We all like
comeback stories of people
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on the brink of
defeat at some level,
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but against all odds, naysayers
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and in the face of all
their fears they press through.
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The annals of history
have recorded many such stories
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in war, in
sports, and in politics.
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There are also some
examples in sacred history
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like that of Moses or a
personal favorite Joseph.
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These comeback
stories inspire us
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to dig deeper in the
face of our own setbacks.
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But no comeback story
has ever had a more profound
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and long-term impact on society
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than one that
hasn't even happened yet.
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I can hear some of you saying,
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"Charles, you have
to have a come back
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to have a comeback story."
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And I know that
is usually the case,
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but in this instance, it
is one prophesied by Jesus
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while staring right into
the face of apparent defeat.
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Jesus was on trial
before the Sanhedrin.
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And the high priest asked Jesus,
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"If He was the Son of God?"
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Jesus said to
him, "You have said so.
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But I tell you,
hereafter you will see
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the Son of man seated
at the right hand of Power,
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and coming on the
clouds of heaven."
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Before nightfall Jesus, the one
who claim to be the Son of God,
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the one many
recognized as a prophet,
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great in word indeed
would be dead from crucifixion.
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Did somebody say comeback?
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By all appearances
Jesus ended as a failure.
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His own people put
Him through a shame trial
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and insisted the
Romans crucify Him.
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He died a humiliating death
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and was placed
in a borrowed tomb.
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It was over.
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His own disciples were so
afraid of the Jewish leaders.
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They were hiding
out in a borrowed room
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on some narrow
street in Jerusalem.
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But the
crucifixion and its aftermath
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just puts this prophecy of Jesus
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in Matthew 26:64
in a starker context.
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"I tell you,
hereafter you will see
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the Son of man seated
at the right hand of Power,
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and coming on the
clouds of heaven."
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That prophecy which caused
so much Thunder in the Holy Land
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is still changing
the course of history.
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It's changing how
people live their lives,
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how they spend
their time and their money
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even in the face of
defeat or certain death.
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Today we're
going to look carefully
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at the teachings of Jesus
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regarding His great
comeback or the second coming.
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The thousand
years or the millennium
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and His final
plans for planet earth.
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Join us as we
examine the prophecies
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and promises of Jesus' second
coming in the thousand years.
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Thanks, Charles.
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I love this topic
because it truly parks our minds
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in the right place on
the sure word of prophecy.
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Peter, an ardent disciple
and follower of Jesus said
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that prophecy is better,
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is more reliable than
an eyewitness account.
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So here is one of the
reliable prophecies of Jesus
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in John 14:2-3
regarding the second coming.
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"In my Father's
house 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 unto myself,
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that where I am,
there ye may be also."
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There you have it.
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And Jesus said
He is coming again.
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But it senses as a prophetic
and still in the future.
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How can I be sure this prophecy,
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this promise of Jesus is true?
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Because of two reasons.
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First, He made other promises
that have been proven true.
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For example, consider John 8:32,
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"You will know the truth,
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and the truth
shall make you free."
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And what was he talking about?
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And Jesus knew that the
word, the Bible was truth.
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And the word of truth
shows us the path to freedom.
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And since the word
is living and powerful,
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it can change our
lives now for the better.
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He is delivering
me from temptations,
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from my lust and pride
that lead me away from Jesus.
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And He'll do it for you too.
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I'm just like any other person.
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I also have hard temptations,
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but through the
promises of His word
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I'm gaining victories
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and embracing the
freedom from my own self.
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Sin is loosing its dominating
power in my experience.
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The second reason I can believe
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the prophecy of
Jesus' second coming
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is because of
confirmed prophecy.
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Jesus first coming was predicted
thousands of years in advance.
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Since these
prophecies came true,
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I can rest with
confidence on the prophecies
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that predict the second coming
like, the one in Daniel 2.
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The promise of His second coming
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was also predicted
over five thousand years ago
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by the
antediluvian prophet Enoch.
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And this second
coming is the blessed hope
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that keeps His followers
pressing on with confidence.
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Well, that makes
things clear, Levi.
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Prophecy and personal
experience can assure us
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that the promise of Jesus
to come again will happen.
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Of course, anytime
you believe in something
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that hasn't happened
yet, there must be some faith,
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but again this
is not blind faith,
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it is a faith based on
a large body of evidence.
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So standing on the
evidence of fulfilled prophecy,
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we look into the future
and ask how will Jesus return?
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What does prophecy
and the words of Jesus
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teach about His second coming?
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Let's start with a
prophecy given by two angles
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who appeared as men
to the disciples of Jesus
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as they watched
Jesus go back into heaven.
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The angles said,
"Ye men of Galilee,
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why stand ye
gazing up into heaven?
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This same Jesus, which is
taken up from you into heaven,
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shall so come in like manner
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as ye have seen
him go into heaven."
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Standing there on the
backside of the Mount of Olives,
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a literal physical
Jesus went into heaven,
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so we can be assured that
the second coming of Jesus
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will be a
literal, personal return.
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That is what the angels said.
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Now we're going to look directly
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at the
teachings of Jesus Himself
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regarding His imminent return.
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First, we'll
turn to Matthew 24:27
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in describing His
return Jesus said,
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"For as the lightning
cometh out of the east,
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and shineth even unto the west,
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so shall also the
coming of the Son of man be."
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If you've ever driven
across the great plain states
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and follow the thunder
storm for several hours
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where the lightening
is going across the sky
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then there is
one thing, you know,
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the second coming of Jesus
will definitely be visible.
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In fact, Revelation 1:7
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further refines our
understanding when it says,
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"Behold, he cometh with clouds,
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and every eye shall see him."
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It will indeed be
very visible for everyone.
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Now let's look at Matthew 24:31,
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"And he shall send his angels
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with a great
sound of a trumpet."
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And the Apostle Paul adds.
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"For the Lord Himself
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shall descend from
heaven with a shout,
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with the voice of the archangel,
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and with the trump of God."
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Shouting and loud trumpets
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don't make us think of some
quiet secret event, do they?
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The doctrine of Jesus
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makes it clear
that the second coming
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will be audible
and it will be loud.
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Loud enough to wake
the dead, literally.
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Though we could
look at many more verses
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regarding how Jesus will return.
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Let's consider just one more.
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It's found in Matthew 16:27.
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"For the Son of man
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shall come in the glory
of his Father with his angels
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and then he shall reward every
man according to his works."
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Now we can use the word glory
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and we can talk
about lightening,
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but I want you to
really grasp this.
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When an angel came to
call Christ from the grave,
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Matthew records that,
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"His countenance
was like lightning,
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and his raiment white as snow."
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And just from the
glory of this born angel,
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what happened to the
whole platoon of Roman guards
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who were supposed to
be guarding a dead man.
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"And for fear of him
the keepers did shake,
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and became as dead men."
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Now imagine Jesus coming
with the glory of the father
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and add to that His own glory.
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And then add to that
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the glory of the
countless throng of angels
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who are attending Him.
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So be assured,
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the second coming of
Christ will be glorious,
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beyond any words we
could use to describe it.
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Thanks, Andria.
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We now understand
clearly from God's word
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and the teaching of
Jesus, how He will return.
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It will be a literal, visible,
audible, and glorious return.
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But do you know why
He is going to return?
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Because He wants to
be with His children,
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He wants to be with you and me.
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In fact, what
Jesus taught in John 5
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reveals the defining
act of the second coming.
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"Marvel not at this
for the hour is coming,
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in the which all that are in
the graves shall hear his voice,
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and shall come forth,
they that have done good,
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unto the resurrection of life
and they that have done evil,
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unto the
resurrection of damnation."
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This is the teaching of Jesus.
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That is why the Jewish
rabbi Paul also taught,
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"For the Lord himself
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shall descend from
heaven with a shout,
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with the voice of the archangel,
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and with the trump of God
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and the dead in
Christ shall rise first."
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This is a
wonderful and powerful truth.
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This doctrine definitely
moulds the life of a Christian.
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It modifies his or her thinking.
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At the funeral of the loved one,
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we share tears of sadness,
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we grieve the lost,
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but we don't sorrow as
do others who have no hope
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because death is not
the end, it's just a sleep
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according to at least
50 passages in the Bible.
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So the dead sleep
until that resurrection.
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You know, in the second coming
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each person who is
saved will be raised to life
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and will get a new
and glorious. What?
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Check it out in
Philippians 3:21.
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"Our vile
bodies will be changed,
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will receive a new
and glorious body."
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No more defects, no
more aches or pains,
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no more glasses, stints,
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artificial
joints or prosthetics.
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Yes, the defining
act of the second coming
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is the resurrection
and the restoration.
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Thanks, Carl.
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And praise God for the
hope of the resurrection.
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But I want us to go
back to John 5 for a moment
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because Jesus said
something interesting
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when He talked
about the resurrection.
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In verse 28 Jesus taught that,
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"All that are in their graves
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will hear his
voice and come out,
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they that have done good
unto the resurrection of life,
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and they that have done evil,
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unto the
resurrection of damnation."
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Notice here that
there are two resurrections.
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The first is the
resurrection of life.
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The second is the
resurrection of damnation.
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Now if all I had to go on
was what Jesus said in John 5,
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I would assume that
these two resurrections
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happen at the same time,
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but Jesus gave His disciple,
John a revelation of more truth.
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He actually tells us
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there is some time
between these two resurrections.
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Would you like to know how
much time there is between them?
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Then check out Revelation 20:4-5
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"And I saw thrones,
and they sat upon them,
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and judgment
was given unto them,
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and I saw the souls of them
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that were beheaded
for the witness of Jesus,
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and for the word of God,
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and which had not worshipped
the beast, neither his image,
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neither had received his mark
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upon their
foreheads, or in their hands
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and they lived and reigned
with Christ a thousand years.
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But the rest of the
dead lived not again
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until the thousand
years were finished."
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Here is the thousand years that
is talked about quite a bit.
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Unfortunately, it is
misunderstood by many,
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but this is not
so hard to understand
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if we let the
Bible interpret itself.
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From scripture, we can know
when the thousand years began,
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what will happen
during this millennium,
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and then what happens at
the end of the thousand years.
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Levi is standing by to share
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what starts the
one thousand years.
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Thanks, Charles.
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God is so good to leave
for us His prophetic word
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and I'm convinced
that we are living
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in the last days
of earth's history.
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But somewhere between
the last days and eternity,
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there's--as you just
pointed out, a thousand years.
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As we've already
learned this millennium
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starts with what the Bible
calls the first resurrection
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and ends with
another resurrection.
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Now unfortunately
in just 30 minutes
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we don't have time to dig deep
into this part of our topic,
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but we've made our millennium
chart available at a website
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along with one on the rapture
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and on the signs
of Jesus' coming.
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These PDF files are free.
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So download
yours today at QLP.TV.
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So what starts the millennium?
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The return of Jesus.
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Jesus said, "When He comes
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all the tribes of
the earth will mourn
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when they see the Son of man
coming in the clouds of heaven."
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But what's bad news for many
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will be great news
for those who love Him.
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When Jesus comes again,
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all the righteous
people who died in Christ
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will be raised from the dead.
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Just think of it.
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Every spouse,
friend and anything risen
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with immortal
bodies never to die again.
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What a joy?
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And when Jesus comes again,
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all the
believers who haven't died
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will also be caught up with
those who have been resurrected
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to meet Jesus in the air.
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And Jesus said, "He
would send His angels
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with a great sound of a trumpet,
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and they shall gather together
his elect from the four winds,
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from one end of
heaven to the other.
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None who loves God
will be left behind."
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And Jesus also taught
the wicked would be slain
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by the fiery
brightness of His coming.
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And next, Jesus
said in Revelation 6
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that a great earthquake,
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greater than the
Richter scale can measure
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will leave earth desolate.
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And the prophet
Jeremiah also describes
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his time with these words.
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"I beheld the earth, it
was without form, and void,
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and the heavens had no
light, the mountains trembled,
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and all the hills moved lightly.
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I beheld, and,
lo, there was no man,
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and all the
cities were broken down
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at the presence of the Lord,
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and by his fierce anger."
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And the final event that
ushers in the thousand years
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is the binding of Satan.
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"And I saw an angel
come down from heaven,
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and he laid hold on the
dragon, that old serpent,
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which is the Devil, and Satan,
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and bound him a thousand years."
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What will bind Satan is not
a literal chain made of iron,
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but a chain of circumstances.
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Here are those links.
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First, none of God's people
are here to tempt and harass.
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All the wicked people are dead.
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The earth is left
completely desolate.
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And he and his angels
that chose to follow him
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will have nothing to do
for a thousand years except
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to sit and to
think of the consequences
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of their choice to
rebel against a God of love.
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Thanks, Levi.
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So now we know the events
that start the millennium.
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Let's examine briefly
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what is happening
during the thousand years.
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Again, right from
the teaching of Jesus.
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We learned first
that the righteous
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including those who come
up in the first resurrection
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will live and reign with
Christ for thousand years.
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According to Revelation 15,
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this privilege of being
one of the saved is reserved
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for those who have gotten
the victory over the beast,
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over his image and over his mark
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and over the number of his name.
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These are the
ones who have said,
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"Yes, to Jesus with
all their known choices."
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And what are the
righteous doing in heaven
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during the thousand years?
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This to me is perhaps one
of the most amazing things.
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They're sitting in judgment.
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They're asking all
the hard questions.
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Why isn't my pastor here
or why didn't my wife make it
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or why can't
Lucifer still be saved?
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They'll be sitting in
judgment on all the decisions
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God made during
the pre-advent judgment
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or the judgment that
is going on right now.
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This is widely
important how you see
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when we look at what's coming
at the end of the millennium.
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Well, all of this is going on
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the wicked those who
were lost remain dead
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and unburied across the planet.
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A planet which is
now a black cinder,
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dark and cold,
void of all human life.
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This is Satan's
minions with nothing to do
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for a thousand
years, but sit and think
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since they will not
be a lord of the planet.
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I'm sure having nothing
to do will be terribly hard
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for one who has worked so
hard for thousands of years,
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seeking to destroy
all the goodness of God
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in the lives of His creation.
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Neat insights, Carl.
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Now let's see what Jesus taught
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about the end of
the one thousand years.
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First, we find Jesus
coming back to earth once again,
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only this time it
will be with all the saints
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who have been with Him in heaven
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and they watch as the Holy City,
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the new Jerusalem
also comes to planet earth
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landing right here
on the Mount of Olives.
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At that time, every person
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who has ever lived who
joins Satan in rebellion
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will be raised to
life by the power of God.
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Just imagine for a
moment, every person
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who has ever lived from the
days of Adam to the present,
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all alive at the same time.
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Suddenly the
chain of circumstances
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that has kept
Satan bound is loosed.
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There are people to deceive
again, so he goes to work.
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First, I'm sure, he
convinces all the people
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that He raised them to life
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then He tells them
that they are the majority
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that the Holy City cannot
withstand their united attack
00:21:04.18\00:21:07.56
and so the
prince of darkness leads
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this massive humanity to
attack the new Jerusalem.
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The City of God in His redeemed.
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But this onset is interrupted
by God's final judgment.
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Suddenly, every person
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that is in the vast
rebellious throng stops.
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Their whole life
plays out in review like,
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some giant big screen
panorama in the heavens.
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They see their whole life.
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All of the times God tried
to lead them to repentance,
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to happiness, to obedience.
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They see their rebellious
hearts for what they are.
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Link and gratitude in the
face of His matchless love.
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Suddenly, over here
someone drops their knees
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and then over here another
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and then
another until one by one
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every knee bows and every tongue
confesses that God was fair.
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They may not love Him, but
they are compelled to admit
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He sure did His
best to save them.
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Now they realize
they are all lost.
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A will of anguish and anger
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is heard across
the dome of the heavens
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as God brings to bear the
final phase of His judgment.
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Fire comes down
from God out of heaven
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just as they did
on Sodom and Gomorrah
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and devour that vast rebellious
angry and bitter army.
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Now remember when Carl
told us that the saints
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would sit in judgment
during the millennium,
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that during this
time all of the redeemed
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who are allowed to
ask all the hard questions
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to essentially put God on trial
00:22:48.70\00:22:50.51
to see of all of his
decisions were fair and just.
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Here is why that
process is so important.
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When God destroys
all sin and every sinner,
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there will not be one person
in the ranks of the redeemed
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who will question
whether God is fair or just.
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Everyone will be
completely satisfied.
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In fact, the
prophecy of Jesus tells us
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that we will give God
praise for judging righteously.
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The great
controversy will be ended.
00:23:17.94\00:23:20.70
Sin and sinners will be no more.
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The entire
universe will be cleaned.
00:23:23.64\00:23:27.09
One pose of harmony and
gladness will beat through
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the vast creation
from Him who created all
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will flow life
and light and gladness
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throughout the
rounds of illimitable space.
00:23:36.68\00:23:39.62
From the minutes atom to
the greatest worlds, all things,
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animate and inanimate
in their un-shadowed beauty
00:23:44.25\00:23:47.44
and perfect joy will
declare that God is love.
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And then we will
watch God recreate the earth
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restoring it to
its Edenic beauty.
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Thanks, Andrea.
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I'm convinced that great
comeback is not far away.
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Why?
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Again, because of prophecy.
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In Matthew 24, "As Jesus
sat up on the Mount of Olives,
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the disciples came
unto Him privately saying,
00:24:16.70\00:24:19.64
'Tell us, what shall
be the sign of thy coming
00:24:19.67\00:24:23.41
and of the end of the world?'
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In this study we only have time
to consider one of the signs
00:24:26.07\00:24:29.29
that is being
fulfilled right now.
00:24:29.32\00:24:31.91
You can download
a free PDF document
00:24:31.94\00:24:34.15
with a more comprehensive
list of the signs at QLP.TV.
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For now Matthew 24:7 tells us,
00:24:39.65\00:24:42.70
"There shall be
famines, and pestilences,
00:24:42.73\00:24:46.06
and earthquakes,
in divers places."
00:24:46.09\00:24:49.73
Now some might say, "These
things have always happened."
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True, very true.
00:24:53.37\00:24:55.05
But Paul reminded
the folks in Thessalonica
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that the coming of Jesus would
be as travail upon a woman.
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This word travail comes
from the Greek word Odin,
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and it means, the pain of
childbirth or birth pangs.
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Birth pangs starts small
00:25:12.55\00:25:14.54
and gradually grow in
frequency and intensity.
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So let's compare Jesus
prophecy regarding famines,
00:25:18.62\00:25:21.66
pestilences, and earthquakes
00:25:21.69\00:25:23.63
with the few statistics
regarding natural disasters.
00:25:23.66\00:25:27.31
Each line on this
natural disaster chart
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represents one decade
of reported disasters.
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Tell me, if what
you are looking at.
00:25:34.83\00:25:36.89
Right now does it
resemble birth pangs.
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Do you see the
changes in frequency?
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Absolutely. And intensity.
00:25:43.60\00:25:47.44
Just listen to the
nightly news covering events
00:25:47.47\00:25:50.07
like the Sumatra earthquake
and tsunami that swept away
00:25:50.10\00:25:53.73
230,000 people in 14 countries.
00:25:53.76\00:25:57.32
Inundating coastal communities
with waves up to 98 feet high.
00:25:57.35\00:26:01.60
Watch the evening news
regarding hurricanes like,
00:26:01.63\00:26:04.23
Katrina and Sandy with costs
in the hundreds of billions.
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So look at the chart one
more time and ask yourself,
00:26:09.52\00:26:12.86
do I see a fulfillment
here in the prophecies of Jesus?
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I sure, see it.
00:26:18.26\00:26:19.80
Folks, Jesus is coming back
00:26:19.83\00:26:21.82
and there are many fulfilled
prophecies in this book
00:26:21.85\00:26:25.07
should compel us
to take seriously
00:26:25.10\00:26:27.29
this great truth
taught by Jesus Himself.
00:26:27.32\00:26:31.20
It sure was a focal point
for all the disciples of Jesus.
00:26:31.23\00:26:35.07
In fact, the second coming
is mentioned over 60 times
00:26:35.10\00:26:38.33
by all nine of the
New Testament authors.
00:26:38.36\00:26:42.05
Perhaps this is why over
50% of the earth's inhabitance
00:26:42.08\00:26:46.22
hanged so much of
their hope on a comeback,
00:26:46.25\00:26:49.54
but still hasn't happened.
00:26:49.57\00:26:51.42
A comeback that
will change everything.
00:26:51.45\00:26:55.52
So let me finish by
asking you this question.
00:26:55.55\00:26:59.37
Do you love this good news?
00:26:59.40\00:27:01.94
Do you love the truth
of His great comeback?
00:27:01.97\00:27:05.43
If you do then
pay special attention
00:27:05.46\00:27:08.07
to this promise that
Paul wrote to Timothy.
00:27:08.10\00:27:12.43
"Henceforth there is laid
up a crown of righteousness,
00:27:12.46\00:27:15.49
which the Lord
shall give me at that day,
00:27:15.52\00:27:18.67
and not to me only,
00:27:18.70\00:27:20.56
but unto all them also
that love his appearing."
00:27:20.59\00:27:26.03
You too can
embrace this blessed hope.
00:27:26.06\00:27:28.99
You too can choose to love this
good news of His soon return
00:27:29.02\00:27:34.14
when all that's
wrong will be made right.
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