOHUW.' 28:04 (LAUGHTER) THAT'S WHAT IT'S SAYING. 28:06 AND THOSE WORDS - TOHUW MEANS 'FORMLESSNESS CONFUSION'; BOHUW 28:12 MEANS 'VOID, EMPTY, WASTE'. THE EARTH IS A VOID, EMPTY, 28:16 FORMLESS, CONFUSED, WASTE. THAT'S WHAT THAT MEANS. 28:20 NOW, WHEN YOU READ IN JEREMIAH CHAPTER 4 - GOING BACK THERE 28:23 AGAIN - "I BEHELD THE EARTH, AND, LO, IT WAS WITHOUT FORM, 28:25 AND VOID; AND THE HEAVENS, AND THEY HAD NO LIGHT." 28:28 - SOUNDS LIKE CREATION - "I BEHELD THE MOUNTAINS, AND, LO, 28:32 THEY TREMBLED, AND ALL THE HILLS MOVED LIGHTLY. 28:35 I BEHELD, AND, LO, THERE WAS NO MAN," - NOT 'FEW MEN', THERE'S 28:39 'NO MAN' - "AND ALL THE BIRDS OF THE HEAVENS WERE FLED." 28:43 NOW, IN ORDER FOR IT TO BE THE BIRDS FLED, IT MEANS THEY WERE 28:46 THERE AND THEY LEFT. "I BEHELD, AND, LO, THE FRUITFUL 28:49 PLACE WAS A WILDERNESS," - IT WAS ONCE FRUITFUL, BUT NOW IT'S 28:53 BECOME DEVOID OF LIFE AND ALL THE CITIES THEREOF WERE BROKEN 28:58 DOWN AT THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD, AND BY HIS FIERCE ANGER." 29:03 - WHAT BROKE DOWN THE CITIES? THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD. 29:06 SO WHEN JESUS COMES IT'S CREATION IN REVERSE. 29:09 ISN'T HE GOING TO MAKE A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH? 29:12 YOU EVER SEE A POTTER AND HE TRIES TO MAKE SOMETHING ON THE 29:14 WHEEL AND IT DOESN'T WORK RIGHT AND HE TAKES THE CLAY AND HE 29:16 JUST MASHES IT INTO A FORMLESS LUMP AGAIN AND STARTS OVER? 29:20 GOD IS GOING TO DO THAT WITH THE PLANET - WITHOUT FORM, DARK, 29:23 VOID - AND THINGS ARE GOING TO BE DESTROYED. 29:28 THE ELEMENTS'LL MELT WITH FERVENT HEAT. 29:30 CITIES ARE BROKEN DOWN. BIRDS OF HEAVEN ARE FLED. 29:32 THERE'S NO MAN. SO THERE IS A POINT WHEN 29:35 THERE'S, OBVIOUSLY, NO LIFE ON EARTH. BY THE WAY, I JUST 29:37 STARTED READING YOU THAT VERSE - PETER SAYS IN 2 PETER 3:10, "BUT 29:46 THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL COME AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT; IN THE 29:47 WHICH THE HEAVENS... SHALL MELT WITH FERVENT HEAT, THE EARTH 29:48 ALSO AND THE WORKS THERE ARE THEREIN SHALL BE BURNED UP. 29:51 SEEING THEN THAT ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE DISSOLVED," - 29:53 HOW MUCH LIFE CAN BE ON EARTH UNDER THAT CONDITION? 29:57 THIS - THIS EVANGELICAL, YOU KNOW, 'LEFT BEHIND' SCHEME THAT 30:02 THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING GOING ON - ALWAYS PEOPLE LIVING HERE 30:03 ON EARTH, DOESN'T FIT WITH THE BIBLE TEACHING. 30:06 THE BIBLE SAYS THAT WHEN CHRIST COMES THE WICKED ARE DESTROYED 30:10 BY THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING. THERE'S DESOLATION. 30:13 THERE IS NO MAN. THE SLAIN OF THE LORD ARE FROM 30:16 ONE END OF THE EARTH TO THE OTHER. 30:17 NO ONE TO LAMENT OR MOURN OR BURY THEM. 30:19 YOU SEE HOW IT HAS TO FIT THAT WAY? 30:22 SO WHERE IS SATAN BOUND? WELL, WHEN JESUS TOLD THOSE 30:26 DEVILS TO COME OUT OF THE MAN, THEY CALLED IT AN ABUSSOS 30:28 BECAUSE THEY HAD NOBODY TO POSSESS OR MANIPULATE OR TEMPT. 30:32 FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS SATAN IS BOUND BY CIRCUMSTANCES, 30:35 FORCED TO REMAIN ON THIS PLANET WHERE HE HAS NOBODY TO TEMPT OR 30:41 MANIPULATE. HE IS BOUND. HE HAS NOTHING TO DO. 30:46 ALRIGHT, LET'S SEE HERE - JOB - HERE'S JUST ONE MORE EXAMPLE - 30:51 JOB 12:24 - IT SAYS, "HE TAKES AWAY THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE 30:54 CHIEFS OF THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH, AND MAKES THEM WANDER IN 30:57 A PATHLESS WILDERNESS." THAT, AGAIN, IS THAT WORD 31:00 'TOHUW' TALKING ABOUT FORMLESS CONFUSION. 31:04 SO FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS SATAN IS BOUND ON EARTH AND WHAT ARE 31:07 WE DOING IN HEAVEN DURING THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS? 31:11 SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ 1 CORINTHIANS 4:5 IN JUST A 31:14 MOMENT, OKAY? I'M GOING TO READ 1 CORINTHIANS 6:2. 31:17 PAUL SAYS HERE, "DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT THE SAINTS WILL JUDGE THE 31:22 WORLD? AND IF THE WORLD WILL BE JUDGED 31:25 BY YOU, ARE YOU UNWORTHY TO JUDGE THE SMALLEST MATTERS?" 31:28 PAUL IS CHASTISING A CHURCH THERE IN CORINTH BECAUSE THEY 31:31 COULDN'T TAKE CARE OF JUDGING SOMETHING THAT REALLY WAS 31:33 OBVIOUS NEEDED ATTENTION AND HE SAYS, 'DON'T YOU KNOW THE SAINTS 31:37 WILL JUDGE THE WORLD?' NOW HOW IS IT THAT 31:40 WE JUDGE THE WORLD? FIRST OF ALL, HOW DOES IT MAKE 31:44 YOU FEEL THAT PAUL SAYS PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE JUDGING PEOPLE? 31:49 WHAT'S THE MOST COMMONLY QUOTED VERSE? IT'S NOT JOHN 3:16. 31:55 THAT'S ONE OF THE BEST-LOVED VERSES, BUT THE MOST COMMONLY 31:57 QUOTED VERSE IS ACTUALLY 'JUDGE NOT' BECAUSE ALL THE UNBELIEVERS 32:00 IN THE WORLD QUOTE THAT ONE. THEY ALL KNOW IT. 32:05 'YOU'RE JUDGING ME. DON'T JUDGE ME. JUDGE NOT LEST YOU BE 32:07 JUDGED.' BUT THE BIBLE SAYS, 'DON'T YOU KNOW THE SAINTS WILL 32:10 JUDGE THE WORLD?' NOW WHEN JESUS COMES, DOES THE 32:13 LORD ALREADY KNOW WHO'S SAVED AND WHO'S LOST? 32:17 SO HOW COULD WE BE PARTICIPATING IN JUDGMENT IF THE LORD HAS 32:20 ALREADY DETERMINED WHO'S SAVED AND WHO'S LOST? 32:23 YOU KNOW, THERE'S DIFFERENT PHASES OF JUDGMENT. 32:26 SOMETIMES A JUDGE WILL GET A JURY TOGETHER AND THEY'LL SAY 32:31 'GUILTY OR NOT GUILTY?' AND THEY'LL SAY, 'GUILTY'. 32:34 AND THE JUDGE SAYS, 'OKAY, WE'LL CONVENE FOR ANOTHER JUDGEMENT IN 32:38 THREE WEEKS TO DETERMINE PUNISHMENT.' FIRST WE DECIDE 32:42 WHETHER THEY'RE GUILTY OR INNOCENT, THEN WE HAVE ANOTHER 32:44 JUDGMENT, COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, THAT IS DETERMINING WHAT THE 32:47 SENTENCE IS. WHEN JESUS COMES, THE GUILT OR 32:50 INNOCENCE IS ALREADY DETERMINED, BUT THERE'S GOING TO BE A TIME 32:54 WHEN THE WICKED ARE JUDGED - GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT - 32:58 AND THEY RECEIVE THEIR SENTENCE AT THE END OF THE ONE THOUSAND 33:01 YEARS - THIS GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT WHERE ALL STAND 33:04 BEFORE THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST. 33:06 WE WILL HAVE A PART IN DETERMINING, EVIDENTLY, THE 33:10 DEGREE OF PUNISHMENT - THAT IT IS JUST. 33:12 LET ME READ YOU A QUOTE FROM THE BOOK GREAT CONTROVERSY , PAGE 33:17 661, "IN UNION WITH CHRIST THEY" - THE SAINTS - "JUDGE THE 33:22 WICKED, COMPARING THEIR ACTS WITH THE STATUTE BOOK" - THE 33:26 BIBLE - "AND DECIDING EVERY CASE ACCORDING TO THE DEEDS DONE IN 33:30 THE BODY. THEN THE PORTION WITH WHICH THE 33:33 WICKED MUST SUFFER IS METED OUT ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS AND IS 33:36 RECORDED AGAINST THEIR NAMES IN THE BOOK OF DEATH." 33:39 WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY DIFFERENT FROM THE BOOK OF LIFE. 33:42 READ FOR US, PLEASE, 1 CORINTHIANS 4, VERSE 5. 33:46 >>THEREFORE JUDGE NOTHING BEFORE THE TIME, UNTIL THE LORD COMES, 33:50 WHO WILL BOTH BRING TO LIGHT THE HIDDEN THINGS OF DARKNESS AND 33:53 REVEAL THE COUNSELS OF THE HEARTS. THEN EACH ONE'S PRAISE 33:56 WILL COME FROM GOD." >>ALRIGHT. 34:00 DURING THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS - FIRST OF ALL, LET'S JUST IMAGINE 34:04 FOR A MOMENT THE LORD COMES, THE WICKED ARE DESTROYED, THE WICKED 34:08 LIVING ARE KILLED AT THE MILLENNIUM, THE WICKED WHO ARE 34:12 DEAD STAY DEAD, THE DEAD IN CHRIST RISE, THE BELIEVERS ARE 34:18 CAUGHT UP TO MEET THEM, ALL THE SAVED ARE TAKEN TO HEAVEN, ALL 34:21 THE LOST ARE ON THE EARTH. WE'RE GOING TO GET TO HEAVEN AND 34:26 WHERE DOES IT SAY GOD WIPES AWAY ALL TEARS? 34:30 REVELATION 20 OR 21? >>21. 34:32 >>21. WHERE IS THE MILLENNIUM? 34:36 REVELATION 20 - REVELATION 20 THERE MAY BE SOME SADNESS. 34:42 IF YOU GET TO THE KINGDOM AND PEOPLE THAT YOU KNEW AND LOVED 34:46 ON EARTH - FRIENDS, FAMILY - ARE NOT THERE, ARE YOU JUST GOING TO 34:51 SMILE AND SING 'HALLELUJAH' LIKE AN IDIOT THAT HAS NO FEELINGS? 34:55 OR IS THERE GOING TO BE - I DIDN'T MEAN TO BE DEROGATORY, 34:59 BUT I MEAN, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. 35:01 IS GOD REMOVING ALL NATURAL AFFECTION? 35:05 THE WIPING AWAY OF THE TEARS COMES LATER. 35:07 PEOPLE SAY, 'OH, THERE CAN'T BE SADNESS IN HEAVEN.' WHERE DID 35:08 THEY GET THAT IDEA? WHEN JESUS WAS ON THE CROSS, 35:11 WERE THE ANGELS SINGING? >>NO. 35:14 >>NO, THERE IS SADNESS IN HEAVEN. 35:16 THERE WAS SADNESS AT THE REBELLION - AT THE FALL. 35:19 AND SO THERE MAY BE SOME SORROW. I THINK EVEN THE REDEEMED, WHEN 35:22 WE GET TO HEAVEN AND WE REALIZE ALL WE HAVE, WE'RE GOING TO 35:26 THINK, 'I WISH I'D DONE MORE.' WE MAY HAVE SOME REGRETS. 35:30 EVEN THE SAVED, AT FIRST, MAY HAVE SOME REGRETS AND THINK, 'IF 35:33 I'D ONLY KNOWN. I WISH I HADN'T WASTED SO MUCH TIME. 35:35 GOD IS GOOD. I'M SO GLAD TO BE HERE. 35:37 HE'S SHOWN ME MERCY. BUT IF I HAD ONLY KNOWN. 35:41 OH, THE TIMES I'VE WASTED OR THE TIMES I WAS A BAD INFLUENCE.' 35:45 WE'LL HAVE THOUGHTS. DON'T - DON'T MISUNDERSTAND ME. 35:48 THE OVERWHELMING JOY AND GLORY OF THE PLACE WILL ECLIPSE 35:50 EVERYTHING THAT IS SAD, BUT IT'S NOT LIKE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE NO 35:54 FEELINGS IN HEAVEN. AND SO WE'RE GOING TO SAY, 'I 35:58 DON'T UNDERSTAND' - TO THE ANGEL - 'UNCLE HARVEY IS THE ONE WHO 36:02 LED ME TO THE LORD AND HE WAS A HEAD ELDER AND HE WAS SUCH A 36:05 GODLY MAN. I DON'T SEE HIM ANYWHERE. WHAT HAPPENED?' 36:08 AND THE ANGELS ARE GOING TO SAY, 'WELL, COME WITH US. 36:10 WE'VE GOT THE DIGITAL ARCHIVES - 3-D ARCHIVES - AND WE'RE GOING 36:14 TO LOOK AT UNCLE HARVEY AND YOU'RE GOING TO - 36:16 SEE UNCLE HARVEY? HE HAD SOMETHING IN HIS LIFE. 36:20 SOME SIN HE REFUSED TO LET GO OF, THAT HE HID FROM EVERYBODY 36:23 ELSE, BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE FROM GOD. 36:25 AND GOD DID EVERYTHING HE COULD TO BRING HIM TO REPENTANCE - TO 36:27 CONVICT HIM - TO GET HIM TO TURN - PATIENT WITH HIM. 36:30 BUT HE REFUSED AND GOD COULDN'T SAVE HIM.' AND WE'LL SEE GOD DID 36:35 EVERYTHING HE COULD. AND WE'LL SAY, 'I TRUST GOD. 36:37 I'M NOT GOING TO BE ANGRY BECAUSE UNCLE HARVEY'S NOT 36:39 HERE.' SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? 36:41 WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A THOUSAND YEARS TO ASK QUESTIONS. 36:45 I JUST PICKED ONE SCENARIO. THERE'LL BE A LOT OF SCENARIOS. 36:47 WE'LL NOT ONLY BE ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT PEOPLE WHO MAY 36:49 BE MISSING; THERE MAY BE SOME PEOPLE WE SEE IN HEAVEN AND 36:53 THINK, 'HOW IN THE WORLD DID THEY RATE GETTING HERE?' 36:57 YOU KNOW, WE JUST CAN'T IMAGINE WHY WOULD NAPOLEON BE HERE? 37:01 ALL THE TERRIBLE THINGS NAPOLEON DID - YOU KNOW, THE RUMOR IS 37:03 THAT NAPOLEON HAD REMORSE AND CAME TO THE LORD AT THE END OF 37:07 HIS LIFE. THAT'S A RUMOR I'VE HEARD - WHEN 37:08 HE WAS A PRISONER ON, WHAT IS IT - ELBA ISLAND. 37:12 WOULDN'T IT BE SOMETHING TO SEE THAT THIS MAN WHO HAD SO MANY 37:15 DIED BECAUSE OF HIS WARS, IN HEAVEN? 37:18 AND WE'LL SAY, 'WHAT'S HE DOING HERE?' 37:20 AND SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME SURPRISES. 37:23 I THINK YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD ME SAY BEFORE, CAN YOU IMAGINE THE 37:26 EXPRESSION ON STEPHEN'S FACE WHEN HE GETS TO HEAVEN AND HE 37:29 SEES PAUL BEING CARRIED ON PEOPLE'S SHOULDERS? 37:31 THE ANGELS ARE CELEBRATING AND STEPHEN'S GOING TO - 'WAIT A 37:34 SECOND, YOU GUYS MADE A MISTAKE. WHAT'S HE DOING HERE?' 37:37 AND THE ANGEL'S GOING TO SAY, 'COME HERE, STEPHEN, WE'LL SHOW 37:39 YOU WHAT HAPPENED. THIS GUY WHO WAS KILLING 37:42 CHRISTIANS AND HELPED EXECUTE YOU, YOU PRAYED FOR HIM BEFORE 37:45 YOU DIED AND SAID, 'LORD, LAY NOT THIS SIN TO THEIR CHARGE.' 37:47 GOD HEARD YOUR PRAYER. HE WAS CONVERTED. 37:50 HE BECAME ONE OF THE GREATEST NEW TESTAMENT TEACHERS AND 37:54 WRITERS.' 'OH, WELL GLAD HE'S HERE.' YOU SEE? 37:58 SO THERE'LL BE A LOT OF QUESTIONS - A THOUSAND YEARS 37:59 WORTH OF QUESTIONS. SO WE LIVE AND REIGN WITH CHRIST 38:02 AND PART OF THE JUDGMENT - LET ME READ THIS TO YOU - REVELATION 38:06 15:4, "WHO SHALL NOT FEAR YOU, O LORD, AND GLORIFY YOUR NAME? 38:12 FOR YOU ALONE ARE HOLY. FOR ALL NATIONS SHALL COME AND 38:16 WORSHIP BEFORE YOU, FOR YOUR JUDGMENTS HAVE BEEN MANIFESTED." 38:21 NOW, WHAT DOES MANIFEST MEAN? REVEALED. 38:24 PART OF WHAT'S HAPPENING - IT'S NOT ALL, BUT PART OF WHAT'S 38:27 HAPPENING DURING THE ONE THOUSAND-YEAR MILLENNIAL 38:29 JUDGMENT IS WE ARE EVALUATING THE JUDGMENTS OF GOD. 38:36 YOU EVER HEARD SOMEONE USE THE EXPRESSION 'THEY'VE GOT GOOD 38:39 JUDGMENT'? DOES THAT MEAN THEY'RE WALKING THROUGH THEIR 38:43 DAY GOING, 'GUILTY - INNOCENT - GUILTY - INNOCENT'? 38:46 SO JUDGMENT DOESN'T ALWAYS MEAN THAT YOU'RE PRONOUNCING 38:49 SENTENCE. IN FACT, JESUS SAID, 'WHEN YOU 38:53 JUDGE USE RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT.' WE ALWAYS HEAR ABOUT 38:55 'DON'T JUDGE' BUT JESUS ACTUALLY SAID YOU SHOULD JUDGE. 38:59 AND HE SAID, 'WHEN YOU JUDGE, USE RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT.' 39:01 WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO USE THE JUDGMENT THAT GOD HAS GIVEN US 39:04 IN OUR OWN INDIVIDUAL PERSONALITIES AND LOOK AT WHAT 39:07 HAS HAPPENED BECAUSE GOD WANTS US TO BE AT PEACE WITH HIM. 39:12 HE WANTS US TO TRUST HIM THROUGH ETERNITY. 39:16 WE ALWAYS TALK AND HEAR ABOUT POLITICIANS SAYING, 'MY 39:20 GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO BE THE MOST TRANSPARENT GOVERNMENT. 39:23 WE'RE NOT GOING TO DO ANYTHING CLOAK AND DAGGER. 39:27 EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE OPEN. YOU GOT A QUESTION, 39:28 OPEN THE BOOKS. YOU CAN LOOK AT WHATEVER YOU 39:30 WANT.' AND WE HAVEN'T REALLY RUN INTO A GOVERNMENT LIKE THAT YET. 39:34 BUT GOD IS GOING TO DO THAT. >>YES. 39:38 >>HE IS GOING TO SAY, 'HERE ARE THE BOOKS.' YOU GET TO LOOK. 39:42 AND YOU MIGHT BE WONDERING - YOU KNOW THAT VERSE THAT SAYS, 39:45 'THOSE THINGS DONE IN SECRET WILL BE PROCLAIMED FROM THE 39:47 HOUSETOPS'? WHEN DOES THAT HAPPEN? 39:50 EVERYBODY - IF YOUR SINS ARE NOT UNDER THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB, 39:54 THEY ARE GOING TO BE AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC ACCESS DURING THE 39:59 MILLENNIUM. IT KIND OF MAKES YOU SHUDDER, DOESN'T IT? 40:03 WE ALL WANT OUR SINS UNDER THE BLOOD, DON'T WE? 40:06 BECAUSE IT SAYS THAT EVERYTHING'S GOING TO BE NAKED 40:10 AND OPEN AT THAT TIME AND THOSE THINGS DONE IN SECRET WILL BE 40:14 PLAINLY REVEALED. AND SO THIS IS DURING 40:17 THAT MILLENNIAL JUDGMENT. ALRIGHT, THEN WE'VE 40:19 GOT THE FINAL JUDGMENT. NOW, IF YOU LOOK IN REVELATION 40:22 CHAPTER 20 - GO TO CHAPTER 21 - WELL, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO READ 40:27 SOMETHING ELSE TO YOU REAL QUICK. 40:29 IF YOU LOOK IN - GO TO VERSE 6 - REVELATION 20, VERSE 6 - WELL, 40:37 VERSE 5, "BUT THE REST OF THE DEAD DID NOT LIVE AGAIN UNTIL 40:41 THE THOUSAND YEARS WERE FINISHED...BLESSED AND HOLY IS 40:44 HE WHO HAS PART IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION." 40:47 - THE DEAD IN CHRIST RISE WHEN? >>FIRST. 40:49 >>FIRST. SO IF THE DEAD IN CHRIST RISE 40:51 FIRST, WHO ARE THE REST OF THE DEAD? THOSE THAT ARE NOT DEAD IN 40:55 CHRIST ARE THE ONES WHO ARE DEAD WITHOUT CHRIST - THEY'RE THE 40:57 LOST - THE WICKED. IS THAT RIGHT? 41:00 IT SAYS, "OVER SUCH THE SECOND DEATH HAS NO POWER," - THE DEAD 41:04 IN CHRIST HAVE NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT THE SECOND DEATH - "BUT 41:07 THEY SHALL BE PRIESTS OF GOD AND OF CHRIST, AND SHALL REIGN WITH 41:10 HIM A THOUSAND YEARS." SO WE'RE LIVING WITH AND 41:13 REIGNING WITH CHRIST IN THE KINGDOM BECAUSE WHEN HE COMES 41:15 THE DEAD IN CHRIST RISE - WE GO UP. BUT, VERSE 7, "NOW WHEN THE 41:19 THOUSAND YEARS HAVE EXPIRED, SATAN WILL BE RELEASED FROM 41:22 HIS PRISON AND WILL GO OUT TO DECEIVE THE NATIONS WHICH ARE IN 41:27 THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH, GOG AND MAGOG, TO GATHER THEM 41:31 TOGETHER TO BATTLE, WHOSE NUMBER IS AS THE SAND OF THE SEA. 41:35 THEY WENT UP ON THE BREADTH OF THE EARTH AND SURROUNDED THE 41:37 CAMP OF THE SAINTS AND THE BELOVED CITY." 41:39 - THEY COVER THE EARTH LIKE A CLOUD - "AND FIRE CAME DOWN FROM 41:42 GOD OUT OF HEAVEN AND DEVOURED THEM." 41:45 WHO ARE GOG AND MAGOG? THEY'RE THE WICKED. 41:50 NOW I'VE HEARD SOME VERY INTERESTING CREATIVE SERMONS 41:54 BEFORE WHERE I'VE HEARD SOME EVANGELICAL PASTORS THAT HAVE 41:57 SAID, 'DURING THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS THE RIGHTEOUS ARE LIVING 42:00 AND REIGNING WITH CHRIST. THEN GOG, WHICH IS THE CHINESE 42:05 AND MAGOG, WHICH COMES FROM MESHEK - RUSSIA - MOSCOW - ARE 42:10 ALL GOING TO GET TOGETHER AND ATTACK ISRAEL IN THE VALLEY OF 42:13 MEGIDDO.' ANY OF YOU HEARD THIS BEFORE? NOTHING OF THE SORT. 42:20 THERE'S NOTHING IN THE BIBLE TO SUPPORT GOG AND MAGOG ARE CHINA 42:22 AND RUSSIA. THAT IS - PARDON ME, BUT THAT'S JUST HALLUCINATIONS. 42:27 IT'S NOT EVEN A VISION, IT'S JUST A HALLUCINATION. 42:30 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT YOU CAN LOOK IN GENESIS CHAPTER 10 - IT 42:34 TALKS ABOUT THE NATIONS THAT POPULATED THE WORLD AND SOME 42:37 NATIONS THAT WERE - THEY WERE NORTH OF ISRAEL - YOU'VE GOT 42:42 MAGOG, AND THAT MEANS 'THE CHILDREN OF GOG'. 42:45 GOG, THEY WERE ENEMIES OF GOD'S PEOPLE. 42:50 THEY FOUGHT AGAINST GOD'S PEOPLE. 42:52 THEY REPRESENTED A LARGE GROUP OF PEOPLE AND MAGOG MEANS 'FROM 42:55 THE MATRIX' OR THOSE WHO CAME OUT OF GOG. 42:59 SO IT'S BASICALLY THE WICKED AND THE CHILDREN OF THE WICKED, LIKE 43:03 BABYLON AND HER DAUGHTERS, LIKE JEZEBEL AND ATHALIA, LIKE 43:07 HERODIAS AND SALOME. THESE - THE WICKED 43:10 AND THEIR DESCENDENTS. YOU'VE GOT ABRAHAM AND HIS SEED; 43:13 YOU'VE GOT THE WICKED AND THEIR SEED. 43:15 YOU'VE GOT THE WOMAN - THE DRAGON MAKES WAR WITH THE WOMAN 43:18 AND THE REMNANT OF HER SEED - SO IT TALKS ABOUT THE WOMAN AND HER 43:20 SEED. IT'S SIMPLY SAYING, 'GOG AND THE SEED OF GOG. 43:24 THAT'S ALL THAT MEANS. THEY REPRESENT ALL THE WICKED. 43:26 NOW, IF YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THAT, TO UNDERSTAND REVELATION 43:29 GO TO THE OLD TESTAMENT. TURN TO EZEKIEL. 43:32 IF YOU LOOK IN EZEKIEL CHAPTER 38 IT SAYS, FOR INSTANCE, "YOU 43:41 WILL ASCEND, COMING LIKE A STORM, COVERING THE LAND LIKE A 43:44 CLOUD, YOU AND ALL YOUR TROOPS AND MANY PEOPLES WITH YOU." 43:50 SO IT'S NOT TALKING ABOUT ONE NATION, GOG SIMPLY REPRESENTS 43:53 MANY PEOPLES THAT WILL MAKE WAR ON THE CITY OF GOD. 43:58 THEY'LL THINK THEY CAN ATTACK THE CITY OF GOD. 44:01 THEY COME LIKE A STORM COVERING THE LAND. AND IT SAYS - YOU GO 44:04 TO VERSE 22 OF EZEKIEL 38 - SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME 44:08 MATTHEW 7:22. WHO HAS THAT? OKAY, JUST A MOMENT. 44:13 IN EZEKIEL 22 - OR 38, VERSE 22, "AND I WILL BRING HIM TO 44:17 JUDGMENT WITH THE PESTILENCE AND BLOODSHED; I WILL RAIN DOWN 44:21 ON HIM, ON HIS TROOPS, AND ON THE MANY PEOPLES WHO ARE WITH 44:25 HIM, FLOODING RAIN, GREAT HAILSTONES, FIRE, AND 44:29 BRIMSTONE." THIS IS LOOKING FORWARD. 44:30 EZEKIEL IS LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS BATTLE THAT YOU'VE FOUND. 44:34 NOW, YOU CAN LOOK IN VERSE 8 OF REVELATION 20. 44:36 IT SAYS SATAN GOES "OUT TO DECEIVE THE NATIONS THAT ARE IN 44:40 THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH, GOG AND MAGOG" - IT TELLS YOU 44:43 WHO THEY ARE - ALL THE WICKED THAT COVER THE EARTH. 44:45 GOG AND MAGOG IS A SYMBOLIC NAME. 44:48 NOW, IN THE BIBLE YOU'LL FIND MOST OF THE NAMES ARE SYMBOLIC. 44:54 WHEN IT TALKS, IN REVELATION 2 AND 3, ABOUT BALAAM AND JEZEBEL, 44:57 IS IT LITERAL BALAAM AND JEZEBEL, OR DO THEY REPRESENT 45:00 PEOPLE LIKE JEZEBEL AND BALAAM? WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT APOLLYON AND 45:06 WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT THE DRAGON, IT'S A SYMBOLIC 45:09 NAME FOR THE DEVIL. AND YOU LOOK AT ALL THE NAMES IT 45:11 GIVES THERE AND THEY'RE USUALLY SYMBOLS - GOG AND MAGOG. 45:14 IT'S NOT THAT ANCIENT NATION, IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE ENEMIES 45:18 OF GOD'S PEOPLE AND MANY PEOPLE WITH HIM - SATAN IS GOING TO 45:22 RALLY ALL THE LOST WHO ARE RESURRECTED. 45:25 LET ME JUST TRY AND PAINT IT FOR YOU IN A PICTURE. 45:28 AT THE END OF THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS, THIS INVESTIGATIVE - OR 45:32 THIS CURIOSITY JUDGMENT IS OVER. 45:37 THE LORD, THEN, WILL SIGNAL THE TIME HAS COME. 45:40 THE NEW JERUSALEM DESCENDS FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN. 45:45 BEFORE IT SETTLES - AND THAT CITY IS 375 MILES ON EACH SIDE - 45:49 BEFORE IT SETTLES, CHRIST COMES OUT OF THE CITY. 45:52 HE COMES DOWN - HIS FEET TOUCH THE EARTH AND, ALMOST LIKE A 45:56 HYPODERMIC NEEDLE WITH ADRENALIN IN IT, IT BRINGS TO LIFE ALL THE 46:00 WICKED WHO HAVE EVER LIVED ALL THROUGH TIME. 46:05 AND THEY DON'T COME OUT OF THEIR BODIES - OUT OF THEIR GRAVES 46:10 WITH GLORIFIED NEW BODIES. THE LORD SOMEHOW PATCHES THEM 46:14 TOGETHER AGAIN SO THEY'RE ALIVE, MUCH LIKE THEY DIED, JUST SO 46:18 THEY'RE AWARE OF WHAT'S GOING ON - AND THEY CAN'T DIE. 46:23 I HEARD A PASTOR GIVE A CREATIVE SERMON ABOUT ZOMBIES - SAYING 46:29 THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT ZOMBIES - AND THIS IS THE TIME WHEN THERE 46:32 ARE GOING TO BE PEOPLE ON THE EARTH THAT CAN'T DIE, THAT ARE 46:34 GOING TO BE PUT TOGETHER LIKE THE LIVING DEAD, 46:36 AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS VERY INTERESTING. 46:39 THAT'S - ALL THE WICKED ARE RAISED AND WHEN THE DEVIL SEES 46:42 THIS VAST ARMY AND IN THE THRONG, I MEAN, JUST THINK ABOUT 46:45 WHO'S GOING TO BE THERE - HE'LL HAVE, PROBABLY, ALEXANDER THE 46:48 GREAT, JULIUS CAESAR, AND ADOLF HITLER AND, YOU KNOW, YOU TAKE 46:51 ALL THE GENERALS THROUGH HISTORY - CHARLEMAGNE - AND MOST OF THEM 46:54 ARE PROBABLY LOST - AND THEY ARE GOING TO BEND ALL OF THEIR 46:59 ATTENTION - HE'S GOING TO SAY, 'THAT WAS MY CITY.' SATAN'S A 47:02 POWERFUL ANGEL. 'WE CAN TAKE IT BACK!' - IT'S THEIR ONLY HOPE. 47:06 AND HE RALLIES THEM TO THIS ONE DESPERATE, FUTILE ATTACK ON THE 47:10 CITY OF GOD. NOW THIS IS AN INTERESTING POINT 47:14 IN HISTORY WHEN EVERYBODY MEETS AGAIN AND - BUT NOT EVERYBODY 47:19 IS GOING TO BE SAVED. WHY DON'T YOU READ FOR US THAT 47:21 NEXT VERSE THERE IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 7? 47:25 >>"MANY WILL SAY TO ME IN THAT DAY, 'LORD, LORD, HAVE WE NOT 47:29 PROPHESIED IN YOUR NAME, CAST OUT DEMONS IN YOUR NAME, AND 47:33 DONE MANY WONDERS IN YOUR NAME?' AND THEN I WILL DECLARE TO THEM, 47:38 'I NEVER KNEW YOU; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE 47:41 LAWLESSNESS!'" >>SO THERE'S THIS LARGE 47:43 GROUP WHO THINK THEY'RE SAVED. THEY SAY, 'LORD, LORD' - THEY 47:46 KNOW HIS NAME, BUT THEY'RE NOT. AND HE SAYS, 'DEPART FROM ME, 47:50 YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS' - YOU'RE WITHOUT THE LAW. 47:53 THE LORD - IF YOU GO TO MATTHEW 25, HE TELLS A PARABLE - NOW, 47:57 LET ME JUST READ THIS TO YOU, VERSES 31 AND 32, "WHEN THE SON 48:01 OF MAN COMES IN HIS GLORY, AND ALL THE HOLY ANGELS WITH HIM, 48:05 THEN HE WILL SIT ON THE THRONE OF HIS GLORY. 48:07 ALL THE NATIONS WILL BE GATHERED BEFORE HIM, AND HE WILL SEPARATE 48:12 THEM ONE FROM ANOTHER, AS A SHEPHERD DIVIDES HIS SHEEP FROM 48:16 THE GOATS." THIS IS WHAT THAT PARABLE IS TALKING ABOUT. 48:20 THIS IS THE TIME, AT THE END OF THE 1,000 YEARS, WHEN CHRIST 48:23 MAKES A SEPARATION - A PHYSICAL SEPARATION. 48:26 ALL OF THE SAVED WHO HAVE EVER LIVED ARE IN THE NEW JERUSALEM. 48:29 ALL OF THE LOST WHO HAVE EVER LIVED ARE SEPARATED - THEY'RE ON 48:32 THE OUTSIDE. AND SOME ON THE OUTSIDE ARE 48:35 SAYING, 'LORD, WE DON'T UNDERSTAND. 48:36 WE THOUGHT...' - AND HE SAID, 'DEPART FROM ME, YE WHO WORK 48:39 INIQUITY.' AND THEY THINK, 'OUR ONLY HOPE IS TO LISTEN TO 48:42 LUCIFER WHO'S NOT GOING TO SAY HE'S THE DEVIL, HE'LL SAY, 'NO, 48:45 I'M THE REAL PRINCE WHO DESERVES THAT CITY. CHRIST'S AN IMPOSTER. 48:49 THIS IS OUR LAST CHANCE.' LUCIFER - HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL - 48:55 HE'S GOT GREAT HOPE BECAUSE HE SEES - WHERE'S THE MAJORITY, IN 48:58 THE CITY OR OUTSIDE THE CITY? >>OUTSIDE. 49:01 >>'FEW THERE BE THAT FIND IT - BROAD IS THE WAY THAT LEADS TO 49:04 DESTRUCTION.' MANY GO DOWN THAT ROAD AND SO, UNFORTUNATELY, THE 49:08 MAJORITY ARE ON THE OUTSIDE AND THEY ARE GOING TO BE BILLIONS - 49:12 LITERALLY BILLIONS - A WAVING, MOVING, SWARMING SEA OF HUMANITY 49:19 AND THE DEVIL IS GOING TO GIVE ALL OF HIS STRENGTH AND SPIRIT 49:23 AND POWER TO THEM THAT HE CAN AND THEY'RE GOING TO TRY TO 49:26 SOMEHOW MOBILIZE. HOW LONG THIS PERIOD IS I DON'T KNOW. 49:29 I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TIME TO MAKE, YOU KNOW, 49:31 NUCLEAR WEAPONS OR WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO DO. 49:33 THEY'RE GOING TO PROBABLY FORGE SOME KIND OF WEAPONS, BUT 49:35 THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE WHATEVER RESOURCES THEY'VE GOT AND TRY TO 49:37 PREPARE FOR THIS ASSAULT ON THE CITY OF GOD. 49:40 AND JUST BEFORE THEY'RE READY TO LAUNCH THAT ASSAULT, CHRIST WILL 49:44 BE EXALTED ABOVE THE CITY ON A WHITE THRONE, IN THE GLORY OF 49:48 THE FATHER, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT PRESENT AND HE WILL CAUSE EVERY 49:54 KNEE TO BOW - YOU KNOW THAT STORY - OR THAT VERSE? 49:57 IT SAYS, 'EVERY TONGUE WILL CONFESS. 49:59 EVERY KNEE WILL BOW BEFORE ME.' THAT'LL BE THE MOMENT WHEN 50:02 EVERYBODY IN THE CITY, OUTSIDE THE CITY, GOOD ANGELS, FALLEN 50:06 ANGELS - EVERYBODY'S THERE. NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS BETWEEN 50:10 NOW AND THEN, YOU AND I WILL ALL MEET AGAIN SOMEDAY. 50:13 HOPEFULLY WE'RE ALL IN THE CITY TOGETHER, AMEN? 50:15 >>AMEN. >>BUT WHETHER WE ARE, KNOW WE 50:16 WILL ALL MEET AGAIN TOGETHER SOMEDAY. 50:18 THERE'S GOING TO BE A TIME WHERE THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN PERSECUTED - 50:22 THAT ARE BELIEVERS IN THE CITY - WILL GET TO LOOK OUT OF THE CITY 50:26 AND THEY WILL SEE WITH EYES THAT ARE ENHANCED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT, 50:31 PEOPLE THAT HAVE PERSECUTED THEM. 50:34 THE ROMAN SOLDIERS AND OTHERS WHO PERSECUTED JESUS, THEY WILL 50:37 SEE THAT HE'S THE SON OF MAN. THOSE WHO PERSECUTED PAUL, WHO 50:43 SNARLED AT HIS STEPS ALL ALONG THROUGH HIS MINISTRY, THERE'S 50:47 GOING TO BE A GREAT RECKONING TIME. 50:49 HOW LONG THAT'LL LAST, I DON'T KNOW. 50:52 THE BIBLE SAYS SATAN IS LOOSED FOR A SEASON. 50:55 THAT'S THE SAME TERM THAT'S USED WHEN IT SAYS MOSES REFUSED TO BE 50:59 CALLED THE SON OF PHARAOH BUT, INSTEAD, CHOSE TO SUFFER 51:02 AFFLICTION WITH THE PEOPLE OF GOD RATHER THAN TO ENJOY THE 51:05 PLEASURES OF SIN FOR A SEASON. THERE A SEASON IS 51:08 LIKE A GENERATION. I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG IT'LL BE. 51:12 AND, FINALLY THOUGH, WHEN THEY'RE PREPARED TO LAUNCH THEIR 51:17 FUTILE ATTACK, THERE'S THIS GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT. 51:21 NOW, OFTEN, WHEN WE THINK OF THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT, WE 51:24 PICTURE A TIME WHEN YOU'VE GOT THIS LINE THAT STRETCHES HALFWAY 51:27 AROUND THE PLANET - EVERYBODY'S LINED UP - JESUS IS SITTING ON 51:30 HIS THRONE, THE BOOKS ARE OPEN, ONE PERSON IS IN THE LIMELIGHT - 51:33 THE SPOTLIGHT SHINES ON THEM - THEN, 'OKAY, LET'S SEE WHAT'S 51:36 GOING ON.' AND THEY ALL STUDY THE BOOKS - 'GUILTY - INNOCENT' 51:38 - DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG THAT WOULD TAKE? 51:40 CAN THE LORD SAVE A THOUSAND PEOPLE ONE DAY, LIKE HE DID AT 51:43 PENTECOST? >>YES. 51:45 >>BY SPEAKING TO EVERY HEART INDIVIDUALLY? 51:46 >>YES. >>THAT'S KIND OF WHAT I THINK'S 51:48 GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT. 51:50 EVERY PERSON WILL REALIZE AND BELIEVE THAT IT'S ALL - THE 51:54 WHOLE WORLD IS LOOKING AT WHAT THEY'RE DOING - BUT HE'S GOING 51:56 TO JUDGE MILLIONS AT A TIME AND HE'LL HAVE A PANORAMA IN THE SKY 52:02 THAT WILL SHOW THEIR LIVES AND IT WILL SHOW THE LIFE OF JESUS 52:05 AND EVERYTHING THAT HE DID TO SAVE THEM AND EVERYTHING'S GOING 52:08 TO BE CLEAR. AND FINALLY, EVERY KNEE WILL BOW 52:11 AND EVERY TONGUE WILL CONFESS THAT JESUS IS LORD, 52:14 INCLUDING LUCIFER. AND THEN, AFTER THAT MOMENT, 52:18 IN ONE DESPERATE ACT, HE STILL TRIES TO RALLY THEM TO TAKE 52:22 THE CITY, BUT THEY TURN ON HIM INSTEAD. 52:25 THEY REALIZE, AT THAT POINT, IT'S FUTILE. 52:27 AND AT THAT POINT, THE BIBLE SAYS GOD RAINS FIRE. 52:31 LET'S READ IT HERE. WE JUST READ THIS ABOUT GOG AND 52:33 MAGOG - VERSE 9 - "THEY WENT UP ON THE BREADTH OF THE EARTH 52:38 AND SURROUNDED THE CAMP OF THE SAINTS AND THE BELOVED CITY. 52:41 AND FIRE CAME DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN AND DEVOURED THEM. 52:47 THE DEVIL, WHO DECEIVED THEM, WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE 52:50 AND BRIMSTONE WHERE THE BEAST AND THE FALSE PROPHET ARE. 52:53 AND THEY WILL BE TORMENTED DAY AND NIGHT FOREVER AND EVER." 52:56 AND, OF COURSE, WE KNOW THAT MEANS THAT THEY ARE BURNT UP 52:58 FROM EON TO EON OR UNTIL THEY ARE NO MORE. 53:02 AND THEN IT TALKS ABOUT THE GREAT WHITE THRONE AND IT GETS 53:05 INTO THAT JUDGMENT. SO, I WANT TO END ON A HAPPY 53:08 NOTE AND I ONLY HAVE A MINUTE OR TWO. 53:10 IT TALKS ABOUT A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH - REVELATION 21, 53:13 VERSE 1 - "I SAW A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH, FOR THE FIRST 53:17 HEAVEN AND THE FIRST EARTH HAD PASSED AWAY." 53:19 YOU FIND THAT PHRASE MENTIONED, ALSO, IN 2 PETER 3, VERSE 13, 53:24 "NEVERTHELESS WE, ACCORDING TO HIS PROMISE, LOOK FOR NEW 53:27 HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH IN WHICH RIGHTEOUSNESS DWELLS." 53:32 BLESSED ARE THE MEEK - THEY WILL DO WHAT? 53:34 >>INHERIT THE EARTH. >>INHERIT THE EARTH. 53:36 WHAT KIND OF EARTH? >>THE NEW EARTH. 53:37 >>THE ONE THAT WE HAVE TODAY OR A NEW HEAVEN? 53:39 A NEW EARTH? GOD MADE EVERYTHING 53:41 PERFECT IN THE BEGINNING. HE'LL RESTORE THAT. 53:44 YOU CAN READ IN ISAIAH 65, 'FOR BEHOLD, I CREATE A NEW HEAVENS 53:48 AND A NEW EARTH.' AND THIS ONE - IT SAYS THERE ARE NO MORE TEARS 53:52 - REVELATION - WE READ THIS IN OUR - OUR EARLIER VERSE - 'I 53:56 HEARD A VOICE FROM HEAVEN SAY, 'AND BEHOLD, THE TABERNACLE OF 53:58 GOD IS WITH MEN. HE WILL DWELL WITH THEM. 54:01 THEY WILL BE HIS PEOPLE. GOD HIMSELF WILL BE WITH THEM 54:04 AND BE THEIR GOD AND GOD'LL WIPE AWAY EVERY TEAR FROM THEIR 54:08 EYES.' SIMILAR VERSE IN ISAIAH 25:8, "HE WILL SWALLOW UP DEATH 54:13 FOREVER, AND THE LORD GOD WILL WIPE AWAY TEARS FROM ALL FACES; 54:18 THE REBUKE OF HIS PEOPLE HE WILL TAKE AWAY..." AND THE MOST 54:22 WONDERFUL THING, THEN, IS GOD HIMSELF LIVES WITH US. IT SAYS 54:26 THEY WILL SEE HIS FACE. YOU KNOW, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT 54:30 GOD SAID TO MOSES IN EXODUS 33, 'NO MAN CAN SEE MY FACE AND 54:35 LIVE.' BECAUSE WE HAVE SIN. BUT AT THAT POINT, OUR SINS ARE 54:39 WASHED AWAY, WE ARE RIGHTEOUS IN HIS SIGHT, AND WE WILL BE ABLE 54:43 TO SEE HIM. IT SAYS BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART FOR WHAT WILL 54:46 THEY SEE? >>GOD. 54:48 >>THEY WILL SEE GOD - AND I WANT TO BE IN THAT CITY AND HAVE MY 54:50 TEARS WASHED AWAY AND SEE GOD FACE TO FACE. 54:53 AMEN? >>AMEN. 54:54 >>IT SAYS THE PURE IN HEART WILL HAVE THAT. 54:56 WE NEED TO LET HIM PURIFY OUR HEARTS, AMEN? 54:59 THANK YOU FOR STUDYING WITH US, FRIENDS, I WANT TO REMIND YOU 55:01 THAT NEXT WEEK WE'LL BEGIN OUR STUDY IN THE BOOK OF MATTHEW. 55:05 AND OUR GIFT - THAT I NEVER MENTIONED TODAY - WE HAVE A - OR 55:08 PASTOR ROSS MENTIONED IT - RENDEZVOUS IN SPACE 55:11 BY JOE CREWS. WE'LL SEND YOU A FREE COPY. 55:13 WE HOPE YOU'LL GO AHEAD AND READ THIS AND THEN SHARE IT WITH A 55:16 FRIEND. IT'S OFFER #151 AND YOU CALL THE 55:18 NUMBER YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN. GOD BLESS YOU AND WE'LL LOOK 55:21 FORWARD TO STUDYING GOD'S WORD TOGETHER NEXT WEEK. 55:26 >>CAN'T GET ENOUGH AMAZING FACTS BIBLE STUDY? 55:28 YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL NEXT WEEK TO ENJOY MORE 55:31 TRUTH-FILLED PROGRAMMING, VISIT THE AMAZING FACTS MEDIA LIBRARY 55:35 AT 'AFTV.ORG'. AT 'AFTV.ORG' YOU CAN ENJOY 55:41 VIDEO AND AUDIO PRESENTATIONS AS WELL AS PRINTED MATERIAL ALL 55:45 FREE OF CHARGE, 24 HOURS A DAY 7 DAYS A WEEK, RIGHT FROM YOUR 55:49 COMPUTER OR MOBILE DEVICE. VISIT 'AFTV.ORG'. 55:55 (MUSIC) >>HAVE YOU EVER WORRIED 56:07 THAT YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME IN YOUR DAYS? OR YOU CAN ADD 56:09 ANOTHER DAY TO YOUR LIFE? WELL, PERHAPS THERE IS A WAY FOR 56:13 YOU TO ADD ANOTHER WHOLE DAY TO YOUR EXISTENCE. 56:16 WATCH HOW EASY IT IS. I JUST STEPPED INTO YESTERDAY. 56:20 NO, I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT GOING BACK TO THE FUTURE OR BACK IN 56:23 HISTORY; I HAPPEN TO BE STANDING HERE IN TAVEUNI, FIJI, ONE OF 56:27 THE ONLY PLACES IN THE WORLD WHERE THE INTERNATIONAL MERIDIAN 56:30 DATELINE RUNS THROUGH A PIECE OF LAND. 56:33 PEOPLE HAVE NOT ALWAYS BEEN ABLE TO PLAY WITH TIME THIS WAY. 56:36 BACK IN 1878, SIR SANDFORD FLEMING, A CANADIAN, HE 56:40 RECOMMENDED TO THE SCIENCE COMMUNITY OF THE WORLD THAT THE 56:43 GLOBE BE DIVIDED IN 24 EVEN SEGMENTS, EACH SEPARATED BY 15 56:48 DEGREES OF LONGITUDE, THAT WOULD ESTABLISH THE INTERNATIONAL TIME 56:52 SYSTEM. IN 1884, THERE WAS A PRIME 56:55 MERIDIAN CONFERENCE HELD IN WASHINGTON, D.C., TO STANDARDIZE 56:58 TIME AND SELECT A POINT FOR THE PRIME MERIDIAN, WHICH WOULD 57:02 BE ZERO DEGREES ON THE GLOBE. IT ENDED UP BEING GREENWICH, 57:05 ENGLAND, BUT THAT'S NOT WHERE WE ARE. 57:07 WE ARE ON THE POLAR OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE PLANET RIGHT NOW, 57:10 BUT WE'RE GOING TO STEP INTO THE FUTURE - WANT TO COME? 57:14 AND LOOK AT THAT, THE LORD IS STILL WITH US, EVEN HERE. 57:18 HE'LL CONTINUE TO TAKE CARE OF YOU, FRIENDS, WHEREVER YOU GO. 57:21 FRIENDS, DO YOU SOMETIMES WORRY ABOUT THE FUTURE? 57:23 WHAT WILL YOU EAT? WILL YOU HAVE A HOME? 57:25 ARE YOU GOING TO STILL HAVE YOUR JOB? 57:27 WHAT WILL YOU WEAR? JESUS TELLS US IN MATTHEW 57:29 CHAPTER 6, VERSES 25 THROUGH 34, 'DON'T TAKE THOUGHT FOR 57:33 TOMORROW, FOR TOMORROW WILL TAKE THOUGHT FOR THE THINGS OF 57:36 ITSELF.' HE TELLS US THAT HE FEEDS THE BIRDS AND HE CLOTHES 57:40 THE FLOWERS - HE'LL TAKE CARE OF US. 57:42 WE KNOW THAT GOD'LL WATCH OVER US, FORGIVES THE PAST, HE 57:46 PROMISES TO BE WITH US IN THE PRESENT, AND HE WILL CONTINUE TO 57:49 LEAD US IN THE FUTURE - BUT YOU'VE JUST GOT TO GIVE YOURSELF 57:52 TO HIM. 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