Good morning, friends.
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Welcome again to
Sabbath School Study Hour
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here at the Granite Bay
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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I'd like to welcome
those who are joining us
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across the country
and around the world,
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part of our
Sabbath School Study time,
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also our online members,
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and our regular
Sabbath School members
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that are here in person,
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and the visitors who
are joining us today.
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Very warm welcome to all of you.
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Over the past 12 weeks
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we've been studying a
great book in the Bible.
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Matter of fact,
it's the last book
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of the Bible, the
Book of Revelation.
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Today we come to the end of
our Sabbath School quarterly
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dealing with the
Book of Revelation.
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Our study today
is lesson number 13,
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it's entitled, "I
Make All Things New."
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So that's what we'll
be studying this morning.
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But before we get to our lesson,
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I'd like to let
those of you here in person
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know about our new
quarterly that starts next week,
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dealing with "Family Seasons"
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is the name of
the lesson quarterly.
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you'll be able
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of our new lesson
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And be sure to
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prepare for next week
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dealing with heaven called
"A Colossal City in Space."
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Well, before we
get to our lesson,
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let's begin with
a word of prayer.
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Dear, Father,
indeed, we are grateful
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that we have this opportunity
to study Your Word together.
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Thank You for
this beautiful Sabbath,
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and also for the scriptures,
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in particular the
Book of Revelation,
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which is our subject today.
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Talking about the
home of the redeemes
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and we ask Your special blessing
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as we look at
this wonderful subject.
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We ask this all in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Now for those of you
who have been joining us
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over the past few
weeks, you probably know by now
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that the Book of Revelation
is one of my favorite books
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in the New Testament.
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And I think you also know
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that it's one of
Pastor Doug's favorite books
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in the New Testament.
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So we've been doing a
little bit of dual teaching
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on the subject.
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So, Pastor Doug, we
invite you to come forward
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and we'll get ready
for our study today.
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Thank you, Pastor Ross.
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And again, wanna
welcome everybody
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and, you know, we
have a number of people
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who are really online
members of Granite Bay,
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wanna welcome them as well.
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As we travel, we
frequently run into folks
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who say there's no
local church I can attend.
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Some of these
folks are shut-ins,
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and there's no church nearby,
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and they say this study
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is their Sabbath School program.
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And so we wanna give
you a special welcome.
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If you're interested
in what you might do,
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if you wanna be one
of our online members,
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you can simply go
to granitebaysda.org
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and there's some
information there.
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Now as Pastor Ross mentioned,
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our study today is the last
in our quarterly on Revelation.
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We did something
different this time
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because any
Adventist pastor worth his salt
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has sermons on Revelation.
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And not only do we have sermons,
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we got slides,
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but we've got
slides on each chapter.
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Now I don't know often do
this, but I want to take issue
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with the publishers of
the Sabbath School quarterly
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because they want us
to cover the millennium
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in 50 minutes today.
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Millenniums are 1,000 years.
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It's really hard
to cover 1,000 years
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in 50 minutes.
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But we not only have
Revelation Chapter 19 to cover,
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we've got Revelation 20,
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which is where you
find the millennium,
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21 and 22.
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So you pray that
we could experience
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time travel right now
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and we'll see
how far we can get.
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We've got a presentation,
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we're gonna do
the little tag team,
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gonna be going
through the slides
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on our study today, and
we haven't rehearsed this.
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We'll take turns
reading some of the scriptures.
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I'll let you know in
advance, we have 125 slides
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that we're gonna
try to get through.
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So let's get right into it.
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Our lesson today is lesson 13,
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"The Book of Revelation,
Jesus making all things new."
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Our mission is to
kind of cover Chapter 40,
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I'm sorry, Chapter 19
through the end of the book.
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And we have a memory verse.
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And the memory
verse is Revelation 21:5,
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if you'd like to
say that with me,
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you have it on the
screen and in your Bibles.
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I believe this is the
New King James Version.
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Here we go.
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"Then He who sat
on the throne said,
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'Behold, I make all things new.'
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And He said to me,
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'Write, for these words
are true and faithful.'"
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All right, in the
first section here
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is talking about The
Wedding Supper of the Lamb.
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Now in the previous chapters,
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we've noticed that just a
lot of things have happened
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and there's lot of
overlap in Revelation.
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When you get into
the seven last plagues,
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you're entering the end of time,
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there's an all out
effort made by the beast power.
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Well, if they can't buy or sell,
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they don't cooperate,
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they should
ultimately be killed.
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And just as this
critical moment come
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is when they're
going to be destroyed.
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God intervenes
and fights for them.
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Now do we see that happening
many times in Bible history
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at the last minute,
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when it looks
like it's hopeless,
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they're at the Red Sea?
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And the enemy's coming,
they're all about to be slain.
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God turns the tables,
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so they're not only delivered
but the enemy is slain.
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The Book of
Esther, a date is set
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when all of God's
people will be killed.
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But at the last minute
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Esther intercedes with the king,
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and that's a very
strange occurrence
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with the dinner with
Haman, and the King, and Esther,
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and instead of
Mordecai being hung,
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Haman is hung on
Mordecai's gallows,
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and instead of God's
people being destroyed,
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the enemies of God's
people are destroyed.
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Even though it looks hopeless,
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God turns the tables at the end.
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This is what happens
at the end of the time.
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God's people who
smaller in number
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than the multitudes of lost.
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Death decree and
when it looks like
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they're about to be annihilated,
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Jesus comes at the
last minute to deliver.
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And that's where you
get this picture here
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in Revelation 19.
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You wanna read
this verse, Pastor Ross?
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Revelation
19:7-8, it says... Oops!
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I just, I went backwards, right?
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There you go.
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It says, "Let us
be glad and rejoice
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and give glory to Him,
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for the marriage
of the Lamb has come,
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and His wife has
made herself ready.
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And to her it was granted
to be arrayed in fine linen,
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clean and bright,
for the fine linen
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is the righteous
acts of the saints."
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So you'll notice that
the Second Coming of the Lord
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and this event is
referred to as a marriage,
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and you'll find as we
go on it's talked about.
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New Jerusalem is
compared to bride
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adorned for her husband.
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This language is
also found in John 14:1-3.
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Now you all know this,
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Pastor Ross
will read it for you.
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John 14, beginning in verse 1.
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It says, "Let not
your hearts be troubled,
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you believe in
God, believe also in Me.
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In My Father's house
there are many mansions,
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if it were not so,
I would have told you.
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I go to prepare a place for you.
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And if I go and
prepare a place for you,
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I will come again and
receive you to Myself,
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that where I am,
there you may be also."
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So the Second Coming of Jesus
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is sort of in the
context of a Hebrew wedding.
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What would happen
in the Hebrew wedding
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is the groom might
give the young lady
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a cup of grape juice.
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And as she drank from
it, there was a ceremony
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where she accepted the proposal.
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Any one of you
been to a Jewish wedding
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where they fold the
glass and the man stomps on it.
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It means no else is
to drink from that glass
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after the two of
them drink from it.
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And then he was
to go, that wasn't,
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the honeymoon
didn't happen right then.
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Then he was to go
to his father's house
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and build a honeymoon
chamber on his father's house.
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When that was done
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and they never knew
exactly when it was done,
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he would come and
pick up his bride.
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So the language here
that you see in John 14
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is the language of a wedding.
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And so Christ is
saying, would a groom
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build a honeymoon
chamber and then say
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now what am I
supposed to do with this?
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Is there someone
I'm supposed to pick up,
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who would that be?
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He's saying, "I'm not
gonna forget about you,
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anymore than a groom
would forget about his bride."
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You know, Pastor
Doug, in Matthew Chapter 22,
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you can read the
same idea of a marriage
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where it talks
about a certain king
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arranging a
marriage for his son.
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And all the
guests who were invited
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and they came
into the marriage hall,
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it was finally
filled with guests.
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Then it says, the king
came in to see the guests,
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and he saw a man
that didn't have on
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the wedding garment.
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The king said, "How
did you come in here,
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not wearing the
wedding garment?"
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If you read the story, it
says, the man was speechless,
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probably because he was
given the wedding garment,
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but he didn't take
the time to put it on.
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And then the
judgment is given, take him,
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bind him hand and
foot, and throw him out.
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So here you have the
likening of a wedding,
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at least a wedding
gathering, and celebration,
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and that's the
Wedding Supper of the Lamb.
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Just prior to this,
there is a judgment that occurs
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where the king comes
and examines the guests.
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Well, we
understand from Bible prophecy
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that we're living in that
time of examination or judging.
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That's why
Revelation Chapter 14 says,
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"Fear God, give glory to Him,
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the hour of His
judgment has come."
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So we see a parallel
there with Matthew Chapter 22,
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as well as the
promise that Jesus made
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in John Chapter 14.
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Yeah, so we have Jesus
coming then in Chapter 19,
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He's riding on His white horse,
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He's coming to rescue His bride.
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You remember, if
you read in Chapter 12,
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there's this beautiful
woman clothed in light,
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and the dragon is not
only wants to devour the child,
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but he can't, so he then
exerts his fury on the woman.
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And so this is where, it
says here, Armageddon ends,
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but it's really
Armageddon ends on earth.
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Armageddon is a battle
that actually goes over
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into the end of
the millennium as well,
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a couple of different battles
of Armageddon, you might say.
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So Jesus is coming.
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He's the rider
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on the white horse
who comes to rescue
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and you read in
Revelation 19:11,
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"Now I saw heaven opened,
and behold, a white horse.
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And He who sat on him
was called Faithful and True,
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and in righteousness
He judges and makes war."
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Now keep in mind,
things are happening
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in quick succession,
it says he makes war.
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What do you read at
the end, Revelation 12:17?"
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And the dragon was
wroth with the woman,
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and he goes to make war."
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So it's in this war,
the dragon against the woman
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and Christ against the dragon
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finally
culminates in this battle
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of Harmageddon or Harmegideon,
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they're not sure
if it's a reference
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to Gideon's battle in Megiddo
or the Valley of Megiddo.
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Both cases it was a time
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where God
completely turn the tables
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and delivered His people.
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The first time Jesus
came, He came as our Savior.
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He came as a babe
born in Bethlehem.
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But the second time Jesus comes,
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now it's described as
Him coming on a white horse
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as King of kings
and Lord of lords.
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He's coming as a
victorious conqueror
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to deliver His people.
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And when that happens it
says the wicked are destroyed
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with the
brightness of His coming.
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We'll probably get to
that in just a few moments.
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So Jesus comes now
not as a suffering servant
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but as a conquering King.
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All right, and then His coming,
we've had a study on this,
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that we're caught up to
meet the Lord in the air.
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And then you enter Chapter 20.
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And let me just read,
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I'm gonna read
verses 1 through...
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this is the millennium.
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The word millennium is
a composite of two words,
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milli meaning
thousand, annum meaning years.
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Then I saw,
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and the word millennium
is not found in the Bible,
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just like you don't find
the word Bible in the Bible,
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or rapture, or Trinity,
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a lot of teachings are
not found in the Bible.
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The teachings are
there, the words aren't there.
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"Then I saw the angel
coming down from heaven,
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having the key to
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 serpent of old,
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who is the Devil and Satan,
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and bound him
for a thousand years,
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and he cast him
into the bottomless pit,"
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we'll talk about what that is,
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"and shut him up,
and set a seal on him
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that he should
deceive the nations no more
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until the thousand
years are finished.
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But after these things
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he must be released
for a little while."
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All right, so now
you'll see on the screen,
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we got one, this
is like question one,
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we're gonna be teaching
with the Socratic method.
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And there's gonna
be about 20 questions.
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You have 20 questions.
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That's what we're doing.
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And it will sort
of be answering these
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with scriptures.
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All right, first of
all, what marks the beginning
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of 1,000 years?
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May be Pastor Ross
will read this verse for us.
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1 Thessalonians 4:16,
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"For the Lord himself
shall descend from heaven
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with a shout..."
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And then it goes on to say,
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"And the dead in
Christ shall rise first."
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So one thing that
happens to mark the beginning
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is there is the
coming of the Lord,
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there's a resurrection.
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And what happens then?
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Revelation 20:4-5.
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And we have a couple
of slides on this verse,
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Pastor Doug, it says,
"And they lived and reigned
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with Christ for
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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So if the dead in
Christ rise when Jesus comes,
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who are the rest of the dead?
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The only option if you take away
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all the
righteous, who are the rest,
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it's the wicked.
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And so the wicked,
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they do not rise in
the first resurrection.
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And you read a
little later in Chapter 20,
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it tells us that,
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"The rest of the
dead don't live again
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until the thousand
years are finished."
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And a 1,000 years I
mentioned, it's mille, annum,
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that represents
simply a 1,000 years,
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starts with the
first resurrection
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and it ends with
the second resurrection.
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So the 1,000 years,
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the main thing
that separates them
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like bookends is
two resurrections.
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Now when I first heard
that, it kind of surprised me.
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I always thought
there was a resurrection.
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Then I realized Jesus said,
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"Don't marvel,
but the hour is coming
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in which all that
are in their graves
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shall hear his voice
they that have done good,
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the resurrection of life,"
I think it's John Chapter 5,
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"they that have done evil
the resurrection of damnation,"
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two resurrections.
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Daniel Chapter 12,
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"Many that sleep in
the dust of the earth
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shall awake, some
to everlasting life,
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some to shame and
everlasting contempt."
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And so all through
the Bible, it tells us,
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there's really
two resurrections.
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You don't want to be in
the second resurrection.
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It's also interesting to
note that each resurrection
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is connected with a coming
of Christ, the Second Coming,
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you have the
resurrection of the righteous,
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then we have what we
call the Third Coming
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at the end of the 1,000 years
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where the New Jerusalem
comes down out of heaven.
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Then you have the
second resurrection,
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which is the
resurrection for the wicked.
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So connected
with the resurrection
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is the coming of
Christ to the earth.
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All right.
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What else happens at
the first resurrection?
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Okay, you wanna read that?
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1 Corinthians 15:51-53, it says,
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"We shall not all sleep,
but we shall all be changed,
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In a moment, at the last trump,
for the trumpet shall sound,
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and the dead shall
be raised incorruptible,
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and we shall be changed.
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For this corruptible
must put on incorruption,
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and this mortal
must put on immortality."
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All right, so
there's the resurrection
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we were talking about.
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Now what kind of
bodies do the raised have
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when Jesus comes?
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Philippians 3:21, "Who
will change our vile body,
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that it might be fashioned
like unto his glorious body."
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What kind of
body did Jesus have,
00:16:36.76\00:16:38.36
when He rose from the dead?
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How many
remember when He appeared
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in the upper
room to the apostles
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and they were scared
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'cause they
thought they saw a ghost.
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Then He asked, you
have anything to eat
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and He ate in
front of them, He says,
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"A spirit doesn't
have flesh and bone
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as you see that I have."
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So did Jesus have a real body?
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Will we have real bodies?
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Did Adam and Eve
have real bodies?
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Isn't the whole idea
that the Lord is gonna restore
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His original plan.
00:17:01.02\00:17:02.88
So the idea that when He comes,
00:17:02.92\00:17:04.09
we're all kind
of ethereal ghosts
00:17:04.12\00:17:05.79
that are disembodied,
00:17:05.82\00:17:06.86
and we're living in
the bosom of Abraham
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for, you know, while,
00:17:09.66\00:17:10.96
that's really not
taught in the Bible.
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You can read in Luke 24:39,
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with this is when Jesus
appeared to the disciples
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in the upper room.
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"Behold my hands and my
feet, that it is I myself,
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handle me, and see,
00:17:21.37\00:17:22.80
for a spirit hath not flesh
and bones, as ye see me have."
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Okay.
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And then you read
in 2 Thessalonians 2,
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then what happens to the wicked?
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Those who are dead are raised,
00:17:33.15\00:17:35.02
those who are
alive are transformed.
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What about the
wicked when Jesus comes?
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It says, "And then shall
that wicked one be revealed,
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whom the Lord shall consume
00:17:41.89\00:17:43.36
with the
brightness of his coming."
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And the whole world is
imploding at this point.
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Go ahead, Pastor.
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Revelation 16 says, this
is 16:18, 20, 21, it says,
00:17:50.13\00:17:54.90
"And there was a
great earthquake,
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such as not since there
were men upon the earth,
00:17:56.57\00:17:59.07
so mighty an
earthquake, and so great."
00:17:59.11\00:18:01.94
It says, "Every
island fled away,
00:18:01.98\00:18:03.81
and the
mountains were not found.
00:18:03.85\00:18:05.65
And there fell upon men
a great hail out of heaven,
00:18:05.68\00:18:08.78
every stone about
the weight of a talent."
00:18:08.82\00:18:12.02
That is some 75 pounds.
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And we did Amazing Fact of
the radio program last week
00:18:14.39\00:18:16.96
about a recent this
year, hailstorm in Texas,
00:18:16.99\00:18:20.16
where they had
baseball sized hail.
00:18:20.20\00:18:23.87
And it did like $450
million worth of damage
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to homes and cars,
00:18:26.80\00:18:27.80
it just destroys
cars when that happens.
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So it's really gonna happen.
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All right, Revelation
20:1-2, this is where we read
00:18:33.74\00:18:37.85
that at this point,
this is where Satan is bound.
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Or let's find out what it
means when Satan is bound.
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"That old serpent
called the Devil and Satan,
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and binds him a thousand years."
00:18:45.52\00:18:48.22
So the word is,
he's bound in the abussos
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and the King James translators,
for whatever reason,
00:18:52.96\00:18:55.43
they chose the
word bottomless pit
00:18:55.46\00:18:58.93
to describe this.
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Now it's something of a
mystery why they chose that word
00:19:00.44\00:19:02.84
because the same word is
translated in other places.
00:19:02.87\00:19:05.47
For example, some of
you read in Luke 8:31,
00:19:05.51\00:19:09.14
the story of the demoniac,
00:19:09.18\00:19:10.21
Pastor Ross,
you wanna read that?
00:19:10.25\00:19:11.31
It says, "And they besought him,
00:19:11.35\00:19:12.55
that is Jesus, that
he would not command them
00:19:12.58\00:19:15.12
to go out into the deep."
00:19:15.15\00:19:16.99
There's this demon possessed man
00:19:17.02\00:19:18.45
and the demons asked Jesus
00:19:18.49\00:19:19.89
don't send us out into the deep.
00:19:19.92\00:19:21.29
The word deep there is abussos,
same word in Revelation 20.
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It simply means a place
00:19:24.96\00:19:26.06
where devils have no
one to tempt and manipulate.
00:19:26.09\00:19:29.06
And for 1,000 years,
00:19:29.10\00:19:30.57
Satan has no one to
tempt and manipulate.
00:19:30.60\00:19:32.80
It's not some black hole
or cavern of in the cosmos
00:19:32.83\00:19:35.87
where Satan is
chained in this big abussos.
00:19:35.90\00:19:40.64
He is on the world.
00:19:40.68\00:19:41.68
Now there's some other
verses that explain that.
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You realize when
God made the planet
00:19:43.38\00:19:45.58
in the
beginning, the Septuagint.
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You know, when it says the
earth was void without form
00:19:48.48\00:19:51.22
in Genesis.
00:19:51.25\00:19:52.39
The Greek version says
the earth was in abussos.
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And so it's
describing the world.
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Think about the condition
of the earth after Jesus comes.
00:19:58.69\00:20:01.60
All the
righteous, where do they go?
00:20:01.63\00:20:04.50
It says they go up.
00:20:04.53\00:20:06.10
Christ said, "I'm coming
to receive you unto myself
00:20:06.13\00:20:07.87
that where I am you may be."
00:20:07.90\00:20:09.80
What happens to the wicked?
00:20:09.84\00:20:11.71
The wicked who
are dead, stay dead,
00:20:11.74\00:20:14.24
the wicked who are
alive are destroyed
00:20:14.28\00:20:16.14
by the brightness of His coming.
00:20:16.18\00:20:17.21
So how many people
are alive on the planet?
00:20:17.25\00:20:19.88
None.
00:20:19.91\00:20:21.62
And the Bible says the
heavens ceases to shine.
00:20:21.65\00:20:24.05
It's a dark, destroyed chaos.
00:20:24.09\00:20:28.32
And this is
where Satan is bound.
00:20:28.36\00:20:29.66
Talks about the
cities being broken down
00:20:29.69\00:20:31.93
by this great earthquake
00:20:31.96\00:20:33.60
and the
destruction from the hail.
00:20:33.63\00:20:35.16
And, of course, all
the wicked are destroyed.
00:20:35.20\00:20:37.17
The earth is dark,
empty, broken down,
00:20:37.20\00:20:40.47
and here is the
devil, and his angels
00:20:40.50\00:20:42.87
bound on planet
earth for 1,000 years.
00:20:42.90\00:20:45.34
Yeah.
00:20:45.37\00:20:46.41
I think we've got
those verses coming.
00:20:46.44\00:20:48.24
It says who will be raised
in the second resurrection,
00:20:48.28\00:20:50.51
and what takes place?
00:20:50.55\00:20:51.91
We covered this
pretty well already.
00:20:51.95\00:20:54.68
"Those that are in the
graves will hear his voice
00:20:54.72\00:20:56.22
and come forth,
those that have done good,
00:20:56.25\00:20:58.65
resurrection of life, evil,
the resurrection of damnation."
00:20:58.69\00:21:03.36
And what happens to
the rest of the dead?
00:21:03.39\00:21:04.79
You wanna read that?
00:21:04.83\00:21:05.83
Revelation 20:5,
"But the rest of the dead,
00:21:05.86\00:21:07.86
that would be the
wicked, lived not again
00:21:07.86\00:21:09.80
until the thousand
years were finished."
00:21:09.83\00:21:12.57
Which means they do live
00:21:12.60\00:21:13.97
after the 1,000
years are finished.
00:21:14.00\00:21:16.37
You want to read that question?
00:21:16.40\00:21:17.47
Question number four
says, in what condition
00:21:17.51\00:21:19.21
will the earth be left
00:21:19.24\00:21:20.28
after the devastating
earthquake and the hailstorm
00:21:20.31\00:21:22.78
that begins the
1,000 year period?
00:21:22.81\00:21:25.15
And we touched
on a few of these,
00:21:25.18\00:21:26.88
but here's the actual
verses, Isaiah 24:1, 19,
00:21:26.92\00:21:31.05
"Behold the Lord
maketh the earth empty,
00:21:31.09\00:21:33.92
and maketh it waste
and turneth it upside down.
00:21:33.96\00:21:37.53
The earth is
utterly broken down."
00:21:37.56\00:21:41.03
And there's that
verse you have in your mind.
00:21:41.06\00:21:42.13
Yes, Jeremiah 4:23-26, it
says, "I beheld the earth,
00:21:42.16\00:21:46.70
and, lo, it was without
form, and void, and the heavens,
00:21:46.74\00:21:50.67
they had no light.
00:21:50.71\00:21:52.31
I beheld the mountains,
and, lo, they trembled,
00:21:52.34\00:21:54.14
and there was no man,
00:21:54.18\00:21:55.21
and all the birds of
the heavens were fled.
00:21:55.24\00:21:58.71
And the fruitful
place was a wilderness,
00:21:58.75\00:22:00.48
and all the cities
thereof were broken down,"
00:22:00.52\00:22:04.09
notice the next part,
"by the presence of the Lord,
00:22:04.12\00:22:06.86
and by his fierce anger."
00:22:06.89\00:22:08.59
Yep.
00:22:08.62\00:22:09.62
And then in Jeremiah 25:33,
00:22:09.66\00:22:12.53
"And the slain of the
Lord shall be at that day
00:22:12.56\00:22:14.76
from one end of the earth
00:22:14.83\00:22:16.33
even unto the
other end of the earth,
00:22:16.36\00:22:17.87
they will not be lamented,
or gathered, or buried."
00:22:17.90\00:22:20.24
Why?
00:22:20.27\00:22:21.60
Nobody to conduct the funerals.
00:22:21.64\00:22:24.14
First time in history, no
funeral parlor will be open.
00:22:24.17\00:22:28.34
Now, the left behind
scenario, you know, what I mean
00:22:28.38\00:22:33.11
when I say the
left behind scenario?
00:22:33.15\00:22:35.28
You know, a lot
of dear evangelicals
00:22:35.32\00:22:37.55
believe that there's
gonna be a secret rapture.
00:22:37.59\00:22:40.52
How many of you
are aware of that?
00:22:40.56\00:22:43.12
And that the
saints are caught up.
00:22:43.16\00:22:45.56
There's a time of trouble
for seven years here on earth,
00:22:45.59\00:22:48.60
the middle of that seven years
the antichrist isn't thrown
00:22:48.63\00:22:51.73
in the temple,
00:22:51.77\00:22:52.90
the Jews are
preaching the gospel,
00:22:52.93\00:22:54.40
the plagues are falling.
00:22:54.44\00:22:55.80
At the end of that,
00:22:55.84\00:22:56.84
Christ comes down here on earth,
00:22:56.87\00:22:58.44
He establishes
His earthly kingdom
00:22:58.47\00:23:00.04
and the 1,000 years
are spent here on earth.
00:23:00.08\00:23:02.81
Now, that's a
pretty big difference.
00:23:02.84\00:23:05.18
For one thing,
00:23:05.21\00:23:07.28
we along with many
traditional Protestants
00:23:07.32\00:23:09.22
believe the 1,000 years
00:23:09.25\00:23:10.69
we live and reign
with Christ in heaven.
00:23:10.72\00:23:13.15
Says, I'm taking you
to my father's house.
00:23:13.19\00:23:15.09
I'm taking you away
when the resurrection happens
00:23:15.12\00:23:18.19
and that time begins.
00:23:18.23\00:23:19.46
The other group thinks we
spend the 1,000 years here
00:23:19.49\00:23:21.30
with a righteous
reigning over the wicked.
00:23:21.33\00:23:23.67
We've got immortal
bodies, but they don't,
00:23:23.70\00:23:25.43
so they continue
to be born and die.
00:23:25.47\00:23:28.30
Why would you want to
reign over the wicked?
00:23:28.34\00:23:31.77
Now one reason I mentioned that
00:23:31.81\00:23:33.48
is according to
these verses we just read,
00:23:33.51\00:23:35.64
there is a time Isaiah said,
the earth is utterly emptied,
00:23:35.68\00:23:40.05
the slain of the
Lord cover the earth
00:23:40.08\00:23:41.18
from one end to another,
all the cities are broken down,
00:23:41.22\00:23:44.65
there is no man, there is a time
00:23:44.69\00:23:46.62
prophecy tells us
00:23:46.65\00:23:47.66
when the earth is
totally depopulated.
00:23:47.69\00:23:50.83
The left behind scenario
00:23:50.86\00:23:52.23
makes no
provision for that time,
00:23:52.26\00:23:53.56
it just, they can't explain it.
00:23:53.60\00:23:54.66
It doesn't appear
in their chronology.
00:23:54.73\00:23:57.80
And so that's one reason
I've got problems with that.
00:23:57.83\00:24:01.44
All right,
let's move along here.
00:24:01.47\00:24:02.74
You wanna read that one?
00:24:02.77\00:24:03.97
Question number five says,
00:24:04.01\00:24:05.21
where will the saints
be during the 1,000 years,
00:24:05.24\00:24:08.21
and what will they be doing?
00:24:08.24\00:24:10.61
John 14:3, Jesus
said, "I will come again,
00:24:10.65\00:24:14.12
and receive you to myself,
00:24:14.15\00:24:15.95
that where I am,
there ye may be also."
00:24:15.98\00:24:19.59
Revelation 20:4,
"And I saw thrones,
00:24:19.62\00:24:22.29
and they that sat upon them,
00:24:22.32\00:24:23.56
and judgment
was given unto them,
00:24:23.59\00:24:25.69
and they lived and reigned
with Christ a thousand years."
00:24:25.73\00:24:29.56
So we're
enthroned, not here on earth,
00:24:29.60\00:24:31.83
but we are living and reign.
00:24:31.87\00:24:32.97
Where is the New Jerusalem now?
00:24:33.00\00:24:35.64
It's in heaven.
00:24:35.67\00:24:36.71
That's where Christ lives.
00:24:36.74\00:24:37.87
That's where we'll
be during that time.
00:24:37.91\00:24:40.68
And we live and reign
with Christ and we're doing,
00:24:40.71\00:24:42.61
we're involved in
something, some act of judgment.
00:24:42.64\00:24:44.98
Now, we had to pause here
on this slide for a minute.
00:24:45.01\00:24:47.42
It says there, 1
Corinthians 6:2-3,
00:24:47.45\00:24:49.72
"What, don't you know
that you will judge angels
00:24:49.75\00:24:51.49
that the saints
will judge the world?"
00:24:51.52\00:24:53.72
Now that doesn't
mean we are deciding
00:24:53.76\00:24:55.32
who is saved and lost.
00:24:55.36\00:24:57.36
But in one sense,
00:24:57.39\00:24:58.39
we are affirming
the judgments of God,
00:24:58.43\00:25:00.53
but we're also gonna
be doing some evaluating.
00:25:00.56\00:25:03.57
For example, someone said
00:25:03.60\00:25:06.03
once there's
gonna be three surprises
00:25:06.07\00:25:07.44
when you get to heaven.
00:25:07.47\00:25:08.94
First surprise is
that you're there,
00:25:08.97\00:25:11.17
and second surprise is
there's some people there
00:25:11.21\00:25:13.21
you never
thought would be there.
00:25:13.24\00:25:16.04
I always thought,
00:25:16.08\00:25:17.11
just imagine the
look on Stephen's face.
00:25:17.15\00:25:20.48
You know,
Stephen, the first martyr.
00:25:20.52\00:25:22.45
When he gets to
heaven, he sees a big parade
00:25:22.48\00:25:24.29
and he is asking the
angel, "What's going on?"
00:25:24.32\00:25:26.19
They said, "Oh,
they are honoring
00:25:26.22\00:25:27.26
one of the great apostles."
00:25:27.29\00:25:28.99
He said, "Really? I
wonder, is it Peter?
00:25:29.02\00:25:30.89
Is it Mathew? Which one is it?"
00:25:30.93\00:25:32.39
He goes over, he sees
they're carrying Paul around.
00:25:32.43\00:25:35.40
And Stephen says to the angel,
00:25:35.43\00:25:36.53
"You guys have made
a terrible mistake."
00:25:36.56\00:25:39.17
Last I saw him, he was
public enemy number one
00:25:39.20\00:25:42.10
trying to destroy
the Christian Church.
00:25:42.14\00:25:44.84
And the angel says, "Here,
let's show you what happened."
00:25:44.87\00:25:46.94
It's all your fault, Stephen.
00:25:46.98\00:25:48.38
You prayed that
God would forgive him
00:25:48.41\00:25:50.15
and He did, and
he was converted.
00:25:50.18\00:25:52.58
And now he became an apostle.
00:25:52.61\00:25:53.68
He wrote half of
the New Testament.
00:25:53.72\00:25:55.92
So you're going
to have questions
00:25:55.95\00:25:57.02
and you're going
to look at the books
00:25:57.05\00:25:58.85
and those things
will be answered.
00:25:58.89\00:26:00.32
And then there'll be some people
00:26:00.36\00:26:02.06
who you thought
would be leading the parade
00:26:02.09\00:26:03.89
and they're not there at all.
00:26:03.93\00:26:06.56
And you think,
"How come that pastor,
00:26:06.59\00:26:09.13
that evangelist,
00:26:09.16\00:26:10.17
that great
Christian is not there,"
00:26:10.20\00:26:13.27
or may be a family member.
00:26:13.30\00:26:15.67
And the angel will say, "Come,
we'll show you the books."
00:26:15.70\00:26:19.24
And we will be looking that
00:26:19.27\00:26:20.64
are judging the judgments of God
00:26:20.68\00:26:22.28
in a sense and
looking at the books
00:26:22.31\00:26:23.95
and seeing this
person had some unrepented
00:26:23.98\00:26:26.58
or unconfessed sin
00:26:26.61\00:26:28.42
that they hid from
everybody but not from God.
00:26:28.45\00:26:30.65
That's why Christ
said, the hour is coming
00:26:30.69\00:26:32.19
when those things
are done in secret
00:26:32.22\00:26:33.66
will be
proclaimed from housetops.
00:26:33.69\00:26:36.93
The secret things
will be made plain.
00:26:36.96\00:26:38.36
Everything is going to
be exposed to that point.
00:26:38.39\00:26:41.26
So this is the time
of judgment going on.
00:26:41.30\00:26:44.30
Now the Bible
speaks about a time coming,
00:26:44.33\00:26:46.47
and we'll get to
that a little later
00:26:46.50\00:26:47.64
where every tear will
be wiped from every eye.
00:26:47.67\00:26:50.54
But it's interesting
to note that that occurs
00:26:50.57\00:26:52.67
at the end of that 1,000 years.
00:26:52.71\00:26:54.34
In other words, there
might be some concern,
00:26:54.38\00:26:57.05
there might be some
feelings of sadness.
00:26:57.08\00:27:00.12
During this
1,000 year time period
00:27:00.15\00:27:01.95
where you're reviewing
as Pastor Doug mentioned,
00:27:01.98\00:27:04.35
the records and
maybe there are people
00:27:04.39\00:27:06.49
that you thought would
be there that's not there,
00:27:06.52\00:27:08.19
but the angel will come
00:27:08.22\00:27:09.56
and explain to you
why they're not there.
00:27:09.59\00:27:12.06
So it's a time of investigation,
00:27:12.09\00:27:14.10
it's to have
every question answered
00:27:14.10\00:27:16.40
that the righteous would have.
00:27:16.43\00:27:17.80
All right.
00:27:17.83\00:27:19.30
So what else
happens at the close
00:27:19.33\00:27:21.40
of the 1,000 years?
00:27:21.44\00:27:23.51
You read in Zechariah 14
and this is verse 4, 5, 9,
00:27:23.54\00:27:27.08
we're just taking
some excerpts here.
00:27:27.11\00:27:29.08
"The day of the Lord will
come and his feet will stand
00:27:29.11\00:27:32.55
and that day on
the Mount of Olives
00:27:32.58\00:27:34.32
which is before
Jerusalem on the east
00:27:34.35\00:27:36.69
and the Mount of Olives
will cleave in the midst."
00:27:36.72\00:27:39.45
So where's the last
place Jesus' feet touched
00:27:39.49\00:27:41.89
when He ascended to heaven?
00:27:41.92\00:27:44.26
Mount of Olives, right?
00:27:44.29\00:27:46.06
And where He says, "I'm
going to come as I left."
00:27:46.09\00:27:48.03
He even comes back
00:27:48.06\00:27:49.26
when He actually
touches the earth
00:27:49.30\00:27:50.53
to the very same place.
00:27:50.57\00:27:51.93
Where did the Lord
predict the Second Coming
00:27:51.97\00:27:54.07
to the disciples in Matthew 24?
00:27:54.10\00:27:57.01
From Mount of Olives.
00:27:57.04\00:27:58.51
Where did He weep in
the Garden of Gethsemane?
00:27:58.54\00:28:02.04
That's on the Mount of Olives.
00:28:02.08\00:28:03.98
So it's a very special location.
00:28:04.01\00:28:05.78
By the way, it's
most expensive cemetery
00:28:05.81\00:28:07.42
in the world.
00:28:07.45\00:28:08.85
It's the Mount of Olives.
00:28:08.88\00:28:10.32
Because even the Jews
believe the Messiah will come
00:28:10.35\00:28:12.25
because of this verse.
00:28:12.29\00:28:13.59
They all want to be buried
00:28:13.62\00:28:14.72
where the Messiah's
feet are going to touch.
00:28:14.76\00:28:18.16
You wanna read that?
00:28:18.19\00:28:19.23
Revelation 21:2, "And I saw..."
00:28:19.26\00:28:21.06
John writes, "And I
John saw the holy city,
00:28:21.10\00:28:23.90
the New Jerusalem, coming
down from God out of heaven,
00:28:23.93\00:28:26.13
prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband."
00:28:26.17\00:28:29.47
And so here is that verse
00:28:29.50\00:28:30.57
where after Jesus' feet
touched the Mount of Olives,
00:28:30.61\00:28:33.14
there's an earthquake,
it creates a great plain.
00:28:33.17\00:28:36.44
It must be very large
00:28:36.48\00:28:37.58
'cause you'll see in
a moment the dimensions
00:28:37.61\00:28:39.18
of the New Jerusalem
are roughly 1,500 miles,
00:28:39.21\00:28:42.08
around 12,000 furlongs.
00:28:42.12\00:28:44.49
I think that's 375
miles on each side.
00:28:44.52\00:28:48.29
And by the way,
didn't Jesus promise
00:28:48.32\00:28:51.59
to Abraham that you
will inherit this land?
00:28:51.63\00:28:54.83
But he was a
pilgrim, and he said...
00:28:54.86\00:28:58.80
You know, he didn't really get
to inherit it during his life,
00:28:58.83\00:29:01.04
But he looked for a
city that had foundations.
00:29:01.07\00:29:03.30
That's also Moses, whose
builder and maker is God.
00:29:03.34\00:29:06.88
The borders of the land
00:29:06.91\00:29:08.88
that God promised to Abraham
00:29:08.91\00:29:10.61
will all be encompassed
within the dimensions
00:29:10.65\00:29:12.85
of the New Jerusalem.
00:29:12.88\00:29:15.02
So they really will
literally get that spot.
00:29:15.05\00:29:18.25
Pastor Doug, before we go
on to the next question here,
00:29:18.29\00:29:20.36
just to add one
more thought on that.
00:29:20.39\00:29:22.19
It's interesting
there's a principle
00:29:22.22\00:29:23.32
that you find in the
Bible in 2 Peter Chapter 3.
00:29:23.36\00:29:26.16
Peter writes, "But beloved,
do not forget this one thing,
00:29:26.19\00:29:29.70
that one day with the
Lord is as a thousand years."
00:29:29.73\00:29:33.00
And a thousand as
one day I should say,
00:29:33.03\00:29:35.30
a thousand years
and a thousand years
00:29:35.34\00:29:36.91
is as one day.
00:29:36.94\00:29:38.14
That's the principle.
00:29:38.17\00:29:39.44
"Thousand years is as
one day with the Lord."
00:29:39.47\00:29:41.78
Then he goes on in verse 9,
00:29:41.81\00:29:43.08
"The Lord is not slack
concerning His promise,
00:29:43.11\00:29:46.05
as some count slackness,
00:29:46.08\00:29:47.22
but is longsuffering towards us,
00:29:47.25\00:29:49.38
not willing that
any should perish,
00:29:49.42\00:29:50.99
but that all should
come to repentance."
00:29:51.02\00:29:52.22
Then it says,
00:29:52.25\00:29:53.39
"But the day of
the Lord will come."
00:29:53.42\00:29:56.42
Now we find an
interesting principle
00:29:56.46\00:29:57.73
in the Bible
00:29:57.76\00:29:58.83
where you work for six
00:29:58.86\00:30:00.46
and then you
rest on the seventh.
00:30:00.50\00:30:01.80
God created the
earth in six days.
00:30:01.83\00:30:03.57
He rested on the seventh day.
00:30:03.60\00:30:05.37
So we have the earth
inhabited for about 6,000 years.
00:30:05.40\00:30:09.70
Then Jesus comes
00:30:09.74\00:30:10.97
and the righteous
get to go to heaven
00:30:11.01\00:30:12.97
for a 1,000 years, a
Sabbath rest in heaven.
00:30:13.01\00:30:17.45
Then at the end of that,
the end of the 1,000 years,
00:30:17.48\00:30:19.78
then the New Jerusalem
comes down from heaven,
00:30:19.81\00:30:22.75
and that's where the
wicked are resurrected
00:30:22.78\00:30:24.89
for the final judgment.
00:30:24.92\00:30:26.32
So we see an
interesting principle
00:30:26.35\00:30:28.09
of sevens in the Bible
00:30:28.12\00:30:29.82
and it ties into this
1,000 year period as well.
00:30:29.86\00:30:33.50
Yeah, you know,
God told Adam and Eve
00:30:33.53\00:30:36.80
in the day you eat
thereof, you will surely die.
00:30:36.83\00:30:39.80
How long did Adam live?
00:30:39.83\00:30:43.07
Did any?
00:30:43.10\00:30:44.14
Who's the oldest
man who ever lived?
00:30:44.17\00:30:46.88
Actually Methuselah's son
Enoch because he's still alive.
00:30:46.91\00:30:51.51
That was a trick question,
but you know what I meant.
00:30:51.55\00:30:53.88
So the oldest...
00:30:53.92\00:30:55.08
Methuselah is the
oldest man who ever died,
00:30:55.12\00:30:57.05
not the oldest
man who ever lived.
00:30:57.09\00:30:59.75
So did any man ever
live beyond one millennium?
00:30:59.79\00:31:03.32
In the day you eat
thereof, you will die.
00:31:03.36\00:31:06.59
Six days you work,
00:31:06.63\00:31:08.23
a 1,000 year rest.
00:31:08.26\00:31:10.37
At the end of the New Testament
00:31:10.40\00:31:12.77
it tells us the children...
00:31:12.80\00:31:13.97
I'm sorry, the
end of 2 Chronicles,
00:31:14.00\00:31:15.94
it tells us the
children of Israel
00:31:15.97\00:31:17.37
were carried off to
Babylon for 70 years
00:31:17.41\00:31:20.08
and while they were in
Babylon the land kept Sabbath
00:31:20.11\00:31:23.08
while it was desolate.
00:31:23.11\00:31:25.38
The land was
desolate and it kept Sabbath.
00:31:25.41\00:31:27.78
What is the
condition of the world
00:31:27.82\00:31:29.12
during the 1,000 years?
00:31:29.15\00:31:30.62
Desolate.
00:31:30.65\00:31:31.69
It is keeping like
a 1,000 years Sabbath
00:31:31.72\00:31:33.79
at which point God makes
a new heaven and new earth.
00:31:33.82\00:31:36.12
And maybe we'll
even get to that today.
00:31:36.16\00:31:38.26
Okay.
00:31:38.29\00:31:39.36
What will happen next to
free Satan from his prison?
00:31:39.39\00:31:42.20
Want to read that?
00:31:42.23\00:31:43.26
Revelation 20:5 says,
00:31:43.30\00:31:44.50
"But the rest of
the dead lived not again
00:31:44.53\00:31:46.20
until the thousand
years were finished."
00:31:46.23\00:31:48.70
So this would be the wicked.
00:31:48.74\00:31:50.14
Revelation 20:7 says,
00:31:50.17\00:31:51.84
"And when the
thousand years are expired,
00:31:51.87\00:31:53.88
Satan shall be
loosed out of his prison."
00:31:53.91\00:31:56.95
So what's in prison, Satan,
00:31:56.98\00:31:58.55
is he's had nobody
to tempt or manipulate.
00:31:58.58\00:32:00.68
He and his demons all
have to put up with each other.
00:32:00.72\00:32:03.22
And can you imagine
those conversations.
00:32:03.25\00:32:05.62
The demons are saying,
00:32:05.65\00:32:06.65
"Lucifer, you told
us if we followed you,
00:32:06.69\00:32:08.79
things would go better,
00:32:08.82\00:32:10.03
that we could overthrow God,
that we would have more power."
00:32:10.06\00:32:13.70
And they're chasing
him all over the planet
00:32:13.73\00:32:15.40
'cause they're really mad.
00:32:15.43\00:32:16.73
So at the end
of the 1,000 years,
00:32:16.77\00:32:18.20
now they've got someone to
tempt and manipulate again.
00:32:18.23\00:32:21.67
You remember the
demon said to Jesus,
00:32:21.70\00:32:23.04
"Don't cast us into the abussos,
00:32:23.07\00:32:24.51
cast us into the pigs.
00:32:24.54\00:32:25.87
Give us something to
tempt and to manipulate."
00:32:25.91\00:32:31.51
And just quick
little amazing fact
00:32:31.55\00:32:33.42
I dropped in here.
00:32:33.45\00:32:34.68
People are wondering,
00:32:34.72\00:32:35.75
why doesn't God just
destroy the devil when he comes?
00:32:35.78\00:32:38.19
Why is He giving
him a 1,000 years
00:32:38.22\00:32:39.59
and letting him out of prison?
00:32:39.62\00:32:41.09
You know, Napoleon,
00:32:41.12\00:32:42.46
he kind of
rampaged all over Europe
00:32:42.49\00:32:45.66
and tried to establish
00:32:45.69\00:32:47.40
the dominion of
the Romans once again.
00:32:47.46\00:32:50.53
He was defeated by
the European powers
00:32:50.57\00:32:52.27
and they sent him to Elba.
00:32:52.30\00:32:54.50
But he escaped
after about nine months.
00:32:54.54\00:32:58.17
Came back to France
relaunched the battle
00:32:58.21\00:33:00.84
that took about a 100 days,
00:33:00.88\00:33:03.35
and at Waterloo he
was finally destroyed.
00:33:03.38\00:33:05.75
Then they sent him to St. Helena
00:33:05.78\00:33:07.35
in the middle of nowhere
where he died five years later.
00:33:07.38\00:33:10.55
But it's like when he came back,
00:33:10.59\00:33:12.75
Napoleon couldn't change.
00:33:12.79\00:33:13.86
He went right back to war,
00:33:13.89\00:33:16.19
and it's amazing
they didn't just kill him
00:33:16.22\00:33:18.79
but they twice
they sent him off.
00:33:18.83\00:33:21.53
But this is what the devil does.
00:33:21.56\00:33:22.70
God says, "I'm going
to show the universe,
00:33:22.73\00:33:24.33
I have no choice in
dealing with the wicked
00:33:24.37\00:33:26.84
other than what I'm doing"
00:33:26.87\00:33:27.90
because as soon as
Satan's out of his prison,
00:33:27.94\00:33:29.90
he goes back to his bad behavior
00:33:29.94\00:33:31.47
which we're about
to see happen here.
00:33:31.51\00:33:33.01
Something else very interesting
happens during the 1,000 years.
00:33:33.04\00:33:35.88
You have a clear distinction
between two kingdoms.
00:33:35.91\00:33:39.68
You have the kingdom
of God and it's in heaven
00:33:39.71\00:33:42.58
where the righteous
are and they're living
00:33:42.62\00:33:44.25
and reigning with
Christ for the 1,000 years.
00:33:44.29\00:33:46.82
And the direct opposite
of that is Satan's kingdom.
00:33:46.86\00:33:50.19
And what's
happening in his kingdom?
00:33:50.23\00:33:52.16
Well, it's all broken down.
00:33:52.19\00:33:53.60
There's death everywhere.
00:33:53.63\00:33:55.13
It's the cave, there's darkness.
00:33:55.16\00:33:56.97
And so before the
whole on-looking universe,
00:33:57.00\00:33:59.50
it's quite clear
the kingdom of God
00:33:59.53\00:34:02.14
versus the kingdom that
Satan wants to establish.
00:34:02.17\00:34:05.31
It's clear in everyone's
mind that indeed Satan's way
00:34:05.34\00:34:07.91
results in death,
destruction, and sorrow.
00:34:07.94\00:34:10.95
So when that judgment occurs
at the end of the 1,000 years,
00:34:10.98\00:34:13.35
there's no lingering question
in the mind of any person
00:34:13.38\00:34:16.28
in the universe as
to, is God fair and just.
00:34:16.32\00:34:18.72
It's evident
that yes, God is fair,
00:34:18.75\00:34:21.26
He's done everything
He can to save mankind.
00:34:21.29\00:34:23.16
And He has no choice.
00:34:23.19\00:34:25.06
Everyone understands
God doesn't want to do it.
00:34:25.09\00:34:27.23
All right question eight,
00:34:27.30\00:34:28.23
what will Satan do
when the wicked are raised?
00:34:28.26\00:34:31.87
Again, go ahead.
00:34:31.90\00:34:32.93
It says, Revelation 20:8, 9.
00:34:32.97\00:34:34.84
"And he shall go out
to deceive the nations
00:34:34.87\00:34:37.01
which are on the
four corners of the earth
00:34:37.04\00:34:38.67
Gog and Magog to
gather them to battle:
00:34:38.71\00:34:41.98
the number of whom is
as the sand of the sea."
00:34:42.01\00:34:44.88
I just want to
pause here real quick,
00:34:44.91\00:34:47.02
Gog and Magog.
00:34:47.05\00:34:48.35
People are
thinking, who's Gog and Magog?
00:34:48.38\00:34:50.05
You go back to the Old Testament
00:34:50.09\00:34:51.32
and it talks
about Gog and Magog.
00:34:51.35\00:34:54.86
You read about them in
a Ezekiel Chapter 37, 38.
00:34:54.89\00:34:58.76
You find them in,
00:34:58.79\00:34:59.83
I think it's Genesis
10 and the genealogies.
00:34:59.86\00:35:02.23
They were ancient
enemies of God's people.
00:35:02.26\00:35:05.57
Now you're going to meet...
00:35:05.60\00:35:06.70
You'll hear some
evangelical pastors
00:35:06.74\00:35:09.24
that are going to say
00:35:09.27\00:35:10.97
Gog is the Chinese
and Magog, that's Moscow,
00:35:11.01\00:35:13.81
that's the Russians,
00:35:13.84\00:35:15.14
and they're
going to come together
00:35:15.18\00:35:16.21
and attack Jerusalem,
00:35:16.24\00:35:17.61
literal Jerusalem.
00:35:17.65\00:35:19.41
And it's, you
know, it's very popular,
00:35:19.45\00:35:22.22
but it's not at all
biblical, Gog and Magog.
00:35:22.25\00:35:24.69
Keep in mind the
names in Revelation
00:35:24.72\00:35:26.45
are almost all spiritual.
00:35:26.49\00:35:27.79
They're all symbolic.
00:35:27.82\00:35:29.56
Gog and Magog
were ancient enemies
00:35:29.59\00:35:30.93
of God's people.
00:35:30.96\00:35:31.96
You read in Ezekiel
00:35:31.99\00:35:34.00
that they cover
the earth like a cloud.
00:35:34.00\00:35:35.76
They attacked the city of God.
00:35:35.80\00:35:37.20
There's no battle in
Old Testament history
00:35:37.23\00:35:39.33
where Gog and Magog did that.
00:35:39.37\00:35:41.67
And so here,
00:35:41.70\00:35:43.07
but those names are
used to sort of be a summary
00:35:43.10\00:35:46.27
of the Ammonites
00:35:46.31\00:35:47.98
which were the
people that inhabited Canaan
00:35:48.01\00:35:49.51
that they were going
to attack the City of God.
00:35:49.54\00:35:52.88
And they covered
the earth like a cloud
00:35:52.91\00:35:55.12
because it's all the wicked
00:35:55.15\00:35:56.22
who've ever
lived are resurrected.
00:35:56.25\00:35:58.59
It says, "And they went up
on the breadth of the earth
00:35:58.62\00:36:00.69
and they compassed the
camp of the saints about,
00:36:00.72\00:36:03.76
the beloved city."
00:36:03.79\00:36:05.66
Now just before they
launched their attack,
00:36:05.69\00:36:08.26
something interesting happens.
00:36:08.30\00:36:10.10
Oh, by the way,
here's that I told you
00:36:10.13\00:36:11.60
in Ezekiel 38 talks
about Gog and Magog."
00:36:11.63\00:36:14.17
Thou shalt come up
against my people of Israel,
00:36:14.20\00:36:16.34
as a cloud to cover the land."
00:36:16.37\00:36:17.94
Same language you
find in Revelation
00:36:17.97\00:36:20.34
is what Ezekiel
is prophesying about.
00:36:20.38\00:36:23.98
"At this crucial
moment what stops everything?"
00:36:24.01\00:36:28.78
Revelation 20:11, 12,
00:36:28.82\00:36:31.05
"And I saw a great white
throne and he that sat upon it
00:36:31.09\00:36:35.39
and the dead were
judged out of those things
00:36:35.42\00:36:37.93
which were written in the books,
00:36:37.96\00:36:39.49
according to their works."
00:36:39.53\00:36:41.56
All right, so I'll give
you a picture real quick.
00:36:41.60\00:36:43.67
At the end of the 1,000 years,
00:36:43.70\00:36:45.67
the New Jerusalem comes or,
well, first Jesus comes down,
00:36:45.70\00:36:48.34
He touches the feet,
00:36:48.37\00:36:49.97
His feet on the Mount of Olives,
00:36:50.01\00:36:51.61
great earthquake
creates a great valley.
00:36:51.64\00:36:53.91
The New Jerusalem then
settles into that valley
00:36:53.94\00:36:56.88
and Christ at that moment,
when He comes back to earth,
00:36:56.91\00:36:59.28
all the wicked who've ever lived
00:36:59.31\00:37:00.58
are called back
to life for judgment.
00:37:00.62\00:37:02.52
Remember, we said, all right,
00:37:02.55\00:37:04.72
Bible says the rest
of the dead don't live
00:37:04.75\00:37:06.96
until the 1,000
years are finished.
00:37:06.99\00:37:08.42
Meaning,
00:37:08.46\00:37:09.46
when the 1,000 years
are finished, they do live.
00:37:09.49\00:37:12.43
Now Satan sees this vast army.
00:37:12.46\00:37:14.10
Imagine how many
people are in the world today?
00:37:14.13\00:37:16.80
Almost 8 billion.
00:37:16.83\00:37:18.20
This is all the wicked
00:37:18.23\00:37:19.27
who've ever
lived through history.
00:37:19.30\00:37:21.27
Billions of people.
00:37:21.30\00:37:23.30
And he thinks,
00:37:23.34\00:37:24.81
you know, we assume
some of those are safe.
00:37:24.84\00:37:26.34
But there's a lot that are lost,
00:37:26.37\00:37:28.21
they've gone the
wide road to destruction.
00:37:28.24\00:37:30.48
And Satan sees his army and,
00:37:30.51\00:37:32.25
you know, you probably
have Napoleon there and Hitler,
00:37:32.28\00:37:35.35
or maybe Alexander
the Great, Julius Caesar,
00:37:35.38\00:37:37.29
you've got the great
leaders and military minds
00:37:37.32\00:37:40.56
and we don't know
how long this period is,
00:37:40.59\00:37:42.29
it calls it a little season.
00:37:42.32\00:37:44.59
And He says, look,
there's so many of us,
00:37:44.63\00:37:47.86
we outnumber the
ones in the city,
00:37:47.93\00:37:49.26
we can conquer them.
00:37:49.30\00:37:51.43
And so, before he
launches this attack,
00:37:51.47\00:37:54.47
maybe they have
time to build armaments.
00:37:54.50\00:37:57.04
But before they
launch this attack
00:37:57.07\00:37:58.47
on the city of God,
00:37:58.51\00:38:00.38
Christ is
exalted above the city.
00:38:00.41\00:38:02.24
He appears on a white throne
00:38:02.28\00:38:03.71
and they see Him
in all of His glory,
00:38:03.75\00:38:06.11
and everyone's
lives pass before them.
00:38:06.15\00:38:09.15
And there's a
panorama of Christ's sacrifice
00:38:09.18\00:38:11.92
in the heavens where
we all see the gospel
00:38:11.95\00:38:13.69
and the battle between good
and evil laid out before us.
00:38:13.72\00:38:17.39
You know, sometimes we picture
the White Throne Judgment.
00:38:17.43\00:38:19.43
We think that
you're waiting in court
00:38:19.46\00:38:20.76
like you're at the
DMV, you're in a long line.
00:38:20.80\00:38:23.10
One by one they hit
the gavel and say next.
00:38:23.13\00:38:25.67
Take your number, next.
00:38:25.70\00:38:27.30
You think how long
that judgment would take.
00:38:27.34\00:38:30.37
Can God save a 1,000 people
at once like at Pentecost.
00:38:30.41\00:38:33.84
Can He judge a billion at once?
00:38:33.88\00:38:36.41
Yeah,
00:38:36.44\00:38:37.55
so that's what's going to
be going on during this time,
00:38:37.58\00:38:40.42
and everything
is written in books,
00:38:40.45\00:38:42.72
and that's why
you want your name
00:38:42.75\00:38:43.79
in the book of life.
00:38:43.82\00:38:46.25
Question number 10 says,
00:38:46.29\00:38:47.26
"What will happen
after the wicked are judged?"
00:38:47.29\00:38:50.13
Romans 14:11,
00:38:50.16\00:38:52.09
"As I live saith the Lord,"
00:38:52.13\00:38:54.10
this is amazing verse,
"every knee shall bow to me,
00:38:54.10\00:38:57.33
and every tongue
shall confess to God."
00:38:57.37\00:39:00.44
So at the
conclusion of this judgment
00:39:00.47\00:39:02.44
when everyone sees
that Christ was just,
00:39:02.47\00:39:07.24
that He did everything He
could to save every individual.
00:39:07.28\00:39:10.15
Ultimately they're going
to see Christ in His glory.
00:39:10.18\00:39:12.45
Everyone will bow,
00:39:12.48\00:39:13.52
everyone outside the
city, everyone inside the city.
00:39:13.55\00:39:16.35
You realize there is a time
00:39:16.38\00:39:18.12
when we will all
be together again.
00:39:18.15\00:39:20.89
No matter what
happens after today,
00:39:20.92\00:39:22.39
everybody, saved or
lost will be together again
00:39:22.42\00:39:24.56
because this is
the crucial moment
00:39:24.59\00:39:26.90
when Christ separates
the sheep from the goats.
00:39:26.93\00:39:29.36
All the saved,
00:39:29.40\00:39:30.40
God and the good
angels are in the city,
00:39:30.43\00:39:32.63
all the lost,
00:39:32.67\00:39:33.70
Satan and the bad
angels are outside the city.
00:39:33.74\00:39:36.14
So everyone involved
00:39:36.17\00:39:37.21
in the plan of
salvation is there
00:39:37.24\00:39:39.04
and every knee will
bow to Christ at that point
00:39:39.07\00:39:41.81
and confess that He is God.
00:39:41.84\00:39:43.28
And here's another
one from Philippians.
00:39:43.31\00:39:44.55
Philippians 2:10, 11,
00:39:44.58\00:39:46.48
it says, "That
at the name of Jesus
00:39:46.51\00:39:48.25
every knee should
bow, of things in heaven,
00:39:48.28\00:39:50.75
and things in earth,
and things under the earth,
00:39:50.79\00:39:53.62
and that every
tongue should confess
00:39:53.66\00:39:55.46
that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
00:39:55.49\00:40:00.10
So once that great
confession happens,
00:40:00.13\00:40:03.57
you can read in
Revelation 19:1, 2,
00:40:03.60\00:40:05.47
"I heard a voice of
much people in heaven saying,
00:40:05.50\00:40:08.67
true and righteous
are thy judgments."
00:40:08.70\00:40:10.97
Everyone is going to agree
with what God has to do next,
00:40:11.01\00:40:14.21
which is the
judgment of the wicked.
00:40:14.24\00:40:16.38
What will happen next?
00:40:16.41\00:40:17.78
All right, Pastor Ross.
00:40:17.81\00:40:18.85
Revelation 20:9 says,
00:40:18.88\00:40:21.12
"Fire came down
from God out of heaven
00:40:21.15\00:40:23.62
and devoured them."
00:40:23.65\00:40:26.15
Revelation 20:15,
00:40:26.19\00:40:27.46
"And whosoever was not found
written in the book of life
00:40:27.49\00:40:29.89
was cast into the lake of fire."
00:40:29.92\00:40:32.76
So as this fire rains down
00:40:32.79\00:40:34.46
everywhere outside
of the city of God.
00:40:34.46\00:40:37.07
You remember when the
plagues fell on Egypt.
00:40:37.10\00:40:39.00
Sometimes God protected Goshen,
00:40:39.03\00:40:41.30
nothing happened to
God's people in Goshen,
00:40:41.34\00:40:43.84
but it rained fire
and hail on the Egyptians.
00:40:43.87\00:40:47.64
And God is able to do that.
00:40:47.68\00:40:48.71
You ever see it
rain across the street
00:40:48.74\00:40:50.81
but not on your house?
00:40:50.85\00:40:52.55
You know, Pastor Doug,
00:40:52.58\00:40:53.62
Jesus said to
Nicodemus in John Chapter 3,
00:40:53.65\00:40:57.75
"Except a man be born
of water and of the Spirit,
00:40:57.79\00:41:00.39
he cannot enter
into the kingdom of God."
00:41:00.42\00:41:02.22
Of course, water
is symbol of baptism,
00:41:02.26\00:41:04.36
the Spirit, the Holy Spirit.
00:41:04.39\00:41:06.83
It's also interesting
to note that the earth,
00:41:06.86\00:41:08.70
it was washed with water
during the time of the flood
00:41:08.73\00:41:12.17
and now the earth
is washed with fire
00:41:12.20\00:41:14.77
at the end of the 1,000 years.
00:41:14.80\00:41:16.91
Just like in order
for us to be born again,
00:41:16.94\00:41:20.64
we need the water and the fire,
so the earth to be recreated,
00:41:20.68\00:41:25.41
you have the
washing of the water
00:41:25.45\00:41:27.15
and the washing of fire at
the end of the 1,000 years.
00:41:27.18\00:41:30.79
Then the earth is recreated.
00:41:30.82\00:41:32.99
It's a new
heavens and a new earth.
00:41:33.02\00:41:35.26
And we've got a
picture of the earth
00:41:35.29\00:41:36.36
being washed by
fire right there.
00:41:36.39\00:41:38.89
Revelation 20:14, it says,
"This is the second death."
00:41:38.93\00:41:42.66
So as the wicked are
cast into the lake of fire.
00:41:42.70\00:41:45.47
Do they burn forever and ever?
00:41:45.50\00:41:47.70
The Bible says,
"Every man is rewarded
00:41:47.74\00:41:48.97
according to his works."
00:41:49.00\00:41:50.94
And so different works,
different periods of suffering,
00:41:50.97\00:41:54.64
different
intensity, different time.
00:41:54.68\00:41:57.58
Who do you think will
burn and suffer the longest?
00:41:57.61\00:42:00.65
Satan and Idi
Amin and a few others,
00:42:00.68\00:42:06.12
Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler.
00:42:06.15\00:42:09.26
But then it says
this is the second death.
00:42:09.29\00:42:12.66
Now who is it that said,
00:42:12.69\00:42:15.20
if you're only born
once you will die twice?
00:42:15.23\00:42:18.90
But if you're born
twice, you only die once,
00:42:18.93\00:42:21.47
unless you're
alive when Christ comes
00:42:21.50\00:42:23.14
and you're saved.
00:42:23.17\00:42:24.91
So just review the millennium.
00:42:24.94\00:42:26.61
You've got the
first resurrection,
00:42:26.64\00:42:28.41
starts the
beginning of the millennium.
00:42:28.44\00:42:30.35
The second
resurrection marks the end,
00:42:30.38\00:42:32.65
the first coming.
00:42:32.68\00:42:33.72
Then you got
like a second coming
00:42:33.75\00:42:34.98
when the holy city descends.
00:42:35.02\00:42:37.65
Question 12. Go
ahead and read that.
00:42:37.69\00:42:39.02
After the fire goes out,
00:42:39.05\00:42:40.36
what will God do for His people?
00:42:40.39\00:42:43.02
And the verse
there is Isaiah 65:17,
00:42:43.06\00:42:45.66
"For, behold, I create a
new heavens and new earth."
00:42:45.69\00:42:49.06
Here's where it gets happy.
00:42:49.10\00:42:51.67
Revelation 21:1,
00:42:51.70\00:42:53.10
"And I saw a new
heavens and a new earth:
00:42:53.13\00:42:55.37
for the first
heaven and the first earth
00:42:55.40\00:42:57.61
were passed away."
00:42:57.64\00:42:59.51
Now why does it say new heaven?
00:42:59.54\00:43:01.04
Does that mean that the
heaven where God lives now,
00:43:01.08\00:43:03.08
there's something wrong with it.
00:43:03.11\00:43:04.71
That word heaven there
is a word for atmosphere.
00:43:04.75\00:43:07.98
Remember, in the beginning,
00:43:08.02\00:43:09.05
God separated the waters
from the waters by a heaven.
00:43:09.08\00:43:13.05
It means, He put an
atmosphere in there.
00:43:13.09\00:43:15.12
And so when He
says, I make a new heaven,
00:43:15.16\00:43:16.66
He says, a new earth,
00:43:16.69\00:43:17.69
a new atmosphere
around the earth,
00:43:17.73\00:43:19.29
the air that we breathe,
the place where the birds fly.
00:43:19.33\00:43:21.96
That's sometimes
called the first heavens
00:43:22.00\00:43:24.43
in Hebrew literature.
00:43:24.47\00:43:27.00
"So we're looking for a
new heavens and a new earth
00:43:27.04\00:43:28.84
wherein dwells
righteousness," 2 Peter 3:13.
00:43:28.87\00:43:31.97
Where will God and the
righteous finally live.
00:43:32.01\00:43:35.18
Revelation 21:3,
it says, "Behold,
00:43:35.21\00:43:37.15
the tabernacle
of God is with men,
00:43:37.18\00:43:39.18
and he will dwell with them."
00:43:39.21\00:43:42.25
Wow!
00:43:42.28\00:43:43.28
That just always
leaves me speechless,
00:43:43.32\00:43:45.99
that of all the infinite
cosmos that God has created,
00:43:46.02\00:43:48.99
He's going to move
the capital to our world.
00:43:49.02\00:43:52.03
Sin has separated us from God,
00:43:52.06\00:43:53.80
but through Christ
we're going to be reunited,
00:43:53.83\00:43:55.83
not only where we
can commune with God,
00:43:55.86\00:43:57.53
but He is going
to dwell with us.
00:43:57.57\00:44:00.20
And God Himself
will be with them
00:44:00.24\00:44:02.67
and we shall see His face.
00:44:02.70\00:44:04.31
Can you fathom that
what that's going to mean?
00:44:04.34\00:44:07.11
This one little planet
in rebellion against heaven
00:44:07.14\00:44:09.71
right now under Satan's dominion
00:44:09.74\00:44:12.01
after the plan of
redemption is made its full
00:44:12.05\00:44:14.68
will be elevated
to be the center of,
00:44:14.72\00:44:17.45
if you like the
universe because this is where
00:44:17.49\00:44:19.72
God is going to
dwell, right here.
00:44:19.75\00:44:21.86
It's an incredible thought.
00:44:21.89\00:44:23.09
It's where Christ
humbled Himself the most,
00:44:23.12\00:44:26.36
this humble place is
going to become the capital.
00:44:26.39\00:44:29.33
And ultimately it says the
meek will inherit the earth.
00:44:29.36\00:44:32.23
We don't float
forever out in the clouds.
00:44:32.27\00:44:34.67
Ultimately things
happen here on earth.
00:44:34.70\00:44:37.07
Go ahead.
00:44:37.11\00:44:38.11
Hebrews 11:16, it says,
00:44:38.14\00:44:39.44
"For he hath
prepared for them a city."
00:44:39.47\00:44:42.44
And this is talking
about the New Jerusalem,
00:44:42.48\00:44:45.05
not the
International Space Station.
00:44:45.08\00:44:47.38
People wonder, how
can God make a city
00:44:47.42\00:44:51.19
that will come down from heaven.
00:44:51.22\00:44:52.75
Well, we got a city...
00:44:52.79\00:44:54.96
We got a little city up
there in the space station now.
00:44:54.99\00:44:56.76
People believe man can do it,
they don't think God can do it.
00:44:56.79\00:44:59.63
In fact I heard this
week in the news that
00:44:59.66\00:45:02.86
Elon Musk's company with SpaceX
00:45:02.90\00:45:06.37
that they finally successfully
brought at least a dummy human
00:45:06.40\00:45:09.44
up to space.
00:45:09.47\00:45:10.67
So now they're going to start
shuttling humans from America.
00:45:10.71\00:45:13.38
We've had to pay the Russians
00:45:13.41\00:45:14.81
to bring our
astronauts up for years now
00:45:14.84\00:45:17.25
since the space
shuttle was retired.
00:45:17.28\00:45:19.25
And everyone's talking about
00:45:19.28\00:45:20.22
putting a plantation
on the moon or on Mars,
00:45:20.25\00:45:23.15
and we think man can do it.
00:45:23.18\00:45:24.52
Well, God has a city in space.
00:45:24.55\00:45:27.69
It says, they'll build
houses and inhabit them.
00:45:27.72\00:45:30.33
Are we going to just
be floating on clouds
00:45:30.36\00:45:31.99
like naked babies?
00:45:32.03\00:45:34.13
No, we're doing real things.
00:45:34.20\00:45:35.16
What else is going to happen?
00:45:35.20\00:45:36.23
Oh, there's the
naked baby. There it is.
00:45:36.26\00:45:39.10
Yes, heaven is a real place.
00:45:39.13\00:45:40.84
The Bible is
pretty clear upon that.
00:45:40.87\00:45:42.70
All right.
00:45:42.74\00:45:43.74
Next question, what more
do we know about the city?
00:45:43.77\00:45:45.81
Now, we're going to go quickly
through a number of things
00:45:45.84\00:45:48.44
that we want to cover
00:45:48.48\00:45:49.51
just to share
some of the good news.
00:45:49.54\00:45:50.55
Pastor Ross?
00:45:50.58\00:45:51.58
Revelation 21:16, it says,
00:45:51.61\00:45:53.21
"In the city lieth foursquare
00:45:53.25\00:45:55.32
and he measured
the city with the reed,
00:45:55.35\00:45:57.65
twelve thousand furlongs.
00:45:57.69\00:45:59.19
The length and the
breadth and the height of it
00:45:59.22\00:46:01.12
are all equal.
00:46:01.16\00:46:02.32
Now,
00:46:02.36\00:46:03.32
you have eight million
people in New York City.
00:46:03.36\00:46:05.03
Folk say, you know,
00:46:05.06\00:46:06.06
there's probably no
room in heaven for me.
00:46:06.09\00:46:08.36
Here you've got a city
375 miles on each side,
00:46:08.40\00:46:12.60
that's as big as the
state of Oregon, one city.
00:46:12.63\00:46:15.40
Are you aware amazing fact,
00:46:15.44\00:46:17.41
that Dallas Fort Worth airport
is bigger than Manhattan?
00:46:17.44\00:46:22.38
The land on which
you find the DFW Airport
00:46:22.41\00:46:24.78
is bigger than the
island of Manhattan,
00:46:24.81\00:46:26.68
and there's eight
million people there,
00:46:26.72\00:46:28.68
so those...
00:46:28.72\00:46:29.72
Don't worry
about them not being,
00:46:29.75\00:46:30.79
and he'll have skyscrapers.
00:46:30.82\00:46:32.65
There'll be plenty of room.
00:46:32.69\00:46:33.76
I hear there's more people
00:46:33.79\00:46:34.82
that live below
street level in New York City
00:46:34.86\00:46:37.29
than the whole state of Montana.
00:46:37.33\00:46:39.89
I don't know if it's true
but it sounds really good.
00:46:39.93\00:46:42.23
No, I did read that somewhere.
00:46:42.26\00:46:45.23
Go ahead.
00:46:45.27\00:46:46.33
Revelation 21:2 says,
"And I John saw the holy city,
00:46:46.37\00:46:49.20
the new Jerusalem, coming
down from God out of heaven."
00:46:49.24\00:46:53.01
Now, typically
when we think of a city,
00:46:53.04\00:46:54.88
that doesn't
really get us excited
00:46:54.91\00:46:56.38
because cities are
concentrations of people,
00:46:56.41\00:46:58.88
where you've got
crime, and drugs,
00:46:58.91\00:47:00.82
and horns, and traffic,
00:47:00.85\00:47:03.18
but these are people
where there is no sin,
00:47:03.22\00:47:05.95
there's no death,
there's no disease,
00:47:05.99\00:47:07.66
it is going to be
a beautiful place,
00:47:07.69\00:47:09.46
the Bible describes it,
00:47:09.49\00:47:11.09
and some of the things.
00:47:11.13\00:47:13.43
It has beautiful walls,
00:47:13.46\00:47:16.13
great and high and twelve gates.
00:47:16.16\00:47:18.90
And each gate it
says is made of one pearl.
00:47:18.93\00:47:22.17
Just a quick amazing fact.
00:47:22.20\00:47:24.01
A guy name Alan Golash
00:47:24.04\00:47:25.54
was going through a
basket of costume jewelry
00:47:25.57\00:47:28.08
in an antique
store in Rhode Island
00:47:28.11\00:47:30.31
and he found this brooch,
00:47:30.35\00:47:31.81
and he recognized it
was worth more than the $14
00:47:31.85\00:47:35.25
that he paid for it.
00:47:35.28\00:47:36.72
Turns out that it's two
very rare Quahog purple pearls
00:47:36.75\00:47:40.99
and it's called the...
00:47:41.02\00:47:42.06
I think it's
called the Pearl of Venus,
00:47:42.09\00:47:44.06
and it was studded
with diamonds and gold.
00:47:44.09\00:47:46.93
I think it was worth $2 million,
00:47:46.96\00:47:49.86
paid 14 for it.
00:47:49.90\00:47:52.53
You know the story.
00:47:52.57\00:47:53.64
Merchant finds a
pearl of great price,
00:47:53.67\00:47:55.24
he sells everything to get it.
00:47:55.27\00:47:57.47
Is heaven going to
be worth everything?
00:47:57.51\00:47:59.34
What sin would you cling to
00:47:59.37\00:48:00.71
that would be
worth more than heaven?
00:48:00.74\00:48:04.41
Revelation 21:21, it says,
00:48:04.45\00:48:06.15
"The streets of the
city are made of pure gold."
00:48:06.18\00:48:10.39
Fifteen says, question 15,
00:48:10.42\00:48:12.05
what does the Bible
say about the city's water
00:48:12.09\00:48:14.22
and food supply?
00:48:14.26\00:48:16.46
Revelation 22:1,
00:48:16.49\00:48:18.03
"He showed me a pure
river of water of life."
00:48:18.06\00:48:22.06
And as far as the food
supply, Revelation 22:2,
00:48:22.10\00:48:25.20
"On either side of the river,
there was the tree of life
00:48:25.23\00:48:28.14
which bare twelve
manner of fruits."
00:48:28.17\00:48:30.54
So if you got 12
manner of fruits each month,
00:48:30.57\00:48:33.11
that's 144 fruits.
00:48:33.14\00:48:35.64
Right?
00:48:35.68\00:48:36.75
And that's better than 31
flavors of Baskin Robbins.
00:48:36.78\00:48:41.45
But it said, the tree, singular,
00:48:41.48\00:48:43.15
is on either side of the river.
00:48:43.18\00:48:46.05
The only way I
reconcile that is,
00:48:46.09\00:48:47.96
you ever seen tree branches
where they grow together,
00:48:47.99\00:48:51.29
Ficus and some others do that.
00:48:51.33\00:48:53.13
And matter of fact,
I was cutting the tree
00:48:53.16\00:48:55.56
just on the church
property the other day,
00:48:55.60\00:48:57.00
and I found a place
where the oaks grew together
00:48:57.03\00:48:59.30
and it has circle
in the middle of it.
00:48:59.33\00:49:01.10
And I cut it and I saved it.
00:49:01.14\00:49:03.17
I think the tree is
going to grow together
00:49:03.20\00:49:04.84
at the top and the roots
go together at the bottom
00:49:04.87\00:49:07.74
and it's a massive tree
00:49:07.78\00:49:09.34
because all the
saved eat from it.
00:49:09.38\00:49:11.35
Think bigger than redwood,
00:49:11.38\00:49:13.45
and the river flows through
it from the throne of God.
00:49:13.48\00:49:19.25
Talking about the tree,
it says, as Pastor Doug,
00:49:19.29\00:49:21.16
you mentioned, it
yields fruit every month
00:49:21.19\00:49:23.99
and the leaves of the tree
00:49:24.03\00:49:25.13
are also for the
healing of the nations.
00:49:25.16\00:49:26.96
That's a quote from Ezekiel,
00:49:27.00\00:49:29.70
I think it's
Chapter 40 where it says,
00:49:29.73\00:49:31.37
"And the leaves of the
tree are for medicine."
00:49:31.40\00:49:34.24
And it's saying
00:49:34.27\00:49:35.30
that everything
about this tree is good
00:49:35.34\00:49:36.87
and everywhere the water runs.
00:49:36.91\00:49:38.34
Ezekiel says,
everywhere the water runs,
00:49:38.37\00:49:40.34
things live.
00:49:40.38\00:49:41.88
So it really is a river of life.
00:49:41.91\00:49:43.98
Question 16,
00:49:44.01\00:49:45.18
how will living in
heaven be different
00:49:45.21\00:49:47.38
than living here on earth?
00:49:47.42\00:49:49.75
Well, we'll go
back and forth on these,
00:49:49.78\00:49:51.25
I'll tag team
with you, I'll do A.
00:49:51.29\00:49:53.12
"The eyes of the
blind will be opened."
00:49:53.15\00:49:55.46
"And the ears of the
deaf will be unstopped."
00:49:55.49\00:49:58.59
"And then shall the
lame man leap as a hart,"
00:49:58.63\00:50:00.96
a hart is a dear like creature,
00:50:00.96\00:50:02.40
"and the tongue of
the dumb shall sing."
00:50:02.43\00:50:04.30
That means, I'll be singing.
00:50:04.33\00:50:08.00
And speaking of the animals,
00:50:08.04\00:50:09.07
"They shall not
hurt nor destroy."
00:50:09.10\00:50:12.11
You want to
hear an amazing fact.
00:50:12.14\00:50:15.14
You ever heard the
expression, lions, and tigers,
00:50:15.18\00:50:16.88
and bears online.
00:50:16.91\00:50:18.71
Then you've been
watching Wizard of Oz,
00:50:18.75\00:50:20.08
if you heard that.
00:50:20.12\00:50:21.75
They are actually,
00:50:21.78\00:50:23.22
they raided a drug
lord's home in Atlanta
00:50:23.25\00:50:28.06
and in the basement
they found these three,
00:50:28.09\00:50:32.13
a lion, a tiger and a
bear living in squalor.
00:50:32.16\00:50:35.00
But they were,
they had been together
00:50:35.03\00:50:36.43
since cubs and they put them
00:50:36.46\00:50:37.60
and Nature Reserve adopted
them and they are all friends.
00:50:37.63\00:50:40.94
They all get along, a
lion, a tiger, and the bear.
00:50:40.97\00:50:43.71
In the heaven will the
animals eat each other?
00:50:43.74\00:50:46.01
And by the way,
they call them BLT,
00:50:46.04\00:50:48.28
Bear, Lion, Tiger.
00:50:48.31\00:50:49.44
Your turn.
00:50:53.18\00:50:54.22
It says, Isaiah 11:6,
00:50:54.25\00:50:55.68
"The wolf also
shall dwell with the lamb,
00:50:55.72\00:50:57.52
and the little
child shall lead them."
00:50:57.55\00:50:59.42
Yeah. There's nothing
going to hurt or destroy.
00:50:59.45\00:51:02.62
Are we going to kill
animals and eat them in heaven?
00:51:02.66\00:51:05.23
Everyone's gonna
be vegetarian there,
00:51:05.26\00:51:07.00
even the animals are vegetarians
00:51:07.03\00:51:08.30
that each straw like the oxen.
00:51:08.33\00:51:10.07
Shouldn't we get
ready for that now?
00:51:10.10\00:51:13.30
Talking of the vegetation,
00:51:13.34\00:51:15.40
the desert shall
bloom as the rose.
00:51:15.44\00:51:17.54
There would be
no desolate place,
00:51:17.57\00:51:19.07
everything is going to be...
00:51:19.11\00:51:20.31
The worst places on earth now
will be our garden there then.
00:51:20.34\00:51:25.01
It says the inhabitant
will not say I am sick.
00:51:25.05\00:51:27.05
Think about the real-estate
00:51:27.08\00:51:28.08
we're going to
save with no hospitals,
00:51:28.12\00:51:29.65
no cemeteries
and no golf courses.
00:51:29.68\00:51:35.16
Some people just turn channel.
00:51:35.19\00:51:37.93
Question17, will
sad or painful memories
00:51:37.96\00:51:40.66
from this life
trouble people in heaven?
00:51:40.70\00:51:43.90
It promises, the
former will not be remembered
00:51:43.93\00:51:46.50
or come into mind.
00:51:46.53\00:51:48.30
Does that mean we're going
to forget that God saved us?
00:51:48.34\00:51:50.51
No.
00:51:50.54\00:51:51.61
We will always
remember the redemption,
00:51:51.64\00:51:53.38
but no painful memories.
00:51:53.41\00:51:54.84
As the ceaseless ages roll
by, wave after wave of glory,
00:51:54.88\00:51:59.08
pleasures at His
right hand for ever more
00:51:59.11\00:52:01.15
where painful
memories will be absorbed.
00:52:01.18\00:52:03.28
You know how time heals,
you heard that expression.
00:52:03.32\00:52:05.95
When you go through a
hard time and you think,
00:52:05.99\00:52:07.22
I'll never get over this.
00:52:07.26\00:52:08.46
And after a while,
00:52:08.49\00:52:09.99
it's fun when
you find a teenager,
00:52:10.03\00:52:11.66
they got a crush on someone,
00:52:11.69\00:52:13.33
"Oh, if I can't have
him, I'll never be happy."
00:52:13.36\00:52:15.83
I see some of you are smiling.
00:52:18.87\00:52:21.24
Okay. 1 Corinthians...
00:52:21.27\00:52:23.44
Oh, then people say how,
00:52:23.47\00:52:24.87
you know, I'm not going to
recognize grandma in heaven,
00:52:24.91\00:52:27.84
'cause she is going to be young
00:52:27.88\00:52:29.68
and how we're going to
know each other in heaven.
00:52:29.71\00:52:32.38
Will we recognize each other?
00:52:32.41\00:52:34.32
Wanna read that one.
00:52:34.35\00:52:35.38
1 Corinthians 13:12 says,
00:52:35.42\00:52:37.09
"Then shall I know
even as I am known."
00:52:37.12\00:52:39.95
We will not have less
discernment in heaven,
00:52:39.99\00:52:42.06
we will have more discernment
00:52:42.09\00:52:43.49
to identify the
people that we love.
00:52:43.53\00:52:46.13
And, you know, I
see we're out of time,
00:52:46.16\00:52:47.40
but I'm just going to race
through some of these quickly.
00:52:47.46\00:52:49.16
What are the thrilling promises
00:52:49.20\00:52:50.57
does God give us
regarding His kingdom?
00:52:50.60\00:52:52.97
"The ransomed of the Lord
shall come to Zion with joy,
00:52:53.00\00:52:56.30
everlasting joy.
00:52:56.34\00:52:58.17
Pleasures are at his
right hand for evermore.
00:52:58.21\00:53:00.71
Boys and girls
playing in the street."
00:53:00.74\00:53:02.44
Will there be
children in heaven?
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So a child will play
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on the hole of
a venomous serpent
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and not be hurt.
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"They'll run and not be
weary, walk and not faint.
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Mount up with
wings like eagles."
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Will we be able to fly?
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Like the angels, you
know, that song Rock of Ages,
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it says, we saw
two worlds unknown.
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I know it's not in the Bible,
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it's a song, but
I believe it's true.
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Go ahead.
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Revelation 21:3, it says,
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"God himself will be with them."
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Can we adequately describe
God's new kingdom with words?
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1 Corinthians 2:9
says, you know this verse,
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"Eye hath not
seen, nor ear heard,
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neither entered
into the heart of man
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the things that God
is preparing for those
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that love him."
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You can't imagine
what He has for us.
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But the only
thing that will keep you
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out of heaven is sin.
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Nothing will
enter into that city
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that will defile nor
will there be any lie,
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liars on the lake of
fire, the Bible says.
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So if we want to be there,
I want to be there, don't you?
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Amen.
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We've got to deal with sin.
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And the answer to that
is, "He that comes to me,
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he that overcomes will
inherit all these things."
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Christ promises that if
we confess our sins to Him,
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if we repent,
turn from our sins,
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confess our sins,
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he will cleanse us
from all unrighteousness.
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And then we are
adopted as His children,
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we can be in His kingdom.
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We hope that's a prayer
of those that are watching.
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Have you ever heard
the expression before
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they eat like a bird,
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talking about somebody
that has a minuscule appetite?
00:55:53.01\00:55:56.35
Well, you might
want to think twice
00:55:56.38\00:55:57.59
the next time you
use that expression.
00:55:57.62\00:55:59.65
For example,
take the humming bird.
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In order for it to maintain
its incredible metabolism,
00:56:02.36\00:56:05.53
it has to eat about 50%
of its body weight every day.
00:56:05.56\00:56:09.83
To put that in perspective,
00:56:09.86\00:56:11.27
if a 100 pound woman was
to eat like a humming bird,
00:56:11.30\00:56:14.57
she would have to eat
50 pounds of sugar a day
00:56:14.60\00:56:17.21
just to
maintain her body weight,
00:56:17.24\00:56:18.94
imagine that.
00:56:18.97\00:56:20.34
Maybe you don't
want to imagine that.
00:56:20.38\00:56:22.98
Or perhaps you want to
consider this another way.
00:56:23.01\00:56:25.38
The humming bird
typically consumes
00:56:25.41\00:56:27.12
between four to
seven calories a day,
00:56:27.15\00:56:29.28
on the other hand a human
about 3,500 calories a day.
00:56:29.32\00:56:33.42
But if you were
to eat like a bird,
00:56:33.46\00:56:34.89
a humming bird,
00:56:34.92\00:56:36.02
you'd have to eat over
150,000 calories a day.
00:56:36.06\00:56:41.80
Oh, that's like
a man of 170 pounds
00:56:41.83\00:56:43.83
that would be
eating 3,000 Oreo cookies.
00:56:43.87\00:56:47.74
Under normal conditions,
00:56:47.77\00:56:49.10
a humming bird needs to
eat every five or ten minutes.
00:56:49.14\00:56:51.87
But there is actually
one time during the year,
00:56:51.91\00:56:53.91
the humming bird will eat
00:56:53.94\00:56:55.11
its entire body
weight every day.
00:56:55.14\00:56:58.21
You see once a year
they make this migration
00:56:58.25\00:57:01.15
500 miles across
the Gulf of Mexico
00:57:01.18\00:57:03.69
from Texas to the
Yucatan Peninsula.
00:57:03.72\00:57:07.69
In order to do that,
00:57:07.72\00:57:09.09
the humming bird feasts on
nectar and gorges themselves
00:57:09.12\00:57:12.53
on this nectar for about a week,
00:57:12.56\00:57:14.73
doubling their body weight.
00:57:14.76\00:57:16.70
That's the only way they
can store enough calories
00:57:16.73\00:57:18.90
to help them with their
70 wing beats per second
00:57:18.93\00:57:22.50
or roughly 4 million
wing beats on that journey.
00:57:22.54\00:57:26.41
You know, in the
same way, friends,
00:57:26.44\00:57:27.58
as we near the end of time,
00:57:27.61\00:57:28.94
we need to be
feasting and gorging ourselves
00:57:28.98\00:57:31.35
on the nectar of God's Word.
00:57:31.38\00:57:33.28
We've got to be able
to have that strength
00:57:33.31\00:57:34.92
to get us through the
times of trouble that are ahead.
00:57:34.95\00:57:37.49
So when it comes to the Bible
and your personal devotions,
00:57:37.52\00:57:40.32
if you're going
to eat like a bird,
00:57:40.36\00:57:42.09
eat like a humming bird.
00:57:42.12\00:57:43.59