Prophecy Countdown _ Satan Bound and Burned _ Doug Batchelor

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and pass the Nathan. He's gonna lead us in prayer

this evening.

Let's bow our heads for prayer. Our Father in heaven, Lord,

we are grateful to you for another day of life.

We are grateful to you that you are alive and well.

And Lord, that gives us hope.

Lord, thank you for this time. We can come together,

we can study your word, we can hear your word,

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Lord.

This is a place of peace, and I've felt that

throughout this time. Lord, thank you so much for your presence.

And we pray that your Holy Spirit would be so

real and so evident in tonight's meeting, tonight's message, And Lord,

I pray a special blessing on Pastor Doug Bachelor as

he shares your word and shares what You've given him

to share. Lord, bless us this place in a special way.

And we thank you, and we pray all of this

in the beautiful name of Jesus. God's people said, Amen, Amen,

please be seated.

We've got a wonderful special musical item this evening, brought

to us by Ella Paul and Nancy will be accompanying

her on the piano.

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And she said, I know, but tomorrow, tomorrow, I'll give

my life Tomorrow I thought about today, but it's so

much easy to say.

Tomorrow.

Who promised you tomorrow? Better choose the Lord today? For tomorrow, oh,

very well, might be today. Jesus said, here are said,

won't you please take my head?

And she said.

I will.

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Jesus said, I am here.

Plus of these are your need?

And she said, I know, but tomorrow, tomorrow, I'll give

my life tomorrow. I thought about today, but it's so

much easier to say tomorrow. Who promised you to morrow?

Better choose the Lord today? Go tomorrow? Very well might

be today? Then, who said tomorrow?

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Well, we're ready for Bible questions, and if you've never

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in and just ask your Bible question and thank you

for the five hundred questions or so that already have

been posted. Now, we don't always go through all of them.

We cluster them in different categories, so we might not

address your question exactly the way you word it, but

we try to get the idea of the questions that

are being asked. Well, passed that question number one for

this evening? Then is I am am I required to

pay tie? If if I'm experiencing extreme financial difficulties and

struggling to pay my.

Bills, well, tithe. There is a commandment of God that

requires faith. And so if you say, well, I'm going

to pay tithe, I'll return my tithe to God when

it's convenient, Well, then that doesn't take any faith. Jesus says,

prove me, He says, test me. Now here with says

the Lord Malachi chapter three. Be faithful in returning your

tithes to the Lord. See if I will not open

for you the windows of heaven and pour out a

blessing upon you, that you shall not have room enough

to receive it. Now I know I can tell stories.

You can probably tell stories where I was tested about

paying tithe. I remember I used to sell firewood for

a living, and by the time I got done, it

was like sixty five dollars a cord, and then I'd

go buy gas for the truck and gas for the

saw on food. There wasn't a whole lot of money left.

But I said, well, I'm going to pay my tithe.

And you know, God always came through and he blessed,

and look at it, I'm still here today. Somehow I survived.

So trust the Lord. Test the Lord and he will

honor you. Okay.

Question number two. When we pray, do we always need

to be on our knees.

No, there's several examples in the Bible. You know. Peter

prayed when he was swimming. He said, Lord save me

he was drowning. Neamiah prayed while he was serving the

king his drink. The Bible tells us that Solomon stood

and blessed the people during a benediction. But don't neglect

that if you're able. You know, if your knees start

to give out and you get old, God understands that

he doesn't want you in agony. While you're trying to pray.

But body posture is a symbol of respect. And you know,

if you ever go to Japan or Korea, they're always

kind of bound. There's always a symbol of respect, and

wherever we go we try to practice respect. The Bible

says Jesus knelt down to pray Daniel three times that day,

knelt upon his knees and prayed. By the way, he

was older when he did that. The Bible tells us

that the apostles they knelt and prayed. And so there's

Peter Nelton prayed before he raised Dorcas. There's a lot

of examples of kneeling and praying in the Bible. Come

let us kneel and bow down before the Lord got

our maker. So don't neglect kneeling in your formal prayer.

Be where I come to these meetings, I kneel by

my bed and I pray. I humble myself before God again.

You know, if your nee's hurt, you've got a physical problem.

God's not going to hold that against you. Then bow

your head. But you don't always have to kneel and pray.

Most of my praying is like driving, you know, or

just walking during the day. I'm talking to the Lord

all the time.

All right, another question to we have, Can you explain

the story of the rich man and Lazarus in Luke sixteen.

Yes, we were hoping someone would ask this question. You know,

the Bible tells us that when you die, that you

sleep until the resurrection. What about the parable that Jesus has?

And Luke sixteen begins with verse nineteen, and it said

that there was a certain rich man that feasted sumptuously

every day, and there was a poor beggar named Lazarus

that laid it his gate full of sores, desiring to

be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich

man's table. Moreover, the dogs came and licked his sores. Well,

the poor man died. He was carried by the angels

into Abraham's bosom, and the rich man died, and he

was taken to Hades. And in torment, he looked, and

he saw Lazarus in Abraham's bosom, and he said Father,

Abraham said, Lazarus said he might dip his hand his

finger in some water and cool my tongue from tormented

in this flame. And Abraham said, my son, which indicates

said maybe this was someone from the Jewish nation, because

he calls him son. In your life, you had your

good things and Lazarus evil things. Now he is comforted

and you're tormented. And he said, Father Abraham, at least

send him to my father's house, for I have five brethren,

that he might warn them lest they come to this

place of torment. And he says, if they do not

believe Moses and the prophets, then neither will they be persuaded.

Though one should rise from the dead, people say, see

you die, you go right to reward. That parable has

nothing to do with going right to reward when you die.

The principal purpose of that parable, Jesus was telling the

Jewish nation and the church today that if we are

just living in our little cluster and we don't care

about the people who are at our gate starving for

the bread of life, we might find it in the resurrection.

They are in the kingdom and we are in torment.

The terminology jesus Us is very telling. Nowhere else in

the Bible does it talk about Abraham's bosom. Every Jew

thought the best thing you could do is be with

Abraham when you're saved. That's why they said, oh, if

we could sit down in the kingdom with Abraham, Isaac

and Jacob, and that was what they identified with heaven.

For the Greeks, their place of torment was called Hades.

So what Jesus does in the parable Lazarus represents the

Gentiles desiring the crumbs that fall from the Jewish table,

the crumbs of truth. You remember the story in the

Bible when true story there was a gentile woman that

came to Jesus and said, please heal my daughter. She's

demon possessed. But she was a gentile, and Jesus, testing her,

said it's not it's not appropriate to take the children's

bread and give it to the dogs. He ended up

healing her daughter. He was trying to show the disciples

how they felt about the gentiles, and so this bread

of truth, the gentiles are hungering for the bread. And

what happens is the gentile he ends up going to

the Jewish place of reward, and the jew goes to

the Gentile place of torment. So there's a paradox. They

understood it had nothing to do what happens. You know,

it's a parable. Are the people in heaven and Hell

going to be able to talk to each other. Well,

let's hope not. Can one drop of water cool a

person's tongue and torment? No, what is the purpose of

this parable? The punchlines usually at the end, Jesus said,

if they do not believe Moses and the prophets, then

neither will they be persuaded that one should rise from

the dead. Jesus rose somebody from the dead the name

of Lazarus, and they still did not believe. They wanted

to kill Lazarus too. So the Bible is not saying

that you die and go right to heaven or you

go right to hell. That was a parable for a

whole different purpose.

All right, Next question, how do I know if the

Holy Spirit is talking to me?

Well, for one thing, the Holy Spirit will not tell

you something different from the Word of God, so you'd

want to make sure it's in harmony with a word.

It's often the Holy Spirit speaks to us and we think, well,

it's my confidence, and it may be God's Spirit speaking

to your conscience. And you know, sometimes the Holy Spirit

brings comfort, sometimes he brings conviction. And if this impression

that you're receiving is turning your feet to the road

of life, and that's probably the Holy Spirit. So the

word of God is the best criteria for that.

In First John, chapter five or seventeen, it speaks about

a sin not lead to death. What is the sin

that doesn't lead to death?

The sin that doesn't lead to death? Is any sin

that can be forgiven? Jesus said, all manner of sin

and blasphemy can be forgiven unto men, but blasphemy against

the Holy Spirit cannot be forgiven in this life or

the life to come. So all manner of sin and blasphemy,

you can't really name a sin that someone in the

Bible didn't commit, whether it's adultery or a murder, or

even infanticide. And God forgave. He forgives all manner of

sin and blasphemy. But if you persistently reject the spirit

of God and reject the pleadings of the Holy Spirit,

you know, God's spirit brings conviction, and if you ignore it,

the volume goes down. I remember visiting a family. They

live near an airport, and I was trying to evenim

a Bible study and a jet took off and the

whole house shook, and you know, they just then that

would it started to die down. I went, Wow, when

you live with that, I said, with what.

I said?

That plain? Oh yeah, Oh, we don't even hear it anymore. Well,

some people are so used to turning off the Holy

Spirit they don't hear the conviction anymore. That's when you're

at risk of committing the unpardonable sin.

All right, in can you explain what Jesus meant in

Matthew chapter twelve was forty when he said that he

would be in the heart of the earth for three

days and three nights.

Yeah, that Jesus, And he only says is once in

Matthew twelve. Most of the time Jesus said, as Jonah

was assigned to the Ninovites, so the son of Man

will be to this generation. In Matthew chapter twelve, verse forty,

he said, as Jonah was three days and three nights

in the belly of the great fish, so the Sun

of Man will be three days and three nights in

the heart of the earth. And people go heart of

the earth. That must mean the tomb. Jesus was put

in the tomb Friday afternoon, so he was there Friday

night and Saturday night, but he rose Sunday morning. That's

only two nights. Jesus distinctly said, three days and three nights.

How do you get around that. It's a very simple misunderstanding.

The Heart of the Earth does not just mean the tomb.

First of all, when you say heart of the Earth,

nowhere else in the Bible is the tomb called the

heart of the earth. When you say the Lord's prayer,

I will be done in earth as it is in heaven,

does that mean the tomb. No, in earth means the world.

Jesus was in the hands of the Prince of the

world for three days and three nights. He was suffering

for the sins of the world. When did the sufferings

of Jesus begin When the nails pierce his hands Friday

or Thursday night, when he was arrested by the mob.

That's when they begin to beat him and mock him.

God withdrew his protection from Christ after the New Covenant.

Thursday night in the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus told the disciples,

now is the hour of darkness. God's angels withdrew their protection.

He was in the hand of the devil and fallen

angels and the mob, suffering for our sins Thursday night,

Friday night, Saturday night. So the tomb is part of it,

but it includes the sufferings that begin Thursday night, three

days and three nights, suffering for the sins of the world.

All right, how can I know if someone is the

right person for me to marry?

Let your parents decide for you. Isn't that what Isaac did? Now? Well,

you know, the Bible says can two walk together unless

they're agreed. Paul tells us, make sure that you first

and foremost have the same worldview, meaning that Christ is

the center of your life. And then you want to

also make sure that you've got that you're compatible in

your goals for life. It doesn't hurt if you have

the same level of education. And look and see how

they treat their parents, because that's someday how they're going

to treat you and so and ask friends, get Christian council,

and there's just some simple tips.

All right.

Are the Seven Last Plagues literal or are they just symbolic?

Well, we believe the Seven Last Plagues are literal. When

the plagues fell on Israel in Egypt, rather were they

literal plagues? Yeah, so we believe that the seven last

plagues are real plagues that happened before the deliverance of

God's people, before the children of Israel began their journey

to the Promised Land, there were seven plagues, the final

plague they came out. Now, how many plagues fell on Egypt? Ten?

How many plagues in Revelation seven? Why is it different?

The first three plagues that fell on the Egyptians also

fell on the Israelites, the blood and the frogs. But

the last seven plagues that fell on Egypt. It says

that God protected the Israelites from the seven last plagues

that fell on Egypt. Do we need to be worried

about the seven last plagues? You know, we're going to

talk about this in our study tonight, in connection with

the Second Coming and the tribulation. How does that happen?

I think you'll be pleased to know that God is

going to take care of his people during that time.

You don't need to fear no plague will come nigh.

You're dwelling, all right?

Maybe time for our last question. Did people keep the

tame commandments before God gave them to Moses?

Well, of course did people keep him? No, everyone's sinned,

but were they in existence. Yes, of course. Did Joseph

know that it was adultery to sleep with his master's wife? Yeah,

he said, how can I do this thing and sin

against God? Not to mention sinning against his master? Did

Cain know it was wrong to murder his brother? God said,

to Kane's sin lies at your door. Murder was a sin.

And so and it talks about Abraham kept my statutes,

my laws, my commandments. That was long before the time

of Moses. And I think that's in Genesis twenty five.

So you find several examples of God having the law.

The Ten Commandments were foundational laws that predated them being

written down by God there on Mount SINAI.

All right, maybe one more past that quickly. We all

have a guardian angel, I believe.

Yes. The closest verse you can get to is where Jesus,

speaking of children, he said, their angels do behold the

face of my Father, which is in heaven. And then

you can read where it says the Angel of the

Lord in camps round about those that fear him and

delivers them. And then the devil accused God. He says,

you've set a hedge about Joe, meaning a hedge of angels,

and so praise God for his angelic protect or. We'd

all be done for. But yes, I do believe God

has guardian angels, and I think there's angels that also

may record what happens, because every idle word we speak

will give an account thereof in the day of judgment.

All right, well, we want to thank you again for

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and she'll be with us for the rest of our

time together. She'll be bringing to us a beautiful musical item.

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Thank you Shana.

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So I finished a book about Napoleon Bonaparte, and it's

actually a good segue to our study tonight about Satan

bound and burned. I know that sounds a little ominous.

The Bible tells us in Revelation twenty that Satan is bound,

but then he's released, and you think, once you finally

get him chained up, why would God let him go?

He's going to go back and do the same thing

he did before. You know, Napoleon Bonaparte was a brilliant man.

I've just got to tell you that. He was really

an artillery captain from Corsica. He worked his way up

and during the time of the French Revolution, there ended

up being a vacuum in leadership, and he knew how

to motive or manipulate things so that he could step

into that vacuum. Pretty soon he became the leader, ultimately

the emperor. For about ten years, he felt battles all

across Europe and went as far as Egypt, his big

enemy he wanted to overcome with England. He never did succeed,

but he basically controlled a lot of the European continent.

Eventually there was a battle of five nations that fought

against him. He was defeated, and because it was an emperor,

they didn't just kill him. They exiled him to the

island of Embla. But after about a year there he

couldn't take it anymore. He orchestrated a very clever escape,

went back to France, was able to get support, came

back into power, and had the one hundred Year War.

You might say. Then he was finally defeated again. He

could not change his ways. As soon as he came

back into power, he tried to rule the world again,

and he was overcome at the Battle of Waterloo, which

is an interesting segue to our study dealing with the devil,

his being chained, his being loosed in Revelation chapter twenty,

Satan bound and burned. And so I'm going to go

to Revelation chapter twenty, and I want to read to

you from the first few verses here in let's see

your Revelation twenty. And I think i'll start with verse one.

And I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having

the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain

in his hand, and he laid hold on the dragon,

that serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan.

You notice it says this in Revelation twelve. No question

who the dragon, the serpent, and the devil is all

the same character. He laid hole on the dragon, that

serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and

bound him for a thousand years. And he cast him

in to the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and

set a seal on him, that he should deceive the

nations no more till the thousand years were finished. But

after these things he must be released for a little while.

Why because he had a change of heart. Nope. Then

I saw thrones and they that sat upon them, and

judgment was committed to them. And I saw the souls

of those who had been beheaded for their witness to

Jesus and for the word of God, who had not

worshiped the Beast or his image, and had not received

His mark on their forehead or on their hands. And

they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

But the rest of the dead did not live again

until the thousand years were finished. This is a first resurrection.

Blessed and holy is he that has parted the first

resurrection over such The second death has no power. But

they shall be priests of God and of Christ and

reign with him a thousand years. Now, when the thousand

years have expired, Satan will be released from prison, and

he'll go out to deceive the nations that are in

the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog to

gather them to battle. The number is whom as is

the sand of the sea. And they went upon the

breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the

saints the beloved City, and fire came down from God

out of heaven and devoured them. And the devil who

deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone,

where the beast and the false prophet are, and they

are tormented day and night, forever and ever.

So.

Here you have that passage in Revelation twenty. The first part.

We're going to go through our lesson and we'll find

out more about what is happening here just before the

end of the Bible. This is Revelation twenty. It got

two more chapters in Revelation, but it sort of ties

the whole picture together. Number One, what events mark the

beginning of the one thousand year period? You read in

first essel That means four verse sixteen for the Lord

himself will descend from heaven with a shout, and the

dead in Christ will rise first. So the first thing

you have is the resurrection. This is marking it the

coming of the Lord, where we're caught up to meet

him in the air. It says they live and reign

with Christ for a thousand years, but they did not

live again until the thousand years were finished. This is

the first resurrection, So you've got a first resurrection. Wherever

you have a first something, what do you have somewhere?

You're gonna have a second. It's sequential. So the second

resurrection is the resurrection of the lost. So you hear

the term thousand years used here in Revelation twenty. We

often refer to it, and I will do it tonight

as the millennium. Millennium is a composite Latin word meaning

mili thousand anim years. And so while you don't find

the word trinity in the Bible, you find the teaching

in the Bible. You don't really find the word Bible

in the Bible, but we know what the Bible is,

and you don't find the word millennium in the Bible,

but the teaching of the millennium is in the Bible,

it just means the thousand year period that comes at

the very end, all right. So number two, what else

will happen at the first Resurrection? Several things are going on.

For one thing, the dead in Christ rise. We will

not all sleep. That means what does sleep mean? Death

will not all sleep, But we will all be changed

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at

the last trump for the trumpet will sound and the

dead will be raised. And it tells us they're raised incorruptible,

and we will be changed. Those of us alive who

are not sleeping, for this corruptible will put on incorruption.

We get our glorified bodies, and this mortal must put

on immortality. It says in Philippings three twenty one. God

will transform our lowly body that it might be conformed

to his glory. His body. Now, what kind of body

did Jesus have when he rose from the dead. Was

he a ghost? No? Matter of fact, he tried to

emphasize that he was not a ghost. People think that,

you know, we get a glorified body, and we're going

to be like chubby, little naked babies that play harps

on clouds. And you just float around in this ethereal world.

And for some people hell sounds more interesting than heaven,

if that's the idea of heaven. But no, we're real

doing real things. So as we plant vineyards and eat

the fruit, we build houses, and we're doing real things.

God had a real plan for Adam and Eve, and

he is going to accomplish his real plan. Jesus when

he rose from the dead on two occasions, he said,

I'm hungry. One time he was cooking breakfast for them.

Another time he said, you have anything to eat? And

they said, well, we got some fish and some honey

comb here, and he ate in front of them and

he said, touch me, feel me. Look at the scars

in my hand. He said, a spirit does not have

flesh and bone as you see that I have. Now,

will we be different, Yes, we will have spiritual bodies. Wait,

Pastor Doug, I thought you said we weren't spirits. We

will have spiritual bodies. Are we surrounded by angels right now?

We can't see them because when Adam and Eves sinned,

we lost a spiritual perception, a dimension. We've lost that sensitivity.

You've got these senses that take in information whatever sense

it is, it helps us perceive the spiritual world. You

might know the story in the Bible where Elisha had

a servant and he saw the Syrian army surrounding their

little town, and he said, Master, what will we do?

And Eliza said, Lord, open his eyes, and the eyes

of his servant were opened, and he saw that the

little town of Dothan was surrounded with chariots and horses

of fire, God's army. So God has a whole spiritual

realm that we don't see. Now, when we get our

glorified bodies, we will also have the spiritual dimension, but

we do not lose the physical dimension difference. When God

made Adam and Eve, could they see angels? Could they

walk and talk with God? Yeah? But after sin something

happened they lost that, And so that will be restored again.

So we will be real, but we'll have all four dimensions.

Then we'll have glorious bodies. Jesus had a real body,

but he walked right through walls. He suddenly appeared in Amaeis,

He disappeared in Amaeis, he appeared in the epper room.

And so you know, we'll be able to soar to

worlds unknown and travel before God. We're not going to

be quarantined to this planet. I'm looking forward to it.

What's going to happen to the wicked?

Well?

The dead in Christ rise, the righteous are transformed. We're

caught up to meet them in the air. The wicked

are destroyed by the brightness of his coming, and that

includes the devil. Then the lawless one will be revealed,

whom the Lord will consume with the breath of his

mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming. Revelation

tells us that the wicked run from the presence of

the Lord, from the wrath of the lamb. They call

for the rocks in the mountains to fall on them

and hide them from the face of him. They will

not be able to look into the face of Jesus,

who died for their sins, and they spurned his sacrifice.

The shame and the guilt will be overwhelming, and the

Bible tells us the whole world is convulsion. At that time,

when the Millennium begins, there were noises in thunderings and lightnings,

and there was a great earthquake, such a mighty earthquake,

and so great as it not occurred since men were

upon the Earth. Two thousand and four they had that

nine point one earthquake. I think just this year they

had like an eight point two in Russia. Well, this

is going to be a twenty five on the Richter scale.

I mean, it says no islands are going to disappear

during this time. You know, in San Francisco in LA

they always say, one of these days, we're going to

have the big one, Because if they haven't earth quake

in San Francisco like the one they had in Alaska

in nineteen sixty four, or even like the one they

had in San Francisco in nineteen oh six, it would

be devastating. It would be catastrophic. Do you know they're

even having earthquakes now in Oklahoma and New York City,

So a whole lot of shaking going on. Something's going

to happen. There'll be a major earthquake. Not only that,

you read here in Revelation sixteen, and a great hail

fell from heaven upon man. Each hailstone about the weight

of a talent. Now, depending on whether you're using the

Egyptian talent or the Hebrew or the Babylonian talent, it's

anywhere from fifty six to seventy five pounds. At that point,

what does it matter. You've got a chunk of ice

falling at what they call terminal velocity. I actually jumped

out of an airplane once. I wanted to sky dive

at least one time. And you know, you reach one

hundred and twenty miles an hour if you're not in

the right fall position. And these things are. Can you

imagine seventy five blocks of ice falling one hundred and

twenty miles an hour. And the hail was so very heavy.

Speaking of the hail that fell as one of the

plagues in Egypt, that there was none like it in

all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

And the hail struck throughout the whole land of Egypt,

so that all that was in the field, both man

and beast, and the hail struck every herb of the

field and broke every tree of the field. I used

to live in Texas. You guys have hail. I remember

one time when I attended college in Keene, we had

a hail storm and just about bankrupt the insurance company

because all these cars have hail damage and it looks

like someone took a ball peen hammer and just went

all across the top of your car. And that happened

to our car, and it's like a total loss. It

costs them more to fix it than the car was worth.

But those were little walnut siles hail balls. If it

had been fifty pound blocks of hail, then you would have.

Got a new car.

An angel laid hole. Now it is during the time

of the second coming. This is when Satan is bound.

An angel, this mighty angel might be Gabriel, who now

exceeds Lucifer in power, laid hold of the dragon, that

serpent of old, who is the devil and Satan, and

bound him for one thousand years. Question number three, who

will be raised in the second resurrection? And when will

that take place? Now, you don't want to be in

that resurrection. The Bible says, all that are in the

graves will hear his voice and come forth. John five nine.

Those that have done good the resurrection of life, first resurrection.

Those that have done evil the resurrection of condemnation. And

that is going to be the second resurrection. You can

read in Revelation twenty verse five. The rest of the day. Now,

if the dead in Christ rise first dead, believers, dead faithful,

they rise first. Who's left the dead wicked? The dead

loss and it says the rest of the dead, that's

the lost. They do not live again until the thousand

years were finished. So when you are raised, if you

still have wrinkles, that's not good. You're in the wrong resurrection.

Or if you look over and coming out of a

grave next to you you see Adolf Hitler, it's not good.

You're in the wrong resurrection. You want to have that

glorified body Number four. In what condition will the earth

be left during the one thousand years? What's the condition

of the world during this time? Answer? Behold, the Lord

makes the earth empty and makes it waste. I've got

to stop here and explain something, because you know, before

I learned the things that I'm sharing with you, I

used to attend churches that taught the Secret Rapture. Let

me just give you a quick overview. The secret rapture

idea that we would be raptured and then you've got

seven years of tribulation did not exist in the Christian

Church for nineteen hundred years. It really came about from

the writings of a Jesuit priest by the name of

Francisco Ribera and another priest named Alcazar. It was a

theory of Biblical interpretation called Futurism. Then it was adopted

by someone named Campbell and Darby Schofield. Cyrus Schofield good

Man wrote the Schoolfield Bible, but he ended up putting

in the Jesuit interpretation of revelation. That was then adopted

by Hal Lindsay, who made it very popular. And then

Tim Lahay, who I met before he died. He and

Jerry Jenkins made that Left Behind series and pretty soon

the whole Christian Church. You could even see it in

the preaching of Billy Graham. Billy Graham went from the

preaching of a literal visible coming of Christ where we're

caught up to meet him in the air, not the

secret Rapture. And when he realized that everything was changing,

he began to accommodate the secret Rapture teaching. But here's

the question, according to the secret Rapture theory that I

don't agree with. I don't believe this, and they're good

Christians out there, I respectfully disagree. I'm not trying to

put anyone down, okay, but let me give you my

biblical reasons. What they teach is that we spend the

millennium on earth with the Righteous reigning over the wicked.

Now I have no interest in that. I don't know

why you'd want to reign over the wicked. They also

teach that when the saints are raptured, life goes on

here on earth for another seven years. There's still people alive,

and then at the end of that seven years, Jesus

then literally comes down and the millennium begins, and he

and the Righteous reign over the wicked. We've got glorified,

immortal lot bodies, we live forever, but they keep dying.

It doesn't make any sense. So now look at what

the Bible says. The Bible says, Behold, the Lord makes

the earth empty, utterly empty. There is no place in

the scenario of left behind when the earth is empty.

They've always got someone down here. Look another scripture, Jeremiah

four twenty three. I beheld the earth, and indeed it

was without form and void. Well, that sounds like Genesis,

but it's not what he's talking about. And the heavens

and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and

indeed they trembled, and there was no man, and all

the birds of heaven had fled. They were there, but

they fled. But there's no one in the world. The

fruitful land was a wilderness, and all its cities were

broken down? What caused this disaster? Keep reading at the

presence of the Lord and by his fears anger. The

earth is desolate. There's nobody alive, utterly empty. Let me

give you more scriptures. And that day the slain of

the Lord will be from one end of the earth,

even to the other end of the earth. It will

not be lamented. They'll not be lamented. No one to mourn,

nor gathered nor buried. Why there's no one to mourn them,

to gather them, or to bury them. The earth is desolate,

you know. One of the last things it says in

the historical part of the Old Testament, which would be

the end of Second Chronicles, it said the children of

Israel were carried to Babylon, and the land of Israel

was desolate for seventy years, that it might keep sabbath

because the people had not been honoring the annual sabbath.

They were supposed to let the land rest once every

seven years, let the soil recover, you know, George Washington Carver.

He discovered you can deplete the soil. So he said,

you got a plant, peanuts and other things to put

the nitrogen back in. God knew that you need to

leave it follow once every seven years, and he said,

I'll bless you. There'll be in enough volunteer crops for

you to survive. Don't worry, but let the land keep Sabbath.

They didn't do it.

So he said, the land is going to be keeping

Sabbath and it is going to be desolate. And so

while the land was desolate, it kept Sabbath. That's what

it says in Second Chronicles, the last chapter, what is

the bottomless pit where Satan is bound? Now, this is

a place where I've just got to tell you the

King James, it is an unfortunate translation. The word that

is translated bottomless pit is the word abusos. You and

I get the word abyss from that word. It means

the uninhabited, vacant, empty nothingness. By the time they got

to the end of the Bible, some of the translators said,

how do we translate that? And someone said this, someone

said that, and someone said bottomless pit. Ooh, that's good.

Let's put that in there. Bottomless pit doesn't really cover. Now,

let me prove to you that's not the best way

to translate it. Luke in the Bible, in Luke chapter eight,

verse thirty, there's this man who's possessed by a legion

of demons. You can also see this in Mark chapter five.

And when Jesus tells all the demons to leave the man,

the demons say to Jesus, we are legion, for we

are many, and they begged him he would not command

them to go out into the abyss. This is the

same identical exact word you find in Revelation twenty. The

devil said, please do not cast us into the nothingness.

I remember when I was in New Mexico. I went

to Carl's Bad Caverns. Any of you ever been there.

It's an amazing story. It was discovered by a guy

named James White when he was sixteen years old. He

was mending fence on the ranch and he saw a

fire in the distance. He thought he ought to explore

this brush fire, and he came and it turns out

it wasn't a brushfire. It was a vortex of bats

that were coming out of the ground and it looked

like smoke from a distance, and he went by himself.

This guy had guts. He went by himself. He made

a ladder out of sticks and barbed wire, and he

climbed down and began to explore it himself. He told

everyone else he really became the guardian of Carlsbad for

the rest of his life. But they used to take

you on the early tours before they had fully explored it,

and there was this one narrow ledge and you went

over the ledge, and they called it the bottomless pit

because you could take a little stone, and they would

do this, he'd take a little rock and he'd throw

it over the edge and it would go, And they say,

bottomless pit comes out China. Somewhere years later they did

a little more extensive survey and some men went down.

They found out it was like three hundred something feet deep,

and at the bottom it was covered with this very

fine lime dust that was filled with all these little rocks.

So the rocks were going. But they never heard that.

So there's no bottomless pit. What is being described here

by bottomless pit is the condition of the world in chaos.

There is a Greek version of the Old Testament written

before the time of Christ. It's called the septuagen And

when it says in the beginning the earth was without

form and void, you know what they say, in the beginning,

the earth was abusos. It's describing the world in a

place of chaos, unformed, desolation. That'll be the condition of

the world where Satan is bound on this planet. Now,

the devil is a workaholic. Did you know that. There's

a lady that worked in this office, and she was

a Christian and she was always so positive. It used

to bother one of her workmates because no matter what

he said, she always had a positive answer. He said, man,

I mean cats and dogs out there. She said, oh,

the flowers are going to beautiful this spring. No matter

what he said, she always had a positive answer. And

then he thought, oh, she's a Christian. I got her.

He went one day and he said, what do you

think about that old devil? She said, well, he certainly

is busy. So the devil never does rest. He is

a workaholic. Right. Can you imagine Satan in the world

with his demons. He no longer has anybody to tempt

and manipulate, and for one thousand years he needs to

roam the planet and look at the results of his government,

knowing for a thousand years, it's like being on death

row for a thousand years that he is going to

be judged. And you say, why, why is God giving

him another chance? Why does he loose him after a

thousand years? What's happening? Stay with me, I'll explain. So

are you clear? The Bottomless Pit is just talking about

this world in its state of chaos. Satan is bound

by ccumstances. His hands are tied. He is changed, you

might say, and he must look at the results of

his rebellion during this time. And so this world is

a vast lazar house. It's a graveyard the slain of

the Lord, the Bible says, cover the earth from one

end to the other during this time. Number five, Where

will the saints be during the one thousand years? And

what are they doing? Well? We are caught up with

the resurrected and those of us who are transformed. We

live in reign with Christ in heaven. Jesus said, I

will come again and receive you to myself. That where

I am you? Maybe?

Now?

Where is he? He said? I go to prepare place

for you? Right John? He says, I go to prepare

place for you in my father's house, so many mansions.

If it were not so, I would have told you.

And if I go and prepare place for you, I

will come again receive you to myself that where I

am he may bee. So what direction do we go

when he comes?

We go up?

We go back to those mansions. This is another common misunderstanding.

People think the millennium is we're here on earth now,

we're living and reigning with Christ. It's like you go

to church on Saffa. Do you leave your home. We're

going to be spending a thousand year sabbath with the

Lord in heaven.

Amen.

It says, here I saw thrones, and they sat upon them,

and judgment was committed to them, the saints, and they

lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. So

people say, well, we must be judging the wicked. We're

not down here on earth judging the wicked. First of all,

you realize when the Lord comes, he's already decided who's

saved and lost. If you're caught up and you're resurrected,

you're saved. If not, you're lost. So what are we judging?

How many of you are going to have questions when

you get to heaven. I got a lot of questions.

First of all, they say there'll be three surprises when

you get to heaven. Surprise number one there, surprise number two.

There are some people that are there you never thought

would be there. I always try to imagine what it

will be like when Stephen, you know, Stephen was the

first Christian martyr, when he gets to heaven and his

angel's taking him on a tour, and Steven's got his

crown with many stars because he was a martyr for

Christ and he was faithful. And then he sees a

parade and all the angels are carrying Paul on their shoulders,

and Stephen goes, oh, you guys do good work, but

you made a mistake. Last time I saw that guy.

He was a witness of my execution. He was an accomplice.

What's going on? And the angel said, we're glad you

asked come here. Stephen. Do you remember just before you died,

you prayed that God would forgive the people that did this. Oh, yeah, said,

well God heard your prayer. He forgave Saul. He even

appeared to Paul. He became an apostle and he wrote

half the New Testament. Can you imagine his surprise, And

there'll be some interesting reunions. Now you all know about

David and Bethsheba. David had one of his best friends,

one of his mighty men, go on a suicide mission,

so he would be killed because David had slept with

his wife Bathsheba. Now the Bible tells us David was forgiven.

He'll be in heaven. We have every reason to believe Bathsheba,

who became the mother of Solomon, who became a godly king,

will be in heaven. And Uriah was a godly man.

He died defending the ark of God.

He'll be in heaven.

They're going to have to have a conversation up there

that should be very interesting. And just between you and me,

I've got some questions for you know, there's a lot

of people I want to meet. I want to talk

to David. He to me, is one of the most

interesting people. I mean, how many times do you meet

somebody In one picture you see him strumming in a

harp and he's writing songs, and then he's killing the

giant cutting off his head, and then he's an administrator,

and then he's an architect, he's designing a temple, and

David just was like the whole package. He just could

do everything. And I want to talk to Jacob. Have

you ever read about the marriage of Jacob where it

says that you know, he went to marry Rachel, but

his father played a trick on him and he sent

her sister Leah into the honeymoon tent and it says,

behold in the morning, it was Leah. And I just

don't understand. How did he didn't know that until the morning?

So am I the only one who's wondered about that?

Am I?

Now? I don't know. I'll probably never ask him that

question because that would be too embarrassing. But I just thought,

what anyway, So we're gonna have a lot of questions

when we get to heaven, and we're gonna have a

thousand years worth of questions, and there's gonna be great

reunions of families that will be reunited. And there I said,

there's three surprises. There are going to be some people missing,

and you're going to think, where is pastor so?

And so.

I thought for sure he'd be here, he'd have a

big mansion on the hill, somewhere, and where is this

deacon and all these people that they seem so close

to the Lord, And the Angel is going to say,

come with me, and there's a heavenly library. You know God,

You know, do you think that God is less sophisticated

than we are. We've got everything archive. Now there's cameras everywhere. Right,

You got to watch what you do these days because

there's cameras everywhere. And if you're getting ready to do

something dumb, be sure someone's going to pull out their

camera and they're go get it on video. God's got

everything recorded, and he'll take us and they'll say, see

the life of this person. You know, the Bible says

those things done in secret will be proclaimed from the housetops.

Nothing will be secret if you're not under the blood

of the lamb. It's going to be open to everybody.

And the sins that these people were hiding from people

will then be plain and open and will say, Ah,

God did everything he could to save them. But they

would not let go of that sin. They would not

confess they were not forsake or they had a secret life.

And we'll have a lot of questions to ask, and

not only about that, But you know it says in

First Corinthians six, verse two, do you not know that

the saints will judge the world. Do you not know

that we will judge angels? Now we're not judging good angels.

But not only does God have guardian angels to protect you,

Satan has had angels that have been trying to tempt

you to sin your whole life. They study you, they

know your weakness, and you will be there. You'll see them.

Then you'll see them face to facial. Sy Ah, I

remember when you kept after me for this and this

and this, and I was trying to walk with God

and you kept tripping me up. And will be judging

them because Satan and his angels are cast into the

lake of fire, and we will participate in agreeing with Ultimately,

God is the judge, but we will participate in agreeing

with the judgments of God because God does not want

us to enter eternity doubting his justice. So he is

basically throwing open the books. Talk about the ultimate transparency.

He's going to have no top secret documents. He said,

here's the records of everything, here's why I did what

I did, and we're going to see in every case

God was good. God was patient, he was long suffering,

he was just, he was beyond just, he was merciful.

But we will see that. So during the one thousand

years the saints will be in heaven. We're participating in

a judgment. We're not deciding who is saved in laws,

because God has that. He's already determined that, it says

in Revelation fifteen four. His judgments are made manifest. The

angels will then guide us through the record books to

settle any doubts. At the end of this phase of

the judgment, everyone will be convinced of God's justice and

love and fair dealings with all. Because if you have

a loved one that isn't there, God wants you to

know He loved them more than you did and did

all he could to save them. Amen. So you got

the beginning of the millennium it talks about, You've got

the first resurrection. Jesus comes the dead in Christ rise.

We are transformed, the wicked are destroyed, the earth is

desolate during the one thousand years. What happens at the

end of the one thousand years, which is question number

six says the day of the Lord is coming in

that day. His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives,

which faces Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of

Olives will split in two. Thus the Lord, my God

will come, and all the saints with you, and the

Lord Lord shall be king over all the earth. At

the end of the one thousand years, Christ comes down.

His feet touched them out of Olives. It causes a

great plain. The mountain is split, and says then John,

I John saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, coming

down from heaven. So where have we been for a

thousand years? We've been with Christ in heaven. At the

end of the one thousand years, this is Revelation twenty one.

Revelation twenty is the millennium. Then we come down. We're

not on earth during the one thousand years. You don't

want to be. The New Jerusalem comes down from Heaven,

prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. It holds,

it houses the church. The Church is the bride of Christ.

It comes down and the dimensions of the New Jerusalem

are about three hundred and seventy five Miles calls it

twelve thousand furlongs. That translates to three hundred and seventy

five miles square, about the size of the state of Oregon.

There is plenty of room for everybody in the city.

You're going to have a city home that God builds

for you, and you can go build your own country

home and the Bible in New York City. Did you

know here's an amazing fact true. The DFW airport is

bigger than Manhattan. And you've got eight million people in Manhattan.

If you've got a city that is three hundred and

seventy five miles on every side and God can build skyscrapers, friends,

is there room for you in the city of God.

Some people think God would save you, but he's just

out of room. No vacancy. No, don't ever worry about that.

There is room for you in that city. But you

know where it's going to sit. The new Jerusalem is

going to completely cover the land that God promised to

give to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the children of Israel.

And Abraham will literally inherit the land that his eyes

rested upon when God showed Moses from Mount Nebo. That land, says,

You're going to get this land flowing with milk and honey.

God is going to keep his promise, it'll all be

within the boundaries of the New Jerusalem, because the amount

of olives is where Jesus' feet touch as the epicenter Amen. So,

reviewing something I shared the first night, You've got these

seven phases and three epics of history. You've got two

thousand years roughly, from Adam to Abraham, the era of

the patriarchs Adam, Enich, Methusela, and Noah so forth. Then

from Abraham to Jesus, you've got two thousand years the

age of the Jews, the Hebrews, the guardians of the Word.

Then Christ comes, He's born about four BC. You have

two thousand years from the time of Jesus to the present.

I just heard a report from our church last night.

They had a general conference meeting. They said in twenty

twenty seven they're going to be celebrating two thousand years

from the baptism of Jesus. They're going to be a

big evangelistic thrust. It's very interesting. It'll be two thousand

years from the baptism of Christ, and then when Jesus comes,

we spend one thousand years living and reigning with him.

You know, God has a plan in his Bible. Six

years you farm your land, one year you let it rest.

Christ is coming to harvest the earth. The earth is

going to keep sabbath for a thousand years. What did

I say at the end of Chronicles, while the land

was a desolate it kept sabbath. That's what the Word

of God says. Our world for one thousand years is

going to be resting from all the corruption and neglect,

the whole creation groans and travails, and then He will

create a new heavens and a new Earth. So you've

got like a thousand year sabbath where we are with

Christ in the kingdom during that time resting. The Jews

had a law six years you can have a Hebrew servant.

At the end of six years, he goes free. How

many days was more jes on the mountain getting the

Ten commandments forty days and forty nines. But people forget that.

Before that, it says the glory of the Lord rested

on Mount Sinai for six days. After six days, Moses

went up into the clouds. A day with the Lord

is like a thousand years. After six days we go up.

Jesus told the disciples Mark chapter nine, Verse one, verily,

I say to you, there are some of you standing

here who will not taste of death until you see

the Kingdom of God come with power. In other words,

you're going to see a miniature picture of the Second Coming.

And then it says after six days he took them up,

Moses and Elijah appeared. Moses representing those who died and

are resurrected, Elijah representing those who are translated without seeing death.

Christ as glorified as he will be when he comes.

The voice of the Father is speaking Jesus City's coming

in the Glory of the Father. It is a miniature

picture of the Second Coming. But I think it's interesting.

It's that after six days you could have a Hebrew

servant for six years, but then they were free. There'll

be a great jubilee when Jesus comes. Friends. Historically, you

realize we're kind of right at the end of that time. Now,

that's why I think we're the generation that's gonna see

that great event. Number seven. I must hasten along. It

should not take a millennium to present this subject. What

will happen next? To free Satan from his prison? It

says the rest of the dead did not live again

until the thousand years are finished. Now, when the thousand

years have expired, Satan is released from his prison. Why

is he released from his prison? Because he's got something

to do again. All of a sudden, all the wicked

who have ever lived through history, no doubt, billions of them,

they come.

Forth from their graves.

And you're gonna ask what kind of bodies do they get.

I don't know. I just know God puts them together

enough so they know what's going on. That's gonna be

the the closest thing to a zombie apocalypse you'll ever see.

All the wicked are going to come out of their graves.

They don't have glorified bodies, but they're gonna come out.

Bible says they will seek death and not be able

to die. They won't even be able to commit suicide.

Satan is going to see this vast army that was

used to listening to.

Him, and he's going to say, I am the king.

That was my city, the power in there, he took

it from me. We can take it again. Like Napoleon,

he tries one more time to be king of the world.

What will Satan do when the wicked are raised? Satan

will go out to deceive the nations that are in

the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog to

gather them together. The battle is the number of whom

is like the sand of the sea. Now, some of

you have probably heard Gog and Magog represent Moscow and China,

Russia and China. I'm sorry, friends, Gog and Magog are

way back there in the Old Testament. You find them

in Genesis chapter ten, talked about God was a nation.

They lived in the north. They were enemies of God's people.

May God means the children of God. It means from

the matrix of God. You have this pattern all through

the Bible. You've got Babylon and her daughters that persecute

God's people. Jezebel and her daughter Athaliah kill all the prophets.

Herodius and her daughter were responsible for the death of

John the Baptist. You always see it's the enemies of

God's people and their descendants that are fighting them. And

so God and may God represent the wicked who have

ever lived. Now, the key to understand revelation is where

read the Old Testament. Where do you find God and Megod?

Go to the Book of Ezekiel. And if you look

in Ezekiel, chapter thirty eight, Oh, it's a long chapter.

I can't read it all to you. Verse thirty eight,

verse one, Chapter thirty eight, Verse one. Now the word

of the Lord came to me, saying, son of Man,

and set your face against Gog on the land of Magog,

the prince of Rash and Mishek. They think Rash means Russia,

doesn't mean that these are enemies of God's people. Notice

verse eight. After many days, that's a thousand years. You

will be visited in the latter years, that's the end

of time. You will come into the land. You'll be

brought back by this from the sword and gather from

many people which has long been desolate. Talk about the

desolation of the millennium. You will ascend, coming like a storm,

covering the land like a cloud. You and all of

your troops, and many people's with you. It's not just

one nation, Gog and Magog where the enemies. Remember all

the names in Revelation are symbolic. There's symbols. They were

God's the enemies of God's people in the Old Testament,

all of them come against Notice what it says here

go to verse sixteen. You will come up against my

people Israel like a cloud to cover the land. Can

you imagine all the wicked who've ever lived under the

day leadership? Satan is loose for a little season. How

long is that? I don't know. It's long enough for

them to organize an army. And boy, he's going to

have some interesting generals. He'll probably have Alexander the Great.

I don't want to judge him, but probably Hidolf Hitler.

He wasn't that good a general though, Napoleon. I mean,

there'll be some military geniuses, and they're going to probably

try and craft some primitive weapons, and they're going to

launch this battle against the city of God. Why is

God allowing this? After a thousand years of looking at

the result of his rebellion? Does the devil humbled himself

and repent?

See?

God is getting ready to destroy the one who used

to be the leader of the angels, loved by all

of the angels. Before God destroys him, he must demonstrate

the devil and his angels have no more redeemable qualities.

When they are released, the first thing they do is

go back and fight against God again. The wicked. The

first thing they do, is they listen to the devil again.

God is demonstrating, I have no choice. Notice, you'll come

against my people. I'm in verse sixteen of Ezekiel thirty eight,

like a cloud to cover the land. It will be

in the latter days. I will bring you against my land,

so that the nations may know me when I am

hallowed in you, O God, before their eyes. Thus says

the Lord God. I'm going to jump to verse twenty two,

and I will bring him to judgment with pestilence and bloodshed.

I will rain down on him and his troops, on

the many peoples who are with him, flooding rain, great

hailstones and fire and brimstone. That's what it says in

Revelation twenty. They surround the city of God, and God

reigns fire down out of heaven upon them and devours them.

Does that make sense. It's telling us exactly what's happen.

Let's keep going. So they surround the earth, the city

of the Saints, New Jerusalem, the beloved city. You will

come up against my people like a cloud. I just

read that to you. This is Ezekiel thirty eight sixteen.

At this critical moment, what stops everything. Have you heard

of the Great White Throne judgment? It says I saw

a great white throne, and him who sat on it,

and the dead were judged according to the works by

the things that are written in the books. Just as

they launched this attack on the city of God, God

and Jesus appear on their throne above the city where

everybody surrounding Jerusalem can see it. Now, friends, this is

that moment that Christ talked about when he said there'll

be a day when I separate the sheep from the goats.

This is a moment when we will all meet again.

I hope you're in the city, but we will all

meet again. The Bible says, all the wicked, the devil,

bad angels outside, Jesus, God, good angels, the saved inside,

and then God is going to be exalted on his throne,

and he will make everyone's life pass before them. When

you think of the final judgment, don't picture everybody lined

up like the Department of Motor Vehicles and you're all

standing next. Okay, and here's your life, you know. I mean,

we be judging through eternity. The same way God can

save thousands in a day, he can judge millions in

a day. Amen. So this is that great white throne

judgment that will take place. Number ten. What will happen

after the wicked are judged? As I live, says the Lord,

every knee will bow to me, every tongue will confess

to God. Finally, they're going to see that God did

everything he could to save them. They'll be overwhelmed with

a sense of their shame. They will say, the harvest

is passed and we are not saved, and they'll realize

that it is feudle to follow the devil. And this

talks about a time. It's like the Battle of Gideon

when the final this is the final phase of armageddon,

is what happens after the millennium. You know what happened

with the Battle of Gideon. Gideon blew the trumpet, they

blew the horn, they broke the pictures. They all saw

the lights, they all shouted, and it says the Midianites

and the Amalekites and the people of the East all

turned on one another and they self destructed. This happened

also with Jehasha Fat. He had the Ammonites and the

Edomites and the Moabites came against Israel. And it looked hopeless,

and God fought for them, and they all turned on

each other, and when Israel came there wasn't one left.

They self imploded. You might say, they turned on each other.

And then God is going to rain fire down upon

the wicked. At that time, the Bible says Philippians two,

verse ten and eleven, at the name of Jesus, every

knee will bow, of those in heaven and those on

the earth, and those under the earth, that every tongue

will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory

of the Father. Even Satan will be compelled. At that point,

it says, every knee, he will finally fall before the Lord.

You know, the devil said if you fall down. The

devil told Jesus, you fall down and worship me, and

I'll give you the world. Jesus want to do, it

said you to worship God only. And now the tables

are turned, and Satan is going to fall down before

Jesus and say you are Lord, you are Creator, you

are just, you are the God. But then even then

he gets up and he says, no, wait, let's fight,

And all of his demons are going to turn on him.

They are all these angels had eternal life, They could

have lived forever, but they listened to the devil. And

all these people they're all going to turn on them,

and that at that point God is going to rain

fire down out of Heaven upon them. I heard a

loud voice from heaven of a great multitude saying, true

and righteous are your judgment. So what's happening when it

says that there's a judgment? We are declaring that the

judgments of God are true and righteous. Do you see

why He's given us that millennium time? During the millennium,

there may be some tears. Do you notice Revelation twenty

is the millennium twenty one is when he drives tears.

We may get to heaven and say, oh Lord, I

wish I had done a better job being a witness.

If I had only known how much there was to

lose and how much there was to gain, I would

have done more. We may see loved ones that are

not there, and we grieve their absence. And do you

think that God is going to enjoy raining fire down

upon the wicked and destroying them. No. The Bible calls

it his strange act. The Bible says, when he destroyed

the world in the days of Noah, it grieved God

at his heart that he had made man, and it

is going to break the heart. These creatures were made

in his image. They're his children. He loves them. He

sent his son to die to save them, to save you.

And when he finally must exterminate them and punish them.

If a parent enjoys punishing their child as something wrong, yeah,

God does not enjoy it. Friends, we will all have

our day in court. You might say, the evidence is there.

What happens next? Fire comes down from God out of

heaven and devours them. Now what does devour mean? Invite

me over for Mexican food with guacamole, and I will

demonstrate devour. Usually I've said this before, and then everybody

sends me these invitations. Really I can't, but I am

in Texas. You have some good Mexican food here. Devoured

means it's gone, it is consumed. The words that are

used perish destroyed. Second death, anyone not found written in

the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.

And you read in Revelation twenty verse fourteen and fifteen.

Then death and hades were cast into the lake of fire.

Now death is being cast in the grave, Hades is

being cast in. There's going to be no more death.

There'll be no more grave, is what it's saying. Anyone

not found in the Book of Life is cast into

the lake of fire. Friends, you can have your name

in that book by coming to Jesus just like you are.

Say Lord, I'm a sinner. I don't know how I

could live for you, but I want to live for you.

Will you accept me just like I am and change

my heart? And he can change your heart. He will

put your name in the Book of Life. He will

cover your sins with his blood, and you can have

a place in that kingdom. Then after everyone suffers according

to what they deserve. The Bible says that speaking of

the devil, it's the day and night, forever and ever.

And the word forever and ever there means until it's

all gone. It's the word eon, and it means out

of sight. It says, the smoke of their torment ascends

up forever and ever. Now, I used to live in

West Texas, and when you get to West Texas, there's

a town every ten miles because there used to be

a farming community and people could not handle more than

one hundred and sixty acres until they got recognized farming equipment.

So there was a town, and every town had a

Baptist Church, Church of Christ, Methodist Church, anyone know what

I'm talking about. And every town had a dump. There

was a place that they dig a big hole and

everyone would burn their trash and a burn barrel. And

when the burn barrel got to where you had enough

cans and bottles in there that you take it and

you would dump it. They weren't done burning. And you

could tell where the towns were certain times a year

because every ten miles you could see a wisp of

smoke going up. I learned to fly in West Texas,

and when I didn't know where I was, I would

look at the water tower and find the name of

the town. Oh that's where I am, because they paint

the name of the towns on the water towers. But

you'd see this, it would go up out of sight.

That's what it meant forever and ever it went out

of sight. The world is covered with ashes. God has

purified the planet. There is no more sin, and no

more sinners, even the devil. The Bible says never will

you be any more. That's what it says. Do we

have to worry about him making a great escape somewhere. No,

He's exterminated, and everyone's going to suffer. Some will die

very quickly, some will suffer longer, based on everyone according

to their works number twelve. After the fire goes out,

what will God do for his people? Behold, I create

a new heavens and a new earth wherein dwells righteousness.

Revelation twenty one point one. Now I saw a new

heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and

the first earth will pass away. When says new heaven

doesn't mean heaven where God lives, that word there, Heaven

means the firmament, new atmosphere around the planet. The air

will be fresh, invigorating and clean and pure. New heaven,

new Earth. And you and I will get to watch

God create this new heaven, this new Earth. Nevertheless, Second

Peter three thirteen, We, according to his promise, look for

a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwells what

righteousness God needs to save us from our unrighteousness. The

Bible says, if we confess our sins, he is faithful

and just to forgive us our sins and decleanse us

from all unrighteousness. If you are cleansed from all unrighteousness,

what do you become righteous the blood of Jesus. You

confess repent of your sins. You can have your name

in that book of life and be in the kingdom.

He wants you there. He brought you your watching because

he wants you there. But you have the decision, Friends,

number thirteen, where will God and the righteous finally live?

He moves the capital of his universe. Think about how

big God's infinite creation is. I love science and astronomy,

and I'm just intrigued with the pictures that are coming

back from this new James Webb telescope, and they're building

an even bigger one down in Chile right now. It's

just amazing the deeper they look, the farther it goes.

There are galaxies billions of light years away that have

billions of stars, and we know if we could see farther,

we'd see more. And God made it all. He is

the king over all of that, and yet He has

descended to come to this world to say us, like

that shepherd that had ninety nine sheep, and he left

the ninety nine safe. He had one hundred sheep, he

lost one. He left the ninety nine safe in the fold,

and he came to save this lost sheep. That's his world, friends,

Jesus is the good shepherd. He came to save us.

And then he's gonna move the capital of the universe

to our planet. The Bible says, God himself will be

with us. That's what he's wanted all along, is to

be with us. He wants to be walk with us

like he did with Adam, and even the garden wants.

To talk with us.

He wants that relationship. The Bible says, the Tabernacle of

God is with men. He will dwell with them. Can

you say I'm in friends, blessed or the meek? They

will inherit the earth. This will be the world made

new friends. And there'll be no more tears and no

more sorrow. What will be the experience of the redeemed

in the new Jerusalem. God will wipe away all tears

from their eyes. There is no more death, nor sorrow,

nor crying. Neither will there be any more pain. For

the former things are passed away. He says, I make

all things new, and he wants us to be in

that kingdom. He's gone to prepare a place for you.

How many of you would like to move in to

the place that He's prepared. You come to Jesus in

your heart and He'll do it. Father in Heaven, bless

these people, each one right now, those listening, those that

are here, that we might surrender our lives to you,

that in that day we might be in the city

in the mansions you prepared. We pray in your holy name, Amen,

God bless. When is our next meeting? Tomorrow night? The

best is yet to come, the final beast of revelation. Friends,

don't miss this. I wish we could do this on

a weekend, but it's going to be a Monday night.

Please come and bring your friends. Thank you very much

in God bless