WEBVTT 00:08.849 --> 00:09.089 [MUSIC] 00:09.089 --> 00:09.900 - LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH, 00:13.380 --> 00:15.210 IS THERE ANYBODY IN THE HOUSE READY 00:15.210 --> 00:16.890 TO LIFT UP THE NAME OF THE LORD? 00:21.149 --> 00:23.910 NOW I KNOW THERE IS A TENDENCY FOR US 00:23.910 --> 00:29.324 TO GET CAUGHT UP IN THE THINGS OF LIFE AND YOU KNOW, IT'S 00:29.324 --> 00:31.719 BY THE GRACE OF GOD YOU MADE IT TO WEDNESDAY. 00:33.359 --> 00:36.780 SO WHAT WE WANT TO DO TONIGHT 00:36.780 --> 00:41.280 IS JUST PUT OUR FOCUS, DON'T THINK ABOUT ANYTHING 00:41.280 --> 00:44.310 THAT'S GOING ON THIS WEEK, DON'T THINK ABOUT ANYTHING 00:44.310 --> 00:47.700 THAT'S HAPPENING AT HOME, ANYTHING THAT'S HAPPENING 00:47.700 --> 00:53.759 AT WORK, BUT IF WE CAN JUST LIFT UP THE NAME OF JESUS. 00:56.490 --> 00:59.250 BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU LIFT UP THE NAME OF 00:59.250 --> 01:04.170 JESUS AND YOU MAGNIFY THE LORD, YOU COME TO REALIZE HOW 01:04.170 --> 01:09.750 SMALL AND INSIGNIFICANT ANYTHING THAT IS COMPARED TO HIM IS. 01:12.329 --> 01:17.340 SO LORD, WE LIFT UP OUR VOICE TO YOU. 01:17.340 --> 01:24.480 WE HONOR YOU, OH LORD. 01:24.480 --> 01:27.599 GOD BE MAGNIFIED. 01:32.069 --> 01:33.299 LORD BE MAGNIFIED. 01:39.540 --> 01:45.120 WHO CAN COMPARE TO YOU? 01:45.120 --> 01:48.719 THERE IS NONE LIKE YOU, OH GOD. 01:52.079 --> 01:56.340 AS WE LIFT UP THE NAME OF THE LORD, 01:56.340 --> 01:59.579 WE WATCH EVERY PROBLEM DIMINISH. 02:01.019 --> 02:07.739 WE WATCH EVERY SITUATION COME UNDER THE BLOOD OF JESUS. 02:09.449 --> 02:13.795 OH, NOTHING COMPARES TO YOU, OH LORD. 02:14.939 --> 02:19.439 NOTHING COMPARES TO YOU. 02:19.439 --> 02:22.496 OH, WE WORSHIP YOU. 02:22.542 --> 02:43.796 [MUSIC] 02:43.818 --> 02:45.135 THE SONG SIMPLY SAYS THIS. 02:47.039 --> 02:51.569 WHO IS LIKE THE LORD? 02:51.569 --> 02:53.969 MY STRENGTH AND SONG. 02:55.500 --> 03:04.530 THERE IS NO ONE, NO ONE, NO ONE, NO ONE. 03:04.530 --> 03:06.539 CAN YOU SING AND SAY WHO? 03:06.539 --> 03:10.979 WHO IS LIKE THE LORD? 03:10.979 --> 03:14.063 MY STRENGTH AND SONG. 03:14.093 --> 05:50.983 (PRAISE AND WORSHIP MUSIC) 05:51.029 --> 05:52.319 TO THE FEET OF JESUS. 05:53.519 --> 05:55.589 THERE'S NONE THAT COMPARES TO HIM. 05:55.589 --> 05:57.089 THERE'S NONE THAT IS HIGHER. 05:57.089 --> 16:06.466 (PRAISE AND WORSHIP MUSIC) 16:06.499 --> 16:08.533 WE WORSHIP YOU IN THIS PLACE. 16:08.620 --> 16:11.409 HALLELUJAH. LIFT YOUR HANDS AND 16:11.409 --> 16:12.970 SHOUT TO HIM TONIGHT. 16:12.970 --> 16:16.480 HALLELUJAH. GLORY TO THE MIGHTY GOD 16:16.480 --> 16:18.129 THAT CREATED US ALL. 16:18.129 --> 16:20.589 WE WORSHIP YOU IN THIS PLACE, LORD. 16:20.589 --> 16:22.149 WE GIVE YOU HONOR. 16:22.149 --> 16:24.009 WE GIVE YOU GLORY. 16:24.009 --> 16:28.179 OH, AWESOME CREATOR OF ALL THINGS. 16:28.179 --> 16:32.559 WE BOW DOWN TO YOU TONIGHT AND WORSHIP YOU FOR YOUR GOODNESS. 16:33.789 --> 16:37.778 OH, YOUR GLORY AND YOUR MAJESTY EVIDENT IN OUR LIVES. 16:39.220 --> 16:43.149 THANK YOU, THANK YOU, FATHER, THAT YOU SENT JESUS CHRIST TO 16:43.149 --> 16:45.850 REDEEM US FROM THE CURSE OF SIN 16:47.679 --> 16:51.578 AND ALLOW US TO ENTER INTO THE GREAT COVENANT 16:51.578 --> 16:53.769 THAT YOU PURCHASED FOR US. 16:53.769 --> 16:56.799 WE'RE FOREVER GRATEFUL, HALLELUJAH. 16:56.799 --> 17:00.100 THANK YOU, JESUS, WE WORSHIP YOU TONIGHT, FATHER. 17:00.100 --> 17:04.539 GLORY TO YOUR NAME, GLORY TO YOUR NAME, HALLELUJAH. 17:04.539 --> 17:06.519 HALLELUJAH, THANK YOU, JESUS. 17:06.519 --> 17:10.598 OH, WE MAGNIFY YOU TONIGHT, FATHER, HALLELUJAH. 17:11.650 --> 17:12.669 THANK YOU, JESUS. 17:14.440 --> 17:18.279 BEFORE I STEPPED UP HERE, THE LORD SPOKE TO ME 17:18.279 --> 17:21.910 THE TERM WOUNDED SPIRIT. 17:24.190 --> 17:26.618 AND I KNOW THERE'S A SCRIPTURE, AND I THINK IT'S PROVERBS 17:26.618 --> 17:28.058 18 THAT TALKS ABOUT 17:29.950 --> 17:34.539 THE FACT THAT WHO CAN, HOW CAN THE HUMAN WITHSTAND 17:34.539 --> 17:38.319 A CRUSHED OR A BROKEN SPIRIT OR A WOUNDED SPIRIT 17:38.319 --> 17:39.759 IN SOME TRANSLATIONS, I BELIEVE. 17:39.759 --> 17:42.807 I THINK IT'S PROVERBS 18, 14, SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 17:44.349 --> 17:45.789 AND YOU KNOW, I WAS THINKING ABOUT THAT. 17:45.789 --> 17:47.740 WHAT DOES WOUNDED SPIRIT REALLY MEAN? 17:49.029 --> 17:51.480 I KNOW THAT THERE'S A SPIRIT BEHIND 17:53.289 --> 17:56.109 THE THINGS THAT THE DEVIL ATTACKS US WITH. 17:56.109 --> 17:59.289 IF WE HAVE ENVY IN OUR LIVES, MANY TIMES IT'S A SPIRIT 17:59.289 --> 18:00.611 OF ENVY THAT COMES IN. 18:04.839 --> 18:08.109 IF YOU HAVE HATRED IN YOUR LIFE, MANY TIMES IT'S A 18:08.109 --> 18:10.150 SPIRIT OF HATRED THAT HAS TO BE CAST 18:10.150 --> 18:12.117 OUT AND DEALT WITH. 18:14.289 --> 18:17.230 AND I BELIEVE THE WOUNDED SPIRIT IS A SPIRIT OF REJECTION. 18:18.730 --> 18:22.359 AND I REMEMBER I SAID, "LORD, HELP ME UNDERSTAND THAT," 18:22.359 --> 18:23.740 AND HE FLASHED IT BACK TO ME. 18:23.740 --> 18:27.400 I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL, ABOUT 17 YEARS OLD, 18:27.400 --> 18:30.369 MAYBE 16, I CAN'T REMEMBER, I WAS TAKING A SPEECH CLASS. 18:31.960 --> 18:35.950 AND MAYBE I DID THE WRONG THING, BUT I TRIED TO SPEAK 18:35.950 --> 18:37.115 ON THE TRINITY. 18:38.500 --> 18:40.660 THE FIRST TIME THAT I WAS ASSIGNED TO GIVE A SPEECH 18:40.660 --> 18:44.740 IN FRONT OF MY CLASSMATES, FATHER, SON, AND HOLY GHOST. 18:44.740 --> 18:46.480 I REMEMBER THAT SPEECH. 18:46.480 --> 18:47.980 I WORKED HARD TO PREPARE IT. 18:47.980 --> 18:54.849 BUT I THINK I OFFENDED SOME SPIRITS IN THAT ROOM 18:54.849 --> 18:59.259 BECAUSE THAT TEACHER SAID, "I DON'T WANT YOU TO EVER BRING 18:59.259 --> 19:01.690 THAT BIBLE BACK IN MY CLASSROOM, AND I DON'T WANT YOU TO 19:01.690 --> 19:04.690 EVER SPEAK OF THE BIBLE AGAIN IN MY CLASS." 19:06.069 --> 19:09.669 AND AS I THOUGHT BACK ABOUT THAT, I THOUGHT, 19:09.669 --> 19:12.609 "THAT, YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT IT WAS A REJECTION OF 19:12.609 --> 19:17.048 THE GOSPEL, IT WASN'T ME, BUT I FELT I TOOK IT, AND IT 19:17.048 --> 19:19.480 HINDERED ME FOR A LONG TIME 19:19.480 --> 19:22.240 FROM DOING WHAT GOD, BECAUSE I HAD THAT, 19:22.240 --> 19:25.599 OH, I CAN'T DO THIS TYPE ATTITUDE. 19:25.599 --> 19:28.990 SO THERE'S SOMEONE HERE, MAYBE MORE THAN ONE OF YOU, 19:28.990 --> 19:30.700 AND YOU'RE DEALING WITH A SPIRIT OF REJECTION. 19:30.700 --> 19:32.558 IT MIGHT'VE BEEN FROM A FAMILY MEMBER, 19:32.558 --> 19:34.150 IT MIGHT'VE BEEN A SISTER OR A BROTHER, 19:34.150 --> 19:38.558 IT MIGHT'VE BEEN AN EMPLOYER, AND IT HAS WOUNDED YOU. 19:38.558 --> 19:41.980 AND I BELIEVE TONIGHT IS A NIGHT OF DELIVERANCE. 19:41.980 --> 19:45.609 THAT WOUNDED SPIRIT, WE'RE GONNA CALL IT 19:45.609 --> 19:48.250 OF NOT TO BE CAST OUT IN JESUS' NAME. 19:48.250 --> 19:52.509 SO RUN UP HERE IF THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING 19:52.509 --> 19:56.230 THAT WOULD CLICK IN YOU, THAT YOU SAY, 19:56.230 --> 20:00.190 I'VE DEALT WITH THAT, I'VE DEALT WITH REJECTION. 20:00.190 --> 20:02.919 SO MANY TIMES REJECTION CAN MOVE INTO OTHER THINGS 20:02.919 --> 20:07.000 LIKE LONELINESS, IT CAN MOVE INTO MISERY, 20:07.000 --> 20:08.679 IT CAN MOVE INTO DEPRESSION. 20:10.130 --> 20:11.750 AND WE'RE GONNA CAST THAT OUT TONIGHT 20:11.750 --> 20:14.269 AND BELIEVE YOU ARE DELIVERED AND FREE FROM WHATEVER 20:14.269 --> 20:16.910 REJECTION YOU HAVE SUFFERED. 20:16.910 --> 20:18.259 IS PASTOR ANTHONY HERE? 20:19.819 --> 20:21.259 IS HE STILL OUT HERE? 20:21.259 --> 20:23.930 PASTOR ANTHONY, I'M GONNA ASK YOU TO PRAY FOR OUR ONLINE 20:23.930 --> 20:29.569 AUDIENCE AND JUST ADDRESS THAT SPIRIT OF REJECTION THAT THEY 20:29.569 --> 20:31.131 MIGHT BE RECEIVING TONIGHT. 20:31.788 --> 20:32.464 HALLELUJAH. 20:32.531 --> 20:36.227 (PRAYING IN TONGUES) 20:36.227 --> 20:38.445 HEAVENLY FATHER, WE LIFT UP YOUR NAME 20:38.450 --> 20:41.180 AS THE KING OF KINGS AND THE LORD OF LORDS, 20:41.180 --> 20:45.019 BUT ALSO THE ONE WHO BRINGS RECONCILIATION, 20:45.019 --> 20:49.460 RESTORATION, WHOLENESS, AND SOUNDNESS OF MIND. 20:49.460 --> 20:54.230 WE REBUKE EVERY FOUL SPIRIT AND DEVICE OF OFFENSE, 20:54.230 --> 20:58.819 BROKENHEARTEDNESS, BROKEN SPIRITNESS, REJECTION, 20:58.819 --> 21:04.130 AND WE DECLARE NOW THAT THE LOVE OF GOD THAT TRANSCENDS 21:04.130 --> 21:08.029 AND COVERS ALL THINGS SHALL BURST AND EMERGE 21:08.029 --> 21:10.609 THROUGH YOUR HEART AND THROUGH YOUR MIND, 21:10.609 --> 21:13.880 BRINGING FRESH REVELATION TO THE UNDERSTANDING 21:13.880 --> 21:16.130 OF WHO YOU ARE IN CHRIST. 21:16.130 --> 21:18.170 EVERY CHAIN IS BROKEN. 21:18.170 --> 21:20.809 EVERY FALSE DECEITFUL LIE AND WORD 21:20.809 --> 21:24.859 THAT'S BEEN SPOKEN OVER YOU IS SHATTERED AND IS NO MORE. 21:24.859 --> 21:29.059 WE RELEASE THE WHOLENESS AND THE FULLNESS OF GOD 21:29.059 --> 21:30.998 IN JESUS' MIGHTY NAME. 21:33.019 --> 21:35.000 - THANK YOU, MASTER ANTHONY. 21:35.000 --> 21:36.319 AMEN, PRAISE GOD. 21:36.319 --> 21:40.730 AND IF THAT'S YOU AT HOME AND YOU'VE BEEN DELIVERED 21:40.730 --> 21:42.140 FROM THAT SPIRIT, LET US KNOW. 21:43.430 --> 21:45.289 PUT IT DOWN IN THE COMMENTS, SEND US AN EMAIL 21:45.289 --> 21:48.079 SO THAT WE CAN REJOICE IN YOUR TESTIMONY TOO, 21:48.079 --> 21:49.759 IN JESUS' NAME. 21:49.759 --> 21:51.808 HALLELUJAH. THANK YOU, JESUS. 21:52.940 --> 21:54.259 JUST PRAY IN TONGUES FOR A MOMENT. 21:54.259 --> 22:07.556 (SPEAKING IN TONGUES) 22:08.059 --> 22:09.289 THANK YOU, JESUS. 22:09.289 --> 22:12.890 HALLELUJAH. THANK YOU, JESUS. 22:12.890 --> 22:15.200 HALLELUJAH. I'M RELEASED. 22:15.200 --> 22:18.230 I JUST SHAKE HANDS WITH SOMEONE TONIGHT AND SAY IT'S GOOD TO 22:18.230 --> 22:20.750 BE IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD ON A WEDNESDAY EVENING. 22:20.750 --> 22:23.119 AND THANK YOU, ONLINE AUDIENCE, FOR JOINING US TONIGHT. 22:23.119 --> 23:01.339 (UPBEAT MUSIC) 23:01.339 --> 23:03.109 - HALLELUJAH. 23:09.770 --> 23:13.099 WELL, I'M GONNA START WITH OFFERING WITH THIS. 23:14.839 --> 23:16.055 I GOT REAL TECHIE. 23:20.539 --> 23:21.486 NO, NOT REALLY. 23:24.349 --> 23:28.160 ANYBODY THAT KNOWS ME KNOWS I'M NOT REAL TECHIE. 23:28.160 --> 23:31.039 BUT I DID LOOK OUT ONLINE AND I WAS CURIOUS. 23:32.180 --> 23:33.719 THE BENEFITS OF GIVING. 23:36.289 --> 23:39.259 AND I FOUND OUT THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY'VE ACTUALLY STUDIED 23:39.259 --> 23:41.059 SOME OF THESE THINGS. 23:41.059 --> 23:42.109 DID RESEARCH. 23:44.150 --> 23:46.759 AND I FOUND THESE SIX THINGS WERE LISTED. 23:50.269 --> 23:53.732 MAKE YOU HAPPIER. 23:53.732 --> 23:57.196 HMM. 23:57.196 --> 24:00.661 GENEROSITY AND GIVING. 24:02.960 --> 24:07.009 CAUSES YOU TO HAVE LESS STRESS. 24:07.009 --> 24:11.057 HMM. 24:11.057 --> 24:15.106 IT HELPS YOU STAY PHYSICALLY HEALTHY. 24:19.880 --> 24:23.240 GIVING AND GENEROSITY STRENGTHENS 24:23.240 --> 24:27.757 YOUR INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS. 24:32.569 --> 24:35.240 IT CAN HELP YOU LIVE LONGER. 24:40.789 --> 24:45.500 AND IT CAN ALSO DRAW YOU CLOSER TO JESUS. 24:49.190 --> 24:55.490 NOW, I WOULD SAY WE WOULD ALL AGREE THAT'S GOOD, RIGHT? 24:57.529 --> 24:58.420 THAT'S GOOD. 24:59.779 --> 25:00.766 SAY THAT'S GOOD. 25:03.170 --> 25:09.140 SO NOW I'M GOING TO COME TO THE REALITY OF THE SCRIPTURES 25:09.140 --> 25:11.794 IN GALATIANS CHAPTER 6 VERSE 9. 25:14.390 --> 25:18.192 LET US NOT GROW WEARY IN WELL-DOING. 25:20.809 --> 25:22.759 REMEMBER MY DON'TS. 25:24.589 --> 25:26.420 DON'T BE A THIEF. 25:26.420 --> 25:27.457 DON'T BE STINGY. 25:29.329 --> 25:30.792 DON'T BE WEARY. 25:33.319 --> 25:34.549 DON'T GET WEARY. 25:37.220 --> 25:39.871 BECAUSE WHEN YOU DO, YOU LET GO OF THE GOOD. 25:42.769 --> 25:44.450 ALL OF THESE THINGS ARE GOOD. 25:44.450 --> 25:46.789 GENEROSITY IS GOOD. 25:46.789 --> 25:47.923 GIVING IS GOOD. 25:49.160 --> 25:52.279 AND WHEN WE LET GO OF THE CONCEPT OF GIVING IN OUR LIFE, 25:52.279 --> 25:58.190 AND WE DRAW BACK FROM THE GIVING HEART, WE DRAW BACK FROM 25:58.190 --> 25:58.746 THE GOOD. 26:00.410 --> 26:01.339 DON'T GET WEARY. 26:03.500 --> 26:07.190 I KNOW SOMETIMES IT'S AGAIN, DO 26:07.190 --> 26:09.019 I GIVE AGAIN? 26:09.019 --> 26:10.130 DO I GIVE AGAIN? 26:12.950 --> 26:17.480 DO I HAVE TO HAVE THAT ATTITUDE AGAIN? 26:17.480 --> 26:17.960 YES. 26:20.599 --> 26:21.109 AND YOU KNOW WHAT? 26:21.109 --> 26:23.180 IT'LL MAKE YOU HAPPIER. 26:23.180 --> 26:24.980 IT'LL MAKE YOU LIVE LONGER. 26:24.980 --> 26:27.079 IT'LL REDUCE THE STRESS IN YOUR LIFE. 26:29.029 --> 26:29.690 IT'S GOOD. 26:30.890 --> 26:32.420 IT'S GOOD. 26:32.420 --> 26:33.200 IT'S ALWAYS GOOD. 26:35.119 --> 26:36.289 BECAUSE WHY? 26:36.289 --> 26:38.990 WHY DOES IT ALL WORK THAT WAY? 26:38.990 --> 26:40.730 'CAUSE IT GETS YOU CLOSER TO JESUS 26:42.500 --> 26:43.468 AND YOU'RE MORE LIKE HIM. 26:45.289 --> 26:47.329 YOU'RE MORE LIKE THE FATHER. 26:47.329 --> 26:49.339 FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, HE GAVE. 26:51.109 --> 26:54.589 WHEN HE GAVE HIS ONLY SON, HE GAVE ALL OF IT. 26:54.589 --> 26:55.579 HE GAVE EVERYTHING. 26:56.690 --> 26:57.619 HE GAVE HIMSELF. 26:58.940 --> 27:02.900 SO TAP INTO THAT AND DON'T LET YOUR HEART GET WEARY. 27:02.900 --> 27:04.970 DON'T LET YOUR LIFESTYLE GET WEARY. 27:04.970 --> 27:09.619 DON'T LET YOUR ATTITUDE GET WEARY OF AN ATTITUDE OF GIVING 27:11.420 --> 27:17.930 BECAUSE AS YOU DO THAT, THEN THE DEVIL WORKS TO BRING 27:17.930 --> 27:19.326 THE GOOD OUT OF YOUR LIFE. 27:21.440 --> 27:27.859 SO STAY WITH IT AND DON'T LET WEARINESS GET IN YOUR HEAD OR IN 27:27.859 --> 27:29.455 YOUR HEART OR IN YOUR ATTITUDE. 27:31.250 --> 27:32.480 CONTINUE TO BE A GIVER. 27:33.980 --> 27:36.319 IF THE USHERS, IF YOU NEED AN ENVELOPE, YOU 27:36.319 --> 27:38.329 CAN RECEIVE AN ENVELOPE. 27:38.329 --> 27:41.150 THEY'LL PUT THE GIVING INFORMATION UP ONLINE. 27:41.150 --> 27:42.740 YOU CAN GIVE SO MANY WAYS. 27:45.529 --> 27:48.650 AND AS YOU DO, REMEMBER, 27:50.900 --> 27:54.380 THAT GENEROSITY, THAT ATTITUDE OF GENEROSITY 27:54.380 --> 27:57.758 AND THAT ATTITUDE OF GIVING IS DOING GOOD IN YOUR LIFE. 28:00.019 --> 28:04.250 GOD DOESN'T, GOD DOES IT SO HE 28:04.250 --> 28:07.009 CAN SEE GOOD IN US 28:08.029 --> 28:10.760 AND ACCOMPLISH GOOD FOR US, THROUGH US AND WITH US. 28:12.769 --> 28:14.329 LET'S PRAY. 28:14.329 --> 28:18.589 FATHER, I THANK YOU THAT AS EACH AND EVERYONE 28:18.589 --> 28:22.759 MAKES A DECISION TO MOVE FORWARD IN A GENEROUS HEART, 28:22.759 --> 28:27.710 WITH A GENEROUS ATTITUDE TO CONTINUE TO GIVE. 28:29.329 --> 28:33.200 FATHER GOD, I THANK YOU THAT YOU RESTORE THEIR STRENGTH, 28:33.200 --> 28:35.450 YOU RESTORE THEIR HEALTH, YOU RESTORE THEIR LIFE, 28:35.450 --> 28:38.960 YOU GIVE THEM HOPE, YOU GIVE THEM A VISION OF YOUR PRESENCE 28:38.960 --> 28:41.779 AND YOUR LOVE WORKING THROUGH THEM AND WITH THEM 28:41.779 --> 28:43.789 AND IN THEM, EVEN IN THEIR GIVING. 28:43.789 --> 28:46.849 AND WE GIVE YOU ALL THE PRAISE AND ALL THE HONOR. 28:46.849 --> 28:48.859 AND EVERYBODY SAID? 28:48.859 --> 28:50.150 AMEN. AMEN. 28:50.150 --> 28:55.039 YOU CAN RECEIVE THE OFFERING AS PASTOR DOUG COMES. 28:55.039 --> 28:56.720 AMEN. THANK YOU, PASTOR KEITH. 28:57.920 --> 28:59.990 HALLELUJAH. WHAT A PRIVILEGE IT 28:59.990 --> 29:01.130 IS TO GIVE TO GOD. 29:01.130 --> 29:05.059 IT BRINGS DIVINE PROTECTION OVER OUR LIFE, JANET. 29:06.079 --> 29:08.869 HALLELUJAH. AND WE NEED DIVINE 29:08.869 --> 29:10.280 PROTECTION IN THIS WORLD. 29:11.359 --> 29:14.690 HALLELUJAH. WELL, I'M CONVINCED THAT... 29:14.690 --> 29:16.730 I'M GOING TO JUST PLOW RIGHT IN TONIGHT AS THE 29:16.730 --> 29:18.619 USHERS ARE FINISHING BECAUSE WE HAVE A LOT 29:18.619 --> 29:19.670 OF TERRITORY TO COVER. 29:21.440 --> 29:24.740 I'M CONVINCED THAT THE MORE I STUDY THE BOOK OF REVELATION, 29:24.740 --> 29:28.309 THAT AS CHRISTIANS, WE CAN BE MORE EFFECTIVE LIVING 29:28.309 --> 29:30.589 OUT OUR LIVES ON THIS EARTH 29:31.609 --> 29:34.730 IF WE HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE FUTURE. 29:34.730 --> 29:39.710 AND KNOWING BIBLICAL TRUTH FOR GOD'S PLAN FOR MAN FOR THE AGES, 29:40.910 --> 29:44.660 WE KNOW LEARNING TRUTH ABOUT HEAVEN AND ABOUT HELL 29:44.660 --> 29:49.309 AND ABOUT THE TIMELINE OF FUTURE EVENTS LAID OUT IN SCRIPTURE. 29:49.309 --> 29:51.920 AND THEN UNDERSTANDING HOW GOD'S MERCY AND GRACE 29:51.920 --> 29:56.150 WORKS THROUGHOUT THAT TIMELINE IS VERY IMPORTANT TO US. 29:56.150 --> 29:59.059 AND IT GIVES US HOPE, AND IT GIVES US A SENSE OF URGENCY 29:59.059 --> 30:01.130 TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE FOLLOWING 30:01.130 --> 30:02.269 GOD'S PLAN FOR OUR LIVES. 30:02.269 --> 30:04.250 SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO DO THAT. 30:04.250 --> 30:06.259 WE'VE COVERED A LOT OF TERRITORY ALREADY 30:06.259 --> 30:10.865 ON THE BOOK OF REVELATION, INCLUDING THE RAPTURE 30:10.865 --> 30:13.055 OF THE CHURCH, THE TRIBULATION PERIOD, THE 30:13.055 --> 30:16.505 SECOND COMING OF CHRIST, THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON, 30:16.505 --> 30:19.325 AND THERE AGAIN TALKED ABOUT GOD'S GRACE AND 30:19.325 --> 30:20.795 MERCY THROUGH THAT. 30:20.795 --> 30:24.275 AND LAST TIME THAT WE MET AND TALKED ABOUT REVELATION, I 30:24.275 --> 30:25.724 LOOKED IT UP, IT WAS MAY 20TH. 30:25.759 --> 30:27.694 I CAN'T BELIEVE TIME IS GOING TO FAST. 30:28.055 --> 30:32.585 BUT WE LOOKED AT SPECIFICALLY REVELATION CHAPTER 19 AND THE 30:32.585 --> 30:36.035 SECOND COMING OF CHRIST AND THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON. 30:36.035 --> 30:39.545 NOW, TONIGHT WE'RE MOVING ON INTO REVELATION CHAPTER 20 AND 30:39.545 --> 30:43.414 WE'LL BE LOOKING SPECIFICALLY AT THE 1,000-YEAR 30:43.414 --> 30:46.204 MILLENNIAL PERIOD, THE MILLENNIAL REIGN 30:46.204 --> 30:48.605 OF CHRIST ON THE EARTH. 30:51.634 --> 30:55.894 LIKE ON EARTH DURING THE MILLENNIAL PERIOD AND HOW WE 30:55.894 --> 30:58.055 WILL BE INVOLVED, EACH OF US. 30:58.055 --> 31:00.845 HOPEFULLY EACH ONE THAT'S HERE TONIGHT WILL BE THERE. 31:00.845 --> 31:01.835 BUT THAT'S YOUR DECISION. 31:03.454 --> 31:06.545 SO I WANT TO QUICKLY JUST DO A QUICK 31:06.545 --> 31:09.634 REVIEW OF OUR TIMELINE THAT I'VE USED BEFORE SO MANY TIMES, BUT 31:09.634 --> 31:11.825 I WANT TO BRING EVERYONE UP TO DATE ON THE TIMELINE, KIND OF 31:11.825 --> 31:14.585 WHERE WE'RE AT BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN SO LONG SINCE WE TALKED 31:14.585 --> 31:15.365 ABOUT THIS. 31:15.365 --> 31:19.505 SO AGAIN, WE TALKED ABOUT THE CHURCH AGE, WHICH 31:19.505 --> 31:21.755 IS DESCRIBED IN REVELATION 1 THROUGH 3. 31:21.755 --> 31:24.035 THAT'S WHERE THE SEVEN LETTERS TO THE SEVEN 31:24.035 --> 31:25.055 CHURCHES WERE WRITTEN. 31:25.055 --> 31:27.125 IT APPLIED TO THE TIME FRAME THAT 31:27.125 --> 31:28.325 WE'RE IN NOW. 31:28.325 --> 31:32.045 AND THEN THE NEXT EVENT ON THIS TIMELINE FROM 31:32.045 --> 31:35.825 REVELATION 4 AND 5 IS THE RAPTURE OF THE CHURCH, AND THAT 31:35.825 --> 31:42.214 IS WHERE CHRIST COMES IN THE CLOUDS AND THE DEAD IN CHRIST 31:42.214 --> 31:44.615 WILL BE TRANSFORMED AT THAT TIME. 31:44.615 --> 31:48.904 THEIR BODIES ARE RENEWED WHEREVER THEIR REMAINS ARE. 31:48.904 --> 31:50.914 THEY'RE CAUGHT UP TO BE WITH THE LORD. 31:50.914 --> 31:53.224 AND THEN THOSE OF US THAT ARE ALIVE AT THAT TIME 31:53.224 --> 31:58.295 WHEN THE RAPTURE TAKES PLACE WILL BE CAUGHT UP AND 31:58.295 --> 32:01.744 PHYSICALLY OUR BODIES WILL GO UP WITH JESUS THAT TIME. 32:01.744 --> 32:05.674 AND THEN AT THAT TIME WHILE WE'RE IN HEAVEN ENJOYING, 32:05.674 --> 32:07.414 WELL THERE'S TWO THINGS THAT BASICALLY HAPPEN IN 32:07.414 --> 32:08.585 HEAVEN DURING THAT TIME. 32:08.585 --> 32:10.775 NUMBER ONE IS THE JUDGMENT SEAT OF CHRIST. 32:10.775 --> 32:13.204 WE'RE NOT JUDGED ON THE BASIS OF 32:13.204 --> 32:14.555 WHETHER OR NOT WE'RE SAVED. 32:14.555 --> 32:15.424 WE WOULDN'T HAVE GONE IN THE 32:15.424 --> 32:18.484 RAPTURE HAD WE NOT MADE THAT JUDGMENT. 32:18.484 --> 32:20.974 SO WE JUDGED OURSELVES, MAKE SURE WE'RE 32:20.974 --> 32:23.944 SAVED AND READY, AND WHEN WE GET THERE, WE'RE JUDGED ON OUR 32:23.944 --> 32:27.875 WORKS. WHAT DID WE ACCOMPLISH AS FAR AS GOD'S PLAN ON THE 32:27.875 --> 32:31.085 EARTH? THAT'S WHAT WE'RE JUDGED AND REWARDED FOR. 32:31.085 --> 32:32.734 SO IT'S A REWARD TIME. 32:32.734 --> 32:34.654 AND THEN ALSO THE OTHER THING THAT TAKES PLACE 32:34.654 --> 32:36.785 DURING THAT TIME IS THE MARRIAGE SUPPER OF THE LAMB. 32:36.785 --> 32:37.973 WE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT. 32:37.973 --> 32:41.494 THAT'LL BE THE GREATEST SUPPER IN HISTORY WHEN CHRISTIANS 32:41.494 --> 32:44.315 ALL COME TOGETHER AND HONOR THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND GOD 32:44.315 --> 32:47.105 THE FATHER AT THAT GREAT FEAST. 32:47.105 --> 32:49.684 SO THAT HAPPENS, AND WHILE THAT'S HAPPENING, 32:49.684 --> 32:52.625 THE SEVEN-YEAR TRIBULATION IS TAKING PLACE ON THE EARTH. 32:52.625 --> 32:55.144 THAT'S REVELATION 6 THROUGH 18, THE MAJORITY OF THE 32:55.144 --> 32:58.174 BOOK OF REVELATION TALKS ABOUT THAT TIME FRAME, 32:58.174 --> 32:59.585 THAT SEVEN-YEAR PERIOD. 32:59.585 --> 33:01.025 IT'S DIVIDED IN TWO PARTS. 33:01.025 --> 33:03.964 THE FIRST THREE AND A HALF YEARS ARE A TIME OF RELATIVE 33:03.964 --> 33:06.575 PEACE AND PROSPERITY, AND THEN THE LAST 33:06.575 --> 33:09.785 THREE AND A HALF YEARS, I'M JUST GONNA SAY IT, 33:09.785 --> 33:12.755 ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE ON EARTH AT THAT TIME. 33:12.755 --> 33:15.994 BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS, THERE IS A GREAT REVIVAL 33:15.994 --> 33:17.884 THAT TAKES PLACE DURING THAT PERIOD OF TIME 33:17.884 --> 33:21.035 BECAUSE GOD HAS A MAGNIFICENT PLAN. 33:21.035 --> 33:24.154 THERE'S 144,000 JEWISH EVANGELISTS 33:24.154 --> 33:25.444 THAT COVER THE EARTH. 33:25.444 --> 33:28.565 144,000 BILLY GRAHAM'S ARE GONNA BE CIRCULATING 33:28.565 --> 33:30.755 THROUGH THE EARTH DURING THAT PERIOD OF TIME 33:30.755 --> 33:32.585 WHILE THE TRIBULATION IS GOING ON. 33:32.585 --> 33:37.744 THERE'S ALSO TWO WITNESSES THAT WILL BE IN ISRAEL, AND YOU'LL 33:37.744 --> 33:42.785 SEE THEM ACTIVE BROADCAST THROUGH THE WHOLE WORLD. 33:42.785 --> 33:46.325 AND THEY HAVE A MINISTRY THERE OF PROCLAIMING THE GOSPEL. 33:46.325 --> 33:50.974 AND THEN FINALLY, THERE'S AN ANGEL THAT FLIES AROUND THE 33:50.974 --> 33:54.904 WORLD AND ACTUALLY PROCLAIMS THE GOSPEL TO THE LOST. 33:54.904 --> 33:57.484 SO PEOPLE HAVE PLENTY OF OPPORTUNITIES TO HEAR THE 33:57.484 --> 34:01.444 GOSPEL, EVEN IF THEY MISS THE RAPTURE AND ARE PART OF GOING 34:01.444 --> 34:03.154 THROUGH AND ENDURING THE TRIBULATION. 34:03.154 --> 34:06.275 SO THAT HAPPENS VERSUS, OR EXCUSE ME, REVELATION 6 THROUGH 34:06.275 --> 34:08.494 18. AND THEN LAST TIME WE MET 34:08.494 --> 34:11.195 ON MAY 20TH, WE TALKED ABOUT REVELATION 19, 34:11.195 --> 34:12.425 THE SECOND COMING. 34:12.425 --> 34:16.625 AND THAT'S WHERE THOSE OF US THAT ARE IN HEAVEN DURING THAT 34:16.625 --> 34:19.534 TRIBULATION TIME, WE COME BACK WITH JESUS. 34:19.534 --> 34:20.795 HE'S RIDING A WHITE HORSE. 34:20.795 --> 34:23.585 WE'LL ALL HAVE OUR WHITE HORSES RIDING WITH HIM, 34:23.585 --> 34:27.155 AND THAT'S WHEN HE FACES THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON, 34:27.155 --> 34:29.494 AND HIS ENEMIES ARE QUICKLY DESTROYED. 34:29.494 --> 34:33.605 AND THEN WE MOVE INTO THE THOUSAND-YEAR MILLENNIAL REIGN 34:33.605 --> 34:34.804 THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TONIGHT, 34:34.804 --> 34:36.065 AND THAT'S REVELATION 20. 34:36.065 --> 34:38.375 SO JUST TO KIND OF GIVE YOU A QUICK IDEA 34:38.375 --> 34:42.005 OF WHERE WE'RE GOING, THAT WOULD BE THE TIMELINE. 34:44.135 --> 34:46.324 AND THEN AS WE MOVE INTO REVELATION 20, 34:46.324 --> 34:49.445 I WANTED TO JUST PREVIEW SOME OF THE ASPECTS 34:49.445 --> 34:51.815 OF THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM THAT WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT TONIGHT, 34:51.815 --> 34:53.105 JUST TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE PREVIEW 34:53.105 --> 34:55.655 SO YOU'LL KNOW WHERE WE'RE GOING BEFORE WE START. 34:55.655 --> 34:59.315 IF YOU'LL PUT THAT SLIDE UP OF LIFE ON EARTH 34:59.315 --> 35:01.835 DURING THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM, NUMBER ONE, WE'RE GONNA 35:01.835 --> 35:04.144 SEE THAT SATAN IS BOUND FOR A THOUSAND YEARS 35:04.144 --> 35:05.974 DURING THIS PERIOD OF TIME, ACCORDING TO 35:05.974 --> 35:07.175 REVELATION 1 THROUGH 3. 35:07.175 --> 35:10.414 THAT'S AN EXCITING PART OF THE MILLENNIAL REIGN. 35:10.414 --> 35:13.264 NUMBER TWO, JESUS WILL RULE FROM JERUSALEM 35:13.264 --> 35:16.054 AND WE THE CHRISTIANS, AND THERE'LL BE A FEW OTHERS 35:16.054 --> 35:18.724 THAT I'LL EXPLAIN WHO THEY ARE, TWO DIFFERENT GROUPS, 35:18.724 --> 35:22.175 THAT WILL RULE AND REIGN WITH JESUS DURING THAT TIME. 35:22.175 --> 35:25.144 AND THEN THERE'S A JUDGMENT OF TRIBULATION SURVIVORS 35:25.144 --> 35:26.465 THAT HAPPENS THEN. 35:26.465 --> 35:29.014 THERE'S A TIME OF PEACE AND JOY ALL THROUGH THE MILLENNIUM. 35:29.014 --> 35:32.974 IT'S A TIME OF LONGEVITY AND ANIMALS WILL BE TAMED. 35:32.974 --> 35:35.914 SO I'LL EXPLAIN ALL THAT DETAIL AS WE GO TONIGHT, 35:35.914 --> 35:37.744 BUT I JUST WANTED TO KIND OF GIVE YOU 35:37.744 --> 35:39.034 A LITTLE PREVIEW THERE. 35:39.034 --> 35:41.554 LET'S START BY GOING RIGHT TO REVELATION 20, 35:41.554 --> 35:43.534 VERSES ONE THROUGH THREE. 35:43.534 --> 35:45.695 AND I'M GONNA READ THAT TONIGHT OUT OF THE NEW 35:45.695 --> 35:48.875 KING JAMES VERSION, AND WE'LL START WITH THIS. 35:48.875 --> 35:51.545 AND IT SAYS, "THEN I SAW AN ANGEL COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN, 35:51.545 --> 35:54.244 "HAVING THE KEY TO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT 35:54.244 --> 35:55.835 "AND A GREAT CHAIN IN HIS HAND. 35:57.394 --> 36:00.244 "HE LAID HOLD OF THE DRAGON, THAT SERPENT OF OLD, 36:00.244 --> 36:02.614 "WHO IS THE DEVIL AND SATAN, "AND BOUND HIM FOR 36:02.614 --> 36:03.965 A THOUSAND YEARS." 36:03.965 --> 36:06.005 HALLELUJAH. "AND HE CAST HIM INTO 36:06.005 --> 36:08.344 THE BOTTOMLESS PIT "AND SHUT HIM UP AND 36:08.344 --> 36:12.215 SET A SEAL ON HIM "THAT HE SHOULD DECEIVE 36:12.215 --> 36:15.034 THE NATIONS NO MORE "TILL THE THOUSAND 36:15.034 --> 36:16.264 YEARS WERE FINISHED. 36:16.264 --> 36:18.335 "BUT AFTER THESE THINGS, "HE MUST BE RELEASED 36:18.335 --> 36:19.280 FOR A LITTLE WHILE." 36:20.974 --> 36:26.284 THAT IS REVELATION 20, VERSES ONE THROUGH THREE. 36:26.284 --> 36:30.784 SO AS WE LOOK AT THAT, WE CAN SEE THAT JOHN 36:30.784 --> 36:34.114 HAS A VISION OF AN ANGEL COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN. 36:34.114 --> 36:36.244 IT'S NOT JESUS, IT'S AN ANGEL. 36:36.244 --> 36:38.434 AND HE HAS TWO THINGS IN HIS HANDS. 36:38.434 --> 36:42.364 ONE IS A GREAT CHAIN AND THE OTHER THING 36:42.364 --> 36:45.545 THAT HE HAS IS A KEY TO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT. 36:45.545 --> 36:47.764 AND THIS ANGEL HAS BEEN GIVEN AUTHORITY 36:47.764 --> 36:50.974 BY JESUS TO BIND SATAN. 36:50.974 --> 36:54.215 VERSE 2 TELLS US THAT THE ANGEL SEIZES THE DRAGON AND 36:54.215 --> 36:56.824 BINDS HIM FOR A THOUSAND YEARS. 36:56.824 --> 36:59.735 REVELATION 22, I'M GOING TO REPEAT SOME THINGS TONIGHT 36:59.735 --> 37:02.014 BECAUSE I WANT THIS TO COME IN TO YOUR SPIRITS. 37:02.014 --> 37:04.175 HE LAID HOLD OF THE DRAGON, THAT SERPENT OF 37:04.175 --> 37:07.565 OLD, WHO IS THE DEVIL AND SATAN, AND BOUND HIM FOR A 37:07.565 --> 37:09.394 THOUSAND YEARS. 37:09.394 --> 37:11.914 SO NOW WE SEE DIFFERENT TERMS HERE. 37:11.914 --> 37:14.494 JOHN WANTS YOU TO REALLY KNOW WHO THIS PERSON IS 37:14.494 --> 37:16.894 THAT GETS BOUND FOR A THOUSAND YEARS. 37:17.974 --> 37:19.744 HE CALLS HIM THE DRAGON, HE CALLS 37:19.744 --> 37:22.985 HIM THE OLD SERPENT, HE CALLS HIM THE DEVIL, AND FINALLY CALLS 37:22.985 --> 37:23.855 HIM SATAN. 37:23.855 --> 37:26.885 FOUR DESCRIPTIVE TERMS FOR THE SAME PERSON, 37:26.885 --> 37:27.695 THE DEVIL. 37:27.695 --> 37:30.034 THE DRAGON IS THE NAME BY WHICH SATAN IS KNOWN 37:30.034 --> 37:31.385 IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION. 37:31.385 --> 37:32.945 THE FIRST TIME THAT YOU SEE DRAGON 37:32.945 --> 37:36.664 USED IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION IS REVELATION 12 VERSE 9. 37:36.664 --> 37:38.405 AND I THINK IT'S LIKE 13 TIMES 37:38.405 --> 37:43.715 AFTERWARDS THE DRAGON IS USED TO SYMBOLIZE SATAN. 37:43.715 --> 37:45.394 AND THEN NUMBER TWO, THE SERPENT 37:45.394 --> 37:51.514 OF OLD IS A REFERENCE BACK TO THE BOOK OF GENESIS 37:51.514 --> 37:52.804 CHAPTER 3. 37:52.804 --> 37:54.304 AND THE FIRST TIME WE'RE INTRODUCED TO 37:54.304 --> 37:57.664 SATAN IN THE BIBLE, HE APPEARS AS A SERPENT IN 37:57.664 --> 37:58.985 THE GARDEN OF EDEN. 37:58.985 --> 38:00.664 THE OLD SERPENT IS THE ONE THAT 38:00.664 --> 38:04.114 CONVINCES EVE THAT SHE WILL NOT DIE IF SHE EATS THE 38:04.114 --> 38:08.105 FRUIT, AND THEN ADAM, OF COURSE, GOES RIGHT ALONG WITH EVE 38:08.105 --> 38:12.184 AND JOINS IN, DOESN'T INTERVENE, AND THEY BOTH SIN. 38:12.184 --> 38:14.764 SO BOTH ADAM AND EVE END UP BELIEVING THE LIE 38:14.764 --> 38:17.554 THAT GOD IS DEPRIVING THEM FROM SOMETHING, 38:17.554 --> 38:19.684 AND IF THEY WOULD JUST EAT THAT FRUIT 38:19.684 --> 38:23.284 THAT GOD TOLD THEM NOT TO EAT, THEIR EYES WOULD BE OPEN 38:23.284 --> 38:24.784 AND THEY WOULD BE AS WISE AS GOD. 38:24.784 --> 38:27.635 THAT'S WHAT THEY WERE DECEIVED INTO BELIEVING. 38:27.635 --> 38:30.635 SO THE SERPENT OF OLD IS A DESCRIPTION OF SATAN. 38:30.635 --> 38:32.074 AND THEN NUMBER THREE, DEVIL. 38:32.074 --> 38:34.085 THAT'S THE ONE WE'RE PROBABLY MOST FAMILIAR WITH. 38:34.085 --> 38:37.144 THE WORD DEVIL IN THE GREEK IS DIABOLOS. 38:37.144 --> 38:42.905 IT MEANS DIABOLIC AND INHERENTLY EVIL, AND HE IS. 38:42.905 --> 38:44.434 AND THEN THE FINAL DESCRIPTIVE NAME 38:44.434 --> 38:46.894 THAT JOHN GIVES IS THE TERM SATAN. 38:46.894 --> 38:51.454 IN HEBREW, THE TERM SATAN MEANS ADVERSARY OR ACCUSER. 38:52.775 --> 38:55.625 SO VERSE THREE TELLS US THE DEVIL'S BOUND UP 38:55.625 --> 38:58.324 IN THE BOTTOMLESS PIT FOR A THOUSAND YEARS 38:58.324 --> 39:00.514 DURING THIS MILLENNIAL REIGN. 39:00.514 --> 39:04.894 AND YOU MIGHT BE THINKING, HOW CAN AN ANGEL OR A SPIRIT 39:04.894 --> 39:09.695 BE BOUND BY A LITERAL CHAIN AND BE CAST INTO A MATERIAL 39:09.695 --> 39:11.525 PLACE LIKE A BOTTOMLESS PIT? 39:12.574 --> 39:15.695 BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT SCRIPTURE, IT DOES MAKE SENSE 39:15.695 --> 39:18.304 BECAUSE SCRIPTURE INTERPRETS SCRIPTURE. 39:18.304 --> 39:20.855 AND WE SEE THAT ANGELS HAVE BODIES 39:20.855 --> 39:24.034 AND THEY CAN BE CONFINED TO SPECIFIC LOCATIONS. 39:24.034 --> 39:26.315 AND I'M NOT GONNA GO INTO ALL THE DETAIL ON THIS, 39:26.315 --> 39:28.324 BUT IF YOU'RE TAKING NOTES TONIGHT, 39:28.324 --> 39:29.434 YOU CAN STUDY THIS AT HOME. 39:29.434 --> 39:33.094 BUT 2 PETER 2.4, I'LL JUST READ IT QUICKLY, SAYS, 39:33.094 --> 39:35.405 IF GOD DID NOT SPARE ANGELS WHO SINNED 39:35.405 --> 39:37.295 BUT CAST THEM DOWN TO HELL AND DELIVERED THEM 39:37.295 --> 39:40.954 INTO CHAINS OF DARKNESS TO BE RESERVED FOR JUDGMENT, 39:40.954 --> 39:42.425 SO THEY WERE CHAINED THERE. 39:42.425 --> 39:45.545 AND THEN JUDE 6.7 SAYS, AND I REMIND YOU OF THE ANGELS 39:45.545 --> 39:48.065 WHO DID NOT STAY WITH THE LIMITS OF AUTHORITY. 39:48.065 --> 39:51.094 GOD GAVE THEM BUT LEFT THE PLACE WHERE THEY BELONGED. 39:51.094 --> 39:55.204 GOD HAS KEPT THEM SECURELY CHAINED IN PRISONS OF DARKNESS 39:55.204 --> 39:56.855 WAITING FOR THE GREAT DAY OF JUDGMENT. 39:56.855 --> 39:59.525 SO THERE'S SEVERAL INSTANCES IN SCRIPTURE 39:59.525 --> 40:02.675 WHERE WE SEE ANGELS THAT WERE BOUND OR CHAINED. 40:03.784 --> 40:06.755 WELL, NEXT WEEK, I BELIEVE IT'S NEXT WEDNESDAY, 40:06.755 --> 40:09.215 WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT, 40:09.215 --> 40:11.855 WHICH IS THE END OF REVELATION CHAPTER 20. 40:11.855 --> 40:15.356 AND THEN WE FIND OUT THAT ALL WICKED MEN, DEMONS, 40:15.356 --> 40:19.585 FALLEN ANGELS, AND REBELLIOUS CREATURES OF ALL KINDS 40:19.585 --> 40:23.186 ARE CONFINED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE FOREVER. 40:23.186 --> 40:26.065 SO THEY'RE LOCKED INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE FOREVER. 40:26.065 --> 40:27.715 IT'S NOT A GOOD THING. 40:27.715 --> 40:30.925 REVELATION 20, 15 SAYS ANYONE WHOSE NAME WAS NOT FOUND 40:30.925 --> 40:33.956 AND RECORDED IN THE BOOK OF LIFE WAS THROWN INTO 40:33.956 --> 40:34.675 THE LAKE OF FIRE. 40:34.675 --> 40:38.456 THAT'S FOR ETERNITY. 40:38.456 --> 40:42.525 BUT LET'S MOVE ON AND CONTINUE TO REREAD VERSE THREE. 40:43.945 --> 40:47.246 REVELATION 20, VERSE THREE, "AND HE CAST HIM INTO THE 40:47.246 --> 40:50.275 BOTTOMLESS PIT AND SHUT HIM UP "AND SET A SEAL ON HIM 40:50.275 --> 40:52.615 SO THAT HE SHOULD DECEIVE "THE NATIONS NO MORE," 40:52.615 --> 40:55.106 TALKING ABOUT SATAN AGAIN, "UNTIL THE THOUSAND 40:55.106 --> 40:56.306 YEARS WERE FINISHED. 40:56.306 --> 40:58.945 "BUT AFTER THESE THINGS, HE MUST BE RELEASED 40:58.945 --> 41:00.565 "FOR A LITTLE WHILE." 41:00.565 --> 41:05.365 NOW, IF YOU HAVEN'T EVER REALLY THOUGHT ABOUT THAT VERSE MUCH, 41:05.365 --> 41:08.425 YOU MIGHT BE ASKING AT THIS POINT, "WHY?" 41:08.425 --> 41:11.036 WHY, IF SATAN IS BOUND FOR A THOUSAND YEARS, 41:11.036 --> 41:15.175 HE'S WRAPPED IN CHAINS, HE'S IN THE BOTTOMLESS PIT, 41:15.175 --> 41:18.655 AND GOD HAS EVEN SEALED HIM SO THAT HE STAYS THERE, 41:18.655 --> 41:22.525 IT'S LIKE, WHY IS HE GONNA GET RELEASED FOR A SHORT TIME? 41:22.525 --> 41:24.297 JESUS, WHY WOULD YOU RELEASE HIM? 41:25.376 --> 41:27.085 WE GOT HIM PENNED UP FOR A THOUSAND YEARS, 41:27.085 --> 41:28.976 JUST KEEP HIM THERE. 41:28.976 --> 41:31.346 KIND OF MAKES ME THINK OF, I LIKE TO WATCH THE OLD 41:31.346 --> 41:35.036 BLACK AND WHITE WESTERNS AND YOU SEE THE SHERIFF GET 41:35.036 --> 41:38.786 THE THIEVES OR THE ROBBERS IN JAIL AND CAPTURED AND 41:38.786 --> 41:42.565 THEN FOR SOME STUPID REASON, THE SHERIFF MAKES A 41:42.565 --> 41:44.876 MISTAKE AND DELIVERS FOOD TO THESE PRISONERS 41:44.876 --> 41:48.264 AND THEY OVERCOME HIM AND LOCK THE SHERIFF 41:48.264 --> 41:51.115 UP AND TAKE THE KEYS AND THEY GO OFF AND DO 41:51.115 --> 41:53.695 THEIR NEXT EVIL THING. 41:55.436 --> 41:58.675 SO, WHY DOES SATAN GET RELEASED? 41:58.675 --> 42:00.806 WELL, BEFORE I ANSWER THIS QUESTION, 42:00.806 --> 42:01.764 WE'RE GOING TO KEEP GOING TONIGHT, 42:01.764 --> 42:03.416 BUT I WILL COME BACK TO THAT. 42:03.416 --> 42:04.780 LET YOU THINK ON THAT ONE FOR A MINUTE. 42:06.175 --> 42:09.416 REVELATION CHAPTER 20, VERSES 4 THROUGH 6. 42:09.416 --> 42:11.275 LET'S GO AHEAD AND READ 4 THROUGH 6. 42:11.275 --> 42:14.215 "AND I SAW THRONES, AND THEY SAT ON THEM, 42:14.215 --> 42:16.315 AND JUDGMENT WAS COMMITTED TO THEM. 42:16.315 --> 42:18.835 THEN I SAW THE SOULS OF THOSE THAT HAD BEEN BEHEADED FOR 42:18.835 --> 42:21.925 THEIR WITNESS TO JESUS AND FOR THE WORD OF GOD, WHO HAD NOT 42:21.925 --> 42:25.735 WORSHIPPED THE BEAST OR HIS IMAGE, AND HAD NOT RECEIVED THE 42:25.735 --> 42:27.956 MARK ON THEIR FOREHEADS OR IN THEIR HANDS. 42:27.956 --> 42:31.615 AND THEY LIVED AND REIGNED WITH CHRIST FOR A THOUSAND YEARS. 42:32.726 --> 42:34.885 BUT THE REST OF THE DEAD DID NOT LIVE AGAIN TILL THE 42:34.885 --> 42:36.626 THOUSAND YEARS WERE FINISHED. 42:36.626 --> 42:38.576 THIS IS THE FIRST RESURRECTION. 42:40.405 --> 42:43.585 "BLESSED AND HOLY IS HE WHO HAS PART IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION. 42:43.585 --> 42:45.956 OVER SUCH THE SECOND DEATH HAS NO POWER, 42:45.956 --> 42:49.255 BUT THEY SHALL BE PRIESTS OF GOD AND OF CHRIST 42:49.255 --> 42:51.985 AND SHALL REIGN WITH HIM A THOUSAND YEARS." 42:51.985 --> 42:55.195 SO IN VERSE FOUR, WE READ THAT JOHN NOW SEES THRONES 42:55.195 --> 42:59.306 IN HEAVEN AND HE SEES WHO SAT ON THEM. 42:59.306 --> 43:03.025 VERSE FOUR SAYS, "I SAW THRONES AND THEY SAT ON THEM 43:03.025 --> 43:05.215 AND JUDGMENT WAS COMMITTED TO THEM." 43:05.215 --> 43:08.666 THAT GIVES A KEY TO WHO'S SITTING ON THESE THRONES. 43:09.746 --> 43:12.295 THE VERSE TELLS US THAT JUDGMENT WAS COMMITTED 43:12.295 --> 43:13.465 TO THESE INDIVIDUALS. 43:13.465 --> 43:15.476 THAT GIVES US SOME INSIGHT HERE BECAUSE IN 1 43:15.476 --> 43:20.996 CORINTHIANS 6 AND VERSE 2, WE SEE THE SCRIPTURE THAT SAYS, 43:20.996 --> 43:25.045 "DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT THE SAINTS WILL JUDGE THE WORLD? 43:25.045 --> 43:28.166 AND IF THE WORLD WILL BE JUDGED BY YOU, ARE YOU UNWORTHY TO 43:28.166 --> 43:29.905 JUDGE THE SMALLEST MATTERS?" 43:29.905 --> 43:33.295 SO PAUL IS TELLING US THAT THE SAINTS WILL JUDGE THE WORLD. 43:34.346 --> 43:38.155 GOD WILL USE BELIEVERS IN THAT DAY TO HELP HIM RULE AND REIGN 43:38.155 --> 43:41.396 AND TO JUDGE THE WORLD AT THE END OF THE TRIBULATION 43:41.396 --> 43:44.186 AS WE COME INTO THIS MILLENNIAL KINGDOM TIME. 43:44.186 --> 43:47.246 PAUL TELLS US THAT IT'LL BE SAINTS, IT'LL BE CHRISTIANS, 43:47.246 --> 43:49.856 IT'LL BE BELIEVERS WHO JUDGE THE WORLD 43:49.856 --> 43:51.914 UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF JESUS CHRIST. 43:53.096 --> 43:55.076 THE SAINTS DESCRIBED HERE ARE BELIEVERS 43:55.076 --> 43:57.175 THAT HAVE ALREADY GONE TO HEAVEN. 43:57.175 --> 43:58.916 THEY'VE DIED OR THEY WERE RAPTURED 43:58.916 --> 44:00.536 BEFORE THE TRIBULATION. 44:00.536 --> 44:03.746 THEY'VE RETURNED WITH JESUS AT THE SECOND COMING 44:03.746 --> 44:05.726 AND NOW THEY'RE GOING TO BE RULING AND REIGNING 44:05.726 --> 44:09.985 FOR THIS THOUSAND YEAR MILLENNIAL REIGN TIME FRAME. 44:09.985 --> 44:13.346 AND THAT'S THE FIRST GROUP THAT JOHN SEES IN REVELATION 24, 44:13.346 --> 44:15.326 BUT THEN THERE'S ALSO A SECOND GROUP. 44:15.326 --> 44:18.835 LET'S CONTINUE READING REVELATION 20, CHAPTER 44:18.835 --> 44:20.456 20, VERSE FOUR AGAIN. 44:20.456 --> 44:22.346 "AND I SAW THRONES AND THEY SAT ON THEM 44:22.346 --> 44:23.695 "AND JUDGMENT WAS COMMITTED TO THEM. 44:23.695 --> 44:25.916 "AND THEN I SAW THE SOULS OF THOSE THAT HAD BEEN BEHEADED 44:25.916 --> 44:28.856 "FOR THEIR WITNESS TO JESUS AND THE WORD OF GOD. 44:28.856 --> 44:31.135 "AND THESE ARE THE ONES THAT HAVE NOT WORSHIPED THE BEAST, 44:31.135 --> 44:33.385 "HIS IMAGE, OR RECEIVED THE MARK "IN THE FOREHEADS 44:33.385 --> 44:34.405 OF THEIR HANDS. 44:34.405 --> 44:37.014 "AND THEY LIVED AND REIGNED WITH CHRIST FOR A THOUSAND YEARS." 44:37.014 --> 44:40.496 SO THIS SECOND GROUP THAT JOHN SEES ARE ALSO BELIEVERS, 44:40.496 --> 44:43.585 BUT HE DISTINGUISHES THEM FROM THOSE 44:43.585 --> 44:45.806 THAT DIED BEFORE THE TRIBULATION. 44:45.806 --> 44:48.956 THESE ARE THE SAINTS THAT WERE MARTYRED FOR THEIR FAITH, 44:48.956 --> 44:50.155 THIS SECOND GROUP. 44:50.155 --> 44:52.615 THEY WERE KILLED BECAUSE OF THEIR FAITH. 44:52.615 --> 44:56.456 THEY DID NOT DENY THEIR TESTIMONY OR THEIR WITNESS 44:56.456 --> 44:59.246 FOR JESUS DURING THIS TIME OF THE TRIBULATION. 44:59.246 --> 45:02.396 THEY DIDN'T WORSHIP THE BEAST, WHICH IS THE ANTICHRIST. 45:02.396 --> 45:05.576 THEY DIDN'T RECEIVE THE MARK, THE 666 MARK, 45:05.576 --> 45:07.315 ON THEIR FOREHEAD OR IN THEIR HANDS. 45:08.514 --> 45:12.476 AND NOW THESE MARTYRS ARE ALSO GOING TO BE RULING 45:12.476 --> 45:15.896 AND REIGNING WITH JESUS AND US DURING THIS THOUSAND 45:15.896 --> 45:17.606 YEAR MILLENNIAL REIGN. 45:17.606 --> 45:19.106 WE LOOKED AT THIS SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, 45:19.106 --> 45:24.476 BUT I'M GONNA GO BACK TO REVELATION 5, VERSE 9 AND 10. 45:24.476 --> 45:27.295 IT ALSO DESCRIBES THESE MARTYRS IN THESE VERSES. 45:27.295 --> 45:30.806 IT SAYS, REVELATION 5, 9 AND 10, "AND THEY SANG A 45:30.806 --> 45:33.385 NEW SONG, SAYING, "'YOU ARE WORTHY TO TAKE THE 45:33.385 --> 45:36.985 SCROLL AND TO OPEN ITS SEALS, "'FOR YOU WERE SLAIN, AND 45:36.985 --> 45:40.286 YOU HAVE REDEEMED US TO GOD "'BY YOUR BLOOD OUT OF 45:40.286 --> 45:43.735 EVERY TRIBE AND TONGUE "AND PEOPLE AND NATION, 45:44.755 --> 45:47.635 "AND HAVE MADE US KINGS AND PRIESTS TO OUR GOD, 45:47.635 --> 45:50.786 "AND WE SHALL REIGN ON THE EARTH." 45:50.786 --> 45:53.606 SO JUST TO BE CLEAR, THIS IS SIMILAR LANGUAGE 45:53.606 --> 45:56.215 TO WHAT WE JUST READ IN REVELATION 20, VERSE SIX, 45:56.215 --> 45:59.005 TELLING US THAT THE SECOND DEATH HAS NO POWER 45:59.005 --> 46:03.356 OVER THESE SAINTS, AND THEY WILL BE PRIESTS OF GOD 46:03.356 --> 46:06.025 AND REIGN FOR A THOUSAND YEARS. 46:06.025 --> 46:08.846 REVELATION 26, "BLESSED AND HOLY IS HE 46:08.846 --> 46:11.246 "WHO HAS PART IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION. 46:11.246 --> 46:14.036 "OVER SUCH, THE SECOND DEATH HAS NO POWER, 46:14.036 --> 46:16.764 "BUT THEY SHALL BE PRIESTS OF GOD AND OF CHRIST 46:16.764 --> 46:19.226 "AND SHALL REIGN WITH HIM A THOUSAND YEARS." 46:19.226 --> 46:22.795 OKAY, EVERYONE FOLLOWING ME NOW, THOSE TWO GROUPS THAT ARE 46:22.795 --> 46:25.346 RULING AND REIGNING WITH JESUS. 46:25.346 --> 46:28.675 SO WHAT DO WE DO IN CHRIST'S GOVERNMENT 46:28.675 --> 46:30.985 DURING THESE THOUSAND YEARS? 46:30.985 --> 46:34.496 AND MY ANSWER TO THAT IS, FRANKLY, I DO NOT KNOW. 46:34.496 --> 46:36.175 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 46:36.175 --> 46:37.465 BEING HONEST WITH YOU. 46:37.465 --> 46:39.565 BUT I DO KNOW THIS, IN SCRIPTURE, 46:39.565 --> 46:41.755 THERE SEEMS TO BE A RELATIONSHIP 46:41.755 --> 46:45.056 BETWEEN A PERSON'S FAITHFULNESS IN THIS AGE 46:45.056 --> 46:50.485 THAT WE'RE NOW LIVING IN, AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE 46:50.485 --> 46:52.856 OPPORTUNITIES THAT ARE GONNA BE GIVEN TO 46:52.856 --> 46:58.076 US DURING THIS FUTURE TIME THAT WE'RE RULING AND REIGNING. 46:58.076 --> 47:01.764 THE PARABLE OF THE TALENTS IN MATTHEW 25, 14 THROUGH 30 47:01.764 --> 47:05.606 INDICATES THAT JESUS WILL REWARD US WITH RESPONSIBILITIES 47:05.606 --> 47:09.385 BASED ON OUR FAITHFULNESS TO HIM DURING OUR TIME ON EARTH. 47:10.525 --> 47:12.686 SO I BELIEVE THAT'S THE ANSWER TO IT. 47:12.686 --> 47:16.315 BUT PEOPLE THAT WERE FAITHFUL TO GOD, 47:16.315 --> 47:19.496 DID WHAT THEY WERE CALLED TO DO WHILE THEY WERE ON EARTH, 47:19.496 --> 47:22.076 WILL POSSIBLY HAVE, I CAN'T MAKE A DOCTRINE OUT OF THIS, 47:22.076 --> 47:24.235 BUT THEY'LL POSSIBLY, IT SEEMS LIKE, 47:24.235 --> 47:27.326 HAVE MORE RESPONSIBILITY DURING THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM 47:27.326 --> 47:32.155 THAN LIKE SOMEONE THAT MAYBE SAID A PRAYER OF SALVATION, 47:32.155 --> 47:33.985 CONFESSED JESUS ON THEIR DEATHBED, NEVER 47:33.985 --> 47:36.686 LIVED FOR CHRIST, YOU KNOW, DIDN'T FOLLOW GOD'S 47:36.686 --> 47:39.505 ACTUAL PLAN FOR THEIR LIFE, BUT THEY BECAME A BELIEVER 47:39.505 --> 47:40.496 AT THE LAST MOMENT. 47:40.496 --> 47:43.856 SOMEONE LIKE THAT POSSIBLY WILL NOT HAVE 47:43.856 --> 47:46.255 AS MUCH ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY IN THE MILLENNIUM 47:46.255 --> 47:48.505 THAN SOMEONE THAT HAD SERVED GOD ALL THEIR LIFE 47:48.505 --> 47:50.306 AND BEEN FAITHFUL TO HIS PLAN. 47:50.306 --> 47:51.387 THAT'S WHAT IT APPEARS LIKE. 47:51.387 --> 47:55.496 BUT WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND, WHEN WE 47:55.496 --> 47:58.436 GO INTO THAT 1,000-YEAR PERIOD, THERE WILL BE SURVIVORS. 47:58.436 --> 48:00.896 THERE WILL BE HUMAN BEINGS LIVING ON EARTH 48:00.896 --> 48:04.135 WHO COME THROUGH THE TRIBULATION PERIOD, WHO WILL THEN 48:04.135 --> 48:07.585 BE LIVING DURING THIS MILLENNIAL PERIOD OF TIME. 48:07.585 --> 48:10.976 AND LIFE IS GOING TO JUST GO ON LIKE USUAL. 48:10.976 --> 48:13.436 THERE'LL BE TWO GROUPS OF INDIVIDUALS LIVING ON EARTH 48:13.436 --> 48:15.146 DURING THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM. 48:15.146 --> 48:16.166 LET'S PUT THAT SLIDE UP. 48:16.166 --> 48:18.056 THE TWO CLASSIFICATIONS OF INDIVIDUALS 48:18.056 --> 48:19.405 DURING THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM. 48:19.405 --> 48:21.956 NUMBER ONE, THE SAINTS WHO COME BACK WITH JESUS 48:21.956 --> 48:23.905 AT THE SECOND COMING IN OUR GLORIFIED BODIES. 48:23.905 --> 48:27.235 THAT'S US, ALL THE REDEEMED THAT HAVE GONE TO HEAVEN, 48:27.235 --> 48:29.365 COME BACK WITH JESUS AT THE SECOND COMING. 48:29.365 --> 48:30.445 THAT'S THE FIRST GROUP. 48:30.445 --> 48:33.865 NUMBER TWO, THEY'LL BE RIGHTEOUS SURVIVORS OF THE TRIBULATION. 48:33.865 --> 48:37.706 THESE ARE NATURAL HUMAN BEINGS, NEVER HAD GLORIFIED BODIES. 48:37.706 --> 48:39.626 THEY'RE JUST LIKE YOU AND I ARE TODAY, 48:39.626 --> 48:42.264 AND THEY WILL ALSO GO INTO THAT MILLENNIAL KINGDOM 48:42.264 --> 48:43.255 PERIOD OF TIME. 48:45.056 --> 48:46.795 LET ME TRY TO EXPLAIN THIS A LITTLE BETTER. 48:47.965 --> 48:52.195 IN VERSE 6, WE SEE THAT JESUS WILL RULE FROM JERUSALEM AND 48:52.195 --> 48:54.715 CHRISTIANS WILL RULE AND REIGN WITH HIM. 48:54.715 --> 48:57.536 AND AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS PERIOD, THERE'LL BE A JUDGMENT 48:57.536 --> 48:59.755 OF THE TRIBULATION SURVIVORS. 48:59.755 --> 49:03.085 EVERYBODY WHO SURVIVES THE TRIBULATION IS NOT 49:03.085 --> 49:05.335 NECESSARILY RIGHT WITH GOD. 49:05.335 --> 49:07.826 JUST BECAUSE THEY SOMEHOW MADE IT THROUGH EVERYTHING THAT 49:07.826 --> 49:11.576 GOES ON IN THE TRIBULATION DOESN'T MEAN THAT THEY ARE 49:11.576 --> 49:15.686 SAVED AND HAVE ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST AS SAVIOR. 49:15.686 --> 49:17.335 THERE'S GOING TO BE A LARGE NUMBER OF PEOPLE 49:17.335 --> 49:21.686 THAT HAVE REJECTED CHRIST, BUT THEY SURVIVE 49:21.686 --> 49:22.585 THE TRIBULATION. 49:22.585 --> 49:25.916 AND AT THAT POINT, THERE'S GOING TO BE A JUDGMENT OF THOSE 49:25.916 --> 49:30.536 THAT SURVIVE THE TRIBULATION, BOTH BELIEVERS AND UNBELIEVERS. 49:30.536 --> 49:33.715 THIS IS A JUDGMENT OF TRIBULATION SURVIVORS. 49:33.715 --> 49:37.346 JESUS DESCRIBES THIS IN MATTHEW 25 VERSES 31 THROUGH 34. 49:37.346 --> 49:38.695 LET ME READ THAT TO YOU. 49:38.695 --> 49:41.666 IT SAYS, "BUT WHEN THE SON OF MAN COMES IN HIS GLORY 49:41.666 --> 49:44.485 "AND ALL THE ANGELS WITH HIM, "THEN HE WILL SIT UPON 49:44.485 --> 49:46.286 HIS GLORIOUS THRONE. 49:46.286 --> 49:48.865 "ALL NATIONS WILL BE GATHERED IN HIS PRESENCE, 49:48.865 --> 49:52.615 "AND HE WILL SEPARATE THE PEOPLE "AS A SHEPHERD SEPARATES 49:52.615 --> 49:54.925 THE SHEEP FROM THE GOATS. 49:54.925 --> 49:57.385 "HE WILL PLACE THE SHEEP ON HIS RIGHT HAND 49:57.385 --> 49:59.635 AND THE GOATS ON HIS LEFT HAND. 49:59.635 --> 50:01.735 THEN THE KING WILL SAY TO THOSE ON HIS RIGHT HAND, 50:01.735 --> 50:03.686 'COME, YOU WHO ARE BLESSED BY MY FATHER, 50:03.686 --> 50:05.606 INHERIT THE KINGDOM PREPARED FOR YOU 50:05.606 --> 50:07.166 FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD.'" 50:08.485 --> 50:11.155 HALLELUJAH. SO, IF YOU MOVE DOWN THEN 50:11.155 --> 50:16.076 TO VERSE 41, MATTHEW 25, IT SAYS, "THEN THE KING WILL 50:16.076 --> 50:18.655 TURN TO THOSE ON THE LEFT AND SAY, 'AWAY WITH 50:18.655 --> 50:20.186 YOU, YOU CURSED ONES.'" 50:20.186 --> 50:21.476 THOSE WOULD BE THE GOATS. 50:21.476 --> 50:25.045 INTO THE ETERNAL FIRE PREPARED FOR THE DEVIL AND HIS DEMONS. 50:28.181 --> 50:31.420 SO JESUS DESCRIBES THE SHEEP AS BEING THE RIGHTEOUS 50:31.420 --> 50:34.061 ON THE RIGHT HAND, THE TRUE FOLLOWERS OF CHRIST. 50:34.061 --> 50:37.570 THOSE ARE REWARDED AND THEY INHERIT THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 50:37.570 --> 50:40.210 THE GOATS ARE THE WICKED ONES THAT HAVE REJECTED JESUS 50:40.210 --> 50:42.670 AND FAILED TO PRODUCE THE FRUITS OF FAITH. 50:42.670 --> 50:44.860 SO FROM THESE SCRIPTURES AND THERE'S OTHERS 50:44.860 --> 50:46.300 THAT I'M NOT GONNA GET INTO TONIGHT, 50:46.300 --> 50:48.820 WE CAN CONCLUDE SCRIPTURALLY THAT THOSE INDIVIDUALS 50:48.820 --> 50:50.740 THAT ARE GOING INTO THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM 50:50.740 --> 50:52.931 WILL BE THE RIGHTEOUS AND GLORIFIED BODIES, 50:52.931 --> 50:56.291 US THAT CAME BACK WITH JESUS, AND THEN THOSE NATURAL 50:56.291 --> 50:58.931 HUMANS THAT ARE BELIEVERS 50:58.931 --> 51:01.271 THAT CHRIST REFERS TO AS SHEEP. 51:01.271 --> 51:03.550 SO EVERYONE THAT GOES INTO THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM, 51:03.550 --> 51:05.831 THAT THOUSAND YEAR PERIOD OF TIME, 51:05.831 --> 51:10.541 INITIALLY ARE GONNA BE SAVED RIGHTEOUS BELIEVERS. 51:10.541 --> 51:11.951 EVERYONE WITH ME ON THAT? 51:11.951 --> 51:14.110 OKAY, SO LET'S MOVE ON. 51:14.110 --> 51:16.090 THIS IS A TIME OF GREAT PEACE ON EARTH 51:16.090 --> 51:18.701 AND THE INHABITANTS WILL MOST LIKELY HAVE JOBS. 51:18.701 --> 51:21.701 MOST LIKELY THEY'LL BE GOING TO SCHOOL, THEY GET MARRIED, 51:21.701 --> 51:24.070 THEY HAVE FAMILIES, THEY HAVE BUSINESSES. 51:24.070 --> 51:28.121 IT'S LIFE LIKE WE HAVE NOW, BUT THERE'LL BE A BIG DIFFERENCE 51:28.121 --> 51:29.891 THAT WE'LL TALK ABOUT IN A MINUTE. 51:29.891 --> 51:32.050 THEY'LL PROBABLY EVEN BE DRIVING CARS THEN, 51:32.050 --> 51:34.840 OR MAYBE THEY'LL BE FLYING CARS BY THEN, I DON'T KNOW. 51:34.840 --> 51:37.181 BUT LIFE WILL HAPPEN VERY MUCH LIKE IT DOES NOW 51:37.181 --> 51:40.990 IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM WITH THE NATURAL PEOPLE THAT GO IN. 51:40.990 --> 51:42.880 THESE NATURAL BELIEVERS THAT ARE THERE 51:42.880 --> 51:46.300 ARE GONNA CARRY ON JUST LIKE WE DO ON THIS EARTH. 51:46.300 --> 51:48.130 BUT THE BIG DIFFERENCE IS THIS. 51:48.130 --> 51:50.710 THE BIG DIFFERENCE IS THERE'LL BE NO POLITICAL POWERS 51:50.710 --> 51:51.599 DURING THAT TIME. 51:53.471 --> 51:54.911 THERE'LL BE NO MORE PRESIDENTS. 51:54.911 --> 51:58.721 THERE'LL BE NO MORE KINGS OR PRIME MINISTERS OR DICTATORS. 51:58.721 --> 52:01.780 THE KINGDOM WILL BE UNDER THEOCRATIC RULE 52:01.780 --> 52:06.851 WITH GOD ACTUALLY REIGNING THROUGH HIS SON, JESUS CHRIST, 52:06.851 --> 52:08.891 HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON. 52:08.891 --> 52:12.701 KING JESUS WILL BE REIGNING FROM JERUSALEM, 52:12.701 --> 52:15.971 AND WE WILL BE ASSISTING HIM IN SOME MANNER. 52:15.971 --> 52:18.280 IMAGINE LIFE WHERE JESUS IS ON THE THRONE. 52:18.280 --> 52:20.380 HE'S THE ONLY KING OVER THE WHOLE WORLD. 52:20.380 --> 52:22.721 THE SAINTS ARE RULING AND REIGNING WITH HIM, 52:22.721 --> 52:25.030 AND SATAN IS BOUND FOR 1,000 YEARS. 52:25.030 --> 52:25.900 DON'T FORGET THAT. 52:25.900 --> 52:27.701 WE DON'T HAVE ANY INFLUENCE OF SATAN 52:27.701 --> 52:29.951 DURING THIS 1,000-YEAR PERIOD. 52:29.951 --> 52:32.981 HALLELUJAH. IT'S GONNA BE A WONDERFUL TIME. 52:34.601 --> 52:36.400 WHILE REVELATION TELLS US THERE'LL BE A 52:36.400 --> 52:38.081 MILLENNIAL KINGDOM, IT DOESN'T REALLY GIVE 52:38.081 --> 52:40.451 US A LOT OF DETAIL ABOUT THAT KINGDOM 52:40.451 --> 52:41.411 AND WHAT TAKES PLACE. 52:41.411 --> 52:44.440 BUT THE OLD TESTAMENT, AND PARTICULARLY THE BOOK OF ISAIAH, 52:44.440 --> 52:46.871 IS VERY DETAILED WITH DESCRIPTIONS ON THE 52:46.871 --> 52:48.460 MILLENNIAL KINGDOM. 52:48.460 --> 52:50.291 LET'S LOOK AT A FEW DESCRIPTIONS OF LIFE 52:50.291 --> 52:52.090 DURING THIS THOUSAND YEAR PERIOD. 52:52.090 --> 52:55.900 LET'S START WITH ISAIAH TWO, VERSES ONE THROUGH FOUR. 52:55.900 --> 52:57.221 GOT QUITE A BIT OF SCRIPTURE TONIGHT, 52:57.221 --> 52:58.331 BUT I'M GONNA GO QUICKLY. 52:58.331 --> 53:01.123 THIS IS A VISION THAT ISAIAH, THE SON OF AMOZ, 53:01.123 --> 53:04.240 SAW CONCERNING JUDAH AND JERUSALEM. 53:04.240 --> 53:06.820 IN THE LAST DAYS, THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD'S HOUSE 53:06.820 --> 53:09.490 WILL BE THE HIGHEST OF ALL, THE MOST IMPORTANT 53:09.490 --> 53:11.021 PLACE ON EARTH. 53:11.021 --> 53:13.331 IT WILL BE RAISED ABOVE THE OTHER HILLS, 53:13.331 --> 53:14.891 AND PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD 53:14.891 --> 53:16.990 WILL STREAM THERE TO WORSHIP. 53:16.990 --> 53:20.231 SEE, THEY'RE GONNA HAVE STREAMING TAKING PLACE 53:20.231 --> 53:21.161 DURING THAT TIME. 53:21.161 --> 53:24.101 SO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE MOVING RIGHT INTO IT. 53:24.101 --> 53:25.541 IT'S A GOOD THING WE HAVE STREAMING NOW 53:25.541 --> 53:26.771 BECAUSE WE'RE FAMILIAR WITH IT. 53:26.771 --> 53:31.541 SO ANYWAY, PEOPLE FROM MANY NATIONS WILL COME AND SAY, 53:31.541 --> 53:34.451 COME, LET US GO TO THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD, 53:34.451 --> 53:36.610 TO THE HOUSE OF JACOB'S GOD. 53:36.610 --> 53:41.530 THERE HE WILL TEACH US HIS WAYS, AND WE WILL WALK IN HIS PATHS, 53:41.530 --> 53:44.141 FOR THE LORD'S TEACHING WILL GO OUT FROM ZION, 53:44.141 --> 53:46.481 HIS WORD WILL GO OUT FROM JERUSALEM. 53:47.891 --> 53:50.800 THE LORD WILL MEDIATE BETWEEN NATIONS 53:50.800 --> 53:53.380 AND WILL SETTLE INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES. 53:53.380 --> 53:55.601 THEY WILL HAMMER THEIR SWORDS INTO PLOWSHARES. 53:56.920 --> 53:59.320 SO THERE'S NOT GONNA BE ANY MORE WAR. 53:59.320 --> 54:02.110 AND THEIR SPEARS WILL BE TURNED INTO PRUNING HOOKS. 54:02.110 --> 54:05.380 NATIONS WILL NO LONGER FIGHT AGAINST NATIONS. 54:05.380 --> 54:07.331 THEY'LL NO LONGER TRAIN FOR WAR ANYMORE. 54:07.331 --> 54:09.880 THERE'S NOT GONNA BE ANY NEED FOR A MILITARY BUDGET 54:09.880 --> 54:12.371 AT THAT POINT IN TIME BECAUSE THERE'LL BE NO WAR. 54:12.371 --> 54:14.501 JESUS WON'T ALLOW IT. 54:14.501 --> 54:17.260 HALLELUJAH. SO IN THE MILLENNIUM, 54:17.260 --> 54:18.400 THERE'S NO WAR. 54:18.400 --> 54:22.420 YOU KNOW, WAR HAS BEEN A CONSISTENT PART OF HUMAN AFFAIRS 54:22.420 --> 54:23.771 FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. 54:23.771 --> 54:27.221 IT SEEMS LIKE THERE'S ALWAYS BEEN SOME TYPE OF WAR GOING ON, 54:27.221 --> 54:29.621 BUT THERE'LL BE NO WAR DURING THE MILLENNIUM. 54:29.621 --> 54:32.860 NOW MICAH 4.4 SAYS, "EVERYONE WILL LIVE IN 54:32.860 --> 54:34.210 PEACE AND PROSPERITY." 54:34.210 --> 54:36.670 HALLELUJAH. "ENJOYING THEIR OWN 54:36.670 --> 54:38.860 GRAPEVINES AND FIG TREES." 54:38.860 --> 54:41.231 JANET, YOU'LL HAVE YOUR OWN GRAPEVINE 54:41.231 --> 54:44.050 AND YOUR OWN FIG TREE, THE BIBLE SAYS. 54:44.050 --> 54:45.599 THERE'LL BE NOTHING TO FEAR. 54:47.440 --> 54:51.641 THE LORD OF HEAVEN'S ARMIES HAS MADE THIS PROMISE. 54:51.641 --> 54:54.791 CAN YOU IMAGINE LIVING WITH THIS KIND OF PEACE 54:54.791 --> 54:57.490 EVIDENT THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE WORLD? 54:57.490 --> 54:59.800 NO NEED TO LOCK YOUR DOORS AT NIGHT, EILEEN. 54:59.800 --> 55:02.021 SHE ALWAYS MAKES SURE THAT OUR DOORS ARE LOCKED AT NIGHT. 55:02.021 --> 55:04.001 I DON'T KNOW WHY SHE LIKES TO DO THAT, 55:04.001 --> 55:06.302 BUT PHYLLIS IS SHAKING HER HEAD, SHE DOES THE SAME THING. 55:07.990 --> 55:09.581 HOW MANY OF YOU HERE LOCK YOUR DOORS AT NIGHT? 55:10.751 --> 55:12.581 I'M WATCHING TO SEE WHO DIDN'T RAISE THEIR HAND, 55:12.581 --> 55:15.101 THEN I'LL KNOW IF I, JUST JOKING. 55:15.101 --> 55:15.869 I WOULDN'T DO THAT. 55:17.891 --> 55:20.920 BUT DURING THE MILLENNIUM, YOU CAN LEAVE YOUR DOORS OPEN. 55:20.920 --> 55:23.320 IT'S OKAY, THERE'S NOTHING TO FEAR, THE BIBLE SAYS. 55:23.320 --> 55:25.780 YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT IT, HALLELUJAH. 55:27.820 --> 55:29.710 WELL, LET'S LOOK AT WHAT WE'VE LOOKED AT, 55:29.710 --> 55:32.081 LET'S REVIEW WHAT WE'VE LOOKED AT SO FAR. 55:32.081 --> 55:34.481 I WANNA PUT THAT SLIDE UP IN THE RED INK. 55:34.481 --> 55:36.010 THESE ARE THE THINGS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT. 55:36.010 --> 55:38.771 FIRST OF ALL, WE SAID SATAN'S BOUND FOR 1,000 YEARS. 55:38.771 --> 55:41.621 SECONDLY, WE SAID JESUS WILL RULE FROM JERUSALEM. 55:41.621 --> 55:43.840 WE'RE GONNA BE RULING WITH HIM. 55:43.840 --> 55:46.510 THIRDLY, THERE'S A JUDGMENT THAT TAKES PLACE 55:46.510 --> 55:49.061 OF TRIBULATION SURVIVORS, AND EVERYONE THAT GOES 55:49.061 --> 55:52.420 INTO THE MILLENNIUM PERIOD INITIALLY ARE SAVED, 55:52.420 --> 55:55.210 REDEEMED CHRISTIANS FOLLOWING JESUS. 55:55.210 --> 55:57.791 AND THEN IT'S A TIME OF PEACE AND JOY. 55:57.791 --> 56:00.130 SO LET'S CONTINUE ON HERE. 56:00.130 --> 56:05.380 LET'S LOOK AT ISAIAH 65, 18 THROUGH 24. 56:05.380 --> 56:07.931 BECAUSE AS A RESULT OF THESE PRISTINE CONDITIONS 56:07.931 --> 56:11.021 OF THE UNIVERSE, PEOPLE ARE GOING TO LIVE A LONG TIME. 56:11.021 --> 56:12.670 LET'S READ ABOUT THAT. 56:12.670 --> 56:15.431 ISAIAH 65, 18 THROUGH 24. 56:16.721 --> 56:17.380 "BE GLAD. 56:17.380 --> 56:19.271 REJOICE FOREVER IN MY CREATION. 56:19.271 --> 56:21.521 AND LOOK, I WILL CREATE JERUSALEM 56:21.521 --> 56:23.501 AS A PLACE OF HAPPINESS. 56:23.501 --> 56:26.110 HER PEOPLE WILL BE A SOURCE OF JOY. 56:26.110 --> 56:29.800 I WILL REJOICE OVER JERUSALEM AND DELIGHT IN MY PEOPLE, 56:29.800 --> 56:31.871 AND THE SOUND OF WEEPING AND CRYING 56:31.871 --> 56:34.271 WILL BE HEARD IN IT NO MORE. 56:34.271 --> 56:37.960 NO LONGER WILL BABIES DIE WHEN ONLY A FEW DAYS OLD. 56:39.311 --> 56:43.360 NO LONGER WILL ADULTS DIE BEFORE THEY'VE LIVED A FULL LIFE. 56:43.360 --> 56:45.791 NO LONGER WILL PEOPLE BE CONSIDERED OLD AT 100. 56:47.471 --> 56:50.021 YOU KNOW, PEOPLE-- WHEN I REACHED 90 YEARS OLD, 56:50.021 --> 56:54.128 PEOPLE STARTED CALLING ME OLD, BUT I'LL BE ABLE TO GET TO 100 56:55.570 --> 56:58.648 AND NOT EVEN THINK THAT I'M OLD IF I'M IN THE MILLENNIUM. 57:00.340 --> 57:04.090 NO ONE GOT THAT JOKE, BUT I'M NOT QUITE 90 YET. 57:04.090 --> 57:06.041 I'M A LITTLE WAYS OFF FROM 90. 57:06.041 --> 57:08.561 BUT WHAT A TIME THAT'LL BE. 57:08.561 --> 57:10.481 A 100-YEAR-OLD PERSON, PASTOR KEITH, 57:10.481 --> 57:12.641 WILL NOT EVEN BE CONSIDERED OLD IN THE MILLENNIUM. 57:14.141 --> 57:16.570 ONLY THE CURSED WILL DIE THAT YOUNG. 57:16.570 --> 57:21.791 HALLELUJAH. IN THOSE DAYS, PEOPLE 57:21.791 --> 57:24.400 WILL LIVE IN HOUSES THEY BUILD AND EAT FRUIT 57:24.400 --> 57:25.690 OF THEIR OWN VINEYARDS. 57:25.690 --> 57:26.860 THAT'S WHEN JANET'S GOING TO BE EATEN 57:26.860 --> 57:29.322 FROM HER FIG TREE AND HER GRAPE VINE. 57:30.670 --> 57:33.221 UNLIKE THE PAST, INVADERS WILL NOT TAKE THEIR HOUSES 57:33.221 --> 57:35.231 AND CONFISCATE THEIR VINEYARDS. 57:35.231 --> 57:36.311 YOUR VINEYARDS WILL BE SAFE. 57:36.311 --> 57:38.380 YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO PUT A FENCE UP, JANET. 57:38.380 --> 57:40.090 IT'S GOING TO BE SAFE THERE. 57:40.090 --> 57:41.110 NO ONE'S GOING TO ROB YOU. 57:42.731 --> 57:44.920 FOR MY PEOPLE WILL LIVE AS LONG AS TREES, 57:44.920 --> 57:46.661 AND MY CHOSEN ONES WILL HAVE TIME 57:46.661 --> 57:49.630 TO ENJOY THEIR HARD-WON GAINS. 57:49.630 --> 57:52.391 THEY WILL NOT WORK IN VAIN, AND THEIR CHILDREN WILL NOT 57:52.391 --> 57:55.121 BE DOOMED TO MISFORTUNE, FOR THEY 57:55.121 --> 57:56.989 ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE BLESSED BY THE LORD, 57:56.989 --> 57:59.081 AND THEIR CHILDREN, TOO, WILL BE BLESSED. 58:00.130 --> 58:03.280 I WILL ANSWER THEM BEFORE THEY EVEN CALL TO ME. 58:03.280 --> 58:05.291 WHILE THEY'RE STILL TALKING ABOUT THEIR NEEDS, 58:05.291 --> 58:07.721 I WILL GO AHEAD AND ANSWER THEIR PRAYERS. 58:07.721 --> 58:10.300 HALLELUJAH. THANK YOU, JESUS. 58:10.300 --> 58:12.010 PEOPLE WILL LIVE TO RIPE OLD AGES 58:12.010 --> 58:13.960 COMPARED TO HOW WE LIVE TODAY. 58:13.960 --> 58:16.510 HALLELUJAH. SO THERE'S LONG LIFE. 58:16.510 --> 58:18.760 DEATH WILL BE EXPERIENCED ONLY BY THOSE 58:18.760 --> 58:22.030 THAT REBEL AGAINST THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 58:22.030 --> 58:23.771 AND SOME PEOPLE FIND IT SURPRISING 58:23.771 --> 58:26.231 TO THINK OF REBELLION DURING THE MILLENNIUM, 58:26.231 --> 58:28.210 BUT HERE'S HOW IT'S GONNA HAPPEN. 58:28.210 --> 58:29.981 EVERYBODY WHO GOES INTO THE MILLENNIUM, 58:29.981 --> 58:31.780 LIKE I'VE TOLD YOU, WILL BE THE RIGHTEOUS. 58:31.780 --> 58:33.041 THEY'LL BE SAVED. 58:33.041 --> 58:35.201 REMEMBER, THE GOATS AND THE SHEEP ARE SEPARATED 58:35.201 --> 58:38.710 BEFORE THE MILLENNIUM PERIOD TAKES PLACE 58:38.710 --> 58:42.641 SO THAT EVERYONE THAT GOES IN WILL BE SHEEP. 58:42.641 --> 58:44.771 THOSE ARE THE ONLY ONES ALLOWED. 58:44.771 --> 58:48.010 BUT HOWEVER, THINK ABOUT THIS, DURING THE THOUSAND YEAR PERIOD, 58:48.010 --> 58:49.240 THERE'S GONNA BE MARRIAGES. 58:49.240 --> 58:53.710 THERE'LL BE A LOT OF GENERATIONS DURING A THOUSAND YEARS. 58:53.710 --> 58:57.884 NATURAL PEOPLE HAVING BABIES, CONTINUING ON, CONTINUING ON. 58:57.884 --> 58:59.021 THERE'LL BE A LOT OF PEOPLE BORN. 58:59.021 --> 59:00.161 I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY, 'CAUSE I DON'T KNOW 59:00.161 --> 59:01.871 HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE GOING INTO THE MILLENNIUM, 59:01.871 --> 59:04.481 SO I DON'T HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THE POPULATION WILL BE, 59:04.481 --> 59:07.079 BUT OVER A THOUSAND YEARS, YOU COULD HAVE A LOT OF BABIES. 59:08.351 --> 59:12.550 SO THERE'LL BE A LOT OF NATURAL PEOPLE AT THAT POINT. 59:12.550 --> 59:15.641 BUT DURING THAT PERIOD, CHILDREN ARE BORN. 59:15.641 --> 59:19.630 SOME OF THESE CHILDREN WILL REBEL AGAINST THE THINGS OF GOD. 59:19.630 --> 59:23.831 HUMAN NATURE AND FREE WILL AND THE POWER OF CHOICE 59:23.831 --> 59:27.791 IS STILL ALLOWED FOR PEOPLE. 59:27.791 --> 59:29.291 GOD CANNOT TAKE THAT AWAY. 59:29.291 --> 59:30.911 HE ALLOWS US FREE WILL. 59:30.911 --> 59:32.831 IT WOULDN'T BE FAIR IF HE DIDN'T ALLOW FREE WILL. 59:34.751 --> 59:36.971 SO JUST LIKE TODAY, EVERY PERSON BORN 59:36.971 --> 59:39.791 DURING THE MILLENNIAL AGE WILL MAKE A PERSONAL DECISION 59:39.791 --> 59:43.331 EITHER FOR OR AGAINST JESUS CHRIST 59:43.331 --> 59:44.800 DURING THAT MILLENNIAL PERIOD. 59:46.150 --> 59:49.541 BUT YOU CAN BE ASSURED OF THIS, REBELLION WILL NOT LAST LONG. 59:49.541 --> 59:53.320 THE ONE WHO IS IN CHARGE WILL KNOW THE INTENT OF EVERY HEART 59:53.320 --> 59:56.231 AND THERE'LL BE SWIFT JUSTICE FOR EVERY WRONG. 59:56.231 --> 59:59.740 THE BIBLE SAYS OUR LORD WILL RULE WITH A ROD OF IRON 59:59.740 --> 01:00:01.210 DURING THAT POINT IN TIME. 01:00:01.210 --> 01:00:04.721 THAT MEANS THERE'S NOT GONNA BE ANY LONG DELAYS IN JUSTICE, 01:00:04.721 --> 01:00:08.710 NO POSTPONEMENTS OF TRIALS OR SENTENCES TO BE CARRIED OUT. 01:00:08.710 --> 01:00:11.021 PEOPLE AREN'T GONNA SIT IN JAIL FOR 20 YEARS 01:00:11.021 --> 01:00:13.349 WAITING TO GET THEIR JUDGMENT. 01:00:14.621 --> 01:00:15.581 IT'LL BE IMMEDIATE. 01:00:19.150 --> 01:00:24.371 ISAIAH TELLS US ANOTHER THING THAT'S VERY INTERESTING. 01:00:24.371 --> 01:00:26.981 IT'S A TIME WHEN ANIMALS WILL BE TAMED. 01:00:26.981 --> 01:00:29.822 ISAIAH 65, 25, LET'S READ THAT. 01:00:29.822 --> 01:00:32.702 IT SAYS, "THE WOLF AND THE LAMB WILL FEED TOGETHER. 01:00:32.702 --> 01:00:35.192 "THE LION WILL EAT HAY LIKE A COW, 01:00:35.192 --> 01:00:36.871 "BUT THE SNAKES WILL EAT DUST. 01:00:36.871 --> 01:00:39.422 "IN THOSE DAYS, NO ONE WILL BE HURT OR DESTROYED 01:00:39.422 --> 01:00:40.621 "ON MY HOLY MOUNTAIN. 01:00:40.621 --> 01:00:42.481 I, THE LORD, HAVE SPOKEN. 01:00:42.481 --> 01:00:44.882 ANIMAL BEHAVIOR WILL RETURN TO THE DAYS 01:00:44.882 --> 01:00:48.722 OF THE ORIGINAL CREATION PRE-FLOOD. 01:00:48.722 --> 01:00:53.041 THERE WAS NO HOSTILITY BETWEEN ANIMALS AND HUMAN BEINGS 01:00:53.041 --> 01:00:54.692 UNTIL THE TIME OF THE GREAT FLOOD. 01:00:56.552 --> 01:00:58.501 ANIMALS AND HUMANS WERE ORIGINALLY 01:00:58.501 --> 01:01:00.961 PEACEFUL VEGETARIANS." 01:01:02.461 --> 01:01:07.351 GENESIS 1, 29 THROUGH 30 SAYS, "THEN GOD SAID, LOOK, 01:01:07.351 --> 01:01:09.632 "I HAVE GIVEN YOU EVERY SEED BEARING PLANT 01:01:09.632 --> 01:01:11.132 "THROUGHOUT THE EARTH "AND ALL THE FRUIT 01:01:11.132 --> 01:01:13.382 TREES FOR YOUR FOOD. 01:01:13.382 --> 01:01:15.422 "AND I'VE GIVEN EVERY GREEN PLANT AS FOOD 01:01:15.422 --> 01:01:17.371 "FOR ALL THE WILD ANIMALS, THE BIRDS IN THE SKY, 01:01:17.371 --> 01:01:19.621 "AND THE SMALL ANIMALS THAT SCURRY ALONG THE GROUND, 01:01:19.621 --> 01:01:24.302 "EVERYTHING THAT HAS LIFE, AND THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED." 01:01:24.302 --> 01:01:27.302 SO AFTER ADAM'S FALL, THE EARTH GRADUALLY BECAME 01:01:27.302 --> 01:01:29.612 MORE AND MORE CORRUPT AND FILLED WITH 01:01:29.612 --> 01:01:32.612 VIOLENCE ACCORDING TO GENESIS CHAPTER SIX, 01:01:32.612 --> 01:01:36.092 AND FOLLOWING THE FLOOD, THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MAN 01:01:36.092 --> 01:01:39.452 AND BEAST BECAME ADVERSARIAL. 01:01:40.681 --> 01:01:43.442 TO MAINTAIN ORDER AND HUMAN SAFETY, 01:01:43.442 --> 01:01:48.632 GOD SUPERNATURALLY PLACED A FEAR OF HUMANS UPON ANIMALS. 01:01:48.632 --> 01:01:52.442 THEN GOD INSTITUTED A NEW COVENANT WITH NOAH 01:01:52.442 --> 01:01:55.742 THAT OFFICIALLY GRANTED THE RIGHT TO CONSUME MEAT. 01:01:55.742 --> 01:01:57.512 WE'LL SEE THIS IN GENESIS CHAPTER NINE. 01:01:57.512 --> 01:02:00.871 IF YOU WANNA BRING UP GENESIS NINE VERSES TWO AND THREE, 01:02:00.871 --> 01:02:02.731 IT SAYS, "ALL THE ANIMALS OF THE EARTH, 01:02:02.731 --> 01:02:04.472 "ALL THE BIRDS OF THE SKY, AND ALL THE SMALL ANIMALS 01:02:04.472 --> 01:02:06.871 "THAT SCURRY ALONG THE GROUND, AND THE FISH IN THE SEA 01:02:06.871 --> 01:02:09.782 "WILL LOOK ON YOU WITH FEAR AND TERROR." 01:02:09.782 --> 01:02:14.192 SO THAT'S WHEN GOD PLACED A FEAR IN THESE ANIMALS OF MANKIND. 01:02:14.192 --> 01:02:16.652 AND I'VE PLACED THEM IN YOUR POWER. 01:02:16.652 --> 01:02:19.411 GOD GAVE MAN DOMINION OVER THOSE ANIMALS. 01:02:19.411 --> 01:02:22.862 I'VE GIVEN THEM TO YOU FOR FOOD, JUST AS I'VE GIVEN YOU 01:02:22.862 --> 01:02:24.121 GRAIN AND VEGETABLES. 01:02:24.121 --> 01:02:27.271 SO NOW MANKIND WAS FREE TO EAT MEAT AT THAT POINT 01:02:27.271 --> 01:02:29.791 IN GENESIS CHAPTER NINE, WHEN BEFORE THEY'D 01:02:29.791 --> 01:02:30.858 BEEN VEGETARIANS. 01:02:33.061 --> 01:02:33.722 SO, 01:02:36.692 --> 01:02:42.050 THE QUESTION I HAVE IS THIS, WILL CHRISTIANS THAT GO 01:02:43.532 --> 01:02:47.806 RAPTURED OR MAYBE 01:02:49.021 --> 01:02:52.291 ONES THAT ORIGINALLY LIVED IN NEBRASKA OR IOWA 01:02:52.291 --> 01:02:57.211 AND JUST LOVE TO EAT STEAK, WILL THEY BE ALLOWED TO HAVE 01:02:57.211 --> 01:02:59.157 BEEF DURING THE MILLENNIUM? 01:03:01.052 --> 01:03:04.621 WHEN THE ANIMALS ARE TAMED AND THERE'S NO 01:03:04.621 --> 01:03:06.833 AGGRESSION ANY LONGER? 01:03:08.101 --> 01:03:09.152 I DON'T KNOW. 01:03:09.152 --> 01:03:10.621 JESUS, CAN I HAVE A RIBEYE? 01:03:12.992 --> 01:03:16.322 MAYBE HE'LL SUPERNATURALLY GROW THOSE FROM PLANTS, 01:03:16.322 --> 01:03:18.751 YOU KNOW, MAYBE THEY CAN, YOU KNOW, 01:03:18.751 --> 01:03:19.891 BUT I'M SURE IT'D BE A LOT BETTER 01:03:19.891 --> 01:03:22.425 THAN THOSE CHEMICAL MEATS THAT THEY MAKE TODAY. 01:03:24.242 --> 01:03:26.552 I'M SURE JESUS WILL ALLOW US TO HAVE SOME KIND OF BEEF, 01:03:26.552 --> 01:03:31.231 PASTOR ANTHONY, I DON'T KNOW, BUT IT'S GONNA BE GREAT ANYWAY. 01:03:31.231 --> 01:03:34.112 IF WE HAVE TO BE VEGETARIANS, IT'LL BE A SMALL PRICE TO PAY 01:03:34.112 --> 01:03:35.762 TO BE IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM. 01:03:35.762 --> 01:03:37.081 SO THAT'S OKAY. 01:03:38.431 --> 01:03:41.641 LET'S LOOK AT ISAIAH 11, VERSES SIX THROUGH NINE. 01:03:41.641 --> 01:03:44.791 IT SAYS, "IN THAT DAY, THE WOLF AND THE LAMB 01:03:44.791 --> 01:03:45.871 "WILL LIVE TOGETHER. 01:03:45.871 --> 01:03:48.211 "THE LEOPARD WILL LIE DOWN WITH THE BABY GOAT. 01:03:48.211 --> 01:03:51.661 "THE CALF AND THE YEARLING WILL BE SAFE WITH THE LION, 01:03:51.661 --> 01:03:54.152 "AND THE LITTLE CHILD WILL LEAD THEM ALL." 01:03:54.152 --> 01:03:56.311 HALLELUJAH. "THE COW WILL GRAZE 01:03:56.311 --> 01:03:58.052 NEAR THE BEAR, "AND THE CUB AND THE CALF 01:03:58.052 --> 01:03:59.251 WILL LIE DOWN TOGETHER. 01:03:59.251 --> 01:04:02.942 "THE LION WILL EAT HAY LIKE A COW. 01:04:02.942 --> 01:04:05.911 "THE BABY WILL PLAY SAFELY NEAR THE HOLE OF THE COBRA. 01:04:05.911 --> 01:04:07.532 "YES, A LITTLE CHILD WILL PUT ITS HAND 01:04:07.532 --> 01:04:09.722 "IN THE NEST OF THE DEADLY SNAKES WITHOUT HARM. 01:04:12.181 --> 01:04:15.842 "NOTHING WILL HURT OR DESTROY IN ALL MY HOLY MOUNTAIN, 01:04:15.842 --> 01:04:19.382 "FOR AS THE WATERS FILL THE SEA, "SO THE EARTH WILL BE FILLED 01:04:19.382 --> 01:04:21.001 WITH PEOPLE WHO KNOW THE LORD. 01:04:22.681 --> 01:04:26.282 "THE WOLF AND THE LAMB WILL TAKE NAPS TOGETHER." 01:04:26.282 --> 01:04:27.001 ISN'T THAT CUTE? 01:04:29.072 --> 01:04:32.072 "IN THE TIME OF THE MILLENNIUM, "THE LION AND THE LAMB 01:04:32.072 --> 01:04:34.862 WILL PEACEFULLY COEXIST." 01:04:34.862 --> 01:04:36.661 HMM, THE LION AND THE LAMB. 01:04:37.862 --> 01:04:40.592 WHEN THE PRINCE OF PEACE COMES TO BRING PEACE TO THE EARTH, 01:04:40.592 --> 01:04:43.501 IT'S GONNA AFFECT EVERY ASPECT OF OUR EARTH, 01:04:43.501 --> 01:04:46.262 INCLUDING THE WILD ANIMALS. 01:04:46.262 --> 01:04:48.692 KIDS WILL BE PLAYING WITH SNAKES. 01:04:48.692 --> 01:04:49.762 CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT? 01:04:51.061 --> 01:04:54.391 MOMS ARE GONNA SAY TO JIMMY AND SARAH, 01:04:54.391 --> 01:04:57.411 "GET OFF THAT PLAYSTATION, YOU'VE BEEN PLAYING WITH IT 01:04:57.411 --> 01:04:59.222 "TOO LONG, YOU GET OUT IN THE BACKYARD 01:04:59.222 --> 01:05:00.541 "AND YOU PLAY WITH SOME SNAKES." 01:05:00.541 --> 01:05:02.972 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:05:02.972 --> 01:05:07.458 AND YES, THAT WILL HAPPEN, AND THE CHILDREN WILL BE FINE. 01:05:11.431 --> 01:05:16.561 NOW AS WE MOVE INTO REVELATION 20, VERSES SEVEN AND EIGHT, 01:05:16.561 --> 01:05:18.782 WE SEE A TRANSITION HERE. 01:05:18.782 --> 01:05:21.811 IN THE BEGINNING OF CHAPTER 20, WE SEE JESUS REIGNS FROM 01:05:21.811 --> 01:05:23.641 JERUSALEM FOR A THOUSAND YEARS. 01:05:23.641 --> 01:05:27.452 HE BINDS SATAN AND CASTS HIM INTO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT. 01:05:27.452 --> 01:05:30.632 AND SO FOR A THOUSAND YEARS, SATAN'S UNDER LOCK 01:05:30.632 --> 01:05:32.972 AND KEY IN THIS ABYSS. 01:05:32.972 --> 01:05:35.791 AND NOW LET'S LOOK AT THIS TURN OF EVENTS THAT HAPPENS, 01:05:35.791 --> 01:05:39.211 STARTING WITH VERSE SEVEN OF REVELATION 20. 01:05:39.211 --> 01:05:40.052 LET'S READ THAT. 01:05:40.052 --> 01:05:42.391 WHEN THE THOUSAND YEARS COMES TO AN END, 01:05:42.391 --> 01:05:44.942 SATAN WILL BE LED OUT OF HIS PRISON. 01:05:44.942 --> 01:05:48.032 HE WILL GO OUT TO DECEIVE THE NATIONS CALLED GOG AND MAGOG 01:05:48.032 --> 01:05:49.532 IN EVERY CORNER OF THE EARTH. 01:05:49.532 --> 01:05:52.231 HE WILL GATHER THEM TOGETHER FOR A BATTLE AND A MIGHTY 01:05:52.231 --> 01:05:55.592 ARMY AS NUMBERLESS AS THE SAND ALONG THE SEASHORE. 01:05:55.592 --> 01:05:58.202 AND I SAW THEM AS THEY WENT ON THE BROAD PLAIN OF THE EARTH 01:05:58.202 --> 01:06:01.172 AND SURROUNDED GOD'S PEOPLE AND THE BELOVED CITY. 01:06:01.172 --> 01:06:03.572 BUT THE FIRE FROM HEAVEN CAME DOWN ON THE ATTACKING 01:06:03.572 --> 01:06:05.253 ARMIES AND CONSUMED THEM. 01:06:06.961 --> 01:06:09.481 THEN THE DEVIL WHO HAD DECEIVED THEM WAS THROWN 01:06:09.481 --> 01:06:11.672 INTO THE FIERY LAKE OF BURNING SULFUR, 01:06:11.672 --> 01:06:14.192 JOINING THE BEAST AND THE FALSE PROPHET. 01:06:14.192 --> 01:06:18.842 THERE THEY WILL BE TORMENTED DAY AND NIGHT FOREVER AND EVER." 01:06:18.842 --> 01:06:22.802 SO REMEMBER, THE BEAST AND THE FALSE PROPHET 01:06:22.802 --> 01:06:25.621 ARE ALREADY RESIDING IN THE LAKE OF FIRE. 01:06:25.621 --> 01:06:27.422 THAT HAPPENED AT THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON. 01:06:27.422 --> 01:06:29.492 WHEN WE LOOKED AT REVELATION CHAPTER 19, 01:06:30.541 --> 01:06:33.028 YOU CAN GO BACK TO THE ARCHIVES ON MAY 20TH 01:06:33.028 --> 01:06:34.891 AND REVIEW THAT MESSAGE IF YOU WANT TO, 01:06:34.891 --> 01:06:37.202 AND YOU'LL SEE THERE THAT THE BEAST AND THE FALSE PROPHET 01:06:37.202 --> 01:06:39.362 WERE THROWN IN THE LAKE OF FIRE AT THAT TIME. 01:06:39.362 --> 01:06:43.532 BUT NOW THE DEVIL'S BEEN CHAINED UP FOR A THOUSAND YEARS 01:06:43.532 --> 01:06:46.052 AND HE GETS RELEASED FOR A SHORT TIME. 01:06:46.052 --> 01:06:49.141 AND LET'S LOOK AT VERSE 20 AGAIN. 01:06:49.141 --> 01:06:53.612 AND THE BEAST WAS CAPTURED AND WITH HIM THE FALSE PROPHET 01:06:53.612 --> 01:06:55.021 WHO DID MIGHTY MIRACLES. 01:06:55.021 --> 01:06:57.391 I'M SORRY, THIS IS REVELATION 19, 20. 01:06:57.391 --> 01:06:59.762 AND THE BEAST WAS CAPTURED AND WITH HIM THE FALSE PROPHET 01:06:59.762 --> 01:07:01.952 WHO DID MIGHTY MIRACLES ON BEHALF OF THE BEAST, 01:07:01.952 --> 01:07:04.561 MIRACLES THAT DECEIVED ALL THAT ACCEPTED THE MARK, 01:07:04.561 --> 01:07:06.481 WHO HAD WORSHIPED THE STATUE, BOTH THE BEAST AND 01:07:06.481 --> 01:07:08.612 ITS FALSE PROPHET WERE THROWN ALIVE INTO THE 01:07:08.612 --> 01:07:10.742 FIERY LAKE OF BURNING SULFUR. 01:07:10.742 --> 01:07:12.512 SO THAT'S YOUR CONFIRMATION. 01:07:12.512 --> 01:07:17.492 THE BEAST AND THE FALSE PROPHET HAVE ALREADY BEEN IN THE LAKE 01:07:17.492 --> 01:07:19.592 OF FIRE DURING THIS TIME. 01:07:19.592 --> 01:07:21.931 SO WE WERE DEALING WITH A DEVIL THAT WAS CHAINED UP 01:07:21.931 --> 01:07:23.791 FOR A THOUSAND YEARS. 01:07:23.791 --> 01:07:27.541 AND WE SEE VERSE SEVEN OUT OF REVELATION 20 SAYS, 01:07:27.541 --> 01:07:29.822 WHEN THE THOUSAND YEARS COMES TO AN END, 01:07:29.822 --> 01:07:32.282 SATAN WILL BE LET OUT OF HIS PRISON. 01:07:32.282 --> 01:07:34.021 AND THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO ADDRESS WITH YOU NOW 01:07:34.021 --> 01:07:35.581 THAT I TALKED ABOUT EARLIER AND I SAID, 01:07:35.581 --> 01:07:37.172 THINK ABOUT IT FOR A LITTLE WHILE. 01:07:37.172 --> 01:07:38.702 THE QUESTION IS WHY? 01:07:38.702 --> 01:07:41.402 WHY DOES SATAN GET RELEASED AFTER THAT THOUSAND 01:07:41.402 --> 01:07:42.961 YEARS OF BONDAGE? 01:07:44.012 --> 01:07:45.813 DAN, DO YOU HAVE AN ANSWER FOR THAT BY THE WAY? 01:07:45.813 --> 01:07:49.112 NO, I'M JUST PICKING ON YOU, DAN. 01:07:51.001 --> 01:07:52.351 I THOUGHT MAYBE YOU WERE ASLEEP. 01:07:54.092 --> 01:07:55.862 WHAT'S THAT? 01:07:55.862 --> 01:07:57.032 IT'S A TEST. 01:07:57.032 --> 01:07:57.650 THERE YOU GO. 01:07:57.650 --> 01:07:58.742 YOU GET AN A, DAN. 01:08:00.481 --> 01:08:00.891 YEAH. 01:08:02.371 --> 01:08:04.681 YOU KNOW, WE ALL LIKE IT JUST FINE WHEN THE DEVIL 01:08:04.681 --> 01:08:07.382 IS IN THE BOTTOMLESS PIT, BUT GOD'S GOING TO RELEASE 01:08:07.382 --> 01:08:10.501 SATAN THIS ONE LAST TIME, AND SCRIPTURE TELLS US 01:08:10.501 --> 01:08:13.472 THAT SATAN'S ACTUALLY EFFECTIVE IN THIS SHORT TIME, 01:08:13.472 --> 01:08:15.931 AND THAT'S NOT A GOOD THING, BUT IT HAPPENS TO 01:08:15.931 --> 01:08:17.252 BE HUMAN NATURE. 01:08:17.252 --> 01:08:20.521 SO HE GOES OUT TO DECEIVE THE NATIONS, THE BIBLE SAYS, 01:08:20.521 --> 01:08:22.862 CALLED GOG AND MAGOG IN EVERY CORNER OF THE EARTH. 01:08:22.862 --> 01:08:26.011 HE GATHERS PEOPLE TOGETHER FOR A BATTLE, A MIGHTY ARMY, 01:08:27.212 --> 01:08:30.032 AND IT SAYS IN THERE THAT IT'S NUMBERLESS 01:08:30.032 --> 01:08:31.712 AS THE SANDS OF THE SEASHORE. 01:08:31.712 --> 01:08:34.622 SO THAT TELLS ME THAT'S A LOT OF PEOPLE, PASTOR KEITH, 01:08:34.622 --> 01:08:37.862 THAT ARE GONNA BE DECEIVED DURING THAT SHORT TIME 01:08:37.862 --> 01:08:39.421 THAT THE DEVIL IS RELEASED. 01:08:39.421 --> 01:08:41.822 HE'S DECEIVING PEOPLE THAT HAVE LIVED 01:08:41.822 --> 01:08:44.822 IN THE MILLENNIAL KINGDOM UNDER PEACE AND PROSPERITY, 01:08:44.822 --> 01:08:46.735 AND THEY FOLLOW HIM. 01:08:46.735 --> 01:08:49.021 I DON'T KNOW WHY, BUT THEY DO. 01:08:49.021 --> 01:08:50.792 THEY FOLLOW HIM, AND SCRIPTURE SAYS 01:08:50.792 --> 01:08:53.162 HE GOES OUT TO THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE WORLD. 01:08:53.162 --> 01:08:56.220 HE DECEIVES A GREAT MULTITUDE OF PEOPLE 01:08:56.220 --> 01:08:59.970 LIKE THE NUMBERS OF SAND ON THE SEASHORE. 01:08:59.970 --> 01:09:03.091 AND I BELIEVE, ACCORDING TO WHAT DAN TELLS ME HERE, 01:09:03.091 --> 01:09:06.301 THAT THE POSSIBLE REASON FOR THIS 01:09:06.301 --> 01:09:10.141 IS THAT NATURAL PEOPLE IN NATURAL BODIES 01:09:10.141 --> 01:09:13.112 THAT HAVE GONE THROUGH THE MILLENNIUM, 01:09:13.112 --> 01:09:15.061 THEY'RE SUCCESSIVE GENERATIONS OF PEOPLE 01:09:15.061 --> 01:09:16.832 BORN DURING THOSE THOUSAND YEARS, 01:09:16.832 --> 01:09:20.131 THEY LIVE AND REPOPULATE THE EARTH DURING THIS TIME, 01:09:20.131 --> 01:09:24.782 AND THEY'VE ENJOYED THE BENEFITS OF LIVING IN THE MILLENNIUM, 01:09:24.782 --> 01:09:26.372 BUT THEY'RE BORN WITH A SIN NATURE. 01:09:27.662 --> 01:09:29.341 THEY STILL NEED TO MAKE A CHOICE. 01:09:29.341 --> 01:09:32.131 THEY STILL NEED TO CHOOSE PERSONALLY JESUS CHRIST 01:09:32.131 --> 01:09:33.572 IF THEY'RE GONNA BE SAVED. 01:09:33.572 --> 01:09:35.702 SO AT THE END OF THIS MILLENNIAL REIGN, 01:09:35.702 --> 01:09:38.042 SATAN IS LOOSED FOR THIS SHORT TIME 01:09:38.042 --> 01:09:42.452 AND ALLOW THE OPPORTUNITY TO TEST, LIKE DAN SAID. 01:09:42.452 --> 01:09:43.862 IF YOU WANNA COME UP AND FINISH THE MESSAGE, 01:09:43.862 --> 01:09:44.641 YOU CAN, DAN, TOO. 01:09:44.641 --> 01:09:46.442 SO, I MEAN, I CAN TAKE A REST. 01:09:46.442 --> 01:09:51.872 SO, BUT IT'S A FINAL REBELLION AGAINST THE LORD AND HIS SAINTS. 01:09:53.162 --> 01:09:56.641 IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE FURTHER HUMANITY GETS 01:09:56.641 --> 01:09:58.981 DURING THIS THOUSAND YEAR PERIOD FROM THE START OF 01:09:58.981 --> 01:10:01.652 THE MILLENNIUM, THE MORE THEY TAKE FOR GRANTED 01:10:03.091 --> 01:10:04.639 ALL THE GOODNESS THAT THEY HAVE. 01:10:05.822 --> 01:10:08.942 AND THEN THEY GET DECEIVED AT THE END. 01:10:08.942 --> 01:10:11.671 YOU KNOW, MANKIND, LIKE I SAID, IS STILL ALLOWED FREE WILL, 01:10:11.671 --> 01:10:14.192 AND GOD NEEDS TO ENSURE THAT THESE PEOPLE, 01:10:14.192 --> 01:10:15.271 OR TEST THEM, 01:10:17.311 --> 01:10:19.832 TO SEE IF THEY'RE GOING TO MAKE IT 01:10:19.832 --> 01:10:21.421 INTO THE NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH. 01:10:21.421 --> 01:10:22.801 AND THAT'S THE NEXT THING THAT COMES 01:10:22.801 --> 01:10:24.841 AFTER THE GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT. 01:10:24.841 --> 01:10:26.372 THERE'S A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH, 01:10:26.372 --> 01:10:28.322 AND THAT'S CHAPTER 21. 01:10:28.322 --> 01:10:29.761 WE'LL GET INTO THAT IN THE FUTURE. 01:10:29.761 --> 01:10:33.442 BUT THEY HAVE TO MAKE THE DECISION. 01:10:33.442 --> 01:10:35.212 THESE PEOPLE MUST HAVE RENOUNCED SIN 01:10:35.212 --> 01:10:37.521 AND ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST AS LORD. 01:10:37.521 --> 01:10:41.391 AND GOD IS CONFIRMING THAT THEY ARE NOT FOLLOWING HIM 01:10:41.391 --> 01:10:44.212 JUST BECAUSE OF THE PEACE AND THE PROSPERITY 01:10:44.212 --> 01:10:45.832 AND THE GOOD TIMES THAT THEY'VE HAD, 01:10:45.832 --> 01:10:48.832 BUT THEY'RE FOLLOWING HIM BECAUSE THEY LOVE JESUS CHRIST 01:10:48.832 --> 01:10:49.881 AND THEY WANT TO SERVE HIM. 01:10:50.931 --> 01:10:53.572 SO THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION TO ASK OURSELVES RIGHT NOW. 01:10:53.572 --> 01:10:57.051 ARE OUR HEARTS TRULY AFTER GOD BECAUSE WE LOVE HIM, 01:10:57.051 --> 01:10:59.421 WE WANT TO SERVE HIM, WE WORSHIP HIM, 01:10:59.421 --> 01:11:02.242 OR ARE WE JUST AFTER GOD BECAUSE WE HAVE GOOD BENEFITS 01:11:02.242 --> 01:11:06.443 OF, YOU KNOW, LIVING FOR JESUS? 01:11:08.122 --> 01:11:09.981 THAT'S A QUESTION WE NEED TO ASK OURSELVES. 01:11:11.091 --> 01:11:13.792 HERE WE SEE GOD DEMONSTRATING HIS NATURE TO MANKIND 01:11:13.792 --> 01:11:14.662 ONCE AGAIN. 01:11:14.662 --> 01:11:17.061 DURING THE MILLENNIUM, THE UNSAVED HUMANS 01:11:17.061 --> 01:11:19.551 WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ACCEPT OR REJECT. 01:11:19.551 --> 01:11:22.252 HE ALWAYS GIVES PEOPLE THE OPPORTUNITY. 01:11:22.252 --> 01:11:25.282 IT'S UP TO THEM, IT'S UP TO US, IT'S UP TO THEM TO MAKE 01:11:25.282 --> 01:11:26.421 THE RIGHT DECISION. 01:11:26.421 --> 01:11:28.551 WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY THOUGH, HE DOESN'T FORCE US. 01:11:29.721 --> 01:11:32.962 BUT HIS GRACE AND GOODNESS WILL BE ON DISPLAY CONTINUOUSLY. 01:11:32.962 --> 01:11:35.061 AND THEN AT THE END OF THE THOUSAND YEARS, 01:11:35.061 --> 01:11:37.912 HE'S NOT GONNA HAVE ANY MORE TOLERANCE FOR REBELLION. 01:11:37.912 --> 01:11:39.099 IT'S OVER AT THAT POINT. 01:11:40.402 --> 01:11:43.881 WHEN THE FINAL UPRISING OCCURS, HE'LL BE QUICK TO JUDGE 01:11:43.881 --> 01:11:46.731 AND THE FINAL REBELLION OF SATAN AND SINFUL MAN IS 01:11:46.731 --> 01:11:48.891 OVER ALMOST IMMEDIATELY. 01:11:48.891 --> 01:11:52.192 EVER SINCE SATAN'S FALL, HE'S BEEN THE ADVERSARY OF BELIEVERS 01:11:52.192 --> 01:11:54.051 AND THE ULTIMATE DECEIVER. 01:11:54.051 --> 01:11:58.403 AND ALL HE CAN PROMISE MANKIND IS DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. 01:11:59.511 --> 01:12:02.992 AND THE FINAL BATTLE IS THE END OF SATAN ALONG WITH THE END 01:12:02.992 --> 01:12:04.282 OF EVERYONE THAT FOLLOWS HIM. 01:12:05.301 --> 01:12:08.631 WE NEED TO ALWAYS REMEMBER THOUGH AS WE LIVE ON THIS EARTH 01:12:08.631 --> 01:12:11.511 THAT GOD HAS GIVEN US VICTORY EVEN RIGHT NOW 01:12:11.511 --> 01:12:13.582 IN THIS TIME OVER SATAN. 01:12:13.582 --> 01:12:16.971 FIRST JOHN 4 SAYS, "YOU ARE OF GOD, LITTLE CHILDREN, 01:12:16.971 --> 01:12:20.841 AND HAVE OVERCOME THEM BECAUSE HE WHO IS IN YOU 01:12:20.841 --> 01:12:23.931 IS GREATER THAN HE THAT IS IN THE WORLD." 01:12:23.931 --> 01:12:26.332 AMEN. WELL, I WANT TO CONCLUDE 01:12:26.332 --> 01:12:26.841 HERE TONIGHT. 01:12:26.841 --> 01:12:29.332 WE'RE GETTING CLOSE TO THE END. 01:12:29.332 --> 01:12:30.819 EDDIE, YOU CAN COME TO THE PIANO. 01:12:32.362 --> 01:12:35.212 THE MILLENNIUM WILL GIVE US A LITTLE TASTE OF HEAVEN 01:12:35.212 --> 01:12:37.311 ON EARTH, BUT IT WON'T ACTUALLY BE HEAVEN 01:12:37.311 --> 01:12:39.021 AT THAT POINT IN TIME. 01:12:39.021 --> 01:12:41.452 THAT'S COMING UP IN THE NEW HEAVEN AND THE NEW EARTH. 01:12:41.452 --> 01:12:44.511 BUT IT WILL BE A TIME OF GREAT PEACE, A GREAT PROSPERITY. 01:12:44.511 --> 01:12:47.032 THERE'LL BE VERY LITTLE SUFFERING, VERY LITTLE SIN 01:12:47.032 --> 01:12:48.471 OR TEMPTATION. 01:12:48.471 --> 01:12:50.421 AND THE QUESTION IS, HOW DO WE APPLY THIS 01:12:50.421 --> 01:12:52.822 TO OUR SPIRITUAL LIVES TODAY? 01:12:52.822 --> 01:12:55.372 FIRST, IT GOES BACK TO, AGAIN, IT 01:12:55.372 --> 01:12:59.061 SEEMS EASY TO SERVE THE LORD WHEN TIMES ARE GOOD, 01:12:59.061 --> 01:13:03.171 BUT WE NEED TO BE ATTENTIVE AND PERHAPS EVEN MORE ATTENTIVE 01:13:03.171 --> 01:13:05.721 WHEN LIFE SEEMS TO BE GOING OUR WAY. 01:13:05.721 --> 01:13:08.692 MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE STILL DRAWING CLOSE TO THE LORD. 01:13:08.692 --> 01:13:13.828 EVEN IF YOU HAVE MONEY IN THE BANK, AND YOU HAVE A JOB, 01:13:13.828 --> 01:13:17.452 AND YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER, NO SICKNESS, 01:13:17.452 --> 01:13:19.702 YOU HAVE HEALTH, WHATEVER, THAT'S 01:13:19.702 --> 01:13:21.561 A TIME JUST TO DRAW CLOSER TO THE LORD 01:13:21.561 --> 01:13:23.061 AND THANK HIM FOR THAT PROVISION. 01:13:25.072 --> 01:13:26.962 AND NOW EVEN THOUGH LIFE IS GOOD ON EARTH 01:13:26.962 --> 01:13:28.702 DURING THIS THOUSAND YEAR REIGN OF CHRIST, 01:13:28.702 --> 01:13:30.231 MANY WILL BE LED ASTRAY. 01:13:30.231 --> 01:13:33.652 THAT'S WHAT'S SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND. 01:13:33.652 --> 01:13:37.252 SATAN STILL LEADS PEOPLE ASTRAY DURING THAT TIME. 01:13:37.252 --> 01:13:40.011 AND THE TRUTH IS TODAY, MANY ARE LED ASTRAY 01:13:40.011 --> 01:13:41.872 BECAUSE LIFE IS GOOD. 01:13:41.872 --> 01:13:45.141 YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE OUT THERE DOING TWO THINGS REALLY. 01:13:45.141 --> 01:13:46.569 THEY'RE SEEKING MONEY AND PLEASURE. 01:13:47.721 --> 01:13:50.391 THAT'S THE TWO THINGS THAT PEOPLE MOST OFTEN ARE, 01:13:50.391 --> 01:13:51.832 YOU KNOW, I CAN'T WAIT TILL THE WEEKEND 01:13:51.832 --> 01:13:55.942 BECAUSE I'M GONNA ENJOY MY WEEKEND AND I GET MY PAYCHECK. 01:13:55.942 --> 01:13:58.011 THOSE ARE THE TWO THINGS PEOPLE LIVE FOR TODAY. 01:13:58.011 --> 01:13:59.655 AND THEY GET LED ASTRAY BY THAT 01:14:01.192 --> 01:14:03.952 AND THEN END UP NOT SERVING GOD. 01:14:05.091 --> 01:14:06.862 AND THAT'S JUST THE WAY THAT IT HAPPENED 01:14:06.862 --> 01:14:07.792 IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN. 01:14:09.082 --> 01:14:12.351 IF ANYONE HAD IT GOOD, IT WAS ADAM AND EVE. 01:14:12.351 --> 01:14:13.807 THEY WERE LIVING IN PARADISE. 01:14:16.101 --> 01:14:19.492 AND OF COURSE, WHEN CHALLENGES ARISE IN OUR LIFE, 01:14:19.492 --> 01:14:21.471 THAT'S WHEN WE CERTAINLY NEED AND DESIRE 01:14:21.471 --> 01:14:23.662 TO HAVE CHRIST IN OPERATION. 01:14:23.662 --> 01:14:26.242 BUT WHEN EVERYTHING IS EASY, EVERYTHING IS GOING YOUR WAY, 01:14:26.242 --> 01:14:29.032 YOUR BURDENS ARE LIGHT, THAT'S WHEN IT'S TIME 01:14:29.032 --> 01:14:31.192 TO BE MORE CONCERNED ABOUT YOUR RELATIONSHIP. 01:14:31.192 --> 01:14:33.412 TIGHTEN THAT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD. 01:14:33.412 --> 01:14:34.221 STRENGTHEN IT. 01:14:36.051 --> 01:14:38.212 I'M GONNA SKIP A STORY THAT I WAS GONNA TELL YOU 01:14:38.212 --> 01:14:43.101 BECAUSE I'M RUNNING OUT OF TIME, BUT I THINK I'LL 01:14:43.101 --> 01:14:43.971 DO THIS TONIGHT. 01:14:45.890 --> 01:14:47.323 WHY DON'T YOU STAND WITH ME? 01:14:49.192 --> 01:14:54.381 IN 1971, BILL AND GLORIA GAITHER WROTE A FAMOUS SONG 01:14:54.381 --> 01:14:57.742 AND IT JUST CAME TO ME TODAY, I WANTED TO END WITH THAT. 01:14:57.742 --> 01:14:59.511 SOME OF YOU HAVE HEARD IT, PASTOR ANTHONY, 01:14:59.511 --> 01:15:01.252 YOU'RE TOO YOUNG TO KNOW IT, BUT IT'S CALLED 01:15:01.252 --> 01:15:03.322 "BECAUSE HE LIVES." 01:15:03.322 --> 01:15:06.801 AND IT SAYS, "GOD SENT HIS SON, THEY CALLED HIM JESUS. 01:15:06.801 --> 01:15:11.061 "HE CAME TO LOVE, HEAL, AND FORGIVE. 01:15:11.061 --> 01:15:14.511 "HE LIVED AND DIED TO BUY MY PARDON. 01:15:14.511 --> 01:15:18.112 "AN EMPTY GRAVE IS THERE TO PROVE MY SAVIOR LIVES." 01:15:18.112 --> 01:15:19.132 TAKE IT AWAY THERE, EDDIE. 01:15:20.662 --> 01:15:21.561 LET'S JOIN HIM TONIGHT. 01:15:21.561 --> 01:15:32.271 ♪ BECAUSE HE LIVES ♪ 01:15:32.271 --> 01:15:36.171 - YES, I CAN FACE TOMORROW BECAUSE OF JESUS, HALLELUJAH. 01:15:36.171 --> 01:15:46.042 THANK YOU, LORD. 01:15:57.712 --> 01:16:01.131 (PRAISE AND WORSHIP MUSIC) 01:16:01.131 --> 01:16:03.712 YES, WE KNOW WHO HOLDS THE FUTURE. 01:16:03.712 --> 01:16:05.421 HALLELUJAH. JESUS. 01:16:05.465 --> 01:16:15.641 (PRAISE AND WORSHIP MUSIC) 01:16:15.681 --> 01:16:18.502 DO THAT AGAIN, EDDIE, ONE MORE TIME. 01:16:18.545 --> 01:17:16.002 (PRAISE AND WORSHIP MUSIC) 01:17:16.042 --> 01:17:17.721 HALLELUJAH, WE THANK YOU TONIGHT. 01:17:18.832 --> 01:17:22.221 FATHER GOD, THANK YOU THAT YOU SENT JESUS 01:17:22.221 --> 01:17:26.356 AND YOU HAVE SHOWN US OUR FUTURE. 01:17:27.412 --> 01:17:30.771 YOU'VE DESCRIBED THE FUTURE TO US. 01:17:30.771 --> 01:17:35.721 IF WE PRESS IN AND LIVE ACCORDING TO YOUR WILL, 01:17:35.721 --> 01:17:37.372 WE WILL BE PART OF IT. 01:17:37.372 --> 01:17:41.002 AND IT'LL BE A GREAT, AWESOME TIME 01:17:41.002 --> 01:17:43.671 AS WE MOVE INTO THE THINGS THAT YOU HAVE PREPARED. 01:17:45.171 --> 01:17:50.242 NO ONE CAN IMAGINE OR EVEN DESCRIBE 01:17:50.242 --> 01:17:54.622 THE WONDERS AND THE BEAUTY THAT WE HAVE AHEAD OF US. 01:17:54.622 --> 01:17:59.152 IF WE'RE WILLING TO RECEIVE YOU AS SAVIOR, 01:17:59.152 --> 01:18:02.362 MOVE FORWARD WITH THE PLAN THAT YOU HAVE FOR US 01:18:02.362 --> 01:18:04.641 AND BE WITH YOU FOR ETERNITY. 01:18:04.641 --> 01:18:08.212 AND WE THANK YOU TONIGHT THAT WE HAVE POWER OVER SATAN 01:18:08.212 --> 01:18:10.702 AND HIS ATTEMPTS TO DECEIVE US. 01:18:10.702 --> 01:18:13.942 AND WE SAY HE'LL NEVER DECEIVE US 01:18:13.942 --> 01:18:17.931 OR CAUSE US TO GO OFF THE MARK OR OFF THE PATH 01:18:17.931 --> 01:18:21.382 THAT YOU HAVE FOR US, LORD, BECAUSE WE TRUST IN YOU. 01:18:22.702 --> 01:18:26.362 WE HOLD YOUR HAND AS WE WALK THROUGH THIS LIFE, 01:18:26.362 --> 01:18:29.242 AND WE THANK YOU FOR THAT OPPORTUNITY. 01:18:29.242 --> 01:18:33.351 IN THE MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS WE PRAY, AMEN, AMEN. 01:18:33.351 --> 01:18:34.587 WELL, THANK YOU FOR COMING TONIGHT. 01:18:34.587 --> 01:18:35.841 GOD BLESS YOU. 01:18:35.841 --> 01:18:39.141 AND WE'LL SEE YOU ON SUNDAY. 01:18:39.141 --> 01:18:41.362 DR. GENE BAILEY WILL BE WITH US. 01:18:41.362 --> 01:18:42.742 MAKE SURE YOU TUNE IN FOR THAT. 01:18:42.742 --> 01:18:44.811 IT'S GOING TO BE A GREAT ENCOURAGING TIME. 01:18:44.811 --> 01:18:48.082 AND IF YOU CAN BE HERE IN PERSON, BE HERE. 01:18:48.082 --> 01:18:48.742 GOD BLESS YOU. 01:18:48.742 --> 01:18:49.731 HAVE A WONDERFUL EVENING. 01:18:49.731 --> 01:18:52.720 [MUSIC]